Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — Page 8

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSELAWN Cleotus Gundy played ball with the Fair Oaks team the Fourth. Born, Thursday morning, July 6, to Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Rice, a fine boy. T. M. Gephart, the cattle king of Thayer, was a Roselawn visitor Thursday. John Mulder of Wisconsin visited his father, sister and brother here the past few days. Myron Born was down from Cook and went with the Rice boys to Hebron to spend the Fourth. Miss Hershal Collins came up from Rensselaer last week for a week’s visit with her cousin, Mary Jane Phillips. Fair Oaks, as usual, drew most of the Roselawnites on the Fourth, while some went to Morocco, Hebron and a few to Cedar Lake. Preaching by the pastor, Rev. Coleman, Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock. In the evening Rev. Coleman will exchange pulpits with the Shelby pastor. We have had some fine weather the past few days and the farmers are again plowing corn. Two or three more week of fair and warm weather will bring our corn to the front wonderfully. Mrs. Elmo Guilford was taken to the Wesley hospital, Chicago, last Saturday by Dr. C. M. Rice for an operation for gallstones. We have not learned at this time whether she tad been operated upon or not. M. Duffey, the well known Democratic politician of Benton county and a large land owner in the vicinity of Conrad and Lake Village, was a Roselawn visitor Thursday, having blacksmith work done, trading generally and occasionally speaking a good word for his party. Thayer, without their best pitcher and a substitute third baseman, beat Morocco in a game that had the earmarks of a rattling good ball game for three or four sessions, but ended in Morocco’s pitcher, followed by the whole team, “blowing up” in the last three innings, resulting in a victory for Thayer. Score: 15 to 8.

Says They Are Wonderful. Hot weather is doubly dangerous when digestion is bad. Constipation, sick headache, biliousness, or other conditions caused by clogged bowels yield quickly to Foley Cathartic Tablets. Mrs. Elizabeth Slauson, South Norwalk, Conn., writes: “I can honestly say. they are wonderful.” Sold everywhere.—Advt.

McCOYSBURG

Mrs. O. R. Putts called on Mrs. Paul Stevens Wednesday. Mrs. Laura McDonald was a McCoysburg visitor Thursday. Miss Ruth Robinson is visiting Mrs. J. R. Phillips at this writing. Mrs. Charles Beaver and son called on Mrs. Will McDonald Monday afternoon. Allen Campbell came Wednesday evening to visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ferguson and family. Mrs. O. E. Hitchings and Miss Mae Toomas visited Mrs. Will McDonald Wednesday afternoon. Mrs, Janies Jeffries and neice Miss Bebbie, went to Longcliff Wednesday to visit her mother. Ladies’ Aid will meet with Mrs. William Willetts next Wednesday, July 12. All ladies invited. The celebration the Fourth was very well attended at Francesville and all enjoyed a good time, Miss Bertha Campbell came Tuesday from Reynolds to visit Mrs. Charles Ferguson and family. Mr. Hobson and former Sheriff O’Connor will speak at the McCoysburg school house Saturday, July S. on preparedness. All are invited. Mrs. Gus Stevens, son Frank, Miss

I Quality | Canned Goods | We protect our customers by handling only such | brands of canned goods | whose makers have high $ a reputations to uphold. _ G H There are numerous poorer ra grades marketed which nave carefully avoided in G selecting for our trade, G though we might profit more $ by stocking them. p K The prices of these better $ G grades are low enough to R $ suit all G FRANK ROWEN Phone 202

Ruth Robinson, Miss Alice Stevenson and Kenneth Stevens autoed to band concert at Rensselaer Wednesday evening. Roy I loc k and wKe of this rhace were called to Fowler Tuesday by the death of a nephew of Mrs. Heck’s, who was killed by a fall from a Lafayette bridge where the boy was playing. It is thought he came in contact with an electric wire and fell to the street. His head was badly crushed and he lived but a few hours.

LEE Two men from Monon commenced plastering Frank Eldridge’s new house Wednesday. The most of our people attended the 4th of July celebrations at Monticello and Francesville. Asa Holeman and family and mother, went from church last Sunday to Mr. Cadwalter’s for dinner. Elmer Hoover and wife of near Reynolds spent Sunday here with her parents, J. W. Mellender and wife. Mrs. Cora Steirs is boarding the men that are putting up the dry land dredge on the Horton ranch near here. Clyde Clark and sister Martha of near Morocco came Sunday to see their brother John, who is still very sick with rheumatism. We are sure having nice weather so far this week. If it will just continue now until the men can get their harvesting and haying done. Lester Warren was helping unload the dredge off the car here Saturday and let a heavy piece fall on his foot and smashed it quite badly. Wordon Donaldson and family, Shirley Noland and wife and Asa Donaldson and family of Monon spent the Fourth south of town with Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson. William Jacks and family of Monticello took their car and brought Mrs. Becky Phillips of the same place and Mr. and Mrs. Heart of Indianapolis here to visit Mrs. Ann Rishling for the day Sunday. Miss Lural Anderson took their machine Sunday afternoon and took Frank Eldridge and family to see Willard Tanner and family, whose wife is a neice of Mr. Eldridge. They live In the neighborhood of the Parker school house, where Miss Anderson boarded last winter when she t. ught that school.

HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Lewis S Alter et ux to Charles W Brand, .June 27, e % sw, 6-31-7, se nw, 6-31-7, Keener, $3,000. Mina Dahncke to Joseph Hilliard et ux, July 1, Its 9, 12, 13, bl 5, Wheatfield, Bentley’s add, sl. Annie Burke et baron to Ellen McGraw, June 29, pt outlot 12, Remington, pt n y 2 nw, 30-27-Gi-, $1,500,

IMPROVIDENCE.

(By Walt Mason.) The country’s being painted red by cheerful, careless lads, who never look.a day ahead, but blow in all their scads. Today they have abounding health, and sickness seems afar; today they're earning goodly wealth, so why not buy a car? The sage rebukes them with a sigh, and says, “Be safe and sane, and while the weather's fair and dry, prepare, my sons, for rain.” ] n vain his noble words are said, they list with scornful look, and beg that he will soak his head, in some convenient brook. And then they make the village hum t with their resounding mirth; but sickness comes, reverses come, to every man on earth. And when the luck is breaking .rank, how bitterly they say, “We have no kopecks in the bank, and here’s the rainy day!” If you’ve a package in the bank, you do not fear the worst, when Fortune gives your nose a yank, and sets you back a verst.

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STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

Lafayette.—Dared by his companions to walk on top of a high bridge superstructure, Lyle Elevens, ten, fell and was killed. Indianapolis.—Six persons were reported drowned in the state during the Fourth of July holidays. All were pleasure seekers. Greenfield. —Rev. W. C. Howard has resigned as pastor of the M. E. church at Shirley, to accept a pastorate at Hospers, la. Tipton.—Corn and oats suffered considerably when tills region was visited by a hard rain, accompanied by heavy winds and hail. Corn whs especially damaged. Evansville.—A church organization with a charter membership of nearly forty, to be known as the North Park Presbyterian church, has been formed here. Laporte.—Laporte, already represented by 108 men in a company of the Indiana National Guard at Fort Benjamin Harrison, now is organizing a second company. Warsaw.—William Jennings Bryan opened the 1916 season of the Winona assembly, of which he is president, with an address. He was greeted by a large audience. Newcastle. —Mrs. Maria Louisa Good* win, eighty-two years old, a pioneer, died suddenly of acute indigestion. She leaves two daughters who are well-known artist*. J- r Indianapolis.—More complete"" reports from cities in central Indiana showed that immense damage was done by the recent severe storm which passed over this section. Petersburg.—J. L. Sumner, uncle of Carl Sumner of this city, who was killed by John N. Murray, has filed a SIO,OOO damage suit in behalf of Mrs. Carl Sumner. The defendant Is wealthy. Gary.—This city has gained another Industry. The Union Drawn Wire company of Pittsburgh has acquired a site for a steel plant and will build at once. Five hundred men will be employed? Scottsburg.—George Christy was struck by a traction car here while driving his automobile across the track. He was painfully hurt. Some time ago Christy suffered severe injuries, by a fall from a building. Gary.—Building operations in the townsite of Gary during the last six months amounted to $1,307,055. The city keeps no record of steel corporation building, which aggregates several million dollars since January. Indianapolis.—Abandonment of the building now occupied by the Indiana University School of Medicine and the erection of a modern medical school plant Ts contemplated in a resolution adopted by the university trustees. Bloomington.—William B. Leonard has a pet Kansas jackrabbit* which runs about his farm, but comes each night to the kitchen to sleep. He has inserted an advertisement in the papers asking that no one harm the rabbit.

Fort Wayne.—Bichloride of mercury tablets caused the death of the two-year-old daughter of •. D. Rauch, president of the American Dredge company. The baby picked up a box containing the tablets and ate several before discovered. Hartford City.—-The mystery in regard to the music from a piano that had aroused the members of the Lucas family from their slumbers during the night for some time has been cleared up. Two mice, light housekeeping in the interior of the piano, have been caught. Terre Haute. —A special meeting of the Mine Operators’ association was held here to discuss labor trouble at the Shirley mine No. 3 in Sullivan county, where the miners have been on strike since April 1, and at the Speedwell mine across the river from the Shirley mine. Indianapolis.—Ten persons injured but none dead, was the record of a safe and sane Fourth of July here. Two children may lose their eyesight s>nd others suffered burns from the explosion of cannon crackers. No deaths resulting directly from the use of fireworks were reported from outstate.

Elwood. —The First M. E. church here, whose $30,000 property was almost hopelessly involved in debt a few years ago, has paid more than $9,000 of its indebtedness, according to reports of the church stewarts. Another note for $3,300 has just been paid, and will be burned, with public ceremonies in the church July 16. Booneville.—Judge Roberts of the circuit court has granted the saloon men of Booneville an injunction preventing city officials from paying election expenses for wet and dry election held Friday which was carried by the drys. The drys will also endeavor to secure an order enjoining the county commissioners from granting renewal licenses. Aurora. —Rev. Father Joseph C. Stedman, age twenty-five, of St Mary’s college, Elienora, 0., has been appointed pastor of the St Mary’s Catholic church here to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Father Joseph J. Macke several weeks ago. Mr. Stedman was born and reared in this city. Columbus. —Mrs. Charlotte Krlenhagen is dead at her home here, aged one hundred and two. When she was ninety-five she “grubbed” a stump from beside the grave of her husband to make a place for her own grave.

Raising Road Funds by Bond Issue

Benefits from Good Roads Cannot Be Overestimated—Necessity for Expert Supervision (Prepared by the U. S. Department of Agriculture)

Of the various methods of financing road projects the one most generally practiced for raising a substantial fund which will be available for immediate expenditure is through the Issuance oi bonds. Experience, say the road specialists of the department, has shown good roads to be a sound investment, both from a business and economic standpoint. If properly proportioned and managed bond issues are made for their improvement, the roads themselves will pay off the indebtedness thus created through the utility which they afford and the saving which will result in the cost of hauling. Some Reasons for Failure. Instances are not lacking where bond Issues for highway purposes have proved failures. These failures are due to mismanagement rather than to defective principle. Where counties have issued highway bonds the proceeds of which have been spent to construct temporary road surfaces

Laying First Course, Poplar Springs Road, Meridian, Mississippi.

on unimproved grades and without proper drainage, failure has necessarily resulted. There are on record in the department of agriculture instances showing where the so-called macadam roads have been built with bond money by simply dumping broken stone at the wrong time of year on muddy surfaces without grades or alignments and without rolling or binding. Investment of money in new roads does not become real economy until provision is made for keeping these new roads in condition by maintenance and repair after they are built. Through a misunderstanding of the essential principles underlying the establishment of a proper country road system, conflicts of interest sometime arise which cause the failure of the bond-issue plan. The location of the roads to be improved shqpld not be determined by argument, but upon sound engineering and economic principles. Before a community votes to issue bonds for highways it is necessary to study thoroughly what roads ought to be improved, and the approximate cost of their construction

Using Drag, Dunn, North Carolina.

and maintenance. Too frequently illadvised locations are adopted. Need for Highway Engineers. Highway plans for bond Issues require expert skill and professional service. Before the amount of bonds is determined, a thorough study of the needs of the county should be made and careful maps of the proposed highway system should be prepared. The sum to be issued should not be fixed until it is reasonably known what it will accomplish. It is customary for many counties to appoint a commission of business men under whose Jurisdiction the bond money is expended. In other cases the county supervisor or county commissioner has the direction of expenditures. The best results have always followed where such commissions or county boards have secured the services of a competent highway engineer. Guided by the costly experience of

many communities, it is now becoming common for counties to adopt this plan. In all engineering construction it is customary to allow a certain per centage of the cost for engineering and supervision. There is no reason why highway building should be made an exception to this rule. At least five per cent of the bond issue may well be set aside for engineering and supervision alone. Money spent to hire a competent engineer to make preliminary investigations before bonds are issued and to plan and supervise construction will be well spent. It is not uncommon to find counties that will repeatedly postpone the sale of bonds in order to obtain an increase of one per cent in a bid for SIOO,OOO or less and then proceed to construct the roads in a most haphazard and illplanned manner.

The split log drag has contributed more toward the economic maintenance of public highways than any implement of modern usage. A drag can be built or purchased for S2O and is easily operated by anyone who can drive a team.

Elevating Grader at Work.

A NECESSITY

Mrs. Collier Says Could Not Keep House Without Black-Draught. Hardin, Mo.—Mrs. J. W. Collier, of this town, who knows from experience of the merit of Black-Draught Liver Medicine, has following to say for publication: “I want to let everybody | know that I have used Thedford’s Bltck-Draught for manyyears, and it is just what is claimed for it. I am never without Black-Draught, and really I couldn’t keep house without it. I Whenever I feel bad, I take a small dose, and feel better right away. ’ I advise everybody who suffers from liver or stomach trouble to use Black-Draught Liver Medicine.” f For three-quarters of a century ( (75 years), Thedford’s Black-Draught has been regulating irregularities of ■ the liver, stomach and bowels, and has ! long been recognized as the standard i remedy. It is a fixture in thousands of homes as the main stay of the famI ily medicine chest. If you have not tried it, get a package from your nearest dealer, today. He sells it in 25c and SI.OO packages, making it cost you only one cent a lose. NCB*

Your Uncle Sam’l Speaks.

My temper is not a hair-trigger, I bow to the gentleman’s law. Because 1 am stronger and bigger 4 don’t slap a little man’s jaw. But, son, if some fellow Believes I am yellow And thinks that with safety I’m kicked, Jusf take it from Sam’l, your old Uncle Sam’l, that some one’s about to be licked! If any domed, pesky muskeeter Keeps buzzing just out of my touch. I say, “There are songs that are sweeter, But, pshaw! you don’t bother me much! ’’ But, son, if that creature Should bite any feature, Believe me, it will not be rash To bet that old Sam’l, your stung Uncle Sam’l, will flatten that skeeter kersmash! Of glory I never go raving, Or swearing belligerent oaths. The banner I seldom am waving, Though sometimes I use it for clothes. But, son, if a greaser Who thinks he’s a Caesar Throws mud on that flag of my pride, Just take it from Sam’l, your hot Uncle Sam’l, that soon I’ll be tanning his hide! New York World.

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The Poppy Land Limited Express.

The first train leaves at 6 p. m. For the land where the poppy blows; And mother dear is the engineer, And the passenger laughs and crows. The palace car is the mother’s arms, The whistle a low, sweet strain; The passenger winks, and nods, and blinks, And goes to sleep in the train. At 8 p. m. the next train starts For the poppy land afar; The summons clear fall on the ear—- “ All aboard for the sleeping car!” So I ask of Him who the children took On His knee in kindness great, “Take charge, I pray, of the trains each day, That leave at 6 and 8. Keep watch of the passengers,’’ thus I pray, “For»to me they are very dear; And special ward, O gracious Lord, O’er the gentle engineer.” —Edgar Wade Abbott.

That Knife-Like Pain Is Only One of Nature’s Warnings of Weak or Disordered Kidneys. Have you a lame back, aching day and night? Do you feel sharp pains after stooping? Are the kidneys sore? Is their action irregular? Use Doan’s Kidney Pills —the medicine recommended by so many Rensselaer people. Read this case: Mrs. R. W. Burris, Rensselaer, says; ~'“I was suffering from a steady ache in my back and could hardly move without having knife-like pains shoot through my kidneys. When I went to stoop over to tie my shoes or get up out of a chair, that pain caught me. My head ached and I felt nervous and tired out. I was often so dizzy that I could hardly stand. My kidneys acted too often and caused me much distress. I used several boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills and they put me in good shape.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mrs. Burris had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.