Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — Page 1

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LECTURE ON CONSTITUTION

Meeting to Be Held in Rensselaer Next Wednesday Evening. A meeting will be held in the east court room at the court house next Wednesday evening, May 9, for the purpose of organizing a permanent constitutional forum for Jasper county. The meeting will be addressed by John Steele of Winona Lake, who Comes on high recommendations and without compensation. This meeting is non-partisan in every particular and the general public is invited to attend. Non-partisan officers will be elected and plans made for carrying on the campaign in Jasper county. \ It is also planned to hold meetings every few weeks and addresses ■will be arranged for to better acquaint tlhe people with the matter.

EIGHT MEN ABE DISCHARGED

Federal Order Causes Decrease in Roster of Company M. The recent order issued by the ■war department ab Washington, D. C., for the commanders of all militia troops to discharge those members with dependant families, has caused Captain H. B. Tuteur to lose eight men. The \ members of Company M thus affected are: Grant T. Wynegar, Bernard Mellon, Chester Wolfe, Lawrence Blacker, Roscoe Reeder, Stephen D. Walls, Fred Steele and Frank D. Yeiter. This leaves fiftyfive men in Company M.

YOUNG COUPLE TO WED TODAY

Miss Meta Oglesby and L. A. Mecklenburg Announce Marriage. Miss Meta Oglesby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Oglesby, and Leo A. Mecklenburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mecklenburg, will be married shortly after noon today at the Catholic parsonage by the Rev. Christian Daniel. The ceremony will be an unobtrusive affair, the young couple being accompanied only by a few friends. Immediately after the wedding they will depart on the 1:57 train for points in southern Indiana where they will spend a. few days visiting friends. They will then journey to Chicago for a short visit, after which they expect to return here and establish their home in one of the “Honeymoon flats” over Warner Bros.’ hardware store. Miss Oglesby and Mr. Mecklenburg are both well known among the younger people of the city and have a large circle of friends who will unite in extending best wishes. The Democrat joins {hem in wishing the best that life holds for the newlyweds.

COURT NEWS

This is the last week of the April term of the Jhsper circuit court and, as usual, it has been quite a busy one. The jury has been here all week, and Tuesday the case of Charles A. Jones vs. Ransom N. Edwards was taken up. (Through a misprint in Wednesday’s Democrat it was stated that this case had been continued to the fourth Friday, when it should have read the fourth Tuesday). This was a landlord and tenant case and was first started in Jasper county where change of venue was taken and cause sent to Newton county. The case was tried there, or the trial was practically completed when the sudden death of a daughter of Judge Darroch, one of the counsel in the case, stopped the (proceedings and by agreement the cause was sent back to Jasper county where a complete new trial was had and many witnesses were

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other N otes Gathered from the Several County Offices. No. 8767. Gertrude Niementsveryriet et al vs. Arthur H. Hopkins. Suit on note. Demand $5,600. |Hi •' 2 ■ 2 ■ Don’t forget that Monday, May 7, is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes to avoid delinquency. Gus Grant has been drawn as a petit juror in the federal court at Indianapolis and is ordered to report May 15 for duty. Simon Fendig and son and Township Trustee A. S. Keene were among the Wheatfield people in the city on business yesterday.

Attorney George F. Marvin of Monticello, special judge in the Marble ditch case, was in the city Thursday and with Engineer Hobbs autoed to the north end of the county to look after some matters connected with the improvement. Governor Goodrich has requested all county and city school superintendents to meet with him in the chamber of the house of representatives at Indianapolis today. The Governor desires the co-operation of the school officials in planning to meet war exigencies. Both County Superintendent Lamson and City Superintendent Dean expect to attend the meeting.

Judge Berry of Fowler will preside in the $5,000 slander suit filed by Jake Ochs, a mail carrier out of Remington, against William Zimmerman, the town nightwatch, who created a sensation some time ago by cleaning out all of the poker joints in town. Altogether Officer Zimmerman arrested thirty-six law violators, and every one entered a plea of guilty. The suit is the outgrowth of a letter alleged to have been sent to the postoffice department by Zimmerman in which > he made a number of charges against the mail carrier’s reputation. An investigation was made and Ochs was exonerated. The case is set for hearing May 18 in the Newton circuit court. New state bases filed: No. 1683. State of Indiana vs. Floyd Moore; action in petit larceny. Complaint alleges that on the 22nd day of April, 1917, said Floyd Moore did unlawfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away one revolver and several loaded cartridges thereto belonging of the personal goods and chattels of Thomas C. Cain, then and there of the value of $5. No. 1684. State of Indiana vs. Fred Oxley; assault and battery. Complaint alleges that bn the first day of May, 1917, defendant did then and there in a rude, insolent and angry manner, unlawfully beat and strike the person of Erma Oxley, his wife. Civil suits; No. 8766. Max Sokolowski Vs. Lekomer Movers and Express Co.; action to replevin. In this case plaintiff, who is moving from Chicago to Newland, employed defendants for an agreed amount to move his goods by auto truck. At some point toward the journey's end they encountered bad roads and got stuck. They then demanded more pay, it is alleged, and on plaintiff’s refusal to come across they are holding his goods.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tuesday, May 1, to Mr. and Mrs. George Kimberlin of Barkley township, a son.

WARM WEATHER DID NOT COME

The weather of the past few days has been anything but pleasant. Warmer weather was promised for Wednesday and the sun did come out bright and clear, - but a cold, raw wind prevailed all day. Thursday was cloudy and cool, and yesterday brought more rain and a falling thermometer. At the time of going to press the mercury stood at 46 degrees above zero.

THE TWICE-A-WbEK

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1917 ’ x

SPEEDER HITS DELIVERY CAR

Railroad Men Bruised and Rear Wheel of Ford Broken. ' > One of Frank Kresler’s Ford delivery cars, driven „by Eugene Hasty, was ran into by a speeder on the Monon near the stock yards Thursday morning. The speeder was in charge of John Adair, sig- ■ nal maintainer, who was accomI panied by Don Beam, assistant at ' the depot. f The railroad meh were coming west and a string of cars on the siding prevented them from seeing the delivery car, also preventing Mr. Hasty from seeing the speeder, j The cars came together at the ! crossing Sind both the occupants of ' the speeder were thrown off and considerably bruised. The driver of the Ford was uninjured, but a rear wheel of the car was broken off.

PRECINCT OFFICIALS NAMED

Conscription Boards Ready to Act When Date Is Made Known. The conscription boards in the various counties of Indiana have been practically all completed with the naming of precinct officials, and are ready to act as soon as the date for registering is made known. The county conscription board in Jasper county is composed of County Sheriff MeColly, County Clerk Nichols and O. K. Rainier. At a meeting of this board Tuesday afternoon officials were appointed in each of the voting precincts of the county. The law provides the payment of $4 a day to the precinct officials, but the Jasper county registrars voted in favor of serving for nothing. The trustee of each township was named in his precinct, and in townships having more than one voting precinct other persons were also chosen. The complete list of precinct registrars for Jasper county is as follows: Barkley—West precinct, Garnt Davisson; east precinct, William Folger. Carpenter—South, Burdette Porter; east. George Hascall; west, George Putt. Gillam—James Stevens. , Hanging Grove —Warren Poole. Jordan —John Kolhoff. Kankakee —R. E. Davis. Keener —Clifford Fairchild. Marion—First, J. N. Leatherman: second, T. M. Callahan; third, Charles J. Dean; fourth, Harvey W. Wood, Jr. Milroy—George Foulks. Newton —John Rush. Union —South, G. H. Hammerton: north, F. R. Erwin. Walker —Joseph Salrin. Wheatfield —A. S- Keene.

DR. LEWIS N. WELLS IS DEAD

Well-Known Demotte Physician Passed Away Thursday. Isaac N. Wells, a former wellknown physician of Demotte, died at that place at about 3 o’clock Thursday morning at the home of his brother-in-law, Ransom Halleck. Dr. Wells retired from active practice about four years ago and since then has spent a great deal of his time in Chicago. About four weeks ago he was stricken with paralysis, and being 77 years old he realized that the end was near. 1 He requested that he be moved to Demotte and this was done on Friday of last week. Dr. Wehs was quite well known throughout northern Jasper county, having located at Demotte more than twenty-five years ago. He was also known to many in Rensselaer, having visited here at the homes of A Halleck and John O’Connor, with whose families he was related. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the Union army and served throughout the war. He commenced the practice of medicine at Kankakee, Illinois,' soon after the war, and later located at Red Cloud, Nebraska, coming from there to Demotte. Besides the widow, who is a sister of A. Halleck of this city, he is survived by one adopted son and two grandchildren; together with a large circle of friends. Funeral services will be held at the M. E. church in Demotte at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, conducted by the Masonic lodge of Wheatfield and the G. A. R. postj-and burial will be made in the Demotte cemetery.

GOVERNORS ASK FOR DRY LAW

Governor Goodrich has joined forty-five other governors in petitioning congress to pass a national prohibition law as a war measure. The only two governors refusing to sign the petition were Governor Lowden "of Illinois and Governor Ferguson of Texas.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities ano I Towns—-Matters of Minor Mentioi j from Many Places. SERVING TIME FOR OLD CRIME Monroe Watkins of Monticello is serving thirty days* in jail on a conviction secured against him in 1912. At that time he was released : under a suspended sentence, but his ..cojjduct of late was such that on Wednesday. Judge Wason revoked the suspension.

EIGHT YOUNG MEN JOIN ARMY

Eight young men from Francesville went to Fort Wayne Monday and enlisted in the army, quite to the surprise of the people there. The names of the young men are Virgil Coffell, Ira Shaffer, Ray Engle, Louis Lehman, Donald Zoulden, Paul Detamore, Ronald Timmons and Sam Possee. -

ASK ROAD OFFICIAL TO QUIT

J. V. Younger, county road superintendent of White county, has been charged with incompetency and irregularities in the conduct of his office, -and an effort is being made to oust him. A large number of witnesses were examined, who gave contradictory evidence both for and against the superintendent, and the ! board of commissioners then continued the hearing to Tuesday, May 8.

WILL OUST BENTON ASSESSOR

Russel Eubank, county assessor of Benton county, has been asked to resign in a petition presented to the board of commissioners. Since Eubank was elected to the office he has moved across the line into i Montgomery county, but contends that he is entitled to hold the office for the rest of the term 1 . , The commissioners said they had no jurisdiction in the matter and the cause will come up for hearing in the circuit court.

ATTORNEY OFFERS FREE LAND

Patrick O’Donnell, attorney of Chicago, formerly of Delphi, has offered his 200-acre farm in Carroll county to the government during the war. The proposition was made in a letter sent by Mr. O’Donnell to Martin B. Madden, congressman of Illinois. O’Donnell not only made the offer of the land but agreed to provide tractors for plowing the soil, other necessary farm implements and the use of his farmhouse by the laborers.

REPUBLICAN CITY STILL “WET”

The “drys” in Williamsport have started a campaign to oust the saloons out of that town and a petition is being circulated calling for a special election to be held the latter part of this month. Whether the womeh will be allowed to vote or nc/t has not been definitely decided as interpretation of the suffrage act has not. been thoroughly threshed out. If they are permitted to vote, Williamsport will go dry by a large majority. By the way, Williamsport is the county seat of the strongest Republican county in the Tenth district.

PRIZES GIVEN FOR BEST PIGS

Delphi (has a pig club and the first exhibit was held last Saturday and prizes were awarded for the best exhibit. First prize was a trip jto the International Stock show at ■Chicago; second, expenses for a week at the Purdue agricultural short course, and third, a day’s outiing at the state fair with all expenses paid. The club places young pigs out among the boys Who feed the pigs for a given time, and prizes are awarded on a basis of the gain in weight made and cost of the feed. The contest created an unusual interest among the boys of that vicinity. .' ■ F

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MONON MAN KILLED IN WEST

Run Over by Cars and Body Mangled Beyond Recognition. A message was received by Joseph Kellogg, Sr., of Monon Sunday conveying the startling announcement of the death of his son, Neal Kellogg, who was killed by the cars at San Francisco, California, Saturday. No particulars of the tragedy have been received except that the -body was so badly mangled that it is impossible to ship it back to Monon TOY burial and that interment was to take place at San Francisco. Mr. Kellogg, who was a native of Monon, was killed on the thirtyfourth anniversary of his birth. He resided in Monon until six years ago when ho moved with his family to California where he was engaged in the railroad business.

ATTEND WOODMEN MEETING

Next Meeting Will Be Held at Columbus In 1020. John O’Connor of this city, as a delegate, and M. A. Gray of Remington were at Hammond Wednesday attending the regular state convention of the Modern Woodmen of America. This convention is held every three years, and the 1920 meeting will be held at Columbus. The national convention this year will be held at Chicago June 17-24, and twenty delegates were elected at Hammond Wednesday to attend the national convention, which will be held in the auditorium of Chicago.’s new (municipal pier, 3,500 feet out in Lake Michigan. Delegates elected to represent the Tenth district at Chicago were L. W. Ragon, publisher of the Lowell Tribune, and C. G. Mauzy of Fowler. The convention adopted a resolution recommending the head camp to make the policies ’ held by ail soldiers and sailors in full force during the time of their service, and it is quite probable the head camp will do this, although the policies are void except in case of those who are defending this country against an invasion. One of the very interesting events of the Hammond meeting was a trip by the delegates and visitors through the mammoth Standard Oil plant at Whiting. This is one of the largest plants in the world and the daily consumption of coal aggregates 900 tons. The Jasper county gentlemen were very muclh impressed by the magnitude of this plant. Judge Fred Barnett of Hammond was elected head consul for Indiana, and Harry Redkey of Muncie succeeds Judge Barnett as head clerk. Mr. O’Connor stated to The Democrat that in all of his travels about the Calumet region he did not see to exceed 100 houses that were without the United States flag being displayed, and that it was flying from every public and parochial school and all churches of every denomination. The patriotic spirit seems not to* have reached the same fervor in Rensselaer that it has elsewhere.

NOTES OF COUNTY HOSPITAL

Miss Bertha Brunneman, who has been superintendent of the hospital since its opening, has tendered her resignation'to the board of trustee, the same to be effective July 1. Miss Irene Yeoman Underwerit an operation for appendicitis at the hospital last Saturday, and is making satisfactory improvement. Mrs. Dennis Healey of Union township had her tonsils removed at the hospital Wednesday. Miss Bertha Brunneman, superintendent of the coqnty hospital, entertained the board members and their .wives at a 6 o’clock dinner at the hospital Thursday evening. Following the dinner the regular monthly meeting of the board was held. This was the last" board meeting for F. E. Lewis, who has moved to Lafayette ahd whose resignation will be tendered to the county commissioners at their,, next regular meeting. The hospital board accepted the’ resignation .of Superintendent Brunneman, but no action was taken as to her successor.

FRESH FISH Fresh fish received almost every d a y_pike, perch, cat, trout, etc. Delivered to any part of the city free. Phone 647. —CHARLES LEAVEL. . ts

BRITISH CROSS HINDENBURG LINE

Fresnoy is Captured From Germans by Canadians. TERRIFIC BATTLE CONTINUES General Haig’s Troops Reported to Have Occupied Bullecourt; French Gain in the Ciiampjigne Region. London, ’May 4. According to tho Reuter correspondent at British headquarters in France the latest reports tell of tierce fightiitg in Bullecourt, on the outer edge oi' which the British troops established themselves, and of a, very heavy eoiinter-attack winch haS driven the British through Cherisy again. Jx>ndon, May 4.- —The British forces have taken the village of Fresnoy. Fresnoy was taken by the Canadians. The British troops have reached Cherisy, crossed the Hindenburg line toward Reincourt and are reported to have taken Bullecourt, says Reuter’s correspondent at British headquarters. Another of the continuing British attacks was launched against the Germans early in the morning. Hard lighting is in progress under a warm 1 spring sun. Fighting of terrible Intensity raged throughout the day at the main point* of the British attack. “The battling,” says the correspondent, “has been In many places of ding-dong order, which renders it extremely difficult to define the situation, but I think it may certainly be claimed as a successful day for our gallant troops. The 4uost conspicuous gains have been on the flanks of the long front, While .towards the center, up the valley of the Scarpe, we, have made less progress owing to the intensity of concealed machine gun fire. Canadians Tske Fresnoy. “Despite the opposition of massed German forces, the Canadian troops took Fresnoy. Oppy, however, still proved too strongly held to attempt to carry it by direct frontal attach without courting a heavier casualty list than the enterprise warranted. The wood in front of the ruined village literally was Infested with machine guns. “South of the Sensee the battle developed into a most successful sweeping movement, our troops reaching Cherlsy. Converging tactics upon Reincourt carried our advance across the Hindenburg line and threatened to cut off the garrison at Bullecourt. The garrflfem was reported to have been captured, but the report was not confirmed. French Score Big Advance. Paris, May 4. —The French made an Important gain on the Champagne front Wednesday night, reducing the position which was still being held by the Germans in the new lines east of Mont Haut and capturing the German garrison of more than 300 men, the war office announced. There was active patrol fighting on the Chemin des Dames line.

REVEALS PLANS OF KAISER

Former Ambassador Gerard Says Germany as Victor Would Invade American Republic. Chicago, May 4.—James W. Gerard of New York, ambassador at Berlin during the historic crises that led to war with Germany, speaking before the Chicago Bar association said that Germany, officially, was planning to invade the United States immediately upon a successful conclusion of its war with the allied countries] that ity intended to invade us with all its remaining resources and the; combined German, British, Russian and French navies, which it hoped to possess. “Of this I am convinced,” he said. “Germany solemnly proposed to sack the United ‘States, rob it of the full cost in men, women and money of its European war, and hold this nation at its mercy, while all Europe would/ have stood by and grinned. “Therefore, when we entered into this conflict we chose between a war now for liberty and democracy and a war later, alorie aftd unready, for outvery lives.”

FOR SALE Our fine assortment of potted plants, ferns and vines will be here about May 3. Every plant guaranteed to grow and free from plant lice and disease. Tomato, cabbage and cauliflower plants, 5c a dozen. —KING FLORAL GO. Phone 216Green. . . , - If It’s anything in cardboards, cards, envelopes or papers of any kind The Democrat undoubtedly has It.

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