Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — Page 8

A COMBINATION . OF TOORS of every make, for every purpose and at extremely moderate prices are in our store. The supply is abundant to meet all requirements for the professional artisan or the home amateur. Come in and look US over. We won't ask you to buy. C. W. EGER.

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

POSSUM BUN Walter Conn was a Wheatfield goer Tuesday. Some fine weather we are having at this writing. Minnie Ritter is working for Mrs. Otto Ritter this week. Jasper Cover called on William Hurley Sunday morning. • Willard Abbott called on Everett Parker Saturday afternoon. Mr. Papel spent Tuesday night with Jasper Cover and family. Frances Marion and Roy Beaver were Rensselaer goers Saturday. T. J. Parker and son Everett at- ; tended the Lewis sale Wednesday. Orpha and Myrtle Parker called on Golda Hujley Tuesday afternoon. The little daughter of William Hurley is not very well at this writing. Willis Hurley and Paul Wiggins helped .Herbert Garriott move Monday. Mr. and-Mrs. Henry Doan moved Monday, to their new home at Kniman. , | Lemuel Stockwell called on Mr. and Mrs. John Price Tuesday after- i noon. Mrs. Jasper Cover and son spent Tuesday afternoon with her sister, Mrs. Jud Zook. Mrs. Williani Hurley and daugh-| ter Gdlda called on Mrs. Silas' Toombs Tuesday. We understand that Ernest Reese , is coming back the first of March, i How about it, N—? Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith and Paul, and Wanda spent Thursday with ’ the Parker family. Claude Blankenship spent from Friday until Tuesday evening with G. H. Comer and family-.. T. J. Parker and son Everett and Ores Cunningham attended a sale near Medaryville Thursday. Mrs. Simon Cooper and children and Waiter Coan spent Saturdaywith William Hurley and family. Will Remley and two sons, who have had a severe - attack of .the measles, are getting along fins now. Albert Hurley and family spent Sunday evening with T. J. Parker and family and were entertained by graphophone music.

POSTPONED PUBLIC SALE j On account of bad weather and i a small crowd in town, I did not ■ offer all my stock on Saturday,{ February 3, but will sell at the ; Hemphill hitch barn in Rensselaer, l commencing at 2 p. m., on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1917,' the following described property: , 6 Horses and Mules— Consisting of 1 pair grey mares, 4 and 5 years old, wt. 1300 and 1400, well mated and good ones. The 5-year-old is auto broke and absolutely gentle for women or children to strive; 1 coming 3-year-old bay mare,~ unbroke; 1 bay horse, 5 years old, wt. 1050 to 1100; 1 span mules, coming 3 years old, wt. 1900. 10 Head of Cattle — Consisting of 1 4-year-old 3-4 Shorthorn cow, suckling two bull calves which are 7-8 Shorthorn; 1 registered Shorthorn bull, “King Sultan,” No. 475,671, year old last October, papers furnished; 1 Hereford cow, coming 3 years old, will be fresh soon; 1 part Hereford cow, coming 3 years old, fresh last of April, giving milk now; 1 black cow, coming 4 years old, fresh in April; 4 Shorthorn yearling heifers; 1 suckling calf, heifer, 7-8 Shorthorn. ■< Terms— A. credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO with 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not paid at maturity 8 per cent interest from date. 2 per cent off for cash when entitled to credit. T ALBERT DUGGINS. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. « NO HUNTING OR TRESPASSING Notice is hereby given that no trespassing will be permitted upon any of the J. J. Lawler lands in Jasper or Newton counties, and no hunting win be allowed except by written pehnit. Any violations will be prosecuted.—JAMES E. WALTER, Supt ts

ROY WILLIAMS KILLED

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’and Mrs. John W. Williams of ; Wheatfield, and with his parents ' resided some years ago in Jordan ’ township. • i The Hammond Times contained ’ the following details of the accident: ; The northbound train was headed by a wooden coach in which employes of the road have been transported to and from the Monon 'yards for years and have 1 dubbed the “Bungalow.” The engine which w<ls pushing the “Bungalow? had four empty freight cars attached to its tender. | > Williams was thrown to the track beneath the switch engine, his head crushed and bddy mangled, causing instant death. The force ’of the collision .threw the southbound switch engine into reverse and left the tender buried in the wreckage of the passenger coach in which Casper Camp, 21, of South Hammond and Sam Jameson, 37, of Russell street had been riding. Fireman Newlin on the switch engine had jumped to safety but Engineer W. F. Planer was left on the engine when it was reversed and started back. The cab had been stripped from the steel steed and the tender torn loose. With the engineer clinging to the throttle it ran wild for several blocks back from the wreck. The form of tyhe engineer' w’hose nose w r as broken and face cut was surrounded by masses of steam from the boiler and flames from the fire box. He at last succeeded in setting the brakes.

The responsibility for the wrecK has not been fixed but it is plainly evident that one of the two engineers ran by a block. The wreck was one of miraculous escapes for the engineer of the southbound switch engine and the passengers of the “Bungalow,’’ who are now at St. Margaret's hospital in care of Dr. T. W. Oberlin. The last named are Sam Jameson, a switchman, 37 years of age and single, whose home is at 35 Russell street, and Casper Camp, 21, of South Hammond. They escaped death by jumping. Bafney Matysiack, engineer on the engine pushing the old passenger coach, .was not warned in time to jump, but aside from a few bruises escaped injury. His fireman, Harry Ritter, of 88 7 Erie street, jumped and was not hurt. B. C. H. L. Specker, employes of the Erie railroad, were eye witnesses to the collision and in telling, of it state that the crash could be heard for blocks. They found the dead body of Roy. \\ illiams lying beside t£e track, some distance from the wreck of the pas-

•senger coach. I The “Hurdy Gurdy” was on its way to get a load of workmen at the Monon passenger and freight stations in Hammond to carry to the yards and fortunately the night men with the exception of Jameson had rode into town on passenger

trains. Casper Camp was riding from his home in South Hammond to employment downtown. C. J. Briden. 3226 Vincennes avenue, Chicago, was the conductor on the “Hurdy Gurdy. ” Drs. Oberlin, the company surgeon, and Chidlaw gave first aid and the police assisted in caring for she injured. The remains of ! the slain man were taken to the Emmerling morgue.

NEWS NOTES OF LEGISLATURE Senate bill 155. providing that alb road tax shall be paid in cash, (present lay permits working out tax up to S2O) passed the senate Tuesday by a vote of 27 to IJ. I Senate bill 202, making it a misdemeanor to possess an automobile from which the manufacturers serial number has been removed, has passed the senate by a vote of 4Q to 0 t Senate bill 11, to make void a provision of any will that if any beneficiary attempts to contest the 'will he shall forfeit his interest ! under the will has passed the house by a vote of 86 to 5 and only awaits the governor’s signature to become a law. , Senate bill 161, providing that dealers in poultry, other than raisiers, shall obtain a county, license jand keep a public record of sales, has passed the senate by a vote of 29 to 14. The senate joint resolution to amend the state constitution to provide that all men shall attain thedr full citizenship before being permitted to vote, was passed in the senate Thursday by a vote of 32 to 2.

SAY RATES ARE TOO HIGH

Witnesses Testify in Knox Electric Light and Power Company Case. Indianapolis, February 16. —The Inclusion of a generating - plant, now practically abandoned, in the valuation of the Knox Electric Light and Power company of Knox

for rate making purposes, supplied the basis for argument Thursday in a hearing before James L. Clark of the public service commission, oh a petition to reduce rates for electric current at Knox, filed with the public, service commission by the town board of Knox. The Knox company buys its current from* the Plymouth Electric Light and Power company and sells it to consumers at Knox at 14 cents a kilowatt hour. Witnesses for the town offered in evidence that the rates at Knox are higher than- the rates at other towns supplied . with Current from the Plymouth Light, and POwer - company’s plant.

HE STILL BELIEVES IT’S SO

Elwood, February 13.—Because, during a quarrel, he called his wife “a fool,” Marion. Brenner was arrested today and is jail awaiting trial on . provoke charges. He refused to “take back" this appellation when his wife offered to withdraw the charges if he would apologize.-

CRITIC OF MODERN IDEAS

Writer Ranges Himself Firmly Against System of Education Which He Considers Pernicious.

In no other way, perhaps, than in their advocacy of the pernicious doctrine of individual Interest have the modernists more, seriously undermined souiftl scholarship, proper habits of study, and the development of virile, rugged character. Of all the latest educational nostrums foisted upon us, this is one of the worst. Even a child can feel its appeal; for the pill is thickly coated with sugar, and every child’s “interest” draws it to sugar, even though a stomach ache or something worse may result. Where, pray, are we to begin and where end in this weighty responsibility of heeding and catering to the interests of youth? AVas there ever a normal boy who did not successively show an “interest” in running a candy store, in becoming a policeman, or a motorman, or an engineer, or the captain of an ocean liner? Can we conceive of a red-blood-ed youth to whom electricity and machinery and chemical experiments do not bring their special Would we regard a boy as having ordinary intelligence who could not readily learn to understand the mechanism of his father’s automobile? As a schoolmaster I am only too well aware that fathers with such normal sons see unmistakable signs of budding genius in this natural ability of youth; but as an ordinary individual I am disposed to class these deluded parents with those whose sons have “never told a lie.” They lack perception. —Alfred E. Stearns in the Atlantic.

TRAMP KNEW HUMAN NATURE

Gathered Harvest of Pennies From Crowd by Getting Them to Laugh at Themselves. One of the six orators in Union square the other afternoon was a blueeyed tramp, who admitted that he was the same. He asked those who gathered around him if they would give him a penny every time he said anything that made him laugh. His listeners were told to put any question to him and his answers, always amusing, were given with a winning smile and wink that brought penny after penny. For more than an hour he lield forth and finally, when his reward seemed to have reached a satisfactory total he explained that he was going to accept a “good will” offering on condition that what he said was quite true and struck home to each one in the throng. “Will you pay me if I’m right?” he asked. “We will,” laughed the goodnatured audience. “Well,” said the* blue-eyed one, “this bunch is a flock of easy-going birds, who have mighty little to do. Certainly none of you has done anything to improve himself in the last hour, and it’s high time you all went to work or began to think. I’m ashamed of the way I’ve wasted the hour, but at least I’ve picked up a little money. Now, let’s every one of us start out to do something regular this very day. Am I right?” There was a shower of pennies and the crowd dispersed.—New York Correspondent Pittsburgh Dispatch.

Agra.

. Agra is a city of tombs. It is the shell of a vanished glory, the witheVed leaf of one of the most ornate and gorgeous flowers that ever bloomed in the Orient. It is the city of the tombs of kings, of the tombs of conquerors, of the tombs of beautiful women and the tombs of memories and hopes. It is interesting in a mild way today, but it is only by linking the ruins as they stand with the picture of what they once were that you get the full flavor of Agra. , Agra is known the world over as the city that holds she Taj Mahal, the most beautiful and perfect specimen of the strange architecture sf India. The Taj was built by .an oriental despot for the tomb of his favorite and best-loved queen; it is said to have been built after specifications gleaned by the monarch in a dream in which he visited heaven. The result was such as to make the idea not wholly ridiculous, for the Taj by moonlight seems like a bit of another world.

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Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S. —Teutonic Break Concern over Americans in. Turkey was somewhat relieved at Washington, wlien the state department received messages from Constantinople via Copenhagen. The messages showed unusual danger to Americans, the department said. The bpoak between the United States an'd Gejinany is treated as a matter of gravest importance t<> Mexico by El Pueblo, a Carranza organ of Moxiet) City. The editor in an editorial begs the Mexicans to restrain feelings. Senator Saulsbury of Delaware, president pro tern of the senate at Washington and one of the senators closest to the White House, introduce/ a bill designed to throw open Aine/can ports to entente warships which are engaged.in resisting German submarine warfare. * ♦ • Speaking at New York, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, chairman of the national patrol commission, after recalling the surprise caused by the sudden appearance of the German submarine U-53 and the raids off Nantucket, gave‘’this warning - “Within 30 days we may have a thousandfold greater shock from tluj air, with ourselves as victims instead of spectators.” ♦ * * A fleet said to contain 35 merchant ships, carrying to the allied armies the greatest quantity of food and supplies shipped at one time since the war began, left' Virginia capes, convoyed by a converted cruiser and two new British speed cruisers.

» » * It was announced at Washington upon the highest authority, ■ the proposals for safeguarding Americans and American ships Germany is prepared to. make to the United States if President Wilson consents to a discussion of the questions in dispute between the two nations. These proposals, in substance, are: That all American ships be allowed to pass through the submarine war zones without molestation. That the United States designate the siiips not carrying contraband, which guaranty will obtain immunity for those vessels. “ * ♦ * Unless the United States government provides convoys or guns and gunners to. protect ships the American line, owners of the steamships St. Louis, St. Paul and other liners will not send its .vessels across the Atlantic, it was announced .at New York. * * *

Washington Despite a time-honored rule against demonstrations of any kind, Democratic members of the senate and house at Washington broke out in wild applause when Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Riley Marshall were officially proclaimed chosen by the people to succeed themselves, as president and vice president of the United States, respectively. > \•* * * The Mexican government’s representative at Washington delivered to Secretary of State Lansing a memorial to the neutral nations of the world by General Carranza proposing mediation between , the European belligerents and, if this fails, an embargo by all neutrals against the export of war munitions and food. Carranza offers the plan as a means of starving the belligerents into peace. * * • The federal trade commission announced at Washington that at the direction of the president it would begin immediately an investigation of the high “cost of foods in the United States, with special reference to alleged violations of the antitrust acts. » ♦ * It was announced at Washington that Ignacio Bonillas, one of General Carranza’s representatives on the Mex-ican-American joint has been named ambassador from Mexico to the -United States. • * * It was announced at Washington that President Wilson nominated the following persons to be postmasters: Illinois—Anna Byron, Bourbonnais. lowa—H. D. Mussmqn. Germania; Arthur E. Bassett. Little Sioux; Oscar G. Conwell, Lovilia; Peter H. Jurgensen, Lowden; Josephine McMahon, Melbourne; C. Ola Goode, Melcher; William 11. Fowler, Paton; Emil M. Peters, Schleswig; John Grant, Stanwood ; Mayme L. .Petersen, Totenka. • • •... A $300,000 appropriation to pay £Xpenses of the newly created tariff commission for the next fiscal year was requested of congress by Secretary McAdoo at Washington. • *■ Bitter condemnation of the rivers aqd harbors bill carrying approximately $38,500,000, described as “the fattest of the pork-barrel measures,” is contained in a report submitted to tffe senate at/Washington by the minority members of the senate commerce committee, the majority of which has recommended the bill.

The right of railroads to charge a single passenger occupying a Pullman drawing-room two fares was upheld by the Interstate commerce commission at Washington, The tariff was fought by Henry H. Carter of Boston. European War News Speaking in the house of lords at London, Earl Curzon, member Of the wag council, said Admiral Jellicoe, first lord of the admiralty, was, “not dissatisfied” with the number of German submarines which would never return to Germany. * * * Official announcement was made at London that the British forces on the Tigris . front have established a line across the Tigris bend west of Kut-el-Amara, completely hemming in the Turks, »•* * - The-capture of more than 400 Italian prisoners was reported by the w’ar office at Vienna in an official statement. There has been heavy fighting near Goritz, where the Austro-Hungarians have captured some trenches and repulsed counter-attacks. Trieste has been bombarded by Italian airmen. ♦ ♦ ♦ Five German army corps concentrated on the Holland frontier furnish a fairly convincing explanation, in default of other reasons, for the failure of the Dutch government to adopt the policy toward Germany recommended by President Wilson on account of the German submarine campaign, says a dispatch from Copenhagen. • * • It is officially announced at Rome that two Austrian seaplanes which were scouting off the Albanian coast were shot down near Sanes. Two of the occupants of the machines were made prisoner. One of the seaplanes was captured and the other sunk. • * * In the forest of Apremont we penetrated the enemy’s lines and made nine prisoners, including three noncommissioned officers, says the Paris war office. * • ♦

Domestic James B. Regan, a New York hotel proprietor, denied at the “leak” inquiry that he had ever received advance information of the peace note from Joseph P. Tumulty, the president’s secretary. The Ohio senate at “Columbus, 0., passed the Reynolds bill giving Ohio Women the privilege of voting for president. The vote was 20 to 16. The bill already has' passed the house and Governor Cox Iras intimated he will sign it. • ♦ ♦ Three masked robbers, heavily armed, entered the barns of tl)c street railway company at San Jose, Cal., overpowered, bound and gagged five employees, blew open three safes end escaped with about $3,000. , > * * * ■ An urgent plea that the United States strengthen its military forces on the contention that “a government is only as strong as the military force behind it,” was voiced by Gov. E. L. Philipp at Milwaukee in a welcome address to Wisconsin National Guardsmen, who recently returned from service on the Mexican border. * * ♦ The Robert C. Clowry, repair ship of the Commercial Cable company of New York, picked up off the beach at Far Rockaway one end of a cut cable, and is searching for the other »end. The damaged cable’s European end is at Waterville,: Ireland, whence messages are forwarded to England and France.

The arrival of the steamship New York at New York brought the number of American transatlantic passenger ships at this port up to four. The New York sailed from Liverpool on February 3 and, according to wireless messages received, its passengers passed through the submarine war zone without incident. ♦ * * Sporting The baseball players’ strike, in so far as it would affect the National league, was virtually called off at New York as a result of efforts by John MdGraw, manager of the New York Nationals, acting as unofficial mediator between the club owners and the Baseball Players’ fraternity. - ♦ * * Joie Ray, a supple, lithe-limbed specimen of athletic magnificence, broke the American indoor running record at Madison Square garden, New York. His time was 9 minutes and 11 2-5 seconds for the five miles. The former record, made by George Bonhag in 1910, was 9:14 1-5. ♦ ♦ ♦ Foreign The Nortlicliffe papers of London are beginning to show not merely impatience but thinly veiled hostility to Premier Lloyd-George and his cabinet. Probably Lord Nortlicliffe is looking around for a new prime minister. * t t ... ' ■ . Diplomatic circles at Washington heard reports that China had broken diplomatic relations with Germany as a result of the German submarine campaign. ■ • * . * President Menocal of Cuba issued a decree authorizing a call for volunteers between the ages of eighteen and for-ty-five years to serve for a period of 90 days, to aid in fight against rebels. ’Fire swept through a large section of the Piraeus and caused a heavy loss of life, says a dispatch from Greece.

STATE NEWS

Joseph Niggle, a Swiss aviator, has sued the American Aircraft company of Anderson for wages. John M. v Retherford, aged eightythree, of Windfall, gave each of his eight children a check for $1,600 aJt a family reunion. # At a meeting at Huntington the Pocket Publishers’ league of Southwestern Indiana elected Charles Baker of, Grandview president. < The Northern Indiana High School Principals’ association, at at South Bend, discussed military training in high schools. . c Evansville has* just held soul-win-ning conferences of the churches Of the "Uniied States; . For the first time in its history to ' meet outside of Boston, the board of managers of the Baptist Foreign Missionary society held its quarterly meeting at Indianapolis. A $50,000 cracker and bread factory, will be built at Richmond. In September Wabash college at Crawfordsville will start military training. The Cheney block at Shelbyville burned; loss, $60,000. • Porter county will again have a county agent. Moleus B. Green of Madison, war veteran, aged seventy-three, died in Cincinnati. May 19 the northern Indiana track meet and oratorical contest will be 'held at Gary. Dr. Clarence Abbott, prominent Democrat, is dead at Petersburg. President E. A. Hanley of Franklin college is at outs with the college board over a college site. Anderson will start a municipal coal yard. At Earlham the first rural church, conference in eastern Indiana will be held February 20-21. George Metier, aged eighty-one, of Richmond killed himself. The Indiana Dry federation was formed at Indianapolis, with W. E. Carpenter "of Brazil president. A farmers’ engineering short course opened at Princeton. " . The new Mitchell-Martin township library opened at Mitchell. An evangelistic campaign at Hartford City under Henry Ostrom won 500 converts. Rev. Albert J. Brown of Indianapolis has become financial agent of Wilmington college at Richmond. The sale of the Pere Marquette road in the state has been ordered by the federal court at Indianapolis. At the Republican Editorial association banqueU at Indianapolis every speaker pledged support to the president. The United States navy office at Evansville has doubled the enlistments, those for the week numbering 33. The appointment to the presidency of the farm bank cannot be given to Leonard Clore of Laporte, he having had no banking experience, but he wifi be named a director or treasurer. William Thomas stabbed William White jn a South Bend saloon fight, both being colored. Hartford City is making a war on loose dogs following a vicious attack on a little girl.

John J. O’Herron of Lafayette under arrest in Detroit on charge of robbing a drug-store safe of $1,750, and Bruce Jtrown is under arrest as an accomplice. Beginning July 30 the Methodist summer assembly for northern Indiana will be held at the Battle Ground camp. Gary is organizing a foreign legion of European war veterans to be tendered to Governor Goodrich in case of war. , Logansport ebusiness men organized an association with a membership of 173. Brazil capital is sinking a new mine to employ 30 miners. At a cost of SI,OOO Walnut creek ditch will be cleaned for ten miles from Hartford City. The Martin county courthouse at Shoals will have an addition built and a new system of lighting, installed. Authorities at Pierceton will erect a consolidated school building costing $43,900. Noblesville soda fountains have raised drinks to 10 cents. Frankfort has not a single ton of hard coal in the city. With M. E. Bose as president the Pulaski County Honey Producers’ association has been organized at Winamac. -Lawrence county is holding a Farmers’ institute. At Vincennes efforts are being made to get a bridge across White river between Daviess and Knox counties. The quintet Of the State Normal at Terre Haute defeated Georgetown (Ky.) university at basketball. Score, 66-27.

Mayor Patrick Gorman of Huntington is seriously ill from pneumonia. Military training is being considered by DePauw university at Greencastle. At a meeting at Hammond the Farmers’ Horse Thief association has been abandoned «and the Farmers’ Automobile Detective association organized. Because her boy had lost S2O in a slot machine Mrs. Nancy Hampton had a Terre Haute saloonkeeper arrested. The midwinter, annual meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association was held at Indianapolis. Somewhere in France Raymond Combs of Carmel, a member of a Canadian regiment, lies dead. For 18 years Bessie Payne has not missed a single Sunday school class at the Methodist church at Huntington. ,