Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1018

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

PAIR OAKS Health is generally quite good in cr»r yillage no-wadays. News is very scarce... this week a>d there is not much doing. Our high school teachers were absent a couple of days the first of the week on account of the snow blockade. The contractors working on the new school house called the work off last week until next month on account off the weather. Colfax township is entitled to the banner for prompt and efficient work in opening up the roads on the rural route. They used a large grader amd shoved the snow out of the roads. Rev. Downey, former pastor of this place, now living down about Yeddo, was snowbound here over Sunday and preached at the M. E. church Sunday evening to a good sized audience considering the exceedingly bad weather. The rural carriers have been unable to make but short trips for several days. We did not get any mail service on the railroad from Saturday evening till Tuesday noon. Trains coming from the south as well as those from the north looked as if they had been dug out of the snow.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY Sorry, Bill, old hombre, but 19IS has brought no change in our style of peace terms. Quite a number in this vicinity took advantage of the good sledding last week to haul their wood. “The curse of God is upon the French,’’ says General von Lieb. Meaning Dutch Bill’s God, we presume. Motet of the telephone lines which were put out of commission by the sleet last week are in working order again. Wihat’s this? Ol’ Mississippi the Orst to hand King Al, a jolt in connection with, the Ifederal prohibition amendment? Wa’ail, now! W!hy not make that seed corn tester now while you have plenty of time? We can’t afford to “guess” that our seed corn is good this year. The recent sleet was hard on the quail crop, hunters say. Many of these pretty birds, it is believed, perished from lack of food and proper shelter during the storm. The Republicans are looking askance at that part of Wilson’s peace terms relating to the freedom of the seas, and if there is any worse look than “askance,’ history does not mention it. “Dear Sir,’ writes a South Dakota farmer to the manufacturers of veterinary medicines, “I gave one dose of your liniment to a neighbor and it cured his horse in fifteen minutes.” Fine, fine. Jacob Schock, formerly of Mt. Ayr, but ifor the last fifteen years a resident of Milton, Indiana, is now in the National Military Home at Marion, and expects to remain there permanently, he says. It is simply wonderful with what equanimity Abraham/, the mail carrier, endfuires bad weather —sudh as we had last week. Talk about the patience of Job, will you? Job wag nervous and irritable compared to our Abraham. The National Security League ot-

PIONEER V Meat Market EIGELSBACH & SON, Prop*. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow

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

ters $ 1,0 00 reward for the best suggestion as to the most effective method of getting our war aims before the German people. Why not enclose them in shells and hand them to Fritz red hot? How time does fly. First thing we know some ambitious local newspaper will be calling the attention of a tired public to how peculiarly suitable the home town is for the pulling off of a Fourth of July celebration—“abundance of cool water, fine shade” and all that stuff. As road breakers in time of Storm and stress, Davy Miller and Frank Sargent are entitled to a position well up in front. 'The boys appeared upon the horizon Monday afternoon, driving a tfourborse team, and what they did from then on until about sunddwn, in the way of opening up traffic, was sure a-plenty. “A man miust have considerable impudence,’ says the North Star. correspondent in the Kentland Democrat, “to profess to be a Chris-1 tian and yet think himself not obliged to do any acts of charity.” Yes, indeed. It would require “considerable impudence,” we should say, for a person to think that way even though he were a low-down sinner. It seems good to see our old friend Steinbach rtf the Kentland Democrat getting some work from the court house once more. Since ] the last election Newton has had | two Democratic county officials of the old-fashioned type—men who •hold the welfare of their party above a little game of personal spite—and Steinbach, as all true Democrats in this county will be pleased to see, is reaping the benefit.

The fact that somewhere in Illinois there is a man named Phixct conducting a repair shop causes Chicago’s leading newspaper to lean its head on the desk and shake with suppressed laugther. And this, leads up to a guestion which we have long desired to ask: Is there living in Kentland a baker by the name of Krnill, or is this simply another move on the part of some disgruntled north ender to reopen the old wound? No matter what it is, just put it away under shelter and, our word for it, there will come a time when you can use it to good advantage. Fpr example, the young man who was thoughtful enough to store his sleigh in the barn, secure from the gnawings of the elements, has been able to cut quite a dash in the last week or two. while the fellow who hauled his sleigh into a fence corner and let is go to decay was left solitary and alone in the midst ot a vast solitude. As a means of communication, the telephone daring the sleet storm last week was not wholly reliable. If you called up your nearest neighbor and requested him to bring home the sausage grinder, an agriculturist in' an outlying township, as likely as not, would respond with a soul-stirring narrative about sof’ corn: and if you asked some friend in town for information in connection with the “Western front” a garlic-laden voice from somewhere would a tale unfold about the awful winter that pap was kicked by the family mule, etc. Most of the farm tenants in this vicinity who will have to move this year, are preparing to do so while the roads are good. John Anderson. living on the Jacob Schanlaub farm, will move to his own farm, just, north of North Star, and the place vacated by him' will be taken by Joseph Miller of Beaver township. Albert. Anderson will take possession of his recently purchased farm in Colfax township, Jess Miller to succeed him as tenant on the farm from which Albert is moving. Mr. Dungen, on the Oscar Schanlaub farm, will move to Illinois, and a man by the name of Rafferty will move to the Joe Miller farm, near Pilot Grove. The storm the latter part of last week came near being a record breaker. It possessed all. the points of a mean, disagreeable storm —high wind, cold and snow, the snow drifting in many places to a depth of four to six feet. Everything was out of commission from the telephone to the clothes line and from the iron pump to the U. S. mail. This community was simply “snowed under” all day Saturday and

part of Sunday, and in the matter of facilities for obtaininlg news from the outside world —well, Ahe cave man liad us beaten a city block. However, though severe, the storm occasioned no suffering in this vicinity, so far as we have been able to learn. Speaking of the big storm, the first, glad intimation the writer had that everybody was not snowed under and frozen stiff was on Monday morning when he beheld an object to the northward alternately j appearing and disappearing in the j mountainous drifts of the "beautii ful.’’ but pressing onward the while I with a tenacity that would have had Dutch Bill licked two years ago. When the object approached to within hailing distance it proved to be Manasseg Miller, mounted on his roan charger and headed fQr Mt. Ayr. Yes, sir, and he got there, too —bought tobacco for every man on his route and returned in good shape just as the sun was sinking to rest behind the western hills. • A writer, diseussiug the seed corn problem in one of our farm journals, expresses the opinion that many bushels of good seed could be secured if farmers would select the best ears from their cribs, break- ; ing off three to four inches from the j lower or butt ends and putting the remainder of the ear aside to be | tested later on. This idea, we bej lieve, is a good one. During the , husking season it was noticeable ■ that much of the corn was slightly I defective at the butt end, for perhaps and inch or so up, w r hile the remainder of the ear was perfectly sound. Anyway, in view of the J present inadequate supply of seed, any suggestion that promises to j help out a little, is worth considering. “it beats all.” said an old ‘father in Israel’ to the writer one afternoon recently, “what a fuss people make nowadays over a little snow storm. Now when I was a hoy the stormi we had last week wouldn’t he considered nothin’ more’n jist a ordinary rabbit snow. Fifty years ago ] we had snow storms that was storms. I Many’s the time I’ve hauled wood out’n this here timber when the snow was so high on each side of the road that you couldn’t see driver ner team only at’ the crossings; and I fed cattle with icicles two feet long hangin’ from my nose. No use to break ’em off; they’d grow ag’in ’fore you skurcely had time to turn around. And wind! Say, now, I’mi a prayin’ man, and I don't ca’c’late that nobody has ever questioned my veracity, but, podner, I’ve seed the wind gether onto a nine-hundred-pound steer and hold him up ag’in the barn fer thirty minutes and all the while the critter doin’ his dirty damdest to break away. By grab, it makes me plum sick to see newspapers throwin’ out good war news so’s to have more room to mouth about a snow storm that wouldn’t be regarded as bein’ mare’n a good .frost when I was a hoy.”

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Mrs. James Poisel left last Saturday for a visit at Valparaiso. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Moose of Rich Grove township, January 12, a 12 pound boy. Mrs. Della Richardson of Indianpolis came Monday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Herman Long. Mrs. Clyde Shultz and baby who have been visiting relatives here returned to their home in Rensselaer last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Schoonover of Guthrie Center, lowa, who have been the guests of the A. B. Schoonover family, returhed home last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Porter and son of Peoria, Illinois, who have been visiting with John Jones amd family, returned to their home Friday. John. Imes of Alberta, Canada, was ‘here several days last week visiting with the Paris family. He left here Saturday for Monticello, where he in/tended to visit for several days. Mrs. Cora Northway and daughter of Chicago, who have been visiting at the E. C. Williams home returned home last Friday, accompanied by Mrs. Fay Williams, for a few days visit. Mis s Agnes Malia returned to her home in Jefferson township this week from Rochester, Minn., where she underwent an operation for tumor under her arm. Her place in the Medaryville- schools has been take® by Mrs. Sarver.

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GOOTVLAXD (From the Herald) William Force of the Signal Corps at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, was home over Sunday. Mrs. Hattie Armfleld and two daughters have returned from a visit with relatives at Gilead, Indiana. The Misses Sadie and Nellie Heater of Wtinarnae came last week for a visit, with their uncle, J. It. Hazett, and family. Thomas Watson, a member of the U. S. aviation corps at Cleveland, Ohio, was home last Friday on a seventy-two hour furlough. The Misses Olive and Alice Gibbs of Hebron, Indiana? visited last week with their grandmother, Mrs. Guy Henderson, and other friends. Mrs. Frank Kennedy returned to (her home Tuesday from the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, where she had been a patient for a couple of weeks. Mrs. Newt Wickwire and two sons left Thursday morning for their home near Merlin, Canada, after a

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month’s visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Davidson, and other relatives. The county has called in the ten voting machines distributed over the ten townships before the last general election and will return them. Under the new apportionment there are eighteen voting precincts instead of ten, which would necessitate the purchase of eight more machines to supply the demand and as it will be only a short time until women vote, and as there are several offices for which women do not vote, it would require thirty-six machines alone ior Newton county—the Australian ballot system would be the best.

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WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Charles Gallagher was a Logansport visitor Tuesday. Mrs. D. J. Petit spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Lucy Pitts, at Remington. Lewis Warner of Lexington, Nebraska, stopped off here Monday and spent the night with relatives. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Harley Spangle, at their home in Momence, Illinois, Tuesday, January 8, a son. Patrick Comer went to Lafayette Wednesday evening to visit his daughter, Miss Ella, who is teaching there. Mrs. Emma Dobbins of Enos, Oklahoma, who is visiting at Remington, called on Wolcott friends Wednesday. Gorge Wyckoff, who Is working for Bert Shields, south of Wolcott, went to Indianapolis Tuesday to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. Perfect Spencer, who have been visiting relatives at Medaryville, returned home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Ernest Mattox and children returned Saturday evening from Watseka, Illinois, where they spent the week with Mrs. Mattox’s mother, Mrs. Henry Mathew. Miss Ivah McCann of Spirit Lake. lowa, who has been visiting her uncle, Roy Harris and wife, south rtf Wolcott, went to Stockland, Illinois, Wednesday to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Schoonover of Glendon, lowa, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Schoonover, and Mr. Schoonover's sisters, Mrs.’Charles Conder and Mts. Jesse Ku'ns, returned home Wednesday. Rev. Jay. Kenrieh died at nocn Thursday, January 10, at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, where he had been taken for treatment. Rev. Kenrieh was appoint-* ed to the Flackville church last fall, his previous charge having been Culver, Indiana. Before leaving Culver Rev. Kenrieh went into a decline and had never recovered sufficiently to fill his charge at Flackville. a suburb of Indianapolis.. The Remains will he brought here this Friday on the evening train. The funeral will be held at the Methodist church Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial made in the family lot at Meadow Lake cemetery.

record op the past No Stronger Evidence Can Re Had in Rensselaer. I.ook well to their record. What they have done many times in years gone by is the best guarantee of future results. Anyone with a had hack: any reader suffering from bladder troubles, from kidney ills, should find comforting words in the following statement. Mrs. Aaron Hickman, W. Vine St., Rensselaer, says: “I had simh severe backaches, headaches and pains across my loins that I eouldn 11 sleep well. T felt tired and w T orn out when morning came. I had no strength or ambition to do any-1 thing. I finally got Doan’s Kidney, Pills from B. F. Fondig’s drug store,' and they gave me relief at once. Doan’s strengthened my kidneys, relieved me of the backaches and made me feel fine.” (Statement given May 31, 1907). I On February 29. 1910. Mrs. Hick-j man said: “Doan’s Kidney Pills have surely done good work in air family. I shall always praise them.” Price 60c. at all dealers. Don t simply ask for a kidney remedj— - get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same' that Mrs. Hickman has twice pub-] liely recommended. Foster-Malhurn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.—Advt. The Democrat is still selling a good commercial envelope, XX and XXX, size 5, 6. C 3-4 and a few. bonds left, at 5c per package o T twenty-five. When the present; supply, bought before the big ad-1 vance in prices, Is exhausted we will be obliged to advance the] prices. Better lay in a supply now while you can get them at the old figure. ' Shark fishing has evolved from a sport to an organized industry in the Pacific waters off the southwestern coast. The skin .of . various species of the fish when tanned forms b tough, durable leather that la in considerable demand, and the oil that is extracted from

Postponed Public Sale On account o| the impassable condition of the roads the S G. Woodruff public sale has been postponed from Tuesday, January 15, to Friday, January 25, 1918 Sale begins at 11 a. m. at residence 3 1-2 miles south and 4 1-2 miles west of Rensselaei 1 , 6 miles east and 1 mile north of Brook and 2 1-2 miles east and 1 mile north of Foresman. Sale includes 17 head of Horses and Mules 12 head extra fine Milk Cows 14 Good Brood Sows Farming Implements, Etc. S. 6. WOODRUFF.

the carcass likewise has commercial value. Of late a Japanese syndicate has undertaken the exploitation of this long neglected field, and, as a result, large numbers of sharks are being captured. The mottled skins of the tiger sharks are being made into slippers, belts, gloves ahd other articles, while those of the great blue and basking sharks, which are especially thick and strong, are used for purposes that demand long-lived material.—Popular Mechanics. Advertise in The Democrat.

Public Sale O •' j ■ ■- - f The undersigned, having quit farming, will sell at public auction at his residence, one-half mile south and 3% miles weßt of Wolcott; one-half mile south and 2 3-4 miles east us Remington, on Wednesday, Jan. 23,’18 Commencing at .10 a. m., sharp, the following described property: 17 Head Horses and Mules One bay mare, 7 years old, wt 1400. in foal; 1 bay mare, 8 vears old. wt 1350; 1 brown mare, 8 years old, wt 1300; 1 bay driving mare, 8 years old, wt 1100; 1 black mare, 5 years old. wt 1160; l black horse, 5 years old, wt 1200; 1 bay horse, 5 years old, wt 140*0; 1 bay mare, 12 years old wt 1200, in foal; 1 gray horse, 7 years old, wt 1200; l steel grav mare. 3 years old. wt 1050; 1 steel gray mare, 2 years old wt 10**i: 1 roan gelding, 2 years old, wt 950; 1 blue roan gelding. 1 year old, wt 800; 2 spring colts, horse and mare; 1 mule colt, a good one. 60 Head of Cattle Seventeen head or cows, 3 to * years old, bred to Roan Shorthorn bull. Some or these cow« are giving a good flow of milk. 16 steers." 1 year old: 2 2-year old steers; 5 2-year-old heifers; 10 1- heifers; 18 spring and summer calves, 9 steers and 9 heifers; 1 Roan Shorthorn bull, 2 years old: , 42 Head of Hogs Fourteen brood sows, consisting of 5 full-blood Duroos, wt 375 to 450: 1 full blood O. I. C., wt about 400; 1 full-blood Poland China, wt 350; 7 full-blood Duroc spring gilts, wt 200 to 250 bred to full-blood Duroc boar and are due to farrow in March and April; 28 rail shoats, wt 80 pounds. These hogs are all double iiuaiuned. Wagons, Implements, Etc. Three farm wagons: 1 S4:t John Deere solid wheel disc, 1 Keystone solid wheel disc; 1 7-ft Deere spader; 1 3.-section flexible barrow: 1 4-section flexible harrow; 1 double ran end--ate -seeder: 2 John Deere stag riding plows, Di-inch; 1 Gale riding pknr, ift-inch; I 7-ft pulverizer; 1 Gale corn planter, with 80 rods of wire: 1 Rock Island corn planter, with 80 rods of wire; 3 Janesville riding cultivators; 1 2-row Tower gopher, 1 single-row Tower gopher: 1 5-ft McCormick mower; 1 weedei, 1 8-ft Deering binder: 1 Osborne corn binder; 1 Corn King manure spreader: 1 Camp dump, 36-ft, with 4 4-ft spout; 1 ■oieed jack: 1 5-h. p. .Stickney gas engine; 1 feed cutter; 1 2- corn' shelter with rob stacker and elevator; 1 Cow Boy tank heater: l O. K. hog fountain; 1 bob-sled; 2. hay racks; l gravel bed: 1 smutter: t Olds separator; 1 International feed grinder. 8-inch burr; 1 grind stone; 1 potato digger; 1 ditca C Four sets of good work harness; 1 set of double driving harness; 1 set single harness; 10 collars: 15 leather halters; set of fly nets; 2 saddles. ■ - Terms of Sale © All sa!ns of $lO or under, cash in hand; on sums over $lO a credit of 12 months will be given, purchaser giving note with good reehold security, approved by clerk or sale; with interest at 5 i-er cent if paid at maturity: if not paid at maturity 8 per cent interest from date: 3 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. Xo property to be removed until terms °f saie are complied with. T-St'S#®® ISAAC SHANNON E L. Wright mad Harvey Williams, Auctioneers. Ed Spencer • and John Phelps, Clerks. Hot lunch by Hascall. Sale will be held under a big tent.

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