Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY Cheer up. We are over the worst. Mt. Ayr is talking community church. Only a short time now till flowers aad birds and green leaves. Whoop —whoope! The Jackson Township Farmers’ Institute will be held in Mt. Ayr February 5. Everybody shoveled snow but father, and father helped some, too. Poor old Ifather! The fellow whose business it is to kill off the Michigan peach crop is due now most any time. The days are long enough now for a man to take a good smoke between breakfast and supper. Mrs. Joe Wildrick of Colfax township was reported quite sick with pneumonia the fasa. part of the week. If snow and steady cold weather is good for the wheat, then give me snow and steady cold weather. Hein? It is quite safe to say that the first bluebird will meet with a reception this spring little short of an ovation. What has become of the plain, blunt citizen who unerringly prognosticated the weather by that “feelin' in his great toe?” Clarence Blankenbaker lost a good young mare the other day, due, he thinks, to the new disease mentioned elsewhere in these items. The man who prophesied a mild, open winter has not been doing any prophesying lately. Too busy trying to stave off a horrible death by freezing. This is going to be a year of great things. Will you be a good sport and push and holler or will you take on a grouch and sulk in your tent? Son views the Saturday school proposition as an invasion of his God-given rights, but Dad takes to the scheme with an enthusiasm that is almost indecent. Old Boreas, it seems, dealt none too gently with the potato crop in this locality. The loss of potatoes from frost, it is feared, may prove to be considerable. May as well discontinue the thing of German in our public schools. For the next twenty years or more no one will believe anything that is said in German anyway. And then, too, the nation’s corn crop would be materially increased, no doubt, if a certain class of farmers could be persuaded that spring is the time to plant corn instead of early autumn.. Dr. E. R. Schanlaub, veterinarian, reports a strange disease among horses and which is due, he thinks, to some poisonous substance in stalk fields. The disease, the doctor says, is generally fatal. This section was swept by a young blizzard last Saturday. Not very cold, but the snow drifted badly, necessitating some more hard work on the part of our “Shoveling brigade.” \ Seymore IHJckman, according to the Mt. Ayr Tribune, found a snake five feet long cavorting in the snow during one of the recent cold days. We have been flattering ourself that we were something of a liar, but it seems that we are merely a cheap imitation. The truly patriotic farmer will not be satisfied with the knowledge

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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 te have a sale it will pay you to see me at once. Large sale tent furnished to customers. PHONE FOR DATES AT MY EXPENSE

that he has enough seed corn for his own use; he will go to some trouble to see that his neighbors also are supplied. "Help each other’’ should be the motto with farmers this year. What’s this we hear about an order prohibiting our soldier b,oys from speaking profanity to the government mule? When our longeared friend is ordered to throw himself against the hogskin how is he to understand unless the command is supplemented by the usual flow of language? If the snow and cold weather continue much longer there is bound to be a rough feed shortage in this locality long before the usual time for grass. There should be half of the rough feed supply remaining on February 1, cattle feeders say, but, as things look now, not a few farmers may consider themselves lucky if they are able to begin February with even a third of their rough feed left. Yes, pride goeth beifore a fall. For example, Abe Bringle, not long ago, leaped several feet above the earth and crowed loud and long over the fact that he had not lost a single day during his fifteen years as mail carrier. And then old King Winter laughed far back in his whiskers, performed a stunt or two in the matter of weather, since when, A. B. has not pointed with pride to any great extent. The death of Scott Clark occurred at his home in west Jackson township on Thursday night of last week. Mr. Clark’s death was due to an accident while he was hauling wood a day or two before, the load overturning with the result that he sustained a fracture of the leg and internal injuries. Deceased leaves a wife and two married children — Lawson Clark of near Thayer and Mrs. Henry Moore of Morocco. Here is another way to bring the unspeakable Hun to a realizing sense of his unworthiness: Let every American citizen refuse absolutely to buy, use of offer to sell any article made in Germany no matter what it may be. We are well aware that this course would not be in accordance with the Golden Rule — the Golden Rule and the Hun won’t mix—it would simply mean putting into practice the old adage about “fighting the devil with fire.” Just east of what was at one time known as Little Lake, in northern Newton county, there is an ancient burying ground which dates back no doubt to the time df the Mound Builders. Besides the discovery of human skeletons, excavations in this burial place have brought to light fragments of the most beautiful designed pottery, together with weapons for use, doubtless, in war and in the chase, and of whose workmanship the Indians, it is said, knew as little as do the American people at the present time. J. M. Hufty of Mt. Ayr has been in quite poor health since the beginning of winter and is showing little or no signs of improvement at this writing. Mr. Huifty is one of Jackson township’s oldest and most widely known citizens. He conducted the Pilot Grove store here from 1874 to 1883, when he remdv/d to Mt. Ayr and continued in business there for a number of years. He served as postmaster under the Cleveland administrations, and has held the office of justice of the peace for many years. The writer is recovering from his annual siege of grippe, which, if he has kept correct tab, is the forty-ninth time he has been laid low by this fell disease during his short life. And, speaking of grippe, permit us to remark from an overflowing heart that it is more relentless than Kaiser Bill and more treacherous that a Digger Indian. Grippe lays hold Of a man in the very bloom of physical and mental vigor and in a few short hourss the victim is merely a shadowy reminder of his former greatness—with a mind so depressed and weakened that he turns away from the simple proposition of pounding sand in a rat hole or pouring water out of a boot as presenting a problem entirely too deep and complex for human understanding. We picked up a local newspaper the other day and read the following list of questions, addressed to boys: ‘‘Why does a horse eat grass backward and a cow forward? Why does a hop vine always wind one way and a bean vine another? Gan

you tell why a horse, when tethered with a rope, always unravels it, while a cow always twists it into a kinky knot? Why do leaves turn upside down just before a rain? etc., etc.” Nice work, this, but so long as the boy doesn’t object, why not continue the lesson? For instance: HOw milch dick Fond du Lac? What made the Dead sea die? Who did Amsterdam? What caused poor old Magellan’s Straits? Why will men vote the Republican ticket when there is no law compelling them to do so? and why will newspapers ask questions which they themselves cannot answer? Since the beginning of the present war the wooley, wild-eyed U. S. alarmist has sure had the time of his life. For this country he has prophesied every ill, Teutonic, imaginable. He has seen our President exiled by Dutch Bill and his crew, every American home adjacent to our sea casts put to the torch, our luxurious crop of millionaires deprived of their wealth and turned out to graze on the hillsides of New York, and our citizens groveling in spaniel-like humility at the feet of the “all-powerful” Hun. It seems never to have occurred to the alarmist that this country might possibly interpose an objection to the above and 'foregoing. His eyes are sot, so to speak, and only two things, seemingly, appear within the scope of his vision—Germanic strength and American weakness. Might it not be well for this class of writers to stop and do a little thinking? To ask themselves if there is anything in the history of this country, as a fighting nation, to warrant these doleful predictions, and is it possible for the widespread publication of this brand of "hot air’ to be followed by any result other than evil?

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LOVERS’ CORNER James Hill is on the sick list this week. Winnie Williatns was a Kniman goer Monday. Winnie Williams is on the sick list this week. Mr. Sutton called on Mr. Lockard Monday evening. Miss Ethel Hill was a Kniman goer Wednesday. The Virgi© boys are busy cutting cord wood at Williams’. Miss Fay Williams visited her brother, Carey Williams, Sunday. Earl Wiseman and James Hill were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Earl Williams and sister Fay attended church at Kniman Sunday. W. W. Zellers is closing his store Mondays because of the fuel shortage. Misses Maud and Ethel Hill took dinner Sunday with Miss . Mamie Binge. Jack Gasaway and Louise Hill took dinner Sunday with Miss Hazel Hurley. Miss Fay Williams called on the Misses Ethel and Maud Hill Tuesday afternoon. Misses Maud, Ethel and Mamie Hill spent Wednesday with Miss Margaret Shuey. Mis s Mamie Binge was the guest of the Misses Maud and Ethel Hill Tuesday evening. Paul Booth, James Hill and Jay Williams were Demotte goers last Thursday evening. Mrs. James Hill returned Saturday morning fromi visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Crownover, at Kniman.

FAIR OAKS Sam Potts moved back to town Wednesday. Health is reasonably gopd in our village this week. Miss Edna Wood is visiting relatives here this week. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Abe Bringle’s Wednesday evening. Rev. F. W. Johnston occupied the pulpit at the Christian church Sunday evening. Mrs. C. A. Gundy was a Rensselaer caller a couple of days the first of the week. F. O. Garriott and wife of the old Beaver lake region, were visitors here Wednesday. Part of the material !for the plumbing of the new school house arrived the first of the week. Our merchants lined up on the Monday holiday order and closed their doors Monday afternoon. Charles Gundy and John Dean, who are working at Indiana Harbor, were home this week with their families. The task of keeping the roads in a passable condition the past two or three weeks has been very continuous. Guv Potter moved Tuesday from one of Abe Bringle’.s properties in with his grandfather, F, M. Goff, in the north part of town. Mrs. Jessie Garriott. who has been on the sick list for some time, had a very severe attack of her trouble Wednesday, but has improved some since. ' . • We are still having"‘kaiser* weather—that, in other words, is all kinds of weather. The man who likes cold, stojrmy weather is the man who has wood to sell. Ray Wood, who has worked for Mr. Tolin in Newton county since last spring, moved Thursday to the Marshall farm of John Kimble’s, where he will remain indefinitely. Rev. F. W. Johnston of Kenton, Ohio, was a guest at the Bringle home from Thursday until Monday. Rev.' Johnston taught school in this township some six or seven years ago.

SOUTH AMERICA Albert Dolfin was a Monon goer Friday. Mrs. Fred Saltwell was a McCoysburg goer Wednesday. Miss Jessie Dolfin called on 'Mrs. James Blankenship Friday.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Lew Swartz and Walter Chapman Were in MeCoysburg Saturday. Russel Clyde and Gail Ward called on William Chapman Saturday., Albert Dolfin and children called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell Sunday. Miss Jessie Dolfin spent Wednesday with the family of James Blankenship. Albert Dolfin and children spent Sunday with Milton Bunnell and ifamily. William Chapman and family spent Sunday with Lonzo Ward and family. Clarence Cludy and Orval Blankenship attended Mr. Warren’s sale Friday. Oliver Hamilton and Miss Jessie Dolfin called on William Chapman and family Saturday.

GIFFORD Miss Vesta Brown was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Reuben Snow of MeCoysburg Is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Ellen, Swisher is reported seriously ill at this writing. Mrs. Della Reed called on Mrs. Eva Caster Tuesday afternoon. Will Obencbain and Tom Lambert were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Wesley Scott of Medaryville spent a few days thig week with Charles Scott. We are having a coal oil famine in our burg, as our stores) haven’t had any oil for two weeks past. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Norris and family spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. George Snow, north of here. Will Ste?l returned to his home here Friday from the hospital at Rensselaer. Mlsg Edith Smith also returned Friday. Lyde Ward, so we understand, is going to move on Ed. Oliver’s headquarters farm and has contracted to raise 1,000 acres of sugar beets. He is an experienced man in this line. The Parr mail carrier, Mr. Lowman, was unable to cover his route and bring us any mall Saturday and , Monday owing to the condition of the roads. He was also unable to cover all of his route yet Tuesday. Teddy Keen and Cliff Grimm started to Gary Monday to secure positions there. But they stopped off at Kersey and thinking of the big town efi Gary got tired of it, and returned the next Monday. How close is Demotte to Kersey, boys? Jesse Grimm went to Rensselaer Friday to be examined for army service, as he is in class one. He walked’ to MeCoysburg and telephoned back that the snow in places on the railroad was four and five feet deep. Mr. Grimm passed the examination and is expecting to be called for service about February 15: We hate to see himi leave us but he is anxiously awaiting to do his bit for Uncle Sam and his country.

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conductsd by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Poultry Production to Be Increased From today until the war is won, the U. S. Department oif Agriculture earnestly requests every one of the 1,4 58 poultry growers in this county to help overcome any possible crisis by turning into action this slogan: “One hundred hens on every farm, 100 eggs from every hen in Jasper county.” This slogan was not adopted at random, but was progressively worked out from an analysis of the present situation on farms and careful estimates of the possibilities of increasing production by methods suited to conditions on the average farm. If every farmer in thia county will hatch 275 chickens within the next sixty days so as to have 100 mature pullets ready to lay their first egg about October 1 of this year, it will mean an increase of about 437,400 pounds of poultry meat. By so doing the farmers of this county would make possible the release of over 218 tons of red meat 'for our coldiers. the fighting men of our allies and their families. Hatching should begin in March. To do this breeding stock should be mated within the next week. The early hatched pullets are the mon-ey-makers. The secret of getting pullets to lay in cold weather is to have them matured and laying before October’s frosts. As it requires seven months to mature

Peruaa cases I tbc burden of the fl housekeeper by keep- fl ing away the danger fl ’ of illness resulting ■ I from colds, coughs, fl I and indigestion due kS It° catarrhal condi- ■ I tion. It speedily re- ■ J lieves and overcomes fl these. Its tonic properties build up m fl the strength of the physically || fl weak and run down, and its use ■ fl in convalescense. especially after grip K ■ is remarkably beneficial. & I KEEP IT ON HAND | fl The wise housekeeper has Penina fl fl on hand for instantuseevenifcatarrhal fl fl troubles do not call for its regular ad- ■ fl ministration. A dose or two in time fl fl often prevents a long illness. fl Liquid or tablet form. fl Manalin Tablets are a splendid fl ■ laxative for home use. ■ Ask the drugglM fl fl THE PERUNA COMPANY fl ■ Columbus, Ohio fl

How $4 Worth of Fertilizer Turns to S4O Worth of Pork Here’s a proposition that often pays ten dollars for every dollar invested. It’s a way to convert fertilizer into hogs. Sounds curious—certainly does. But it’s true. Simply invest $4 per acre in Read Fertilizers to go on your corn. It often increases the yield 20 bushels per acre.: Those 20 bushels of corn if carefully fed to hogs will make 200 lbs. of pork —worth S4O to SSO. - It’s just plain “horse-sense” to convert cheap chemicals into high priced corn and hogs. It’s just plain foolishness, with corn bringing good prices, to let your crop starve and stunt for lack of nourishment. The farmer who keeps selling crops off ihis land, and who doesn’t use fertilizer is selling the birthright of his farm —its fertility. He’s selling the thing that creates land value. He’s selling his farm and doesn’t realize it. Remember there are tlhree elements that each crop takes away. Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash. All three must be replaced. The missing elements govern the size of the crop. For one element cannot take the place of another. It costs only a few cents more per acre to give the crop all three dishes of plant food Instead of only one. You get all three elements in The Read Fertilizers Nitrogen is supplied in many formas—available at different times to feed the crop from seed-time ’til harvest. Large quantities of tobacco stems are need—rich in Nitrogen and containing 6 pct. to 10 pct. Potash. Tobacco stems add organic matter, and are an insecticide that protects the plant roots from Insects. We can furnish goods containing as mitich as 5 pct. Potash. Thos. Reed, Agent Remington, Ind., R-3

Plymouth Rock, Rhoae Island Red and Wyandotte pullets and six to six and one-half months to mature Leghorn pullets, it is absolutely essential to hatch Plymouth . Rocks and all heavy breeds between March 1 and March 31; all Leghorns before April 30. If pullets hatched this year are not laying before heavy frosts next fall, the cold weather will retard their development to such an extent that it will be practically impossible to get them to lay until spring, 1919. Club Meetings The North Union Farmers’ club will hold its regular meeting at Virgie Saturday evening, February 2. The new program comimiittee, headed by L. E. Harrington, has arranged the following program: Everybody invited. Song, “They All Sang ‘Annie Laurie,’ the Song that Every Soldier Knows”Knlman Quartet Recitations ......A. L. McCurtain Song i .... Virgie Quartet Conservation of Manure.R. L. Budd Song Nellie McCurtain Feed and Care of Farm Fowls. . . .Mrs. I. F. Meader Song, “Somewhere in France Is the Lily” . . Knlman Quartet Why I Am a Farmer C. A. Harrington Song ' Virgie Quartet Seed Corn Emergency.. R. A. Conn Discussion, led by Mr. Meader and followed by interested. Song, A-M-E-R-I-C-A means ‘I Love You, My Yankee Land’ Knlman Quartet Another Angus Herd Started ■H. W. Marble of Wheatfield returned last week from Muncie where he purchased six registered Angus heifers as a foundation for a i>ure-bred herd. Mr. Marble has been in the Angus business for some time but this is his first purchase of pure-bred females. Me is firm In the belief that northern Jasper county miust be developed through the use of livestock. He expects to develop his own land through the use of limestone and clover in order that more livestock may be kept. Farm Accounts Popular That the farmer is becoming a business man is shown by the large number of requests for Farm Record Books coming to the county agent’s office. When summarized at the end of the year these books will show the net income from the farm and the farmer’s labor income. The labor income is what the farmer makes for his year’s labor after paying all expenses and interest on all capital. The book enables .the farmer to find the strong and weak places in his farm business and make changes that will result in greater profits. These books will be supplied without charge to farmers who will agree to keep them. Poultry Association Meeting Another poultry show will be held next winter, according to plans made at the annual meeting of the Jasper County Poultry association held last Friday evening. The association plans to take an active part in the government’s plan to increase poultry production this season. Lime Needed "We need lime more than anything- else in our section of the county,” said Jos. Pullins of Barkley tnwnshin at the fertilizer meeting held Tuesday. “f find that when we can get the soil sweetened so. that we ran raise clover and alfalfa. we can rci.se good crops fol-* lowing them without much fertilize, er.’’ Clover Seed A group of prominent farmers were the clover seed situation the other day. “Can I afford to pay S2O a bushel for clover seed this Spring?” was the question brought up. “It is easier to sell 80-cent oats to buy S2O-elover seed than it was to sell 30-cent oats to buy $lO seed,” was the answer given by one of the Parr men. .It is short-sighted policy to give up clover this year on account of the cost of the seed. Clover will pay big returns in increased soil fertility, protein ifeed for our livestock. Farmers’ Institute at Kniman The first farmers’ institute to be

Leld in the county in years will be held at Kniman Saturday, February 23. Prof. F. C. Gaylord vylll discuss the "Home Garden” and a talk will be given on “Corn Root Louse Control.’’ Plans are being made for a big all-day session. Test Every Ear of Seed Corn “Test every ear of seed corn,” is the slogan of the entire force of workers of the United States Department of Agriculture. Careful observers report that hot over one-. half of the seed saved and stored under the best conditions will grow. Ono of the cheapest as well as most convenient and accurate methods of testing seed corn is known as the “rag doll’’ method. For this test buy a few yards of sheeting off good quality and tear it into strips 8 inches wide and from 3 to 5 feet long. If it is planned to use the strips a number of times hem the edges, as otherwise the ravelings sometimes disarrange the kernels in unrolling. Down the middle 6f each cloth strip, lengthwise, draw a line with a heavy pencil. Then draw cross lines at right angles to the first to divide the strips into squares about three inches wide. Wet one of the strips thoroughly and stretch it out ■ln_front-of- the ears to be tested. Take six kernels from ear No. 1, as was described in the sawdust test, and place in square No. 1; take six kernels from ear No. 2 and place itt square No. 2; and so on. When the cloth has been filled, begin at either end and roll the cloth up. If It Is well moistened the kernels will not push" out,of place. When the cloth has been rolled, tie a string around each end rather loosely, or better still, use a rubber band. Number this roll No. I. Then proceed with roll No. 2 in the sarnie way. As many rolls may be used as are necessary to contain the corn which one has to test. From thirty to fifty ears can be tested in each roll. After the rolls have been filled they should be placed in a bucket or tub of water where they may remain from two to eighteen hours, depending upon the preference of the operator. At the end olf this time pour off the water and turn the bucket or tub upside down over the rolls, or use a common drygoods box for this purpose. A couple of small pieces of Wood should be lifted front one-half to' one inch in order to give ventilation. At the end of five days the kernels should be ready. Depending upon the arrangement of the ears, select first either roll No. 1 or the last roll fillejl. This cloth will be unrolled in front of the ears represented. Examine all kernels, carefully, as in the sawdust test. In all cases in which all six kernels are not strong in germination the ear should be thrown away. This method is simple and inexpensive, and the seed dorn situation is so serious that no farmer can afford to plant seed that has not been carefully tested. Seed Uorn Located George Parker, chairman of the United States Seed Stocks committee o>f Hanging Grove township, has located a supply of seed corn which he thinks Will take care of all the needs of his locality. He has taken up with the elevators , the matter of distributing this: seed which he expects to secure at^a. very reasonable price. A meeting Will be held at the postoffice at McCoysburg next Wednesday afternoon,., February 6, at 1 o’clock, t<f make complete arrangements dor the purchasing of this seed. All farmers who will need seed corn this coming spring are invited and urged to be present at this meeting. All of the township chairmen of the Seed Stock committee are doing excellent work in locating the stocks of seed and the needs of their townships, but Mr. Parker is the first man who has definitely taken up the matter of importing seed and he is to be commended on this move.

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