Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY [ARTICLE]

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY

The work of harvesting wheat and rye began the fore part of this week. Honest Abe, the carrier is n-ow traveling his route with a brandnew Feri. John Bissenden of Chicago visited over the Fourth with Clarence Blankenbaker and family. And now, with the farmers, it must be a strong pull and all pull together until after threshing time at least. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rirk, living north of Rensselaer, took dinner here with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Schanlaub last Sunday. The Huns now call the American soldiers “devil hounds,” but after we get fully into the fighting they will probably call us something worse. Recent heavy rains it is believed, saved the potato crop in this locality. It looks now as though the crop would be as good gs that of last year. Most of the American newspapers speak of Germany's crowm prince as being an idiot. A few, however, are more conservative and call him only a half-idiot.

Ernie Schanlaub’s patch of spring wheat, which was so promising in the spring, could not withstand the hot, dry weather of the first half of June, it seems, and at the present time it doesn't appear to be worth cutting. Frost did considerable damage to corn tn the northern part of . Newton county. While some of this corn may recover and still make a fair crop, much of it, at this writing, appears to be as dead as the proverbial door nail Those seven airplanes at Morocco on Monday of last week gave one a pretty fair idea, as to what would have happened to that town had the machines been operated by a bunch of brutal Huns instead of good American citizens. Ernie Schanlaub is expecting a call ‘‘to arms” now most any time. As a preliminary to beginning the work of killing Huns, he took part in an engagement recently which resulted, he asserts, in the death of 106 rats in less than an hour. We note with much pleasure that Frank Coovert, who has been a great sufferer from rheumatism, is up and arovnd again and appears to be about as good as new. Frank, a few years ago, served two terms as treasurer of Newton county and was a good, capable official. Everybody likes Frank. With t’he biggest crop in the history of this country, with a million U. S. soldiers already in France and that many more ready to go, and with merchant ships being launched and delivered daily we can’t for the life of us see where quarrelsome Teddy's campaign of misrepresentation and abuse against the present administration is going to get him anything. According to newspaper reports farmers generally are not wildly enthusiastic over the idea of office men helping with the wheat harvest. They assert that if the office men did enough work to be of service to. the farmers there would be perhaps as many sunstrokes as there were office men and that the farmers would be obliged to lose a lot of time giving first aid to the stricken.

Speaking of smooth polished ignorance, the Dutchman living not a hundred miles from here was recently asked to buy war staimps. He consented to do so, but stipulated that the matter should not be made public. When asked why all this secrecy he replied: “Veil, you see if dher Kaiser coom ofer here unt fint out I gife dot money he would treat me worsen as efer. Aind it?” We’d hate powerfully to see the draft age raised to forty years. It’s like this: It would mean probably that our old friend Charles Makeever would have to leave the farm and go to war. While we hate the Huns like p’isen, we still retain enough pity for the eritters not to want Charles turned loose among them* with a meat ax or some other death-dealing instrument. It would be plain murder, that’s all.

We see by the papers that Overseer Voljva of Zion Chty hie apened,, * discuHEk® as tte see angels, claiming itei aZ the imreis mentioned i® the hshee are men. .angels, and that '»» MbF angels exist. We should axis ie tee tersbih our criticism of Vol.—-i. tes-ier. for "bringing up thus anasurr at a time when the peocie have their minds remteinef: «o. the present war. He vori-riLt have done it, poor fellow, ri » tur to assume, had he fiborzi’ of matething more silly. B rotter Charley Uariis of the Kentland Enterprise is -j-Ter-nz tc work in the harvesr iff needed. Charley is a genenems.. Scg-temed fellow and he nms NW wrf of it, but, if he sZE fee wfriised by the writer, he will stay rigfct ta his office and not g® az-f court a case of heat prttßmtlta Sy prying to do work for whjrih has years devoted to peintijng wati n-rtae to g. o. p. achievements ixw -3holly unfitted him. Another titax. we are told that Imrif has a -hmaic craving for bacon. yrrnz frbes. and other high-priced liimgs., s» where or how will the farmer fee leneffted by having him arwum-d? Orin Elijah of Beaver ■jwashit is not hankering parrirxlErfv fee the sight of any more ■fiyjng You see. those se*ret fytmg machine? which came to M-watse rite other day, settled -d&vra ta Orin's pasture, and his btoek casiM. neter the imrmession to titwftt "Jsat Cite Huns had arrived at la?-. dMs't te a thing to the world's atoaaaas rec-ord—-not a solitary thing. With tafTsfanning the rarified air, riey wit through wire fences lake man through a tin horn and then proceeded to run some msee rit to kind-a cool off late. Na. sf Orin •doesn't see another airplane beferenext woodchuck day he wZ2 worry along. The average high srtow" znriat®. if told that he did me hm:w mate

everythinc. would regard the assertion as beams: iirsa m>i inhuman. But, heartrese rmt cruel as the statement miy wit be is true nevertheless. . Hott fittSe man know conijiar-f-d win! what fce does not know and nev-nr kw*, how circumscribed hie limitation, ■ ‘‘After a life ■Sewjeed'. to study and research.” saif i wraerable sage, "the chief ftesswni tatroetf by me is how ignorairt I xnx,. howlittle 1 know.” And mend to tbe very depth of huntiSiy. ■by the knowledge of' this a- concludes: “And 1 laid my n joita tn the dust. Clarence Blankent taker's 25rt>- o*ry? own two sheep. Lass veet. be-zag in need of some Forrri <sfi Lrly money, they requested to shear their flock, wlik-h be very rea*tily consented to do. Lnsteui. fe-wever. of placing the sheep in tire v-ual position, when being sber.-’eL passersby were nt>l a lirtk srrici-ed at ~-r- rec with the sheep stunSisr Sts lead. ‘‘What’s the iAea?” aswy Sfe neighbors, ‘‘WeR. if y«® mmst know.' answered BlumSen'uFk 3 -.'. vilified the Demoeran-s auß my life ‘on the sheep propafuL <sz aad K&w. at the present price cd wsc-L. I jia-r naturally can’t look title iuim-e anrrton in the face.” A Jackson levm-sS.?:. so we are told, retnurned fron. Sktaverville. Hl., the other nlgM ticg-k-fuiu to the ears with vinous, rn.iir and other intoxicating Lst ere *tersupper he started out to r&e cow, entirely unmin *1 ~b* fa.er that ‘'Pied’s” stall x stxra wets temporarily oecntued ty a Sne-caek-ed, lemon-eolored nnuDe, wfcorfc th.- ■ citizen- had secured in i theday before. “S-g-o-p, t-fete* fb&LV admonished the ■eitiTF-n xr: ~ reaching the mule with nm’wvtei® st-p. “Thisher ’ (hici awful w»r, he continued. ■‘tawfislLs® w sassce er Rever f lue» Insjhiktn. ye-Ir-~a: r. shince er bat, bat. batte er snker Bill. But er old shirk exg'e sail! waives, Pied—God hvesisr old eagle.” Here the eiainsa jentre-i his arm into the dim re-juifflis Ilgft* and gras tied p hands cJ es tifce mine'sflank, whcreut>on there ensm-ei a scene which is almost jcnf-rL E& relate. In less time titan fc takes to tell it a six by six-focc Itefie was kicked in the side of the Itara by the surprised and indSgaarr mile, through which, for abemi swa. minutes, flowed a eonsnant srgsam of hay, bedding, harness, errry ewmbe, brushes and other artarJes numerous to mention. f®tD®<wed sty the citizen, with coat split the hack, minus a pants leg. minus .shoe and with the milk ionrkec jummeti down over his head «3ar : 6® Sis shoulders An hour later-., after ae had been j>laoed in l»e»3 xat ths: injuries attended 1® he was rears ta remark feebly. *-Wot?3j s&yefime I ever shee. Eversiixg -ttorv gone —not er housh left.”