Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1918 — Page 1

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MORE MONEY FOR FARMERS

Grain Concern Directors Vote to Increase Prices Paid. At a meeting of the directors of the Farmers’ Elevator company at the court house Saturday afternoon it was voted to increase the prices paid for both corn and oats and in the future to buy the grains on a more narrow margin. The price of corn was therefore made $1.05 per bushel, and the price of oats will be three cents below the Chicago market quotations. C. W. Postill, secretary of the company, was elected a delegate to the state convention of farmers’ elevator associations in session at Lafayette yesterday and today. The directors also ordered the installation of an electric light over their wagon scales.

TALK OF COMMUNITY COAL YARD.

There is quite a bit of talk of trying to establish a community coal company in Rensselaer to handle this great public necessity at practically the actual cost of handling, which would mean a saving of about $2 per ton over the (prices charged, here during the recent coal “shortage,” and be another case of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.

REAL TROOPS AT CAMP TAYLOR

Jasper County Boys in Good Health and Well Cared For. The Democrat editor and wife visited their son, D. J. Babcpck, at Louisville Friday. Practically all the Jasper county boys still at Camp Taylor are in Co. B, 309th Engineers, and Friday being a holiday, the engineers, after gun inspection in the forenoon, were allowed to go their way for the rest of the day. As the engineers had been out on rifle range practice for the two or three days previous they were excused from taking part in the Washington’s birthday parade in Louisville and were scattered over camp and city, so that we did not meet anv„pf the Jasper county boys other than Delevan and Louis Misch. The parade of the soldiers in Louisville was certainly an inspiring sight. It was led by the large military band of iperhaps 150 pieces and there were three smaller army bands scattered along in the line. There were 6,000 khaki clad soldiers in the parade; they marched four abreast and so closely together that they would have stepped on each other’s heels almost had not perfect step been kept. The higher officers were mounted on saddle horses and led each column of troops. All the men wore their oyercoats, carried guns and wore the gray knit gloves issued by the government. 4-11 were clean shaven, and yrere the finest specimens of physical manhood we ever saw, a fact that wap reparsed on all of the crowded and packed streets along the line of parade.

The nien borQ themselves in a §oldieriy planner, and marched like veterans, not seeming to mind the iong hike in the least. ft took some thirty-five minutes for the parade to pass the reviewing Stand, erected in front of the court house, and the boys were stepping it off quite lively, too. It was the largest parade of soldiers ever seen in Louisville, and relatives and friends of the boys were there from all parts of the country, all the hotels being crowded. All the Jasper county boys were well, so far as we could learn, and they are looking fine and feeling good. Art Battleday now has charge of all the automobiles and motorcycles in the 309th Engineers, and is in line for promotion to sergeant of transportation, which he will likely get, as. he is an expert auto mechanic. This position pays something like SBO per month. His present position pays about S4B, we believe. Several of the boys of the 309t1i have been ordered to Camp Dix, New Jersey, but Carl Leatherman is the only Jasper county boy included in this number that we learned of. He was still at Camp Taylor and did not know just when he would be eent away. These boys go to fill up other organizations of engineers, it is understood, and it is probable will soon be sent to France. One is certainly astonished at the immensity of Camp Taylor, which is a large city in itself, with hundreds —perhaps thousands —of large bulld-

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Intiresting Paragraphs From th# Various Dupartment s OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Commissioners* court convenes Monday. Attorney John A. Dunlap was In Lafayette on business Friday. County Attorney Roy Blue was amonig those from Wheatfield in the city on business Monday and yesterday. Attorney W. H. Parkinson has been confined to his home for several days past by rheumatism, with which he has suffered considerable in the past several months. County Assessor G. L. Thornton was in Lafayette Monday attending a meeting of county assessors of this district. The township assessors will start on their annual rounds March 1.

iHon. W. L. Wood, who has twice represented this district in the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, will again be a candidate ' for re-election. Mr. Wood made a splendid record during the two terms he has served in the legislature and, if we must have a Republican representative, we know of no one that we would rather see occupy that position than Mr. Wood. Deputy Sheriffs' John Robinson and L. A. Harmon and Township Assessor True Woodworth of Rensselaer, and Gail Michal of Walker township have announced their candidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Jasper county. It has been understood that Peter McDaniel would also be a candidate, but he has made no published announcement of the fact as yet. The only other Republican candidate for county office that we have heard mentioned prominently IS' Schuyler C. Robinson of Gillam township, who will seek the nomination for auditor, but there has never been any dearth of patriots in the g. o. p. ranks who are willing to serve their country for a substantial salary, and we may confidently expect that the woods are full of them this year.

Marriage licenses issued: February 23, Omar Horace Daniels of Barkley township, aged 20 October 6 last, occupation farmer, to Mabel Gertrude Faylor of Union township, aged 22 May 3 last, occupation teacher. First marriage for each. M al « being under age, his father, Horace Daniels, filed written consent to issuance of license. February 23, to Roy Thomas Brouhard of Fair Oaks, aged 35 August 1 last, occupation railway employe, to Fae Bradford Petty, also of Fair Oaks, aged 33 November 1 last, occupation teacher. Second marriage for each, first marriage of male having been dissolved by divorce in 1914, and first marriage of female dissolved by death October 15, 1915. Married in the “palm room” at the clerk’s office by Rev. C. W. Postill.

DANIELS-FAYLOR NUPTIALS

Mr. Omar H. Daniels, son of Daniels, and Miss Mabel G. Faylor, daughter of J. W. Faylor of Union township, were married Sunday evening at the home of the bride’s parents southwest of Aix, Rev. Irvin H. Ade, of Mt. Ayr, who is also pastor of the Brushwood church, officiating and using the full ring ceremony. The bridal couple were attended by Mr. Raymond Faylor and Miss Dora Daniels. Only the immediate relatives of the contracting parties were present. - Mr. Daniels is the teacher of the Aix school, and the newlyweds will reside on the Daniels farm. The Democrat joins the many friends of the young couple in extending congratulations. Up to date we have heard no word from Mr. Hoover that the hole in the doughnut should be made smaller. . .

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918

CELEBRATE 61ST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Warner celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary Sunday, in a family dinner at the home of their son, Hale Warner. This venerable couple are enjoying very good general health, Mr. Warner especially, and except for rheumatism Mrs. Warner is in good health. Mr. Warner will be 85 years of age next month and his wife will be 82 In May. Most of their life has been spent in Rensselaer, and it is the hearty wish of their many friends that they may live for several years yet to enjoy the companionship of each other that they have enjoyed for more than three score yeors.

The Red Cross workers comply, ed the following articles last week: 3 large paper backed pads, 1 small paper backed pad, 1 large irrigation pad, 1 small irrigatioti pad, 40 gauze strips, 175 large gauze compresses, 350 small gauze compresses, 25 gauze wipes, 40 gauze sponges, 10 abdominal bandages, 5 T bandages, 15 triangular bandages, 5 4-tailed bandages, 11 sweaters, 4 helmets, 3 pairs wristlets, 4 pairs socks, 2 comfort pillows, 6 pillow cases, 12 dust cloths, 14 handkerchiefs, 6 hospital shirts, 2 knitted slumber robes.

‘UNCLE’ MARSH WARNER DEAD

Old Citizen Answered Grim Reaper’s Call Yesterday. Marshall P. Warner, an old and well-known resident of Rensselaer, died at his home at the east side of town at 4:30 o’clock yesterday morning, at the age of almost seventynine years. He had been in poor health for some time and his death did not come unexpected. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Methodist church, and interment made in Weston cemetery. Mr. Warner leaves a wife and one child, James Warner, and there is one surviving Mother, Norman Warner of this city, remaining of the family of boys and girls; all except “Uncle’’ Norm now having passed over. For many years Mr. Warner was an active business man of Rensselaer, but some fifteen years ago he purchased a small tract of ground just at the east side of town and settled down to a retired life. Up until some months ago he had enjoyed very good health; he had since been stricken with paralysis and had gradually declined. For the last two or three days he had lain in a semi-conscious condition and it was known that the end was near.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

An old-fashioned spelling match will be an all-day occurrence at thp Blake school in Jordan township next Thursday. The four rural schools will meet at Blake and begin the spelling at 10 o’clock and take an hour and a half out for their big basket dinner. County Superintendent Sterrett will pronounce the words at this match. The results will be announced in a later issue of this paper. Some of the rural schools will have finished their ■ terms before the first of April. Probably the first school to get out this year will be the Burnstown school tatight by Miss Leah Flora. This is a Barkley township school. Grant Davisson, trustee of Barkley, was able to get to town last Monday for the first time for weeks. He had been sick and unable to get out from his home. Burdette Porter, trustee of Carpenter, came to •Rensselaer for a short business matter last Monday. Miss Grace Warnock, who had been teaching for Mr. Porter, has resigned and her sister has taken the school. Ernest W’ineland of Fair View school in Hanging Grove was unable to teach for a week on account of sickness. Ruth Kennedy of Gifford was sick with the German measles for a short time and dismissed school. Mrs. P.etty at Fair Oaks has resumed her work after more than a week’s sickness. Miss Rosabelle Daugherty substituted for Mrs. Petty during her sickness. Mrs. Ruth Schwanke has been on the sick list at Demotte but is back in the school room again. The third sectional institute will be held at ' Remington next Saturday. The eighth grade diploma examination will be held Saturday, March 16. Pupils who have made the required number of home work credits are excused from the agriculture or domestic science on this examination. Pupils who passed on the semi-annual examination held last December in music are also excused in that subject. There are about 175 eighth grade pupils in the county. Seventh grade pu-

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

WapMc Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Place*. RUSSIA IN GERMANY’S POWER Their Acceptance of Peace Terms Changes the Map of Europe. London, February 25. —'Russia's acceptance of Germany’s peace terms cuts from Russia 3 81,001 square miles of territory, 50,000,000 people, and shoves her back from the Baltic, leaving her helpless and Impotent In Germany’s power, economically and physically. The press today had not time to comprehend the full meaning of the situation. The headlines contained such words as “tragic,” “dismembered,” “humiliating,” “impotent.” The Post says there is “no hypothesis but treachery.” "She is disarmed and helpless," says the Chronicle.

GENERAL GREENE AT HOME

Says Americans in France Are Making Fine Progress. Washington, February 25. —Maj-or-General Henry A. Greene, at one time stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, now commanding the division at Camp Lewis, Washingtori, has arrived in Washington from France, bringing with him a very definite impression that things are going all right across the water. He saw the Indiana forces. Even a major-general is prohibited from disciisslng vital military matters for publication, but without going into details the message brought by General Greene is reassuring. He reports that the American forces are making fine progress toward the highest efficiency, that the morale is good and that when the test comes they will be found equal to it. He would not predict how soon the war would end. “We know nothing about political or economic conditions in Germany,” he said.

FOOD RULES APPLY TO ALL

Indianapolis, February 25. —Apparently there continues some doubt as to the application of the food regulations to special occasions. Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana is in receipt of another inquiry from a country woman, who asks whether ladies aid societies who serve dinners and sale lunches, come within the affected class. She also asks whether weiner" wuret sandwiches are permissible on meatless day and whether people may kill and use their own chickens and whether there is a penalty. In reply, Dr. Barnard reiterates his recent statement that the regulations apply to everybody all the time, that as long as there is meat in weiner wurst, they are hot permissible on meatless day; that so long as the federal food administration prohibits the slaughter of hens and pullets, that means everybody is included. As to the 'penalty, Dr. Barnard calls attention to the teeth of the food control law, which provides fines and imprisonment up to five thousand dollars and two years in the penitentiary, upon conviction.

ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY COST

In manufacturing monuments I have eliminated all unnecessary cost to the purchasers and when you buy of me you have but ono profit to pay. When you send your order away you pay the agent a profit, one to the dealer and one to the manufacturer. The quality of my work is guaranteed and by placing your order here you are assured of both quality and economy. I have no agent and you can save money by calling on me and seeing the original stones. —WILL H. MACKEY.

Try The Democrat’s Want Ad oolumn. You will be most agreeably surprised by the reeulte.

FUTURE PUBLIC SALE DATES The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, February 27, Oscar Rusnell, 1 mile east and 1 % miles south of Gifford, General sale, including horses, cows, 7 head of hogs, 3 dozen chickens, 100 bushels seed oats, 10 tons timothy hay, corn fodder, farm Implements, etc. Thursday, February 28, J. W. Phares and N. Selby, on the H. O. Harris farm, 6 miles west of Rensselaer. Big general sale, including 19 horses and colts, 25 head of cattle, 35 head of hogs, a large number of farm Implements, hay, grain, etc. Saturday, March 2, Parmer Wiseman, on the Clay Harris ranch, 4 miles west and 1 % miles north of Fair Oaks. General sale, including 11 horses and mules, 26 head of cattle, 39 head of shoats, seed corn, timothy hay, chickens, implements, etc. Monday, March 4, 1918, joint sale of Moosmlller Bros., Simon Cook and Wash Lowman, on J. J. Lawler’s Hanging Grove farm, 7% miles east of Rensselaer. General sale, including 4 horses, 22 head of cattle, 10 brood sows, implements, etc. Tuesday, March 19, D. W. Myers, 1 mile southeast of Wheatfield. General sale, Including 11 horses and mules, 25 head of cattle, 50 head Chester Whife brood sows and gilts, 350 bushels seed oats, 300 bushels corn, some Yellow Dent seed corn, implements, household goods, etc.

DR. JOHNSON UP IN THE AIR

Rensselaer Man Takes Aerial Trip While in Washington. According to a Washington dispatch in last Friday’s Indianapolis Star, Dr. C. E. Johnson of this city, who’ is in Washington before leaving for France, was one of a number of Indiana men to enjoy an aerial flight over the capital city with Col. C. F. Lee, British aviator. The dispatch reads as follows: Lieut. C. E. Johnson of Rensselaer, Indiana, an officer of the Medical Reserve corps, who Is in Washington for a few days before starting overseas, strolled out to Potomac Park this afternoon to watch <Col. C. F. Lee, British aviator extraordinary, begin one of his sensational airplane flights over the city. He became one of the big crowd of onlookers. The Indiana lieutenant, however, had scarcely reached the aviation field until Col. Lee espied him, quickly walked to his side and inquired: “Are you the signal officer who Is to make the flight with me this afternoon?’

“No, I’m not the one, but I’ll take his place,’ said the surprised Lieut. Johnson, volunteering on the impulse of the moment. The colonel apologized for his mistake, but said he would gladly take his volunteer for a spin. Lieut. Johnson never dreamed that that Britisher would do other than straight, ordinary flying, but before the machine returned from itg flight to the clouds It had been put through every kind of stunt known to a war-seasoned aviator. The machine was made to loop the loop when 3,000 feet above ground. It was driven at great speed, then turned sharply nt right angles and finally it made the spinning nose dive toward mother earth. ( Well, how did you like it,” inquired Col. Lee when he had returned his Hoosier passenger safely to the ground and received the plaudits at the crowd. "I’Ve had enough, thank you, colonel,’ replied Johnson. The colonel, regarding it as a good joke to have given his volunteer passenger so many thrills, laughed heartily. A bevy of pretty girls from Fairmount seminary gathered about Lieut. Johnson with a plea that he tell them all about his visit to the clouds. “My heart almost stopped, Lieutenant, when you looped the loop and then dived straight down toward the ground,” said one of the iprettiest students. After risking his neck today t'h» Indiana medical officer declared most emphatically that he has no intention of geeking a transfer to the aviation section. “Col. Lee took me so by surprise when he suggested' the trip that I was in the air before I had time to think,” said Lieut. Johnson to friends tonight. “I take off my hat to Senator New if he makes a flight tomorrow, after having had two or three days to think it over. I am glad I had the experience, but once is enough.”

PIE AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL. There will be a <ple and Ice cream social at the Brushwood school house on Friday evening, March 1. Proceeds to be used for the 1 benefit of the church. Ladies please bring pies.—Advt. The Democrat will print you. up a bunch of such stationery In any quantity desired and for about the same price you pay for blank paper elsewhere. ts

MUST HAVE HELP ON THE FARMS

Corn Not All Gathered and Spring Work Upon Us. GRAVE SITUATION FACES US By Reason of Shortage of Fann Ijahor and the Necessity for Raising Large Crops. One fact in connection with the war with which we are now face to face, is that of sufficient help for the farms. If the production of the year 1918 is to be what it must be to supply the needs of our soldiers and the civilian population, as well as the needs of our allies, some steps must be taken at once to provide help for the farms of this country. This fact was demonstrated to the writer as never before while returning from Louisville last Saturday. We came by way of Jeffersonville over the Pennsylvania, through Seymour, Columbus, Edinburg, Franklin and Indianapolis, passing through the heart of two of Indiana’s great corn producing counties—Johnson and Bartholomew. South of Seymour crops were quite generally poor, from evidences yet remaining from last year, the corn stalks being ghort and about the size of one’s thumb. In fact, the land Is poor. In about Seymour the crops were much better and continued so on through Bartholomew and Johnson counties, yet there is a great deal of corn yet remaining in the fields, perhaps fully 75 per cent of the acreage of last year’s standing corn being unhusked. 'Much of this is broken down and will be slow work gathering. Very little or none of the shocked corn has been husked as yet, the shocks still remaining in the fields. There had apparently been more snow in that part of the state than here, but it is all gone now and the farmers are once more in the fields trying to get the corn in before the spring work opens up. In marked contrast with the section lying this side of Indianapolis and where a large portion of the corn has not h een gathered, one frequently saw two and three teams in one field. However, it was only on rare occasions Where one saw more than one team, in a field south of Indianapolis. While in Indianapolis we met at the Union station a business man from London, Ohio, and commmenting on the situation as it appeared, he assured us that the .same condition prevailed throughout eastern Indiana and Ohio, and stated that there jnany of the oats would be dnit hurriedly scratched in among

'the corn shocks this spring on account of the great scarcity of help, as it will be fully six weeks before the farmers can get ready for the spring work. The same condition prevails in Jasper county, but perhaps to a lesser extent, and all of Indiana, and some remedy must be found for it. The plan to close the public schools as early as possible will, of course, release a large number of boys for farm work, but this will not anywhere near prove adequate. There can be but one solution to this problem, and that is that we must all work longer and harder; where we have had convenience we must expect some inconvenience. There are too many clerks in the stores and too many helpers in the shops, and some of these must go to the farms. There are entirely too many loafers about the towns, and these must be made to abandon their idle lives and go to work on the farms. We are now face to face with a shortage in food supplies as a result of curtailed production last year in other countries, and that being' the case, what can we expect this year with hundreds and thousands of the young men who halve heretofore worked on the farms now in the service of their country? Unless their places are taken by others there can not help but be a shortage in production

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