Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Page 5

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Robert Michal was down from -Kniman yesterday. ' B. F. Alter made a business trip to Forest Saturday. Jerry Shea Vas down from * Gillam tpwnship Saturday. John Stack of Goodland was a business visitor in the city Saturday. J. C. Gwin returned a few days ago from a visit with his son in Texas. S. C. Irwin and H. E. Gifford made a business trip to Lafayette Monday. ' Miss Anna Moosmiller went to Demotte Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Dan Tanner. • A new supply of vegetable parchment butter wrappers just received at The Democrat office, 30c per 100. The babe of Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkinson is very sick with pneumonic. It is only a few weeks’ old.

‘ Don’t fail to come and see the beautiful new “Country Club” automobile' at the Rensselaer Overland show room.—Advt.

Mr. and Mrs. “Dick” Pruett of Gary are visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. Earl Clouse, at this writing.

Charles Fell of Denver, Colorado, came Sunday night to visit his father, former County Treasurer A. A. Fell, of Carpenter township. The Rensselaer high school has-, ket-ball team were defeated by a score of 26 to 18 by the Reynolds team at the high school gymnasium here Friday, night. Mrs. George Chappell of near Grant Park, Illinois, returned home, Saturday after a visit here with her j sisters, Mrs. Albert Witham and Miss Laura iHatton.

If in Chicago during auto show, frdm January 26 to February 3, please notice among the Chalmers displays at the Coliseum the $1,090 Chalmers 6-30.—Advt.

Mrs. Clifford Bever and children of Rensselaer were the guests Mon-1 day evening of her husband, Clif-; ford Bever, who is employed as the baker at Jones bakery.—Francesville Tribune. The St, Joseph college basketball team defeated the Hamlin Triangles of Chicago at the college “gym” Saturday night by a score, of 43 to 16. On Sunday afternoon a local team was also defeated by the college team by a score of 45 to 25. Joseph Alexander of west Carpenter township was in the city Saturday getting a set of sale bills struck at The Democrat office. Mr. Alexander and seven other families from his neighborhood, including Mr. Harms, Mr. Purtell, Gene Moosman, Chris Gouchie and the four Capes boys will move this spring to Owen, Wisconsin, where they have bought farms.

We have been able to secure a limited shipment of the Famous Non Shrinkable House Dresses Good Styles, Well Made, and , Guaranteed Not to Shrink / \ Price $2.00 When these have been exhausted there will be no more this season Fendig’s Fair . ■. ' A- - • . r . •

Dan Morrisey was taking in the sights of Lafayette Friday. Ted Eger went to Chicago yesterday to take in the auto show. The Van Rensselaer club will hold a dance at the armory tonight. Mrs. A. Luers returned Monday from a visit with her. son Joe and family at Kouts. > The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts Harvey Davisson of this city and J. A. Teter of Remington made a business trip to Gosport Monday. Farmers, bring in yout harness and have it repaired apd oiled up ready for spring work. —MATT WORDEN. f-8 C. E. Tjohr, the efficient foreman of The Democrat’s -mechanical department, was unable to be on duty yesterday because of a severe attack of grip. We are glad to report that Milt Roth is improving right along and will no doubt soon be fully recovered from his very eritical illness from pneumonia. Peyton Davisson, an uncle of the Davisson boys of Jasper county, died at his home in Francesville Sunday, aged 84 years. The funeral will be held today. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Daniels of Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, who were recently called here by the death of the former’s father, George Daniels, of Barkley township, returned to their Western home Monday. _

William McElhoe of Monticello, a brother of Mrs. Joseph Adams of this city, died quite suddenly last Thursday night of heart trouble. Mr. McElhoe was 70 years old and had spent practically all of his life in White county. Among those, going to Chicago Monday on business and to take in the auto show were L. B. Elmore and S. E. Burns of Remington, Lee Adams, N. C. Shafer, Mr. and Mrs. San Karnowisky, George Healey, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Callahan, Vern Davisson, Frank King, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Prior. Mrs. D. E. Lesh and sons arrived here Saturday from Menomonee, Wisconsin, from which place they are mpving to a farm Mr. Lesh recently purchased near Flora, in Carroll ‘county. Mr. Lesh is en route with the car' containing their personal property. The members of the Rensselaer Merchants’ association held their annual meeting last Friday night and elected officers and directors for the ensuing term. They also discussed plans for a big banquet in the near future. The officers elected were Sam Fendig, president; George Collins, vice-presi-dent; F. D. Burchard, secretary. Directors, A. F. Long, G. E. Murray, John Ramp, B. J. Jarrette, Milt Roth and Nat Scott.

Friday is “ground-hog’* ’ day. —* *■rfw Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office. Delos Dean ' was home from Indianapolis to spend Sunday. Mrs. S. J. Ash of south of’townwent to Indianapolis, Saturday to visit her mother. V Oscar Williamson has moved onto one of Mrs. Jennie Conrad’s farms over in Newton county and will be employed by Mrs. Conra-d. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 93c; qats, 52c; wheat, $1.70; rye, $1.25. Tiie prices one year ago were: Corn, 63c; oats,. 43c; wheat, $1.14; rye, 85 c. , , The girls’ basßet-ball team of this city went to Monon Friday evening and jn a. game with the girls’ team of that place defeated them 9 to 7. Theodore Snow went to Chicago Heights, Illinois, Saturday to visit his son, Van Snow, who is passenger agent there for the C. & E. I. railroad.

Fine correspondence paper on x?ale in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department in dozen's of different styles and at prices ranging from 10c to 75c per box. Another new supply of typewriter ribbons and carbon papers just received in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department. We keep constantly in stock the famous Neidich brand of ribbons for practically all makes of standard typewriters, old or late model machines. < Visit the Overland booth at the Chicago Auto show January 27 to February 3 and seq the new fours, sixes and the Silent Rnight, and then call at the Rensselaer Overland show room for further particulars. —DR. J. HANSSON. A social will be given at the Fair Oaks school house on Saturday evening, February 3. A good program will be l-endered. Oysters, ice cream and cake will be served. Proceeds for the benefit of music committee. Everybody invited. f 3 Mrs. Mattie Wasson left Sunday for Berwyn, Illinois, to join her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Coen, for a few weeks’ sojourn at Miami, Florida. She was accompanied as far as Chicago by her daughter ‘here, Mrs. J. J. Hunt, who returned the same afternoon.

The bans of marriage of Mr. Thomas Lonergan of Surrey and Miss Edith Paxton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Paxton of Rensselaer, were published Sunday at St. Augustine’s Catholic church for the first time. The marriage will take place on Wednesday, February 14. * • George Heuson, who traded for a “movie” theater at Waynetown about a year ago, writes home that he is doing a constantly increasing business and that he can hardly accommodate the crowds. He has. the only “movie” in Waynetown and is putting on good clean Shows with the above result. Mrs. Charles Hemphill, who is suffering from stomach trouble, was taken to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday where -she will enter a hospital and be under treatment of her brother, Dr. C. A. Fidler, of that city. Her husband <and brother, Emmet Fiddler, of Jordan township accompanied her to Milwaukee. A. S. Laßue, George Casey, Omar Kenton and James Reed returned Friday night from Buchanan, Michigan, where the two former closed up the sale of a . 265-acre finely improved farm two miles from Buchanan, to Mr. Kenton, and an eighty adjoining Kenton’s farm to Mr. "Reed. Both expect to move on their purchases next November and Mr. Kenton will engage extensively in Durham cattle raising., Buchanan is only a half dozen miles, over the Indiana line/' and is a live manufacturi • "wp about a live manufacturing town of aJbout 2,500 people.

NOTICE TO FARMERS Do not give up fencing On account of high prices until you have seen J. H. Tullis, the‘. fence man. am preparing to give you better service with less cost than has been done heretofore. I am spending the winter at Hoopeston, Illinois, but will be back about March 1. If you havd* some work you want, done sh the spring and would like to know something as to the cost, please write me at above address and I will be glad to give you any information or, if necessary, call on you. ;\ /' Yours for business, J. H. TULLIS. Contractor for all kinds o> fencing and concrete podts.

Jessen Our careful examination—without charge—will tell you if your need is Glasses or Better Glasses. ' ' —-h ’ '/ • We will call at your home if • inconvenient for Vbu to come to our office. Glasses Licensed Optician and Optometrist in Illinois and Indiana. Clare Jessen With Jessen, the Jeweler Telephone 13

An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office. C. Earl Duvall was at Rockville over Sunday and, as usual, came home alone. Lester Burch of Purdue spent the week-end here with the family of E. J. Duvall. Miss Maurine Tuteur returned home Friday afternoon from a visit with friends in Indianapolis. The two little sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harrington of Union township are quite sick with the grip. Ted Watson gave a Victrola dance at the armory 1 Friday night to a large number of his young friends. , « Ralph, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilcox of Union township, is suffering with a severe case of pneumonia. - , A. D. Lee, who has been confined to his home for the past week with the grip, was able to be down town again Monday. Miss Marie Hamilton came hotne from Butler college Saturday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hamilton. Edward M. Honan came home from Depauw university Sunday to spend the semester-end vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan.

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

Lpo Worland returned Saturday from Cincinati, Ohio, where he graduated from the school of embalming, which he had been attending„.for about a year past. L. A. Seelman of Dysart, lowa, who came here last week to consult with the Farmers’ Elevator company regarding the position of elevator manager, returned to his home Saturday. The ladies of the Monnett Guild will hold a market and serve lunch beginning at 11 o’clock Saturday, February 3, in th'e room two doors east of the postofflce. Donations will be gladly received. - For the benefit of the Monnett school. About seventy\ neighbors 1 and friends of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Shook gathered at their home in Barkley township Sunday in a fare; well basket dinner with the Shook family, who will move onto a farm about six miles from Valparaiso about the middle of this month.

T. A. Crockett, who has been laid up for several days with rheumatism, is now able to be up and about the house with crutches. Tom is usually quite active and it goes pretty hard with him to be confined to the house. Mrs. Crockett is still ailing from rheumatism. < Mrs. E. J. Duvall, who was called to Chicago recently by the sickness and death of her sister, MissTheressa Blanke, returned home the last of the week accompanied by another sister, Miss Ray Blanke, and Mrs. Duvall’s son Will of Omaha, Nebraska, who will visit here for the rest of the week. Talk about expensive parts of machinery. The Democrat bought another line mold for its linotype last week, a very ordinary looking piece of metal with apparently no great amount of delicate work thereon. The part weighed ’ 2 3-4 pounds and cost $49 in Chicago. It was bought from the Intertype people, and would have cost $55 or more had we bought it of the Linotype company. It is called a carbolite mold; the, steel being subjected to treatment, which renders it as hard as a diamond and which , process * makes It so *• expensive. I

SHOOTING FISH IN GUIANA

Native Indians. Still Adhere to Use of Bows and Arrows in This Sport. t Although the Guiana. Indians all use guns for hunting game, they still adhere to bows ~nnd arrows for killing fish, and employ blow-guns and wpurali—poisoned darts for securing birds and small animals. The bows are usually of letterwofid, about five feet in length, and very powerful. The arrows vary according to the purpose for which they are designed ; but all are long—from five to six feet —- with shafts of arrow-cane and a shank of hardwood fitted at one end. This piece is ripped by a steel point or head which is fixed immovably if the arrow is for shooting birds or small fish; or, if used for killing turtle and large fish, is equipped with a socketed head, attached to a long, strong, cotton lige. When a large fish Is struck, the shaft floats free from the socketed head, which acts as a toggle, and turns at right angles when a strain is put on the line. By means of this jtharpoon-llke arrangement the fish or turtle is hauled in. Neither fish' nor turtle arrows? are feathered, but those used In hunting birds are provided with two feathers which seem far too small to serve any useful purpose. With these simple weapons the Indians creep along the rocky edges of the streams! and eddies and with marvelous dexterity shoot the fish which only their hawklike eyes can discern deep beneath the surface. Naked, save for a lap, or loin-cloth, the hunter stands motionless as a statue, with drawn bow and poised arrow, and, If no fish are visible within range, he “calls them” by a peculiar beckoning motion of his hand and a low’ whistle. Whether or not the jlsh actually respond to this command I cannot say, but the Indians affirm that they do, and, when this method fails, the savages resort to attracting the fish within range by throwing certain pods and seeds into the water. —A. Hyatt Verrill In Harper’s Magazine.

OWL IS DAYLIGHT COWARD

But He Is One of the Most Dangerous of Birds to Be Encountered at Night. There are about two hunc red kinds of owls. Some are tiny owls ; some are big eagle owls, 28 inches in length, very fierce and strong, ready to attack a man who goes near, able to kill fawns and large game birds and to do battle with the golden eagle. The courage of one of these golden owls deserts it Im the daytime, and then little birds, led by a crow, may find it and drive It Into the open and tease and worry it without danger to themselves. But when night comes, and the bird can see, only a mighty eagle dare do battle with It. The hawk owl Is one of the owls which work by day. It is big and strong and savage. There are owls with great ear tufts of feathers and owls with none at all. Some are snowy white; others are mottled. Sortie live in holes the ground with prairie dogs and such animals, some make burrows for themselvgs. But most owls live In hollow trees or In church belfries or other high towers. Among so many kinds of owls there are some of course that do more good for men than evil. }

Troubles of Wives.

Gen. Sir Sam Hughes of Canada said at a dinner in New York: “The wife of a Canadian soldier and 'the wife of a South African soldier met in a London boarding house. “ ‘lt’s very hard for us poor married women in South Africa,’ the latter said. ‘I live with my husband on an ostrich farm, and it’s nothing at all for him to be away two whole days at

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a time on an ostricn.' '•‘Humph! What of that?’ said the Canadian woman. ‘My husband Is often away two whole weeks at a time on a lark.’ ” .

Give Him the Chance.

Schopenhauer, When staying in Ge-t neva used to go every day to a table d’hote, at which now and then appeared, other distinguished visitors. Once Lady: Byron sat next to him. “Doctor,” said the host after she had left, with a twinkle in his eye* “doctor, do you cknow who sat next to you at the table today? It was Byron.”. “Why the deuce did you not tell •me this before?” replied Schopenhauer* “I should havediked to be rude taher.” “That was what I feared,” su’d the host. —Exchange.

Don’t Delay Helping Others.

To do the right thing a little late, has much the same result as if one did the wrong thing. A letter of sympathy delayed several months, means very little to the recipient. An offer of helpfulness coming when your friend has struggled through the worst, of her difficulties calls, out very llttln gratitude. Sometimes a delay of five, tplnutes will spoil a piece of helpfulness as completely as if it had been, postponed for years. Learn to do the, right thing at; the right time.

Strange Malady.

Sponge divers in the Mediterranean are often* afflicted by a severe paralysis which fimkes crippled when in their native element, but is said to dlsappear entirely when the victim again dives t<> the sponge beds, a clrcuna* Stance enabling many apparently disabled men to remain productive and useful members of the communities-

For Sale— White Holland tom turkey.—C. GANGLOFF. Phone 933-H,

NO HUNTIMfc OR TRESPASSING Notice Is hereby given that no trespassing will be permitted upon any of the J. J. Lawler lands in Jasper or Newtqn counties, and no hunting will be allowed except by written permit. Any violations will be prosecuted.— JAMES BL WALTER, Supt. ts AUCTION SALE Will sell at the Duggins sale, Hemphill barn, Saturday, February 3, and on the terms of that sale, one of the best brood and work mare’s in the county—7-8 Belgian, sired by Wilson, foaled June, 1910; weight In working ’condition 1850. Presumably now in foal and service paid. Sold sound. —RUSSELL VANHOOK. Subscribe for The Democrat.