Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1916 — Page 2

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INDIANAPOLIS PLAN MIGHT SOLVE IT.

Government regulation of storage houses has been proposed in several quarters recently as a means pf preventing the “corners” which, according to some economists, account for a part of the prevailing high prices of foodstuffs. Occasionally the country sees something of a “corner,” as in the case of a seizure of eggs at Chicago Saturday, where, it is reported, 72,000,000 eggs were under one man’s control. But the patent fact in the present food situation is that high prices are inescapable while the United States tries to feed a considerable proportion of Europe besides taking care of its own people. There have been proposals also of an embargo against uncontrolled food shipments to Europe, and President Wilson was quoted in re> cent dispatches as saying that “the embargo question was receiving his most serious consideration.” An embargo would operate undoubtedly to throw large quantities of stored products on the market, with a consequent break in prices, provided the unconsumed surplus were more than enough to meet the country’s needs until the next season of heavy production. But so far as government regulation of store-houses is concerned, it might not avail much if undertaken apart from an embargo. In the meantime a plan proposed by an Indianapolis man last winter invites new attention. W. J. Hogan announced the details of a line of rental storage houses reaching across the country, in which producers could store their crops for a small fee, and borrow money on them if pressed for funds. In such a system of storage the producer would conduct the only “corner,” and he would release his produce quickly In a stiffening market. Such a plan would have the merit at any rate of discouraging large "corne«.”

Mrs. James Rodie, age 99, of Melrose, Massachusetts, says eating candy has prolonged her life.

SAYS CROPS ROT IN FIELDS

Gary Farmer Says It Is Part of Price Boosting Program. Chicago, November 27.—As part of the federal investigation of high food prices in progress here, federal agents directed by United States District Attorney Cline today sought evidence bearing on reports that produce dealers in territory tributary to Chicago are permitting r fruits and vegetables to rot in the field that prices may be increased. Evidence obtained will he submitted to the federal grand jury now considering the food question here. B. L. Brundage, a farmer of Gary, Indiana, reported that he had sold his crop of seven acres of pumpkins and received the money. When the crop ripened and the pumpkins were permitted to rot in tne field he tried to find the buyer, and learned that the name and addressr he had given were fictitious. That similar conditions prevail elsewhere and that speculators are buying potatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, pump-

kins, apples and other fruits and vegetables and permitting them to rot unpicked have been rumored in ■the federal investigation from time Xo time. Complaint also was received that a combination to raise the price of beans exists and that large quantities of them, both in bulk and in can. are being held in Norfolk, Virginia. Philadelphia and Saginaw, Michigan. The storing of these beans, according to the report of the federal bureau, has increased the cost of canned beans 60 per cent and dry beans 40 per cent in the last six months. A report said to contain evidence of collusion between wholesale and retail dealers to advance the prices of food was turned over to Mr. Clyne by Hinton G. Clabaugh, head of the local bureau of the department of justice. The report is the result of several weeks’ investigation.

PHILOSOPHY OP WALT MASON

It seems as though the dreary war will never have an ending; the peace the world is longing for, no white-winged dove is sending. A year ago we hoped and prayed that ere another summer the soldier would have sheathed his blade, and gone to work as plumber. We saw the winter months advance, and as the spring drew closer, we hoped that he would soak his lance, and open up as grocer. And Vhen the vernal freshets roared, we watched the man in armor, and hoped that he would can his sword, and get a job as farmer. Alas, our hopes were all in vain; the world is mad and dizzy, and Europe, counting up her slain, is still supremely busy. It seems to me if kings and czars would hold a friendly meeting, and pass around some good cigars, first ohe, then t’other treating, they soon might end the beastly scrap that’s kept the world affrighted, and fix the blamed ding-swizzled map so all would be delighted. But horse sense is a sacred thing; a cure for war and dingers, to which the captain and the king have evermore been strangers.

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IS YOURS A TELLTALE TONGUE?

Of yore we had our fortunes told. We paid real money for horoscopes. We lingered over the words of any seer. As for palmists, we flocked to them. Just why we are willing to be parted from good money to learn tilings we ourselves know best is not So easily explained. But we do. We love ourselves so much that we are willing to pay people to converse on that ever-interesting subject. But ’tis done differently. No longer are we asked to extend our palm. As for the stars they are paid no attention to whatever. Let them twinkle. Now it's “Put out your tongue, please,” with glossomancists. A glossomancist, it may be as well to explain, is a professor of glossomancy, a new science which consists in reading people’s characters by the shape and size of their tongues’.’ Thus, according to its votaries, the possessor of a short and broad tongue is apt to be untruthful as to words, and unreliable as to deeds, A long tongue moderately pointed denotes frankness and a lovink. truthful, affectionate disposition. When the tongue is long and broad, however, it is a sign that the owner is shallot and superficial, and also a great talker. The typical woman gossip, say glossomancists, shows this shape of tongue. The small, round tongue, plump and in shape like an oyster, denotes mediocre abilities and a nature that is commonplace and colorless. A short, narrow tongue denotes quick temper. The worst type of tongue is said to be the long, narrow, sinuous kind,what glossomancists call the “snake tongue.” Its possessors are very likely to be cruel, sly, vindictive and deceitful.—Philadelphia Record.

NOTRE DAME IS 75 YEARS OLD

South Bend, November 25.—Sunday will mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Notre Dame university. It was just sev-enty-five yearg ago that Father Edward Sorin, C. S. C., and seven religious brothers, among them Brother Lawrence, for thirty years director of the business affairs of the university, came to So. Bend. This is the diamond jubilee year at the university and execises commemorating the founding of the institution will he observed during the year. The formal commemorative exercises will be held toward the close of the collegiate year. The little party reached South Bend after ten days’ march in weather so intensely cold they could advance but five miles each day. They reached South Bend at length and immediately set upon plans of erecting a college in the wi'derness.

LEAPS FROM TRAIN WINDOW

* W. G. Gray, 55 years old, a resident of Pine Village, was seriously injured yesterday shortly before noon, -when he jumped from the window of a coach in Wabash passenger train No. 9, near Riverside. Gray broke the glass in the window next to the seat he occupied and leaped. He was found in a semionscious condition and was brought to this city on passenger train No. 6, and taken to St. Elizabeth hospital, where he was attended by Dr. George“F. Beasley. Gray could give no reason for his act. He has a bad gash in his head and is bruised about the body. He is in a semi-conscious condition most of the time. While the attending physician does not think the injuries are fatal, it will be several days before he will be able to leave the hospital.—Saturday’s Lafayette Journal.

NO BALM FOR MRS. DENNY

Jury Returns Verdict in SIO,OOO Alienation of Affections Case. Laporte, November 25.—-Sylves-ter Thurman, a wealthy Chicago and Knox contractor, will not have to pay Mrs. Lloyd Denny of Warsaw SIO,OOO, or any part of it, because he hugged and kissed her and pinched her, as she alleged on the witness stand in the Laporte circuit court, in her suit against Thurman for alleged alienation of her husband’s affections. The jury spent just thirty minutes in deliberation over the case, and then returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. The Warsaw woman sued Thurman because she alleged her husband had left her when he learned of Thurman’s actions.

BUFFALO PAPERS RAISE PRICE

Buffalo, November 25.—Five Buffalo newspapers today announced an advance in price from 1 cent to 2 cents a copy. The increased cost of white paper and other materials was given as the cause for the advance.

Paper covers to protect automobiles in storage have been invented.

BRYAN TO BE HONOR GUEST

Washington, November 25.—William J. Bryan will (be the guest of honor at a dinner here December 6 to which President Wilson and Democrats of the senate and house will be invited. He is expected to make an announcement in connection with his plan for devoting himself to work for nation-wide prohibition.

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The Capitol Paper company of Indianapolis suffered a $150,000 fire loss Saturday. Wilson’s plurality in California, according to semi-official figures just issued, was 3,773. A cheap imitation of tinfoil is made in Germany by coating paper with a mixture of finely powdered metal and resin and subjecting it to friction. It is announced that Governorelect Goodrich will revive the pomp and display of a governor’s military staff, which was abolished by J. Frank Hanley. William Hook, accused of a connection in the Fout murder case in Starke county in 1915, will be placed on trial in the Pulaski circuit court Monday, December 11. Abe Martin says: Ever notice how a movie audience plauds a film baby ’cause it can’t hear it? My idea o’ nerve is th’ eastern newspaper makin’ suggestions t’ our western President. The Brown cattle sale at Monon last Thursday was the biggest event of its kind in that section, 337 head of cattle bringing $16,117.25, an average of $47.82 a head. There were many calves in the sale, some bringing SSO. Charles Hosier of Morocco, recently elected clerk of the Newton circuit court, took charge of the office on Tuesday of last week, succeeding Charles M. Daniel of Goodland, who was appointed to fill out the vacancy caused by the death of the late Howard McCurry, and was defeated by Mr. Hosier at the recent election. Former Clerk J. G. Davis will be his deputy.

The contest for the office of county treasurer of Starke county will be decided by the supreme court. The election returns showed C. W. Weninger, Democrat, elected by one vote. His Republican opponent, Ira N. Comptoh, asked for a recount, and when this wag completed the latter was declared elected by one vote. Mr. Weninger is the present incumbent and says he will continue to hold office until the case has been settled by the supreme court, to which it has been appealed.

Monday’s Lafayette Journal: The Monon officials will make an inspection trip over the Monon system beginning today. President Kurrie’s private car, No. 90, went through here at noon y r esterday enroute to Louisville, where General Manager P. L. McManus with his private car, No. 60, will join the party. The same gentlemen, with the exception of the parties from New York, making the last trip over the road, will return to Chicago Tuesday night. Mr. McManus and Mr. Eskridge will return here in the former’s private car Wednesday morning.

C. M. Duggan, famous as a cattle king of the Argentine republic, and Pedro T. Pages, who came with him to attend the International Live Stock exposition to be held at Chicago, at which Mr. Duggan will judge Shorthorn cattle and Mr. Pages the grade cross-breeds, visited Lafayette Friday and Saturday. They w£re entertained at Purdue university and at the Crouch stock farm, and Friday evening were guests at a banquet at the Hotel Fowler, Jeptha and Geotge Crouch, Jesse C., Andrew and John W. Van natta and John H. Skinner, dean of the Purdue school of agriculture, being the hosts. Mrs. Inez Milholland .Boissevain, noted suffrage leader, died in a hospital at Los Angeles, California, Saturday night after an illness of ten weeks from apiastic anemia, the trouble originating in her tonsils, which became inflamed as the result of too constant speaking during the recent campaign. Her age was 30 years. Mrs. Boissevain was a native of New York. She was married in July. 1913, in London to Eugene Boissevain, a wealthy Hollander, but soon thereafter returned to this country and resumed her practice of law and her suffrage activities. She" toured the country with the “millionairess Hughes special” in the late campaign.

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor ...Charles G. Spltler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Att0rney...........M05es Leopold Marshal..... Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councllmen Ist Ward Ray Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large.. Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk s. S. Shedd Sheriff B. D. McColly Auditor J. p. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor M. B. Price Coroner... Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor...G. L. Thornton Health Officer. .Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble 2nd Distrist...... D. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens Glllam t £ S°°le. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff .Jordan E- Jfcvis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood. Jr Marion George Foulks Milroy J ohn Rush Nowton George Hammerton Union Joseph Salrln Walker Albert S Keene. Wheatfleld Co. Bupt...Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

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