Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — Page 3

SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1917.

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

MILROY Roy Culp filled his silo Wednesday. •Clyde Fisher spent Sunday . with home folks. Mrs. Henry Goble of Monon spent the last of last week with relatives here. Jean Marchand left Monday for an extended visit with relatives in Michigan. Mrs. Smith of Chicago visited her sister, M*s. Albert Dolfin, and family over Sunday. Mrs. Claude Spencer assisted Mrs. Walter Gilmore with cooking for thrashers Monday. Louise Marchand and -Mrs. Lytle helped Mrs. Claude Spencer cook for silo men Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Irwin and Mrs. Parsons of Wolcott called on G. L. Parks’ Sunday evening. Ruth May on her new pony called on her aunt, Mrs. George Foulks, Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Woelfel and daughter Myrtle visited G. L. Parks and family the past week. Sunday school will hereafter be held at 2 p. m. and preaching at 3 p. m. Don’t forget the change in time, and come to both Sunday school and preaching September 23 at 2 p. m. • _ Charles McCashen, J. R. Clark and families, Creighton Clark, Clyde Clark and daughter Mildred of Newton county, iMr. and Mrs. Moses French of Remington spent Sunday with Frank May’s:

FAIR OAKS

Health still continues good with us. Cottage prayer meeting was held at “Aunt” Hannah Culp’s Wednesday evening. Edna Wood and Mrs. Don Warne went to Fort Harrison Monday to see the boys. The pickle season came to a final close last week with something over 5,000 ’bushels taken in. Otto Cedarwall and family tried out their new Ford Sunday and visited friends in Fair Oaks. Rev. Wariner of Shelby filled his regular appointment in the Christian chuirch Sunday evening. George Lambert of Mount Ayr was here Sunday on a little business deal with F. R. Erwin. B. T: Clevenger came down from Chicago the first of the week to look after his pronerty. He rented it to Cal Burroughs. Frank Wildrick of the Remington schools made his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wildrick. a short visit in Colfax township Saturday. J. W. Bozell came up from Edinburg Monday to make, a deal with Will Roudebush for four carloads of melons which he had piled up in his patch. John Roorda, who has lived on Section 31 on the Otis ranch for fifteen years, has decided to leave the ranch. IHe doesn’t know just where he will locate. The school house contractors landed here Monday and begun the work by clearing off the “ground and getting ready for the excavation for the basement. It is reported that William Boyle, the Ford agent at Roselawn, delivered a new car to Earl Williams near Kniman the latter part of the week. Now, girls, get ready for a joyride. The farmers in these parts have begun filling their silos this week. The farmer that has a silo to fill in the frost-bitten districts this fall is the one that will lose the least of his corn crop. Pat Miller is having a cold storage built and an addition to his residence. There is lots of prosper! ty< in Pat’s direction. Dave

'X Syii "i 7 . ‘* rr ■ - 7--'g;a3 The Best Tribute you can pay to the of the departed is a monument of stone. That will endure when all other memorials have decayed and vanished. Such a monument need be no more expensive than you choose. Come to. us, and we will show you that good taste is not measured by dollars, neither is an artistic design. We can make a monument you may well be proud of for a surprisingly small sum. Will H. Mackey Rensselaer, Ind.

Deardurff. Pat’s neighbor, is building a cellar on his farm. I Frank Hooper of east of town was in Saturday peddling onions and cabbage. He reports having a big yield of potatoes which will mount up into the hundreds of bushels, but his corn was badly damaged by the frost. Frank McKay’s family arrived here Tuesday. They take up their residence in their property again. Frank will work at Gary in the shops. He left Buchanan, Michigan, because the house he lived in was sold and he was unable to get another to move into. There were three men and that many wagons and horses struck camp in the south part of town about two weeks ago, said to be from Monon. They put in their time scouring the country for old iron and gathered up a carload and shipped. They appeared to be a very conscientious, confidential set of fellows, but it is reported that a number have found out they were not quite so. Ex-editor Schanlaub has decided his barn needs a new roof and was figuring and calculating on about how much it would cost him. He asked a passing friend what he thought and, on being advised it would cost about $25, he said he would have to hitch up old Queen and look about and see if he could find some of the early-day roofing (bull grass), but, of course, he didn’t say whether he wanted it to put on the barn, cover a pig house or cover his straw stack, but we suspect it was for the latter.

WHEATFIELD

Henry Hendricks made a flying trip to Indianapolis Wednesday after thrashing machine repairs. Miss Rose Misch, who had been spending her vfcation here with her parents, returned to Rensselaer the first of the week. Louis Misch has promised us a number of excellent letters from Camp Taylor, which we will include from time to time In our items. Seven different kinds of wheat and four different kinds of rye will be sown on the Dewey farm this fall. Dewey and Hewett will sow close to 160 acres of wheat * this fall. Come out to the stock show preliminary meeting at the Wheatfield town hall tonight. All who are interested in having a good, live stock show at Wheatfield some time in October are especially invited to be in attendance. The next time we have a lot of cake and pie to eat up here we will let you Rensselaer boys know, but you must remember you will have to eat a little more than a dozen pieces of each to carry away a prize. What do you say to that? You will have to whet your appetites upon an emory wheel—a grindstone won’t do. Tn answer to a military notice received Tuesday, Louis Misch and Oscar Stembel of Wheatfield and John DeArmond of Tefft went to Rensselaer Thursday morning to join the boys assembled there from other parts of the county, from whence they went to Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to enter military training in one of the best encampments in the United States, being in itself a city with all the advantages pf a first-class place. Jasper county is sending a fine quota of boys l —one that we all can be proud of. With the boys goes the admiration of the county. We will make. their return a triumph. “The Army and Navy Forever, Three Cheers for the Red,. White and Blue!”

SOUTH AMERICA

Mrs. Tally Mitchel called on Mrs. Dolfin Thursday. Mrs. Mitchel and Jessie Dolfin were McOoysburg goers Friday. Mrs. Anna Chapman spent Sundav with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Johnson. Mel Bunnell and family called on Albert Dolfin and family Sunday afternoon. The Misses Erma, .Ora and Olive Clark spent Sunday with Mrs. William Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks “Forded” to Remington Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell snent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Lud Clark, and family. Mrs. William Chapman helped her sister, Mrs. Lon Wood, with thrashing cooking last week. Mrs. Ella Lear and Mrs. Tilly Clark helped their mother, Mrs. Fred Saltwell, in canning fruit. William Sheean and Mrs. Elzie Smith of Chicago visited their sister. Mrs. Albert Dolfin, Saturday and Sunday. Quite a crowd of young people called ■ on Miss Wesner, our new school teacher, Sunday afternoon at William Chapman’s. The food, eaten each year by the rat 'population of the United States amounts to $160,000,000. This figure does not include the loss of materials other than foods destroyed by rats.

Photo by American Press Association. Chief of Militia Affairs William A. Mann.

QUEBEC REALLY FRENCH CITY

People Cling to Language of the Land of Their Forefathers—Little Noise on the Streets. Quebec is the seemingly impregnable stronghold of France in America. It is true that Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the plains of Abraham, and the British flag replaced the French on the citadel, but to all intents and purposes It is a French city still. Four-fifths of the people are French; French is taught in the schools, and spoken everywhere. Quebec is not only different from cities of the United States, but it is utterly different from the rest of Canada. It is much older and looks even older because it is built largely of gray stone. Quebec thrives and grows, but not noisily and obviously like other American cities. The additions are all so perfectly in harmony with what is already there that you can scarcely detect them. Just as the city seems to grow imperceptibly, so it seems to be busy without being at all noisy or confused. The narrow streets, many of diem steep as toboggan shifts, are well filled with people; but the din of street noises is strikingly absent. The people are soft-voiced and do not shout about their business; there are few automobiles, and no street venders. «Especially on Saturday nights you are struck by the fact that .the streets are packed, and yet almost silent, except for a low hum of conversation and laughter.

The Usual Thing.

"What is it a sign of,” asked the inaocent maid “when a young man begins to tell a girl his troubles?"’ “It’s h sigh,” answered the wise widow, “that he will Soon ask her to share them.”

Beth Sides of It.

“My first dollar,” remarked old Skinflint, “was the hardest to get.” “Yes,” replied his profligate nephew, “and your last is the hardest to give up.”

Here, Literary Folk!

“Miss Oldgirl gave Wedderly a check for SIO,OOO the night he proposed.” “My, my! What a magazine editor she would have made! Pays well on acceptance.”

Just Now.

“What’s the best seller today?" “Judging from the most recent reports, I should say it was a -potato cellar.” 1

The Case Stated.

“Spoffins says he owes everything to his wife.” “Yes, everybody knows he’s borrowed the best part of her money."

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

SMOKED HIS CIGAR BY PROXY

Bismarck Gave Cherished “Weed” tb Wounded Soldier and Enjoyed Watching Man's Contentment With all his brusqueness and even, at times, brutality, Bismarck, says Frederick Marvin, had much of the “live-and-let-live” philosophy, and it ; humanized him so that men loved him and Willingly followed after hint. The ' story of the last cigar at Koeniggratz illustrates what has been said, says the Yorkshire (Eng.) Post. “The value of a good cigar,” said Bismarck, as he proceeded to light an excellent Havana, “is best understood when it is the last you possess and there is no chance of getting another. At Koeniggratz I had only one cigar left in my pocket, which I carefully guarded during the whole of the battle, as a miser does his treasure. I did not feel justified in using it. “I painted in glowing colors in my mind the happy hour when I should enjoy it after the victory. But I miscalculated my chances. And what was the cause of my miscalculations? A poor dragoon. He lay helpless, with both arms crushed, asking for something to refresh him. I felt In my pockets and found only gold, and that would be of no use to him. But stay, I had still my treasured cigar! I lighted this for him and placed it between his teeth. You should have seen the poor fellow’s grateful smile! I never enjoyed a cigar so much as that one which I did not smoke.”

MARCH FIRST MONTH OF YEAR

Was So Placed in Roman Calendar and Continued Until Comparatively Recent Times. March was the first month In the Roman year, and since the Romans were a warlike people, they honored Mars, the god of war, by naming the first month Martins. It was the first month in many parts of Europe until a comparatively recent date, even in England the year beginning March 20 until 1752. The Saxons called it Lenet Monat — length month —because in March, the days become noticeably longer, and this was the origin of the name “Lent.” The English have a proverb, “A peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransome,” and another, “A dry March never begs its bread,” which express their faith in the belief that a dry March means a prosperous year. This is explained by the fact that they do most of their planting in March, and unless the soil is dry, planting often is delayed. It’s different in America. In the middle West more rain falls in March than in April ordinarily and almost as much in March as in May. Almost universally in the North Temperate zone, March is regarded as the windy month. Normally it marks the transition from winter to spring.

Some people take more pride in their symptoms than they do in their children. If you are fortunate enough to acquire or inherit a number of alarming symptoms, you may be able to spend a happy lifetime being miserable. There is something peculiarly charming and piquant about one who complains about his ailments. How he is welcomed into any little social throng! How a room brightens at his appearance! Nervous disorders are perhaps the most enviable endowments. Have you some? Persons of this description are charming conversationalists. They are never at a loss for a remark. They can talk of their complaints at any length. Sick headaches, loss of appetite, weak back, dizzy spells are only a few of their favorite topics. In talking to persons of this sort it is pardonable to say, “Td rather you’d die of your symptoms than talk of them.”

They were dining off fowl in a restaurant. “Yoh see,” he explained, as he showed her the wishbone, “you take hold here. Then we must both make a wish and pull, and when it breaks, the one who has the biggest part of it will have his or her wish granted.” “But I don’t know what to wish for,” she protested. “Oh. you can think of something,” he said. “No, I can’t,” she replied. “I can’t think of anything I want very much.” “Well, I’ll wish for .you?” he. exclaimed.. “Will you, really?” she asked. “Yes.” “Well, then, 'there’s no Use fooling with the old wishbone,” she interrupted with a glad smile; “you can have me.”

It was an ingenious husband who sent his wife shopping in a taxi the other day. A friend who happened to see him say good-by to her from the curb remarked on his apparent extravagance. “It’s economy, really,” said the Jiusband. “Whenever she’s in a shop she’ll be worried to death because the taxi is aw ting up money all the time, so she won’t stay long enough to spend half as much as she would if she went on foot or in a street car.”

Mrs Crimsonbeak —Do you think our baker is intemperate? Mr. Crimsonbeak —Yes. “Too bad.” “Well, there is some hope. You know he is cutting down the size of bis buns now.”

Symptoms.

No Use Wasting Time.

Saving Money by Taxi.

Smaller Buns.

Sr f I —r, 1 <-s*- i y£* Ay32-| The Goings and Comings of Life are Unavoidable. Often they are irksome and monotonous, consuming much valuable time. Buy a Buick Motor Car and presto —there is a transformation—the goings and the comings are made enjoyable, interesting, and accomplished at a high rate of speed. IKELLNER AND CALLAHAN I PHONE 273 BENSSELAERIND.

SCRAPS of HUMOR

As It Should Be. Mrs. Urban —I found an egg in the coal bin this morning. Urban —In the coal bln? That’s a queer place for a hen to lay I Mrs. Urban —Well, you ought to be glad of it, anyway. Urban —And why, pray? Mrs. Urban —Because if the hens lay in the coal, you won’t have to buy any this winter. See? . Postponed Payments. “Do much credit business?” “Oh, yes,” replied the fashionable grocer. “Practically all my sales are of that kind.” “Do any of your customers pay you on the nail?” “Well, some of them do, but I have to move the nail up two or three times before they can hit it.” Different Now. “I’ve been reading ‘Don Quixote’ over again. Dear old Sancho Panza often made a meal off an onion and a piece of Stale bread.” “Ah, yes. Those were the good old days. Fare like that In these parlous times is only within the reach of people who don’t care how much they spend for a light lunch.”

At the Rehearsal. “You must bring that mermaid In the moving-picture sea story more up to date.” “What’s the matter with the arrangement now?” “In posing her on the rock you’ve given her a golden harp. For heaven’s saj<e, man, take it laway and give her a ukalele.” NOT GUILTY.

“Never darken my doors again.” "Who ever darkened your doors? Not me. All I ever did was to darken t>e room when we wanted to spoon.” Exhaustion. They laid him out for long repose As mourners got together— The man who tried to change his clothes To keep up with the weather. An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

DRA[?] ARMY IS THE FINEST

Raw Material Easiest to Train and Aino Most Inspiring. Washington, D. C., September 20. —'While mobilization of the first major Increment of the national army was proceeding today throughout the country, Secretary Baker and the chiefs of the war department api>eared''ibefore the senate committee to present requests for an additional $287,416,000 with which to provide equipment for a total force of 2,300,000 men. Included among the items Is the ordnance equipment for the next 5 00,000 men of the national army, V although the 300,000 or more men on the move today toward the training cantonments are only half of the first call. Regular officers assigned to command regiments of the national army are looked upon somewhat enviously by their comrades who remain with the regulars or go to the national guard. It is a common expression among these officers that the task of training the absolutely new forces Is an inspiring one to a man who likes to see his company, troop or battery develop from day to day. The national army men are all nearly of an age. They (have no old theories of soldiering to unlearn. They are ready to put all the vim of their youth immediately into the lessons of today from the battle fronts. Freedom, frotmi old prejudices or from internal political factions which beset some guard organizations, and many other things also are on the side of the new army. There are many officers who believe it will become, as a fighting force, the finest body of troops in the world.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Ernest R. Swift et ux to Lenno W. Higgenson et, ux, September 17, Remington, part nw, 30-27-6, Carpenter, $1,250. Vernon E. Balcom to Clara Balcom, September 13, part lots 4, 5, Remington, Coover & Goldsberry’s addition, $2,000. Green ip I Thomas et ux to Mary Weiss, September 17, part outlet 76, Rensselaer, $5,600. Mary Weiss et baron to Greenip I. Thoimias, September 17, ,sw, 23-31-7, 160 acres, Union, $1 3,60 0. William Lake to William A. Lake, February 1, nw, 8-31-6, 160 acres, Walker.

rSli PARKER’S hair balsam A toilet preparation ot mtrtt Helps to eradicate dandruff. fw For Restoring Color and tv I — Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. K&Sewaiw 60c. and 81.00 at lirng-i-ists. in ii i PIONEER Meat Market EIGELSBACH & SON, Props. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow

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