Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Page 2

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II JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT G. M. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF Jasper county Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mai] Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Renssei aer Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 18 <9. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. ADVERTISING RATES P* 8 P, la y 12%c Inch Display, special position. ... 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion. .5c Readers, per line add. insertions. .3c W ant Ads—One cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more monthß. 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 28, 1916

MEXICO

President \\ ilson has never wanted war. In the days when his o|>i>o-' nents attacked him and tried to goad him into the use of the armed forces of the United States, he remained steadlast to his determination that the blood of young American soldiers should never be shed except as the last recourse in the effort to uphold the honor of the nation. Once, when even graver eventualities were threatened, the patience of President Wilson’s statesmanship was rewarded by diplomatic victory that made the shedding of blood unnecessary. If was the President's previous moderation that gave such force to the ominous ultimatum which brought full concession to the rights of America and humanity. No President in the history of the United States has ever placed the cause of the people of the United States upon a higher plane. No President has ever struggled more valiantly to preserve peace with honor. His critics have proved the instructors at the Monnett School for unanimous approval of his present course has not dulled the edge of his desire for honorable peace. The immovability of the President in the face of selfish and partisan criticism, cbming from those who thought more of personal advantage than of the welfare of the nation, has been the best security of the American people throughout the time the world has been darkened by war clouds. If the sword of righteousness must now be unsheathed, the American people know that it is because peaceful means have been exhausted. If the sword is raised to strike, it is because the head of the de facto government of Mexico to respect the rights of America. No President has ever tried so

hard to interpret the real spirit of America. Mr. Wilson has said that he would rather (know what the men and women, gathered around their own fireside, ire saying than to listen to the orations of the self-appointed. In his handling of the Mexican problem, President Wilson has been guided by the single impulse to do what the American people would have him do —to exhaust all the peaceful means at his disposal to protect the lives and property of Americans, and, failing in that, to uphold the honor and dignity of the nation by the use of its armed forces. The note written by the state department to Oeneral Carranza in response to his threat to attack the American troops presented the complete case of the American government against Mexico. As in the European situation, when the ultimatum with its ominous note brought full concessions, it marked the end of President Wilson’s patience. The lives of the American soldiers in Mexico, soldiers who were sent there to protect the border from the raids of bandits, bent on murdering Americans, had been threatened. In the might of righteousness, the sword of America was then raised to strike, and in the struggle that threatens, the nation enters upon its task with a clean and fearless heart. Rohind the President, who has so truly represented the charitable spirit of the American people, behind the President now in his grim determination to use the full military and naval strength of the nation in support of the American troops in Mexico, stand the mighty host of patriotic Americans, united, valient and conscious of the faithfulness of their leader to the ideals of real Americanism.

COURT DECISION ON CONTESTED BALLOTS

The supreme court rendered a decision in a contested ballot case from Tipton county last week that u of interest to the public in general and will be of especial interest to candidates and election boards in the coming election this fall. The decision was on the question of the validity of ballots that had been legal by the lower court, and the decision was affirmed. The syllabus of the decision follows.: On the uncontested ballots appellant was elected and on the ballots allowed the appellee was elected. There were a great number of ballots in favor of appellee where the voters had voted for some of the opposing party and then in marking the ballot had put a cross in a square in front of an office having no candidate by appellee’s party. The court reviews the question of distinguishing marks at length and holds that such a mark is not a distinguishing mark, but an error very liable to happen by an honest voter and overrules the .opinion of Sego vs. Stoddard, 136 Ind., 2P7, upon that question. “A strict and literal construction of this section of the act would necessarily result in the nullification of practically all the votes cast, for the reason that it would he almost impossible for a voter to make lines absolutely straight, make them of exactly the same length,” etc. (2) An additional dot or mark upon a ticket which appears to he the result of accident and not design, will not invalidate the ticket. A distinguish-

ing mark that will invalidate a ballot is such a one as fairly imputes upon its face design and dishonest purpose, and a slight soiling of a ballot which reasonably appears to have been the result of accident or want of due care by the voter U not sufficient to condemn it if otherwise fair.

UNION OF PARTIES OPPOSED

Roosevelt (’ailed Betrayer at Meeting of Michigan Progressives. Jackson. Mich., June 24.—State leaders of the Progressive party, including the members of the state central committee, at a meeting here late yesterday adopted a resolution declaring in favor of perpetuating the party and opposing the name of Charles E. Hughes at the head of the ticket at the meeting of the Progressive national committee in Chicago, June 26. The resolution was adopted after a hekted discussion in which Henry E. Wallace of Detroit, former Progressive national committeeman, accused Col. Theodore Roosevelt of having betrayed his party. It was introduced by Charles F. Smith, state chairman, Detroit.

Senate Tones Down Draft Resolution

Washington, June 2 6.—The Hay resolution providing for draft of*national guardsmen into the federal service was amended by the senate tonight to eliminate the $1,000,000 appropriation for relief of guardsmen’s families. A provision was substituted, however, under which thosa having dependent families would be exempt from the draft. The senate also struck out the clause declaring that in the opinion of congress an emergency exists requiring use of the state troops, amending the resolution so that it merely authorizes the President to draft guardsmen whenever he shall decide there is such an emergency.

In its amended form the resolution was passed without a roll call

Breezy Paragraphs From the Metropolitan Press.

Mr. Wilson’s health being apparently excellent, we do not see why Tom Marshall should not be VicePresident Charleston News and Courier. * V * Colonel Roosevelt has a pain in his side, but it is as nothing compared to what the Bull Moose party is suffering.—Birmingham Age Herald. * * * Despite all that Hi Johnson can say as to the future, conditions as they stand find George Perkins saving and {Sane.— Washington Post. Jack Johnson is now giving hit views of the great war. Well, isn’t Jack quite an ex-pounder?—Los Angeles Times. * * * It is all right for Colonel Roosevelt to imitate Justice Hughes ic the matter of having “nothing to say” if he wants to, but he is starting too late to get anywhere with it this year.—Kansas City Journal. * * * Now that Japan has a Billy Sunday, we suppose she will soon part with all that coin she lhas made selling munitions to Russia.-—Houston Post. * * * “I walk like Agag,” says the Colonel, evidently forgetting that Agag walked up to the executioners who hewed him to pieces.—Kanesburg Illuminator. * * * All of the national conventions are now over but the pacifists, and they ought to nominate Charlie Chaplin for President.—Los Angeles Times. * * * Both national conventions have adjourned and nobody has "heard what became of Henry Ford. —-Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Whenever Senator Jiniham Lewis hears a reference to “whiskers of -Hughes” he thinks right away i 1 means “whiskers of hues” and takes it as a dqlicate compliment.—Boston Transcript. ■■ ■■■* - * * And. mind you, the country has never elected a presidential tickei with even one Charley on it, lei alone two.—Houston Post. * * * Our own theory is that Roosevelt is merely speechless with indignation.—Columbia State. * * * Suppose Bryan did come out for Wilson. You will see Roosevell boosting for Hughes pretty soon, and Roosevelt will injure Hughes as much as Bryan injures Wilson.— Houston Post. » * * General Pershing doesn’t seem to think any more of a Mexican ultimatum than London does of a Washington protest about seizing mail.—>Pittsburg Dispatch. * * * Carranza is stffl pursuing those bandits crab fashion, while Villa keeps on breaking the record for

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low visibility.—Baltimore American. * * * Carranza should have a heart and not start anything just as the department heads are planning vacations.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. * * * Candidate Hughes at least has the policy not to-part his whiskers in the middle.- —Atlanta Journal. * * * Indiana may boast of its two vices, Marshall and Fairbanks.— Chicago News. An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.

COMING BACK TO RENSSELAER, IND.

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FOR SALE For Sale—-Six-room house, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Price $1,000; S4OO downjtake 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 macnines in operation, and can .o prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Kens-* selaer, 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—Six-room house, with bath, city water, cistern, lights, storm windows, screens, wash house, barn, etc. Well located on good macadam- street. Easy terms. — CARL L. DUVALL, Rensselaer, Ind. j-24 For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts

FOR RENT For Rent —Good 6-room house, good water,, lots of fruit, etc.—JOE NESSIUS, Rensselaer. j-1 WANTED Wanted—Have buyers for farms in Marion, Union, Barkley, Jordan and Newton tps. See us.—GEO. F. MEYERS. ts lostT Lost- —June 4, auto hood and white pennant slipper somewhere between the Gangloff bridge and the Monon depot. Finder please leave at The Democrat office. j-28 FOUND 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. 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 tc SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. I flft Hftl Without Delay, If I IP Without Commission I III) II) > Without Charges fei H Making or Recording Instruments, W. H. PARKINSON Ideal Account Files, $1.50 each. — she Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

NOTICE LETTING SCHOOL. HOUSE CONTRACT. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that he will on the. sth day 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 pf a high school building in sa,id township, to be located at Tefft. Inoiana. Plans and specifications are now on file ."Vj; mv residence and open to the inspection of bidders. Bach bid must be accompanied by a .certified check of $300.00 pavable to the undersigned, to guaranty that' said bidder n 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 SoOo.OO shall become the absolute property of the Undersigned in behalf of said township. Said trustee reserves the right to reject any and all bids by and with the consent of the advisory board of said township. R. E. DAVIS, 1 rustee 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. Mv, July 5. 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 Jfily 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 clue 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 and order of the advisory board of said township. R. E. DAVIS, Trustee Kankakee School Township, r „ „ 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. m., on Saturday, July 1. 1916, at the office of Harvey TV. 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 (6) west, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point 770 feet west 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. The said plans and specifications are oh 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 the Trustee of the Marion School Township, and to be held by him as liquidated damages in case the successful bidder fails to enter into contract. Each contractor will be required to furnish a bond for the amount of his contract, conditioned for the faithful performance and execution of the same and the payment of all debts for work and labor that may be used in said building and for air materials that may enter into the construction of said building for anv 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 each bid and bidder must in all things comply with the requirements of the law with reference to the letting of contracts of this character. All the right to reject any and all bids is reserved. The plans and specificaions will not fee out until June 20th. HARVEY W. WOOD, JR., Trustee Marion School Towmship, Jasper County, Indiana. Dated this Bth day of June, 1916.

NOTICE OF BOND SALE Notice is hereby givCn 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 sale, at his office in the new Odd Fellows’ building of Rensselaer, Indiana, an issue of nine thousand ($9,000) dollars of bond 3 of Marion School Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Said bonds will be twelve in number, dated the first day of July, 1916, each bond being 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. ? 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. il will be due and payable five years and six monjths 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 ors 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 countv, 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. m „ HARVEY W. WOOD, JR., Trustee Marion Township, Jasper County, Indiana. j-14-21-28

NOTICE OF SURVEY Notice is herebv given to: WM. HENRY, JOSEPH MATINKY, JOHN FENZEL. MR. SCHECTER, MRS. PAUL, NATE KfeEN, 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 1 will proceed with the surveyor, or his deputy, of said county, to make a legal survey of said section four or so much thereof as may be necessary to establish the corners and lines bf my land. Said survey to begin on Jnlv 6 1916. „ JOHN FENZEL. Myrt B. Price, Jasper County Surveyor. j-14-21-28 Place your want ads m The Democrat if you want to get results.