Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices.

MONDAY LAST DAY TO REGISTER.

Monday is the last day for registering if you expect to vote at the November election, and all registrations must be in by 5 p. m., of that date. If you have not already registered, do so at once.

Commissioners’ court will convene in regular monthly session next Monday. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Fisher of Kankakee township and William Meyers of Walker township were business visitors in the city yesterday. According to Tuesday evening’s Indianapolis News, the state board of accounts charges that Sheriff Ben D. McColly of Jasper county, fpr the years 1916 and 1917, owes his county $122.02 for overcharges for meals, mileage and posting notices.

JASPER STILL SHORT $125,000

Because Some Men Have Not Done Their Full Duty.

WAR EXHIBITS TRAIN HERE MONDAY.

County Chairman James H. Chapman received a telegram yesjterday stating that the gov»4srnmciit War Exhibits train would reach Rensselaer at 7:30 a. m., Monday and it will be here about two hours, it is understood. This train carries a part of the great war exhibit recently held in Chicago, which includes many trophies captured from the enemy on the western war front, and every one who can possibly 'do so should come to town Monday morning and see this interesting exhibit.

Up to yesterday morning Jasper county lacked about $125,000 of reaching its quota of $450,000, according to the returns in at that time. Carpenter was the first township to subscribe its quota, $96,000, and Hanging Grove second with $15,000. Marion’s quota of $154,000 was still $34,000 short. J. J. Lawler of Chicago has again done the right thing in the. purchase of Liberty bonds in Jasper county, where he has such extensive real estate interests. He has purchased $12,000 in bonds here and divided it equally be- j tween Marion, Hanging Grove and Union townships, where his land is located. , There have been but few large—or even medium sized—subscriptions to this loan here, Mr. Lawand $5,000 each from. John Eger, James H. Chapman, Granville Moody and George W. Hobson of near Lafayette, who has real estate holdings in Hanging Grove township. Some town people and many farmers, who ought to have taken up in the thousands each, lhave not done nearly as well as ex’pected, and it is probable many of /these will be asked to increase their subscriptions in order that our quota may be reached. iSome *men who are quite wealthy and have no sons in the war—though some of them should be there—have done but little. They are the very ones who ought to i come across the most liberally.

BUCKWHEAT We pay the highest market ■ price for good, clean dry BuckBwheat. Get our prices before you ■seII.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, ■phone 4 56. ■ * ts F. Service Flags, one, two or three f gtars t . /or sale at The Democrat of|eFW' ts B® ■ J • I• - * -*— l “

FARMER KILLED AT CHALMERS

When Automobile Was Struck By Monon Train Wednesday William Harris, aged 46, a farmer residing nine miles west of I Chalmers, in the Pine Grove neighi borhood, was instantly killed at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon when the automobile he was driving was struck by a north bound Monon passenger train at a railroad crossing in Chalmers. Harris ha<l drove to Chalmers to meet a brother-in-law who was coming from Chicago, and Was alone in the car at the time. The train was running 15 minutes late and traveling at a high rate of speed. The whistle was blown several times, it is alleged, but the victim, who was turning his car around, eithbr did not hear or heed the warning. -c

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

l Miss Clyde Duncan, teacher at Pleasant Grove in Barkley township, has an enrollment of twenty-two pupils. Supt. Sterrett visited this school a few days back and noted that an invoice had been taken of the amount of Liberty Bonds, War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps held by the pupils of that school. The invoice read as folio >7B: Liberty Bonds, Clyde Schreiner, SSO; *Mary Markin, $150; Hattie Moore, <100; Hazel Moore, $100; William Moore, SIOO. Grand total, SSOO. There was a long list of pupils holding War Savings Stamps. The aggregate holdings was $145. They also had $1.25 in Thrift Stamps. !supt. Sterrett made inquiries at 'several schools and learned that | there was much bond holdings of war salving securities in all of the schools. Teachers will kindly send in reports from their schools for publication. Miss Duncan feels that she has the banner school in the county. The teachers are doing a wonderful work towards i stimulating the purchase of war I securities.

Every school is arranging to get the nuts for the government. South Lawn in Barkley hulls walnuts at 'noons and intermissions. Miss Rosabelle Daugherty is teaching that school. They gather the walnuts in sacks and bring them to the school to tramp out at noon and recesses: This was also going on at the Parker school in Hanging Grove township where Miss Gladys McGlynn is teaching. There is a genuine patriotic sentiment in every school that is headed by the teacher and results are coming from this. Carpenter township will select a “Nut Gathering Day” and all schools will spend the greater part of a day gathering nuts for the government. All schools are singing patriotic songs, ! repeating pledges to our Flag, salutes, etc. It seems to be the ' watchword of every boy and girl ’“Help Our Soldier and Sailor Boys.” Most teachers have war maps and the positions of the armies are posted for morning exercises

A FAMILY GATHERING IN BARKLEY.

A happy gathering took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Williams of Barkley township, Tuesday, the occasion being that 'Private Clifford I. Baker of Camp Funston, Kansas, is home for a ' few days furlough. Mr. Baker was 1 accompanied here by his wife. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Baker, Mr. and Mrs. John Baker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Price and family of Valparaiso, Mrs. Walter Brown and children of Francesville, Mr. and Mrs. yfanley Stowers and family, Mr. and Mrs. Elda Stowers and family, John Price, and Mr. and Mrs. John E. Williams and family of Barkley* township. All departed in the late evening, wishing Clifford the best of success. xx

254,012 PRISONERS

Paris, October 4.—During the period from September >lO September 30, “the allied armies in France and Belgium have captured 2,844 officers, 120,192 men, 1,600 cannon and more than 6,000 machine guns, -says an official statement issued here. Between July 15 and September 30, the allies captured 1,518 officers, 248,494 men, 3,869 dannon, more than 23,000 machine guns and hundreds of?/3ne throwers.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1918-

BARNEY DEWITT IS DEAD

Barney Dewitt of Fair Oaks, who Was brought to the county hospital Sunday evening for treatdied at that institution Tues--1 day evening about 9 o’clock. His I age was about 68 years. The rei mains were taken to Fair Oaks 1 Wednesday afternoon and the funeral was held there yesterday at 2 p. m., from the Methodist church, Rev. C. E. Downey conducting the services. Burial was made in the Fair Oaks cemetery. Mr. Dewitt had resided in Fair Oaks for a 'number, of years.

WILL IT MISS RENSSELAER?

Motor Mail Route Soon to Be Established Between Chicago 1 and Indianapofts. C. S. 'Myers of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General’s bureau of the Postoffice Department, Washington, D. C., and Wallace Buchanan, assistant superintendent of mails of the Indianapolis postoffice, are in the city, having 'driven here yesterday from' Indianapolis for the purpose of establishing a motor truck route from the capital to Lafayette. They will leave this morning for Chicago, to look over territory and select roads >for a route from Lafayette to Chi-

cago. j This service is established for the purpose of benefitting the people living along the line of the routes and the aim is to reach points remote from railroads and have poor postal facilities. Any pe son living along the lines of tht Q e routes may hail the drivers ' and mail anything from a postal 'card to a package seventy pounds lin weight. The driver is a travel'ing postmaster carrying stamps, taking orders for money orders, handling registers and, in fact, transacts any ordinary done at a postpffice. I This class of service was established in the east as an experiment, and proved to be very efficient and profitable, the routes ' more than paying the expense of

maintenance. There will be three trucks used on the chain between Indianaapoilis and* Chicago, to be operated by I six drivers. These drivers will be I paid at the rate of ?4 per day, ■working alternate days, work one iday and off the following, receiving compensation for each day. The postoffice department requires that these drivers be men of integrity and possessed of some mechanical knowledge to be success1f ul in the operation of the trucks. * Applications for these positions 1 will be received by the local postmaster. When this, service is established, which will be in the very near future, as soon as the trucks arrive from Philadelphia, they being shipped from there yesterday, continuous motor truck service will be in effect from Chicago to Indian--1 apolis, Louisville, Ky.,. Nashville, 1 Tenn,, Lexington, Ky., and ■Colum- , bus, Ohio. There is another feature of this truck service which is an economy for the government as well as the * public in that it eliminates the I terminal charges and additional i handling of the mail, as the trucks

UNCLE SAM: “NOW, ALL TOGETHER!"

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Jennie Jessen had her tonsils removed yesterday. Mrs. Rufus Geib and baby went to their home at Remington yesterday. Dr. F. H. Hemphill has been confined to the hospital since Tuesday with a malarial attack but at this writing is improving. All othre patients are • doing nicely. John Q, Alter, who has been in very poor health for several months and confined to his bed practically all of the time, was taken to the hospital Wednesday to be cared for, his nurse, Mrs. Sadie Galbreath and alSo Mrs. Alter, both being sick with influenza.

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN HERE?

List of Those Who Have Paid SubAccounts 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 th# label of their paper is changed. Those indicated by an • are rew subscribers: z ♦A. H. Dickinson, Remington W. F. Michaels, Remington, R-3 George K. Michaels, Del Norte, Colorado *John W. Norman, Rensselaer Everett Warren, Rensselaer, R-2 Louis M. Misch, Camp Sherman, Ohio Frank Corbin, Brook Jesse Ball, Mitchell, So. Dakota C. C. Warner, Gary J. E. Sullenberger, Edmore, Mich. Mrs. J. M. Allen, Fair Oaks E. T. Whitehead, Wheatfield J. J. Eigelsbach, . Rensselaer Jerry Shea, Medaryville C. R. Weiss, 'Rensselaer, R-3 F. E. Marion, Parr, R-l Clyde Garriott, Fair Oaks, R-2 F. W. Schwanke, Lowell Leonard Keister, Rensselaer Mrs. Elnora M. Thornton, Spokane, Washington Willis Lutz, Rensselaer C. McCulley, Remington Dell Yeoman, Remington Nathan Chupp, Edinburg, Ind. George Pfledderer. Francesville - J. C. Wood, Goodland, R-l.

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WANTED.

Eighteen men to volunteer for the motor truck /service to be inducted October 15, These men must be from the classes of 1917 and June and and August of 1918, must have a grammar school education and be physically fit for general military service. Unless you can fill these qualifications do not apply for these positions. Report to local board of Jasper county at once. *************

drive from one postoffice door to another. Yesterday’s Lafayette Journal. LATER —These gentlemen ireached Rensselaer yesterday noon and went from here north via Gifford to the stone road running east and west south of Wheatfield and west to Kersey, Demotte and Thayer. While this route is a trifle longer than via Mt. Ayr or to go straight north from Rensselaer the possibilities for business on the GifforS route Is much greater and it is very likely to be recommended - - . . ... - »

IS VERY LARGE ONION CROP

Despite Much Smaller Acreage Than Last Year. J. R. Cavanaugh of the U. S; department of agriculture, was up from Lafayette Tuesday looking over the onion crop in Jasper county. According to his report the average yield of onions in Indiana this year is 400 bushels to the acre. This is sixty-four bushels larger than the yield of last year and means the crop will be only 100,000 bushels below that of 1917, in spite of the fact that the acreage this, season is only 3,000 against 4,350 last year. “The crop this year is well matured and there is a notable absence of ‘splits’ and ‘scullions’ in all the cars 1 have seen,” said Mr. Cavanaugh. “They are small in size but are dried and will store much better than the onions being sent in from other states.” Until Friday of last week, 486 cars oT onions had been moved in the state w’hich is .several times as large as the usual number started to market at such an early date. The onion crop started moving in Indiana this year about two weeks ahead of the usual date.

MRS. JOHN BURRIS DEAD.

Mrs. John Burris, who was taken to the county hospital Wednesday suffering from pneumonia, died at that institution Thursday night at 10:30, aged 24 years, 5 months and 11 days. The funeral will be held today at 10:30 a. m., at the home of R. W. Burris, services being conducted by Rev. ®. W. Strecker, and burial made in Weston cemetery.

NOTICE. We will close our place of business on Wednesday evenings, unless by appointment.—C. E. PRIOR.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

Terance Thompson Also Thinks War Will Be Over Soon. James Thompson and . daughter, Mrs. Charles Dowers, received two letters last week from the former’s son, Terance, who is a Corporal in Battery F, 329 Field Artillery,' recently landed in France. Both letters are somewhat similar and one was written August 28 and the other September 2. We copy the more interesting portions of each: Dear Folks: —I received your letter of August 2; it had only been a month on the road. Well, 11 suppose you know I’m in France by tnis time, as I sent you a card just before sailing. We had a fine trip coming over; could see the coast of Ireland. We landed in England where we took a train and rode all day through England. Next day took a boat to France, rode there two days and a night and here we are in camp. We will be here until the end of the was. They (have so many men in France they d,on’t know what to do with them, and this war will be over before Christmas. I get to talk to lots of fellows right from the front and they say the same thing. It is nothing to see German prisoners. They have got them every place and are getting more every day, We have no kick coming about anything over here; everything is just as good as it is possible to make it. This is some 'country; it is so far behind the U. S. that it never Will catch up. We are a long way yet from the battle front but see lots of German prisoners; they are ’ mostly kids and old ipen. We will never see the firing line. Most

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NOTICE TO The public. On account of the prevalence of Epidemic Influenza (Spanish Jnfluenza) throughout the country, a large number of hospitals are under strict quarantine. The Wesley hospital of Chicago is now under strict quarantine with a large number of cases, many not expected to live. Therefore on account of the many surgical and obesetrical cases* in the Jasper county hospital it will be impossible to admit any cases of this disease. The public is hereby notified to arrange to care for such cases outside of the hospital.—F. H. HEMPIHULL, M. D*. Co. Health Commissioner. U. 8. FLYING SQUAD SETS WORLD RECORD. With the American Army in France, Oct. 4.—During the month of September the first American pursuit group of airplanes won 'more than seventy victories, aver- ■ i.ging two boches for ' every three pilots in the squadron. Only four {pilots were lost. This is a world’s I record.

Vol. XXI, No. 54

AUSTRIAN NAVAL BASE DESTOYED BY THE ALLIES

Yankee Warships Help In Attack on Port ot Durazzu. AUSTRIANS QUIT ALBANIA (Italian Troops Pass Beyond the Im- ' portant Base of Berat—British and French Tear Wide Gaps in Hindenburg Line. Rome, Oct 5.—-American, British and Italian warships have destroyed the Austrian naval base at Durazzo and the warships anchored there, according to an announcement made by ?remier Orlando. London, Oct. 4.—Austrian troops have been withdrawn from Albania, the Austrian war office announces, according to dispatches from Vienna. Berat has been taken by the allies the statement says. Italians Smash Foe. Rome, Oct. 4.—Taking advantage of the collapse which eliminated Bulgaria from the war, Italian troops have begun a smashing offensive against the Austro-Hungarians in Albania. The general battle opened on Tuesday over a front of 35 miles, from the Adriatic eastward to the Osum river. Hindenburg Line Eliminated. London, Oct. 4.—The entire Hindenburg line from the North sea to Cambria was virtually series of smashing offensives. The coal city of Lens, center of France’s famous "black district,’ "as abandoned by the Germans without a shot. Armentieres likewise lias been evacuated. The Whole front between the two towns, a stretch of 17 miles, fell back and Is still in retreat.

Belgians in Routers. Roulers, the great German base in Flanders, was reported in flames, having been fired by the retreating Germans to tlie south. A Belgian armoured car has entered Roulers us the vanguard of King Albert’s army. To the south the French are rapidly outflanking La Fore. That place captured, only the two hinges, Lille in the north ami Laon in the south will remain of the Hindenburg line. Laon already Is gravely threatened by tiie French, who are only five miles to the south of It. In the week ending Wednesday the allies have captured 60,000 men and I,(XX) guns on the western front. The principal'attack was launched by British infantry and tanks along an efght-niije front from Sequehart to the canal north of Bony in the St. Quentin sector, and was completely successful, Field Marshal Haig reported. Dead Litter Ground. The British troops smashed a large and vital section of the Hindenburg line between St. Quentin and Cambral, occupied many additional towns and villages and took 5,000 mere prisoners and numerous guns. Australian troops are fighting beyond the Beaurevoir line in thp St. Quentin sector. The Germans are retiring toward Montlireliain. Thus the Hindenburg system lias been definitely passed. The battle continued throughout the day, English and Australian divisions driving deep into the enemy defenses. The ground over which the British troops fought their way against the inevitable swarms of machine guns was littered with German dead. The advance lias reached a depth of about five miles at its apex, and it follows that the principal Hindenburg defenses here have been shattered. A few hours may see the British all the way on the other side of the great German defensive system, > In the north, besides abandoning Lens, the Germans have begun a retreat on practically all the Armentleres sector, and appear to be in full flight. I British troops have entered and are now passing through Lens. Aubers ridge, south of Armentieres, has been taken, and the British are east of there. Indications are not wanting that the Germans have, been (forced to begin one of the war’s (greatest retreats. Menace U-Boat Base. The troops co-operating with the Belgians have taken villages near Roulers after hard street fighting. They have forced the Germans well back and are still going. The Germans must get. out of the Belgian

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