Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Page 8

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSELAWN Mrs. Mulcahy of west of town •was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday. Bert Hopper is doing some carpenter work for Mr. Evans, west of town.

Miss Dorothy Smith was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday, indulging In musical study. Mrs. Lyda Conger is making arrangements to move to Lake Village to make her home for awhile.

Elmer Guilford will have a public sale and move to Kankakee, Illinois, the first of November

Miss Elsie Nelson returned from a visit with friends and relatives at Wolcott and Brookston Saturday.

Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad was in Roselawn Wednesday, where she •boarded the evening train for the south.

I. N. Best, Claud Burton and others attended the Republican speaking at Lake Village Tuesday evening, October 17. Mike Duffy boarded the 4 o’clock train for Chicago Thursday evening to hear President Wilson speak at the stock yards meeting that night.

Charles LaCosse was in town Monday buying another new wagon to gather his corn crop. Charles is one of our best farmers and usually raises a good crop of corn. C. T. Otis sold six head of good horses to Wilson, the Hebron stock buyer, and delivered them at Hebron last Wednesday. Mr. Wilson will ship the horses to St. Louis. H. H. Nelson and daughter Elsie autoed to Hammond to see Miss Mabel, who is convalescing from the operation for appendicitis which she underwent last week in a Hammond hospital. John Horton, the new barber, moved his household goods to Roselawn Saturday and is living in the rooms above Laßue’s store. He is starting out quite well and hopes to make a success of the business here.

Robert Boswinkle of East Chicago was in Roselawn Wednesday. Mr Boswinkle is employed in an East Chicago factory at a good salary. He is taking a short vacation and visiting his parents and other relatives at Thayer. Tunis M. Gephart was in town Wednesday distributing greenbacks and silver to the merchants, “Gep” is always a good-natured chap and especially so when he is settling uip his bills. He says it is better to be happy any old time than to be a grouch.

A bunch of oil promoters were in town trying to revive the slumbering or ebbing interest in the Thayer oil and gas field, but what success they had we were unable to learn. It looks very much ‘like a stock promoting scheme to the man up a tree. J. C. Batman of Bloomington, Republican candidate for appellate judge, was in Roselawn Tuesday afternoon, October 17, getting acquainted with the voters in our community. Mr. Batman was on his way to Lake Village where he addressed a good-sized audience on the 'political issues from a Republican viewpoint. Tolin’s stock sale, held last week, was not so well attended by about one-half as their sale a year ago, and prices were much lower. Mr. Tolin was reported as saying that he ■would stand to lose $2,000 on the stock sold. Scarcity of corn and other feed is bringing down the prices of stock cattle and hogs in this locality. William Boyle’s new residence is under full headway and it is said It will be the most modern and up-to-date house in our town when completed. But what is uppermost in the thoughts of the old maids, widows and grass widows of the community is: “Who is going to be the housekeeper?’’ And “Bill” won’t tell.

Miss Mabel Nelson was taken to a Hammond hospital on the early morning train Thursday where she was operated on for appendicitis. She was accompanied by her father and mother and Dr. Iddings of Lowell. Mr. Nelson came home Friday morning and reported Mabel went through the operation in fine shape and was getting along nicely when he left the hospital. It is strange that a competitor cannot come to our town and engage in business without having his rval “butt in” and try to intimidate him as to how he shall or shall not conduct his business, as was the case in our village this week. But the old saying will probably hold good in this case of “a man cutting off his nose to spite his face.” Mr. Horton is sHll doing business at his barber shop, notwithstanding the efforts of competition to bluff him out.

MOTHERS, ATTENTION

Smart - styled, sturdy wearing boys’ suits with 2 pair trousers, $4.50 to $lO. Overcoats, $3 to SB. Mackinaws,, $3 to $6. Shirt waists, 50c. Knee trousers, 50c to $1.50. Leather stockings, 2 for 25c.—HILLIARD & HAMILL.

When ready to start fall housecleaning don’t forget that The Democrat sells a big armful of old papers for only five cents. —r CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears y/Y SgDacure of

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. European War News The Greek provisional government has opeqed negotiations with the United says a dispatch from Athens to the Exchange Telegraph company at London to secure freedom of action in recruiting Greeks in America. * * • The admiralty announced at Berlin that the Italian protected cruiser Libya was hit and severely damaged in the Mediterranean by a torpedo from a German submarine. * ♦ » The official statement issued at Paris says: “North of the Somme we completed the Conquest of Sailly-Sallisel and are driving the enemy northwest and northeast of the village.” • . » William Thaw, the American aviator, who is a member of the French Hying corps, was killed in action, according to news received at New Haven, Conn., in a letter from S. S. Walker to Lyttleton B. P. Gould. Walker is a member of the American Ambulance corps in France. • ♦ ♦ A Reuter’s dispatch to London from Athens says: ‘‘The situation appears to be dangerous. There have been royalist demonstrations in the streets. Vice Admiral du Fournet, commander of the allied fleet, was hissed and French sailors were attacked by a hostile crowd. Four thousand malcontents protested to the American legation against the landing of foreign marines and demanded the protection of the minister, who was absent. * • • Vice Admiral du Fournet of France has handed the Greek government at Athens a new note of an extremely grave character, says a dispatch to London from Athens. Rioting in the streets followed the presentation of the latest entente demands upon Greece. • • • A crushing defeat of the Russian armies attacking the Lemberg defense lines was announced by the war office at Berlin. The Teutons took Russian trenches on a front of a mile and a half, taking 1,930 prisoners. Then machine guns were captured. • • * The Roumanian armies Xn Transylvania have checked the furious onslaught of the Austro-German division and are holding their positions west of the frontier, according to an official report issued from Bucharest. * * * Roumanian troops have occupied the villages of Stana, Gligoinan, Cio-cadobro-Gugli, and Ciorcastrica-Tului in their new counter-offensive against the Teutons in the Alt valley region, it was officially announced at Bucharest. • • • A British and an Italian warship. In consequence of a fog, collided in the Messina channel (between the mainland of Italy and the island of Sicily), Amsterdam reports, says an item given out by the Overseas News agency at Berlin. “The ships shelled each other and one was damaged heavily.” ♦ * * “The Roumanian Second army in its retreat in Transylvania lost approximately 7 two divisions,” says the Overseas News Agency at Berlin. "The Roumanian First army and the larger part of the Second army have been virtually annihilated. » ♦ » At Kirlibaba in the Carpathians five officers and 1,097 men and five machine guns were captured by AustroGermans, says Vienna, and on the Smotrec three officers and 381 men. In both sectors Russian counter-at-tacks failed. * • * Domestic > A dozen leaders of the striking negro employees in the Panama Canal Zone were arrested charged with violation of the intimidation laws. • * ♦ Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe mail express train No. 5, south-bound, was held up and robbed by a band of robbers near Bliss, Okla. An express clerk named Norman was shot and killed by the bandits. The robbers escaped in an automobile. • • • Trapped in a two-story building only 16 feet from the ground, seven lost their lives in a fire that wiped out part of the Oakes Dye Manufacturing company’s plant at New York. The loss is estimated at SIBO,OOO. * * * Mayor Martin R. Carlson of Moline, DI., raided 53 alleged “blind pigs,** practically all of them located in former saloon buildings and operated as “•oft drink” parlors by former saloon keepers.

Another boost in the price of bread la imminent as a result of the soaring price of flour. Bakers paid $9.50 a barrel wholesale, the highest price in 20 yeaips, and at Chicago it was predicted millers would be demanding $lO or sll for their product before the winter is over. • • • Members of the Central Cotton Garment Manufacturers’ association, which met at Chicago, predict still higher prices for cotton goods. • • • The South was rocked by earthquake and swept by storm at the same time. While a tropical hurricane was flaying the gulf coast, earth tremors overturned chimneys and frightened many people from their homes in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The earthquake did little damage, but a loOmile wind lifted roofs from houses at Pensalcola, Fla. The property' loss was estimated at $1,(MX),000. ♦ * * Four bandits, who entered Centralia, Okla., in an automobile, held up the officials of the First National bank and robbed the institution of approximately $6,000. * * * It was reported in the New York financial district that Great Britain Is to float another loan of $250,000,000 in this country. It will be handled by J. I’. Morgan A Co. • • • Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, thirty years old, guest at a hotel in Detroit, Mich., shot and killed her five-year-old son, Harold, and the committed suicide, according to the police. The mutilated bodies of Andrew Frey, sixty years old, and his sister, ilarie Frey, fifty-five, were found near their home at Rosedale, Ind. Apparently they had been murdered. • • • Chicago's voting population for the November election breaks all American records with the unprecedented total, men and women, of 808,728. This places New York in second place. Gotham’s high water mark is 738,000. The total women's registration for the coming election is 304.512. The total men enrollment is 504,467.

George Noonan, clerk of the court of Washington county, Missouri, his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie Campbell, and Wade Richardson, ten years old, of St.- Francois county, were drowned in the Rug river near Blackwell. They attempted to ford the river in a two-horse buggy. • • • Nine cattlemen of western Nebraska and a fourteen-year-old boy lost their lives in a collision between two sections of a heavy stock train near Bertrand, Neb., on the Burlington. * * * The Du Pont company, it was announced at Wilmington, Del., will pay more than $11,000,000 to the government in munitions and other taxes. • • • Following two lynchings, Paducah, Ky., prepared for possible trouble by ordering its saloons to remain closed. Two negroes were hanged. One of them was charged with attacking Mrs. George Rose, the wife of an Illinois Central employee; the other expressed sympathy for him and, It was said, lauded his act. * • * Washington President Wilson’s efforts to get assistance from foreign rulers for starving Poland have failed. The president Issued a statement at Long Branch, N. J„ announcing the failure of his plea, and also made public the letter he sent abroad. • ♦ * Sporting Running every step of the distance and making only three stops, which consumed 20:30 actual time, Sidney Hatch, who competed unattached, broke the record between Milwaukee and Chicago. The great performer negotiated the distance, 95.7 miles, in 14:50:30. ■ • • • Al Shubert of New Bedford, Mass., surprised Kid Williams and a crowd of 5,000 fight fans at Philadelphia when he gave the title holder a terrific battle. The champion won by the narrowest of margins—but he won nevertheless. • * • Foreign An official admiralty statement issued at Petrograd announces that the Russian submarine Tulen captured the Turkish 6,000-ton armored war trans-' port Riditsto. The transport, which was commanded by German officers, was taken to Sebastopol. « * * Challenged by Timothy Healy during a bitter debate in the house of commons at London on the conduct of the government toward the 560 Sinn Feiners still interned as ringleaders in the uprising, Premier Asquith retorted Uait he would be most happy if an impartial judge—the American ambassador —would visit the prisoners. • * • Senator Filipescu, former minister of war, Is dead at Bucharest. Filipescu, together with M. Jonescu, virtually forced Premier Bratiano to bring Roumania into the war. * ♦ ♦ Mexican War News Carranza troops numbering about 1,000 were defeated in an all-day battle with Villa bandits in superior numbers at San Andres, Chihuahua, according to persons who arrived at El Paso, Tex., on a train from Chihuahua City.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

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house composed of both Democrats and Progressives assembled tonight expecting to hear an address by F*rancis J. Heney of California, one of the most prominent Progressives of the country who is advocating the re-election of Woodrow Wilson, but he did not come. Instead G. Roscoe Fertich, /a Progressive of Indianapolis, gpojce. He was introduced by Judge’ James B. Wilson, a Progressive who recently resigned as candidate for United States senator. Judge Wilson said he had no apology to make for appearing as the presiding officer because four years ago there went forth a proclamation of emancipation when principle was put above politics and humanity above the dollar. Fertich said he was a Republican by inheritance, a Progressive by choice and by common horse sense he is for Woodrow Wilson. He said there never had been a time when a Republican candidate for the Presidency had such odds against him as does Hughes.

SEES BIG DEMAND AFTER WAR Dr. E. E. Pratt, at Implement Convention, Forecasts European Trade. Atlantic City, October 23. M orld demand for American agricultural implements, labor saving machinery and ■' farm operating equipment will develop as- soon as Europe is at peace again, said Dr. Edward Ewing Pratt, chief of the federal bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, here today in addressing the convention of the National (Implement and Vehicle association. Dr. Pratt said: ‘‘The factories in the beligerent countries which have been producing agricultural machinery have recently been producing only a small proportion of their former output, and some have almost entirely ceased to produce such implements. In some of the belligerent countries not only have the stocks of machines been exhausted, but agriculturists have been forced to resort to machinery of obsolete pattern and design, and in some cases have even gone so* far as to piece together odd parts which happened to be in the warehouses. It has been almost impossible for many nations to get heavy agricultural machinery, mere transportation expense being prohibitive.”

REMINGTON CASE IS SETTLED Suit Growing Out of Church Controversy Dismissed. The suit for $25,000 damages for slander, instituted by Walter E. Johnston against William C. Smalley et al, all of Remington, and which was venued to Newton county, was dismissed in court last week. This case was known as the Remington church case, wherein the name of Mr. Johnston was removed from the church roll by Mr. Smalley and other members of the official board. In removing the name of Mr. Johnston it was charged that he was a “mischief maker” and “reviler of men,” which statements he claimed were, untrue and injured him in his business. Plaintiff and defendants by their counsel appeared in court and by agreement the defendants each disclaimed any intent to injure or damnify the plaintiff by the statements attributed to them and each expressly denied that the meaning attributed to their words was erroneous and that they did not mean to charge that the plaintiff did not intend to act with integrity in his outside business affairs or that he slandered virtuous people or promoted law suits and strife, but that their whole action was dope in good faith as officers of the church. A chance observation by the Chicago Evening Post has ra'sed a question as to the origin of the practice of "paging” in rhe hotels. It is maintained by one authority that this method of calling guests wanted at the telephone or by callers was invented by Mr. Boldt of the Waldorf-Astoria at the time that hotel was opened. An event which was not without its’ regrettable aspects was the recent wrecking of . the beautiful biiildings and monuments of the exposition at San Francisco, which “were erected only about two years ago. Despite spy desire to preserve them that admirers may have had, the temporary character pf 4he buildings made their demolition advisable. Many of the fine monumental structures,- 'such as the “Arch of the Rising Sun,” surmounted by a group entitled “The Nations of the East,” were thrown to the ground by exploding charges of dynamite under them.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.

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CEMENT WORK OF ALL KINDS Including sidewalks, cisterns, basement work, foundations, building blocks, etc. Let me figure on your work before you place the contract elsewhere.—E. B. SMITH, ’phone 490-Red, Rensselaer, Ind. o-25

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. The man who whispers down a well About the goods has to sell, Won’t reap the golden, gleaming dollars Like ene who climbs a tree and hollers. Well, I am hollering. O. A. ROBERTS.

BIG STOCK SALE The undersigned wiL offer at public sale at his residence, 2 miles north and 4 miles east of Rensselaer, 2% miles north cf Pleasant

Ridge, on Mills Bros.’ farm, commencing at TO a. m , on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1916, 7 Head of Horses and Mules—Consisting of 1 team of mules coming 3 years old, wt. 1900 1 brown mare 10 years old, wt. 1200, with mule colt; 1 gray horse, 7 years old, wt. 1400; 1 black horse 12 years old, wt. 1400; 1 bay horse 5 years old, wt. 1100. 40 Head of Cattle—Consisting of Shorthorns and Herefords—2o head of milch cows from 2 to 7 years old, 5 with calves by side, all bred, balance to be fresh in November and December; 16 head of heifers coming 2 years old, all bred to registered Hereford bull; 3 spring steer calves; 1 registered Hereford bull, 2 years old. Farm Implements—Consisting of 1 hay derrick, 1 Webber triple box 3-inch tire wagon, good as new. Terms—Twelve months’ credit without interest will be givip on sums over $lO, with 6 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. JOSEPH TRULLEY. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on grounds.