Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — Page 6

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We have secured the Agency for The WR THOS.E,WILSON talking MACHINE iF^f 1 fWm which plays any Disc ? t - Record without extra i J I attachments. Hu!|o|llHik Prices $42 and $55.00 £ 1 / Let Us Demonstra|e ,o You Larsh & Hopkins

Farms for Sale! No. 1. 35 r^es—All black land, good drainage, joins station, school, church, pike, has 6-room house; |75, SSOO down. No. 2. J. 60 acres —Large house and barn; SBS. Will take smaller farm or property as Hrst payment. No, 3. 120 acres—Pasture and timber land, ,no buildings; $45. Take property, western land or vacant lots as first payment. No. 4. 200 acres—Tiled, good buildings; S9O. Will accept property or smaller farm. No. 5. 75 acres—Tiled, good land, good buildings, only four miles out; $135. No. 6. 156 acres—Good land, improved, on pike, Union township; sllO. Take any kind of clean trade. P No. 40 acres—s4s. Take stock, lots or property or on terms of S3OO down.No. 8. 31 acres—All clay and gravel subsoil, on ditch, pike and near .station and school; $75, SBOO down. No. 9. 160 acres—Good buildings, tiled and well fenced; $lO5. Take trade. No. 11. 400 acres —$85. Black land, drained, 300 acres o cultivated; $57000 down. Take some trade. • No. 12. 100 acres—Near two stations, mostly cultivated, 7-room house; $55. $1,600 down. Might accept property.

No. 13. 40 acres—All cultivated, 7-room house, fruit and putbuildings; $55, No. 17. 80 acres —New house and barn, near school and pike, good land; $75, $1,500 down. No. 18. 240 acres—All black land in cultivation except ten acres timber, good drainage, 6-room house, large barn, near station and pike; SBS. No. 19. 120 acres—Three miles of this city, fair ’buildings, good outlet, lots of tile; $135. No, 20- 100 acres—Mostly black land, near large ditch, pike and has good 5-room house, outbuildings and orchard; $75, $1,500 down. No. 22. 100 acres—On pike, six miles out, well tiled, fair buildings; sllO. Take trade as first payment. No. 23. 200 acres—Three miles out. All good land, well tiled, orchard and a lot of good buildings; $155. No. 24. 131 acres—loo black land, good buildings, near station; $65. Easy terms. Take some trade. No. 25. Lots of onion land, as good as the best, at low prices in small lots. No. 26. 75 acres—On pike, six miles out, all cultivated, splendid buildings; $135. Terms. No. 27. 120 acres—llo acres black land in cultivation, on pike, R. F. D., telephone, near school and good town, good buildings and fruit; SBS. Terms. No. 28. 238 acres—AlL tillable except 30 acres timber, lots of good buildings, a good home; $75. Terms. Owner will take good trade. No. 29. 100 acres—9 f)—blackland? Tn wheat, corn and oats, fair

FARMERS Are you going to sell your wheat and buy flour, or will you bring your wheat to the mill and exchange it for flour? The average farmer will say What is the Difference? 1 Our answer is, from Boc to SI.OO on the bushel in your favor. OLR RATE OF EXCHANGE— -For sound wheat testing 60 lbs. per bushel we give you 40 lbs. Best Patent Flour; for 59 lbs. of wheat, 39 lbs. flour; for 58 lbs. wheat, 3$ jbs. flour; 57 lbs. wheat, 36 lbs. flour. With wheat around the $2 mark, the average price of flour per 100 lbs. is $7.50. At that rate the price of one bushel of wheat will buy you 26 lbs. of flour. At the mill you get 40 lbs. Best Patent Flour, or a saving of $1 bn the bushel for you. This flour is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. If you are not pleased we will pay you the market price for your wheat on the day. you deliver it at the •mill. In patronizing your home mill you take no chance and we save you the money you have been giving to the elevator man, the railroad company and the flour jobber. Lay in your year’s supply of flour; the oider ft gets the better it will bake up. Yours for business, Iroquois Roller Mills Rensselaer, Indiana

buildings, good drainage; $75. No. 30. 80 acres—Fair buildings, half black land in cultivation, rpmaintber pasture and light timber; $75. Has loan of $3,300 due 5 years. Owner will trade equity for property. No. 31. 78 acres—Gillam township, all good clay loam subsoil, good buildings, orchard; $95. No. 33. 5 acres —-Inside corporation this city, improved street, tiled and in alfalfa. $1,400. No. 34. 80 acres —This is one of the best farms, well improved, w r ell tiled, lies nice and in sight of court house; $lB5. 145 acres in southern Indiana, fair buildings, 800 bearing fruit trees; $2,500. Trade for land or property here. 115 acres—-Washington county, buildings, fruit, 30 acres bottom; $2,500, Trade for property or land, GEORGE F. MEYERS, Rensselaer, Indiana.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

There was a wondrous war machine, the most tremendous .ever seen, with cannon, gun and submarine. and it was made 1 in Germany. “A place we’re seeking in the s in, and with our sword and bomb and gun, we’ll rule the planet ere we’re done,” the boast was made in Germany.’ i The ruler stalked with haughty tread, his eyes were ever seeing red, and bats were buzzing in his head; the bats were made in Germany. He kicked up war, and for long years he bathed the world in blood and tears, and startled all adjoining spheres, with weapons made in Germany. He took on enemies each day, and hailed them gladly in the fray, and shot them up with bales of hay, and sauerkraut made in. Germany. Great Britain, Italy and France, and Russia—these he saw advance, and held them level with his lance, and bludgeon, made in Germany. And minor countries, group by group, went at the kaiser with a whoop: he handed each a bowl of soup, which broth was made in Germany. “’Since I am- whopping all these skates,” the ruler gayly cried, *‘wie gehts! I'll take on the United States'.’’ This break was made in Germany. Soon Uncle Sam, incensed by wrongs, will seize him with a pair of tongs, and put him where his hobs belongs—in a boob house made in Germany.

Impartially speaking, the entente aviators on the western front were beyond doubt in control of the air during the numerous battles on the Somme; but it appears to be equally evident that this marked superiority no longer exists. The German air service has greatly improved.

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Mendoza Is Old City.

Mendoza is the metropolis of western Argentina. It is a city of some size carefully planned and able to stand comparison with any town in the new world or the old one the point of municipal beauty. It looks distinctly new, but as a matter of fact it is one of the oldest towns in the western hemisphere. It was founded fifty years before the well-known settlement of Jamestown in Virginia, while the fathers and mothers of the Pilgrims were still living peacefully in England.

Not Always Happy.

IfTs cdst<unary but I think it Is a mistake, to. speak of “happy” childhood. Children are often Overanxious and acutely sensitive. Man ought to be man and master of his fate; but children are at the mercy of those around them. Mr. Rarey, the great horse-tamer, has told us that he has known an angry word to raise the pulse of a horse ten beats in a minute. Think then how it must affect a child I —Lord Avebury.

Game in Mexico.

Mexico cannot be said to offer a field for hunters of big game, and the term, “a sportsman's paradise,” which is sometimes applied to it, is an exaggeration. Among animals may be enumerated the peccaries or javelines, deer, rabbits, hares. The reptiles include alligators, turtles and iguanas. Whales, seals and sea lions are encountered on the Pacific coast. —New York Telegram.

Equal to Potato.

A number of starchy roots, tubers, and corms of vegetables, including Jerusalem artichokes, casavas, dash eens, yams, yautips and tar<e>, in addition to the Well-knOWii sweet pota toes, have food values and degrees ol digestibility approximately equal tc those of the Irish or white potato and like the latter, merit extensive use as a part mixed diets.

Equipped.

“Do you think your wife would excel in statesmanship if she had an opportunity?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Meek ton. “Henrietta is not only a powerful hand in a regular argument, but she has gifts for prolonged discourse that would make her a wonder at fili Lustering.”

Youthful Diplomacy.

Pretty Teacher (severely)—-“John-ny I Johnny Stubbs! You are whis pering again.” Johnny (a smart boy) —“Please, I am only telling Winnie Wingles what nice things’ all the gen tiemen said about you when yt>u walked along the street.”

Went Him One Better.

“I love you very much, papa,” saic four-year-old Edna, as she climbed or her father’s knee. “I love you, dear when you are a good girl,” replied he) father. “But, papa,” said Edna, love you even when you ain’t no good.’

How to Remove Cinders.

A medicine dropper may be usee with good effect in removing cinders from the eyelids by drawing them ou’ by suction along with the fluids tha l have formed. A little pointed roll o; soft paper also may prove useful.'

Only One Danger.

“Are all these beautiful flowers foi me?” asked the teacher when smal Jimmy presented her wdth a bouquet “Oh, yes, ma’am?* said Jimmy, “unless the girl I swiped ’em from sees ’em.’

Love and Potatoes.

A member of a well-known club, or being asked to define “love,” comparec it to a potato—first, “because it shoots from the eyes,” and secondly, “because it becomes less by paring.”

Gloomy Assumption.

“Are you for peace at any price?’ “There isn’t any such thing. Even ii you were willing to bargain on thai basis, sooner or later you’d get into i row about the price.”

Faces and Figgers.

A woman’s face is her fortune for the reason that with it she usually is able to land a man who measures his bank account in six figures.

To Clean Brass.

Wet a cloth with ammonia and sprinkle cleaning powder on the ammonia and rub the brass with it. It will clean beautifully.

Sicily to Produce Acids.

Citric, tartaric and sulphuric acids are to be manufactured at Messina, Sicily. Sicilian fruit growers are financing the venture.

Age of Women.

This is said to be a woman’s age, yet women have little to say about their age.—Cincinnati Times-Star.

On the Move.

We can say this for the somnambulist —he is no idle dreamer. —Boston Transcript.

The Inept.

Some people would try to dodge a flood by hiding in the cellar.—Lafayette Courier. ■■. . ' - -

PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR

Aug. 1, 1916.—Merchantman U-boat Deutschland leaves Baltimore homeward bound on first trip. Somme battle continues. Russians in heavy battle after crossing Stokhod river. August 2. —Russians within ten miles of Kovel. August 3. —French recapture part of Fleury,/near Verdun. Sir Roger Casement hanged in London for participation in Irish revolt. August 4. —French take Thiaumont, near Verdun. August 5. —British overwhelm Turks at Romani, near Suez canal. August 6. —Russians cross rivers Sereth and Graberka and take six villages from Austrians. August 8. —Italians take Gorizia bridgehead and capture 10,000 prisoners. Russian General Letchitzky takes two towns and many villages. August 9. —Gorizia falls 'to Italians In great offensive. near Stanislau withdraw on wide front. August 10. —Russians take Stanislau. August 11. —Allies seize Doiran in Balkan drive. August 13. —Austrians evacuate line of the Strypa river. August 14. —Russians capture Tustobaby. August 15. —Russians take Jablonitza, near Carpathian pass.

August 16. —Allies take three miles of .trenches near the Somme. Announced Russians have taken 358,000 prisoners since June 4, 1916, when drive began. August liJ.—Russians advance three miles into Hungary. August 20.—British advance on 11mile front at Thiepval, near Somme' river. Allies attack on 150-mile front Ju Balkans. Two British light cruisers and one or two German U-boats sunk in North Sea battle. August 22. —Announced big Russian contingent has landed at Saloniki. August 23.—The Deutschland reaches Bremen. August 24. —Russians recapture Mush, Armenia. August 27.—Roumania declares war on Teutons and invades Transylvania. Italy formally declares war on Germany. August 29. —Kaiser makes Von Hindenburg chief of staff of all German armies in place of Von Falkenhayn. August 31.- —Roumanians cross Danube and occupy Rustchuk, Bulgaria. Austrians fall back in Transylvania. September 2. —Roumanians, far in Transylvania, take Hermannstadt. Zeppelins raid London and one' is brought down in flames. September 3. —Allies take three villages on Somme. Roumanians capture Orsova, Austria. Germans and Bulgars invade the Dobrudja. September 4. —French take five more villages on Somme; allies’ prisoners in two days, 6,000. September 6. —Teutons take Danube city of Turtukai and 20,000 Roumanians.

September 8. —Roumanians and Russians drive foe back a little in Dobrudja. September 10. —Teutons take Roumanian fortress of Silistria. September 11. —British drive across Struma river in Balkans. September 12. —Allies capture threemile line on Somme. Roumanians overwhelmed in Dobrudja. September 15. —British take German Somme positions on six-mile front. Use “tanks” for first time in warfare. „ September 18.—Allies take Florina, Macedonia. September 19. —Serbs fight their way back onto their own soil. September 21. —Russians and Roumanians announce they have thrown back the invaders in Dobrudja. September 22. —Announced allies took 55,800 prisoners in Somme battle between July 1 and September 18. September _23. —Roumanians inDobrudja driven back in disorder. Zeppelins invade England; one burned, another captured. September 25. —Allies advance along 15-mile front on Somme. Venizelos leaves Athens to lead revolt against King Constantine. September 2G. —Allies take Combles and Thiepval in Somme battle. September 30. —Von Falkenhayn routs Roumanians at Hermannstadt, Transylvania. October 1. —A Roumanian army crossed the Danube.

October 2. —Another Zeppelin shot down near London. October 4.—Mackensen drives Roumanian invaders of Bulgaria back toward Danube. October 5. —Roumanians flee across the Danube. Serbs cross Cerna river y drive on Monastir. October 7. —German submarine U-53 visits Newport, R. 1., on mysterious mission. Sinks five ships off Narragansett Light night of October 7-8. October 8. —Roumanians driven back to Transylvania frontier. October 10.—Roumanians in rout flee through mountain passes. October 11.—Greece turns over her fleet to France on allies’ demand. Italians, resuming Carso drive, take 5,000 prisoners. October 22.—Roumanians in Dobrudja retreat basely. October 23.—Teutons occupy Constanza, principal Roumanian seaport. Germans throw Russians back across Narayuvka river. October 24. —French take 3,500 prisoners at Verdun.

October 25. —-Roumanian city of Cernavoda falls. Defenders blow up great bridge across Danube. October 26. —Light craft clash in English channel. Six British drift-net boats, a transport and a destroyer and one German destroyer sunk. November 1. —Deutschland reaches New London, Conn., on second transAtlantic trip with cargo worth $lO,000,000. U-53 arrives in a German port. November 2.—Germans evacuate Fort Vans, at Verdun. Italians take 4,731 in new offensive. November 3.—ltalians take 3.495 more prisoners. , .-T'-.

November 5. —Central powers proclaim kingdom of Poland. Italians announce, have taken 40,365 Austrians since fall of Gorizla. \ November 9. —Teutons driven back twelve miles in Dobrudja. November 13.—British advance north of Ancre; take 3,300 prisoners. November 15. —England announces food controller will be appointed. November 17.—News received of wholesale deportations of Belgians for forced labor in Germany. November 19. —Allies take Monastir, Macedonia. November 21. —Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria dies and Charles Francis becomes ruler. Teutons take Craiova in drive on western Roumania. November 23. —Russian dreadnaught Imperatrita Maria sunk by internal explosion ; 200 killed. November 24. —Teutons capture Tur-nu-Severin and Orsova from Roumanians. November 25.—Teutons cross Alt river and sweep rapidly through Roumania.

November 26. —Venizelos party declares war on Germany and Bulgaria. Teutons invading Roumania from nQjth. and. gotjtU 191 m junction* November 27. —Teutons take Alexandria, Roumania. Zeppelins raid England; two downed bv gunfire. f November 29 Beatty replaces Jellicoe in command of British fleet. December 2.—French and Greeks clash in Athens streets. Teutons win great battle for Bucharest. December 6. —Bucharest falls. December 7. —Lloyd George becomes premier of Great Britain. December 8. Twenty-seven thousand Roumanians surrender. December 10. —Deutschland arrives home. December 12. —Germany announces she is ready for peace parleys. December 14. —Russia officially rebuffs German peace offer. December 15. —French under Nivelle take 9,000 prisoners on seven-mile front at Verdun. Nivelle then leaves to become commander in chief of all France’s home armies. Buzcu and all Wallachia lost to Roumanians.

December 18. —Russian troops take over whole Roumanian front. December 19.—Lloyd George tells commons Germans must makt restitution and reparation to get peace. December 20. —Wilson sends notes to both sides in war asking their aims. December 24. —Switzerland officially indorses Wilson’s plea for statement of war aims. December 25. —Teutons take 9,000 Russians in Roumania. December 26. —Germany replies to Wilson, suggesting peace conference, but not stating own war aims or terms of peace. December 30.—Allies in reply to German peace proposal call offer empty and Insincere and refuse conference. December 31. —King Constantine of Greece thanks President Wilson for his note to the belligerents. January 4, 1917. —British transport Icernia sunk by U-boat in Mediterranean; 150 lost. January 5. —House of representatives rules committee begins investigation of Wall street “leak” of Wilson peace note news. January 6. —Russians retreat across Sereth river in Roumania. January 8. —Russians launch offensive near Riga.

January 11. —Allies in reply to Wilson note outline aims, but refuse to parley with an unbeaten Germany. January 17. —Learn German raider Moewe has sunk 21 ships and seized three others in South Atlantic. Entente,, in supplementary note to Wilson, amplifies war aims. January 19.—British steamer Yarrowdale, Moewe’s prize, reaches a German port with 469 prisoners. January 22. — Wilson makes his “peace without victory” address in senate, demanding United States enter world league at clos& of war. January 24. —After initial successes;, Russians are forced back near-Riga. January 25. —Mine sinks British auxiliary cruiser Laurentic off Irish coast. January 31. —Germany declares ruthless submarine war, revoking all pledges to the United States. February 3. —United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. President Wilson in address to senate outlines crisis. United States seizes interned German warships.

February 4. —Wilson asks neutrals to break with Germany, United States reserve fleet ordered in service. February 5. —Announced American seaman was killed when German submarine shelled lifeboat of British ! steamer Eavestone. | February 6. —Learned Germany is holding United States Ambassador Gerard. February 7. —British liner California, one American aboard, sunk, nn- | warned, off Ireland; 41 lives lost. I Spain calls new U-boat decree unlawful. February 8. —Germany tries to get Ambassador Gerard to sign a paper reaffirming Prussian treaties with the United States, but he refuses. February 10. —Gerard finally allowed to leave Berlin. , > February 12.—Announced officially

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917

Germany has asked parley with Unit’ ed States through Swiss minister at Washington and been snubbed. Germany masses five army corps to overawe Holland. February 13.—British hem in Turks at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. February 15. Germany releases American Yarrowdale prisoners. February 17. —Learn German embassy gave orders for crippling of German merchantmen here before publication of ruthless warfare note. February 20. —Austria backs Germany in ruthless warfare. Food riots in New York, probably stirred up by German agents. February 22. —Germany torpedoes seven Dutch ships leaving Falmouth in violation of her pledge. February 23. —British stringently restrict imports to fight submarine war. February 25. —Germans make “stra»- ' tegic” retirement on Ancre front. Laconia, British ship, sunk unwarned off Ireland; two American women killed. February 26. —President asks congress for authority to arm American merchantcraft. British capture Kut-el-Amara.

February 28. —Germany’s plot to ally 3 Mexico and Japan with her against the United States and her promise of three American states to Mexico revealed. March I.—President Wilson confirms story of German attempt to incite Mexico and Japan. Tokyo denounces plot. House passes bill to arm ships, 403 to 13. March 3. —Russians take Hamadan, Persia, from Turks. March 4 President Wilson denounces “willful mep” Id senate who filibustered against armed ship bill, killing it by ending of administration term. British take over 25-mile Somme front from French. President X<?r second term. March 6. —President’s advisers tell* him he has power to arm ships without action of congress. March 7. —Berlin admits sending intercepted Zimmermann note to Mex9.—President calls extra con* gress session for April 16. March 11. —British capture Bagdad. Russian revolution starts. Petrograd' troops desert government. March 12. —German U-boat shells and sinks United States merchant ship Algonquin without warning. March 14.—China breaks diplomatic < relations with Germany. March 15. —Czar abdicates. March 16. —Grand Duke Michael of Russia renounces throne, bringing Romanoff dynasty to an end. Duma in control.

March 17. —Germans begin big re-, treat on west front. Announced vote of Russian people will decide form of government. March 18.—News received of sinking of American ships City of Memphis, Illinois and Vigilancia by Üboats; 22 men mlssipg. March 21. —Wilson calls on congress to meet April 2 instead of April 16. Twenty lost when United States tanker Healdton, bound for Holland, is sunk by U-boat in North sea. March 25. —President orders partial mobilization of National Guard to protect property from german plotters. Navy ordered to get ready. March 27. —Fifteen thousand more National Guardsmen called out. April 3.—Wilson asks declaration, of state of war by congress. Germans drive Russians acrpss Stokhod river, taking a large number of prisoners. April 4. —Senate passes war resolution, 82 to 6. April 5. —House passes war resolution 373 to 50. April 6.—President signs congress resolution and proclaims state of war. Government takes over German liners. April 7. —Cuba declares war on Germany.

April 9. —Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. British storm Vimy Ridge, taking 6,000 prisoners on first day of battle. Wilson joins fight to raise new armies by universal service principle. April 10. —British prisoners at Vimy reach 11.000. Brazil breaks diploinatic relations with Germany, British advance 50 miles beyond Bagdad. April 11. —Herbert C. Hoover, ac»—cepts offer to direct foocT supplies of United States. April 13. —British cut into Hindenburg line. President defines war zone off coast. April 14< —House passes seven billion war loan bill. April 15. —Wilson calls on nation to support him in war. April 16.—French in- 25-mile offensive toward the “Ladies Roard” and in Champagne take 10,000 prisoners first day. April 17.—Big war credit passes senate. German wounded die when U-boats sink British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfrano without warning.

April 18. —French prisoners in hew offensive total 17,000. April 19. —Fight is started for prohibition during war. American freighter Mongolia sinks a U-boat —the first American victory of the war. April 20. —In confused night battle of destroyers in English Channel British and German vessels lock, and crews fight with cutlasses. April 21.—Balfobr commission from Great Britain reaches United States. April 24. —French commission arrives in United States. April 25. —U-boats sink 64 British, vessels in week, it is announced, causing alarm in Britain. Wilson tells Balfour United States will not make a separate peace. United States makes first foreign war loan —$200,000,000 to Great Britain. -* April 28. —House votes conscription, army bifl, 397 to 24, and senate, 81 to