Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Page 2

THE JW COUNTY DEMOGRBI F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter mine 8, 1908, at the postofflee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March _____ Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING KATES Display 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 25c. Special price if run one 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 fsr first page. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1917

LET UTILITY RULE THE FAIRS

In the preparations -for the various state and county fairs to be held this fall, it will be well if we all stop and consider the Question Of exhibits. ' Heretofore .exhibitors at these fairs have been inspired by one controlling ambition—to have the best possible specimen on exhibition, frequently regardless of the cost. This year the item of cost should receive careful attention. Especially is this true in the case of live stock exhibits. If there -were any means of ascertaining the amount of feed consumed in this country annually by “show” stock, with little if any return in actual market value, we would - doubtless be amazed at the quantity. Stock of all kinds—horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry—are fed up, petted .and pampered, with no purpose of real efficiency or actual market value, but purely for shew. And frequently the cost of producing the specimen is out of all proportion to the real value. 1 Such a practice should be dis--couraged this year. No person should lavish feed and care upon any animal with any other object in view save to get a .bona fide return in dollars and cents—that is, in actual value that could be converted into money, and that at a profit. For instance, the average hog reaches the maximum of profitable growth at from 400 to 500 pounds. Frequently any additional weight is procured not only without profit, but at. a loss. The same holds good in other lines. The object, to be aimed at. this year is to see that every dollar’s wor/h of feed consumed shall yield more than a dollar’s worth of the animal to which it is. fed. Any other course is waste, which is inexcusable our country is at war and sorely in need of every ounce of farm production.

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Lgt the prize stock pass for this year. Feed for returns in ACTUAL VALUE.

DELIVER US FROM HATRED

There is one vital! point upon which we as citizens must guard ourselves in the great conflict before us, and that is that there grow not up in our hearts a spirit of hatted toward those in our midst with foreign blood in their veins. We have said that we are not to prosecute a war of revenge, \but a contest for right and jus’ ’< • . This

sentiment comes easy enough at this time. The danger will come later, when Ihq real shock -of- war is felt and grim deatlf* fans us with his sable wings as he takes a son from this home and a husband or brother from that one. Americans can not afford to harbor hatred, and especially can they not afford animosity toward our citizens of foreign descent. If the citizen of Teutonic blood is loyal to our country, though he grieve, aTZJhe necessity for war with his 1 fatherland, his burden is heavy, enough without the added know- , ledge Or suspicion that he is viewed with antagonism and distrust.

There are some who are unquestionably traitors to the land of their adoption, but they .will soon come to their just end. Time will efface them. But their acts should not prejudice in our minds those who are loyal and who are stanchly supporting the government, even though it be with hearts saddened by regrets. If Americans are even approximately true to their & Ideals they will not permit the loyal to suffer for the acts of the disloyal. To do so would be to defeat the very aims in view in the struggle before us. We now are impelled by one consuming desire, the freedom of humanity in its broadest sense, and the greatest freedom to which we can attain is freedom of heart from rancor and bitterness. No great cause was ever won ■without martyrdom. Some "must suffer greatly, all must suffer some. It is nature’s way in which she

works out human redemption. But if bitterness and hatred is permitted to creep into the martyrdom and suffering, their uplifting and purifying influence is nullified. Let us pray to be delivered from all bitterness, that when the contest is ended even our foes may be brought to the light as we see it.

DANGER IN FALSE ECONOMY

Worse, if possible, that extravagance just at this time would be a false idea of economy. If the people become hysterical over the matter of conservation the very ends aimed at will surely be defeated. We should bear in mind that, jrrovided our great waste and ex-, travagance is eliminated, there will be plenty of food in The country to supply the necessities of every person. ■ . . There is now no call, and probably will not be, for any person to deny himself or herself sufficient good nourishing food. On the contrary, all should strive to keep themselves up to their best. Eat plenty, and the best you can afford, then you will be able to do your full share of the work that is before us. Napoleon wisely said that “an army travels on its stomach.” And it is equally true that we work on our stomachs. A hungry man or

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VOTERS OF REGISTRATION Every voter of the county is required to register between the 22nd day of June. 1917, and the 20th day of August, 1917, Sundays and legal holidays, excepted, between the hours of 8 XX) a. id.. and 5:00 p. in., at the room or rooms in the court house in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, by filing with the registration board a proper written or printed application for registration, or by causing a properly printed or written application for registration to be filed with said registration board by some legal voter of the county, or by sending to said registration board by mail in a pr perly addressed, stamped and sealed envelope, a proper written or printed application for registration, all as provided for in the registration law. If the voter mails his registration application, he shall address the envelope in which he mails his application substantially as-follows.: “County Board of Registration Commissioners, Court House. Rensselaer, Indiana.” " Registration Rooms will be in the Clerk’s office , IF ANY VOTER FAILS TO SO REGISTER HE CANNOT VOTE

woman is incompetent for "any task. And it will be all too easy for us to develop a_ false economy in other lines.; . Miserliness‘and hoarding of means would be most dangerous to business conditions. Anything that checks the normal volume ot exchange unsettles the markets and tends to promote panics. In fact, this is a large factor in all financial panics. Money becomes a little scarce, and we at once imagine that if we turn loose the dollar we haVe we will never see another. Millions' of other people imbibe the same idea. You know the result. The sensible economy and the true patriotism is for each to exert himself to keep the business of the country normal. Buy and sell, earn and spend, as only by such a course can business be kept healthy and on the tip grade. Be economical and prudent, but don’t be a miser.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

If you can’t swat the kaiser you can at least swat the fly. Senator Lewis advocates hanging for the food hog. Get a rope! Pay up your subscription, brother. We want to buy a Liberty Loan bond. We hear less these days of war brides. “War grooms” have been occupying the spotlight. Up with the cuss who wants to down the government. The stouter the limb the longer he’ll swing. Twenty-five butter and egg speculators have just been indicted in Chicago. Give ’em twenty-five years apiece. * We art strong for the draft if it will take some politicians we might mention. Dying for one’s country is a whole heap better than living at the expense of it. —ASoon many of our young men will be hunting the trenches in France, while others will be ogling The pretty girls on the bathing beaches. Yes, there’s a difference. citizens of allied nations in this country should not be allowed to remain in safety here while our own men are. sent abroad to fight. Put ’em in the army or send 'em home.

Farmers will see that there is plenty of food produced in this country, but they can not keep it out of the hands of the damnable speculating hogs. Governmental action hpw will save trouble later.

MODERN CORN CULTIVATION

Shallow Plowing to Kill Weeds Has Been Found the Best. Corn cultivation should be as shallow as possible, providing that it kills thb weeds, according to the results of the Purdue experiment station. Deep cultivation late in the season will cause heavy loss. “It probably will pay to cultivate corn deeply the first time if the soil has been beaten down by. hard rains,’’ says J. C. Beavers of the. Purdue station, “but corn should not be cultivated deeply after the plants are eight inches high.” When the corn gets this high the roots cover the space between the rows and trap the moisture as fast as it comes from the lower soil layers, hence it is more important to avoid injuring the roots than to attenvpt w to conserve moisture by deep cultivation. Cultivation one and one-half inches deep gave four bushels of porn per acre more than cultivation four inches deep, in a nine year series of trials by the Ohio experiment station. In the work of the Purdue experiment station it has been found that, shallow scraping of the surface with no other object than to cut weeds gave three bushels more corn per acre than where ordinary shallow cultivation was practiced, Weeds growing unrestricted reduced the yield from 56 to 22 bushels per acre. ' These experiments show that it is essential that weeds be killed, but that when that is done the chief purpose of cultivation has been accomplished.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The soldier for the battle leaves, and to his girl he says, “My pet, I've donned my vambrance and my greaves, my; pauldrons, helm and solleret. My country calls, and I must go, to fight for her, on land or sea, and every time I bag a foe. I’ll, think, Miranda Jane, of thee. We'd planned our wedding for this spring, the month of June should see us one; but there will be no" wreath dr ring, until this righteous scrap is done. We’ll join our hands when I come back, from scenes of turmoil and gore; I love you nine ways from the jack, bur, dear, I love my country more. You could not honor me, dear maid, if in your secret heart you knew that I was shrinking and ' afraid, when banners waved and bugles blew. I hear of young men wedding girls that they may dodge the battle line: those brides, alas, are casting pearls before the cheapest kind of swine. Unless I have my girl's respect I do not ask her for her love; and so I go forth to collect a lot of German scalps, my dove. My tassets, cuishes, shield are on, my gorget’s fastened in its place; and so one kiss, and then I’m gone, to make some Prussians run a race.” .

Croup, Whooping-Cough Relieved Children’s diseases demand preparedness. When the child wakes you at night, gasping and strangling for breath, how thankful you are to have Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey at hand. This effective remedy loosensi the mucous and permits i free and , natural breathing. Its soothing balsams heal the irritated membrane and arrests further jnflammation. Pleasant to take. Keep Dr. Bell’s Pihe-Tar J Honey in the house for all colds and bronchial troubles. At your druggist, 25c. —Advt, • ■

Notice of Ditch Petition. State of Indiana,) County of Jasper )ss: In Commissioners’ Court, to July Term, 1917. ' In the Matter of the Petition of David Q. .Hart et al for a* Pub- * lie Drain. To James B. McCann, Charles B Spang and the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company: r You, and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned did on the 29 th day of May, A. D. 1917, file in the office of the auditor of Jasper county, in the state of Indiana, their petition praying for the location; establishment and construction of- a tile drain x upon and over the following described route, to-wit: Beginning at a point 400 feet south of the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of „ section sixteen (16), township thirty (30) north, range seven (7) west, in Union township, Jasper county, Indiana, and running thence northeast about 1,800 feet, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet in the Thompson ditch. You are further notified that lands- belonging to you are described in said petition as lands which will be benefited by said improvement petitioned for in the event that the same is ordered established, and that the petitioners have endorsed on their petition as the day for docketing of said petition the 3rd day of July, 1917. DAVID Q. HART, WILLIAM L. WOOD, Petitioners. John A. Dunlap, Attorney for Petitioners. j 9-16

Subscribe for The Democrat. EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos Dean. WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm loans.. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office in Odd Fellows Blpck. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR. I. M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. “ “ 2 to 5 P. M. •• “ 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays—--5 A. M. to 2 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Typhoid, Pneumonia and low grades of fevers. Office over Fendig’s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice In all Courts. Estates settled. * Farm Loans. x Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. 16 RENSSELAER, INDIANA

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CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS A LUUISVILXS RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect February, 1917 T \ ~ NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s »to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’.s to Chicago | 2:51p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati so Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati | 1:45 a.m. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville | 10:55 a.m. Nb. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati] 11:18a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor.. Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal....... Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Qsborne Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden.... J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward ßay Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward...,Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kreslor JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff ß. D. McColly AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder . George Scott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever 3rd District. . Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson ßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens .Gillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, Jr....« Marlon George Foulks Milroy John Rush Newton George Hammerton ..Union Joseph Salrin.. Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

{TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofilce address —Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month In G. A Wlillm’s law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

rw- ■ kfc JbHII M n KK 1 JMI • Your Tribute to the Departed should take the permanent form of a monument. Let us show you some designs that will come within your means whether they be small or large. Our monuments are artistic whether they are of little or great cost. So do not delay putting up a stone because you think you cannot have a nice one with the means at your command. We will supply one in good taste for probably less than you expect to pay. Will H. Mackey Rensselaer, Ind.

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