Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — Page 8

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

PINE GROVE Ethel Hilton spent Sunday with Barbara Hayee. Bessie Price spent Saturday night with Nile Britt. Leota and Gertrude Bake!' spent Bunday with Alice Galbraith. Gladys Baker of near Valparaiso •pent Sunday with- Nile '“Britt. Mrs. Frank Payne and children were Rensselaer goers Saturday. The Watson Pluimlbing Co. is driving a well for John Dale this week. William McElfresh spent Saturday night and Sunday with David Yeoman. Mrs. Roy Torbet and children •pent Sunday with James Torbet •nd family. Margaret Gifford and Ellen Kresler called on Alice Galbraith Sunday evening. Creola Torbet took supper Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wells of Rensselaer. Mrs. Sarah McCleary and son Everett and Madge Coleman spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet and daughter. f Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wells of Rensselaer spent Saturday night and Sunday with 'her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet, and family.

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) A fine boy arrived Wednesday at the homie of Mr. and Mirs. Noah D. Miller. (Henry Paulus and family of near Rensselaer were Sunday visitors at Jasper Wright’s. Dr. Martin and wife spent Sunday with W- V. Vanatta and wife southeast of Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins •nd Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hopkins •pent Sunday relatives at Brook. 'the families of Edwin Harris and L. E. Ponsler spent the day Bunday with Ed. May’s near Remington. A. F. Long and wife and George Long and family of Rensselaer visited at the. home of W. W. Miller Sunday. Sam Guthrie, the C. X- E. I. section foreman at Goodland, was calling on old friends here the last of the week. Jay Miller, wife and babe were over to Mrs. Miller’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parker, near RermIngton Sunday. Ernest Huffy, whose home is at Paonia, Colorado, and who was called here to see his father, Uncle John Huffy, found it imperative to return home Friday. Clarence Blankenbaker had the misfortune to lose a good mare Thursday due to foaling. This makes the second good horse that he has lost this spring. Mrs. W. A. Shindler went to Valparaiso Friday for a short visit >wit|i Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sayler. Mrs. Shindler will return home by way Of Hammond, bringing Susie home with her.

A saw imiill lias been set in the Lyons-McCray timber across from the Will Walter place on the Rensselaer road and all the available timber will be converted into lumber and the land ‘put to crops. The hew owners are certainly making a magical difference in .the old randh. Edwin Harris has completed the addition to his implement house, also his garage, and the workmen bave now begun the remodeling of his residence. Mr. Harris is having a dining room and a bath room added to his home, which, when done, will no doubt make a very convenient home. Prof. J. B. Harter, wife and babe left Mondaj' for Gentryville, •where they will take up their future residence. Mr. Harter infonmis us on going that it is his Intention to take up some sort of occupatibn this summer at that place and 1 in the fall enter Purdue for a course in agriculture, in which line <( he expects to specialize. In their going Mt. Ayr certainly loses an especially fine young couple. They were only among, us during the one school term, but thev displayed every evidence of cultured and agreeable people. It is too bad that we must lose this kind •when once gained.

REMINGTON

(From the Press) Mrs. Marion O’Connor of Lafayette came Tuesday to visit Mrs. Ellen O’Connor. Mrs. Peter Geib went to Pekin, TIL, Wednesday to attend the funeral of an aunt. Howard Jones and wife and 'Earl Thompson and wife were guests of Kentland friends Sunday. Frank Wingard is preparing to build a fine stock barn at his home southwest of Remington. A. B. Coleman, w;ife and daughter a'utoed to Valparaiso Sunday and spent the day with friends. Mrs. Harry Miller and baby of Monticello were week-end guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morin Milo Julian of Onward, Ind., spent Sunday and -Monday with his parents here, having come over with Steve O’Riley, who was out there on a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roades and daughter of Arizona came today for a visit to their parents, Mr. an<| Mrs. D- H. Roades. Jones Bros, report the sale of the Clara and Vernon Balcom property on south Ohio street to Frank Kuboski. Consideration $2,500. In an item last week concerning 'Frank Braner, who came through from Nebraska with cattle, it should

have stated five carloads instead of one. Miss Carry Farabee, who visited her aunt, Mrs. Charles Weir, here this winter, was married April 8, to Merle Baker at her home in New Philadelphia, Indiana. Prof. John C. Johnston of ’the University of West Virginia Morgantown, spent Sunday with his uncle, C. B. Johnston. He went to Chicago Monday to attend a conference of voice culturists. Mrs. Kate Treanor, who has been visiting her* 1 sister, Mrs. Ellen O’Connor, returned to her home in Logansport Wednesday, leaving Mrs. O'Connor some better than she found her, though still far from well. Mrs. Emma Goss and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wingard and little son visited Mrs. Frank Goss and little baby daughter at Lafayette Sunday. Frank Goss accompanied them over, returning Monday - morning. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Simalley and Mr. and Mrs. Max Broadie wens to Attica Sunday and spent the day with Fred Parker and wife. They are preparing to break up housekeeping as Fred is called for service on the 26th inst. Rev. J. A. Bennett, a former pastor of the Christian church at Kentland, and well known here, having been an attendant and owning a cottage at Fountain Park, died at a hospital in Valparaiso April 6, where he had been since last January for dropsy. The funeral was held at Valparaiso/and burial made at Hartford, Mich. Rev. Bennett was forty-eight years old. and is survived by his wife and three children.

There was a quiet little wedding Saturday afterno’on at 4:30 at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. A. C. Tharp of the Christian church. The parties to this happy event were Miss Marguerite Summons of north of town and James A. Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bates of this immediate vicinity. The ceremony was pronounced in the presence of only a few of the immediate relatives of the contracting parties, after which the bridal couple took the 5:15 train for a week’s visit among the various relatives of the groom. The bride is one of Remington’s most estimable young women, a graduate of the high school, and since which time has been a teacher of the township, giving the best of satisfaction. The groom is a fine young man and is a farmer. The bridal couple have the best wishes <ff hosts of friends, among whom is the Press.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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one royally. We had our picture taken together, and I am sending one home. I sure will be glad to get those papers from you; they have not arrived yet, but the second class mail travels slower than letters. We get Indianapolis papers here, and every day we get European editions of Chicago and New York piFpers, besides lots of (magazines from the Red Cros% but of course home papers are always the most interesting. We have a Y. M. C. A. here, where we can buy American tobacco and cigarets. cakes, candy, etc. It sure is fine to have the “Y” here. Before it was established we had to put up with this French stuff, when we could get it, and it is rotten, and- almost prohibitive in price. We also have moving pictures at the ”Y” four nights a week, and every Wednesday evening a band concert in the beautiful .park here. It is a’ real American band, too, made up from our company and another of the same kind, which is located here. They have about twenty or twenty-four instruments.

The weather here is beautiful now. They are planting gardens, and farmers have been plowing for a month. I see you had a terrible winter. We had a few pretty cold days here, but most of the time it was very mild. Warm enough to go without an overcoat, a great deal of the time. I got another letter from Father Condon at the college the same day I got yours. I was made a sergeant the 18th of February, and aln now in charge of the kitchens of three large hotels, used as hospitals, and also the officers’ mess. It means a very sub stantial increase in pay for me, too. I have -a dandy room to sleep in. too. A fellow who lived next door to me for a while in Lebanon rooms with me. We have all the comforts of home, except our families. I don’t have any baking to do, as we, get all our bread from an American base bakeny.

We get a seven-day furlough every four months, and we will have one coming the latter part of April. We can go to Aix-Laßains, which is in the Alps mountains in the corner of France, Italy and Switzerland. I am anxious to go. Well, dear brother, I must close. i Let the folks at home j-ead this. Tell mother not to worry a bit about me for I am all O. K. Love to Etta, Cecelia and all at home. SERGT. RICHARD BECK, ’ y Base Hospital No. 32, Am. Ex. Forces, via New York. From the Wilbur Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio. George M. Babcock, who had been taking machine gun training at Utica, New, York, and was transferred with others, to the the Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, a few days ago, writes home from the latter place, as follows: Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. April 15, 1918. Well, we landed here O. K. last evening. We got into Dayton about 10 o’clock yesterday morning, having left Utica at 10:30 the night before. We had a t fine Pullman and the government allowed us >2 for eating on the way

i down. We looked over the town yesterday afternoon and went to a 1 show—the best vaudeville we had ' seen since joining the army. Dayton is a city of about IM.GGG and about twice the size of Utiea. IWe are located out eleven miles 'from the city. But it is quite a 1 pretty place here, and warmer than in New York state. There are «everal planes here, and we have heard that quite a number of new men [will be transferred to this place to learn machine guns. There is an interurban line connecting us with either Dayton or Springfield. The latter city 4s in plain sight from a point on the way out here. I We have heard from the fellows of a detachment that left Utica for this place a week before we did, that we would have only a couple weeks’ schooling here, learning the English version of the Lewis gun, and then would be shipped to j some other point as instructors or aerial gunners. For seeing the. United States I don’t believe any branch of the service can compare] with the aviation section of the signal corps. A bunch left here, yesterday for Detroit, Michigan.] near w’hich is located Camp Mount I Clemens. We received our pay just before leaving Utica for last month, and along with a refund on ott board bill added $16.53 to my exchequer, which helped greatly. ~ Here we have sealed, electric lighted and steam heated barracks, with toilet and bath connected and it only being, necessary to take a few steps when going to the mess hall. The —* hotel is a piker compared to an army mess hall when it comes to the eats. I will try to find out about getting home, but doubt if it is possible, just now. Will write again so oh. Please do likewise. ,

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Carl F. Mcßeynolds et ux to William E. Ott, April 13, pt . s u se 24-27-7, Carpenter, $4.00, Leslie Clark et ux to David EGrow, April 5, It 6. bl 5, Rensselaer, SSO. James !M. Truitt et ux to Samuel Vig, March 27, s 14 w nw 18-31-5, 20 acres. Walker, sl.

THE COMMUNITY AUTOMOBILE SUPPLY COMPANY of Rensselaer, Indiana, will sell you a guaranteed tire for $1 profit eaen. Any size. Also gasoline at 1 eent per gallon profit.—AdvL xf

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The time has come io pay the tax upon my chattels and n y dwelling; of rupees many h".rd-earned lacs from my strongbox I must H? shelling. And when I've paid The goodly sum for which the tax eallector itches, with bats in hand men still will come, to ’ each me for any meagre riches. This slogan is forever called, ’ Dig up! Dig up We need ■ your, money, to build a .iefuge' for the bald, and ouy old spinsters cake and honey! Dig up. to buy the paupers grub, forgetting that they loafed all summer: dig up, to help the Country Club pay off the carpenter and plumber. Dig up, dig up, the village waits, to see you fill its park with benches: dig up, to purchase roller skates for soldiers in the foreign trenches. Dig up, to buy the beaten clothes, and saddles for the alligators; dig up, to buy the Eskimos some up-to-date refrigerators.” My* yearly tax I'll pay today, on house and lot, and other rigging, and gladly, gladly would I pay, if that would end this constant digging.

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HAIG SMASHES NEW HUX DRIVE FOR BETHUNE

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though the British were unable to hold Wytschaete and Meteren. which they had retaken by a brilliant coun-ter-attack, they beat off the enesny elsewhere. The British maintained their line throughout the night. A renewed heavy- bombardment of the British front between La Rassee canal, at Givenchy, and the Nieppe forest suggests the Germans contemplate another heavy drive in this region in the hope of taking Bethune and creating a new salient. All the areas back of this section of the front were sprinkled with gas shells throughout the night. At hi o’clock in the morning the bombardment weas nearly of drumfire intensuty between Locon and Robecq, where the enemy has tried repeatedly to advance his line to the canal. Six heavy attacks were delivered by the Germans between Bailleul anc Ypres in an attempt to t»end back the British front still farther afid to create another dangerous salient in the Flemish marshes. KemmeL hill was assaulted by three waves of Germans about one o'clock in the afternoon, but the enemy was thrown back with heavy casualties anc a counter-attack completely restorer the British line. Other attacks went broken by British machine gun fire. The Germans opened a heavy bombardment of positions or the southwestern part of the Lys hat tie front between Locon and Robecq during the night. The bombardmem was still in progress at dawn. Tto statement reads: “There has been severe fighting again on the greater part of the Lys battle front. “From La Bassee canal at Givenchy to the Lys river, east of St. Venaat bombardment was reported in th*

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Schwab Will Control the Building of Steel Ships

U&artes AL Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Sseri corporation, has been appomied director general of shipbuilding and pat in control of the const rucjiom <rf steel merchantmen to speed up the lagging work.

GEORGE.

REJECTS $2.50 WHEAT

House Votes Against Change in Price—B# Returned. Conferees Will Meet Early Next Week to Ccosider Their Course—President Against Increase. April 19. —President Wilsi-a won Ms fight against $2.50-a-LusfeeS wheat in the house when the smaie proposal was rejected and the atgri««s2r®ra:l appropriation bill sent tonefc e>>-sference with house confesw# instructed to stand against the taenease in the existing government ■axiam cf .„. _ _.. Use'ee-Eferees will meet early next veel :<i c®es»ier their course. The MES was sent back to confereiKe .br atrote •»f 167 to 98. Kegc——'ctauve Sterling of Illinois de-riar—l: “Y«mo can fix the price but not the w«shwheat.' Worth cannot, be fix—d by law any more than you can regulate the law of supply and deatandL N- brain can tell what wheat will be wweth when the crop is ,harvesr—A If y»m fix the price too low wheat will disappear and something wfl3 .be sabsdtatetl.for .it.

“I hestnd Mr. Hoover say he had no iMemiiioa t<o fix the price in the bins erf the fxrmers. but that wheat should go «« the market for what it is wwrrk." T* argument for $2.50 wheat is based! wi irresponsible statement fruMß socae- »:me that such a price will pwvexit feeding wheat to live stock and Stable production,” said Repr>es«usat£Te Good of lowa. It fe ftrily to. say anything we may do now will affect the 1918—this year’s —crop. “I raise wheat, and I find it more prafaße than corn or other crops at the present price.”

wniag followed by strong hostile atracfcft. all of which have been repoised. ■■ The fehsses inflicted on the attacking German infantry by our fire are again retorted to have been extremely heavy, and more than 200 prisoners have beet taken. "The struggle has been particularly 6erxe in the neighborhood of Givenchy, where the enemy made deternrfned efforts. without simcess, to retrieve his previous .failures. The in this locality has not yet ceased and the activity of the enemy’s artißery is continuing on the whole erf this front. “Later in the day further attacks, acronjuisued by heavy shelling, dexvtoped against our positions south of KeMBSBei and were repulsed. “Mew detailed accounts of the fighting of yesterday on the forest of Nieppe-Wytsehaete front establish the severity of the enemy’s losses. Southeast of Kemmel hill the German infantry attacked in three waves and at one point pressed back our line riagfe-Jy. “In this locality the situation was restored- by a counter-attack and sfeartiy after midday the attack had been repulsed at ail points. In the Baißeufl sector the enemy attacked three times before midday and in each case suffered a complete repulse. •Oar line was reported intact on the whole front.” Berlin Admits Check. Berta. April 19.—The German official report says: “The enemy left to ■s n large part of the Flemish territay, which had been gained by him after months of struggle at the price of hnge sacrifice. General Sixt von Arata's army took from the enemy, retreating step by step, Poelcapelle, Langeanrek and Zonnebeke. and, following hta up closely, drove him back “Sown of Btankaert lake an enemy CMWter-thrust checked our forward

WOMEN ASK FOR RATIONING PLAN

American Women Volunteer to Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat, Bread Flour, Sugar, and Butter. PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK. Idea Supplements U. 8. Food Administration's New Home Card Now in 10,000,000 Homes. The women of America, who are anxious to do their great part in the winning of the war, are now, asr a whole, familiar with the most Important aspects of food conservation. The Home Card, both m its original form and in the revised edition for 1918, which provides for two wheatless days, one meatless day a week, in addition to a wheatless meal every day, has been placed by the Food Administration after a vigorous campaign in 10,000,000 American homes. An intelligent and conscientious observance of the Home Card's requirements is all the Food Administration asks of the housewives of the country.

The Food Administration has had a great many requests, however, particularly from the homes of the well-to-do, that it should issue a worked out plan for a voluntary system of rationing. This desire for a voluntary fatlon springs from two causes—first, because it Is far simpler for the housewife to save food when she has a concrete working plan by which to proceed, and, second, because the loyal women of America desire, unselfishly, to put themselves on the same basis as the Women of the Allied countries. The ration proposed by the Food Administration is almost the same as that adopted in England for voluntary observance. All over the United Kingdom, in hundreds of houses there hangs in the front window a card with the stirring pledge, “IN HONOR BOUND WE ADOPT THE NATION. AL SCALE OF VOLUNTARY RATIONS.”

The ration recommended by the Food Administration, and adopted first in New York city, whence the idea has spread through the entire country, is the following: Weekly Allowance Per Person. Meat —Beef (fresh, salted, tinned and hashed) ; mutton, lamb and veal (mutton by preference) • 2% lbs. Butter lb. Cooking Fats (margarine, lard, lard substitutes, vegetable oils) lb. Wheat Flour (foihuse In cooking gravies, etc., where corn starch, cracker dust or bread crumbs cannot be substituted) % lb. Victory Bread (containing at least 20 per cent, of a substitute for wheat f10ur).... 1% lbs. Sugar (Including all sugar used,- on the table and in cooking and all sweatmeats and candles, but not. that used for canning and preserving) % lb. The Items listed above are the only ones which are definitely limited. In the case of milk and cream, as much may be used as Accessary, and chilof course, must have their full allowance of whole milk. Fish and poultry, any cereal other than wheat, vegetables and fruits and cheese may be used as freely as Is desired. The above ration Is In no wise Intended to supplant the Home Card, but rather to supplement it. It has been published with the Idea that It will be a very real aid to the American* woman in her splendid effort to carry out the great food conservation program.

USE MORE POTATOES.

ELP consume the 1917 record breaking potato crop. Government experts have estl-

mated that over 700,000 extra acres of potatoes were planted last year. The United StateS Food Administration is endeavoring to push the nation’s big jjotato stocks Into channels of trade and has placed potatoes on the list of substitutes thaX may be bought along with wheat flour. Potato soup has become a war dish. Here is a recipe that has been tested by United States Food Administration experts. Ingredients needed are three potatoes, one quart of milk, two slices onion, three tablespoons butter substitute, two tablespoons flour, one and one-half tablespoons salt, one-quarter teaspoon celery salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, few grains cayenne and one teaspoon chopped parsley. Cook potatoes tn boiled salted water. When soft run through a strainer. Scald milk with onion, remove onion and add milk slowly to potatoes. Melt the fat, add dry ingredients, stir until well mixed, then stir into boiling soup. Cook one minute, strain and sprinkle with barley.

SATURDAY, APRIL, SO, 1»18

ON THE FUNNY SIDE

An Interesting Topic. “Junior” is an only child and naturally appreciates the attention bestowed upon him. But his mother had hoped he was innocently unconscious of his popularity until one evening when a neighbor had happened in for a chat, “Junior” had gone to bed, but presently his shrill little pipe broke into theiJ conversation: “Mother!” “Yes, Junior.” “Talking ’bout me?” 1 Too Weak by Far. Catherine had requested, as a special birthday treat, that she be allowed to have coffee for breakfast. Her mother, not at all pleased with the idea, was diluting it generously. ' Catherine peered over into the cup, and then exclaimed in great disappointment: “Goodness! Don’t I get any of the brown?” Favorite Topics. “Did you ever stop to think how little conversation there would be If people never talked about themselves?” “Oh, yes. But if people never talked about themselves or other people, either, we wouldn’t need a universal language. We could get along well by making signs.” t Help! Customer (to waiter who had brought him a beefsteak very much underdone! —Waiter, just send for the butcher, will you? Waiter —Why, sir? Customer —This steak doesn’t seen? to be quite dead yet! FOOL AND HIS MONEY

“Being a fool is no disgrace.” ’ “’Tisri’t that.” “What’s the trouble, then?” “The money is always on the othet* Aide.” Do Not. Do not be a quitter With fear within your heart; A And do not be‘a starter Of things that should* not start. —Judge. 1 Hard to Please. “I fail to see anything in this show.* “But the chorus is shapely.” “True, yet the chorus can neither sing nor dance.” . “Don’t you think the comedian is runny?” “He might be if he tried to play ‘Hamlet.’ ” —Birmingham Age-Herald. Branching Out. “Mrs. Dubwaite is always talking about enlarging her sphere of influence.” “What does she mean by that?” “I suppose she means moving in ft larger circle by attending more club meetings.” Best Move. " “This dollar diplomacy—** ' “Yes?” '"W “What is it, anyway?” “Slipping your wife a case note when you haven’t got an excuse ‘handy." Literally Understood. “It’s a cold world!” sighed the melancholy citizen. “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But don’t you think that now and then we ought to talk about something besides the weather and the cost of fuel?” She Explains. “You never wind your wrist watch* “Well, what of it?”. “What’s the use of wearing a wrist watch that keeps no time?” “I wear it as a bracelet as well as a watch,” said the girl. Also, When She’s Absent “Pa, when do you call an old woman an old hen?" “When she has become hopelessly set in her ways, my son."