Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — Page 1

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PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL

At the regular meeting of the city council Monday evening all members were present, but not very much business was. done except to allow the regular grist of claims. The salary of Gilbert Albin, who collects the garbage and is employed on the streets, was increased from >lB per week to >2O per week. The city marshal was Instructed to repair the Washington bridge. The city engineer was instructed to widen the bridge across the Maxwell ditch on Lincoln avenue, at the north side of Weston cemetery. C. H. Leavel was granted permission to move the old Lougrbridge house from its location on Cornelia street to a lot on the corner of Clark and Abigal streets, on the following route: East to Cullen, north to Vine, west to Abigal and south to Clark.

MORE SOLDIER BOYS ARE HOME

Several Overseas Men Have Returned This Week. Quite a number more Jasper county boys who have been overseas with the A. E. F„ returned home during the week, and Indiana and Jasper county never looked so good to them as it does now. In addition to those mentioned in Wednesday’s Democrat are Dr. C. E. Johnson, Emmett Laßue, James Ellis, John Jungles and D. J. Babcock. Qapt. Johnson was overseas about a year, several months of which time he was in hospital work in England before going, to France. Lieut. Laßue left here last May and was in training for several months at Camp Sherman before being sent overseas, not reaching there until shortly before the armistice was signed. D. J. Babcock left Rensselaer In September, 1917, and was stationed at Camp Taylor jtintil the next spring, when with 'Ptfiers he was sent to Camp Sevier, 'Greenville, S. C.; thence to Camp Mills, N. Y., and from there to Montreal, Canada, sailing from there on May 1, 1918. After a f brief stop in England he was sent to France where he remained until early in April of this year. He was in the motor transport service o|f the 105th engineers and his division, the 30th, saw much heavy fighting in the smashing of the Hindenburg line.

Capt. Bradley . Ross arrived in Rensselaer Thursday, having received his discharge at Camp Custer, Mich. Captain Ross was overseas for several months. Paul S. Strecker, who has been in the U. S. navy and stationed at PelHiam Bay, N. Y., returned home yesterday, having received his discharge. Joseph Nagel received a telegram Thursday evening from his son Walter, who had been overseas for several months, saying that he had just arrived in New York and hopes to be home soon.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL.

Lillie Stowers, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elda Stowers of north of town, and Edwin Deer, son of Mrs. Mary Deer ojf this city, had their tonsils removed yesterday imorning. James Bicknell -underwent an operation yesterday afternoon for hernia. Mrs. Lee Meyers of Wheatfield underwent an operation for appendictls Wednesday and is doing nicely. Mrs. John T. Culp of this city and Mrs. Bert Nees of north of town entered the hosipital Tuesday for medical attention. Miss Maggie Gleason underwent a major operation Wednesday and is doing as well as could be expected. Mrs. Jerry Garland left the hospital yesterday.

KNITTERS NEEDED

The Red Cross is keen about cleaning up all work by May 15 th. We have a large quanity of yarn for stockings Ifor children and it must go out faster. Come in to the shop and hear our scheme for speeding up. ORA T. ROSS, Dlrertor of Knitting.

BLACKSMITHING

Blacksmith shop in former Grantburner lumber building. Horseshoeing, plow work and repairing. ohen managed by A. J. Doan. M-12.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs Fromtiie Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomised—Together With Other Note* Gathered From the Several County Offices. County Auditor J. P. Hammond made a business trip to Monticello Wednesday. Remember that Monday is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes. —S'* Jasper county’s allottment of .copies of the Acts of 1919 came Thursday and are now being distributed by Clerk Nichols. New suits filed: No. 9049. Matter of disbarment of Lazar W. Sarie and Paul Crundwell; disbarment. Venued from Lake county. There were four marriage licenses issued last month against 10 for the preceding month and 10 for the corresponding month of 1918.

According to information given The Democrat Thursday evening Jasper county lacked about >25,000 of her Victory loan allotment of >275,000. Several of the townships had reached their allotment. > 1 ■>■■■ The will of the late Miss Imogene Landon of Remington was filed Itor probate in the Jasper circuit court Tuesday. The instrument was executed April 19, 1919, and after the paying of all Just debts bequeaths to her sister-in-law, Florence Landon, >300; to Blanche Landon, also a sister-in-law, two-thirds Of all the rest of her property, and the remaining one-third to her brother, George Landon. Blanche Landon Is named as administratrix.. - Not much has been doing in the circuit court this week, and the jury was execused again Wednesday until next Tuesday. State cases 1718 to 1723, inclusive, against Ed Oliver et al, have been venued to Newton county on Affidavits filed by the defendants. I THE TRIAL CALENDAR Tuesday, May 6—C. N. Dickerson vs. Frank Hill; Bank of Mt. Ayr vs. T. Inkley; A. F. Long vs. W. C. Dooley. Wednesday, May 17—D. H. Craig vs. N. Y. C. R. R. Co. (two cases). Thursday, May B—A.8 —A. S. Laßue vs E. G. Sternberg; Mabel Motz vs' W. T. Kight. Friday, May 9 —J. A. Simpson vs. estate of W. H. Harris.

RULE OF SOLDIER’S INSURANCE

Automatic Extension of Each Policy for Month After Discharge. Washington, April 30. —Government insurance on lives of soldiers and sailors will be continued automatically in effect for one month after the end ofc, the month in which a man is discharged from the service, even if the man does not pay his premiums, Henry D. Lindeley, director of the war risk insurance bureau, has announced. If a man dies within that time the insurance will be paid, but after that time the policy is to be regarded as lapsed and will be lost unless application has been made for reinstatement. A lapsed policy will be reinstated iff application for this is made within six months. These terms are considered sufficiently liberal to eliminate chance of accidental neglect of a policy by a discharged soldier. Attempts now are being -made to have discharged men keep their policies in force, so they can be converted into regular life insurance at the man’s option within five years.

> This is of particular interest locally, as Linton W*. Carter of Mt. Ayr, who died April 1 at the Jasper county hospital, carried $lO,,000 insurance and died within about two weeks after his discharge, the certificate being dated March 13. This question arose as to Whether the insurance had lapsed, but the above statement covers (his case precisely. The young man was unmarried and his mother, Mrs. Ella Carter, is made the beneficiary.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919.

BROKEN BAR BLOCKS TRAFFIC

Monon Freight Wrecked at Surrey Tuesday Noon. Extra northbound Monon freight No. 500, enroute from Louisville to Chicago, was wrecked Tuesday noon at Surrey, when an arch bar on a boxcar loaded with phosphate broke. Two cars left the tracks, one being loaded with live stock. The juunibo wrecker came up from Lafayette and had the wrecked cleared by 5 o’clock the same afternoon. The wreck delayed traffic about five hours, northbound passenger train No. 6 detoured by wuy of Monon and San Pierre, thence over the N. Y. €. to Shelby, where it took the main line to Chicago. The air line fast train from Chicago to Indianapolis detoured by way of Hammond to Wilders, then over the Michigan City branch to Monon and thence to Indianapolis. Passenger train No. 38, from Indianapolis to Chicago, detoured the same way.

HOTEL PROJECT IS POSTPONED

Until Next Ydtir on Account of the Latd Start Made. C. P. Moody informs The Democrat that his new hotel project has been temporarilly postponed, for the reason that a late start on the iproject was made and ibe improbability of having the buiid<ng fully completed and ready for occupancy until early winter. There are one or two other reasons tor not going ahead this year. The lease on the old building now occupying the site does not expire for two years and it is difficult for the present tenant to find a new location for his creamery on short notice. Also, Mr. Moody is going to move the dwelling house from a part of the hotel site to the Delos Thompson lot, just north of the lots comprising the Fendig property, 42 feet frontage on Front street, and remodel same and convert It Into a four-apartment flat, and by the time this building was moved, a new location found for the tenant of the corner building and same vacated and gotten out of the way, the season would be too far advanced to go ahead with the hotel proper. He expects to get all these disposed of and be ready to go ahead with the new hotel next season, and ’he does not wish it understood that the building project has been abandoned, for it has not, he states. It is simply a little delay to get other preliminary matters out of the way. » The apartment house, he states, will be 40x42 feet," and in purchasing the Thompson lot it leaves the entire iformer'Fendig ground for the hotel.

THE WEATHER WAS BAD AGAIN

So Not Many People Were in to Hear Blue-Jacket Band. It seems as if the weather is bad every time the Great Lakes naval band comes to Rensselaer. It was cold and disagreeable “on both former occasions, and on Thursday it was showery and rather cool, so much so that the brief concert and sipeaking was given almost entirely in the Christian church. There was a fair-sized crowd out. The band was in charge of Col. Charles A. Gassard of Indianapolis, and the speaker was George M. Barnard of Newcastle. The committee had advertised that the concert and speaking would be in front of the court house, but on account of the weather it was held in the Christian church, as above stated, and members of the band ate so much dinner that they did not feel like tooting their horns before the train left that was to take them to Laflayette at 1:57 p. m. Quite a number of people came in after dinner expecting to hear the band, but all were disappointed, as they did not play a note after Alling their stomachs. All in all, this visit of the band was very disappointing. The fighting tank, which was supposed to visit many towns in this section of the state, including Rensselaer, traveling overland, has not reached here yet and probably will not come at all. It seems that so much engine trouble was had that all schedules were practically abandoned and -the tank has probably gone into dry dock.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby OitAes and Town*—Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Place*. OFFICIAL FIGI RES YANK LOSSES Surgeon General llei»orts t 11,170 Deaths During War to DateWashington, cial report from the surgeon general issued by the war department today gives the total number of deaths reported in the army during ’ the war to date as 111,179. Of this total, 56,639, or 51%, were Isl-om disease, 43% in battle or from wounds received in battle and 6% from other injuries. Of the deaths from disease about 32,000 have occurred since hostilities ceased.

For the third successive week, the report said, the rate for new cases of disease in the expeditionary forces for the week ended April 10, marked a low record. Only 9,422 men were admitted to the sick report as a result of disease, “giving the remarkably low annual rate of 3.80 per thousand.” Typhoid fever showed an Increase, however, 54 new cases being reported for that week. In the United States no unusual disease prevails at any camp or station, except at Camp Devens, where the Incidence of Influenza and pneumonia is high among the returned troops. A total of 102 new cases of pneumonia were reported for the week ending April 18, and 208 new cases c»f Influenza. During the seven-day period ended April 18, the sick and wounded troops returned to the United States totaled 3,174, bringing the grand total of sick and wounded returned during the war to 110,562. In hospitals abroad on the last date reported there were 44,172 sick from disease and 9,428 from injury. The army medical service expects to bring back 18,000 of these men in May, 9,000 in June and 4,000 in July.

THIS IS VERY AMUSING INDEED

“What Must We Do to Be Saved?” Question Confronting G* O. P. Washington, April 29. Telegrams were sent to all Republican senators today by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, floor leader, and Senator Curtis of Kansas, whip; asking that public expressions of opinion on the league of nations covenant be withheld until a Republican conference could decide on what attitude should be adopted. The message follows: “We suggest that Republican senators reserve final expressions of opinion respecting the amended league covenant until the latest draft has been carefully studied and until there has been an “ opportunity for conference.” It was understood that no date has been fixed for the conference.

HERE’S YOUR TAXI TAX

Washington, May 1. —Taxicabs, jitney busses and other passenger automobiles operated for hire are subject to special government taxes under regulations just Issued by the international revenue bureau interpreting the provisions of the revenue act. An automobile with a seating capacity of from three to seven is taxed $lO a year, and busses capable of carrying more than seven are taxed S2O. Two-passenger cars are exempt. TJie regulations provide that “bus lines, automobile stages and jitneys operating over regular routes” and cars operated by sightseeing companies are liable to the tax. The tax is assessed against the car and not the owner, so that if a man sellq a car he may not transfer the tax to another car. This tax became effective January 1 and is now due

SEED CORN Seventy bushels, very early, large, flesh colored. Twenty bushels large, white. Three dollars a bushel.—JOHN E. ALTER, Rensselaer, Ind., R-2, phone 921-E. m 3 * Read The Democrat for live news.

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION COMING.

L. H. Wright of ths State Highway Commission will b* in Rensselaer on next Monday evening, May 5, to speak to our people on the new state and county highway laws, under the auspices of the Jasper County Betterment association. The speaking will be In the court room at the court house. Everybody is cordially Invited to come out and hear Mr. Wright.

MAY 7 WELCOME HOME DAY

Indianapolis, May. 1- —Governor James P. Goodrich today proclaimed May 7 as “Welcome Home” day, the celebration to l>e held In Indianapolis. In his proclamation the governor Invites "all good citizens of Indiana” to the celebration and especially urges all soldiers of the world war, their relatives and friends to be present. He suggests that all citizens of the state so fnr as possible desist from their usual vocations to take part in welcoming home the soldiers. «

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

What Is th« .Matter With the Mail Service at Goodland? About 17 years ago rural mall route No. 1 was established out of Goodland with practically all dirt roads, but the pgtrons got service. Today, with the exception of four or five miles, the route has been Improved with good stone, a dirt road left only in several patches, and petitions are on file to have more of the dkrt road stoned. But the county is taxed to the limit, hindering road making. Nine families were cut off from service May 1, with only a tew days’ notice. Not even the road officials had received any complaint or order to repair any bt the said route, and state that the dirt roads are above the average dirt road, better than they were when the route was established and as good as they know how to <nmke them. A petition was recently sent to the postoffice department, signed by a number of the patrons, stating that their mall for the last year had not '.been delivered regularly. As much as ten days had elapsed without the carrier delivering the mail on part of the route. They demanded better service. Their only encouragement later was a notice from. the stating service would be discontinued to about nine patrons, beginning May 1. At one place, one mile, 3-4 of which Is stone, was cut out. It had three patrons; the 1% mile adjoining this mile was continued, and not a patron on it. It seems this change was made more to accommodate the carrier than to render service ko the people. There has not been a horse-drawn vehicle on this route in four or five years. The patrons of Goodland routes are deprived of receiving mail from the east, due at 9:30 a. m., the saime day, because the carriers are not held for this mall, as formerly, and as Remington is still doing. Rensselaer has four routes, each route has more or less dirt and bad places. All use teams and mall wagons when they cannot make it by auto, and one of the regular carriers is a woirian at that. it seems a carrier should appreciate the difference 'between iroads 17 years ago and now enough to give service. Shame on Goodland. INTERESTED.

Judging from The Democrat’s recent experience in trying to get better service for its many patrons on the Goodland rural routes, the present postmaster and carriers over there are laboring under the impression that rural routes were established solely for the convenience of the (postmaster and the financial benefit of the carriers, and not to render service to the patrons. The patrons should get busy with the postoffice department and disabuse their minds of this idea. I

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Vol XXII. No. 10

MEET GERMANS AT VERSAILLES

U. S. Envoys In Committee Sent to Receive the Credentials ot Foe. All READY FOR CONGRESS PMkW Tnnty Will Be C’ouimunicat«xl to Berlin Delegate* Monday To Meet in IMning Room of Hotel Trianon. Versailles. Mny 2.—The first official meeting between representatives of the allies nnd the German peace delegatee was held at 3 o’clock In the afternoon. A committee from the allies nnd the United States received the German credential*. George N. Barnes, of the British peace delegation, and Jules Caiubon, of the French delegation, examined the credentials of the German envoys. Tables Ready for Congress. The specious dining room of the Hotel Trlaiwn received its peace congress installation —three long tables in horseshoe form, covered with the traditional green cloth of diplomacy and games of hasard. The Installation Is imposing in the else of the side tables, which extend about forty or fifty feet through the room. At the head of the apartment is a table about thirty-five feet long at which the representatives of the great powers will be seated with President Poincare or Premier Clemenceau 4n the center. Inside the horseshoe is another table covered with red plush and in the space between one side of the horseshoe nnd the windows Is a similar table. In the window openings are a number of smaller square tables for secretaries.

Scene for Handing Over Terms. This Is n scene for the handing over of the terms of peace. The French government has carefully abstained from naming the day of the ceremony, either to the public or to functionaries Instructed with arrangements, nnd It Is n fair presumption that this is due not only to the problem whether the Intervening time will be long enough to verify the credentials of the German plenipotentiaries, but also the uncertainty ns to when the draft of the treaty will be ready. Questions relative to the adequacy of the powers of the German delegates and their qualifications to apeak for Bavaria, which came to the front during the day, mny furnish nn occasion for deferring the handing oyer of the treaty. German Delegates Take Stroll. All the German delegates, including Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the foreign minister, were out foj a brief stroll despite the inclement weather. The afternoon was chiefly devoted to preparations for the congress. There was a busy coming and going of subordinates between the three hotels occupied by the mission. The Germans excite little curiosity in Versailles and passersby rub elbows with the Teutonic visitors, scarcely taking note of them as they pass. All Ready for Peace Conference. Paris, May 2.—The opinion prevails in peace conference circles that the peace preliminaries will be communicated to Jhe Germans next Monday afternoon.

NOT FOR PARTISAN ACTION

G. O. P. Senators Declare Peace League Not Party Issue. Washington, May 2.—Several Republican senators of the group known as progressive let it be known that they opposed having the league of nations covenant considered at the proposed Republican conference with a view of determining the attitude of the party toward the document. Senators Johnson of California, Jones of Washington, McNary of Oregon and Barah of Idaho made statements declaring the league could not be made., a party question. “I don’t care what Mr. Lodge, Mr. Root or any one else says or determines; it won’t Influence me In this matter,” said Senator Johnson. “This matter transcends all other questions in importance too much to be made a party question.”

ITALIANS ARE COOLING OFF

Dispatches Indicate Feeling Is Quieting Down Among People. Washington, May 2. —Dispatches from Rome to the state department Indicated that feeling among the Italians was quieting down and that the Italian statesmen were considering the Flume question with a greater degree of soberness than has been manifest in the last few days. Officials here fell that the situation shows a decided Improvement.