Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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SEVERAL JASPER COUNTY BOYS ARE TRANSFERRED

Nine of the Jasper county boys who were sent to Camp Taylor April 27, have been transferred to Camp Foote, Maryland. The boys left Camp Taylor last Sunday and reached Camp Fgote Monday. Three of the boys—Leßoy Zimmerman of Carpenter township, Jesse E. Wiseman of Virgie and Thomas G. Worden of Remington—were kept in Washington with some sixty others, and those going on to Camp Foote were Walter Nagel of Marion township, Frank of Wheatfield township, Albert VanWeinen and « Faul Sekema of Keener township, Leo Kreuger of Union township and George Kroening of Barkley township, so Walter Nagel has written home. Walter says that it is rumored they will only he kept at Camp Foote a couple of weeks before they are “sent across.’’ Camp Foote is on the Potomac river and close to Washington, D. C.

U. S. TREASURY CERTIFICATES

Remarkable Showing Made in Subscriptions by Jasper County Banks. In January the Secretary of the Treasury announced that Treasury Certificates would be issued every two weeks commencing with January 22, and he asked every bank in the United States to subscribe regularly and take one per cent of their resources per week for ten weeks, which would amount to ten per cent* of the resources of each j bank. The certificates were issued in anticipation of the Third Liberty loan and the banks. had the right to use the certificates in payment for the bonds. Each issue of certificates was to mature in ninety days from its. date. The Federal Reserve bank of Chicago has issued a statement showing the total amount bought by each bank in its district, and the following figures are taken from such statement and show the amounts bought by the banks of this county and also neighboring counties; Jasper County. Bank of Demotte $ Bank of Remington 3jt,000 "National Bank of Rensselaer 10,000 State Bank of Rensselaer. 37,000 Trust & Savings Bank of Rensselaer 100,00 0 Bank of Wheatfield .... 5,000 I ; Total ' $243,000 Newton, County. Bank of Brook i $ First National Bank of Goodland 10,000 State Trust & Savings Bank, Goodland 5,000 Discount & Deposit State Bank, Kentland 2,000 Kent State Bank, Kentland 20,000 Citizens State Bank, Morocco 3,000 Farmers’ State Bank, Morocco .. 2,500 of Mount Ayr. 3,000 Total i ..$45,500 Benton County. Farmers & Merchants Bank, Arabia $ 500 First National Bank, Ambia Farmers & Merchants Bank, Boswell First National Bank, Boswell 25,500 Earl Park State Bank 1,000 'Bank of Benton County, Fowler ............... First National Bank, Fowler .., 10,000 First National Bank, Freeland Park ........ 8,000 Farmers & Merchants Bank, Otterbein ........ State Bank of Otterbein. . . 5,000 Bank of Oxford State Bank of Oxford Raub State Bank Total .$50,000 White County. Bank of Brookston $15,000 Farmers Bank, Brookston. 2,000 State Bank of Burnettsville 2,000 Bank of Chalmers State Bank of Chalmers. . . State Bank of Idaville. . . 10,000 State Bamik of Monon. ~. . . “Monon Bank 2,000 Monticello National Bank. . 15,500 Farmers State Bank, Monticello The State Bank of Monticello 45,000 White Co. Loan & Trust Co., Monticello 20,000 Bank of Reynolds ....... 15,000 CState Bank of Wolcott.... 20,000 Citizens'State Bank, Wolcott Total $146,500 Pulaski County. State Bank of Francesville. $ 3,000. First National Bank of Medaryville Medaryville State Bank.... First National Bank of Monterey 10,500 First State Bank, Star City 5,000 Citizens National Bank, Winamac 10,000 First National Baulk, Winamac 45,000 First Trust & Savings Bank, Winamac ...... • 5,000 Total $75,500

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COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

The Legal News Epitomised —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Don't go without a typewriter when youi can buy a good rebuilt or second-band one so cheaply at The Democrat office. Call in and see the several machines we have on hana and let us demonstrate them to you. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton went to Knox via auto yesterday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Abel Ray. They will be gone until the first of the week and will probably visit at other points before returning home. Marriage licenses issued: May 21, Staecey Munde of Chicago, aged 55 July 20 last, accountant, and Adele F. Hiller, also of Chicago, aged 29 June 16 last, clerk. Second marriage for male, first marriage dissolved by divorce; first marriage for female. Married in the clerk’s office by Mayor C. G. Spitler. Don’t forget to file that expense account statement with the clerk of the circuit court if you were a candidate for office before the recent primary, if the office you were seeking pays SIO,O or more per year. Don’t put this matter off until it is too late to file such statement, for if you do you not only forfeit you. right to hold the office—if you received the nomination —but are also subject to a heavy fine. This statement must be filed within thirty days following the .primary. There are three prisoners in the. county-jail at the present and all have been there for the past few weeks at least. They are Charles Marlin of Rensselaer, awaiting trial for shooting at Nightwatch Critser recently and who will probably have to remain in jail until the September term of court, as it is not at all probable he will be able to give bond; '“Billy’’ Lyons of Remington and Rensselaer, who is awaiting acceptance at the State Home for Epileptics, and John Bohouuneh, a Newton county prisoner, whose trial will probably come up in the Newton circuit court in a few days.

/fr hurchVLirclc§ Presbyterian Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister —9:30 a. im., Sunday school for old and young, a class, a teacher and an appropriate lesson for all. 10:45 a. m., Memorial service at the Methodist Episcopal church. Sermon by the pastor of the Presbyterian church. 8 p. m., evening worship and sermon at the Presbyterian church, subject, “Curse the Kaiser.” 8 p. m. Thursday evening, at the Christian church. This is a service of devotion and prayer, called by a proclamation of President Wilson and seconded by the National and State Councils of Defense. Please remember the date and plan to attend this service, Memorial Day, May 30, in the Christian church, at 8 o’clock. This service will be in charge of a committee of laymen consisting of Messrs. J. .N. Leatherman, J. J. Hunt, C. G. Spitler, G. IH. McLain and John Kresler. Methodist Rev. E. W. Strecker, Pastor. — 9:30 a. m., Sunday school. Do not let a little rain keep you from the Sunday school. 10:45 a. m., morning worship and sermon. Memorial services will be conducted at this church Sunday at the regular morning hour, sermon by Rev. J. Budman Fleming of the Presbyterian church. Christian Rev. Dillman of Brook, district evangelist, will preach Sunday evening, May 26, at 8 o’clock, subject, “The Supreme Task of the Church.”

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1918

GREAT PICTURE SHOWING HERE

The S2,<KKMHHI Spectacle “Intolerance" at Prinoos and Gayety. D. W. Griffith's mammoth moving picture production, ''lntolerance," is to be shown in Rensselaer this afternoon and evening by the Princess theatre management. This is said to be one of the greatest moving picture productions ever staged and until now has not been exhibited outside the larger cities. This picture is on a par with “The Birth of a Nation," also; a production of Mr. Griffith's, and 125,000 people, 7,560 horses and 1,200 chariots are used in the production, which is said to have cost $2,000,000. There are thirteen reels in the production and it takes two hours and thirty minutes to show them. The afternoon show will start at 2:30, at the Princess, and in the evening two shows will be given at the Gavetv. one starting: at i:ls and .one. at 10:45. V .

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

Oscar Leach Meets Rev. Tims Over In France. Mrs. Carl Hamacher of near Lowell, but formerly of Jasper county, received a letter from her brother, Oscar Leach, formerly of Rensselaer and who has been over in France for several months, in which he tells about running onto Rev. Titus, former pastor of the Christian church here, on April 23. He says nothing regarding the latter's having been wounded, as reported in the Indianapolis News April 27, and it is therefore probable his wounds —if wounded he was—were of a trivial nature. Oscar's letter appears below in full: France, April 23, ISIS. My dear Sister:— Just received two letters from you, also one from Mae, and will try and answer them. The first mail I have had for some time, but there is a reason. I am fine and dandy, that is to say I am well but have been having some work done on my teeth, and yon know there isn't much pleasure connected with that. lam taking a little rest now a few kilometres back of the lines in a little French village where I had a chance to clean my clothes and clean np in general, for after a trick at the front one is greatly in need of water. I gave Everett's name for them to notify in case of accident for I thought he could break the news to you girls better than a cablegram. But don't worry for you are not going to get a cable, I am one of the livliest “Sammies" that ever ate out of a mess kit. We boys have to pay the French people 80c per dozen for eggs when we have them. There is a Y. M. C. A. tent here where there is a Victrola, piano and checkers, also a canteen where we can purchase a few luxuries. It is a very small place and nothing like our villages, for the ways of the French people are so different than ours. The houses and buildings are all made of rough stone with a tile_ roof, and God surely has been witK us this winter as there has been” very little cold weather or I fear we would have frozen to dratS sleeping and living in the haymoh<.of a barn where yon could h»k\ out through the roof and connt tne stars of a night. The chief industry here is farm-

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LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

May 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Fay of Parr, a daughter.

Last season, on June 14, we got a Trost in Jasper county and northern Indiana that froze all com on the muck and low-lying lands down to the gFound, and some fields never recovered from this set-back and were utterly ruined by the early frost of September 16. It was but eighty-five days between these two disastrous freezes, something unheard of heretofore in this latitude. Let us pray that the elements will deal more leniently with us this year.

WE TOP THE MARKET.

May 24—The Fancy Produce Market pays the highest price for yonr produce. They are open on Wednesday and Saturday evenings until 9 o’clock. Prices today are: Bctterfat 45c, eggs 29c, hens 22c. and old roosters 12c.—C. E. PRIOR, Prop.

Sunday school at S:3O a. m. Ton are invited to these services. Christian Science ecu ilew at 11 a. m. Sunday In the auditor*** ed the public library. Public wdtalty invited. •* Place your “Want Ad” in The Democrat and get reeuita.

LEST WE FORGET.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telifnplric Reports From Many Puts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Place*. MANY EMPLOYERS HAVE NOT REPORTED Incomplete audit of returns of Income on Information at the Source, consisting of incomes of SBOO.OO or more, paid during the year 1917, for' salaries, wages, rent, interest, etc., or other fixed or determinable gains and profits, indicate that many employers in this district have failed to file that report. Those who have not done so should make application to the Collector for Forms 1099 and 1096, and if reports are filed before June 1, no penalties for delinquency will be imposed, where a satisfactory explanation. of the delinquency Is given. The reports 1 when completed should be mailed- to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Sorting Division, Washington, D. C, If the government is put to the expense of going into the field and discovering the delinquents, the penalties provided by law will be asserted. PETER J. KRUYER, Collector of Internal Revenue.

“COUNTRY CONTRIBUTOR” DEAD

Mr*. Juliet V. Strauss Died at Rockville Wednesday Evening. Rockville, Ind., May Juliet V. Strauss, known throughout Indiana as a newsparer and magazine writer under the ,sigpature “The Country Contributor,’ 1 * died at her home here this evening. ghe had been in a hospital at Crawfordsville for some time, bat was brought home recently when it was thought that her condition would improve. Mrs. Strauss was the wife of Isaac D. Strouse, publisher of the Rockville Tribune. She has always used what she considered the original spelling of her husband’s name, while he used the more modern spelling.

LARGE CROWD SEE BOYS OFF

Foe Colnmbus, Ohio, Wednesday—. Twenty More Leave Tuesday. A large crowd gathered at the depot Wednesday morning to say good-bye to the twenty-five Jasper county boys who left on the 11:18 train for Columbus Barracks, Ohio. The names of the boys leaving were the same as appeared in Wednesday’s Democrat with the exception that two alternates, Melvin Burns of Fair Oaks and Clifford C. Hamilton of Wheatfield were sent in pilaee of Herman Ruggles of Rensselaer and Lewis DeFilrppi of Fair Oaks, both of whom were away and did not get the notice to go. with this bunch, and will go with the latter quotas. Twenty more young men are to leave next Tuesday and they will be sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky. Their names and postoffice address follows: Osie Archie Donlinger, Wolcott Harold Hamilton, Remington E, M. Laßue, Rensselaer William A. Dunn, Wheatfield Samuel Carl Stockwell, Gifford Floyd Griggs, Rensselaer (Lansing, Ill.) v George W. Knoekel, Remington Elmer Wiseman, Rensselaer Lowell Morton. McCoysburg James Moore, Rensselaer Edward A. Rice, Wheatfield HartseTl Adams, Rensselaer Frank Trulley, Rensselaer Jesse F. Brown, McCoysburg (Indianapolis) Elmer Hancock, Brook (Clarinda. Iowa) Sewell E. Randolph, Rensselaer i Lafavette) Alfred E. Longstreth, Parr Floyd Meyers, Rensselaer Alfred W. Cullen, Tefft Herman Rngeles. Rensselaer. ALTERNATE John Jnngles, Rensselaer.

CHICKEN SUPPER AT NORTH STAR

The Ladies’ Aid ill give a chicken supper at No. 1 school house, Jackson township, Newton county, on Saturday evening. May 25, 191 S. After the supper County Agent Davis will give an illustrated lecture on “Poultry” and “Swat the w , t ifsi

COMMENCEMENT AT ST. JOSEPH

The twenty-third annual commencement of St. Joseph college will be held June 12 and 13. The Democrat acknowledges an invitation to attend. The program follows: Wednesday evening, June 12, a.t S o’clock, "The Merchant of Venice,’’ by the Columbian Literary society. Thursday morning, June 13, at 8 o'clock, baccalaureate address by the Rev. John F. Noll, LL. I)., pastor of St, Mary’s church, Huntington, Indiana, and editor of "Our Sunday Visitor.” Awarding of medals and diplomas by the Rt. Rev. (Herman Joseph Alerding, D. D., bishop of Ft. Wayne.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Miss Lucy Hurley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley of this city, underwent an operation for appendicitis Thursday morning. She is doing nicely. Mrs. George Daugherty and baby returned to their home Thursday. Miss Tillie Gangloff is improving nicely.

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN HERE?

List of Those) Who Have Paid Subscription Accounts During Week. Following are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat since last Saturday’s issue and, especially to those received by mall, this publication shall act as a receipt until the date on the label of their paper is changed. Those indicated by an * are row subscribers: Mrs. Mollie Dunn, Remington, R-3 ♦Amanual Ropp, Urbanp, Ohio, R. F. D. W. D. Sayler, Rensselaer S. Brusnalian, Parr. S. S. Brusnalian, Camp Mills, Long Island, N. Y. L. M. Ritchey, Rensselaer, It-4 L. H. Potts, Moody Chas. Morrell, Rensselaer Mrs. George Johnson, Mt. Ayr Win. B. Hough, Rensselaer, R-3 ♦Ernest Sayers, McCoysburg, R-l Mrs. Senia Jenkins, Wheatfield , A. E. Kyle, Remington, R-2 ♦Napoleon Sigo, Petrel, N. D. J. G. Morris, Remington Aaron Blake, Wolcott “

McCRAY SALE TOTALS #204,225

Would Be Interesting to Know What Cattle Were Taxed At. Kentland, May 22.—The tenth annual sale of fine show and breeding cattle held by Warren McCray , at Orchard Lake Stock farm near here today, netted $204,175. Twenty bulls and filty-flve cows were sold, the prices ranging from SI,OOO to $10,300. All were Herefords. The average price was $2,722. There were buyers here from practically every state in the Union and some from Canada. The sale attracted the largest crowd since Mr. McCray inaugurated the public gelling of cattle at his farm. It was estimated that more than 4,000 persons were there. Colbert Fairfax, a 'bull, was sold to D. A. [Hess of Council Bluffs, lowa, for $10,300. Superb Fairfax, another bull, was sold to J. E. Coffman of Linart, Illinois, for SIO,OOO. The cow bringing the highest price was Columbia March On, sold to Cross & Son of Walnut, lowa, for $6,300. Last year when this annual sale was held at Orchard Lake farm, one bull sold for $1 7,000 and the sale totaled $131,000. And yet Mr. McCray’s total personal assessment on his Orchard Lake farm, including tools, hay, grain, horses, mules, hogs and 265 head of cattle was but $ 17,0001 The cattle alone were assessed at $13,000 and sev-enty-five head of these sold for $131,000, too! Perhaps the sev-enty-five head sold last Wednesday and which brought nearly $75,000 more than the seventy-five head sold last year, were assessed at even a lower figure than $13,000. It doesn’t seem right to The Democrat that this McCray stock should be assessed at butcher prices, but this has evidently been his custom in giving in his fancy stock, and he has gotten away with it. Mr. McCray is a prominent Republican politician and has twice been an aspirant for the governorship of Indiana. Governor Goodrich is appointing him on a number of patriotic committees, and yeit he is morally a tax-dodger and his bank, The Discount & Deposit State Bank of Kentland, with resources of perhaps $500,600, subscribed for but $2,000 Treasury Certificates as shown by the Federal reports in another column, a smaller amount than any other hank in Newton county, not excepting the little Bank of Mt. Ayr, which took $3,D00 of these certificates!

Vol. XXI, No. 16

FIGHT OR WORK IS U. S. ORDER; SPORTS ARE HIT

Baseball Players, Theater, Club Employees and Clerks lo Get Rifles. CROWDER IN DRASTIC EDICT Sweeping Amendment to Selective Service Regulations to Make Nation Efficient in War May Solve Great Labor Problems. i. ...... ' • : Washington, May 24.—The war department issued a statement regarding baseball players and other professional sportsmen, which said: “No ruling as to whether baseball players or persons engaged In golf, tennis or any other sport collie under the regulations regarding Idlers and npnessentlal pursuits will be made until a specific case has been appealed to the provost mar* shal general’s office.” Washington, May 24. —Every mail of draft age must either work or fight after July 1, under a drastic amendment to the selective service regulations announced by General Crowder, provost marshal general. Not only Idlers, but all draft registrants engaged In what are held to be nonuseful occupations are to be haled before local boards and given the choice of a new Job or the army. Local Boards to Decide. Gamblers, race track and bucket shop attendants and fortune tellers head the list, but those who will bo reached by the new regulations also Include waiters and bartenders, theater ushers and attendants, pusseuger elevator operators and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, etc., domestics and clerks In stores. Deferred classification granted on account of dependents will be disregarded entirely in applying the rule. A man may be at the bottom of class 1, or even in class 4, but if lie fallb within the regulation and refuses to take useful employment he will be given a new number in class 1 that will\sena him into the military service forthwith. Local boards are authorized to use discretion only where they fink that enforced change of employment would result in disproportionate hardship upon Ids dependents.

May Solve the Labor Problem. It lias been known for some time that some form of “work-or-flght” plan has been submitted to President Wilson, but there has been no intimation that it was so far reaching In its scope. Both the military authorities and department of labor officials believe that It will go a long way toward solving the labor problem for fanners, shipbuilders and munition makers and will end, for the present at least, talk of conscription of labor. The announcement gives notice significantly that the list of nonuseful occupations will be extended from time to time as necessity requires. The statement of the provost marshal general’s office Is as follows: “Provost Marshal General Crowder today announced an amendment to tne selective service regulations which deals with the great question of compelling men not engaged in a useful occupation Immediately to apply themselves to some form of labor contributing to the general good. The idler, too, will find himself confronted with the alternative of finding suitable employment or entering the army. “This regulation provides that after July "1, any registrant who Is found by a local board to be a habitual idler or not engaged In somg. useful occupation shall be summoned before the board, given a chance to explain and, in the absence of a satisfactory explanation, to be inducted Into the military service of the United States. How It Would Work in Chicago. “Any local board will be authorized to take action, whether it has an original jurisdiction of the registrant or not; in other words, any man loafing around a poolroom in Chicago may be held to answer to a Chicago board even though he may have registered in New York and lived there most of Ids life. “The regulations which apply to idle registrants will be deemed to apply also to gamblers of all description and employees and attendants of bucket shops and race tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmists and the like, who for the purpose of the regulations shall be considered as idlers. New Rule Is Sweeping. “The new regulation will also affect the following classes: “(a) Persons engaged In the serving of food and drink, or either, in public places, Including . hotels and social clubs. ••

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