Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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CAMP RALSTON FLOODED

0. v d Several Rensselaer People Visited Co. M Sunday. Company M had a touch of the real soldier’s life Sunday afternoon when Camp Ralston was swept by a severe rain storm of nearly three hours’ duration, commencing at about 3:45 o’clock, and there was another heavy shower in the evening about 8 o’clock for nearly a halihour, which made the camp a quagmire. The many thousands of visitors, who were in the camp at the time, were for the most part thoroughly soaked by the dowmpour and those who did not get wet had their clothing or shoes ruined in reaching the car lines again. Company M has had no entraining order up to late Sunday evening, but Major Healey informed the writer that he 1 had orders to have his boxes ready for the field ranges by noon Monday, and he stated further that he thought they would be on tlje move before Wednesday night, but to what place he had no idea. The spirits of the boys are high and all seem to be enjoying the \ life and all seenp eager to be on the move.

We understand that Lieut. Watson failed to pass medical examination, owing to a rupture of some years’ standing, but effort is being tti obtai# for him a leave of absence 'during which he could undergo an operation and then rejoin the company. In addition to Lieut. Watson who failed to pass the medical examination was Herbert ‘Hammond, Bert Hudson, Ralph and Frank Wiseman and perhaps three to others whose names had not as yet been announced. Capt. Tuteur has the credit of having the best drilled company of men at the camp and the boys certainly are putting up a more sol-dier-like appearance with the drills received. A general order, we understand, has been issued that no more visitors would be permitted in camp. It has been the policy of the government to veil the movement bf the troops as much as possible, so it seems reasonably sure that the movement of the troops from Camp Ralston is about to begin. Among the visitors noted from here Sunday at the camp were the following: Sheriff B. D. McColly, Devere Yeoman, W. V. Porter, Rice Porter, Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Hoyes, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Moore, Mrs. Gant, Mrs. Spate of Newland, Mrs. Tony Overland, Misses Gladys Grant, Nora and Josie Lymon, Jess Wilcox, Wm. Eldridge, Russell Willetts, J. A. Myers, Mell Griffin and many others who names we did not learn.

The Fourth at the Gayety.

All those who desire to enjoy an amusing and agreeable entertainment on the evening of the glorious 4th, will acquire the necessary gratication by visiting the Gayety. The performance will begin at 8 o'clock sharp and continue throughout the entire evening, singing, dancing, moving pictures and fireworks will constitute the entertainment. The admission fee i£ 15c and sc. A threepiece orchestra will supply the music.

Greek Candy Store Closes Up.

The Greek candy store established a few months ago by P. C. Catchfores & Co., and recently sold by them to Athens & Kaperones of Chicago Heights, has closed up and it is understood the outfit will be moved away. They found, it is said, that there was not enough business here for a place of that kind and decided to close it up and quit.

Birth nnouncements.

July 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Lon Watson of near Surrey, a daughter. June 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ward, a daughter. July 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marlin, near depot, a son. An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

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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. Ex-County Treasurer Fell and Albert Brand were over from Remington Monday. New suits filed: No. 8641. Henry Ward Marble vs. William R. Culbertson et al; action to quiet title. County Superintendent Lamson and family have moved into their nice new home in Fairview addition. There were seven marriage licenses issued last month, against 10 for the previous month and 16 for the corresponding month of 1915. County Attorney George A. Williams, who is putting in most of the summer at his farm in Ohio, drov« in Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Williams and his two neices, Misses Gay and May Short of Kokomo, to remain for a week or more. Marriage licenses issued: July 3, John Ahlemeier of Tefft, aged 19 November 13 last, occupation farmer, to Ethel B. Hibbs, also of Tefft, aged 27 September 5 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married in the clerk's office by Rev. J. Budman Fleming.

Contract Let to Frank Medland.

Trustee Harvey W. Wood, jr., and the advisory board of Marion tp. let the contract Saturday for the new consolidated school building which is to be erected on the corner of the George P. Daugherty farm southeast of Rensselaer, to Frank Medland of Logansport, Who is the contractor on the county hospital nefw in course of construction. The price is $9,580, which includes the building and heating system complete, But one other bid was filed, that of M. V. Brown of Rensselaer, whose bid was a little more than SIO,OOO. The building is to be completed by October 1, or within the mext three months. The $9,000 five per cent bond issue to provide funds for erecting the building—the trustee having a few thousand dollars on hand for the purpose—were sold to the Fletcher American National bank of Indianapolis at S2OO premium.

Some Good Wheat This Year In Jasper County.

There are several fields of very good wheat in Jasper county this year, but about the best we have seen any place and in several hundred miles travel through differerj sections of the state is on the J. M. Wasson farm southeast of Rensselaer. There is 70 acres of this wheat and it is very fine indeed. They also have 25 acres of splendid rye on this farm. In Barkley tp, there is some good wheat. On the John English farm and on the J. T. Culp farm are two excellent fields. Out just southwest of town on the J. J. Lawler land, Joe Nagel has a fine large field of wheat, and right across the road south of this field is the best looking oats we have seen any" place this year. They are of good height and quite free of weeds. Most of the oats fields are terribly weedy, and dock, mustard and other noxious weeds are more in evidence icf some cases than the oats themselves. But most of the wheat in the county this yeas looks much better than anticipated, and it is probable that the yiqld will also be quite good. It is to be regretted that more attention is not given to the growing of wheat in Jasper county as it is a much better paying crop than oats and requires little or no more labor than the latter. It is about as sure a crop, too, as oats and with an average season will pay almost twice as large returns. Of course, the weather conditions i last fall, when it was too wet, and j the year before when it was too dry

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

. RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1916

at wheat Sowing time, resulted in a much smaller acreage being put out than usual perhaps. Especially was this true of last year, but those who are fortunate enough to have put in a field of wheat last fall will get much better returns from it than they will from their oats. The Democrat believes that the farmers of Jasper county should give more attention to wheat growing and thus have a more diversified line of crops. It is not probable that all will fail, and if one has out a good sized acreage of wheat, and it does well, he need not worry so much as the farmer who depends on corn or oats, or both.

LOCAL NEWS

Quite a large number of automobile and motorcycle tourists passed through Rensselaer Saturday, Sunday and Monday, no doubt to spend the 4th with friends at other points or taking advantage of the 4th of July holiday to make a pleasure trip. Miss Gertrude Hopkins, who recently underwent an operation in a Chicago hospital on her injured eye, which was badly lacerated by the breaking of her glasses at the State bank several weeks ago, went to Sullivan, Ind., Saturday from Chicago to visit her sister, Mrs. Zoe Thompson, at whose home her mother is also visiting.

Dr. Curnick preached a patriotic sermon Sunday morning at the Methodist church upon the subject: “The Glory of Old Glory.” In the course of the sermon Dr. Curnick praised our own soldiers and said they were a strong, brave and loyal company of men and would reflect honor and credit upon all of us at home if they were called to the front to fight in Mexico. Mrs. John Martindale expects to soon begin the erection of a new cottage on the lot just north of C. B. Steward’s residence which she has just purchased of Mr. Steward. The lot is 51x138 feet and the price paid was S4OO. Mrs. Martindale sold her property north of the Monon station, consisting of residence and five acres of ground, some time ago to Benjamin Harris, the consideration being in the neighborhood of $5,000. Saturday and Sunday were the two hottest days we have had so far this summer, fine growing weather indeed for corn. A small shower of fain fell in Rensselaer in the late afternoon and evening and interferred with the open air union religious services on the court house lawn. Not enough rain fell here, however, to do much harm, but in other localities it was probably very heavy, judging from the appearance of the clouds. At Indianapolis they got a terrific downpour and streets and grounds were flooded.

A party of tourists passed through Rensselaer Friday afternoon north bound, their car bearing DatonaV

PRELIMINARY MEETING OF ORGANIZATION

To the Farmers of This Community and Especially to the Stockholders of the Farmers’ Elevator. Come to the elevator meeting at the east court room next Saturday, July 8, at 3p. m. Be sure to come, we need your presence, we need your prestige. Remember this meeting is of vital interest to the farming industry of this Let every stockholder answer this call, and by youir presence at this meeting do justice to your own interest, the .farming interest in general and the directors whom you have empowered to issue this call. This meeting is for the purpose of adopting and signing the articles of association and electing officers and a permanent board of directors.

: Fla., pennants and ’’Dixie Highway.” Just what a Dixie highway car is doing over on our Jackson highway is a question. The Dixie highway as officially routed is quite a number of miles west of Rensselaer and through Danville, 111. Perhaps this party of tourists had learned that we had the best roads on the Jackson highway route and that the distance between Indianapolis and Chicago was considerably less than over the Dixie line. r - - ■— ■ W. R. Brown has sold his 300acre farm in Barkley tp. to Charles Stath of Carpenter tp., who traded in his 80-acre farm in west Carpenter and gives a cash difference of $31,500. Possession is given Marqh 1. Mr. Brown’s son Everett will go on the Carpenter tp. farm, it is understood. The farm lies miles northwest of Goodland, two miles north of the George Welch corner, and is nicely located with a rock road along the south front and the west side. The farm Mr. Stath gets Is a good, well improved farm and lies on the famous “Wall Street” in Barkley tp.

Fred Phillips and little daughter visited Mrs. Phillips at the Wesley hospital, Chicago, Sunday. The latter was not fueling so well the latter part of the week, but was better Sunday. The doctors have not fully determined as yet her precise ailment, but think it is a kidney trouble. She will remain there this week yet at least in order for them to study her trouble. Mrs. Henry Ropp of north of town, who was taken to the Wesley hospital in Chicago recently to undergo an operation for an ailment In her throat which has given her considerable trouble for some time, will probably be operated on Thursday, Mr. Ropp informs us. The operation itself is not such a very serious one and it hoped that permanent relief will result.

Automobile Owners. “Renovators and cleaners” are of little value and in most cases are harmful to any finish and should be avoided. If your car has a metal body be on the lookout all the time for rust, the arch enemy of the steel surface. Call on the painter as soon as the varnish is knocked off on any spot. For particulars call at H. R. LANGE’S MUSIC STORE or phone 566. All work guaranteed. j-8

Here Is the Real Thing, Mr. Farmer. If you don't believe it take a chance. Expenses—telephones, lights, insurance, their own salary, clerk hire, rent—is quite a large item With some competitors. It takes a hard blow, to RING THE BELL. I HAVE THE BUGGIES The best farm wagon on earth for light running and durability. It’s the Studebaker.—C. A. ROBERTS, Rensselaer, Ind., Agent. I quote you a spot cash price on all goods I sell. Dr. Leslie Sharrer will he in my office every afternoon from 1 until 4 o’clock and can be reached any other time, day or night, by calling 211. DR. €. E. JOHNSON. j-8 An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.

TEMPORARY BOARD.

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. v ALLIED DRIVE PUSHES ONWARD May Be War’s Climax Unless Checked Very Soon. After a continuous terrific bombardment of seven days’ duration by the allies against the Germans on the west front the former report having penetrated the Teuton line to a depth of five miles and the capture of many thousands of soldiers. It is estimated that 1,000,000 shells were expended each day by the allies, maintaining a complete curtain of fire along the 16-mlle front. This is considered one of the jnost important victories scored against the Germans since the beginning of the war, say the allies. The Russians are also very active In the region south of the Drlester river where they continue to drive back the Austrian-Hungarlan troops and taken many thousand prisoners. The Italians, In the Bosina sector, are continuing their offensive against the enemy along the entire Bosina line. The Russians are reported to have been repulsed in an eight-hour battlo in Persia.

Berlin Not Worried by Great Offensive of Allies on West.

Berlin, July I. (via London, July 2). —Private advices from the front indicate that the long-awaited British offensive on the west front finally has begun. The earlier activity of the British had a more or less “feeling out’’ character and left it uncertain whether Gen. Sir Douglas Haig was in earnest or merely endeavoring to hold the German forces on his front. But today it is fairly apparent that the new movement is the beginning of a serious offensive. The headquarters report today speaks of heavy artillery lire, gas attacks and the explosion of mines as preliminaries to strong reconnassanees in force along the AngloFrench front. These, it is declared, were everywhere repulsed. There is no uneasiness manifest here in military circles familiar with the situation, though it is evidently realzed that this is only the beginning. Coincidently with the AngloFrench offensive the Turkish second army has launched a general offensive against the Russians in Persia on a front extending from Kermanshah to Urumiah lake.

Fund For Families of Men in Army Voted by House.

Washington, July 2.— : The Hay bill, appropriating $.2,000,00.0 for dependent families of national guardsmen called or drafted In the present emergency, was passed by the House yesterday. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, allows not exceeding'MO a month to the dependent families in the discretion of the secretary of war. Representative Small, Democrat, North Carolina, and James, Republican, were the only members to vote against the bill, which passed 297 to 2. A substantially similar provision, but for $1,000,000 instead of $2,000,000, was stricken out of the Hay national guard draft resolution because of the opposition of the Senate conferees to the appropriation. There will be a fight on the measure when it reaches the Senate in its new form.

New Hampshire Has Signs As Assistance to Autoists.

Nashua, N. H., July 3.—The state of New Hampshire does not wish the traveler over its roads to lose his way, and so it has marked posts and poles along the main roads in r.uch manner * that they serve as official guides. For example, if the traveled notices that the telephone poles have a blue band twelve inches wide with two-inch white borders he can rest assured he is on the main road running north through the western part of the state from

.Massachusetts boundary. If the poles carry a six-inch green band and a six-inch yellow band, with twoinch black borders, then there can be no question that it is the Suncook valley road that is being followed. Anybody who has tried to decipher the inscriptions on a weatherbeaten sign post at a cross-roads does not need to be told what a help to the traveler the New Hampshire system of guiding posts has proved to be.

liM IMEM

Senators Kern and Taggart have Herman Doyle for postmaster at Hebron. A stock company is being formed at Kentland to build a 115,000 colli seum in that city. The shares are $lO each and they are being subscribed for quite rapidly, it is said. Goroner Lung of Kokomo has rendered a verdict of suicide In the case of Martin Quinn, the Lafayette lawyer, who was killed two weeks ago at that place by an L. E. & W. freight train. The Wallace-Smith blanket mills at Laporte have been awarded a government contract to furnish all the arrily blankets they can turn out id tile ndxt few weeks, and will operate tlielr mills night and day, holidays and Sundays to~ turn out blankets for the soldiers. All blankets on hand were taken.

Daniel Fraser was in Toledo the first df the week and there met Mr. and Mth. Frank VanNatta and daughter who were enroute to the Argentine city, and had stopped In Toledo to visit Mr. and Mrs. Cherrington, who reside there. The VanNattas will embark on the vessel at New York next Saturday and expect to be on the water twenty-three days.—Fowler Tribune. The state militia passed out of existence at midnight Friday night. At that hour the new army bill, signed by the president June 3, went Into effect, making the national guard a branch of the federal service. Under the law, whatever the state of America’s relations with other countries, no man enlisting In the national guard is Immune from service if his country calls him. A double oath is demanded from each recruit. During the severe electrical storm Friday morning four people were killed in Indiana by lightning— Raymond Bray, 13 years old, Indianapolis; Frederick Kelly, 14 yenrs old, and an unidentified man, both of Marion county, and Dennis Brummit, 22 years old, a farm hand on the Grover Stillabower farm near Atkinson, Benton county. Brummit was hauling rock on a new stone road and the lightning killed the team he was driving and tore his wagon to pieces. He leaves a young widow 19 years of age and one small child. Mrs. Virginia Brooks Washburne, dubbed the “Joan of Arc of West Hammond,’’ and more recently known as a playwright and lecturer, has been made co-reßpondefft in a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Matilda Eichler against her husband, Alexander C. Eichler, a plumber and of late a partner of Mrs. Washburne in several business deals. Mrs. Washburno has had matrimonial troubles of her own. Her divorce suit was settled out of court recently and dropped, leaving her acquaintances in some doubt as to the exact present statu3 of her domestic affairs. Peter DeYoung, who Is a neighbor of Krump, now in jail charged with killing McGregor, was in town last Saturday and called at the jail to see Krump. The latter’s attorney, Elmore Barce, had advised his client not to talk about his case and the conversation was along other lines. Die Young said that Krump appeared to be a nervous wreck and said that he expressed deep regret for the past and said that he would give everything he possessed If the tragedy had never occurred. To another, who informed him of McGregor’s death, he said: “He is better off than I am.”—Fowler Tribune.

Creamery Patrons. I have started a cream station at Lee and „ solicit your patronage. Price and test guarantee^—MOßßl3 JACKS. j-4 / J

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