Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — Page 2

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lit Jim cwt imot F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY | Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence >ll Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter Jffine 8, 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March *, 1879. ; Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. ADVERTISING RATES Display . 12%c Inch Display, special position.. 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.% sc Readers, per line add. inser.... 3c Want Ads—l cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account Card of Thanks —Not t» exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918

CANDIDATES ANNOUNCEMENTS.

FOR CORONER. Editor Democrat —Please announce my name as a candidate for coroner of Jasper county on the Democratic ticket, subject to the primary election. DEO O. WORLAND. Marion Township.

MARGINS WIPED OUT

The United States h'as always heretofore been a land of plenty—in fact a land or surpluses. Up to two or three years ago we have always had a fair balance to run on at the end of each year,’ 4 and had no need to practice real economy. There* was plenty of every commodity and a reasonable plenty of money with which to buy it. Now the only commodity of which the United States has plenty is money. Of the things which money will buy she finds herself alarmingly short. Wheat, meat, wool, .coal—the four great requisites of life, she is called on to conserve and to use as sparingly as possible. The

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serious phase of the matter is that in all these ifties the erstwhile margins of plenty have been completely wiped out and in their place is a positive deficit. It was estimated during the fuel saving period that the Country was actually short fifty million tons of coal; that we lacked that much of having enough fuel to carry on normal activities. Practically the same condition prevails, in other lines. What is the answer? CONSERVATION! Waste must be absolutely eliminated. Production must be speeded up by every means in our power. And wherever a substitute for either of these four articles can by any means be made to serve the purpose, it is the patriotic duty of every true American man and woman to make use of that substitute. The time for discussing the war has passed. The problems growing out of the war* are pressing for attention, and should be met aS live Americans have always met the stern problems of liffe —with a smiling courage and a firm determination to solve them and solve them correctly. The war must be won. so let every American say from the bottom of his heart, “We can and we will.”

KEEPING BUSINESS "NORMAL”

We are asked by our government, as a vital pre-requisite to the manmouth undertaking in which we are engaged, that we do our utmost to keep business normal. The request is a broad one and comprehends the whole scope of human character, in the concrete as well as in the abstract: individually as well as collectively. It is incumbent that we use energy and industry. This, though, the exigencies of the times insure. The demands for the products of our industry are so great that none but the hopelessly slothful can consent to remain inactive. The pressure of human needs can generally be relied upon to guarantee a corresponding outlay of energy and industry. But there are other equally as important human characteristics that must be considered, and among these we must give first place to unselfishness as opposed to self interest. We must learn to think in the mass, rather than as individuals. We must learn to shape our actions in the light of the public weal, rather than in that of the individual. The temptation is great for a spirit of selfishness amd greed to dominate our lives. The opportunity was never greater for men in all lines of endeavor to make “killings” and “feather their nests,” but we must bear in mind that this will always be done at the expense of the industrial health of the masses. In plain words, what we get out of the present commercial' conditions will be a true guage of our character, The man who emerges with unduly swollen bank balance may know in his heart of hearts that his country has been second in his thoughts and actions. It is

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the man whose entire thought and actions have been- devoted to sus- ( taining the commercial life and j strength of his country, who will have the satisfying knowledge that he has measured up to the stand’ ard of a MAN. I “By their fruits ye shall know them” was never more applicable than in the present emergency. The wheat shortage Is destined to make the people of the United States acquainted for the first time in their history with the great American grain—corn. When one comes to think of it, it is really surprising how few people in our land really appreciate this grain as they should. Corn bread, rightly made, has no superior as a regular article of diet. Those who have become accustomed to its use frequently prefer it to all other bread, | and insist that one never loses | relish for it. Corn was the staple ■ article of food of the American In-} dian, than whom a finer race, phys-! ically, never existed. It was also} the mainstay of the African slaves of the South for two centuries, and on it they throve and labored. It is acknowledged by leading physicians that corn bread is much more healthful than wheat bread, and when once one has acquired a taste for it he becomes a convert for* life. It Is the merest drivel, to say nothing of disloyalty, for, any of our people to bewail a forced abstinance from wheat bread so long as we have untold millions of the best grain God ever caused to grow oiit of the ground.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Our boys in France are standing behind the lines waiting for their “crowded hours of glorious life.” “Nobody but the farmer knows how oats, beans and barley grow," but the nation is getting a good idea how they taste.Liberty bond subscriptions tell us Kaiser Bill don’t stand no chance; We'll give till we wear behind us Bigger patches on our pants. Plant seeds in your war garden, plant your dollars in Liberty bonds. You will have to take care of the garden, but Uncle Sam will take care of the bonds for you. Five hundred gallons of oil had to be applied on the hides of Ringling Bros.’ twenty-seven elephants to get them ready for the summer season. Why not Hooverize on elephants? We take no stock in the report that the “Safety First” slogan originated. with the boys. It had its inception among the “conscientious objectors” of pur own country.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I’ve spaded up my acre lot, to make a wartime garden; ’twill be the smoothest little plot you ever saw a bard in. I’ve sown the kind of. boneless greens that used to please our daddies, and I have beds of peas and beans and leeks and finnan haddies. And neighbors come along and say, “In vain is all your toiling! For vagrant hens will come this way, your treasured garden spoiling. And dogs will come, and once or twice they’ll wallow in your lettuce; then you’ll recall our sage advice, ah, then you won't forget us! And when the moonlight, white, intense, the world in silver washes, a cow will climb your garden fence, and eat your Hubbard squashes. Some night a horse, from halter free, perhaps a gray with dapples, will come and climb up yonder tree and swallow all your apples. And hogs will come from distant pens, long leagues they’ll come a-kiting, to eat the onions that the hens passed up as uninviting. Oh. we have raised such garden sass, to feed such vagrant varmints, and we have wept and cried 'Alas!’ and torn our beards and garments.” It's such encouragement as this I get when I am TU' 1 -• . - hoeing, and it destroys the peaceful bliss I felt, to see things growing. '

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conductsd by County Agent Stewart Learning.

The North Union Farmers’ club I will meA at Virgie school house this Saturday evening, May 4. “More Silos in Union Township,” will be one of the subjects discussed. John E. Alter of South Union will render several numbers on the program. All are invited to attend. Following is the program: Song—U. S. A. Will Lay the Kaiser Away Virgie Quartet Progress of Our Club H. J. Dexter Song Rdeder Bros. Talk .----■ --•- • - Mr. S. Learning Instrumental Music .... .Mr. and Mrs. Hooper

Stories ....Mr. J. E. Alter Song—Liberty Bell ; . . .Virgie Quartet The South Marion Farmers’ club ■will hold its regular May meeting at the Consolidated school house Thursday evening, May ?9, Among other topics, “More Livestock for Jasper County Farms’’ and “The History of Shorthorn Cattle,*’ will be discussed. Hog Feeding Trials to Start Prof. John Schwab of Purdue was the principal speaker at a meeting held last Thursday on the farm of Win. Dooley of Kniman, at which time one of the hog feeding trials being conducted by the Hog Production committee of the county was gtarted. Mr. Dooley will feed a bTincli of hogs this summer following the directions of the committee as closely as conditions will permit and keep a record of the cost of the operations and the profit or losses resulting Among the farmers who are or will carry on similar trials are: Emil Alberding of Carpenter Joseph Kolhoff of Jordan Charles Weiss and Erhardt Wuerthner of Newton Virgil Hobson of Hanging Grove W. H. Pullins and John R. Lewis of Barkley 1 I. F. Meader of Union S, C. Robinson of Gillam. ■ This series of trials is. fpr the purpose of shoeing the effect of the use of /(I) Forage Crops. (2) Tankage or other protein supplement in the self feeder, and (3) hogging off of com upon the cost of pork production. Hog feeders of the county are invited to keep In touch with the results secured In these trials.

Cattle Men to Meet May 25 promises to be a big day for the Shorthorn breeders of the county, the local association having arranged for a rally in Rensselaer m the afternoon. W. B. Krueck of Purdue will give a demonstration of the proper methods of fitting cattle for sale or show. Dean J. H. Skinner has promised to be present or;to send a substitute to discuss the outlook of the pure-bred cattle business. Every cattle man of the count}' is invited to attend. Hog Producers Busy , W. H. Pullins of the County Hog Production committee has issued a call for all of pure-bred hog s to meet in the Better Farming association office in the court house at 2 o’clock this Saturday, May 4, to consider methods of Creating an interest in the production of better hogs. , “There is much to be done along feeding lines, but we must have good hogs if we expect to get best results from the, feed we use. 1 hope every breeder will join our

Safeguarded Investments Are your dollars Loafers or Workers? Money that is not invested pays no returns, any more than grain in the bin will grow crops unless planted. Every man or woman with money should put that money to work. Jay Gould once said that SIOO invested in the right thing at the right time would earn as much as a man steadily employed. He died worth hundreds of millions. The average man or woman knows nothing about how or where to invest money to get good returns from it. It is our business to advise investors where and how to invest, where investments can earn the best returns with the utmost of safety. Brokerage Department We buy or sell listed or unlisted stocks and bonds. If you are anxious to buy or sell let us help you. We can probably buy the stock you want cheaper than you can. We can sell your stocks at the best price or we can exchange non-dividend-paying stock for stock that is paying dividends. Write to us about it. Underwriting Department We underwrite the selling of the stock of companies but before accepting an issue of stock for sale we make a most thorough and complete investigation of the proposition. It has to grade up A-l or we will not handle it. It is this type of investment that Jay Gould alluded to in the quotation above—- “ The right thing at the right time.’’ How To Buy Stock We will purchase’ stock for you for cash or on the deferred payment plan. We make a moderate charge for carrying stock on the de- „ ferred payment plan but you become entitled to all dividends, bonuses, etc., the stock you buy earns from the date your first payment is recorded. Let us explain ' this plan fully. Two Unusual Opportunities We have at present two exceptionally attractive opportunities. Both are gilt-edge investments with large profit possibilities. Ask for Offer B-2. \ Mail This Coupon Today

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movement and help cheapen the cost of pork production.” More Lime Means Bigger Crops Among the farmers who have shipped ground limestone into the county the past week are Charles Moody, Ed. Lane and Joseph Kosta. Next to drainage, liming and clover are the most important factors in building up sour soils. Now that cars are available, farmers ■ who have been waiting will do well to follow the example of these men. Greens “The common growth of Mother Earth suffices me.” —Wadsworth. With the coming of spring one’s appetite calls for the green succulent goods. This is nature’s method of purifying the body of all poisonous toxins and humors which are the result of indoor air. As sources of iron, it is said that the green vegetables, perhaps, are the most important food. To satisfy this longing for fresh vegetables our grandmothers used to go out I into the pasture and fields in the very early spring and gather a I “mess of greens.” Today these same plants .may be found right at I our doors and may be made into many appetizing dishes that are cheap in price only. I Even the despised dandelion ■ which has an affinity for our lawns 'is valuable for greens, since it is so rich in iron, and is a splendid blood purifier. In Europe generally and in this country to a limited extent near - certain large cities, dandelions are raised as a truck crop. To many persons their pe-

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Notice to Voters Notice is hereby given that the location of the voting places in the several precincts of Jasper county, Indiana, for the primary election to be held May fl, 1918, are as follows, to wit: Barkley, East Precinct —Center school house. Barkley, West Precinct —Cozy Palace school house. Carpenter, East Precinct —Town Hall Carpenter, West Precinct —Charles Caln residence. Carpenter, South Precinct-Reming-ton Hotel. Gillam —Center school .house. Hanging Grove—Banta school hotise. Jordan —Egypt school house. Kankakee —Tefft school house. Keener —Demotte school house. Marion, Precinct No. I—Sample room, Makeever Hotel. Marion, Precinct No. 2—L. A. Bostwick office. Marion, Precinct No. 3—South room The Trust & Savings Bank. Marion, Precinct No. 4—D. M. Worland shop. Milroy—Center school house. Newton—Blue Grass school house. Union, North —Fair Oaks school house. Union, South—Parr school house. Walker —Walker Center school house. Wheatfield—Town Hall. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, of Jasper County, Indiana. By Joseph P. Hammond, Auditor.

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918

OHICAQO, INUIANAFOLIS * LQUIAVtULfi R* RENSSELAER TIME TABLE, NORTHBOUNDNO. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago '4:46 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago a.mNo. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indlanap's to Chicago 10:30 a.m. No. 38 Indlanap's to Chicago 2:61p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.sa No> 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:58 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No, 35 Chicago to Cincinnati | 1:45 aua. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville | 10:55 a.aa. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati! 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indlanap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette ’ 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer.. .L. A. Bostwick Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward ßay Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymire At Large. Rex Warner, C. Kellner . JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week .terms. . —— L 2 COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff ß. D. McColly Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Bcott SurveyorE. D. Nesbitt •CoronerW. J. Wright County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton County Agent.. Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. E. Johnson COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd D. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens Gillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, Jr Marion George Foulks Milroy John Rush Newton George Hammerton Union Joseph Salrin Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce ad- 1 dress—Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month in Williams & Dean’s law office. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE A INSURANCE 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos Dean. WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office In Odd Fellows Block RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR. I. M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 13 A. M. * 3 to 5 P.M. " “ 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesday*-* 5 A. M. to 3 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Typhoid. Pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig's drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Rm. Ne. 441-11 RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the State Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. . Farm Loans.' Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over T. & S. Bank. Phone No. 13 RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOE JEFFRIES Graduate Chiropractor Forsythe Block Phone 124 Every' day in Rensselaer. Chiropractic removes the cause of disease. \ F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Ort—pathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. T. Still. Office Hours —8-12 a. m„ 1-3 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at MonttorttSa Ind. - Office: 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA H, L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELAER, INDIANA’ Do you use the want ad. columns of The Democrat? If not, try an ad. Subscribe for The Democrat