Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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MISS COWAN WILL LECTURE

Before the Home Economics Club on Tuesday, March 5. The iHbme Economics club has secured Miss Elizabeth Cowan of Purdue university for Tuesday, March 5, at the domestic science rooms of the high school building. 'At 10 a. m. Miss Cowan will lecture on emergency work, and at 2 p. m. will give a demonstration in the use of wheat substitutes in making the so-called "war breads.” These demonstrations are free to the public and it is hoped the ladies of Rensselaer and surrounding country will take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to use these substitutes for wheat flour.

MARCH CAME IN SMILINGLY

Yesterday, Mhrch 1, was about the finest day we have had in several months. The skies were clear as a bell and the mercury at 2 p. m. registered 42 in the shade. Except for quite a heavy rain Wednesday night we have had good weather all week.

ANOTHER “PHENOM” OF WAR

Well Known Rensselaer Citizen Going Back to the Farm. This war is certainly producing some phenomenal things. For instance, Warren Robinson has bought a Ford automobile and unblushingly announces that he is going to farm this year; that he is going to drive out to his farm in Gillam township when the larks’ awake each morning and return as the shadows of evening fall. He boldly asserts that he is not going to be merely a kidglove agriculturalist, but Intends to get right between the plow handles and perform actual labor. Warren has all the oral enthusiasm of a new convert, and we hope that this enthusiasm will not wane as the mercury begins trying -tc break through the top of the tube later in the season. We say we hope so, but we have known Warren for the past twenty years, when he was much younger than he is now, and if he ever wor—well, pshaw, what’s the use. Under the circumstances can one scarcely be blamed for having some doubts over the outcome of Warren’s good intentions.

fcs Methodist Rev. E. W. Strecker, Pastor. — 9:30 a. m„ Sunday school; 10:45 a. m., morning worship and communion service; 6 p. m., Epworth League, topic, “He Died in My Stead,” leader, Isabelle Bever; 7 p. m., union service at the Christian church; Dr. Fleming will preach the sermon. The pastor is desirous that as much as possible the whole membership of the church be present at the morning service. Come and sit in family groups. Let us make this a umst helpful meeting. A ministers’ conference will be held at this church next Tuesday afternoon. At 6; 15 the men of the church will take supper together in the church dining room. At 7:45 a patriotic mass meeting will be held in the auditorium of the church to which the general public is most cordially invited. The speaker will be announced a little later. James School House.—2 p. m., Sunday school; 3 p. m., preaching service. Presbyterian Re<v. J. Budman Fleming, Minister.—9:3o a. m., Sunday school; 10:45 a. m., morning worship and sermon, subject, “Give Caesar His Own;” 7 p. m., union service at the Christian church. If ever the church has been needed and the people need to be in the church service, it is now. Christian Science Christian Science services at 11 a.m. Sunday in the auditorium es the public library. Public cordially Invited. ts

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918

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. Isaac Shannon, who has just moved from near Remington to near Wolcott, was in Rensselaer on business Thursday. There were seven marriage licenses issued last month, against seven for the preceding month and eighteen for the corresponding month in 1917. Candidates for district, county and township offices should get busy and announce their candidacy, as the primary election will be held in May and first in the field will perhaps stand the better chance of securing a nomination. A motion and affidavit for a change of venue from the county has been sustained in the cases of the State of Indiana vs. Clint Casto, who is charged with violations of the liquor laws, and the cases will be tried in the Jasper circuit court at Rensselaer. A change of venue from the judge had formerly been taken and the causes had been assigned to L. D. Carey as special judge.—Monticello Herald.

Marriage licenses issued: February 27, Watsen Terpstra of Demotte, aged 22 September 26 last, farmer, and Anna DeHaan, also of Demotte, aged 18 January 10 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married in the clerk’s office by Justice D. D. Dean. February 28, Peter Nanninga of Demotte, aged 20 May 6 last, farmer, and Ebelia Boezeman of Jasper county, aged 17 December 20 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Both being under age their fathers, George Nanninga and John Boezeman, give consent to issuance of license. New suits filed: William T. Shaw Shaw vs. David L. Halstead; suit on account. Demand S6OO. No. 8899. W. A. Shindler vs., David L. Halstead; suit on account, demand $133.09, and on two checks given plaintiff on the Trust & Savings Bank of Rensselaer, one for $1 26.34 and one for $6.75, the first of 'which had been protested and payment refused on the latter by the bank. Demand $175 and S2O respectively. The complaint is in three paragraphs. No. 8900. Arthur Cavendish vs. T. F. Ransford Co.; appeal from Justice Dean’s court. No. 8901. Albert 6. Keene vs. Mary Smith estate; suit on disallowed claim. Demand $136. No. 8902. Mrs. John Pinter vs. Mary Smith estate; suit on disallowed claim. Demand $161.58.

The time limit for registration of alien enemies—'persons born in those countries with which we are at war and wfao had not taken out full citizenship papers—expired February 13, ahd those registering with Postmaster Littlefield follow: Paul Schultz. Union Paul L. Schultz, Union Peter Wagner, Rensselaer Jacob Wagner, Rensselaer William Wornke, Union Robert Newman, Union Frank W. Zacker, Newton Gustave Zacker, Newton John EiTtz, Union Persons subject to this registration could register with any postmaster in the county in which they resided, but the names of thos® registering at other postoffices than Rensselaer have not been handed in to The Democrat. Postmaster Carriott at Parr registered thirteen, we are told.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

February 23,- to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell of Pleasant Ridge, a son. February 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bricker of near Surrey, a son, making ten children born to them and all boys.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

IS MOVING TO NEW YORK STATE

Everall Smiih and family and Mrs. Smith’s father, B. JL Shipman, arrived in Rensselaer Thursday and Mr. Smith experts to leave today for Deleware county. New York, to which place he has already shipped his goods, and will bay a farm there. He has sold oat at Burke, South Dakota, and cSeaned up betterlhanssince he went there a few years ago. He struck a good time to sell, as everything is very high there except yaaxg colts, bt which there is a surptos. Work horses brought good prices at his sale, however, and sheep sold at $25 per head. He expects to locate near Masonville, New York, near which place Clyde Reeve, formerly of Rensselaer, located a few years ago. Deleware eouaty lies just south of The Desnoerat editor’s old home county. Otsego, and Mr. Smith goes there, for one reason, on account of the health of one of his daughters, hoping that the change of climate in the region of the Catskills will be beneficial to her. As soon as he gets located his family and Mr. Shipman will join him.

IS YOUR NAME WHITEN HERE?

Following are tke names of those who have paid their snhseripCon for i The Democrat since last Saturday's ■ issue and, especially to those re-i ceived by mail, this pnbfieaMon shall. act as a receipt until the date on* the label of their paper is changed.! Those indicated by an • are new subscribers. Owing to the fact that it now costs two cents to send a postal card receipt to those paying their subscriptions though, the mails, The Democrat has adopted this method! of acknowledging .receipt of mail subscriptions until farther notice. Frank Roberts, Goodland R-l Anna Jasperaon. Yteflft R-l William Dunn. Larimore. N. D. Joseph. Nagel. Sr_ Rensselaer A. J. Goldsberry, Good Sand R-l Vai Nafziger, Goodland R-l Thomas Mullen. Denver, Cokwada John Neweomb,. Rensselaer R-l W. C. Latta. Meeoa R-l* D. MvConnehay. Rensseiier W. T. Walter, Rensselaer •John Hill, Gifford Mrs. Allie Price. Parr R-l Charles Dluzak, Sr, Renztogton R-3 J. W. Hitching'. Brook John Manning, MetoryviHe Walter Smith, Kouts J. W. Fay lor. RtseL-jster. Ind., RR Oscar Harlow, Reassetoer R-3 Isaac Shannon. Woieets •W. E. Price. Rensselaer. R-l Mrs. Joseph Dluzak, Remington, R-3 R. W. May, Remington *L. M. Muster, Rensselaer J. W. Taylor, Remington R-4 Grant Culp, Remington R-4 George Heuson. Lafayette.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Many of The Democrat's subscribers are moving to new poetoffice addresses this sjring and to order that they may receive their paper promptly at their new address they should notify as immediately by phone or card that we may know where to send their paper. Please do not forget this.

INDIANA MEN IN WOUNDED LIST

In the list of American soldiers wounded or injured by the German gas raids on the western front February 27, appears the following Indiana men: S. C. Mover, M&aticeJlo; Robert M. Beatty, Hammwnd; Frank P. Mahoney, Muncie; Alvin Matersou. Rochester; Marvin R DUnn, Anderson, gas victims; John Brown, Muncie, severely wounded; Bernard J. Beckwith, Morocco, slightly wounded.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Lester, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. i'orßve’l, had his tawsite rvmnvrd Thursday. Zella Wiseman underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils. Benjamin Reeves as fa quite a serious condition from heart trouble. Mrs. Rebecca Robinson, who had her hip fractured the first of the week, is in quite a serious condition. Mrs. Robinson is about eighty years old. Mrs. Jay Novels and baby returned to their home yesterday evening.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of Ao Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. ANNUAL JACKSON CLUB FEAST Wfll Be Held at Fowler Hotdl, Lafayette, Wednesday Evening. One of the most famous Democratic clubs of America is the Jackson club of Lafayette. Though Tippecanoe county is Republican, this elub, with over 700 members, flourishes like a green bay tree. Midst victory and defeat it goes on. Every year it celebrates its anniversary in a manner to attract national attention. The most famous Democratic orators count it an honor to be the club’s guest on these occasions. The club’s twenty-third anniversary meeting this year occurs on Wednesday, March 6. As everybody is welcome. Democrats all over the state are planning their pilgrimage to Lafayette. The auditorium of the new Fowler hotel has been engaged. There, at 8 o’clock, to a thousand guests, dinner will be served, to the accompaniment of orchestra, song, cigars and patriotic speeches. The dinner will be tn absolute conformity to government regulations.

SEEKS TO RECOVER LOST FUNDS

Margaret Oliver Said to Have Sunk $200,000 in Muncie School. Muncie, February 28.—Although Margaret Oliver, the Chicago woman of wealth, who is said to have dropped $200,000 in the promotion of the Muncie National institute here, has not yet recovered ik she is said by local attorneys to have prepared an intervening petition in connection with the suit brought this week by the institute as a corporation, against Ball Brothers, the Muncie manufacturers, in which petition she charges the Balls with conspiring to obtain the school property at a price far below its actual value. The Ball Brothers bought the property at receiver's sale and have given it to the state for use as part of its Normal school system. The original suit now on file, to which Mrs. Oliver is a party, asks that the sale to Ball Brothers be set aside and the receivership restored.

COURT NEWS

Judge Wason of the CarrollWhite circuit came over yesterday to hear some cases in court here in. which he had been selected as special judge. {State vs. Frank M. Walter. Continned by agreement for term. Andrew DeHaan ditch. Cause docketed and time given for objections. Arthur H. Hopkins vs. Roy L. Harris. Cause dismissed for want of prosecution. Emma M. York vs. estate of Fannie D. Rhoades, deceased. Dismissed for want of prosecution. Ellis R. Jones vs. James A. Keister. Demurrer heretofore filed is sustained. Plaintiff asked and is granted leave to file amended complaint. > E. S. Welch vs. Charles Halleck. Judgment on default for >139. Central Petroleum Co. vs. August Goepp. Jury trial, judgment for plaintiff for |44.10. Grasmere Land Co. vs. Joseph Hickam. Defendant files offer to allow judgment for >122. William J. Reinhertz vs. estate of i William Reinhertz. Cause dismissed and claim withdrawn. State ex rel. Robert and Anna E. Michal. Defendant files demurrer to petition. Charles G. Spitler vs. David L. Halstead et al. Defendant Hansson granted change of venue from court and Judge Wason of the Car-roll-White circuit court appointed to hear said cause, which was set for Friday, March 1. Mary A. Wilmington vs. Jesse Wilmington- Divorce granted plain-

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FUTURE PUBLIC SALE DATES

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: 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 Moosmiller 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 White brood sows and gilts, 350 bushels seed oats, 300 bushels corn, some Yellow Dent seed corn, implements, household goods, etc.

'MOST BEAUTIFUL I EVER SAW'

Is Fred Phillips Comment on the Country About Demopolis, Ala. Auctioneer Fred Phillips, who returned last week from a trip to near Demopolis, Alabama, where he cried a big public sale for M. I. Adams & Son, was much taken up with the country about Demopolis, and says It Is absolutely the finest looking country he has ever seen. As Fred has been about over these United States considerably and has visited most all sections of the great Northwest, this statement is a great compliment Indeed to that section of Alabama. Mr. Phillips did not stay there as long as he would have desired, as he had to get back for the John R. Lewis Hampshire hog sale, but he Improved the time and got about quit© a little. This section Is known as the “Black Belt." It Is a gently rolling country, and he states that he never saw anything prettier. The plantation homes are large, roomy, beautiful colonial style dwellings and are usually located on an eminence with large cedar trees about them. Artesian wells are quite common.

There is plenty of disintogiated limestone in the soil and alfalfa, Johnson and Bermuda grass grows very prollflcally. They also raise corn, oats, wheat, cow peas, soy beans, etc., and the plantations are covered with fine herds of pure-bred cattle. The alfalfa was about four inches high when he was there. This section of country, it seems, was devoted to the culture of cotton for generation after generation by the old timers, who were gradually put out of business by the boll weevil; but they stuck to cotton until they lost their land, many of them. Northern people have come in and bought many of these plantations arid cut out the cotton growing. They are raising alfalfa and other forage crops and purebred cattle. Wherever one sees a plantation occupied by a northern man, Mr. Phillips says, there you find progress and prosperity. Alfalfa is raised as easily as we raise oats in Indiana and brings in large returns. Mr. Phillips told of one man there who had sold fifteen car loads of alfalfa this season at $32 per ton, realizing SBO per acre oft land that he bought five years ago at $35 per acre. While there Mr. Phillips saw Sam Sparling, formerly of Rensselaer, and says that Sam has gn, 800-acre plantation, with a large, beautiful home. -He has a fine big Holstein dairy herd, and has had numerous offers for his plantation, which he purchased only a few years ago, and could sell out at a profit of $50,000 over what he paid for it. On his plantation he has about seventy-five negroes. Arthur Shedd, also formerly of Rensselaer, has a considerable larger plantation and is doing fine. In fact, Mr. Phillips states, this is one of the most prosperous looking section of the country I have ever seen and I think it has a great future before it. The top price for land there now is about S9O per acre, but he thinks that it will be $l5O per acre within a comparatively short time. The Adams’ sale totalled $10,200, and SIO,OOO of this was cash. As the property was all sold to people right in that neighborhood, the fact that so much was for cash is indicative of the general prosperity of the people thereabout.

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KAISER HALTS ARMY IN RUSSIA

Invaders Meal With Strong Re-sistance-Forced to Retire. TEUTONS ARE LEAVING LUGA Germans Fail in Attempt to Cross Uereeina River—Fleet Is Now Steaming Towards Finland. London, March 1. —The German array] has received orders to stop its advance] in Russia, according to the Petrograd Correspondent of the Exchange Telemph company, who has received in- 1 formation to this effect which he re>* gards as reliable. Early London advices from Petro-* Eid stated that the German advance! Russia had been ordered halted. Ai er report from Berlin, issued by the, war ofllee, however, gave no indication that such instruction had been sent! March I.—A Petrograd dis- 1 patch to the Exchange Telegraph company, says it is reported from Luga* that the German detachments, which* entered that town a day or two ago., are leaving. The Russians, moving to meet them, have turned toward the main railway; and occupied three small stations within twelve miles of Pskov. Large Russian detachments are concentrating near Pskov. The railway men are forming partisan detachments along the Uno. Red guards Halt Germans. Smolensk comes the report! that the Germans have met with 1 strong resistance within sixteen versts (10.7 miles) from Orsha and were! forced to retire.

The Germans have been trying to* cross the Bereslna river and consolidate the ground in order to begin operations in the d’rectlon of Orsha and] Gomel. Red guards concentrated atl Ptronpi station prevented the Germansi from advancing in the direction of 1 Orsha. Direct information from Novo Setlei says that the Germans have received orders to make no further advance 1 and the German cavalry patrols,i which appeared at Novo Selle, havel retired. Bolshevik! Aid Francis. Washington, March I. latestl dispatch from Ambassador Francis atl Petrograd was dated February 22, and! arrived Thursday, saying that the bol-i sbevlkl authorities at that time had| offered to provide a train on 12 hours” notice when the diplomats decided to, leave Petrograd. Later another dispatch from Ambassador Francis, dated February 21, also) arrive# and said that the people of! Little Russia were fighting the bol-i shevikl at Odessa. The maximalists were holding their ground, the mes-i sage added. Gorman Fleet to Finland. Copenhagen, March 1. —The German! fleet in the Baltic is steaming northward at full speed, presumably toward! Finland, dispatches from Berlin de-* Glared. 50,000 Guns Captured. Berlin, (British Admiralty, Per Wireless Press), March I.—Germany’s military operations on the northern Russian front are taking their normal* course, the German general staff announced. Another Esthonian regiment has placed Itself under command of the German staff. At Minsk the Germans captured 50,000 rifles and 2,000 machine guns.

LABOR TO FIGHT FOR U. S.

Gompers Says Men Will "Work Naked Without Pay." Chicago, March I.—-America’s work-, Ing legions to a man will, if necessary, work without pay, naked and determined, in order to win the war, according to the declaration of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and chairman of the labor committee of the council of national defense, who testified on behalf of the employees before Judge Samuel Alschuler, federal arbitrator in the stockyards controversy. Scouting the argument that Introduction of the eight-hour workday would retard production, Mr. Gompers asserted that opposition to shorter hours, higher pay and better laboring conditions IP merely a “frame of mind” of the meat packers, who are seeking to "stem Inevitable progress with desperate stubbornness."

NOTES FROM THE RED CROSS

Word has been received from headquarters that fhere is an ample swpplv of the articles named below and that no more need be sent: Hot water bag covers, ice bag covers, operating stockings, comfort pillows, heel rings, table napkins, handkerchiefs, knitted wash ‘cloths. |

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