Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — Page 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1918

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Ear-to-Row Test Completed. . As a part of the general crop improvement propaganda being carried on 'by the farmers of the county, a number of corn growers have been conducting ear-to-row corn breeding trials for the purpose of selecting high producing strains of seed. The breeder selects his best ears and plants a. small portion of each ear in a row by itself. In the fall he weighs up the corn produced on each row and uses the remaining seed from the highest producing original ears for breeding work the next season. In a trial completed last week, carefully selected seed ears last spring showed a variation from 91 to 118 ears in a 50 hill row. One row produced 12 seed ears, while another produced 75. The weight of the seed ears varied from 8 to 55 pounds. On one row the number of barren stalks was 1, while in the next row there were 29. The yields of the rows varied from 64% to 79 pounds, or about\2o per cent. This is an illustration of the opportunities that exist for the corn breeder in eliminating the factors contributing to low yields. Potash Again. The attention of this office has been called to a supply of Potassium Carbonate imported from Russia by the War (Industrial Board of Russia and now stored in its warehouses in New York. This material is claimed to have been imported by the committee for use in the manufacture of muni- ’ tions, but a market is being sought for it as fertilizer. The price, $540 - per ton, would seem, to preclude its use by our farmers. Farm Record Meeting. A meeting will be held at the court house next Saturday afternoon, Dec. 21, at 2 o’clock. Mr.- M. H. Overton will speak on “Farm Accounts and Records,” and will explain the most practical methods of keeping farm accounts, and will show how they may be used to improve / the farm business. In different parts of the state farmers, by keeping records and eliminating unprofitable lines, have increased their yearly incomes from S2OO to SI,OOO. This is a good time of the year to attend such a meeting. Breeders’ Directory to be Issued. • All owners of pure bred livestock,

RATE OF TAXATIONFOR THE YEAR 1918 STATE, COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP TAXES FOR JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That' following is the tax rate for the year 1918, and that I will be ready to receive at the County Treasurer’s Office in Rensselaer, ■ Indiana/the taxeTcharged therein after January Ist, 1919. The following table shgws the Rates of Taxation on each |IOO Taxalle Property, and on each Taxable Poll. ' ~ ~ ™I: " totalrate PODL TAX ONVI 00 COUNTY ££ Board on SIOO Trustees on SIOO SIOO COUNCIL _ ———gNAME OF _■ = 6 S • i » g jj h s « TOWNSHIP, TOWN «• * ?.'g g3B S 1 S s | £f3 - 5 £ 2 k ■*< or city aiiil- i’t-iIiLL iJMimh $ I Tn Ml ** *: f«!iW d H»Il £I2 ! a 1 h i 2 I S- S - f = »• ‘ 3 5 i 5 ° - 8.-5 g 8 i I 5 !2I f 2 i 5 I g § g £gg£ ITasslgalaggia sgagglg s>g s IS £ g Barkley .../.“ 5050“ ] Tl.(»4.1361101 7M05:4991015 66 203045 2010 5 1.681,383.06 Carpenter 5050 1.00 4.13610 7.005.4991015 45 1010 20 7 7 5 1.14 1.002.14 Gillam 50 50 1.00 4.13610 7.005 .49910 15 65 15 35 35 10 10 1.501.30 2.80 Hanging Grove 50 50 1.00 4.13610 7.005.499 10 15 47 10 30 25 20 5 “ . 1.361.112.47 jordan 5050 1.00! 4.13610 7.005 .499 10 15 62 15 20 35 15 10 1.46 1.21 2.67 Kankakee 50 50 1.00 4 .136 10 7 .005 .499 10 15 44 20 50 55 10 10 25 1.72 1.52 3.24 Keener 50 50 1.00 4.136 10 7.005.499 10 15 55120507025 10 3 20 1.99 1.64 3.63 Marion 50 50 1.00 4.13610 7.005 .499 10 15 62 52060 10 5 1.411.312.72 Milroy ...' 5050 1.00 4.13610 7.005 .49910 15 , 3540 40 30 10 3 1.54 1.142.68 Newton 5050 ' 1.00 4.136 10 7.005.49940 15 59 203535 15 10 1 1.55 1.302.85 Remington, Town of 50 501.00 25 25 2.50 4 .136 10 7 .005 .499 10 15 45 • 525 10 20 40 65 50 10 1.90 1.90 3.80 Rensselaer, City of 50 50 1.00 4.136 10 7.005.499 10 15 52 10 7025 230 75 50 30 2.27 2.27 4.54 Union 50 50 1.00 4.136 10 7.005 .499 10 15 52 22 50 45 22 10 5 30 1.89 1.57 3.46 Walker ...50 50 1.00 4.13610 7.005 .4991015 50'20 40 30 20 5 1.50 1.25 2.75 Wheatfield v ... 5050 1.00 4 .136 10 7 .005 .499 10 15 49 25 30 35 30 10 3 20 1.76 1.36 3.12 Wheatfield, Town of 50 50 25 50502.25 4 .136 10 7 .005 1.499 10 15 49 3 77 30 50 50 25 1 1.97 1.97 3.94 .111~1 I ' • I I ALL the Road and Bridge Tax and ONE-HALF of all other taxes make the FIRST INSTALLMENT and must be paid‘on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN MAY, 1910. ONE-HALF of all Taxes, except Road and Bridge, constitute the SECOND INSTALLMENT, and must lie |»y<i on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1910. Failure to pay First Installment when due makes both installments delinquent and attaches a penalty of 10 l>er cent to the full amount. THE TREASURER CAN NOT MAKE AND HOLD RECEIPTS FOR ANYONE. PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR IT. •fl - “ PROVISIONS OF LAW RELATING TO TRUSTEES. “The owner of property on the first day of March of any year shall be liable for the taxes of thiit year. The purchaser on the first day of March shall be considered the “Purchasers^ 11 ofPERSONAL PROPERTY as well as Real Estate shojuld remember that TAXES FOLLOW PROPERTY when the taxes thereon remain unpaid.” “COUNTY ORDERS in favor of persons owing delinquent taxes can not be paid without settlement of taxes.” “It is the duty of the TAX PAYER to state definitely on what property lie desires to pay taxes, in whose name assessed, and in what township or town it was assessed.” ' THE TREASURER WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for the ]>enalties and charges resulting from taxpayer’s omission to so state. a The Tax Duplicate for any year is made with reference to property on the first day of March of that year and remains unchanged for the year as to the showing of property and in whose name assessed and taxed. Traniers after the first day of March of any year will never appear upon the Duplicate of that year’s Those who pay taxes of property in trust, and whose taxes are complicated, such as undivided estates, etc., should pay early enough to avoid the rush of the last davs as it requires time to make divisions and separate receipts. THE ANNUAL SALE OF DELINQUENT LANDS AND LOTS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE SECOND IN FEIJRUARY, 1919. CHARLES V. MAY, Treasurer of Jasper County.

including poultry, the requested to send the breed and number on hand to the county agent before December 31. It is the intention of the Better Farming association to issue a directory of the breeders of the county for general distribution and all persons entitled to mention will find it to* their advantage to receive mention in this booklet. Corn Growers Hold Meeting. Six definite lines of work for the improvement of corn production in Jasper county were adopted as a program by a number of corn growers who met in Rensselaer last Saturday. These are as follows: 1. Conduct corn variety tests. 2. Control corn diseases. 3. Hold annual corn show. 4. Conduct corn breeding work. 5. Conduct 5 acre and 1 acre corn contests. 6. Conduct ear-to-row tests. Howard Jones, Eilt Toben, J. M. Sauser and H. E. Frame were selected to experiment with different varieties of corn next season to determine which are best adapted to their several localities. Qeorge Myers, Henry Paulus and P. H. Hauter were selected to have charge of the corn show to be held in connection with the poultry show the week beginnign January 7. Practically every farmer present pledged himself to select his 20 best seed ears and plant them by themselves on one side of the field as a plot from which to select seed corn next fall. Definite arrangements for the other projects were deferred until the corn meeting, which will be held at the court house Saturday, January 11. “Make Over Garment” Club*. The high cost of materials and ready made clothing is making it necessary that the housewife bring forth from hiding places—attic or storeroom—every usable scrap of wool, cotton, silk and linen to be utilized in making over into clothing or useful articles for the household. Not only scraps can be used hut cast off clothing may be redeemed by cleaning, turning, pressing, dyeing or recutting. With this end in ,view, girls “Make Over Garment” Clubs are being organized in Jasper county, and financed by the First National Bank of Rensselaer. The girls are using up old sheets and pillow cases for making bandages with which some “first aid” work is taught. They are.darajng and refooting old hose; patching and darning woolen and cotton garments; remaking underwear, waists, skirts, dresses and coats. They are also taught that careful laundering, pressing, sewing bn of buttons, hooks and eyes, will not only add to the general appearance of the wearer but

will also prolong the usefulness of. the garment. Two of these clubs are forking now. Four girls at South Meadow in Newton'township and a group of eleven girls at Newland. Several more groups are ready to begin work. Exhibits of the work will be made from time to time in various parts of the county.

Obituary

Emma Keener Burns was born Aug. 6, 1851, in White county, Ind. She was the daughter of James and Nancy Keener. She was united in marriage to Charles W. Bums, of the same county, March 21, 1868. After they were married they moved to this county, settling on a farm eight miles north of Rensselaer in what was at that time an unsettled country. *They lived on that farm 45 years. Mr. and Mrs. Bums saw the country grow from a wild, unsettled country to the improved, prosperous land it now is. The lived on the old homestead and raised to manhood and womanhood ten children, three dying in infancy. Those who are left to mourn for their departed mother are Vella E. Matthews, of South Bend; Nina Price and Grace Sherrill, of Otterbein; William A„ Lillian Williams, Irene Watson and Miss. Florence Burns, of Chicago, III.; Leota Garriott and Ray G., of Rensselaer, and Glen W., somewhere in France. She is also survived by nineteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, also two brothers and one sister. They are Mrs. George Casey,, of Rensselaer; Wiliam Keener, of Marion, and Albert Keener, of Rensselaer. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Matthews, in South Bend, she and her husband going there a short time before for a visit. Mrs. Burns had been in failing health for a couple of years, but her last illness was of only two weeks duration. I nher girlhood Mrs. Burns was a member of the- Methodist church of Whitley county. After coming to Jasper county she and her husband united with the United Brethren church. After the old farm was sold Mr. and Mrs. Burns moved to the farm just north of town, where the husband still lives. Later Mrs. Bums united with the Methodist church of Rensselaer. - ■ She was a good wife and mother,

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living a consistent Christian life, and died in the triumph of a living faith. Mrs. Burns was 68 years, four months and five days old at the time of her death. The funeral was conducted from the Methodist church of Rensselaer by the pastor, Rev. E. W. Strecker. Interment was made in Weston cemetery. The song service was conducted by Mrs. English, Mrs. John Medicos and Mrs. M. D. Gwin. The pall bearers were Qeorge McLain, Vernon Nowels, Cal Cain, Fred Waymire, G. A. Williams and S. C. Irwin. your calling cards, correspondence 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. You can still buy a good rub-ber-tipped lead pencil for a nickel In The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department

BIG PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will offer at public auction at his residence 1% miles south, 1 mile west, % mile south -and % mile west of Demotte; 5 miles east and 2 miles north and %■ mile west of Roselawn; 5 miles east, % mile north and 14 mile west of Thayer, commencing at 10 a. m., on MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918 8 Head of Horses —Consisting of 1 bay mare 12 years old, wt. 1200; 1 bay mare 13 years old, wt. 1200; 1 dark bay horse, wt. 1000; 2 colts coming 3 years old; 2 spring colts. 11 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 1 red and white cow, will be V fresh in January; 1 gray cow, will be fresh in April; 1 red cow, will be fresh in July; 1 red cow, will be fresh in August; 1 black and white cow, pasture bred; 5 spring calves, in good shape. r Implements,- Wagons, Etc. —Consisting of 2 Oliver gang plows, in good shape; 1 Bradley sulky plow, 16-inoh; 1 Molifte walking plow: 1 3-section harrow; 1 disc, 8-foot, good as new; 2 riding cultivators; 1 broadcast seeder; 1 Deering grain binder, in good shape;. 1 Deering corn binder; 1 Weber wagon with 40-inch bed, a good one; 2 sets of work ha aess in good Shape; some extra collars; 1 stock tank, good

as.new; 1 hay rack. Terms:—l2 months credit given on sums over $lO, notes bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not so paid, 8 per cent from date, Under $lO cash, in hand. 2 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. DICK PETERSON. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. •H. E. DeKock, Clerk. BIG PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at public auction at his residence, 4 miles north and 1 mile west of Gifford; 5 miles south of Wheatfield; 4 miles east - and 1 mile south of Kniman, commencing at 10 a. m., on MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918 3 Head of Horses and Mules— Consisting of 1 black mare 8 years old, wt. 1 200: 1 black mare 9 years old, wt' 1100; 1 black mule 10 years old, wt. 1200. 13 Head of Cattle — Consisting of 1 Hereford cow 8 years old, fresh in May; 1 Holstein cow 8 years old, fresh in May; 1 ’Jersey cow 8 years old, fresh in March; 1 red cow 8 years old, fresh in April; 1 red cow 3 old, fresh in May; 1 large red cow 5 years old, with young calf by side; 1 Holstein cow 9 years old, fresh in January; 1 Hereford cow 9 years old, fresh in March; 1 red and white spotted cow 8 years old, fresh in March; 1 Hereford heifer 2 years old, fresh in June; 2 spring calves, steer and heifer. ,10 Head of Hogs— Consisting of 1 red brood wt. 200 lbs.; 1 Chester White brohd sow, wt. 250 lbs.; 8 shotes, wt. st) lbs. Chickens— About on dozen Leghorn roosters. Some corn in crib. Wagon Etc.—Consisting of 1 Independent 8-foot binder, all in good shape; 1 McCormick mower; 1 Milwaukee selfdump rake; 1 Rock Island smiky plow; 1 Emerson walking plow; 1 high wheel wagon; 1 hay ladder; 2 good mud, boats; 2 top buggies; 1 open buggy; 1 set good double harness; 2 sets single harness; 1 washing machine and numerous smaller articles. , Terms—l 2 months credit given on sums over $lO, notes bearing 6 per cent interest from date If paid when due; if not so paid, 8

per cent from date. Under $lO cash in hand; 2 per cent discount for cash on sums over $lO. WM. BRADDOCK. k W. A. McCurtain, Auct. [. W. H. Marble, Clerk. Hot lunch on ground. BIG PUBLIC SALE. As I intend to move away I wilt sell at my residence on the HarveyDavisson farm, 9y 2 miles due north of Rensselaer, and 1 mile west and 4 % miles sowth of Kniman, commencing at 10 a. m., on TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919 . 2 Head of Horses— Consisting bt 1 black mare, wt. 1300, a good; worker; 1 sorrel imare 7 years old. wt. 1050, lady broke and a general purpose mare. 28 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 4 milch cows; 1 black cow 6 yearn old, to be fresh in February; 1 light spotted cow 8 years old, to be fresh in March; 1 spotted cow 6 years old, will be fresh on or about date of sale; 1 red cow 7 years old, to be fresh latter part of January; 4 coming 3-year-old heifers all bred to be fresh in spring; 5 coming 2-year-old heifers all bred too be fresh in May; 1* White Faced bull coming 3 years old, and a good breeder. These cows and heifers are all bred to him.w 14 yearling steers, and a dandy bunch. 10 Head of Hogs— Consisting ot 9 Chester White shotes, weighing about 60 pounds, and 1 registered Chester White boar, a little over--1 year old, and a good one, papers, furnished. 2 dozen Plymouth Rock Hens; 2t dozen Plymouth Rock Cockerels* and 1 dozen Guineas. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 1 Deering binder, 6-foot, new canvass, good running order; 1 Case riding cultivator; 1 Gale corn planter with 80 rods wire and fertiliizer attachment; 1 old disc; some houshold furniture and other articles too numerous dot mention. Terms— ll months credit given on sums over $lO, notes bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due;" if not so paid* 8 per cent from date. Under $lO cash in hand. 2 per cent off forcash where entitled to credit. GEORGE HEIL. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. ' C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Lunch on ground. ; "V

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