Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — Page 2
THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOGRftI F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephone* Office 315 Reeldence 111 Entered as Second-Class Mall Mattar June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March t. 1379. - ■ ; ’ / Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only AB Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING KATES Display A •12 %c Inch Display, special position. . . ,15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5c Readers, per line add. insertions. .3c Want Ads —One cent per word each insertion; minimum 26c. Special price if run ojje or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All acounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisement accepted f«r first page. b WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1917
THE RAT ARMY
Every day the citizens of Indiana pay $15,000 f r the maintenance of rats. This is more than the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross has been able to add to its war fund in a campaign extending over weeks. The figures are based on the government estimate that the rat population of the country is equal to the human population and that the rat consumes food every day valued atXabout half a cent. The American rat bill is therefore about $500,"00 a day, or more than enough to keep all of the war orphans in France. Since the outbreak of the war this country has fed fifteen times as much to its rats as it has to the starving Belgians. Furthermore, with prices
”|i bT * i Sewed' i[Msa i fig 1 —■* CJBuuibh■BMBMML.J E iv J/ I I E £| Every minute wasted on the road by slow, S 3 VA I hITPA inefficient hauling and delivery costs you MU ¥ V * 111 VV rea j Inone y. Horses take from three to E vw /• four times as long to cover the ground as E HAIIV*Q Alla fit* ** take you when you install Smith * IUUI O vlll VI Form-a-Trucks in your service. E Three to four miles an hour is the best horses can do E U VyAVTT with a ton load. Smith Form-a-Truck replaces the E; C 1 j * U 1 slow, time wasting walk of horses with a speed of from ten « v to fourteen miles an hour under every condition of work. E XT j 1 And i l -costs no more to buy a Smith Form-a-Truck E | fill | ■1 f^an ’*■ d° es t 0 b uy a go °d P a * r °f horses equal to the E r VUI * IV4 vvork of hauling a ton load. If your hauling or delivery E wwt W requires all-day service every working day of the year, E Ilf By I IT • you must have at least two teams for every wagon. IJ 01I* bV oSing The sturdy, efficient, untiring Smith Form-a-Truck never “ * ° takes time out for rest, never has to'lay off the job. It works steadily day in and day out, always maintaining its high speed, always moving its load quickly, easily, ft and at lower cost than any other form of service you E can buy. K As* 4 Records of service obtained from overlO,ooo Smith Form-a-Truck users show a ton mile cost of less than 8 cents. And the first HVIiUU AiHwA* Smith Form-a-Truck ever sold has been in service four years, B covered 20,000 miles and cost only $8 for repairs ft* Get a Smith Form-a-Truck, attach it to any Ford, Dodge Bros., g ■ Overland, Buick. Chevrolet or Maxwell chassis and end your 3 ■ K excessive hauling and delivery costs. 1 Put your hauling problems up to us. It doesn’t cost you a cent S to learn just, how much money we can put back into your pocket 3 F. O. B. go that you are now putting into horses. S ■ s I * CENTRAL GARAGE I E RENSSELAER, IND. |
soaring, the rats are going right on eating. Here in Indiana" they probably cost nearer $20,000 a day' than $15,000, which estimate is based oh investigations made in 1013. The rat is a disease carrier which should be exterminated for this reason alone. N 6 one ever had a good word for file rat, in fact, and po one ever regarded him as anything but a menace. Yet he is tolerated in most localities. In GibI: on county, however, ■ the farmer.'have rat drives, in which thousands - are killed, Carroll county has also ' recognized the true cost of the rat , and other cunties are considering plans of extermination. The movement should be state-wide. The state has a good rat law, passed in 1913, which is not en- • forced. This law provides that counties may appropriate funds for the extermniation of rats, but apparently the farmers have not brought their influence to bear upon county officials and upon health officers who are supposed to see that the law is enforced. The law also provides, that the governor may designate .every spring by proclamation a “rat day,’’ which is “to be observed throughout the state,’’ Thus the machinery fop a-n anti-rat campaign is provided, and the need for such a campaign is great. The actual work remains to be done by. various individuals and organizations. If they wish a rat day proclamation as a war measupp, no doubfthe governor Will be glad to accommodate them.—-Indianapolis News.
PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON
I see my neighbors buying flags, and waving them on every hand; they stand around and make their I brags about Columbia, happy land. ; “We don’t want war,” I hear them say, “we do not lust for wound and scar, but if a foe should come our waj r , there is no sacrifice we’ll bar. Breathes there a map with soul so dead he would not for his country ’ scrap? If such there be, we’ll j punch liis head, and frorri"'his system knock the sap.’’ Bill Kickshaw sprung a musty gag, the other day, down by the jail, reflecting on our starry flag, which makes all other flags look pale. At other times his idle speech would not have stirred
us up to ire; bfit nbw we rose with , wrathful screech, nnd mauled him iFke a house aflre7'' We’ve all grown soft in times of peace, the worth j while things we have disdained;' we’ve lolled and basked and put on grease, and cash is all for which we’ve strained. ' So, wheii our' Country strikes a snag,-it's good to , see, throughout the town, our neigh- J bors bless the dear old flag, ■ and , mob thp -man who'd pull.it down' The nation is not gone to seed: still throbs the, soul of Bunker 11 ill. ‘ to battle,, at the: country’s need —it always has, it always will.
NATURE OF A LIBERTY BOND
Provisions Made to Give the Small Buyer the Preference. There are two kinds of liberty loan bonds. Bearer bonds are to be issued in denominations of SSO, $lO 0, SSOO and $ 1,000. These bearer bonds, which are made payable to bearer, have interest coupons attached which are detached by the holder when the interest installments they represent are due, and can be cashed at any bank the same as a United States treasury note. Registered bonds are to be issued, which are registered as to both principal and interest, in denominations of SIOO, SSOO, SI,OOO, $5,000, $1 0,000, $5:0,000 and $100,000; checks for the amount of interest due will be mailed out semi-an-nually to the holders of these registered bonds. Liberty loan bonds of the first issue of $2,000,000,000 are to bear date of June 15, 1917, and to run for thirty years, except that the government reserves the right to pay them fifteen years after date. If this right is not exercised by the government fifteen years from date the bonds will run the full thirty years. One especial advantage no other bonds, national, state, municipal, or corporate, have is that if the United States during the continuance of this war shall issue other bonds at a higher rate of interest, the holders of these liberty bonds have the right to exchange their liberty bonds for bonds bearing the higher rate of interest, dollar for dollar. They are non-taxable. If your city, county and state taxes are
three mills on the dollar, a not Unusual tax, these bonds are equivalent to ordinary corporate bonds or dther' anvestments bearing 614 per cent. In addition, no federal tax which war conditions may later make necessary will affect these bonds. The .only tax these bonds are subject to is the inheritance tax, which applies to all property of all. kinds whatsoBlank forms of application for the purchase of these bonds can be obtained from the treasury department, any'federal reserve bank, anv national, state or private bank, any express office, 1 and any post office in the United States. Any bank or postmaster will aid applicant in filling out his blank and the other acts necessarv to <>bia;n Uh-m- bonds. 1
RETAIL DRY GOODS MERCHANTS
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to .any problem in their business which they have not been able to successfully solve, thus drawing out a free ‘and open discussion of the particular subject and in this manner gaining the experience of other merchants who have successfully solved the same question. The convention will last but one day and will be divided in three sessions, the final session being the smoker, all three sessions being held at the Claypool hotel. Due to the conditions existing in all lines of business and especially, in the retail dry goods line on account of the war, the convention promises to be of unusual interest. At this convention the Mid West Retail Dry Goods association will be formed, comprised of the membership of the three states, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Membership in the Indiana Retail Dry Goods association will carry with it membership in the Mid West Retail Dry Goods association without additional cost. The convention Tuesday, June 12, Mil go a long way in bringing together in a closer relationship the retail dry goods merchants of the state and should be attended by every merchant in that line.
PROCLAMATION
Whereas the citizens of Indiana yield nothing in loyalty and patriotism, and it is believed that there would be danger that alien enemies to our government might take advantage of celebrations by the use of fireworks to conceal incendiary operations by the destruction of property, and also material used in the manufacture of fireworks is needed in the production of munitions, and it has been a question whether the public gets any real pleasure opt of fireworks but there never has been any doubt that many have been maimed and killed and that thousands of dollars have been wasted annually in this fleeting manner of entertainment, and it would be a calamity for food warehouses or elevators to be destroyed at this time, and much better use can be made of the money cost of fireworks, and at the suggestion of the governor of the state of Indiana, made on May 1 1917, I hereby appeal to the patriotic spirit of all citizens of Jasper county,' Indiana, to lend their support to the enforcement of all laws and restrictions on this subject, and ask that no fireworks or toy balloons be employed in celebrating the Fourth of July in the year 1917. Respectfully submitted, BEN D. McCOLLY, Sheriff of Jasper County, Indiana.
NOTICE The citizens of Rensselaer, Indiana, are hereby reminded that it is against the law and ordinance of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, to discharge, fire or use fire crackers, rockets, torpedoes, Roman candles, or other fireworks or substances designed and intended for pyrotechnic display, and of , all pistols, canes, cannons, or , s ,other appliances, using blank cartridges or caps containing chlorate of potash mixture, or other explosives, or to sell fireworks at retail within the corporate limits of thercity of Rensselaer, Indiana. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Mayor.
PLANTING LATE POTATOES
“Don't plant your late potatoes too early.’’ This was the advice issued by G, T. Christie, state food -director. Late potatoes should not be planted until June 15, according to Christie’s statement. “Instead of this, most late potatoes in Indiana are planted in May, and as a result are struck by the unusual hot, dry weather of late July and August.” said the food director. “Furthermore, the vines are subject to the worst attack of potato beetle; the hot, dry days are apt to cause leaf spot, or blighting at the ends of the leaves, just when the tubers are formjng. “When planted about June 15 to 20 the tubers do not start, forming until cool weather, when moisture will be more abundant and tempera-
ture mote suitable to potato growing. , . “Seed potatoes to be kept to the proper time for planting should be brought from the cellar at once and placed where tfie kun will shine on them. They will then form short, thick sprouts, purple in color, which will cease growing when less than half an inch long, and will not sap the vitality of the seed. Potatoes sprouted in thi> way and planted without destroying the sprouts, will yield more and the quality will be better, than when planted in the usual way.’’
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Mrs: Belva A. Lockwood, the only woman ever nominated for the Presidency of the United States, died in Washington Saturday after an extended illness, aged 86 years. She was nominated by the Equal Rights party of the Pacific slope in 188 4 for the Presidency. A disastrous fire in the residential section of Atlanta, Georgia, Monday evening wiped out scores of blocks of the finest homes and caused damage estimated at ?2,000,000. Only one death was reported. The fire originated in the negro section, the cause being unknown. Seven automobile loads of teachers and pupils of the Remington high school were in Morocco Saturday bn their way to the north part , of the county to seo what remains of the one time notorious Bogus island. The party Was chaperoned by Miss Caroline Dowling, Martha Bonham, F. L. Wildrick, Mrs. J. Washburn and Mrs. C. Landon. — Morocco Courier. ’■ Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announced Sunday night that all men who had volunteered to serve with him under the American flag in France had been absolved from all further connection with the movement, and that the only course open to them now is to enter the military service in some other way if they are able to do so and if not to serve the country in civil life. E. G. Perrigo of west of town shipped a car loaded with cattle and hogs last week, and the car was wrecked in the Gibson yards before it reached its destination at Chicago. Five head of cattle were killed and several head of cattle and hogs injured. Mr. Perrigo was in Chicago Saturday to see about the stock and make settlement with the railroad company for damage to his property.—Morocco Courier.
Following a brief illness from pneumonia, Daniel W. Comstock, 77 years old, representative in congress from the Sixth Indiana district, died at Washington, D. C., Saturday at the Dewey hotel, his home. He lapsed into unconsciousness Friday evening and expired at 5 o’clock Saturday morning. The body left for Richmond Saturday night in charge of the sergeant-at-arms of the house and a committee of twenty representatives and senators.
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FOR SALE 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 Billion Dollar Grass Seed—sl.so per bushel. —MARK 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 949-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. ts Good Recleaned Timothy Seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. / ; ; . ts
Many kinds of Rut flowers for Decoration dciVf 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. 110 0; 1 brown mare, 10 years: old, wt. 1050.—-JOSEPH TRULLEY, Rensselaer, Indiana, R-4. Phone 945-B. m!2 Five-passenger Automobile in good running condition, electric horn, Presto-lite lights, top, good tires, two practically new; extra inner tubes, jack, etc. A bargain if sold sobn. Will demonstrate.—F. E. BABCOCK. Remington Typewriter, No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid condition and looks and is practically as good as new; cost. $l2O, will sell bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. One of the Best Located Residence 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-buildings, etc, Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT.
1 D. Paper ensilage cutter, 2 sets knives, 30 ft. pipe; 1 Johnston binder, 8 ft., tongue truck, new canvases; sprocket wheel for engine; 1 Satley corn planter, fertilizer attachments, 80 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. 13Q0; 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 2 4
WANTED SCHOOL TEACHERS, ATTENTION —Do you want an opportunity to earn money in your spare time or during your vacation? Easy, agreeable Work. No investment required. We want several school teachers in each county. Write or call immediately. If you write, name the school vou are teaching. Address TIMBER INVESTMENT & SECURITIES COMPANY, 803-8 K. of P. building, Indianapolis, Ind. m-30 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. WRITE US FOR PARTICULARS. — S. F. BAKER & CO., KEOKUK, lOWA.
FOR RENT 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 books are in the hands of Gus Grant, and all bills due me can be paid to him or to the Trust & Savings bank. —W. H. 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. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts
FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s 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 afiy 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 flftl Without Delay, I Ifrl lllr Without Commission, I ul ll|V Without Charges for H ’Making or Recording Instruments. s W. H. PARKINSON. Subscribe for The Democrat.