Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — Page 2

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MEMBERS BOYS HONOR ROLL

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■will pay to Mr. Judson J. Hunt of | Rensselaer at the Trust & Savings , bank. The pledge calls for the full . payment by April 1 1918. Following are the names of the boys who signed the pledge: KNIMAN Allric H. Hinrichs. BARKLEY Leonard Maxwell. FAIR OAKS Cecil Gundy, Orran Gourley. MARION TOWNSHIP Wilbert Mackey, Edward McKinney. ' PARR Cecil FRammerton, Cloycie B. Sheffer. ’ DEMOTTE Walter E. Banning, Martin Bronkhorst, C. M. Curtin, Ransom Halleck, John White. WHEATFIELD John Brown, Philip H. Blue, Darrel Dewey, Paul Grube, William Harrington, Lewis Hurley, Harold ■ Kennedy, Mcßride. TEFFT Cyrus Asher, Floyd Asher, Alfred Duggleby, William Davis, William Fitzgerald, Howard Duggleby, Allie Nelson, James Shepard. A REMINGTON Oscar Beasey, Chester Biddle,

for Sore Muscles Joints rgN J Mj KILLS |

Frank Cornwell, Max Carpenter, E. B. Howard, Ivan Julian, Floyd ' Jones, Robert Little, Ernest Mc- ' Glynn, Clarence Meadel, Thomas Porter, Alva Spangle, Robert R. Sxordt. Robert Smalley; Lowell ; Spangle, Will H. Washburn, Vern I Williams. RENSSELAER Theodore Amsler, Paul Arnott, Jesse Brown, Frank Babcock, Paul Beam, Jay Collins, Leland Collins, I Fred Christensen, Lardner Crooks, Fred Claremont, Jack Freeland, Lester Gorham, Leonard Gourley, ' Ira Huntington, Raymond Herath, I Charles Halleck, Harold Halleck, Byppn Hemphill, Ray Iliff, Irving Jctaes, Dorsey Kight, Walter King, ■Edward Kirk, Herald Littlefield, Harry McColly, Forest Merica, Laurence McLain, Lawrence Price, W. L. Parkison, Ronald Pullins, ! Roland Reed, Walter R. Randle, Jay Dee Roth, John Stockton, John Strecker, Francis Turfler, Arthur Thornton, Thomas Thompson, Everett Waymire, Stuart Warren, Harold Weiss, Willis Wright, Delos York.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

We asked old Hunk to come across, with wartime contribution. This tightwad is a total loss, except for elocution. He’ll stand around and talk for hours in patriotic manner, and throw all kinds of gaudy flowers at our old, famous banner. Our banner pleases every gent, and all the poets sing it; and twaddle doesn’t cost a cent, so any man can spring it. “Oh, Hunx, we said, “don’t chew the rag; shell coins—the soldiers need ’em.’’ He tried to switch off to the flag, and (sundry boons of freedom. He told how he would die and bleed, if he ■ were under thirty. “Old Hunx,

we said, “you’re cheap, indeed, your scud is pretty dirty. The nation blushes Tor that son with soul of neuter gender, who hands out lanI guage. by the ton, when she needs 'legal tender.” “I've given much,’’ i old Hunx replied, explaining why (he’s living; “no worthy cause has I been denied —it seems I’m always ■ giving. It really makes me shed a tear, the way I halve to squander; I cough up fifteen dollars here, and fifteen dollars yonder.” And he has thousands put away, and tens of thousands hidden! And he is groaning all the day of how he s j nagged and ridden! Before this I war has' had an end, before the final inning, a lot of tightwad souls, i my friend, will undergo a skinning.

LETTER FROM VERN DAVISSON

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Well, we green Americans, ali ways where we shouldn t be, and I felt bad if anything escaped our eye (or camera) payed no attention to the- old French warriors, crept out of the “cave abri’’ and sneaked to the edge of the orchard to review the performances, the most interesting and thrilling time of our life, laying low and watching the trenches working thick with aiming, shooting at the Germans as they stuck their heads above the trenches to get their shot in. At this point the two sets of trenches are less than' 1-8 of a mile apart. We watched the big shells bursting over the trenches. Big clouds of smoke and dirt would rise high into the air where the shell struck. These are fired from behind all the lines. After snapping our cameras a few times we hide them back in our clothes and crawled back to the cave, where we were greeted with

a good “bawling ou»t“ and ordered to stay in the cave or under cover, as that was a very Important military post and used >for observation also, being right at tfhe trenches. So long as the Germans did not locate it 4 we were alright, but about three weeks later it was discovered by the “Boche’’ aviators, I suppose, and they immediately proceeded to wake us up by putting 400 big 320 centimeter shells in there. The earth was torn and plowed up all around the cave. Two lit and exploded on top of the cave, making two. nice big craters six feet deep and ten feet across the top. Gave things an awful shaking up inside. Now I can see why thej' make those “cave abris” so solid, thirty feet deep, covered With steel rails, logs, sand bags and hidden by brush, dead grass, etc. One of our ambulances was hit by shrapnel during thfe shelling. Only one car is stationed at these extreme outposts at a time. When his car is loaded with wounded which are brought there from the trenches by way of the communication trenches on stretchers swung between a two-wheeled cart, he goes back to the hospital and another car goes out to take his plac>>. Also two artillerymen were killed then, as the cave is surrounded by all size batteries. One of these men was the one w r ho allowed me to shoot the cannon twenty times into a certain town held by the • Boche.’’ I did not go back to the battery any more. We 'were just getting a good taste of gunpowder.

These road to these out posts was almost continually bombarded and torn up. Sometimes the road was so full of holes one driver was obliged to walk ahead and pilot the car around the holes while the shells were popping all around us. Then is when one thinks of the good „ times he used to have at Rensselaer. After a bombardment is over we get together and joke about how lucky we were, and warn each other “not to let a shell catch up with you.” Before the sixty-two days were up we all admitted it was beginning to be poor sport. During the whole time at the front we had four cars hit but none of the drivers were touched. One week after we left the old section we got word that a shell lit by another car and demolished it. The driver had just left it and too* to the cave, and along came the fatal one—more good luck for the drivers.

We finally got word we would be relieved by an Allentown, Pennsylvania, section just forming. Time rolled on and one day a new section of twenty-five new “Ford” ambulances drove up to our park, drivers in nifty U. S. regulation uniforms, topped off with the cowboy hat. They looked mighty fine beside us with our uniforms rang-

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

ing from knee-length corduroys to aviators’ uniforms, all kinds of cape, hats, and no two persons dressed alike. We have one person in this section who is so long he can’t get military trousers and leggings to come together. The government has issued us nothing yet, but we are expecting the quartermaster to visit us very soon. Our clothes are about worn out and we have no more. Anyhow at 6 o'clock we took part of this new section out to show them the way. None of them had ever been anywhere near the front. We showed thetn where the roads were frequntly bombarded and how tfr time the shells. A few shells were coming in then but not very thick. It was comical to see the expressions on their faces. They were scared to death but did not want to let on. We finished the route and turned it over to them. Next day we packed up, drove our cars to a repair park twenty kilometres back, and took the train to Paris. Arrived there late, went to hotels and slept in “honest to God” beds once more. After sleeping on floors and stretchers for over three months it almost made us sick. We got twenty-four hours in Paris and after another good sleep we got orders to report at 21 Rue Raynouard -for final orders. This section was notified that it had ten men too many for a little “Ford" section, therefore I was among the ten who went to fill in section No. 9, which was on repos about thirty miles behind the lines and much further south. The old section’s number was changed to 27 and sent to a different front. They are on duty and are having it pretty tough at present. We are on repos, No. 9 resting up for something. We are expecting an order to move back to the front at any time, we think before the 25th. We have no idea what front we will go to next. The only work we do while on repos is to evacuate hospitals, etc, if the aviators start dropping bombs. A certain town is bombarded on a.n average of twice a week. This section evacuated a hospital under heavy bombardment a few days ago. Tried to find our French lieutenant and he was down in the deepest cellar in town,' afraid to look out. After it was all over he came out and received the thanks from the mayor of the town, while the section did all the work. There are a number of American troops and camps close here. The U. S. soldiers are holding 1% miles of trenches backed up by the French. When or before you read this we will be on duty at the front again. I must close. Your loving son, VERN C. DAVISSON, S. S. U. 9, Convois Autos, Par, B. M. C., Paris. L p. s.—We have very good eats and plenty of it. Answer soon.

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RAW FURS We have been in the fur business for 25 years, most of you trappers have done business with us. We give you four classifications on skunk, not thirty-six as the larger dealers do. The trapper does not, neither does the dealer, know what their furs are worth after reading their misleading price lists. Reference, Medaryville State bank and all trappers who have sold us furs. SEND FOR PRICES We also want larger numbers of rabbits, at 3 to 4 cents above other shippers’ prices. SHIP YOUR FURS TO J. D. GETTINGER Medaryville, Indiana

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OHICAUQ, IMIMAMAruMO • MiuiaviUl nV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect February, 1917 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:36 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 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:56 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:41 ajm No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati | 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s I IAT p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette | 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati J 7 :31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville | 11:10 p.m

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborns Fire Chief.. J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Wardßay Wood 2nd Ward..... Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge.. Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-ReubenHeas Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriffß. D. McColly AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer.. Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorE. D. Nesbitt Coroner Dr. C. EL Johnson County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer. .Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble Jad DlstrlstD. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James StevensGillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, JrMarton George Foulks Milroy John Rush Newton George HammertonUnion Joseph SalrlnWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield 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 A 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. WILLIAMS & 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 Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. •• " 2 to 5 P. M. " ’* 7 to 8 P. If. 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 Fendig'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. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP \ LAWYER (Successor Frank Felts) Practice In all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. It RENSSELAER, INDIANA

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