Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — Page 1

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BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL

Wife of Edgar Duvall Dead, Following Operation for Appendicitis. The body of Mrs. Edgar F. Duvall, ■wfho died in an Indianapolis hospital early Sunday morning following an operation for appendicitis, was brought here Sunday evening and taken to the home of Mr. Duvall’s • parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall, west of town, where the funeral was held at 11 o’clock yesterday forenoon. The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. Budman Fleming of the Presbyterian church, and ■burial made in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Ducvall operated on June 4 and seemed to be getting along nicely until Saturday, when peritonitis set in and her decline was rapid. Mrs. .Duvall was born in Indiana on July 18, 1897, and was a daughter of Charles and Blanche Hurrle. Her maiden name was Hortense Hurrle. She met Mr. Duvall in Indianapolis some two years ago, when both were attending school, and their marriage followed about a year ago.

MAY HAVE AEROPLANES HERE

For Our Patriotic Celebration on Thursday, July 4. C. E. Duvall, chairman of the program committee for the patriotic celebration to be held in Rensselaer on Thursday, July 4, accompanied by B. F. Fendig, Harvey Davisson, J. J. Montgomery and Delos Thompson, in the latter’s automobile, drcrte to Rantoul, Illinois, yesterday to endeavor to secure a squad of aeroplanes for our celebration here, which will be a great drawing card if they are successful in securing them. In compliance with requests from the national and state councils of defense, the Jasper county council of defense at its regular meeting last Thursday took steps toward having a celebration here along the lines suggested from headquarters, which especially asks that foreignborn c'Gzens be urged to take pari celebration, which is to he IS" the nature of a patriotic celenration rather than a mere noise-mak-ing carnival, such as has distinguished many 4th of July celebrations • of late years. Chairman Welsh appointed a committee on celebration as follows: Charles G. Spitler, chairman J. M. Bauser J. Budman Fleming George M. Myers O. K. Rainier S. C. Irwin • L. H. Hamilton Mts. Ora T. Ross Mrs. M. D. Gwin Mrs. J. I. Gwin Mrs. E. M. Graham Mrs. J. D. Allman Mrs. A. P. Burton. Mr. Spitler has appointed the following sub-committees: On speaker—L. H. Hamilton. On parade—J. M. Sauser. On program—C. Earl Duvall. On finance —Mose Leopold. On Red Cross activities —Mrs. A. H. Hopkins. Rantoul is but 100 miles from •Rensselaer by road and probably not over seventy-five miles via aeroplane, and it would be but a nice little appetizer for fliers from this field to fly over to Rensselaer, and if all are not already engaged it is probable that Mr. Duvall will be able to secure a few machines for our celebration, a complete program of which will be published later.

TIP FOR RENSSELAER LAWYERS

A movement is now on foot to •have all the attorneys in Lafayette close their offices for a week and go into the fields and assist the rfarmers in the harvest-. No wages -will be charged and all that will be required of the tillers of the soil is to furnish the, meals for the -workers. Yesterday’s Lafayette Journal.

NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers Grain Company will meet in the east court rcom in the court house in Rensselaer at 2 p. m., Monday, June 17, for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve during the coming year. At roll call the checks for the patronage and stock dividends will he distributed to the stockholders. All members are urged to be present to get their dividends and to participate in the election of directors and any other business JUat may come before the meeting. PACHAS. W. POSTILL, Secretary.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

hitirisflilf Parairaphs From till Various Bapartnwnts OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy and little daughter of Remington were visitors in the city Monday, Mr. Guy to look after some court matters here. Newton Circuit court item in Kentland Democrat: “Harry Sellers vs. Vernon EH&gen, suit for damages, change of venue to Jasper circuit court granted Friday.’’ Attorney W. H. Parkison is thinking of moving to Lafayette sometime before the opening of the school year and his daughter, Miss Helen, will enter Purdue university.

The Democrat is informed that Mrs. Joe Ellis, who was taken to Longcliff last week, was released a day or two after having been taken there, the proceedings of commitment having been somewhat irregular or faulty, it is said. Ernest Morlan, county, thresher inspector— : appointed by County Food, Administrator John Eger—went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend a meeting of the county inspectors of the state and to get more information regarding his duties. The Democrat was in error as to the date of the meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers' Grain company in Saturday’s Democrat. It will be he d June 17, instead of June —next Monday. The official iuotvce of the - meeting appears in another column. Mrs. Joe Ellis called up The Democrat from Rensselaer yesterday morning and wished us to correct the statement made in last Wednesday’s issue that she had been taken to Longcliff. She said that she had not been there nor anywhere near there. The Democrat’s information came direct from the lips of Sheriff McColly, who iniformed us that he had taken her there the Monday previous, so it’s her and the sheriff for it as to which is correct. The six men selected to go to Indianapolis from this county on June 15, are as follows: Bernard J. Nagel, Rensselaer Leighton Earl Gifford, Rensselaer Basil Dunlap, Rensselaer Henry Bunning, Demotte Victor Sigo, Remington Ernest Garriott, Parr. The two to go to Purdue university on June 28 are Murray and William Myers of WlbeatfieM. The twenty-nine men to go to Camp Sherman, Chilicothe, Ohio, on June 28, have not beeta selected at this writing.

A YERY PLEASANT SURPRISE

The relatives and friends' of Mrs. John Sayers gathered at their home near McCoysburg Sunday, June 9, to remind her of her forty-ninth

birthday anniversary. They came with well-filled baskets and a bountiful dinner was served. The guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. John Stillman, Mr. and Mrs. William Babcock and family, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Babcock and family of Goodland, Mr. and Mrs. Clint May and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kow--ard Stuart and family, Miss Belle Stanley and Webster of Remington, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Norgor and daughter, Mrs. Frank J. Babcock, Mrs. Pearl Rea, Mrs. Verne Sayers and baby, Miss Doris Sayers and Arnold Sayers of Rensselaer, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Welch of McCoysburg. The day was very pleasantly spent and all veent home wishing her many more such happy birthdays.—ONE WHO WAS THERE.

In ninety days you will be planning to fill that new silo. Halve you placed your order? Now is the cheapest time to buy. Buy a silo made at home. See the Rensselaer Cement Products Co.—Advt. Subscribe for The Democrat.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1918

THE NEXT C. O. F. CONVENTION

May Come to Rensselaer Three Years Hence. E. P. Honan and William Beck are attending the triennial state convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters at Ft. Wayne, and are making a great effort to secure the next convention for Rensselaer, three years hence. Should their efforts be successful it will mean the bringing in o>f a large number o» delegates from every section of the state and will be the biggest thing of the kind ever held here. The Democrat has great confidence in Mr. Honan’s persuasive powers and, with his large acquaintance with the leading Foresters of every nook and corner of Indiana, as well as the larger cities of the state, and the able assistance of Mr. Beck, we shall expect him to “bring home the bacon.’’ or have some mighty good reason for a failure to do so.

CAPTAIN GARLAND MARRIED

Captain Jerry B. Garland, former commander of old Company M of Rensselaer, who has been stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, since last September, has written to relatives here that he was married May 30 to a young woman from Arkansas, but does not give .much details. , ■. . .

HAS A GOLD MINE ON FARM

C. H. Porter Gets Old Placer Mine With Montana Farm. C. H. Porter returned Sunday morning frotn Montana, where hs. has just purchased a 400-aere ranch lying right up to the town of Harrison, Madison county, a town of about 300 population lying on the Northern Pacific railway. It is but three blocks from his place to the post office. The place is well improved, a good new house having been built last year; has a barn 60x100 feet and several other outbuildings and a bunk house for the help. The land is all well fenced, much of it with woven wire, and" there is 210 acres of fine wheat and' 75 acres of alfalfa, clover and timothy now growing, which Mr. Porter gets, he having lhad possession of the ranch since June 1. The land lies very nicely and all can easily be irrigated if desired, irrigation ditches running alongside the ranch. They irrigate there for alfalfa and other grass crops, but not usually for wheat. This year they (have had plenty of moisture and are not using irrigation thus far. Willow Creek, a fine mountain stream, chock full of trout, runs through his ranch, just back of the barn. There is an old placer gold mine at one side of the ranch and a branch line of railroad runs from Harrison over to a former quite important mining town at the foot of the mountains. Mr. Porter expects to engage quite largely in the cattle growing business and will take some stock with him from here. IHe expects to go through with two cars of stock and goods, and wants to load early next week, leaving here about Wednesday or Thursday. His farm land nortli of town he has rented out for this season and his tenant, Charles Horsewood, and family will go to Montana with him. Mr. Porter will be in charge of one car and Mr. Horsewood the other, the latter’s family following later. Mrs. Porter will join her husband in Montana next spring, and spend the summer there.

FLAG DEDICATION AT PARR

A service flag will be dedfeated at Sunday at 2 p. m., and it is the intention to have the Rensselaer band and Liberty Guards there for the occasion. It is understood that there will be in the neighborhood of thirty stars in the flag, and an endeavor is being made to have the mothers of the boys in the service present to pin on the star^.

TO THE VOTERS OF JASPER COUNTY

The Registration Board is now in session. Remember that a voter can not vote at this coming November election unless he has registered. Delay until the last few days will mean an additional cost to the county. Let those who have not already registered come in and do so when they come to town. REGISTRATION BOARD.

A fine chicken dinner Sunday at the College Inn, 50c.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilitraphic Reports From Many Parts of tin Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening*' in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Place*. NEED OF A BLUE SKY LAW Indianapolis, June 12.—David P. Porterfield, secretary of the Better Business Bureau of Indianapolis, who is leading a movement for the enactment by the Indiana legislature of a law to protect the public against fly-by-night promoters, reported an interesting incident in support of the feeling of the bureau that such a law should be passed, at a meeting of the bureau yesterday. He told of entering an elevator in an Indianapolis office building where the suites “rent for an uncommonly high price, just as three other persons, two well-dressed men and a well-dressed woman, entered the lift. The three of them were talking about selling stock in some enterprise, and had evidently just left the offices of the concern. “I certainly know that proposition all the way through now,’* said the woman. “You may know too much about it to sell it well,’’ said one of the men. “It is possible to know too much about them sometimes.” “That’s right,” said the other! man, who seems to have found definite knowledge a handicap at some time. Gne of them asked the woman where, she was going to sell —whether she was going to take some Ohio territory which they had apparently discussed previously. “No, there’s a blue sky law over there,’’ she said. “And in Illinois,” said the other iman. “In fact,” he added, “there is not a state within 500 miles of Indiana that does not have a blue sky law. It’s Indiana or no place near here now.” In other words, Mr. Porterfield told the Better Business Bureau, the stock they were planning to sell was not of a character that would meet with the approval of blue sky commissioners, so they were going to follow the practice of other promoters and dump it in this state.

VISITED OLD FRIENDS HERE SATURDAY

Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Hopkins and three children of the latter droze ovfer from near North Manchester Saturday and visited old acquaintances in Rensselaer and Barkley township, where the former used to reside. “Farmer” is looking well, although considerably lighter in weight than he used to he, and wears no heard now, so that we scarcely recognized him. He has rented out his farm for the past few years and is taking life easy.

His own children are all scattered and gone but one, the youngest daughter, Geneva, who is still at home and came here recently with her brother Charles and wife of Michigan to visit friends, and returned home with her father Sunday. Charles, who located at Surrey, North Dakota, some time before the family left here, sold out and moved to Michigan, where he Is now employed in the Buick automobile factory at FlinL John is farming near Flint, Michigan, and owns 600 or 700 acres of land there. Ben had been working in the Buick factory but enlisted in the army and is now at Vancouver, Washington, driving an automobile truck. Anna is married and lives in Wabash county, while Ethel has just completed a course in a business college at Fort Wayne and is employed as a stenographer in that city.

ATTENTION, LIBERTY GUARD

All members of the 19th and 88th companies, Indiana Liberty Guard, are instructed to be present at the next regular drill on Friday evening, June 17, to prepare for 4th of July parade. Assemble at the Wallace poultry house on. east Washington street at 8 o’clock, or as soon thereafter as possible.—J. M. SAUSER, Drillmaater.

A CHILD’S WELFARE MEETING

Will Re Held at the Library Auditorium June 13. The first of a series of child welfare meetings planned by the Child Welfare conimittee of the County Council of Defense will be held in the library auditorium at Rensselaer Thu-sday afternoon, June 13, at 23". Two splendid speakers have been secured, Mrs. Sewell of Purdue and Amos llutler of Indianapolis chairman of the State Board of Charities. Also a local physician will expla n what the war will mean to the children of this community. Every person in the county, especially the parents, should attend this meeting and learn of the means being employed bv the government to save the children of our country in these times when war is drawing nearer and nearer our very door. —MRS. J. I. GWIN, Chairman.

BAND CONCERT THIS EVENING

Following is the program for the band concert this evening: 'March—Colossus of Columbia Knights of Columbus March Lyric Overture Bantam Step—Fox Trot There’s a Long, Long TrailOne Step The Royal Kingdom March Mixology % Over There—Two Step and March America

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

Another Interesting Letter From Carroll Leat Herman. David Leatherman received another letter from his son, Carroll W. Leatherman. who is with tiie American forces in France, which appears below: Somewhere in France, May 12, 1918. Dear Folks: This Is Sunday night; I just got through work and have had supper. I have to work Sundays same as any other day, but the work isn't hard. lam well satisfied with the place and the work. I have moved again since last Sunday, hut I think I am through moving for awhile, in other words I think I am permanent here for some time. I hoiie so. It Is a good city and l have heard that it is the best in France and have no reason to doubt it. * We have fine quarters, new concrete barracks with cement floors and double-deck beds with chicken wire for springs. Everything is convenient as they were in Camp Taylor. We have a fine shower bath, something that is very scarce in France. I wrote to Uncle Henry and Aunt Mag and Opal Harris once since 1 have been here,; that is all the writing I have done except to you.. But I haven’t got a bit of mail yet. It looks like I ought to be getting some pretty soon. I know I had some come to Camp Merritt but haven't received any of it yet. Guess I have traveled to fast for it to keep up with me. Every time I write I have a different address. We have been having irather gloomy weather here the last few days: yesterday is rained nearly all day but this afternoon it has cleared up some. I hope it stays nice for awhile. It hasn’t got very warm though, only a few days that it has been warm enough not to have to wear a coat. If I could eompre francais (understand French) I could have a good time here. There are show's and places of amusement here and we have permanent passes or can get a pass every night if we want to stay in town after 9 p. m. Until then we need any. It is only just dark here at 9 o'clock. Well. I have wrote about all I know for this time. I hope I will get some mail before long. I am anxious to hear from you. I am fine and dandy, so don't worry about me. I am safe and sound. I am as ever, Your son, Cpl. C. W. Leatherman. Depot Quartermaster, Base 1, Section e, A. P. O. So. 701, A. E. F., ! France.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Britt of Barkley township June 9. The little three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harrington of near Virgie was brought to the hospital Sunday evening, suffering from stomach trouble. The little fellow is in quite a serious condition. Bert Overton was taken to his home Sunday. While his condition remains about the same, Mr. Overton wanted to go home for awhile and will probably retutn to the hospital again later.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

June 10, to Mr. and Mrs. Bart Grant of Newton township, a daughter. June 11, to Mr. and Mrs. John Gtockwell of this city, a daughter.

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Vol. XXI, No. 21,

GERMANS GAIN GROUND FROM THE FRENCH

Right and Left Wing Holding Oespite Terrific Blows, And Allies Eiact Heavy Tolls. . ' \. AMERICANS PIERCE HUN LINES Enemy Captures Three Villages and Cains Footing in Marqueglise, Representing Penetration of Between Five and Six Milos. The Germans in the center of their new attack on the front between Mont Didier and N’oyon have gained additional ground against the French, but on both the right and left wings they are being held. In violent successful attacks Monday they captured the villages of Mery, Belloy and St, Maure, and also pressed forward and gained a footing in the village of MarquelUse, the last named place representing the deepest point of penetration since the offensive began, between five and six miles. Germans Deliver Attack in Waves. The French still are exacting a - heavy toll in lives from the Germans as they deliver their attacks in waves, and are giving ground only when forced to do so under superiority of numbers. Nowhere has the enemy been able to pierce the front, which has bent back In perfect order whenever the necessity arose. Enemy Reckless With Manpower. The battle is described by correspondents as one of the most furious that has been fought since the war began, with the enemy unusually reckless in wasting life to gain hi^objectlves. Americans Take More Ground. Near Bussiares, northwest of Chateau Thierry, .the Americans and French again have delivered strong attacks against the Germans and taken more ground. They also captured a number of prisoners and thirty machine guns. On the remainder of the front In France and Belgium the operations have been of a minor nature, although south of the Somme the British near Bouzencourt have carried out an operation which straightened out a threatened Balient that sagged in their line. Austrians Reinforcing Lines.

As the Austrians continue to bring up large forces of men behind their lines in the Italian theatre the artillery activity and raiding aperations are daily increasing. Throughout the mountain region tjom Tonale to the Brenta river and along the lower reaches of the Piave river the guns of both sides are engaged in violent duels. Numerous surprise attacks have been attempted by the Austrians on various sectors, but all of them were successfully repulsed. Aerial operations on a large scale also are in progress and fights in the air are of daily occurrence. Large quantities of explosives have been dropped on enemy positions by Italians and a number of enemy aircraft have been shot down. Hottest Fight of War Being Waged. Fighting in this war probably never has been more severe than that going on today in the great battle of French and German armies between Mont Didier and Noyon. The Germans attacking on a ground where the entente allies were ready to receive the shock have found themselves thrown into a slaughter house whence most of them never will make an exit. When the German infantry began coming over in the densest masses they encountered immediately an extremely hot fire from both machine guns and artillery, which mowed them down. Ever since, as fresh waves entered the conflict, they were subjected to similar punishment. The German progress must not be taken to mean that the German forces have overcome the defenders, who intended from the beginning to retire to their actual lines of combat as soon as the action developed.

700,000 Yankees Overseas.

Washington, June 10.—More than 700,000 American soldiers have gone

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