Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Page 1

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GUARDSMEN MAY LEAVE INDIANAPOLIS THIS WEEK

Big Demonstration for Company M Before Their Departure for Fort Benjamin Harrison. There was a big demonstration Friday evening for Company M before their departure for Indianapolis, where the entire national guard has mobilized and is now awaiting call to the Mexican border. The officers of the company put the men through drill practice, there was band music, speeches and a big parade. A little sprinkle of rain, which threatened to be quite heavy, drove many people to their homes at about 8:30 o’clock, but still there was a big crowd left and some of the town people who had gone home when the rain threatened returned and participated in the demonstration. The company left on a special train Saturday morning at 6:30 and, notwithstanding the early hour, nearly 2,000 people were out to the station to hid them God speed and hope that all might return in due time to their friends and loved ones. As we understand, there were 84 men, including officers, in the company when it left Rensselaer. This special train also took the Monticello and Frankfort companies to Indianapolis. First. Lieut. Garland, Corporal Laban Wilcox and Private William Waymire were left behindto continue the work of recruiting, but they were called in Monday on the 11:17 a. m. train, together with three recruits secured after the company had left. > Recruits added since the list published in Saturday’s Democrat are: Reeder, Roscoe, Rensselaer. Lutes, Elmore, Monon. Kellenberger, Samuel, Monon. Burns, David, Goodland. Mellon, Bernard, Remington. Advices from Indianapolis day indicated that the guardsmen forces w T ould not leave Fort Benjamin Harrison for the Mexican border before the last of the week, and possibly not until next week, depending on future developments, of course.

Dr. C. E. Johnson, who accompanied Company M as surgeon, passed an examination and has received a commisison as second lieutenant with the separate battalion which includes Indianapolis, Gary, Laporte, Winamac, Knox and other cities, and probably will not be with the third regiment, of which Company M is a part. This is disappointing to members of Company M who hoped to have the doctor with them.

M. E. Griffin, who xvas a sergeant in the 10th cavalry and saw service in the Philippine Islands, and .Jos. A. Myers, who was a color or first sergeant in the British Marine corps and was in the campaigns in Egypt, 1898, South Africa, 1899, and seiga of Pekin, China, 1900, are organizing companies, and have secured nearly a full roster and have made application for service in the event volunteers are called for. They are both capable men and having seen much active- service will undoubtedly make able commanders. They are holding a school of instruction each evening at 7 o’clock at the court house lawn and invite anyone interested to come out to the drills.

Celebrate the 4th at Fair Oaks.

Fair Oaks'is the only Jasper county town that will celebrate the 4tn of July this year, and they expect a large crowd there. The attractions are to be races of various kinds, including a two-mile Ford automobile race, ball game, band music, fireworks, etc. Judge Hanley and Hon. W. L. Wood will be the orators. The celebration will be held in the grove just north of the Monon tracks, where there is plenty of room and good shade. We are headquarters ble slippers and shoes for the whole family. Satisfactory wear guaranteed at ROWLES & PARKER’S.

WEATHER FOR WEDNESDAY. FAIR AND

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Attorney W. H. Parkinson wenl to Peoria, 111., Sunday to represent G. M. Myers in the latter’s suit for divorce. . Recorder and Mrs. George Scott and little daughter returned Sunday evening from Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Scott had underwent another operation for tuberculosis of the glands of her neck. She is not doing very well, and her condition is causing her relatives and friends considerable anxiety. No. 8636%. Petition of Firman Thompson for admission to the bar. No. 8637. John A. Clark vs. Franke L. Clark; action for divorce. The complaint 4 alleges that the parties were married on April 10, 1889, and that on May 6, 1908, defendant, wholly without cause, abandoned pltaintiff. The Hanging Grove tp. commencement exercises will be held at the McCoysburg school house next Saturday evening at 8 o’clock. Rev. J. B. Fleming of the First Presbyterian church of Rensselaer will address the graduates, who are as follows: James Cook, Paul Cook, Charles Erb, Frank Lowman, Frank Stevens and Verne Smith.

Marriage licenses issued: June 24, Chris Reinke of Buckley, 111., aged 37 May 10 last, occupation hard- 1 ware clerk, to Carrie Rosena XVlikens of Rensselaer, aged 33 November. 3 last, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each. First mar- j riage of male dissolved by divorce j in June, 1915; first marriage of female dissolved by death in 1911.

Judge Hanley heard a part of the evidence in the case of Babcock & 1 Hopkins vs. Dr. John Hansson, and continued the further hearing of the case to July 7. This case grows out! of the sale of automobiles by the parties last season. Other matters considered by the court Friday and Saturday were: Harvey J. Dexter ditch; time extended to August 24 for parties to remonstrate and all parties mentioned in order of December 4, 1914. Order to proceed with work on August 24. William H. Boyle ditch; A. Halleck allowed S3OO on attorney fee. Amos Davisson ditch; E. D. Nesbit appointed engineer. Assessments of Henry Grow reduced a total of $417.50; Brusnahan and Lonergan assessments reduced one-half; T. F. Dunlap allowed SSO damages; assessments confirmed on other lands of Grow and all others affected. F. Guy Barnard ditch; M. B. Price resigns as engineer and Devere Yeoman is appointed in his stead. Referred to engineer, B. J. Moore, drainage commissioner, and T. F. Maloney appointed third commissioner. Directed to meet July 10 and report at September term. Bruce Baker et al vs. Ruby Baker et al; court finds interests of parties as set out in complaint and appoints Elias Arnold, William Folger and John R. Lewis to make partition, to meet at clerk’s office and qualify July 1 and to report on first day of September term. Albert S. Keene, adm. of estate of Mary Clark, vs. 'Hlarmon N. Clark et al; sale of real estate reported to Elizabeth Mulden at $325 cash. Sale approved, etc. Marion school township vs. Lucy Daugherty; appraisers H. W. Jackson, Ed Herath and Fred Waymira report value of real estate to be SSOO. Report approved and W. H. Parkinson appointed to make deed. Deed presented and approved. Appraisers allowed $5 each for service.

Pythian Sisters Elect Officers

The Rensselaer Temple of Pythian Sisters at the meeting Friday afternoon elected the following officers for the ensuing term: M. E. C.—Mae Babcock. E. S.—Mattie Grant. E. J.—Edna Rishling. , M. of T.-—Elizabeth Haus. M. of R. & C.—Nina Burchard. M. of F.—Sarah Collins. P. of T.—Ellen Gwin. O. J. —True Reeve.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1916

Citizens, but those who have or are contemplating joining any volunteer organization or home guard, are cordially invited to meet at court house lawn beginning this Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock sharp, for instruction iu preparedness and military matters. Spanish-American or regular army veterans are invited to assist. For further information apply to

Release Demanded of 18 U. S. Soldiers Held at Chihauliau City.

According to a written statement by Capt. L.’-S. Morey, who is reported dying as the result of wounds received of the battle between American soldiers and Mexican soldiers at Carrizal, the Mexican opened fire upon the Americans when the latter were about 300 yards distant. At least 23 of the American force was killed and 18 were taken prisoners. The Mexican losses are unknown. Carranza has admitted in his latest note to our government that his generals had been instructed Jto attack the U. S. forces if they moved from their base either to the east, west or south, and a sharp reply to the Carranza note has been forwarded, demanding the immediate release of the soldiers taken prisoners and an early statement from the Mexican government “as to the course of action it wishes the government of the United States to understand it has determined on.’’ On this reply de pends the future course of action of the United States.

Union Township Man Dies From Kick of Horse.

William Schultz, an industrous German farmer of Union township, aged about 57 years, who was kicked in the abdomen by a horse last Friday morning and badly injured, died Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock as a result thereof. The funeral was held at the German Lutheran church In the Schultz settlement yesterday at 3 o’clock, conducted by Rev. George Heine of North Judson, and burial made in the cemetery near by. Mr. Schultz was a native of Germany, but had resided for a number of years in Jasper county. He leaves a wife and eight children, two sons, and six daughters, as follows: Olga, Marie, Leo, Mrs. Fred Krueger and Rinehold Schultz of Union tp., Mrs. Ora Chupp of Rensselaer, Mrs. Perry Kennedy of Harvey, 111., Mrs. Louis Hickman of Hammond. He also leaves one brother, August C. Schultz of Union tp , one sister in Harvey, 111., and two sisters in Colorado. .

A Disgrace to Jasper County.

The high water occasioned by the heavy rains of the past few weeks undermined one of the abuttments to the bridge over the Hoover slough on the Remington road, rendering the bridge unsafe for traffic, and a detour either east at the Kolhoff corner or west near Tom Cain’s farm has been necessary for the past week. The damage has not been repaired as yet and The Democrat is unable to learn when it will be.

This is the most traveled road anywhere in this section of the state and it is a burning outrage to have it closed for traffic in this manner without providing a decent road tc get around it. The east detour is said to be the better road, although it is not good and is considerably farther than the west detour. A very few dollars intelligently expended at a sink-hole on the west detour would have made 'that road in very good condition. A large number of automobiles—many of them tourists—have got mired down on the west road and they have had to be pulled out with teams of horses. It is said that five cars were stuck in there at one time one night last week and they worked until 2 o’clock next morning in getting them out. There is no reasonable excuse for permitting such things to exist, and the closing of such an extensively traveled road as that between Rensselaer and Remington for so long a time and without providing a reasonably decent highway for a detour is a disgrace to Jasper county.

City Council Proceedings.

At the regular session of the city council Monday night all members were present andithe following business was transacted: Petition of Julius Taylor et il for sidewalk on Forest street was referred to street committee. Petition of Lucina I. Benjamin et al for improvement of Austin avenue was referred to street committee.

PREPARE FOR MEXICO!

In the matter of coal hauling it was voted by the council to pay 35c per ton for hauling same from car 3 to light plant. This is an increase of 5c per ton over present price. Plans and specifications were adopted, along with the resolution, for sidewalk on street. Same action was taken in matter of sidewalk along block 11, Leopold’s addition. In the matter of improving South and Grove streets, plans and specifications and resolution were adopted for same by the council after a suspension of rules. Council will hear objections on July 24. City attorney and engineer were directed to prepare resolution and plans and specifications, respectively, for sidewalk on the south side of Vine street from Main to Franklin streets; also on Elza street in front of property of John Makeever heirs in block 10, Newton’s addition. Ordinance No. 174, prohibiting persons from begging on the streets of Rensselaer, was adopted by the council, clerk to give notice. In matter of oiling streets, assessment sheet was referred back to the city engineer for corrections, same to Include total cost of advertising, etc. The usual number of claims were allowed.

No Reasonable Cause for This Delay

Complaints have again been made of the irregularity once more in the arrival of the packages of Democrats at Parr and Fair Oaks. Our subscribers say that Wednesday's Democrat is not received out on the rural routes until Thursday, and Saturday’s Democrat not until Monday. This, we are told, has been ‘•regular’’ for the last two or three weeks. Inquiry at the postoffice here resulted in learning that the Parr and Fair Oaks sack was overlooked last Saturday morning. But, we were told, this was the first time it had occurred in the last month. Of course it shouldn’t occur at all, but if the reports coming from our many subscribers who receive their mail either at Parr or Fair Oaks is correct, some one else has been at fault in the packages not reaching their destination several times before within the past month. The papers are mailed here regularly every Tuesday and Friday evening, probably not having missed being so mailed more than two or three times in the past 18 years. Nearly 300 copies of The Democrat are sent to Parr and Fair Oaks to subscribers receiving their mail rt the local offices or over the three rural routes out of those towns, and it is an important matter that the packages reach their destinations promptly on Wednesday and Saturday morning. The matter will be taken up with the division mail superintendent at Cincinnati if this poor service continues any longer.

Visit Son at Fort Benjamin Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. Al Peters and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Humphreys went to Indianapolis Sunday to see the former’s son and Mrs. Humphrey’s brother, George Peters, of Lafayette, who is a sergeant in Battery C of I Lafayette. They returned home on the early train Monday morning. Mr. Peters says the street car service from the city out to Fort Benjamin Harrison was the worst he ever saw. There was not nearly half enough cars to accommodate the visitors, the cars were packed to the limit and passengers were held up for 40 cents for the round trip, where the regular fare is but 25 cents. They left the grounds to return to the city at 6:30 and did not get into Indianapolis to the terminal station until 10:30*that night. The distance from the camp to the city is but 12 or 14 miles. They saw quite a number of members of Company M and report them all in good spirits. This is the last week for your yellow coupons on the player piano. Get them ail in on Wednesday as color changes next week —ROWLES & PARKER.

M. E. GRIFFIN JOS. A. MYERS

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Henry Ford Denounces National Guard Story. Detroit, Mich., June 24.—Henr> Ford, the automobile manufacturer, announced today that he is to erect an $8,000,000 plant to manufacture automobile parts. The plant, which will have its own blast furnaces, will be in River Rouge, a suburb on the Detroit river. Mr.*. Ford denounced a published report that employes ol the Ford Motor company who Join the national guard will not be given their jobs back when they return to Detroit. He said only 37 of his employes belong to the state troops and “that when they came back It certainly would be without prejudice.”

More Fatal Automobile Accidents in Benton County.

Apparently Benton county has more fatal automobile accidents than almost any other ,county of its size in the country, and quite a number of citizens of that county have lost their lives by such accidents during the past two or three years. Only last Thursday night Perry Stemble, aged 55, cashier of the Bank of Benton County at Fowler, while driving with Miss Iva Markle, aged 25, a trained nurse of Indianapolis, whose home was at York, Neb., was run down by train No. 99 on the Big Four at a crossing near Crawfordsville and Miss Markle, who was driving the car, was instantly killed. Stemble received severe cuts about -the head, but will recover, it Is announced.

The same night Mrs. Oscar J. Young, aged 35, wife of a farmer living at CheneyviJle, 111., was killed two miles south of Ambia, in Henton county, when an automobile in which she and her husband and daughter, aged eight, were riding, turned over. Mrs, Young was pinned to the ground with the front door of the machine across her neck. She lived about 20 minutes after being taken from the wreck. Mr. and Mrs. Young and their daughter were cn their way home from Danville, 111., when the accident happened. Herman Larson of Wadena, flenton county, got his right shoulder dislocated leg badly cut and Vernon Moore received scalp wounds at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon when the car in which they with I. N. Polling and William Milnes, also of Wadena, collided with another car near Montmorenei. Larson and Moore are farmers. Polling is the janitor of the Wadena school building and"Milnes is clerk in Mitten’s store at Wadena. They were on their way home from a trip to Lafayette when a south bound car run into them. Their car was badly damaged and all of the men considerably bruised up.

Jackson Highway County Organization.

A meeting of the citizens and tax payers of Jasper county, interested in the Jackson highway, will he held at the court room at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening of this week. It is the desire of the committee that this meeting be representative of the entire citizenship of the county and it is especially desired that the people of bbth the north and south ends turn out a substantial representation. At this meeting a permanent county organization wljl be effected, which will be auxiliary to the Interstate Jackson Highway association, which has general charge of the location and improvement of the highway Chicago to New Orleans. The fortunate geographical location of our county and a reasonable amount of effort on our part will insure us the permanent location of this great highway from one end of the county to the other. Up to this time such roads as there are on the Jackson highway line have been improved by the townships at township expense, and in most instances roain-

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tained at county expense. The time is near when the state of Indiana, with financial assistance from the general government, will begin the building of trunk line roads of cement and brick, to the construction of which the local communities will be required to contribute but a very small part. A brick or cement road through the county will be worth more to the citizens than an interurban railroad, and the Jackson highway will be one of the first to be improved in the state. A little effort well directed will keep Jasper county on the Jackson highway map and ultimately bring us the pavement. Crank up your machine and coma Thursday evening and we will talk It over among ourselves.—LOCAL COMMITTEE, Charles G. Spitler, Chairman.

ADMIRAL O’CONNOR TAKES FLEET ON SCOUTING CRUISE

In Que*t of latnd “Rookies” for Company M.—Rensselaer Band Accompanies Voyagers With Admiral O’Connor in command a flying squadron made a scouting cruise last Friday afternoon In the interest of land "rooklea” for Company M, touching at the ports of Remington, Goodland, Brook and Mt. Ayr. The fleet weighed anchor at about six bells, afternoon watch, and stood out to sea with the following fleet: Dreadnaught Hudson, Captain F. E. Babcock, flying the admiral’s flag; superdre&dnaught National, Captain Abraham Leopold; light cruiser Chevrolet, Captain John Schultz, flying Commodore Honan’s flag; light cruisers Chevrolet, Captain Herman Tuteur; Chevrolt, Captain Lee Adams; Jackrabbit, Captain Mark Schroer; gunboat Maxwell, Captain C. 11. Tryon; Ford wasps: commanded by Captains C. P. Fate, Roe Yeoman and Rex Warner.

When out about a league, sailing S SW through the Hoover-Biggs straits, rough water was encountered. Owing to the fact that this strait is full of shoals and has been mined as protection, there is generally one of the Hoover line of tug boatß standing by to furnish a pilot Qr to help warp through passing boats. (And by the way, the iHtoover line is said to be coining money of the realm this season warping passing ships through since the closing of Ahe east lane of traffic to the port of Remington )

Tho light cruiser Chevrolet, Capt. Tuteur commanding, which led the van, after sticking her nose in a couple sand bars and being warped off by the wasps, doubt was feared as to lea way for the heavier ships of line, but seamanship saved the day and a passage was forced. We understand there was talk of a board ol Inquiry sitting on Admiral O’Connor’s act in taking his fleet through this strait but as only some paint was scraped ofT and as he brought them safely into port it is doubtful if any action will be taken. At each port of entry a landing was made, taking ashore the fleet hand, and Admiral O’Connor, Commodore Honan and Captain Tuteur mada brief talks to the populace. As a result patriotism is running high and several men have already joined Company M, and no doubt but mor-2 will join this company or others should they be formed. The fleet dropj>ed anchor again oIT ■Rensselaer at about two bells, second dog, the log showing an average of nearly 28 knots per hour for the voyage. With the fleet was Seaman Earl Hemphill of the battleship Oklahoma, who is home on shore leave, and First Lieut. Jerry B. Garland of Co. M, who has been officially declared to be the best rifle and pistol shot at present connected with the U. S. land forces. Capt. Tuteur at Brook did not speak but visited with his young lady “friend”; and that evening, it is understood, he with Surgeon Johnson went over to Brook and paid their respects to their “friends” before leaving for the front.

Birth Announcements. June 19, to Mr. and Mrs. George Hoeferline of Jordan tp., a son. June 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Riley Snyder of Hanging Grove tp., a son. June 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Roy i Walls of Hanging Grove tp., a daughter. t. June 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman | Roadruck, at the home of Mrs. Roadruck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Elder, a son. / Get Victrolaized at (HILLIARD & HAM ILL’S.