Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — Page 6

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Italy has been gradually increasing its production of lignite until last year more than 1,500,000 tons •were mined. More valuable hardwoods are found in North America than are native to anypOther region of similar area in the temperate zones. In addition to these the great range in minimum temperatures, from Canada down to Florida, and the wonderful Pacific coast, also, enable us to grow a greater range of foreign hardwoods than may be found introduced to any other similar area in any zone.

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Each year Italy makes more than 2 7,000 tons of concentrated tomato paste. The shortage of coal now makes this industry difficult, and besides the government will requisition about four-fifths of the product. Tin plate is also scarce. Bermuda onion farmers of south Texas planted the largest crop that has ever been grown in that state. It is estimated that there will be more than 12,000 acres devoted to Bermuda onions in the Rio Grande border region this year. This is an increase of 4,000 acres over last , year’s crop.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

TELLS WHY CHICKS DEE. Save all your baby chicks. Simple home solution prevents white Diarrhoea. Cures sick chicks over night. Write E. J. Reefer, Poultry Expert, 801 Reefer Building, Kansas City, Mo., today for free chick book. A million people have read this free book and raised their hatch. —Advt. An American company has been formed to manufacture dye and tanning extracts from bold d’arc, or osage orange. . The dye will be used chiefly to color khaki cloth. Among the anti-skidding devices is one which, when a lever is pressed, throws two spiked wheels into contact with the road between the car wheels of an automobile. Ninety-four different courses, specially designed to prepare students for industry and commerce, are offered by the University of Berlin. There should be no further talk of a possible dull. year in the universities of the United States. Preparedness should not stop at preparedness for war.—Christian Science Monitor. Ordinary illuminating gas is being used as a substitute for gasoline by motor omnibuses in Edinburgh, Scotland, according to a report to the department of commerce by Consul Rufus Fleming. First class petroleum can not be obtained in Edinburgh and second quality sells for 71 to 73 cents a gallon. Owing to critical conditions in the jute industries in Scotland the Dundee jute spinners and manufacturers are largely in favor of resorting to a stoppage of a certain proportion of machinery in their works. The government has made known its desire for a reduction of 10 per cent on the consumption of raw jute, and at a recent meeting of the spinners and manufacturers it was unanimously agreed that the reduction should be affected by a curtailment of machinery rather tha n by running on short time.

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MERCHANT MARINE BRINGS MARKET TO FARMERS’ DOORS

Great Fleet of Ships Necessary to Haul Farm Products Abroad at Low Freight Rates. To the fanner in the Mississippi valley, busy about his barns and outbuildings, the question of a merchant marine seems Very far away. “Why,” he occasionally asks himself, “should I be interested in steamships, sailing from ports a thousand miles away? I have never been to" the Atlantic seaboard. Ships, whether sailing under the United States flag or the Union Jack, concern me not at all.” There is, however, a reason, and a good reason, why the farmer should be interested in this government’s efforts to put thousands of steel and wooden ships afloat as quickly as possible. The American farmer today is growing wheat, corn, oats and other produce that must be transported abroad to supply our own armies and those of our allies in France. When the war is over the wheat, corn and oats will continue to flow toward warstricken Europe. With thousands of ships to carry this produce, the freight rates will be correspondingly cheaper than they would be with only hundreds of bottoms available instead of thousands. The fact that freight rates are cheaper will not, however, abate the hunger of the millions in Europe clamoring for the wheat, corn and oats. The market there will remain the same and the present loft prices will be little changed. If it costs the grain dealer less to ship abroad, he will be able to pay higher prices to the farmer?.

The farmer is just as much interested in cheap freight rates as he always has been interested in cheaper freight rates on land. His market lies, not in Chicago and Minneapolis and Duluth, where a box car hauls his grain, it lies thousands of miles across the ocean where ships are carrying his produce. The farmer must help build ships and cut his freight rates to Europe. Someone sagely remarked (and many wise men since have repeated the proverb): “In times of peace prepare for war.” Germany has improved on the proverb, or twisted it, and over in tlse kaiser’s realm it now reads: “In times of war prepare for peace.” Germany is not so intent on winning this war that she has forgotten about the peace to come. The German reichstag has agreed, as a tentative policy, on a grant of $375,000,000 to facilitate the building of merchant sb.ips. The bill provides that the vessels shall be available within four years after peace is declared.

In other words, the German government is determined, not only to win this war, but to win commercial war to follow, by providing bottoms to carry, not only its own goods, but also the commerce of other hations whose ships it is sinking every day. The United States government has wisely set about to frustrate this Hohenzollern move, as much a military project as the hurling«of new German divisions against the French and British lines in France and Flanders. This government has instituted a shipbuilding program that will supply us with steel and wooden freighters to carry men, food, munitions and machinery to Europe in the course of the war and after peace is declared. It needs money for this great shipbuilding plan, if it is to defeat Prussianism now and after the war. The American farmer not only displays his patriotism by lending the government money to pursue its purpose, but conserves and builds his future interests.

HERE’S PLEA FROM FRONT

Lillian Gish Says You'd Buy Bonds if You Saw War Itself. By MISS LILLIAN GISH, [Movie Star Once in War Zone.] If you had seen the war as I have, you would buy Liberty bonds. I have seen a mother standing in the doorway of her little home, and in the room into which she looked were the mangled bodies of her two babes. I have seen between two and three hundred mothers massed ontside a schoolyard gate, screaming and tugging at the '‘Bobbies" to let them enter. In the wrecked schoolhouse were the torn and battered bodies of school children. A Hun raider bad bombed them. In London, on the Strand. I have seen row after row of stretchers bearing the broken bodies of -men and women on a street strewn with shattered glass. These were civilians, not soldiers; sleeping in their homes when the building fell. These things I have seen. I have heard all night long a terrific cannonade in the world’s greatest city, the burst of shrapnel and the sound of bombs. Outside my window I have heard the cries and moans of dying human beings, victims of the enemy in the air. , This is not talk. These are things T have seen and heard; and yet I have seen and heard so little It is hardly worth talking about. But It makes me want to buy Liberty bonds.

Everybody’s Doing It.

No one in a crowd of men is so despicable as a poor spender. Don’t put your hand in your pocket and keep it there. Buy Liberty bonds while others are buying.

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The well known Swedish airman, Captain Dahlbeck, recently proposed a scheme to the Swedish government for the establishment of a seaplane service between Sweden and Finland. The idea is that the seaplane shall start from Norrtelje, north of Stockholm, and finish at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. The seaplanes will carry both passengers and mails. The journey from Stockholm to Finland via Haparanda now takes three days and three nights. By means of seaplanes it will be possible for the journey to be covered in a few hours.

Canada’s production of sugar beets in the season of 1917 is officially estimated as 117,000 tons from 14,000 acres, compared with 71,000 tons from 15,000 acres in 1916, or an average yield of 8.40 tons an acre, contrasted with 4.75 tons in the preceding season. The value of the crop is placed at $783,000, or $6.75 a ton, compared with a total of $440,000, and an average of $6.20 a ton in 1916. All this production was from the Province of Ontario.

■ID SI BS I COMMUNITY SALE AT PARR There will be another community sale at Lakin’s store in Parr, on SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1918, at which personal property of all kinds will be offered for sale. Included in the property to be sold is 1 Jersey cow; 1 Shetland pony; 1 set tile ditching tools; 1 canvas tent 12x14 feet; 1 lot of household goods in No. 1 condition; potatoes; a few bushels of beans; some farm tools, etc. Parties having poultry or other property they wish to dispose of are urged to bring it in to this sale, as they will be assured a good price for same. Terms— A credit of 9 months on sums over $lO, bankable note, 6 pct interest from date if ipaid when due, if not paid when due 8 pct interest from date; 2 pct off for cash when entitled to credit. w. a. Mccurtain, A«ct. C. G. SPITLER, Clerk.

BIG STOCK SALE! Being short of feed and pasture, I will sell at public sale at my residence 11 miles north and 1% miles east of Rensselaer, 1 mile east and 3 miles south of Kniman, commencing at 10 a. m., on MONDAY, APRIL 8,1918 130 Head of Cattle H9F Consisting of a few milch cows, 40 head coming 2-year-old steers, 35 head yearling steers, 50 head one and two-year-old heifers. These catttle are in good condition, some of them fit for the block now. ~ 17 Head of Shoats weighing about 160 lbs each. TERMS: — Ten dollars and under cash in hand; on sums over $lO a credit of 10 months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when due 8 per cent interest from date; 2 per cent off for cash when entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. MICHAELJUNGELS w. a. Mccurtain, Auct. c. g. spitler,. cierk.

SATURDAY, APRIL B, I 91»

BIG STOCK SALE •the undersigned will offer at public sale at the Ed. Eilts farm, 9% miles north and 3-4 mile west of Rensselaer, 3 miles south and 3-4 mile east of Virgie,, commeQcing at 12 o’ clock noon, on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1918 30 Head of Cattle — Consisting of 8 milch cows, some of the best milk type selected from my herd of thirty head last fall, and which have proved to give up to $8 worth, of cream per month. All cows are bred to a prime registered Shorthorn, “Hans,’’ and will be fresh a few days before the sale; will be sold with calf by side. The rest of the cattle consist of young heifers and steers. 4 Head of iforses—Consisting of 2 mares, wt about 1300 each, 8 yrs old, and 2 colts coming 2 and 4 yrs old, respectively. 19 Head of Hogs— Consisting of 9 brood sows, to farrow about June and July, and 10 pure-bred Duroc shotes wt about 100 pounds each. The sows are of four different pens to obtain records. They have not . 1 n.l t brought returns of $2.57 per bushel for corn fed during zero weather of January, but promise for the purchaser some good money next summer. There are three black sows —Mr. Comer’s favorite blacks crossed with Mr. Lewis’ belted hogs; 3 red and black spotted—Mr. Comer’s favorite blacks crossed with Mr. Budd’s registered Duroc; 2 pure-bred Duroc’s from Mr. Budd’s registered male hog; 1 Chester White sow, pure-bred, from Omar Kenton’s herd. 50 Bushels Whitd and some Red Seed Com. 1 No. 15 DeLaval Cream Separator, good as new. Terms —A credit of 9 months on sums over $lO, bankable note, 6 pct interest from date if paid when due, it not paid when due 3 pct interest from date; 2 pct of foff cash when entitled to credit. JOHN EILTS. ! C. G. Spitler, Clerk. PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will sell at' public auction at his residence on Milroy„avenue, known as the Mrs. York property, commencing at 2 p. m., sharp, on SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1918 1 Span Horses—Matched dappled’ grey, mare and gelding, aged 4 years, broke to all harness and sound. 1 Hereford Cow — Now giving milk, is bred and will be fresh later in the sedson. 2 Ewe Sheep, each with lamb by side. 1 Ford Roadster, in good condition. Harness, Etc.— l set double harness, 1 set heavy single harness, 33- hedge posts, about 4- cords of wood, 1 spring wagon, 75 egg cases. Household Goods—Consisting of 3 stoves, 1 oil, 1 heater, 1 range; 2 beds; davenport; 1 cupboard, dining and kitchen furniture, etc. Terms — 9 months’ credit on sums over $lO, bankable note, drawing 6 pct interest from date if paid when due, if not paid when due 8 pct interest from date; 2 pct off for cash where entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms are complied with. H. A. QUINN. W. A. McCurtain. Auctioneer. Advertise in The Democrat