Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — Page 4

THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT ' F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 815 Residence »11 ■ < rEntered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908,.. at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March t, 1879. . , Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1917.

PROHIBITION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE

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at hand, persons, who have studied the senate say that the lineup in that body oh the prohibition bill will probably be as follows: Wet —Bird, English, Erskine, Grants Hazen, Hirsch, Kinder, Kolsem, Laney, (Nejdl, Hetherford, VanAuken, Wolfson, Smith, Elsner, Thornton, Reser, Chambers —18. Dry—Armstrong, Beardsley, Bracken, Dobyns, Dorrell, Gemmill, Janies, McConaha, McCray, McKinley, Maston, Mercer, Negley, Norman, Robinson, Signs, Simmons, Spann, Summers, White, Hudgins, Metzger, Porter, Humphreys —24. fooubtful Culbertson, Hagerty, Hemphill, Jackson, Fleming, Reidelbach, Lanz —7. They say there is some question about Senator English voting against the bill because he represents Hamilton, Marion and Hendricks counties and Hamilton jand_Hendricks and all of Marion county, outside of Indianapolis. already are dry. A bill has been introduced to give all cities in the state the right to determine by election whether they prefer to retain the present form of city government or adopt the commission or commission manager form. Bills have been Introduced to prevent injunctions in labor disputes unless there has been a violation of an Indiana law'; to create a state bureau of agriculture; to combine voters’ registration and primaries on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May; to provide for an economy survey of all state institutions; for an eight-hour day for female workers; <or 70-cent gas in third-class cities; to .extend the pure drug laws to apply to physicians and peddlers; to require aU road taxes to be paid in cash.

Train Kills Two Men.

Columbia City, Jan. 26. —Failing to ihear the approach of a fast Pennsylvania railroad express train, Jacob Hawk, sixty-four, and Clarence Van Cisdoll, nineteen, were caught in the ‘wreckage of an automobile, which the train demolished, and were killed.

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WILSON ATTACKS FOES OF MILITIA

Rebukes Maryland League for National Defense. ■ ' ' ■ .... XU ' . ■ HITS COMPULSORY TRAINING * S President Takes Exception to the Language Used by Delegation—Declares Whole Matter Will Be, Sifted Thoroughly. Washington, Jan. 20.—President i Wilson, speaking to a delegation from I the Maryland League for National ,DeI sense, which attacked the National Guard and advocated universal military training, rebuked them for their “unrestrained language,” and said.they would have a better chance of his sup- | port if they were more reasonable in j their attitude. The memorial read to the president by Maj. Randolph Barton, spoke ot the National Guard system as a “disgrace” and a “failure.” It urged universal compulsory military training and serv- | ice, and mentioned the mobilization of the" National Guard along the Mexican border as an example of “the failure” of the system. President Wilson told the delegation that their attitude closed the opportunity for discussion of the question and was not helpful. ' Delegations representing defense leagues in Maryland and Massachusetts laid before President Wilson resolutions urging universal military service. Defends Efforts in Congress.

The president, discussing compulsory military service, declared that unquestionably physical training was needed and would accomplish a great deal, “but it can be had without compulsory military service.” He added that he was desirous of doing the wise .thing and that the entire subject was receiving his most earnest consideration. He vigorously defended the efforts being made in congress to build up a proper military service. “I do not need to prove to you or Anybody my deep interest in this subject,” said the president. “I will frankly say to you I would have been more Impressed by this memorial if it had been expressed in more restrained language. From some of the unqualified statements in this paper I must frankly dissent. Senator Smith of Maryland accompanied the delegation. The memorial which aroused the president contained a detailed criticism of the sending of the guard to th® Mexj lean border and said it was “utterly | and absolutely inadequate for . the ' defense of the country.”

The “spectacle now presented on the Mexican border” was referred to, and it was declared that “there we have men doing police, duty who ought never to be called upon for military service away from their b otnes . except as a last resort.” “It is a scandalous waste of public money,”, was another statement in the memorial. “Such, a system is a disgrace to a ciyilizei people,” it continued. .. ,

WOMEN BLAME LOW WAGE

Five Hundred Girls, Branded Scarlet, 'Storm Church and Ask Pastor to Solve Question. • San Francisco, Jan. 26. —Nearly 500 women, mostly of the underworld, Stormed the Central Methodist Episcopal church and asked Rev. Paul Smith what he intended to do with them in connection with his campaign for the suppression of the downtown tenderloin. This campaign started when Mr. Smith was told that street soliciting was in progress at the very doors of his church. Feeling that he was meeting little encouragement, he toured the district in company with investigators, and newspapers published •what he reported he saw. Mayor James Rolph, Jr., and' the police commission held a long session and announced that virtually all of a set of ten demands made by Mr. Smith for regulation under the law would be granted. A massmeeting of citizens has been called. For 30 minutes Mr. Smith stood the target of questions resolving themselves into “What are you going to do about it?” and then the women reluctantly trailed out of church.

RIGA RUSS PUSH FOE BACK

Desperate Battle Waged in Swamp* Germans Gain on tfee Galicia Front. Petrograd, Jan. 26. fighting is still in progress in “the Riga region, on the Russian front, ,the war office announced. Further attacks by the Germans in the Tirul marsh district were repulsed, and In a counter-attack they were dislodged near the easterly outskirts of the marsh and driven back. Southeast of the River Aa Russian detachments that took the offensive afterwards had to yield ground in the face of a German offensive, falling back a third of a mile. Berlin, Jan. 26.—Capture, of several Russian fort positions on both sides of the Aa river with 1,700 prisoners, 14 officers and 13 machine guns was reported by the war office todafr in a statement of operations on the eastern front y , Ideal Account Files, $1.50 each.— The Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The gross earnings of the Monon railroad company for the second week in January, this year J were $167,572. This is an increase of $38,697 over last year. The gross earnings from July 1, 1916, are $4,669,384, an increase of $588.224, William Fisher, a life-long resident of Hebron and president of the Citizens’ Bank of that place for twenty-two years, died last Saturday night aged 91 years. He was at his desk in the bank every day almost up to the hour of his death. George R. Durgan, Democratic mayor of Lafayette _for several terms, will be a candidate for the nomination for mayor before the primaries on March 8, Mayor Bauer, who defeated Durgan four years ago by a very small margin, will not be a candidate for re-elec-tion. The fine modern home of Dr. W. J. Solt. of San Pierre was completely destroyed by fire last Saturday forenoon, presumably from a defective chimney. Dr. Solt is township trustee of his township and the books and records of the township were saved. Practically all of the household the doctor’s fine library, surgical instruments and stock of drugs were consumed. The loss was practically covered by $4,000 insurance.

Under as mysterious circumstances as he disappeared, A. Mac Smith, Jr., who left Otterbein between two days on showed up there yesterday. Smith was married on December 9 to Elsie Wiese, a school teacher, and two days later disappeared. His parents and young wife were distracted and, could give no reason for his strange actions. Smith did not offer any explanation yesterday, other than to say he had been in Ohio. Smith is the second man disappeared recently who has turned up. The other was Will Lenard of Linden, who was located in Rochester, N. .Y. Wyrzwoz, the Oxford plumber, is still marked up on the missing list.—Lafayette Journal 1 .

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GUARDS SHOOT TWO

RESIDENTS OF DANVILLE, ILL, ATTEMPT TO GET COAL. Men Wounded While Trying to Obtain y Enough Fuel to Keep Their Fires Going. Danville, 111., Jan. 26.—Two men were shot and wounded here as a ell? max to the attempts of residents of this city to obtain coal to keep their fires going. The wounded men are Lewis Butler and Burley Newman. They were shot down by armed guards of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. For some time residents of Danville have been facing a coal famine, and to relieve it they have attempted to obtain fuel from trains passing through the city on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. , . Despite the fact that there are mines south of the town, the residents have found it almost impossible to obtain sufficient coal for their stores and furnaces. The shooting followed an attack by about twenty persons on a train en route from the mines to Chicago. As a result of it feeling ran high here, and another outbreak is feared between railway trainmeh and residents. The railroad company has placed armed, guards on all trains to repel any attacks which may result from the bitterness df feeling which exists. The fact that neither of the two wounded men is hurt seriously has made no difference in the attitude of the townspeople toward the coal shippers and railroads.

PASS “DRY” BILL IN INDIANA

Prohibitionists in Galleries Cheer as House Votes 70 to 18—Have Majority in Senate. ■ f Indianapolis, Jan. 26.—The lower house of the Indiana legislature passed the state-wide prohibition bill yesterday by vote of 70 to IS. The present line-up of the senate is 24 drys and 18 wets. The house galleries were crowded with prohibition workers, who cheered the vote.

Danish Steamer Siftik. London, Jan. 26. —The Danish steamer Dan of 1,869 tons gross has been sunk, Lloyd’s Shipping agency announces.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Jan. 25. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. Ing. May 1.85%-86% 1.85% 1.84% 1.84%-85 July ......1.54-54% 1.54% 7.53% 1.53% Sept. 1.35%-39 1.39% 1.38% 1.35% CornMay 1.02%-% 1.03% 1.02% 1.02% July 1.00%-% 1.01% 1.00% 1.01% OatsMay 58%-% .59% .58% .58%-% July 56-56% .56% .56 .56%-%

FLOUR—Spring wheat, special brands, in wood, SIO.OO per bbl.; hard spring .jvheat patents, 95 per cent grade, in jute; 1 $9.10; straight, In export’bags, $8.90; first clears, SB.IO in jute; second clears, $6.25<§'6.75; low grades. [email protected]; fancy soft winter wheat patents, in jute, $9.00; standard soft winter wheat patents, $8.85 in jute; standard hard winter wheat, patents, $8.65; in jute, , first clears, [email protected]. in jute; second clears, in jute, [email protected]; pure white rye flour, $7-60, in jute; pure dark rye, $7.10, ’ in jute. I HAY—Market steady; choice timothy, [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, [email protected]; No. 3 red top and | grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; light , clover mixed, $13.50(5'14.00; heavy clover 1 mixed, [email protected]; threshed timothy, SB.OO @10.00; Kansas and Oklahoma, choice, [email protected]; No. 1, [email protected]; No. 2, $12.00 @13.00. J3UTTER—Creamery, extras, 36%c; extra firsts, 34%@35c; firsts, 33@34c; seconds, 31%@32c; packing stock, 25%@26c; ladles, 29@30c; process, 29@29%c. EGGS—Firsts, 39%@40c; ordinary firsts, 87@38c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 36@39c; cases returned, 35%@38%c; extras, ; 45@46c; checks, 29@30c; dirties, 30@32c; reI frigerator firsts. 34%@35c. I LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 22c; fowls, i }f>@2oc; spring chickens, 1814 c; roosters, 14c; ducks, 18@2fc; geese, 15@16c. I DRESSED'POULTRY—Turkeys, 28@30c; I fowls, 18@20e; springs, 18@20c; roosters, 14%@15c; ducks, 16@20c; geese, 14@17c. POTATOES Minnesota, white, $1.70 @1.80; Wisconsin and Michigan, White, $1.70 @1.85; western, [email protected]. NEW POTATOES Bbls., Bermudas, ■ [email protected]; Virginia, $6.50. New York, Jan. 25. WHEAT—Stronger, quiet inquiry; No. 2 red, $2.04%; No. 1 northern, $2.21%;. No. 2 hard, $2.10%. CORN—Stronger, fair export inquiry; No* 2 yellow, $1.12%@1.13%. OATS—Higher, inquiry fair; No. 2 white, 70%@71c; standard, 69%@70c; No. 3 white, _S9@69%c; No. 4 white, 68%@69c; ungraded, 69@72%c.

Live Stock. Chicago, Jan. 25. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, slo.oo@ 11.85; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; fair to good steers, [email protected]; stockers and feeders. $6.50@7 40; fair to good cows, [email protected]; good to choice heifers, $7.00@ 8 75- canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; •bologna bulls, [email protected]; butcher bulls, [email protected]; good to prime calves, $14,000 15.00. HOGS—Prime light butchers $11.19011.60; fan to fancy light,; [email protected]; medium weight butchers. 200@250 lbs., [email protected]; prime heavy weight butchers, 250@440 lbs., $11.40011.80; heavy mixed packing, sll.oo@ 11.35: rough heavy mixed packing. $10.75@ 11.20; pigs, fair to good. [email protected]; stags, SHEEP— Yearlings. [email protected]; fair to choice ewes. [email protected]; wethers, fair to choice. [email protected]; western lambs, $13.40@ 14 25; feeding lambs, [email protected]; native lambs, $13.50014.15. East Buffalm N. Y„ Jan. 25. CATTLE—Market acA-e; prime steers, [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES Market active, 25c higher; cull to choice, $6.000'15.70; SHEEP ANrt LAMBS—Market active; choice lambs, $14.25 ".14 cyll to fair, SIO.OO @13.75; yearlrngs, sl'l.M@l37stt7 sheet), $5,000, HOGS—Market active, 15@20e higher; Yorkers. pigs, $10.75@1L00; mixed,' $12.00: heavy. 212.00; roughs, $19,600 11.00? stags. ,$8:5009.29. • . .

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FOR SALE For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale— Practically new twoseated carriage at a bargain.—▼. M. PEER, 3 miles north of Gifford. Phone 931-1. j 26 Fertilizer—l sell the best fertilizer made. Yours for better crops. —THOMAS E. REED, Remington, Ind. Phone 79-J. 46 For Sale— Six lots, fine location, situated in Remington, Indiana. Price very reasonable if taken soon. —JOHN FRANKOVAIK, Remington, Indiana, R-4. j 25 Butter Wrappers Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in • any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat office. For Sale— Two extra good Poland China male pigs and three gilts. These are of large type.— JASON P. BICKEL, Remington, Infl. Phone 181. fl For Sale— 7 8 % acre farm, onehalf mile from railroad station, on main road. Price $55 per acre,' SI,OOO down and terms on balance to suit purchaser.—F. M. GOFF, Fair Oaks, Indiana. j-27 For Sale — Remington .typewriter No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid order and looks and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale or Rent —The former John Bill property on Park avenue (formerly River street), consisting of good 8-room house with bath], electric lights, well, cistern, barn, chicken yard, etc. Lot 75x300 feet. —F. E. BABCOCK. For Sale— One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone ds worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—so,ooo to 75,000 feet of oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6, sills, inch hoards, plank and bridge material. Price from sl2 to $lB at mill, with exception of bridge plank, which is $25. Also have white oak posts on ground at 7c each. Call J. N. BICKNELL, phone 1642, Rensselaer. ts

FOR RENT For Rent—6-room house, newly painted and papered. Call 918-C. J3l For Rent —100-acre farm. Enquire of E. P. HONAN, Rensselaer, Indiana. 131 For Rent—A dandy suite of office rooms over The Democrat office. —F. E. BABCOCK. , ts For Rent— Five-room house on River street, only two blocks from postoffice.—MAßY JANE HOPKINS. For Rent — Stock farm to party with two or three good teams and farm equipment. ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. i ■' For Rent—The five-room flat over The Deomcfllt office, city water, bath, electric lights, ate. To small family only.—F. B. BABCOCK. Phone 311 or 315, MISCELLANEOUS ] Storage— l have two moms for storage of light household or other goods in The Democrat building. Terms reasonable. — F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 311 or 31L Typewriter Ribbons—Che Democrat carries in stock ir its fancy stationery department he famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard. mak« of typewriters. Price 656 ach. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of pries. z ts FINANCIAL - -———'—t— ■ ' Money to Loan—s pr cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—lre and lightning. Also state cyclbe. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS, phone 83-L. i ——————*■ i 11 Farm Loans —We cn procure you a five-year loan on yur farm at 5 per cent. Can loan ashlgh as 50 per cent of the value of »ny good farm. No delay in getting he money after title is approved.—(HAS. J. DEAN & SON. Farm Loans—Mftey to loan on farm, property in my sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HttfAN.

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