Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — Page 1
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OBITUARY OF MRS. M. E. PULLIN
Margaret Elizabeth Lawson Pullifi. was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1832. When but 3 years of age she moved to Greensburg, Indiana, where the larger part of her life was spent. For the past nine years she had lived here in Rensselaer with her daughter, Mrs. Laura B. Fate. Since her childhood reached back into pioneer days she had a fund of most interesting anecdotes to relate concerning those early experiences. At the age of 15 she united with the Methodist Episcopal church and remained a faithful member to the last. She was united in marriage in 1851 with John W. Pullin and became the mother of six children, three of which, namely, James, Sarah Jane and Ella, preceded her in death. “Mother” Pullin possessed many fine Qualities. Her affable manner attracted many to her. She was cheerful, kindly, sympathetic, gracious, deeply religious and a great lover of flowers. On Wednesday morning, May 16, at 3 o’clock she rejoicingly passed into the other world since her life work here was done. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Laura B. Fate of this city, Mrs. J. E. Herrod of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. R. M. Gregg of Chicago. The funeral was held from the Makeever House Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Strecker of the M. E. church. Burial in Weston cemetery.
MAIN ROADS ARE NEGLECTED
Work Is Not Being Done Where It Is Most Needed. , It certainly is enough to make angels weep to observe the\ manner in which main traveled roads in Jasper county are torn up and rendered impassable without the slightest regard for the rights, privileges or convenience of the traveling public. Such rank assininity is probably without a parallel in the entire United States. And yet “we want to encourage tourist travel through Jasper county.” < Ye Gods! . The condition of the so-called Jackson highway in places in Jasper county during the past two or three seasons has been such as to cause a large per cent of the tourists who have passed through here to use more cuss words than they ever used before in their lives in consigning Jasper county and its road officials to the lowest depths of perdition. Our officers go ahead and tear out bridges on this much-traveled highway or make other plans for improving sections of it without making the slightest provision for the traveling public or spending a few dollars to make passable for a temporary time the highways necessarily traveled in detouring, and an unnecessarily long time is usually taken to make the improvements. Last summer we had the bridge over the Hoover slough south of town torn out for several weeks and, while a very few dollars would haye put the detour road in passable condition, no effort whatever was made to put the road in shape and hundreds of tourists mired down in the one or two bad places which a little work and a few dollars would have put in fair condition. Last fall they started to improve the Burk bridge grade north of Rensselaer, and such a good job was done of the “improving” that this particular stretch of road has been almost impassable almost ever since, and it is Still so. Tourists on the Jackson highway could for a time turn off at the Zeigler corner and go a mile west and get along fairly well, but nothing was done to keep this road in deecnt temporary repair and it is said to have been in a frightful. condition all spring. Now, some little work has been done toward the building of the Union township stone road on the Jackson highway through the Schultz settlement and the grade has been cut down in places. The deepest cut is at the hill near the German Lutheran church, and here is a stretch of a couple hundred feet of pure sand in which nearly, ■every car that goes through there gets stalled. A traveling man for a Chicago paper house, who was in Rensselaer Wednesday, driving here from Valparaiso, said that there
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COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Paragraphs From Hie Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Sheriff McColly made a business trip to Hammond Thursday. County Road Superintendent Gray is doing some extensive repair work on College avenue this week. Judge Wason of the White Circuit court has excused all farmers drawn for jury service and instructed them to go home and plant corn. White circuit court item, case being taken from Jasper county on change of venue: “S. M. Laßue vs. Ethel Hopper, action on account. Cause submitted to jury. Evidence heard. Jury returned verdict for defendant.”
It was reported to The Democrat Tuesday afternoon shortly before going to press that the Stockton trial had been set for May 17, but this was erroneous, the cause having been set to come up for hearing the third Monday, May 28. Republican County Chairman McLain has recommended Ray Wood for Republicanmember of the county board of election commissioners, and Otto of Demotte as member of the registration board. The recommendations for the Democratic members have not been made at this writing. A. R. Jones, president of the Continental Credit' Trust of Chicago, was here this week looking after the affairs of Ed Oliver about Newland. Mr. Oliver has almost recovered from his recent illness and is expected to come to Rensselaer in a few days. Mr. Jones is quite anxious to have every available acre of the Oliver land tilled this year and thinks that such would enable his client to meet every obligation and have a good sum left at the end of the season.
While the rumored injunction suit in the letting of the contract for redecorating the court house has not made its appearance and the contractor has begun work on the job, in the east court room, he is having troubles otherwise, it is said. His Chicago union workmen will not work with our local non-union men, and an unsuccessful effort w*as made the first of the week to secure union men from Lafayette. He may be successful, however, in getting union men from some other city so that the work can be pushed to completion in the time specified, by July 1.
O. K. RAINIER NOT TO SERVE
Third Member of Conscription Board Must Be a Physician. O. K. Rainier, who had been appointed to serve on the conscription board in this county with County Clerk Nichols and Sheriff McColly, has been relieved from further duty by a letter from the governor in which the latter explains that it is necessary for the third member to be a practicing physician. This provision has probably been made to enable the boards to act on expert knowledge in granting exemptions because of physical disability. The physician to be appointed will be of the same political faith as the citizen whom he succeeds. and it is quite probable, that Dr. A. P. Rainier of Remington, a nephew of O. K. Rainier of this city, will be appointed to serve on the Jasper county board.
AT STAR THEATER SATURDAY
Film of the Great Overland Factory at Toledo Will Be Shown. Dr. J. Hansson, local agent for the Willys-Knight and Overland autos, has arranged for the showing sos. a film of their giant works at the Star theater Saturday afternoon and night. May 19. This exhibition will be in addition to the regular program, and will be equal to a personal visit to this mammoth automobile factory.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK
RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917
NEWTON COUNTY COURT ITEMS
Of Interest to Many of the - People - of Jasper County. Newton circuit court items from the Newton County Enterprise of interest to readers of The Democrat, most of the cases mentioned having been taken from Jasper county on change of venue: The libel suit of Jacob Ochs vs. William Zimmerman is on trial in the circuit court before Judge B. B. Berry. The parties reside at Remington. Oths is a rural route carrier, and ' Zimmerman is night watchman. It is alleged that Zimmerman wrote a letter to the postoffice department at Washington charging that Ochs was a gambler, and in other ways violated the criminal laws. The letter is supposed to have been sent to the postmaster at Remington, and through him its contents leaked out. Ochs is demanding $5,000. The case was called yesterday with a big army of witnesses on hand, and will probably run through several days. Attorneys William Darroch, W. H. Parkinson and John A. Dunlap are prosecuting the case, and R. RCummings, Jasper Guy and A. K. Sills, Jr., are defending Mr. Zimmerman. Samuel Duvall vs. Paul C. Curnick, suit for damages, cause set for trial second Monday. A. E. Shafer et al vs. the C. I. & L. Railway Co., suit for damages, cause dismissed. State of Indiana vs. Bert Baker, charged with larceny, set for trial May 22. State of Indiana vs. Jay W. Stockton charged with perjury, set for trial third Monday. Alfred Starkley vs. David L. Halstead and Everett Halstead, suit for damages, set for trial fourth Mon-
CALL SENT TO LOCAL TROOPS
Orders to Mobilize Received by Oaptain Tuteur Thursday. Captain H. B. Tuteur of the local company of the national guard received orders Thursday to recruit to full war strength and mobilize his company for service on June 15. Company M now contains fiftyfive members and Captain Tuteur will exert every effort to secure at least seventy-five more men, bringing his company up to the minimum war strength of 130. As many more men will be secured as possible but. a special effort will be made to reach this number. It is expected that a large number of young men subject to draft will join the national guard instead of waiting for the operation of the new law. The national guard, after mobilization, will be no different from the regular army. The troops will be under federal supervision and will go through the same course of training that will be given other Indiana troops at Fort Benjamin iHarrison. The regulars and the national guard will have a two or three months’ start on the conscripted troops and will be ready for active service at the front just .that much sooner. Furthermore, the non-com-missioned and even the commissioned officers of the national guard will be used to train the conscripted troops when they are mobilized. The whole question of raising the United States army now depends on the quartermaster’s department. The troops can be put in camp as fast as the quartermaster is ready to equip them. Extraordinary activity on the part of the council of national defense has enabled the war department to supply large bodies of troops from tw’o to three months earlier than was expected. Arrangements are being made for a monster county demonstration to be held in Milroy park next Monday evening. If the weather is unfit for an outdoor meeting, some inclosure will be provided. This demonstration is being arranged by the Van Rensselaer club and it is hoped to make it the most notable affair of its kind ever held in the county. An effort is being made to secure a prominent speaker from Indianapolis and the services of the Rensselaer band for the occasion. Captain Tuteur will be present with a squad of the local militia, who will execute several drills for the benefit of those present. Company M needs a number of additional" men to bring it to war strength and it is hoped that many will take' advantage of this occasion to enlist. Delegations are expected from every township in the county and at this time it looks as though next Monday evening Rensselaer will see the biggest meeting of the kind ever held in Jasper county.
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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS
Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. | 5 BANDS AT BRAUN FUNERAL Lowell, May 16.—The Grand theater, with a seating capacity of 800, was packed to the doors yesterday afternoon and 200 persons were compelled to stand outside during the funeral service for Otto Braun of this city. After the sermon, by the Rev. V. B. Servles of the First Methodist church, the Odd Fellows lodge performed its ritualistic ceremony. The procession to the cemetery was a mile long, almost the entire populace participating. The Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, the Royal Neighbors, the Rensselaer, Brunswick, Lowell, Francesville and Lake Village bands were in the line of marcel. Mr. Braun had been leader of the bands In the past.
MISSION MEETING NEXT WEEK
i Many Visitors Expected Here Thursday and Friday. The Northwest Indiana conference of the Woman’s Home Missionary society will be held in this city next Thursday and Friday, May 24 and 25. Visitors are expected from all over the district and the meeting promises to be one of the most interesting ever held. The following program has been arranged.: Thursday, 1:30 p. m.—Devotions, ■Mrs. Anna Reed, Brook; ,( We Are Glad to See You,’’ Mrs. F. H. Hemphill, Rensselaer. “We Are Glad to Be Here,” Mrs. Harvey Williams, Remington. Greetings from Woman’s Foreign Missionary society, Mrs. John Medicus, Rensselaer. Music. Appointment of committees. Report of group presidents: Mrs. C. B. McKnight, Fowler; Mrs. Daisy Kay, Morocco; Mrs. Charles Sparks, Kewanna. “Preparedness,” Mrs. H. C. Riley, Boswell. “Recruits,” Mrs/ Carl Somers, Rensselaer. “Munitions,” Mrs. Arthur Cole, Lafayette. “Service,” Mrs. E. W. Strecker, Rensselaer. Young people’s vesper service, leader, Miss Elizabeth Rossiter, Boswell. Informal reception at Monnett school, from 5 to 6 o’clock. 7:30 p. m.—Devotions, Miss AlVerta Simpson, Rensselaer. Playlet, Queen Esther Girls, Rensselaer. Music. Address, Dr. A. W. Newhall, superintendent Jesse Lee home, Alaska. Offering. Benediction. Friday, 8:30 a. m. —Morning watch, Rev. E. W. Strecker, Rensselaer. Reading of minutes. Annual reports: Corresponding secretary, Mrs. Laura Green, Rochester; treasurer, Mrs. C. B. Johnston, Remington: literature, Mrs. Charles Dock, Delphi; mite box, Mrs. C. W. Steele, Fowler; . young people’s work, Mrs. A. P. Rainier, Remington; systematic giving, Mrs. C. B. Carlton, Rochester; evangelism, Mrs. Wade Thompson, Delphi; temperance, Mrs. R. R. Cole, Lafayette; children’s work, Mrs. George Biederwolf, Monticello. “New Methods in Use,” by delegates. “Relationship of the Women’s Missionary Societies to the Benevolent Program of the Church,” Rev. W. E. McKenzie. Discussion, led by Mrs. A. T. Briggs, West Lafayette. ," Ou s Achievements and Expectations,” conference officers: Mrs. J. A. Secor, president, Laporte: Mrs. J. W. Rittinger, corresponding secretary, South Bend; Mrs. Myron Campbell, treasurer. South Bend. 1:30 p. m. —Devotions, Mrs,. A. A. Fell, Remington. “Gary Settlement Work,” Mrs. J. W. Rittinger, South Bend, Music. Business session: Reports of committees; election of officers; invitation for district meeting, 1918; miscellaneous; reading of minutes. Installation of officers, Rev. W. E. McKenzie.
NEWS FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL
J. B. Ashby of Mt. Ayr, who has been at the hospital here for the past two weeks, has recovered sufficiently that he will be taken to his home today or tomorrow. Vernon Tanner, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Tanner, Who accidentally run a needle into his knee while at play, had the same removed at the hospital Wednesday and is recovering nicely. Mrs. Clara Coen, who had been receiving treatment at the hospital for partial paralysis, was sufficiently recovered that on Wednesday she went to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Faye Clark, near • Medaryville.
FIRST CONCERT NEXT WEEK
The first open air band concert of the season will be rendered next Wednesday evening. The concert will consist principally of rag-time melodies, etc., and will commence promptly at 8 o’clock. Concerts will follow each Wednesday evening, the weather permitting. The following is the program for next Wednesday: “Ramshackle;” a rbal rag march —Snyder. “Cotton Blossoms,” a overture—Snyder. “Cavalleria Rustieana,” operatic rag—Remick. “Pretty Baby,” favorite rag. > “Yaaka Jlula Hickey Remick. “Trombonium,” trombone rag— Remick. “Grizzly Bear”—Snyder, “A Bunch of Old Rags,” fox trots- —Remick. “If I Knock the *L’ Out of Kelley,” vaudeville rag—Snyder. March, Hungarian rag—Remick. “Star-Spangled Banner.’’
TALK TO TEACHERS ON WAR
The last teachers’ institute of the year will be held today, and the program arranged is one of more than ordinary interest. Dr. Moran of the department of history of Purdue university will be present and talk on the war at 9:30 a. m. and again at Ip. m. Dr. Moran is a very able man and his talk should be the cause of an unusually large attendance. His subjects “The Progress of Democracy and the Causes of the European War,” and “Some Aspects of America’s International Relations.’* Following this there will be a round table discussion that will be of interest to one and all. The teachers extend a cordial invitation to the public to attend.
FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK
COMMENCEMENT WEEK DOINGS Annual Festivities to Begin Here Friday Evening. Commencement week activities are. scheduled to open in this city next Friday evening, May 25. No official program has as yet been announced but from reliable sources it is learned that the above date will be observed as class night. A picnic is being planned for the day following, the details of which have not yet been completed, but which promises to be one of the notable affairs of the week. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered to the graduating class on Sunday evening, May 27, at the Presbyterian church by Rev. F. H. Beard. His subject for the occasion will be “Stick.” The senior class play will be presented at the Ellis opera house on ■both Monday and Tuesday evenings. The title of the play is “Hearts and Diamonds,” a three-act comedydrama. Wednesday evening is the time set for the senior-junior joint reception at the armory, and this event promises to be not the least of the week’s festivities. • Commencement exercises will be held at the high school auditorium on Thursday evening. Dr. Stone, president of Purdue university, will deliver the address. * Friday evening, June 1, the alumni banquet will be held at the Christian church, followed by a dance at the armory.
FORMER-REMINGTON MAN DEAD
Levi Hawkins, an old and former well-known citizen of Remington, died at his home in Lafayette, 813 North’ Ninth street, Thursday night, after an illness of some time. Deceased was an uncle of Mrs. J. D. Allman of this city, and Mr. Allman went to Remington yesterday morning to make arrangements for the funeral which will be held there today from the Presbyterian church at 3 p. m., the services being conducted by the pastor of the church. The body was taken overland from Lafayette to Remington yesterday. Mr. Hawkins was born April 24, 1840, on the Wea Plains near Lafayette. He was lieutenant of Company D, Tenth regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and served three years in the civil war. His wife died about four years ago, and one daughter Frances died eleven years ago. Three children died in infancy. He leaves two daughters, Miss Florence Hawkins, who kept house for him, and Mrs. Ella Dirham, of Twin Falls, Idaho. An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.
DRAFT MEASURE PASSES SENATE
Upper House Approves Report by Vote of 65 to 8. PROVISION FOR T. R. ARMY ' \ ■ ■ ' , ■" Americans, 21 to 30, Will Be Called to Colors About September 1— Will Not Hinder Harvest Work. PROVISIONS OF BILL. Washington, May 18.—The chief provisions of the army conscription bill, the conference report on which waa approved by the senate, follow: Raising of aimed forces by the selective draft system, imposed upon all males between the ages of tWenty-ono and thirty years inclusive, subject to registration and certain exemptions from service. Increasing the regular army to maximum wt«i strength. Drafting into federal service of National Guard units. Raising of an initial force by conscription of 500,(MJ0 men, with addition 1 of 500,000 if deemed necessary. Raising, if the president sees fit, of four divisions of volunteer Infantry. (The Roosevelt amendment) Increasing the pay of all enlisted men as follows: Fifteen dollars additional monthly for those now receiving less than s2l, comprising the bulk of the army, graduated downward to $6 additional monthly for those receiving $45 or more. Prohibiting sale of liquor at or near army training camps and otherwise protecting morals of the soldier.
Washington, May 18. —The senate adopted the conference report on the war army bill, accepted by the house, and sent the measure to the president for his signature. The vote was 65 to 8. Those voting against adoption were Senators, Gore. Gronna, Hardwick, Kirby, La Follette, Norris, Stone and Trammell. Senator Fall was excused from voting. The war department w’ili at once set in motion the machinery for registration of all men between twentyone and thirty years of age. The bill does not limit conscription to the duration of the war but this will be stipulated in another measure. The measure will be engrossed and signed by the vice president and speaker of the house tomorrow. It will reach the president tomorrow afternoon. The president will append his signature to the act. Thereby lie will make it a law. Registration Day Holiday. Then the president will issue a proclamation requiring every* male citizen--or declarant of citizenship of conscript age to present himself for registration. The day selected will be made a national holiday and it will be celebrated by the ringing of church and tire bells throughout the land. The president’s proclamation will be the button to start In operation the machinery for registration which has been created by the war department. The regulations governing registration are ready for issuance. Plans have been perfected for the organization boards. Still Accept Volunteers. It is not intended to call a halt on
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347-ACRE FARM FOR SALE i. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1917 I will offer nay iarm at auction/ consisting of 347 acres, all tillable, on Wednesday, May 23, at 2:30 Pin., at the farm, 4 miles east of Rensselaer, Ind., Marion township, Pleasant Ridge station and stock yards at corner of farm. This farm is improved with two houses, 2 barns, 2 double cribs, stock shed, stock scales, granary, tool house, wind mill, 2 good wells, 2 water tanks, one never-failing .flowing spring in yard, walnut grove in front yard, land, all in a body and fenced off in 40-acre fields, mostly new fences of barbed and woven wire, hog-tight fence only two years old on three sides of farm. The soil is good and land lies a little sloping mostly to the north. About 30,000 tile in land, working good. No incumbrance. Title will be free from ditdh or road assessments, if any. Possession given at once. Buyer carrying out the lease with tenant and receiving owner’s ebare of crop and cash rent and come in full possession of the farm March 1, 1918. TERM'S OF SALE —Will sell on time if so desired. One-fourth down, one-fourth in one year, balance three to five years at 5 per cent. Parties wishing to look farm over call Fred Phillips, auctioneer, er C. M. TRYON, owner, Rensselaer, Indiana. ®23
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