Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — Page 2

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nit JASPER COUNTY DEMOftftRT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 816 Residence 811 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Published V/ednesday and Saturday. The Only AU Home-Print New*, paper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING RATES Display 12%c Inch Display, special position. . 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion. .5c Readers, per line add. inser.... 3c Want Ads— l cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and. cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. WEDNESDAY, JAN 9, 1918

SCARCITY OF LIVE STOCK

For some time now it has been apparent to those who have given the matter thought, that the country is threatened witli an alarming shortage in live stock —especially meat producing animals, though horses and mules are also showing a shortage. When the war in Europe first began, it was suggested by our agricultural department that our farmers and stock raisprs devote greater attention to increasing the number of meat animals. It was pointed out that the large foreign demand would make great inroads in our supply. This was the result, but not >all the result. The stimulated demand caused all who had stock to push them onto market at the earliest possible mnoment, with the result that thousands of head of stock went to the butchers when it should have been kept on the farms. . Stock buyers inform us that for the past year the average weight of hogs especially lias steadily declined, due to the fact that the heavy feeders have been practically exhausted and the lighter animals are being pushed onto the market. At a meeting of 'food administrators of a number of states recently it was the unanimous decision, after surveying the situation carefully, that a concerted effort must be made to increase the breeding of. hogs and, cattle, and each state represented in the eon-' ference was given its per cent of increase to be attained. But it is right at this point that the difficulty is encountered. The high prices have not only caused the fannnature animals to be sacri-

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ficed but thousands of valuable females have also been slaughtered which should have been kept on the farms. There is not a particle of doubt that the country is alarmingly short* of breeders. There is but one remedy. No owner of hogs or cattle should sell or kill females capable Of reproducing their kind. This should be made an iron-clad rule on the farms and ranches of this country for some time tQ...come. Certain it is that if the past, or even the present rate off consumption of females is continued for another twelve months, the country will face something, little short of a meat famine. -• We are a meat-eating race. But meat must be grown, and the animals must have darns. The only way to insure the supply- is to conserve the females. This will have to be done, ev<n. at the risk ot even higher prices than now prevail. And, as prices now range, this will be no sacrifice to the farmers, but rather a' source of greater revenue, as all will see if they will look at the matter in the right light.

DOGS OR SHEEP, WHICH?

There is a saying in this country, and it has grown into an adage, that the legislator who desires to commit political suicide has only to introduce and father a dog law, and the people will attend to the obsequies. Yet the one thing which the various states stand urgently in need of is just such legislative timber —men who are willing to forego political preferment if by so doing they can confer a great boon upon the country.’ We are told that by the time another clip is made wool will be worth two dollars per pound. This in a country than which there is no better in the world for sheep raising.

What must be the amazement of the peoples of other countries when thej- are told that the only reason Americans are not sheep raisers is because of the dog—that the average citizen prefers his dog to his sheep, and if lie must be without I either one the sheep must go. Statistics tell us that this country today is maintaining 25,000,000 : dog's—an 'average of one to every family in the land. Placing the cost of maintenance at a conservative figure, these brutes will consume as much as half their number of human beings, saying nothing of . their depredations. This is equivalent tb-r feeding twelve and one-half million people or more than it .will cost us to feed every soldier we will ever send to France. But the mere feeding of this horde of useless animals is by no means the big item. The great expense lies in the great menace which they constitute to the sheepraising industry. We . would not be so unjust to the canines as to allege, that all are addicted- to sheep killing, or even would be if there were sheep available to be killed.. But the uncertainty as to t'he guilty individuals brings the whole race under suspicion. However, this country is now paying dearly for its devotion to

the dog. It is conceded by all that his dogship is the one great deterrent to the sheep industry. In sections of country where the people have had the wisdom to prefer the sheep to the dog, prosperity has been a welcome guest. But these cocnonunities are rare, jand oyer a large part of the country the dog ranges at his own sweet will. So long as wool was cheap and easily procurable from other countries, the question as between the dog and the sheep was not so pressing, and the American householder could be left in possession off his expensive luxury. Now, however, when the fleecy staple is conspicuous for its scarcity, the decision should be put squarely up to our people: “The dog or the sheep —which?”

FAKE RELIEF SOLICITORS

This is an era of high prices. Bankers and financiers generally tell us there is plenty of money in circulation. Naturally in flush times people are inclined to loosen up on the purse strings. This is commendable, especially in view of the many calls that are being made on the generosity of the public. But if we are not very careful much of our Charity will be misplaced. There are legitimate calls that we must meet, and we can not afford to be humbugged. The government must be financed, the Red Cross and kindred organizations must be supported, and it will take every dollar we can rake together to meet these demands. Aside from these legitimate demands, though, every now and then we are importuned to give to this, that and other so-called . “relief schemes. “People with more patriotism” than brains conceive that the soldiers are not being properly cared for, and a ‘‘bazaar” is promoted to give the needed relief. The people out of'their loyalty and generosity respond liberally, with the result that if the promoters are honest and disinterested, the soldier boys are deluged with a lot of junk for which they have no earthly use. In many cases, however, the promoters are “'interested” more in themselves than in the boys, in which case the proceeds are mainly eaten up in the form of salaries' and expenses. The government has issued instructions for all the auxiliary work it wishes the people at large to assist in carrying on, and it will be well for all to read up on these instructions, that they be not duped. Not every young enthusiast who can scare up a red, white and blue sash and take a collection for a “cause” is to be encouraged. There 'are, as we have said, legitimate channels through which our relief can be bestowed, and we should be- very careful to see that it goes through these channels, that it may- be sure of reaching the object for which it is given.

LIBERTY BOND COUPONS

The interest coupons of Liberty Loan Bonds are payable at any Federal reserve bank or Subtreasury and at the Treasury Departs ment in Washington, and any- national hank which is a general depository of government funds is required to cash these coupons without charge. It is believed by- the Treasury Department that no bank or trust company which is a depository of the proceeds of Libertv Bonds’ or Treasury certificates of indebtedness will make a charge for collecting the coupons, paying cash to the holder. The soiwice rendered by banking institutions in cashing these interest coupons is a substantial one, but it is hoped that these depositories will perform the service without charge as a patriotic duty. If an object is needed to show in what light Germany regards neutral natiohs, and to verify her estimate of a treaty as a “scrap of paper,’’ the fate of Norway is ample for the purpose. That nation, although adhering scrupulously to a policy of neutrality, has lost hundreds of ships by German submarines and mines, and not less than 5,000 lives with them. No one of the allied countries’ navies have suffered to the extent that Norwegian shipping has suffered.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

With “licker” fifty cents a drink, many a left-over thirst will have to wear itself out next day. There are indications that Mr. Hoover’s efforts will eventually bring flour on speaking terms with the people; The profiteers are after the scalp of Secretary Daniels because-he distinguishes between “doing a bit” and “taking a bite.” Longer life to you, Josephus. The senator from Wisconsin now finds himself in such a hopeless minority in Washington that “as

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lonesome as LaFollette” has become a popular saying. While the tangle continues in the affairs of the fuel administration we have always the consolation of knowing that spring is on the way and must come sooner or later. Chicago, "has been looted of $2,000,000 during the past year by robbers. The reason the figures are so low’ is that the estimate doesn’t include the activities of the food profiteers. New' York papers tell of an Italian who ate twenty eggs at one meal. That fellow is not only an alien enemy, but should be vigorously prosecuted for hoarding food supplies. One thing this war has done for us, it has convinced tmany Democrats that Republicans were hum-a beings, and Republicans have been forced to admit that Democrats might even be Christians. The difference between the Russian and German views of peace was that while Russia desired peace with Gerpiany, the latter wanted peaceful possession of Russia. Such a little difference to mar the harmony.

We are confidently assured that government officials are hot on the trail of the food barons. They’re running too darned fast. They get overheated and have to stop and rest, when the wily varmints get a good lead again. Better take it slow and sure, and land them.

As a sample off American thrift we might mention that wool is now around one dollar a pound, yet this country maintains 25,000,000 dogs, at least 20,000,000 of which are utterly worthless. These twenty million brutes are hereditary enemies of the sheep, and are alone responsible for the inexcusible scarcity of the woollies in the country. A prominent editor oif the country is out with a long editorial purporting to be an analysis of the female nature. That editor ,is either a fraud -or the most foolhardy man alive. We contend that the female nature can’t be analyzed. But if it can, and this editor has succeeded, then he will be a hunted man the balance of his days for telling on the women. If, as Col. Lewis alleges, the ordnance equipment of Pershing’s army is “an outrage and a disgrace,” somebody should be made to walk the plank. If an atom of personal feeling has been permitted to interfere with the protection of these men, the guilty parties should feel the avenging power of an outraged people. “Personal feelings” can have no place in the war program, and the party encumbered with them . should be relegated in the bind-most seat in private life, if not to some place more secluded still.

The supreme court of the United States has unanimously held the conscription law constitutional, and Emma Goldman, Alexander Beikman and others must serve sentences imposed in other courts. One out of every eight lowans owns an automobile. Figures issued at the state house last week showed that more than 282,000 automobiles were registered last year. This was 85,000 more than the preceding year, bringing in $1,641,718 in license fees, an average of G 5 cents for every man, woman and child in the state.

(From the Tribune) Jesse Culp of Monticello was the guest of his parents northwest of town for a week. He returned Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. iH. Timmons and daughter Poyrel of Jackson, Tennessee, who have been visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Parker, returned Monday morning. Sergeant Van Buskirk of Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and Miss Flossie Timm of Medaryville were married at Hattiesburg on December 20th. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Van Buskirk. Miss Margaret Tilton of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Jack Lucas, who is now assigned to one of the big battleships cruising the Atlantic, were here last week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick. Frank Tillett of Wenatchee, Washington, shipped his parents in Gillam a nice box of “Delicious” apples for the holidays. They are quite large in size, being much larger than .the usual Indiana apple, better in , flavor and free from spots of any kind. Washington. Oregon,. Idaho and California are states which have immense orchards and the care of therm are regulated by laws passed by- the . legislatures. A tree" disease there is looked upon the same as an epi-" (femic of infectious disease here; Frank Tillett of Gillam left a couple of them at this office and they were soon “sampled.’’

An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.

FRANCESVILLE

THE RECORD—HERE AND THERE

It is only a half-worn record Of an old, familiar air, And you hardly know that you hear it. As you dose in your Morris chair. The sleet on the window rattles, While the blasts of Winter blow, But what do you care for Winter, By your fireside’s cheery glow? What is a half-worn record And a ditty of other days— It is “Just a Song at Twilight,” Heard through a dreamy haze. It is only a half-worn record Of some old, familiar air. Yet it makes of the dreary dugout A bit of home over there. Gone are the Shivering trenches And the stretch of bloody loam; Every heart with the music’s turning Back to the “Old Folks at Home” And each for his “Annie Laurie” Would lay him down and die— Strange how a half-worn record Brings a tear to the soldier’s eye! —Chicago American.

The Democrat’s fancy stationery department can supply your every want in the stationery line.

NOTICE OF DITCH PETITION. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that a ditch petition has been filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Benton county, Indiana, and that the petitioners in said petition have fixed on the 12th day of February, 1918, as the time for docketing said petition. Therefore this notice is given to all the following named land owners and corporations of the filing of said petition and the day set for docketing the same: Barnhard Alberts, Rosa Alberdmg, Henry C. Beeks, Henry Beckley, David A. Bickel whose only heirs are Mary A. Bickel, Agnes Bickel, Jason Bickel, David Bickel, Elsie Bickel and Ruth O’Connor, Samuel Belsey, Thomas Blake, Blanche Burger, Clarence I. Babb. Albert J. Bellows, Edward D. Bellows, George Bartee, Charles Bullis, Nellie Bullis, Edward M. Brown, Thomas Blair, Webster Bowdy, Cynthia Barnett, Cynthia A. Barnett, August Burnhardt, William Barnett, Jasper Barnett, Joe Barnett, Dexter Barnett, Cora Baken, Lucy Baken, Hattie Baken, George Besse, Keever Clymer, Chris Christenson, Martin Cain, Charles Dluzak, Joseph Dluzak, P. E. DuCharme, Fred J. Deno, Joseph Deno, Henry Denp, Clarence A' Doland, Philip Davis, Martha C. French, Sarah B. French, Mike Foley, John Ferguson, Lotis G. Frankowaik, James H. Green, Samuel S. Galbraith, Charles S. Galbraith, Albina Galbraith, Clara Goodrich, George Gibb, James H. Glass, Joseph Graham, Peter Geib, Henry Gilkerson, William Gladden, Myrtle E. Gladden, Albert Gray, Edward Gray, Edward Y. Gray, John W. Garber, Joseph E. Garber, Elmira Hart, Sterry G. Hand, George Hardy, Henry C. Harris, Samuel Huggins, Margaret Mabel Harris, Joseph Hall, Jr., Lewis W. Hunt, C. I. Mcßeynolds, George Hensler, Christian Hensler, Charles L. Hensler, John G. Hardebeck, Florence M. Johnson, Margaret Jordan, Edgar O. Jordan, Tabitha B. Jordan,

Mary A. Jordan, John jordan, Howard B. Jones, Dexter R. Jones, Alice A. Jones, Fannie Kay, Pearl Green, John Keller, John F. Kelley, Philip Knochel, John Q. A. Lamborn, Jena B. Lamborn, Brown Lamborn, Merle Lamborn, Goldie Didlake, Charles Lucterhand, David Lamie, Mary Lamie, James V. Lilves, Henry Misher, George H. May, Martha E. Mathew, Rachel Milligan, Jacob May, Claude W. May, Charles V. May, Robert W. May, Patrick J. McLaughlin, Susan McQuegg, Clarissa Mitchell, William T. Myers, Mary S. Myers, Ross Myers, Emma Wortley, Dick H. Myers, Rebecca McQueen, Lillie A. Medworth, John G. Morris, Andrew Nussbaum, Catherine Nafzinger, John M. Ott, John J. Porter, Burdett Porter, Thomas A. Porter,Dollie Porter, Jacob Rich, Charles Robinson, Laura M. Robinson, William E. Scott, Isaac Shannon, John Rodifer, Charles Spenard, Irene M. Smalley, William C. Smalley, Meddie Sigo, Moses Sigo, Charles Sigo, Rosa Sigo, John Schneider, Sr., John Schneider, Jr., William Sandmyer, Henry. Stitz, Fred Shoenbeck, Thomas Smock, Margaret' EX Sp'Srrard-,-Amelia Sawyer, Albert P. Swartzell, Maggie Kersten Swartzel, G. F. Schuster, Bertha Jt Teter, John R. Wilson, Ella Wilson, Ona Bellows, Jacob Wasner, Max Weller, Mary C. Wetherell, John M. Young, Joel Zinser, Martha Zinser, Clara Tyler, Harvey D. Zinser, Mary Welsh, Caroline Winsor, Reuben Zimmerman, Tillie Zimmerman, Hall Zimmerman, Harry L. Zimmerman, Laura M. Junk, Daisy DeVoogt, The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co., Carpenter Civil Township (Burdett Porter, Trustee,) for the benefit of highways, Jordan Civil Township (John Kohloif, Trustee,) for the benefit of highways. The corporation of the town of Remington; that your lands are described in said petition as effected by said proposed drainage. That said petition asks for the construction of an open ditch upon and along the following described route, tbwit:

Commencing at a point in Carpenter’s Creek, about 65 rods east of the center of Section 18, in Township 26 north. Range 7 west, in Benton county, Indi-i ana, and running from thence in a northeasterly direction, following as nearly as practicable the line of said Carpenter’s Creek, across Sections 18, 17, 8 and 9 in Township 26 north, Range 7 west in Benton county, Indiana, thence continuing 1 in a southeasterly direction, following the line of said Carpenter’s Creek, across Sections 10, 15 and 14, In Township 26 north, Range 7 west, in Benton county, Indiana, to a point in said Carpenter’s Creek, which is about 40 rods west of the northeast corner of said Section 14, in said Township 26 north} Range 7 west, in said Benton county, Indiana, and thence continuing in a northeastely direction, along the line of said Carpenter’s Creek, across Sections 11 and 12, and one, in Township 26 north, Range 7 west, in said Benton county, Indiana, to the County Line between Jasper and Beni ton counties, and thence continuing ,in a northeasterly direction, following the line of said Carpenter’s Creek, across Sections 36 and 25, in Township '27 north, Range 7 west and Section 30, in Township 27 north, Range 6 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, to a point in said Carpenter's Creek near the Northeast Corner of the Northwest Quarter of said section 30, in Township 27 north, Range 6 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, and thence continuing in a northwesterly direction, following the line of said Carpenter’s Creek, across Section 19, in Township 27 north. Range 6 west, Sections 24 and 13, 12, 11 and 2, in Township 27 north, Range 7 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, to a point in said Carpenter’s Creek which is about 50 rods west of the Northeast Corner of said section 2, in Township 27 north, Range 7 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, which point is in the line dividing said Carpenter Township from said Jordan Township, in said Jasper county, Indiana, and thence continuing in a northwesterly direction, following the line of said Carpenter’s Creek, to a point in said Carpenter’s Creek, which is about 1150 feet north and 400 feet east of the Center of Section 35, in Township 28 north, Range 7 west, in said Jordan "Township, -Jasper, county, Indiana, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet in said Carpenter’s FRANK KUBOSKI, JOHN V. BARTOO, G. D. LAMBERT, JACOB VILLINSKI, JAMES BULLIS, PHILIP KNOCHEL. Elmore Barce, P. R. Blue and Jasper Guy & Co., Attorneys.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1018

Avstnsnw [Under this head notices win be published for 1-cent-a-word for the fiiwf insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each ade, ditional insertion. To save book-keeping - cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be—for M cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged Jor forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale —Tame ferret, will drive all rats away. JENNINGS MICHAEL, Remington, R-3, phone 927-H. j-12 For Sale—A few bushels of good eating and cooking applies, hand picked.—JOHN MOOSMILLER, JR., McCoysburg, Ind., phone 908-E. j-12 For Sale —Some pure-bred Duroc brood sows. Also a few stock s'hoats.—AßTHUß I. PUTT, Fair Oaks, Indiana, R-2. ts For Sale—My residence property with two lots, one block from public square on Cullen street. Also, 120-acre farm, well improved and well tiled, two miles north of Brook, on main Brook road. —-JOHN O’CONNOR, Kniman, Indiana. ts 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 road being built from McComb to Natchez and which intersects with the Jackson highway. Price S3O per acre.— HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 216 or 499. ts

FOR RENT For Rent—Good 6-room house, barn, 3 lots, some fruit, $lO per month. Possession at once.— G. J. DEAN & SON, Phone 31 ts For Rent—The barber shop room in the Makeever House block is for rent.- Inquire at once of JAY W. STOCKTON, Rensselaer, Ind. For Rent—9-room house, electric lights, city water, three blocks from court house. —DR. F. A. TURFLER. * tf WANTED Wood Choppers —We are paying $2 per cord for cutting 4-foot wood. J. E. WALTER, Mgr. J. J. Lawler lands, phone 327, Rensselaer, Ind. 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 in Walker township the first Saturday night in each month, or call or write V. M. PEER, Sec.-Treas., Fair Oaks, Indiana, or WILLIAM STALBAUM, Pres., Tefft, Ind. ts

FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans. —JOHN A. DUNLAP. tl Mutual Insurance—Fire and Light* ning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAAXS,— .Q Farm Leahs—Money to loan on farm property In any sums up to 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 I 111 a) Without Delay, UP I HP Wlthout commission. I Ub I I lib Without Charges fol Hr Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received until January 12, at 2 o’clock p. m. of said day, for the remodeling of the I. 4 O. O. F. building at Parr. Plans and specifications may he seen at L. L. McCurtain’s home in Parr. The committee reserves the right to reject any and all bids. G. H. HAMMERTON, CHAS. D. LAKIN, ERNEST COMSR, CLYDE GUNYON, L. L. McCURTAIN, j 2-5-9-12 Building Committee. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Anthony C. Symmes et ux to Harvey Davisson, January 2, pt n% n% 10-28-6, 100 . acres, e%sw 3-28-6, s% sw .se 3-28-6, 100 acres, Marion and Milrpy, $12,700. Malinda Long et baron to Charles J. Smith et al, December 29, ne ne 10-30-5, e!4 w% sw 10-31-6, w % e % sw 10-31-6, 60 acres, Walker, $2,250. • q. c. d. William H. Daugherty et ux to Lucy A. Daugherty, January 4, und 1-6 pt wy 2 se 32-29-6, 60 acres, und 1-6 pt e% se 32'-29-6, 80 acres, und 1-6 pt ne se 24-28-6, 20 acres, Marion, $3,617. 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 tn 'and I will straighten you out. Also handle the best storage battery Img the country and other auto plies. Garage opposite D. M. Worland’s furniture store. Telephones —garage 294, residence 141-White. —M. J. KUBO6KE, Prop.