Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1917 — Page 4

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U. S.—Teutonic War News Captain Rice of the American steamship Mongolia, which arrived at a British port, said that the Mongolia had fired the first gun *of the war for ithe United States and sunk a German submarine. .The. naval gunners *on board made a clean hit at 1,000 yards. The periscope*#®® be shattered. » ♦ • • Twenty steamships, runners of Germany's submarine blockade, arrived in 'the U. S. and thus imide available about 60,000 tons of space for cargo (awaiting means of transportation to (Europe. Four of these vessels are among the largest merchantmen affoat. One is a British craft on tls maiden ■voyage. ♦ ♦ ♦ Lieut. William F. Gresham, U. S. N., fend 11 American bluejackets, survivors of the American armed steamship (Aztec, destroyed on April 1 by a German submarine, arrived In the United States from a foreign port. Lieutenant Gresham declined to discuss the sinking. • • • The French commission has safely landed in the United States. The commission arrived in Washington on board the presidential yacht Mayflower from Hampton Roads. The commission, which includes Marshal Joffre and former Premier Viviani, arrived on board a speedy Csteamshlp of the French line, whitn was convoyed across the Atlantic. * • * From the lips of President Wilson himself Arthur J. Balfour, British secretary for foreign affairs, learned at Washington the grim purpose of the American government and people to employ all their resources to bring the imperial German government to terms. The president made it clear to Mr. Balfour that the United States fully realizes the greatness of the task it has assumed.’, ’ ♦ * * Brazil formally announced she will co-operate, with the United States in .sending munitions and supplies to the allies. » * * The British war mission, headed by. Foreign Secretary Arthur J. BalfoUr, arrived safely in Washington. The object of the commission, Mr. Balfour Said, was “to make co-operation easy and effective between those who are striving with all their power to bring about a lasting peace by the only, means tliint can secure it —namely, a successful war.” ♦

Domestic Fruit'in Illinois is safe with tli<* ex-cepti-m of pouches in the.central counties, according to the weekly crop bulletin issued by the United States Weather bureau at Springfield, ill. 'Minnesota’s public safety commission ordered all saloons, pool halls j arid nrotinn-picitire houses jUg * 011:011 sections of Minnesota closed, as its ; •first war ineasuro.. ♦»* . ; Shipping totaling cargo tonnageland paying tolls of $3,673.2. ►.». tor the year, passed through the I’aTuima canal in P.H'i. it was officially reported at Washingtoii. . j. * * * 1 C. B. I’ost, county agricultural agent of Wisconsin, started to seize till potatoes necessary for seed, lie has hvcn ordered to do this fiy C. I*- Norgord, - state commissioner of agricult tire. lite people cannot, hold the potatoes tor higher prices, ’* said Mr. Post. they will be taken and distributed where needed.” ■* * ■ The federal authorities.-distributed application blanks,, to several hundred German subjects at NevV York who wished permission to leave the country. Most of the Germans, it is understood, intend to go to South America, al-' though a considerable number .have asked permission to return to Germany. if * * More than 200,000 bushels of wheat and a - large wooden grain elevator knoWH as “Elevator A” of the Western Transportation company, owned by ' the Great Lakes Transit corporation, were destroyed by fire at Erie, Pa., with a loss estimated at $600,000. The grain, it is said, was'for the allies. ' * » * - ’ Two men are dead and sour 1 wounded as the result of a pistol fight near Hazard, Ky., said to be the outcome of an old feud. The dead are John B. Faltner and Roscoe Brewer. ..**■*■ ’ Because his wife and mother-in-law persisted in upholding the kaiser while he stood up for America in a war argument, Rev. Robert F. Berry, pastor of the Congregational church in —the Bronx Manor section of Yonkers, N. Y., shot and killed both women. He then committed suicide. A nation-wide movement to enlist an women and children in the food production campaign was set afoot at by the board of managera of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher associations.

Washington Secretary McAdoo handed the British ambassador at Washington a treasury warrant for the first loan made to an entente government by the United States under the $7,000,000,000 war finance measure. It was announced at Washington that a heavy over-subscription to the first offering, of the' new government security has resulted in haying the initial issue, which is in 3 per cent treasury certificates maturing .Tune 30, increased from S200,000?000 to $230,000,000. ; ? ? * • • Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, ranking Republican member of the committee on military affairs of the senate at Washington, is convinced the conscription bill will be passed by the senate without change. » • * Food conditions In several of the nations of the entente allies have been reported to the American government at Washington as critical. The entire weight of the administration is being thrown behind the recommendations of Secretary Houston to congress to strengthen the government machinery for controlling the food situation. • • • The personnel of the American commission to Russia has been decided on by President Wilson, It was learned at Washington. It is understood that Elihu Root, Charles R. Crane, Professor Harper of Chicago university and Theodore Rooveselt will be asked to serve on the commission. • • •

Foreign The new anti-government socialist party in Germany precipitated tumultuous disturbances in a meeting of the relchstag, according to Berlin dispatches to Amsterdam. The relchstag adjourned until May 2. • * • The German foreign office, according to a dispatch to London from the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at The Hague, has notified the American correspondents who have remained in Berlin that their presence in Germany Is no longer desirable. ♦ • • Troops dispersed a small crowd that attempted an unfriendly demonstration before the American embassy at Petrograd. Nicholas Lenine, a radical Socialist, recently arrived with a safe conduct through Germany, led the crowd. • • • The government of Argentine has sent to Germany an energetic note demanding complete satisfaction for the sinking of the Argentine sailing ship (Monte, Brotegido. The minister from Argentina is instructed to break off relations immediately if Germany attempts to evade responsibility for the loss'of the vessel. • » » ■•'K ■'

European War News Dunkirk was bombarded by German destroyers. British and French patrol ships ehgagvil the Germans, one of the French torpedo boats beiitg sunk, according to an official announcement made at Paris. * * ♦ An exodus of civilifins from Petrograd is described in a dispatch to the London dlxpress from the Russian capital. One permit office was besieged on Tmsday niortriiig byxSOQ persons. Hu* correspondent says the anxiety to leave the city is generally attributed to the fear of a Germah advance on the capital. • •’* ♦ * Two British destroyers on patrol duty in the English .Channel on the night of April 20 came upon a flotilla of six German dost royers, says a statement issued in London. Then ensued an encounter which will live long in Ihe history of naval engagements. The British destroyers.were the Swift and the Broke*. Although they had received severe damage they returned to port. The Spanish government's note to G ertna ny regarding Ger ma ny's siibnmrine ettmpaigri contains a paragraph , staling that if Germany continues in; its determi iiaf ion to; sink till vessels in order to defend its life, Spain must act for a like reason, •♦ ■ - A German; battleship and cruiser squadron lias left Libtiu. presumably to attempt an attack behind the Russian lines from the Baltic, according to official word to Petrograd from Riga. The ffispatch said that a number of transports, loaded with troops,, i were accompanying the German squadron from Eibau. * » * The battle of Arras, which has been i smoldering for*a week, burst into flaming fury again. The British captured the village of Gaxrelle, together with the hostile trench system of two and one-half miles to the southward as far as the cemetery at Rouex, Guemappe, south of Monchy, as well as Trescault, near Croissiles. Twelve hundred Germans were'taken prisoner. ? * '* * a An official dispatch from Petrograd received by the state department at I Washington stated that there ban be no separate peace between Russia and Germany. “The charge that the imperial administration was planning a separate peace caused its overthrow- and hastened the revolution which * was brief and bloodless.” the dispatch said. The weekly statement of ships sunk as made public at London, shows that 40 Vessels of over 1.600 tons each were sent to the bottom by mines or subjnarines. ' ' ;•

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From All Over Indiana. INSPECTION METHODS ARE HIT Representatives cf Companies Fight in Federal Court for the Extension of the Restraining Order Prohibit- - ing Enforcement of Law. Indianapolis, April 27. —Attacks were made* on the method of inspection of oil under the state oil inspection law by repfesentailves of oib companies testifying in the federal court in the suit for the oil companies for the exten of the restraining order prohibiting the enforcement of the law. Richard T. Cook, secretary-treasurer of the National Refining company, asserted that in 23 years none of the oil handled by him had been condemned and that most of the oil was not inspected. He. declared that at one time two saloonkeepers—were oil inspectors in Lafayette and that one of them conducted inspection of a sample of Oil behind a cooler in his saloon.

Ruling on Election Law.

Indianapolis, April 27. —Voters Cannot cast their ballots in the city election next November under the provisions of the absent voters’ act of the last legislature, according to an interpretation of the law given to Governor Goodrich by a commission composed of W. N. Thompson, W. W. Spender and Attorney General Stansbury. The commission holds the absent voters act applies to general, special and primary elections, but not to municipal elections. The commission also ruled that women may become delegates to the constitutional convention.

Alien Enemy Interned.

Indianapolis, April 27. —Arthur Hoeller. a German reservist, was ordered interned by United States officials and he will be placed temporarily in the federal ward of the county jail here. Hueller is now in Richmond, where he was taken up by the police because of his suspicious actions. He is the first alien in Indiana to be ordered interned since President Wilson’s proclamation. !

Makes Good Record.

Danville, April 27.—Helen Zimmerman. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Zimmerman of Washington township, completed the common school course at the age of twelve and was neither absent nor tardy during her school life. The record has never been equaled in Hendricks county.- She will enter Manual Training High school at Indianapolis. > j

Correspondents Wanted.

Jeffersonville, April 27.-r-‘A plan to find corresponden ts for ip maths of the state reformatory. Who have no relatives to write to them, has been partjy worked out by Rev. Lucien V. Rule, chaplain. Edward S. Brown. Y. M. C. A. “secretary at Michigan City, ha,s written he will correspond with orfe inmate, and will find others to do likewise; ' ■; .

Earlham Wins Debate.

Rushville, April 27.—The Earlham college debating team composed, 'of John Vesey and Edwin Eley, won the debate on the subject, “Shall state and county court judges be appointed of elected as at present.” from, the Indiana university team, composed of Harris McGuire and Lloyd Shepard. The audience made the decision. ; I

Held for Examination.

Shelbyville, April 27.—Ferdinand Davis. ■thirty, a farmer, living near Manilla. is. being held for examination. Davis has; been declaring he could “whip the Germans by himself." After he was placed in jail he' started a fire in his blankets._setting fire to the building. lie is believed to be insane.

Frats Plan Entertainment.

Peru. April 2-7.—Lambda chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity is planning to entertain the district meeting in Peru April 20. The arrangements committee Is composed of Douglass E. Rhinehart, chairman: B. p. Derek, Donald Harter. Ralph Kinzie, Meredith Meeker and Waldo Schram.

Cleaning Up Columbus.

ColUmbus, April 27.—This is cleanup week in Bartholomew county, and Dr. James Ffc Morrison, county health commissioner, has issued an appeal to the public to “bat the rat” in addition to “cleaning up” and “swatting the fly.”

Indiana Man Released.

Hartford City, April 27,- —Carl Creek of this city, who was convicted at Okmulgee. Okla., of manslaughter early in March, has been released from jail on bond of $2,500 after an appeal had been filed.- . -

Robbers at Marion.

Marion, April 27.—Robbers obtained a total of only $35 after entering; eight business houses of Main street Monday night. Windows were pried up and doors broken open. ’ ■

Many Dogs Poisoned.

Bickknell, April 27.—B(*tween fifteen and twenty dogs were poisoned in this_ city this week by a dog poisoner.

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

An epi de mic of 'measles Is being experienced at Monticello, twentytwo cases having been reported to the health officer in one day. The disease is seriously affecting the attendance at school. , A dispatch from Richmond, Virginia; in a recent issue of the South Bend Tribune said: “E. J. Jensen of Knox, Indiana, is held here for treason. The exact charges against Jensen have not been given out by the federal authorities.’’ The nineteenth annual reunion of the 147th regiment, Indiana Volunteers, known as the “Studebaker Tigers,” will be held at Elkhart on May 10. Company A of this regiment was made up of volunteers from Knox and Starke county. The roster of the company during its service in the Spanish-American war shows its strength to be 107, and only eight of this number are known to have passed away during the past nineteen years. Because of lack of men in the Knox and Winamac companies of the Indiana National Guard these units, through orders from Adjutant General Harry B. Smith, have been disbanded./ Copies of the order were received Saturday by Captain H.' D. Turner of Company H and Captain John G. Capouch of Company L. Both are keenly disappointed! over this turn of affairs, but /they feel that they are in no wise responsible for the general lack/of interest that kept their compaiiies below the required minimum Strength.—Starke County Democrat./ The targe bakers in Lafayette have Announced that after this week ho 5-cent loaves of bread will be baked. This is brought about by the high cost of wrapping paper and, the tremendous advance in floqr. The Ruger company quit baking the 5-cent loaf the first of th J week; the Weigle company 'will no't bake tM 5-<!ent loaf after this week and Keller Brothers announced yesterday they would cease baking the small loaf in about a week. The 10-cent loaves weigh about eighteen ounces, while the ojcent loaves that have been on the market weigh about eight ounces.

Monday morning while grinding al roller disc, George Drivelbiss, blacksmith at I Ade, had his lleft forearm nearly severed. After the accident, Pearson Pendergrass put him in his. car and brought him to Blook. On the way he bled pro;ulsely, the bottjom of the car was covered with blood. It took some little time to find a doctor and it” is estilniated he lojst over a quart of blood. Dr. Collier examined the wound and found no tendons severed and then dressed the wound. During all this time the injured man chatted freely with everybody and insisted on 1 returning to Ade, ami so far seems not-to have suffered from the blood loss, a tiling that would have put most men to bed. But he will not have the use of that arm* for dome come. —Brook Reporter.

New Troop for Wisconsin.

Kenosha. Wis., April 27.—Kenosha’s cavalry troop, the first addition to be made to the Wisconsin National Guard Since the beginning of the war, will be m istered into service today. Kenosha will offer a hundred of her best-known young men as members of the troop. It is under the command of Capt. Alfred Terrell, formerly of the Illinois NiJional

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

It’s . hard to smile when you have the-grip, when you cough all day and all night you yip. when yous lungs are sprained and your throat is peeled, and your head feels much like a football field. Oh, it’s bard to smile, but it can be done; I have tried the scheme, and the effort won. And the doctor said, as he gave me pills, and some castor oil, and a quart of squills, “I wish my patients were all like yotr, but they mostly roar when the doctor’s due?’ And all who minister unto me, when. I’m as sick as a man can—be, behold the raqiance of'my smile, and say it’s sotnething that’s well worth while, iind they fondly hope that I may get worse, it’s such a pleasure my nibs to nurse. When sickness comes to a man’s abode, the women carry a grievous load. They fret and worry and work and weep, they miss their meals and they lose their sleep. And he' is surely a tinhorn skate who gives their burden an added weight, by grouching round in a peevish style,, for if he wishes to he can smile. "

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The curtailing of racing in England last winter season did not lead to any great curtailment of betting—and street betting at that, in spite of the act. One bookmaker—not a big man either—took over 4,000 pounds in football bets in one week; and a week or two previous he paid out over 3,000 pounds. The week before that, however, he paid out nearly 200 pounds, winning over 3,000 pounds. Not a few bookmakers, particularly in South London have, however, been badly hit by the facility with which football enthusiasts have spotted winners.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Madeline Ramp to Tillie Ramp, March 26, undivided i/ 2 lot 9, block 1, Rensselaer, Fairview addition, S2OO. \\ .• - Martha E. Faris et al to George Ross Faris, February 23, nw se, 14-30-5, 40 acres, Gillam, sl. q c d. John W. Hammerton et ux to Harvey Davisson et al, February 24, sy 2 sw, 4-31-5, 80 acres, Walker, $2,500. Abram F. Long et ux to Ella D. Brown, ?lune 13, 1916, part lot 4, block 7, addition, SBOO. ' Louis B. Elmore et ux to Isadora Taber, April 23, lot 5, Remington, Tilton’s addition, $4,000. Ernest Harris to Emil Besser, April 18, lot 3, block 8, Remington, $650.

(fesifieaekl [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the firs! Insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short noticed coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be —for 25 cents; Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.!

FOR SALE Chevrolet “490,” good as new. Bargain.—M. I. ADAMS & SON. ts 1915 Ford touring car in good shape.—AL I. ADAMS & SON. ts My residence property on McKinley avenue. Will sell at a bargain, —L, STRONG, ’phone 173. m2l Billion Dollar Grass Seed—sl.so per bushel.—MAßK BOYES. Phone 951-1, R. F. D. No, 1. m 26 Setting Eggs—-White Wyandotte, 50c and 75c per setting.—-MRS. JOHN KOHLER. Phone 9 38-C. ts S. C. White Leghorn eggs, 75c for 15, $5 per 100.—PHONE 919-B, Rensselaer.ml Good Recleaned" Timothy Seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts Deering 7-foot binder, almost good as new, at a bargain.—DANA RISHLING, Rensselaer.a2B Overland 5-passenger auto. Good condition. Payments to suit purchaser. Phone 45. —E. M. LARUE. ts Team of mules, 9 and 10 years old; team of colts, coming 3 years old, broke to work, and 1 5-year-old horse. Will sell on time. —JOHN LONERGAN, phone 955-F.tf A brown driving mare, 9 years old, weight 1000 lbs., also a good rubber tire buggy and set harness. Will sell outfit cheap.—LEONARD KEISTER, Rensselaer, Indiana. mJ. At the Phillips auction sale, southwest corner of court house, Saturday afternoon,- April 28, one 1914’ model 5-passeijger Ford automobile.a2B

Cut? lowers, potted plants, bulbs,' cannas, tuberoses, caladium, gladiola, tomato plants and pansy.^ — OSBORNE’S GREENHOUSE, phone 439- ' Th 2 Remington Typewriter, No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid cqndition and looks and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will, sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. Five-passenger Automobile in good running condition, electric horn, Presto-Jlte lights, top, good tires, two practically new; extra inner tubes, jack, etc. A bargain if sold soon. Will demonstrate.—F. E. BABCOCK. One Gasoline’ 16-Horse-power Engine, mounted oh iron wheel wagon, will run ensilage cutter or small separator. ..This engine is a Fairbanks Morse, and a good one. $l5O buys it. This is

a bargain for some one. See JOHN J. STOCKTON, or telephone 915-B or 409. -ts 50,000 to 75,000 Feet of Oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6, sills, inch boards, plank and bridge material. Price from sl2 to $lB at mill, with exception of bridge plank, which is $25. Also have white na k post s on ground at 7fiL each. Call J. N. BICKNELL, phone 642, Rensselaer. tf One of the Rest Located Residence properties in Rensselaer, ! 75x3.0 0 feet, corner lot fronting on ' two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, j bath, barp and other out-buildings, ' etc; Ground alone is worth price I asked for entire- property. Terms if desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. See JAY W. STOCKTON for some choice lots in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana. Fine location; all public improvements made and paid for. Also some fine uncultivated land, as well as some of the best land that’s in Jasper ■ county. There is no indebtedness against any of this property. If I you are interested telephone 25 or i 915-B. ~ Bees —I have for sale twenty strong hives of Italian bees. Price $8 per hive, cash. Each hive, if the season be favorable, will give from two to four swarms. I will sell May and June swarms for $5 per stand. Men who assume to know ■clhim that a hive of bees should be in every orchard and pickle field to pollenize each bloom and thus produce a large crop. The old saying, “A swarm in May is worth a ton of hay, and in June a silver spoon,** may hold good this year.— FRANK FOLTZ.

WANTED » 50 More Girls and Women Wanted —A. Roth Co. contemplate installing 40 more power machines in their Rensselaer factory. If you desire employment send your application. at once.— A. ROTH CO., Rensselaer, Ind. j. m!5 Old False Teeth Bought-—Broken or any condition. We pay up to $ 5 a set, according to valuer Mail at once and get our offer. If unsatisfactory, will return teeth. —DOMESTIC SUPPLY CO., Binghamton, New York. ml Sewing—Spring sewing wanted at home for boys and girls.— MßS. ELLA RISHLING, Rensselaer, ml

FOR RENT 80-Acre Improved Farm, 2 miles southeast of Wheatfield. — HARVEY DAVISSON.„ A Dandy Suite of Office Rooms over The Democrat office. —F. E. BABCOCK. tf 5-room house, newly papered, 2 lots, garden, close to square; $7 -per month.—FRANK FOLTZ, phone 129. tf Good 7-room house with bath, city water, electric lights, cellar, garden, etc.; 4 blocks from court house. Small family preferred.— J. W. MAUCK, phone 478-White. ts The Five-Room Flat over The Democrat office, city water, bath, electric lights, etc. To small family only.—F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 315 or 311. Pasture of 160 Acres, has quite a good deal of timber on it, and there is also a lot of pasture in the open land for grazing purposes. Will rent reasonable. It is north of Rensselaer. See JAY W. STOCKTON for further information. Telephone 25 or 915-B. We Have Room for about 250 head of stock for the season on the J. J. Lawler pastures near Fair Oaks, plenty of grass and water. Cattle, all ages, $1 per month; horses, $1.50 per month for season. Call or see superintendent, JAMES E. WALTER. Phone 337. ts

MISCELLANEOUS Notice to Breeders—My stud books are in the hands of Gus Grant,' and all bills due me can be paid to him or to the Trust & Savings bank.—AV. H. BARKLEY. m!8 Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at Thfe Democrat Office, ts Storage—l have two rooms for storage of light household or other goods in The Democrat building. Terms reasonable. —F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 315 or 311. , Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedic'h' make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts

FINANCIAL Money to Loan —5 per cent farm " loans,—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance —Fire and Lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 533-L. ts Farm Loans—l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. tf Farm Loans —Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. T fint fhn) Without Delay. I Mr IHr Without Commission, I Übl lllv l Without Charges for H ’Making or Recording Instruments. . W. H. PARKINSON.