Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — Page 8

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HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

REMINGTON (From the Press)

REMINGTON R. R. TIME TABLE No. 318 East bound I 7:24 a. m. No. 331 West bound 9; 22 a. m. No. 340 East bound I 5:15 p. m. No. 319 • West bound I 5:15 p. m.

Guy Little of Purdue university spent Sunday with his father and brother here. Mrs Vess Villinskl and son Bernard attended the funeral of .Mrs. Watt at Goodland Friday. Wilbur Sutherland returned Tuesday from Florida, where he spent the past several months. Mrs. O. A. Chllsom of Indianapolis came Monday evening ‘to spend a week with her aunt, Mrs. A. A. Fell. C. A Bonner, wife and daughter, who had been spending the winter in Sandwich, 111., returned home Friday night. C. W. May has moved into town and now lives wiU> his mother, Mrs. Jacob May, in the northeast part of the. city. Mrs. Irene Kerr of Crawfordsville came Thursday last and is spending the week with her grandmother, Mrs. Fanny Parks, and other relatives. Maurice Peck went to the hospital at Indianapolis this week where he underwent another operation. He passed through all right, according to reports. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood nave returned from the Mayo Bros, hospital at Rochester, Minn., where the former went for an operation and treatment. He is considerably improved in condition. Miss Helen O’Dell, who went to Greencastle a week or so ago, returned to Remington Monday evening. \ She will return to Greencastle soon and remain to care for her father and sister, who are both quite sick. Mrs. R. H. Robinson, who has been suffering from tubercular trouble for a long time, was taken to the Rockville sanitarium Monday, where it is hoped she may receive treatment that will make her confplete recovery possible. Chester Besse moved his household effects to Brook Wednesday where he has employment In the Rich elevator. < The house he vacates vyill be occupied by—well, perhaps it would be better not to mention their names for a week or two. A man driving from Morocco to Kentland the other day counted 78 beer bottles along his side of the road, and he was traveling in an automobile -and possibly not able to see one-tenth of the number that was strewn along the road. This is the route to Beaverville. W. R. Geier, who recently got his shoulder knocked out of joint by a nasty fall onto the stone wall passage of the water plant, does not get well as fast as he thinks he should. He thinks there may still be a splintered or broken bone in that particular part of bis anatomy. Added to tnis is a stomach disorder which makes him altogether miserable. Lewis J. Williams returned Tuesday evening from Camp Upton, Long island, where he received his honorable discharge from the army service April 5. He was in active service in the Argonne battle and was gassed in October but is now greatly improved and like all the boys glad to be back in the good old U. S- A. He is now wearing a belt which belonged to a German, whom he disposed of by the "bullet route," and has many interesting experiences to relate. V. E. Balcom returned home on a nine-day furlough from Camp Taylor, Ky., where he has been a short time since his return from

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France. He was with the medical unit "over there” and though he did not gbt onto the firing line, did get near enough to get a pretty good dose of secondary gas, and has had quite a bit of trouble with his vocal organs ever since; in fact, his voice isn't strong yet. He does not seenr very wild over the other country and was mighty glad to get back where real, sure enough Americans live.

GIFFORD James Cavinder is on the sick list at this writing. Miss Daisy Cooper is working for Mrs. H. E. Reed. Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Peer were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Elsie Haniford spent Saturday and Sunday with her father, T. M. Haniford Earl Parker has moved from T. M. Haniford’s place to the Thomas Tanner property. Miss Cunningham of Laura spent Saturday and Sunday with Earl Parker and family. Harry Walker is able to be out again, and says he doesn’t care to have the muimips again. James Snyder and family of Rensselaer spent Sunday with Harry E. Reed and family. Mrs. W. T. Hankins and Mrs. Charles Walker and son Arthur autoed to Rensselaer Friday. Jacob Myers’ daughters of Laura spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Cavinder. Mr. and Mrs. John McClanahan of Hammond spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Nate Keen. Mrs. Ed Timmons and children spent from Saturday until Monday with her daughter, Mrs. Stroop, at Kersey. The dance given at William Obenchain’s Saturday night was well attended. He will enlarge his hall for dancing. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hankins, daughter and son autoed to Rensselaer and over to Fair Oaks Sunday where they spent the evening with Mr. and Mts. Artie Campbell.

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PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When Kais-r Bill’s embattled Huns were doing stunts with swords and guns, you were a dead gaime sport, we know, who breathed defiance to the ,foe. No sacrifice was then too great, you wished to squelch that Wilhelm skate, and everything for which he stood, and you were busy sawing wood. You sold the cow, your car you pawned, so you could buy another bond. With loyal boys you held the fort; you were, in truth, a dead game sport. And now the silly war •is done; we’ve placed the kibosh on the Hun, have gained for man a brighter day—but there are many bills to pay. In wartime you were great, my friend; don’t be a piker at the end. Our Uncle Sam, he needs a pile, and has to borrow for a while. He needs full many a shining bone, and so he springs another loan, and we should rise on our hind legs, and offer him the dough in kegs Are we less loyal than we -were when we were lifting Teuton fur? I wot not, and wist nay, nay; we’ll help our Uncle Sam to pay. He needs all kinds of large round plunks; we’ll dig ,the doubloons from our trunks. And you will help us out, my /friend. Don’t be a piker at the end.

Astronomers aver that no one has ever seen the sun. A series of concentric shells envelope a nucleus of which we apparently know nothing except that It must be almost infinitely hotter than: the fiercest fur>nace, and that it must amount to more than nine-tenths of the solar mass. That nucleus is the real su'd forever hidden from us. The outermost of the enveloping shell is about 5,000 miles thick, and is called the “chromosphere.”

After living for twenty years with a bullet in his brain, Edgar Wilgus, an insurance broker of Trenton, N. J., was killed by a five-foot fall on the granite steps of a New York hotel. The medical examiner, discovering the bullet in the man’s brain, thought at first that he had been unaccountably shot, but learned by telephoning to his home how long he had carried the bullet in his head. By courtesy and “for short” all general officers are commonly called “general” even if they are only brigadier-generals—the next grade above the rank of colonel. George Main of Manchester, N. H., who is in Ms hundreth year, thinks he is the oldest Odd Fellow in the world. He joined the order March 22, 1844. ‘ ,

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT,

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Canntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Um Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters ot Minor Mention From Many Places. PAY OF ROAD LABORERS Township Trustees May Use Township Funds, If Reimbursed. Township trustees may pay road laborers weekly out of township funds provided the township funds are reimbursed at the end of each month by county commissioners, according to a ruling by Gilbert H. Hendren, chief examiner for the state board of accounts. The arrangement is made to avoid the necessity of the laborers waiting a mouth for their wages. Under the new county road unit law the trustees do not have money with which to pay for the upkeep of roads in their townships. They are not even required to look after the roads, that duty having been transferred to the county commissioners, who, however, may delegate the township trustees to do the work.

PERMIT SALE OF LIGHT WINES Albany, N, Y., April 9. — A bill designed to permit the sale of light wines and beer after national prohibition becomes effective was introduced in the legislature today. The measure would define as intoxicating beverages wines containing imore than 12% of alcohol and malt liquors with an alcoholic content exceeding 4%.

PLAN TO PUT KAISER BACK

German Veterans Forming Army Near Riga, Paris Hears. Paris, April 11. —The direct charge from various sources that a German army is forming in the vicinity of Riga, of veterans, of original first line German troops, designed to plact the kaiser back in power, resulted in a direct declaration in French and British circles that the ex-kalser shortly will be extradited from Holland and placed on trial before an international court. The Riga army, it Is asserted, commanded by a nephew of the late Von ,der G<dz Pasha, reorganizer o'die Turkish army, who died in Turke; during the war. It is said to con'aii. an unusually large numher'nf officers including some of the most malignant junkers.

INCREASE FOR RAILWAY MEN

Trainmen Granted Raise Aggregating $65,000,000 a Year. Washington, April 11. —Wage increases to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, aggregating S6.",O<K 1,00(1 a year, it was learned here, are to be announced bv the railroad administration within a day or two. This increase will bring wage advances under government administration of tire railroads to an aggregate of $910,000,000, while tire railroad companies in 1916 and 1917 raised wages by $350,000,000, making a total Increase in three years of $1,260,000,000.

Mount Lassen Is In Eruption.

Reddington, Cal., April 11. —After lying dormant for about a year Mount Lassen, in the Sierras near here, resumed volcanic eruptions, A steady stream of wldte sulphurous smoke la issuing from Peaks crater.

SPRING SMILES

Costly Experiment. “Do you subscribe to the theory that a little learning is a dangerous thing? “Yes,” replied Mr. Gadspur. “I thought I knew enough about my au» tomobile to take it apart and put it together again, but this bill of $154.17 from a repair shop proves that I didn’t.” WO Found Out.

Admires the Conquerors, “Poor Dlbbleby!” “What’s the matter with him?” “He’s the worst henpecked man I know. And what do you suppose his hcbby is?” "I can’t Imagine.” “Napoleonana.” . ;•£

Kitty—Jack told me I was the first girl he ever told he loved. Betty When did he tell you that? Kitty Monday night. Why? Betty—Oh, noth* ing; only he must have been lying to me Tuesday night.

BOY SCOUT NOTES

With the Idea of increasing the Interest in Boy Scout work in Rensselaer, a troop committee consisting of the following have been appointed: Rev. J. B. Fleming, Arthur Hopkins, Al Wallace, Harry Parker, Frank Donnelly and C. R. Dean. ' This committee has perfected the following organisation: Chairman, Arthur H. Hopkins; secretary, C. R. Dean; treasurer, Frank Donnelly. The new scoutmaster is J. M. Banker, with E. C. Maxwell as the assistant. Meetings are held each Monday evening in the high school gymnasium. It is the plan to interest every body in town in this work Those applying for membership should present their application at any 'of the Monday night meetings. The troop committee is planning to enlarge the work as the interest grows. One of the events of the summer months will be a camping trip. A committee consisting of Harry Parker, Frank Donnelly and Rev. Fleming has, this in charge. While the scout program as outlined in the scout manual will be followed, any wholesome recreation, such as may appeal to boys of the scout age, will be encouraged. The boys will be supplied with uniforms. Each scout is expected to earn and pay for his unifo&m. This can be done easily If those in the city will refer work to the boys. Here is an enterprise which deserves the sanction and approval as well as the encouragement of every one in Rensselaer. The scout work is successful everywhere—why not

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In Rensselaer? Boost the work by supporting the scoutmasters and the committee in charge. At the present time the flrat troop is at full strength.’ If enough more wish to come in a second troop will be organised with Edson M'urray as the scoutmaster.

STORM VICTIMS NUMBER 100

Parts of Three States Are Swept by Terrific Tornado. Dallas, Texas. April 11.—One hundred known dead had been listed as vkllins of the tornado which struck northern Texas, southern Oklahoma and pi-rts of Arkansas when order began to be reached after the. chaos wjjlj]} followed in the wake of the storm. The Injured, some of them so badly hurt that they cannot recover, are expected to number several hundred.

TO TELL LOAN PLAN TUESDAY

Secretary of Treasury to Reveal Details at New York. 'few York, April 11.—Secretary ot the Treasury Glass will make the first official announcement of the amount of the Victory loan, the rate of interest, duration of the bonds and other details at a public mass meeting next Tuesday night at the Metropolitan opera house. It was announced here by the Liberty loan committee.

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List of Tboee Who Have Paid Sab•crlptkm Accounts During WeekFollowlng are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat since last Saturday’s Issue and, especially to those received by mall, this publication shall act as a receipt until the date on the label of their paper is changed. Those Indicated by an are row subscribers: C. L. Carr, Rensselaer, R-3. John P. Ryan, Medaryville. John J. Evers, Fair Oaks, R-2. •John Southard, Wolcott, R-3. •William Obenchain, Gifford. F. R. Erwin, Fair Oaks. Peter Wolfe, Rensselaer, R-2. Walter Hershman, Medaryville. •William J. Holmes, Rensselaer, R-4. John Rush, Rensselaer, R-3. _ Charles Britt, Parr, R-l. P. T. Hordeman, Rensselaer, R-3. C. A. Roberts, Rensselaer. Mead Rayburn, Medaryville. N Osborn, Rensselaer, R-3. Nelson Randle, Rensselaer. W B. Yeoman, Columbia City, Ind. William Hoile, North Manchester, Ind. , Mrs. Senia Jenkins, Wheatfield. L. L. Ponsler, lola, Kan. Mrs A. S. Parcels, Thornfleld, Mo. John Bill, Rensselaer. X. Geesa, Fair Oaks, tt-2. J. W. Faylor, Rochester, Ind. E. Weinkauf, San Pierre, Ind. John Kettering, Pullman, Wash.

Of 405 'persons mentioned in the directory of the New Hampshire house of representatives, 77 are named John, 26 William, and 25 Charles. For handling materials in bulk a power shovel has been invented that can be mounted on any motor truck.