Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — Page 4

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GOODLAND L /(From the Herald) Thursday afternoon one of the best rains that was ever known came down in torrents, and was not accompanied by any wind. It was worth a good deal to our- crops. Many places where it was planfeed to celebrai- have deeded that It wo* id be more patrot:: to let the men spend the time in tie fields than attempt to attract them away from work. First Class Private Carl Campbell, who is drillmaster at Fort Thoimas, near Cincinnati, Ohio, came home last Thursday night for a seine day furlough. He says army life is great for the boys. John Cassidy, one of our prosperous young farmers residing on the Cassidy farm southwest of Goodland, and Miss Marie Hassel* )f Kentland were man led Saturday afternoon in Chicago. The groom is farming the home farm sou'.hwest of Goodland and after a short honeymoon the newlywed? will be at home on the farm. Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Stack were invited to spend the day at the home of the latter's sister, Mrs. William Bowers, of Raub, where about fifty relatives had assembled to remind them it was their Silver Wedding day. A delicious dinner was served and the day passed in pleasant conversation and music. Many beautiful 1 resents vjr’ received Gs silver, cut glass, china and a set of aluminum.

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BROOK (From the Reporter) Howard Myers left for Toledo on Thursday to bring home an Overland car. Will Anderson of Wichita, Kansas, was h;ere on Tuesday as the} guest of Bennett Lowe. Mrs. S. C. S]>oor left on Wed-j nesday for Detroit, where she will visit some time with relatives. A letter from Vernon Curran says i he is now located at Elliott, Illinois, with the Sternberg dredge. Ormond Pruett went to Chicago I on Saturday to spend the week-end i with his wife, who is in the hospital. Miss Banks of Ft. Wayne was a visitor at the George Merchant home this week as the guest of, Lt. Dorsey Merchant. < Mrs. John Hayes and daughter Ruth left this Week for Ohio where they will spent! sometime with their I daughter and sister, Mrs. H. H. Magee and family. j John T. McCutcheon, the famous; cartoonist, and wife, Charles Atkinson and wife. Ort Wells, and Frank) Teeples of Chicago were guests at Hazelden over Sunday. A telegram came to the family ou Wednesday morning from Jesse Whiting, saying that he would be in Chicago or Milwaukee on Wednesday noon, en route for France. This latter was given in his final address which was given in the A. E. F. FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) 1 Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Taylor, last Thursday, twins. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Severns and Mrs. J. E. Tillett were Monticello visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Albert Swing and children haVe returned from Fairbury. 111., where they had been the guests of relatives. Mrs. C. B. Reprogle of Michigan City has gone home after a visit for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. John Coey. Mr. and Mrs. Orta Clouse of Rensselaer were the guests of her mother, Mrs. John R. Hayworth, last Sunday., S. W. Kahler, William Kahler end wife, and Misses Caroline Gudeman "and Clara Kahler motored to Cissna Park, 111., Saturday to visit relatives. They returned Monday evening. Mrs. Fred Eggert and Mrs. Thomas Saltwell went to Chillicothe, Ohio, last Thursday to spend a few days with the latter’s husband. Private Thomas Saltwell, who soon expects

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to make the trip overseas. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lyman of Monon, Mr. and Mrs. John Groves and daughter, and William Burton of Champaign, HL, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gardner, south of town, last Friday.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Young, Friday, June 21, a daughter. Misses Bernice Antcliff and Della Luken spent last Saturday in Lafayette. . , Misses Erma Selmer, Cora Wacknitz and Sadie Petry were home from Valparaiso Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Prevo and daughter of' Chicago are visiting* relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lane of Gillam township are the proud parents of a baby girl since June 24. Hamilton Record broke his arm last Tuesday when cranking bis Ford car on the way to Lacross. Mrs. Albert Owen and son left Saturday morning for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Merrill of McCoysburg. An old resident of Medaryville remarked the other day that there ■were fewer idle men in town at this time than at any time for twentyfive years. Miss Nina Aery of Winamac left Sunday evening for Washington, D. C., to join her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. George Marsh, and to take up government work. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Arrowsmith and sister, Cora Arrowsmith, autoed here from Arrowsmith, 111., last Saturday and visited at the Bass Arrowsmith home over Sunday. Mrs. Carolina Dahn, wife of Hugo Dahn, of Jefferson township, was born March 25, 1862, and died Tuesday, June 25, 1918. Besides her husband Mrs. Dahn leaves two children, a boy and girl, to mourn Abe loss of their mother. The funeral was held at the Dahn home Thursday afternoon, after which •he (body was taken to Chicago for burial. Last Saturday afternoon while Mrs. Sarah Tim,-m was "cleaning a garment in .a pan of gasoliVie, her son. Dale Sanders, threw a match which ignited the gas. Practically all of the clothing was burner! from her body, about two-thirds of the entire body surface being burned. Sii- was taken to Rensselaer last .- nday and placed in the Jasper county hospital, where she is under care of Dr. Kresler. Her condition is considered very serious.

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The Ruff building, a large structure at Sioux City, lowa, collapsed Saturday and it is thought that fifty people were kiled and buried in the ruins, thirty-nine bodies having been taken out at latest reports. The Indiana supreme court, after handing down the state-wide prohi- [ bition law decision Friday at noon, i adjourned for the Summer Vacation .period and, unless some special call )is issued by the chief justice,- will not convene again until next fall. Cadet Harold Carothers Noble of York, Penn., was killed instantly Friday evening at Ludlow, five miles north of Rantoul, 111., when he lost control of an airplane and plunged 50b feet to the ground. It was the first fatality for Chanute field, a government station. The accident occurred in a blinding rainstorm, which came up suddenly and which is thought to have caused Noble to lose control of his machine. He was alone in the plane, Eugene V. Debs, four times socialistic candidate for the presidency of the United States, was arrested at Cleveland Sunday by United States Marshal Charles W. Lapp and Deputy Marshal Charles Boehme as he was about to deliver a socialistic address. The arrest was made on a federal warrant in connection with Debs’ speech at Canton, Ohio, June 16, last. Debs, whose home is at Terre Haute, was nominated for congress by the socialists of the Fifth Indiana district on the same day he was jailed at Cleveland. The Indiana supreme court has affirmed the Jennings couty circuit court in holding that the legislature has the "power to pass special laws for holding elections for the removal of county seats. The decision was'bn a law passed by the 1913 legislature providing for the holding of an election for the removal of the county seat of Jennings county [away from Vernon. It was decided [that those interested in keeping the [county seat at Vernon are not en- ! titled to a temporary injunction to restrain the petitioners and the county officers from proceeding under the 1913 law.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Anna M. Hardebeck to Gerhard Bernard Hardebeck et al, March 25, other lands and pt n se 25-27-7, Carrie D. Rpwen et baron to James A. Shelly, June 25, It 14, bl 17, Rensselaer, Leopold’s add, $l5O. . Lawrence iHaas et ux to William Fitzgerald, May 18 pt It 5, pt 14-32-5, Kankakee, sl. q. c. d. Lawrence Haas et ux to William Fitzgerald, May 22, same lands as above, sl. s>. c. d. --r -_i. j '

Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist, at the age of twenty-one", was a medical student at the University of Christiania. Before receiving his degree a play from his pen was produced at the National theater, with such success that Ibsen concluded he would do better in the realm of literature than in that of medicine.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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bunch when we landed. Our boat arrived at port one evening and. we unloaded next morning. We had reveille quite early and most of the bunch sang until then. I think I slept about an hour. After unloading we entrained for camp. The train trip was certainly fine. I saw some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. I never saw such grazing fields. The bluegrass was knee high. Hundreds of Shorthorn cattle I saw frotn the train. There are many odd things to be seen here. The street cars are ‘‘two story’’ and the railroad coaches are in small cqnrpa: tments. The freight cars reminded me of a “push car’’ with a box on it. We have had lots of laughs making purchases with English money. I know it pretty well now. Pennies are very numerous and also conspicuous, for they are as large as a half dollar. Am feeling fine; will write when I can, but, of course, you’ll get my letters irregularly. Must close for this time. With lots of love, I am CORP. STANILUS 8. BRUSNAHAN, 18th Prov. Ord. Depot Co., American Expeditionary Forces, O. D. N. A., via New York City. Joe Meehan Writes Home' from the War Zone. Joe Meehan, a brother of Mrs. Matt Worden of Rensselaer, and well known to many readers of The Democrat, especially at Rensselaer, Remington and Goodland, writes an interesting letter to home folks at Remington, with the request that it be given The Democrat, on which Joe used to be a type-sticker several years ago. Since then Joe has traveled all around the earth with various show troupes and circuses as a trap drrtmmer and being up in Canada a couple of years ago he joined a Canadian regiment and has since seen actual service at the front. Joe writes in the vernacular of the show traveler, and we publish his letter just as written, as it would not be recognized as typically “Joe’’ Otherwise: On active service with the British Expeditionary Forces. Somewhere in France. June 6, 1918, To Robert Emmett Meehan, Remington, Ind., U. S. A. Dear Mother, Brothers and Sisters and the rest of you all:—Received. your letter of May 4 O. K., and I must confess that Balcom lad is one regular “Go-to-He.H” with a typewriter, especially a Remington. Well I am fine and dandy and very glad to hear you are all the same. We are having great weather, also out on rest, but time taken up between inspections and field days, etc. . Old Heinie comes over on these moonlight nights and says, “Welcome to our city.” But our boys do the same, go it's an even “buck.” It soft of worries you though when he drops perhaps one-half dozen “eggs,” and then he seems to stick around in very close proximity as though he was taking an inventory. Then you smoke- a cigaret or two and wait for the next act. Us fellows sleeping outside had a few pieces of dirt drop around us one night, but you might as well be outside as in, as those “birds” frequently send “eggs” through the roof. He didn’t -play fifty-fifty on Corpus Christi day, as onr boys stayed away from his processions rather than (kill poor little kiddies all dolled up, but he comes over and bombs one of our hospitals. You can’t trust him. But that goes down on the slate against him, too. So never mind, it will all come out. This clipping* T ami enclosing is from the Paris edition of the Daily Mail. The town we had those band pictures taken in was shelled all to pieces, and this picture is a replica of the scores you see going along the road. I went out to buy some milk night before last and some refugees had just arrived, a wee baby in a baby buggy and a four-year-old girl in a wheel barrow, and the child was also sick. So I “shot” the milk to the kiddo and went and got some more. It isn't as if your house was on fire and you stood and watch it burn with all your stuff safe on the roadside. Far be it from such. It’s grab and git while the going’s good. It certainly is hard lines to have a war at your door for four years and then have to “beat it.” These people have got a great disposition. They certainly are workers and their crops look great. First warm spring they have had in three years. Old men, women and girls work the land and they are going from early morn until late at night; They certainly have got the “stick-to-it-tiveness.” Well I’ll forget the war for a couple of minutes. Bang!—a couple of peace notes just barked. We had Batt, sports one day and then Brigade sports three days after. ’Our Batt, tied with mother one for first honors. Then there is Division sports day to come, and final Corps day and all the Topliners are out. Some get leave for their prizes, others get money, and go gway satisfied. Last Tuesday was a gala day for fair. An American baseball team from an aviation camp close by came over and played a seVen-in-ning game with our lads, beating our lads by 5 to 2 in a real nice | game. Some good plays were made

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and some ivory ones were to be seen on both sides. This pal of mine, Lieut. (Chick) Robinson, was the “Ump.” and gave satisfaction. But we were handicapped in the line of rooting as we are not “up” in the latest baseball vernacular; but we gave the opposing team credit wherever it was due. I was talking to one of the sergeants—he’s from Frisco —and he told me they got an awful cleaning up the week before, but didn’t say what team. Whem they stepped out of their Jorries we started “Yankee Doodle” and they acknowledged with a little gesture. All nice appearing and — I don’t know, there is something about a Yankee —he’s different. Those fellows stepped on our field modest, unassuming, as if it was an ordinary occurance. The pitcher was of the Ernest Fisher type when he was in his balmy days of ball playing. He was non-excitable and had the inevitable smile for the rooters. A little fellow playing short-stop-—he was also the co-median-introducing Charlie Chaplin stuff while running the bases, and getting away with it, too. They all were as nifty a bunch of fellows as I would want to meet — made you feel like old times. They were chock full of vim and that good old asset, confidence. But our boys made a good showing, especially as most of them have been “out here” close to two years, and you spend two winters out here and *’s bound to take some of the “pep” out of you. They were verywell pleased with their treatment and want another game as soon as possible. Our boys did a hard day’s grind the day before the game. I’ll detail the day’s doings for you, and we were with them, not playing, but “toting the shotguns” and the regulation battle regalia: Reveille 3:30 a. m.; breakfast 4 o’clock; “Fall in” 4:45; inspection, etc., and you’re on your way—nice and cool marching until about 10 o’clock, then “Old Sol” began to work. You rehearse field maneuvering all day- and start back at 6:10 p- m.; line up at your particular “beanery” at 9:30 p. imi.,after doing a good twelve-mile hike to and from. But, thank Christ, we’ve got a real colonel. Got his tuition in the Spanish-American war serving as a Lieut, at Porto Rico. Told me he got his education in Wisconsin. Colonel Carey is his name. He has got a line of chatter, too, and he gives concerned a square deal. Here is one he pulled the other day: He was talking to a bunch of N. C. O.’s and men explaining this and that, and in the course of his talk he says, “Now this is going to take brains and I know you Canadians have brains, judging from the line of talk I have heard in the Orderly Room the last two weeks” —meaning the different alibis the fellows put pp who had to say, “Good morning, Judge.” He’s been with us just a year this month. Real colonel, real Battalion. We are getting lots of rations put ini in U. S. A. now. We cam tell what firm the “bully beef” belongs to without seeing the box. I was over to -the store this morning and -w Libby, McNiel & Libby well represented. Liggett & Myers cigarets are : being sold at all canteens -oW. One sure thing, a firm wants to be careful what they send over for the boys to buy frolmi the canteens. You can’t give them “bunk” very long, because once you put it over they boycott your stuff and the canteens won't carry your junk in stock. You have to move canteens and Y. M.. C. A.’s on the double some times—same with canned fruit and milk. V j hud s me real U. ?. A baked beans for lunch last Monday —first we had as rations for a long time. Tasted mighty fine. Well, I’m not a pessimist or an optimist and I don’t expect to wear a peace liag this coming 4th of July, but the next one I hope to tell you some funny stories. So it’s “chow” time and imp to the roast beef and boiled spuds (without the jackets—l saw them re-pareing them at lunch time) and a concert for the lads at 6:30, then we’re at liberty until 5:45 a. m. So good luck and love to all and hello to any and all of my inquiring friends. —“JOE.” 760759 Bandsman Joseph Meehan, 54th Batt., B. E. F., France. ♦The clippings referred to show a picture of “French refugees saving their belongings from the iHuns. An every-day scene on the roads behind the battle line (Official).” And a picture of “A Big Chew of Real American Bacca at ‘End of Steel.’ These Canadians have just boarded a light railroad at the end of the steel, after holding Heine in the front line. The driver of the train is a member of the American Expeditionary Force, and he is shown offering the neighbours of his homeland a chew of tobacco, which was gratefully accepted.”

PROGRAM FOR GILLAM FARMERS’ CLUB JULY 3. The Gillam, Farmers' club will meet at Independence church Wednesday evening, July 3. The following program has been arranged: Song . .West Vernon Chorus Secretary’s report and roll call — Business Recitation Hazel Beason Recitation . Jennie Shea Song .Gertrude Graver Recitationßeulah Faris Recitation Velma Deniaree Song Weft Vernon Talk .Miss Geyer Song West Vernon NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. No. 1124. Ntftice is hereby given that’ the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of .Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Judson R. Michal, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate Is supposed to be solvent. THE TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK OF RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Administrator. June 17, 1918. . -■

BUNKER HILL PROVED SPIRIT OF COLONISTS

In Its Consequences That Conflict Ranks as the Most Momentous of All the Struggles of Revolutionary Days—Revealed to the British the True Spirit of Their Foes.

ton was buried in sleep. The sentry’s cry of “All’s wellI” could be heard distinctly from its shores. At dawn, 143 years ago, the Americans at work were seen by the sailors on board the British ships of war and the alarm was given. The captain of the Lively, the nearest ship, without waiting for orders, put a spring upon her cable and, bringing her guns to bear, opened a fire upon the hill. One man, among a number who had incautlqusly ventured outside, Was killed. A subaltern reported his death to Colonel Prescott and asked what was to be done. “Bury him,” was the reply. It was the first fatality in the battle of Bunker Hill, one of the most momentous conflicts in our Revolutionary history. It was the first regular battle between the British and the Americans and most eventful in its consequences. The British had ridiculed and despised their enemy, representing them as dastardly and inefficient; yet here the best British troops, led on by experienced officers, were repeatedly repulsed by an inferior force of that enemy—mere yeomanry—from works thrown up in a single night, and suffered a loss rarely paralleled in battle with the most veteran soldiers.. According to tjieir own returns their killed and wounded, out of a detachment of 2,000 men, amounted to 1,054, and a large proportion of them officers. The loss of the Americans was 411 out of 1,500 men engaged. So the number of casualties in this battle was more than 30 per cent

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of the number in action, thus placing it among the bloodiest battles that had heretofore been known to history. At Waterloo the British loss was less than 34 per cent. No wonder that June 17 is a second Fourth of July. What the Victory Meant A gallant loyalist of Massachusetts, who fought so well for King George that he rose to be a full general in the British army, regarded Bunker Hill as a transaction which controlled everything that followed. “You could not,” he would say to his friends on the other side, “have succeeded without it.” “The rebels,” Gage wrote a week after the battle, “are shown not to be the disorderly rabble too many have supposed. In all, their wars against the French they have showed no such conduct and perseverance as they do now. They do not see that they have exchanged liberty for tyranny. No people were ever governed more absolutely than the American provinces now are; and no reason can be given for their submission but that it is a tyranny which they have erected themselves.” Bunker Hill exhibited the Americans to all the world as a people to be courted by allies and counted with by foes. It was a marvel that so many armed citizens had been got together so quickly and still a greater marvel that they had stayed together so long. Move Forced on British. After the engagement at Lexington on April 19 the British force under General Gage, was increased to 10,000 men by the arrival of Generals Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne with their commands from England. These occupied the town of Boston on a peninsula extending into the harbor. The naval forces consisted of the Falcon, Lively, Somerset, Symmetry, Glasgow, and four floating batteries. Across the Charles river, at Cambridge, and on the surrounding hills, were encamped between 16,000 and 20,000 undisciplined Americans. The British, thus cut off from communication with the main-

A LITTLE before sunset 143 years ago, a few hundred American troops stacked their guns, threw off their packs, seized their trenching tools, and set to work with great spirit At midnight Bos-

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land, were seriously hampered for provisions, and General Gage' contemplated a movement to occupy the several heights near Charlestown, at Dorchester, and adjacent pomes. The arrival of such a formidable force of the enemy caused the gravest concern to the colonists. It ws rumored that the British would sally forth from Boston and burn the neighboring towns. It was to prevent this that the Americans detenfiined to fortify Bunker Hill; for, if the British should get out of the city and intrench upon Dorchester Heights to the south of Boston, the Continental position would be made untenable. Prescott's Gallant Act. Not an unnecessary sound was made during the long hours of the night of June 16, 1775, and when dawn came intrenchments six feet high along the side of the hill were disclosed. In the face of the fire from the enemy ships and by the battery on Copp’s Hill the Americans kept steadily at work completing their intrenchments and, when there was a slight show of faltering aft-

Bunker Hill Monument.

harbor, advanced in solid column against the fortifications. Confidently they approached the works of the Americans, construing the silence on the hilltop as timidity. They changed their attitude on this point when they arrived within a few hundred feet of the redoubt The Americans had been silent, but they had been ordered to refrain from firing until the command was given. Thus it was the British, advancing over the open stretch of ground, panting from the heat and the weight of their knapsacks, heard the word “Fire!” at the moment of their supreme confidence, and recoiled before a volley that mowed down many of their number. British Line Decimated. A deadly fire was poured into the British columns, the marksmen of the Americans picking off the officers. Along the whole line of fortifications, from the rail fence to the redoubt, the British troops were soon in retreat. The British columns advanced a second time and once more were met with deadly fire. Now, however, they were prepared for it; although staggered by the shock, they soon rallied and continued their advance. The Americans fired with such rapidity that it seemed

as if a continuous stream of fire poured out from the redoubt. Bravely the British struggled to cross the open place in front of their enemy’s position, but were forced to give up the attempt, and fled precipitately to the boats. Although the field was strewn with their dead, the British again attempted to take the American position. Prescott

had sent for re-enforcements early in the day, and John Stark, with his New Hampshire company, had courageously crossed Charlestown Neck under a severe fire from the enemy. But the hazard of the attempt deterred other commanders from bringing troops to the support of the brave Prescott. With ammunition almost exhausted and troops tired out from the strain to which -they had been subjected, Prescott realized the futility of holding his position in the face of repeated attacks by the reformed and re-enforced British lines. Nevertheless he determined again to measure his strength with the adversary; and, with a command to his men to make every shot tell, he awaited the advance of the British. Again the latter were permitted to advance within twenty yards of the American works before they were fired upon. The British line was broken, but still it advanced. With their powder now quite exhausted the Americans met their opponents with clubbed muskets and bayonets. The odds were too great and Prescott ordered his mea to retreat. It was in doing this that the Americans suffered their heaviest loss; among others who fell was Warren, one of the most cherished of the popular leaders.

Nation Coming into Its Own.

The heart and the brain of this republic should pause today and thrill with the consciousness of what we have done and what it has been re-, served for us to do. The past is secure. History has recorded the immortal thing which we have been. We are standing now upon and across the threshold of our greatest achievement and our greatest usefulness

er a shot better directed than the others had done some execution In the trenches, Presscott himself mounted the works and marched to and fro with drawn sword regardless of the fact that he was a mark for the British. He thus preserved the courage of his men, who had never before been under fire. It was about three o’clock in the afternoon when the British troops supported, by a terrific bombardment from the ships in the

General Warren's Monument.