Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

WHEATFIELD Carl Geffert is on the sick list. Darrel Dewey is sick at this writing. Mr. Frost, who has been quite sick, is around again. We are having a real dose of oldfashioned winter at this writing. Richard Bowie departed for Brownsville, Texas, last Wednesday. Mrs. Lawrence McDaniel and children went to Monon last Friday evening for a few days’ visit with her sister. Mike Misch, Frank Andrews, and your correspondent accompanied Louis Misch to Rensselaer Sunday, where he took the 11 o’clock train for Louisville. The Misses Viola Dewey and Runa Geffert went to South Bend last Tuesday to enter the South Bend Business college for a course df study. We wish them success. Louis Misch of Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Richard Bowie of Brownsville, Texas, and Carl Neier of a camp in the West, visited home folks here the past few days. The boys surely looked fine in their army uniforms, and they have the military bearing, too. We can be proud of our home boys, as they are surely on the road to advancement. About fifty relatives and friends called on Louis Misch at his home last Thursday evening to give him the glad hand and thus show that they were glad to see him come home. Louis gave us a fine informal talk on army life and told the benefits a felLw can gain if he works with the right spirit. He illustrated his explanations by a large number of actual photographs taken by himself and others, and thus gave us a good general view of military life as exemplified at our military training camps. His good appearance and strong, healthy look showed the physical benefits he had received. We all had a very pleasant evening, one that we will not forget. The next time we will come 150 strong, Lou.

GIFFORD Lon Daniels spent Sunday in our towif. Sunday school at 10:30. Everybody come! Mrs. Eva Caster was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Will Steel is in a serious condition at this report. Sheridan Logue is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. Maggie Caldwell was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. William Obenchain were Wheatfield goers Monday. Mrs. Emma Nuss spent from Friday until Saturday visiting friends at Kersey. George Lambert and Reuben Snyder helped John Hill butcher four hogs Friday. “Dad” Leander is boarding with Reuben Snyder and working for Marry Gifford. Grover Norris lost his pocketbook in the soft drink shop Sunday night firwt has failed to find it. Mrs. Minnie Smith of Chicago ■pent a week with relatives here, returning to her home Tuesday. Guy Zook of this place returned to Demotte with his brother. Dice Zook, and son Orval, to shuck corn. Miss Ruth Kennedy and Miss Vesta Brown returned from their homes Friday and opened school Wednesday. Mrs. James Myers of this place went to Chicago Saturday to spend ■ week with her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Wells. Miss Beatrice Caster came home

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HARVEY WILLIAMS AUCTIONEER Remington, - - Indiana Yours for Honest Service I will be selling nearly every day of the season and if you intend to have a sale it will pay you to see me at once. Large sale tent furnished to customers. PHONE FOR DATES AT MY EXPENSE

from Gary Friday, where she has been going to high school, for a two weeks vacation. Edith, the daughter of Mr. and Theodore smith, is in a serious condition with pneumonia, at the hospital in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Samuelson and daughter Dorothy of Chicago caime Saturday for a week’s visit with relatives and friends here. John Bicknell and his clerk from Francesville were in our town Monday. Mr. Bicknell has ordered 100 suits of men’s clothing sent there. Jesse Grim, Grover Norris, John Akers and Reecy Cavinder returned to Brook Monday to shuck corn. Jesse Nuss drove thenii over in his Ford. Carl Stockwell spent a week in Rensselaer with relatives. (He has been here working on Taylor Hankins’ dwelling house, which is near cobipletion. Mrs. Lemma Hankins and son and daughter, James and Opal, spent from Thursday until Saturday with the former’s sister, Mrs. Earl Parker, of Kersey. Mrs. Della Reed and three sons, Lee, Jay and Clark, and Miss Elsie Haniford spent the week with their brothers, "George and James Haniford, at Kentland. Word was received here Monday that Mr. and Mrs. James Snyder of North Dakota were the proud parents of twin girls for a Christmas gift, which makes them a family of seven girls. Othel Caldwell of Louisville, Kentucky, formerly of Rensselaer, was in our burg Monday shaking hands with friends and bidding us goodby before returning to camp where he is in training.

FAIR OAKS News is very scarce with us this week. Health still continues reasonably good in our village. Amy Bringle returned to Roanoke Sunday evening. The blizzard of. Tuesday afternoon was something very noticeable. Enos Moffitt 'hauled . a load of coal for Mr. Allen from Parr Wednesday. . j Yes, we (have been 'having some real old-fashioned winter weather this week. Well, holidays are now over and everybody is down to business again. Our schools opened Wednesday morning. Our old friend, Sidney Schanlaub, ex-editor of the Morocco Courier, is considerably under the weather this week with a very heavy cold. A. M. Bringle, carrier on rural route No. 1 out of this place, began his fifteenth year in Uncle Sam’s service January 2. And in all this time he has not lost a single day. D. W. Pritchett, a young married man who has been working for Mr. iHillis the past year, underwent an operation in a Chicago hospital Saturday for an internal tumor, and died Tuesday morning. They were from Kentucky.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY Everybody is getting ready to saw wood. Mrs. Biddie Burns of near Mt. Ayr continues in feeble health. Several cases of chickenpox are reported* in the western part of Jackson township. Martin Barker is trying the experiment of covering his wheat with straw thlis winter. About the most disagreeable storm of the season swept this part of the country last Tuesday. Miss Bessie Brown, of near Morocco was a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Sidney Schanlaub, last week. Mrs. Elizabeth Schanlaub of Mt. Ayr is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. S'huie, at Delta, Missouri. Dutch Bill says he wants justice, but he is mistaken already yet. If Bill had justice he’d be in the pen. Wheat and rye in this part of Newton county was never more promising at this season of the year. • Whatever else may be said of the present new year, with our boys going to war, it certainly is not a happy one.

Mr. and Mrs. Marion Dunn, living east of Rensselaer, spent Christmas with the family of Clarence Blankenbaker. 1 It is an awful tax on a boy’s ingenuity to be well enough to hunt rabbits and just sick enough to keep out of school. Albert Anderson has bought the Trennis Yoder farm in Colfax township, and is preparing to take possession of same soon. Dr. E. R. Schanlaub, veterinarian, reports considerable sickness among stock. He urges care in the feeding of damaged corn. It looks as though King Alcohol’s next strategical retirement would be his last. Hush! Did solmeone in the audience say “rats?” A Michigan newspaper reports the wedding of Henry Sparrow to Valma Quale. But one may expect to hear most anything from. Michigan. If you want rain on a certain day it may be all right to pray for it, but some farmers will tell you that mowing down a field of 'hay on the same day is equally effective. The kaiser, according to the Chicago Herald, makes the mistake of "rendering to Caesar the things that are God’s, and to God a large part of the crime that is Caesar’s.” D. F. Ringhiam of Demotte has been elected superintendent of the schools at Morocco. W. D. Stevens, who is succeeded by Ringham, resigned his position to enter the army. One of Chicago’s leading newspapers last week made mention of President Wilson in connection with a third term. Easy there, now. Wilson is alright, but time may develop the fact that there are others. According to present indications farmers in this vicinity will use but very little commercial fertilizer this year. Results from the use of commercial fertilizer in the last year or two have been far from satisfactory. All testimony points to a shortage of good seed corn for 1918 planting. Two or three states, we note, report practically no seed corn at all. Prices, it would seem, are running at to $5 a bushel for new seed corn and as high as $6 to $7 for old? Three strangers recently frightened a poor widow over in eastern Illinois into giving up half of her canned fruiit, the thieves claiming to be agents of the government. If some men were no taller in stature than they are in principle they could kiss a grasshopper without bending a knee. A movement is on foot, it is said, to devise a schejme for more clearlv marking the line between Indiana and Illinois for the benefit of travelers. No use for Indiana to spend money on such a fool project. When the automobile of the westwardbound traveler leaps from a smooth stone road into a mudhole six feet deep he’s in Illinois, and there’s an end on’t. We had hoped to be able to chronicle the marriage of our Democratic friend, Albert Robinson, this week, but, after leading us to expect a bit of hews of this kind, Albert disappointed us at the last moment, and at the present writing he is still very much unmarried. However, we shall continue to keep Albert under close surveillance, and any move on his part of a matrimonial nature will be flashed to The Democrat office without a moment’s delay. Former northern Newton county residents returning to their old stomping grounds after an absence of perhaps forty years or more, profess the utimost amazement at the changes that have taken place there during this time. Forty years ago northern Newton county’s chief products were muskrat houses, horse flies, mosquitoes and fever’n’ager, but today all this is changed. That region now has a system of stone roads unsurpassed by any other part of the county; bluegrass pastures have taken the place of the bullrush swamps; churches, school buildings and fine dwellings are the rule, with the farmers leading other and older portions of the state in agriculture and in the production of fine stock. The crowning insult to Christianity and civilization is Dutch Bill’s evident determination to make God a party to the long list of black crimes 'committed by the German nation in the present war. For the thousands of poor, innocent girls in Belgium and France who have been mistreated by his ignorant, brutal soldiers since the beginning of hostilities; for the cold-blooded murder of women and children, the destruction of tens of thousands off once happy homes and for bringing the most poignant grief to hundreds of thousands of helpless people, this fiend in human form dares to thank God. The whirling Dervish on the planes of Turkey or Pe/sia is no (more a religious fanatic than is this same Dutch Bill of Germany. Evidently Bill actually believes that he is being assisted by the Almighty in his present hellish work; hence we are compelled to hear his foulmouithed rantings about the Deity —“Me unt Gott” and “onward mit Gott”—until he becomes ,as tiresome as “Captain Flint,” the parrot, ih “Treasure Island,” with its eternal squawkings - “Pieces of eight, pieces of eight!” We have captured Gaza, according to newspaper reports. Now, don’t get the idea that Gaza is. in Germany or in France, for it isn’t. Gaza is the place where Samson tore down the gates, a feat of strength which gave him such prom s inence that he was elected a member of the school board the next fall without a dissenting vote. Joffa, we note, has also passed into our hands —captured by a bunch of New Zealanders under the immortal Allenby. Now, let’s see. Joffa, if our memory serves us co r * rectly, will be the seaport where Jonah —Phineas T. Jonah, Esq,— was swallowed by a whale out in

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the offing one morning, continuing in a swallowed condition for three mortal days. Some writers claim that it was forty days, but the most reliable authorities say three —-three days and nine minutes/ to be exact—-from the time Jonah disappeared to when he was next seen wandering ,on the beach, clothed in the chilly garments of Nature and inquiring of a native if the old Purdey road leading to Joffa’s livery stable from the rear was still open. For years afterwards, it is said, the very name whale oil would cause Jonah to turn white about the gills and his stomach to collapse like a punctured balloon. But that is neither here nor there; the purpose of this item is to convey the fact that the Germans are not doing all of the capturing.

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Hawaii is the only place under United States control where the Ihumble cent is not used. However, now that the war tax is effective, it is expected that the much despised coin will become popular in Honolulu.

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THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Jasper County Man Honored. C. P. Moody, well known farmer of Barkley township, was elected district vice-president of the Indiana Cattle Feeders’ association at the annual meeting in Lafayette, December 15. In spite of extremely cold weather over 200 feeders attended the convention. ~ A heavy run of cattle during the winter with a shortage next summer, was predicted. Among the tests carried on by the experiment station, assisted by the association, will be a comparison of the value of corn and soy bean silage with other feeds. Many leading farmers are using either soy beans or cowpeas to supplement the corn in their silage and the outcome of this trial will be watched with interest.

Doing Their Bit. It takes a good farmer to grow 70 bushels of corn on an acre but this yield was exceeded by seven of the boys who joined the County Corn club last spring. The boys worked hard and faithfully all summer in spite of unfavorable weather conditions and will be rewarded fnr their efforts in the form of substantial premiums. The awards will be based upon yield, quality of corn, judging and composition. The yields of the ten highest contestants are as follows: Charles Maurice Reed. 97.51 Charles Waling .88.37 Charles Stevens.B6.so Ivan Blankenship 86.00 Arthur Krueger 78.90 Alva Weiss 73.67 JEarl Parks.J2.47 Üby Golden - - - - -...- <54-00 Lester Alter. • 56.49 Clermont stack.*.. - - • • 45.73 The first and second premiums are platform scales, third and fourth cultivators, and the fifth a doubleshovel plow. Equally valuable and practical rewards have been provided for the members of the Pig, Poultry, Canning and Breadmaking clubs.

War-time Orchard Management The orchard on the farm is usually the first thing to be neglected. Trees of this county bore abundantly last season but the fruit was of such poor quality as to render it practically worthless. Much of the work of keeping an orchard in good condition can be done in-the winter time and certainly the present prices of fruit would justify the farmers in giving his trees a thorough pruning and spraying. If, however, the farmer feels that he cannot give his trees attention, it would be better to reduce the number to a very few and put something else on the ground. A neglected orchard is not only a loss to its owner but it is a menace to every other orchard in the neighborhood by serving as a breeding place for insects and diseases. This would be a good time to consider whether or not you can make your orchard pay. Jf not, the sooner it gets the axe the better.

Farmers' Clubs. The North Union Farmers' club meets at Virgie Saturday evening, January 5. An unusually good program has been arranged. A special program will be given by the ladies of the South Marion Farmers’ club Thursday evening, January 10, at the new consolidated school. This program will be in charge of a committee consisting es Miss Nora Daugherty, Mrs. Paul Wood, Miss Linton, Miss Isabel Martin. This committee has been working very hard and they have secured an excellent program to which all persons ate cordially invited. Fletcher Smith carried on a little experiment in hog production last summer for his own satisfaction. Out of his spring crop he selected

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10 pigs, one entire Utter of eight and two from another litter. When weaned he turned these into a two acre alfalfa field and fed them all the torn and tankage they wanted in self-feeders. The hogs could not begin to keep the alfalfa down and Mr. Smith cut off four tons of hay from the pasture. The hogs were gold September 10, at the ago of six months and three days and weighed 198 pounds each. Mr. Smith submits the Ifollowing financial statement: Receipts. 1980 pounds hogs at 17c... $336.6® Expenses. % cost of keeping 1% Brood sows at $45 per year. $28.09 200 Ibe tankage at $3.75. .. . 7.5® Damage to alfalfa meadpw. . 10.09 $36.59 Return for 100 bushels corn. $300.69 Return per bushel of corn. . . .s3.o® He reports that the rest of hia crop of 31 hogs was placed on corn and bluegrass pasture until September 15, when the hogs were turned into a field of corn and soy beans, supplemented with tankage in selffeeder and left until December 15. These were then 8% months old, weighed 196 pounds and brought $16.50 per cwt. As a number of brood sows were 'Med along with these hogs Mr. Smith has no accurate record of their cost. He Is convinced, however, that this (method is less economical than the use of legumnious pasture. These figures indicate the value of protein supplements. With the mounting prices of feeds, the Successful pork production cannot do without alfalfa, clover, tankage or other feeds of this class. To further substantiate the result* of this work, Mr. Smith, Joseph Kolhoff and I. F. Meader will conduct tankage demonstrations and keep a record of feed costs and pork produced. Their results will be watered with interest.

The Fertilizer Situation. After drainage, proper and adequate fertilization Is the most important factor in crop production. Our farmers, looking forward hopefully to a crop year in 1918 are confronted with a fertilizer shortage. What are they going to do to derive the greatest benefits from the material that they can secure? The first step will be to utilize all manure and plant residues that can be secured. On the black soils of the southern part of the county thia should be supplemented with acid phosphate or mixed fertilizers with as high per cent oif acid phosphate as may be obtained. On Che light and dark sands and muck .soils, potash should show a profit, especially on corn. The highest obtainable potash fertilizers at present are the 0-8-3 and 0-5-5. The great majority of farmers who used these last year seem to have been well repaid, In spite of the early froets. This would be a good year for the farmer to start a “pertmanent fertility’’ scheme on his farm. Lime, clover and livestock will go a long way towards solving the soil fertility problem and the sooner we realize the economy of this system the more progress will we make. Clover seed is high but many of our lighter soils will never be at their best until they are supplied with (more organic . matter and nitrogen.

There is a stretch of railway along the west coast of Ireland where it was formerly not an uncomtmon occurrences for the trains to be blown from the rails by the winds from the ocean. These disasters are now prevented by the use of ingenious form of anemometer which rings an alarm bell when the velocity reaches 65 miles an hour. Each station on the line keeps on hand a stock of movable ballast, a ton of which is placed aboard every car arriving at the station after the bell sounds Popular Science Monthly. When the war began the highest type of airplane could not be di.pended upon to do much more than fifty miles an hour. Today the speedier war planes make 120 miles an hour in long flights. Where the best machines formerly carried two men. or their equivalent in weight, the larger machines of the present will safely carry a ton or more of cargo. The tusks of the cow elephant have been found best adapted to the making of billiard balls. The tusk of the female is not so curved as that of the male, and the fine nerve passage is not so clearly seen.

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