Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — Page 2

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lit jasper mm Dim O. M. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF ■ JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 811 , Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June S, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer Indiana, under the Act of March 3. loi9. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. advertising rates Display 12%c l nc fc Display, special position. ... 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5c Readers, per line add. insertions. .3c Want Ads—One cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All acounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisement accepted for first page. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1916

THE MISFIT.

(By Walt Mason.)

Breathes there a man with -oul so tame, that when the home team wins a game, he doesn't throw a tit? Who doesn't help to make a noise, or take his place among, the bo vs who on the bleachers sit? If such there be, set him down as an incumbrance to the town, a brake upon its wheel; for any fellow is a crime who doesn't at the baseball time a glow of rapture feel. If he can view unmoved the score which shows us how the home team bore the foemen off the map, the soul within him is decayed; our councilmen should take a spade and plant that kind of chap. For he's the man who always grunts when wed put on improvement stunts, and pave the village streets, who always beefs about his tax, and sticks to pennies tight as wax, and prices downward beats. He is the skate who never gives much satisfaction while he lives, whose worth we can't discern; but when at last he cashes in, the people raise a joyful din, and costly fireworks burn.

Country Station Agent.

The country station agent has many duties which make him a busy man, and he needs a little consideration from his customers. He usually does his best to satisfy the farmers with whom he deals daily, in performing his duties. Don’t knock the station agent if he does not give you all of his attention, as he has many things to do- in a day besides taking care of you. We are all human, and if you treat him with consideration his life /will be more pleasant, and undoubtedly he will feel more like putting himself out to satisfy your demands. Don’t ask him to do things for yo u which his regulations forbid. He may violate a rule to do

something for you once, and it is little appreciated. The next time it is expected and insisted upon. The complexity of the work of the station agent is not understood by most people, and their demands upon him are sometimes so unreasonable that he becomes disgusted. Treat him with kindness and he will do better work, indirectly helping you. Many farmers lose their patience with a switching cow or a young horse, and one station agent has said that he believes they would acquire more of this habit if they endeavored to conduct a country station. You may say he is wrong, but give him the benefit of the doubt, and remember that he has more than the individual to satisfy each day, so aim to make his work as pleasant as possible by making allowances.— Chicago Drover’s Journal

Under-Age Chauffeurs.

The boy or girl under eighteen who is competent to drive a motor car is a rare exception. Judgment at that age is not so trustworthy as to make motor car driving safe for the driver, the occupants of the car, other drivers, occupants of other cars or pedestrians. And parents who restrict the driving operations of their young sons and daughters to “round the corner,” “trips to or from the garage” or to the “couple of blocks and back" ought to remember that an accident can occur in that limited sphere as readily as elsewhere. Emergencies requiring quick action based on practiced judgment may as easily arise within half a block of home as within half a dozen miles. There arc those parents, of course, who feel every confidence in the ability of the son or the daughter to drive the car and to drive it well and safely. But youth is youth. Under the eyes of its elders it may exhibit a caution that it exhibits at no other time. When John has the Car to himself and fills its seats with passengers of his own age, caution has a way of departing. In its place, the juvenile desire to show what he can do and how well he can do it takes possession of John and he becomes a menace to traffic, to pedestrians, to his passengers and to himself. He may escape an accident and usually does—but the escapes frequently are hair-breadth—of which John recks not. Nor does he profit thereby. His numbers are increasing. Perhaps the motor clubs could unite in an effort—which is sadly needed—• to prove to overconfident and indulgent parents that the practice is unsafe.—lndianapolis News.

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MOST IMPORTANT BILL NOW BEFORE CONGRESS

How Water Power Legislation Will Build Up the West.

By HENRY L. MYERS,

United States Senator From Montana. In my opinion the bill now before congress for leasing power sites on the public la:.:1s is more important and fraught with more possibilities of good, more benefit to our country, than any other piece of legislation which will be considered at this session of congress. Tliis bill proposes to make available for development.and use the cheapest source of electricity—water power. It offers a new hope of wonderful development and marvelous possibilities for new industries to the great west. Tlie water powers of that part of the country are among its greatest resources, and to the present time they have been almost wholly neglected. We have stopped developing water powers because the laws have not been adapted to their development. The proposed legislation will encourage water power development, offering reasonable terms and conditions to investors, while It fully protects the public rights in this national asset. It opens the door to development on fair terms to investor and consumer alike and puts up the bars against speculation in or exploitation of the public need for individual or corporate greed. A few of the uses to which electrical power has been put successfully in recent years and will be applied more successfully in the next few years to come are: Cheap electricity for fuel and power, light and heat in the cities and on the farms. Reclamation by Irrigation of vast areas of land now idle and useless. Establishment of new industries, around which will grow new towns and cities, creating employment for hundreds of thousands of people and new markets for agricultural products. New steel and Iron industries in new sections. Cheapened production of metal from low grade ores. Cheaper agricultural fertilizers and consequent larger agricultural crops. One of the greatest benefits which will arise in the west from this legislation is the Irrigation of arid lands which are not now susceptible to irrigation by the gravity system. It is estimated that there are at least 10,000,000 acres of arid lands located in the far western states lying above the reach of gravity water that can only be reclaimed through water raised by pumps operated by cheap hydroelectric power now latent and wustiug in the various streams from which the water would be pumped. In other words, we can make tbe water pump itself on to the land. Given water, these lands will produce every fruit, vegetable and grain that is native to the temperate zone and are capable of supporting a population of 2,000,000 people. With a bill of this kind enacted into law and in successful operation I believe capital will become interested to such a degree in water power development and power will be produced so cheaply that there will be no excuse for a single quarter section of land in the western states remaining arid and unproductive. Statesmen, economists and theorists have long sought a way for reducing high cost of living. In this legislation I believe lies a direct road to this end.

I am assured that capital is waiting only for fair legislation of the kind contained in this bill to invest in great water power development that will accomplish all the benefits to which I have referred. The establishment of electrochemical plants for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen located in these western states, where there are mountains of lime, phosphates and other minerals and ores awaiting cheap power for their manufacture into useful products, means among other things cheaper fertilizer for the whole country. Here is the opportunity for the farmers of the United States to have put into their hands the greatest possible agency of restoring the fertility of their lands, increasing their crops and making this country the storehouse of the vyorld for agricultural products. Legislation of this character will enable both the government and individuals to engage in the business of the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. This will not only aid in the production of fertilizers, but it may be utilized by the government in the manufacture of munitions of war. Now we are dependent for our nitric acid, an essential in explosives, upon the nitrate of soda we get from Chile. If by war or any other cause we should be cut off from this source of supply the United States would have no way of obtaining at short notice the materials of which to make gunpowder. Imagine the nearsightedness of such a situation brought about by our neglect of our water powers and our failure to encourage the great electrochemical industries which other nations have created to furnish them with this highly necessary munition of defense, This message is not only a development measure and a conservation measure in the true sense of these words, but it Is a highly important part of the preparedness program which should be adopted by congress for the purpose of putting this country In a position to defend itself again** possible invasion by a foreign foe.

4 Compare These Prices I Fisk Grey Non-Skids with the plain tread IJ )1 ' styles of several other standard makes: YJli) 3 , x3 ° • * 10 * 40 4*x35 . . 31.20 'I \ 3 2 x30 . . 13.40 4 2 x36 . . 31.55 \ 4x 33 . . 22.00 '5 x 37 . . 37.30 Then you will begin to understand why , r r " i '" 1 (Buy Fi.kj The Best Tire Buy on the Market HIS year Fisk Tires are making greater mileage records ; , 1 an ever before. Fisk Service at more than 125 Direct Fisk Branches dealer and tire user alike are assured of the promptest attention and service. The Fisk Branch oris the most complete and widespread in the mWJ Rensselaer Garage 111 1 Fi 3 k Branches in More Than i 25 Cities

Buy envelopes at The Democrat office. A .large number of sizes, styles and colors, both bond and plain finish, to select from, at 5c per bunch of 25. Call in and see them. CpssineaAd i oepe:f?3gntT for sale ~ For Sale—White Shetland pony mare, & years old.—A. K. MOORE, Kninian, Ind. j-17 For Sale—Roan registered Shorthorn bull, serviceable age.—CHAUNCEY WOOD, Phone 945-F, Rensselaer, Ihd. j-17 For Sale—Six-room house, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Price $1,000; S4OO down;take live stock.—G. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale—Bargain in second hand R. C. H. New tires all around, spare tire on rim. Just ovehauled. In A-l condition.—RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale—Red Cross wind mills. I also do well drilling, having two macmnes in operation, and can o prompt work. —ELMER GWIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 418. jy-12 For Sale—Good improved 148acre farm lying just north of Three-I railroad at Kersey. Price $15,000 cash. Call on or address PETER McDANIELS, Rensselaer, Ind. j-30 For Sale—An oculist’s trial case, containing full set of lenses, tools, etc. Cost $l6O, but will part with same at a very low figure.—C. H, VICK, Rensselaer, Ind. ts

For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west of Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts For Sale—Good, large building lots in the town of McCoysburg, junction of Monon and C. & W. V. ttys., at SSO each, part time if desired. Also will sell 15 acres of land right at town, with good new house thereon, at SBO per acre; 40 acres with new house and new barn, at same price, or will sell 300 acres, house and barn, house right in town of McCoysburg at same price, or will sell any amount of land desired.—JOHN HERR, McCoysburg, Ind. j-24 WANTED Wanted—-Good live man to write automobile insurance in this territory. For particulars write “Indiana Mutual” (Inc), Laporte, Ind. Wanted—Have buyers for farms in Marion, Union, Barkley, Jordan and Newton tps. See us.—GEO. F. MEYERS. ts FOUND " Found—Buggy storm curtain in front of mill Friday afternoon. Owner can get same at mill by paying for this ad.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILL, phone 456. Found—Picked up on the street May 23, an auto tow rope or cow rope. Owner can have same by calling at THE DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this notice. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room—For household goods and other light weight personal effects. Large, dry quarters, and will take goods for storage by month or year.—THE DEMOCRAT.

Gun Repairing—A. L. Willis, the old Rensselaer gunsmith, is still in the business of gun repairing, at his home oh College avenue, just north of creamery bridge, No. 314 College avenue. j-22 LOST. Lost—Last Saturday some place between Rensselaer and Remington, a large paste brush with 8-foot handle. Finder please return to or notify J. H. S. ELLIS, Rensselaer, Ind., for reward. j_22 Lost—Pair of gold rimmed eyeglasses about the streets. Reward fbr return.—GEOßGE MYERS, telephone office. FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning- Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 6 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay In getting the money after title Is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. - Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property In any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. nl A Hft] Wlthout Delay. , U 111 Without Commission ,ll lu > Without Charges for H’ Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON NOTICE LETTING SCHOOL HOUSE CONTRACT. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that he will on the sth dav of July, 1916, at the hour of one o’clock P. M., at his residence near Tefft, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the erection and construction of a high school building in said township, to be located at Tefft, Indiana. Plans and specifications are now on file at my residence and open to the inspection of bidders. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check of $500.00, payable to’the undersigned, to guaranty that said bidder if awarded the contract will enter into a written contract for the erection and construction of said building according to the plans and specifications, and give bond for the faithful performance of said | contract within 10 days from said above ■date, and upon failure to enter into said contract and execute said bond, within said 10 days, then said check of $500.00 shall become the absolute property of the undersigned in behalf of said township. Said trustee reserves the right to reject j any and all bids by and with the consent i of the advisory board of said township, j R. E. DAVIS, ! Trustee of Kankakee School Township. !j-14-21-28 NOTICE OF SALE SCHOOL HOUSE BONDS. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned. Trustee of Kankakee school township, that at the hour of one o’clock P. M„ July ,i. 1916, at the office of said trustee, (at his residence), he will offer for sale the bonds of said school township in the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars, in thirty equal series of Four Hundred Dollars each, extending through a period of fifteen years, said bonds to be dated July 1, 1916, the first of said bonds maturing July 1, 1917, and one bond each six months thereafter, said bonds to bear interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, said interest falling due semi-an-nually on July Ist and January Ist of each year, being the maturing dates of said bonds. Said bonds to be sold for not less than par. Said bonds are to provide funds with which to construct a high school building in said township, and the sale of said bonds has been authorized by proper action pnd order of the advisory board of said township. R. E. DAVIS. Trustee Kankakee School Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Tefft. Indiana. j-14-21-28 NOTICE OF LETTING OF CONTRACT FOR SCHOOL BUILDING. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned Trustee of Marion School Township, Jasper County, Indiana, will receive bids up until 10 o’clock a. pi., on Saturday. July 1. 1916, at the office of Harvey W. Wood. jr.. Trustee, in the new Odd Fellows’ building, Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, for the building of a consolidated school situate on the following described real estate: Part of

the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two (32) township twenty-nine (29) north, range six (•>) west, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point 770 feet of the southeast corner of said section, township and range, running thence north 264 feet, thence west 330 feet, thence south 264 feet to center line of highway, thence east 330 feet to the point of beginning and enclosing two acres. Sa - building to be completed according to the plans and specifications therefor prepared by A. Wasson Coen, architect, Chicago, Illinois. Ihe said plans and specifications are on file at the office of the above named trustee. Bids will be received for a general building contract completed according to said plans and specifications, and in strict accordance with the specifications now on file, with a twin furnace heating system. Each and every bid must be sealed and accompanied with a certified check in the sum of five (5) per cent of the bid, payable to thr> Trustee of the .Marion School Townslßß and to be held by him as liquidated djuTnfges in ease the tr^fi'^-^V der I S lo \ nter into conEacli contractor will b& required to furnish a bond for the amount of his contract, conditioned for the faithful performance and execution of the sakie and the payment of all debts for work, and labor that may be used in said building and for all materials that may enter mto the construction of said building for any part or portion thereof, and subject to the approval of the township trustee and his advisory board. Each bid shall be filed on the latest bidders form as prescribed by the state board of accounts, and be legally sworn to, and £ach bid and bidder must in all things comply with the requirements of the law with reference to the letting of contracts/gof, this character. Alf the right to reject any and all bids is/ reserved. ?{ / The plans and specificaions will hot be out until June 20(h. / 7 > HARVEY W. WOOD, JR, Trustee Marion School Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Dated this Bth day of June, 1916, NOTICE OF BOND SALE Notice is hereby given that on the Ist day of July, 1916, at 10 o’clock a. m., that the undersigned township trustee of Marion School Township, Jasper county, Indiana, will offer for skle, at his office in the new Odd Fellows’ building of Rensselaer, Indiana, an issue of nine thousand ($9,000) dollars of bonds of Marion School Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Said bonds will be twelve in number, dated the first day of July, 1916, each bond being for seven hundred fifty ($750) dollars, bearing interest at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum, payable semi-annually after date on the Ist day of January and the Ist day of July of each year, as evidenced by and upon the surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally become due and maturing serially as follows; Bond No. 1 will be due and payable six months after date; bond No. 2 will be due and payable one year after date; bond No. 3 will be due and payable one year and six months after date; bond No. 4 will be due and payable two years after date; bond No. 5 will be due and payable two years and six months after date; bond No. 6 will be due and payable three years after date; bond No. 7 will be due and payable three years and six months after date; bond No. 8 will be due and payable four years after date; bond No. 9 will be due and payable four years and six months after date; bond No. 10 will be due and payable five years after date; bond No. 11 will be due and payable five years and six months after date; and bond No. 12 will be due and payable six years after date. Said bonds have been issued in strict compliance with the laws of the state of Indiana and pursuant’ to an order of the advisory board of said township made and put on record on the 27th day of May, 1916, authorizing said bonds to be issued for the purpose of aiding in constructing a school building in said township, of Jasper county, Indiana. Said bonds will be sold according to law to the highest and best bidder for not less than their par value. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. HARVEY W. WOOD, JR„ Trustee Marion Township, Jasper County, Indiana, j-14-21-28 NOTICE OF SURVEY Notice is hereby given to: WM. HENRY, JOSEPH MATINKY, JOHN FENZEL. MR. SCHECTER, MRS. PAUL. NATE KEEN, FRANK FENZEL, JOHN BURGER, W. HAMMERTON, And all others interested, that I own the west half of the northeast quarter, section 4. township 31 north, range 5 west in Jasper county, Indiana, and that i will proceed with the surveyor, or his deputv of said county, to make a legal survey 6t saul section four or so much thereof as may be necessary to establish the corners and lines of my land. Said survey to begin on July 6 1916 -- fTS i r JOHX FENZEL. jU4 212S Pr Ce ’ JaSPer Col,nty Surveyor.