Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — Page 1

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SEVEN AFTER POSTAL PLACE

Only One Man Was Among the List of Applicants. An examination was held at the court house Saturday for the purpose of selecting a clerk for the Rensselaer postoffice, which position was made vacant by the recenfe resignation of Gaylord McFarland. The examination was conducted by Miss Fame Haas, deputy postmistress, and there were seven applicants for the place, six ladies and one man. Those who took the examination were Wilda Littlefield, Norman, Lilia Peek, Nellie Waymire and Ruth Wood of Rensselaer, and Mabie Brandt and Blanche Marshall of Morocco. The place pays SBOO per year at the start and $l,lOO after several years of continuous service and required ability. It usually requires three or four months to complete the selection ©f a clerk, and in the meantime the place is being filled by Miss Littlefield.

DIED FROM BROKEN BACK

Body of James Cox to Be Brought Here Today. James Cox, a former resident of Oaks, but who for the past eight years had been residing near T .ci nr el, Indiana, died Monday from a broken back, which he suffered about two weeks ago when he was thrown from a tractor with Which he was hauling hay. Mr. Cox was about 56 years of age and is survived by the widow and three grown children. The body will be brought to Rensselaer on the 3:31 train this afternoon, and from here will be taken direct to Fair Oaks, where burial will be made. Details of the accident which resulted in Mr. Cox’s death had not been received by any of the relatives here, other than stated above.

PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL

The common council of the city of Rensselaer held its regular meeting Monday evening, with all members present. Ordinance No. 181, providing for license fee for junk dealers, was introduced and read, and on motion was tabled. » Ordinance No. 182. fixing the, salaries of city officials, affecting only the salaries of clerk and treasurer, raising the pay of these officials from S4OO to S6OO per year, effective January 1, 1918, was passed. In the matter of damages sustained by Mrs. Elizabeth Critser on a defective cement sidewalk, the mayor was authorized to sign contract in the settlement of damages in the amount of SSO. City marshal and nightwatch were ordered to report to mayor all partied violating the ordinance regarding the running of automobiles with cut-out open, and all speeders in violation of the speed laws. The usual number of claims were allowed.

FIRST PUBLIC PARADE TODAY

Troop* Will Be Reviewed by Superior Officers and Others. The weather .permitting Company M will hold its first public parade Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at Riverside ball park. The company will be divided into four companies, each commanded by an officer or a non-commissioned officer and will be reviewed by Lt. Col. Healey and Major Tuteur. By making the division into companies a battalion can be simulated. The hour of 5 was selected because there is no appropriate place to hold the parade after night. The ceremony is a very pleasing one and those who can should attend. Automobiles will be parked at the parade field and the grandstand will be available for others.

LOAN ASSOCIATION PERFECTED

The Walker Township National Farm Loan association of Walker, Gillam, Wheatfield and Kankakee townships is ready to receive applications. Anyone in either of these townships wishing a loan, meet us at the Walker Center school house the first Saturday night of each month. WILLIAM STALBAUM,! President; V. M. Peer, Sec.-Treas.

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 A. D. Babcock of Goodland was a business visitor in the city Monday. County Road' Superintendent J. L. S. Gray made a business trip to Kankakee, Illinois, Friday. Attorney and Mrs. George E. Hershman of Crown Point drove down in their car Saturday afternoon and from here went up in Walker township to visit his folks. Marriage licenses issued: August 27, Conrad O. Olsen of Chicago, aged 30 February 27 last, occupation bookkeeper and Ida Shertzer, also of Chicago, aged 42 August 27, hair dresser. Second marriage for each. First marriage of male dissolved by divorce in 1916; first marriage of female dissolved by divorce in 1901. New suits filed: No. 8805. Steele Wedeles Co., a corporation, vs. F. M. Abbott; action for judgment. Demand $125. No. 8806. Steve Nicalit vs. John Jungles; action for conversion. Demand $75. No. 8807. Steve Nicalit vs. John Jungles; action for conversion. Demand $125. The district board at Laporte made public their first rulings Monday. All of the cases decided were from Benton county and the board in no instance reversed the decision of the Benton county board. Of twelve claims for exemption because of industrial reasons, wherein the district board has original jurisdiction, eight men were held for service and four were exempted.

NEWS OF THE FARMERS CLUBS

The Wheatfield Center Farmers’ club has arranged for a special Better Livestock meeting to be held on the lawn of the Kennedy school tomorrow evening, August 30. Among the speakers expected are O. S. Bell of Parr, Fred Phillips of Rensselaer and W. H. Ambler of Winamac. The program committee has sent invitations to other clubs of the northern part of the county to assist in making this a big event. The West Carpenter Farmers’ club will hold its regular meeting on the lawn of the Lewis S. Alter farm next Friday evening, August 31. Mr. Alter reports that a special program has been arranged and extends his personal invitation for all to attend. The North Union Farmers’ club will meet at Virgie next Saturday evening, September 1. From all appearances this meeting will be a record-breaker, exceeding the last big meeting in attendance and enthusiasm. Come out and be a booster for North Union.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. C. W. Rhoades was able to leave the hospital Sunday. Leonard Rajal, a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lane of Newton township, had his -Tonsils removed yesterday. Mrs. Maria Middelkamp continues to improve. The infant child of Mr. ahd Mrs. Vaughn Twidell of Oklahoma was taken sick while they were visiting Mrs. Twidell’s parents at Kniman and was brought to the hospital Sunday evening. At this writing it is improving. Boyd Botts and Herbert Crowder, members of Company M, who were at the hospital for treatment several days last week, were able to return to camp Saturday.

Wild Hay—We have a large acreage of wild hay to put up 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

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917.

SCHOOLS WILL OPEN MONDAY

Rensselaer Teachers All Employed With One Exception. The schools of Rensselaer and Jasper count}’ will open next Monday September 3. Practically all of the teachers have been employed, but in a few of the townships they have not all been assigned. In the Rensselaer schools there are several new names among the corps of teachers, and one place in the high school is yet to be filled. The teachers thus far engaged are as follows: High school —C. R. Dean, superintendent; W. F. Kratli, principal; L. Waive Mallory, assistant principal; Harriet Shedd, Grace Norris, G. H. Clevenger, Anna Younger, Mabel Gregory. Special teachers —Grace Stover, music and drawing; Harry Forster, manual training; Mabel Atwood, domestic science. Grammar school —W. S. Dimmett, principal; Jane Parkison, Ethel English, Addie Harris. Primary building—Minnie Hemphill, principal; Helen Lamson, Marie Winn, Lucille Phillips, Tillie Malchow, Gela Anderson, Florence Ryan.

CHRISTMAS AND THE SOLDIERS

Red Cross Plans Gifts for Every Fighting Man. Every American soldier and sailor, whether at the battle front in France or' in training camp at home, on ships at sea or stationed ashore, is to have a Christmas remembrance from “home.” Red Cross officials have just completed plans for the Christmas cheer and arrangements will be worked out immediately. For the men in France, the Red Cross will see that every soldier has his Christmas package with its message of good will. There will be surprises in every package, but all are likely to contain writing paper, pipes, tobacco, cigars and cigarets, and other articles. The work of completing Christmas allotments of comfort bags is going on rapidly. Most of them are made of khaki and are supplied with extra pairs of woolen socks, needles, pins, thread and buttons.' Detailed suggestions of how to wrap these Christmas packages for shipping will be issued by the Red Cross, which will welcome co-operation. Gifts will be bought from contributions especially given for the Christmas greeting. The Red Cross war fund will not be used for that purpose.

WAR FUND OF THE RED CROSS

Township Report. Pledges Receipts unpaid Total Barkley ....,.$ 394.75 $ 120.25 $ 515.00 Carpenter .... 682.50 449.75 1132.25 Gillam 196.50 42.00 238.50 Hanging Gv. .. 319.25 214.25 533.50 Jordan 224.35 50.75 275.10 Kankakee .... 170.50 68.00 238.50 Keener 85.50 99.50 185.00 Marion 1853.95 443.50 2299.45 Milroy 31.25 81.00 112. Newton 361.25 155.75 517.00 Union 220.30 269.75 490.05 Walker 173.50 69.00 £42.50 Wheatfield ... 812.10 655.50 1467.60 Total 5525.70 2719.00 8244.70 Your attention is directed to your patriotic pledge to the Red Cross War Fund. Those who have not paid are requested to give this their prompt attention and thus materially help the work of the War Council. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Chairman.

NEW ORDER WILL HIT ENEMY

.President Wilson tightened the government’s control of exports Monday night by issuing an order forbidding the shipment of any goods to European neutral countries except under license and by extending the lists for which license is required in shipment to the allies and neutrals' other than European countries to include cotton, all meats, sugar and most of America’s other export commodities. It is said that this order will stop goods from this country' reaching the enemy through any of the neutral nations which fact has been established beyond all doubt.

NOTICE We pay the highest price \ for veals, live or dressed, and all kinds of produce. Phone 160 Black.—H. A QUINN. \ s2B FANCY PRODUCE MARKET August 28. We top the market. Bring us your eggs. Price today 33c. We want your butterfat and are paying 43c. —C. E. PRIOR.

RAIN HAS DELAYED THRASHING

Unusually Heavy Crop Requires More Time to Thrash. We have been getting altogether too . much rain for thrashing in some sections of the county for the past ten days. Up in about Moody and north and east of there there was very little thrashing done last week because of rain, and, Monday night rain fell here all night long and most of yesterday forenoon. Apparently this rain was quite general and, even though it clears up and we have good weather from now on, it will be a couple of days at least before thrashing can be resumed, as the rainfall of Monday night alone was estimated at better than one inch. Over in about Brook they got a very heavy rain last week, almost a cloudburst, which put a stop to thrashing for several days. It is probable that but little more than half of the thrashing is done, and with the best of weather it would take nearly two weeks to finish up the work.

CUT DOWN THE FIRST CALL

More Liberal Exemptions Will Be Granted Married Men. Washington D. C., August 25. — At the direct suggestion of President Wilson, Provost Marshal General Crowder telegraphed to all governors tonight a supplemental explanation of regulations governing the status of married men under the selective service law. No change in regulation is made, and the purpose of the new statement is to clear up misunderstandings which have arisen in what General Crowder describes as “a few instances.” will probably result in more liberal exemptions married men. While the statement regarding married men was in preparation new orders were issued changing entirely the mobilization arrangements previously made. Congestion of rail traffic and the necessity of making better provision for the reception of tha men at the cantonments prompted the changes. Under the new orders 5 per cent of the white men, preferably those with military experience from each local area, will be started forward to the camps September 5, instead of 30 per cent. They will go in five daily detachments of equal size and form skeleton company organizations and set up a going concern into which the remainder of the total quota nan be absorbed without confusion as they reach the cantonments. The next 4 0 per cent of the quota will go forward September 19, when the second 30 per cent originally was scheduled to go; a second 40 per cent will go forward October 3, iristead of the third 30 per cent, and the remaining 15 per cent will be called up as soon thereafter as practicable.

GET WORD FROM THREE MEN

Frank Thomas of Marion Township HaP.Not as Yet Reported. The local conscription board has received word from three of the four drafted men who failed to report for examination: No. 140 —Anthony Moej of Marion township was examined in Ohio. No. 192 I—Michael 1 —Michael Krivoniak of Marion township was examined in Pennsylvania. No. 209—Jacob Sanders Davis of Union township joined Company L of the 36th infantry at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on July 2. Nothing has as yet been heard from Frank Thomas of Marion township, No. 127.

GOODRICH HAS TYPHOID FEVER

Governor Has Been 111 for More Than a Week. “ Governor Goodrich it was determined Sunday, is suffering from typhoid fever. He went to the Methodist hospital last Tuesday, but it’ was not possible to diagnose his case definitely at first. His fever yesterday was 103. The nature of his illness makes it certain that he will be confined to the hospital for some time, though the attending physicians hope soon to allay the fever. No visitors are, admitted to his room and request is made that no friends seek permission to see him. His physicians say that for a speedy recovery he needs absolute rest.

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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 Mention from Many Places. NO NEW C.ALL BEFORE SPRING Is the Opinion of the Army Officers at Washington. There will be no second draft for the national army before next spring is the opinion of army officers at Washington. Every available camp site will be crowded by the 687,000 men called in the first draft, and training and transportation facilities, they believe, will not permit of the army using any additional force of men within six months. General Crowder said the subject of a second draft had never been taken up at any conference at which he had been present. General Crowder is understood to be preparing a complete report on the draft and making recommendations for possible future drafts. The general believes, moreover, that the shortcomings of the first draft, which cannot be ascertained entirely until after the mobilization and first period of training, may make it necessary to amend the selective draft law before another call is ordered. Active preparations for the mobilization of the first increment of national army recruits on September 5, which is now announced as 5 per cent of those drafted, began Friday with the receipt by the quartermaster general’s Corps of meal tickets to be furnished the men enroute to their camps. Each ticket is made out in triplicate form and provides for meals not to exceed 60 cents apiece in value.

GERMANY PLANNED WAR ON US

Conclusive Evidence Is Now in Hands of the Administration. Washington, D. C., August 28. — Evidence which made American government officials believe Germany planned to make war on the United States after defeating France and England is in the hands of the administration, the state department announced yesterday. The state department confirmed Lord Robert Cecil’s statement of Germany’s intentions. Secretary Lansing refused to be specific as to what evidence there was, but it is believed the evidence was brought here by James Gerard on his return from Berlin as ambassador to Germany. Mr. Gerard himself has frequently said the Teutons had their eyes on this country, and Lord Robert Cecil said he had proof of this intention. Vast amounts of data showing the net of intrigue woven about America by the kaiser’s agents are filed in the state department. including the clumsy attempt of Foreign Secretary Zimmerman to create a union of Mexico and Japan against this country. This and other autocratic dreams showed the trend of the German mind. They also afford President Wilson the opportunity he will soon take of showing why America can not deal on friendly terms with Germany as long as the kateer reigns.

STATE OFFICIALS BREAK DOWN

Owing to the strenuous work in connection with the state's part in the war, three prominent state officials have broken down and are ill. Governor Goodrich is confined to the Methodist hospital with typhoid fever. ” Jesse Eschbach, state conscription agent, has not been in Indianapolis since Saturday, when he left for his home at Warsaw. He telegraphed General Harry B. Smith that he was ill and gave instructions for taking care of the more important details of his work. General Smith has also been under the care of a physician for several days, although he is able to be at his offices a part of the time.

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ASSURES RUSSIA OF SUPPORT

President Tells New Government We AVill Give Assistance. Washington, August 28. —President Wilson sent to the members of the National Council at Moscow yesterday assurances that this government is willing to extend “every material moral assistance” to the government of Russia. y No official comment was made by government officials on Premier Kerensky’s speech before the members of the council the day before, but it was made clear that the sentiments expressed by the Russian leader were heartily approved here and that his declarations indicating the firm manner in which he and his counsellors are prepared to deal with enemies of the new government had aroused a greater confidence in the outline of their plans. The message cabled by President Wilson follows: I take the liberty to send to the members of the Great Council, now meeting in Moscow, the cordial greeting® of their friends, the people of the United States; to express their confidence in the ultimate triumph of ideals of democracy and self-government against all enemies within and without, and to give thejr renewed assurance of every material and moral assistance they can extend to the government of Russia in the promotion of the common cause in/which the two nations are unselfishly united.

ALLIED DRIVE GAINS FORGE

Enemy Carried Back With Losses On All Fronts. The Austrians have established a desperate resistance, to the Italian forces on the Balnsizza plateau on the front north of Gorlzia following the ter riffle drive of General Cadorna’s men for several days. The resistance has been overcome in a few places. The intensity of the struggle has increased owing to this extreme desperation of the Austrians, who by the greater employment of forces is seeking to prevent the Italians from progressing toward the eastern extremity of the plateau. The are facing the resistance with firm resolution and have been rewarded in various points by victory. . The Germans likewise have been fighting etrenuously to regain lost positions in the Verdun region, but the combined British and French forces have succeeded in holding all of the positions taken and have, in the drive, regained practically all of the positions taken by the Germans in the first Verdun drive. Attacks were made on the Aisne front Sunday night by the Teutons but were broken up by the French fire, the P&rls war office announces. More than 1,100 prisoners were taken. The official Russian statement declares that an Austro-German attack on Roumanian positions south of Ocna Sunday night was repulsed and that northeast of Soveia the Roumanians recovered a height which had been wrested from them. The last few days have been comparatively quiet in of Lens and the Canadians have been able to consolidate positions recently captured with little retaliation from the enemy and with surprisingly little loss. The latest report shows that 600 Austrian officers and 23,000 men have been captured and counted, and more are being taken each day. In addition the capture of w’ar stores by the Italians has been enormous, including guns of all calibers and arms, ammunition, horses and motor tractors. From the supply depots abandoned by the enemy in his flight the Italians now are enabled to replenish their troops fighting in the difficult country. ’ The total losses of the Austrians from all causes are reckoned at nearly 100,000, the most important of which, in the Carso region, have not yet been officially announced.

LEAVE FOR TRAINING CAMP

Rensselaer is well represented at the second officers’ training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, with five successful applicants. These are Charles M. Sands, Cope Hanley, Woodhull I. Spitler, Max Kepner and Joseph A. Meyers. All left here Sunday evening to report at the camp Monday forenoon. The training lasts for three months and each man gets SIOO a month while in training.

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