Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 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. The October term of the Newton circuit court will convene at Kentland next Monday. Marriage licenses issewd: October 3, Arthur Church Hartman of Remington, aged 33 October 28, 1918, painter, and Opal Edwards, also of Remington, aged 23 January 14 last, clerk. First marriage for each. iMiss Fern Ale, daughter of Joseph F. Ale, clerk of the circuit court in Pulaski counfy, has been admitted to practice in the Pulaski county bar. She is the first woman admitted to practice by the Pulaski county bar. Reuben Hess, Republican, former .prosecuting attorney for this judicial circuit, has been appointed jjostmaster at Kentland, to succeed Attorney Hume L. Sammons, Democrat, resigned. Mangus P. Halgren has been appointed postmaster at Oxford, Emma A. Scott j at Bosweir and David B. Purinton | at Whiting. All the above postoffices are in this congressional district. /

Up to Monday night the local registration board had 3,44 7 names on the registration lists, with perhaps 100 more that had been brought in and were added yesterday morning, making the total Registration of voters, in round numbers, 3,550, which is about 150 more than the total vote cast for president in Jasper county in 1916, (3,483) not including 33 Progressive and 10 Socialist votes cast. In the mention in Saturday’s Democrat of the $5,000 subscrip-p tions to the Fourth Liberty loan, The Democrat was misinformed in crediting a subscription in Hanging Grove to George W. Hobson of near Lafayette. Mr. Hobson made a subscription in his home county, where his property interests now are, but the $5,000 subscriptioln in Hanging Grove was made by his son, Virgil Hobson, who owns and occupies a farm there.

Under the new ruling, you need not secure a permit from your County Council of Defense for a new farm building unless the total cost is going to run above, SI,OOO. Also, you will be permitted to repair or extend an old ‘building if the total expenditure is below $2,500. ,The State Council of Defense repeats a former bit of advice to loyal Hoosiers: “Don’t build at all just now if you are going to use men, 'money, or material that could be utilized in winning the war.” The county commissioners finished up the business of the October term Monday and adjourned. Following is a report of the. proceedings:

Contractor W. V. Porter was allowed $749 in full for bridge in Carpenter township and S4OO in full Iter bridge in Jordan township. No bids were received for bridge over Mosquito creek and bridge over the Nesius ditch in Jordan township: for the Barkley-Marion foridge**Sv®r the Iroquois river or for bridge Over Carpenters creek in Carpenter township. Contractor A. E. Herriman was allowed $1,718 on the John J. Borntrager stone road; W. V. Porter $1,974.40 on the James Lane stone road; Johnson & Salrin $2,059 on the'G. B. Parkinson stone road, and Moneyhun & Son $439 on the W. L. Wood roads. Harry E. Reed resigned as superintendent; of the W. H. Gratner stone rqpd, and William Obenchain Was appointed In his stead. The auditor presented partial rejport in the Henry C. DeKock ditch. Allowances made as set out in report. A. Halleck - allowed SSO attorney fee. , Drainage commissioners asked for apd wpre granted an extension of time to report in the A. I. Sar- ’ gent ditch, to first day of November term. Superintendent filed partial report in the Simon Thompson ditch,

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A DEATH AT COUNTY HOSPITAL

Charles Sells, a young German boy aged about 19 years, who was employed as a farm hand by Algie Martin, 5 miles southwest of Morocco, was brought to the county hospital Sunday evening, in Wright’s ambulance, suffering from pneumonia, but the doctors were unable to safe his life, and he passed slway at about 11 p. m. Monday night. The body was taken to the

Wright undertaking rooms and prepared for burial, but is being held pending getting into communication with the boys’ father, who resides at Hanover, Pennsylvania. Mr. Martin himself is down sick with influenza, it is said, and there has been three or four deaths from the disease in and about Morocco, Mrs. Vern Pollock being the last victim, she having died Mopday night. Foster Brunton of Mt. Ayr accompanied the remains to Kentucky.

JOHN RANDLE PASSES AWAY

Body Brought to Rensselaer Yesterday for Burial. John E. Randle, son of James T. Randle of this city, died at his home at Sayre, Oklahoma, shortly after noon Saturday from heart trouble. A telegram was received here telling of his illness and his brother, 'Ed J. Randle left immediately for that city, and arrived there about one hour before his death. Mr. Randle visited relatives here only about six weeks 'ago, but at that time was in rather I poor health. The body was brought 'to Rensselaer yesterday, arriving on the early morning train, and was taken to the home of his brother, Ed J. 1 Randle, on the corner of Cullen ’and Susan streets. The remains I were accompanied by Ed J. Randle, 'the widow, the son, Luther H l ., 'and Mrs. Russell Randle. Burial was made with brief services at the cemetery at 3 p. m. yesterday, the ban on public gatherings making it impossible to hold a public funeral. Deceased was the third son of James T. and Mary E. Overton Randle and was born in Jasper 'county, July 10, 1864, being 54 years, 2 months and 25 days of age at the time of his death. He is survived by the wife, two sons, Luther of Sayre, Oklahoma, and Russell, who is with the Ameican Expeditionary Forces in France, his father James T. Randle, three brothers, Ed J.,' of this city, Thomas of Hope, Kansas, and Robert of Parsons, Kansas, also one sister, Mrs. D. S. Makeever of west of town.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Julia Thornton, the 15/-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Thornton of Surrey, was brought to the hospital yesterday morning 'suffering from typhoid fever. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Porter is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Simpson were able to return to their home near Morocco yesterday. Miss Helen White, who was injured last week when the buggy in which she was riding was overturned, was able to go to her home at Lafayette' Monday. Miss Flossie Swisher, who underwent an operation for appendicitis recently*, returned to her home at Gifford Monday.

CLOSING ORDER FROM DR. HURTY.

County Health Commissioner F. H. Hemphill received the following telegram Monday morning from State Health Officer J. N. Hurty, (which was promptly acted upon: Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 6, ’lB. Dr. F. H. Hemphill: 1 You are hereby ordered to close all schools, churches, and public places of public amusement and forbid all public meetings In your (county until further notice account epidemic influenza. Require i your physicians report all cases epidemic influenza to Health Officer land Health Officer report daily to 1 State' Board of Health. Report i this order promptly to all Health Officers in your county, by order State Board of Health. x J. N. HURTY, Secretary, 8:36 a. am

BUCKWHEAT We pay the highest market price for good, clean dry Buckwheat. Get our prices before you seII.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. ” ts

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1918

Amsterdam, October 7 (by the Associated Press). —The text of the note forwarded by the imperial German chancellor. Prince Maximilian, to President Wilson, through the Swiss government, follows: “The 1 German government requests the President of the United States to take in hand the restoration of peace, acquaint all the belligerent states of this request and invite them to send plenipotentiaries for the .purpose of opening negotiations. “It accepts the program set forth by the President of the United States in his message to congress on January 8, and in the later pronouncements, especially his speech of September 27, as a basis for peace negotiations. “With a view to avoiding further bloodshed, the German government requests the immediate conclusion©! an armistice on land and water and in the air.” It was announced that Turkey will take a similar step.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Boys, Are You Working or Loafing In These Busy Days of War? One of the Very best Liberty loan ■ advertisements we have seen in the campaign now on appeared |in last week’s Youth’s Companion, it being the great meat packers, Swift & Co’s, contribution to the loan cause, and it appealed to the ’young boys and girls to work and earn money tQ help our great cause by buying these bonds. The advertisement said: WORSE THAN THE TURKS This Story is True. An Armenian peddlar was displaying his wares to one of his customers. This lady was eager to hear what he knew about the war. The Armenian’s dusky face grew darker. His eyes began to smolder. In simple, pitiful language he told that he had learned from survivors how '‘the home of his parents in Armenia had been burned to the ground, how the old people had been murdered, how ,his brother had been tortured and I then shot, and how his two young sisters had t been carried away as [slaves. His story made the listener tremble with horror | “Madam,” concluded the Armenian, “youi can hardly believe the brutality of those Turks. Why, they are almost as bad as the Ger-

mans! ’’ I Remember, you boys and girls who read this, that the cruelty of the IHiun sttps at nothing. His track is red with butcheYy. Your country needs your help. The fellows at the front are helpless without your help. . Your time has come to earn money and save money to help buy Liberty Bonds. Help your parents cut down household expenses. Don’t holler every day- for pie. Look around for odd jobs. Make every Saturday count. Earn all the money ydu can. Save every penny you can. The best thing you can say to your father is: Dad, here’s some money I’ve saved. Put enough with it to buy me a Liberty Bond, won’t you?” Now, as a matter of fact, are our boys and girls, as a rule, helping very much these days to win the war by doing what this advrtisement asks them to do? Do ten per cent of the young boys and girls actually realize that we are at war and that 2,000,000 of America’s sons are now in the war zone and 2,000,000 more are in the training camps in this country?

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PRECAUTIONARY RULES TO AVOID INFLUENZA.

* The following precautionary * rules for the avoidance and les- * sening of the intensity of the * epidemic of influenza have been * prepared by Dr. William F. * Lincoln, advisor of the Lake * division of the American Red ♦Cross, for distribution: * All colds, however slight, * should be treated as possible * attacks of influenza. Patients * affected by colds should stay * at home and sterlize discharge * from the nose and throat. *. Avoid crowds. * Regulate bodily functions * and keep them so. * Avoid the breath or expelled * secretions from people suffer- * ing from colds. * Wash out the nose and * throat two or three times daily * by a nasal spray or douche * by gargle with a normal salt * solution (one-half teaspoon- * ful salt to one glass, eight * ounces, clean water.) * All those in attendance on * patients with influenza should * wear' masks. * Clothing should be warm i* and dry. Food simple and * easily digested. Drink water * freely.

TEXT OF NOTE PROPOSING PEACE.

STILL SHORT ABOUT $40,000

Of Our Quota of $450,000 in Jasper County. As near as could be ascertained at the time of The Democrat going to* press, Jasper county still lacked between $35,000 and $40,000 of filling its quota of $450,000 of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Union township was nearly “over the top” it was said, but Marion township lacked $12,000 Monday night. As practically every one has been seen in the county, it will probably be necessary for some of the subscribers who <ftd not take as much as they should to Increase their subscriptions, and it is hoped to reach the quota in a day or two more at farthest.

LADIES’ LITERARY CLUB BEGINS YEAR’S WORK.

An unusually interesting program introduced the work of the 41st year of the Ladies’ Literary Club last Friday afternopn. The president, Mrs. J. D. Allman, at whose home the meeting was held, called attention to the emphasis which had been laid upon the necessity for work of a purely academic character by • the chairman of the State Federation. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill, in an excellent perspective of the year’s program as planned by the program committee, explained the relation of the subjects selected .to the great age in which we are now living, and left no doubt in the minds -of her hearers that if the members to whom work has been assigned present the work as it has been planned great benefit will be derived therefrom. The plan for the year’s work is the one recommended by the State Federation.

Every woman's club had been asked to give a place on their program to a speaker for the Fourth Liberty Loan. Mrs. Ross Deam. read a humorous selection that made the points desired in these appeals. Mrs. J. C. Fleming reported the gratifying fact that enough one dollar subscriptions had been received to make possible the support of one o* the many French war orpnans. The world’s sorrows and stress were then laid aside and the lovely things expressed in his own inimitable style by our own Hoosier poet were given in readings and song. * Mrs. Met' Medicus after delivering a fine tribute to Riley, by request gave a medley .of his poetic selections which she had compose’ a number of years ago and which is always enjoyed whenever given, for it illustrates so well Riley’s ability to play on the various emotions of the human heart, for just as one had developed a b r oad smile at the recital of

“Little Cousin Jasper,” the eye would mo.sten as the “Visit Out to Old Aunt Mary’s” was recalled. Mrs J. H. Dunlap sang in a delightful manner two of the poet’s elections, which have been set to mi-s’c, and Mrs. E. N. Loy recited in a pleasing way “IHome Folks” and “Nine Little Gobling.’’ Mrs. Ernest Lamson, who had charge of the responses, called attention to the thought of contentment which ran through all '-.the compositions of Riley. The next meeting will be held in the library auditorium, October 17. Mrs. Allman urges that members make a special effort to be present promptly at 2:30 each meeting.—CONTRIBUTED.

NO HULLS RANTED. ♦ Anyone having nut shells or peach, plum arid apricot seeds, will kindly leave them at Norgar’s hitch barn. The government will use them in making gas masks. Do not bring acorns or nut hulls. —Advt. Subscribe for The Democrat.

BANK OF REYNOLDS ROBBED.

► Report came here yesterday * morning that the Reynolds * iMtnk had been robbed Monday * night, but no particulars were * available at the hour of going * to press. The three telephone * cables were cut to prevent any * news of the robbery being * sent out. * This bank was roblxxl once * before, about a year ago, and » * the bank at Francesville was 1 robbed last November, wliile ‘ the bank at Chalmers was robl>ed some two years ago and ' the bank at Medaryville was ' robbed some three or four ' years ago. It would appear 1 that a gang of robbers is making a specialty of breaking into the banks along that line of road.

A LARGE CROWD WAS OUT

Monday to See the War Exhibits Train. Notwithstanding the early hour of Its arrival—7:3o a. m.—there was a large number of people out Monday to see the wajr exlhlbits train, which was in charge of Dixon C. Williams of the war speakers bureau, Washington, D. C., and Mr. Williams quite a little talk along Billy Sunday lines. He was followed by one of the two French soldiers with the party L who was followed by Charles F. Horner of Chicago, who made a splendid talk in urging the buying of bonds to help win the c|use for which our boys are fighting. There were a half dozen or more U. S. soldiers and jailors with the party, soldiers who had seen service in France and been wounded or gassed on the battlefields, The exhibits consisted of a German airship, captured guns, etc., etc., and were quite interesting. The* train was here about two hours and the talk of the French soldier and of Mr. Horner no doubt helped the bond selling cause considerably.

SEWING DEMONSTRATION

D. IM. furniture dealer, is this week conducting a display of fancy needle work done on the White sewing machine. Miss Lenore Loiselle of Cleveland, Ohio, an expert, is demonstrating each day this week, doing the most' I wonderful fancy sewing that one could ever expect to see. Truly, I you can hardly believe your own 'eyes, when seeing the wonderful work she does. The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity should not miss the opportunity of seeing the White machine operated by one who knows how, also the fancy carries with her, showing what can be made on this machine.

WORN CLOTHING WANTED

The American Red Cross has been asked to collect clothing to be used in the Belgian Relief work. We earnestly solicit any one hawing such worn clothing or shoes to kindly leave same at the room in the rear of the Trust and Savings bank building, on Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12. A committee will be appointed to care for the same. Any thing you have in this line will be thankfully received. —MRS. A. EIB, Chairman.

“AN EYE FOR AN EYE; A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.”

Paris, Obt. B.—The French government has issued a solemn warning to Germany and her allies that the devastation of territory from which they retreat will be punished inexorably. The warning says the German people who share in the crimes Avill bear the consequences with the authors and that those who order the devastation will be held responsible morally, penally and pecuniarily. It is added that France is now discussing with her allies the steps to be taken.

Washington, Oct. B.—German pillage and burning of French villages on retreat before the allied victorious advance have provoked a strong demand in France for reprisals. These demands call for retaliation under the old law and demanding that town for town, village for village, A church for church, castle for castle, and property for property. '

Vol. XXI, No. 55

WILSON CONFERS WITH ALLIES ON PEACE ANSWER

President’s Reply to Go to Germany Within FortyEight Hours. IS AT WORK ON THE NOTE ‘Berlin Will Be Told It Must Accept ’ Terms Without Argument—Will Explain to the People of All the World. Amsterdam, Oct. B.—Excited crowds In the streets of Berlin tore the special editions of the newspapers containing the speech of Prince Maximilian from the hands of the newsboys. Everywhere shout of “Peace has cornel" “Peace at lastl" were heard.

Washington, Oct. B.—President Wilson is conferring with the premiers of the entente nations over the form of answer to be made to Germany’s latest pence proposals. The Indications are that it will not be dispatched for a day or two. While there may be some question ar to the form of the reply, there is no question whatever as to its nature. It may not use the short and forceful term ’’unconditional stirrender,” which would reflect the sentiment which has come from the spokesman of the nation, but It is sure to convey to the German government very clearly the fact that nothing less than the terms already laid down can be accepted, and that those terms cannot be made merely “the basis for negotiation.” As to an armistice, such a step would be looked upon ns suicidal and not tobe thought of. Col. E. M. House, the president’s constant adviser and personal repreMmtutlye on many confidential errands, arrived at the White House. The peace notes from the German and Austrian empires are before President WHson and he Is working on his reply. There is no doubt whatever as to the manner In which the president will dispose of this latest and most formidable “peace offensive” by the central powers. The I forecast of yesterday (bat be will reject the proposals holds good today, but another element has entered into the matter, and it calls for the extreme -care the president Is giving to the preparation of his answer.

Reply to Have Two Purposea. As the president is lignin speaking for the entire allied world, he is expected to Issue a plain statement of fact which will have two purposes in view. “ , . , Chief of these will be to explain to the average citizen of the United States, as well as the average citizen of. Great Britain, France and Italy, why ft is* Impossible to consider peace at this time from an eneffly whose every action has been tinged with treachery and duplicity. The second purpose will be to explain to the German people and the Austrian people why pence is Impossible while their destinies are directed by the same military autocracy which now, b< fore the specter of defeat and under the cloak of an alleged democratic chancellor, asks that further bloodshed be avoided. May Get Allies' Views First. 19 some quarters today also it was ’suggested that the president,; before the dispatch of his reply, would communicate with the representatives of the allied governments. This idea ’was based on a passage in the German note requesting that other belligerents be notified of ltf» desire for peace.

Certainly, In- view of the Ingenuity of the German proposal, which, coming from an honorable foe, would appear to bear certain evidences of good faith, the president has every Incentive for care in the preparation of his reply. He is said to be proceeding on the •assumption that the Austro-German notes constitute the supreme effort on the part of the central powers /n the direction of a peace which would allow them tq escape the responsibility they should face for turning the world into a charnal House for more than four years.

NOTICE . The local chapter of the Red Cross have received their quota pf surgical dressings for .this month, and all workers are urged to get busy. The room is open every afternoon' aiid each evening except Saturday evening. An armload of old newspaper* for a nickel at The Democrat offlee,