Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — Page 8

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

VIRGIE .George Cover buzzed wood Thursday. Miss Bertha Reed spent over Sunday with home folks. Hattie Kerns spent several days "With her cousin, Hazel Hurley. Misses Elsie -and Jess Zellers, spent the week-end with home folks. “The young folks of Virgie gave their play at Demotte Saturday night. , Miss Elizabeth Wiseman, is sowing for Mrs. Pearl Zellers this j week. , Miss Gladys Harrington called on Elizabeth Wiseman Thursday afternoon. The Virgie Ladies’ Aid will serve ' lunch at the Jacob Reed sale Monday, March 5. ■ !

Jack Reeder’s are moving this week onto the Oris- Schultz farm near Fair Oaks.. & The churCh seats and furnishings Were hauled Tuesday and stored in Mr. Harrington’s barn. Misses Patience and Dora and Charles Florence spent Sunday with Frank and Ernest Linback. < Frank Middlecamp went to Michigan Tuesday on business. He lately purchased a farm there. LEE Elmer Gilmore and family were at J. H. Culp ’s Sunday. Mrs., William. Walker has been Sick this week with tonsilitis. Mrs. H. C. Anderson spent Tuesday with Mrs? Ann Rishling. Miss Agnes Stiers had dental ; work done in Rensselaer Wednesday. I “Buffer” Lewis and family of Remingtori spent Sunday afternoon here with S. M. Jacks’. • Uncle David Culp has been worse during the past week and is gradually growing weaker all the time.

Born, February 23, a son to F. L. Overton and wife; February 25, a daughter to Frank Floyd and wife. Mrs. Olin Stewart and son of near Crawfordsville came Sunday to visit for a week or more with : relatives and friends. A. B. Ltewis and wife, O. A. Jacks and wife and Morris Jacks and family took Sunday dinner at S. M. Jacks’, it being little Kenneth’s birthday. The young’ people gave a useful shower last Saturday night for Jack Large and wife, and this Wednesday evening one for John Osborne and new bride. Roy Stiers moved last week to his farm recently purchased just east of here, and J. H. Culp moved to the property vacated by Stiers and recently bought by Culp. Gifford Marrs moved onto Culp’s farm.

McCOYSBUBG Robert McDonald was in Rensselaer Saturday. Mrs. Owen Barker is some better at this writing. Mrs. S. E. Cook called on Mrs. Charles Ferguson Monday. Clarence Cochran was in Francesville Thursday on business. Mrs. Ethel Bussell called on Mrs. R. L. Bussell Wednesday. Mrs. Charles Ferguson doesn't seem to be improving very fast. Mrs. J. R. Phillips was the guest of friends at Monon Wednesday. Wash Cook and S. E. Cook were in Incjjanapolis Friday on business. Sunday is preaching day, at' 3 o’clock. Let everybody be present. The Ladies’ Aid meets with Mrs. R. L. Bussell Wednesday, March 7, Everybody is welcome. Mrs. Will Johnson of Roselawn was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Lesley Lowman, over Sunday. Mrs. Robert Johns, Mrs. J. R. Phillips and Mrs. R. V. Johns were guests’ of Mrs. Jacob Roy Monday. Van Wood and family of Rensselaer were guests of J. R. Phillips and family and other friends over Sunday. Mrs. Frank Ringeisen had for Supday dinner George Westphal and family, Frank Cochran and family, Roy Cochran and family, Clarence Cochran and family, Clarence Blunk and Edna Houston.

PINE GROVE Ivan Dale spent Sunday night with Willis Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Graber have moved back to Illinois. Mrs. Rudolph Ritter is on the sick list at this writing. Grayce Price is sewing for Mrs. Shelby Comer this week. Miss Helen Flora spent Friday night and Saturday with Grayce Price. Thomas Cooper spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and. Mrs., Bluford Torbet. Mrs? Charles Shroyer spent Wednesday with -her sister, Mrs. Mahala Williams, of near Aix. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson, who had been very sick with measles, are better at this ‘ writing. Gladys Baker went to near Francesville to help her cdhsin, Mrs. Walter Brown, move Tuesday. - Charles Britt moved Tuesday from the Hollingsworth place to the Blitstein place, recently vacated by Ad Shook. Several of the young folks of this neighborhood attended the ■belling on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown Friday night. Honess Baker is moving today to near Valparaiso where he has rented a place. Ocie Nicholson Will occupy the B. P. Honan farm vacated by Mr. Baker. C , WarreaGalbfaith, who had been

I a patient at the county hospital Jon account of a broken limb, was brought home Tuesday very much improved but unable to walk. About fifty friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs? John Baker went to their home Sunday with well filled baskets and gave them a surprise before their leavingv for their (new home near Valparaiso. The day |was spent in games, music and so- • cial chat. All departed at a late (.hour, wishing them success in their ' hew home.

COURT NEWS

' John W, Ward vs. John Mar-. Llatt. Jury trial. Verdict for plaintiff who is given judgment for S3O damages, a note* for. $145 and i one Waltham watch, or, on failure to return, that plaintiff have judgment. for $lB5. ■?? - s ll ■ f C. P. Hermanfeen vs. estate of Herman Hermansen, deceased. Claim of plaintiff against estate for $2,000 allowed. J. C. Gwin vs. George W. Casey. Judgment for $62.54. William R. Clark vs. David L,_ Halstead. Dismissed at plaintiff’s

cost. y —Joseph A. Luers vs. James L. Babcock. Judgment for plaintiff for $290.42 and costs. CASES SET FOR TRIAL Oscar L. Dinwiddie vs. Benjamin J. Gifford estate, et al. Set for fourth Monday. Rumsey & Co. vs. Garland T. Morrow. Set for fourth Tuesday. State vs. John Lilly, charged with petit larceny. Set for fourth Wednesday. Nellie M. Sawin et al. vs. Charles V. May et al. Set for fourth 'Wednesday. M. V. Brown vs, George H. Hammerton, trustee. Set for fourth Wednesday. ..? Refining Co. vs. Mark Schroer. Set for fourth Thursday. Charles A. Myers vs. Bessie Myers. Cause set for fourth Friday.

THREE SISTERS DIE IN WEEK

Fourth Child in Benton County Not Expected to Live. Nashville, Indiana, February 27. —Three - daughters of George Sturgeon, formerly a resident of Nashville, died within a week at their home in Templeton, Benton county, according to Mrs. Solomon Brunnet, grandmother of the children who has returned to her home here after spending a week at the Sturgeon home. Alda Sturgeon, age 8% died Monday, February 19, after a brief illness; Velma, age 4, died early last Sunday, and Stella, age 2, .died Sunday evening. The only child "remaining in the family, Alva, age 3, is sick and the doctors say, will die. Eight- physicians in Benton county have been unable to determine the cause of the deaths. The children had measles, but the doctors said this did not cause their deaths. An investigation is being made of water used at the Sturgeon home. Mrs. Sturgeon, a daughter of Solomon Brunnet, a farmer living near here, is in a serious condition of shock over her children’s deaths.

Most Used Library.

Close after the discovery that New York is the greatest city in the world comes the report that its public library is the most used library on earth. Its daily average number of readers is double that of the British museum of London or the Blbliotheque Nationale of Paris, according to the report for 1915, just published, which says that ltt3S<b.s79 books were borrowed in the year and that 2,558,717 persons enteredthe central building at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street. The war has brought a great increase in the number of people, who-use the library for research. It has become, the director says, an immense laboratory for scientific investigation, particularly those seeking information regarding new industries.—lndianapolis News.

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GEORGIAN SILVER

By LOUISE OLIVER.

Alex looked down at the little girl beside him with a calm, qfiiet scrutiny which might have conveyed a diversity of impressions upon any who noticed. But for the enlightenment of the few who knew not Alex, I shall explain that he was quietest when most delighted, and he was indeed thankful to his hostess for putting him beside this sweet little violet of humanity.' ' He dreyy a long breath and waited for her to speak. He didn’t know the girl and he hopeffishe didn’t know hiin. Otherwise sin- might be like the others ; overtulkative, unnatural, and apt to overdo. He was too modest to appreciate the fact that, as the best ctf.tch i n th e ma tr i i i.toni aI < sea, he Was apt to he offered bait in generous quantities ami </f jniinite varieiy. Dorothy looked around the dining room with wide eyes, then up mt him with a smile.; “I can’t believe I'm awafce,” she said. “No?” It was an invitation to go on. '

“No. They say that sometimes a wish is father to a thought. Maybe I’ve just wished for something like this so #ften th*C now 1 think it’s true. Maybe I’m not here at all —only thinking I am.” - "What does it matter? Maybe I’m thinking all this too.” “I was just thinking.” she remarked in the interval before the soup, “that It’s a shame Bob couldn’t be here. He’d love it so. But Aunt Jane said he couldn’t come, that’s all there was to it. Aunt. Jane said it was kind of Mrs.. Dexter to ask one of the poor Virginia relations without ringing in the three of us. . You see, there’s Robert, and myself. The boys are dears; you ought to know them. Bob’s my twin.”

“He must be a dear," ventured Alex. She laughed, but colored nevertheless. He changed the subject. “Are you fond of old silver?” he asked. “I’ve been admiring those Georgian candlesticks. The pattern is very rare.” “I’ve been collecting bits here and there,” be went on. “No doubt you can tell me some wonderful about old s< gilver. Most Southerners can. But one thing I have discovered’for myself, that Southerners may part with their homes, their clothes, and even their souls, but their silver —never. I know where there are some splendid collections in the South, but you pan’t get them."

Dorothy’s appetite for food suddenly disappeared. She laid down her fork and looked so distressed that Alex wondered what dreadful thing he had said. “I want to —-to tell you,” said the girl final Iy, “where ’ I "happen to know you may find a beautiful collection of Georgian silver. It is at Berni’s, on Fifth avenue. It all came from one family, and it seems to me the things ought to stay together.” Then suddenly?and brightly, as if to put a distasteful thought behind her, “I wish you could know Wally and Bob. Poor Bob!” * . . “Why poor?” “Oh. he loves nice things so. We all do! But I really meant it literally, you -know. We are poor, very. You see that’s why I’m—” , She stopped. Virginia pride was uppermost. “Nothing,” she answered his eager inquiry. “I thought I could tell you, but I can’t.” A painful flush had spread over her face, and Alex had an uncomfortable feeling that tears were near. Something was giving this little girl a great deal of unhappiness, he had discovered. and suddenly he had a desire to chase ihe clouds away from the serious dark eyes, and to see the dimple come and >go in her lovely, smooth

cheek. - • . . " The next day he stopped in Berni’s. And there was Dorothy herself, batless, coatless and in the plain black garb of a clerk. She colored furiously when she saw him. Alex was puzzled. Was the story of Virginia, then, merely a happy fiction, manufactured to entertain a dinner partner? If so, it was good. “Good afternoon,” he said; “I understand there was a fine collection of old Georgian silver here. May I see it?” “Certainly I” Dorothy led the way to a table on which was an array that. ( made Alex fairly jump with astonishment, ' "It’s splendidl” he cried. “Whose was it? Where did it come from? I never saw anything like it.” “The silver is mine—all I have.- But the boys must go to school, and it must go. I won’t let anyone else sell it. That was one stipulation I made to Berni, that I must approve the purchaser. When anyone else comes along, I double—treble the price.” “But I must have it I Do you approve of me?”

She nodded. “But the collection isn’t complete. There is something else that will have to go with it before I take it.” “What is that?” “You. I always know what I want instantly, and I could have told you that last, night. You’re -the loveliest girl I’ve ever known.” He reached for her hand. Dorothy did not draw it away, but Instead a deep, steady light datVned in her eyes and the dimple Alex so longed to see appeared in her cheek. “I wonder if this is ready true, or if I’m just thinking it is,” she said. “I hope it’s true for us both,” he whispered. ~~

SENSE BEING LOST

LONDONERS UNABLE TO GROPE THEIR WAY IN DARKNESS. Philosophical Review of Warfare's Needs, and of Past D<kys, Has Not Brought Citizens to a Proper J? Realization of Conditions. A few months ago I chanced to be In what official language would describe as “a certain northern town” at the time when lighting restrictions were being newly enforced as a precaution against air attacks. Loud was the outcry of persons who had bumped into the lamppost and tripped over the? curb upon their homeward way, and who. had even found themselves unable to identify their o>vn homes without the aid of an electric torch.*

And yet the curious thing was that even such restricted street lighting as remained would, have been considered a really handsome illumination by our forefathers and -would indeed be considered so today by dwellers in rural districts Where the street lamp is unknown, C. Fox-Smith writes in the London Chronicle. What is happening to us—or, rather, what was happening to us in the days when the daylight, in towns, was deposed before its death by the glare of gas and electric light? Were we not rapidly losing’the very last remnant of that faculty of seeing in what we call “the dark,” which is really quite a natural part of our equipment, being a sort of combination of the senses of sight, smell, touch and hearing? As a matter of fact speaking broadly, what most people call “the dark” is not darkness at all. How often, for example, do you hear a person who has just emerged from or who lifts a blind, to look through the window of a lighted r»om exclaim: “What a pitch dark night!”

But once leave the bewildering lights behind and it will be seen that the apparent darkness was really more than half caused by the light Itself. Pitch darkness seldom exists except comparatively, never without some extraordinary condition,”such as fog or very dense clouds. One dbes, of course, remember one or two such occasions of a blackness Impenetrable as a wall and almost as tangible to all seeming. But they are rare enough to be noticeable—even to cause surprise, as if they were somehow abnormal, which would not he so if pitch darkness were common.

It is rather strange to reflect that, until the coming of the lighting restrictions, most of the present, generation had never really seen the town at dusk. And yet what a peculiar charm there Is now about the coming on of dark in a city. There is. let us frankly admit it, a touch of the sinister about the dark riibuths of narrow streets which by daylight are hut the most commonplace and sordid of routes to the backs of shops and warehouses. But they are for the time romantic, as well as sinister; there.Js a something Stevensonian about them, Stevenson of “Doctor Jekyll” and “The New Arabian Nights.” Darkness is the fairy godmother of commonplace buildings. It brings them gifts of breadth, of massiveness, of dignity. This pinchbeck incrustation, that shoddy bit of construction, it transfigures 'with a wave of its wand. Seen simply as a broad effect of light and shade, or rather of shaddow and deeper shadow, the newest building is at one. with the old, the/ tawdriest with the most austere.

( It was just at the corner of Wellington street the other night that I surprised one of those wonderful moments on the edge of darkness. In the light of its few and shrouded lamps Kingsw’ay gleamed faintly, like a frozen river under stars. Vehicles loomed up fa#‘"nfiiinute and were gone, motorbuses, laden lorries straining toward Waterloo, a motor ambulance with its Red Cross gleaming almost luminous on a white ground like the device on a knight’s shield in a dark forest. The faces of passers-by were seen*in a.moment in the light of a street lamp, then swallowed up in the ’ darkness. And above it all the stars—the same stars that looked upon the shell-racked glory of Verdun, the remnants that were Ypres and Reims; upon the trenches, the hospitals, the silent dead; and the ships at their stately vigil in the northern seas.

The Higher Duties.

All the world complains nowadays of a press of trivial duties and engagements, which prevents their employing themselves on some higher ground they know of; but, undoubtedly, if they were made of the right stuff to work on that higher ground, provided they were released from all those engagements, they would now at once fulfill the superior engagement, and neglect all the rest, as naturally as they breathe. They would never be Caught saying that they had no time for this, when the dullest man knows that this is all that he has time for. No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts tne lesser duty above Jhe greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work on high things but he has also the ability to build himself a higher staging.—Thoreau.

At Home and Abroad.

"Solomon was the wisest man, wasn’t he?” ; * “I’m not sure,” replied Miss Cayenne. “Of course he managed to get a reputation with the public. But I’d like to know what some of those wives had te say about him.”

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE . I Notes Covering Most Important Ha|> penings of the World Compiled ' In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. If. S—Teutonic Break The last day <>f the first month of unrestricted L'-boat warfare leaves the month's total; 28.000 tons below the half-million mark. This total, however, includes only vessels ’definitely reported by name to have been sunk ami does not include the toll oh February 28. ' . / • • * Three American consuls and two consulate officers are still detained in Germany because the German government declines to secure for them safe conducts through Austria-Hungary that they may proceed to new posts in Turkey, it was learned at Washington. It is understood they are detained because of failure of this government to secure safe conducts for German consuls here to South American posts.

• • » Complete arrangements for the withdrawing of American diplomatic and consular officers from Austria-Hungary have been made by Ambassador Penfield on instructions from the.state department at Washington. • • • German Chancellor von BethmannHollweg told the German rpichstag at Berlin that President Wilson’s action in breaking off relations with Germany* was “unprecedented.*' He characterized the method by which America terminated friendly intercourse as “brusque.”

Demand that the United States avenge his mother’s and sister's death was made in a cable dispatch from London to President Wilson by Austin Hoy. Both Mrs. Hoy and her daughter lost their lives on the liner Laconia. • • » Berlin reports that German submarines which have just returned to their base report the sinking of 21 ships. Eleven were steamers, two were sailing ships and eight were trawlers. Among the steamers sunk was a British transport, A-19. ’* *. * Authority to place the United States on a basis of armed neutrality to meet the Gorman submarine campaign would be conferred on President Wilson by a resolution introduced in the house at Washington by Chairman Flood of - the foreign relations committee. ♦ «. » Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy. wife and daughter Of Dr. Albert H. Hoy. formerly of Chicago but now of London, were drowned when the Cunard liner Laconia was torpedoed anfi sunk by a German submarine off the poasf of Ireland. Of the 291 passengers and members of the crew on board the vessel, seven besides Mrs. and Miss Hoy are reported missing.

♦ ♦ ♦ * .. It" was announced at The Hague that the German government has offered to replace the seven Dutch merchantmen which were torpedoed off the English coast last week with German freighters until the end of the war on condition, that Holland purchase them afterward. Two hundred persons were killed and 700 wounded and 80,000 tons of ammunition was destroyed by the blowing up of a French ammunition plant near Paris, says a dispatch to the Overseas News agency at Berlin.

Telegraphing from Madrid Reuter’s correspondent says that James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany, left the Spanish capital on a special train for Coruna, where the party will embark for the voyage to the United States. The Duke of Zaragoza drove the engine, having volunteered sot the task. ♦ • * Government troops in Cuba have captured Camaguey, It is announced officially. The rebels fled after offering slight resistance. It is reported from Santa Clara that heavy fighting at Loma del Grillo resulted in the defeat of rebel forces under Gerardo Machado and Sanchez del Portal.

Domestic v Four men were killed and one injured at Cincinnati when an automobile in which they were riding collided with a Madison road street car. ♦ ♦ * Legislation granting women limited suffrage was killed so far as. the present session of the Tennessee legislature is concerned when the state senate voted 18’to 10, to table a to reconsider a bill for that purpose. W. J. Bryan, in a statement issued at ■» Jacksonville, Fla., announced he was opposed to granting powers to the president such as Mr. Wilson requested of congress. He announced he would go immediately to Washington and use his influence to have the request de-

. More than 200 employees of the Rock Island shops at Cedar Rapids, la., telegraphed to Congressman Good a resolution supporting the stand of President Wilson on the rupture with Germany. A petition favoring/peace had been circulated in the shops and tQ this the 200 men object. Twenty-two homeward bound employees of the Ohio Steel foundry were hurled through the air and then crushed beneath train wheels when a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight struck their auto-bus at Lima,, O. Seven were killed and'twelve hurt. • » • While crossing the Mississippi river on the ice in an auto, Jesse Welch of Montpelier. la., and Clifton Brisgel and the son of the station agent at the same place, were drowned. ♦ .. * Robbers got from a vault of the First National bank ;it Dayton, pa., §15,and an uiiesri mated amount of securities. Food prices were tumbling when 281 carl««ad- of foodstuffs arrived in New York and broke the “corners” which had been existing for weeks.

European War News Strenuous attacks, carried out by German troops in the Carpathians, resulted in the capture of several Russian positions on the heights, 12 officers and more than 1,300 men, it was officially announced at Berlin. Several counter-attacks were repulsed. The sundFy civil bill, carrying appropriations totaling §138,000,000 and providing $4 w.tnjp for an investigation of the high cost of living by the federal trade commission, passed the house at Washington without a record vote. • * • The war office at London announced that British troops occupied the important village of Gommecourt and captured the villages of Thilloy and Puie-sieux-Au-Mont as well, advancing their , ..line more than half a mile to the northeast of Gommecourt. * / Turkish troops taken prisoner by the British at Kut-el-Amara now number several thousands, Earl Curzon, member of the war council, stated in the house of lords at London. The British advance along the Ancre river has attained a depth of two miles and extends along a front of about,, eleven miles, according to the officiaP report to London from British headquarters in France.

Twenty-six Americans, six of whom were cabin passengers, and twenty paid members of tine crew, were on board the Cunard liner Laconia, from New York February 18 for Liverpool, with 75 passengers and a crew of 216, when the vessel was sunk by a German submarine off Ireland. « « • The British have captured Kut-el-Amara. the war office announced at London, aftd now are pursuing the retreating Turks. » • • German destroyers bombarded Broadstairs and Margate, England. One woman and one child were killfed and two persons were injured. Two houses were damaged. This announcement was made in the house of commons.

A dispatch .from The Hague „says Holland’s strained relations with Germany are near the breaking point as result of attacks by submarines on seven Dutch steamships. General indignation is expressed over the attacks, which are termed "deliberate.’’ Germgpy tacitly agreed to except Dutch ships from attack up to February 22, •‘But could not guarantee absolute safety." The seven ships were attacked on February 22. ‘ Under cover of a heavy fog and mist, the Germans carried out the greatest retirement they have made on the; western front in the last two years. The British have swept into possession of Pys, Serve. Miraumont and Petit Miraumont, including the famous Butte de Warlencourt. The German retirement is estimated by the war office in London at a depth of three miles at some points.

Washington The administration revenue bill, designed to raise 8350,000,000 through special taxes and bond issues, was passed by the senate at Washington by a strict party vote. 47 to 33. “I have done, am now doing and will continue to do everything in my power to keep the United States at peace.” This was the assurance given a group of pacifists by President Wilson at Washington. * • • Bids were opened by the” navy department at Washington for 2,400 onepound guns and mounts. 250 three-inch guns and mounts and several four and five-inch mounts. These guns are the type most effective against submarines. William Jennings Bryan is ready to a support President Wilson in his request to congress for enlarged powers to protect American lives and property on the seas and for the maintenance of armed neutrality. He made this statement at Washington. A unanimous report saying that no one save two Washington newspaper men—J. Fred Essary and W. W. Price —were responsible for whatever “leak” there was on President Wilson’s peace note, was presented to the house at Washington.