Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — Page 5

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1918

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The WEEK'S DOINGS

Mrs. W. H. Beam and daughter, Mrs. Dean Merica, visited relatives in Reynolds, Thursday. Everett Warren and children went to Lafayette Thursday for a short visit with relatives. Estel Price returned to his home near Buchanan, Michigan, Thursday after spending a few days here. Miss Lucille Luers leaves today for Washington, D. C., to take up her duties as a stenographer for the government.

Call phone 537 for dates and terms as clerk for sales. Satisfaction guaranteed. Outlet for notes if desired.—E. P. LANE. ts

Miss Zella Daugherty left Sunday evening for Cleveland, Ohio, to take up her training for a Red Cross nurse at a hospital there.

“Frenchy” Deshand, who ,has been sick for four weeks, will now take up his taxi and livery. Calls will be answered at phones 365 or 410. —Advt. n-9

Attorney George E. Hershman of Crown Point was in Rensselaer ( a short time Thursday, going from here to Kentland to look after some matters in court. A. S. Laßue reports the sale of 80 acres of land 4 miles north of Remington, owned by Mrs. Matilda Dluzak, to J. J. Lawler of Chicago, who owns an 80 adjoilP ing. The Jasper County Sunday School convention will be held at Rensselaer November _l4 and 15. It is your duty to be there. EvCry school should be represented. Good program.—Advt. n_ 9 We are unloading a car of ” Michigan winter apples. Baldwins, Spys, Greenings, Bellflowers and other good varieties. —$4.50, $5.00 and $5.50 a barrel; 40, 50 and 60 cents a peck.—EGER’S GROCERY.

W. C. Kincaid of Rensselaer was, here last week making arrangements to move to this city for future residence. Mr. Kincaid is a, traveling salesman for the International (Harvester Company.— Monticello Herald, i Mrs. Wiliam Faylor reports that the North Union Auxiliary of the Red Cross had cleared the following amounts at sales where they had served lunch: October 28, Robert Smith sale, $20.46; November 2, Charles Rice sale, $20.59; November 4, J. H. Brown sale, $11.40, making a total of $52.45. Miss Alice Worland, who left here last week for Denver, Colorado, for the benefit of her health, stopped over in Chicago and was joined there by her sister, Miss Helen Worland, who had been taking a nurse’s course at' the St. Mary’s hospital in that city, and both left on Tuesday evening for Denver. Miss Helen will enter a hospital there to finish her course in nursing.

CASTO RIA For Infants and Children In Use Tor Over 30 Years Always bears tbc Sgnattueof

Alfred Thompson and Victor Hoover were down from Chicago Tuesday to vote. John Sanders and Rolla Gates, who are employed at Hammond, were home Tuesday. Lafayette goers Tuesday were .Frank Ham, Jack Carmen, Rev. E. W. Strecker and Mrs. L. H. Hamilton. Just received a car of extra choice Michigan apples; fine for immediate or winter use.—ROWLES & PARKER. Mrs. John Eger and Mrs. A. J. Bellows went to Hammond Wednesday for a short visit with Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Parrett.

Isaac Leopold attended the funeral of James C. Jones .former treasurer of White county, at Monticello Thursday. Now is the time to put in your w’inter supply of apples. Unloading a car of fancy fruit Saturday and Monday.—ROWLES & PARK' ER. Among the Chicago goers Wednesday were Granville Moody, W. C. Babcock, B. K. Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant and Mrs. Firman Thompson.

The Jasper County Sunday School convention will ba held at Rensselaer November 12 and 13. It is your duty to be there. Every school should be rejreeented. Good program.—Advt. n-9

Miss Margaret Babeock, who has been attending ths State university at Madison, Wisconsin, is visiting her parent*, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock. She wll not take up her studies again at the university until the evening of' the second semester. Jennings Winslew, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winslow of Fair Oaks, died Tuesday evening at 6:25 o’clock from pneumonia. Funeral services were held at the Fair Oaks oemetery Thursday afternoon at 1 p. m., where bur al was made.

Charles Spain returned to his home at Wabash Wednesday after a short visit with hi* grandmother, ( Mrs. E. Israel, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Stackhouse. Mrs. Israel has been sick for the past week with grip, but is some better at this writing. The Republican, in its mention of the arrest of Harry Watson for illegal voting, says his vote was not challenged at the polls. This is not time. This vote was twice challenged and he swore it in. He was also twice warned that if he tried to vote his vote would be challenged. Fred Mecklenburg, who had been in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for some time, came home Tuesday evening to be examined for the U. S. army service. He passed the examination but if not called for service soon will return to Philadelphia where he has employment. For the past couple of weeks The Democrat has been literally swamped with soldier’s letters and it has been impossible to put only a few of them in type or to have the space to print them, therefore not many of these letters appear, as a consequence. Don’t be offended if letters you have sent or handed in are not printed, for it is absolutely impossible to print them all.

Owing to the influenza quarantine the Jasper County Sunday School convention has been indefinitely postponed. • Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1; oats, 63c; wheat, $2.11; rye, $1.45. The prices a year ago were: Corn, l$l; oats, 55c; wheat, $2; rye, $1.60. We are now unloading a car of extra fancy Michigan apples—all the good varieties. For immediiate use and winter storage.—ROWLES & PARKER. Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were Dr. J. Hansson, L. A. Bostwick, E. M. Graham, Forest Morlan, Mrs. W. C. Babcock and Misses Rose and Lucille Luers. Charles Mann, one of the Monon mail clerks between Cincinnati and Chicago, stopped oft here Wednesday and visited until Thursday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mann.

Sanol Eczema Prescription Is a famous old remedy for all forms of Eczema and skin diseases. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. Get a 35c large trial bottle at the drug store. —Advt .

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dexter of Union have received word of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Armstrong of North Hampton, Massachusetts, the latter being their daughter.

Woman’s friend is a Large Trial Bottle of Sanol Prescription. Fine for black heads. Eczema and all rough skin and clear complexion. A real skin Tonic. Get a 35c trial bottle at the drug store.—Advt.

Miss Stella and Henry Platt returned home Thursday from Hampton Roads, Virginia, where they were called a couple of weeks ago by the illness of their brother Robert Platt, who is in training there. They left Robert quite a little better but not yet able to come home.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jinkerson of Chicago have been visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wiltshire for a week and on Tuesday Mr. Jinkerson^ ’ was called to report for army service at Waco, Texas;. Mrs. Jinkerson will remain here with her parents during his absence. The remains of Wayne West, son of Mrs. James West of this city, who died at Denver, Colorado last Saturday, arrived here Thursday .morning and funeral services were held that afternoon at 4 p. m. at Weston cemetery where burial was made, services being in charge of Revs. J. C. Parrett of Hammond and J. B. Fleming of this city. Miss Luella Robinson, who took the civil service examination some time ago for a government position, received a telegram from Washington that she had received an appointment with a salary of $l,lOO per year with a raise to $1,200 in three months. Miss Robinson will leave here next Friday for Washington to take up her duties. Miss Josie Dexter of Union township, who took the examination at the same time, also received an appointment and will no doubt leave for Washington with Miss Robinson. Miss Dexter is now employed in Chicago.

In a letter received Tuesday evening from C. A. Tuteur, Washington, D, C., enclosing his subscripton, Art says: “Enclosed please find $2 to pay for the ‘LightGiver’ during the year to come. This would have been attened to sooner, but today I am just out of the sick room, having been on the flat of my back for the past two weeks with the ‘fluu’ I think that I am all right again, although the recovery is worse than the illness itself. There is nothing new to report, everything is going along just as smoothly as though it was oiled, and we all look for a speedy unconditional surrender of the Germans. But you know as much as we.”

FOR SALE I have for sale the J. J. Layler lands, located in Jasper and Newton counties. Call at my office in Odd Fellows building for prices and terms. 120 acres for sale 1% miles of Jasper county court house at a bargain; 80 acres, improved, 4 miles of Remington, at a bargain. 80 acres southeast of Francesville for sale or trade; 6room house, barn, good chicken house, other outbuildings. A. S. Laßue Rensselaer, Indiana

THE TWTCE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

I Saturday and Monday we will unload a car of extra fancy apples in barrels. Special prices on unloading days.—ROWLES & PARKER. At a meeting held Thursday night by the health officer, doctors and school board it was decided that the schools would not be opened for another week, or until November 18 th. While sawing wood with a buzz saw Wednesday, Charles Cain got his right hand against the saw and the first three fingers were quite badly cut as a result, but none of them were taken off, and the wounds will soon heal. “Reddy" Robinson, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mr*. Dan Robinson of this city, narrowly averted being seriously injured Thursday afternoon while riding his bicycle down main street and in trying to dodge a large automobile ran directly in front of the Ford car being driven by Mrs. W. S. Parks. The boy landed between the wheels and the car passed over him without touChlpg him, and he escaped injury being frightened. The wheel was quite badly damaged. The accident happened in front of B. N. Fendig’s shoe store.

ALLEGED ILLEGAL VOTE CAST

resident of the third precinct for 30 days proceeding the election, as the law requires. lie did not do so, however, but continued to reside at the Randle place, Which is in the first precinct, and, not having re-registered,he had forfeited his right to vote at all in the election last Tuesday. On Monday evening proceeding the election Mr. Watson said that he was going to vote in the third precinct, and offered to bet a. dollar that he would vote in said twice warned that if he voted there ihe would have to swear his vote in—that his vote would be challenged. On election day he went to the polls in the third •precinct a’ <1 wanted to vote and the vote was challenged on instructions of F. E. Babcock, who is the Democratic precinct chairman of said voting district, Mr. subscribed o the following oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I am a citizen of the United States; that I am now over the age of twentyone years to the best of my information and belief; that I have been a bonafide resident of thS ( State for six months immediately | proceeding this election; that 1 have resided in the township sixty days and in the precinct thirty days, and that I am a bonafide resident of this precinct; that 1 am generally known by the name in which I now desire to vote, which is Henry H. Watson; that 1 have not voted and will not vote in any other precinct in this election; that my occupation is a plumber; that my residence is No Park avenue, Rensselaer, Indiana, and that during the last six months of this election 1 have resided at I have moved fromto on the following date and that' anr l have personal knowledge of my residence in the precinct thirty days and the township sixty days. The above is the form of affidavit one is required to make when shig vote is challenged, if he desires to swear in said vote, and as Mr. Watson is alleged to have signed the prescribed form of affidavit, it is presumed that this is what he swore to.

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And his vote was taken. Before the closing of the polls, the aforesaid precinct committeeman went before the election board, as the law provides, and swore out an affidavit that Mr. Watson was an illegal voter, and the inspector sent the election Sheriffs out and they phoned to the Randle ■property—not to Mr. Watson’s "home” on Park avenue, understand —and he came down and was taken before the inspector, who then turned the matter over to Squire Irwin, as the law requires. When making this affidavit of alleged illegal voting before the inspector, Mayor Charles G. Spitler, the Republican Judge, who had taken an oath as such judge and peace officer, to impartially discharge his duties "and not knowingly permit any person to vote who is not qualified,” took occasion to insult the committeeman who was performing his duty as a citizen and precinct chairman, and said, "Well, it won’t do you any good; youl will not get far with it,” whicll shows the attitude of some of Ithe Republicans toward such and to ‘ Insult and attempt to Bulldoze anyone who has the temer/ty to protest against it. The preliminary hearing was set by Squire Irwin for 1 p. m., Wednesday, but on agreement was postponed to 7:30 last evening. Jf the evidence at such hearing justifies, it is the duty of the justice to bind the alleged illegal voter

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

Ford & Moore, bakers, of Red Key, Ind., have been ordered to close their doors’ for ten days dating from September 24. The firm had been warned previously for not using wheat flour substitute as required. Christian Bliss, a baker of Valparraiso, was permitted to pay into the Red Cross fund $25 for failing to use the required substitutes. A record sorghum yield in Indiana is looked to to materially relieve the sugar situation, especially in rural communities. County food administrators are asked to urge farmers and growers of sorghum who have been taxing the capacity of the few mills in the state to permit their crop to stand in the fields as long as such action is safe. When conditions are such that it becomes necessary to cut the stalks, the producers are requested to store the crop, if possible, covering it carefully against the effects of uniavorable weather conditions. The Booker Packing Company, which, until recently, operated a retail market at 310 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, will not be privileged to deal with any wholesale firm that holds a federal license, during the period of the war. The effect of the order also is to prevent the firm from re-engaging in business anywhere in the nation. It was alleged to have violated a number of official regulations relative to the handling and sale of food. Indiana school children have been asked to lake a census of the live stock on Indiana farms, on October 15, for the use of the United States Food Administration. An appeal has been sent out to the teachers by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace C. Ellis, asking that the teachers divide the territory In their school districts, so that there will be no duplications or omissions in the tabulations to be prepared by the pupils. The census is for the purpose of assisting in a nation wide food survey, which is essential to the successful prosecution of. the war. Figures for

over to the circuit court or grand jury. The penalty for illegal voting is as follows: Whoever, not having the legal qualifications of a voter at any election authorized by law to be held in this State for any officer whatever, Votes or offers to vote at such election, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars, Imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year nor less than one month, and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office or trust or profit for any indeterminate period. In filing this affidavit the committeeman had no personal feeling against Mr. Watson whatever, in fact regretted very 'much that he would have been remiss in his duty I'committeeman had he failed to make the affidavit.

MOTOR MAIL ROUTE NEXT WEEK

Services to Be in Operation Between Indiana]M>lis and Chicago. The motor mail route between Indianapolis and Lafayette to connect with a similar route from Lafayette to Chicago, giving motor mail service to all points on the route between Indianapolis and Chicago will be put in operation next week. Robert E. Springsteen, postmaster, has announced. The three motor trucks to be used on the route reached Lafayette yesterday, and were inspected today by Wallace Buchanan, assistant superintendent of mails at Indianapolis.—lndianapolJ# News.

Service 'Flags, one, two or three stars, for sale at The Democrat office. «

SAVE MONEY WHILE YOUNG. ENJOY IT IN OLD DAYS. A Savings Account paves the way. This bank pays 4 per cent interest on savings deposits. $1 starts you right, THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK The Bank on the Corner and on the Square. RENSSELAER, IND.

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard,

Federal Food Administrator for Indiana

1917 and 1918 will be asked and It i* contemplated making the census • semi-annual affair. It is to be emphar sized by the teachers and pupils that the enumeration has absolutely no relation to tax assessment, and the figures are for the sole purpose of as* sisting in making intelligent calcula* tions for the conservation and distribution of the meat supply upon which America and her associates in the war against Germany may depend. Advertisements calling attention to a probable increase in retail prices of coffee are tabooed by the Food Administration. It is not denied that there have been increases in green coffee prices in Brazil for “unknown reasons.” However, the Food administration has been able to stabilize prices and will continue to be able to do so, it is thought, if there is no abnormal demand, due to a panicky misunderstanding of the price situation. Cash-and-carry retailers may have a profit of 5 cents per pound on butter; credit and delivery stores, 8 cents, according to an official bulletin from Washington. September 23-28 I* investigation week, when an intensive effort will be made to ascertain the reasons for present high retail prices of butter. The action of the government in commandeering a large per Ornt. of the storage supply, while creating the appearance of. a shortage, is not legitimately subject to such construction. The federal inquiry takes in state inspectors who are authorized to examine wholesalers, brokers, commission merchant* and others, with a view to ascertain-* lug costs and margins of profit, particularly with a view to restricting resales withih the trade. J. W. Strauss of North Manchester sold sixteen sacks of wheat flour without substitutes and admitted hla guilt. He was permitted to pay S2OO to the Red Cross Society and will not be allowed to retail flour for the remaining period of the war. Charles Delauter, who bought the flour, was allowed- to pay the Rod Cross SIOO and the flour was confiscated by Scott Davis, federal food administrator for Wabash county.

WHEN THE WAR IS ENDED

Selective System to Bo Used in Bringing Men Home. Washington, November s.—When the war 1h over what is to b* known as tho selectve system will be employed in bringing United States troops home from France. Generally speaking, the troop* that ‘went over first will be the first to be brought back, but on account of the industrial necessities, it is preposed to muster out first men whose services are moat needed in important lines of industry. For instance, if the Immediate demand should seem to be for farmers, or certain kind of mechanics, or for coal miners, or for railroad men, the men skilled in those lines would be mustered out in advance of aoldiers who wer* not specially fitted for any particular work. With the expectation that tihn end of the war can not be far off* the authorities are giving consideration to this so-called selecttv* plait for ireturnlng men to civil llfo.

COMING PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bill* for the following public sales: Saturday, November 16, Charles Rice, at residence of Earl WIN Haras, 13 miles north and 1 mile west of Rensselaer; 30 milch cows, 70 head of 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. Advertise In The Democrat

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