Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — Page 2

TfiE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflee at Rensselaer, Indjaria, under the Act of March . 3. 1879, __ Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1917. ADVERTISING KATES Display ......... 12%c Inch Display, special position.... 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5c 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 to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. AH acounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisement accepted fer first page.

NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION CITY OF RENSSELAER, INDIANA State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper)SS: The City of Rensselaer, Indiana, to the City Marshal, greeting:' You. are hereby commanded to give due and legal notice to the qualified voters of the. city of Rensselaer, Indiana, that a Primary Election will be held at the several v>oting places in the .city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on TUESDAY,. MARCH 6TH, 1917. between the hours of 6 a. m. and 6 p. m., for the purpose of expressing a preference of candidates on the Democratic ■. and Republican tickets for the following offices in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, towit: One candidate for Mayor on Democratic ticket. One candidate for Mayor on Republican ticket. One candidate for Clerk on Democratic ticket. One candidate for clerk on Republican ticket. One candidate for Treasurer on ticket. One candidate for Treasurer on Republican ticket. Two candidates for Councilmen as Large on Democratic, ticket. Two candidates for Councilmen at Large on Republican ticket. One candidate fdr Councilman for Ist Ward. Democratic ticket. One candidate for Councilman for Ist Ward. Republican ticket. One candidate for Councilman for 2nd Ward, Democratic ticket. One candidate for Councilman for 2nd Ward, Republican ticket. One candidate for Councilman for 3rd Ward, Democratic ticket. One candidate for Councilman for 3rd Ward, Republican ticket. The names of the respective candidates on the various tickets for the various offices with their postoffice addresses' appear below; ' DEMOCRATIC TICKET Couhcilmen at L^rge —-Nathaniel Scott, Rensselaer, Indiana; Edward Herath, Rensselaer, Indiana. Councilman. First Ward —Clove W. Eger, Rensselaer, Indiana. » Councilman. Third* Ward—James Snedeker, Rensselaer, Indiana. REPUBLICAN TICKET . Mayor- Charles G. Spitler, Rens-

seiner, Indiana. Clerk—Charles Morlan. Rensselaer, Indiana; Emmet M. Laßue. Rensselaer, Indiana. Treasurer—Charles " M. Sands, Rensselaer, Indiana. Councilmen at Large—Rex D. Warner, Rensselaer, Indiana; Conrad Kellner, Rensselaer, Indiana. Councilman. First Ward—H. R-. Wood, Rensselaer, Indiana. Councilman, Second Ward —- Frank W. Tobias, Rensselaer, Indiana. Councilman, Third Ward—F. R. Waymite, Rensselaer, Indiana. Committeeman, First WardFloyd Meyers, Rensselaer, Indiana. Committeeman, Second Ward— D. E. Grow, Rensselaer. Indiana. Committeeman, Third Ward—W.; H. Kresler, Rensselaer, Indiana. In testimony whereof. I have hereunto subscribed my’ name and affixed the seal of said city of Rensselaer, Indiana/- this 10th day of February, 1917. CHAS. MORLAN. (Seal) City Clerk. CITY MARSHAL’S PROCLAMATION The legally qualified voters of the several wards of the city of Rensselaer/ Jasper county, Indiana, are hereby notified to appear •at the several voting places in said, city on the 6th day of March, 1917, for . the purpose of selecting •with their ballots, •candidates for the “parties named in the foregoing" for the above mentioned offices. Witness my -hand in the city *of Rensselaer. Indiana, this 10th day of February, 1917. VERN ROBINSON. 1 City* Marshal

YOUR BOY’S CHUM

If you are a father, are you acquainted with your boy ! s chum? Do you know him to be fit company for your son? Every nortnal boy has singled . out from his friends and acquaintances one particular chum., This chum is his "other self,” all of the "othar self” he will have until years of maturity develop in him the sex attraction.

T If you have studied boy nature, or even if you can recall your own boyhood days, you must know that they are the days wherein the lasting impressions of life are formed. It is also the period when the domination of a strong personality is most potent for good or evil over a weaker or more plastic nature. Have you studied your boy’s chum? It may be almost as necessary as a study of the boy, himself. Is that chum all you cou|h wish him to be? Is he stronger, or weaker, of purpose and character than your boy? If stronger, all 'the more reason for you to know his real character, for he is as sure to impress his personality upon your son as that strength overcomes weakness. j The boy rarely develops habits or traits of character acquired’ I from mere chance acquaintances or from strangers, ft is from his in- ■ tima’es that he absorbs' ideas that 1 eco ne fixed in the mind and develops into character. Hence the imperative necessity that those intimates be of right character. Some think it is a risky business to attempt to regulate a son s friendships. Admittedly so, yet you have, it in your power To tn a large degree control the matter. Every normal boy has great respect for his father, provided that father is deserving of his respect.. The first step, therefore, is to secure and deserve the boy s confidence. This accomplished, a little tactful consideration on your part, together with a personal interest in his every day life, ought to give you control over the situation. But the surest way to control the matter is to constitute yourjself the boy's chum. This can be ■done if the matter is taken iij hand early in the boy s life. To every ,young boy his father is a model of perfection. His first boyish ambition is to imitate father. If that father is deserving of imitation and will cultivate his boy’s confidence, the problem is, solved. . ' ■■■<';■ ■•■-'■ ■ Every father should seek first place in his boy's confidence. He should make certain that he stands higher in the boy’s regard than all others. And as the years pass he should see to it that the bond is strengthened instead of weakened. BiM this can only be done by fully [entering into the life o.f the boy a*nd by making his life your life. It will pay better than apy other investment you can make.

THE M’KINLEY DIVORCE BILL

Under the provisions 6f the McKinley divorce bill, which passed Kinley divorce.bill, which passed the senate and has gone to the house, with the county clerk a preliminary notice sixty days before the suit is filed. Under the present law. there is a provision for sixty days between the time the suit is filed and the time it comes to trial. If the McKinley bill becomes law. therefore, the good features of the provision for waiting sixty days will be retained, and the effectiveness of the delay strengthened by the circ.’.-itstances that suit has nor actually been begun.

There can be no doubt that many divorces in this state can not be attributed to reasonable grounds, but to an outburst of ill temper followed by a brief period of stubborn resentment. In this state of mind no person is able to judge calmly of the penalties cf divorce. It is regarded for the moment as merely a step which promises relief from an intolerable condition,' when it really often serves only to prolong and intensify such a condition. Under the present law, and with the aid of the $lO divorce lawyers who infest the state and disgrace their profession, it is a pimple matter to file suit, and in districts where much publicity is given to divorce cases, the case usually comes ta trial. The McKinley measure is an effort to solve one of the many problems growing out of the divorce evil, and has the merit of affording some relief. Its aim is not so much to make divorce more difficult as to make reconciliation easier. It should serve to reduce the number of cases where couples are divorced only to remarry in a short tipie, a practice that makes the statistics on divorces appear ■much more alarming than the actual situation warrants.- —Indianapolis News.

CLAIMING MANY VICTIMS.

• Beware the deadly pneumonococcus. ' ' ~ */ ■■ ' He ig one of the- multitude of little devils that delights in invading your lungs and providing a job for your favorite undertaker. • Never was pneumonia more prevalent or more fatal than it is this winter. Old and young are sucsumbing to its ravages in numbers appalling. Practically half the ! deaths in past three weeks have been due

to pneumonia, w’hich appears to be working with unusually fatal suits. ■ Too much care can hot be exercised by the individual. Give proper attention to the clothing and food. Avoid as much as possible those places where the air is stagnant and foul from the breath o f many persons. See that the ajr in your own home is pure and* warm. Avoid becoming chilled. A hot footbath and hot drinks of a proper kind should part of the routine of those who are unavoidably exposed. But best of all do not delay in consulting a physician at the first sign of illness. The first pang of pain beneath the shoulder blade or through the chest is a warning that should be • given instant heed, for unless relief is quickly secured the odds are all in favor of the underTaker as against the doctor. Unlesjs you are prepared to render last accounting to your Maker do not depend upon home remedies and a fatuous belief that you will be all right tomorrow.' You may be all right, but you may also have lost your usefulness, except as an example , of the result of lack of caution. Don’t take any chances with pneumonia. It is not only contagious but it is also far more deadly than any other plague that besets us. It gets results and does it quickly.—Lafayette Journal.

FOOD AND FRIGHTFULNESS

There have been many contradictory reports about food conditions in Germany, and in palliation of the ruthless acts of the central powers their sympathizers have claimed thaj woman and children are being starved to death? The results of Dr. Taylor’s six months' scientific inquiry into the control of food supplies' in Germany, now being published in The Saturday Evening Post,, seem to establish conclusively that up to the last of the year, at least, Germany, while it had to tighten its belt, was not starving or threatened with starvation;.' ' - 1 That the German nation as a whole is living’ on short rations, and perhaps rather uninviting rations, appears tdi be the fact; but that any condition approaching actual starvation exists in .any class is not true. Germany cannot plead that extenuation for lawlessness and ruthlessness.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The cost of grub’s beyond all pardon; it makes me, rend my duds; and so this year I’ll have a garden and* 4 raise my greens and spuds. Like others I have formed the habit of buying all my eats, from cauliflower to potted rabbit, from succotash to beets. My spreading lawn has been devoted to grass, and still more grass, but after this it will Ke coated with blooming garden sass. I can not eat the lovely roses that scent the countryside; they’re gratifying to our noses, but are no good when fried If I should boil a mess of lilies, in place of cabbage head, the dish would give my guests the willies, and set them peeing red. I buy my cabbage®" from the grocer, my tulip bulbs I raise; and that is | why the wolf draws closer, and ■howls these dismal days. This year I’ll raise my prunes and onions, on these, my fertile lands, and ply the hoe till I have bunions upon my snow-white hands.

CROWN POINT BOYS ARRESTED

Opened Railway* Switch and Then Fired at Officers. Crown Point, February 21.* —Six Crown Point boys got themselves in" serious trouble last night at the Panhandle depot when, haying taken too much liquor aboard, they interfered with' traffic on the railroad and later fired at officers of the law. Will Briese and George Hayden were arrested and .four escaped. Th e latter are accused of firing on City Marshal Platt and Deputy Sheriff, Olds. ‘ The boys were in a machine and ■at the railroad crossing threw a switch and broke it » afterwards, '•uttiug out an hour on a freighi. Briese and Hayden were arrested and cited to appear in court Under SI,OOO bail. i; f ■

Following the plan of the French government in prohibiting the sale of liquors containing a high degree of alcohol, a comipittee of 100 men and women has launched a. camI -I - /paign in Los Angeles to obtain the passage of an • ordinance that do liquor containing more that 21 per cent of alcohol (this includes whis-- , ky, gin, brandy and all so-called liquors), can, be sold or given away in any public drinking . place. Arrangements are under way in San Francisco to bring about a similar campaign. “We are going to take the sting out of this saloon,” said the originator of the plan.

SYLVIA’S BREAKAWAY

By ERNEST A. YOUNG.

Sylvia Gale, up to her birthday, had never enjoyed what most girls would call a good time. On that anniversary her Aunt Dorcas went with her tootle city, made the rounds of the department stores, bought Sylvia a $7.98 ready-to-wear suit and a $2.48 hat, and ended the day’s debauch by going to a moving picture play. All through tlie following week Aunt Dorcas was kept in a panic because Sylvia Gale would talk pf nothing else but that picture play. “You can see for yourself Jonas,” she told her husband, “that Sylvia Jias inherited a restless streak from her mother. We never oughter let her go to that play. It’s stirred her all up.” The next time that they decided to visit tlie city they said nothing about it before the girl. She overheard them talking of their intentions and at the same time learned that there were to be no more such excursions for her. Then she thought of Dr." Edson Brooks who had frightened her half <mt of her with almost a year ago by asking her to marry him, when it never occurred to . her that she was old enough to marry anybody. “Doctor Edson must be crazy to think.of marrying me,” she had thought. But now, as slip 'brooded over Aunt Dorcas’ show of distress she recalled the doctor's attentions with quickened heartbeats. The afternoon before the projected trip to the city Aunt Dorcas remarked to Sylvia: “I was telling your Uncle Jonas last night we'd better get a new rug for your robin,” The girl was looking out of a window and did not reply. “Then,” Dorcas Gale continued, “sbiire new wallpaper, and two or three sort of cheerful pictures would brighten up your room.” The next morning Sylvia drove her aunt and uncle to the railway station, five miles distant. “Hurry right back, Sylvia,” admonished her aunt as they heard the whistle of the incoming train. “There’s the chickens to feed and breakfast dishes to wash.” When she was out of of the station Sylvia laughed derisively. Then she consulted a pocket railway timetable. “The 9:34 at Hale's Crossing may be flagged for passengers or express,” she read from the folder. A newspaper clipping in her purse gave the address, 27 Fil more place, where young ladies were wanted to drill for moving picture scenes. But' when Sylvia reached Filmore place she was disappointed to find it a dingy court shut in by cheap tenements. Her ring at the door of No. 27 was answered by a young man with black, curly hair, black mustache, and a face that looked for all the word like that of a Corsican bandit in 'the picture play that had haunted Sylvia’s memory.

“You come to drill for our great spectacular drama, miss?” said the man. “You will step in and register.” Sylvia’s heart sank in sudden dismay. Was this the portal, she asked herself, by whirl) she was to enter upon her career of fame and fortune? “I—l don’t think I will try it at all,” She said. “You will have to excuse me. Good-day.” She spent the rest of the day following up advertisements for “Female Help Wanted,” and found that the situations were either already filled, or that they were of a sort that she was too inexperienced to undertake. When evening came she slipped with weariness* into a moving picture theater in the hope of soothing her tired nerves. When she came out upon the crowded street she remembered that she had engaged no lodgings for the night. Somehow, in the chattering throng, she could not settle her mind upon anything, for she was used to thinking out her problems in solitude. So she made her way into a quiet side street. As she did so a touring car glided close to the sidewalk curbing and

stopped and the one who was driv- • ing it leaned forward and spoke. Without looking at him she knew who it was. “Sylvia,”., said Dr, Edson Brooks, “hadn’t you better ride with me? I’ll take, you wherever you say,” The beating of her heart seemed to time itself to the throb of the motor as she got into the car. “Your aunt and uncle got home early.” Doctor Ed told her in his strong, even voice. “They were worrying their heads off about you, so I undertook to fetch you home. By the way, Sylvia,” and "the tones became less even, “liad you forgotten what .I asked of you almost a year ago?” “No. Doctor Ed. I hadn’t forgotten,” said Sylvia. “Then mayn’t I tell Aunt Dorcas tq night that, you answered ‘yes’ to ine this time?” .. ' - “I think,'’ said Sylvia, “you may tell Aunt Dorcas that.” After Dorcas and Jones Gale were tn bed that night, both of them stark awake. Sylvia's? aunt said:. “I guess, Jonas, we’ll put . what..it was going tq cost to fix up Sylvia’s room into her wedding tilings, We want her to haye just as good as any\qf ’em—and then they won’t be half sis\»ood as she deserves.”'. \ . (Copyright* 1916, by tfie Mcfelure Newspaper syndicate.)

■ Binocular sights are used In aiming a sporting rifle that an Ohio man has invented.

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 ANDEAN* LAWYERS AU court matters promptly attendee to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and Examined. Office In Odd Fellows Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ‘ DR. I. mTwASHBURN 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 Typhoid, 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. V RENSSELAER, yMDIANA 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 Osteopathy. 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 CHIROPRAdTOR Graduate Palmer School of. Chiropractic. Chiropractic Fountain Head, Davenport, lowa. Forsythe Bldg. Phone 576 RENSSELAER, INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELAER INDIANA *■ 8 Sons Undertakers MOTOR AND HORSE DRAWN HEARSE AMBULANCE SERVICE Phones: Residence 58 oniee 23

~' GH || Specially Designed Memorials are executed by us in full sympathy with the designer’s ideas, and we carry them out to the last detail. WE DESIGN MONUMENTS ourselves and our services are at the command of those who desire them. But whoever makes the design we will build the monument as well as it can be built and as reasonably. W. H. Mackey Rensselaer, Ind.

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Ideal Account Files, J 1.50 each.— The Democrat’s'fancy stationery department. ’

CHlCawu, inuw*t*ruLl* « RV • . RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect October, 1915 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati io Chicago 4:51a.m. . No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to 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 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39. Chicago to Lafayette s:sQp.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 diaries Marian Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney....,Moses- Leopold Marshal Vern Robinsan Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Wardßay Wood 2nd Ward...... Frank Tobias 3rd Ward. Frank King At Large. .Rex garner, 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 Clerk... Jesse Nichols Sheriffß. D. McColly Auditor...J. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorE. 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 Davisson..... .Barkley Burdett Porter. Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhofTJordan 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, i Rensselaer

1 TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each 1 month. Persons having business T with me will please govern them- | selves accordingly. Postoffice ad- ( dress—Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last' Saturday of each month in G. A. Willlm’s law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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PIONEER Meat Market EIG ELS BACH & SON, Props. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow

■MB SM. We will call at your premises If within twenty miles of Rensselaer and remove all dead or undesirable animals. We disinfect the barns or pens in which animal has been kept, leaving jthe farm in sanitary condition. And tliis is all done without expense to you. B. & L. MFG. CO. Telephone 17 Rensselaer, Ind. Have toll calls charged to us.

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