Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — Page 8

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

r LEE Frank Eldridge and wife spent in Monon. Gifford Mars and family spent {Sunday at Joseph dark’s. Opal Gilmore is recovering nicely from a recent attack of lung fever. John Osbopne, Jr., and wife spent Sunday with Morris Jacks and family. Roy Heltzel and wife entertained Frank Overton’s family at dinner Sunday. Misses Chloa and Edith Overton spent Wednesday in Rensselaer with relatives. Mrs. Fred Stiers went to Chicago Wednesday to visit her daughter for a few days. Mrs. Becky Jacks and daughter Leona took dinner Wednesday at Mrs. G. A. Jacks’. The young people had choir practice Wednesday night, in preparation for Easter services. Vernon Jacks and family of Rensselaer spent Sunday night here with his parents, G. A. Jacks and wife. Miss Agnes Stiers, who teaches school near Parr, is home this week with a bad cold bordering on pneumonia. Miss Kathryn Holman returned to her home in Monticello this week after a ten days’ visit here with relatives. Morris Jacks, being leader. Tendered a very interesting patriotic subject at the Epworth League meeting Sunday evening. Miss Irma Creel of Danville, Illinois, was here during the past week helping care for her mother, Mrs. Charles Jones, who has been very sick with pneumonia. The Ladies’ Aid has a big job hand picking navy beans for Mr. Bollinger, the work being done at Mrs. Holman’s. We worked Tuesday afternoon of this week and will work again next Tuesday afternoon at the same place.

NEWS OF THE CIRCUIT COURT

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tiff. Ed. Cox v§. Fred W. Schultz. Cause dismissed, costs paid. Alice McDonald et al. vs. Fred W. Schultz. Cause dismissed, costs paid. Eva vs. Walter P. Hopkins. Defendant defaulted. Decree of divorce granted plaintiff. Selina St. Pierre and J. D. Law, administrator, vs. New York Central Railway Co. (Two cases) Affidavit filed for change of venue from the court by defendant, and Judge Vinton of Tippecanoe superior court agreed upon to hear cause. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. vs. Conrad Kellner et al. James and Joseph Hallagan made party defendants: notice ordered returned returnable March 9. David D. Gleason vs. Art Hicks and Babcock & Hopkins. Cost bond filed. Lafayette Loan & Trust Co, vs. Mary E. Lowe. Judgment on default for $3,044.81. Harvey Davisson vs. Ralph E. Hopkins. Cause dismissed, costs paid. Bank of Wh eat field vs. Walter Porter et al. Defendant files answer, plaintiff files reply. Cause submitted. Woody vs. Michals. Jury trial, net judgment for plaintiff for $486. She had sued for $630, but defendant was allowed sl4 4 offset on claim filed for labor performed, etc.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Warren Robinson et ux to Max R. Kepner, February 26, pt n% Hw 29-29-6, Marion, $3,000. Porter B. Kneadler to Charles 8. Galbraith, February 7, pt nw ew 30-27-6, Carpenter, $1,150. William Zacher et ux to Alwine Zacher, February 27, w% nw sw 4-29-7, Newton, sl. q. c. d.

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The Jasper Reduction Company incorporated under the laws of Indiana, have purchased the Reduction Plant in Rensselaer, formerly conducted by the B. &L. Co. We operate under a state license which guarantees the sanitary handling of dead animals according to state requirements. A. L. Padgitt is the local manager, and can be reached by phones—residence 65, factory 80. Prompt service promised. JASPER REDUCTION COMPANY Rensselaer. - Indiana

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Prof. Louis J. Rettger of the Indiana state normal school gave two very excellent addresses before the teachers and patrons at the Remington special institute last Saturday. Supt. F. L. Wildrick acted as chairman of the meeting. A double quartet of boys and girls furnished several numbers during the day. A Mr. Peoples of Purdue university gave a talk on “Treatment of Seed Oats for Smut’’ at the opening of the morning session. The high school girls under the directions of their domestic science teacher, Miss Lois Larrick, gave an excellent dinner. The eighth grade diploma examination will be held March 16. 'All pupils who have 2,000 home work credits are excused in either domestic science or agriculture. The subjects of agriculture, domestic science and music are optional subjects. However, a pupils who has earned exemption for home work will receive a grade of 90 per cent after the teacher notifies the county superintendent, in agriculture if a boy or in domestic science if a girl. This,, will aid very materially in lifting averages in most cases. Seventh grade pupils are not permitted to take the March examination. However, they may take the later examinations if they care to do so. » Most of the township schools will finish the present term the first week in April. There are a few in Milroy and Barkley that will finish in March. Miss Vesta Brown, teacher at Gifford, has been sick with the measles for the past day or two. Pupils and teachers throughout the county have the measles and pay very little attention to them. At Wheatfield the citizens are so patriotic that they have refused to call the measles by their proper name and instead of calling them German measles they call them Liberty measles. Warren Poole, Clifford Fairchill and Albert Keene came to the office of the county superintendent last Thursday. The accounting board is in session here and they are auditing trustees’ books.

SAYINGS BEFORE THE WAR

“Whenever you are out of gasoline, Hank, come over and help yourself out !of the tank in niy garage.’’ “Jabez, help Mr. Jones to some more of the roast beef.” “I’ll send you over p. couple of dozen nice fresh eggs from my place.” “How many lumps—three or four?” “Some more butter, mister?’’ “Light or dark meat? Take a little of both.” “You haven't eaten half enough, Mr. Jones.” “My wife never likes to see anybody leave our table hungry.” “Are you sure five is enough? You had better take ten.”—Brook4P lyn Eagle.

U. S. MEN FLEE FROM TAMPICO

Seek Refuge on Ships in Harbor When Troop* Clash. Tampioo, Mex., March I.—All Americans and foreigners are seeking refuge on ships in the harbor here, because of fighting in the outskirts of Tampico between rebels commanded by Manuel Palaez and 3,000 federal troops.

Cuba Stops Sugar for Mexico.

Havana, Cuba, March 1. —Loading of sugar for Mexican and Spanish ports has been stopped by order of the Inspector general of the port under Instructions said to have come from President Menecal. Mexican firms have contracted for 15,000 tons of sugar here.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

The Plunderers

By Ora B. Maddox.

(Copyright. 1817, by W. Q. ChsfpmanJ It was at a police station in the heart of a great city to which the Rev. Alger Trescom was a visitor, that the young clergyman In question had his first experience of the ways of the unfortunate and criminal. . , A turnkey had just shown him through the cells. His sensitive spirit had awakened with sympathy and sorrow at what he witnessed. Two prisoners, arrested for robbing a man of s4l, had particujarly attracted his attention. They were boyish, ingenuous and bright-faced. When he came up into the courtroom, swayed by an impulse he could not resist, Mr. Trescom had sought out the man who had been robbed. His little store of money amounted to less than fifty dollars. It was hard earned and badly needed, but he had a vision of “giving ‘the boys’ a new start.” The victim of the robbery agreed to drop the case- if his money were returned. “No prosecution prisoners discharged,” announced the judge a few minutes later and the surprised criminals hastened to leave the court room. Trescom followed them. He was anxious to have an opportunity to show them the evil of their ways and try to influence them to mend the same. As he came outside he saw them conversing with their victim. The latter pointed out Trescom to them and the culprits went up to him. The older of the twain looked at Trescom in a quizzical, strangely interested way. “Are you the guy who settled with the bloke who had us pinched?” he inquired. “If you mean that I have tried to rescue you from your troubles in the hope of seeing you do better," replied Trescom gravely, “yes.” “You come with us and have a drink,” Darby Dan, taking the arm of Trescom. “I never drink, thank you,” observed Trescom stiffly. “Boys, for you seem

"Worse Than That!” Observed Red.

such to me, my heart has bled for you. I have given nearly all of my little store of savings to redeem you. Surely the sincerity of my Interest In your behalf should entitle me to your confidence.” “Give him his chance, Dan,” remarked the other of the two criminals, known as Red Lowry. They listened respectfully enough, as almost with tears in his eyes the earnest young minister attempted to show them the folly of their ways. He told them his name and the address of a sister In the city whom he was visiting for the week. He asked them to come and see him there and he would try to find them honest work. “You’re a good sport,” announced Derby Dan effusively, when the lecture had concluded. “It’s a waste of time maybe, for you do not understand our ways, but you’ve gone down Into your pocket for strangers, you are the right sort and soon as we hit another job we’ll send you back the coin with interest.”

“Surely you do not contemplate another crime I” gasped the horrified good man. “There’s only one trade we understand, boss,” said Red Lowry. “It’s cost us a lot of money to learn it and it’s got to produce something, see? You’re a fine sort and if ever we can help you out we’ll be on hand.” The Rev. Alger Trescom went on his way feeling that he had come across a proposition beyond his mastery, and the two young men waved him an airy farewell with grinning, amused faces. They did not appear at his sister’s house, as Trescom had hoped, and the latter was a little grewsome as he reflected that about all the money he had In the world had gene into an unsuccessful experiment. A week later Trescom was back at Earlville, where he had held the pastorate of a small village church for dyer a year. It was a poor charge, the

■salary barely sufficient to sustain the little parsonage and pay the old woman living at its rear, who kept the house in order and furnished his meals. The heroic spirit of the young preacher, aowever, had resisted the temptation jf a better-paying charge. He had made friends, he felt that he was doing good in the community and he loved his little flock. They were unable to do more than they had in a money way, and he never even hinted at the»deprivation and hardships he was suffering for their sakes. Now fate plays strange freaks with Its victims. It was destiny, clean, precise and circumstantial, that led the wayward Dan and Lowry on one of their marauding expeditions to the vicinity of Earlville. They burglarized a big mansion near the town. Their loot was opulent, but the sight of a dark and lonely house in Earlville, the parsonage, was a temptation in their path to add to their ill-gotten store. “Easy job, getting in here,” observed Red, as they pulled down the curtains and lit a lamp. “Doesn’t look as if the owner had much,” supplemented Dan, as he glanced about a sparsely furnished sitting room, while his companion proceeded to investigate a bureau in the adjoining sleeping chamber. He came out, throwing up his hands despairingly. “Let’s go, Dan," he suggested. “Darned -stockings, mended shirts, worn-out summer underclothing—in this freezing weather! The man’s a pauper who lives here.” “Look!” suddenly exclaimed Dan, and pointed to a photograph on the wall. Then he picked up a book and examined its title page. It bore the name: “Alger Trescom.” They stood staring strangely at each other. “Red,” said Dan, in a strained and subdued voice, “we’re cads!” “Worse than thatl” observed Red, and he looked shamed and serious. “It’s the guy who saved us in the city. What you up to?” he demanded, as his pal drew from his pocket a package done up in a handkerchief, placed it on a desk and proceeded to write on a blank paper pad. “The right thing,” answered Dan shortly. He set the package on the note. “Come on,” he said, “I’m bad, but human.” Returning to his humble home an hour later, Alger Trescom was fully astounded to find the note left by Dan. It read: “We’re the guys you tried to help in the city. We had just visited another place when .we struck your joint. Found out it was yours, and it’s against our principles to work any district you’re in. Return the swag and tell ’em they’re safe, if they’re friends of yours.” Opening the handkerchief, Trescom found diamonds, jewelry, money. There was an inscription on a brooch. It had been a gift to "Viola, from Her Loving Father.” Trescom followed the clue. There was a Miss Viola Duane, the daughter of a wealthy banker, two miles from the village. He went there the next day. It was the charming Miss Viola herself who listened to his strange story. She was glad to recover the jewels. A keen Interest came into her gentle eyes as the worthiness of this struggling philanthropist was made clear to her. And lo! from that interest it came about that friendship grew into love, and Alger Trescom soon had a life partner whose wealth enabled a broader scope for the generous qualities of a truly good man.

NOT AN UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE

Parent* Have Gone Through Many Ordeal* of This Kind Along About 7:30 a. m. He lay there still and motionless, his eyes closed, his little limbs, once so alive with animation, now limp and pathetic. ‘Tvedonemy utmost,” breathed the man. And he mopped his forehead and poked piteously at the silent, staring woman by his side. “Perhaps If we shake him again," she suggested. “I’ve shaken him and shaken him and shaken him, and tried cold water on his face and every other way I could think of,” he replied hollowly. The woman leaned over the still figure. “Willie I” she called. “Willie I Willie! Willie!” The figure did not stir by so much as the quiver of an eyelid. The man leaned over. “Willie!” he called. “Willie! Willie ! Willie!” Utter silence was the only response. They both leaned over. “Willie!” they called. “Willie! Willie! Willie !” “Willie I” he cried. “Here’s a penny for you!” The boy’s eyes opened. “Anybody call me? What time is It?” he muttered. And the father and mother stood guard until he had both stockings and one shoe on and promised them not to He down again.—Detroit Free Press.

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Harvey Lutes and Ott Jones of Monon were arrested and placed in the White county jail at Monticello charged with breaking into a car belonging to the Monon railroad and taking several automobile tires,

wheels and tools. - Victor R. Keeler of Monon who, it was alleged, received copper wire valued at SSOO, which had been taken from the Western Union Telegraph company, and which, it was alleged, Keeler knew had been stolen, Tuesday was found not guilty of grand larceny, in a trial before Judge J. P. Wason at Monticello. John McGrath of Lafayette, a brakeman on the Monon for the past two months but prior to that time owner of a saloon, was found lead on the banks of the Wabash river Tuesday. Foul play is suspected and the police are investigating. McGrath was thought to have been in Rensselaer shortly before the murder to collect $740 due on a note given by a resident of this city. He was last seen alive about a week before the body was

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