Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — Page 2

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<!^^Chlldre^C^Ttoi^letcher? The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of a and has been made under his pers° nal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children —Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, *)rops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea —The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought TH E CENTAUR COMRANV, NKW VORK CITY,

HE JIISPER county own F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAt-£R OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Sintered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March B, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday The Only All Home-Print Newspaper In Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance ADVERTISING rates Display 12%e I»®M Display, special position. . 15c Inefc Readers, per line first Insertion. . Sa Readers, per line and. Inser.... Be Want Ads— l cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price if run one or more month*. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks —Not t* exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. R® advertisements accepted for th* first page. All accounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1918

STARTLING NEWS, INDEED

Amos Cummings said: “If a mad dog bites a man that isn’t news, it happens often. But if a man. bites a mad dog, that IS news.” The accusation that the Commercial Cable Co. makes against Postmaster General Burleson IS news, also. Mr. Burleson believes in public ownership and will put it through if Congress and the administration do not choke him off. He took oyer ocean cables with the rest of the telegraph system. Commercial Cable Company lawyers declare that Burleson is robbing a poor corporation and handing the proceeds to the government of the United States. Make a red mark in your diary on this date. You have never read that kind of a charge before, yon may never read it again. For a corporation to- rob the government, with the hearty cooperation of government officials, is usual enough. But for a public man to be accused of robbing a poor, suffer ng corporation to enrich the government is news as startling as the man biting the mad dog.—Arthur Brisbane, in Chicago Herald-Examiner,

The report of Mr. Donaldson on the Fleming gravel road and Pine township bridges, together with the stories that have drifted in has convinced us that a state highway commission to take over all road building is a proper change, and the only solution of the road building problem,. We hope that it can be arranged that in place of this commission being appointed by Gov. Goodrich or any other political governor, that it will be composed of United States army officers, from the engineering corps, who have been doing such wonderful work in France, repairing the roads in the battle fields, many of” which were built by the Romans more than

2,000 years ago, and it will be a rare opportunity for the country to make use of the knowledge and experience they have acquired. Besides this the taxpayers can rest more confident in getting their full money’s worth in construction handled by these men than in any other way. In none of the great problems they have handled like the Panama canal and Roosevelt dam, down to harbor breakwaters and minor work there lias never been any scandal of graft or shabbiness that we have heard of. The people in this district should get their sentiment on this road matter to Senator Southworth of Lafayette or Representative Wood of Parr< —Benton Review. i ”

Ohio Republicans have started a definite movement looking toward the nomination of Gen. John J. Pershing as the republican candidate for president in 1920. Now what do you think of that? It hasn't been so very long ago since every republican politician in the country was accusing President Wilson of playing politics in selecting General Pershing as commander of lour overseas forces, in preference to General Leonard Wood, better known as Roosevelt’s pet; some of them even went so far as to want the Terrible Teddy placed in command personally. I am wagering that if Roosevelt is not the Republican nominee in 1920 he will be found again organizing a new party. !-—Tippecanoe County Democrat.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

These be the times that try men’s souls; we’re always digging up our rolls, and stripping off the bills; as fast as we can earn the coin it has to go for steak and loin, for pantaloons and pills. “The price has risen,” is the cry, whene’er a fellow goes to buy a hymnbook or a hen; the wai made of trade a botch, and so the prices rise a notch, and then will rise again. These be the times that try men’s souls; the doughnuts now are mostly holes, the pies are thin and pale; most things re made of substitutes, and there are wormholes in the fruits for which we blow our kale. A pound of butter costs us now as much as would have bought a cow, in balmy times of peace; and when we buy it some one comes with warning voice and muffled drums, and says, “Conserve the grease.” These be the times that, try men’s souls; we cannot touch, with ten-foot poles the price of things we need; the stand off at the store is banned, and all the wealth we have on hand is merely chicken feed. And yet, as I pursue my way, I do not see a grouch all day, or hear a plaintive whine; the boys seem glad to stand the gaff, and all the hard luck makes them laugh, instead of bringing brine. You cannot whip a bunch like us; in times of peace we rant and cuss, and paw around like sin; but when we need to wear a yoke we view the blamed thing as a joke, and wear it with a grin.

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MILLIONS SPENT ON HUN PLOTS

German Propaganda in the U. S. Cost Berlin Government f ~~ $7,500,000. BERNSTORFF ORDERS READ A. Bruce Bielaski, Chief of the Bureau of Investigation, Tells Senator* Cost of Attempts to Subvert American Public Opinion. Washington. Dec. ia—Germany spent more than $7,500,000 for the dissemination of propaganda In this country from the beginning of the war, according to the testimony of A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, on the stand in the senate investigation of German and brewery propaganda. Some of this, he said, was used in purchasing controlling interests in newspapers, some for the printing and distribution of pamphlets and some was sent to the German consulates in principal cities. Bielaski was asked by Senator Overman to put in the hearing an account of the activities of 8010 Pasha, executed in France as a spy, while he was in this country.

8010 was brought to this country by a representative of W. R. Hearst, Bielaski said, and was taken to the German embassy by Adolph Papenstadt, a wealthy German of New York, who is now interned. Later, the witness said, 8010 was introduced to Mr. Hearst, who Invited him to lunch and who later attended a number of meetings with him. Bolo’s mission in this country was ostensibly to obtain print paper, the committee was told, but in reality it was to obtain money for purchasing a newspaper in France. After getting it he returned to France. Activities of Labors’ National Peace council, organized in Chicago, in May, 1916, were discussed by Bielaski. The purpose of the organization was to crystalize sentiment for peace and to demand that the shipment of munitions to the allies be stopped. The council accomplished nothing, Bielaski said, largely because Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, took a firm stand against it. Ordered Germans Out of Plants. More letters from the secret files of Count von Bernstorff were read to the committee by Mr. Bielaski. Among them were instructions to all German consuls in the United States to get German subjects out of plants producing materials for the allies. The consuls were ordered to stop Germans above the rank of common laborer from working in such plants, under a section of the imperial code, and to report to the German consulate at New York. Bielaski read to the committee at length from the diary of Dr. Karl Fuehr, the German agent whose activities figured prominently in the investigation. The notes of Fuehr said that on the day following the publication of private letters of H. F. Albert he consulted with Albert at Cedarhurst, N. Y., and later discussed the incident with Samuel Untermyer. Bielaski said Captain von Papen, the former German military attache, sent a message in 1915 to the German consul at St. Louis saying that two agents for the Brotherhood of Metal Workers in New York, Samuel Scollard and J. E. Hall, had begun a movement to stop the shipment of munitions to the allies. Scollard was afterward indicted in the Industrial Workers of the World case at Chicago. Tried to Use Labor Organizations.

The witness told how when Capt Franz von Rintelen came to the United States in 1915 to endeavor to stop ship ments to Great Britain he met David Lamar, convicted afterward in New York and sent to prison for impersonating A. Mitchell Palmer, then a member of congress. Von Rintelen, he said, formed labor organizations in the interest of keeping the United States out of the war through Lamar and in connection with that work $500,000 was collected. “Only a small part of it was spent, however,” said Bielaski. “Lamar had a habit of taking credit for a great many things he had nothing to do with. At a mass meeting in New Jersey, at which Secretary Bryan spoke, Lamar took credit for organizing, but he had nothing to do with It” The New York Staats Zeitung was mentioned by Bielaski in connection with the financing of a secret propaganda to the extent of $495. A letter from Bernstorf! to B. H. Ridder of that paper said: “To my great regret I am unable to pay any money for political purposes, as I feel that we must keep out of the domestic politics of the United States.” “I think that letter must have been written for publication,” said Bielaski, “because the money was paid.” Just what the project referred to was not disclose* by the correspondence, but the witness said It might have been in connection with the election of Congressman Buchanan of Chicago.

Railroad Man Dies.

Chicago, Dec. 10.—Thomas J. Foley, general manager of the Illinois Cen» trail railroad under the federal railroad administration, died at the Illinois Central hospital. He had been ill but a short time. He was unmarried. __

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

U. S. TROOPS SEE METZ CEREMONY

Chicago’s “Dandy First” Wit* nesses Presentation of Baton to Petain. GIVEN LEAD IN THE PARADE Premier Clemenceau Hands to Mayor Keys of City Which Germans Failed to Get When They Captured Metz in 1870. Metz, Lorraine, Dec. 10.—After giving hearty greetings to the French troops three weeks ago, Metz received President Pioncare and representatives of every branch of the French government. The people of Metz looked upon it as a sort of official entry into possession of the city. They approved of it by the presence of a vast throng that continually cheered President Poincare, Premier Clemenceau, Marshals Joffre, Foch and Petain and Field Marshal Haig and General Pershing, who were included in the official party that assembled here. The girls Of Metz, wearing their national costume, were banked on both sides of the street from the station to the Esplanade. Behind them were packed men and women carrying the French flag and wearing artificial tricolor bouquets in default of real flowers. Gets Ancient Keys. At the ceremony in the city hall, Premier Clemenceau handed to the mayor of Metz the keys _to the city which the Germans failed to get when they captured Metz in 1870. The keys had been preserved by a descendaut of Gen. F. A. Lapasset, one of the defenders of Metz. A notable feature was the presentation of the baton of a marshal of France to General Petain, announcement of whose elevation to the rank of marshal was made last month. The ceremony took place on the esplanade in front of the of Marshal Ney. The One Hundred and Thirty-first regiment of the Thirtythird division of the American army was drawn up on one side and -.the famous French marines In front. Other French troops formed the other side of the rectangular space.

The American troops had the honor of leading the line during the review and “The Star-Spangled Banner” was wildly cheered as the regiment marched by in columns of eight in faultless style. The "marines of Dixmude, whose fame had reached Metz gven during hostilities, provoked fresh outbursts of cheering, as did the passage of various sections of the troops in review. The societies of Lorraine —band? o£ men and women, young and old —filed through the streets during the morning singing the Marseillaise, thus adding to the general enthusiasm. Mangin's Heroes to Enter Mayence. Paris, Dec. 10— General Mangin will enter Mayence, the French bridgehead on the Rhine, this week at the head of the Thirteenth and Fortythird infantry divisions, each unit of which has been cited for bravery. In order to meet the wishes of various units which desire to enter AlsaceLorraine and the Rhine provinces, the government has decided, according to the Echo de Paris, to change from time to time the troops in the occupied region. French troops will be sent to the Rhine bridgeheads and into the Palatinate and also into the American sphere of occupation. These troops will be relieved later by other units.

MARSHAL FOCH TO VISIT U. S.

Accepts Mayor of New York’s Invitation to Be City’s Guest. New York, Dec. 10. —Marshal Foch is to be the guest of New York. This was made clear through the receipt by Mayor Hyian of the following; cablegram from the noted military genius, sent by him in response to a cabled invitation from Mayor Hyian to visit the metropolis of the Western world: *1 am profondly touched by the sentiment which has inspired your message, and I thank you for your invitation. I appreciate highly the honor of the “right of the city’ (freedom of the city) which the city of New York offers me. “Please transmit to them with my acceptance, expression of my warmest gratitude.”

MAY REQUIRE LOAN IN JAPAN

Believed $500,000,000 Budget Wil! Show Large Deficit. Tokyo, Dec. 10.—The budget tor the coming fiscal year will have a record total amounting to more than 1,000,000,000 yen ($500,000,000) each of receipts and expenditures with an estimated deficit of 21,000,000 yen ($lO,500,000) which may necessitate a loan.. The grand total shows an Increase of; 450,000,000 yen ($225,000,000) over thft current year. All that of finance get an Increase.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 10.—The Citizens’ State bank of Bingham and the Cupper Sfate'Wmk of Copperfield, both mining towns about 30 miles south of here, were closed by order of the state bank examiner.

State Closes Two Utah Banks.

Obituary

Francina Allen was born in Union counity, Ohio, November 29, 1851, and died at her home in Fair Oaks, Ind., Dec. 2, 1918, of heart failure, at the age of 67 years and three days. While yet a small child her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Keener, emigrated in the year 1855 to Indiana and settled on a piece of raw land now adjoining the village of Virgie, where Francina grew into girlhood. The country, it must be remembered, was and almost uninhabitable region and while her parents did all in their power to give their two children the advantages of an education, the conditions surrounding them were such that the very best they could do would be considered in these days as very meager. Only those who have passed through the loneliness and disadvantages of child life know how to sympathize with her who has into that great and mysterious life which lies beyond our mortal vision. Mrs. Allen was married to J. M. Allen January 4, 1905, and moved to Davenport, lowa, where she resided five years, returning to Fair Oaks Sept. 1, 1909, where she has since resided. Mrs. Allen was the mother of four children, Mrs. Rose Isaacs (deceased), Mrs. John Gilmore, Mrs. Joseph Winslow and Jacob Spitzer, all of Fair Oaks. In addition to the above mentioned children she leaves to mourn their loss her husband, J. M. Allen, and six grandchildren. One grandchild, Jenings Winslow, departed this life but a few weeks ago at Fair Oaks. Mrs. Allen united with the Methodist church Jan. 4, 1905. She possessed many generous traits of character that endeared her to those who were fortunate enough to enjoy her acquaintance, and will long be remembered by the early settlers in and around Fair Oaks.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION Rensselaer, Indiana, November 1, 1918. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that the partnership lately existing between us, the undersP wd, William C. Babcock and Albert R. Hopkins, carrying on the business of buying and selling grain, at Rensselaer and other -points in Jasper county, Indiana, under the firm name and style of Babcock & Hopkins, was, on the first day of November, 1918, diss’lved by mutual consent and in the future the business will be carried on by the said William C. Babcock alone, who will pay and discharge all debts and liabilities and receive all moneys payable to the late firm. ALBERT R. HOPKINS, j-15 WILLIAM C. BABCOCK. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will, until 1 o’clock p. m., on Tuesday, December 31, 1918, receive sealed proposals for furnishing books, blanks, stationery and other supplies for the county, its several county officers and the co rts thereof, for the year 1919,- all -bids to be filed, according to law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor of Jasper county, Indiana. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Firman Thompson et ux to Frank G. Cavendish, December 4, Its 1,2, 3,4, 5, bl 3, Newland, S6OO. Robert W. Burris et ux to James H. Myres et ux, December 12, It 2, bl 8, Rensselaer, Weston’s second add., $1,500. Isaac Shannon et ux to Amanda B. Reece, November 23, s% sw 4-31-5, 80 acres, Walker, sl.

FORSALB For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and in A-l eondition. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—A Webster’s New International Dictionary, almost new and very little soiied, sheep binding and good paper Publisher’s price sl2; will sell for $8 cash. — For Sale—lo pure-bred Duroc boars and gilts, large enough for service. Some with pedigrees.—GUSS YEOMAN, phone 78-0 Mt. Ayr, Rensselaer, R-3. - d-25 For Sale——Some White Holland turkey hens and toms and Buff Roock cockerels.—W. B. WALTER, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 80-C, Mt. Ayr exchange. ts For sale—6 room residence and 8 lots in Remington. Cash or terms or trade for Colorado property.—THOS. MULLEN, 335 16 th St., Denver, Colo. d-28 For Sale by reason of installing furnace, a fine base-burner used only two years; all in splendid condition. May be seen at Democrat office—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale —Now is the time to .place your order for Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels. Also .pure-bred mapmoth Pekin ducks, at $2,00

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apiece.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, R-l. , d-18 For Sale—One extra good grade Shorthorn bull one year old, weight 750 lbs.; one good steer weight 650; some good Buff Orpington cockerels.—W. B. HOUGH, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3, telephone 936-D. d-2« For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Ffcucy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die numbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rubber stamp pads, typewriter ribhens for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasets, account flies, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, ete. Typewriters—One No. 5 Oliver, splendid condition, tabulator, etc. s tin case, S3O; 2 brand-new later model No. 5 Olivers, backspacer, etc., S4O each; 1 Smith Premier visible No. 10, tabulator, back-spacer, etc., a dandy machine, S4O; 1 Smith Premier No. 3, goed condition, S2O. — The Democrat. For Sale——6 00-acre farm 1 mile from Gloster, Mlsa.’, nice city of 2,000 population. Farm is well improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natchez and which Intersects with the Jacksen highway. Price S3O per acre.—• HARVEY DAVISSON, phone 2« or 499. M For Sale—Some real bargains in well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargain* in improved farms of all sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. ts One of the Best Located Residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-stery house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For further particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. FOR RENT For Rent— My house on Park avenue, electric lights, city water.— MARY JANE HOPKINS. ts For Rent—Good 9-room house., Bath, toilet, electric lights, city water and cistern, adjoining my , residence. —E. P. HONAN, phone 285 or 334. For Rent—l6o acre farm for rent in Jasper county, good land and buildings. About 22 acres of wheat and rye. Reason for moving is sickness.—See DAVID POPEL, 1% miles west of Gifford. d-21 For Rent—Good seven room house on corner of Park avenue and Work st., with bath, electric lights, cistern, etc. Large lot, nice shade, fruit, and large barn if desired.—« F. E. BABCOCK, at Democrat office. WANTED Wanted —Place in town to work for board mornings and evenings and Saturdays by high school boy of 17 years.—Enquire of J. J. Hunt, at T. &. S. bank. d-13 Wanted—More farmers to know about the great land movement in the clover lands of Wisconsin. See me about the next excursion. Office in Wright Bldg., near Washington street bridge. Open evenings. Telephone 418. ELMER GWIN. ts LOST Strayed or Stolen—Black and white spotted Pointer dog. Reward. Phone 37.—FIRMAN THOMPSON. d-19 Estray Taken Up—December 1, a black sow, weight about 200 pounds. Owner may have same by paying charges.—W. H. WORTLEY, phone 949-H. FOUND Found—Last Sunday, Indiana Auto license,plate No. 162136.—Ca1l at Democrat office. d-14 ,» Found—On Renssfelaer-Remiington road, about 4 miles south of Rensselaer, Monday, gent’s glove. Owner may have same by callng at The Democrat office and paying 25 cents for this ad.

MISCELLANEOUS Automobile Storage—Have room for four more machines for winter at reasonable price.—C. W. DUVALL, phone 147. d-14 Storage—l have two rooms for storage of light household er other goods in The Efemocrat baildin* Terms reasonable.—F. E. BAB COCK. Phone 315 or Sli. Standing Timber—We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 3 miles west of Parr. Will sell in patches, any quantity desired.—J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter, Mgr. 337. ts Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its tansy stationery department the famous Nedldh make of ribbons for nearly all the standard -makes of typewriters. Price 75 c each. Will be sent by mall prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHAS. J. DEAN fl SON, Odd Fellows, Building, Rensselaer. |l Money to Loan—s per cent fans loans. —JOHN A. DUNLAP. fl Mutual Insurance—Fire and Light* n’»ng. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS. Phone 583-L. $1 Farm Loans—Money to loan afl farm property ip any sums *1 M SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN,