Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1917 — Page 1

Jsper County Democrat.

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MILITIA GOT HOME FRIDAY

Train Was Delayfed and Did Not Reach Here Until 11 P. M. Company M of the Indiana National Guard reached* Refisselaer shortly before midnight? Friday night, and it was a happy throng of young fellows that left the train and ah equally . joyous crowd of friends and relatives and extended open arms and welcoming smiles to the returning soldiers. The time of the arrival of the militiamen was quite uncertain throughout Friday, it first being announced that they would arrive with*the 6:50 p. m. train from Indianapolis. Later it- was announced that they would arrive on a special train at about 9:30 p. m. Had they arrived at 6:50 p. m. the band and perhaps 1,000 people would have been at the depot, but as the time passed and no train or militia came the people who had no intimate friends or relatives in the coippany departed. Company M left Rensselaer on June 24, and on July 11 arrived at Llano Grande, Texas, where they went into camp. Here they remained continuously until December 4, when they returned to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, remaining there three weeks going through the formality of being mustered out of the federal service. The boys are all glad to get home and are all enjoying exceptionally good health.

FUNERAL OF ELVYN ALLMAN

Held at the Home of His Parents SuntYay Afternoon. The funeral of Elvyn Allman 'was held at the home of his parents on McCoy avenue at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, and was one of the largest funerals held here for some time. The untimely death of this popular young man deepfly touched his many friends throughout the community, who came in vast numbers to pay a last tribute of respect. IRev. E. W l . Strecker of the Methodist church preached a most eloquent sermon, and was followed by Rev. C. W. Postill, who paid a most beautiful tribute to the life departed ~ The floral offerings were many and very beautiful, and the music furnished by a selected choir,- was, touching in the extreme. <■ The following ■ intimate friends of the young man acted as pallbearers, both at the home and at Wes'ton cemetery, where interment was made: Robert Reeve, Vern Luers, John Luers, George Padgitt, Edward Rose and Carl Eiglesbach.

WEATHER OF rPAST FEW DAYS Following is the official maximum and minimum temperature as recorded' by the.-government thermometer at St. Joseph college for the twenty-four hours ending respectively at 6 a. m. on the days given below: । High. Low.' Monday , , 36 32 Yesterday 3 6 20

FUTURE PUBLIC SALE DATES The* Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, January 3, John Mbore, 5 miles northeast of Rensselaer, on Francesville road. Stock sale principally, including 4 horses, 37 head of battle, 15 head of hogs; also some farm tools. Tuesday, January 9, Mrs. Matilda Dluzak, Ex., 9 miles south and one mile west of Rensselaer. General sale, including 16 head of horses, 23 head of cattle, farm tools, etc. Thursday, January 11, D. M. Waymire, 5 miles south and 3 miles east of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, farm tools, etc. Monday, January 15> A. T. Keiper, 3 miles south and 1 mile east of Rensselaer. General sale, including 12 horses and mules, 17 head of cattle, implements, wagons, harness, etc, Wednesday, January 17, George K. Michael, 3 3-4 south and 13-4 miles west of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, farm tools, etc. Friday, January 19, Harvey Putt, ’Administrator, at farm of the late John Putt,. miles south and 6 miles west of Rensselaer. General sale, including 16 head of horses, 72 head of cattle, 81 hogs, 14 sheep, farm tools, etc. Tuesday, January 23, C. J. Dexter, 8. miles north and 4 miles east ,of Rensselaer. General sale, inclufllng horses, cattle, farm tools, etc. ?

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Infor esling Paragraphs From the Various* Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL

The Legal News Epitomized—Tocgether with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Over forty remonstrances ■ had been filed in the Barnard ditch up to yesterday noon. E. G. Sternberg was down from Chicago Saturday looking after business matters here. Miss Bertha Brunpeman, superintendent of the Jasper County hospital, went to Chicago Friday to select th 6 furnishings for Jhe in- « stitution. ' ' The county" commissioners met Saturday to finish up the business of the year and to let the stationery contract, all four classes of which went to the Thornton-Levey Co. of Indianapolis. New suits filed: No. 8715. Petition of Amelia Heilscher Makus for change of name. Plaintiff was divorced from Paul Makus April 12, 1899, and now wants her rrfaiden of Heilscher restored. The county commissioners met ’in regular monthly session yesterday to transact the business of the term. All that was done at the special meeting was to allow claims and let the stationery contract.

B. J. Moore was the successful bidder for the construction, of the Zimmer ditch in Newton and Uniop. townships. There are 186,900 cubic yards of earth to be removed, and the contract price is 12.90 cents'’a cubic yard. Marriage licenses issued: December- 1 30, Roscoe Reeder of Virgie' aged 23 June 28 last, occupation bridge building, to Josie Lyman of Morocco, aged 24 October 30 last, occupation housekeeping. First marriage for each. Married in clerk’s office by Squire W. I. Spitler. January 2, Edward Kuboski of Benton county, aged 21 October last, occupation farming, to Florence S'heilman of Remington, aged 22 November 11 last, occupation housekeeping. First marriage for each. Bonds of the school treasurers of Wheatfield and Rensselaer were recently filed with the auditor and approved. W. B. McNeil is the school treasurer at Wheatfield, and his bond is for 3_,o„Q*o, with A. S. Keene and Joe Hickam as sureties. A. R: KresU'r, treasurer of the Rensselaer school board, gives a bond for s£o,ooo, with Judson J. Hunt and James N. Leatherman as sureties. ■

WILLIAM TRAUB GROWING OLD

William Traub’ the clothier, was “26” years old last Friday, and in honor of the event his good wife planned and successfully carried out a 6 o’clock surprise dinner for him. Therefore,! when he went home, in the evening he found the house filled with friends and a smoking hot dinner of the best the country affords ready and waiting. The dinner was thoroughly enjoyed by all, including the young man in whose honor it was given, and a very pleasant evening followed. Mr. Traub regrets that he is beginning to. grow old and will never live to celebrate his “twenty-sixth” birthday anniversary again.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Beginning with the new year I will not be connected with my father in the painting' and papering business. Will start the new year for myself. Wishing you all a prosperous new year and soliciting a share of your painting and paper-hanging, LEE RICHARDS. Phone 416. J 7 THAT GOOD UNDERWEAR—--Cooper’s spring needle, union and two-piece, $1 to $3.50. Easy to wear and easy on your pocketbook.— HILLIARD & HAMILL.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1917.

COUNTY OFFICERS ALL REMAIN

N a Change Took Place January v.jjt '• r ' First as Usual. There were ho changes in the personnel of county officers at the court house Monday as is usual on the first of/ January following a general election. , Those officer? whose termb expired were elected to succeed/ themselvs, and there were othe/s whose terms did not expire. 1 County Auditor Hammond has three y/ars of his second term yet to serve, and County Treasurer May, who was re-ellcted, has yet anpther year to serve of his first term'. The term of Jesse Nichols, county clerk, who was elected to serve out the unexpired term of Judson Perkins, deceased, will expire May 1, 19.20. Sheriff McColly entered upon his second term of two years * Monday. County Recorder Scott began his second term Monday and will serve until January 1, 1922. County Superintendent Lajmson’s term' of office will expire August 16 this year. County Assessor G. L. Thornton has two ■years of his present term yet to serve, 4nd County Coroner Johnson and Cohnty Surveyor Nesbitt each entered|upon a second term of two years Mohday. The board of commissioners remains, the same, Commissioner MakeeVer entering upon his second term Monday. Commissioner Marble’s second term begins January 1, 1918, and 'Commissioner Welch’s term does not expire until January 1, 1919.

DEATH OF MRS. MARK SAYLER

Daughter of O. K. Ritchey Died at at Home in South Dakota. j? telegram was reecived here Monday by O. K. Ritchey announcing the death at Mitchell, South Dakota, of his daughter, Mrs. Mark ■Sayler. No particulars were given in the. message and Wilbur and Ocey left on the 10:36 train for Mitchell. Additional word received later stated that Mrs. Sayler died at 12:30 Monday morning. The cause o's death as it was not known here that she was ill. The funeral will be held at t Mitchell .and burial made there, Mrs. Sayler was about 33 years old and besides her parents’ family here is survived by the husband and one child.

POULTRY AND CORN SHOW ON

Event Promises to Eclipse Any Show Held in the County. The Jasper County Poultry and Corn show is ip full swing and bids fair to eclipse any shOw of the kind ever 4ield in Jasper or adjoining counties. Entries are coming in exceeding all expectations, and the quality of the birds is of the very best. Some very valuable premiums and silver cups await the winners and there is a keen rivalry among all exhibitors.' 7 The coin show is also attracting inany . exhibits of prize corn, and this feature also will outshine any previous event of its kind in the copnty.' A full list of the prize winners will be published in a later issue of The Democrat. •

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

January 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Norgor, a daughter. Thursday, December 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn Smith of Delphi, a son. Mrs.. Smith was formerly Miss Mary Harper. "

JOHN D.S GENEROSITY (NIT)

Just- finished reading about the, magnanimity of John D. Rockefeller canceling the $200,000 mortgage on the Y. W. C. A. Neighborhood House in New York; in Mpnday’s papers, came the announcement by the local distributor that the price of, gasoline had been advanced another one cent a gallon, effective yesterday. How easy it is for some popple to be magnanimous.

CIVIL WAR VETERANS PASSING

Deaths among-civil war veterans made large gaps iri. the government pension rolls during the last year. The report of Commissioner Saltsgaber of the pension bureau made public Saturday, shows that the names of more than 50,0 00 of the old soldiers passed from the list, reducing their total to 286,009, hardly more than- a third of what it - was eighteen' years ago. There was a net. reduction in all pensioners of 38,000 and in the amount paid for pensions of $6,000,000. Pensions aggregating $159,155*,009 went to 709,572 persons.

THE TWICE* A-WEEK

“STATE DRY’’ MOVE STARTED

In Tippecanoe County and Petitions Are Being Circulated. A movement, general in its scope, for state-wide prohibition, took form in Tippecanoe cpunty a few days ago when a number of leading citizens from farm and city met in the lecture room of the Y. M. C. A. to discuss plans of work, and the best method to present to the legislature the sentiment of the community in reference to possible prohibition under the laws of Indiana. Many men believe that the best way to get satisfactory results: is constitutional amendment, but there seems just -now an excellent opportunity to secure legislation that/will insure a “dry Indiana” this coming winter. The legislature will be asked to enact statutory • prohibition place Indiana in the dry column. ' " ■ In the beginning of the local movement a committee of ten well known workers was named whose duty it was to secure a committee of ICO representative citizens—men from farm and - city, who represented the business interests of the county and who stood for the highest ideals in civic betterment Saturday afternoon that committee met in thef Y. M. 0. A. building for the purpose of organization and' plans of battle. A fine representation of the men selected was present, and without delay they proceeded to the organization that may be named Tippecanoe County Civic league. The following officers were'elected, and at the conclusion of the afternoon meeting left, carrying with them "munitions Of war”:

President —Everett B. Vawter. Vice-president—J. Kirby Risk. Secretary—J. H. Ramson. Treasurer—William H. Perrin. The immediate work of the committee, as outlined in the meeting Saturday, is to secure names to the following petition: "To the Members of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: "Gentlemen—We, the undersigned legal voters of Tippecanoe county, state of Indiana, respectfully petition and urge you to vote for the passage of a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes within the state of Indiana.” A duplicate petition will be presented to the house of representatives, and a netition of like import will contain the signatures of wives, mothers and sisters. "One thing is ‘certain,’’ said a leader. "The man who lines up with the wets this winter will never return to an Indiana legislature; taxpayers’ leagues* and billboards along the way will no longer deceive the voters. The liquor traffic can buy space in newspapers, but the outlay will be money thrown away. Indiana is going dry.”

$678,000,000 TOTAL FOR YEAR

New Record for Single Day*Simportation of Gold, New York, December 28,—The largest single day’s importation of gold into this country was recorded, todav with the deposit of $33,(100,000 by J. P. Morgan. & Co? in the New York and 'Philadelphia assay offices. Of- this amount, $25,000,000 deposited here, was in £he form of American eagles, being the identical gold which was shipped to Paris in April, 1904, during the Roosevelt administration, by this government, as part of the payment of $40,000,000 made to the old French Panama Canal compafly for, its equities in the canal. It was brought back to this country in the same boxes in which it was sent abroad and in which it has been kept for nearly thirteen years. This gold represented the first importation in the form of American gold eagles since the present movement began, the bulk of previous receipts was in 'bar gold afid forms. •Today’s consignments bring the total gold imports for the year up to $678,00'0,000, exceeding by several hundred millions the inflow for any previous year. The . movement was Interpreted here as indication of the effort made by Great Britain to improve the exchange situation and to keep money ratesjn the New York mai*ket favorable ' for borrow!ng purposes. '

Christian Science Christian Science services at 11 a. m. every Sunday in the auditorium of the public library. Public cordially Invited. ? / ts

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mentioo from Many Places. A BELATED HONEYMOON TRIP Logansport, December 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hughes are en route to Oklahoma on a belated honeymoon trip. Thirty-one ago the bride, then Miss Lura Lyons, was betrothed to Mr. Hughes, but the couple quarreled and the engagement was broken off. Both then lived at Wolcott. In the years that followed Miss Lyons became Mrs. Rairden. Her husband later died and the wife of Mr. Hughes, who also had married, also died. The courtship was renewed and they 'were married here. Mr. Hughes lives at Monon.

ANOTHER BENTON COUNTY MAN

Has Disappeared, After Making Trip to Lafayette. 7 The Gazette, with everyone else in this community, is alarmed at the continued absence .of John W. Wyrwosz, who left Oxford two weeks ago to go to Lafayette; expecting to return the same day, iHle purchased some .goods and left two small packages in a store, telling the proprietor he would call for them about 5 o’clock. Since that time he has not been seen as far as we can learn. There was no reason, financially or otherwise, to explain the continued absence of the hustling plumber. In the meantime Mrs. Wyrwosz has her hands full with the continuation of the many contracts John had. And to add to her burden, the house has been because of measles.—Oxford Gazette.

SALSBURY IS MADE CHAIRMAN

Indiana Progressives Reorganize— Essex National Committeeman; The Progressive' state committee met Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce ’in Indianapolis and reorganized. Elias D. Salsbury of that city was elected •state chairman and Willis Roe of East Chicago was elected vice-chairman. Bert Essex of Indiapapdlls was elected national committeeman from Indiana. ' After the meeting of the state committee there was a-luncheon at the Chan/ber of Commerce, attended by about fifty Progressives. Several speeches were made, and it Was decided to continue the party organization. It was declared that the organization would be wholly independent in character, and that it. would not be an "aid society” in behalf of either of the -old parties. / “We are taking the same course -Progressives are taking in all other states,” Mr. Essex said. “I might Say |hat the only particular thing in which we are interested at this timq is that we think mighty well of Hiran/ Johnson of California.” -

TO REORGANIZE JANUARY 6

January 6 is the date on which the Democratic city committees throughout the state will be reorganized and city chairmart elected. This was decided by the Democratic state committee at a meeting at the Denison hotel Thursday afternoon.' The committee directed that a call be sent to all city Chairman directing them to call meetings of their city committees on that date to'reorganize.

NOTICE OF EARLY CLOSING Until further notice . our drug stores will close eadh evening except Saturday at 8 p; m. LARSIH & HOPKINS, . A. F. LONG, B. F. FENDIG. . z NOTICE TO BEDMEN All members are requested to he present next Monday night, January 8, In order that we may make arrangements for our annual banquet.—By order of the Sachem.

Vol. XIX, No. 80

2,452,000 MILES OF HIGHWAYS

Cost of Construction and Upkeep Is Growing Constantly. Washington, D. C., December 30. —There were about 2,452,000 miles of public roads‘in this country, outside the limits of incorporated towns and cities, January i, 1916,* according to information that' has just been compiled by Uncle Sam’s experts of the office of public roads and rural engineering. * Of this number, about 277,000 miles, or 11.3 per cent, were improved with some form of surfacing. It is said by t)he men who have just completed this survey that the mileage of surfaced roads has been increasing at the rate of about 16,000 miles a year, and in 1915 approximately one-half of this increase was made under the supervision of state highway departments. In addition, these departments supervised the maintenance of nearly 52,000 miles of main and trunk line roads. An increase of from approximately $80,000,000 a year in 1904 to about $282,000,000 in 11)15 has been noted in the country for expenditures for road and bridge work, which is an increase of more than 250 per cent. The expenditure of state funds during this same period increased from about $2,550,000 to more than $52,000,000. In addition, more than $27,000,000 of local funds was spent under state supervision in 1915, bringing thu total road and bridge expenditures managed by the state so $80,51 4,699. This amount is greater than the total Wphnditure for roads and bridges from all sources in 1904, according to the experts of the office. Tracing the growth in importance of the state highway departments, the officials found them to be rapid. The first of these agencies was created in 1891 in New Jersey, and now some form of highway department exists in every, state In the Union except Indiana, South/ Carolina and Texas. Since their inception it Is said that these departments have expended to January 1, 1916, an aggregate of $265,350,825 In state funds for roads and bridge construction, maintenance and administration. They had constructed more than. 50,000 miles of roads in co-opera< tion with the state, more than 40,000 miles of which were surfaced. The statistics gathered by the good roads division experts show that the cash road and bridge expenditures of the United States averaged only S2B a mild of rural roads in 1 904. In 1915 this Average had grown to $lO9 a mile. New Jersey led all other Mates both In 1904 and in 1915 with $22-1 and $475 a mile, respectively. Nevada made, the leas,t expenditure Ln both years—s 3.72 a. mile In X9'o4 an<J sl7 a jnile in 1915. * •

WEEK’S WEATHER FORECAST

Washington, D. C,, December 30,“** —-Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, issued by the weather bureau today, are: North and middle Atlantic states: Generally fair, except rain or snow, is probable Wednesday or Thursday. Cold at beginning of the week followed by rising temperatures. ■ South and east gulf states: Generally fair, except rains are probable Wednesday or Thursday. Moderately cold followed by, warmer after Tuesday. West gulf states: Generally fair; temperature near or above normal., Ohio valley, and Tennessee: Generally fair, except rain or snow about Wednesday. Temperatures will rise first half of the week and remain moderate until the week’s close. ' Great Lakes region: Generally fair except for local snows Wednesday “and Thursday. Marked change* to higher temperature during the first of the week, remaining moderate until the close. Plains states and upper and Mississippi, valfeysi Generally fair. A change to moderate weather is probable the first part of the week; seasonal averages thereafter. . Rocky fountain and plateau Regions: General I '' io*al snows are probable in northern Rocky- mountain region the first "hglf of the week. Temperatures above seasonal normal. <■. Pacific states: Probably frequent rains in Washington, Oregon and northern California; fair in southern California. Temperatures near normal.