Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — Page 8

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Adrian Foster went to Chicago Friday evening to visit his brother Leonard for a few days. Mrs. Charles Denham of Brook came Wednesday to spend a few days with her relatives here; Mrs. Jambs Bell of Woodland was a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Walker, Wednesday. Miss Lola Skinner returned to Bloomington" Monday after spending the ..Easter vacation with her .parents. . . ‘ C William Bickel of Agency, lowa, visited the families of Mrs. Maiy Bickel and Jason Bickel the first of the week. - "K ■

Miss May Maxwell of Markle, who was here to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Will Skiff, visited Peter Mann’s over night. Russel . Timmons, who had been • epending she winter in the South has, like the birds of spring, migrated North for the summer. Arthur Hartman had the misfortune to break his collar bone on Wednesday afternoon in falling from a scaffold while at work. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Yeoman of Indianapolis drove through Saturday and spent Sunday with his mother and other relatives here. Samuel Wilson of Emporia, Kansai, canfe Tuesday evening to the bedside of his brother John, who is in a very critical condition again. Irene and Harry Howard went to Lafayette Monday night to visit Mr. ahd Mrs. Marion Parks before returning to Bloomington 4on Tuesday. Mrs. EUa Parks, son Marion and bride of Lafayette, Mrs. Will Beal and daughter Marceline of Wqlcott were Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kyle. Mrs.' Anna Hegler of Loveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Adda Paxton of Cincinnati, Ohio, returned to their homes Wednesday after a several days’ visit with the Johnston families. Mrs. T. B. Markin of Mishawaka came Wednesday to visit her daughter, Mrs, Alvis, who has been quite sick for the past few days. Mr. Markin joined her here Saturday evening. Emmet O’Connor of Logansport spent Wednesday with his mother here. Emmet was in a train wreck at Washington Heights Saturday morning and as a h'W has a lame knee, from jumfn»g as his engine turned over. -No one was seriously injured. .

An accident la?t Saturday afternoon to Romeo,', the (J-year-old son of Mr. and MMrs. George who reside< a fewmiles-’this . Fowler, resulted in the death. A tree • had been cht d°'' :l and a team hitched to ' child got in tlje ' v ‘‘f team started and from I which it died. . The remains b( • Mrs. William Skiff of Wa>eM. Illinois, were, brought -hej«£ on Sunday evening ; and burksZin the cemetery beside, her fatjiddN. * Mrs. Skiff was the eld- ; est Miatighter of Mrs. Anna Brew-1 sU'C formerly of Remington, but lite years had made her home with this daughter. Mrs. Skiff had been in poor health for many months with inward goiter and heart trouble, and for the past two weeks had been in a west’ side hospital for treatment, where she died Friday. Besides her husband and mother she leaves one son Ernest of .Sheldon, Illinois, and two sisters, Mrs. Ed. Maxwell of Indiana; and Miss Kate Brewster of Chicago. The funeral was 'held at the Skiff residence in Watseka Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Smith of the Sheldon Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. Gleiser of

The Old Reliable Hayes Four-Wheel Planter ft * - 11 fi ■ / / ' //\ li&L? / /rm gS ¥r !^ ! z&\ A "a. 7 I ■■ is®. ~~ fl The easiest handled; one man and team, most accurate drop. Has been 35 years in the field and still stands superior to all.. I Ask your neighbor. WARNER BROSn Rensselaer, Ind.

Watseka. The bereaved family have the sympathy of their many friends in this community.

McCOYSBURG

Paul Stevens was in Rensselaer Wednesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Will Willett were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Danibl Ga'rstine Was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Sadie and Grace Herr called on Mrs. Levi Herr and family Sunday. George Johnson and wife spent Sunday with their son near RenSselaef. '( ■ • •' ; Clarence Cochran and faniily spent Sunday with Frank Ringeisen .and family. R. L. Busselb and family were ■ guests of Morris Jacks and family at Lee Sunddy.o i Airs. ‘-Chuck” Lowman and two children were - guests of friends at Parr over Sunday. j Albert-Campbell ■of Monon spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. Charles Eerguson, and family. i S. E. Cook and wife and Mrs. I Wash Cook were guests of Robert McDonald and faniily Sunday. Mrs. Wilson Bussell spent a few I days with her husband at Ifammond, where the latter is working. J Ross and family, Robert Johns and family and Ruth Cochran were I guests of Jacob ’ Raj' and familj; 1 Sunday. Owen Barker’s two youngest 'children• have.-the..measles, and • weguess thej' are the last ones to have them. Mrs. J. R. Phillips is spending a few- days with her daughter, Mrs. Roy McDonald, and other friends at Monticello. Vern Roy, who is working at Elwood, came Wednesday evening to spend a few days with his parents, Jacob Ray and family. There will be Sunday school and church Sunday at the regular hour. Let everybody come as it has been some time since we have had either.

“A balloon is sent up at New York city on an absolutely calm day remains in the air for one hour, drifting in the moderate currents of the . upper air, and descending a few 'miles from the place which it was sent up. How is it that the place of descent is not some spot adjacent to Chicago, if the theory of the earth’s revolution is correct?’’ This problem was propounded in a letter to the Scientific American, and received this answer: The’ simple answer to your inquirj’ is that the air is part of the earth' and rotatoes with it just as the water does’. If it did not Hu r woeuld be a tremendous wind form the east of nearly 1,000 miles an hour at the equator, and about -550 miles in our latitude. This is apparent if you recall the •wind which is felt when going 'swiftly through still air on a car. The jjir .is held upon'the earth by 'gMfwty and constitutes a part of revolving globe in a very real sense. . _ ’

Every farmer who owns bis farm ought to have printed stationery with his name and the name of postoffice properly given. The prim ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he special izes in or his specialties in stock. Neatly printed stationery gives you personality and a standing with any person or firm to whom you write and insures the proper reading oi your name and address. "Straight hair is the longest known; wooly hair the shortest. The length is almost the same in both sexes in certain races having straight hair redskins), and also in the majority of races with culrling hair; it is scarcely so among the races with waving hair, in whomi it is more or less manifestly longer in the female.

Indiana News Tersely Told

Muncie holds the record for enlistments, with 104 in one day, of which 57 were accepted. - War conference has been called at Indianapolis for April 20 by Indiana Mayors’ association. Columbus high school mathematicians have figured that .the national waste of bretftl per day amounts to sso,ooo. Sfife in Galbreath & Co.'s grocery at Cayuga blown by robbers. Every man in Nashville has agreed to plant an acre of potatoes. ■ Boonville lodge of Elks has offered services of members to government. / George X. 11ged a11 pointctl agricultural agefit of Warwick county. Law rence.White's auto turmd turtle at Tipton, breaking both arms. Rev. John D. Bretz is the new pastor of Boonville- St. John's Evangelical chufch, Marion National Bank building, Marion’s only seven-Story sky scraper, is completed. Prof. A. R. Charman, aged fiftyseven, thirty-five years instructor in State Normal school, ftt Terre Haute. ' Sanitary corps organized at Kokomo by Dr. B. A. Thompson. _ . , Forty-second annual meeting of the Home and Foreign Missionary society of the Indianapolis presbytery held at Columbus. Home of J. F. B. Lanier at Madison will be purchased and presented to the Jefferson County Historical association. Indiana Music Teachers’ association held three days’ session at Indianapolis. . A. L. Stewart, wife and son of Rushville have offered their services to their country. Culver Military’ academy has been offered to the government for training of troops. Indiana Evangelical association held its sessions at Markle. , R. E. Todd, president of the East Chicago company, has offered his yacht to the government. ••» ■£- ■Two hundred and fifty miners of the West Clinton Coal company were expelled at Terre Haute by the Indiana United Mine Workers for striking without the sanction of the union. Will Heady and son, Lee-, were burned to death and his wife was probably fatally injured when their their home at Berlin, Okla., was They moved from Terre Haute to Oklahoma recently.

High price of foodstuffs has closed twp restaurants at Elwood. Train dispatching between Logansport and Richmond is being done by telephone. - \ Contract for• Wild i son highway on Ripley-Posey township line, let at Rushville to D, 11. Fatout of Indianapolis for $(>,11)5. Henri Clayss cutlery factory at Tipton Will be rebuilt and enlarged. Carpenters are on strike at Crawfordsville for 45 cents per hour. Oldest legislator is Assemblyman William Everson, Jefferson county, aged seventy seven. Post .office will be established at Aliceville mining camp. At Vincennes Charles Lankforn of Edwardsport found guilty of assault with intent to kill Robert T. Reeves. Brazil city council votes $7,000 to improve park system. Christian Lucky, German, arrested at Indianapolis for' threat on the president's life. Seventeen dogs killed at Rockport following hydrophobia scare. Notra Dame university has bought the Brownson library of 3,500 volumes. Sheriff ordered to destroy six and one-half barrels of beer found in restaurant of Oliver Garland at Birdseye. Samuel' Hobbs, negro, given life sentence for killing John Clay at Evansville.

West Central Dental association in annual session at Lafayette asks registry of dentists available for war services be made. Knights of Pythias of Indiana will raise regiment for the war. Suit of Alva Williams of Bedford for SIO,OOO settled by the B. & O. Southwestern for $4,000. Mrs. Emma Winifred Short, wife of Luther Short, newspaper man and former consul to Turkey, died of heart disease at Franklin. Enraged parents of Irving school district, Hammond, demand ousting of Miss Carna P. Herndon, principal, for giving boy pupils a needed bath. Military training started among the school boys at Greencastle. At Newcastle contract for the Morris and Lewis road let to George Hoppes of Anderson for $9,998. Rev. W. E. Kunz has resigned as pastor of First Presbyterian church at Bourbon. *. Wayne Carson, a little four-year-old, fatally injured when caught in milk wagon wheel at Logansport. Warsaw will get the next North Indiana Methodist conference. J. C. Kline of Lagrange county elected county agent. Rev. J. W. Armstrong is the new pastor of the Charlestown Presbyterian church. Baptists of the southeastern Indiana district held convention at North Vernon. The 600-acre farm at the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville will jaise produce this year. A bug flew into his eye and caused Reuben N. Crafty, a tobacco buyer of Lawrenceburg to release his hand on the steering gear and his auto ran into a tree, severely injuring him.

A MESSAGE of Vital Importance to Every Man and Young Man Deeply conscious of our responsibility< as an institution of service, in this community, having clothed the larger part of Rensselaer’s men and boys during the past few years, we believe it incumbent upon us to keep our patrons correctly informed of clothing conditions. You will recall that this institution publicly predicted an era of high prices over four months back, and urged its patrons to govern their purchases accordingly. Thousands of men profited by this suggestion. Now war has been declared, creating a crisis in the woolen market which directly involves and materially affect every man’s personal interests. Already the United States government has been offered all the wool in the Boston market, much of which was expected to be used in the manufacture of civilian clothing. We anticipated this era of high prices, and provided the largest stock of clothing, hats and furnishings for men, youths, boys and children ever shown to the citizens of Rensselaer and surrounding country. We have not raised our prices, nor do we intend to do so until our present stocks are exhausted. We now again urgently and conscientiously advise immediate shopping for present and later needs —the only way to evade the high prices of the future. The Clothing House of WILLIAM TRAUB I. O. O. F. Building Rensselaer, Ind.

/fa'll urcK xlircleS Methodist Rev. E. W. Strecker, pastor.— 9:30 a. m., Sunday school; 10:45 a. m., worship, baptism, reception of members and communion service; 6:30 p. m., Epworth League, topic: “IHtow God Guides,” leader— Mr. Stoneburner; 7:30 p. m., worship and sermon by pastor.* The pastor will preach the first of a series' of sermons on the “Parable of the Good Samaritan,” under the following subjects: “Perils of the Jericho Road,” “The Other Side,” “True Benevolence 1 * and “Policing the Jericho Road.” Presbyterian Rev. j. Budman Fleming, minister. —9:30 a. ml, Bible school, George A. Williams, superintendent; 10:45 a. m., worship and sermon, subject: “Absent from the Body—Present with the Lord”: 7:30 p. m., worship and sermon, subject: “Preparedness.” Come and worship with us and strengthen the hop© that holds and will not slip in these troublesome times. Baptist Rev. F. H, Beard, pastor. —Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; worship and sermon, 10:30 a. m.; James school house; Sunday school, 2 p. 1 m., and preaching, 3 p. m.; wor-' ship and sermon, 7:30 p. m.;j prayer meeting every Thursday, I

7:30 p. m. The Missionary society will meet with Mrs. F. H. Beard Friday at 2:30 p. m. Church of God Elder S. J. Lindsay will conduct the following services at the Church of God—Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p. m., Bible lesson; Sunday, April la, a. m., Bible lesson; 10:45 a. m., sermon; 7:30 •p. m., sermon. Christian Science Christian Science services at 11 a. m. Sunday in the auditorium of thq public library. Public cordially invited. ts

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The New Hampshire legislature has passed a bill to prohibit the 'sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, to become effective May 1, 1918. Robbers entered the LongThompson lumber office at Knox ( Tuesday night and worked the comi binatiOn to the safe. They departed with<sss3 fc and left no clue. Charles Lowe of north of Monticello marketed a 980-pound hog at the latter place this week, and A. R. Bridges of northeast of that ’city marketed an 840-pounder. The former porker brought $135 and the latter slls.

A case is now on trial before Judge Berry of Fowler to determine the ownership of SI,OOO deposited in a bank there by the now defunct Columbia Casualty company of Lafayette, of which Dr. M. G. Traugh, formerly of Remington and Goodland, was secretary-treas-urer. The certificate of deposit was sold to a Chicago bank, which is now trying to collect the money. James Bingham has charge of the interests of the stockholders in the defunct company and contends that the money belongs to them. Two hundred and four persons were killed in automobile accidents in Indiana last year, according to/ statistics compiled by Henry A. Roberts, state statistician. His report, completed Wednesday, shows that 3,967 inquests were conducted in the state by coroners within the year 1916. The deaths from natural causes, where inquests were held, number 1,921. There were 145 homicides and 435 suicides. Deaths from accidents included the following: Killed on steam railways, 413; interurban railways, sixty-one; street railways, thirtysix; accidental drownings, 189; all other accidents, 767. Of the suicides 322 were males and 108 females. Purchase your calling cards, correspondence cards, correspondence stationery and envelopes from The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. We carry the most complete line te be found outside* the large.cities. •

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