Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — Page 8

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

‘ HONEYSUCKLE SETTLEMENT • Yes, we are awake up here. We are needing rain quite badly at present. Vera ■' Miehajs started planting corn Wednesday. Robert Stevens is assisting Vern Michals with his farm work. school closed a week ago with a *ve dinner and program. Miss Ellen Reed is assisting Mrs, Arthur Putt with papering this week. ‘ Arthur Putt was seen leading home a fine Span of mules last, Thursday. • Mr. and Mrs. Joe Zrnrmerman and Mrs, Lillie Med worth were. Saturday and Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Putt. Richard Gazaway butchered a fine porker Monday evening. Arthur Putt also. butchered, but it was a mutton. Arthur has a tooth for mutton. The friends’and neighbors of Mrs. John Reed are glad to see her out once more and hope she will improve very fast now as the weather is warming up nicely.

LAURA Zack Kerns was a Kniman visitor Tuesday. « Corn planting is the order of the day in. these parts. Sam Cavender's children are quite Eick with the measles. Albert has become patriotic and hoisted the red, white and blue. Essie Comer of south of here is working at Newland, weeding onions. Wendel Cunningham is still improving from the relapse after the diphtheria. Miss Eliza Hurley of near Aix has been visiting her brothel, Albetg Hurley, this week. Elmer Kerns is now working about two miles south of here on the Thompson ranch. ( Frank Cavendish of Newland was here Wednesday and purchased a cow of Albert Hurley. The weather man has got over his grouch and smiled on us for the past few days. Farmers and gardeners, let us get busy and keep him in a good humor.

PINE GROVE Mrs. Charles Shroyer was a Rensselaer goer Thursday. Mr. and . Mrs. Will Hays were shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. James Britt and daughter Nile and Roy Torbet are in Monon today. Ocie Nicholson and family spent Sundav with Frank Payne and family. Miss Grace Price spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newt Price. Mr. and Mrs. ■ Henry Ropp were guests of their son Dalton and wife Sunday. Nate Richards and family of near Moody spent Sunday -with Elda Stowers and family. . Roy Torbet and family and John Dale and family spent Sunday with James Torbet and family. Miss Chloae Torbet returned home Saturday after a week’s visit with her brother John and family of near Kirklin. , . Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ropp and Vern Odle and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Donnelly of northeast of Rensselaer Sunday.

LEE Mrs. May Jacks did shopping in Chicago Tuesday. C. A. Lefler and wife have both been on the sick list during the past •week. Clayton Mellender, who is working near Brook, spent Sunday with home folks. Mrs. Wordon Donaldson and two children of Monon visited S. W. Noland’s Sunday. ‘ x “ Mrs. Frank Overton and baby spent Thursday in Rensselaer with her mother-in-law. Earl Stiers, who is working at Gary, spent Sunday here with his brother, W. L. Stiers. Mrs. Fred Stiers, who had spent the winter with her daughter at Kankakee, Illinois, has returned home. Frank Overton and family, Mrs. C. A. Holeman and J. H. Culp and family took Sunday dinner at J. W. Mellender's. • Everybody is sure improving the good weather in putting in their corn and the ground is in excellent shape for planting. G. A. Jacks and wife went to Lafayette Sunday evening to consult a specialist about a growth on Mr. Jacks’ thumb, which proved to be a tumor. The doctor removed it and

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they returned to their home Wednesday evening.

VIRGIE George Cover and family autoed to Brook Sunday and spent the day. The work on the Virgie church is progressing rapidly at this writing. Misses Zelah and Elizabeth Wisemap spent over Sunday with home folks. .- The Fortnightly club met, with Mrs. George Cover Friday afternoon. Thomas Florence and family spent Sunday with Robert Smith and family. Misses Patience and Dora Florence attended the last day of school at Center Friday. James Wiseman and Lewis Harrington were business callers in Wheatfield Friday. There will be preaching here after Sundav school Sunday mornipg by the Rev. Flintinger. The program committee of the North Union Farmers’ club met with Mrs. W. W. Zellers Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Zellers and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Zellers. The weather has warmed up and everything has the genuine appearance of real summer. You can see all the farmers smile, and their wives do not take a back seat in the smiling list, either. The pickle factory tanks have been shipped to Virgie. This enterprise will make Virgie quite a business point, as there has been 12-> acres contracted for in this neighborhood.

BARLEY NOT A HUMAN FOOD

As a Bread Cereal It Is Little Used. As An Animal Food It Is of Great Value. [National Crop Improvement Service.J For many centuries barley, the “corn” of holy writ, was used as a bread cereal, but it has practically gone out of use, except that Norway and Sweden use it in their peculiar bread disks, which are about the sizfl and shape of a phonograph record. Barley in itself does not make a a good bread flour and could be utilized only by mixing it with wheat, something which the American miller considers desecration of his shrine. It has a peculiar flavor and is just as different from wheat bread, as either corn or rye. But as a stock feed, it has many merits. As the kernels are too hard for some animals to relish, it may be crushed by passing it between rollers. If finely ground, the gluten makes a sticky mass as soon as it is wet, and this peculiar property makes it difficult to make it into good bread. Its main use in the American kitchen has been to use it as pearled barley in soups. It Is used some in" 1 breakfast food, through a malting process, but unless we as American people are on the verge of starvation, we will never use barley as a regular diet.

BARLEY VS. WHEAT.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] Barley at 60c per bushel will profitably compete with wheat at SI.OO. Were it not for the sustaining influence of the high prices for malting barley, it would compete with oats, but as it is the crop of barley for 19J 5 brought $122,500,000.00. The price of barley i? now $1.20 to $1.50 per bushel, but taking $l3O as a basis, the 1916 crop of 180,000,000 bushels, would bring $234,000,000. Yields of 40 to 50 bushels of barley per acre are not uncommon and as just a feed value this means a handsome return to the grower. But in addition to this, there is always the incentive of raising a good crop of superior barley that can be sold fdr malting purposes, at advanced prices, and a good yield of malting barley will hold its own with any other erpp.

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE . ■■ ' ■ ♦■*<■■ ■ . . . I Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U.S, —Teutonic War News The British admiralty announced at London iliat American destroyers hud arrived in British waters. A crowd of several hundred cheered the destroyers. The American navy’s actual entry into the war zone has already been productive of a brush between a destroyer and a German' underwater boat,- but the result of it has not been made public. The destroyer squadron put to sea again for the hard work that is before it. ■ ' . * ♦ ♦ ' the conclusion ’of a two-hours’ conference with Governor Whitman, Col. Theodore Roosevelt announced at Albany, N. that lie would accept the governor's offer of a major general’s commission in the state service if the federal army bill were passed without the provision to permit him to go to Europe with an expeditionary force. Labor and capital must co-operate in sacrfice. This was the keynote o£ the address of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, before a great gathering of American capitalists and labor leaders in Washington. * * * Vigorous action for the overthrow of the German secret service in America was begun at San Francisco by the federal authorities acting on information they said had beqn furnished by Rudolph Flamindinghe, alleged German master spy on the Pacific coast. Flamindinghe is under arrest in Los Angejes. <’ • . >. * * * President Wilson, following a conference with Secretary of War Baker, issued an executive order at Washington authorizing the raising of 183,000 men, in four increments, to bring the regular army to full war strength. * • • European War News y In the Canadian casualty list posted at Ottawa? Ont., are the names of two Americans who died of wounds, W. C. Clark, 140 Arcadia street, San Francisco, and A. - Diningan, Springville, Mich. The Rome war office announced that as a result of the offensive began this week the Italians thus far have captured 3,375 prisoners; a mountain battery and 30 machine guns. * * * The capture of trenches on a front of 000 meters east of La Neuville, is announced in the official statement issued at Berlin. • * • The British have captured most of the ground they had lost in Bullecourt and have established new posts on the west side of the village, says a dispatch to London from Reuteris correspondent at British headquarters. • * • A manifesto to the Russian army issued by the council of soldiers’ and workingmen’s delegates at Petrograd urged the continuation of the war against the central powers and stated that a separate peace is impossible. ♦ ♦ ♦ Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg in his speech in the reichstag at Berlin virtually made a peace offer to Russia, saying that if Russia renounces her aims of conquest, Germany would not prevent a permafient friendship by making impossible demands. The chancellor declined to set forth any program of conquest. * * ♦ A fleet of at least seven German subpiarines has been sunk or captured by the British navy while on its way to United States waters to raid Aiherican shipping. The submarines were on their way into the Atlantic when overhauled by British men-of-war. ♦ ♦ * British naval forces destroyed Zeppelin L-22 in the North sea, according to an official statement issued by the admiralty at London.

Domestic

The condition of oats in Illjnois is good and wheat is improving, according to the weekly crop bulletin issued by the federal weather bureau at Springfield, 111. Vegetables are in favorable condition. “1 Lieut. Melchoir Eberts, United States army aviation corps, was killed when his airplane fell at Columbus, N. M. Capt. James L. Dunsworth was injured, but 4-ill recover. ♦ * * Police recovered practically all of the SIO,OOO taken from the First National bank of Castle Shannon, Pa., by four bandits, who entered the bank, shot to death Cashier D. E. McLean and Assistant Cashier F. W. Erb of the bank and in attempting to escape wounded two persons. The bandits <*rere arrested.

, Agreement to spread the ban on wheat buying over tin* United States and Canada was reached in Chicago at a conference of representatives of leading grain exchanges of this country ami of the Winnipeg mart.’ An indefinite ban dn trading in futures was agreed)on arid, the only new buying allowed) will be that to close existing contracts.. <■"/.. Thg entire "north country,” embracing the, three iron ranges of northern Minnesota, is smoldering after a day ofi constant battle'between fire-fighters Hind forest and brfish firesk No loss of life was reported. . John D. Rockefeller has subscribed for S'.tK*'.lKMl of The gov« rnment liberty loanI’bonds, 1 ’bonds, it was announced at [New York by tip-committee, having the subscript ions in charge. American inventive g<nia< has triumphed in' the. production of optical glass. Secretary' of Commerce Redfield officially announced at Washington that litis achievement had been made by the federal bureau of standards. • • • Delegates from six boards of trade met in Chicago to stop speculation in wheat futures and to curb wild fluctuation in all grain markets of the United States. All trading in future deliveries of wheat, including July and September, was forbidden for two days. A special committee fixed the maximum price for July at $2.75 and for September at $2.45. May futures have been similarly controlled. Personal Joseph H. Choate, eminent lawyer and former ambassador to the court Of St James, died at New York. He was eiglity 4 -five years old. * * * Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood reached Charleston. S. C.. to take command of the southeastern department of the army, comprising the South Atlantic and Gulf states. Foreign It was announced at Petrograd that Paul N. Milukoff, minister of foreign affairs, has resigned, leaving the cabinet altogether. H. Tereschtenka, minister of finance, has been appointed foreign minister, and A. F. Kerensky, previous minister of justice, has been named minister of war and marine. • • • The death at the front of General von Victinghoff, former governor of Strassburg, is reported in a dispatch to Amsterdam from Berlin. • • • Walter 11. Long, secretary of state for the colonies, introduced in the house of commons at London the franchise bill which embodies the recommendations of the speaker’s electoral reform conference. The bill provides for the enfranchisement of women, which now depends upon the vote of the two houses of parliament. / • • * The executive committee of the council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates at Petrograd, after discussing the internal situation in Russia, decided by 41 votes against 19 to favor the participation of representatives of socialist parties in the provisional government. * • • Washington B. S. Cutler, a Buffalo manufacturer, was made assistant chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce’at Washington. • • • The army bill was again sent back to conference by the house at Washington, with instructions to Include an amendment for a graduated increase in the pay for privates during the war, beginning June 1. American consumers will have to deny themselves canned beans and canned soups of all kinds for a time, under a decision of the war can committee at Washington, which cuts off the supply of cans to packers of those foods. The committee holds that the shortage of tin makes it imperative that cans be supplied only to packers of perishables and of foods absolutely necessary to the national existence. The order will be effective for 60 days. * * * Carrying no press cenorship nor war prohibition clauses the senate at Washington passed the administration espionage bill by a vote of 77 to 6. Important sections curbing activities of enemy , spies remain in the bill. The amendment forbidding the use of cereals and grains for the manufacture of intoxicants was stricken from the bill by a vote of 4 to 37. Public hearings on the war revenue bill before the senate finance committee at Washington were concluded with statements by the last of more than 100 representatives of industries heard since Friday in protest against heavy taxes proposed in the measure. • « • Representative Gardner of Massachusetts has resigned from congress to enter the army. He has been ordered to active duty as a reserve officer. •• • . All of the members of America’s diplomatic, military and naval mission to Russia held a conference with President Wilson at Washington. Headed by Elihu Root, former American secretary of state, the members of the mission went to the White House to receive final instructions from the president. *

Names Members of Defense Body.

Indianapolis, May 18. —Governor Goodrich made public the names of the 17 persons he has chosen as members of the state council of defense, as requested by the government. The list follows: Will EL Hays, Sullivan; Charles W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis; Thomas Taggart, French Lick capitalist; Evans Woollen, Indianapolis, president of Fletcher Saving and Trust company ; W. G. Irwin. Columbus, Van Cainp l’acking company manufactures; J. L. \Keaeh. Indianapolis, commission merchant, food price expert; H. RKurrie. (Chicago,,president Monon Railroad company; A. W. Brady. Ander'»ii. president Union Traction com-pi-.py: I'j.ac Strau-s. Ligonier, president’ Stranx Brothers, hankers tijtd farmer*: I •r. diaries I’. Emerson. Indianapolis, dean Indiana Medical .school; diaries Fox. Terre Haute, presnlent Sirite Federation pf Labor; Ed R< yu£fc <'rabbs and !;•-> i-te - ..in : M.ortpn Wilson. Anderson, farmer; < leorge Ade. Brook, author: Will J. Freeman, Terre Haute, presideii.i Indiana Coal operators’ assoeiation ; Nathan •Squibb' s - Lawrenceburg,' manufacturer; Mrs. Carolyn R. Fairbuiik, Fort Wayne, president Indiana Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Great Recruiting Campaign.

Indiana [Hilts, May IS—A great recruiting ctimpaigifYor the Indiana National \Gua rd is planned ih the next month. With information that the guardwill be mobilized about the middle of June, probably June 15. Adjutant General Smith has ordered every unit in the guard recruited to war strength. There are 2.100 men needed to put the present units on a war basis. In addition, it is hoped to complete the recruiting of the Fourth regiment and a regiment of cavalry within the next few weeks. It is probable that a battalion of engineers also will be organized.

Fancy Price for Blooded Bull.

Kentland, May 18. —Martin Fairfax, a Hereford bull, stands as one of the highest priced bulls in the country. George E. Fuller, a Canadian stockman. paid 517,500 for the bull at the McCray sale here. Mousele Empress, a cow. sold for $5,000. The average price for 71 aniuuils- was $1,750.

New Style.

“So your son's in college, eh? Burning the midnight oil, I s’pose?” “Well—er —yes; but I’ve an idea — er —that it’s gasoline.”—St. Patrick’s Monthly Calendar.

Overanxious.

‘ls Bliggins an optimist?* “He says he is. But he works so hard trying to cheer up that you’d think he must be terribly scared about something.”

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FOR SALE 1915 Ford in good condition. —M. I. ADAMS & SON. ml - A good carriage. Enquire of H. L. SWARTZELL. Phone 947-1. ml 9 Some young fox hounds, six weeks old. —L. A. MECKLENBURG. Phone 109. ' ts Tomato, cabbage, pepper and celery plants.—C. W. RHOADES. Phone 148. ■ ts Chevrolet “490,” good as new. Bargain.—M. I. ADAMS & SON. ts My residence property on McKinley avenue. Will sell at a bargain. —L. STRONG, ’phone 173. m2l Billion Dollar Grass Seed —$1.50 per bushel.—MAßK HOYES. Phone 951-1. R. F. D. No. 1. m 26 Setting Eggs—White Wyandotte, 50c and 75c per setting.—MßS. JOHN KOHLER. Phone 938-C. ts Four Shorthorn bull calves, ranging in age from 11 to 13 months. — W. H. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, R-4. Phone 9 49-H. Seed Corn—Several bushels of fine yellow seed corn, deep grain, early maturing.—O. K. RITCHEY. Phone 618. m 24 Overland 5-passenger auto. Good condition. Payments to suit purchaser. Phone 45. —E. M. LARUE. x ts Good Recleaned Timothy Seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts Many kinds of cut flowers for Dec- " oration day. Flowers will be scarce; better let us book your order now, and we will hold flowers for you. Phone KING FLORAL CO., 216-Green. m 24 One team 3-year-old mules, broke, weight 1900; 1 bay horse, 5 years old, wt. 1100; 1 brown mare, 10 years old, wt. 1050. JOSEPH TRULLEY, Rensselaer, Indiana, R-4. Phone 945-B. ml 2 Five-pawnrmgrr Automobile In good mnning condition, electric horn. Presto-lite lights, top, good tires,

two practically newj_ extra inner tubes, jack, etc. A bargain if sold soon. Will demonstrate. —F. E. BABCOCK, Remington Typewriter, No. with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid condition and looks and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. One of the Best Located Rest-, deuce properties in Rensselaer/? 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-bulldlngs, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms ii desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT 1 D. Paper ensilage cutter, 2 seta knives, 30 ft. pipe; 1 Johnston binder, 8 ft., tongue truck, new canvases; sprocket wheel Tor engine; 1 Satley corn planter, fertilizer attachments, 8 0 rods wire; 1 school wagon, handy for huckster. These articles are nearly new, in first-class Condition; guarantee satisfaction. 1 horse, 3 years old, wt. 1300; 1 horse, 8 years old, wt. 1300. gentle driver; 1 brood mare, 12 years old, wt. 1600; 1 brood mare, 12 years old, wt. 1300. Will sell on time or take young stock. —- JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l. Phone Mt. Ayr 92-D. m 24

, WANTED ATTENTION—WE ARE WANTING A SALESMAN TO REPRESENT US IN JASPER COUNTY. OUR BUSINESS IS WELL ESTABLISHED, AS OUR GOODS HAVE BEEN SOLD IN THIS COUNTY FOR YEARS. THIS IS A PAYING POSITION FOR A REAL, RED-BLOOD-ED, AMBITIOUS MAN WHO ' IS WILLING TO WORK. AN ENERGETIC, WIDE-AWAKE MAN FROM THIRTY TO FORTY YEARS OF AGE PREFERRED. EXPERIENCE. AS SALESMAN NOT NECESSARY. WHITE US FOR PARTICULARS. S. F. BAKER & CO., KEOKUK, lOWA. FOR RENT ’ A Dandy Suite of Office Rooms over The Democrat office.—F. E. BABCOCK.tf 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. 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, including cows and heifers, $1 per month; horses, $1.50 per month for season. Call or see superintendent, JAMES E. WALTER. Phone 337. ’tf

FOUND Ladies’ fur collar; left at Democrat office. Owner may have same by identifying property and paying for this advertisement. MISCELLANEOUS Notice to Breeders—My stud booksare in the hands of Gus Grant, and all hills due me can be paid to him or to the Trust & Savings bank. —W. H 7 BARKLEY. ml« Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The 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 Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Wll2 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 Light** ning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 533-L. ts Farm Loans—l can procure yon 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. ts Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO: —E. P. HONAN. I tint fkn'l Without Delay, Mr I IHr Without Commission, I Uvl IllU Without Charges for n ’Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON.

NOTICE OF CULVERT LETTING No. 3041 > Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, June 5, 1917, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of culvert with concrete headers or retaining walls at the head of the Hodge ditch under the highway north and south near the center of section 35, township 33 north, range 6 west, in Wheatfield township, Jasper county, Indiana. Said culvert to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office. AU bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied' by bond and affidavit, according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, > Auditor. Jasper Ctrunty, Indiana.