Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

, PARR Sarah Pullins spent the week-end •with the Florence sisters. Lee Rarldan has gone to Lafayette to work on the Monon. Lucy Brusnahan spent Saturday and Sunday in Lafayette, shopping and visiting with Lulu Rowen. Estal Price of Buchanan, Mich., was calling on old friends Sunday. He reports all the people from Jasper county at Buchanan doing fine. Dallas Gunyon spent Sunday in Parr with relatives and friends. He took his car back with him. It had been in Rensselaer for a week or so. There is a large acreage of spring wheat being sown around here. It is lather a fine crop, as shown by the results obtained last year by those who sowed, it. Three machines from Mt. Ayr came over for the baptizing that was to have been Sunday, but they were disappointed, for the minister was sick and could not come. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Alien's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder for swollen, tender, aching feet. It makes walking a delight, relieves corns and bunions of all pain, and gives rest and comfort. Sold everywhere, 25c. Don’t a'ffCffpt any substitute. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. — Advt. GIFFORD Lon Daniels spent Sunday in our town. Al. McCurtain of Virgie was in our burg Sunday. Miss Leota Obenchain called on Miss Ruby Keen Monday evening. Fern Smith of Newland has purchased a “Lizzie.” Look at him, girls. John Akers is helping Charley Scott in the blacksmith shop this week. James Steel, who has been working at Fowler, returned home Saturday. Charley Parker was seen driving his “Lizzie” through our town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed called on a Mr. and Mrs. Chester Caster Sunday. Nate Keen and son Teddy and Clifford Grim were Wheatfield goers Monday. Revival meetings began Saturday evening, March 30, at 7:30 p. m. Everybody come._ Miss Sylvia Lambert spent Tuesday night with Mrs. May Smith of Laura. They attended the funeral of Mrs. Cavinder at Aix. j..fiur literary meeting Thursday was well attended and a fine program rendered. The next meeting will be held April 4. Let everybody come. Reuben Snyder and daughter Irene left here Monday moining for North Dakota. Mr. Snyder is going to work on a farm by the month for S6O. He also left for his health, which we hope wil be benefited by the change. Clarence Zook, familiarly known as “Bunk,” is visiting with his brothers here this week, Dice, Guy and Judi Zook. He has visited fortythree of the states of the Union in the past four years, and is going to buy land on the Kankakee river and raise hogs and chickens. He is sending to Minnesota for his chickens. We wish him success. Word was received here Monday of the death of Mrs. Leona Cavinder at her daughter’s home in Hebron. She was stricken with paralysis and did not long survive. Mrs. Cavinder united with the Church of God here some two years ago, and was loved by her many friends here who were shocked to learn of her sudden death. She was buried in the Aix cemetery beside the grave of her husband.

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

THE DUTY THAT CONFRONTS THE FARMER. It is evident to everybody that tenant farmers and others are “up against it” in putting in and harvesting their necessary crops this season. Wages are high, S4O to SSO per month, with board and a horse to keep in many cases, and owing to the severe winter the farmer could not get the corn out and quite a number are husking now, hauling it to market to prevent it rotting on their hands, when they should be sowing oats at this time. This is one of the springs an 1 summers in which the farmer must put in his every minute to accomplish his undertakings, to raise the mammoth crops to feed first the Americans and, secondly, her allies •in war. This is the only time the farmer has had this burden to bear, and he will do his utmost to make it, but one must know he can not do more than he can. That there are many farmers who cannot put out their crops and attend them with proper cultivation, is evident, and the school boy proposition is not well received by many farmers. In a number of cases, no doubt, they will be qualified to do their share, but while this is true, many are not built, that way; and, _ too, some farmers will do without F help, and this will result in less * acreage and, one might say, with

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less proper tillage to the crop they have in. Now I am only talking of the farmer who wants to raise a good crop without having a hand to help, or of one who cannot get one when wanted. My idea in such cases is to have cooperation in the family first, and secondly have cooperation with your neighbors, say as a threshing unit, and all work together for the good of all. Let the Golden Rule be with them during this war crisis and if it necessary, call on some of their friends —retired farmers or any others they can who know how to farm from actual experience. You may have to work earlier and later during the cropping season to make ends meet, and the women are ever ready in any good work—some *n the best families worked in the fields in ’6l and ’6s—and then, if this is not enough, work on Sundays as you think you need to. However conscientious you may be in regard to wmrking on Sunday, conditions have almost unbounded influence in This matter. When we used to. have “prairie fires” threatening the homes of the neighborhood almost everybody tried ever so hard to extinguish them, regardless of whether it was on .Sunday or some other day. It was a necessity. How about those brave boys in khaki over the sea? They fight on Sunday to battle for

the right, for true liberty and true democracy. They are fighting for us, our agents, while we are under contract to do our full duty here on the farms, raising all that we can to make their lives less miserable and that of their comrades in arms. Your son and your neighbor’s son are laying down their lives that the world may have freedom and x democracy for all time. So let us do our fullest duty here ou the farms while they are doing their fullest duty over there. W. H. RITCHEY.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

| IS RENSSELAER SATISFIED? The Evidence Is Convincing. The Testimony Open to Investigation. Before a statement can be accepted here, it must be supported by local testimony——by the evidence of someone residing in Rensselaer. Statements from unknown people in remote places may be true, but we cannot prove them. Here is a statement by a Rensselaer resident: C. B. Steward, insurance agent, South Front and Main streets, says: “I had been subject to serious attacks of kidney disorder. My back for a long time was lame and sore and I was hardly ever free from backache. Whenever I feel any signs of that trouble now’ or my kidneys are not in good condition, I get a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Long’s drug store. They quickly fix me up all right. In that way I keep free from the old suffering and in good health.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedyget Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Steward uses. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Props./- Buffalo, N. Y.— Advt. A new automobile attachment makes a permanent record of the speed of the car during the entire trip for the purpose of preventing speed disputes with authorities.

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60 bo. 1916 Seed Corn Have only 60 bushels of REED’S YELLOW DENT and IMPROVED YELLOW LEAMING Will sell at KELLNER & CALLAHAN’S in Rensselaer Saturday, March 30 at Ip. m. This corn tests 95 per cent, and is guaranteed. Samples at The Trust & Savings Bank. S. A? ARNOLD

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