Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — Page 1

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ALL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

Held Up By the War Should Now Be Resumed x With the demobilizing of about 4,000,000 soldiers and the return to civil pursuits of the. other millions of men employed directly or indirectly in war work, . steps should immediately be taken to prepare for the taking up of all public Improvements which halve ben sidetracked by the war, that there may be no great surplus of labor. First among these should be permanent road building, and been sidetracked by the war r that have been engaged in munition making can be turned into paving .brick or cement factories, for the roads of the future, especiallly the trunk lines, must be made of a more permanent material, either brick or concrete.

PRODUCE PRICES FIFTY YEARS AGO.

The Pulaski County Democrat of last week copied tiie Winamac market report of November 14, 1878, those "good old Republican times,’* that some of the g. o. p. adherents like to forget ebout. Here they >re as they appeared in the Winamac Democrat of 54 years ago: Eggs per doz., butter, 12tyc; wheat, 78c; potatoes, 40c; clover seed, $3.40 per bu.; chickens, $1.30 to $1.40 per doz. Probably no corn or oats were then raised in that locality for marketr a® no prices are given.

DEMOBILIZATION OF FORCES

In U. 8. to Begin At Once—-Order Already Decided On. Washington, November 16. —Orders have been issued,” Gen. March announced today, for the gradual demobilization of all troops in this country: Demoblilization will ber in the following order; First, development battalions, seventy-one in number and comprising 98,199 men. Second, conscientious objectors not under arrest. Third, spruce production division. Fourth, central training schools for officers with some modifications. Fifth, United States guards, now numbering 135,000 men. Sixth, railway units. 'Seventh, depot brigades. Eighth, replacement units. Ninth, combat divisions.

There are now in the United States 1,790,000 men under arms, General March said. Orders which will result in the immediate demobilization of 200,000 men are already issued, and these men will be at their homes in the next two weeks. In discussing the demobilization plans with senators at their weekly conference today, war department officials said Secretary Baker planned to stop all movement of additional troops to Europe, with the exception of surgical units. When the reduction plan is under full operation, the chief of staff explained, 30,000 men each day will be released from the army. Regarding the return of the troops in France, General March said the order in which the divisions will be withdrawn is being left to General Pershing. It is the intention of the war department, however, so far as is practicable, to return each division to the locality from which the majority of its men came and to parade the division in adjacent cities so that the people may have a chance to give fitting welcome. As an example, he said, the New England soldiers might be brought to Camp Devens and parade in Boston and other cities. ‘Orders have been cabled to General Pershing to begin the return at once of all casuals, sick and wounded who can be moved and convalescents. A steady stream of .these men should Win immediately to cross the Atlantic. Camps at home will be cleared out to prepare for the return of the expeditionary forces, and the general indicated that the process would be expedited. A unit- of regular troops will be left at each camp to guard and police It in preparation for the arrival of the units. Because of its unusual composition, General March said, and its brilliant record at the front, the 42d (Rainbow) division will re-

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomised—Together With Other Notes Gathered Fran the Several County Offices. • •••«•••••••••• ,♦ EXAMINATIONS CANCELED • • ' • • The local conscription board * • >has received official notice to * ♦ discontinue examination of * * ALL registrants, including * « those of 18 to 37 years. There- • ;• fore, those to whom notices * * have been sent, need not ap- * * pear for examination. * Trustee-elect John F. Petet of Walker township was In Rensselaer Saturday. Marriage licensee issued: November Id, Oliver Hamilton of Jordan township, aged 35 April 5 last, farmer, and Vesta May (Hamilton, also of Jordan township, aged 31 May 16 last, housekeeper. Secmarriage for each,, former marriages dissolved by death. New suits filed: No. 8982. Matilda Dluzak ex. vs. Josephine Dulzak; petition to sell real estate. No. 8983. Bank of Wheatfield vs. Orris Salrin et al; action to review judgment. No. 8984. Charles N. Dickinson vs. Frnk Hill; suit on due bill. Demand s2oOs No. 8985. James H. Chapman vs. Roscoe et al; suit on note. Demand $145.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Several townships opened ~ Jheir schools last Wednesday. The attendance in the schools that opened was fair in ■’ most places. Mabel McAhren, who teaches at Lewiston, in Barkley township, was in Indianapolis last week at her home. She did not get word in time to open school last Wendesday. However, the school at Lewiston opened the 18 th. Miss Leah Flora was at her home at Mauckport when schools opened. She came last Thursday to take up her school at Curtis Creek in Newton township. Miss Mary Luther, who teaches at Surrey, in Newton township, has been down with the measles but she opened her school Monday also. Miss Adrienne Guchein took down with the influenza a few days before the Fair Oaks school was ready to open. She was compelled to resign her position in the Fair Oaks high school and go to a hospital in Indianapolis. Daza Brown of Goodland has been employed to take Miss Guchein’s place at Fair Oaks. Several new cases of influenza have been recently reported from Remington. Schools opened there Monday, November 18, also. The city schools in Rensselaer opened Wednesday and the school is running nearly normal. Miss Edna Christenson of the Claude May school in Carpenter township is the only teacher who died of the epidemic. There were a number of severe cases reported from teachers down with the "flu” but all are well and ready for school again. The second regular institute was held in Union township at Fair Oaks last Saturday. All teachers

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NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. David Davidson of Wolcott entered the hosital Monday eve'ning, suffering from influenza. Mrs. John Lakin of Parr came in Sunday, suffering, from influenza. A son was born at the hospital Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fisher of Remington. Miss Rebecsa Fendig has been adjudged insane and was taken to Longcliff Monday. Joseph Sigo of near Remington is in a very critical condition from double pneumonia, following influenza. Mrs. Edward Hasty and baby left the hospital yesterday.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1918

TOLL OF OVER 82,000 DEATHS

From Recent Terrible Epidemic of Influenza. Unofficial estimates of the deaths caused from the recent epidemic of influenza, based on reports from forty-six cities having a combined population of 23,000,000 people, shows 82,306 deaths, where normally they would have had but 4,000 deaths during the same period. This is a greater number of deaths than were caused among the American Expeditionary Forces in France from all causes up to the time hostilities ceased.

HALSTEAD IDENTIFIES PHOTOS

Jerry Kinney, captain of detectives, has received word that David Halstead, farmer and stock buyer at Rensselaer, Indiana, who was swindled out of approximately SII,OOO recently by two confidence game workers, has identified photographs held by the Chicago police of Edward Burns and Joseph Furey, members of a widely known "con’’ gang, as the men who defrauded him. Burns and Furey are said to have police records dating back more than twenty years and pre said to be wanted in several large cities on similar charges.—lndianapolis News,

FIRST MEETING FOR WEEKS

Women’s Club Renew Activities After Ban Removal. The various women’s clubs of the city have met for the first time in many weeks, and began with renewed enthusiasm the lines of work for which each stands. The calls for patriotic service extended to all such organizations by the federal government were discussed, and planned for. As the days of reconstruction come there will be the same great opportunity for such organizations to show their broadminded, kindly sympathy and helpfulness as during the long anxious months of the war. The resignation of Mrs. E. M. Graham, who was a member of both the. Literary and Musical clubs, was regretfully accepted. Mrs. Graham will leave for Florida soon, as will also Mesdames Bert Hopkins and W. I. Spitler of the Musical club. This club elected a new treasurer, Mrs. J. A. Dunlap, to serve in the place left vacant by the removal of Mrs. C. C. Warner to Gary. Mrs. Ketchum, another member, will probably spend the winter in .Detroit and the South. The exodus of so many active members wiU be a great loss to both the community and the club.

Mrs. J. D. Allman, president of the Literary club and Mrs. J. W. Medicus will represent that club at the State Federation meeting this week at Indianapolis. The Literary club loses an active member in the removal of Mrs. H. E. Hartley to Lafayette. The names of Mesaames F. D. Burchard and N. C. Shafer were added to the list of active members of the Musical. Both clubs have new presidents for the coming year, Mrs. Geo. A. Williams in the Musical and Mrs. J. D. Allman in the Literary. The program of the Literary club was an interesting biography of Perching, by Mrs. R.oss Dean, and a discussion of Current Events, directed by Mrs. C. E. Prior. The biographies of various American composers and a rendition of their compositions made up the excellent program of the Musical club under the leadership of Mrs. B. Forsythe Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian church. xx

TAX BOARD SEEKS CHANGE

Would Have Assessing Period Begin January 1 Instead of March 1. The state board of tax commissioners proposes to incorporate into a tax bill, which it will offer to the next legislature, a plan to begin the assessing period January 1 instead of March' 1. It is declared that companies then may supply tax statistics out of reports which they compile for themselves and various other purposes at the end of the calendar year. The assessing period thus would be lengthened from seventyfive to ninety days. The commissioners declare also that townships probably can get better men for deputy assessors if the work is done in January, before spring work begins. J —I

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Man, Parts of the Gonntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. WINAMAC BOYS HURT NEAR GOODLAND. Hugh Lory and Clarence Huffman, a couple of Winamac boys who were husking corn southwest of Goodland, were struck by an automobile last Wednesday might while coming to Goodland on a motorcycle. One of the boys suffered a broken leg and the other a badly crushed foot. The driver of the car that struck them did not stop to ascertain the extent of /their injuries, and citizens of Goodland employed a Lafayette detective to locate the guilty party. Friday morning IHhrry Rothrock of southwest of Goodland admitted that be was the driver of the car that struck the boys, and settlement of the damages will likely be effected. The accident occurred at the south edge of Goodland, where the roads turns south ajear the former W. W. Gilman farm.

THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

Washington, Nov. 17.—President Wilson in a proclamation today designated Thursday, November 28, as Thanksgiving day, and said this year the American people have special and .moving cause to be grateful and rejoice. Complete victory, he said, has brought not only peace, but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which “justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among nations.” The proclamation follows: A PROCLAMATION. Thanksgiving, 1918. By the Pfesident of the United States. It has long been our custom to turn in the autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. This year we have special and moving cause to be grateful and to rejoice. God has in His good pleasure given us peace. .It has not come as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from the strain and tragedy of war., It has come as a great triumph of right. Complete victory has brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which justice shall replace force and jealous ihtrigue among the nations. Our'gallant armies have participated in a triumph which is not marred or stained by another purpose of selfish aggression. In a righteous cause they have won immortal glory and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind. God has indeed been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing as revives and strengthens in us all the best traditions of our national history. A new day shines about us, in which our hearts take new courage and look forward with new hope and greater things. While we render thanks for these things, let us not forget to seek the Divine guidance in the performance of those duties and Divine mercy and forgiveness for all errors of act or purpose, and pray that in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among the nations. Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the ruler of nations. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be asDone in the District of Columbia, this sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nineteen hundred and eighteen, and of the independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and forty-third. (Signed) Woodrow Wilson, By the President. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State.

The next excursion to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, will leave Chicago at 9:30 a. m., November 29. This is a 3.500 mile trip, the grandest you eyer made. Don’t miss it. Harvey Davisson. —Advt. Buy your typewriting tablets at The Democrat office.

CHURCH CLOSED FIVE WEEKS

(Was Loonest Period In a Pastorate of Over Forty Years. Rev. J. B. Fleming received word a few days ago of the death of a nephew, Frank Fleming, of Franklin, Pennsylvania, who was wounded in action in France and later Hied in the hospital. The young man was about 22 years of age and shortly before enlisting be had been elected assistant athletic director of Purdue university. He left the U. S. with the rank of lieutenant and had been promoted to captain, it is understood, since going overseas.

WILL SPEAK TO BEE KEEPERS

Mr. J. R. Baldwin of the United States Department of Agriculture will speak to the bee-keepers of the county at the court house next Saturday afternoon, November 23, at 2 o’clock. This meeting has been arranged for the purpose pf calling attention to and giving expert advice relative to matters pf vital interest to the bee-keeping fraternity. Mr. Baldwin has met with a warm reception in every locality in Indiana and corAUL invitation is extended tq the beekeepers of Jasper coun|y sn4 tp discuss their problems with

EXTENSION TO NOVEMBER 30

To Send Christmas Packages to Overseas Soldiers. The Red Cross has just received word that the date for mailing Christmas packages to soldiers overseas, ihas been extended to include November 30, 1918. Where the next of kin have not receded Christmas parcel labels from soldiers overseas, Red Cross Chapters may supply one label for each soldier, taking an affidavit from the recipient that to the best of his knowledge and belief only one Christmas parcel will be sent to that soldier. These extra labels may be received after November 21, 1918.

DEMOBILIZING AT CAMP TAYLOR

Camp Taylor, Ky., N0v.,15.— Developments point to an early demobilization of troops at Camp Zachary Taylor and many Indiana soldiers are hopeful of eating their Christmas dinners at home. Camp headquarters received a lengthy message from the war department announcing that form blanks for discharges have been mailed and outlining the system that will be pursued in mustering out when the final order for demobilization is given. All troop movements from this camp have been ordered stopped. Col. A. H. Carter, commandant of the field artillery central officers’ training school, received instructions not to accept any more students, authorizing him to discharge from the service students desiring to quit their studies and allowing those who wish to complete the course to dp so with the understanding that those attaining the required grades will be commissioned in the reserve corps and put on an inactive status upon their graduation.

Maj. H. S. Conger, deputy zone supply officer, has been notified that outstanding orders for coal for the cantonment have been cancelled. The supply on hand is adequate to provide fuel until Jan. 1. To Maj Gen. John E. McMahon, veteran of the St. Mihiel drive and •other important battles in the world war, will probably fall the duty of supervising the mustering out of troops. He will arrive here Tuesday •and will be the fifth and possibly .the last commander of the cantonment, Which has handled the reception of more than 125,000 draft selects, thousands of whom were from Indiana, and has sent ten separate organiations to France, the largest of which was the Eighty-fourth (Lincoln) Division. Second Lieutenant Ward Lambert, ormerly a prominent athlete of Crawfordsville, has been appointed morale officer in the Fifth regiment, Field Artillery Replacement Depot. Candidate Roy L. Lowenthal, 34 years old, son of Julius W. Lowenthal, of 906 Riverside, Evansville, succumbed to influenza and pneumonia today at the base hospital. He was a member of the Seventeenth Training Battery, Field Artillery, central officers’ training school.

You can still buy a good rub-ber-tipped lead pencil for a nickel In The Democrat’s fancy stationary and office supply department

Vol. XXI, No. 67

WILSON GOING TO FRANCE, IT IS ANNOUNCED

Officially Stated Hr Will Head the United States Peace Mission. WIFE TO ACCOMPANY HIM White House Announcement Says Mrs. Wilson and Official Delegates Will Go With President, Who Iff to Insist on League of Nations. Washington, Nov. 19. —President WUspn ywill bead this country’s delegation tp the peace conference. He expects |o sail for France within a day or two after December 2, the opening of the regular session of congress. This was officially announce# at the White Hpuse. The statement is an president expects to sail tor France immediately after the opening SW regular session of congress Mr the purpose of taking part in the dtacuaelpp and settlement of the main features of the treaty of peace. "R is not likely that it wIU be possible for him to remain throughout the sessions pf the formal peace conference, but his presence at the outset la necessary in order to obviate the manifest disadvantages of discussion by cable in determining the general outlines of the final treaty, on which he must necessarily be consulted. “He will, of course, be accompanied by delegates who will sit as the representatives of the United States throughout tlie conference. The names of the delegates will be presently announced.” Mrs. Wilson will accompany the president, it was learned, and the entire delegation—peace envoys, secretaries, stenographers and the like — will probably sail on one of the American battleships, possibly the Pennsylvania. Peace Conference in December. The president’s announcement settles two questions. The first of these is the fact that the peace conference will be an early one, beginning in December; the second is that it will be held at Versailles.

The president will appear before congress, presumably on the day its regular session opens, to explain more minutely the reasons why, at this time, it is Imperative for him to go abroad. His reasons, it was said, will go far toward mollifying the feeling in certain quarters of the senate and the house that it Is unwise for him to leave the country. There are two outstanding reasons why the president’s attendance is necessary at the peace conference. He wants to preserve the unity of counsel that brought victory to the allies and America on the battlefield, and which characterized the sessions of the supreme war council at Versailles, and he also wants to make secure the foundations of a League of Nations. The latter is his plan for world and lasting peace and he Is so strongly convinced of Its efficacy that he is going to Europe to put it into concrete form. President to Be Chief Figure. By common consent and approbation of all the allies the president will assume the leading role at the momentous conference. The position of the United States in the great war, coupled with his position as this nation’s spokesman, will make him the chief figure and one whose word will command the respectful audience of all civilization.' He will be ahle to see the peace conference started with the “right foot forward” and officials and diplomats here believe that will be half the battle for the eventual amicable settlement of the grave questions it will have before it. The president, will be absent from the United States for three weeks or a month. Possibly it will be for a longer period, dependent, of course,on developments on the other side. The president’s announcement of his impending departure is deemed a sufficient answer to the query, “Does the Constitution allow him to leave the country?” If it did not he would not go. So that settles it. To those* persons who feel that he will shatter precedent is the recollection that three of the four presidents before him —Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft—also shattered precedents. Mr. Cleveland was outside the territorial waters of the United States on a yachting trip, while both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft visited the Canal Zone and also stepped out of Its boundaries tn the republic of Panama. Furthermore, It is recalled, Mr. Taft crossed the international bridge over the Rio Grande and stepped on Mexican soil «m one occasion.