Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1917 — Page 8

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HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Jasper Makeever is reported not so well as last week. Jasper Wright returned Thursday from his visit with his son Ray at Pueblo, Colorado. Mrs. Merry, who has been considerably indisposed for - several weeks, is quite a little improved now. ■, Mrs. Floyd Sampson and two children went to Fowler Thtlrsday to visit her mother and other relatives. Mrs. S. H. Shryver and daughter of Chicago came Saturdaj' to visit her sisters and other relatives here. Estol Doty came from Warsaw Tuesday and is visiting in the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Olive Seward. M. M. Redman of Wilmington, Illinois, came Monday for a visit with his brother-in-law, Dr. J. T. Martin.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hopkins of Donovan, Illinois, visited Mr. Hopkins’ parents, Mr. and. Mrs. C. J. Hopkins, here Sunday. Mrs. Arthur Putt r> r Virgie visited her son. .-uandisb, northeast of town Tbursdi' Mr. Standish’s wife has been quite sick for several days. Mrs. W. T. Shaw went to Muncie Saturday to visit her son, Raymond Stucker, and wife. ißaymond is an instructor in the business college there. Mrs. Vance Collins of Rensselaer and Mrs. Otis Phillips of Roselawn came Saturday to pay their father, Jasper Makeever, a visit. Mr. Makeever still remains quite poorly, J. M. Witham was over from Parr Thursday consumating a deal with W, R. Lee for a 100-acre farm. It is a tract of land about 10 miles northwest of town, Which Mr. Lee recently came into possession. » .Elmer Stucker and family, who juSt recently moved to Mt. Ayr from a farm near Brook, will remain residents of our village olily for a short time. Last week they went to Bluffton in Wells county on a visit, and while there rented a farm about four miles southeast of that town.

McCOYSBURG

Mrs. J. R. Phillips was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Owen Barker’s baby is a great deal better at this writing. Leonard Widner is numbered among the sick at this writing. Frank Cochran and family were guests of Jake Ray and family Sunday. Wilson Bussell and family were guests of his brother Royal and family Sunday. Mrs. R. V. Johns and Mrs. Paul Stevens called on Mrs. Robert McDonald Sunday. k Vern Ray of Elwood spent a few days with his parents, Jake Ray and family, last week. 'Miss Alice Huffman of Remington was the guest of Mrs. Levi Herr and family over Sunday. Mrs. Will Willett was called to Rensselaer Monday by the serious illness of her mother. Mrs. Mary Anne Robinson is spendtug a few days with her son, Dan Robinson, at Rensselaer. Robert John’s wife and baby and Ru* Cochran were guests of J.

'Ros® and family at near Lee over Sunday. S. E. Cook has the measles, and his is the first case in the burg s® far. He is getting along nicely. Al Campbell daughter Bertha <of Mt. Ayr werejguests of the former’s sister, Mrp. Charles Ferguson, rand family over .Sunday. There will be preaching at this place Friday and Saturday evening ’and on Sunday afternoon at 3 Let all he present and hear the good messages that are always given.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss, Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of CINE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL’S CATARRH CURE. . FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D 1886. A. W. GLEASON, (Seal) Notary Public. । Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-1 ternally and acts through the blood' on the mucous surfaces of the sys-1 tem Send for testimonials, free. 1 F* J. CHENEY &CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Hall’s' Family Pills for constipation. —Advt.

LEE

Eva Creel has gone to live with Mrs. Foulk again. Hubert Maxwell lost one of his horses Sunday night. Hubert Maxwell and wife spent Wednesday with her people. Orval Holeman and family and his mother ate Sunday dinner at Ray Holman’s. C. A. Lefler and Joseph Clark and their families went to Gifford Marrs Sunday for dinner. Mrs C. A. Holman spent part of last week with her son, George, and family of Montlcellq. On Friday of last week Uncle David Culp was taken to his son, William’s, stood the trip very well and is'able to sit 1 uP a little at a time. Morris Jacks and family took dinner Punday with G. A. Jacks and •rtfe- They all took a drive to Rensselaer in the afternoon to call on Vernon Jacks and family. Frank Floyd’s wife, whoje mind has been bad, lost complete control of herself and last week they had to take her to Monticello to await an opening in the Central hospital at Indianapolis. She leaves her husband and five children, the youngest one being only two weeks old.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

William B. McNeil et ux to Minnie H Miller, February .23, lots 7, 8, block 2, Wheatfield, Graham’s John A. Teter et ux to Robert W. Burris et ux, January 20, lots 13, 14, block 11, Rensselaer, Weston’s addition, $1,400. John W. Mannan to Elizabeth Cullen, March 2, lot 6, Dunnville, Mannan’s second addition, SSO. John W. Mannan to Samuel J, Cuyen, March 2, lot 3, Dunnville, Mannan’s second addition, SSO. Thomas A. Hunter et ux to Caj'l I. Mcßeynolds, March 12, part s% se, 24-27-7, Carpenter, sl. August Sorenson ux to Charles T. Battleday, March 14, se sw, 30-29-7, Newton, $4,700. Edgar F. Hiatt et ux to Annah J. Magel, January 30, ne, 7-31-6, Walker, sl.

COURT NEWS

PROBATE MATTERS Estate of Carl H, Sternberg. Edward G. Sternberg, executor, files final report, showing charges of $107,749.24, and credits of $107,347.31. Court allows George A. Williams SSO for services as attorney for executor and allows latter $351.93 for I his services. Report approved, ekecutor released and discharged apd cause dropped.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION < No. 1082' Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the judge of the circuit court of Jasper county, state of Indiana, administrator of the estate of John W. Harris, late of Jasper county, deceased. Said- estate is supposed to be solvent. / ERNEST HARRIS, March 7, 1917, Administrator. 1 ' mlO-17-21 All kinds of fancy correspondence stationery in stock in The Democrat’s stationery department.

Cut Prices on Tires MM MM The most economical tire bn the market at price. Schroer’s Garage Phone 78-D

ALL TIRED OUT. Hundreds More in Rensselaer in the Same Plight. Tired ;all the time; Weary and worn out night and day; Back aches; head aches, Your kidneys are probably-weak-ened. . You should help them at their work. ' . Let one who knows tell you how. Mrs. Joseph Adams, Work and Vanßensselaer streets, Rensselaer, says: *T suffered very murh from kidney disorders. My kidneys acted too often and ! could get iittle rest at night, The kidney secretions were scanty and caused annoyance. I felt tired out all the time and was nervous and blue. Sometimes flashes of color kept coming before my eyes. My head ached and it •seemed as though I would go wild. Doan’s Kidney Pills, which we got at A. F. Long’s drug store, relieved me wonderfully.” Price 506, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedyget Doan’s Kidney Pills— the same that Mrs. Adams had. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.—Advt.

SCHEDULE OF DEMONSTRATIONS

County Agent Announces Time and Places for Pruning Trees. March 19, 10 a. m., John Rush. March 19, 2 p. m., Nehemiah Hopkins. During the week of March 26 J. F. Pipal ’of Purdue willin the county conducting a series of oat smut demonstrations. Farmers desiring such work on their farm may secure demonstrations upon application to the county agent.

VlxrcteS - Baptist Rev. F. IL ’Beard, pastor.—Sunday school, 8:30 a. m.: worship and sermon, 10:45 a. m.; James school house—Sunday school at 2 and preaching at 3 p. m.; worship and sermon, 7 p. m. With the evening service the simultaneous spiritual campaign begins in earnest. Rev. A. V. Rowland" of Anderson will have Charge of the singing and assist in these meetings. Let every member plan to be in every service during the two weeks this united effort is on. The success of your church depends largely upon youi( support in attendance, service and prayer. Pray, that our Lord, through the churches of Rensselaer, united in action, will get honor, glory and victory unto himself, by overthrowing sin and establishing righteousness in the life of our community. Come, boost your church by being loyal to your Master, a willing worker for Him, ever ready “to do what He wants you to do, to go' where He wants you to go and to be what He wants you to be.’’ Methodist Rev. E. W. Strecker, pastor.— 9:30 a. m., t Sunday school; 10:45 a. .m., worship and sermon, subject: “Preparation for a Revival”; 6 p. m., Epworth League, topic: “Regalvanizing Indifferent Members,’s’ leader —Mr. Wass; 7 p. m., worship and sermon, subject: “Casting .Dice at the Foot of the Cross.” The revival meetings have now been carried into individual churches for the next two Weeks. The pastor of this church most earnestly pleads with his members to set aside everything else and attend these meetings reguraly. Indifferent members always tend to kill a.church. Your presence is most important. Presbyterian Rev. J. Budman Fleming, minister.—9:3o a. m., Sunday school; 10:45 .a. in., worship and sermon, 7 p. m., worship and sermon. Gospel preaching and good singing each evening, next week, excepting Saturday. A cordial welcome awaits all Who attend these services. Church of God Elder S. J. Lindsay will be at the Church of . God next Saturday and Sunday, conducting the following services: Saturday, 7:30 Pm., Bible lesson; Sunday, 9:30 a. m.’ Bible lesson; 10:45 a. m., sermon; 7 p. m,, sermon, German Evangelical Lutheran Rev. H. F. M. J- Krohn, pastor. —Services will be held at the St. Johannes church northeast of Parr next Sunday, March-18, at IQ:30 a. m. Sermon by the pastor, Kniman English and also German Evangelical Lutheran services will be held in Emanuel congregation’s church at Kniman next Sunday, March 18, at 2:30 p. m. Serman by Rev. H. F. M. J. ’Krohn, pastor. Christian Science Christian Science services at 11 a. mu every Sunday in the auditorium of Oie pubDc library. Public cordially Invited. F, ts

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U. S.—Teutonic Break A United States soldier, now being detained in the guardhouse at El Paso, Tex., on a technical charge, is connected with a German plot involving Mexico and Germany in war with the United States, according to admissions by army officers; The soldier is pf the Seventh cavalry. A fleet of armed vessels is being prepared quietly by the navy department for the protection of the port of Chicago and other important Great Lakes points against raids from the water by foreign sympathizers in case the United States goes to war. The American steamer Algonquin has been destroyed by a German submarine. The crew was saved, J. C. Stephens, the American consul at Plymouth, reported to Washington. Capt. A. Nordberg declared lie had no warning before the submarine opened fire with live shells. The Algonquin was a freighter. The submarine refused assistance. Four bombs were used to sink the ship. • • *

Confidential diplomatic reports to Washington from the representatives of a neutral government in Mexico passing through Washington on their way to Europe say the German bank in Mexico City and the German legation there are guiding virtually the entire financial and diplomatic affairs of Mexico. » • • AdJL Gen. Louis W. Stotesbury of the New York National Guard received a communication at New York from the war department requesting him to notify commanders of units in that state to be prepared for quick mobilization. The governors of the New England states, after several hours’ conference at Boston dn the “present disturbed condition of affairs,” adopted resolu tions pledging their support, and the support of the people of their states, to the president in carding out his announced policy of protecting United States lives and property on the high seas. • * • The American freight steamship Navajo arrived at New’ York after running the German submarine blockade. The Navajo left Liverpool on February 19 in ballast. ♦ * • " Seven lives were lost and one American played in jeopardy in the sink-' ing without warning by a submarine - of the -Cunard freighter Folio of 6,705 tons gross off the Irish coast Sunday.! Consul Frost at Queenstown cabled a report to the state department at, Washington. * ♦ ♦ Formal notice that American ships traversing the German submarine zone are to carry “armed guard for the protection of the vessel and the lives of the persons on board,” was sent by the state department at Washington to embassies and legations of all eign governments in Washington. * • • Navy department officers at Washington are preparing for the defense of j the nation against war by buying! 16 nonrlgid dirigible airships for coast; and harbor patrol work. They will cost $649,250. . v • • • Members of the crew’s of German Interned ships will probably be removed soon to quarters such as comfortable army barracks, it was indicated at Washington. K--_ ; J * * Fritz Wolf, taken into custody at Chicago on the suspicion of being an escaped member of the crew of the interned commerce raider Prinz Eitel Frederich, and thought also to have been a German spy, was released by the department of justice. * ♦ *

Domestic Harry K. Thaw was adjudged a lunatic by the common pleas court of Philadelphia, and under the law cannot be taken to New York on requisition to stand trial on charges of assaulting Frederick Gump, Jr., a high school student of Kansas City, Mo. Thaw will be kept in St. Mary’s hospital here pending his removal to a Pennsylvania asylum. v William Clayton, vice president and managing director of the Spreckles’ companies, was shot twice and probably family wounded by Lorenzo Bellomo, a bootblack, at San Diego, CaL • • • Seven persons were killed with an ax by Addie Green, an insane negro woman, near Nashville, Ark. She killed her husband and their six chib dren. - The woman surrendered and confessed she killed her husband, but she has no recollection of killing the children. , , ' .- The resolution to provide for a referendum on the woman suffrage question at the state election next November was passed in the senate at Albany, N. Y., by a vote of 38 to 7. The measure now goes to the governor.

Max R. Class, director of a bank at "Brownsville, Minn., was killed and -nine other persons were hurt, when the three coaches of the La CrosseI’reston passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & SL Paul railroad left the rails on the Camp creek bridge near Preston, Minn., and plunged into the shallow water below. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, stirred by a criticism of comimlsory military, service in an address at New York, , turned on the speaker. Rev. Adolph A. Berld of Boston, and declared the doctrine he preached “means the murder of our sons and the dishonor of our women.” ‘

European War News The Chilean minister to Great Britain has'Tieen instructed to lodge a vigorous protest with the British foreign office over violation of Chilean neutrality by British warships. Authentic information received in Chicago says that the allies'are landing tl)op.sarids of Japanese troops on the western Canadian coast and transporting them by rail to Quebec and thence to France. • * » It is officially announced at Tokyo that a converted German cruiser has been sighted in the Indian ocean and that it is now being chased by Japanese and British warships. The German has sunk a Japanese freighter. ♦ ♦ * . About sixty German submarines were captured and destroyed between January 1 and February 15, according to reports reaching Washington, the first authoritative word of the entente success in coping with the undersea boats. ••• i ' •J. lie official report to London from British headquarters in France announces the abandonment by the Germans of their main defensive system west of Bapaume on a front of three and one-half miles. The British troops occupied Grevillers and Loupart wood. It was announced at Copenhagen that the Danish steamer Rosburg, carrying a cargo of corn from Baltimore to Denmark, has been sunk with the loss of six lives. The captain and 11 men were landed on the Norwegian coast. After announcing the fall of Bagdad in the house of commons at London, Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, said there was every reason to believe that two-thirds of the Turks' artillery hail fallen into the hands of the British, or had been thrown into the Tigris. ■ „ Bagdad, the chief Turkish city in Mesopotamia and formerly the capital o£ the empire of the caliphs, has been

Benefit For Newcastle Sufferers A benefit show will be given Sunday afternoon at both the Star and Princess Theatres for the benefit of the Newcastle cyclone sufferers. Special Reels Have Been Secured and the entire proceeds over the actual expenses will go to the fund being raised all over the state for those who lost friendsand property in last Sunday afternoon’s cyclone, Shows will start at 1:30 and three shows will probably be put on at each theatre. The shows will be given in the afternoon only, no shows being given at night. Regular Admission will be Chareed Come Out and Help a Worthy Cause

captured by the' British forces. Announcement of the capitulation of the city was made by the British official press bureau at Londoh.

PForhmgTon Another step toward making the United States navy the equal Of any in the world was taken wpen Secretary of the Navy Daniels opened bids at Washington for six new scout cruisers. \ • The senate foreign relations committee at Washington approved in modified form the treaty with Colombia by which the - United States would pay that republic $25,000,000 for the separating of Panama froih Colombia. It will be pressed to a vote in the present special session of the senate. * * ♦ Despite the submarine dangers and other risks, nearly as many Immigrants came to the United States during the last six months as in the entire year 1916, when 298,826 entered, the federal bureau of immigration reported at Washington. It was announced at Washington that President Wilson is fully recovered from his recent cold, due to exposure during the inaugural. » ♦ * ’ i

Foreign Gen. Paul Maurice Emmanuel Sarratt's engagement to Mlle, de Joannls, a member of the French nursing staff with General Sarrail’s army, was announced officially at Saloniki. Sarratt, who is sixty-one years old, is commander of the allied forces in Macedonia. * * * American Minister Reinsch at Peking reported to the state department at Washington that China had severed diplomatic relations with Germany and that the German minister had been handed his passports. China hastaken possession of all German merchantships in Shanghai. Count von Bernstorff, former Ger 4 man ambassador to the United arrived at Christiania, Norway, om board the steamship Fredertk VIIL ' Premier Tuan Chi-Jul of China, accompanied by the entire cabinet, appeared before the house and the sen-, ate at Peking and stated that the cabinet and the president had decided that China should sever diplomatic relations with Germany. The house approved severance of relations by a vote of 431 to 87. The funeral of Count Zeppelin was held at Stuttgart, Germany. King. William it was present at the ceremony, which was brief, owing to the. Illness of the coyntess.