Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LEATHERMAN BACK IN U. S.

Landed At Newport News On New Year’s Day. David Leatherman received some good news Monday from his eon ffiarl, who was among -the first drafted men to be sent to Camp Taylor from Jasper county, his number being the first drawn in the draft lottery. He is now back in the U. S Carl was sent overseas last' March, landing in Liverpool, England, March 29, and was sent across the .channel some days later. He has been in the quartermaster’s department. ge set sail for America December 22, and landed at Newport News, Va., on New Year’s day, and a happy New Year it was to him, he writes. Doesn’t know how soon he will be mustered out, he says, nor where, but expects it to be soon.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

The 9-months-old baby of Fred Pickner of Wheatfield was brought to the hospital Monday, suffering with influenza- The mother and hix-year-old sister died Saturday and Sunday nights, respectively, from the same disease. Mrs. Ernest Lamson’s condition is slightly improved. Mrs. Riley Miller entered the hospital Saturday with influenza and been very sick, although some better at this writng. Ralph O’Riley was taken to the hospital Saturday suffering from influenza.

VAN RENSSELAER QUARTERS

Have Been Partially Remodeled and Now Have Furnace Heat. The Van Rensselaer club members now have very comfortable and commodious quarters these winter/ days and evenings In which to spend an idle hour or two in their club rooms on the second floor of The Democrat building, which have recently been, remodeled to some extent by taking out the two partitions on the south and throwing the three rooms into one large billiard and pool room, which is equipped with both a fine billiard table and a good pool table. This still leaves the commodious front room and the room immediately in the rear of , same for •members who do not care for billiards or pool or to watch the games, both of which are comfortbly furnished, while the entire suite is well heated from the furtlace in the basement of the building at all. times. While this club, which is largely made up of business and professional men of Rensselaer, went on a war footing soon after hostilities 'were declared and kept close Shore during the war, in which nearly a score of its members were in active service, it now expects to give a little more attention to social activities and enlarge its membership, as well as its quarters, and to this end is expecting to take on a lease of the third floor of the building it occupies within the next few months and use the large hall on the third floor for banquets, dances, etc., and. will extensively remodel both floors, putting in hardwood floors, removing the hallway partition on the second floor and putting in a handsome open stairway, which changes will give the club very flne and roomy quarters indeed and at a minimum of expense.

FORMER RESIDENT IS DEAD

Mrs. William I. Hoover returned borne Saturday evening from Delphi ■where she had been called by jthe severe illness and subsequent death of her father, Jesse F. Smith, ■who died New Year's day and .was buried on Friday in, the Masonic cemetery at Delphi. Deceased was €9 years old on November 8 last, and is survived by four children, Mrs. W. I. Hoover of this city, Mrs. Fern Coburn and Mrs. Agnes fiweet of Delphi, and Bond Smith ©f Yeoman. His wife died sonie fifteen years ago. ( ( ‘ Mr. Smith was ‘a former resljdent of Jasper county and resided several years ago on a farm south of Relnsselaer. He will foe remembered by many \ t the older Yesidents here. v

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomised—To-gether-With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. New suits filed: No. 9000. Edward P. Lane vs. Perry S. Washburn. Suit on note. Demand S9O. The Marion township War Moth.leeting will be held Saturday afternoon in the G. A. R. room at the court house. Township Trustee Alfred Duggleby was down from Kankakee township Monday attending the cofinty board of education meeting. iMr. Duggleby and family—all except his wife —recently had a severe tussle with the “flu t ” and an 18-y ear-old son came very near dying. Mr. Duggleby himself lost 25 .or 30 pounds in weight as a result, but is beginning to pick up again. The receipts and expenditures of the Jasper county ‘hospital for the six months ending December 31 last, were: Receipts, $6,993.76, expenditures, $11,667.19, leaving a deficit for the six months ot, $4,673.43. -The receipts and expenditures for the first six months of the >/ear were: Receipts, $3,731.95 and expenditures $7,121.07, leaving a deficit of $3,389.12. The total receipts for the twelve months were $10,725.75, and expenditures $18,788.26, leaving a net deficit for the year of $8,062,55, -or an average deficit of a little over $670 per month.

Marriage license® issued: January 3, Ernest Paul Rockwell of Gillam township, aged 23 June 29 last, Marion Frances Meader of Union township, aged 21 October 13 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. January 4, Ezra Stoner of Peru, Indiana, aged 23 August 2 last, farmer, and Lydia Bethel Arnold of Barkley township, aged 19 January 22 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. January 7, Edward Ozro Calton of Chicago, Illinois, aged 35 July 18 last, U. S. employe, and Margaret Hollister, also of Chicago, aged 35 July 4 last, clerk. Second marriage for each. First marriage of male dissolved by death in 1913; first marriage of female dissolved by divorce in May, 1918.

—:—: — County Assessor G. L. Thornton returned Saturday night from Indianapolis where he attended a state meeting of the county assessors, at which the proposed new tax bill was read and discussed. This measure makes many radical changes in the present assessment law and also increases the pay of township assessors from $2 per day to $4.50 and their deputies from $2 to $3.50 for each day actually employed, except in cities of the first and second class where I the deputies receive $4 per iday. ■ln townships having a population of 5,000 or more the assessors are placed on a salary. The law also provides—as does the present law, though never followed —for Lie assessment of all property at its full true cash value, including real estate. The proposed law has some good features ani some bad ones.

VAN RENSSELAER CLUB SMOKER

Tfie Van Rensselaer Club will give a smoker in their club rooms 6n next Wednesday evening, January 8, commencing at 8 o’clock. All members urged to be present. “Eats” and “Seven-Up.”—SECRE-TARY.

PUBLIC SALE Wednesday, January 15, 1919, Hugh O’Donnell, 6 miles west of Monon, 3 miles south and 1 mile west of Lee, 6 % .miles north of Seaflfeld. General sale, including horSes t cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Japan has eighty artificial dye factories, witty an annua! capacity in excess of 10,000,000 pounds.

JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1919

JOE THOMAS MEETS HOME BOYS

In 187th Field Artillery, Now Back In U. S. In a letter received from Joseph Thomas, , with the 84 th Division, Brest, France, dated December 11, by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Thomas of Surrey, he says: “Sunday went over to another camp and found the 137th F. A., and saw Harvey Myres, Jim Eldridge, Glen Swaim, and Dick Dawson, (Oheatem) from Mt. Ayr, also one of the Holmes boys, and Grover Wood of Fair Oaks. They sure were surprised to see Porter and I. They are going to leave December 1 for the U. S„ so told them to say ‘hello’ for me. “We are working hero putting up a large motor assembling plant, some barracks and, a few other buildings. Like our job quite well, only going home worries us quite a bit. “Suppose it is pretty cold there. It isn’t here. The grass is green and rains once in a while. “I sure have seen some country since I have been here for we traveled in side-door pullmans. Ask Harvey when you see him about that. “President Wilson arrives Friday here at our port, but we will not get to see him.”

WORK OF THE GRIM REAPER

Several More Deaths From Pneumonia, Following the Influenza. Mrs. Edith May Lewis, wife of William S. Lewis, residing west of Surrey, died Sunday morning at I a. m. from bronchial pneumonia, following an attack of influenza. Mrs. Lewis’ maiden name was Scott. She was born January 28, 1875, and was therefore 43 years, II months and 28 days of age at time of her death. She is survived i by her husband and five children. Burial was made in Weston cemetery yesterday afternoon at 2:30, where short services were, held at the grave by Rev. E. W. Strecker.

Mrs. Edward Jenkins of near McCoysburg, at the- county hospital Monday afternoon at about 1 o’clock —to which place she had n?en brought only a couple ol hours before —from influenza and other complications. Mrs. Jenkins was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hurley of the west part of, town, to whose homfe the body was taken. Deceased is survived by'her husband and six children, one only about six days old, her parents, two sisters and several brothers. The funeral will be held at the Methodist Church this afternoon at 2 o’clock, and burial made in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Adam’ Flesher died at her home in Barkley township Monday night at 11 o’clock from influenza and other comlplicatlons. and is survived by her husband, two children and three step-chil-dren. • The funeral will be held at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the Aix church and burial made in the Prater cemetery.

At 12 o’clock noon Sunday the marriage of Miss Bethel Arnold, youngest daughter of Elias Arnold of Barkley township and Ezra Stoner of Peru, Indiana, took place at the home of the bride’s father. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. B. Stoner of Pendleton, grandfather of the groom, in the presence of relatives and a few intimate friends of the contracting parties. The young couple left Monday morning for Menomonie, Wisconsin, for a visit with the groom’s parenfs, after which they will be at home to their friends on a farm near Peru. The Democrat extends ‘hearty- congratulations.

ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

The annual meeting of the 1 Union Township National Farm Loan Associatlon will be held at Parr, Indiana, Tuesday, January 14, 1919, at 2 o’clock p. m., to elect directors to serve one year, and for such other business as may. properly come before the meeting. This is a very important meeting. Please make it a point to attend. *>"--■ CHARLES D. LAKIN, Secretary-Treasurerr.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. §HORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. MICHIGAN IS SIXTEENEH STATE Legislature , Ratifies Amendment Providing for a “Dry” Nation. Lansing, January 6—The Mlchgan legislature has ratified the amendment to the Constitution providing for a “dry” nation. Both houses adopted the resolution without debate and the only opposition came in the house where three votes were cast against the proposal. Michigan is the sixteenth fltate to ratify the proposed prohibition amendment to the federal Constitution. Twenty more states must take a similar action to adopt the amendment as proposed by the congress. Thq first four states to act favorably were in the south and nearly half of the sixteen adopting states are south of the Ohio river. Only five states west of the Mlssissipl river have taken action, while Michigan makes the fourth state north of the Ohio and east bf the Mississippi to ratify. Those states which have ratified since Virginia first acted on January 13, 1918, are: Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Dakota, Maryland, Montana, Arizona, Deleware, Texas, South Dakota, Massaohusets, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida and Michigan.

NO NEED TO DELAY BUYING

Lower Price Levels Will Be Slow In Coming. \ Among the men who are in a portion to study and analyze the conditions affecting prices, the opinion is practically unanimous that return to lower levels will be gradual. This opinion already has been strengthened by the fact that there (has been no evidence of a panicky feeling in any material market during the six weeks that have elapsed since hostilities ceased. Nor has anything occurred to Indicate a radical change In labor costs. On the contrary, the cost of living, held up by the high prices of farm products, has increased since the war ended. And business is beginning to feel the ad--vances in freight rates which will endure for many years. So long as prices of farm remain at a high point there will be no material reduction in wages nor the cost of manufactured proand there is every reason to believe that prices of farm products will continue on the present level for a long time to come. They may even go higher. In normal times many farmers have opposed general increases in crop yields on the ground that they caused prices to drop below the point of profit. If one were to concede that this argument has force, one still would have to admit that it has no bearing on the present situation. The demand for food is far in excess of the supply and it will be several years before the" positions are reversed. And the change will take place gradually. It is Impossible for us. to conceive of a farmer so foolish as to limit unnecessarily his crop-raising operations during the next few years. ’ It is unthinkable that any farmer will fail to * utilize every acre of tillable land, or that he ill refuse to buy anything he needs .tn" the way of equipment to obtain maximum yields. It is therefore impossible for us to tfhare the view entertained by some trade factors that the expectation of low prices in 1920' will keep farmers frdm buying needed machines in 1919. We credit the farmers with better judgment than that course would reVoaV—Farm Implement News.

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MISS MARGARET JOHNSTON DEAD

Highly Respected Remington Lady Dies In Minnesota Hospital. Miss Margaret Johnston, a daughter of C. B. Johnston of Remington, died December 28 of pneumonia at a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, where she had recently undergone an operation, following an attack of Influenza, and the funeral was held at Remington the following Monday and burial made in the cemetery there beside her mother, who died in May, 1917. Miss Johnston was born at Washburn,, Illinois, March 23, 1879, and her early life was spent there. Her parents moved to Remington several years ago and she had since resided there. She leaves an aged father, step-mother, two brothers, W. E. Johnston, of Remington, and Dr. C. R. Johnston of Decatur, Illinois, two sisters, Mrs. J. D. Snyder of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Mrs. Dr. Melner of Kokomo, Indiana, and many relatives and hosts of friends, including several in Rensselaer. Miss Johnston was a member of the party of fourteen, who accompanied The Democrat editor and wife on a sightseeing trip to Niagara Falls, New York City, Norfolk, Washington, D. 0., and Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1911, and the, other members of this party will be very sorry to learn of her death.

MORE TROOPS COMING HOME

Three Combat Divisions Designated For Early Return. Gen. Pershirig has added to the priority list the three combat divisions, the 30th, 27th and 91st entire, and the second corps Headquarters, which will be returned to the United States as soon as shipping becomes available, probably next month. The three divisions and the headquarters corps total 83,000 men, and there are. a few Jasper county boys in the former division. The 27 th division is made up of New York troops, and is a sister division of the 30th. Units now assigned to early convoy, in addition to those already embarked, total 292,000. Troops in the United States and abroad now scheduled for demobilization total 1,379,000.

MR. SAUBER EXTENDS THANKS

To Workers In Red Cross Roll , Call Drive. Rensselaer, January 6, 1919 To Township Roll Call Managers and Roll Call Workers: I wish to gratefully acknowledge the generous and public spirited co-operation yoy have given us in the Red Cross Christmas Membership Roll Call. Jasper county's membership total has not quite come up to expectations, yet, with conditions changed on account of the signing of the armistice and with several townships suffering severely with influenza, and considering the bad condition of some roads, I feel that our showing is all that could be asked and I take this means to extend to you -all the thanks of the State Roll Call Manager and myself, for doing your work so well. The total membership in Jaspe» county at close of roll call is 1,999. With best wishes for a Happy New Year, Yours very truly, J. M. SAUBER, Roll Call Manager for Jasper Co. Following is a report of membership in each township: Barkley 55 Carpenter 167 Gillam Ifil Kankakee 132 Keener 96 Jordan • 167 Marion and Rensselaer ......913 Milroy 62 Newton (subscribed at Renstlelaer) 12 Hanging Grove 41 Union 27 Walker 19 Wheatfield 1«?

COMING PUBLIC SALE DATES The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Monday, January. 13, Elke DeGroot, 4 miles north and 2% miles west of Remington, 8 miles south and 2% miles west of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Thursday, January 16, Wm. Johnson, 1 mile south and IM miles west of Mt. Ayr. General sale, including horses, eattle, 45. head Big Type Spotted Poland pure-bred hogs. Implements, etc. Call phone 537 for date* and terms as clerk for sales. Satisfaction guaranteed. -Outlet for notes .f desired.—E. P. LAfflfc. ts

Vol. XXI, No. «1

ROOSEVELT DIES WHILE ASLEEP IN OYSTER BAY HOME

Death if Former President Caused by Pulmonary Embolism. FUNERAL WILL BE PRIVATE Suffered New Attack of Inflanun** tory Rheumatism on New Year’s I Day, but Was Not Considered , Seriously Ill—Greived Over Son’s j Death, z-** ■wMMamMaMMS Oyster Buy, N. Y., .Tin. 7. —Col. Theodore Roosevelt died <n his sleep at his home on Sagamore Hill In this village. believed to have been due to rheumatism which affected his heart. The colonel suffered a severe attack of rheumatism and sciatica on New Year’s day, but none believed that his illness would prove fatal. The former president sat up most of Sunday and retired at eleven o’clock Sunday night. The exact time? of Colonel Roosevelt’s death was 4 : 15 a. m., ns nearly as can be determined, for there was so person at his bedside at the moment he passed away. A minute or two before, his attendant, James Amos, the young colored man who has been in the employ of the colonel ever since he left the White House, noticed that the patleqt was breathing heavily in his sleep and went to call a nurse. When he returned with her the former president was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt was Immediately summoned. < Telegrams were dispatched to the colonel’s children, who were In other parts of the country. Two of the colonel's sons, Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Capt. Kermit Roosevelt, are in service abroad. Statement by Colonel’s Physician. The following statement was given by Dr. G. W. Fudler of Oyster Bay, the physician who Inst saw the colonel: ‘‘Colonel Roosevelt retired at twelve o’clock Sunday night feeling much better. At 4:15 o’clock Monday morning he simply ceased to breathe. Death was caused probably by a pulmonary embolism.”

Because of Mrs. Roosevelt's wish, the colonel will be buried as a private citizen. The funeral, which will be held Wednesday in Christ Episcopal church, which the family attended, will be private. Telegrams of condolence, and sympathy began to pour in from all parts of the country as soon as the news of Colonel Roosevelt’s death became known. , The former president came to his home on Sagamore Hill from the RoosevelKhospital on Christinas day, but a week later was stricken with a severe attack of rheumatism and sciatica, from which he bad been suffering for some time. The rheumatism affected his right hand and It became much swollen. He remained in his room and efforts were made to check the trouble. Mrs. Roosevelt Phones News. News of the death of the former president was received in New York by Miss Josephine Stricker, the colonel’s secretary, In a telephone message from Mrs. Roosevelt. The Immediate cause of Colonel Roosevelt’s death was pulmonary embolism or lodgment in the lung of a clot from a broken aeln, it was stated later by one of his physicians. Death, it was said, came to him painlessly as he slept. Forty-eight hours before his death the former president had been visited by one of his physicians, who stated he found the colonel apparently In good condition and spirits. 11l Nearly Year. Colonel Roosevelt’s last illness maybe said to date from last February. On February 5 it was announced that he had been removed from his home in Oyster Bay to the Roosevelt hospital in this city, following an operation on one of the ears. Broken by Son’s Death. One of the tilings that is believed to have contributed more than any other to the colonel’s breakdown was the death last fall of his son, Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, the aviator, in action In France. Proud of his heroic son’s achievements, Colonel Roosevelt bore up under the sorrow of his death with a fortitude that was in keeping with Ns spirit in public life. Friends said that While the father "did not carry Ns heart on bls sleeve,” he suf-' Tered most poignant griefs in silence and'tried to forget them by plunging Harder than ever Into his work. Was Bom In New York. Colonel Roosevelt, statesman, soldier and author, and the twenty-sixth

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