Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — Page 8

HAPPINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

REMINGTON (From the Press) .REMINGTON R. R. TIME TABLE No. 318 East bound 7:38 a.m. No. 331 West bound 9:01 a.m. No. 340 East bound 5:09 n.m, No. 319 West bound 5:33 p.m.

Dr. P. J. Pothuisje of Denver, Colorado, is a Remington visitor today. Oscar Taber went to Logansport Friday morning to spend the week end with his relatives. Mrs. Laura Harins of Rensselaer has been visiting at Mrs. Jena Lamborn’s and Earl Taylor’s this week. Mrs. O. P. Taber came Monday evening to spend Christmas with her daughter, Mrs. Homer Lambert, and other relatives. I Mrs. Cyrus Rice of near Delphi, Indiana, came Friday to spend a couple of days with her mother, Mrs. Meehan, and other, relatives here. Mrs. Isabelle Green, who has been spending, the past two months with her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Babb, at Memphis, Tennnessee. returned home last week. Miss Myrtle Ford, who has been having a seige with diphtheria and heart trouble in the Henrotin hospital, Chicago, was brought home Sunday and taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Jacob Hensler.

Mrs Eastes has just received a letter from Orris Hotaling in which he states that his mother, Mrs. Will Hotaling, is very sick with bronchial pneumonia, and has been taken to the hospital. Mrs. Hotaling has many friends here and we hope soon to hear of an improvement in her condition. Mrs. John Pepin and son Ralph returned home Thursday last from a fortnight’s stay in Chicago with the family of her sister, Mrs. H. D. MacDonald, while the latter underwent an operation. Mrs. MacDonald has visited here and has many friends in town who will be glad to know that she Is recovering so nicely.

There was a quiet little wedding at the home of Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Markin southeast of town whan their daughter Ethel was united in marriage to Cyrus Alvis. A wedding supper followed the ceremony, which was pronounced by the bride’s father. The young couple have gone to housekeeping in the Mrs. Debo property in the south part of town. Many friends wish them all kinds of happiness. Frank Timmons, who has been over to Springfield, Illinois, for the past week, informs us that he has just hired out to the Fitzsimmons Construction company of that city, and if they can handle the union end of the matter he will go to work next Tuesday. He will be in charge of two jobs at Normal, Illinois, one a gymnasium at the old soldiers and Orphans’ home, which will run about $25,000, and the other a woman’s dormitory, which is a/ SIIO,OOO job. On Saturday evening, December 16, at the home of the contracting parties on north Ohio street, was celebrated the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Lucky, who were united in marriage December 16, 18G6, in Shelby county, Illinois, and soon after came to this vicinity, "where they have resided ever since. Those present were the members of their immediate family: Miss Lina Lucky of Remington, Mrs. Will R. Puckett and son Maurice of Peru, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Graham of Windfall and Lee Rush and family of Remington, together wuth Rev. Warriner and wife and members of the W. R. C. and G. A. R. post.

NOTICE I have opened a general blacksmithing business in Surrey, Indiana, and am. prepared to take care of your work,—CAL BURROUGHS.

WHEATFIELD

James Cooper is pressing hay for William Grube, Jr. Arizona Custard visited at the William Mutchler home last Monday evening. One man piles up coal, another burns it. The bible puts it this 'wp.y: “One soweth and another reapeth.’’ The Republican man said: “That the reason that Adair was defeated was because he lacked votes.” Such matchless wisdom. Wonder who told him? The beautiful snow has made corn husking a traegdy, But yet when we think of the coming summer of intense heat we get hot under the collar. At the road supervisor election last Saturday Everett Finney was re-elected supervisor of the river district and "Louis Misch was elected supervisor of the district around the town of Wheatfield.

This is Louis’ first term, but wd can say right here and now that he can deliver the goods. Congratulations’ The Roy Blue home, south of town, is nearing completion and will be, when completed, an up-to-date country home. He is having a furnace installed. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the box social at. theßiver school was not very well attended. A fine program was rendered and all present had a good time. In the passing away of Jacob Heil the county has lost one of its best citizens, a kind and accommodating neighbor. He will be missed by his many friends who knew his sterling qualities.

We wish you all a happy Christmas and a joyful nsw year. We want you all to enter into the spirit of Christmas by helping to make it a day of happiness for at least one. No one can measure the effect of a good act if done in the right manner. Let us all show by our acts and words that we are a believer in peace on earth, good will toward men. Mr? Gibbs, the hay magnate of Baum’s Bridge, is going to out a large amount of river timber on the Monger ranch when it gets frozen up hard enough to work. Mr. Gibbs is an experienced lumber man and will do the work in an up-to-date manner when he gets started. You can’t find the word "fail” in his dictionary, as he cut it out years ago. We understand that ex-county Suipt. Hamilton has bought an interest. in the Rensselaer Republican, and now will get ready to twist the tale of the Democratic mule two years hence. You want to be careful, Louis, how you handle the critter as much good feed has made him a bad actor. T. R. couldn’t ride him. He couldn’t even get his foot in the stirrup.

STOP THAT COUGH

A hacking cough weakens the whole system, drains vour energy and gets worse if neglected: your throat is raw, vour chest aches and you fee] Sore all over. Relieve that cold at once with Dr. King’s New Discovery. The soothing pine balsams heal the irritated membranes, and the antiseptic and laxative qualities kill the germs and break up your cold. Don't let cold linger. Get Dr. King’s New Discovery today at your druggist, 50c.—Adv.

LEE

Mr». <monf Monday with Mrs. TL C. Anderson. Rollin Stewart shipped a carload of hogs to Lafayette Monday. Frank Eldridge was re-elected road supervisor last Saturday. Grandma Culp is very feeble at this writing and is bedfast all the time. The Ladies’ Aid did well serving dinner at Walker’s sale last Monday considering the extremely cold day, Mrs. Lester Warren and baby and son Orval spent Tuesday in Rensselaer with Everett Warren and family. Wednesday was William Brock’s birthday anniversary, of which some of his neighbors reminder! him of by going to his home that evening. Plenty of snow and cold weather now. like Christmas time for sure. There will he no entertainment here on account of the protracted meetings going on.

When Rubbers Become Necessary and your shoes pinch, use Alien’s Foot-Ease, the Antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled into the foot-bath. Just the thing for Breaking in New Shoes. It gives rest and comfort to tired, swollen, aching feet. Sold everywhere, 25c.—Advt.

WILL CLOSE CHRISTMAS DAY

The following merchants of Rensselaer will have their places of business closed all day Christmas: Am to Equipment Co., auto accessories. ■ Burchard. U. D , variety store?. Collins, G. E., shoes/ Duvall, C. E., clothang. Eigelsbach, J., meat. Eger. C. W., hardware. Fendig, S., Iqdies wear. Fendig. B. N., shoes. Hilliard * Hamill, clothing. Jarrette, B. J,, variety store. Jessen, G. J,, .jewelry. McFarland, T. A., grocer. Murray, G. E., department store. Rowles & Parker, department store. Rowen .F. J., grocer. Roth Bri*., meat. Ramp, J. H., grocer. Rhoades, E. D.,' hardware. 1/ Tiiteur, H. 8., dry cleaning. Traub, William, clothing. Warner Bros., hardware. Watson Plumbing Co., plumbing. Wright, W. J., furniture. Worland, D. M., furniture The drug stores will close at 11 a. m.

IMPORTANT NOTICE. By laws of injustice we can not ask more for our goods like the grocer, shoe man, garage, doctor, lawyer, clothier, newspaper, farmer, and other lines of business. Our average advance in material and labor to date in 68 per cent, which compells ns to operate at a loss until prices return to normal conditions, which seems distant, therefore we are compelled to make our collections in full each month and to discontinue all service in arrears, as one loss is sufficient. Please settle your account before December 25, and greatly oblige.— JASPER COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY. d 23

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COMPLIMENTARY.

A young couple were entertaining a bachelor friend to dinner, and during the evening he was shown their infant son. “Now, Mr. Mellowby,” said the proud mother, “which of us do yotf think he is like?” The guest looked fondly at the tiny mite for a moment and then replied, “Well, of course, intelligence has not really dawned in his countenance as yet, but he's wonderfully like both of you.”—New York Journal.

A Disappearing Type.

The horny handed farmer These days is seldom seen, Because he puts on motor gloves When driving his machine. —Birmingham Age-Herald.

’Twas Easy.

Doctor—Well, and how did you find yourself this morning? Patient—Oh, I just opened my eyea, and there I was.—Pitt Panther.

Reconsidered.

Brown—You say my dog's howling keeps you awake all night? I'll attend to it at once! Jones —no hurry, old chap! My wife's mother is coming tomorrow! Wait a few days!—Boston Globe.

Social Inanities.

She—You know, Mr. Jones, I thought you much older than you are. He —Oh, no; not a bit, I assure you Boston Transcript.

A Moneylogue.

“If money talks,” as hath been said. Quoth Patey, with a sigh, "Its conversation’s limited To howdy and goodby,” —Exchange),

Different Causes.

She—Oh, how I love the out of doors! One’s heart beats so excitedly! He (sourly) Yes, especially when you see a creditor coming.—Exchange.

Wife—But if we don’t keep a servant what will the-Jieighbors say? Husband—ls we don't keep a servant we won’t know.—New York Globe.

Paw Knows Everything.

Willie—Paw, are there any women aviators? Paw—Yes, my son. The married ones are always going up in the air. Maw—M illie, if you ask that old fool another question I’ll beat you within an inch of your life,—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.

Please Yourself.

There once was a fellow named Pika Who had a big brother named Ike. I’ve nothing to say Of the, brother today, So end this rime up as you like. —New York World.

Right at Home.

“That is the straight and narrow path,” said father as he placed the last brick on the pathway that led to ,the chicken runway, that he might keep out of the mud on wet days. "Where does the straight and narrow path lead?” asked the Sunday school teacher a few weeks afterward. “To our chicken yard," exclaimed the apt pupil.—St. Louis Globe-Detfftn crat.

Just the Trouble.

“Where’s your tie, old man ? Doesn't your wife buy you any?” “Yes, she does. That’s just the trouble.’’—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

An Eventful Wedding Journey

By BARBARA PHIPPS

I am one of those American women who have married foreigners. My bus* band loves me, is kind to me, but 1 can’t help feeling that if the freedom of his people depended upon his taking my life he would nerve himself to do the deed. There is a story connected with our wedding journey that I am going to tell, though for twenty years whenever I have thought of it my blood has run cold. I am of a very sympathetic nature and impulsive, and Gustav—as I shall call him—was impassive. I presume it was this difference between us that fascinated me with him. We are prone to admire what we cannot be. lie seemed at times to be made of marble. Often when thinking of him I thought at the same time of the sphinx or the pyramids. “Why do not your people rise and throw off your oppressors?" I asked*?

“We would be crushed,” ■was the calm reply. This was all I could get out of him. I could not discern from what he said and did but that his expected to live under foreign’oppression till the crack of doom. Gustav’s only hope seemed wild to'me. It was that eventually all the sovereigns in the world would be killed off. I would not consent to marry Gustav unless he would leave his country and go with me to America This he declined to do because be was needed by the people of his country. How he could be needed by those who were sunk in a hopeless slavery to an autocrat and were making no effort to throw off the yoke I could not Imagine. However, while making my preparations to depart he, came to me and said that he would go with me. Circumstances had arisen which might enable him to help his people by going 'elsewhere.

This would have made me very happy had he given me those circumstances that had brought about the change. But he did not. nor could I cajole him to make an explanation. Did he Intend U> advocate the cause of his country:'.:*;! In other countries? No. He would neither speak nor write a word on the subject. Would he resort to diplomacy ? No. He would live a life of seclusion. I might have been able to drive the matter from my mind had not Gustav become more impassive. If possible, than before. He treated me with unusual tenderness. On the day of our marriage he said to me, “Before the ceremony I wish you to forgive me for any injury I may inflict upon you by making you my wife.” I naturally took this as indicating a very tender conscience and gave the desired forgiveness.

Gustav applied for a passport to go on his wedding trip. He was delayed In getting it, and our wedding had to be postponed on this account. Why there should have been any delay he did not explain to me. the wedding being timed to take place an hour before the leaving of the train on which we were to depart. On leaving the bouse my husband spoke a few words to the driver that I did not hear. We were driven to the station by a roundabout way and stopped at a bouse in a quiet street, Gustav telling me that he wished to leave something there for a friend. But when he alighted he carried nothing in his hand. The door was opened by a man apparently of the middle class. Gustav stepped inside. The door was closed, but only for a second. My husband reappeared, and we proceeded on our wav.

Somehow it struck me that when this brief visit was over Gustav experienced a great relief. He emerged from the house with the most serious look I have ever seen on a man's face but on entering the carriage he looked at me with an expression which I could only interpret as Indicating that there had been a great danger which had no»v passed. Taking my hand in his, he pressed it. which I took to express the same emotion as his look. An hour after our train left the station we had crossed the border. There was as much change in my husband at this time as there was after his brief visit. But one thing I noticed—he seemed eager to put distance between us and his former home. We had Intended to stop over Aight in a large city, but Gustav seemed eager to get on, and I consented to proceed to a little town where there were few people and no telegraph. The next day we passed out c* the country adjoining my husband’s fatherland and by evening had traversed another nationality, entering Switzerland. Here my husband bought a paper and scanned it eagerly. Suddenly I saw a look of disappointment pass over his face. Looking over his shoulder. I read that on the night following our wedding an attempt had been made to assassinate the governor of the province in which we were married. He had been badly wounded, but not killed.

All was now plain to me. Gus had probably made and certainly delivered the bomb used in the attempted assassination. Indeed. I finally learned that he had it under his arm when we were married and when we w’ere driving to the station. All this was a great shock to me and has cast a gloom over my life since it occurred. But I forgave my husband the injury he had done me before we were married.

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In the friendly spirit of this Christmas time we extend the season's greetings to each and every one, and may your Christmas joys be all you wish. We will have a number of Christmas specials Saturday and by trading here you can save from $3 to $5 on every suit or overcoat, and save enough to provide the whole family with Christmas presents. The Clothing House of . William Traub RENSSELAER, IND.

SCRAPS China has the longest national hymn. Homing pigeons can travel seventy miles an hour. Douglosyille, New Jersey, has a dwelling occupied continuously for 200 years. The United States government buys 1,250,000 electric lamps every year. Using benzine for fuel, a new cigaret lighter is a close facsimile of a cigaiet. • The corncob pipe manufacturing industry represents a valuation of SSOO Ofo a 'ear. Some 250 miles northwf st of Winnepeg a paper mill is being built to turn out 100 tons a day. Names have been given to 727 minor planets and new ones are being discovered all the time. Moving picture shows in Sheffield, England, generally last two hours. Refreshments are sold. India leads oriental countries in the number of its blind, having about 000,000 to China’s 500,000 and Japan’s IOQ.OOO. The United States has more telegraph offices and more line mileage than any other nation. Germany is second in rank. A steering wheel, adjustable to several positions, has been invented to replace the handlebars of. a bicycle or ■ A'n Illinois inventor’s dredging machine literally walks W large feet and will travel over ground too soft for caterpillar wheels. A baby carriage to be hung on the back of an automobile seat, and which can be . folded flat when empty, has been patented. The surface of the Caspian sea has beep gradually sinking for several years until now navigation has been impeded at several points.

While the mule will continue to be the standard draft animal in the. South, a gradual substitution of heavy horses on the farms is going ‘on. The word “plate” is often incorrectly applied to vessels of gold. It is derived from the plata, which in Spanish means wrought silver. The melting point, of ductile tungsten is higher than that of any other known metal and its tensile strength exceeds that of iron and nickel. A party about to leave Buenos Aires to explore a little known region of South America expects to study much oL the country from aeroplanes. » • ■■ Abraham Kittlebune of Detroit, age 110, and said to be the oldest Mason in the world, walked six

blocks to register, so he could vote in the November election. An inventor has combined an automobile horn and headlight, the sound being produced back of the lamp and issuing around it. Linoleum and wall paints that contain linseed oil have- much sanitary value, according to a French doctor, as they quickly kill germa coming in contact with them. A species of tree of unlimited growth in Natal, heretofore regarded as worthless commercially, has been found to yield a juice that contains rubber in large quantities. A removable handle features a. new pan for making pies, which, also is perforated, the gases generated passing through the holes sc that the pastry is lighter and dryer. For extinguishing fires in cable boxes, where water might increase the danger of short circuiting, there, has been invented a device for injecting flame-smothering gases. Official statistics but recently completed show that the United States used 628,578,842,000 cubic feet of natural gas last year, or about 6 per cent more than the previous record for a year. Place your want ads in The Democrat if you want to get results.

It’s ever so cheering on cold winter nights, with the mercury down to ten, to know that the . BINS ARE FULL OF COAL and won’t have to be filled again. Let us fill them with the BEST OF COAL.