Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — Page 4

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

goodland (From the Herald) William L. Wood of Rensselaer Was a caller in Goodland Monday. Last Sunday evening Lt. Harry O’Neal left for Camp Humphrey, Virginia, where he has orders to report May 1. Seymore Hickman, who has been visiting relatives at Vincennes. Indiana, since last February, returned to Goodland and Mt. Ayr this week. Mrs. J. G. Kinneman, who has been visiting with relatives and friends in California for the past four months, is expected home the last of this week. W. A. Medlock received a letter from his brother Ray, that he had arrived in France safe; He enlisted at Cincinnati in squad 300, 22nd engineers corps. Lemont Dunkle, who is employed at the Gary steel mills, was home for commencement exercises last Friday night, returning to his work the first of the week. The first of the week the Public Service Commission of Indiana handed down its decision with the Western Indiana Telephone company of this city in which the latter’s petition for an increase was refused.

RENSSELAER. IND.

BROOK

(From the Reporter) Born, Thursday evening, April 25, a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Shaeffer. Jacob Rich was at Lee Monday weighing some cattle to go on the Jasper county farm. Russell Beagley, son ot Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beagley, left on Monday for Chicago, where he expected to enlist in the navy. John Foresman, Jr., was In Chicago on last Friday buying cattle for the Rich and Foresman farms in Lincoln township and Jasper county. Clifford Harry returned to his home in Tulsa, Okla., on Sunday. He expects to enter the army a little later and will enlist in a service where his abilities can be used. Young Deanjurff brought in the highest priced load of hogs ever sold in the local market on Monday. There were twenty-two in the. load and they brought .$9 72.40. The price paid was sl7. Another smaller load brought the check given Mr. Deardurff up to $1710.20. Can you beat it?

MEDARYVILLE

(From the Journal) Clara Thews of Chicago is visit-i Ing this week with the Gus Steinke family. | Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kriss and baby ton of North Judson visited with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Barker Sunday. Mrs. William Holl went to Gary Saturday evening to join her husband and they expect to make their home there. Mrs. D. H. Weaver of Jonesboro, Indiana, visited from Saturday until Thursday with her daughter, Mrs. D. J. Norris. Mr. and Mrs. George Paulson and children*’ of North Judson visited with Mrs. Bertha Kruger and family last Saturday and Sunday. Gertrude Bremer went to Wanatah last Saturday to Visit relatives and friends and attend commencement exercises, returning home Tuesday - Two hundred and seventy-nine White Post township women registered in last week’s drive for registration of all women folks over sixteen years of age.

WOLCOTT

(From the Enterprise;) Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mathew, April 27, a son. A. H. Wingard went to Clark’s Hill Monday to attend the funeral

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of his cousin, Miss Gertrude Chenoweth. Mrs. Robert Nordyke and Mrs. Jennie Burch spent the day Thursday with Mrs. S. ’U. Dobbins at Reynolds. Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Cota and daughter Lucile went to Kentland Tuesday to visit Alfred Budreau and family. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Leonard and children went to El Paso, 111., Monday to attend the funeral of Mr. Leonard’s aunt, Mrs. North. I Guy Moore left Wednesday for Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where he ■ takes charge of a dredge for John 'Corbett & Co., the same firm he worked for last season. j Mr. and Mns. Henry Wood and their granddaughter, Ruth Wood, i Mrs. R. A. Parkinson and daughter Jane, all of Rensselaer, spent Friday visiting at the M. E. parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Rinkenberger of Gridley, 111., who have been spending a week wdth their 1 son, Chris C, Rinkenberger, and wife, north of Wolcott, returned home Tuesday. I Levi Souligne and family returned I last week frojn Kankakee, where they were called by the illness and death of Mr. Soligne’s mother. Mrs. Souligne was past eighty years of age and died from the infirmities I of old- age. 1 Mrs. James Payton of Los Angeles, Who has been visiting friends in. Chicago, came -Tuesday evening and spent the night with Mr. and Mrs. W. ts. Gerberich and i visited her brother, James Evans, i south of town, returning to Chicago Wednesday. Miss Elizabeth Evans has been engaged to take the position of deputy postmistress and commenced her duties Monday. Miss Jeannette Dobbins, who fpr several years has so ably filled this position, has tendered her resignation, taking effect May 1. Miss Dobbins fe\t that she needed a change, and has two good positions in view but as yet has not decided which she will accept. Mrs. E. W. Irwin and Mrs. Truman Holdridge entertained twelve of their lady friends at luncheon last Thursday evening at 6:30 at the home of Mrs. Irwin. After luncheon the ladies were requested to put on their wraps as a theater party had been planned for the eve- | ning. The ladies escorted by their hostesses went to the New Grand, where they witnessed the “Sawdust Ring” and at the close going to . their homes, having enjoyed a pleasant evening.

FRANCESVILLE

(From the Tribune) I Miss. Helen Nelson of Atlantic, lowa, is the guest, of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Leeson. Edward Gray and Ralph Myers left here one day last week in a truck for Eldorado, Kansas, where they will be employed in the oil fields. Claudeßurson went to Rochester, Minn., Monday, where he will have a final examination made of his knee, which has-been in the cast since hjs operation several weeks ago. ' . Norval Osborn of Rensselaer and Ammon Osborn of near Kewanna were in Francesville Saturday. “Dad” reports everything going I along dandy on his farm near Rensselaer. • Harper Rees, who is an engineer 'on the C. & E. 1., has moved to Goodland, where he has been assigned to a run on the Lacrosg division. His mother went there to visit him Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Kahler and family, Miss Leah Schurter and Miss Emma Herman of Tremont, Illinois, who have been visiting the Kahler families here, motored home Monday. They were accompanied by Fred Kahler, who will spend the summer with his brother Edwin. Abraham Oosley of Monon was taken to Monticello Thursday night at 10 o’clock and placed in the county jail on a charge of wife desertion. Oosley had been working in Mississippi and Louisiana for some time, and had failed to provide for his family in Monon. He returned to Monon recently and was immediately taken in hand by the authorities. A bunch of peddlers from Chicago, who causerd considerable trouble in GiUam a few days ago, managed to get into trouble over near Kewanna. One of them was fined $22.50 for assault, another was run off a farm ahead of a shot gun, while another was ousted from another place rather roughly. The | farmers were getting ready to mob

’the outfit when the marshal run them out of town. Private John Himes was home last week from Camp Shelby on a brief furlough, and while here he I and Miss Grace Beiswanger decided to finish up their little romance, which had been interrupted by John being called to the colors, so they I were married in Winamac. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Himes of White Post, and she the popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Beiswanger, northeast of town. I Edward Rose, who is with the “Rainbow Division” somewhere in France, is now on the firing line on the western front. Letters from him recently state that they have been 1 having a rainy spell with every road having the appearance and condition of those here during our spring thaws. He says the country is beautiful back a distance fro'm the villages, and the roads are so crooked that on the maps they look like tracks of a drunken fly. The death of Mrs. Royal Brenneman occurred at the family residence in Francesville last Thursi day morning at 11:30. The cause of her death was cancer, from which she had been a sufferer for many months. It had been known | for several weeks that her life could be prolonged but a slhort time, and every effort was made to make her final days alleviated of | pain, and her passing is a restful repose. The funeral was held at the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. W. C. Hensiee officiating. Burial was made in the cemetery east of town. Mary (Hane (Brenneman) I was born in Bern, Switzerland, NoI vember 28, 1851. *She came to the United States with her parents, three brothers and one sister when four years of age, the family locating near Aurora, Illinois, where they lived for nine years. From ( there they moved to Mason, Illinois, and there she was married to Royal Brenneman on November 24, .1 872. I Albert T. Anderson, whose death ■ occurred at Camp Taylor Thursday | afternoon, was brought here Saturday afternoon and was buried with military honors Sunday afternoon. The services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church, Revs. W. C. | Hensiee and J. S. VanOrman officiating. Burial was made in the cemetery east of town. “Bert,” as .he was familiarly known about town | wag called to the colors on March 30, and soon after reaching Camp Taylor took sick with pneumonia. He was given every attention but his physical condition was such that very little encouragement was given for his recovery and death resulted as above stated. “Bert” had 'many friends, he was generous to a fault, and he was the first of the army contingent from this county to give up his life in the service l of his country. 'At the church there j were crowds of people to pay their ; respects as a fitting tribute to one of the sons of the community whose life had been sacrificed for the cause for which the nation is fighting to endure in this perilous hour. His age was thirty years and he leaves la wife, one. child, two sisters and a brother.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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Boche now, is the general opinion over here. We hope so anyhow. We are having lots of rain here now, making it bad for everybody. The Americans are holding considerable portion of the front now, but I don’t think they are engaged in the big fight ’against the drive that is going on now. General Pershing has offered his awiy if they see fit to put them into it. General Petain, the French high commander, probably will not call on them unless in ease of absolute necessity. The English are anxious to see the IT. S. get into the big drive. Japan is doing us a little good in the way of ships, I see. For the package I received from Mose Leopold, C. Garver, Eva and Bob, give them my thanks and I will write to them as soon as I get some spare time, and when things cool down a bit over here. I am enclosing a picture of the decoration of this section, S. S. U. 629. for the atVck, and evacuation of the wounded at during a fierce air raid. One picture shows lhe general of the division pinning the (croix de guerre) cross of war on our section flag. The ■th er shows him lecturing to us on our good work. The pictures turned out very poor. I cannot locate Duvall there, and I am not sure that is me, but I picked out the ugliest one I, could find there and marked it. We are O. K., hope you are all the same. Will close with love. Your son, V. C. DAVISSON. At Poste.

Harvey Phillips Writes From France Harvey Phillips of McCoysburg writes the following letter to C. Earl Duvall, which will be interest to his friends here: I L’Aber Wrach, France, April 16, 1918. Dear friend Nub:- | Your letter brought back a faint recollection of Duvall’s Quality Shop. I need not try very hard to remember the faces that are now absent from roll call every evening after school. Some are still there, their bit toward keeping a fine army and navy in fighting trim. But the most of the boys | are with the colors either in active service or in preparation for duty.; You as well as everyone else kifbws that everyone cannot be a hero. And if we all went to war who would furnish food, clothing and other supplied necessary for i the maintenance of our forces? I have done about everything since we came here, pushed a wheelbarrow, carried boulders, handled a boat, cooked, and then I fell heir to

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

my present position and hope to keep it for the rest of my time in the navy. The latest and perhaps best addition to our camp is a moving picture machine. We have American movies three times a week and a big time every Sunday. This is what the ‘Y’ is doing for us over here. Last night we had a fine picture, “Truthful Trullover,” featuring Wm. Hart. We had a fine time. About half the audience were French kids that had never seen a movie. Gee, but they sure had a fine time. It was almost as much fun listening to them as it was* watching the pictures. Nub, if it is possible, I wish you would get me the addresses of the fellows that used to be seen around your fire most any time after school tor whenever we played hookey) and send them to me.' I am sending a little poetry that was written by an Indiana doughboy in France. Our mail can now be sent to this station direct instead of being distributed at Paris and perhaps sent to half a dozen camps before it finally arrives six weeks; after mailing. I read the church notices you sent and thought the prayer was fine and exactly what is needed. We know the home folks are doing all they can for us and we appreciate their help. Our little camp is growing all the time. I was among the first here and take it from me we sure worked, carrying stones and everything. All our work had to be done by hand and most all of us hatye a few marks to distinguish us from the newcomers. At present we have about one (censored). We have leveled it off and built a pier and have started on hangars and barracks. The timbers are all cut and fit so it is an easy task to put up the buildings. We older ones all have pretty good jobs and when the rookies get through working at night after a hard day’s work on the concrete work or rock pile we make fun of them for being tired by telling them what we had to do when we first came here. Of course, its easy to prove we did it by any of our gang. We knocked off work at noon on Saturdays and have a ball game in the p. m. We had a corker of a game last Saturday. My side got beat but they had a hard fight. Next Sunday we go to to play. We expect a trimming but won't give up until the last of the ninth. My address is H. J. Phillips, Sea 21C, U. S. Naval Aviation Base, L’Aber Wrach, France, co P. M. New Yoirk. Along with my address give my best regards to all the bunch. As ever. Your friend,

COURT NEWS

The petit jury came in once more Saturday and the case of Cummings vs. Stockton for attorney fees was taken up. Cummings was the Kentland attorney for Mr.

Stockton in the state case against him tried in the Newton circuit court a year ago, and demanded $350 for his services, which Mr. Stockton deemed excessive. The jury gave judgment for S2BO, which with the S2O previously paid, made S3OO. | Following allowances were made in the John Keefe et al ditch: E. D. Nesbitt, surveyor, $148.50; William Fisher, drainage commissioner, $67.20; Elmer J. Gilmore, same, $48.20; Agnes M. Platt, clerical j work, sl2; J. V. Rice Porter, same, I $7.50; Joe Miller, rodman, $2.50; Herbert Hammond, chainman, $5; Laurelnce McLain, clerical work, $7.50; Thos. Lowe, rodman, $17.50; Conrad F. Gilmore, same, $7.50. i The case of Salina St. Pierre vs. the New York Central Railroad company was taken up and a little evidence heard. The court then adjourned until Monday, but soon after court convened Monday the case was compromised and dismissed. The terms of the compromise was not made public but it is reported that plaintiff was paid several hundred dollars. State vs. Clint Casto. Sheriff reports destruction of liquors, as ordered, and court allows him $lO for such services.

I Marble-Powers ditch. Current report approved and claims 145 to 159 allowed and ordered* certified to auditor for payment. Superintendent ordered to pay all costs in this proceeding to this date that are not taxable to the remonstrators. Finding upon the petition of the court and the superintendent that ditch is fully completed to station No. 865, and contractor is allowed $14,390.80, balance of the 20 per cent held back. A. Halleck is allowed S2OO for expenses and extra labor upon this ditch. Andrew DeHaan ditch. No remonstrances on file. Cause referred to drainage conjtaissioners and Joseph Kight of Newton county appointed third commissioner, to meet May 17 and report second day of September term. Bay G. Anderson vs. Harmon Clark. Judgment for $96.22. Ray G. Anderson vs. Carson VanDusen. Judgment for $71.42. Victor Michaels vs. William P. Michaels. Change of venue to Newton county on affidavit of plain- i tiff. Joseph D. Law, adm. of estate ofi Ann meddie St. Pierre, vs. N. Y. C.' R. R. Co. Henry H. Vinton, accepts jurisdiction as special judge. Roland R. Cummings vs. Jay W. I Stockton. Cause submitted, jury

trial. Judgment for plaintiff for S2BO. G. & D. Mfg. Co. vs. Edwaid Laymond. Judgment on default for $218.80. Ruth C. Allis vs. Clark Allis. Plaintiff granted divorce. Defendant defaulted. Rensselaer Lumber Co., vs. Ed Oliver. Defendant files answer in two paragraphs. Daniel S. Makeever vs. Stella R. Uphoff. Judgment and foreclosure for $4,250. John W. Beath vs. John B. Tudor. Cdtise continued for term. Mary E. Lovell vs. W. O. Stoner. Judgment for $612.04. Arthur McGaughey vs. Jesse W. Wilmington et al. Judgment and foreclosure on default for $950. The court appointed George H. McLain, the Republican county chairman, and Frank M. GolJ, the Union township assessor as members of the county board .of review.

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard. Federal

Ice problems will be referred to county food administrators when presented to Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator. Dr. Barnard is recommending the appointment of representative committees of citizens who shall have authority to determine upon a fair price for ice, which finding shall be binding. Other food problems will be handled in a similar manner, where practical Miss Mabie Wellman, head of the home economics department of Indiana university will organize college women of the state for the furtherance of the food administration’s program of production, conservation and substitution. Lawrenceburg and Aurora grocers have adopted the cash and carry system of merchandising, which according to figures compiled by the food administration serves to effect a saving of from 2 to 10 per cent, to consumers. The food administration is claiming priority for food production ovea all other purposes to which it is proposed to put the use of tillable land. This ruling by Dr. Barnard came in connection with the possible destruction of hundreds of acres of growing wheat and other food crops by the removal of a gas pipe line from Greentown to Hammond.

PHILLIPS.

There is no foundation for the terrorism that has been created in some sections of the state by the alleged introduction of ground glass into bread and other foodstuffs. The food administration asks all patriotic people to be careful of their statements and report promptly to the proper authorities all circumstances that suggest such attempts at poisoning. Up to this time, Dr. Barnard believes the cases of this kind have been deliberately for the purpose of terrorizing people and prevent their consuming perishables that are perfectly safe. The food administration has accepted the tender of 320 sacks of 98 pounds each of Kansas hard wheat flour from the West Baden Springs Hotel company. This is in line with the appeal of the food administration for voluntary contributions of flour from private holdings, which will serve to release an equivalent amount of flour at seaboard, for export to the hungry people of Europe. Bring-in-the-Wheat week was very satisfactorily observed, it being estimated that 2,909,000 of bushels —a surprising quantity—was brought to the mills. The food administration has directed county food administrators to report all wheat still in storage. Steps will be taken to requisition all except barely enough for seeding. if the surplus is not in trade channels by May 1.

Manufacturers of soft drinks and confections who have started business since. January 1 will not be supplied with sugar. Older establishments must agree to restrict themselves to 80 per cent, of last year’s requirements. Individuals must conform to the three pounds per person per month ration. This is to guarantee a sugar supply for the canning and preserving season. The food administration announces a card system of distribution in many communities. Mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts of soldiers are asked to desist from further use of sugar in confections sent to camp and cantonment.

There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F- J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio; is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipation. —Advt.

Food Administrator for Indiana.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918 ■

LETTER IN THE MORNING MAIL

How Mrs. Lane Finally Realized That Thousands of Other Mothers’ Sons Are at War Scarred Battle Front By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER Of the Viflllantea. I Mathematics teach us that 1 from 1 leaves nothing, and there is also the well known biological theorem that you cannot get blood from a turnip. It is also assumed. Sir Isaac Newton having demonstrated the law, that what goes up is bound to come down, but this is only abstr|Ct Mrs. Lane probably would have denied IL The flat rent, previously $1,200 a year, now was $1,400, and It showed no signs whatever of coming down. The same condition applied also to her children's shoes. The shoes now cost $7, whereas they formerly had cost $4. But this was meftly a detail. A similar phenomenon occurred as to beefsteaks, potatoes, butter, fish and tho 57 other varieties of domestic essentials. All had gone up; none had come down. About the only thing stable In Mrs. Lane’s cosmoa was Mr. Lane's yearly income. This was $7,000 a year. Already Mrs. Lane had given np ope maid. The war literally was at her door. True, Mra. Lane had no son, no brother—no kin of any kind —in th© war, but the war still was at her door. Hard to Make Ends Meet, Give money for the war? What do you think she was doing, anyway! She was giving every cent she had, trying to make both ends meet in her household. It hurt, though. Mra. Lane was a kindly, warm hearted woman, and she would have liked to give, war was dreadful! It was so dreadful she’d stopped reading about it. But one must read letters. On» must do that when a friend takes the trouble to write them. The letter came in the morning maiL Mrs. Lane read it, then she read it again. Afterward she sat there absorbed, silent, rigid. The color had crept out of her face, and her breath came swiftly from between her parted lips. “I have just come back from the canteen,” it read. “Such an afternoon I A trainload of seriously wounded to be fed at once, which is trying, as one has to climb into all the carriages, one after the other. We with the men who are well enough to sit up and handle their cups, and those who are too ill even to lift their heads, of course, we have to lift and feed ourselves. Feeding the ones with bad face wounds are the hardest. 1 can stand ordinary wounds of blood, but when a man ought to have a nose and mouth and all he . has is—ugh!—it takes all your courage to get through a feeding. I managed to get a pint of milk and a beaten egg and some brandy down the throat of a boy of twenty who had no mouth left, and i. I had to clean it between every ' mouthful. He had had no food for ' fifteen hours and was so thirsty that he was nearly insane. 1 held N his head against me, and I gagged |! all the time, but 1 just kept think- ■ ing, ‘Suppose it was my boy who needed a drink and them was no one to give it to him.* fia I went i through with it, and he finally went to sleep. Oh, Martha, Martha Lane, we need everything—all you and . the rest can send!” If Lpwrence Had Gone to War. One o’clock struck. Mrs. Lane still sat with the letter clutched in her hand. “What’sfor dinner?” asked Hannah, the maid. Mrs. Lane hardly heard her. She was still sitting there when Olivia floundered in. Olivia was fourteen, the conscious age. “Mother," she said fretfully, “I can’t go to dancing school again in brown gloves when all the other girls have white ones." The plaint reminded Mrs. Lane that Lawrence at boarding school had written that morning about his socks. He had only two pairs of silk opes left “And, mother,” said Olivia, continuing— But what Olivia said Mrs. Lane didn’t bear. She bad dropped her head on the table and unaccountably was weeping. “Just suppose it was my boy—mine!” ahe was sobbing. “Why, mother!” ejaculated Olivia. She hurried toward her mother. “What is it mother? You’re acting just as though Lawrence had gone to war 1” Mrs. Lane looked up, the tears streaking down her face. “That’s just what is the matter with me! I should be acting as if Lawrence were there. And so should you I If Willie were like these, the boys there,** she pointed to the letter that had slipped from her lap to the floor —“if he were, like them, in need, dying, wanting eggs, milk, brandy, to keep him alive, would you be buying white gloves? And would we think what other people wear or how they live or whether we had only one servant now? If my boy was over there, if my son were—" But other women’s sons are over there. Mrs. Lane had at last realized this. The tears were rolling down her cheeks.

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