Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — Page 4

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STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. STATE LOAN TOTAL GROWS Thirteen Counties Reach Quota —Sub- . scriptions Reported in Seventh District Bring Total Up to $73,084,300- - Indianapolis, Oct. 4.—lncreased subscriptions reported from a number ot Indiana counties in the Seventh federal reserve district broiight the state s total in the fourth Liberty loan campaign to $733:184,300. More than a score of counties have not reported the day’s work and these figures are expected by Will 11. Wade, director of sales for Indiana, to materially increase the total. Owen and Iranklin counties “went over” Wednesday. Owen was the twelfth county to reach its quota, and Franklin, the thirteenth county, reported a few hours later that the assigned quota had been subscribed. Edward J. Wuensch, in charge of the Marion cimnty clearing house, reported $8,136,250 iiad passed through the clearing house. It is estimated that these figures, plus the estimate of Wednesday’s sales, will reach more than $10,000,000, Hugh Hickam, Owen county chairman, reported his county “over.” “Over and still going,” reported John Shirk, chairman of Franklin county. The county subscribed 000 Wednesday to reach the quota. Owen county was within SII,OOO of the top in Tuesday’s report. Six counties in the. state in early reports had increased their subscriptions. Ihe first report from Fulton county received since the campaign started placed the subscriptions at .$300,000, or more than one-half the quota. Wayne county reported an additional $12;>,000, making a total of $2,425,000 for the county. Its quota is $2,400,000. It is expected to go “over” at any hour. P.arke county increased its figures to $223,150 of a $500,0* Kt quota. Indications from over the state point to a substantial increase in many counties which have not reported.

Emergency Call for Nurses. Indianapolis, 4.—Au inmivdiate call for niir-cs and nurses’ aids has been issued .by Miss Eliza G. Browning. eliairnian of the Red Gross committee. to whom a re<pie.st lias come for several hundred nurses in Indianapolis ami other nWlitary camps whene the Spanish influenza is raging. Every trained nurse, experienced nurse, married woman who has imd nursing experience and all women who have taken courses in first-aid or home care of tlie sick are asked to register immediately at the war camp coiqmunity booths in Indianpolis at tlie corner of Illinois and \Vashington streets and at Market and Illinois streets, lite lives of hundreds of men in service are at s ake and are dependent entirely upon immediate care.

Seek Quarters fpr Soldiers. Indianapolis, Oct. 4. —A\t>quest regarding buildings, in Indiana that might be obtained by tlie government for the use of returned soldiers suffering from mental and nervous-dis-eases was received by A. \V. Butler, secretary of the *tate board of cliarities, from Maj. Frank wood Williams, medical corps. Washington, D. t'. An immediate investigation for suitable quarters- will be made, Mr. Butler said.

YANKS CHASE GERMANS

Americans Drive Huns to the Kriemhild Line. Inhabitants of 20 Alsace Villages Along the Frontier Are Sent to German Interior. Geneva, Oct. 4.—German military authorities have begun to remove the inhabitants of Alsace, according to the Democrate, in expectation of a FrancoAmerican attack on the frontier. The inhabitants of twenty villages, including Ferrette, Goutavon and Winkel, already have been Sent to Bavaria. Some of the villagers have escaped across the Swiss frontier. Fear of disorder is rampant throughout Alsace-Lorraine not only among the civilians but also among the military forces. Food is scarce and littl? fuel is available. The German authorities in AlsaceLorraine, the Democrate adds, are afraid of a general uprising in those provinces when the allies cross the frontier. With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 4.—American units reached the Kriemhild-Steelung line at one point. Just south of Brieuiles they advanced to a spot where they established actual contact with this famous enemy system. The so-called Kriemhild-Steelung line, which the American front faces today, is part of the general German defensive system beginning at Douai, continuing south of La Fere and thence east to the Meuse., Crossing the % Meuse, the line extends eastward by the way of Etain and runs across the S/. Mihiel salient to the Moselle, which it reached just south of Pagny. When the St. Mihiel salient was reduced by the Americans the enemy this syStem hr that vicinity.

AUSTRIAN NAVAL BASE DESTROYED BY THE ALLIES

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Icodst as far as Ostend, if the Advance 'here continues, as it gives every sign of doing. Le Catelet, the link between Cambral and St. Quentin, is officially reported in British hands. Its capture is due primarily to the brilliant work done in that region during the past week by the Americans, whose dash led to the encirclement of the town. The British also regained Sequehart, which \iwv Jost to the counterattack! ng i King Albert’s valiant' little army and its British comrades under ffeneral Plumer are withstanding terrific German counter-attacks and are fighting their way forward toward the important bastes of Tureoing and Courtrai. Late this evening front dispatches report indication the Germans are removing the civilian population from Lille, the northern hinge of the Hindenburg line. Berlin asserts officially Lens and Armentieres were abandoned- Tuesday evening, and appends to this announcement Ludendorff’s pet phrase in hours of admissionfl of defeat “unnoticed by the enemy.” The German Lens-Armentleres retreat already has reached a depth of nearly five miles. In their retirement from St. Quentin the Germans removed all,the inhabitants. When the French troops entered the town there were no civilians to be found. The Germans are shelling St. Quentin. In an attempt to stay French progress between the Somme and the Oise in the St. Quentin area, the Germans are bringing up fresh troops and increasing the of their artillery fire. French Smash Huns. Paris, Oct. 4.—-French troops captured 2,800 Germans in an important advance northwest of the Somme river, the war office announces. They have occupied the crest of Mont Brane. Cortney, northwest of Reims, has also been captured. Around St. Quentin and south toward Le Fere, north of Reims, and eastward in the Champagne, the French have broken into the German main line defences at several places. Following the general assault along this great front Wednesday the French under Debeney, Mangin and te resumed the advance and drove forward, meeting with great defensive resistance and many counter-attacks. These reactions, according to official statements and battle front dispatches, gained the enemy nothing save heavy casualties.

Drive Through Line. Just to the north of St. Quentin the French drove through the Hindenburg positions, in some places going as" far as two miles through wire, trench line after trench line, and machine gun emplacements. Tlie Crozat canal has been reached and crossed at one point, wlrtle several small villages in this region have been cleared of the enemy. South of St. Quentin troops of the same army rushed the Hindenburg dine and gained important positions, which make tlie German hold on Moy and Le Fere dubious. North of Reims tlie French have taken Loivre, in tlie old Hindenburg system. This village libs only about two miles west of Fort Brimont, from which tlie Germans have shelled Reims. Take Railway Center. In the Champagne, to the east, Marshal Foch's troops captured the important railway and highway points of (’lmHerange. This and other this vicinity give access to the Grand--pre gap and command tlie valley of she Abbe to the north. Fires in villages far to the north In this region indicate-it is the enemy’s intention to retreat. One report reaching Paris is that tlie Germans are evacuating civilians from many towns in Alsace. When the French entered St. Quentin it was found tlie Germans had carried off all the French civilians of that city.

16 Die From Cholera in Berlin.

Amsterdam, Oct. 4.—On the first day of the outbreak of cholera in Berlin there were 17 cases. Sixteen proved fatal. Several cases of Asiatic cholera -have been discovered in Vienna and deaths have occurred.

STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!

An eastern railroad wanted a danger sign' for grade crossings. It’s president went to the road’s lawyer, and the next day received, together with, a bill for $5,000 for special services the warning, “Stop! Look! Listen!” How perfectly that sign fills its purpose. It saves the road every year far more the $5,000 it cost. How suggesti’ve also are the three words for the housewife who is buying flour. STOP! and consider that you are buying a pure wheat flour made at home —home labor and from home product. LOOK! be sure' that it is the “Blue Ribbon," because the quality is there. LISTEN! All Who are using it are well pleased and are complimenting it. Have you tried it? If not, let us send you a sack and you will be a home booster. IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS. Phone 456.

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TELLS WHY THEY QUIT

BULGARIAN MINISTER SAYS PEOPLE TRUST WILSON. Asserts Nation Entered the War Under Constraint, After Trying to Keep Out. Washington, Oct. 4. — Stephan Panaretoff, the Bulgarian minister, made public the text of the message from ins government asking the good offices of the United States in obtaining an armistice. The message was delivered to Secretary Lansing last Monday just after news of the signing of the armistice between tlie allies and Bulgaria had reached tlie state department. The text signed by Premier Malindff is as follows: “Kindly transmit to the president of the United States and to the secretary of state, Mr. Lansing, in Washington, the following: ‘“Tlie Bulgarian nation and government Were constrained to enter into tlie general conflict, after they had exhausted all peaceful means possible for coming to an understanding with their neighbors and for realizing their race reunion. This fact Bulgaria reiterated in her note of September 20 last in answer to the peace proposition of Count Burian given out on September 14. “ ‘lf tlie ideas of the president of the United States are to be crowned with success and if their realization is that sought for no more in the old conception of methods of action, but in the path pointed out by the honored president °f the American republic for the establishment of a new order of things guaranteeing freedom and justice among the 'nations, Bulgaria, which feels that Hie ideals and the cause for which' she is struggling find place side by side with the principles in be half of which America intervened in this war, is glad and ready to follow . that path in order to secure the fulfillment of justice desired by het. “ ‘Having this in view, therefore, the Bulgarian government turns to the friendly president of the republic of the United States with the request that its president use its good offices for putting an end to the bloodshed on the front by the conclusion of an armistice, after whjcb fife to follow preliminary negotiations for peace, the final settlement of the Balkan questions being left to be decided in the general peace conference.’ ”

ALLEGED SPY IS SENTENCED

William M. Hicks Given 20 Years in Prison and Fined SIO,OOO for Violation of Espionage Act. Enid, Okla., Oct. 4. —William Madison Hicks, convicted in federal district court a.few days ago of violation of the espionage act, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SIO,OOO.

Fire Destroys Flour Mills.

Kansas City, Moi, Oct. 4.—Fire partly destroyed the R. E. Kidder Flour mills near the Kansas state line, causing a loss estimated at between SIOO,000 and $150,000. Spontaneous, combustion is believed to have caused the fire.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Oct. 3. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— ing. est. est. ing. 0ct..1.31 1.32% 1.29% 1.31-30% N0v1.29-28% i 1.31 1.27% 1.29%-% Decl-26%-% 1.28% 1.24% 1.26%-% Oats-0ct,.i;68%-68 . 69% .67% .68% 'Nov. ........68%-% .69% .68 .69% Dec. 69%-69 .70% .68% .69%-% FLOUR —The United States food administration flour standards are as follows: Per bbl., in jute, 98 lb. sack basis: Barley flour, $8.00; corn flour, $10.30; White rye flour, $10.20; dark rye, .$9.90; spring wheat, $11.25; special brands, $11.35: hard winter, $10.50010.90; soft winter, $10.50. HAY—Choice timothy, $35.00036.00; No. 1. $33.000 35.00; standard, $32.00033.00; No. 1 light clover mixed, $32,000’33.00; No. 1 timothy and clover mixed, $30.00031.00; No. 3, $27.00028.00; clover, $20.00025.00. BUTTER—Creamery extras, 32 score, . 57%c; higher scoring commands a premium: firsts, 91 score, 56%c; 88090 score, 53% 56c; seconds, 84@87 score, 50%©52%c; standard, 57©57%c; ladles, 42%©43c; renovated, 45%c: packing stock, 38©39%c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 47%©48c; ordinary firsts, 45@46%c; miscellaneous lots, cases Included, 45047 c: cases returned, 44046 c; extra, 53054 c.; checks. 32@36c; dirties, 350 39c; storage packed, 48%©39%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 33 c; fowls, ?2©2s%c; roosters, 21%c; spring chickens, 25c; ducks, 24c; geese, 22c. ICED POULTRY—Turkeys, 37@38c; fowls, 27029 c; spring chickens, 26028 c; roosters, 22©>22%c; ducks, 26028 c; geese, 20c. POTAT r ‘ Tn B—Bulk, per 100 lbs., $1.60@ 1.80; sacxcu, [email protected]. CATTLE—Choice to prime steers, slß.oo© 19.60; good to choice steers, $15.00018.00; plain to good steers, [email protected]; yearlings, falrto choice, $12.50019.35; Stockers and feeders, $7.00013.00; good to prime cows, $9.00013.00;' fair to prime heifers, $9,000 14.75; fair to good cows, $7.2509.00; canners’ $6.0006.75; cutters, $6.7007.15; bologna bulls, $8.2508.85; butcher bulls, $9.00012.25; heavy calves, $7.50013.75; veal calves, $16.75018.75. e—. - ~~ , HOGS—Fair to good light, $18.75019.30; choice to light butchers, $19.10019.40; medium weight butchers, 2250260 lbs., $19.00© 19.35; heayy weight butchers, 2700350 lbs., $18.90019.20; choice packers, $18.10018.50; pigs, fair to good, $16.50017.80; stags, $17.00 ©18.06. SHEEP—Western lambs, $15.50016.75; native lambs, good to choice, $14.00015.69; yearlings, $13.00014.00; wethers, good to choice, $11.00012.00; ewes, fair to choice, $<6.00011.00; feeding lambs, $12.50015.00. Buffalo, N. Y„ Oct. 3. CATTLE— Receipts, 600; slow. CALVES— Receipts, 2<Xf; slow and steady; $7.00019.50. , j HOGS— Receipts, 800; slow and lower; heavy, mixed and Yorkers, $20.15020.25; light ’. Yorkers and pigs, $19.50019.75; Toughs, $17.00-7117.25; stags. $12.00016.00 SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 2,000; slo'w apd unchanged.

THE TWICE-A-WEKK DEMOCRAT

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Ed Oliver et ox to Eugene L. Garey, September 10, vr’4 sw sir 18-30-5, Barkley, $1 Q- c. <L Jacob B. Reed et nx- to Francis E. Hooper, March 10, njj n» nw

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When I Come Home! i . XVTHEN I come home and leave behind \ W Dark things I would not call to mind, Fll taste good ale and home-made bread, And see white sheets and pillows spread; And there is one who’ll softly creep To kiss me, ere I fall asleep And tuck me ’neath the counterpane, w . ' And I shall be a boy again When I come home! WHEN I come home, from dark to light And tread the roadways long and white, And tramp the lanes I tramped of yore, And see the village greens once more, The tranquil farms, the meadows free, The friendly trees that nod to me, And hear the lark beneath the sun, 'Twill be good pay for what I’ve done < When I come home! LESLIE COULSON {Killed in Action, Oct. 7, 1916) • ’Twill be good pay!” It is the only reward they ask—these fighting men of ours —to come home, victorious. It is the debt we owe— can we pay ft in full ? No. But we can do all we can do. Save and try in some small way to pay our debt to those who have fallen. Save honorably—make a religion of it—nothing we can do today here at home touches so closely the heart of life. For saving saves life. Bonds save life. If you buy greatly you will help some strong, clean American boy, in whose heart is ringing the words “whenlcome home”—really to win through to return to us—a victorious crusader—a mother’s son—alive and well and home again! 4 Buy Liberty Bonds toYour Very Utmost , Thk Contributed to Winning the War by FIRST NATIONAL BANK THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK is now delivering its first order full paid FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN BONDS.

35-31-7, 20 acres, Union, $1,300. John W. Mannan to Rachel E. Pittsley, April 12, Its ‘l2, 13, Dunnville, Mannan’s 2d addition, SIOO. Bazel J, Meek et to Charles W. Peterson, September 16, nw nw

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5,

24-28-6, n% ne, ne nw, sw ne 28-6, 200 acres, Milroy, stowoforma this olf John A. Randle et ux to T. Randle, August 5, e% w% ne, 5-29-5, nw nyr 4-29-51 acres, Barkley, $15,000. :