Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — Page 1

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MISS LYDIA DWIGGINS DEAD

Former Rensselaer School Teacher to Be Buried Here Today. A. F. Long has received a telegram from Marion, Indiana, stating that Miss Lydia Dwiggins, a former resident of Rensselaer and for a great many years engaged in school teaching, had died at the former place Thursday at 11 a. m., and that the body would be brought to Rensselaer this Saturday afternoon on the 2:51 train, for burial in Weston cemetery. The body will be taken direct to the cemetery from the train, where short services will be held. Miss Dwiggins was perhaps sixtyfive or seventy years of age, and had been engaged in teaching practically all her life. She taught in the Rensselaer schools many years ago and had since taught at various places, including Marion. She was well known to many o>f the older residents of this city.

KNIMAN FARMERS’ PROGRAM The following program will he given at the Kniman school Thursday evening, January 17: Song Club Members Play— “ Not a Man in the House” Song Club Members Talk—" Care of Milk and Its Use in the Home” ../.... .Olive Wiley Song Club Members This program will begin at 7:30. Mr. Dooley urges every one to come.

HORSE STRUCK BY SPEEDER

At McKinley Avenue Crossing Wednesday Morning. George F. Craig of Monon, signal maintenance operator for the Monon railroad company, met with quite a serious accident at the McKinley avenue crossing Wednesday morning. Craig was driving one of the company’s motor propelled tricycles or speeders and collided ■with a horse and buggy driven by Worth Johnson, son of Ralph Johnson of Barkley township. The speeder run under the horse and the animal fell on Craig and the latter received a dislocated hip. The shafts and one wheel of the buggy ■were broken but neither young Johnson nor the horse were injured. Craig was taken to the county hospital and later to the office of Dr. Washburn, the railroad’s surgeon, who took some Xray pictures of the injured man but could find no other injuries than the dislocated hip. He was taken to Monon on the 1:57 train and Thursday’s Lafayette Journal said that he was taken tc St. Elizabeth’s hospital in that city Thursday morning, being accompanied by his wife, and that they •were met at the train by Dr. George F. Beasley and the Evans ambulance. The Journal also said that Craig was seriously if not fatally injured. Later—The Democrat learns that ■while Dr. Washburn wanted Craig to stay at the hospital here until next day, to see if anything further developed, his wife, who had come over from Monon, insisted ®n taking him home and said they were willing to assume all responsibility in so doing. That night bladder trouble developed and the attending physician thought best to take him to Lafayette.

ENGLERT - MICHAEL MARRIAGE

The wedding of Miss Mary A. Englert and Mr. Raymond T. Michael took place last Tuesday morning 'at 8 o’clock at St. Joseph’s Catholic church at Reynolds, Rev. Father Smith officiating. The attendants were Miss Evelyn Michael, a sister of the groom, and Mr. Cyprian Charais of Rensselaer. The wedding was a quiet affair on account of the recent death of a relative. They will reside on a farm near Monon. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Michael of Jordan township.

NOTES FROM THE RED CROSS

The Red Cross workers are needing old sheets for wrapping supplies to be sent away; also, more irons are ■wanted. Please fill these needs as soon as possible. Several large woolen quilts have been made by Mrs. Ames from cloth contributed by Hilliard & Hamill. It may be of interest to add that Mrs. Ames, though seventyeight years of age, pieced the quilts without the aid of glasses.

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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. County Agent Learning was in Lafayette on business Wednesday. White county, Indiana, has received official recognition from the provost marshal-general as being one of the few units in the United States which filled up its draft quota by'voluntary enlistment, and which did not have to provide a single man under the selective draft process. The official statement is highly complimentary to the few communities where such a condition existed. Marriage licenses ■ issued: January 8, John William Martin of Rensselaer, aged 27 February 16 last, farmer, and Viola Charlotte Kohley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kohley of south of Rensselaer, aged 25 September 15 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. January 10, William Orville Brown of Saunemin, Illinois, aged 28 September 21 last, iron worker, and Ethel May Large of Lee, aged 25 May 5 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

New suits filed: No. 8869. William Eckert vs. Jeroine Nelson; action for damages, on warranty on sale of horse, guaranteed to be sound. Demand $l5O. No. 8871. Cory O. Price vs. Mary Price, action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties, who reside in Carpenter township, were married May 25, 1905, and separated December 1, 1917. Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged in that defendant failed and neglected to prepare plaintiff’s meals; that she would curse and abuse said plaintiff and >for weeks and months at a time would not converse with him. Judge Hanley, sitting in juvenile court, spot to the Claramont Correctional school for girls at Indianapolis Monday, Lulu Sayler, the 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Belle McCarthy of Rensselaer, who had gotten beyond the control of the latter. The girl had got in the habit of going away and being gone for days at a time without the consent of her mother, and Is said to have recently received a gift of $lO from her father and she then went over to Remington and was there for about a week, when she telephoned here to McKay’s laundry, where she had beeu iworking, and said that she was out of .money and if Mr. McKay would send her money she would return to her work again. Mr. McKay ■communicated with her mother who sent Deputy Sheriff John Robinson over to Remington Saturday and the girl was brought here and as a result was taken to, the correctional school on Monday last.

County Surveyor Nesbitt sold the Nesius ditch in Carpenter and Jordan townships Saturday at a total of $14,140.30. There were four bidders on the main ditch, which is to be dredged—A. Bennema of Chicago, Ed. Sternberg, B. J. Moore and Walter Gilmore. Ben--nema was the lowest when bidding ceased, his last bid being 16.11 cents per cubic yard, making a total of $11,895.30 for the 72,366 cubic yards of dredge work; Tile lateral No. 1 was sold to Anthony Nesius at $1,185, and tile lateral No. 2 to John Zimmer at $1,060. Work must start within thirty days after bonds are sold. The dredge work contractor also has the contract for cleaning out and deepening the Bice ditch, into which the Nesius ditch empties. He was quite dilatory in getting started on the Bice ditch and many land owners assessed on same lost much more in value of crops last - year than their entire assessments amounted to. Work was started, however, last fall on the rock work at the east end but the removal of this has

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918.

A PRETTY CHURCH WEDDING

A very pretty wedding was solemnized at St. Augustine's Catholic church Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock. The contracting parties were Miss Viola Kohley and Mr. John Martin of southeast of Rensselaer. .. The bride was dressed in white silk, trimmed in lace and rosebuds, and wore a veil. She was attended* by her cousin, Miss Marie Kohley, of Naperville, Illinois, as bridesmaid, who was dressed in pink silk crepe de chine and carried pink carnations. The groom wore conventional black and was attended by his brother, Eugene, as best man. After the ceremony a four-course breakfast was served by the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kohley, at their home southeast of Rensselaer, to about seventy guests, most of whom- were relatives. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. Mr. and Mrs. Martin left on the afternoon train for Naperville and other points in Illinois, where they will visit with the bride’s relatives. They were accompanied on their honeymoon by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Feldhaus, the latter beihg a sister of the bride. They will be at home after February I to their many friends on the old Martin honitstead southeast of Rensselaer, xx

OBSERVES 90TH ANNIVERSARY

“Aunt” Mary Jane Hopkins Second Oldest Person in the County. “Aunt” Mary Jane Htopkins, probably the oldest continuous resident of Rensselaer and of Jasper county —coming here in the spring of 1845 and we believe the second oldest person now living in the county, being exceeded in age only, so far r.s we know, by “Uncle” John Stively, father of Mrs. Mattie Sharp of Rensselaer, who will be ninety-five years old next May—celebrated her ninetieth anniversary at her home on Park avenue Thursday. Many old friends and neighbors called during the day to pay their respects, and Mrs. Hopkins was the recipient of numerous gifts which, it was thought,, would be most appreciated by her. Notwithstanding her great age Mrs. Hopkins is quite smart most of the time and her eyesight is as good as that of many people half her years, while her hearing is also very good, indeed. Her mind is as bright and clear as ever and it is interesting to hear her relate happenings and incidents of the early history of Jasper county of sixty or seventy years ago when the noble red man was plentiful in this section of the state and she used to go canoe riding on the placid Iroquois with the young warriors of the tribe, which had its headquarters at Huntington but used to come here to hunt and fish. Her second husband, J. D. Hopkins, died in 1892, and she has since lived alone in her property on Park avenue, her only son, Homer Hopkins Of Monticello, paying her frequent visits. “Aunt” Mary Jane enjoyed the calls and greetings of old friends immensely and desires to thank them cordially for remembering her. Among the greetings received were those from Dr. H. L. Brown and family, now at Palatka, Florida, which came by telegraph Thursday morning. That “Aunt” Mary Jane may live to celebrate her one-hundredth anniversary, is the wish of her many friends. „

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

January 9, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred McColly, on Jackson street, a daughter. January 9, to Mr.- and Mrs. John Warne of this city, a son. January 10, to Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson, a son.

FANCY PRODUCE MARKET.

January 11.-—Get the top price. Bring us your produce. We are paying today the following prices: Eggs, 50c; chickens, 20c; old turkeys, 18 to 23c; butterfat, 50c. —C. E. PRIOR.

been quite slow, owing to the nature of the rock, which is of a rotten formation and is filled with small pockets of oil, the result being that the blasts only loosen small sections at a time.

MORE PERMANENT HIGHWAYS

Will Soon Be Required For Motor Mail Routes. WILL OPEN THREE LINES FEB 1 One of Which Will Run From Indian&imlis to Chicago via Remington, Goodland and Brook. Three motor mail routes, Intended to bring the producer in direct touch with the consumer and provide the farmer with a ready means of conveyance of products to market, and necessities he must get from the cities, are tg be established through the northern part of Indiana beginning February I. Indianapolis will be the central terminus of all the routes. One line will extend between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne; another between Indianapolis and Goshen, and the third between Indianapolis and Chicago. Trips will be mad.o daily, except Sunday. The orders for the establishment of the routes were received Monday by postmasters at Indianapolis and Lafayette. Bids for the service are to be submitted to the fourth assistant postmaster-general at Washington by January 15. The Indianapolis-Chicago line will be divided into relays, the division point being at Lafayette. A truck will leave Indianapolis daily at 1 p. m., arriving at Lafc.yette at 7:30 p. m. The Lafayette truck will leave that city for Indianapolis daily except Sunday at 5:30 a. m. and arrive there at noon. The Lafayette truck Ifor Chicago leaves at 5:30 a. m., arriving there at 5 p. m. Another truck will leave Chicago at 5 a. m., reaching Lafayette at 5 p. m. This route will pass through the following Indiana towns and cities’ New Augusta, Rosston, Kirklin, Cyclone, Frankfort, Mulberry, Lafayette, Montmorenci, Wolcott, Remington, Goodland, Foresman, Brook, Morocco, Thayer, Crown Point, St. John and Hammond. The Indianapolis-Ft. Wayne route will be covered by trucks leaving either city at 5 a. m. and arriving at their destination at 5 p. m. This route will pass through the following cities and towns: Oaklandoa, McCordsville, Pendleton, Anderson, Daleville, Muncie, Eaton, Hartford City, Montpelier, Metamora, Keystone and Bluffton The Indianapolis-Goshen line also will be covered by cars leaving either city at 5 a. m., and reaching their destination at 7 p. in. The cities and towns on the line are Noblesville, Elwood, Swayzee, Misr, Wabash, Urbana, North Manchester, Collamer, North Webster and Syracuse. The establishment of a fourth motor mail route, between Indianapolis and Louisville, has been authorized, and bids are at Washington awaiting the award of the contract. This line is expected to be started February 15. Two other motor mail routes to touch Indiana have been announced at Washington, but no word regarding them has been received. One is between Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, being a part of a route between this city and Baltimore, Maryland, and the other is from Columbus, Ohio, to Louisvihe, Kentucky, which follows the Indiana side of tho Ohio river. “The routes, it is believed, will eventually result in better prices for the farmer and a reduction in cost to the consumer,’’ says the department letter, authorizing the announcement of the northern Indiana routes. , “The essential feature o>f this service will be the collection and delivery of parcel post, but if the handling of any matter can be materially expedited by dispatching it on the truck, it may be so dispatched. While it is proposed to pick up mail along the routes wherever offered, in order that the service may be successfully operated, it is essential that a rapid schedule be adhered to, and this would be impossible if many prolonged stops were made. “Farmers and others living along

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FUTURE PUBLIC SALE DATES 7 The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, January 16, David J. and M. J. Miller, 1 mile north and ope-half mile west of Mt. Ayr. Stock sale, including cattle, horses and hogs. Thursday, January 1 7, J. P. Wagner and M. J. Kuboske, 1 mile south and 3 miles east of Rensselaer. General sale, including 12 head of horses, 29 head of cattle, 11 hogs, farm tools, etc. Tuesday, January 22, Ira Clark, on the David Wesner farm, 3-4 mile east and 1-2 mile north of Kersey. General sale, including 7 head of horses, 37 head of hogs, farm tools, etc. Friday, January 25, L. A. Warren, on the Sol Guth farm, 7 miles southeast of Rensselaer. General sale, including 13 horses, 8 head of cattle, 7 hogs, farm tools, etc.

PYTHIAN SISTERS INSTALLATION

Rensselaer Temple of Pythian Sisters Installed the following officers at Pythian hall yesterday afternoon: Past Chief —Edna Richling. Most Excellent Chief—Jennie Clarke. Senior Vice —Allie Clark. Junior Vice —Cora Postlll. Manager —Alta Hoover. Mistress of Records and Correspondence—Emma Parkinson. Mistress of Finance— Sarah .>l- - '•» Protector—Fannie Wasson. Outer Guard —Anna Bott. A six o’clock supper was served to the members and their husbands.

WRITES LETTER FROM FRANCE

Samuel Duvall Tells of Inhuman Air Raids by Germans. Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall received another letter Thursday from their son Sam,’ Who is with the French forces in France. The letter is dated December 13, “At the Front,” and says: Dear Mother and Dad:— I haven’t anything to do this afternoon so I will spend part df my time writing. It’s very cold and lots of snow but it doesn’t seem to check the war here on the eastern front. Can you hear the cannons roaring that I do, while I write these lines? One of the largest and most beautiful cities in this part of France was raided again night before last by the Boche aviators. The tombs that they drop are cylinder shijpe and pointed at both ends, about four feet long and one foot in diameter. They drop them from an altitude of about 10,000 feet and as they come nearer to the ground it is one of the most ungodly sounds that could be imagined. The sound of them above cause women and children to fly here and there screaming; some become hysterical, others faint In the streets, etc. It was midnight when we arrived on the scene, dark as pitch and bombs coming down In every part of the city. A single bomb will destroy a five-story building completely and break the windows out of others blocks away, so imagine this pleasant atmosphere we are obliged to face. The tale ot that night would be too long to write in full so I will tell you of just one pitiful scene. Three of ute entered a most beautiful home that was partly destroyed. In a room on the second floor laid a beautiful madamoiselle on her bed just like she was sleeping. She was cut right in half in the middle, and we put her on a sheet so we could carry her out to the car. The poor thing didn’t know what killed her for she was in bed sleeping when the bomb hit. I am well and happy over here, guesh it’s the excitement that 'pleases me so much. It’s strange but the more chances we have to take , the more It pleases some of us in little old S. S. U. 9. We may go to the Italian front soon as our permissions have been postponed one month. If we go, it will be great for hell is popping right down there. I received a letter from, Ed. and Hortense, and was sure glad to hear from them. Hortense tells me her brother Jerome is over here

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NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Harry Wortley of Mt. Ayr was brought over Thursday and is a medical patient at the hospital. Mrs. George Reed is taking medical treatment at the hospital. Mrs. Frank Geitzenaur underwent a minor Operation Wednesday. Granville Moody, Jr., entered the hospital Wednesday for medical treatment. Miss Ruth Sayler was able to return to her home Thursday. Miss Luvia Gunyon, surgical nurse, went to Chicago the first of the week to prepare herself for operating the -X-ray machine to be installed in ’tUe hospital in a short .time. ‘

PEACE DEMANDS SHOCK TO BERLIN

Speech of President Wilson Gets a Gold Reception. LABOR FURNISHES A SURPRISE < Concerted Moves of the Allies to End the War Demoralizes the German Junkers. Washington. Jan. 11. —President Wilson’s speech, setting forth the war alms of the United States, lias received a hostile reception in official circles nt Berlin, according to Information reaching diplomatic circles here. The principles enunciated by the American executive came ns a shock following so closely on the terms laid down by Premier Lloyd George last Saturday. Labor Furnishes Surprise. But this was not the only blow. The statement given out by Arthur Henderson, the British labor loader, Indorsing the terms given by the British premier, proved a stunning surprise, for the German people had been led to believe that British labor was out of sympathy with the war alms of the government. A Gorman socialist, whose name was not given, but who was said to be a member of the relchstag, wns quoted in a Berlin dispntch as saying: “We would never consent to such a one-sided arrangement as is proposed In the Llovd George program.” Criticize British Terms. German newspapers continue to criticize the British premier’s pence terms. The semiofficial Cologne Gazette was quoted ns saying that, if the terms were accepted, they would strangle Germany for an indefinite period and mean world domination for England. intervention Not Wanted. The Norddeutsche Allgemelne Zeltung of Berlin says: “The fourteen points do not form a program for world peace but a real symphony of will to no peaee. Mr. Wilson’s Intervention Is not wanted. Having the opportunity of serving peace, lie has not only failed but has clearly expressed a contrary intention. "Appealing to the self-determination of nations, he presumes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria-Hun-gary and proclaims the policy of doing violence to nations with disregard for all historical and racial facts." Like Lloyd-George's. The Kolnische Volks Zeltung says: “President Wilson’s program substantially squares with Lloyd George’s. It is as unacceptable for us as is the British and is more brutal still than that of Lloyd-George. He demands the severance from the German empire of Alsace-Lorraine, which is ninetent lis Inhabited by Germans, and he undlsguisedly demands the severance from the empire of parts of Prussia Inhabited by the Poles."

FRENCH SHELVE GEN. NIVELLE

Former Army Chief Gets Orders to Take Command of Army In Algeria. Purls, Jan. 11. —Gen. Robert George Nivelle Ims been appointed to command the army serving in Algeria. The appointment of General Nivelle is considered by the newspapers as the commencement of reparation to the former generalissimo for ttie discredit into which he fell as a result of the April offensive. General Nivelle was in command of the French forces when the great offensive was launched against the Ger-’ mans on a 25-mile front between Solssons and Reims in April, 1917. Although big gains were made by the French troops, there was much controversy over it. In the chamber of deputies it was discussed at length and many charges wen* made that the offensive had been checked and that the French had paid too dearly for the enterprise.

BIG ITALIAN STEAMER IS SUNK Steamship Hilazzo Destroyed by German Submarine in Mediterranean. New York, Jan. 11.—The Italian steamship Hilazzo, 11,477 tops gross register, was sunk early in December by a German submarine in Mediterranian waters, according to word received here. It* is understood no livea were lost. The vessel was launched in 1916 and was employed entirely for. freight traffic. The Milazzo was 492 feet long with a beam of 65 feet. VICTORY FOR BRITISH WOMEN Bill to Exclude Sex From Suffrage Beaten by Lords. London, Jan. 11. —Lord Loreburn’s amendment to the representation of the people bill, by which it was sought to exclude women from the suffrage, was rejected in the’house of lords by a vote of 134 to 69.

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