Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — Page 4

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WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption.

U, S. —Teutonic War News The first American shot of the war against Austria was fired on {tie Italian front when Representative Tinkham of Boston, pulled the string of a 1.49 millimeter gum hurling a shell across to the Austrian lines. • • • A division of regular cavalry, the first the American army has had since Civil war days, is being formed at El Paso, Tex. Officials ilt Washington Baid the step was in preparation for eventualities abroad. • • • Gunners on an American merchant Bhlp which arrived at an Atlantic port from Archangel. Russia, declared they encountered a German submarine and destroyed the U-boat by gunfire. Germany has massed on the western front her greatest army of the war, Secretary Baker declared at Washington In his weekly war review. To meet this menace the United States must speed up its military preparations, the secretary adds, with a warning that the enemy Is preparing to put into execution In France plans he has been maturing since the peace negotiations with Russia permitted the massing of men on the western front for that purpose. • • • Foreign Dispatches received at Geneva by way of Vienna report that the, sultan of Turkey is seriously ill. • • •

German greed has overreached itself again. Supremely arrogant over the manner in which the Russian bolshevik! fell in with its proposals for an armistice, the German high control, Washington learned, has demanded peace terms which bld fair to unite all Russia into a potent anti-German force. Winston Spencer Churchill, minister of munitions, spoke at Bedford, England, on the allies' war aims. He said the situation was more serious than it had been rea -on: Me three months ago to expect. His address was a warning against premature peace and an Indorsement of President Wilson’s statement of war aims embodied in his recent speech to congress. • • • The district in Russia comprising the provinces of Orenburg, I fa, Perm and Samara has declared its independence, according to word received at Copenhagen. They are the sections in which the Cossacks are legion. • Information has been received by the Portugu’-se legation in Madrid confirmatory of previous dispatches that the revolutionary movement in Portugal had been successful. Dr. Sidonio Paes, former Portuguese minister to Germany, has been named president of a provisional government. » ♦ •

Washington Wads of red tape, bickering by the war munitions board, snail-pace proceedings in congress, and unwillingness of manufacturers to “take a chance" on contracts without government funds actually available —all these conditions were revealed to the senate military affairs committee at Washington as the causes of low speed in equipping America’s armies. They were brought out in testimony of Major General Crozier, chief of ordnance. • » * President Wilson issued a proclamation at Washington reducing the alcoholic content of beer brewed after January 1, 1918. to 2% per cent by weight and prohibiting the use in the manufacture of malt liquors of more than 70 per cent of the average amount of foods, fruits, food materials and feeds used in such manufacturing during the one-year period ending on that date. ‘ ♦ ♦ * A comprehensive investigation into the entire national military situation, including the progress being made by the war department in organizing training and equipping the new army, was ordered by the senate military affairs committee at Washington. It is the intention of the committee to call Secretary of War Bake.- and other high officials. • • • Food Administrator Hoover will Issue at Washington a supplemental food card within a few days to the 12,000,000 food conservation signers, announcing that the food administration’s sugar rationing plan “for the United States provides for three pounds of sugar per month to each person during '.he coming year. All regular and National Guard officers must undergo medical ; as well aa efficiency examinations, Secretary Baker said at Washington, of severe conditions of warfare abroad.

CONQUEST AND KULTUR

The Isolated groups of Germans abroad greatly benefit our trade, since by preference , they obtain their goods from Germany ; but they may also be useful to us politically, as we discover in America. The Ameri-can-Germans have formed a political alliance with the Irish, and thus united constitute a power in the state with which the government must reckon. — Bernhardi, Germany and the Next War

Government control of the railroads for the period of the war, but continued private operation, were the features of the plan for dealing with the transportation crisis which President Wilson discussed at Washington with the members of the railroads’ war board. • • • Domestic An embargo on all export freight, except for the United States government, on all railroads reaching North Atlantic seabord ports, was ordered by the general operating committee at New York. > * * * Frank J. Kus.ack, his wife and Mrs. Hanora Madagan, his mother-in-law, were found asphyxiated by gas in their home at Chicago. • • •

An unidentified negro charged with molesting woman residents of Blairtown, a suburb, was taken from the city jail and hanged to a bridge north of Rock Springs, Wyo. • • • Thirteen of the negroes of the Twenty-fourth infantry, U. S. A., found guilty of complicity in the riot and mutiny at Houston August 23, were hanged on the military reservation at Fort Sam Houston. Tex. Only army officers and Sheriff John Tobin of Baxter county were present when the sentence was carried out by so’dlers from the post. • ♦ * With two plates of her bow stove in the steamer Presque Isle, carrying coal from Cleveland to Milwaukee, is hanging to Centerville reef, nine miles north of Sheboygan. Wls. She went aground in a storm. Her crew was taken" off. < * * • Counterfeiting schemes said to involve more than $1,000,000 and whose ramifications' Included Europe, South America and the United States, were disclosed at New York when William J. Flynn, chief of the United States secret service, announced that a plant had been seized and that the final arrest of those involved was made.

• • * A dollar spent unnecessarily immediately becomes an ally of the enemies of the United States, I rank A. Vanderlip, chairman of the nat'onal war savings committee, declared at Cincinnati in one of the opening addresses of his two weeks’ speaking tour in behalf of the war savings stamp campaign. • * • European War News A slight increase in the losses of British merchantmen by mine or submarine hi the last week is noted in the admiralty statement issued at London. Fourteen vessels of more than 1,600 tons were sunk, as well as seven trader that tonnage. ♦ * * The semi-official German news agency says demobilization of the Russian forces has begun and that peace nego-

tiations, restricted to the Russian front, have been authorized. • • ♦ • The Austrian battleship AV ien was torpedoed and sunk, according to a Vienna official statement received in Amsterdam and forwarded to London. Most of the crew were saved. The battleship Wien displaced 5,512 tons and was laid down in 1893. ♦ ♦ * The German attack east of Bullecourt was repulsed by the British except at one point, according to Field Marshal Haig’s report to London. The Germans suffered heavy losses, many dead being left behind on their retirement. The Germans captured 500 yards of front line trench. * * ♦ Dispatches received in London show that the counter-revolt against the bolshevik! regime in southeastern Russia is gaining momentum. Already the I movement is spreading fqnlike from the chosen bases northward, northeastward and northwestward, while preparations are hastening to extend it southward into the Caucasus. • « * Rome dispatches to Washington confirming earlier reports of a lull after the fierce fighting in which the Teutons I failed to break through the Italian lines say that Austro-German commander sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his best men without improving his position. \ ♦ ♦ ♦' Protected by their own artillery fire, and whenever possible under cover of night, the French forces have gradually taken over their allotted positions on the Italian front and today face the Austro-Germans in full strength. ♦ * * I A Reuter dispatch to London from Petrograd says the Pravda announces the first collision between the maximalist troops and from 3,000 to 4,000 troops wider General Kornfloff, armed with machine gtfns, at Tamanovka stattan.

BIG TRADE BALANCE

REDFIELD'S REPORT SHOWS $3,634,450,905 IN FAVOR OF U. 8. America Now Holds the Greatest Reserve of .Gold the World Has Ever Seen. Washington, Dec. 14.—Measures,for making the most of America’s world trade opportunity are foremost In Secretary Redfield’s report of the many activities of the department of commerce presented to congress. The department probably conducts more different phases of government work than any other, and while all are touched upon in the long report, measures for promoting foreign trade and an account of the year’s commercial operations stand at the top of the list. . “The visible balance of trade in favor of the United States on merchandise transactions for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, was $3,634,450,905,” says the report. “The total of » our merchandise export trade was $6,293,806,000 and of our import trade, $2,659,355,185. During the three months’ period from the close of the fiscal year to October 1, the merchandise exports have been $1,319,213,625. The imports, $729,978,017, and the net visible balance, $589,235,608. “This country now holds the greatest reserve of gold the world has ever seen. It is a great economic prize. On it, as a secure base, rests our national, state, municipal, corporate and private credits. Let it be seriously diminished and the volume of credits that we can give is thereby diminished also.”

EXPORT COAL IS BOOSTED

Increase in Price Gives American Firms Part of Profit of Foreign Buyers. Washington, Dec. 14.—The United States fuel administration issued an order permitting shippers of coal for export or bunkering purposes, except to Canada and Mexico, to add $1.35 per ton of 2,000 pounds to the domestic price. Tills leaves the average at American ports $1.50 a ton lower than is charged for such coal in the leading English ports. The step was taken because coal for bunkers or cargoes sold to foreign buyers at the domestic price saves the foreign buyers at least $3 a ton as compared with English coal bought at Cardiff or Newcastle. This saving, however, has no effect in lowering the shipping rate, which is based on the cost of English.coal. The fuel administrator reached the conclusion that at least a portion of this profit which now goes into the pocket of the foreign dealer should be kept at home. All applications for license will be referred to the fuel administration for approval.

Spain Protests Shelling.

Madrid, Dec. 14. —Premier Alhucemas annouced that the Spanish government was preparing an energetic protest to Germany regarding the bombardment of the Spanish steamer Claudio by a German submarine.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Dec. 13/ Open- High- ■ Low- ClosCorn— ing. est. est. ing. Dec 1.24% 1.25 1.24% 1.24% Jan1.21%-% 1.22 1.21% 1.21% May 1.19%-% 119% 1-19% 1.19% OatsDec76%-% .76% .75% .75%-% May 72%-73 .73 .71%-% .72-72% FLOUR—Spring wheat, special brands, in jute, J 10.40 per bbl.; hard spring wheat patents, 95 per cent grade, in jute, $11.40; straight in export bags. $10.30; first clears $9.76; second clears, $8.50; low grade, $7.00 @7.50; fancy clears, winter wheat patents, in jute $10.10; standard soft winter wheat patents, $9.90 in jute; fancy hard winter wheat patents, $10.30, in jute; standard hard winter wheat patents, SIO.OO, in jute; first clears. $9.80 In jute; second clears, in jute, $8.8009.30; new white rye, $9.25; new dark rye, $8.75. HAY —Choice timothy, $28.00029.00; No. 1 $27.00028.00; standard, $25,50026.50; No. 2 andvight clover mixed, $25.00026.00: No. 3 red top and grassy mixed, $22.00@24JW; clover and heavy clover mixed, $22,000 26.00; threshed timothy, [email protected]. Bf’TTER— Creamery extras, 48e; extra first 46047%c; firsts. 41@45c; seconds. 380 39%c; centralized, 89@90 score. score, A3043%c ; storage, extras -43 c; 89090 score “ 41®41 V 2 c; 88 to S 9 score. 40%041c; 86 score’. 38@39c: ladles, 34%035%c; process, 38%@39c; packing stock, 31032 c. EGGSFresh firsts, 50@52c; ordinary firsts 44050 c: cases' r’eturned, 43@49c; checks, candled, 26@27c; dirties, storage, candled 30032c': extras, 55056 c; refrigerator stock, 35@35%c; country storage, 31@ 34c LIVE POUT .TRY— Turkeys, 24c: fowls, 170216; roosters, 16%c: spring chickens, 1 20c ” duck 3 20022 c: geese, 20.021 c, i ‘ dressed POULTRY- Turkeys,-32033c; i chickens, 19022 c: roosters, 17%@18c; ducks, ' 21025 c; geese, 20@21c. I ‘ POTATOES— Wisconsin, white, $1.7001.90 I per -px) lbs.; Minnesota early Ohios, $1.60@ 1,70 per 100 lbs. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, SIO,OOO 1G 00- yearlings, good to choice, $9.00014.50; range steers, [email protected]; stackers and i feeders. $7.75010.00; good to choice cows; $7 0008 75; good to choice heifers, $7.0009.50; 1 fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners, $5.00 ’ @6.00: cutters, [email protected]; "bologna, bulls, $4 0007.65; butcher bulls, [email protected]; heavy 1 calves, $7.00010.00; veal calves, $12,000 * 15 00 *HOGSPrime light butchers, $17.00(0)17.30; fair to fancy lights $16.85017.25: .medium weight butchers, 200@240 lbs., $17.20017.45; heavv weight butchers, 2400400 lbs.. $17.15 @l7 50- choice heavy packing. $16.85017.15; rough heavy packing. $16.75017.00; pigs, fair to, good, [email protected]; stags, $16,500 i Good to choice wethers, slo.oo@ 13 00- good to choice ewes, $10.00011.75; 1 yearlings, $12.50014.50; western lambs, good to choice', $16.00017.00; native lambs, good to choice, $16.25016.90; feeding lambs, $16.00 I @17.28; goats, $6.0008 00. Buffalo, N. Y , Dec. 13. CATTLE— Receipts. 1.500; steady. ■ VEALS— Receipts, 200; firm; $7.00016.50. HOGS?— Receipts, 6,400; slow; heavy, sl7 [email protected]; mixed and Yorkers, $17,750 17 85- light Yorkers, $16.65017.00; pigs and roughs. $16.50016.75; stags, $1.00015.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 2 000; tctlve; lambs strong at $12.00018.25; others ms hanged.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC As I am in business for myself, will repair all makes of cars, take care of all batteries and repair all electric systems, solder radiators, ■ etc. If you are in trouble come in ' and I will straighten you out. Also ! handle the best storage battery in the country and other auto supplies. Garage opposite D. M. Worland’s furniture store. Telephones —garage 294, residence 141-White. —M. J. KUBOSKE, Prop. - “ THE COMMUNITY AUTOMOBILE SUPPLY COMPANY of Rensselaer,. Indiana, has placed a guaranteed automobile tire within the reach of all at a price which is a credit to any community. Think about It, only one dollar profit. We will NEVER advance our prefit of one dollar on each tire, regardless of size; we are also selling gasoline for 1 one cent profit per gallon. And it is a GALLON. Can this company ; count on you for one of its customers? to make the community ' company a success You are as--1 sured a square deal. This company ; has its machine guns trained on 'high prices; 'surely, now of all times, is no time to advance prices. Help to make this company watchman over high prices. The station will not be open on Sunday. d-15 The Democrat’s fancy stationery department can supply your every want in the stationery line.

The Big Retiring Sale Still Going On

You all want to save dollars, and now is the time to save them by attending this SALE.

BiglStock of Christmas Gifts Just Arrived

Kaki Handkerchiefs Tie Clasp Sets Combination Sets Knit Caps Swell Neckwear Fur Caps Cuff Links Raia Coats Tie Pins Mackinaws Kum-apart Buttons Silk Hose Nlght Sh,rts c> n eu f Gloves, silk lined Silk Shirts Gloves, wool lined Smoking Jackets Silk Mufflers. Bath Robes Wool Mufflers Fancy Vests Stetson Hats Suit Cases Kingsbury Hats Traveling Sets Traveling Bags Jersey Sweaters Sweater Coats The greatest and swellest line of Suits and Overcoats in the county. Now is the time to save dollars.

C. EARL DUVALL Phone 411 Rensselaer, Indiana

rKjt L [Under this head notices will be pub lished for 1-cent-a- word for the first Insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keepim cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within 'he above rate, will be published two ot more times—as the case may be —for 21 cents. Where replies are sent In The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale —Two-year-old bull, good breeder; 2 Bourbon Red young gobblers.—A. A, LOCKARD, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2. d-19 For Sale—Big type Poland China male hog, 2 years old, pedigree furnished. —N. SCHMITTER, phone 922-D, Rensselaer, Indiana. d-15

For Sale—At * the Indian School, one registered Shorthorn bull; color, white. A very good breeder. d-22 For Sale —The former Warren Robinson place, just east of corporation line; 14 lots, good, house, barn and outbuildings.—KAY D. T.HOMPSON. dls One of the Best Located Residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting or two improved streets; good two-storj house, with cistern, drilled well bath, bam and other out-buildings etc. Ground alone is worth prlc* asked for entire property. Terms I desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT Wood For Sale—Anyone wanting wood at either Rensselaer or Fair Oaks, we can furnish them standing timber. Call J. E. WALTER, mgr. J. J. Lawler lands* phone 337.

Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts Butter Wrappers—Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat Office, ts Remington Typewriter, No. 7. with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid condition and looks and is practically as good a> new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—6oo-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Miss., nice city of 2,000 population. Farm is well improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam rtiad being built from McComb to Natchex and which intersects with the Jackson highway. Price S3O per acre.— HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 21C or 499. ts

For Sale—B-ply Litho Blanks. We have on hand several hundred sheets 22x28 8-ply litho blanks, coated 2 sides, that we will sell in lots of 50 or more at $6 per 100, which is less than cost a year ago. This board was ordered for a special purpose, but customer changed order and it was not used. Is put up in 50-sheet packages and has not been broken.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts FOR RENT For Rent —The barber shop room In the Makeever House block is for rent. 'lnquire at once of JAY W. STOCKTON, Rensselaer, Ind. For Rent—9-room bouse, electric lights, city water, three block!

■ f SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1,917

from court house.—Dß. P. A. TURFLER. ts LOST Lost —Or put in wrong car ist Rensselaer December 1, new inner tube for Ford, 30x3%. Finder please Leave at Democrat office. — JOHN ECK. d-8 WANTED Wanted—Two fnrpistjed er unfurnished heated rooms, for light housekeeping. PHONE. NO. 16, Rensselaer. d-20 Wasted—Man past; 30 with horse and buggy to sell Stock Condition Powder ip Jasper county. Salary S9O per month. Address 9. INDUSTRIAL BUILDING, Indianapolis, Indiana. d-12 Wanted, Wood Choppers—We have a limited amount of wood to cut at McCoysburg, Rensselaer, Parr and Fair Oaks. See JAMES WALTER, o? phone 3i3il. ts MISCELLANEOUS Attention Farm Owners —The Walker Township National Farm Loan association can loan you money any place in Jasper county at 5 per cent on thirty-six years’ time. Meet; us at. Walker Center school house, m Walker*township th£ first Saturday night in each month, or call or write V. M. PEER* Sec.-Treas., Fair Oaks, Indiana, or WILLIAM STALBAUM, Pres., T»rft, Ind, If

Storage—l have two rooms for stop*, age of light household or other goods in The Democrat building. Terms E. BABCOCK. Phone 315 or 311. FINANCIAL - Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. tl Mutual Insurance—Fire and Light* ning. Also state cyclone. Inquir! of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 533-L. tl Farm Loans—Money to loan can farm property in any sums up ta SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. 5 Pct. FARM LOANS 5 Pct. See us for 5 per cent, money. No charge for abstract examination. Low rate of commission. Loans on city property.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. tl ILWithout Delay, Mr I Hlr Wltbout Commission, Uvl lllv Without Charges fei iAMPV or Recording ml INi i Instrument!. mUnl I W. H. PARKENSOV Try The Democrat’s want ad columns. You will be most agreeably surprised by the results.