Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — Page 8

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GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS

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PINE GROVE James Torbet and son, Roy, at« 'Wednesday. Elmer Shroyer is on the sick list at this writing. Robert Scott called on Lowell Hayes Wednesday evening. John Dale made cement blocks for Chas Shroyer last week. Goldie Hurley and Victor Odle are sick with the mumps this week. Lillie Price and Ethel Hilton Spent Sunday night with Grayce Price. Mrs. Newt Price and daughter, Grayce spent Sunday with Ed Price and family. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Ritter, Minnie Ritter and Charley Britt have the influenza. Bluford and Charley Torbet are making new cement steps at the Independence school house this week. Mrs. Roy Torbet and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wells spent Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family. Allie Francis, Lowell iHlayes, Grayce Price, Lillian Price and Ethel Hilton called on Charley and Creola Torbet Sunday evening. Mrs. Edward Ritter passed away at her home Tuesday night. Her death was due to heart failure of which she has suffered for several years. Misses Grayce Price, Creola Torbet and Ethel flilton, Messers Allie Francis, John Switzer, Lowell Hayes, Charley Torbet and Robert Scott spent Friday evening with Nora Vest.

RENSSELAER. IND.

VIRGIE Bob Burns was in Virgie Wednesday. Robert Smith is preparing to move to Illinois. John Reed and daughter, Ellen, were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Mrs. Zelda Snow visited her grandfather, T, J. Mallatt, last week. Mrs. Watson Terpestra called on the C. A. Harrington family Monday evening. Mrs. Wm. Potts and Mrs. John Zellers called on Mrs. T. J. Mallett Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers and son and T. J. Mallatt were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Miss Indus Wiseman went to Hammond Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Leo Zellers. C. W. Rice shipped another large bunch of cattle to Earl Williams’ for the sale November 2. Mr. and Mrs. Ted McClanahan are visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Binge. Howard Gilmore is substituting On mail route No. 2 for J. E. Winslow, who has been sick with the Spanish influenza. A heavy rain fell here Sunday, causing the roalds to be very bad. The old plastering on the church has been removed and it is in readiness for replastering.

GIFFORD Guy Zook was a Chicago goer Saturday, returning home Monday. Road making is the order of the day in our neighborhood now-a-uays. Miss Opal Hankins has two Rensselaer friends visiting her this week. Roscoe and Guy Zook and Ralph Timmons were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. The epidemic of Spanish influenza Is about conquered in this neighborhood. W. F. Hayes of Rensselaer attended the Myer & Logue sale and purchased some cattle. Theo Smith is on the sick list this week with lagrippe, but is better at this writing. George Kimble is having his house reshingled and new floors and plastering done this week. The sale of Myer and Logue one-fourth mile east of our burg was well attended and everything sold reasonable. Clifford Grimm is able to be out again after having pneumonia, following influenza. The rest of the family is reported better.

Miss Hazel Lambert went to Kensington Saturday where she will be office girl. 'Hter father, George Lambert, is working at the same shell plant. Chas Scott and Dicie Zook auto«d to Monon Wednesday evening after the former’s son, Joseph, who was there visiting his uncle and was taken sick. We have a new store in our burg now by Cavender & Cavemder. We wish them all the success that a

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little burg like this could hope for, and we think everyone will patronize them and come again.

DIRE DISTRESS

It Is Near at Hand to Hundreds of Rensselaer Readers. Don’t neglect an, acting back. Backache is often the kidneys* cry for help. Neglect hurrying to the kidneys aid means that urinary troubles may follow. Or danger of worse kindey trouble. Here’s Rensselaer testimony. Mrs. J. j. Norgor, Mathespn ave,, says: “We have used Doan’sKidney Pills in the family for a long time and they have kept us in good health. I used to suffer from frequent attacks of kidney disorder. My back got stiff and lame and ached so steadily it tired me out. When I tried to wash, the leaning over caused almost unbearable sharp twinges in my back Doan’s Kidney Pills have driven away those symptoms of kidney trouble and have made me well and strong.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply as ask for a kidney remedy —get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Norgor had. FosterMilburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, X. Y.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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now for her life, so that means'" a lot of hard battling yet. I received two letters and the clippings from you a few days ago. I see John moved fifteen miles northeast of Serpy (Ypres) and does not like it, ha! ha! Thanks for Lonnie’s address. Will write him. I am O. K. and hope this you all the same. Your son, V. C. DAVISSON. P. S—l can use S3O to pay back for money I borrowed for permission.

Ford McColly Writes to County Supt. Sterrett.

Ford McColly of Wheatfield has written the following letter to County Superintendent Sterrett, who was formerly Ford’s teacher when he attended school at Wheatfield: Versailles, France, September 27, 1918. Dear Friend.—l received your most welcome letter today and was sure glad to get it. I am certainly very much obliged to you for words of encouragement, for they were surely that. But, I cannot , see where you think I have more ' grit than any of the other fellows, because I came over here to proj tect the country and its people. Surely, the other boys did the same. I am very sorry you had such a hard time getting my address, but you shall not have to I work hard to get it any more, be- ■ cause I will keep you informed of my movements if I make any. 1 | do not think that 1 will move any more until I come home, because I will be a cripple all of my life and I have be: n put on a fa. in ! near Paris, though I am unable to work. It is a nice place buc 1 hope" tjp be coming home soon, j 1 cannot see why they put vi> letters in the papers, my picture ion the screens and a silver star jin the flag for me. I hope they stop all of that work before I come back. If they think that much

of me in that country it is not safe for me to come back alone. I will have to wait until some of the other boys get home to protect me from the crowd and all the girls, for I am only a cripple, you know. I had been looking for a letter from you for six or seven months, but never got one. So I thought you had never received my letter. I told you I would write you, and I seldom go back on my promise. In fact, I never did, yet. Well, how are your people by now? I am pretty well except my knee troubles me all the time. By the way, I'll bet you would not know me if you could see me now-. I am not the same fellow who w-ent to school to you. You could see the difference if you could see me as a soldier. Well, good-bye, I remain as ever, Your kind friend, FORD E. McCOLLY. Garden Service No. 1, A. P. O. 702, Aerican E. F.

COMING PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Saturday, November °, Charles R. Rice, 12 miles north and 1 mile west of Rensselaer. Big cattle sale, 10 0 head of heifers and steers. Thursday, November 14, D. F. Maish and Ray W. Aughe, 10 miles north and 3 miles west of Rensselaer. Big. closing out sale of Shorthorn cattle—7s head of purebred and high-grade Shorthorns. Sale will begin at 11 a. m.

DENTAL NOTICE John N. Horton has Completed his course of instructions in the National school of mechanical dentistry and is now engaged with J. 'W. Horton in his dental laboratory. Those requiring gold, - aluminum or rubber plates of the most modern - design can acquire .same on short notice. Novocaine used for painless extraction free when for platap. Call and get our prices. Oppositjr court house square.— purchase your calling cards, cor respondence cards, correspondence stationery and envelopes from The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. We carry the most complete line to be found outside the large cities. .j,

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

800 WOMEN NEEDED BY SALVATION ARMY

Commander Evangeline Booth Says War Relief Work Must Be Extended. Commander Evangeline Booth, leader of the Salvation Army in the United States, has been suddenly called upon to furnish 800 additional war work women for France. The request is contained in a report just received by her from Col. William A. Barker of the Salvationist forces, whom she sent to France over a year ago to establish hutment and general war relief work with the American troops. “We will do all we can to fill this demand,” said Commander Booth when discussing the approaching Unite* War Work Campaign, “and the need itself should impress the American public all the more with the absolute necessity for sustaining and enlarging the war relief work of the seven organizations, besides the noble Red CroAs, now merged for a drive for funds. Each is a vital cog in a vast machine for human relief, and each is indispensible, serving its particular elements in its own way. “The Salvation Army was born in hardship, reared in privation and trained to every phase of human misery and how to cope with it. Perhaps that accounts in some degree for the success our work has attained and for which we are thankful.

“We are of the common people, and we toil on a practical basis. We learned the lesson of how to do it in the Boer war, when we stood at the side of Britain’s troops and weattjpred it out to the end. We have been tried by fire, and the mothers and fathers of America, as in other countries, trust the Salvation Army to do the thing they would like to do for their men if they but had the chance. “With 1,210 trained workers at the front, operating from 420 huts and dugouts, the Salvation Army is doing, has done and will continue to do its best for the cause of humanity and Liberty."

CURE FOR BLUES NEAR THE GAMPS

Community Service Takes Place of Mother, Friends and Home for Soldiers. Ten yonng officers of the Student Army Training Corps of the University of Detroit recently applied for a furnished house and a housekeeper who would not be a servant, but, as' One young officer expressed it, “the! sort of woman to whom Hie boys can call out ‘Hello, mother!’ when they come in the front door.” Homesickness is the mffiady for which sVar Camp Community Service supplies innumerable cures. “We’ve got your number.” says the W. C. C. S. to the homesick boy from . camp with leisure to spend in any one of the three hundred towns scattered over the country. While he’s wondering what on earth he’ll do with himself when he gets there, not knowing a soul in town and with a limited percentage of his “thirty per” in his pocket, along comes a friendly printed card from the local branch of his own lodge announcing a reception that night especially for soldier members. By the same mail the Methodist church sends an announcement of all its meetings, addressed to him, with This Means You printed at the bottom. How did they know he was a Methodist? He had forgotten about the little “Personal Card” he made out at the adjutant's request during his first day in Camp when it was only one of the endless details in the round of dentists and doctors and general confusion. The W. C. C. S. had not only his number, but his name and address, his home town, the name of the school he'd gone to and a good bit about the things he was fondest of doing —-each fact written into a little blank on the card especially fur it.

ANOTHER DEATH AT HOSPITAL

< John Soreoberger, an aged German who has been about Rensselaer for a number of years and has worked for various farmers hereabouts during that time, died at the county hospital at 9:30 Wednesday night. Brief services were held and burial made at Mt. Calvary cemetery yesterday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. Sorenberger had but recently gone up to Thayer near which place he was employed by John Junglas. He was taken sick there and was brought to the hospital Sunday. So far as The Democrat is able to learn he had no near relatives in this country. We were also unable to learn bHs age.

In the Pittsburgh steel works powdered coal is handled in a new way. Instead of using screw conveyors or air blasts the works supply coal to the furnaces through 1,500 feet of four-inch pipe. The powdered coal contains only 1 per cent of moisture, and under forty 'pounds of pressure to the square inch it acts like a fluid.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. LIFT BAN IN INDIANAPOLIS City Board of Health Permits Public Gatherings and Other Activities — Situation Improves Through- ° out State. Indianapolis, Nov. 1. —The Indianapolis board of health voted, effective yesterday, to lift the bun on public gatherings and other activities, which has been in effect more than three weeks. Beginning Thursday, therefore, all normal activities iu Indianapolis were resumed. Stores were opened at the usual hours. Theuters were opened. Religious, sociul aud political meetings likewise may be held. Schools in the city will opun next Monday. Poolrooms, bowling alleys and dry beer saloons were also opened. Two exceptions were made to the order lifting the ban. Persons who have colds or coughs shall not be admitted to theaters. Street car windows must be kept open. Ten deaths and 78 new cases of influeuza or pneumonia had been reported to the city board of health since Tuesday noon. The totals of deaths and cases of the disease since the epidemic began trow stand: Gases reported, 5,932; deaths, 335. City health officials commented on the splendid manner in which the people complied with the orders which w6re designed to save life and suffering. Many business men lost thousands of dollars, especially those engaged in the theatrical enterprises, but no complaint came from them. The

only protestors were dry beer saloonkeepers who attempted so fight the order but got heavy fines in the city court as tlie result of their efforts. Only 48 counties reported new cases of influenza to the state board of health Tuesday. The total for the day was 1,400 new cases, the smallest total since the epidemic became serious iu Indiana; The reported state total since October* 7 stands now at 51,941 cases. Serious conditions stiall exist in Vigo, Vermilion, Gibson, Warrick, Dearborn, Noble, Crawford, St. Joseph and Lake counties. Lake county, however, has one spot, Gary, in which conditions urt? much better. Dubois and Jennings counties reported numbers of new cases within the last day or two also.

McAdoo Visits Indianapolis.

Indianapolis, Nov. 1. —William G. McAdoo, secretary of tlie treasury and director general of railroads, accompanied by several railway officials, paid a brief visit to Indianapolis. Mr. McAdoo’s special, consisting of live coaches, came in on the new elevation over the Pennsylvania lines from Columbus, O. He is making a tour of inspection in the central states and will visit Chicago, St. Louis aud other cities in the group before returning to Washington, D. C. While here he manifested an intense interest in elevation work and expressed satisfaction over the progress made. The director general made it a point to shake hands with laborers working on the elevation and other employees whom he met while making the inspection.

Sailor Injured in Fall; Dies.

Gary, Novv I.—Carl Smith, age twen-ty-one, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. EL Smith, died at Detroit, Mich., following injuries received earlier in the day by a fall while in training to become a naval officer. He and a brother, Roy, enlisted in the navy last September. Yen non Smith, another brother, is in the student army training corps at Indiana university.

Freight Rate Increase.

Indianapolis, Nov. I.—News has been received in Indianapolis that the interstate commerce commission has granted permission to the Union Traction company of Indiana to increase its freight rates not to exceed 25 per cent, nor in excess of existing rates on competing steam carriers, to apply between points on its lines and connecting lines in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.

Will S. Ritchie Dead.

Lebanon, Nov. 1. —Will S. Ritchie, formerly a resident of Lebanon, is dead at Seattle, Wash., where he had been temporarily. Following an operation in a Seattle hospital he suffered an attack of influenza and pneumonia, Mr. Ritchie was well known in commercial and fraternal circles of Indiana.

Escaped Convicts Kill Officer.

Lexington, Ky„ Nov. 1. —Following a battle in the streets here, in which Policeman Presley Pollen was killed, Henry Murphy and Porter Ennis of Cincinnati, 0., were arrested. Both had escaped from an Indiana reformatory. Ennis was wounded by the man whose store he had just robbed.

Defendant in Alienation Suit.

Hammond, Nov. I.—Frank 11. Davis, Cashier of a bank at Hobart, has been made the defendant in a suit for alienation of affections by George J. Smith. Smith alleges that Davis stole the love of Mrs. Shiith and asks heart balm in the sum of SIO,OOO,

Lebanon Resident Dead.

Lebanon, Nov. 1. — Walter McCory, age forty-two, died at his home in this city of pneumonia. He was a member of a local undertaking firm and a member of the public library board. The wide# and one son i• ' -

ENEMY IS CUT OFF

BERLIN-VIENNA RAILWAYS CAPTURED BY CZECHS. Vorwaerts of Berlin Says "Continental s "■'-"i’'. Policy of the German Empire Has Collapsed.’’ Zurich, Nov. I. —The Czechs have cut all railways between Berlin and Vienna, via Oderberg and Bodenbach, It was learned. Communications between Agram, Budapest, Flume and Vienna are completely Interrupted. Basel, Nov. 1. —“The continental policy of the German empire lias collapsed,” says tire Vorwaerts of Berlin. “The Hamburg-Bagdad line has been reduced to the Hamburg-Bodenbach road.” Paris, Nov. I.—Communication between Agram and Fiume and Budapest and Vienna has been totally interrupted. The Czecho-Slovaks have cut the railroad between Berlin and Vienna near Bodenbach and German trains can go only as far as Schnadau, according to a Zurich dispatch to the Journal.

[Fiume is the principal seaport of Hungary. Agram is the capital of Croatia and Slavonia and Is situated near the Save river, 75 miles inland. Bodenbach, where the railroad between Berlin and Vienna has been cut, Is a town In Bohemia near the Saxon frontier and is situated on the Elbe river.]

DRAFT CALL FOR 200,000

Men Are to Be Mobilized In Large Numbers Early In November. Washington, Nov. 1. —Men of the new draft age will first be mobilized In large numbers early in November under a draft call now In preparation at Provost Marshal General Crowder’s office. It calls for the entrainment of more than 200,000 men qualified for general military service. They will be furnished In proportionate numbers by every state in the Union. Draft caffs suspended during October because of the Influenza spidemlc have been renewed in sections where the epidemic has moderated, and entrainment of all men under the October calls probably will be completed before the November quota is started to the cantonments.

HOLLAND NAILS HUN LIE

German .Announcement of Investigation of Devastation Is Declared False by the Dutch. Paris, Nov. 1. —The Dutch legation here has issued a statement declaring absolutely untrue articles published in the German press to the effect that n neutral committee, comprising Spanish and Dutch representatives in Brussels, had been formed to investigate the devastation in the zone of the German retreat.

Turk Army Captured.

London, Nov. 1. —The entire Turkish force which has been opposing the British on the Tigris has been caotured, it was officially announced today. It is estimated the prisoners number approximately 7,000.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Oct. 31. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— ing. est. est. ing. Oct. 1.20 1,20 1.17% 1.19 Nov. .....1.17-17% 1.19% 1-17 1.i.8%-11 Deo 1.15%-14% 1.17% 1.14% IJ7-17% Oats— Oct. , 67 , .68% .67 .68 Nov >..67%-% .68% .67% .'68%-% Dec. .........66%-67 .68% .66% ,68%-6l FLOUR—The United States food administration flour, standards are as follows: Per bbl. in Jute, 9S lb. sack basis: Barley flour, $6.75; corn flour, $8.50; white rye flour, $10.20; dark rye, $9.90; spring wheat, $11.00; special brands, $11.35; hard winter, $10.50010.90; soft win’ter, $10.50. HAY—TlmoGay, $*1.00032.00; standard, $29.60030.50; N<? 1 light clover mixed, $29.0< @30.00; No. 2 timothy and No. 1 clover mixed, [email protected]; No. 3, $23.00025.00; sample, $15.00020.00; clover, $15.00020.00. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 92 score, 67%058c; higher scoring commands a premium; firsts. 71 score, 57@57%c; 88®9C score, 54%@56%c; seconds, 83057 score, 62%@54c; standard, 57%@57%c; ladles, 41® 42c; renovated, 43%@44c; packing stock, 3i @3Bc. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 54%® "%e; ordinary firsts, 52@52%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 50@53e; cases returned, 49052 c; extras, 59%@60%e; checks. 35038 c; dirties, 38@41c; storage packed, 56057 c. LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, 30c; fowls, 22@26c; roosters, 21c; spring chickens, 24%c; ducks, 26c; geese. 22c. ICED POULTRY Turkeys, 35037 c; fowls, 26@27%c; spring chickens, 26@26%c; roosters, 22@22%c; ducks, 26@2Sc; geese 23 @24%c. v POTATOES—BuIk per 100 lbs., [email protected]; sacked, $1.7501.85. CATTLE-r-Choice to prime steers. SIB.OC @19.70; good to choice steers, $16.50018.00; medium to good steers, [email protected]; plain to medium steers, $9.00014.00; yearlings, fair to choice. [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, $7.00(013.00; good to prime . cows, $9.00013.00; fair to prime heifers, $9.00@ 14.75; fair to good Cows. $6.6009.00; canners, $5.2506.15; cutters, $6.0006.75: bologna bulls, $7.2508.15; butcher bulls, $8.00011.00; veal calves, $15.00(016.75. HOGS—Fair to good light, $17.25018.30; choice to light butchers. SIB.OOO 18.45; medium weight butchers. 22. r >@'26o lbs., $17,750 18.35; heavy .weight butchers, 2700350 lbs., $17.60017.85; mixed packing, $17.25017.73; heavy packing, $16.60®17.25; rough packing, $16.25016.60; pigs, fair to good, $15.00® 16.25; stags. sl6-00016.75. SHEEP —Western lambs, $15.00016 75: native lambs, good to choice, $14.75016.75; yearlings, $9.00013.00; wethers, good to choice. ewes, fair to choice, $8.00010.35; feeding lambs, $12.00014.50. Buffalo. N. Y., Oct 31. CATTLE—Receipts, 325; steady. CALVES—Receipts, 100; 50c higher; $7.00 @19.00. HOGS—Receipts, 1,000: 25050 c higher; heavy and mixed*. $18.75018.85; Yorkers s $18.75; light Yorkers, $17.00017.25; pigs! $17.00; roughs, $12.00016.50; stags, SIO,OOO 14.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 600, •teady and unchanged.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1918

MOTOR TRUCK TO INCREASE HAULS OR INDIANA ROADS

Burden to Be Taken Off Steam Roads During the Continuation of the War. A RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS Transportation Is one of the big factors of the national war program. Troops, munitions, foodstuffs, fuel and other products must be moved long distances and In tremendous quantities in a short space of time. Experience of the past few months has demonstrated in a clear way that the railroads of the country are whol- . ly unprepared to care for the long hauls for war material, and at the same time handle in any adequate way, local business ?it the various stations in our state.' 1 Because of lack of cars this past winter, many thousands of hogs perished as a result of cold weather, and many others were kept on the farm for a long period and fed highpriced feed with great loss to the farmer. Wheat and corn have not been marketed in many cases because

G. I. CHRISTIE.

Agricultural expert who was quick to sense xhe possibilities of the Rural Motor Express Return Load Bureaus.

of poor roads and the inability of the farmer to haul the products. The motor truck offers a solution for the transportation of many of the farm products from the local points to the larger consuming centers. At the present time hundreds of loads of hogs are delivered to the Indianapolis and other stockyards of the state by motor trucks. Eggs, fruit, vegetables and other products are delivered in large quantities in a similar way. A large share of the milk and cream of the state is now being gathered with the motor trucks and delivered to the central plants. All this means relief for the railroads, and at the same time allows the farmer to market the products in a quick and direct manner. In the case of shipment of hogs, the motor truck takes the hogs direct from the farm to the market; while, if they are shipped over the railroad they must be hauled by the farmer from the farm to the station with teams and wagons, which, in many cases, has taken about as much time as it requires to deliver the hogs with the motor truck from the farm to the final destination.

It is very clear that if the motor trucks are to serve in the largest and most valuable way, the roads must be in condition so that they can be used at all times of the year; and again, that the trucks can carry their maximum load. For this reason, every effort should be made to construct and maintain hard surface and permanent highways in this state. It wilt require much study and care in deciding which roads should be built first, and which can serve the war program in the largest and most efficient way. The subject should have immediate and most earnest consideration, and should have the support of all interested organizations and administrative bodies in the state.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with , local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, uhio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall s Catarrh Medicine fall:, to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c, Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. A full grown elephant can carry " a load of three tons upon Its back.