Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — Page 2

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II JASPER COONIY OMII F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones O™ce 815 Realdenoe 811 Entered as Second-Class Mail Manter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March I. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. ADVERTISING KATES Display . 12%c Inch Display, special position. .. .15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5c Readers, per line add. insertions. .3c Want 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 acounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which ate cash with order. No advertisement accepted fsr first page. SATURDAY, DEC. 16, 1916.

FOR HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.

Luke W. Duffey, who will be a member of the house of representatives from Marion county in the coming legislature, has received from the federal highway bureau at Washington a draft of a bill for the creation of a state highway department in Indiana. The measure is prepared along lines that meet the ideas of the federal bureau, and which would, if enacted, enable the state of Indiana to participate in the distribution of the $75,000,000 appropriation made by the congress last summer to aid the various states in highway improvement. The money is available only to states that maintain a state highway department, and Indiana is* one of the three states in the union that ha® no such department. Whether Duffey will introduce the bill in the form in which jt was prepared by the federal highway bureau he has not yet determined, but whatever bill is introduced by him, «he says, will be designed along lines that will be satisfactory to the government. Duffey has been, one of the leading advocates of highway legislation in this state. He has accepted invitations to deliver addresses on the subject of highway legislation at the meeting of the Madison County Motor club at Anderson next Thursday night, at the meeting of the Indiana Sand and Gravel Producers association at the Claypool hotel next Friday evening, at the meeting of the T. P. A. in Indianapolis Thursday and at the meeting of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce at Columbus December 29. The bill which was sent from Washington would create a state highway board, which would be non-political. One member would be the head of the school of civil engineering at Purdue university, and the two others would be appointed by the governor, one from each of the majority political parties In the state. Members of the board would receive SSOO a y ef >- -n* o T n»nses. The board would elect one of Its members chairman and would appoint a state highway engineer, who would be the

active executive ofllcer of the state highway department. His salary would be fixed by the board. The state highway board and the state highway engineer would constitute the state highway department. The engineer would have power to appoint and fix the compensation of all assistant engineers, clerks and other help, subject to the approval of the board.

The state highway engineer would have power to call on county road officials for information concerning roads and bridges. Local road officials would be authorized to consult with the engineer in regard to any road proposition, thus rendering the services of the engineer available to them in planning and directing their work. In order to obtain state aid in the improvement of a road the board of county commissioners would make application to the state board, and it w’ould be up to the state engineer to decide whether the application should be granted. The state highway board also could begin highway improvement projects where the county commissioners fail or refuse to do so.

Work costing less than $2,000 could be done either with or without contract, but all work costing over $2,000 would have to be done by contract, unless no satisfactory bid could be obtained. Rights of way for roads would be provided by the counties free of cost to the state.

The cost of road construction would be borne 50 per cent by the state and 50 per cent by the county, except where the work is done without the county money. The cost of maintenance would also be divided fifty-fifty between the state and the county, but all maintenance would be done by the state highway department or contracted for with the county commissioners, and all would be under the supervision of the highway engineer. If any county refused to do the maintenance work the state board would have power to do the work and charge it against the county. A state highway fund would be created by the levy of a tax of onefourth of one mill on each dollar of taxable property, w'hich would yield approximately $490,000, and from the net proceeds of motor vehicle license fees, amounting to about $550,000 annually. The state board would have authority to work state or county prisoners on the roads when satisfactory arrangements can be made.

County highway superintendents would be appointed by the state highway board and each county highway superintendent would be required to pass an examnlation to prove his fitness for the place. The federal appropriation extends over a period of five years, and the bill would bind the state to a fiveyear program of road improvement that would comply with the federal law.

When we remember that they are killing off men in Europe at the rate of over 6,000 a day we are inclined to the belief that thia country is a pretty safe place after all.

THE PAPER SHORTAGE

That large consumers of paper have reached the point where a rigid .program of paper economy must be adopted is evident from a series of inquiries conducted by a representative of the New York Times, and from reports coming from various parts of the country. In New York the large department stores and mail order houses have discovered that in the past they have used more paper than necessary. They seem to believe that the prevailing high prices are due partly to war conditions, but principally to natural exhaustion of the paper-making material available in this country and Canada. Twenty years ago some definite program of conservation should have been adopted, but it was not. The result was a reckless disregard for the future. The public came to look on paper as an inexpensive nuisance, which cluttered up the -house and had to be burned. The department stores used wrapping paper extravagantly, never considering its cost, because it was cheap, and they thought the public wanted its packages wrapped generously. The awakening came when some of the larger department stores found their paper bills increasing by from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year. Many of the stores began to economize by using paper of lighter weight. Then investigation revealed that packages were wrapped too generously. Vast quantities of tissue paper were used for stuffing garments so they would retain their shape. The garments were then wrapped in tissue paper, placed in a cardboard box, wrapped in two pieces of strong wrapping paper and tied with string. At first it was feared that if the department stores economized on paper their customers would think they w’ere cheap and would go to other stores. Experiment showed that the public cared not for the paper but for what it bought. Much of the tissue paper stuffing was dispensed with, and the boxes were not wrapped. Some of the larger department stores in New York were using about 300 tons of wrapping paper each a year. A little more than a year ago this could be bought for from SSO to SBO a ton. It now costs from $l7O to SIBO a ton. Each store was using about 10,000 reams of tissue paper which has advanced from about 35 cents a ream to $1.30 a ream for first quality, and for inferior qualities in proportion. By the economies introduced, they hope to keep their paper bill about where it was before the war. The mail order houses have likewise been forced to economize. The largest mail order house in the world, a Chicago concern, uses about twenty tons of paper every year in its catalog. It has been estimated that, including all kinds of paper used by this company, its paper bill next year will be sl,000,000 more than it was last year. Another large mail order house found that a great deal of wrap-

ping paper was used for protecting orders while they were being transferred from various departments to the shipping room. This was eliminated by the employment of canvas bags. All mail order houses have reduced their catalogs in size, cut out many of the color plates which require a finer grade of paper, and reduced the circulation by weeding out persons on the mailing list who do not buy. A Chicago department store tried delivering goods in paper board boxes built something like suit cases, leaving the goods and returning the boxes to the store, but in the case of persons who were not at home this proved expensive when tried in New r York, and was abandoned. This movement among users of large quantities of paper indicates a serious shortage. It is felt by the newspapers, for the price of print paper has more than doubled, and many small papers are threatened with suspension. Three cents a pound used to be regarded as a high price for ordinary news print paper. Some papers are now forced to pay 10 cents a pound, and very little is to be had for less than 5 cents, even in large quantities. These conditions can be helped by the conservation of all kinds of waste paper, particularly in homes, where it may be sold, under present conditions, at a price that repays the trouble of collecting it.— Exchange.

DON’T DELAY LONGER

Once more It is time to do your Christmas shopping. But seven buying days remain wherein to accomplish all the purchasing which you have planned, and there is every Indication that the stores are to be crowded this year as never before. Therefore if you hope to shop with any considerable degree of satisfaction you should begin at once. Christmas eve falls on Sunday

this year and parcels should be mailed in sufficient time for delivery on Saturday as there will be no Christmas day deliveries by the faithful employes of Uncle Sam’s postal department, who are already beginning to feel the effects of increased business which is induced by the near approach of the holiday season.

In addition to the personal comfort to be found in early shopping, and the better service which is always at your command before the real rush begins, there is another reason more important this season than ever before. In many lines the late comers will find the assortment badly broken, due to the fact that dealers have not in every case been able to secure as great quantities as judgment prompted them to buy and they have been compelled to accept so much of their order as the wholesale houses were able to furnish. Every indication points to the greatest buying Christmas season in many years and while dealers will make strenuous efforts to render adequate service at all times the advantage will lie with those who shop at once.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Ah, nothing could be sadder than is the "high cost” fake, which stingeth like an adder, and biteth like a snake. The records just examine, and you will understand it was no year of famine in this star-spangled land. The country’s barns are bursting with wheat, and corn and rye, while sufferers are thirsting for bread and pone and pie. And while I write these stanzas, which lack the ’customed smiles, the farmers ou,t in Kansas have wheat shocked up in piles. D|me Nature, in her bounty, has done a kindly turn, and every Western county has wheat and hay to burn. Yet when we seek the grocer, and ask him for some meal, he says, “I s’pose you know, sir, the price is raised one wheel? The war in Asia Minor has shut off the supply, and hence the extra shiner you cough up when you buy.” The wolf is drawing closer, and shorter grows the kale; I slay the nervy grocer, but what does that avail? I seek the floral spieler, to >buy a buttercup; "The war,” remarks the dealer, "has sent the prices up.’’

TRACTOR FARMING IN FRANCE

The French government has established a commission to promote what we may call mechanical farming after the war. This commission finds that a considerable number of tractors are already in use in French agriculture, and that their- number can be Increased enormously as soon as the war ends. It is looking out now for the plows, harrows, drills, etc., to be hauled by these tractors, and seeking mechanical training for the young men and women who must operate them. The possibilities in this line are very great. French farms are small, to be sure, much smaller than the unit area which has been found most profitable for tractor operation. But there are no fences between the fielfls, one or two good tractors could do the plowing and harvesting for a whole hamlet, and while the French never talk much about' co-operation and have little formal organization for it, they are among the most expert co-oper-ators in the world. No mechanical equipment can make up entirely for the losses of man-power due to the war, but the machines will help, and it is clear that their aid will be claimed to the fullest possible extent.—-Chi-cago Journal.

The first announcement made by Frank Joseph Gall regarding his system of phrenology was in an address delivered before his medical colleagues in Vienna a century and a quarter ago. Gall was a native of Baden, but settled in Vienna in 1781 and began the practice of medicine in the - Austrian capital. From his boyhood he had been interested in studying the craniums of his companions, and many observations and much study convinced him that the talents and dispositions of men may be inferred perfect exactitude and precision from the external appearance of the skull. This theory he elaborated in many lectures, pamphlets and books and soon gained many adherents in the scientific world.

HUNTERS, NOTICE! All persons are forbidden to hunt, trap or trespass with dog or gun on any of our lands. Violators will be prosecuted. EPHRIAM GILMORE, j ELMER J. GILMORE, WALTER C. GILMORE, D. CLYDE CLARK, RAY HOLEMAN. Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office.

O. L. Calkins Leo Worland Funeral Directors Calkins & Worland Office at D. M. Worland’s Furniture Store. Phone 25 and 307 Store Phone 23 RENSSELAER, .... INDIANA

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE &. INSURANCE 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos Dean. WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office In Odd Fellows Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR. I. M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. " “ 2 to 5 P. M. •• “ 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays—--5 A. M. to 2 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-Bl RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz)

Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. 16 RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —8-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOE JEFFRIES CHIROPRACTOR ° Graduate Palmer School of Chiropractic. Chiropractic Fountain Head, Davenport, lowa. Forsythe Bldg. Phone 576 RENSSELAER, INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins* drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA <►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<> !■« a Piaittis I !» o AT REASONABLE RATES O I [ Your Property In City, Town ] ‘ I [ Village or Farm, Against Fire, < ► ]> Lightning or Wind; Your Live, o I [ Stock Against Death or Theft. J * 1[ and < ► '[ YOUR AUTOMOBILE <► I [ Against Fire From Any Cause, * * ] [ Theft or Collision. < > j» Written on the Cash, Single <> 1 * Note or Installment Plan. All j * I ’ Losses Paid Promptly. < ► Call Phone 208, or Write for <' h a GOOD POLICY IN A GOOD |j COMPANY. - <► j! RAY D. THOMPSON < > jj RENSSELAER, INDIANA O ♦♦♦♦sssssssssssssswssss' i

PIONEER Meat Market EIGELSBACH & SON, Props. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow

Ideal Account Flies, >1.50 each.— The Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

OHICAUU, INOIANArULIS A KVUi»VH.Lff RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect October, 1915 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51 *m, No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 * m No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a m No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:51 p m No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:38 a.m. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:31 nmNo, 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p>m. CHICAGO & WABASH VALLEY RY. Effective March 20, 1916. Southbound Northbound Arr. Read up Lv, Read down No. 3 Noll No. 2 | No. 4 P.M. A.M, ( P.M. aApm 5:20 7:05 McCoysburg 6:10 11:19 *5:13 *7:00 Randle *6:15 *11:1T •5:05 *6:54 Della *6:20 *11:25 4:55 6:48 Moody 6:27 11:35 *4:45 *6:41 Lewiston *6:34 411:45 4:37 6:38 Newland 6:40 11:53 4:28 6:29 Gifford 6:46 13:91 *4:16 *6:20 Laura *6:55 *12:14 *4:01 *6:10 McGllnn *7:05 *12:39 3:56 6:06 Zadoc 7:08 12:34 *3:52 *6:03 Calloway *7:11 *12<38 3:40 5:55 Kersey 7:20 12:59 •Stops on Signal. CONNECTIONS. No. .L-Oonhects with C. LAL. Train No. 40 northbound, leaving McCoysburg 7:18 a. m. C. I & L. Train No. 5 will stop on signal at McCoysburg to let off or take on passengers to or from C. A W. V. points. No. 3.—Connects with C. I. A L. Train No. 39 southbound and No. 30 northbound. & I* Train No. 30 wll stop on signal at McCoysburg for C. A W. V. passengers to Chicago or Hammond. All trains daily except Sunday.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen 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 Jesse Nichols Sheriffß. D. McColly AuditorJ. p. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor.E. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor...G. L. Thornton Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2n<L DlstristD. 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 StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild.... Keener Harvey Wood, JrMarlon George FoulksMilroy John Rush Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph SalrlnWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt... Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES* card. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postbffioe address—Rensselaer, Indiana JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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