Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1917 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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WIFE DESERTER IS ARRESTED

Edward Casey Apprehended at Rock Island, Illinois. Edward Casey, who is alleged to have deserted his wife and two children some time ago, and also failed to make payments for their support as decreed by Judge Hanley, was arrested at Rock Island, Illinois, Sunday, and was returned here to answer an indictment charging wife desertion returned by the September grand jury. Deputy Sheriff John Robinson went to Rock Island Monday morning and returned here with the prisoner yesterday noon. Casey was too anxious tor obtain his freedom from family responsibilities and sought to obtain a divorce in the Illinois courts, which the officers here a clue as to his whereabouts and brought about his arrest, it is understood. His trial will come up at the November term of the Jasper circuit court, and in the meantime he will remain in the county jail -unless he is able to provide a bond of SI,OOO-

CALL EIGHTY-FIVE MORE MEN

Local Board Will Conduct Examin. ation October 16 and 17. Eighty-five more men who were registered in Jasper county have been notified to present themselves for physical examination before the local draft board on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. This action is taken to provide eligible men to fill out our quota of fifty-six, there being four short of this number available at the present time, and also to provide others to take the places of those who may be discharged from the training camp later on because of physical inability. Following is a list of the eightyfive who have been called for examination :

216 Charles A. Meyers, Wheatfield 217 Roy W. Ballard, Medaryville 218 Nevil L. Torbet, Parr, R-l 219 Solomon Yoder, Fair Oaks 220 Arthur Murray, Wheatfield 221 Ivan C. Coppess, Medaryville 222 Nelson C. Shafer, Rensselaer 223 Paul A. Karr, Fair Oaks 224 William C. Worden, Rensselaer 225 Carl M. Gordon, Wheatfield 226 L. A. Moosemiller, Rensselaer 227 William F. Ford, Remington 228 Lloyd S. Parks, Rensselaer 229 Charles E. Cain, Remington 230 Homer W. Stewart,Wheatfield 231 Vernon E. Balcom, Remington 232 Louis E. Darnell, Remington" 233 Edw. Parkison, Pleasant Ridge 234 Clifford Wells, Rensselaer 235 Samuel Bowman, Newland 236 Addie Warren, Parr 237 Willard Tanner, Rensselaer 238 Miurrie Meyers, Wheatfield 239 John A. Hurley, Medaryville 240 Frank A. Garvin, Rensselaer 241 Delbert G. Guy, Remington 242 Lonnie Davisson, Parr 243 John D. Mayher, Fair Oaks 2*4 Walter C. Hanaway, Demotte 245 Edward L. Hershman, Demotte 246 William R. Meyers, Wheatfield 247 John Leichty, Surrey 248 Omar O. Osborne, Rensselaer 249 Arthur T. Kanne, Rensselaer 256 Harry J. Arnold, Rensselaer 251 George Panos, Rensselaer 253 Guy C. Peek, Rensselaer 253 Edward Frye, Remington 254 O. G. Snodgrass, Rensselaer 255 Ellis C. Thomas, Rensselaer 256 John S. Zimmerman, Rensselaer 257 Sydney A. Peters, Rensselaer 258 Lloyd W. Johnson, Parr 259 Charles E. Snow, Gifford 260 Thomas Stevens, Parr 261 Aubra Brown, Wheatfield 262 Louis B. Cavendish, Newland 263 Anthony Moolenaar, Demotte 264 John A. Otterberg, Rensselaer 265 Chester L. Downs, Rensselaer 266 Leo J. Vogt. Collegeville 267 Perry W. Horton, Rensselaer 268 Lynn B. Daugherty, Rensselaer 269 Lewis F. Davisson, Parr 270 George Knip, Thayer 271 R. E, Prince, Pleasant Ridge 272 Frank S. King. Fair Oaks 273 Floyd D. Burchard, Rensselaer 274 H. J. Boela/man, Collegeville 275 Daniel Sipkema, Fair Oaks 276 |HI. C. Hammond, Rensselaer 277 Harmon Clayton, Rensselaer 278 Frank W. Potts, Rensselaer 279 Benjamin F. Miller, San Pierre 280 John A. Tilton. Wheatfield 281 Jack Roeda, Thayer 282 John Putts, Rensselaer 283 Edward B. Morrison, Moody William O. Duvall, Rensselaer "285 Ernest R. Swift, Remington 286 Samuel Conn, Jr., Brook 287 Lewis Pottkottes, Collegeville 288 Al. H. Kanne, Rensselaer 289 Jerry Tullis, Parr 290 Halley O. Alter, Parr 291 Harold H. Bowman, Remington 292 Claud S. Keller, Fair Oaks 293 John H. Nagel, Rensselaer 294 John L. Peterson, Rensselaer 295 John F. Garriott, McCoysburg FANCY PRODUCE MARKET October 8. We top the market. Bring us your eggs. Price today 35c. We want your butterfat and are paying 46c. Chickens 18 and 20c. —C. E. PRIOR.

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 W. IH. Parkinson went to Indianapolis Monday on business. Former County Treasurer A. AFell was over from Remington yesterday. F. M. Hart and William Tyler of Demotte were in the city on business Friday. Attorney A. Halleck and C. H. Mills were at Crown Point Monday on business. Harry McColly, son of Sheriff B.- D. McColly is preparing to open a movie theater at Medaryville, to run three nights each week. New suits filed: ’ No. 8841. May A. Wilmington vs. Jesse Wilmington; action for divorce. Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged. There were seven marriage licenses issued last month, against eleven for the preceding month and twelve for the corresponding month of 1916.

Sheriff B. D. McColly went to Jeffersonville Friday with Bert Baker, the \ Roselawn chicken thief, where the latter will serve a term of from one to eight years in the state reformatory. Commencing this Wednesday afternoon, contributions of supplies for the Jasper county hospital may be left at the Princess theater where representatives of the Home Economics club will be present to receive such contributions. Clerk Nichols went to Valparaiso Monday, taking same record made in Jasper county in the case of the Manhattan Lumber Co. vs. Peter Crumpacker et al, tried here a couple of years ago. He was accompanied by Mrs. P. W. Clarke and daughter Ethel, who visited Miss May Clarke, who is attending Valparaiso university. Charles Marlin, who is employed on a farm south of town, was arrested by Nightwatch Critser Saturday night on a charge of drunkenness. Marlin is married and the father of four childrep', and when not drinking is a good) worker, and because of the urgent need of farm laborers at this time he was released when he had sobered up.

The receipts and expenditures of the county hospital for the past three months, as shown by the records of the county treasurer, were as follows: July—receipts $944.45, expenditures $1,027.79; deficit for July $82.84. August—receipts $465, expenditures $1,060.83; deficit for August $595.83. September—receipts $651.68, expenditures $870.35; deficit for September $267. The joint meeting of the JasperNewton county commissioners that was to have been held here Tuesday to make appointment of viewers for the .proposed Putt macadam road on Newton-Jaspei- counties' line, failed to be. The reason, we are told, was because Jasper is—and will be for some time —unable to sell bonds for the proposed improvement, wherefore the appointment of viewers would have been useless and such action in the cause is the same as indefinitely postponed.—Kentland Democrat.

BREAKS LEG IN FOOTBALL GAME

During the football game at Kirklin Saturday Ralph Dunlap, a student in the Rensselaer high school and son of William Dunlap of east of town, had his right leg broken just above the ankle. The accident happened in the early part of the game w'hen Dunlap was blocked in a charge on an opposing player. The young man was brought to this city that evening and is now at the county hospital.

We use the famous creamery butter made by Harris & Son.-*-JACK.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1917.

WAIT TILL THE EXPERTS COME

O. K. Rainier Has Confidence in the Quality of His Corn. O. K. Rainier recently brought some fine samples of corn from his farm near Brookston, and exhibited the same in Longs’ drug store window alongside some raised in this county on William M. Hoover’s land and more raised by Charles Pullin. A few local amateur corn experts here soug'ht to discredit Mr. Rainier’s corn, but he is willing to abide by the decision of any qualified corn judge and tells these store-box critics to wait ’till the experts come; that lhe raised corn before some of these critics were even thought of, and 'he knows good corn When he sees it. Abe Long is sort of nagging the other fellows on to bring in some corn that will beat O. K’s., but the latter is standing pat on his exhibit and says Abe knows his is the best corn but he wants to get ’em to bring in enough so he won’t have to buy any for his chickens this winter.

YES, DO GUT DOT FOOTBALL

Let Energy Expended Be Used tn Some Useful Employment. “Baseball season is over,” says the Kentland Democrat. Yes, and it should keep right on being “over’’ until the close of the present war at least. There are entirely too many young men today wasting good time playing baseball, football, golf and what not, who ought to be over in the trenches killing (Hinns or doing something at home to help the boys who are there and those who are getting ready to go.—Jackson township correspondent in Saturday’s Democrat.

We heartily agree with our correspondent. In these times when labor is so hard to secure at any. price and the farmers need help so badly to fill silos and do other farm work, when thousands of bushels of onions and other produce right here in our own county will be lost unless help can be secured to harvest the crops, it is little less than criminal to take a bunch of husky young boys out to spend their time in nothing more profitable, than football and kindred sports. It should be stopped, and that at once. Hundreds of dollars worth of food products could be saved by the work of the players themselves, and when one considers the bunch of other huskies who think they must leave off work, if they have any—and if they haven’t the authorities ought to see to it that they do have —and go to these games, it means many thousands of dollars worth of such products lost when the world is so sadly in need of every ounce.

The young man who got his leg broken last Saturday while playing with the Rensselaer high school team at Kirklin, was, so* we are informed, expected to assist in silo filling out on J. J. Lawler’s farms east of town, where his parents reside, but instead he sneaked off and went to this game with the result that he is wholly incapacitated for labor all fall and early winter, will be unable to pursue his studies in school and must be a source of care and expense to his parents where he should have been —on Saturdays at least—-a much needed help. By all means cut out football and other kindred sports until the war is over and there is labor at hand to perform the useful work of feeding the hungry. Our high schools at least can perform no more patriotic duty than to drop such useless sports and urge the boys and girls, too, to do their bit by assisting their parents or neighbors to save and conserve their crops.

DISTRICT MEETING OF MASONS

A district meeting of Masonic lodges will be held in this city tomorrow. Grand Inspector Herbert S. Graham of Elkhart will be present, and many visiting Masons are expected. It will be an afternoon and night meeting, with work in the first three Megrees. The Brook lodge will exemplify the work in the first degree and the Francesville lodge will confer the second. The above work will be held in the afternoon and work in the third degree, by the Rensselaer lodge,' will be held at night Refreshments are also on the program.

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CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN CONCERNS

Ta Hold Convention—in. Rensselatr Next Friday. The,, farmers’ grain companies and others interested in co-opera-tion will hold an indoor convention in the east court roam at Rensselaer on October 12, 1917. Afternoon session, 4:30; evening session, 7:30. Editor Meyers of the American Co-operatiVe Journal of Chicago will; speak in the evening. The following companies are included in this district: Farmers’ Grain company, Remington; Farmers’ Co-operative Grain company, Wolcott; Farmers’ Elevator company, Monticello; Farmers’ Co-op-erative Grain company, Francesville; Gleaners & Farmers’ Elevator company, Lowell; Farmers’ Elevator company, Lacross; Farmers’ Elevator company. South Wanatah; Farmers’ Elevator company. Morocco; Farmers’ Grain company, Winamac, and Farmers’ Grain company, Rensselaer. All who are interested are invited to attend these meetings.

CALF DRAWING ON SATURDAY

Shorthorn Heifers to Be Distributed to Jasper County Boys. A 2 o’clock next Saturday afternoon, in front of the new First National bank building, an event will take place which will have an important bearing in the development of Jasper county. At that time the forty registered Shorthorn (heifers purchased by the bank will be distributed to as many boys in different parts of the county. All week these heifers have been arriving and capable livestock judges are enthusiastic as to their quality and are convinced that if each heifer goes out to establish a purebred Shorthorn herd on some farm of the county, the value of the move will be hard to over-estimate, Saturday afternoon a committee representing the Jasper County Livestock association named forty boys who will have the first opportunity to receive animals and whom they have designated as alternates. Twenty-five boys were also selected as alternates, many of whom will receive heifers. The drawing will be in charge of Col. Fred Phillips and James Leatherman, cashier of the First National bank. The names of the principals will be placed in one hat and those of the alternates in another. The heifers will be numbered and the corresponding numbers placed in a third receptacle. The clerk will draw the name of a principal, who will step up and draw a number from the receptacle Which will designate the heifer which he Is to receive. Should any principal fail to qualify, the name of an alternate wili be drawn and the distribution will proceed until the animals have all been placed. The principals selected are: Earl Matheny, Ralph Dunlap, Elsworth Price, Garfield Folger, Murray Yeoman, Ray Yeoman, Ivan Snow, John Sigo, 'C?E. Farabee, Clarence Meadel, Russel Rayburn, Christian Wuethrich, Clarence Hansen, Elvin Jordan. Garrett Snedeker, Walter Erb, Curtis Brown, George Nafziger, Hershell Bice, Eugene Martin, Irving Jones, Cletus Kohley, Theodore Amsler/ G. P. Daugherty, Walter E. Bunning, Earl Parks, Louis Lane, Luverne Paulus, Edward Walters, George Lonergan, Boycie Lambert, Orran Gourley. Gaylord Humes, Ross Lakin, Edwin Brusnahan, Marion Faylor, Paul Hershman, John Peer, Harold Kennedy, Paul Grube. The alternates are as follows: Noah Morton, Vincent Quinn, Maurice Charles Reed, Jack Freeland, Francis Zimmer, Dan Wolfe, Tom Yeoman, Lowell Hayes, Paul Parkison, Charles Ulm, Rue McMurray, Rolland Johnson, Harley Toombs, Richard McElroy, Dewey Evert Myers, - James B. Babcock. Mike Rush, Fred Spangle, . Ivan Blankenship, Dewey fox, Lonzo Wiseman,-Lester Alter. Harold Garvin, William Eck, Thomas Porter. The drawing will be one of the big features of the stock show and will be witnessed by a large crowd.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Mary A. Bowers of Roselawn, Mrs. Floyd Towe of Newland, Mrs. Loren Sage and Fred Hartman of this city are taking medical treatment at the hospital. Mrs. Joseph Adams, who entered the hospital last week, was reported in quite a critical condition yesterday.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. DOUBTS MEN WILL SEE WAR Notre Dame Head Thinks the End Is in Sight. South Bend, October 6. —“Personally, I don’t believe you will ever be subjected to a German attack, for I don’t think you will ever see actual warfare,” said the Rev. John Cavanaugh, president of Notre Dame university, at a banquet given the men who will leave here Sunday for Camp Taylor, at Louisville. Father Cavanaugh said, further: “War is all the bad things you ever heard of. It is the suicide of civilization. While I am a priest of the cross you men are priests of the flag, and it is your duty to save this country, the same as it is mine to aid in the redemption of sin. It is the blood of men that consecrates the United States and makes us love it close to idolatry. Face this war in the right spirit. The right spirit is not the spirit of hate. Washington and Lincoln did not fight with that. It was their great love of liberty that urged them on during trying times. Don t hate the Germans in goring them to death with bayonets. It is their rulers who are forcing the war. Remember, Germany muet die or America and liberty will die.” Business men of the city acted as waiters at the banquet. Fred A. Bryan was toastmaster. Among the other speakers were Mayor Fred W. Keller, Captain Edwin Nicar, Dr. J. B. Bertefing, W. 0. Davies and Thomas W. Slick.

BURGLARS IN NEARBY TOWNS

Kentland and Morocco Merchants Victims of Thieves, Robbers visited several Morocco and Kentland merchants the past week, but up to the present none of those implicated have been ap-. prehended. At Morocco on Sunday night entrance was forced at the Reames restaurant and Cassell’s general store. At the former place the thieves took $3.45 from the cash register, all the Camel cigarets in stock and some cigard and candy. At the Cassell store they secured $3 in money besides some shoeq and other merchandise, overlooking $22.50 in one of the drawers of the cash register. Not satisfied with their first haul they visited the same places again Wednesday night ,ut only secuced about $1.50. . I al talent was suspected and b .odhounds, were secured to take the trail, but no evidence was thus secured. Burglars also visited Kentland Tuesday night and broke into Kohl’s novelty store, Markley’s restaurant and McCray’s grain office. Nothing was taken from the restaurant but the novelty stere was relieved of $3 and the grain office of $4. Local talent was also suspected at Kentland but no tangible evidence has yet been unearthed.

THAYER MAN IS ARRESTED

Found in Chicago in Possession of Stolen Automobile. Edward Metcalf, aged 23, of Thayer, was arrested in Chicago Friday while driving an automob!'e that had been stolen from George Stalph of Racine, Wisconsin. The arrest was made by Policeman John Schultz when he recognized the stolen car. When ordered to stop Metcalf put on more power and endeavored to escape. The officer fired at the fleeing auto and in his efforts to escape the bullets Metcalf drove the machine into a telegraph pole, where he was captured.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Friday, October 5 r to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Linback of near Pleasant Ridge, a son. Saturday, October 6, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chapman, a daughter. October 8, to Mr. apd Mrs. Frank Dunn of Barkley township, a son.

NEW TAX LAW AFFECTS ALL

Public Notified to Make Tax Returns for War Revenue. Notice was givep the public to make its tax returns to the government under the new war revenue law Saturday by Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper. Warning was given thai iifi.no case would the government take the initiativo in getting in returns, altho>ugh it will verify all yeturns, and everybody concerned should communicate with the nearest revenue officer at once. Penalties are provided Xor those who endeavor to evade the payment of the tax. All persons whose incomes are more than SI,OOO a year must make a declaration, and the raise in postage rates —3 cents for letters and 2 cents for cards, effective November I—will affect all. All forms of amusements, drugs, liquors, tobaccos, freight, express, telegraph and telephone messages, and many other forms of business are affected and will be taxed.

WILL HAVE GOOD ROADS DAY

Pioneer County in Building Concrete Roads to Celebrate. Wayne county, Michigan, which pioneered id the building of concrete roads for permanent highways, Is to hold a good roads day celebration Thursday, October 11. Rather, the Detroit Automobile club Is celebrating and the whole county, as well as the state, and good roads boosters from Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have been invited to participate. The occasion for this gala day la the completion of a concrete road 120 miles in length and known aa the Outer Belt Drive, a part of Wayne county’s 350-mile concrete highway system. An automobile parade, such aa has seldom been seen in any city, is to precede the dedication of the road and the celebration proper. More than 2,500 cars, bearing at least 10.000 people will start from the Detroit Automobile club headquarters in the center of the city .and head for the town of Northville, twenty-six miles distant. Another route thirty-six miles long, part ofi the Outer Belt Drive, will be followed on the return trip. The village officials of Northville are planning for the celebration in their town. Luncheon will be served and then will follow a program with speeches by a number of prominent men. Albert E. Sleeper, governor of Michigan, and Oscar B. Marx, mayor Of Detroit, will lead in the dedicatory exercises on the completed highway just outside Northville.

The governors and all executive officers pf Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania and good roads jnen from all these states have been invited. Dr. H. M. Rowe of Baltimore, jWaryland, president; A. G. Batchelder, Washington, executive chairman, and George 0. Diehl, Buffalo, chairman of the good roads board, American Automobile association, have also been sent invitations. All three of these officials are expected. The big bands from Detroit, Toledo, Flint and Lapsing automobile factories have been donated for the occasion. Motor car companies and members of the Detroit Automobile club 'have volunteered to furnish automobiles for the guests. Wayne county began building concrete roads in 19 09 after experimenting with other types of material. Since then 105 miles of concrete has been laid. None of this has yet needed resurfacing o~ rebuilding. The board of county road commissioners, composed of Edward N. IH'ines, chairman, John S. Haggerty and William F. Butler will be honored guests on good roads day.

ANOTHER CAR OF PEACHES ON WAY

. TJiose who were disappointed ingetting peaches from our first car can be accommodated from another car which will be here the latter part of this week. Sanne prices—s2 and $2.25 per bushel. Phone in your prders to 54.—JOHN EGER. *

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