Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — Page 1
Jasper County Democrat.
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COMING PUBLIC BALE DATES The Democrat ha£ printed bflls for the following public sales: Thursday, January 30, John Bill and George M. -Myers, at farm of former, 4 miles south and % mile west of Rensselaer. Big general sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, February 5, George Potts, 8 miles east and J miles, north of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farm tools, etc. CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS At the regular meeting of the common council Monday evening all members were present except Councilman Tobias, who is in quite poor, health. Petition of Hiram Day et al for a sewer on the east side of north Callen street granted and city attorney was directed to prepare resolution for same. The city attorney was directed to take the necessary steps to procure ~a drain on Scott street. The usual grist of claims were allowed.
AN OLD RESIDENT IS CALLED
Mrs. Elizabeth Saylor Buried Here Last Sunday. I - Mrs. Elizabeth Saylor, widow of the late Lewis Saylor, died at the home of her son, Lawrence, at Wheatfield* Friday forenoon, aged 79 years. The funeral was held at 11 o’clock Sunday at Wheatfield and the body brought to Rensselaer and burial made in Weston cemetery—beside her husband, who died some years ago. Mrs. Saylor had been in poor halth for some little time before her death. z Deceased was one of the old residents of Jasper county, having come here with her parents, Stephen and Hannah Yeoman, from Fayette county, Ohio,' in June, 1844, the family settling on a farm near Rensselaer. She had since been a continuous resident of Jasper county. She was one of ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Yeoman —Joseph, 'Sarah, Elvira, James, Mary/ Minerva, Elizabeth, John, Ira W., and Stephen—all of whom have now been gathered to their fathers except Stephen, who resides at Elwood, Nebraska. She leaws nine children —Ira "of Valparaiso; L. N., of Kniman; Mrs. Mary Dewies of Medaryville; J. 8., of North Dakota; Mrs. Flora Bailey of (Hanging Grove; Mrs. Cora Kessinger of Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Lillie St. Peter of near Hammond, and Lawrence and Claude of Wheatfield.
ALFRED THOMPSON CRITICALLY ILL
Alfred Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson, who has been sick for the past four weeks or more in a hospital in Chicago, suffering from pneumonia, is reported in a very critical condition. Dr. I. M. Washburn, who is noW located at Fort Des Moines, lowa, was called to Saturday to see - him, and came on down to Rensselaer Sunday afternoon, returning to Chicago on the 6:50 train in the evening accompanied by Miss' Catherie Watson, who accompanied him to Fort Des Moines for a visit with the Doctor’s family.
TO CHANGE HER OCCUPATION
It is quietly rumored that a Rensselaer bank is soon to lose one of its young lady employes, who will be led to the altar by a young man from a neighboring town. The Democrat is not going to give the matter away completely, but as there are three banks here in which a total of five young ladies are employed, the, reader can put the question to each one and satisfy himself as to which is guilty from the way they reply to the question.
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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments / OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Noteq Gathered From the Several County Offices. Commissioners* court convenes next Monday. Joseph Salrin was down from Walker township Thursday on business. The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one one week from Monday. Attorney George E. Hershman of Crown Point was a business visitor in the city Thursday. t Ih I Marriage licenses Issued: January 25, Marvin Roscoe Merrill of Rensselaer, aged 23 May 17 last, lineman, and Nellie Marguerite Shuey, afeo of Rensselaer, aged 18 August 31 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.
A new supply of several dozen of the famous Neldich brand typewriter ribbons for all the standard machines just received in The Democrat’s office supply and fancy stationery department. Give us the name and model number of your machine and we can supply you. Supreme and appellate court notes: No. 23462. Austin O. Moore vs. John P. Rya.n et al. Jasper C. C. Appellee’s affidavit and request that > cause be not considered until after February 1, 1919. No. 9676. John A. Dunlap vs. Harry Cochran et al. Jasper C. C. affirmed. Per curiam.
Special Judge Vinton, accompanied by former State Senator Alva O. Reser, as court reporter, came up from Lafayette Monday morning and the case of J. D. Law, adm., vs. the New York Central Railroad Co., for damages, which had been adjourned early last week on account of the critical illness of a brother of one of the jurors, was again taken up. The plaintiff had rested its case and the defense opened yesterday. New suits filed: No. 9011. Eunice J. Morris vs. George M. Myers; action in replevin and for S3OO damages. ' This case grows out of a controversy over a line fence dividing the farms of the parties in Jordan township, The fence was of hedge and had grown up to considerable height. There was .iome little controversy over which end of the fence belonged to Myers or was his part to keep up As no agreement could be had, Myers recently cut down the hedge at one end over the protests of William Morris, who occupies’ the farm. The Philadelphia Ledger takes issue with one of the big city dailies in its view that the new secretary of the treasury does not size up to the job. The only argument advanced, says the Ledger, is that Mr. Glass, being a country editor, has no training in large finance, to which the Ledger replies: "The. big city editor who does not know that the country editor has more trouble with financing his job than any other part of it, needs personal contact to enlighten him. Any man who can successfully run a ♦ country newspaper is fit for most any. big job. Secretary of the Navy Daniels was not the first man to prove this, and it is safe to say that Secretary Glass will not be the last. Numerous country editors help much ip running the country without holding any other ’job.
ANOTHER SMOKER AND EATS
The Van Rensselaer club will give another of its 'enjoyable smokers at its club rooms on Thursday evening, January *SO, to which every member is urged to come out. There will be "eats.”— Advt.-
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RENSSKLABR. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919
RENSSELAER PEOPLE IN MIAMI
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hopkins, Mr. and !srs. Firman Thompson, Miss Minnie Brown- and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Taylor formed a party of fripnds dancing Tuesday evening at Miami Beach Casino. Capt. C. A. Tuteur' of Rensselaer, Indiana, visited A. R. Hopbins in Miami yesterday. He leaves today for Key West, where he will be in charge of the government intelligence office. Mr. and Mrs. Firman Thompson of Rensselaer, Indiana, are spending the winter in Miami. They are pleasantly at the Olive apartments.—Miami (Fla.,) Herald of January 23:
FORMER RESIDENT MEETS WITH MISHAP
An automobile belonging toRoberJ Drake, who resides near Taylor’s Station, was badly damaged in a collision near the Big Four station at noon Saturday. Mr. Drake and family were driving to thctecity and a United States mail truck backed into their car. The front axle, fenders and radiator were damaged.—Monday’s Lafayette Journal. ¥ This is probably Robert S. Drake,a former well-known resident of Hanging Grove township, Jasper county, but for the past few years a resident of Tippecanoe county.
A PLEA FOR THE SUFFERERS
In Armenia and Syria——Public Meeting To Be Held. •
A SPEAKER IS SELECTED
County Director J. M. Sauser 1 received a telegram" Monday ! afternoon from the State Di- ' rector of Publicity and Speak- ' ers, saying: “I am sending Wm. ' J. Ohan, native Armenian, for ' meeting of January 29.” ■ Rev. William J. Ohan is a native of Armenia, and was born ■ within a few miles of Mt. 1 Ararat. “ 1 His father was_a minister and * suffered great persecution at * the hands of the Turks. It ‘ was his unfortunate lot to have ‘ been incarcerated in thirty-five ’ prisons of Turkey, because of * his steadfastness to his religion ■ and as well as because he was ■ an Armenian. ■ Dr. Ohan’s sister was a vlc- * tim of the great massacre of * 1898. His mother, his brother ' and a sister are now in Syria, * and through them and out of * the fund of his own knowledge * and experiences, Rev. Ohan * draws the material for his ad- * dress which he will ‘ deliver at * the Christian church, Wednes- * day evening, January 29. ’ CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
You ■ are asked for $30,000,000 to sustain the lives of 3,950,000 Christians and Jews through the winter, through their 'return to a new life free from religious and political persecution. Why? America entered the Great War that the rights of small nations may never ..gain be trampled upon. The noble little nations of the Near East have kept the faith and borne the burden of massacre which thousands of miles have kept from our homes. » Victory has come. And now these bravest and staunchest pilgrims, in sight of the goal of freedom, stand for lack of $30.00(1,000— your $5 and $lO and sso—• in immediate danger of starvation or of death from the diseases of war and Lunger. Why doesn’t the Red Cross do it? The Red Cross found the machinery of relief already at work in the Near East —the missionaries, who know the people and speak their languages, and all official representatives of th'e United States had been organized by the American committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Channels of distribution were well established. And the Red Cross asked the committee to carry on all relief work in the Near East territory, in order that there be neither duplication nor lost motion. The territory is Asia Minor/ the Caucasus, Armenia, Persia, and Norther i Egypt. 100 per cent efficient! Every t dollar you give goes to the Near East. All expense of collection and of distribution is met privately. Of the $12,321,145.92 collected before September 30, 1918, $12.371,145.92 was sent to the field/ The increase of $50,000 over collections was interest accrued from daily balances. Your $30,000,500 will go in full to save the lives of Individualsand of whole countries. Full government approval and co-operation is given to the Com-
THE TWICE-A-WEEK
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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS
Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Conntry. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL " / ' 1 Happenings in the Nearby Claes and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. A BIG FIRE AT FRANKFORT Garage Containing 122 Antes Destroyed Sunday Morning. Fire of unknown origin \qompletely destroyed the Model machine shop, a three-story building on east Clinton street, Frankfort, about 2 o’clock Sunday morning. There were 122 automobiles stored in the garage, many of which were high priced cars, and only about one-half the number were Insured. The loss is estimated at |175,000. For a time it was feared that all that section of the city would be burned, anh appeals for aid were sent to Lafayette and Kokomo, but later the firemen got the blaze under control and the calls for outside assistance were cancelled. Glass fronts In many business buildings near by, including the high school, were broken by the intense heat, and the telephone exchange in an adjoining building was almost completely put out of business.
ARE MAKING GOOD HEADWAY
Speed of Delegates Means Early Peace, Says Paris Newspaper. Paris, 'Jan. 27. —“The belief is expressed in French official circles that the preliminaries for peace will be finished and ready for sub-mission-to the French chamber between March 15 and March 31,” says the Paris edition of the Londoh Daily Mail. ‘ The speed with which the conference is shaping its organization has brought forth comment from various sources. “They are going very fast,” says the Figaro, dealing with Saturday’s session. “Speed seems to have characterized the second plenary session of the peace conference.”
THE YANKS ARE SIGHTSEEING
London, Jan. 27. —The first members of the American expeditionary force in France to take advantage of the order granting a leave of fourteen days to visit- z England, were enjoying the sights of London today. They landed at Southampton Sunday where they were provided with meals by the American Red Cross, which gave the visitors another meal on their arrival in London. The American Young Men’s Christian association has reserved 1,000 beds for the use of the visitors and has arranged for restaurants to feed the men at reasonable prices. .
MANY “FLU”' DEATHS AT MONON
The front page of the last issue of the Monon News contained a dozen death of residents of that place and vicinity, most of whom had died during the week of influneza-pneumonia. Among the number were Mrs. G. O. Warren, George Thacker, C. Long, Martin L? Thomas, Roscoe R. Beaver, Asa and Golda Donaldson, (a young man and wife aged 28 and 26, respectively.) Mrs. M. Mellon, Andrew Lloyd Shell, W. Verne Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Allison Fross, the latter' couple of near Buffalo, east of Mopbn. J
VISITED SON IN CAMP HOSPITAL
Mr. and Mrs. John Kriz visitad their son, Jambs, last Thursday, who is in the jiospital at Camp oo<lge, lowa, suffering from a nervous breakdown, but has been slated for a discharge soon. They have another son John, who is in t*he 105th Engineers, 30th division, in France, which division is expected home in February. They have not heard from him since about the middle of December. A gentleman from Remington informed The Democrat Saturday that there were several boys from about Remington and over in the edge of Benton county who are also in the 30th division.
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NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL
Mrs. Henry Wood underwent a major operation yesterday afternoon, Dr. Richter of Chicago performing the operation. Mrs. Charles Elijah of Morocco entered the hospital Sunday suffering with influenza. Mrs. Jerry Branson of north of town came in Saturday for medical attention, returning to her home again Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Overton of Union township are recovering from attacks of Influenza. f Elza Swim, who underwent an operation last week, is improving. Mrs. Ernest Lamson is getting along quite nicely now. Mrs. Everett Warne is some better, She Is suffering from kidney trouble. Joseph Fitzhugh of Milroy township remains about the same. Mrs. Taylor Wood of Parr and Mrs. Jesse Ballinger of Kersey, influenza patients, are Improving. Mrs. A. G. Catt and little daughter are doing ynlcely. E. E. Smlia is much better and sat up some yesterday for the first.
REMINGTON GIRL IN LIMELIGHT
Miss Marlon Gaunt Told Weird Tales To Indianapolis Policewomen. The many strange and varied stories told to the women police yesterday by Marian Gaunt, the nineteen-year-old girl found by motor policemen Thursday night at the Traction and Terminal station, were all exploded last night when Miss Clara Burnside, supervisor of policewomen, received a telephone message from Mrs. Della Gaunt of Remington, Indiana, saying the girl is her daughter. Mrs. Gaunt, who said she and her husband would arrive in In- 1 dianapolls today to take their daughter home, was unable to account for the different stories told by the girl. She said they had ■sent her to the Good Samaritan hospital, at Kokomo, Indiana, to receive training as a nurse, anjl did not know how she happened to come to Indianatpolis.
The girl told the policewomen she was the daughter of a wealthy Chicago stock broker who recently committed suicide, said she * had five brothers in the army in France and declared ehe had attended Northwestern and Chicago universities. When questioned at various times she' changed the details of her former stories and told new ones just as startling. The »girl was taken to police headquarters Thursday night by motor policemen Schlangen and Dalton after she had told them she had been robbed of a purse containing 110. —Saturday’s Indianapolis News.
Under a Remington date line Monday’s Lafayette Journal said: Marion Gaunt, the young woman who created much excitement in Indianapolis by her romantic and conflicting stories regarding ner life, after she had been taken into custody by motor policemen Dalton and Schlangen, at the traction and terminal, statioh, was brought to her- home here yesterday by her parents, who went to Indianapolis for the girl when her startling stories to the police had reached them. The girl arrived in Indianapolis almost penniless, and when taken into custody by the officers said that she had been robbed of $lO and had no money to take her back home, which she said was 11’27 Sheridan road, Chicago. TO the officers she said that her father, a wealthy Chicago broker, had met with financial reverses and had committed sucide; that her mother was dead, and that she had five brothers in service in France. She claimed that up to last Monday she had been a student nurse in the Good Samaritan hospital, in Kokomo, but that she was nagged there until the life became unendurable, and had decided to run away from the place. When she reached Indianapolis she decided to go back td Chicago and begin all over again, when she lost her money, as she said, and could go no further. She also claimed that she had spent four years in the University of Chicago.
When questioned by the police as to the reason for her conflicting storms she replied that she was afraid that 'She would get into trouble for deserting the hospital, as she bad enlisted as a nurse in Chicago and had been sent to Kokomo for duty. Mrs. Gaunt told supervisor of policewomen Miss Clara Burnside, that the girl, who is 19 years old, had been sent to the Good Sanfaritan hospital in Kokomo to receive training as a nurse, and that no reason was known for the startling and conflicting stories that the girl told the officers.
Vol. XXI, No. 87
300,000 MEN MAY RETURNMONTHLY
March Says Entire Force Abroad Could Ba Brought Home In Six Months. .. IWi TO CLEAR CAMPS IN MONTH Ten Divisions May Ito held Oversea* —Standing Army of 500,000 to * Ito Kept Under Arms. j Washington, January 27.—■Gen* eval March, chief of staff, Informed the senate military committee today that shipping arrangements had been made by which 300,000 mean might be transported home monthly and that all of tho American exp** dltionary forco could be returned home and demobilised within six months. There are still alymt 785,0001 men in eamp in the United Staten and all will be demobilized within a month from today except tho* retained for "overhead’* dwty, General March added. Up to noon) last Saturday, he said, 104,000 men had arrived from overseas. How many Americans will bn held abroad in the army of occupation Is to be determined by President Wilson, General Marcfol said, but more Americans already have been designated for return home than originally proposed by Marshal Foch. He Indicated that ten divisions had been suggested as America’s contribution to the army of occupation. / Discussing * demobilization plans, generally with the committee. General March said refention of an American standing army of 500,000 was proposed. “We don’t ever expect to reduce below 500,000 men—if we cad help it,” ho said. Tonnage sufficient to transport 300,000 men monthly will be available, he explained, through ship* allotted) by the allies combined with German passenger tonnage, and the negotiations are practically completed. With about 1,800,000 Americana still overseas, the chief of staff said a shipping capacity of 300,000 monthly should make It possible to return and demobilize all within six months.
• I’reuldent agrees to leaio ten divisions, or whatever number, in the arjny of occupation,” he said, "we can make it in less time. From the beginning General Pershing was Instructed to return men as fast as 'shipping was available.” Speaking of the 785,000 men still in camp at home, General March said: “Hvery single man will be out of camp within one month from today, ■except those retained for overhead duty.’’ Several senators said they had received many complaints bcause divisions which had seen long service overseas apparently were to be the last sent home. This policy. General March said. Was strictly in accordance with military plans to hold experienced men in the army of occupation, adding; “It will keep men who will not unduly excite the Germans —or able to run over them if necessary. ”
WOULD PROHIBIT USE OF CERTAIN SIGNS
The lower house of the Indiana general assembly, by a unanimous vote Friday, passed House Bill No. 45, which -prohibits the display of signs resembling railway crossing signs at other places than rall| road crossings. This measure affects thousands of cross-arm advertising signs sold to merchants and other lines of business in Indiana last season, which were placed on the , public highways and cause strangers to think that they were railroad crossing warnings until they were close by, or when driving at night? hence the passage of this bill.
LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
January 27, to Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Catt, at the county hospital, % daughter. An armload of old. newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.