Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — Page 3

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918

Going Out of Business »Will sell-my stock at very close prices for quick Monuments made to order will also be sold close while 1 am disposing of An almost new safe and 2 h. p. electric motor for WILL H. MACKEY "''l"-■ RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS Gladys Warne Bozell has a case of mumps. Mrs. Roy Brouhard returned Monday from a visit with her parents at Bloomfield. ■William Burch came up from Wolcott on business Tuesday. He Is employed on Erwin’s dredge. Frank Goff and assistant are barreling and carring a load of pickles for shipment these days. Zelda Mallatt Snow a/nd little son of North Dakota is visiting relatives and friends in these parts this week. Sam Karr went down to Rensselaer Monday to assist his father to bring his engine and sawmill over to the Lawler ranch. Milt McKay came homo from Purdue Saturday on account of

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PUBLIC SALE Owing to the death of my husband, Ora Crow, I will sell at public auction, at my residence, 4 y a miles south and 1% miles west of Remington, Ind., and 5y 2 miles east of Wadena, on Wednesday November 6th 9 beginning at 12:30 p. m., the following property: 5 HEAD OF HORSES 5 One 'pair of gray imares 8 years old, wt. 2500; 1 gray horse 5 years old, a good one; 1 brown horse 4 years old; 1 black horse 8 years old. 2 HEAD OF COWS 2 One brindle cow 5 years old; 1 red cow 5 years old; both giving a good flow of milk. 5 HEAD OF HOGS 5 One brood sow and 4 head shoats averaging about 100 pounds each. Farm Implements and Household Goods One 7-foot Deering binder with tongue trucks; 1 5-foot Deering mower in good condition; 1 new 2-row Janesville cultivator, with attachments; 1 single row cultivator; 1 walking cultivator; 1 gang plow; 1 16-inch sulky plow; 1 4-section harrow; 1 corn planter with 80 rods of wire; 1 8-foot solid wheel disc, new, with tongue trucks; 1 Birdseil wagon, neajdy new, with 49-inch bed; 1 Birdseil wagon, 3-ineh tire “with new hay ladder; 1 single buggy; 2 sets heavy team harness; 1 set new single harness; 1 gasoline engine, 1% h. p.; 1 power washing machine; 1 DeLaval cream separator, with power attachment. A complete set of Household Goods, including a good steel range and a soft coal heater, and many small articles too numerous to menton. * _ 1 - TERMS OF SALE: All sums of $lO and under cash; sums over $lO a 'credit of 11 months will be given, with interest at 6 per cent from date of sale; purchaser to execute a bankable note; 8 per cent will be charged from date if not paid at maturity. 2 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. MRS. PEARL CROW COL. HARVEY WILLIAMS, Auct. ELIAS JONES, Clerk

the serious illness of hi 9 brother Jim. He returned Tuesday eve. Tarn Florence and Jack Reeder of the east part of the township hauled hay from the Robert Smith farm for A. Bringle and Joe Winston Tuesday. Pete Wood got a card a few days ago stating that his son Ross had arrived safely overseas. Mr. Wood now has two sons over there helping to knock Kaiser Bill out of existence, Douglas McConnell has so far recovered from, the "flu” to be able to come to Fair Oaks Tuesday. He brought his pony in from pasture and pressed him into service after a couple or three months vacation. The "flu” is very plentiful in our midst nowadays. Something over thirty cases developed in our town the past week, some very serious and others rather mild. James McKay and Jennings Winslow have the more serious cases. LETS Culp & Sons received another car of coal this week. Elmer Gilmore is putting a new roof on his house this week. Joseph Clark has been quite poorly with kidney and heart trouble. Frank Overton and wife and Lloyd visited Sunday at J. W. Mellender’s. Gail Culp attended a military funeral at Medaryville Sunday afternoon. Misses Chloa and Edith Overton were Sunday guests of Miss Cora Noland. W. L. Stiers and wife of Valparaiso spent last Friday night here with his father. Walter Jordan’s family has all been down with the influenza but are improving at this writing. Paul Merrel of the Great Lakes naval camp, near Chicago, was a Sunday guest of Miss Etha Noland. Helen and Irma Rishling were

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

week-end visitors of their grandmother, Mrs. Freeman, in Barkley. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitaker of Hammond spent Tuesday night with Harry Rishling anu family. They are preparing to move to the Leroy Noland farm near here, which they have lately purchased, and will move in the near future.

ZADOC At this writing we are still under the " T ban. The Joui Misch family visited with relative and friends at Kouts Sunday. Charles and Nettie Hewett and Ola Dewey were in Rensselaer Saturday. William Dooley was away on business a few days the first of the week. A little Democrat, recently arrived, atthe William Grube home, north of Wheatfleld. The paramount issue of the day is husking pumpkins and coni. Carloads of pumpkins were raised hereabouts this year, and the corn is the best for several years. Dooley & Son recently purchased a fine large flock of sheep. Every farmer should raise sheep, as they require little care, are economically fed and return large profits. Wool was never more seriously needed than at present. Friends of Russel Hickem are glad to hear he is back in the States. At present he is in a military hospital, with a broken arm. He and Frank Ferguson crossed together, and were constantly in each other’s company in the airplane We sympathize with Frank in the absence of his friend. Although the world has accepted the 14 peace terms of President Wilson, Teddy requests that they be emphatically repudiated. T. R. continues using the same old method, censure, hut wisely gives no remedies. He seems to think, like many others, that patriotism consists of an agitation of the atmosphere by the tongue route.

POSSUM RUN Some rainy weather we have had. Several attended the sale at Gifford Tuesday. Miss Ettie Williams is working for Mrs. Ike Marlatt this week. Mrs. James Campbell spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Hahn and daughters. ■<- Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John Price. Miss Carrie /Hahn is spending this week with home folks on account of her mother’s sickness. Mrs. T. J. Parker spent from Friday until Sunday with her daughter and children at Monon. Mrs. Edward Ritter died suddenly at her home in Barkley township Monday night from heart disease.

MIfiROY Mrs. Fred Saltwell went to Monon Tuesday. Mr. Speace and family were Wolcott goers Wednesday. True Culp and family spent Sunday night with’Chas. Beaver’s. W. B. Fisher and daughter, Lillian, were in Monticello Monday. Everett Clark is convalescing after a serious case of influenza. Mrs. W. B. Fisher and daughter, Lillian, went to Rensselaer Saturday. George and Earl Foulks called on the Fisher family Sunday evening. Mrs. A. M. Clark is spending a few days with Mrs. Fred May and family. Marie Fisher accompanied Miss Lavern Ceyer to her home for a short visit. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell and sons, Clifford and Charles, were in Rensselaer Saturday. Ray Culp has been quite sick ard Dr. Clayton was called the first of the week. Carl and Clifford Beaver and Mr. Speace and son, John, have been husking corn for Earl Foulks. Floyd Tow, who has been sick at hi s father’s, John Tow’s, was able to return to his home at Newland Monday. Mrs. Jesse English and son, Keith, spent Tuesday night and Wednesday with her daughter, Mrs. E. Foulks ana family.

WHEAT AND COTTON AND SENATOR WATSON

Candid Answer to Question Asked by Junior Senator at State Convention. A More Insidious. Hypocritical Plea Was Never M.*le to Indiana Farm Voters. (Lewis A. Taylor) In a speech at the Republican Convention lately held at Indianapolis, Senator Watson said: “My fellow citizens, if there is to be a price put on the wheat of the farmers of Indiana, why shouldn t there be a price put on the cotton of South Carolina? I do not say this in a spirit of sectionalism but in a spirit of Americanism and in a spirit of fairness to the people of the mighty North. Harry New and I and your Indiana delegation, when that question comes again, will vote as we voted before, not in any spirit of antagonism to the people of the South but to have them feel the measure of the law just as you farmers of Indiana.” He asks a fair question that demands a fair and candid answer. That question has come to the farmer many times and in various forms. It does not always come to him in terms of “cotton” and "South Carolina." He has often wondered why a price is not put on nails and wire fence and binders and farming implements of all kinds, and the many things he has to buy. In fact, if his attention had not been specifically called to cotton with a deliberate wave of the bloody shirt the Indiana farmer never would have given "cotton” or “South Carolina” other than a casual thought. But why does Senator Watson hasten to assure us that he does not say this in a spirit of sectionalism? There is no record that any one in that gathering had accused him of what he himself by insinuation regards as inappropriate. There are other products quite as important as cotton upon which no price has been set and he could have addressed himself to any of them without making any reference to sectionalism. In place of the words, “cotton of South Carolina,” why not substitute “hogs of Ohio,” “potatoes of New England,” “corn of lowa,” or “rye and barley of Wisconsin?” Out of all the great range of American farm products, cotton alone could be used as a spade to dig up the bones of the Confederacy so honorably buried by Gen. Wheeler and his brave boys of the South on the bloody slopes of San Juan hill. Without an issue to which he can appeal to the intelligence of the farmer, he goes back in desperation to issues all but forgotten and addresses himself to the ashes of the reconstruction period of the Civil War. What are the facts? Is cotton higher in proportion than wheat? On July 1, 1914, cotton was selling at 1314 cents per pound. It is now selling at 34 cents, an advance of nearly 200 per cent., or it is nearly three times .s high as in July, 1914. Wheat now sells at Indiana points at $2.10, an advance of 200 per cent., or three times the price at the beginning of the war. In the light of these figures, has the cotton farmer been favored at the expense of the people of the “mighty North?”. In the wheat products that he must buy. does he not “feel the measure of the law ’ in exactly the same ratio as the wheat farmer of Indiana who must buy cotton products? The cotton farmer is a one-crop farmer. He must buy all bis other supplies. Does he not f£el ♦hs “pleasure of the law” when he buys pork and lard? Hogs are selling now at s2l per hundred (surely an Indiana product), an advance from the rather modest price of $3.50 per hundred during the Roosevelt panic of 1907, to heights hitherto unknown, without arousing the sympathy or patriotic interest of either of the Indiana senators to the weight or the measure of the law” as it falls upon the shoulders of those who consume hog products. Isn't it rather odd that a price of SIB.BO per hundred pounds of beef does not wring from the heart of Senator Watson a cry of anguish at the evident tendency of the Democratic administration to favor the beef growers of lowa, Missouri and Ohio? How it must harrow up his mind to note the favoritism with which the party in power permits the corn growers of the great north-central states to reap a price for com higher than ever known before and equal in its profits to that of cotton. Indeed, the user of corn products is feeling “the measure of the law” without the necessity of either of our United States senators voting to that effect. A more insidious, hypocritical plea was never made to the Indiana farm voters. Grievances the Hoosier farmer may have, but they are not to be solved by appeals either to the “bloody shirt” or to proGermanism, or to the profiteering spirit of some Indiana farmers. In keeping with his utterances in Virginia and other places, probably with no intention of doing so, nevertheless the intended effect of this vicious propaganda is to arouse sectional hatred, to array the farmer of the North against the farmer of the South, than which there can be nothing more deadly to the cause of liberty and nothing that could bring greater satisfaction and joy to the Potsdam gang.

Big Cattle Sale I will offer at public auction at my farm 12 miles north and 1 mile west of Rensselaer, and 1 mile cast of Virgie, commencing at 11 o’clock a. m., on Saturday, Nov. 2,1918 100 Head Heifers and Steers *a| Consisting of '2O heifers and 80 steers, Ito 3 Hjf years old, of good quality. TERMS: A credit of 12 months will be given to responsible parties with the cattle as security with 6 per cent interest from date. CHARLES R. RICE w. a. Mccurtain, auct. lunch on grounds.

XMAS PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS OVERSEAS

Each American soldier abroad will be given one Christmas parcel label which he will send home to the person probably planning to send him a gift. Those who receive these labels will take them to the local Red Cross chapter or branch and ask for a carton. The carton should be filled with articles not forbidden and returned to the Red Cross to be inspected, weighed and wrapped. Remember —Keep the weight of the carton under 3 pounds. Send nothing liquid; pack nothing in glass. Do not place notes or messages In cartons. The sender pays the postage. The soldier gets only one label —do not lose it. It cannot be duplicated. The cartons are 3x4x9 inches A large khaki handkerchief may be used to wrap the gifts.

BULK CORRESPONDENCE STATIONERY

Come in and let The Democrat sell you correspondence paper and envelopes at "before the war prices.” We have In our fancy stationery and office supply department almost anything you want in this line, including fine writing papers In bulk, which latter we can sell you fifty sheets of paper and fifty envelopes—nice bond stock — for 30 cents, or 250 sheets of paper and 250 envelopes for $1.25. A nice variety of tints to select from. We also have correspondence cards In several different styles, party invitation cards and envelopes, calling cards, etc., etc.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC On account of the rapid changes In government rules regulating the handling and placing in service telphones, moving them and moving from one place to another, it will be necessary to call office and make arrangements for SERVICE. Service disconnected for non-pay-ment of rentals will in future, hy government order, be charged for restoring service. Federal authorities will deal with parties cutting or tampering with lines of communication in any manner.—JASPER COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY. n- 2 Do you get up at night? Sanol Is surely the best for all kidney or bladder troubles. Sanol gives relief In 24 hours from all backache and bladder troubles. Sanol Is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and SI.OO a bottle at the drug store. —AdvL

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Benton Forsythe et ux to Peter Shide et al, October 26, ne nw 27-28-6, Milroy, $3,000. Fred A Phillips et ux to Alonzo S. Healy, April 1, It 9, hi 2, selaer, Fairview add., $350. Anthony C. Symmes to John B. Foresman, November 8, nw sw, 9-31-5, 40 acres. Walker, sl.

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

- RAW FURS - Open season for Muskrats and Mink November 1 to April 1. Coon, Skunk, O’possum, etc., November «20 to February 22. Ship JFurs to J. D. GETTINGER MEDARYVILLE, IND. If small lots send by Parcel Post. Larger lots by Express. We classify skunk that are prime in only four different classes. We prepay everything and hold furs until you have ample time to return our check and then we return the furs, prepaid, if you are "not satisfied. We guarantee the HIGHEST PRICES. WRITE US FOR PRICES J. D. Gettinger, Medaryville, Ind. We have been buying for 26 years. References: Medaryville State Bank, all merchants and trappers who have dealt with us.

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General Auctioneer I aim experienced in the auction business, having conducted some ot the largest sales In thu county with! succoss. I am a judge of values an<l vill make an honeßt effort to gel the high dollar. Write or wire for terms *nd dates at my expense. J. R. Brandenburg Phone 100-H, Francesville, Ind.

M.J.Kuboske’s Garage We do all kinds of Automobile repair work, both mechanical and electrical. We do the work right for the same money. Also sell automobile accessories and the best of tires at low prices. Located opposite Worland's furniture store. Garage Phone 294 Residence Phone 141-White

MONEY TO LOAN on LIVE STOCK and CROPS WALLACE & BAUGH Lafayette, Indiana F. B. Ham is no longer our •gent, and for the time being we will bave no agent in Rensselaer. Any one wishing to borrow money write or phone us.

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