Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1917 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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ORPHEUS C. HALSTEAD DEAD

Former Resident of This County Passed Away in Wyoming. Word was received here z Saturday afternoon of the death of Orjjheus C. Halstead at Worland, Wyoming. The- cause of death was spotted fever, which Mr. Halstead contracted while helping to care for his brother Sanford, who was first afflicted with the same disOrpheus Halstead was horn November 6, 18 58, in Newton township and was a resident of this county practically all of his life. He was well and favorably known and the news of his death was received with sorrow by his large circle of friends. On January 28, 1891, he was united in marriage to Laura C. Yeoman, and to this union one son, Roscoe Vernon, was born. The son left here last week for his father’s bedside but did not arrive in time to see his father alive. Mrs. Halsfead died January 30, 1910, and since then he had spent, much of his time in Wyoming. For the past two years he had been there permanently, returning here last October and shipping his farming tools there for use this year. The body arrived here yesterday afternoon on -the 1:57 train, and the funeral will be held at the Church of God at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. Elder C. J. Lindsay of Oregon, Illinois, will” preach the sermon. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery.

$123,000 IN LIBERTY BONDS

C. H. Tryon With $30,000 Is the Largest Subscriber. The government ■will have no cause for complaint of Jasper county’s response to the appeal to purchase liberty loan bonds. The magnificent sum of $123,000 was subscribed by and through the various banks of the county, the largest purchaser being C. H. Tryon of this city, who took $30,000 worth of the bonds. Mr. Tryon recently sold his farm east of the city and recognizing the purchase of liberty bonds as a gilt-edged investment, he did not hesitate to subscribe largely. Granville Moody of Barkley township was another latge subscriber, investing $5,000 in the bonds. A Leopold was another large purchaser, but it is probable that more than half of the total amount was subscribed by a large number of people throughout the county in, SSO and SIOO denominations. According to tHe Indianapolis papers the apportionment for Jasper county was $146,000, and it ‘is quite probable that a number of subscriptions made direct will bring the total well up to this sum.

JACK FROST PAYS US A VISIT

Com in Low-Lying Muck Nipped by a Freeze Friday Night. A belated visit by Jack Frost nipped many acres of corn iri Jasper and neighboring counties Friday night. It was cold enough to form ice in small pools and vessels of water, but apparently the damage was confined wholly to corn on low-lying muck ground. Fortunately there doesn’t seem to be a very large acreage of muck ground planted in corn this season and some of this was planted quite late and is barely, through the ground. It “is probable that the total amount damaged is but a few hundred acres and some of this will sprout up again, perhaps all of it. No damage was done to garden truck, but some farmers fear that the rye, which was in blossom, is damaged considerably in • some places. The 15th of June is perhaps one of the latest dates ever known in Jasper county for it to get cold enough to freeze ice on pools of water. But we are mighty lucky that it was no worse than it was. This freeze has since been followed by rising temperature and pleasant weather.

ALL DOGS MUST BE—MUZZLED

Notice is hereby given that after this date,. June 20, 1917, all dogs found off the premises of the dwner that are not properly muzzled, will be killed according to law. Thi*. rule will be rigidly enforced. —By City (Health Officer. • An armload of oM papers for fire cents at The Democrat office.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Inlurtsling Paragraph Froalftu Various DipilMts OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL • The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several Gowuiy Offices. W. H. Parkison and A. H. Hopkins went to Indianapolis Monday on matters of connected with the new farmery’. hank-.. • The Democrat is reliably informed that so far the new Jasper county hospital has not been a howling 'success as a revenae producer, but that the deficit has been running something like per month, which has to be made up, of course, out of the county treasury. County Treasurer May and family attended the Odd Fellows’ memorial services at Wolcott Sunday and report that there was a large crowd of people out. The K. of P’s.of Goddland also held memorial services Sunday and as a result the attendance at the Red Cross meeting at Remington not as large perhaps as it otherwise would have been.

Marriage licenses issued: June 18, Elza Paul Swim of Rensselaer, aged 18 September 3 last, occupation farmer., and Grace Ada Wood, also of Rensselaer, aged 2d March 14 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Male being under age his father. Alien Swim, gives consent to issuance of license. Married in the clerk's office by Justice Dean. There will be. a meeting of the Jasper County Livestock association Saturday, June 23, at 2 p. m. at the county agent's office. Would like to have as many breeders present as possible as we desire to get out stationery with the names of breeder members thereon, and adopt a constitution, make arrangements for the fall shows and transact any other business of importance that may come up.e— CHAUNCY WOOD, Sec-Treas. It is reported that the Dexter R. Jones farm of 2<"d acres tying about 2% males southeast of Remington, in Carpenter township, has been sold to Dudley Tyler, who has been the tenant on the farm for the past five or six years. We were unable to learn the price paid, but it was probably considerable in excess of $260 per acre. Mr. Jones died but recently and the four children, the only heirs, are all of age. The son Howard owns a farm of his own and probably did not care to buy out the other heirs in the old home place. The board of county commissioners met in special session Saturday to take up the Wheatfield remonstrance case, and after continuing in session until 7 o'clock that evening without reaching an agreement an adjournment was taken until July 2, the time of the next regular meeting. Commissioner Marble was in favor of granting James Anderson, the applicant, a license until April, ISIS, holding that the woman's suffrage law was unconstitutional, for without the woman signers the remonstrance was insufficient- Commissioner Welch held that they ,should. abide by the law until the same was declared unconstituTional, and that the remonstrance was- thereby sufficient and a license should be refused. Commissioner Makeever was non-committal and did noi vote at all. Both sides were wail represented before the board, Attorneys S. C. Irwin of this eity and R. € Minton of Indianapolis appearing for the remonstrators. while Attorneys A.- Halleck, W. H. Parkison and J. A. Dunlap were retained by Mr. Anderson. County Attorney Blue was also present and favored the granting of a license. Anderson’s license expired June 2, but he has Continued in business since, notwithstanding that a new license has not yet been granted. However, this is legal under an act of the 1913 legislature. The Wheatfield saloon fight is already assure

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20,1917

ing the same characteristics with which the people of Rensselaer were confronted years ago. The proposition qf hurting the business of the town in the event the ..saloon is ousted is being loudly proclaimed. The establishment of a new bank at Denfotte is also being used as-an argument in favor of a saloon at Wheatfield. ■

ASKED POSSESSION OF HORSE

Said Animal Had ‘Been Sold But Was Not Paid For. Justice Dean presided over a lawsuit Saturday brought here from Hanging Grove township in which W. L. Rice, a former Presbyterian minister at Monon, sought possession of a horse .recently purchased by George Walters of Hanging Grove township. Mr. Rice had sold the horse to a young man named Hancock, who was to pay for same by hauling coal. Hancock sold the horse to Carl Carlson, who some time latejr sold the animal at a duly advertised. public sale, Mr. Walters being the purchaser. Mr. Rice was present at this sale and saw the horse sold, it was said, but made nd claim upon it at that time. Charles Garwood of Monon, who was a witness for the defense, testified that Rice had told him he had sold the horse to Hancock. Justice Dean decided the case in favor of the defendant, whereupon attorneys for the plaintiff gave notice of an appeal to the circuit court.

CORN IS LOOKING PROMISING

With Favorable Weather Crop Will Yet Turn Out Good, In a sixty-mile drive Sunday afternoon up through Barkley township, Newland; Gifford, Wheatfield, Kersey, . Demotte and Kniman, we saw only occasional small fields of corn on muck ground that was damaged by Friday night’s freeze. Taken as a whole, on the entire trip, we do not believe that we ever saw corn as good a “stand” and as clean as it now is. ' We were surprised to see that practically every corn field had been plowed over,»- and only once in a great while did we see one that had been too wet to plow. • Corn is looking much better down through the central part of the county than up about Wheatfield and through the northern section. Oats and rye are- also considerably better down this way than . in. the northern part of the county, while wheat is equally as good. We are told that the wheat in the north part of the county which wintered well and came out looking fine in the spring, was badly damaged by the dry weather. Evidently the recent cold, wet weather has affected crops more up that way than down here, as they are not looking nearly so well as with us. The large onion fields in about Newland are looking quite well, except that some of them are weedy. They have not had enough rain there as yet to do any damage, however, and with a continued favorable season an enormous crop will be raised. Over in south and southwest of Rensselaer -fc-here the land is not very well drained some of the fields have been too wet to get into with teams until this week, and corn in that vicinity is not looking so well, many of the fields being quite weedy.

PROMINENT JASPER COUNTY MEN INTERESTED.

The Jasper County Executive committee of the American Red Cross have appointed the following sub-executives to attend to the Red Cross subscriptions in their respective townships: Wheatfield—H. W. Marble. South Union—Hon. W. L. Wood. North Union—Mrs. H. J. Dexter. Fair Oaks—Mrs. Fae Petty. Walker —-William Hershman. Barkley— Rev. G.- F. Cramer. Gillam —John P. Ryan. Hanging Grove —Royal L. Bussell. W. Foulks. Newton—John Rush. Jordan —Frank Welsh. Kankakee—-C. R. Peregrine. Keener— —H. C. DeKock. Marion —J. H. Chapman, J. J. Hunt. J. N. Leatherman, E. L. Hollingsworth. « When these men call upon you DO YOUR BIT. - B < The government says Jasper county MUST raise $4,200 to care for their share of OUR boys we win send to the front in France. DO YOUR BIT.

FORMER RESIDENT IS DEAD

Mrs. J ne Green, widow of Joseph Green, ” a “'former resident of Rensselaer a-nd vicinity, died at her home in Greensburg, Indiana, and the body will be brought here tonight and taken to the home of |F. M. Haskell. The funeral will .be held at the M. E.° church at 16 la. in. Thursday and burial made in the Crockett cemetery, beside j her husband, who died some fi tcen or sixteen years ago. iHer age was | about 80‘years. The family used to live southeast of Rensselaer, bn l he farm now owned by Mike Ku- : boski, and later lived in Rensselaer for several years.- She le>ves an : adopted daughter, Mrs. Joeva H'll, *a former teacher in the Rensselaer schools.

CHAS. GROW IN TRAIN WRECK

No. ..7 Left the Track Near Indignapol's Sunday Afternoon. Monon ] assenger train No. 37, which passed through this city at 11:18 a. in. Sunday, was derailed about twelve niiles southeast of Indianapolis. Charles Grow of this city was in charge of mail car in this train, but luckily escaped injury. The train was composed of five steel cars, the first twobaggage and mail car and the smoker —turning completely over after leaving the track. The other three cars were thrown on their sides. No one was seriously injured and railroad officials attribute the absence of fatalities, to the fact that all steel coaches composed the train. The only injuries reported were about eight or nine persons cut by flyiqg glass, yet the crash came so quickly and with such force that all were considerably frightened. The si»reck was caused by the falling a brake beam from the tender. *

WERE MARRIED IN MICHIGAN

Arthur Gosnell trad Miss Clay Nevill Elope to Wolverine State. An elopement occurred here Sunday which came as a surprise to the relatives of the principals. Miss Clay Nevill, the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry" C. Nevill, left home Sunday morning ostensibly to go to Sunday school. She was picked up somewhere on the way, it is supposed, by Arthur Gosnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Gosnell, who reside on the former Pumphrey place at the northwest corner of town, and they are supposed to have driven to Remington and thence to Wolcott and then to Michigan, where, according to a telegram Mr. Nevill says he received from his daughter Monday, they were married at Kewana, Michigan. At this writing they have not returned home and the telegram did riot state when they expected to come back. While it was known that the young couple were acquainted, it was not thought there was any serious attachment between them. The girl .was seventeen years old last February. She was a student in the Rensselaer high , school and would have graduated with the 1918 class, we understand. Mr. Gosnell is about ten years her senior and is a widower, having one child perhaps seven years old by a previous marriage. He had been employed as driver for one of the White & Lee ice wagons for the past two seasons.

$2,000 GIVEN TO RED CROSS

Rousing Meeting Held in Rensselaer Sunday Night. The campaign to raise $4,200 in Jasper cou«tjp> for the Red Cross was opened at Remington Sunday afternoon. A large delegation from Rensselaer accompanied . the very able speaker, William T. Abbott, of Chicago and County Chairman Spitler to that place, but the representation of people from the south end of the county was not what it would have been because of fraternal memorial servic.es at both Wolcott and Goodland. After a few selections by members of the Remington and Rensselaer bands, Mr. Abbott- made a strong appeal for funds to aid the Red Cross in its work. Charles G. Spitler, contributed the first $25, which had previously been appropriated for that purpose here, and to this was afiflded sss,..contributed by the people of Remington and vicinity. The Red Cross organization at Remington has a member-

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in th|e Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mentioa from Many Places/ POPULATION TO DECIDE DJtAFT Credit Will Be Given for Men Already ’Enlisted. Washington, D. C., June 16. — The number of men each state will be called on to provide under first draft for the 500,000 men for the< national army will be determined in proportion to the population and not the registration. It was pointed out at the war department today that the law is specific on this point, for it says: “Quotas for the several states, territories and the District of Columbia, or subdivisions thereof, shall be determined in proportion to the population thereof, and credit shall be given to any state, territory, district or subdivision thereof for the nunvber of men who were in the Military service of the United States as members of the national guard on April 1, 1917, or who have since said date entered the military service of the United States from any such state,, territory, district or subdivision, either as members of the regular army or the national guard. A further provision of the law: “Notwithstanding the exemptions enumerated herein, each state, territory and the District of Columbia shall be required to supply Its

quota in the proportion that its population bears to the total population of the United States.’’ It has been estimated that to obtain 500,000 men about one in twenty of the men who registered will have to be taken, but this should not be construed to mean that registration is to be the basis for the quota allotted any state. Roughly speaking, the population of Indiana is about one thi tythlrd of the total of the Un’oi. On that basis the state would have to provide about 17,000 men for the first national army. Out o f this would come an allowance of possibly 1,000 men for the state's good enlistment record.

PLAN RECREATION CENTERS

Knights of Columbus Directors Appropriate $1,000,000 for Army. New Haven, Connecticut, June 19. —The supreme board of directors of the Knights of Columbus announced yesterday the appropriation of $1,000,000 by the order for the establishment and maintenance of recreation centers at all the principal army concentration camps. This action, it is said, is the result of a general appeal from members throughout the country, urging that the work started on the Mexican border last year be continued and enlarged to meet present conditions. “Of the million men soon to be in concentration camps preparing for war,” says the statement, “30 or 40 per cent will be Catholics, many o( them: members of our order. Plainly then our society is confronted with the proposition of opening up recreation centers at all of the principal concentration camps and of furnishing moral and material aid, comfort and support to our soldiers. Our centers, of course, will be open to all regardless of creed or membership in the order. “The supreme board of directors has appropriated $1,000,600 f.or purpose and has issued a nationwide appeal to our membership for contributions to this war camp fund.’’ -

ON TRACK SOON Another car extra good quality middlings, $2 per cwt. at car. Phone us your order and we will notify you when car arrives.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS. Phone 4 56. . J-21 LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS June 14, to Mr. and Mrs. John Dean' of Union township, a son.

108 GRADUATES IN COUNTY

Carpenter Township Heads the List With Seventeen. One hundred and eight Jasper county people have been granted common school diplomas, and it is safe to say that at least 100 of, these will enter the different high schools of the ccunty this fall. Carpenter township with seventeen graduates has the largest number of any township in the county, and Union township comes second with fourteen. This number does not include those who graduated from the commissioned Schools of the county. The list of graduates is as follows: Barkley— Bertha Johnson. Orville Reed, Lowell Hayes, Essie Comer. Violet Cover, Mary E. Walter. Beatrice Caster, Lillian McClanahan. Tom Rees, Ray J. Yeoman. Lawrence Brouhard. Bessie Pullin. Carpenter—-Lucy Alberts. Flora Bartoo, Margaret Bates. Paul Blake. Clifton Carlile. Merril H. Cummons, Rene Du pies, Frank gow, Grace May, Hazel MajL Thomas J. Porter, Dorothy Price. Emma Simshauser. Clermont Stack. Theo. Teter, Fleta Teter, Gladys Wortman. Gillam—Anna Brittan. Perry M. Ballard, Russel Culp, Lillian Dunker, Mary B. Guild, Myrtle Houston, Theodore Leonard. Grace Miller, Will Pfister, Russel Rayburn, Gordon Robinson, Charles Stevens. IHanging Grove—Ella Bussell. Arthur Ferguson. Pearl Hague, Harvey H. Johns, Alma Taylor, Robert Sayefrs. Jordan—Sylvia Augspurger, Hur-, shell Bice, Curtis'C. Brown, Lloyd D. Dunn, Glen May. Tillie Reed. Gaylord Sommer. Dorothy Shumaker, Owen Tullis, Mar Sale Woodruff. ' Kankakee—Elizabeth Cummings, Lottie DeArmond, Eva Turner. Keener—Marie Barker. Casper Bovenkirk, Merl Curtin; Ralph De-

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FEEDERS VS BREEDING STOCK

Should All Cattle Ixx»k .Mike for Taxation Purposes. Unless exceeded by J. J. Lawler, Granville Moody—or Moody & Hall as it appears on ihe tax duplicate, the Hall is understood to be some Eastern man—of Barkley township is perhaps the largest cattle raiser in Jasper county as well as one of the largest individual landowners in said township. The Gifford estate still owns several thousand acres in Barkley, and John Eger owns 2,200 acres. Mr, Moody has something over .1,000 acres, and according to his assessment sheet for 1917, he and his partner Hall had 575 head of cattle'upon this farm or ranch March 1 last, and their assessment upon these cattle —which are merely feeders, no fancy stock at all — horses, corn, oarts, ensilage, hay, etc., was $36,690. The itemized assessment list— Mr. Moody has a personal assessment of $1,340 in addition to this —is as follows: . Value of harness. ........ $ 20 Tools and implements..... 50 Manure spreader ... 29 7 horses under 1 year.... 4 horses 1 year old or over 160 14 horses 3 yrs old or over 1,050 2 mules 1 year old or over 150 250 cattle under 1 year... 5,000 325 cattle 3 years or over.. 23,150 300 hogs - . ......- L 350 8,000 bushels corn ....... 4,800 300 bushels oats . ........ 40 tons of hay ......... . 240 Ensilage ........ 400 Total .$36,690 "U ' . In speaking of the recent sale at Orchard Lake farm in Newton county, when Warren T. McCray sold seventy-five head of Hereford cattle for more than $131,000, a gentleman in The Democrat office remarked that he would Just like to know how much those cattle were assessed at for taxation. As his position was no different perhaps than.that of a great many others, the writer, while in Kentland recently, went to the county auditor’s office and ascertained the facts. t It will be recalled that at the recent sale Mr. McCray sold one animal for $17,000, and that sum is exactly $4,000 more than the taxable value placed on 265 head of cattle, including the seventy-five head sold for more than $131,000 and the one animal sold for • $17,000. The sale was held in May, less than three months after Mr. McCray valued all of his Hereford cattle at $13,000 for taxation. McCray’s stock farm is situated in Grant township, Newton, county, and the total list of his personal property at the farm, as given to

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