Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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FORDSON TRACTOR MEETING

At, Princess Theater Wednesday Afternoon Was a Success. About 250 farmers interested In better farming attended a lecture at the Princess theater -Wednesday .afternoon given under the auspices of the Central Garage company, who are the authorized Pordson tractor dealers in this community. A very interesting talk was given by Mr. Bacon of the Oliver Chilled Plow company, demonstrating the advisability of proper preparation of the seed bed to procure better crops from all classes of land. Following the lecture by Mr. Bacon the motion pictures showing the operation of the Fordson tractor in various phases of farming was run. Immediately after this Mr. Learning, tihe county agent, gave a talk on preparation, of seed bed as applied to local conditions. After this Mr. Learning drew the number which was to award the 10 acres of free plowing donated to the holder of the corresponding ticket. Jay Stockton was the lucky man and the Central Garage company has agreed as per their promise to plow 10 acres of land for him free of charge with a Fordaon tractor and an Oliver plow in the near future. The meeting was in charge of <R. .D. Wangelin. Mrs. Wangelin furnished music for the occasion, and a very enjoyable and profitable 'afternoon was spent by all who attended.

WILL MEET MONDAY EVENING

To Appoint Successor to Councilman Frank Tobias, Deceased. - At the regular meeting the city council Monday night very little was done except ,allow bills and receive the report of the city treasurer for the on/onth of January. This report 'showed the following balances on hand at the end of the month: Light fund, $6,355.43, water fund. $5,794.94, corporation fund $5,147.19, road fund $2,434.64, library fund $1,518.67. It was agreed that the council hold a special session Monday evening, March 3, to appoint a councilman in the second ward in place of Frank Tobias, deceased. The following resolutions were adopted on the death of Mr. Tobias: At a regular meeting of the common council of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, convened at the cvancil chamber on Monday, February 24, 1919, at 8 o’clock p. m., it was announced that Frank Tobias, a .fellow councilman, had departed this life on February 20, 1919, at his home on north Front street in the city of Rensselaer. Upon such announcement it was resolved: That we cease for a time our labors for the living to record the death role of him who was a member of our council; He was an earnest, faithful and valuable worker on the. city council, where he made a name and reputation for himself. He was quiet in | manner, but possessed a strong, clean character with the courage to stand by his convictions. His broadmindedness and tireless efforts were spent toward! making a better city, and his work as a councilman will always remain a pleasant memory to those who served with him and knew him best. 1 The council deplores his death as a serious loss to the interests of our city. Therefore, be it further resolved, that we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family and his many friends. Be it also resolved that a cjpy of these resolutions be spread_ of record upon the records of the city council as a constant and pleasant reminder of his fidelity and usefulness.

MEN MAY KEEP UNIFORMS

Authority Given on Bill Sent to President for Signature. Washington, Feb. 26. —The house late yesterday' adopted the conference report on the bill permitting soldters, sailors and marines to retain t'heir uniforms When discharged and giving them, 5 cents a mile for traveling expenses home. The measure now goes to the president.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers Who have , moved to new locations this spring should notify us at once of the fact, giving both their old and new address, an*3 their Democrat will be sent accordingly. Either ■phone or mail 'in a 1 card notifying us of such ohange.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts Get you sale bills printed at The Democrat office.

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From too Various Departoiaats OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomised —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Office*. Commissioners’ court will convene Monday. The various township assessors of the county will meet with the county assesor today to receive their supplies and instructions. They will start on their rounds of assessing next Monday. Deputy Revenue Collectors Hershberger and Rothrock, are holding forth, In thq room this week and/ giving information and assistance to l>eople in making out their income tax returns. Today is their last day here. You can’t afford to do without a typewriter when you can buy one at the prices The Democrat is selling good rebuilt machines. If you want a brand-new machine, come in and let us sell you an Oliver at $57 on the regular free trial offer and payments of $3 per month if de: ired. The Union township school matter was compromised Tuesday and the schools will continue one month longer, the teachers, who receive pay for the six weeks the schools were closed on account of the influenza epidemic, agreeing to dodate two weeks salary and the trustee agreeing to pay two weeks salary.

Many of the captured German and Austrian cannon are he brought to the U. S. and distributed over the country as souvenirs. In view of the splendid record made by Jasper county in war work all down the line, we might get one or two of these cannon perhaps to place on the public square, and The Democrat suggests that application be made at once to the war department for one or two of the guns. White county circuit court items from Monticello Herald: Babcock & Hopkins vs. John A. Reed estate. Claim allowed in sum of $192.50. The Swygman ditch case, which was set for bearing last Thursday before Special Judge C. W. (Hanley of Rensselaer, was not heard on that day but was re-assigned for hearing on Thursday/ March 13. A large number of land owners in Princetoni and Honey Creek townships are affected by this drainage proposed and it will probably take several days to try the case.

Marriage licenses issued: February 25, Albert Williami Baumgartner of Dyer, aged 29 January 30, farmer, and Theodora Kahler of Rensselaer, aged 23 May 7 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. * February 26, Clifford Vernon Parks of Monon, aged 20 February 1 last, electrician, and Viola Mae Richmond of Rensselaer, aged 17 April 29 iast, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Both being under age father of each gave consent to issuance of license, Joseph R. Parks and W. A. Richmond, respectively. Squire John Moore of Barkley township heard a case here Wednesday wherein Jesse Gates had =»d Sam Karnowsky, the -junk dealer, for £513.50, balance alleged : be due him for hauling some cinders for defendant. Karnowsky claimed that Gates hau agreed to haul the cinders for 35 cents per lord and agreed to settle on that basis, but the latter demanded 50 pents per load. After hearing the evidence the court rendered judgment for balance due at the 3 a cent rate, plaintiff having" drawn hart of the pay before the controversy arose. ■ f

BOX SOCIAL

There will be a box social at the Gifford school on Friday evening, March 7. Ladies please bring boxes and boys their pocketbooks.— LELIA DELEHAINTY and GRACE KNAPP, Teachers.

THE TWICB-A-W bEK

PWfT «tt«i.Aißtt JASPBR COUNTY. INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1919

HAS ONE SON STILL LIVING

Nephew of Joe Koeta, Reported Missing, Is Heard From. Mrs. Barbara Russ of Cleveland, Ohio, has received a leter from her son, Edward Russ, from France, who was reported missing on November 1. He wrote December 26 that he was well again, after taking part in four different battles. Her other 1 son was reported killed a month earlier, also in battle. Mrs. Russ Is an aunt of Joe Kosta of Union township, whom Mr. and Mrs. Kosta visited a part of last month. She has been a widow for 17 years and was griefstricken then over the loss of both her sons. Her friends Yejoice with ner in the good news received that one son is still living. Mr. Rues was the first friend Mr. Kosta looked for, and found oyment at a railroad passenger depot in Cleveland when tbe latteT arrived there June 1, 1881, after parting with his mother for good at Prague, when he sailed for this country, a 16-year-old Is*. Mr. Kosta’s wife h«*d three brothers in the service in France and one was reported killed the latter part of July.

WHY NOT GET BUSY NOW

Toward Building a Hard-Surfaced North and South Road? The new highway bill, paseed by the present legislature, and which, as we understand, makes the county a unit, will permit Jasper county to issue bonds to build that brick or concrete highway from one end of the county to the other, that The Democrat suggested the feasibility of a few years ago. We can also secure federal and state aid for such a highway, and The Democrat believes it would be the greatest thing for Jasper counity that we could possibly undertake at this time. And, as we suggested right away after the armistice was -signed, which, in effect, ended the war, we should now get busy and make all those needed public improvements which tvere side-tracked by our entering the world war and project such new ones as are needed. _ In this way we will take care of any surplus labor and we can the sooner he Reaping the benefits of the improvements made.

The imatter of paying for the necessary improvements—The Democrat does not believe in making useless or practically useless improvements simply to he spending money and Jxeep labor employed—can be handed down to the coming generation to take care of. Rut better roads are the great dominant necessity of the present day and age and we cannot spend our money on any public Improvement that will benefit to such an extent in general ■as good, permanent, hard-surfaced roads. The present generation, in Jasper county, at least, should not worry about the cost or the paying tor such a highway as The Democrat has urged. present generation has paid for the many improvements that we are now enjoying—or is paying for them — and which the coming generation will benefit thereby, as well as ourselves to some extent. So, let the next generation pay for this highway’ which, if built of permanent material, will be here long after we have been gathered to our Fathers.

The Democrat, does not believe that the Better Jasper Copnty association could work for anything that would be of so great benefit to the county as such a highway as we have proposed. Then let us be the pioneers in this part of the state to build a permanent trunk highway north and south through our county. The counties both north and south of us will soon get busy and connect up with us, and with such a highway we could haul our produce with little effort to the great industrial cities of Lake county and to Chicago, and could welcome all the tourist travel that was a mind to come our way. And these,, roads are really the cheapest roads in the end. Let’s get busy along this line of improvement and see if we cannot put it through. It is worth working for.

WOOD SAWING. I have the Clyde Williams outfit and will saw your wood for $1.50 pejr hour. Cord wood, $1.25 per cord. —HARLOW PEEK, phone 947-F.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

TiMgraphlc Reports From Many Parts of tin Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening! In the Nearby Cities end Towns—Matters of Minot Mention From Mu/ Place*. PERMANENT HIGHWAYS URGED Former . Rensselaer Boy Speaks at Road School.

Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 27. —A feature of the final day’s session of the southeastern Indiana road school here today was an automobile inspection trip over improved highways in Lawrence epunty, Illinois, which is Just across the Wabash river from Vincennes. A similar parade was held yesterday in this county. At the opening session yesterday C. D. Banke, state manager of the Portland Cement company, and E. B. Schmidt, representative of the National Brick association, spoke in favor of the construction of permanent roads.

Profeesor R. C. Yeoman, highway extension engineer at Purdue university, told of the growing Importance of highways, and J. P. Scott spoke on the conetructlon of highways and told of the system being followed In Illinois. Professor Yeoman pointed out that roads formerly were built at the expense of rural conrumunities ih the local and township unit being' used as a basis of construction. said that traffic has changed so rapidly within the last ten years and rapid-moving vehicles have grown in volume to the extent that road legislation and road improvement have lagged behind.

The state highway commission bill and 1 the county unit bill now before the legislature, he said, propose to accomplish business system and reconstruction by adopting a larger unit of control. Many road superintendents and farmers attended the two-day session.

COME OUT TO THIS MEETING

That the first annual meeting of the Jasper County Bettenment association, which will he held in the court house next Tuesday, March 4,* will mark the beginning of a period growth and improvement of the county is the belief and desire of the officers who have been de, voting their time and energies to lending those final touches to the arrangements which will assure Its success.

Every citizen of the county is invited by President Leopold 1 to be present at this meeting and to take part In the deliberations to develop a constructive plan of work) to fcnake the county a better place in which to live and to do business. The committee on constitution has just reported a final draft of the organization plan, which will be submitted to the meeting for approval. Besides stating the object of the association it provides for the usual officers which are to be appointed by a board of directors which, in turn, are to be elected at the annual meeting next Tuesday. The board of directors will be assisted by an advisory committee representing every organized interest and as far as possible the unorganized interests of the county. Every member of Che advisory committee will be at the lead of a group of people to whom will be assigned the solution of ome problem; in relation to the betterment of the county. These various groups will meet at the court house at 10 o'clock next Tuesday morning and insofar as possible suggest means of improvement. The meetings held will be open to the general public and everyone interested is invited to attend and take part.

In the afternoon the suggestions of each committee will be incorporated into one large and logical program of work, which the association will undertake to make a reality. The committee on speakers an- - ounces that they have been fortunate enough to secure experts in practically every branch of industry

DON’T TRY TO SIDE-STEP THIS

Income Tex Must Be Paid, and It’s Better to Pay Gracefully. It is probable that at least onehalf of the farmers and hundreds of the business men of Jasper county aTe "caught" by the Income tax for the year 1918, and everyone subject to this tax should "come across" gracefully and not make any effort to avoid paying their proper share of the war burden. It is a mighty dangerous and expensive thing to fall or refuse to make the proper returns, and one should 'remember that it has been the war prices that has swelled their not income above the amount that makes the tax apply. Don’t grumble and, say that your expenses ate yp all the profits, for If they did you have no tax to pay. It is on your NET income that you pay, and not on your gross inoome. If you are a single man and yoyr net income (not including personal expenses) was over SI,OOO you should pay on the excess over sl,000; if married, you are allowed $2,000 exemption and only have to pay on the excess above SI,OOO. The tax is 6 per cent on net income up to $5,000, and is graduated from that point on, the greater the Income the higher the tax. 1 i•»| - • So be honest, pay the amount you are required to and he thankful that your net income was sufficient to make you subject to. this tax.

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

Lieut. Wood Spitler Writes From Russia. Archangel, Ruesla, Jan. 4, 1919. My Dear Mother —Few of your recent letters have reached me. One came the oYher day, written October 7t*. It was strayed into a mail hag at American headquarters, where it did not belong—hut I happened to be there and someone Bald he knew I had iroail for he had seen a letter —so we went through all the bags and found your letter and Edna’s Christmas package. I thought it strange that I should be so completely overlooked when the large Christmas mail came in. At that,, I think there must be a lot of mall for me somewhere. I wonder if It can he getting lost by going to the British. The tenm "Elope’’ on/ the. address was to differentiate between British forces at Archangel and those at Murmansk. When we first landed and asked how to have mall addressed they gave us that term, but it was soon done away with for American troops, as there is but one American force. The few letters I get still have that "Elope” written Lm the address, which may signify that my other letters may be going into the British mail on that account. I think I’ll iauqulre the next time I get to Archangel. I had a twelve-day vacation there, which finished 'on Christmas day. DeWitt C. Poole, Jr.„ who is American charge d’affairs in Russia, is situated there, and I spent much of my time with him. ' He graduated before I entered college, but lived in Madison, where I knew him well. I had a splendid time, and we came to the front together Christmas eve in the commanding general’s j/rivate car, the same having been , put at Poole’s disposal. We had a good Christmas day. Next day I went Into front lines for duty for six days; two of which days we were treated to heavy shell fire —just like that delivered on the western front, so the French and Canadian/ officers said. Anyway it was the best I’ve seen yet,

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NO TRACE OF DISAPPEARED BOY

The disappearance of Mack »Bowsher, the 22-year-old son of Mr. and My. Sherman Bowsher, living three miles northwest of Monticello, who left his home on the morning of the 30th of January, still continues to be a mystery.

It was thought that the boy had been in the vicinity of Medaryville one day last week, and his parents made a trip there in search of him. A stranger who was beireved to answer the young man’s description had been seen on the west side of t'he county, and had come east as far as the L. C. Hodgen and W. F. Fisher homes in Jefferson township, at each of which he ate a rpeal. But when the parents arrived and compared descriptions they became convinced that the man was not their son.—Pulaski County Democrat.

represented in the county and believe that this, "together with the ideas of a large numbfer of representative citizens, will enable the association to arrive' at some very definite means of progress.

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Vol. XXI, No. 96

PRESIDENT TO ASK CHANGES IN WORLD PACT

Wilson Tolls Washington Correspondents Territorial Rule WIN Be Altered. HITCHCOCK DEFENDS LEAGUE Declared It Will 1M More War and Preparations for War or the Covenant of Nations —Internationalism la Here.

Washington, Feb. 28.—President Wilson desires closing of a peace treaty nq speedily ns Is consistent with the great questions Involved, and, except for adjustment of territorial differences, he believes n great part ol the work is approaching final-form. This was learned by newspaper correspondents with whom the president had a free and frank discussion of his work at Paris and the legislative situation after he had spent two hour* conferring with administration leaders at the capltol. It was the first time the correspondents In Washington had been invited to see the president In several years. It was learned that the amendment to the proposed constitution of tho league of nations which the president Intends to suggest upon his return to Paris will deal with measures to bo used by the league In enforcing territorial decrees. Doubt Held Unjustified. It was gathered that the president believed thnt with the exception of the clause relating to enforcing territorial decrees the only ambiguities connected with the league constitution existed In the minds of persons dlw cussing them. The president let It be known thal he Is firmly convinced that In no particular does any provision of the league charter conflict with the American Constitution. He told his callers that In the Paris conferences he had closely und carefully kept In mind constitutional fea J Hnres, and had had the advice of expert American lawyers on nil constitutional questions arising.' Those appearing to conflict with the Constitution were rejected or altered! Regarding the Monroe doctrine the president felt that the league constitution could not contravene It wV-:i It provided for maintenance of the doctrine by all the world. In regard to congressional legislation the president made It known that he was Interested In securing passage of several Important leglsla* tlon bills, but thnt most of his conferences at the capltol were to re" celve requests for action from senators and representatives. Hitchcock In Defence. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, thd chairman of the foreign Relations committee, speaking In the Senate In favor of the proposed constitution, declared that the alternative of the league of notions Is war.

‘‘Which shall It be—war or preparation for wpr, or a league of nations?” he said. ‘‘Those are the alternatives." “I have observed ns far as this discussion has gone that most senator* who oppose this league of nations would oppose- any league of nations. They quibble and split hairs, enormously magnify the sacrifices of the United States in going Into this league as though the United States was giving up everything and getting nothing. “Internationalism Has Come." “Two of my eloquent colleagues attack It as a form of internationalism. They object to internationalism. They are too late. Internationalism has come, or is coming, and we must choose between the internationalism of Justice and honor and peace and mutual support among the nations of the world and the internationalism of the socialist, the anarchist, the bolshevik. “If we fail to ndopt an internationalism of governments that will unite to end wars we shall be face to face with the internationalism of the individual. “If war and the preparations for war are to continue the chief business of national governments we may expect a development of socialism and bolshevism in the United States. ,Nor will it be confined to orations on soap boxes In the public streets of our great cities, but it will appear here in congress, in the house of representatives and the senate. It will afreet legislation in this country as it has in other countries; it will seize political power in this country as it has in other countries. I therefore repeat that we niust choose between the internationalism of the league and the internationalism of the socialist.” '• Senator Hitchcock contended the proposed league would strengthen the Monroe doctrine. - ~T3 .