Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Page 2

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1 JASPER COUNTY OMIT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 811 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensse--8 l!r:/ ndiarla ' under the Act Of March Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday la•ue 8 pages. ADVERTISING RATES 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 months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All aeounts 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, SEPT. 6, 1916.

The surprising ..Wring is that Mr. Hughes desires to become the President of a country that has gotten into such a miserable condition. The signs are- that Candidate Hughes will be so busy assailing President Wilson’s policies that he won’t have time to tell just what he will do if elected. Requests that he state what he would have done under the circumstances are possibly regarded by Mr. Hughes with the suspicion which many jurists entertain for the hypothetical question. In one term President Wilson has cleaned up all political issues of a quarter of a century and has made this campaign a choice between a party of honest achievement and a party of carping criticism, between a leader and a follower. There never was a great man who was not criticised. But is it the man of achievement, or the critic, that survives?—Starke County Democrat. Illinois, long famous for highpriced farm lands and bad roads, is beginning to wake up to the fact that if one has a good thing he must provide a way to get to it. Stockland township, over in Iroquois county, has just let the contract for a seven-mile stretch of brick-paved road at a cost of $7,500 per mile. Such an improvement is expensive, hut its permanency will i n the long run prove economical and an incalculable benefit to those who get to use it. The greatest era of roadbuilding in the country’s history has Jus* begun and the near future will witness a marvelous change in the constru-' n —* highways. Every auto driver j y naturally become a

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good roads enthusiast and as their already great number increases the demand for perfect roads will grow.

THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN FOR WILSON.

The action of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican in coming out for the re-election of President Wilson is significant, but not surprising. The Republican is a thoughtful, patriotic journal, and though its political affiliations agree with its name, it is no slave to party. It has defended President Wilson against unjust attacks; it has given unstinted praise to his handling of the submarine question; it has appreciated the sound Americanism and nattve instinct for democracy which have dictated his course toward Mexico. At a time like the present, so logical a paper could hardly do otherwise than support the eanrii date whose record it approves against a man who has dodged even a statement of his position on some of the most important questions before the country. But the importance of the event is none the less because it was foreseen. The Springfield Republican is spokesman for a large and most influential class of Eastern voters; thoughtful, studious nmn whose conservatism does not blind them to the fact that the world moves, and whose inherited fondness for the G! O. P. never degenerates into unthinking partisanship. They and their chosen paper think along the same lines, have the same"general estimate of values, and arrive at substantially the same conclusions. The action of the Republican indicates that a goodly number of this group of voters have decided tc cast their ballots for Wilson. Another considerable section will be persuaded to do the same before the campaign closes, for the Republican probably wields a stronger political influence in proportion to its circulation than any other paper in America. Mr. Wilson is to he congatulattd on his new supporter—and the Republican on its candidate. They are worthy of each other.—Chicago Journal.

GOOD ROADS

It is estimated that concrete roads cost $15,000 a mile and involve SSO a mile upkeep. Combined statistics of the road experience of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Xew Jersey and New York for eight years show an average cost a mile of S6OB a year for upkeep for roads built of material other than concrete. The difference in upkeep, $558 if capitalized at 5 per cent, gives a principal sum of $11,160 as the differential capital advantage for the saving in upkeep. Should the move ment to construct permanent roads gain headway, a vast volume of road bonds would come on the market, and on account of the great agricultural savings effected by good roads over and above the saving in upkeep, such securities should form an excellent class of investment, provided the funds are properly expended. It is important only that

methods of permanent construction shall be followed. Vermilion county, Illinois, has just accepted bids for 141 miles of concrete highway to cost upward o f $1,500,000. Spread over 20 years and over the acres benefited and on the basis of $30.G3 value of land an acre, the total cost to the farmer is estimated at 8 3-4 cents an acre a year, which is a negligible figure. Cuyahoga county, Ohio, has upward of 1,000 miles of such roadway/ r To attempt to express a transition to permanent roads into pounds of cement to be used and into cubic yards of trap rock to be crushed, considering the vast mileage which could be advantageously constructed from the economic standpoint of money actually saved, would require figures or rather methods of expressing figures such as astronomers use in measuring the orbits of the planets. The cement and trap rock industries undoubtedly would enter upon a development which during the next five years will astound those who have not considered the present situation.—Wall Street Journal.

Walt Mason's Rhymes.

Come, gentle Fall! Imperial Autumn, come! Heat long endured has knocked us out of plumb; sagged in the back and wabbly in the knees, humbly we beg a breath of Autumn breeze. Long have we watched the redhot days drag by, panting and sick beneath a well-done sky; as people long, when Winter has its fling, long for the glow and genial warmth of Spring, so do we yearn, our backs against the wall, yearn for your chill, O life-preserving Fall! Bring on your frost, regardless of expense! Bid Summer quit, hid heat go jumping hence! Wilted we stand, a weary, washed-out band, hoping that snow will come and hide the land, muttering low, amid the endless heat,“Fall, when you come, bring forty kinds of sleet! Let every gust be born of arctic snows, freeze all our ears, put chilblains in our toes! Cover our spinach with a coat of rime, let us be cold, for three months at a time!” Let us repeat, ere heat hath made us dumb, Come, gentle Fall, imperial Autumn, come!

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The tax rate for the town of Kentland has been reduced from $1.15 to sl. After deliberating for 18 hours the jury in the Crump murder case at Fowler failed to reach an agreement Sunday and were discharged. Jasper Carlisle, son of Nelson Carlisle of Remington, and Merle J. Smith, daughter of George Smith of Boswell, were granted a marriage license at Fowler August 30. Upon complaint of numerous citizens, the town board of Kentland ha 9 unearthed an ancient curfew ordinance and instructed the marshal and night watch to enforce the same. D. F. Woodlock of Fowler, a prominent stockman, sold a car load of hogs in Chicago last week for $11.25 per cwt. The hogs averaged 226 pounds each, and the price paid for them was the extreme top.

The committee in charge of furnishing equipment for the public playground at Monon being unable to raise the funds otherwise, conducted a tag day campaign last Saturday. Financially**it was a success. Fiar Rock, the three-year-old colt which has won the Brooklyn handicap, the Suburban and other turf classics, was purchased from August Belmont recently by John E. Madden of Lexington, Ky. The price is said to have been $50,000. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Crampton, formerly of Delphi where Mr. Crampton was editor of the Citizen-Times for many years, but 'who is now governor of the soldiers’ home at Marion, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary yesterday. The funeral of Charles C. Spencer, the Monticello attorney who died suddenly in Chicago Thursday night while attending a theater, was held in Monticello Sunday add was attended by many prominent people from Indianapolis and other sections of the state.

Declaring that he stole a schoolhouse from section 29 and removed the building to his own premises, the Golden township board of education has filed suit in common pleas court asking damages from Chester Gilroy of St. Mary’s, Ohio; and asking that the structure be restored to its original site. The program for the 1916 meeting of the Northwest Indiana M. E, conference, which opens at Greencastle

, September 26, has just been issued 'by Dr. Demetrium Tillotson, pastor of the Greencastle Methodist church. The conference this year will be under the direction of Bishop Nicholson of Chicago. A man by the name of William Foster, while acting as a relief agent at the Big Four depot at Raub last week, stole about $25 in money from the company, several express orders, ' one for $45, which he cashed at the Raub bank. He left Saturday, walking to Sheldon, and from there he 1 took the train for Milwaukee, where he was arrested. • ' ■ | Defense of the modern sex play as a means of combating social evils was made by Mrs. Demarcus C. Brown, wife of the state librarian, in addressing the Marion County Teachers’ institute. Sex plays, she declared, serve the purpose of plac- ' ing such problems before the public, especially the younger generation, in their proper light. The chairmen of the Starke county Democratic central committee and the Pulaski county Democratic central committee have appointed At- , torney George L. Burson of Wina- . mac as the Democratic candidate for | prosecuting attorney for the 44th judicial circuit of the state, vice E. I H. Taylor, the nominee, who was appointed postmaster at Knox. The big firm of Dixon & Co. of Earl Park, who for the past several years have distributed Ford automobiles to agents in three counties, has decided to step down and out. The Ford company has made a new ruling that distributing firms shall not have more than one county as their territory and the Earl Park people would not stand for the cutting dWn of their territory to one-third of what it had been heretofore. The funeral of Addison C. Harris, one of the most prominent lawyers in Indiana and personal known to many of the Jasper county bar, he I having appeared here at different , times in years gone by in cases in the ' Jasper circuit court, was held in Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. Mr. Harris was president of the board of trustees of Purdue university. He died Saturday night following a stroke of paralysis. 'His age was 76 years. ?

Nearly every neighboring town lost money on their chautauquas this year, some of them as high as S3OO. The Fowler Chautauqua had 14 guarantors willing to pay and they were out $lO each. Half of this sum was afterward made up by citizens and paid back to them. It was the first entertainment of the kind that Fowler ever had and our people liked it. As a result 53 good men signed a guarantee for a Chautauqua next year, and there isn’t the least chance but what it will be a paying proposition.—Fowler Tribune.

Otis, Crandall of Wadena, who is playing ball with the Oakland, Calif., team of the Pacific Coast league, has made a hit with the Oakland fans and the papers from that city speak very highly of his playing. Otis pitched a three-hit game one day last week and when not in the box, he _ has been playing first base or an outfield position. The St. Louis Americans, of which club Crandall was a member this spring, have recalled him but he will probably refuse to leave the Oakland team. The Pacific Coast league ranks among the leagues of the country. In the 300-mile automobile race at Cincinnati Monday Johnny Aitken in a Peugeot won first at an average speed of 97.06 miles an hour. Wilbur D’Alene won second, while Frank Galvin, far behind drew third. Dario Resta was third up to the 294th mile when he encountered engine trouble and had to quit the race. But one accident occurred, that in the 168th mile when Gilbert Anderson's machine skidded and shot through the fence. The driver was dangerously injured and his mechanician, Bert Shields, received injuries from which it is doubtful if be recovers. But seven cars, less than half the number starting, finished the race.

Gillam Township Home Coming

As usual, the annual Gillam Home Coming crowded the old Independence church to the limit last Sunday, and many were not able to gain adpresident, “Uncle Jim” Guild started the ball to rolling and turned the meeting over to the four ministers present. It was planned that one of our former Gillam boys should preach the home coming sermon and the lot fell to our much beloved Dan Guild. After listening to a splendid sermon by Dan, the annual communion sermon was held and many old-time friends participated in the beautiful service. An Excellent basket dinner was then served and many were the hand shakes of “Old Gillamites.” At 1:30 order was restored by the tapping of the old church bell and a short song service of the old-time type was engaged in. The meeting then took the form of a free-for-all short

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talk meeting, many telling the experiences of the past. The following former residents of Gillam township were present from a distance: Paris C. Freshour of Cedaredge, Colo.; Dr. Albert Overton and family of Tuscola, Ill.; Mrs. Sarah Waite and family of Danville, Ill.; Mrs. Laura E. Fischer and son of Chicago; Rev. D. H. Guild, wife and daughter of Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Rida Daniels, Mrs. Maud Galbreath and Greenberry Lewis of Rensselaer; Mr. and. Mrs. George Houser of Harvey, Ill.; James Prevo and family of Hammond; Mrs. Ed. Randle of Rensselaer; Charles Whitaker of Crown Boifft; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hardesty of Valparaiso; Mrs. Etta Powell of Brook; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Miller of Lacrosse; Alva Potts and family of Rensselaer; Marion Evans of Lacrosse; Mrs. J. J. Moliter of Payne, Ohio, and many others from the surrounding country whose names I failed to get. Following the reminiscent talks a short memorial service was held for those who have gone to the great “Home above, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens’’: Mrs. John Kopka, George W. Faris, Nathaniel Harris, Frances H. Dunn, E. O. Rathfon, Jesse Osborne, Alexander Hamilton, Fannie Anderson, John S. Daughetee, Herman Hermansen, J. H. Van Buskirk, Joseph Coppess, -..rs. John Resh, Mrs. Wash. Lewis and Mrs. Mae Mansfield. The association then went into a business session and it was carried by unanimous consent to continue the annual meetings of the association, to be held the last Sunday in August, 1917. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: S. C. Robinson, president, and A. J. Rathfoii, secretary and treasurer. Perry Deselms, * John Guild and E. E. Pullins were appointed a committee to look after the repair of the church. The meeting then adjourned by singing “Blessed Be the Tie That Binds,” and all went away happy over the thought of a well-spent day. In advance I wish to invite all to attend next year. A. J. RATHFON, Sec’v.

The following poem written by Mrs. Cora Simons Postill of Rensselaer in memory of her old Gillam home and church was contributed to this year’s program for the home coming: . Around our home in Indiana, where the corn fie!da nod and wave, And the golden rod is blooming by the way, A cherished memory lingers, as we dream of by-gone days, Of a dear old church that’s painted silver gray.

On a softly shaded hillside, near a parting of ihe road, Where the morning shadows linger on the wall, It stands in simple outline, its windows tall and bare Its broad doors opened wide to welcome all. Oh! Well we all remember, when the Sabbath sun shone bright And the old church bell rang forth so loud and long, How we gathered, aged and children, around that sacred wooden bench, And our voices mingled sweet in prayer and song. At the closing of the service when we’d clasp each other’s hand. With a smile and kindly blessing of the day We strolled With friendly neighbors to our simple, happy homes, Through the fields so damp and sweet with new mown hay. In the little vine-grown churchyard where the honeysuckles twined And the wild rose shed sweet fragrance on the air, We often stood in silence while the old bell softly tolled Sad farewell to those our sorrowing hearts held dear. And as now from homes far distant, back to this loved spot once more With outstretched hands to greet old friends we come, Many find a grass-grown mound, shaded ’neath the wild rose there, All that’s left, on their return, to welcome home. Swiftly have the years passed by since we roamed in youthful bliss Among the scenes so loved in childhood’s happy day, On our Indiana home, time has pressed changing hand; Some are gone and many left are bowed and gray. But how oft in gilded churches, where the pews are richly carved And burnished pipes pour forth rich melody; Our thoughts turn back to childhood, and a longing fills our hearts For that dear old country church of silver gray.

FOR SALE For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale—Recleaned timothy seed, $2.50 per busheI.—CHESTER HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 90K, Mt. Ayr exchange. s-2 For Sale—Some fine Turkey Red seed wheat at $1.50 per bushel.— JOSEPH NAGEL, phone 945-A, Rensselaer. s _2 For Sale—2 per cent potash, 1-8-2 and 12-2, and tne price light. Xo'iv get in your orders before it is all gone.—S. KOHLEY. s-3 lor Sale—Bl acres seven miles from the circle at Indianapolis, has large new nine-room house, basement and cistern, large new barn, big orchard, on main highway; adjacent to small station. . Land is all well tiled and of good quality. Price for quick sale S2OO per acre. —HARRY BROWN, Nniman, Ind. sis

For Sale—Three houses of five and six rooms; in good condition and well located. Can oe sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. t s 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 Sale—One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. Peonies for Sale—Owing to the death of my mother and having sold my place, I am forced to sell my collection of fancy peonies, consisting of 28 of the best varieties known to the peony world, every color and combination of colors. 50c for large roots. Also have several hundred tall red May. flowering tulip bulbs at 25c per dozen. Send check with order. September is the proper time to set out peonies. —CHAUNCEY McCULLEY, Remington, Ind. o-l WANTED M ant<}d— —Men to cut brush and girdle trees, —THOMAS LANG, ly> miles southwest of Surrey. Phone Rensselaer 955-C. 9-14 FOUND Found—l9l6 auto license number. Owner may have same by calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this ad. Found—North of Rensselaer, near Aix, Tuesday last, Illinois auto license number 72447.—Ca1l at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. LOST. ~ Dost—Man’s blue sweater, some place between Washington street and Sylvester Gray’s residence. Finder please return to RAY D THOMPSON. s-6

FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire ol M. I. ADAMS, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you' a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after ’ —CHAS. J. DEAN Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P, HONAN. I flnf hnl w,thout Dela - ifrl Hr Wlthou * Commission I III)I III) Without Charges far M'W Making or Recording * I Instruments. LI W. H. PARKINSON Notice of Ditch Letting Notice is hereby given that the trustee of Jordan township, Jasper county, Indiana, will, at his residence, on the 16th day of September, 1916, at 2 o’clock p. m., receive bids for the improvement by cutting willows and weeds for 20 feet back on banks from each side of the Sage ditch. Plans and specifications are on file in my office showing number of miles. Bidders are required to bid on so much a mile. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee oi Jordan Township. a-30-s-6-13 Notice of Administration Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the circuit court of Jasper county, state of Indiana, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of George E. Hosmer, late of Jasper county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. JUDSON J. HUNT, Administrator with the will annexed August 28, 1916. a3O-s6-13 Ideal Account Files, $1.50 each.— The Democrat’s fancy stationery department