Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — Page 2

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THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 811 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March », 1879. , Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print News, paper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING rates Display Display, special position. . 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5c Readers, per line add. inser.... 3c Want Ads— l 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 accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1917.

AND WHAT OF FATHER?

There has been volumes' written about the brave mothers who are giving their sons to the war, and not one of us will raise a dissenting voice to what has been - said in mother’s behalf. None too much has been said or written and much more could be paid in praise of them. It is an impossibility to estimate the sacrifice that the mothers of this land or any other land have made in the service of their country. But how about the fathers? The boy’s babyhood and youth belongs to his mother. Son and father may be the best of pals during these years, but because father is away at his work all day long and day after day, and mother is at home, there cannot be the same intimacy. It is not until the boy has reached the verge of manhood, that period in his life when he feels like he wants to be a man and play the game with men that the father and son finds themselves drawn into a closer relationship than at any period in their lives. It is then that father discovers that the boy is a real little man and the son discovers that father is a bully good companion and friend who understands him as no mother, however loving, can hope to understand. /This is the period in their lives when the father and son plan together on the distant future, when they have long talks and look more deeply into each other’s hearts and souls than ever before. And it is just at this stage in their lives that war steps in and separates them. It is at this stage that the nations call the ' son to serve and the father to sacrifice. Mother has had the past and father

gives up the future. For if the bpv does not come back, father cannot have' -quite the store of memories of mother, and if he does come back, as most of them jwilj —he will have spent the time that would have . been father’s with other men and in other scenes, and though he may be bigger and stronger and a better man for it, he will, never be quite the same, boy to father that he was before. That invisible touch of intimacy that once existed seems to have fled through absence and associations with other • men. So without robbing the beauty and holiness of mother’s sacrifices, let us add these brief words for the brave, quiet, tearless sacrifice of the fathers of this land. —Exchange.

WOOD AS FUEL

The campaign recently started by the Indiana, forestry board to encourage the use of wood as fuel is apparently spreading. The New York state college of forestry is advising residents of that state-, to clean up the wood lots, cut out dead and crooked wood and make use of it as fuel. It believes, with the Indiana board, that not enough wood is being used as fuel and that m'uch of it is being let go to waste. Wood is cheap fuel just now as compared with coal, and even if the farmer were paid considerably more for it than he -has ordinarily been paid the saving tc the consumer would be worth while.

Farmers might find it greatly to their advantage to consider the possibilities of the woodlot. A wagon load of wood gathered from the waste in his lot might be as profitable as a wagon load of ordinary farm produce, when expenses of production and time expended are taken into account. And by supplying city consumers with fuel he will be doing a patriotic service in two ways, first, by adding to the available supply of gravely needed fuel and, second, by relieving the railroads to that extent from the transportation of coal and releasing equipment for the movemen 1 of other freight of national importance-. ' ’’

The coal shortage is turning the attention of other countries to. the bi wood as fuel. A recent issue of the Commerce Reports states that the use of wood in place of coal in Argentina is assuming important proportions and is contributing a good share to the railway traffic of the province of Santa Fe. One railway is reported to have transported 150,000 tons of wood ’in June, and so general is the turning to wood for fuel that one railroad has been obliged to warn shippers not to contract for larger quantities' than the facilities of the road can accommodate. We have a lot of waste wootj in Indiana Which might similarly be put to work. What gits us is how a football player is goin’ t’ explain why he isn’ in th* army. “Th’ hardest thing,” said Mrs. Lase Bud t’day, ‘‘is tryin’ t’ think o’ somethin’ fer supper your husband didn’ have fer lunch.”—Abe Martin.

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PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When Kaiser Bill placed on ice, and war’s ,no longer loose, the merchant prince boost the price must -have some new excuse. I’m tired of hearing dealers say. “The goods you’re asking for have gone up half a plunk today, due solely to the war.” I go to buy a pair of pance, whereat the clothier cries, “The war has killed the sheep in France, which makes the prices rise.” I go to have my whiskers stained a rich and lustrous blue; the barber says, “I’m really pained to lift the price on you, but all the barks and buds and herbs of which my dyes were made, were harvested by Huns and Serbs, and' war has spoiled the trade.” 1 do not care about ‘the price of anything I buy; I’ll cough up for a chunk of ice, a bulldog or a pie; the men who balk at paying kale are people I abhor; but this old formula is stale':’ “Price up because of war.” Oh. happy day when Wilhelm’s goose is cqoked, to walk no more, and we shall hear a new excuse in every retail store!

REPAIR ALL WORN MACHINERY

Scarcity of Tools Must Be Met by Putting the Old Ones in Shape. The great outcry for farm production and the scarcity of machinery points to the need of some way to repair a great many implements that are now useless largely because of the neglect with which they have been treated, says the United States Department of Agriculture, which adds that the machinery manufacturers and their local sales agents should help to perform this repair 'service. Throughout the country there are thousands of binders, mowers, and other farm machines rusting in the fence corners, and many of these might be made available for further valuable service. The manufacturers of farm machinery are admittedly unable to furnish all the new machines required and are paying for full-page advertisements to influence governmental authorities to insure them necessary raw materials and transportation in competition with the demand for machines of war.

The railroads of the country, according to one of their officials, are being compelled in the present emergency to rescue practically every scrap locomotive from the old-iron graveyards and rebuild them for active service. A similar plan should be adopted, says the ..department, for the reclamation of this cast-off farm equipment through the agency of central repair shops where the work could be done. Many of the machines might be made available for further service with repairs of comparatively small cost. , . Addfed to the almost sinful carelessness of some farmers there has been the attitude on the part of farm machinery manufacturers in years past to favor the abandonment of worn dhd disabled machines in order to sell new ones; but now the time has arrived when it is difficult to supply the market with the necessary new machinery. The department suggests that representatives of the manufacturers, on the one hand, and of the farmers —such as farm bureau agents or county agents—on the other hand, should gfet together to establish the necessary farm machinery repair stations in convenient localities.

THE WORLD’S FOOD NEEDS

What Is Required and What This Country May Do. To supply the estimated needs of the United States, the allies, and in part the neutral nations of Europe the farmers of the United States must plant for next year about 238,000,000 million acres of land to staple food crops. This is 22 per cent more than the 195,000,000 acres which represent the tenyear average plantings, and 4.5 per cent more than the large acreage —237,000,000 —0 f 1917. Compared with 1917 these acreages represent increases of 22 per cent for winter wheat, 15 per cent for all wheat, 51 per cent for rye, and 5 per cent for oats, and decreases of 6 per cent for barley and of 8 per cent for corn. Compared with the. preceding ten-year average the proposed acreages represent 43 per cent for winter wheat, 5 per cent spring wheat, 29 per cent all wheat, 124 per cent rye, 7 per cent barley, 2 7 per cent oats, and 7 per cent corn. £ \ These estimates of required acreages have been made by the United States Department of Agriculture, with due allowance for weather, farm labor supply, injury to crops by insects and disease, and the production of cereals by other nations, and for other usual and extraordinary conditions as far as they may be foreseen. The war has intensified a general shortage of food products which

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

has been growing for several years, but which this country had ifot felt until the war made it plainly apparent. To help solve the problem the department has not advocated any startling changes, but •has restated the principles which it thinks »e sound for the present and the future. These principles are: That each community, as far as practicable, should produce its own food and feed; each community should in crease the production of nonperishable 7 products, such as wheat, rye, beans and rice; sugar-beet and-sugar-cane production should oe increased in suitable localities; and the commercial production of perishables should not be increased except where there are ample facilities for transportation and market. The recommendations for 1918 are made with these points in view, with the idea that sound crop practices are to be continued, and that other cereals, notably rye, should supplement wheat.

KEEP THE SEED CORN SAFE

Must Be Kept Dry and Away From Rodents and Insects. Seed corn may be left on the racks where the ears have been dried. But it is generally- preferable, says the United States Department of Agriculture, to store the ears in mouse-proof barrels, boxes, or crates’during the winter. In any case they must not be exposed to dampness or they will absorb moisture and be injured. After hanging in the drying shed, or lyjng on the racks where there is constant circulation of dry air for the first two months after they have been selected from the stalks in the field,, the seed eays should be bone dry and contain less than 10 per cent of moisture. Some farmers place the thoroughly dry ears in the center of a wheat bin and then fill the bin with loose, dry wheat. ■ If signs of weevils of grain moths show,, the corn should be inclosed with carbon bisulphid in a practically air-tight room. bin. box or barrel for 4 8 hours. The liquid bisulphid should be placed in shallow dishes on. top of the box or barrel holding 10 bushels or less. The fumes from the bisulphid are heavier than air and gradually fall to the bottom of the receptacle, permeating the whole mass. One pound of the carbon bisulphid is enough for a room or bin Ifi feet in each dimension. After fumigation the ears must be thoroughly aired, whereupon the unpleasant odor disappears. Great care should be used with carbon bisulphid: its fumes are quite as inflammable as those from gasoline. To' prevent the entrance of weevils and moths, the ears may be stored in comparatively air-tigat boxes or barrels with one pound of moth balls or napthalene for each bushel of corn, which is not injured. Ten pounds Will protect enough seed to plant 60 acres.

Astor Asquith of Edgehill, Utahhas appealed to the postmaster to help him establish proof of his subscription to the Liberty Loan. Asquith’s young son, age two, swallowed his Liberty Loan button, and one of the pigs, loose in the barnyard, ate up the certificate, which had dropped from Asquith’s pocket while he was pumping water for the cattle. He says it was for a S2OO bond.

The lower house of convocation, by 65 votes to 26, passed a resolation moved by the dean of Canterbury, asking the upper house to consider a proposal that the name of King Charles, the martyr, should be reinserted as a blackletter sa’nt. Redletter saints, so called from their names being printed in the calendar in red letters, are the chief saints, the blackletter ones being those of minor importance. On the day of his baptism, a Japanese manufacturer, a recent Christian convert, gave a holiday with full pay to all his employes.

Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an inflammed condition of the mucous lining of the. Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflammed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Many, cases of deafness are caused by catarrh, which is an inflammed condition of the mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. We will give Qne Hundred Dollars for any # case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by Haji's Catarrh Medicine. Circulars free. All Druggists, 75c. . F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.

MONEY TO LOAN _ _ _ „ - r . . . ness and used Fords on Oi Hwses, Cattle, Hogs, Crops or Farm Implements Term, to suit you. WALLACE & BAUGH,

COMMISSIONERS' ALLOWANCES

Following are the > allowances; made by the board of commission-; ers of Jasper county, Indiana, at, their regular October, 1917, meetiag;: ' . * Jasper Co Tel Co, sup elk.,? 7.10 Same, same auditor 9.85Same, same treasurer .... 7.80 Same, same recorder .... 7.70 Same, same surveyor • 10.55 Same, same sheriff 10.10 Same, same co supt 9.25 Same, same court house. . 6.00 Same, same jail 7.95 Same, same co farm...... 3.00 Same, same court r00m... 6.15 Jesse Nichols, salary clerk.. 375.00 Hiatt Mfz Co- sup same. . 35.00 J P Hammond, sal auditor 575.00 Rem’gton Typew Co, sp aud 7.00 Chas V May, sal treasurer 562.50 Geo W Scott, sal recorder 425.00 Same, supplies same .... 5.55 Ben D McColly, sal sheriff.. 350.00 Same, per diem sajue 18.00 M L Sterrett, sal co supt. . 112.50 Same, ■ supplies same .... “4.00 Nellie Sterrett, office help. . 16.50 G L Thornton, sal co asses 150.00 C E Johnson, pd. exp cornr 14.85 F H Hemphill, sal c hl com 48.91 Chas A Welch, sal co com 56,25 D S Makeever, same ...... 56.25 H W Marble, s&me ...... 56.25 P R Blue, county atty.... 100.00 Medland Bros, repairs c h 134.60 Chas Morlan. janitor c h. . 60.00 Mrs C Morlan. matron c h 10.00 J L Griggs. fireman c h.. 50.00 Victor Moore, labor same. . 4.00 E D Rhoades & Son, sup sm 6.35 City of Rensselaer, same.. 267.50 J E Bentley, same ...... 5.38 Medland B’s. .gar, dvwy jl. 1,012.00 City of Rensselaer, lights jl 31.52 E D Rhoades & Son, sup sm 41.65

Northwestern Mfg Co, same • 15.00 Halsie Gordon, labor co, fm 20.00 Ross Pollock, same ...... 30.00 City of Rensselaer, sup sm 5.98 G E Murray Co, same. 55.38 Northwestern Mfg Co. same 17.50 E D Rhoades & Son, same. . 57.98 Scott Bros, same ... t.... . 6.65 Standard Oil Co. same 6.05 J E Work, care pr children 122.40 E D Nesbitt, bridge engineer 29.75 Philip Blue, asst same..... 1.00 Thomas Lowe, same ...... 2.00 Herbert Hammond, same . . 1.00 Harvey Putt, supt brg 3042 18.00 Pete Woods, same No. 3043 60.00 Belie McCarthy, cr pr chiln 24.00 Winamac Con Co. br 3013.1.787.00 A S Keene, same No. 3041 399.00 E D Nesbitt, stone road eng 78.30 J H McClannahan, spt Wood ■ stone road 44.00 Philip Blue, asst eng s r con 2.00 Thomas Lowe, same ... .. . 10.00 Herbert Hammond, same... 3.00 Same, asst eng Baker ditch 2.00 J K Smith, con King-Lawler ditch . 10.40 L P Shirer.spt D H Yeoman stone road 48.00, J L S Gray, co highw supt 104.95 A B Robbins. asst same. ... 153.75 Horace M Clark, same.... 192.60 Fred Popp, same 125.75 W S Lowman, same 17.50 W S Parks, same ... ... .. . 132.10 A Wood worth, same 134.45 C W Spencer, same ....... 103.00 J P Lucas, same 47.05 Charles Meadel, same .... 46.25 A E Sticknoth. Same 233.12 Monon Crush Stone Co, g r repairs 286.10 Newton Cd Stone Co, same 453.65 Lehigh Stone Co, same. <. . 242.60 E D Rhoades & Son, same 33.36 Francesville Clay Products Co. same 16.38 Frank Wiseman, same .... 2.00 Mathew Worden, same. .. . 5.25 J C Gwin & Co, same 26.90 Clyde Davisson, same 32.5 Q Frank Shide. same 14.00 E D Nesbitt, same ....... 3.60 Lyons. Rich & Light, same 8.73 James W Stevens, same... 15.00 John Ward, same ........ 24.30 Rochester Bridge Co, same 72.00 JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

Worland & Sons Licensed Undertakers and Embalmers PUmcs 58 or 23 Auto Ambulance Im da; MIINM M. EDSUtI, 111. . p CHICHESTER S PILLS W TSE MAaOXD BRAND. A ggdSeat Aofc yewr Dronfet for ZA Br< a and «.id _ffcS t-iras, sealed with Else Ribboa. V/ •A Wl Take other. Bay of year 1/ ~ AskforCHl-CUfes-TERS I U MAXn'B 12A58 PILLS, for S 3 IS* H yeas.mwttas Best. Safest. Always Reliable , r SO BY DSSGSTS EVERYWHERE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917.

OHlCauq, imuianapuli* a luuisviulC RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:51 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati) 1:45 a.m. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville | 10:55 a.m. AJo. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati) 11:18a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sswm™ Attorney...'. Moses Leopold Marshal ......Vera Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief...... J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward ;.Ray Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff B. D. McColly Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Heaun Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble 2nd Distrist D. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each mon'ffi. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson...... Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens ; Gillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr ..Marlon George Fouiks Milroy John Rush Newton George Hammerton Union Joseph Salrin... Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address —Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month in Williams & Dean’s law office.-. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE A INSURANCE 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos Dean. W ILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended .to. Estates settled. Wills -prepared. Farm loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office In Odd Fellows Block RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR. I. M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON p ■ z Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. " “ 2 to 5 P. M. '■ “ 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays—--5 A. M. to 2 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Typhoid, Pneumonia and low grades of fevers. Office over Fendlg’.s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-R RENSSELAER, INDIANA

E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. O®ce Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phono No. 18 RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American Schoo! of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —8-12 a. m., 1-1 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, tad. Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA H. L. BROWN , DENTIST Office over Larsh A Hopkins* drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA