Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — Page 1

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BEGUN REMODELING THURSDAY

Workmen Start ' Reconstruction of State Bank Corner. Miss Grace Thompson has closed her restaurant on the state bank corner and stored the fixtures temporarily, being unable to procure a room at present to continue business in. She was obliged to vacate because of the remodeling of this building by its present owner, The Trust & Savings bank. The contractors started work of tearing out Thursday. The south part of the structure wilL.be rebuilt first and the basenient put in unde? same, the State bank continuing in its present quarters until this work is done. Then The Trust & Savings bank will move into the remodeled part and occupy same until the banking room proper is remodeled, and the State bank will move into the building vacated by The Trust & Savings bank, which it purchased some time ago. The fixtures for the State bank werepurchased Wednesday and will be here ready to install as soon as The Trust & Savings bank vacates its present quarters.

JUDGE ALDEN WELL RECEIVED

Closing Night of Chautauqua Was the Best of All. . The 19T7 Chautauqua in Rensselaer came to a close Wednesday night, the concluding day’s program being an exceptionally strong one. The music for the day was furnished by the Lindquest-Alien-Van Vliet company, an organization of musicians of unusual ability. -Albert Lindquest, tenor soloist, is a vocal artist the equal of whom has seldom been heard in Rensselaer. His renditions in both English and Italian were of the very best character and brought forth round after round of applause from the audience. a* * - Cornelius Van Vliet, viol(meellist, was equally pleasing, and his productions from the world’s foremost composers were enjoyed to tiie fullest extent, by one and all. However, the program of the day and of the week was given a fitting climax by Judge George D. Alden, a former governor of Massachusetts and direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla. Judge Alden’s subject was “The Needs of the Hour,” but a subject is an immaterial thing to a man of the ability of Judge Alden. Rich in humor and wit, keen of mind and overflowing with logic, he cannot fail to please even the most exacting audience. „ This was Judge Alden’s first visit to Rensselaer, as he reminded his hearers frequently, but should he ever have occasion to come again the city would arise enmasse with open arms to welcome him.

The afternoon lecture was by Helen B. Paulsen, whose talk on “If We Only Knew,’’ was in keeping with the remainder of the last day’s program. Her treatment of the boy and girl problem, her diagnosis of child welfare and her wonderful logic in connection with the younger generation has won for her the apt title of a hundred mothers in one. She pleased the audience, both grownups and youngsters, and left it richer in knowledge and better equipped to handle life’s problems. None better could be asked than a Chautauqua composed of such talent as appeared the last day. The program as a whole was not as strong as it has been in previj ons years. There were, other very good numbers that are perhaps deserving of especially mention, but to give such would require too much space. And again, there were others, while they might have been good, did not appeal so strohglv to our people. However, the people of Rensselaer and vicinity recognize the value of a good Chautauqua, and realizing that exceptional talent is hard to get, a contract was entered into Thursday for a Lincoln Chautauqua aext year. This contract hqs been signed by forty representative citizens and business men. but the jpatter of making the Chautauqua a success must not be left to them. Each and every citizen has a part ■n the enterprise and all should work together to make it a success in every Way. The Lincoln contract requires $950 in one sum, another SIOO for entertaining the talent and other expenses, after

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Attorney W. W. Lowry of Indianapolis was here Thursday looking after some legal matters for J. W. Stockton. Landy Magee, who was recently sentenced to ten days in jail for playing poker, was released from custody Monday afternoon when the sentence expired. He paid the fine and costs, amounting to sls. There were hut 1,15 6 young men who registered in this county instead of 1,157, as was previously reported. The error was made in numbering the cards and was discovered by the printer when selling tJhe list in type.

Judge Barce of Fowler, who is presiding in the Ryan ditch case, returned here Wednesday after attending to some legal matters at home. He spent Wednesday and Thursday in going over the route of the ditch to familiarize himself with the situation. The Hollingsworth ditch was sold Tuesday. F. R. Erwin of Fair Oaks secured the contract for the open ditoh at $18,500; A. P. Hensen of Brookston was awarded the contract for . the tile at $6,792. Both bids were under the estimated cost. George Bates is commissioner in charge of the work. —Fowler Tribune. We notice that over about Monon —and we infer , that this applies to all of White county—new guideboards have been put up at the turns of the principally traveled highways directing the traveler to Monon, Rensselaer and other towns. This is an excellent idea and The Democrat long ago urged our county commissioners to do the same thing in Jasper county. The Pulaski county board of education in special session at Winamac Wednesday elected William E. Tennell of Francesville county school superintendent. In June J. F. Ale was chosen on a tie vote, the auditor casting the deciding vote. The question of Ale’s qualification came up, resulting in the trustees again assembling and causing the choice of Mr. Tennell by a vote of 7 to 5.

New suits filed: No. 8 782. Delevan J. Babcock vs. Everett Myres; action in replevin. No. 8783. Emmet Fidler and George M. Myers vs. John G. Patten; action to enjoin defendant from turning water .on laud of plaintiffs. No. .8754. Taylor-Critchfield-Clague Co. vs. V. J. Crisler & Co.; action on account. Demand S7OO, costs of action and for the appointment of receiver. Chairman Frank Welsh and Secretary L. H. Hamilton of the Jasper County Defense board went to Indianapolis Thursday morning to attend the meeting of the State Defense board. As they could not reach there in time by taking a train from Rensselaer, without going the night before, they were driven to Monon by F, E. Babcock and son GeorgeMn the former’s car and took the “plug,” which starts from Monon at 7 a. m. and reaches Indianapolis at 10:40.

A joint session of the board of commissioners of White and Jasper counties was held here Tuesday to consider a joint county road. The members of the two boards and County Attorney Kassebaum bad a fish dinner at Roth’s restaurant, the Jasper county board being the guests. No speeches were made as there was no time for anything but eating. Those present from Rensselaer were D. S. Makeever, Charles A. Welch. H. W. Marble and Auditor Hammond. —Monticello Herald.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1917

EIGHT AIRMEN ARE NEEDED

From Indiana fob the United States Aviation Corps. Stanley Brykczynski, local naval recruiting officer, has been notified that Indiana will be expected to furnfsh eight recruits for the aviation corps, four for the quartermaster service, whose duties are to act as observers, and four machinists to operate the flying machines. Anyone wishing to enlist in this brahch of the service should get in touch with Mr. Brykczynski at once. All men enlisting ‘ln this branch will go to Pensecola, Florida, at once' for a course of instruction and training covering about eighteen months. The navy is rapidly becoming filled; in fact, at the present time all available ships and training stations -are filled to capacity, and several branches of the service have been stricken from the enlistment opportunities altogether, no more being received as electricians, hospital apprentices, shipwrights, boilermakers, blacksmiths, printers and painters.

MICHAELS MAY BE RELEASED

Mayor Spitler Desirous of Giving Youth Another Chance. Clarence Michaels, who was arrested in Chicago last week on a charge of stealing an automobile belonging to Louis Misch of Wheatfield, near where the former resided at one time, was brought her? Wednesday afternoon by Sheriff McColly and lodged in jail. Yesterday forenoon he wa| taken before Mayor Spitler and plead guilty to the charge of driving an automobile without the owner’s consent, which had been preferred against him as it was thought by the officers that a charge of larceny could not be made strong enough to secure a conviction. Michaels is but 20 years old and, according to the information given us, he has not a mature mind. After taking the car he drove about Wheatfield and spoke to several people whom he knew before departing for Chicago. Upon arriving in Chicago he took the car to a garage for some repairing and gave the name of Louis Misch. These facts were all given careful consideration by Mayor Spitler, and he deemed it an unwise move to sentence the lad to a penal institution if he could be made to work and repay the owner of the car for the loss sustained by him. Accordingly the mayor wrote to the boy’s father in Chicago yesterday and if he will put up about $75 to reimburse Mr. Misch and promise to keep the youfag man at work until he has repaid the sum, Mayor Spitler would suspend sentence. Following the hearing Michaels was returned to jail and at the time of going to press nothing further had been done, nor probably will not be until some Word has been received from the prisoner’s father. It is understood that Deputy Prosecutor Sands and Mr. Misch take the same view of the matter as Mayor Spitler does.

FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY

Yesterday was Friday and the 13th, and in harmony with' this fact rain commenced falling during the early morning hours and the forenoon was quite dismal indeed While we have been having rather cool weather for the past week, and especially so at night when the mercury has dropped to about GO degrees, growing crops, have been doing fine and corn has grown much faster than it would seem possible with the temperature we have had. Rye harvest and haying will be in full blast next week, with wheat and oats harvest closely following The oats are generally very heavy and tall, and it’s going to take considerable more twine than usual .to. hind therm. The weather has been very favorable indeed for oats all season and the straw should be well filled and bumper crops harvested.

KANSAS WHEAT HARVEST IS ON

Two hundred acres of wheat on the Oren Smith farm at Valley Center, Kansas, now being threshed, are averaging fifty bushels of highgrade wheat to the acre. Farmers say this is a Kansas record. Seven measured acres yielded sixty-eight bushels to the acre.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor MentJos from Many Places. ESTIMATE POPULATION 12,393 Which Is 051 Less Than the Figures Given in the 1910 Census. In - the census bureau’s Revised estimate at Washington of the population of the counties in Indiana which is to serve as the basis for fixing the state’s quota under the selective conscription act, Jasper county is given a population of 12,393, which is 651 less than the population given us by the census of 1910. Practically all our neighboring counties are likewise estimated at less than the figures of the 191<jL census. Benton’s estimate is 11,577, against 12,658 in 1910; Newton’s estimate is 9,600, against 10,904 in 1910; Pulaski county is 10,472 against 13,312 in 1910; Starke' county is 9,367, against 10,567 In 1910; White courtly is 14,517. ggainst ‘ 1 7,602 in 1910. The total population of the state is estimated at 2,738,893, or 38,017 more than the official figures in 1910. On the above basis Jasper county’s quota would be in -the neighborhood of eighty-two men on the first draft, but given credit — which it must he —for enlistments in the nationai guard and regular army and it is probable our quota is already ‘filled with perhaps a few to spare. The credits for the entire state is somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,000, which would leave the number to be raised by draft at about 11,000. These 11,000 must come from counties whose quota has not been filled either by enlistments in the regular army or national guard. The total for the entire state of Indiana is 18,258 men, and is apportioned to the various counties as follows:

Adams 115, Allen 152, Fort Wayne (city) 557, Bartholomew 12 ff, Benton 76, Blackford 74, Boone. 136, Brown 32, Carroll 92, Cass 23 7, Clark 14 6, Clay 164. Clinton 154, Crawford 62, Daviess 143, Dearborn 110, Decatur 87, De kalb 144, Delaware 345, Dubois lid.* Elkhart 330, Fayette 107, Floyd 167, Fountain 106, Franklin 73, Fulton 81, Gibson 170, . Grant 301, Greene 209, Hamilton 118, Hancock 96, Harrison 89, Hendricks 100, Henry 207, Howard 176, Huntington 176, Jackson 156, Jasper 82, Jay 127, Jefferson 97, Jennings 64, Johnson 116, Knox 2 73, Kosciusko 146, Lagrange 76, Lake 537, East Chicago (city) 468, Gary (city) 736, Laporte 331, Lawrence 162, Madison 417, Marion 192, Indianapolis (city) 2,264. Marshall 132, Martin 62, Miami 171, Monroe 145, Montgomery 156, Morgan 10 7, Newton 61, Noble 123, Ohio 21. Orange POO, Owen 67, Parke 103, Perry 88, Pike 98, Porter 142, Posey 113, Pulaski 69, Putnam 100, Randolph 14 5, Ripley 90, Rush 104, St. Joseph 196. South Bend (city) 46 5, Scott 34, Shelby 145, Spencer 68, Starke 62, .Steuben 72, Sullivan 175, Switzerland 48, Tippecanoe 260. Tipton 92, Union 31, Vanderburg 83, Evansville (city) 509, Verfhillion 198, “Vigo 195, Terre Haute (city) 44.8! Wabash 15 4, Warren .60, Warrick 107. Washington 86, Wayne 268, Wells 1.14, White 96, Whitley 88. ■>

CURBSTONES NOT RUBBERIZED

Because was not made of India rubber the Dodge car driven by Earl Adams of Rensselaer,\ accompanied by a companion by the name of Welsh, is without a left ihind wheel. The accident happened at Fourth and Kossuth streets about 9:30 o’clock last night when Adams was coming down Kossuth street and attempted to turn too sharply onto -Fourth street. He was not traveling fast but failure of the *wheel to withstand the shock against the curbstone caused every spoke in the Wheel to be broken. ” Adams says he has driven the car a little over 8,000 miles in the year and a half that he has bad it and this is his first accident. The car was taken to Shambaugh’s garage for repairs. —Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal.

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WANTS TO ENLIST IN INDIANA

Fred Hamilton Asks to Serre With Hoosier Soldiers. “I want to go back to Indiana and then return to France as an Indiana soldier —as a member of the Hoosier national guard.” read a letter which Adjutant General ,Harry B. Smith received recently from Fred H. Hamilton, son of Louis 11. Hamilton of Rensselaer, who is ‘'Somewhere in France” as a member the Bordon Motor Machine Gun company of the Canadian forces. Hamilton has been in France since last January. “I am a qualified Vickers, Lewis and Colt gunner and I am now with the Bordon Machine Gun company,” he wrote-. “I hope it may be arranged so tha’ l may be transferred to the Indiana national guard -for I want to be on the battlefield as a soldier of dear old Indiana.” Adjutant General Smith will Inquire of the Washington military authorities if there is a provision whereby Hamilton may be returned to an Indiana military organization. —lndianapolis News.

NUMBERS FOR REGISTRANTS

Each Man Registered Is Numbered for the Draft. Pursuant to the draft regulations in the selective conscription act, all men who registered have been numbered, and in Jasper county these numbers run from 1 to 1,156 inclusive. The names were selected at random and numbered according to instructions. In the event that No. f>(H) is drawn at Washington it will mean that the man with that number in Jasper county and in every other of the 30,000 exemption districts in the nation has been drafted. Should that person in any one or more districts he exempted he would, of course, be allowed such. It is understood that about forty numbers will be drawn the first time, the date of— which has not as yet been announced; The entire list of registrants in this county, together with their number, follows: No. Corresponding Name. 1 James Nelson Woods 2 Charles Clayton Wood 3 Leon ETheiS. Parks 4 Angus McGraw 5 Charles Marchand 6 Fred Henry Marchand 7 Jay Gilmore 8 Frank A. Garvin 9 Earl Foulks 10 Clyde H. Fisher 11 Earl William Caster 12 Everett Clarke

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NOTES OF COUNTY HOSPITAL

Charles W. Reed of Barkley township was operated on yesterday for obstruction of the bowels. Mrs. Ed Reeve entered the hospital for a major operation Thursday. However, a specialist came down from Chicago and after making an examination it was deemed best not to complete the operation as there were complications which made it unsafe. Mrs. Reeve is reported to have rested fairly well Thursday night. Emmet Eger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Eger, and Martha Grant, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant, are in the hospital suffering from typhoid fever. It is reported that the two children and their little cousin, Ruth Harriet Eger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eg r, r, contracted the disease from a. surface well in the country. Miss Knock, a special nurse of Chicago, is caring for the two former children.

LIVESTOCK EXHIBIT CLASSES

Farmers and Breeders Urged to Make Entries Early. The committee; in charge of the" livestock show at Rensselaer this fall met at County Agent Learning’s office and made the following plans: The show is to be held after the shows, at Remington and Wheatfield, hut a definita date has not been selected. There will be a first, second, third prize ribbon for each class exhibited. Th>a fccvse entries, any breed, are as follows: Pure-bred draft stallion 4 years and over, draft stAllion 3 years and

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Canada’s 1516 wheat crop thrashed out 220.367,000 bushels. Canada’s 101$ wke&t crop yielded 384. 000,000 fbushels.

DRAFT TO GIVE ORDER OF GALL

Numbers Are to Be Drawn for All Registrants. LIABILITY FIXED BY ORDER Kach Man Will Know the Order in Which He Is Liable to lie Called for War Service. Washington, July 13. —Secretary Ba 4 ker announced that in the drawing td select men for draft Into the war army; numbers will be drawn representing 1 every one of the nearly 10,000,000 registered, so that each man juay know) the order In which he is liable to ba called for service. May Exetnpt Fifty Per Cent. Liability will he fixed by the order In' which the names come out. There aro some 6,000 districts with nuruberedi registration cards, so the first number drawn will represent the lirst 0,000 men to appear before the exemption boards. It Is estimated that 00 per cent of? the men examined will he exempted or fall to pass the physical examination,' so that more than a million men prob-' ably will appear before the boards before the 087,000 or more Wanted on tliflj first call are obtained. Why Details Were WithheldPersistent Inquiries from all parts of| the country for Information about tile method to be followed in selecting men for the national war army caused war! department officials to explain that] President Wilson's determination to have absolute fairness govern the process was responsible for the decision! to withhold announcement of the exact plan until the very eve of the drawlngj The exemption regulations and all] other moves in the making of the newts army have received the approval of the president personally, and the draft regulations also will come from the White House. All that Is known now Is that the drawing will be from serial numbers corresponding to numbers on registra-, tlon cards and that it will take place In Washington, probably at the capltolj Baker to Draw First Number. Secretary Baker or some other high! official will draw the first number and then the process of selection will bo pushed forward until there Is flashed by telegraph to every community in the country the numbers of the men drawn. It is understood that the system planned Is so simple that the work will be done in a few hours. Unofficial estimates of the quotas for the six central western states are ns follows, all 'based-on the new census estimate, which gave Illinois a bleb rating: Illinois . .* 49.419 Indiana lowa - 13,255 Michigan ..................... 30,790 Minnesota 15,091 Wisconsin 17,388 Total ...142,776 As soon as the local organizations are complete appointment of the district exemption hoards will he announced. These boards, one or more in each federal judicial district, will pass upon appeals from the local bodies arid will have jurisdiction over claims for exemptions on account of employment in industrial and agricultural or other necessary enterprises. Nominations for the boards proposed from 45 states already have boon sent to the president by the provost marshal general’s office. Some fear was felt at the war department that the delays in organization might cause further postponement of the draft.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

July 9. to Mr. and Mrs. Lowell D. Snorf of Chicago, a daughter. Mrs. Snorf was formerly Miss Marceline Roberts of this city.

Wild Hay —We have a large acreage of wild hay to put «p in Newton county, known as the Kent tract of land, west of Fair Oaks, on shares or by the ton. Hay ready to put up from now on.— J. J. Lawler. Phone 337» JAMES E. WALTER, Supt. ts Wanted —Good competent man for our Fair Oaks ranch with wife capable of taking care of ranch house.—J. J. Lawler. Phone 337, JAM.TS* E. WALTER, Supt. ts * l ■ ■ ■ Man With Tractor Wanted—We have several hundred acres we Want plowed for wheat, on ranch west of Fair Oaks; ready any time after August 1,- —J. J. Lawler, Phone 337, JAMES E. WALTER, Supt- ■ ** An armload of old papers for firs cents at The Democrat office.

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