Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

12.00 Per Year.

WILL PAY HAND BAND $125 A MONTH

City Oooacil go pecided at Regular z Meeting Monday Night. At the regular meeting of the common council of the city of Rensselaer Monday night all members were present except Councilman Wood. The council voted to pay the Rensselaer band for weekly band concert* for the next four months 1125 per month, a total of >SOO, or about >3O for each concert The application of Earl Gonderman for an electrician’s license was granted on filing of the required bond and payment of license fee. - Chester Halstead was granted permission to occupy Jefferson street with building material and dirt, while erecting a new residence, on filing of bond for >I,OOO. The insurance policy on boilers at th* light and water plant was ordered renewed for >40,000 for three years and premium at 1120.70. A large number of claims were allowed.

IS THIS HOME A HELL HOLE?

As Termed by the Republican on Second-Hand Information. Sheriff Woodworth and C. M. Sands, who were up at Plymouth last week, taking? Leonard Clifton, son of Rex Clifton of Parr, to the Julia E. Work training school, brought home a sensational story regarding the improper care and bad treatment of the boys confined in this institution—they did not gee the girls’ department and . therefore do not know anything about how that is conducted, they state. Both wrote letters to the head of the state department having supervision over institutions of this kind, it is said, and it is understood that an investigation of th»» charges will be made. Judge Hanley evidently thought it best not to wait for an investigation and ordered the release of the three boys from this county who are confined there —Ernest Jacks, Leonard Clifton and - Sigman. The father of the Jacks boy, Charley Jacks, the barber, • and Harve Moore went up to Plymouth Friday and brought his son home and- the other two boys were brought home Monday. While this home is a private institution, it is under state supervision and is frequently visited and inspected by the state officers. The Democrat has talked with a Rensselaer gentleman who has made many trips to the home, nearly always without any previous notice of his coming, and he thinks there is very little to these charges. He thinks that it is a model institution and is well conducted. In the first place, he says, one should remember that 90% of the boys and girls sent there are defectives, either physically or mentally, and they do not have th*-ap-pearance of normal, healthy children. The brighter children sent there have homes secured for them as soon as possible, and it is the others that are left. They, of course, have discipline there, he says, and all must admit that this is something that is absolutely necessary; that they have playgrounds, physical exereise, etc., and their food Is good and whelesotme—or was at all times he visited the institution —and plenty of it, but with few nick-nacks. He says that the management has always invited inspection and asks the visitors from the different counties bringing children there to go through the institution; that some 20 cows are kept on the farm which produces its own milk and butter, poultry, eggs, vegetables, etc. He has always noted the cleanliness everywhere and, unless conditions have changed wonderfully very recently, he does not think there is much if any ground for the charges now made. Miss Mabel Atwood, domestic science teacher in the Rensselaer schools, has been connected with the state board of charities and correction, and has frequently visited the Julia E. Work home, The Democrat is Informed, She has also spoken highly of it, we are told, but as she is out of the city at present we haver not the opportunity to interview her in person (on the subject. It is a very easy matter to findfault with thq management of any public or private institution of this character—and in some instances no doubt the criticism is justified—-

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

litirHtlniPinpiphs From tin Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various Connty Offices. Court Reporter Mike Wagner left Monday for Sheboygan, Wis., to visit his parents. Trustee John F. Pettit Of Walker township was in Rensselaer Monday on business, w The McKay laundry machinery, which probably cost upwards of >2,000 when new, brought a total of about >4O at sheriff’s sale Saturday.

The Marion township issue of consolidated school bonds were sold yesterday morning by Trustee Postill to the State bank of Rensselaer at par (>18,000) accrued Interest and >307.50 premium. The Fletcher American bank of Indianapolis bid >305 premium; Breed-Elliott & Harrison, also of Indianapolis, >lßl, and J. M. Waugh of Crawfordsville, >lO. B. F. Alter and County Surveyor Nesbitt Invested in a little real estate Monday before the price got up to >I,OOO per acre, and purchased of Barney Kolhoff the old Jerry Shea farm of 100 acres 1 mile west of the Alf Donnelly corner north of town. The price paid, it is understood, was >225 per acre. Mr. Alter owns a farm close by the land purchased.

—t—;— Land prices are certainly soaring tc heretofore unheard of figures in Jasper county and many farms have changed hands in the past 30 days, some of them two or three times, and each purchaser has made a nice sum on the advance. John W. Sage of Rensselaer, who bought 325 acres of the J. J. Lawler lands, east of Pleasant Ridge at >lB5 per acre about 10 days ago, was offered >225 per acre for this land last Friday. This was an advance of >4O per acre, or >13,000 profit. Marriage licenses issued: July 12, Frank Browning Dempsey 'of Chicago, aged 34 February 28 last, switchman, and Benona Frances Larson, also of Chicago, aged 30 May 20 last, housekeeper. First -marriage for male, pecond for female, first marriage dissolved by divorce June 20, 1919. July 12, Randle Delos Gorham, son of Mrs. George Gorham of Rensselaer, aged 21 January 15 last, electrician, and Louisa Griggs, daughter of Len Griggs, also of Rensselaer, aged 18 February 5 last, telephone operator. First marriage for each.

ICE TESTED 100% PURE H. E. White has had a sample of |ce tested from his natural lee supply taken from the ice pond near his ice houses last winter, as now required by law, and has received a certificate from the state board of health at Indianapolis showing it to be 100% pure.—Advt. NOTICE TO MEMBERS There will be a meeting of the Jasper County Shipping Association at the court house at 8:30 p. m. Saturday, July 19. Alli membert are requested to be present.—W. H. PULLINS, Pres.

but the management is up against propositions that the average layman knows nothing at all about and some things that may seem or severe are necessary to enforce the needed discipline. Every one wants our public wards well taken care of and treated as kindly as possible, and if the Julia E. Work home is not conducted along these lines it should be brought to time. A special investigation by the state authorities will probably do no harm and may do some good. The Democrat does not think it should be designated a "Hell hole,’’ however, as the Rensselaer Republican terms it, without a little fuller investigation.

No better job work produced in thia section of Indiana than that turned out by The Democrat.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, /WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1919.

NOT MUCH WHEAT THRESHED

A* Yet on Account of the Oat* Harvest Coming On So Soon. The Democrat has been unable to get very much of a line on the wheat yields as yet for the reason that very little threshing has been done on account of the fact that oats cutting came on so quickly and the fanmers bad to side-track threshing to work in the oats fields. Here are a few yields reported: W. H. Wortley, seven miles south of town, on the Remington road, had 24 acres which made 18 bushels per acre. Frank Kanne on the former S. E. Sparling farm, one mile southwest of town, 33 acres, 23 bushels to the acre. Amos Alter of near Parr has not threshed all his wheat at this writhing, but the fields, threshed have averaged about 16 bushels per acre and tested 55 to 56 pounds to the bushel. The remainder, be thinks, will do a little better than this.

SAYS MEH WERE MISTREATED

By Army Officers \Vhen Held Prisoners on Minor Charge*.. James W. Beckman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beckman of Rensselaer, who recently returned -from France where he was a sergeantmajor in the A. E. F., is writing a serious of articles in the New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser of alleged brutal treatment of military prisoners in Franco oy American, officers that came unFr his observation. He says in his first article, in the issue of last Wednesday, that “undoubtedly there were only a few bad officers, who were responsible for most of the misery undergone by the military prisoners; that the greater majority, of our officers in France wet* thorough gentlemen who treated their men fairly, which is shown by the fact that 65,000 voluntary recruits have joined the army in the past few weeks and of this number 70% were re-enlistments, and of this 70% more than two-thirds had been overseas.” Mr. Beckman argues, however, that the fact that only a few officers were guilty of brutalities is no reason for not exposing them, and in his aritcles he is citing instances that came under his personal observation or Were furnished him- in the form of affidavits.

SOME RECENT SALES OF FARMS

George F. Meyers reports the sale of the John Guss 120-acre farm near Virgie to J. M. Ahern of Livingston, 111., for >BO per acre. A. S. Laßue reports having sold a 160-acre farm 3 miles southwest of Francesville to Gleason Bros, of Buckley, 111., at >215 per acre. E. P. Lane last week bought of C. C. Middlestadt of Monon the latter’s 181-acre farm west of Surrey, paying therefor >9O per acre. Emerson Mathena on Monday sold, his 80-acre farm northeast of Rensselaer about 4 miles to Eugene W. Lang, the consideration being >235 per acre. Lee Matheny has sold his 80acre farm about 2% miles northeast of town to Harley Bruce of near Crawfordsville for >235 per acre or >IB,BOO. ' The sale was negotiated by Hurry Swaytzell. Frank Fenwick of Jordan township, who purchased the John W. Sage 160-acre farm just over the line of Jordan in Newton county some two weeks ago at >242.50 per acre, sold same last Friday to Dick Light of Brook-for >272 per acre.

ERECTING MODERN BUILDING

On Site of the Old Robert Parker Bank at Remington. The work of rebuilding the Old Parker bank building at Remington, for the past several years occupied by the State bank of that place, is now going on. The old building, which was erected by the late Robert Parker some 30 years ago, is being entirely torn away and an entire new and modern, brick and stone, building with high ceilings and a directors’ room on the balcony, something in general style after the plan of_the First National bank of .Rensselaer, is to be erected on the site of the old building, which will be a credit to the town and to the bank, which is one of the very best paying banking institutions in Jasper county.

—iT Place your orders now for nursery tetock for fall delivery. Ail trees guaranteed to grow or replaced free of charge.—CHARLES. PEFLEY, phone 475. tfi

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Connlry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Citle* and Towns— .Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesRETAIN DAYLIGHT SAVINGS LAW . Washington, July 14. —The house failed to pass the agricultural appropriation, with its rider repealing the daylight savings law, over theveto of President Wilson. The vote was 247 to 135, or 23 affirmative votes under the required two-thirds majority.

ALABAMA’S 100% AMERICANS

Will Remain Away From Senator Reed's Meeting. Birmingham, Ala., July 13.—Resolutions were adopted by the Birmingham Post of the American Legion today declaring that no member of the post will be present to hear the address which Senator Reed of Missouri will make here tomorrow night in opposition to the league of nation* and urging all “100 per cent Americans” also to refrain from attending the meeting. Senator Reed was handed a copy of the resolutions by a committee of the Birmingham post.

A STEADY STREAM OF GOLD

Workers in Calumet Region Are Sending Big Sums to Europe. Hammond, Ind., July 15. —Bankers in the cities of Hammond, East Chicago, Gary and Whiting, where during the war more than 100,000 iiruunition workers, chiefly foreigners, were employed, are amazed at the stream of gold which has poured into the pockets of these workers, and which since peace was signed is going to Europe in sums of >SOO and >I,OOO, Frequently drafts are sent for three to five times these amounts. Banks in the Calumet district find themselves swamped in the rush for drafts. There is a queue of every foreign exchange window. Bankers declare that the munition workers bring the cold cash with them from home. They do not deplete or draw on their savings accounts. In spite of the heavy drain, there is no falling off in deposits or Liberty bond payments. Banks declare that prohibition also is financially effective. The prosperity of the Calumet region will soon be reflected in Europe.

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Wants to Hear From His Jasper County Friends. Ross Wood of Fair Oaks, who recently returned from overseas service and after a few weeks’ rest re-enlisted, writes The Democrat from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., where he has been stationed, and says: Jefferson Barracks, Mo., July 9. Dear Friend Editor—l have written several letters to my friends since coming back to the army and have received no answers, and want you to publish this letter and, maybe, some of them will write to me. Jefferson Barracks surely is a fine place. Amusements of al* kinds > here—swimming pool, gymnasium and recreation halls. I am in a shipment and leave tomorrow, the 10th, so» Frisco and thence to China for two years. Will close, hoping that when my friends see this that they will write. Sincerely yours, PRIVATE ROSS WOOD, 15th Pct. Co., Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Every farmer who own* Me farm ought to have printed stationery with hie name and the name of hie postofflce properly given. The prln* ed heading might also give the names of whatever erope he special izee in or hie specialties In stock. Neatly printed etatlonery gives yen personality and a standing with any person or firm to whom you write rad insures the proper reading el yonr name and address.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Sam Cosby of Leßoy, 111., was brought over Monday for osteopath' treatment*. Mr. Cosby had bis back broken last February in am automobile accident. Mr*. Joseph Scheurich, Sr., entered the hospital Monday for medical attention. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roe Yeoman Saturday. Ralph Hopkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Hopkins; Helen Todd,] daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Louis Todd of Fair Oaks, and Vivian and Duane Swanson of Morocco, had their tonsils removed Monday. . James Hendry, foreman of the, Warren T. McCray Hereford cattle farm near Kentland, who got his left leg broken just above the ankle on Tuesday afternoon, of last week, while putting up bay, when the pulley attached to the rope operating the big hay fork broke and a portion of it hit him with great' force, was brought to Rensselaer Monday and an X-ray picture taken of the injury.

ENTIRE TRAIN WAS BURNED UP

On Panhandle Road, West of Goodland, Monday Morning. . The east bound passenger train on the Panhandle railroad was wrecked and all the coaches burned at about 7 o’clock Monday morning near the Perkins switch, about midway between Kentland and Goodland. A small trestle over a ditch had been set on fire, it is supposed from an extra freight that went east about 3 o’clock Monday morning and the engineer of the passenger train did not notice the burning trestle until too close to stop his train.

*' This train, consisting of three small coaches, is made up at Effner, a small station on the state line just west of Kentland, and it had made but one stop, that at Kentland, at the time of the accident, therefore bad ■ but very few passengers on at the time. - - The engineer and fireman were perhaps the worst injured, the former, John W. Newther, of Logansport, being severely scalded about the limbs, and his fireman, A. J. Cayborn, also of Logansport, being cut about the face and neck. The others injured are reported as follow/: R. M. Mikels, expressman, of Effner, left hip broken; John Custer, baggageman, of Logansport left arm broken; John Wallace, mail clerk, of Ridgeway, Hl., right wrist broken, left elbow cut and bruised and head cut. Miss Helen O’Neal of Kentland, who was the only passenger in the passenger coach, received a cut under the right eye and a bruised right shoulder. Mr. Dean of Sheldon, who was riding in the smoker, was not injured.

The accident happened halfway between section roads and help could not arrive in time to do any good. The rear coach was unoccupied and had there been enough men present to have pushed the car back up the small incline the rear coaoh might have been saved. All the mall and express matter were burned. The engine and baggage and mail car passed over the trestle, the engine running perhaps a couple of car lengths before toppling over into the ditch at the south side of the track. The baggage and mall car remained on the roadbed, but the smoking car went partly through the bridge, the front end of which caught fire from the burning woodwork and the fire spread to the other coaches and in a short time all were mass of flames and were burned completely up, only the iron work being left. The westbound train detqured via C. & E. I. to Morocco and C. & I. S. to Kentland and then to Effner. The wrecking crew came out from. Logansport' and .by evening the wreck was cleared from the track.

ATTENTION OF THE FARMERS We are always in the market and will pay a premium on good, sound milling wheat. See us before you seII.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. * j 2 3 MORE DORTS ON THE WAY We have a carload of Dort cars on the way and another carload ordered, and hope to fill orders promptly.—KUßOSKE A WALTER. Subscribe for The Democrat.

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CLIPPED from OUR CONTEMPORARIES

The Farmers' Co-Operative company of Ade, Newton county, Ind., capital 150,000, to handle grains directors, Frank Bremer, Clyde R. Herriman and Harry L. Bell, have filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state. The steamship Rotterdam, with Robert. Lansing, secretary of state, on board, left Brest, France, for New York Monday afternoon. Shd was delayed a day in coaling. Secretary Lansing went on board Sunday morning after his arrival from Paris. A 3-year-old son of Charles R. Fickle, residing 1H miles' south of Mulberry, got both his lege nearly cut off Saturday when he wandered Into the oats field and got in front of the binder. He was rushed to a hospital in Lafayette and an attempt wIH be made tq save the limbs.

Great Britain’s mammoth transAtlantic air pioneer, the dirigible R-34, arrived at the air station at Pulham, Norfolk, England, at 6:5® o’clock, Greenwich mean time Sunday, completing her round trip from the British Isles to the United States 'and return. The return trip wag made In a trifle less than 75 hours, and was without special Incident* ' Resolutions asking the * United States senators of Indiana to vote for the ratification of the treaty of peace, including the league of nations covenant without were adopted at service held at Fletcher Place M. E. church, In<n| anapolls, Sunday evening. A copy! of the resolutions was sent to Senators New and Watson and also tq Vice-President Marshall. An entire business block In Pin® Village was destroyed by Are as an early hour Sunday morning. Included In the buildings destroyed, most of which were old and of comparatively little value, was the old hotei buildlrfg which went under the name of "Our. House fog many years, and was erected in 1853. For several years the hotel building had been used as a private residence; * The United States department of agriculture has turned over free tq the Indiana state highway commission 231 more automobile trucks. The federal department has given 597 trucks and automobiles to the highway commission. The gifts are machines bought for the war department and now no longef needed. The total value of the automobiles Is estimated to exceed >1,200,000, They will be used in the maintenance department of the commission next year. ,

Southern Indiana's apple crop is almost a complete failure, except in a few favored orchards, according to Professor James Troop, entomologist at Purdue university, who has returned from an investigation of fruit prospects through the state. Professor Troop said the more favored spots would not have more than half a crop. (He visited one orchard of 250 acres, which early the season promised a yield of between 40,000 and 50,000 bushels of apples, but which now indicated not more than 100 bushels of good fruit. Late freesing weather is responsible for the failure of the crops. w The Los Angeles county grand Jury Saturday indicted Harry 3. New, Jr., for the murder of Miss Frieda Lesser. The Indictment, it was said by the district attorney, would eliminate a preliminary hearing and would prevent the disclosure of facts possessed by the prosecutlqn prior to the jury trial. New, who says he is the son of United States Senator New of Indiana, drove up to the police station with the body of Miss Lesser and within a few hours signed a written confession that he had shot her because she refused to marry him. New’s mother and other relatives have arranged for a defense based on insanity and announced they would cause him to be examine* by alienists. Two depositions, one from Senator New, and the other from an unnamed admirer of Frieda at Birmingham, Ala., may figure in the defense of New, attorneys for the defense admitted today.