Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — Page 2

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TOE JIM GOOHIY DM F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office- 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1008, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March J, 1879. , Published Wednesday and Saturday The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance advertising rates Display 12 Display, special position.. 15c Inch Readers, per line first insertion.. 5e Readers, per line and. inser... . le Want Ads— l cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not te exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. Ne advertisements accepted for the first page. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. . t SATURDAY, OCT. 5, 1918

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

—Secretary of State— HERMAN L. CONTER of Decatur. —Auditor of State —• WILLIAM M. JONES ’ of Fairmount. r—Treasurer of State—i j. b. McCarthy of Kempton. —Attorney General —■ EVAN B. STOTSENBURG of New Albany. —Clerk of Supreme and Appellate Courts — SAMUEL L CALLAWAY of Monticello. (—Superintendent of Publie Instruction — WILLIS A. FOX of Angola. —State Geologist— EDWARD BARRETT of Plainfield. (—Judges of Supreme Court—i (First District) JOHN C. McNUTT of Martinsville. (Fourth District) JAMES J. MORAN of Portland. (—Judges of Appellate Court — (First District) MILTON B. HOTTELL of Salem. HUGH WICKENB of Greensbuag(Second District) S. CALDWHLA Of winchester. EDWIN F. McCABE of Williamsport.

DISTRICT AND COUNTY TICKET

Fpr Congressman GEORGE E. HERSHMAN *' For State Senator JOSEPIt SULLIVAN For Prosecuting Attorney C. ARTHUR TUTEUR For Joint Representative, Jasper, Newton and Benton Counties LAWRENCE BURNS For Clerk of the Circuit Court ALVA D. HERSHMAN For County Auditor B. FRANK ALTER For Comity Treasurer (No Candidate) For County Sheriff *’ WILLIAM 1 1. HOOVER For Counity Coroner LEO O. WORLAND For County Surveyor (No Candidate) For Coiirity Assessor GEORGE W. CASEY County Commissioner, 2d District O. K. RAINIER County Commissioner, 3rd District MOSES SIGO For County Councilman at Large JOHN FARRELL, CHARLES W. PAXTON, ROBERT ZICK County Councilman, 2d District SAMUEL SCOTT County Councilman, 3rd District PERCY H. HAUTER County Councilman, 4th District CHARLES W. HARNER

TOWNSHIP TICKET

Barkley—GßANT DAVISSON. Trustee: JOHN E. COOPER, Assessor. Carpenter —JOSE I'JI GRAHAM, Trustee; E. J. BANTER, Assessor. Gillam—JOHN. \V SELMER, Trust e; JAKE JOHNSON, Assessor. Hanging Grove S. B. SNEDEKER, Trustee; VIRGIL W. HOBSON, As- ■ ' sessor. i ■ Jordan—JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee; FRANK; Assessor. Kankakee—LEE' E. GLAZEBROOK;, Trustee; GILBERT D. SEEGRIST, Assessor. . Marion—CHARLES F. STACKHOUSE, Trustee; C. W. DUVALL,. Assessor. MiIroy—CHARLES C. WOOD, Trustee; CHARLES E. CLARK, Assessor. Newton—JOHN LONERGAN, Trustee; JOHN W. PHARES, Assessor. Union—WALTER HARRINGTON, Trustee; W. H. MYERS, Assessor. Wheatfield—JOHN BOWIE, Trustee; (no candidate for assessor.) WaIker—WILLIAM STAL* AUM, Trustee; MARK OTT, Assessor.

SOARING BUTTER PRICES.

“The butter makers are worrying about their own high prices. It might be added that they have reason to worry because peo-ple will not buy butter at the present price. The dairy interests say that the higher retail figures have driven the public to using butter substitutes. There is danger, these interests believe, that real butter will become unpopular because the substitutes are now being made so nearly like the real thing that many can not tell the difference. No matter if the creameries do get an unheard of price for their product, they are going to - lose money if their market is restricted. There are great dairy herds to be maintained and unless butter moves rapidly and there is a continuous market somebody is going to be hurt. The somebody, in this instance, seems to be the creamery interests. People with good memories can recall when splendid country butter was purchasable at 15 cents a pound. Su«h a price now would be impossible, grid probably never did afford a real profit to the farmer. The price began going up and reached 25 oents. This was considered unusually high but people \bought butter just the same.

Throughout Indiana the dairy interests have established their substations. They tour the countryside, buying cream. The result is that only a small amount of country butter comes to market and it usually is engaged in advance. The farmer has learned that he can imake more money by selling his cream to the creamery than by churning it into butter and taking the butter to the nearest town. Butter has steadily advanced in price and now it has been selling for more than 60 cents a pound. Predictions are that butter may reach the dollar mark before winter is cjver. The government is reported to have commandeered 60 per cent, of the output, but the dairy interests deny this. Even if so much has been commandeered there would be no reason for jumping the price on the remaining supply were it not that somebody is trying to speculated, Retailers are permitted to take only a small profit from the Gutter they sell. So the fault does not lie with them. The fault is to be found with some one who is trying to make money out of unfortunate circumstances. It seems that the butter interests will be hurt worse than the public because the public will not buy and the creameries must sell or shut up shop.’’—lndianapolis News.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I hate to die —and so do you—it’s such' a foolish thing to do. We feel, when we are cashing in, that dissolution is a sin, it’s such a waste of hair and bones, and all the flesh a mortal owns. We lead our safe and sheltered lives; we rear our kids and feed our wives; we’ve lived in fat commercial times, resolving everything to dimes. Our frugal instincts show that waste is sin by which we are disgraced, and so it causes us distress to lose the number of our mess; for death is waste, the thing we dread; there is no rakeoff for the dead. T The war some consolation brings; it’s showing us a lot of things; it’s teaching us how men may die and make a noble gain thereby. “How sleep the brave who sink to rest, by 1 all their country's wishes blest!” ’ The soldier out in yonder strife who gives his warm and ardent life, that tyrants and their plots may fail, that freedom shall again prevail, is wasting nothing when he dies, but drawing down a golden prize, and men will see. that lilies bloom about the portals of his tomb. “And Freedom shall awhile repair, to dwell, a weeping hermit, there.” And so we spoke in maudlin haste when we declared thatdeath is waste.

LETTERS FROM- OUR SOLDIERS

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the U. S. soldiers say we will eat Chrismas dinfter at home, as the Germans are losing ground every day. We get a New York paper here every evening. ,It is pprinted in Paris. It is not like reading papers at home. I -only hope we will get to go to the front, but know there is little chance. Am having lots of fun every day. We get the best of eats„ and a good bed to sleep in, and if I could talk French I would be O. K. It’s funny to the boys at first to get the French money. When you get a few dollars of their money in paper it is like carrying a newspaper around with you. They have not given us any passes yet, but if they do I am going to Paris and will buy you some kind of a souvenir of France and send it to you. Now there is nothing for you to worry about, for I am O. K. and will probably be here until the end of the war. We will be hack in the states before spring. The army is a good place for experience and you know ■ that is tvhat I always was looking for, but I don’t like to stay in one place too long. I don’t think we will get to leave this camp at all. Your son and brother, CORP. TERANCE THOMPSON, Bat. F., 329 F. A., Am. E. F. Henry T. Cain Writes Letter From “Over There.” Mrs. Estellfb- Mathew of Carpenter township received the following letter from her brother, Henry T. Cain, a few days ago, and sends same to The Democrat for publication: On Active Service with the American Expeditionary Forces. September 4, 1918. Dear Kids—l received your most welcome letter yesterday and believe me it was just like a deed for 160 acres of good land in Jasper county. Was sure glad to learn you were all welL So, as the day’s work is finished and supper over, consisting of roast beef, gravy, potatoes, tomatoes, rice, apricots, hot soda’ biscuit?, butter, molasses and coffee, and as my appetite has, I dare say, increased sincd I began living the life of a soldier, you can easily imagine about how long five or six hot biscuits would last set before me. But, anyway, I managed to get back to our quarters by walking real slow and the boys have made me a big cushion of blankets to Sit and lean against, so will try and scribble a few lines tonight to

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

let you know I’m th® same old kid and crazy as ever. Well, to begin with I sure had some trip from San Francisco to where I am now located, but as I think I have told you about crossing the States will let that part go until I come back. You see, I figure after tie war is over and I have returned from abroad I will simply visit around, staying about a week at each place, telling them of my past experiences. But to continue, we left Camp Mills to take the boat and had I not seen some of the same kind at Frisco I do doubt would have thought about tefi blocks of New York City was floating out in the ocean. But on we gets’ and everthing went fine. The worst trouble I had was to keep from getting lost, and I guess more than one "guy” was caught in the same fix about time for meals. But we kids stood the trip fine, but Bert kinda, allowed before we got there it must have been quite a strip across that pond, and guess he would have no doubt been perfectly willing to buy me and awful good supper if he could of got just one glimpse of that Kannal bridge and he kinda* talked of home and bis girls, after we were two or three days out and the sea commenced to get kinda’ rough. Course I guess he liked it alright but, to take it all in all, there were quite few who were very sick. But we finally landed somewhere in England, not even getting as much as a glimpse of those socalled German submarines. Saw thousands of fish, including four whale.

We were jn England some little time and by chance got to see a lot of country. Believe me it is sure beautiful there, even more so than France, or at least that part which I have seen. Anyway the part of the country I am located in is -mostly vineyards, and talk about seeing grapes I guess I have seen my share but guess they are for wine purposes mostly. They are almost ready to pick. They have also some fine big white ones that are fine eating. Also peaches and pears, which we are able to buy very reasonable, so we surely have plenty of fruit between meals.

But, say, if you were to see this country you would certainly laugh, everything is so odd and so oldstyle. You see very few wooden buildings, mostly all stone and some brick. Most of them covered with a tile roof, but have seen several houses with a straw roof interwoven some way. I remember one in England in particular and I asked the lady how long that roof had been on and she said thirteen years, and it looked very good yet. I also visited one under ground church that was built in the year of 700. Of course not much remains, only a few statutes, but in that same city there is-a clfcrch on top of the ground which they still use and is certainly beautiful inside that was started in the 11th century and i completed in the 12th. Built com- | pletely of something • likb sandstone like you have back there. ■ There are besides beneath these cities underground roads leading from town to town something like a distance of five or six miles and of course entered by some secret route, it is sure wonderful and as you stand and view some of the sights you would sure wonder how much hard work and time it must have took to complete such work. The traffic here with vehicles takes the cake. All carts, and mostly all oxen except their fast drivers which are little mules that are the smallest I ever saw, the average weight I should judge would not be over three hundred pounds each. - They have also some dog carts and you generally have to look twice to see whether it is a dog or a mule; but almost every one has a bicycle, so when they just go visiting they use them. Nothing to see a whole family riding down the street side by side. 1 am learning a little French so am able to say a few words to them and we have a lot of fun sometimes trying to make them understand just what we want, but with the aid of a little French dictionary we generally make out some way. You see we are sta* tioned in a little city and as the boys are all up town I managed a little time what 1 can call my own. I have been going to school every since I have been here, took an automobile course and passed that so am now taking a course in tractors but will finish this week, then I suppose I will, return to the battery and stay until we go to the front. We sure have a dandy bunch of fellows at the school and in the battery also, and the officers are sift*e swell. We get up at 5:30, breakfast 6 a. m., then fall in at .8 until 11 a. m.; dinner at twelve; fall in at 1 p. m. until four; supper at 5:30 and then through for the day, although we have to be in" quarters at 9* and lights out at 10. And believe me that last hour is one grand time. Will do no good to go to bed before ten because you would certainly get pulled out and around, and of all the scuffling you ever seen they sure have it here. Everyone is in the best of spirits, everybody happy, and as the reports we hear from the front every day they are surely giving the dutch h—. We are all looking for a great victory and a happy meeting soOn. Please, if possible, let Tommy’s, Wills and the folks read this as it is impossible to write to all so often. So, hoping this finds you all fine and dandy, will elose with lote to all. Answer soon. PVT. HENRY T. CAIN, 62 Art, Batt A.’ "’C. A. C.» A. P. O. 705, Am. E. F., France.

Lloyd Johnson Writes Home From England.

Lloyd W. Johnson, who is stationed at the U. S. Naval Air station at Killinghome, England, writes home under date of Septem-

ber 15, and says: ' Dear Mother and All:—Will take a few minutes to send you just a few lines to let you know I am all O. K. How are all the folks at home? What are you doing to pass away the time? Is Lynn still fighting the Kaiser? I think he is getting him pretty well whipped from all indications. Is Pop getting his wheat sowed? I hope he has a good crop and that you will have a good crop of corn this year. It has been raining all day. We didn’t have any inspection. We were glad to get out of it. I hate to stand inspection. It is funny that you don’t receive any of my letters saying that I have received your - mail. I haven’t had to work so very uard this week. I only worked one night. There were a couple of new drafts came in so we Jhave plenty of men now to do the work. I went on . liberty Friday evening. I went to buy me a looking glass and a pair of shears. I got the glass but the stores closed before I got the shears. I got some candy and -a- breakfast of ham and eggs. I went to a' show in the evening. The Y. M. C. A. says they can get us entertainment in private homes. I don’t think I will take any of them. I will try and entertain myself then I won’t be under any obligation to any one but my* self. I sure would like to set- my teeth in a good piece of fried chicken. Just set out all the strawberries you can. I may be home in time to “can” a few next spring. I am geting my money regular now. I have plenty for anything I need. I guess I told you that I would like for you to send that sweater that you made, if you would, didn’t I? Don’t let the postmaster make you believe you can’t send packages here, because you can if he will take the trouble to look it up. Some of the boys’ folks says the postmaster won’t take packages but they are supposed to for any one whose mail is sent in care of the Postmaster at New York. Well I don’t think of any more for this time. I am O. K. I guess that is the main thing You want to know. Your son and brother, LLOYD W. JOHNSON, Q. M. A., 2d U. S. Naval Air Station, Killingholme, Eng., care Postmaster New York.

“THIS IS MY WAR YOUR WAR, OUR WAR”

W< Must All Dig Up Our Dollars to Invest in This Liberty Loan to Win It.

By MEREDITH NICHOLSON.

This is my war. The outcome, whether defeat or victory, vitally concerns me. No one urged that America declare war upon the Teutonic empires more stridently than I. I re-‘ joiced in my soul when my country joined with the other great civilized powers in driving back the barbarian. In the strictest sense, in all the connotations of the phrase, this is my war, as completely as though I stood on my own doorstep, gun in hand to protect my household from sword and brand. That I am only one of a hundred million American citizens who share my sense of responsibility in the conflict does not greatly matter. This is my war; it pleases me to think of It as something personal and intimate, undertaken at my behest and imposing upon me responsibilities which I should be the basest coward to shirk. Within a short distance of my home sleep my two great-grandfathers who were soldiers under Washington and my father who fought under Lincoln. They made this my war. The American citizens who perished on the Lusitania made this my war. Every shot fired at an American ship, every man wounded or killed under the Stars and Stripes intensifies my realization that this is indeed my war. The right of my children to freedom, happiness and peace make this my war. And it is my business, my politics and my religion to do my utmost, at any sacrifice, that this war, my war, may be carried to a triumphant conclusion. No. dollar I can earn, no privileges I enjoy, no faith I hold in man or God will avail me aught unless I win this war. This war is my job. 1 stand alone and take counsel of my conscience as to whether I am doing all that I can to win it. The demands are constant. The war that my blood cried for is not cheap. But ylewing the mighty conflict as a vast undertaking, carried on by the United States of America for my benefit, it is not becoming in me to fret or quibble over the cost. The fourth Liberty loan Is about to be offered. It is in my heart to subscribe the whole issue, but this being impossible, it is with elation that I reflect upon the millions who will say to themselves: This is my war and dig up their dollars and buy bonds. This is my war, your war, our war. Every investor in the Liberty loan qualifiers as an active member of the great fellowship of American democracy. Every oversubscription of a Liberty loan is an American triumph, a stunning defeat for autocracy and barbarism. Win the war and win it quickly. Whip the devil; and beat the kaiser., This is my cause and yours; this is our war!

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk.'.Charles Morias Treasurer Charles M. dands Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer... L. A Bostwloh rire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery lire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Wardßay Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymiro At Large. Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff ß. D. McCoiiy AuditorJ. P. Hammead Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Soott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt • CoronerW. J. Wright County Assessor.. .G. L. Thermos County Agent. . Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. E. Johnson COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictH. W. Marble 2nd DlstrlstD. S. Makeover 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson ßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens Gillam Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove John Kolhoff. Jordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George Foulks Milroy John Rush Newton George Hammerton Union Joseph Salrln Walker Albert S Keene Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. M. Sands

TRUSTEES’ GARD.

JORDAN TOWNSHIP The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern them* selves accordingly. Postoffice address—Rensselaer, Indiana. Second and last Saturday of each month in Williams A Dean’s law office. * JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW ... j Law Abstracts. Real Estate Loons. Will practice in all th* courts. OSes over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANTS 6 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA George A. Williams. D. Delos Dea*. WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office In Odd Fellows Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR. I. M. WASHBURN' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. “ “ » 2to6P. M. 7 to 8 P.M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdaye-a 5 A. M. to 2 P. M. RENSSELAER, INDIANA F. H. HEMPHILL' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to TyphoMU Pneumonia and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig's drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. Ns. 44fi*B RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the State Bank. . J , Office Pbone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Felts) Practice in all Courts. , Estates settled. : '. ; j • Farm Loans. ,% t Collection Department. Notary In the office. Over T. & S. Bank. Phone No. U RENSSELAER, INDIANA JOE JEFFRIES Graduate Chiropractor Forsythe Block Phone 114 Every day in Rensselaer. Chiropractic removes the cause of disease. a F. A. TURFLBR OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School ot Otis*, pathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder. Dr. A, T. Still. Office Hours—B-12 a. m., 1-1 n. SU and Fridays at Office: 1-1 Murrey Bldg. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA H. L. BROWN DENTIST < jfflce over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store RENSSELA’R, INDIANA If you want a good typeijwttfr at a bargain price, see j The Democrat office. J- \ J