Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — Page 2

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“PRACTICAL” FARMERS

George Ade of Brook, Warren T. McCray of Kentland, J. H. Dimmick and I. E. Runner of Oxford, and Taylor B. Frazier of Frankfort, are among the fifty persons appointed by Governor Goodrich to represent Indiana at the thirtyeighth annual session of the Farmers’ National Congress to be held at Jacksonville, Florida, December 6 to 6. Evidently Gov. Goodrich knows a sure-enough farmer when he sees one. 'We don’t know how hard Messrs. Dimmick, Runner and Frazier work between the plow handles, but we do know that Warren McCray and George Ade wear out a pair of overalls every few days at hard manuel labor on the farm. Nothing like being practical in these matters. But you can't always tell who is a practical farmer in this country. When the war broke out several professional men, Including lawyers, one editor and a telephone manager, went from Fowler into Union township, one of the best farming communities in the county, and proceeded to instruct the farmers there how to raise crops, with special instructions on pumpkins and rutabegas. People were amazed. Not gifted with erudition of the governor, our people thought these men didn’t know anything about farming. But this was a mistake. The professional geniuses told the farmers of Union township a whole lot of things that they had never heard of before and probably never will again. The eloquent tribute to the despised rutabega was a --classic—enough to bring tears, but ruta-

begas haven’t eyes like potatoes. Then the oration on pumpkin production deserved to be immortalized by publication in the government year book; pumpkin seed could be planted with each hill of corn; one cultivation would answer for both, and the two crops could be husked at the same time; after P. vines had reached a hardy growth they could be hitched together at the end of each row and with small batteries attached telephonic communication could be kept up to all parts of the field during the summer months. However, an ignorant practical farmer marred the whole beautiful theory, by asking how they were going to plow the corn with the field a network of pumpkin vines. Scorning tp reply to such frivlous criticism our agricultural experts returned home and nothing could persuade them to distribute their knowledge any further—except the editor, who, continued to tell them howto do it in his paper. Had Governor Goodrich known of these practical agriculturists Ade and McCray would be out of one honorary job just now. —Benton County Tribune.

WAR HINTS, HELPS AND DUTIES

Compiled and Condensed For the Indiana State Council of Defense by George Ade. Well, we celebrated a little and now, if we have calmed down, there are a few important facts which we need to repeat to ourselves, over and over. The responsibilities we have assumed in connection with the war will not be lifted even when peace is established. The War Work campaign, which is' under way this week, must be carried through to a successful issue because our soldiers will remain in the field and their welfare must still be our daily concern. Food must still be conserved. All of our war-time economies must be practiced until we begin to arrive back at norjnal conditions. By that time economy will have become a habit and the lessons of thrift will have been learned by every household,' and we will emerge from the ordeal strengthened for all of the hard tasks of reconstruction.

Mr. Hoover says, “Peace or no peace, war or no war, keep on saving food.” The directions for sending Christmas boxes to soldiers and sailors are too lengthy to be repeated here, so inquire of your local Red Cross. Don’t forget the boys at the front. The destitute must still be clothed. The hungry ones cannot subsist entirely on good news. The soldiers will be far from home on Christmas. The debts we have assumed remain as rugged realities. The Indiana State Council of Defense commends the work being done by the organization known as “The Fatherless Children of France.” One way Of showing gratitude to France is to adopt a French orphan. The coal situation is not as bad.

as many people seated it would be but, just the same, save fuel.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

In olden times I paid out mon to have my chores and errands done. I paid one man to mow the grass and hoe the growing garden sass; another came to prime the pump and take the tin cans to the dump; I paid a man to wash m/ car, and dope the kitchen roof with tar. While there were men who worked for hire, 1 just sat ’round and pawed my lyre, with hands as white as driven snow—no sort of labor did they know. And I had lost my appetite, and couldn’t get much sleep at night, and I was fat and short of breath and looking for an early death. Then all the fellows went to scrap and shoo the Prussian off the map, and none could come to do a chore or run an errand any more. I was obliged to shake my sloth, and, as a toiler, cut a swath. I milked the cow and groomed the hen, and mowed the lawn, like other men; and when my car was out of whack I lay beneath it, on my back, and tried' to remedy the wreck, while slimy grease ran down my neck. I painted fences green and blue, and found a hundred things to do; and now my health is out of sight, and when I go to bed at night my slumber is so calm and deep It show’s new curves in balmy sl"ep, and savants come from miles away to see just how I hit the hay. Three women cook by day and night to cater to my appetite. A lot of old fat boys like me are learning wrinkles two or three.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

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this time of year. Now there is a heavy frost on the ground in the morning and shaving and washing is a very refreshing operation the way we have to do it. We take our canteen cups go to the well and get a cupful of nice cold water (whenever the well isn’t dry), .go out behind the house or into the garden off to one side, hang our mirror on a tree or bush, lather up and—well, just shave. I toll you it is great; try it sometime. At present we are having night drill, it is 11:30 now and I am writing this while waiting for my shift. I go on at 12:30, the night is dark—l suppose that is why 1 was picked for drill. It is interesting work, folks, and I would not miss this for anything. The news from the front certainly has been good lately. Bulgaria and Turkey’s defeat and the capture of St. Quentin, this . morning. I guess it will be up to me to capture Metz however. Have been having tough luck, for the last three weeks I have been in quarantine on account of a boy breaking out with measles and we were to be released last night, and now the Spanish Flu, or whatever you call it, has broken out in this part of the country and we are again placed under quarantine so we won’t go out and catch the disease. The quarantine business works both ways. Last Saturday a Sargeant, a Corporal, who can speak French, and I, got a special permit to go to Angers—that city I have mentioned—to buy • instruments for a Jazz band we are forming. I picked up a violin worth two or three hundred dollars in the States for 100 francs—about eighteen, dollars—picked it up in a second hand store. The quarantine does not deprive us of our wine though. There is a farm house near by where they sell wine and we are permitted to go there, this makes things a. little more pleasant. Well, how is old Alkali Ike and how are the checker games coming? I hope that during my absence the formal openings of court will not be discontinued. I suppose Greeley is still writing poetry. By the way, we have a former actor in our s|.ttery, and the other night as 'We were talking he told me he knew Greeley’s son, Capt. George A. Davis, very well. This fellow has played in a good many productions in Chicago. We have a fine bunch of fellow's in our battery and although we work hard we have lots of good times. I want to thank Judge Darroch and Hume Sammons for their letters of recommendation. I do not know whether I will ever get to use them or not, but in case I shall be captured and the Huns find these letters on me they will think I am a pretty good fellow anyway. Well, folks, I do not know what more to tell you now, I am feeling supberb and am enjoying every darn bit of soldier life. Let me hear from some of you, will you? With kindest regards and best wishes, CORP. MICHAEL J. R. WAGNER, Battery F. 70th Art. C. A. C. A. P. O. 733, Am. E. F.

Former Remington Boy Writes HOme From France. George Moorhead, formerly of Remington, but now of near North Vernon, Indiana, sends us a letter from his son, John G. Moorhead, who is now with the American forces in France, and says' that it might be of interest to some of the latter’s old playmates and acquaintances about Remington. George says that the boy tried to enlist' several times, but was turned down on account of being minus a thumb. He was finally called last June and was sent to Purdue for six weeks, and crossed the “pond” in September and they have just lately heard

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trom him. “He is somewhat of a bookworm and has had some little experience teaching, having taught three terms district school and two terms high school before he was 22 years old. He had an offer to teach at Remington this winter if he hadn’t been called to the colors.” The letter follows: In France, Oct. 17, 1918. Dear Mother.—How is everyone in the States by this time? I am well and in good spirits. I have had a cold, but am about over it now. We have been touring a part of France and have finally been landed at a Signal Corps school. 1 guess they will train us up to be “expert” operators now’. We are in a nice camp with good clean barracks and good eats. We have pancakes for breakfast several times a week, Which is quite a treat in the army. We sure enjoyed them when we had them at our first breakfast. We had some fine pudding last night, too. I am sending my slip for a Xmas box. I suppose you have received information about them from the Red Cross. I would certainly appreciae some fruitcake and candy and the like. If it is hard to get sugar you might put in some chocolate bars, or Hersheys, or stick candy or something of that kind. It is hard to get candy here. We can get plenty- of cookies of French make; they are sure good, taste like home-made ones. If you have time you might make a pair of wristlets. I was issued a sweater and knit helmet. At the classificaion camp I was in I saw a North Vernon man, by the name of Shinolt, I knew his cousin at Zenas. He came over with Amos Myrick and ..-another Jennings county man and had been sepqjjpted there; He did not know where the two others were. He had been in camp at Taylor with Raymond Huffman’s company. He is the only Jennings county soldier I have seen. I guess we will begin to get our mail now. I heard that there was some already in camp that came from Camp Vail, I am sure anxious to get some mail. I expect a pay day the first of next month, and am expecting to send some home. They are fixing up a system by which we can get paid every month. I suppose you are glad to hear the way the boys are crowding the line. I would like to spend the Fourth of July at home. As ever JOHN A. MOORHEAD, Army Radio Section, Signal Corps No. 1, A. P. O. No. 706, Am. E. F., France,

Tommie Shook Tells of the “Flanders Mud.” Artesian, So. Dak., November 12, 1918. F. E. Babcock. Sir:—l am sending two dollars for my renewal to The Democrat; am also sending a peom for your paper if you have space' to print it. Tommie sent it to us from France, and as he was in Belgium several weeks he knows just how the mud was. He has been “over there’’ since in May and been in several severe battles. The last letter from him, dated October 8, said they were on the jump but could not keep up with “Jerry” on his run for home. Our other and only son, James, has been in training at Ft. Riley, Kansas since August 29. ,He is at a school for cooks and bakers. We had good crops this year and have fine fall weather now, but help is very scarce for husking corn. We are all enjoying good health.—MßS. ROBT. SHOOK. WHO SAID SUNNY “FLANDERS OR FRANCE?’’ It lies on your blankets and over your bed, There is mud in the cover that covers your head, There is mud in the coffee, the “slum” and the stew. Muddy Flanders There’s mud In your eyebrows, There’s mud in your nose, There’s mud in your legging’s to add to your woes, The mud in your boots finds its place twixt your toes. Muddy Flanders Oh! the grimy mud, the slimy mud, The mud that makes you swear, The cheesv mud, the greasy mud, That slitters through your hair; You sleep in the mud and drink it, that’s true, There’s mud in the bacon, the rice and the stew, When you open an egg you always find mud in it, too. Muddy Flanders There’s mud in the water, there’s mud in the tea, There’s mud in the mess kit as thick as can be, It sticks to your fingers like leaves to a tree. Muddy Flanders Oh! the ruddy mud, the muddy mud, the mud that gets your goat; The sliding mud, the gliding mud, That sprays your pants and coat, It cakes in your mouth till you feel like an ox, It slips down your back and Tests in your sox, You think you are walking on cut glass and rocks. Muddy Flanders There’s mud in your gas mask, there’s mud in your hat, There’s mild in your helmet, there’s mud on your gat; Yet though mud is all around us were happy at that. Muddy Flanders Oh! the dank, dank, mud; the rank, rank, mud, There’s just one "guy to blame, We’ll wish him well (we will like And Kaiser Bill’s his name. h—,) 1 1

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles u. SplUar Clerk Charles Murian Treasurer Charles M. Bamia A t tui zie>Muses Leupuld Civil .Engineer.. ,L. A. Bostwick ms cruelj. J. Montgomery Fire Warden.... J. J. Montgome~y Councilman Ist Ward Kay Wood <ma Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymire At Large. Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL Circuit Judge, .chaiies W. Hanley Prosecuting -iciorney-Reuben Hess Terms ot court —Second Monday m February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriffß. D. McCully Auditor. J. P. Hammund Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George ScoU SurveyorE. D. Nesbitt CoronerW. J. Wrlgnt County Assessor... G. L. Themum County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer. Dr. C. £. Johnson COMMISSIONERS Ist DistrictM. W. Marble 2nd Dis tris tD. 8. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners' Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustee* Townenlp Grant Davissonßarkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens.....Gillam Warren E Pools. .Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan R. E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fair child Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George FoulksMilroy John Rush Newton George HainmertonUnion Joseph SalrlnWalker Albert S KeeneWheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt. Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. M. Sands Rensselaer

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