Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1917 — Page 2

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IBE JfiSPER COUNIT DEMOCRAT E-. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY SATURDAY, JULY 28. 1917 Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8. 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March X 1879. ■ Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING KATES Display 12%e Inch Display, special position.... 15c Inch Beaders, per line first Insertion.. 5c Beaders, per line add. Insertions. .3e 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. advertisement accepted for first page. ______________ WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8, 1917

TOWN BOYS, FALL IN

(By George Ade) Do you know of a boy, somewhere between sixteen and twenty-one, husky and of good mind, who understands about the war and wants 13 help his country win tbs war? If so, tell him to get ready to go to the recruiting station and enlist for service. He will not be sent to the trenches. He will not have to drive an ambulance over torn-up battlefields. He won't even hear the big guns. ; Just the same he will be serving his country, and for this service he will be awarded a badge of honor which will be worth several times its weight in gold, for it will be evidence that the boy came to the front with manly patriotism when he was needed. f President Wilson at his desk in Washington, the man hammering rivets in a ship yard, the expert mechanic adjusting the parts of an aeroplane, the farmer driving a selfbinder somewhere in Minnesota —-all these are helping to win the war, just the same as the American sol - diers who are learning to throw hand grenades. Gunpowder will never win a war unless the soldiers have something to eat. Any man or boy who helps to grow and harvest a crop while the war is op. is helping the United States in its big job of feeding the world. Town boys, everywhere, attention! Your country needs you. You are asked to join the Boys’ Working Reserve. You-are called upon for non-mili-tary service in the fields where crops Are being grown.

Watch your home paper and when the recruiting office opens, go _and enlist. Remember that you must be at least sixteen and under twenty-one, in good health and free from threatening diseases.” You must have the written consent, of your parent or guardian. You must take the oath of service and be Enrolled, but yon will not be a real member of the Reserve and have a right to wear the badge until you have “made good" in the work yon tackle. You will have to do about three weeks’ actual work ou the farm before .you are a “regular.” Then, if you have worked loyally and faithfully during 1917, the local officers will recommend you to the national organization and you will receive the “Honorable Service” decoration to be attached to the badge you are already wearing. All sorts of- plans are being discussed for •'physical training after the boys enlist and before they go to the farm, for putting the boys, into camps, for having special in : structors and so on. The message I am trying to deliver herewith, as messenger boy for the State Council of Defense, is that the Boys’ Working Reserve is to be organized in every part of Indiana and that boys who are just under the fighting age will have a chance to serve their country. Parents or guardians may revoke enrollment and withdraw the boys from the service any time they see fit. You have, in a very small nutshell. the plan for the Boys’. Working Reserve. No matter how long the war lasts, the farmers will be short of help during the rush seasons. When the drafted men go away, the call for “hands” will be louder than ever before., In the cities and towns are plenty of strong and capable fellows, practically full grown, but still under

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fighting age' and not yet settled into permanent positions. They are the only reserve workers to be found in the state. Most of them are fairly intelligent. Only a small percentage are downright lazy. The question is, can they be utilized on the farms? The answer is’ “Yes,” because the Reserve Is being tried out in several states and the reports are encouraging. , There was a time when every country boy was supposed to be a rugged young giant and every town boy was a pale and sickly invalid. That was before th.e public schools went in strong for athletic sports. Now days the boy of high school age has learned to play basket-ball, football or baseball, or all three. He has tried for a track team. He knows the rules for training and. prides himself on his good physical condition. If he volunteers to go out on a farm and help get in a crop, -ho will be a greenhorn regarding some details of the work, but how long will it take him to learn under kindly and sensible direction?

The average town boy, if given a fair chance and not ridden or ridiculed by the young bucks who live in the country all the ' time, undoubtedly will learn to do his part. So get ready for the Boys’ Working Reserve. It comes with the official sanction" of President" Wilson. It is being organized and directed by the Department of Labor. Governor Goodrich is the official head of the Reserve here in Indiana. The State Council of Defense endorses it to the limit. Isaac D. Straus of Ligonier, a member of the State Council, is the live wire in charge of actual organization throughout the state. The government is frying to g'? a direct message to the boys..old enough to? worn, and not old enough to fight. It says to them, -“Help us to win the war and we will pin upon your coats ■>the badges of honorable service.”

CHAUTAUQUA OPENS SATURDAY

President W. 1. McCullough of Fojjntjtin park chautauqua at Remington was over yesterday with others advertising the chautauqua. which opens there Saturday August 11, and continues to August 26. inclusive. ■ Among the more prominent- attractions appearing on the program are Roscoe Gilmore Scott, Thatcher’s Chicago Symphony orchestra and Mary Lawrence Camnitz on August 12; Milans Italian sextet on August 13; Welsh .Male quartet and Dr. Henry Clark, August 14; Duggin Grand Opera company and Ash Davis, August 15; Joe R. Hanley and Goforth-s orchestra, August 17; August IS and 19, Dr. Ernest Wray O’Neal and the Demolay band; August '2O, the C. Major club; August 21, Buckner’s Virginians; August 22. Scottish Rite ■quartet; Thursday, August 23, Hon. William Jennings Bryan and John P. Glum; August 24, Hon. J. P. Doyle and Orpheum Concert company; August 26, Judge-Frank P. Sadler and the Van Mount quartet. Dr. -H. O. Pritchard and George E. Carrothers appear on the program daily.

A PIONEER RESIDENT GONE

David Culp Lived in Jasper County Sixty-Seven Years. David Culp of Lee, one of the oldest residents of the county, and one w r ho had lived here continuously for more than sixty-seven years, died last Friday at the age of 83 years. Mr. Culp was born in Virginia in 1834, and with his parents, brothers and sisters located here in 1850; and of the entire family but one sister, Hannah, who resides at Fair Oaks, survives. Mr. Culp followed the vocation of a farmer through the active years of his life and saw this county develop from its wild and primative state to its present condition. He was the father of four children, two of whom have gone to their eternal resting place. He also leaves one steprson, Harry Rishling. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church at Lee Sunday forenoon, Rev. Hensley ' preaching the sermon, and the remains were then laid to rest in the Osborn cemetery.

PROTECT YOUR BUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING by having them properly rodded. Sixteen years’ experience in the business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that I rodded. Best and heaviest rods used. Call and f see me or ’phone 135 or 568.—F. A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts

We have plenty of hard coal advise you to lay in your supply now. We are selling it for $8.75 per ton at the bin,., and the price is almost certain to go higher.— FARMERS’ GRAIN CO.

BIG CELEBRATION FOR CO. M

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yard Sunday evening in honor of the soldiers, but rain Game and prevented ’any move toward carrying out the program. ■ Garry Parker is compiling a souvenir booklet which will be placed on sale today and the proceeds devoted to the above funds. This souvenir booklet will be one of the neatest products of its kind ever turned out and everyone will want one. Ur. Parker has put in much work in preparing' this souvenir and his efforts should be rewarded. by a ready response from all the people. Miss Ruth Wood will have direct charge of the sale of these souvenirs. Those in charge of the celebration have asked that the city in general, both business houses and residences, decorate extensively for the occasion and make it one of the most memorable ever held in the city. The rapid increase in the membership of Company M has exhausted the available uniforms, .perhaps fifteen or twenty men yet being without them, but it is expected that these will be supplied within the next few days., Just • how long the troops, will remain in camp here is not known. They may be here for a week or two, and again they may receive orders any day to at once to some' 'camp. It is probable they will go from Fort Benjamin Harrison .and later to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. ;

JOE MEEHAN WRITES OF WAR

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of the 'celebrated Vimy ridgeclosest I have ever been to front line trenches, and it’s close enough, I assure you. We always stayed some distance hack when' the battalion was in, but this time, h,ere we are. I took a walk around one night, and there isn’t one square yard that hasn't been trenched and mine craters. You could set the Remington , school 'house in them and have a tennis court along side of it. I jean’t describe it to you, only a grave yard here and there and -a cross stuck up any direction yo(i want to look. Last night was some night, too. We generally play a little concert for the boys, but only had time to give one march when it started to rain, and amidst the airplanes, machine guns, batteries, shells bursting, thunder and lightning and you in a dug-out with a rubber groundsheet to sleep on and your overcoat to put over you—well, 'we were lucky though. An old cat likes our place and she keeps the rats away. God bless her. Anything that gets my goat is a rat. I’m scared to death of them; but I had. a good night’s sleep, though, on the strength of the cat. I'll be more lonely now because my pal went to the hospital yesterday. His heart is on the blink so it means England or else Canada for him. Good Tuck to him anyhow. Been together eighteen straight months, eating, drinking and sleeping. I had my first experience carrying a dead man the other day. Lieutenant Scott got bumped the night before, so four of us to a stretcher had to carry him to a road to convey him to a grave yard. A dead man weighs considerably more than a live one. Say, Miss Timmons, it’s terrible When you stop to think of the trials and tribulations and suffering the millions of people are going through just to satisfy one man’s ambition. It’s just a case of a purely jealous relationship supremacy. King George and the kaiser are cousins, and there you are. You have a chance to do a lot of thinking out here. You will see many a guy come out of this with a lot of premature gray hair that he did not getifrom .“Wine, women and song.’’ Get me? It very nearly drives one nutty sometimes. You do not see a woman, only some poor old refugee who has the privilege of selling a very poor quality of beer so as to eke out a bare living. And about Paris. This battalion is giving Cue boys leave, so many each week. They took my name for Paris. I’ve no one in England to see and I' can see it again when T come back, if I ever do. It may be a couple of months and it may be not at all, but I’ll have that to. look forward to. y

I get mighty homesick sometimes, but you have to fight it off. I’ve had good health, thank the Lord. That inoculation is a great thing. I had three different shots of it in my arm just a year ago, one shot a week. It very nearly killed me. It is the typhoid*fever air over again, and of coursfe the sanitary conditions cut a lot of ice. In this war they have everything needed so there isn’t as much sickness'. as in former wars. You must abide by the rules and it’s for your own good also. Sometimes you have to do things you think unnecessary and unprofitable, and you get a grouch on and talk to yourself a while and then back ■•-to the routine. You can always figure the other guy has a little harder row to hoe than you. I certainly feel sorry to see them coming out /of the trenches, caked with mud, all in, just flop down any place. . “War is iTell'’’ They will be putting a cow bell on me in civil life if I keep on eating this bully beef,: but they feed pretty good. If I go to I’aris I’m going to have one meat and one bed if only for one night even if I go broke by paying for tt jn advance. “Be a plunger’’ is my motto under these trying conditions.

GOVERNMENT NEEDING HORSES

Propose to Buy Them Direct from Farmers and StockmenCounty Agent Learning has re-| ■ ceived instructions from the U. Sdepartment of agriculture directing him to assist the war department in the purchase of horses and rnu'es for army use. Id the. presents war . it is the plan of the government U deal directly with the farmers horses can be assembled in car. -Ni lots rather than to buy Thera under contracts. Recept testimony at. Washington Showed that the horses bought under the old system nett* i. the farmers $35 per head less than was paid by the government. The instructions requested that the following information be issued: ' : - ‘lt will be. seen that groups es. • farmers can organize and sell dsr-r ectly tQ the government in carloadlots. : “Your county agent will be* glad; to aid farmers in conducting such [ negotiations. He will name a ■da-yj for assembling the animals at a convenient point in the county for; ai preliminary examination by the local, committee of horsemen. farmers can authorize one of -their

number to communicate to the re-, mount officer of the district. "The prices at which they should { be offered is a matter for., the de-i termination of the farmers- The prices recently paid by the war de-| partment have been published and if s they are not known any citizen can.] obtain them by addressing the Q- : termaster General, War Department.. Washington, D C. The war depart-] ffient does not . announce the ' prices i which it will pay under the new] plan because this, will vaiw .accord--ing to the locality and -quality of i the animals, But if reasonable offers’ are made it is believed that the,will be entertained. “Farmers who desire to se.l, horses or the mules to the .government are advised to apply to i:.- ' county agent for information as to the specifications of the animals As soon as the county •agent-.lear®? that there is-a prospect of Tnough I available animals to make up a carload or more he will a 'day and a place for assembling i animals for the preliminary inspec- ' tion and for the organization of 1 the group of farmers for making' 'an offer to the depot quartermaster •at the remount depot of the dis- ' trict,”

VISITED RELATIVES SUNDAY

George Heuson, wife and little daughter of Waynetown, Indiana drove up in their car Sunday and visited relatives here until Monday. Their daughter remained here with ■his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nat Heuson, of north of town, and will attend school here this winter. George recently sold his moving picture theater at Waynetown ani is now showing twice each week free pictures on the street under the auspices of the merchants of Waynetown. A canvas is stretched at a business street intersection and the pictures are thrown upon it, showing l oth from the front and the rear of the canvas. It ’is quite an innovation and is taking well there, the streets being crowded with people who come from miles aroupd to these free shows given every 1 Wednesday and Saturday nights.

NOT SKIRTS RUT SHIRTS, BRO Rensselaer women have secured from the government a consignment of material for TOO army shirts. The work is being divided among the various church societies. The government pays forty-three cents each for the work and the money thus earned is being turned back into the Red Cross fnud. —Francesville Tribune. The Tribune is mistaken about the ladies making skirts for the soldiers. Uncle Sam’s soldiers do not wear skirts, although some of those he would make soldiers of are apparently hiding behind them, NOTICE TO CAR USERS If you want your Overland ear fixed come to the Overland Service Station, opposite D. M. Worland’s furniture store, where we do expert work; also, if the generator or starter goes wrong we are able to fix them and we will keep your battery in shape. Nothing too difficult. All my friends that have other makes of cars and want work done will find us‘ able to fix them also.—M. J. -KUBOSKE. Phone 294. . sl

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

. The Monon News, a weekly newspaper published at Monon, has aannounced that after September 1 the subscription price will be $2 per year. The News is the first weekly, paper in this part of .Indiana to raise to $2 a year, Arden Rogers, .1 f-year-old son o: Mrs. B. J. Russell of Knox, was instantly killed last week while climbing a . tree through the branches of which ran a high voltage electric wire. Th§ boy s clothing was set afire and his body hung in the branches of the tree for sev-

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era.! minutes until the power plant at Plymouth was notified to shut off the current. q, Hugh H. Conner, 45 years old, vice president and general manager of the Western Construction company of Lafayette, was killed instantly late Saturday afternoon and Charles Mutciiler of Mishawaka was seriously injured when an autoikdbile in which they were speeding ward two miles west of Archerrille. overturned in a cornfield. Conner's neck was broken and his skull crushed. Mutchler’s skull was fractured and his left leg broken between the hip and the knee.

(•fessijeop.d [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the Aral insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional ’nsertion. To save book-keeping eash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for Less than twenty-flva cents, but short notices coming within -he above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be— tor 2t ;• cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.! ... FOR SALE For Sale —Five acres inside the cor- • potation;improved street, well • tiled and in alfalfa; $1,400. Easy I terms.—G. F. MEYERS. ’ ts - For Sale —At a Iwirgain, good building lot on. Webster street, 75x s IS®, in block 42, Weston’s addl- ■ tion. 3 blocks from court house. — . M. I, ADAMS & SON. ts For Sale —96-acre farm, improved with house, barn, new concrete silo, 2 wells; 3 miles to railroad town, R. F, D. All under cultivation except 15 acres timber for pasture. Will take part cash or trade, terms on remainder.^ —BOX 93, Fair Oaks. Indiana. R-R 2. a-14-Good Recleaned Timothy Seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ti Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat Office, ts For Sale Cadillac, self-starter, electric lights, new tires; Chevrolet "490” in A-l shape.—M. I. ADAMS & SON. all • -—‘ —-—— —— For Sale —Five-col. quarto Vaughn Ideal press, $35; No. 10 Midget furniture cabinet, $3; No. 15 double case stand, will hold 28 * full- size cases, $3; several news I and italic job cases, practically good as new, each 50c; 2 5-col. twin Chases, each $2.50; 4 5-col, single chases, each $1; 140 lbs\ 9-pt. ; body type (Barnhart No. 64), cases Il type (Barnhart No. 64), used but very little, SB, case included; font each 6,8, TO. 12, 18, 24-pt. Cheltenham Bold Italic, $lO,-cases included; font each 24. 36, 48-pt, Barnhart OMstyie. $S for lot, cases included; font each 12, 18, 24, 36, 48-pt. Adstyle, sl2 for lot, cases included: font 30-pt. Clarendon Extra Cond-., $2. with case. Above type all in good condition and is little worn.—THE DEMOCRAT, Renssei laer, Indiana. ts

WANTED Wanted —Good experienced blacksmith. Apply to H. & D. COMPANY, Goodland, Indiana. all FOR RENT For Rent—Some unfurnished rooms suitable for light housekeeping, or for school girls. Also one furnished room.— MßS. H. R. PURCUPILE. al 6 For Rent—We still have one large farm for rent. —JAMES E. WALTER, manager J. J. Lawler ranches, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 337. Pasture for Stock —-I have some pasture for 20 head of stock. —GAIL MICHAL. Tefft, Ind., R-l. a-5 , FOUND Found—On Jackson highway, 4 miles north of Rensselaer, Tuesday, August 7, a package of merchandise. Call at The Democrat office./ MISCELLANEOUS Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock In its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly aH the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. 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. 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 — I 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 any 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. In At ihoi D ®^ ay ’ <r! lllr Wlthout Commission, Uvl 111 V Without Charges for Making or Recording Instruments. . W. H. PARKINSON