Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — Page 8

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GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU

PINE GROVE John Dale and family spent Sunday with James Torbet and family, Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Scott spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Hayes. Mr. apd Mrs. Roy Donnelly were, guests of Andy Ropp and family Sunday. Mrs. Jeff Randolph helped her sister. Mrs. Tom Stevens, cook for silo fillers Monday. Sunday school at the Independence school house Sunday afternoon, October 7, at 2 p m. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson and Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Ritter and son Fred spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Payne. Miss Nile Britt, who had been in the county hospital for the past two weeks, returned to her home Tuesday and is improving nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens returned to their home at Herscher, Illinois, after a month’s stay with their daughter, Mrs. Harry Gifford, and family.

POSSUM RUN Sunday school at Independence last Sunday was well attended. Albert Hurley and Otha Spriggs were Rensselaer goers Tuesday evening. Miss Goldia Hurley spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. * Earl Parker and son John spent Friday night with T. J. Parker and family. Orpha and Myrtle Parker called on Mrs. William Hurley Thursday afternoon. ■ ■- James D/vis and family spent Saturday night and Sunday with T. J. Parker and family. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Neese and daughters spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill,

Simon Cooper and family and John Conn spent Sunday with William Hurley and family. Leighton Gifford hauled the “school kids” last week while Mr. Ward was doing other work. ( Mrs. T. J. Parker and Mrs. James Davis and two children called on Mrs. George Davisson Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. ' Alfred Caldwell and daughter, Mrs. Othel Caldwell, and daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Price. Those spending Saturday night and Sunday with William Hurley and family were Mr. Cohn and son Dan, Harry, Mennie and Hazel Toombs and Roy Bawley,

ROSELAWN

Born, September 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Gerrett Walstra, a daughter. Born, September 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford David, a daughter. - ' The Mulder home is being remodeled. U. D. McCord is doing the work. Rev. Cloud will return to the charge here and at Shelby for another year. Several from Roselawn attended the state vs. Baker trial at Rensselaer Wednesday. ' A Mr. Atwood of near Kniman has rented the M. E. parsonage and moved his family here.; Mr. ; and Mrs. James Fr'afnor o’ Chicago spent a few' days with Mrs. Matilda Algrim this week. Miss Pearl B»st and Miss Maaci-' Mulder attended the M. E. confer- , ehce at. V; Iparai-o S ’nday. ■ Parm Wiseman, father and uncle! start for Montana today, Saturday, via Ford on a sight-seeing tour. Curtin Best and wife of Chicago came down Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. I. N.Best and daughter pearl. Emory Cox, who had been visiting old friends and relatives in New York state the past three weeks, returned home. Wednesday. E. T. Boyle and family and Mrs. O. G. Wilder went to Chebance, -Illinois, Sunday to attend the funeral of a relative of Mrs. Wilder. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adams and Mrs. Adams’ father of Chicago came down for a two weeks’ sojourn at their summer home, west of town,

Morris Jacks and family spent Sunday in Lafayette. Filling silos is the order nowadays; most of them will finish this week. Miss Ona Snedeker spent a few days of last week with relatives in Medaryville. Miss Vernice Gray, our school teacher, spent Tuesday night at Frank Overton’s. Ray Holeman and family and Mrs. Ephriam Gilmore visited Sunday at Walter Gilmore’s. Miss Flossie Holeman of Monticello spent the latter part of last week with relatives here. Ralph Overton entertained his chums, Chas Rishling and Lawrence Snedeker, last Sunday for dinner. John Osborne and wife went to Culver last Friday morning to visit Harry Adamson and family for a few days. Mrs. Elmer Gilmore has had a bad spell with grip and rheumatism this week, but is better at this writing. Clare Peregrine is improving very nicely from his recent sickB«*», but his sister Nancy is sick with heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart] drove to see their son, Rev. Olin i^tevp^irt, near Crawfordsville Tues-1

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day. A new son has recently arrived, making, four sons in the family. James Overton and * faipily of. near Rensselaer visited Saturday night and Sunday with his brother Frank of this place. Mrs. C. A. Holeman is staying with her son Asa, helping care for a new grandson which arrived October 1. His name is Loren Morgan. Mrs. Simon Snowberger and daughter Marie of near Frankfort came last week to visit her parents, Robert Jordan and wife, and her brothers and sisters. They had a family reunion at Robert Jordan’s Sunday. Those from here attending the Northwest Indiana M. E. conference at Valparaiso last Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart, J. H. Culp and wife, S. M. Jacks and wife and son Oscar, Mr. and Mrs. W. L*. Stiers, John Cook, Hamilton Stiers, Misses Dollie Jadks and Agnes Stiers. They made the, trip via autos by way of Francesville, Medaryville, San Pierre, Burrough’s camp, Kouts and Malden, returning through Tefft, near Wheatfield, and the Gifford district. A very delightful trip for all,

COURT NEWS

Thursday evening was the last hour for filing remonstrances in the Ryan and Oliver ditches, and 150 were filed in the former and 101 in the latter. Most of these, we understand, are against the assessments only. The September term of the Jasper circuit court will close today. The petit jury was excused Wednesday for the term after hearing the state vs. Baker chicken stealing case, The jury was present seven days but heard only three cases and part of another one. in the latter case th© cause being dismissed after part of the evidence had been heard.

Following is a report of the proceedings of the past few’ days: State vs. Bert Baker. Jury finds defendant guilty and the court sentenced him to Jeffersonville for from one to eight years, disfranchises 'him for twm years and assessed a fine of SIOO. Claude W. May ditch. Commissioners asked for and are granted until first day of November term to file report. Same action as above in the John Wagner et .al ditch. William H. Wells vs. George H. Gifford, exr. Plaintiff granted change of venue and cause sept to Newton county. ■ Lafayette Loan & Trust Co. vs. George H. Gifford, exr. By agreement cause is venued to Newton county. The Taylor Critchfield Clague Co. vs. John A. Dunlap et al. Cause taken to Newton’county on affidavit of plaintiffs. J. S. Casebere et al vs. William Dunlap. Cause dismissed,, costs paid.

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PROTECT YOUR BUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING by having them properly nodded Sixteen years’ experience in th* business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that I rodded. Best and heaviest rods used. Call and see me oi ’phone 135 or 568.—F. A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts DEFEATS 5 AUSTRIAN SHIPS Italian Cruiser Aquila Has Terrific Battle in the Adriatic. Washington, Oct. 5. —A remarkably courageous fight was made by the Italian cruiser Aquila in a battle in the Adriatic. Though fighting a fire in her own hold, she drove off two Austrian destroyers, defied being bombed by hydro-airplanes, and, single-handed, engaged three Austrian cruisers until help came up, after which she made Oort safelr under her own steam. Subscribe for The Democrat.

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

The name of Camp Taylor at Louisville, Kentucky, was changed Wednesday by the war department to Camp Zachary Taylor. B -The little town of Wadena, south of Goodland, was visited by a fire Friday night that destroyed a barber shop and two residences. William Wood of Indianapolis, one of the best known men in the state and a member of the Indiana public service commission, died Wednesday at the age of 67 years. A third officers’ training camp will be opened at the various forts on January 5, and graduates of selected colleges and members of the national army only will be eligible to admission. The secretary of state has contracted for 200,000 auto license plates for 1918. The plates will be of green background with black figures, and no letters will be used above 100,000 as heretofore, only numerals being used. e iDr. M. T. Didlake, Who sustained a broken knee cap in a fall on the Fourth of July, was in Chicago Sunday to consult Dr. Fowler, a specialist. Since the accident the knee has been in a plaster cast and this was removed and a muslin bandage used in its stead. He was accompanied by Dr. H. B. Gable.— Monticello Herald.

Petitions are being circulated in Monticello asking the city council to erect a municipal lighting plant, also incorporating the same with the pumping station and heating plant for the school building. The people of Monticello are not-at all satisfied with the electric service now being rendered by the Interstate Public Service company.

The proposal to examine for military service all men registered for the army draft and not yet called was killed, for the present at least, Wednesday when the house and senate conferees eliminated an appropriation for that purpose from the war deficiency bill, the conference report on which was promptly accepted by the .senate.

Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Mcßeynolds, the former president of the Defiance, Ohio, college, were killed Wednesday and an unidentified man fatally injured when the auto in which" they were- traveling was struck by a Clover Leaf freight train at Corryvijle, seven miles east of Bluffton, Indiana. They were on their way to visit relatives at Bluffton when the accident occurred. Their auto stalled on the railroad crossing, «

It was through Germany's insistence, as Col. .Roosevelt points out, that The Hague tribunal Sanctioned the sale of munitions by neutrals to belligerent powers, and yet there are a lot of misguided Americans who are still condemning their own country on this score. At the time The Hague agreement was written Germany was shipping arms and ammunition to tire. Boers- and later shipped them to Turkey and some of the Balkan states. It’s a queer sort of Americanism that refuses to acknowledge that our own country has always been a strict observer of international law and that the "kaiser, according to his own statements, has openly and repeatedly violated international law.—Starke County Democrat.

The following is a list of the twenty-one men that will be sent to Garhp Taylor Saturday morning; Lester R. Luck, Fowler; Edward G. Farrell, Otterbein; Harold W. Ross, Ambia; Herbert J. Dice, Oxford; Samuel J. Bressner, Remington; Carl Johnson, Fowler; Albert J. Ruisseil, Remington; - Edward Dubia, Earl Park; Hannagan, Fowler; Ethmer Royal, Fowler; Emil L. Welsch, Fowler; Clarence Hendershott, Fowler; Sigel H. Freeman, Boswell; August Muncie, Fowler; Walter J. Smith, Boswell; William A.- Gretencord, Fowler; Earl Hunt, Boswell; August Arnett. Boswell; Charles L. Gopdpaster, Oxford; George T. Smith, Ambia; B. Walters, Oxford. In case any of the above cannot go on that date, Charles A. Brandes, Joseph M. Brenner and Claude Wright are called as substitutes. —Fowler Review.

1 So scarce is labor in, the coal region that when Jacob Schoen of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, superintendent of highways, advertised for men to work on the streets, the only reply he got was from a man eightytwo years of age.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

NOTES FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL

The school savings bank is growing. The following deposits have been made so far by the grade pupils: Fourth grade, $4.03, deposited by 25 pupils; fifth, $9.27, deposited by 34 pupils; sixth, $2.05, deposited by 14 pupils; seventh, $5.21, deposited by 20 pupils; eighth, $9.62, deposited by 7 pupils. This makes a total o' $30.18. . The students o.f the bookkeeping class have finished a month of preliminary work and are taking up the actual business practice. The shorthand class is progress- •» ... ■ ■ I . • ■ ■ . -4.ing rapidly. By the second semester the members are expected to be far enough advanced to act as private secretaries for the teachers. The freshman and advanced algebra classes have been doing hurdles this week. The hurdle system was introduced last year from the Indianapolis schools. This system is so called because each test must be passed perfectly (jumped), before the next can be taken.

SHORT TALKS TO MERCHANTS

Be an example to the rest of the citizens—not a problem. Make of- your home town more than a freight station and. postoffice. The interest earned on a home depends upon the interest taken in it. It is better to be a slow-fuse booster than a hair-trigger knocker, but it is awful to be both. The livest town is where the livest citizens live. The dead town is the abiding place of dull citizens. Most of those who claim the world owes every man a living are making collection through the street corner agency.

The graveyard 'has but one kind of dead. The merchant may have three: The stock, the salesman and the customer. Advertising keep business alive. There are two good men in most towns and these two are about alike. One is the man who gets behind things and pushes and the other is in the lead and pulling. Some people are always looking toward the big town. The big things are not all done there. The greatest poem- in the English language was written in a country churchyard. . Kicking about mail order buying will not increase home buying. Meet mail order competition in quality of service and quality merchandise and make these business essentials known. Let the selling service be gracious, interested, cheerful and intelligent always. Then add to that the admirable quality of unobtrusiveness, and you will find that customers will come back to trade with the salesman who “understands what they want. ”

NOTICE We have purchased the General Fire Insurance agency, which belonged to the late Rial B. Harris, are now in a position to write every possible kind of insurance* at the lowest possible rates. Persons having any losses to report or any changes to make in their policies under the. Harris agency, kindly notify us.—OHAS. J. DEAN- At SON, Odd Fellows Building. Phone 31. 06

Use of Barbed Wire in War. The part that barbed wire has played in the war is reflected to some extent by the foreign commerce reports, observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. This is peculiarly an American product, the Bliddeu invention having been utilized on a large scale by John W. Gates at St. Louis. The descriptions from the front show the effective use made of this simple invention, which the late Senator Ingalls said was suggested by the manner in which milch cows avoided bramble bushes. It was woven and twisted into a barrier that seemed impregnable until the British developed the use of. artillery in such amazing fashion. The study of fortifications has been followed from the beginning of human history, and it is a singular fact that a. simple fencing device, designated for an untimbered country, should surpass every other obstacle to the progress of a modern army. Art of Egypt. Art history, particularly in the branch of painting, has undergone some radical revisions in the last quarter of a century, as a direct result of Egyptian archaeological research. Painting, as we know it today, is at least 3,000 years old—-and we have found the originals to prove it. The site of ancient Thebes, now represented by the modern villages of Karnak and Luxor, has been one of the richest quarries worked by modern scholarly excavators of various nationalities. Ten years ago the New York Metropolitan museum’s expedition established at Thebes a special school or atelier for the purpose of copying and recording the brilliant-painted scenes and inscriptions uncovered In the royal tomb chapels of Egypt’s rulers of morethan thirty centuries ago.

Obituary

Margaret Cottingham Called Home Little Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William ham, was born at Danville, Illinois, November 25, 1911, and passed away at Momence, Illinois, September 25, 1917, aged 5 years and 10 months, after only two days’ illness of that terrible disease, diphtheria. The remains were laid to rest in the Momence cemetery on the same day of her death. Little Margaret was taken sick on Sunday and everything known to medical skill was done for her relief, but the Heavenly Father wanted another bright star and called our little one home. She was a bright little girl, and as she had just started to school leaves many little school girl friends. She also leaves her father, mother, two sisters, Thelma and Helen, and he r grandparents, besides other near relatives. The dear Lord has called little Margaret To dwell on His own dear throne: We shall miss her from our fireside. We shall miss her from our home; But we close our eyes, dear Lord, and say. Thy will, not ours, be done. •* A new supply of parchment butterwrappers just received at The Democrat office and will be sold at the old price of 30 cents per 100.

NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, that they will offer for sale, at public auction, at the door of the court house in Rensselaer, Indiana, at the. hour of 2 o’clock p. m. of November 2, 1917, the following described lands, to-wit: nwy 4 ne%, 16-31-7, $37.50 per acre. swi4 ne%, 16-31-7, S4O per acre, ne’/ 4 , 16-31-7, S4O per acre. nwy 4 se%, 16-31-7, $37.50 per acre. ne% swy 4 , 16-31-7, $35 per acre. se swy 4 , 16-31-7, $37.50 per acre. Said lands to be sold for not less than the appraised value per acre as above set forth and upon the following terms, to-wit: One-fourth of the purchase money, cash in hand at time of sale, together with interest on the residue for one year in advance at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum; the residue of said purchase price to be paid in ten years from date of sale, with interest on deferred payments at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, payable annually. Said purchaser or purchasers, as the case may- be, will upon such sale receive a certificate of purchase of such land or lands as may be purchased. entitling said purchase or purchasers, as the case may be. to a deed upon full payment of the purchase price. The purchaser or purchasers may at any time before due pay a part or the whole of said purchase price. Said lands will be offered in separate tracts as above described and sold to the highest and best bidder for not less than said appraised values. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND,. Auditor Jasper Conntv,. Indiana. OH AS. V. MAY. Treasurer Jasper County, Indiana.

Notice to Contractors of Srtle of Highway Improvement. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will, at the commissioners’ court room in the court house in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on November 6, 1917, at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m. of said day. receive sealed proposals for the construction of a highway improvement' known as the B. W. Ellsworth et al stone road in Barkley township, jasper county, Indiana, cause No. 3009. Report, profile, plans and specifications for said improvement are on file in the auditor’s office of said county. Each bid must be accompanied panied bv bond in a sum eciual to double the amount of the bid, as provided by law. .The board reserves the right to reject anv and all bids. (Seal) '.JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County. Indiana.

Notice to Contractors of Sale of Highway Improvement. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will, at the commissioners’ court room- in the court house in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on November 6, 1917, at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m. of said day, receive sealed proposals for the construction of a highway improvement known as the B. F. Forsythe et al stone-road in Marion township, Jasper, county, Indiana, cause No. 3003. Report, profile, plans and specifications for said improvement are on file in the auditor’s office of said county. Each bid must be accompanied panied )by bond in a sum equal to double the amount of the bid, as provided by law. , . The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids; (Seal) JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. Indiana.* Try one of those 10-cent glass ink erasers for sale in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department.

SATURDAY, ’ OCTOBER 6, 1»17.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. JATTALION OF DEATH FORMED Hoosier Units Organized Into Machine Gun Unit at Camp Shelby— Division Being Planned on the French System. Hattiesburg, Miss., Oct. s.—The“battalion of death” —a machine gun aattalion —has been organized at Camp Shelby out of several Indiana National Guard units. It will be attached to Brigadier Geenral Lewis’ brigade. The reorganization of the National Guard companies is not completed, it was learned. Several more changes will be made, but every effort will be made to keep companies together. Two companies, one from Portland, and one from Anderson, have been entirely broken up and the men distributed, among other units. The division is being organized on the French system.

'Phone Companies Consolidate.

South Bend, Oct. 5. —The Central Union Telephone company, a part of the Bell system, will absorb the interests of the Home Telephone company here, it became known here. The merger will take place about November 1, it is said. The Automatic system now used by the Home people will be thrown out of service, and a manual system including all the ’phones in the city will take its place, it is understood. Higher rates are expected in South Bend. Reports of the consolidation have been current for some time and with the resignation of several employees of the Home company, wb© feared for their positions, when the two companies became one, the rumors were confirmed. Elmer E. Daircey, general manager of the Homecompany, at first denied the report, but later withdrew his denial.

Feed Wheat to Hogs.

Indianapolis, Oct. 5. —The state food administration has been informed that flour mills in the souther© part of the state are practically without a supply of wheat, fanners refusing to sell at $2.07 a bushel, the federal price for the district. Some of them are feeding the wheat to hogs and others are simply holding it. The government wheat board has been asked for instructions.

Afraid of the Candy.

Evansville, Oct. 5. —During recess at the Hebron school, near Newburg, a strange man entered the building and left a sack of candy on the teacher’s desk with a note reading: “A treat for jour school friend.” When Miss Carlin, the teacher, returned she would not permit the children to eat any of the candy. The stranger disappeared.

Eighth Gas Victim.

Gary, Oct. 5, —Making the eighths person to ,die from the effects of gas in Gary since Saturday, William Markus succumbed after being kept alive 72 hours by constant use of the pulmotor. Markus was found unconscious in a gas-titled room beside the dead bodj- of his wife.

Sentenced to Ninety Days.

Muncie. Oct. 5. —Wayne Rowe, convicted in circuit court several weeks ago on the charge of operating a “blind tiger’’ here, was sentenced by W. A. Thompson, judge of the circuit court, to pay a fine of SIOO and costs and to serve 90 days at the Indiana state farm.

Veterans Hold Reunion.

Kendallville, Oct. s.—The annual joint reunion of the Twelfth Indiana cavalry and One'Hundred and Twentyeighth Indiana infantry was held here. At the beginning of the war, the barracks of the two regiments were stationed here.

Plan New Courthouse.

Rockport, Oct. 5. —The county commissioners, the building committee and three firms of architects conferred here over plans for a new courthouse for Spenecr county. The sum of $125,000 has been appropriated for the building.

U. S. Aviators Land.

Indianapolis. Oct. 5. —Two military aviators landed in a plowed field east of here during the night, left the machine under guard. They wer6 flying from the Dayton, O„ field to the Rantoul, 111., field.

Pump Breaks Down.

Madison, Oct’ 5. —Owing to a break in the pump at the water works®plant, Madison was without water one day. All mills and factories of the city were compelled to close for the day.

Typhoid at South Bend.

South Bend, Oct. 5. —The total number Of typhoid fever cases in South Bend is 133, according to a report’of the city health office. The number of deaths is reported as eight..

Conductor Found Dead.

Logansport, Oct. 5. —-Vance Byers, a Pennsylvania railroad conductor, was found dead in the bathroom by his wife, after he had swallowed an ounce* of carbolic acid. ,

Thieves Get $87.

Clinton, Oct. 5. —A thief stole SB7 from Christopher Walton’s pocketbook, which was lying on a dresser at his home. There was $l2O in the pocketbook.