Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — Page 2

IBt JIM COUNTY DEMOCRftT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Diatanc* Telephone* Office 315 Residence Sll Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflee a* Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March t. 1879. . Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING KATES Display 12%c Inch Display, special position. ... 15c Inch Readers, per line first Insertion..sc 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 are cash with order. r ■ No advertisement accepted I fer first page. ■ SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1917.

UNDERSTANDING GERMANY

We are now told that the Berlin opinion is- that “President Wilson has failed to grasp the real significance of affairs in Europe and has misinterpreted Germany’s position and intentions.” The Lokal Anzeiger says:'' - President Wilson has failed to judgfe’the—skuation from the lofty heights of non-partisanship and is unwilling to co-operate in (preventing further misery and sacrifice. He has shut his eyes to all the motives which, after maty re deliberation, caused Germany to employ the most - effective weapon in her power against the enemy. i Which means, if it means any-, thing, that President Wilson should have permitted and without protest, the destruction of American citizens, going their lawful business, by German submarines whenever the imperial government should decide that such action was “necessary” to prevent “misery and sacrifice.” In other words, an American President was expected to permit “misery and sacrifice’’ to be imposed, wholly without warrant Of law, on American' citizens in order to save the German people from the “misery and sacrifice” imposed on them by a government that deliberately brought on the war! The same paper says:

It is scarcely believable that President Wilson does not believe in the seriousness of our decision. If he really expects that we will draw back, if he really believes that the breach of domestic relations will cause us to. change our mind, he embraces an error which may have the most dangerous conIf Germany proposes to go to ■war in defense of the sacred-right to destroy non-combatants and neutrals, so be it. She must be mad to think that the American people will ever consent to navigate the high seas only under a permit granted by the German ambassador who has recently been dismissed by our government. Yet that is the demand made by the imperial government. The question is now, as it has been since .the beginning of the war, one of making official Germany understand the feeling of the neutral world. President Wilson has shown a patience and forbearance that have subjected him to severe criticism-at the hands of his fellow-citizens. He has honestly tried to be fair —-and more than fair —to Germany, even suggesting that it would be better for -the world to have a “peace without victory.” Yet now he is told that he. does not understand the situation, and that he has “misinterpreted Germany’s position and intentions.’’ No- one seems'tp be able to “understand” Germany except Germany herself. It has been so ever since the criminal assault on Belgium. We did not, “understand” Germany. so we were told, when she murdered more -than a hundred Americans on . the Lusitania. We fear that there is no possibility, of £2. * understanding Germany. The President has done his best, but he has found the task quite impossible. —lndianapolis News.

Here, here, boys—and baldheads! At the allied bazaar in Chicago yo u can get a kiss from a handsome young lady—a real swell, genuine top-notcher, short skirted and pink stockined—for a measly Silver dollar./ Good-bye, and luck to you! Many newspapers are ,running beauty talks by noted women. But

since the ladies of this community are not in need of the artificial article we have no space to waste on a dead subject. The fellow who boasts of getting something for nothing usually finds that it is worth just what he gave for it. i A reader suggests that we advo’cate “calf conservation..’’ Another result, doubtless, of the; short skirt. I ■ » 'I - ■ -* Don’t roar at the price of eggs. It takes a perfectly good hen twenty-four hours to produce one. We just can’t refrain from mentioning Carranza again, but he is worth only a line or two at best. This is a hard day for the neutial. If the partisans can’t kiss him they want to kick him. These are the days when every self-respecting * egg insists on an individual price ticket. The higher the price of the hat the more the woman raves and* the louder the old man cusses. „ Villa must be getting dippy. He has completely forgotten to die again.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When I was young I viewed the snow with dancing eyes and heart aglow. It meant that I could slide and coast, with all the happy schoolboy host, and mould*, the snow into a sphere and soak somt> old gent in the ear. The falling of the sparkling snow meant joy and laughter long ago. I, being young, was not aware, of sorrow in the world, or care, aqd all 1 wished, beneath the sun, was just to have all kinds of fun. But now I’m old I view the snow, and think of suffering and woe. I sit in comfort by the fire, and punch the sawdust from my lyre; but others, by an empty grate, are shivering and cussing fate: and little ‘kids, too thinly clad, are trudging through the snowy grad; and poor old men feel rheumatiz through all their joints and tendons whiz. And there are widows- -needing duds. There’s so much grief, there’s so much dearth, whenever snow enshrouds the earth! But there’s a little one can do, to make the wintry day less blue. I'll send some plunder to the poor, to those who suffer and endure!

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PROHIBITION BILL PASSED BY SENATE

.Vote on Measure Was ThirtyEight to Eleven. SENT BACK TO THE HOUSE Upper Branch of Legislature Made Some Amendments in Bill and It Is Sent to Lower Body for Concurrence. Indianapolis.—The Indiana senate passed the Wright state-wide prohibition bill by a vote of 38 to 11. The following senators voted for the .passage of the bill: Armstrong. Beardsley, Bracken,Chambers. Culbertson. Dobyns, Dorrell, Elsner. English. Fleming. Gemmill. Grant. Hagerty. Hemphill, Hudgins, Humphreys, Jackson. James. Laney. Lanz, McComiha. McCray, McKinley, Maston. Mercer. Metzger, Negley. Norman, Porter. Reidelbach, Retherford, Robinson. Signs. Simmons, Smith, Spann. Summers. White. Those voting no were: Bird, Erskine, Hazen. Hlrseb. Kinder. Kolsetn, Nejdl. Reser, Thornfon. VanAuken. Wolfson. The senate made some amendments to the bill and it was sent back to the house for concurrence in the amendments. It was said the house would accept the'changes. The house passed the bill before it went to the senate. The prohibition act will take effect April 2. BUS, and it is .very sweeping in its prohibitory features. There was much debate and oratory on the prohibition bill. Many hours were consumed in that manner in the senate, where most of the interest was centered. The galleries and the side lines on the senate floor were crowded as never before, with supporters and opponents bf the prohibition measure, and they applauded frequently when their speakers made telling points. Lieutenant Governor Bush was obliged to warn the crowd several times that their conduct must not he repeated. So great was the jam in the senate chamber that three women fainted and had to be removed.

Speeches in support of the prohibition bill were made-by Senators Simmons, White, McCray. Dorrell and others, while speeches for the opposition were made by Senators Culbertson. VanAuken and several others. Lieutenant Governor Bush refused to entertain a motion to shut off debate, and allowed wide latitude. Friends of the bill insisted that the amendments placed in the bill by the senate were harmless. They said if it turned out that they were harmful the law could be amended and fixed tip two years hence. In fact, the supporters of the bill expressed satisfaction that the senate did not do more to the bill than it did. • The senate by a vote of 27 to 1!) defeated Senator Beardsley’s bill to provide that all motor license fees shall be retained by the county in which they originate. The present law provides that one-third of the total amount paid by all counties in the state to the secretary of state shall be divided equally among all of he counties, one-third shall be divided on the basis of the number of miles of gravel road in each county, and one-third of the amount paid by each county shall be returned to It. ( , I One of the bills known as a Governor Goodrich measure was killed in the senate. The bill, introduced by Senator Neglgy, provided easier means of impeaching public officers. The senate vote to kill the bill was 28 to 18. Representative Hyland’s bill which adds six months penalty to the present laws against carrying concealed weapons was passed by the house. An attempt was made to exempt commercial travelers, but it failed.

The bill of Representative Dynes which would squelch effectively the operations of fortune fellers, clairvoyants, star gazers and bands pf roving gipsies which infest every city and rural community in the state was passed by the house. The bill provides a tine and imprisonment for such persons. At—the request of the state fire marshal a bill has been introduced to prohibit the sale of fireworks after January 1, 1918. The Cravens bill providing for the establishment of county libraries and the extension of certain privileges by city libraries to entire eoimties and providing for methods of taxation, was passed without a dissenting vote in the house. Representative Johnson has introduced a bill to return to the old system of sheriff’s fees. Under the bill the sheriff would get 25. cents for each person locked in jail and the same fee for releasing each prisoner. The'fee for boarding prisoners would be increased from 40 cents to 60 cents a day. A bill to legalize labor unions, picketing and other union ac-

Freight Cars Burn.

< Jreencastle. Five freight cars arid their contents were burned on the switch herd -to the O. & 1. quarry. The cars were loaded with lumber, rolled print paper, alfalfa, hay, cdrn and iron radiators.

Measles Closes Schools.

, Rushville?—The schools of Homer, Walker township, have been /dosed fur two weeks because of an epidemic■ of measles. Forty cases have been discovered. , “

ilvities so lotions they do not violate the law has been Introduced In the house. The bill to call a constlfutfonaljconvention was signed by Governor Goodrich. Several amendments made in the Wright statewide prohibition bill by the senate before it was made ready for final reading and passage today. One of these amendments Includes wholesale and retail druggists and veterinarians among those who are prohibited from dealing in spiritous and vinous liquors. Only grain alcohol will be permitted for medicinal use under the amendments of the bill. Another amendment permits the use of vinous liquor for sacramental purposes by churches. This provision .was not contained in the bill as it was passed by the house. Among the important new bills are the following: To regulate distances from stockyards. that serum manufacturing plants may be established, and making other regulations and privisions. To amend laws relating to county highway superintendents to give such officers police power over gravel and macadam roads' and stipulating that county commissioners shall have supervision of certain bridge and culvert expenditures. To legalize bunting and fishing on Sunday In Indiana. To provide for state building inspection department, with chief inspector at $2,000 and four assistants at $1,500 annually. To make it a misdemeanor to trespass on railway property and fixing fine of $5 to SIOO or 30 days’ imprisonment. To empower counties to establish public hospitals; maintain training schools' for nurses; issue bonds for snch> hospitals and provide for care of tubercular persons; making election to determine hospital erection mandatory on petition of 200 freeholders. To compel railroads and interurbans to cut weeds along their rights of way. To authorize common councils and town boards to recognize liability, under the workmans’ compensation act, for injury or death to policemen or firemen injured in the course of their duties. { . - Among the bills passed, by the house are the following: . H. B. 76 (Houghton)—Authorizing joint town and township schools and: providing means of defraying expenses. H. B. 99 (Durham) —Authorizing private banks to act as public depositories through the filing of bond by seven' Stockholders worth double the amount secured. H. B. 153 (Swain) —Fixing the liability of a bank to its depositor for payment of forged or raised checks. H. B. 164 (Vesey)—To exempt members of the Amish Mennonlte church from making oath or affirmation in application for a marriage license. Among the bills passed by the senate are the following; S. B. 53 (Green) —Repealing the law prohibiting the killing of rabbits with ferrets. S._B. 71 (Green) Giving mileage at the rate of 10 cents a mile to physicians attending insanity inquests. The senate passed the bill to call a constitutional convention. The vote was 34. to 14.

Bread Weight Inquiry.

Dr. JI. E. Barnard, state food commissioner, announces the result of an inquiry into the bread situation. Altogether, 5,835 loaves were weighed from 125 bakeries in 13 cities of the state. The average weight of the 5eent loaf was 11.05 ounces, and that of the 10-cent loaf, 21.22 ounces. Commercial bakers have been urging the public to buy 10-cent loaves, because of the greater economy. Yet the average weight of the larger loaf for the state is less than twice the weight of the stnaller. This is due to the situation in Elkhart, Richmond, Gary and Mishawaka.

Won’t Fill Vacancy.

Governor Goodrich will appoint no successor to fill the vacancy on the public service commission, which was occasioned by the removal of Edwin M. Lee, until the close* of the legislature, it was stated by tne governor. “There is a movement,” said Governor Goodrich, “to divide the commission and make changes which will probably result in practically a reorganization of that body. I" shall not appoint Mr. Lee’s successor until the general assembly adjourns.”

New Incorporations.

Burk-Wilson Insurance agency, Lafayette, has dissolved. The Wabash Coal and Oil company, Terre Haute, has increased its capital stock from $6,000 to SIO,OOO. The J. It. Wasson company, Indianapolis, has dissolved. Dixon & Co., Earl Park, has dissolved. United Fellowship in Christ, Indianapolis; religious; ’directors, W. J. Okey, A. T. Murray, Scott Hartup. Grabill .Drug company. Gfabill, has dissolved. The Northern Indiana Sand and Gravel company. Fort Wayne; capital, $25,000; sand and gravel ; directors, S. T. Cooper, F. W. Tielker, H. M. Cooper. Indiana Gravel company, Howe, has dissolved. George M. Plainer company. South Bend; capital, $30,000; tobaccos; directors. G. M. Plafner, C. A. Dolph, F. E. Dolph. .The Durnell Motor Sales company, Indianapolis, has dissolved. .Corn Exchange bank of Lyons; capital. $25,000; banking; Joes Moss, president: Q. J. Mitchell, cashier.

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 phoid, Pneumonia and low grades of fevers. Office over Fendig’s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-B. 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 Osteo-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. A Phone 576 RENSSELAER, INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST —— Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA <

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OHlCmmu, iHUMNMruUa «■ huui»viLLl RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect October, 1915 northbound !■' Ro. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette io 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 3:31p.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 Chicagb 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 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.* CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G, Spitler Clerk.. Charles Morlan Treasurer... Charles M. Banda 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 W ard 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 C1erk...... Jesse Nichols Sheriffß. D. McColly Auditor....J. 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 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever 3rd District.. Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff.Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George FoulksMilroy John Rush. Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph SalrlnWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

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