Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — Page 4

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

PINE GROVE (Too late for Saturday's issue) John Nichols called on Frank Britt Sunday. Jewell Hayes sftent Saturday night and Sunday with home fblks. Creola and Charley Tobet spent Sunday with John Dale and family. The funeral of Mrs. Owen Barker at the Brushwood church Saturday was largely attended. The Children’s day exercises at Brushwood Sunday evening were well attended and a good program was rendered. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shroyer and son Elmer and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Torbet and daughters, Pauline and Beatrice, attended the flag dedication at Parr Sunday afternoon. Mir. apd Mrs. Will Schultz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Ritter and son Eddie and Mr, and Mrs. James Torbett autoed to Roberts, Ulin oiis, Saturday, the former to attend the golden wedding annicersaary of Mr. Schultz's parents, and the latter to visit their daughrpT, Mrs. Ed. Hornichle, and family. They visited the aviation camlp a.t Rantoul but were unable to see any flying, as the machines do not go up Saturday afternoons. They returned home Monday.

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MILROY (Too late for Saturday’s issue) ’ Roy Walls and family spen( Sunday with J. Low’s. Carl Beaver is plowing corn for his uncle, J. Beaver. Charles and Albert Wood are cleaning the cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCashen Spent Wednesday in Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Sanders spent Sunday with relatives in Rensselaer. Irma, Ora and Olive Clark called on Lulu Anderson Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. J. English visited her daughter, Mrs. Earl Foulks, Wednesday i night. Misses Lillian Fisher and Irene McAleer are in Terre Haute attending school. Mrs. George Foulks and Velma McCashen spent Wednesday with the Fisher family. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Benson and Mrs. McDonald of Lacross spent. Sunday with Charles Beaver’s. Mrs. B. Iliff of Momence, 111., who had been assisting Mrs. Wood, re- ' turned to her home a few days ago. ’ Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Benson and, granddaughter, Opal McDonald, visited Mrs. Lillie Mitchell last Snuday. John and Miss Tillie Ramp of Rensselaer took their uncle and ~aunt, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Saltwell, to Visit in Kentland Sunday. The Milroy-Hanging Grove township commencement will be held at the Milroy church on Saturday evening, June 29. On the following evening the Children’s day program •will be rendered at the same place. All are invited to both meetings.

BROOK (From the Reporter) Mrs. Howard Myers has a trio of nephews from around Forest, 111., visiting her this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Martin are the proud parents of a baby girl who arrived on June 17, ' Mrs. Tabor and son Bruce of Thayer are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Simon Harned this week. Miss Bernice Osborn came down for Whiting, Indiana the first of the week for a visit with relatives. County Sups. Schanlaub of Kentland was over on Tuesday looking after the W. S. S. campaign, of which he is chairman. Amos Agate went to Hartford, Michigan, this week to look after some business connected with the farm belonging to D. Hess and himself.

Calvip Stutesman returned from Camp Green, S. C., on Saturday afternoon. He has been discharged from the army on account of physical disability. Clifford came from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday for a final visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Harry before going to Camp Travis, Texas, where he will begin his training for army service. His brother, Elwood came down from 'Chicago and spent the week end with him.

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Born, to Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Troxell, Saturday, June 15, a daughter. Mrs. Ella Fisher of Remington was the guest over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. George Foos. '■ T iss Madge McKee 'I 'Jo > Ha’a came Monday to v sir j\Tr. and Mrs. Robert McKee, south of Wolcott. Mrs. Fred Johnson, who has been at Lafayette for an< operation on her throat, returned home Tuesday.

Miss Ruth Miller, who has been visiting friends at Scottsburg for •ome time, returned home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Myers and Mrs. Lucas of Remington autoed over Sunday and visited George F*w and family. Geel Baker, Jr. of Dayton, Ohio,

came Wednesday evening for a shorf visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kneadler of Kankakee came Tuesday to visit their son Charles and wife, southeast of Wolcotr. Mr. and Mrs. Walker Unroe of Follensbee, West Virginia, came Wednesday evening. Walker is registered with the White county boys and is in this call. Mrs. William Bullock of Valparaiso, who has been visiting her brother, C. W. Bidwell, and her sister, Miss Katherine Bidwell, returned home Wednesday. Lieut. Homer Baker of Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, came home Saturday on a five days furlough and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. George Worden and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. McGraw and baby, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur CowgHl of Remington, apent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Dunn. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Irwin spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parsons at Logansport. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Minnie Parsons, who had been spending a few days there. At the meeting of the totjn board held last Monday evening, Clerk Verdent Lux, who is soon to leave “to join the colors, tendered his resignation to take effect July 1. The. resignation was accepted by the board and W. H. Gerberich was appointed to fill the vacancy. Uncle George Boicourt had new potatoes and carrots out of his garden Wednesday, June 19. Mr. Boicourt was 81 years old last February and has planted and cared for his garden himself. The. potatoes were planted on Good Friday and they certainly have been, a credit to the rule of planting your potatoes on Good Friday.

GOODLAND (From the Herald) Mr. and Mrs. Saimj Wing of Idaville, Ind., were the Sunday guests here of Mr. and. Mrs. Hugh King. Dan Mead and family of Churubusco, Ind., visited with his brothers, Allen, Sam and Garret last week and this. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hameton spent this week in Indianapolis the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Clyde Parsons and husband. Miss Myrtle Scott, wno has been assisting with evangelistic meetings in Alberta, Canada, returned to her home in G i.diaml this week. ML and Mrs. L. H '»r(lan s'ltoeJ to Goodland from Indianapolis the first of the week for a visit with Mr. amt Mrs. John L. Cooke Tuesday. z Mrs. Chas. Sage and daughter, Ruth left Thursday morning for Neodsha, Kansas, for a few weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. John Hynds. Mrs. C. C. Bassett and two children, Kathryn and Gene, have gone to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for the summer as Captain Bassett will be stationed there for some time. Tuesday night another train of thirty-nine army trucks in charge Of seventy-nine soldiers camped just east of town. After mess the boys came to town and spent the evening. Attorney James Babcock autoed here from Indianapolis the first of the week and spent a few days with his parents. Attorney and Sirs. A. D. Babcock, James is soon to enter the service. Ross Griffin received a telephone message Thursday morning of the of a brother at Covington, who was killed Wednesday night in an auto wreck. Details not known at this time.

Remington, we understand, is six miles out of the Rantoul zone and as a result the management would not permit their flyers to fly over to Remington. Miss Ruth Romine returned home from. South Bend, Indiana, Monday night after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Laura Romine. She was accompanied home by two girl friends who visited here this week. Miss Ellen Lloyd Medlock of Salem, Ind., is making an extended visit here with her uncles, W. A. Jqhn and Chas. Medlock and Glenn an'd Verne. Rodman. Her father is doing Y. M. C. A. work for Uncle Sam and she is visiting here while he is gone.

Ed. Messersmith, Jr. went to Chicago last week and applied for enlistment at the Marine recruiting station. He was too light and therefore could not make the navy. Tuesday 'he went to Indianapolis where he applied for enlistment in the ambulance corps. Sam Schofield aged 68, passed away at his late home at Andrews, Indiana, with kidney trouble, Monday morfting. Mr. Schofield was a former resident of this place and will be remembered by many of bur readers. He farmed the Toyne farm north of town for a number of years?> later coming to Goodland and operating a livery stable.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Mr. and Mrs. Clay Bradbury of Gary visited relatives over Sunday here. Miss Benomi Kendrick of Chicago is visiting hgp cousin, Mrs. Lee G. Baughman. Mrs. Emma Conohay of Aurora is visiting her relatives, Mrs. Frank Dunn and daughter, Vivian.

Miss Georgia Howe spent last week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frazier Antrim of Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. John Ludwig of Auburn are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Zulick. Miss E. A. White and' sister Miss Lulu Kruger and Miss Floida Poisel spent Friday in San Pierre with the Weinkauf family. Born, to 3tr. and Mrs# Wm. H.

Clayton, a boy, at the houne off few parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Passel, on Tuesday morning. Jane IS. Mr. and Mrs. Salem Long aoad daughter and Mrs. Joounsa Loag and daughter. Mist Masjone, went to Brook last Friday to vaeit with relatives. Damon Linton left for Leeshtxrg. Ohio, where he will spend his summer vauration working on a farm for his Robert C. McNlcol. Mr. and Mrs. Theo.. Bresser and son Harold and Miss Aiisae Ixingfeetee motored to Valparaiso Sunday to spend the day with Miss Sadie Petry, who is atiemdLng school there. Mr. and Mrs. Sherry Simpson and daughters went to Lowell last Sunday to visit with Mra. F. L Hunt, Mirs. Simgoon’s sister. Sherry returned Tuesday evening. Mrs. Simpson and the children resxaining for the week. Mike Stoffels returned fToaa Chicago Tuesday evening. Mr. Stoffels says the conditions' sarronding the work in Chicago are pretty hard for a man of his age and that he will stay in Medaryville for a time. He will work at his trade in the Chas. Zulick shop.

FRANCES VILLE (From the Trabwe)Samuel King of Chenoa. Illinois motored over Monday to look after farming interests here.. Miss Blanch Grafton tes' retwrned tp Rensselaer after, a brief visit with her parents here. Aaron Kaufman of Deratnr. HL, was the guest of W. £. Groves, southeast of town this week. Mr. and Mts. Ross Alkfire and children of Stroud.-Oklaix&sna. are the guests of his ’larents and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Patty and daughter motored down front Viekburg, Michigan, Saturday aftenooa. They were accompanied from Bremen by Mrs. Margaret Hill and daughter. COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES (By County Supt. Sterrett» The following teachers ffrens Jasper county have either enlisted or been called to the colors since our schools closed: Arizona Costard, Wheatfield; William May, Fair Oaks; Russel B, Wooden. Wheatfield. There are a few wko have signaled their intentions off yoiaiag the colors by volunteering before fall. William DeArm»nd off Tefft ! will, not teach in the Tef: school for this reason. Donald Peregrine has some notion of a similar character. He’taught at Tefft last year. The following teacher? from the county are in school during the summer: Elizabeth Yeoastan, Grace I Knapp, Mildred Selkirk. Lea Flora,! Minnie. Waymire. Gertrude Misrft, | Effie JVesner, Helen Porter. Marshal Parker, Ethel Johnstone, Florence McKay, Gladys Rogers. Jess Dan-1 can, Clyde Duncan, Mrs. Elmer Mil-J ton; Mary Luther, Mabel MeAhre®. l Gertrude Jackson, Ada Huff. There 1 are possibly others whose Mmes I do not appear above. These teach-1 ers will bring the latest off teaching from the various anstfmtions and they jrill be able to iw-l press each community whereas tSey: teach with them. In some eosatjes trustees are paying from fifteen to forty cents more on the day for teachers who attend scSmms! discing, the summer vacations. It is eer-| tainly an asset that should be reckoned by the trustee ata fee draws up his contracts the coming; fall.

The Jordan township ment will be held at the Union school on Thursday evenasg of thisweek. (June 27.) The pupils will receive diptomas- that j evening: Irene Iliff, EleaMHr Martha Maxwell, Bessie Reed. i Ralph Shafer, VerNeH Woofj-iT and Bernice Wortley, The Barkley-Gillam josas rommencement will be held aert Friday night at the Barkley in Barkley township, June 28,. The following pupils will get thesr diplomas at that time: Ema Adiims. Mary E. Ahern, Elva Fmk Britt, Mary E. Calender.-, <?ladvs Elliott, Garfield Folger, Inez Fteslrer, Henry I. George. Ethel Heleoe. Elsie Hamford. Geneva Myers, Anna Morganegg, Leota B. Obes.chain, Ellsworth Prioe. Rachael Peregrine. Alice Sigman. Rtjoert Scott, Mabie Scott, Elvin Sehraer. William Snedeker. Roy D. WsUsams. Mary Williams, Clara Guild. Hilda Onkin, Clarence Hansen. The Milroy-Hanging Grave- township commencement wflll be held at the Milroy church in Milroy township on Saturday night, Jinae 2S. The class roll contains the fofißowing names: Lulu Anderson, JokoBeoughter, Iva Blankenship. Ivan Blankenship. Carl Bearer, Marian. Garvin. Ray Lytle, Tnetna* MeAleer. Elmer McAleer, Arnold Sayers. Oka.l Spencer, Ora Evelyn Clark, ..Mildred Macy, Scott C<&ok_ ' Oswflfe Hague, Katherine Hobana. Josephine Johnson, Naomi Swing. HeSea Tyler, Paul Randle. Prof. Louis J . Rettger of the Indiana State Norma] at Terre Haute will give the addresses at each of these three places. Prof. Rettger is considered one of the best peakers on the platform for j.ur>oses this kind. A large crowd is anticipated at each off these peaces! Special music has also beea arranged at each place. :

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. No. 1124. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the CSreait Conrt of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Jndson R. Michal, late of Jasper Coonty, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. • THE TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK OP RtWSSEt.ARR, INDIANA. June 17, 1»1«. The Democrats fancy stauoaery department is the eeonomscal place to buy your, corresfondeeee needs, j

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r rit What Will Be Your Answer? • ■’ . . \ Many American ships with many American lives are at the bottom of the Atlantic, victim! es the German lust for blood. Our boys are going “over there,” through a sea of hostile submarines, to fight that you and I at home may be safe. But we can do something. Germany said to us, “You cannot cross ocean with your men’ You cannot fight us, because you cannot reach us I” What shall our answer be on June 28? June 28th National War Savings Day

Let every man, woman and child Join In an answer thar can be heard from one end of Germany to the other —an answer so -clear,, so strong and so true that it may have a far greater effect than any of us can imagine, on Germany’s future policy. Let this be our answer—let every man, woman and child in this great land of ours pledge himself to buy as many War Savings Stamps as he or she can possibly affvrd. Let’s show German autocracy that Instead of

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DEFEAT OF ENEMY ON PIAVE IS COMPLETE

started with the intention of crushing the armies of General Diaz and [forcing the Italians, like the Rus|sans, to accept a Teutonic allied ■ peace. 17. S. Airmen in Battle. 1 AU along the river the Italians have pressed back the invaders of [their territory until only small units [remain on the western bank and across the stream King Victor Emanuel's men are keeping well cn the heels of the retreating enemy j who is fleeing in disorder. Again the cavalry has been thrown into the fighting and is sorely harassing .the enemy, while machine gfins from the ground and from aircraft, some of the latter operated by American aviators, are forking havoc among the fleeing Austrian 1 columns. Discrepancy Noted. The losses to the enemy are described as enormous both in men killed, wounded or made prisoner. ’An official statement from Rome to 'the Italian embassy at Washington [asserts that the Austrians have lost ■ 47,0f1t) men in prisoners alone. The "Italian war office communications i * mentions only 40,000_ Austrians as having been captured but it is problable that this communication antedated that sent to the embassy and that the captives in the hands of . the Italians greatly exceeded this figure. j The probability that this is true :is enhanced bv the fact that the ■ river was swollen out of bounds and most of the few bridges that (had not been carried away by f freshet had been shot to pieces by ■ the Italian guns, compelling the ! enemy either to surrender or take this chances Of being able to swim the turbulent stream.

Abandon Guns. So hurried was the retrograde movement of the Austrians at some points that they did not take time even, to attempt to save their guns and stores, great quantities of which are now in Italian hands. As yet there has been no sign that the enemy purposes again to renew at an early date another offensive in the mountain region, notwithstanding the fact that reports emanating from Switzerland have said that he was bringing up large reinforcements and great quantities of supplies along the [front behind the lines from the Swiss border to the upper reaches of the Piave. On the front in France and in Flanders the operations continue of a minor character. The Italians again have defeatedkthe Germans near Bligny in. ? the Marne sector, m flirting heavy casualties on them and taking a number of prisoners.

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eats better than they do. We had a good trip over; came as passengers. Only sick one ■morning. Our old boat rolls around quite a bit, too. One nice thing about this country is that there’s lots of girls and very few boys, and believe me the U. S. Jackies have the inside track with all of them-. I will send you some pictures I have taken if 1 can get them developed. Yesterday was the 30th, my birthday, and we coaled ship. , Some dusty crew. Anyway it made quite, a party-—we were all there. I guess we are here for some time, so write me and give all the local news. I can’t tell you what our business it, but take it from me we will see as much service as the next one, and we’re all glad of it. This is the most carefree bunch of fellows I was ever with. Nt thing worries us qnd it is some contrast to the fellows of the other navy branch we meet 'here. They seem to take all the worry - of the war and talk about as gloomy as if the}’ were afraid of getting “trapped.” They sat at the Y. M. C A. last night and looked at the (J. S. Jackies, sing ajtd halve a good time, in a gloomy silence as if it were sacrilege or something. We 11,.! must cut it short. Write when you get this and I’ll be more prompt after this. With love, YOUR JACKIE. Sullivan, Ind., June 20. —In a letter written to Sullivan friends, Rev. George W. Titus, former pastor of the Sullivan Christian church and the First Christian church at Rensselaer, and now a war secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in France, he describes his first impressions of the firing line. The letter was written just before Rev. Mr. Titus was wounded. He says: “After being fitted out by having a" tin pot put on my head, and being equipped with a hideous false face which looks as if it might scare the devil out of the Germans, I started on my way, but I will be honest and say it was not with rejoicing. Off in the distance I could hear the cannon booming and the buzzing of aeroplanes. So it was with fear and trembling but nevertheless, on I went. “If I live to be a thousand years old I will never forget my first night in the trenches. I had never heard the crack of a shot before in my life save the crack of a safe hit right off the bat. It seemed that everything the Germans had, and the Americans too, had been waiting for my coming. They sure turned them loose. It appeared that the very mountains on, every side of me- were tumbling down. lam not overstating it when I say that it seemed that all the thunders of the universe since nature’s morn, had heen gathered into one storm. Guns roared, shells whistled and screamed around me, over my head and behind me. Oh, how they barked. Was I scared? Well, I should say I was. No tree ever shook more than I did. You could have heard my bones rattle a hundred yards away. If I had ever got my feet turned away from those crazy Dutchmen that night I never would have stopped until I was safe in Indiana. “Well, in the midst of my fear, I suddenly came to myself, and gathering together my few remaining senses I said ‘look here you spalpeen, it’s time for a pinch hit. You get into the game.’ And I did. After

undermining our morale, sinking our ships and killing our men only stirs us to action. If,every American buys one War Savings Stamp op June 28th it will add 425 million dollars to our war fund. But that is not enough. We must pledge five times that. Our quota for the nation is two billion dollars, to be raised through the sale of War Savings Stamps this year. Let's strike another telling blow to the Kaiser on June 28th by taking up every dollar of that two billions;

this little scene’With myself I was ready for anything. I really believe I could have marched right through to Berlin with nothing more than a pea-shooter in my hand. Since then I have been in the big game nearly 1 every day. After spending about 1 forty days in the trenches with my | outfit —the First trench mortar battalion, we were changed of cdurse to the scene of the world’s mightiest battle.” “I suppose you are quite anxious to know how the big game over here is going. Well, it looks very much to the men on the ground here that Kaiser Bill is fanning out. He was a hummer for the first six innings but Jfee is weakening in the seventh and before many months the allies will be batting hW to the tall timbers. It may appear that the game will go ten innings but if it does it will be all to the allies’ advantage. Our heavy hitters from America will appear and we’ll trim him in the last half of the tenth if we have to wait that long.” Rev. Mr. Titus was pastor of the Sullivan Christian church for two years and went from here to Rensselaer, later took up Y. M. C. A. work. Before entering the ministry, he was a professional basebag player in Canada and for a nmnber of years played in the International league as a shortstop.

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