Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1919 — Page 1

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BARN IS DESTROYED BY FIRE

At Early Hour Wednesday Morning—lxwt Partly Covered. The barn on the Joe Eichelberger farm, foiTF miles west of Francesville, tenanted by Charles Brusnaham, was totally destroyed by fire at about 1 o’clock Wednesday morning. The cause of the fire is unknown. Mr. Brusnahan had some six tons of hay In the barn, about 200 bushels of * oats and six sets of work harness, besides some other property of lesser value, which loss le ipartly covered by Insurance. His horses In the pasture adjoining had the run of the barn but -fortunately all were outside at the time or his .•oes would have been much heavier. The same threshing rig that set fire to a’ stack of wheat straw out at Albert Tobin's, south of town, Monday and destroyed same, set fire to a straw stack out at Alf Hoover’s place, also south of town, about 9:30 o’clock Wednesday forenoon and destroyed It also. The machine had pulled away and is allege to have set the stack on fire as it was pulling out. The engine was not equipped with screen in the smokestack,* it is said, which was the cause of the two fires and destroyed perhaps $250 worth of straw. The machine Is owned by Clouse Bros, of Remington.

OATS THRESHING IS STARTED

To Some Extent and Yield and Quality Better Than Expected. Oats threshing has started to some little extent ip Jasper county, where the wheat runs had been finished, and while The Democrat is unable to give many Individual yields, they are said to be turniing out better than anticipated, both in number of bushels to the acre and in the quality. The best yield yet reported Is that of Frank Kanne, who resides on the former S. E. Sparling farm, just west of "’t. Joseph college, who had an average of 40 bushels to the acre 'which tested out 32 pounds to the bushel. Paul Tanner, on the Alex Hurley fairm In Barkley township, had a yield of 30 bushels and they also tested 32 pounds. So far as we have been able to learn at this writing the average yield will be right around 30 bushels per acre and the oats will grade No. 2.

Lots of wheat is coming in this week and the usual car shortage is reported. The elevator men don't know just where they are at for this reason, and it is probable the lack of cars to ship out the grain is going to couse lots of Inconvenience and may result in some of the elevators having to close down temporarily in a very short time. Because of the uncertainty of getting cars the elevators here are not contracting oats. The former estimate of a 15bushel per acre average for wheat in Jasper county seems to have been about correct. An occasional field is making from 18 to 22 bushels, but some are only making from 12 to 14, which cuts the average down considerably. John Zimmer of Newton township reports that his 65 acres yielded 17 bushels. William Schleman, also of Newton, had a yield of about the same number of-'bush-els per acre. Floyd Spain, four miles northeast cf Rensselaer, had 48 acres that averaged 20 bushels per acre, and Lee Mathena, of the same neighborhood, bad 17 acres that yielded 23 bushels per acre. THere are probably more yields right around 16 to 17 bushels per acre than there are above those figures. f

BETTER THAN TWO TO ONE

Frank Welsh Ls Jordan township says that he raised a better quality of wheat than O. K. Rainier, anyhow. He had out but 10 acres that tested 60 lbs. to the bushel and was docked but 1%, while O. K’s. dockage on his Brookston farm: was •3%. Mr. Welsh’s yield was 18% bushels per acre. He had 30 acres of Rosen rye that yielded but 12 bushels per acre, and tested 50 lbs. to the bushel and was worth $1,40 per bushel against $2.09 per bushel for the’ wheat, a difference Ptj(oi.B7 per acre in favor of Jwowing wheat.

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

COURT ROUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From tin Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Judge E. P. Hammond of Lafayette was a visitor in the city Thursday. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy were over from Remington on business yesterday. Judge C. W. Hanley, who has been confined to his home for the past couple of weeks with an attack of shingles, is now considerably better.

A meeting of the Jasper County Betterment association was to be held last night to take some action toward deciding the time for holding a county celebration for the returned soldiers. The annual estimates of tax levies and expenditures of the various township trustees for the calendar year 1920 should be published next week. These estimates must be published in the two leading papers published in the county representing the two leading political parties, and also in a paper published in the township, if any there be. New suits filed: No. 9076. Mabel J. Reeder vs. Roscoe Reeder; suit for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married December 26, 1916, and separated on July 18, 1919. Cruel and inhuman treatment and failure to provide is charged. The parties reside in Union township. This is the seventh divorce case filed since the April term of court.

A BIG HOME-COMING MEETING

Held at Court House Last Evening to Devise Plans for Same. The Jasper County Betterment association is planning for a big home-coming celebration to be held in Reneselaer, and a meeting was held at the court house last evening to make plans for same. The general public was invited to this meeting and asked to render all the assistance possible to make the celebration the best ever held in Jasper county.

“COME TAKE A RIDE IN MY AIRSHIP”

The passenger airship which was to have been in Rensselaer last Saturday and Sunday but was delayed on account of a broken propeller blade, came Thursday evening and will \remain here over Saturday and Sunday. It made two flights Thursday evening, taking up Miss Gwendolyn Kannal on one and Lawrence McLain on the other. It is probable that many people will avail themselves of this opportunity to “go up in the air.”

$60,000 TO BE CAPITAL STOCK

Because of the large number of subscribers for stock in the new Farmers & Merchants’ National banlrand the desire to accdmmodate as many people as possible within reason, it has been decided, The Democrat is Informed, to increase the capital stock from $50,000 to $60,000, and a telegram was sent to Washington to amend the application for a charter to read $60,000.

STILL CONTINUES HOT AND DRY

The weather continues quite hot and very dry. Weather reports give no promise of rain In the near future, and on some of the higher ground and on the sand the corn is practically beyond relief now. We do not remember ever seeing it so dry in JuW as we have it now. Unless rain comes very soon the damage will be very serious indeed. There is no pasturage at all to speak of.

NOTICE TO CAR OWNERS We will continue the repairing of automobiles under the big tent, just east of our old garage. After the new garage is up our tent will be for rent for public sales, public meetings, etd.—KUBOSKE & WALTER.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1919.

HIGH PRICED SPUDS PROBABLE

Local Price* Higher Now Than Those of a Month Ago. The dry weather has put the potato crop on the hummer in this section of the country, and no home-grown new potatoes at all have appeared on the market. In Rensselaer we are now paying 7c per pound for new potatoes, 2 cents more than a month ago, and these arfe all southern grow®. There will be very few late potatoes in this vicinity, and practically every bushel of potatoes consumed in Jasper county must be shipped in. They have had lots of rain In the eastern states, it is said. In fact, in many, .places a great deal of damage bas done from excessive rains, but it seems generally to have been quite dry in tihe west and it is probable that it -will not have Its usual crop to supply its less fortunate neighbors in the middle west.

PART BANK LOOT RECOVERED

Liberty Bonds Aggregating $4,000 Located in Chicago. Four thousand dollars worth of the securities stolen from the Farmers’ State bank here early on the mornings of March 25, when the bank’s safety deposit vault was blown open and ransacked, have been recovered. The securities, represented by certificates of indebtedness, were presented at the Federal Reserve bank in Chicago last Friday for payment. The bank official to wboum they were presented immediately recognized them as part of the loot taken from the Farmers’ State bank and withheld payment. He called Pierce Archibald, cashier of the bank, on the phone and advised him of the recovery. Officials of the Farmers’ State bank have never let up for a moment in their efforts to locate the stolen property, but the fact that sc .many bonds and securities have been stolen in the past year and are changing hands almost like currency, made their work doubly hard. However, the recovery of at least a of the stolen goods is very encouraging and may possibly lead to the recovery of a part of the others stolen. The certificates of indebtedness recovered Friday were presented at the Federal Reserve bank by the Union Trust company, one of the oldest and most reliable banking firms in Chicago. Just how they came in possession of the stolen property has not been made public, but the transaction was doubtless legitimate and probably followed a long list of questionable deals. The matter will doubtless be followed up and an effort made to trace the certificates back to the actual robbers. —Morocco Courier.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Miss Hazel Haniford of Kentland had her tonsils removed Thursday. Floyd Gratner of Barkley township underwent a minor operation Thursday. Mrs. Rose Sumner of Barkley township entered the hospital 'Thursday for medical attention. Miss Ina Alson of Remington had her tonsils removed Wednesday. Sam Cosby reburned to his home at Leßoy, 111., Wednesday after spending a week here'for medical attention. Lewis Miller entered the hospital Tuesday evening for medical attention. Mrs. Trevor Eger is improving. Earl Adams is not improving very fast J. U. Iliff is still caring for him. Rev. E. W. Strecker, accompanied by Misses Bernice Carson, Gladys Shaw, Fern Tilton and Meta Thomas, drove to Battle Ground Thursday tq attend the Epworth League convention. Mrs. Marion Wyant o,f Kentland, Mrs. Lawrence Livingston and children and Mrs. Henry Smith of Indiana Harbor visited here Thursday with the former’s husband, who is a patient at the county hospital.

ANOTHER BOX PAPER SPECIAL

The Democrat has another lot of good quality correspondence paper, 24 sheets of paper (small American flag colors stamped In one corner of each sheet), 24 envelopes to box, which formerly sold at 35c a box, to close out at 20c per box. Call early If you want some. / Only .a few dozen boxes left.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities* ARTICLE TEN OF COVENANT Would Forbid Wars of Aggression in the Future. Washington, D. C. —The most noteworthy bugaboo used by opponents of the league of nations to scare the people—aritcle X of the covenant —was proved a straw man by Claude Swanson of Virginia in his keynote speech opening the real fight in the senate for President Wilson’s world peace program. Carefully analyzing every provision in the famous document, Senator Swanson closed with this tribute to the united work of the best minds of 22 nations of the world: .

“It is one of the world's greatest documents, marking the beginning of a new and better order in world affairs, separating a past dark with war and strife, from the sunlight of a future bright with peace and international co-operation and conciliation. Out of the Revolutionary war, by American valor and sacrifice, emerged the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States, the two most precious parchments yet conceived by human mind. The constitution when proposed was assailed with virulence and encountered prophecies of dreadful calamities to follow its adoption exceeding anything that has been directed against the covenant. ( AfThe pathway of our duty is plain. We should neither hesitate nor halt, but firmly align ourselves with the forces that are working for world betterment. With strong «rms and brave hearts let us faith-

fully discharge our responsibilities the world’s greatest power and 'earlessly face a future which beckons us to a greater glory and usefulness.’’ * Prefacing his -analysis, Senator Swanson pointed ojit that the 22 nations that framed the treaty represented nine-tenths of the world’s population of 1,500,000,000, that estimates are that 7,400,000 men were killed and 7,175,000 permanently disabled, and that the conclusion of the war finds the world burdened with a public debt aggregating $190,000,000,000, or ouethlrd op its total wealth. The majority of the world’s great wars “have been occasioned by a desire of conquest and to obtain additional territory,” said Senator Swanson, in discussing article X, and he summarized the chief objections as “Those of our countrymen who antagonize the league have directed against this provision their most persistent and unrelenting opposition. They have insisted that the assumption by us of this obligation would embroil us in interminable wars with all the attendant expense and danger. They have presented dire forebodings of United States troops being sent to every part of the globe to settle petty territorial quarrels. They contend that tn adopting this provision of the covenant the United States uses her great power, without any recompense whatever, to bring to other nations repose and security. “It should be noted that this is an obligation assumed, not by the league as an entirety, but by each member individually,” he continued. “Each member of the league undertakes, first, to respect the territorial integrity and existing vpolitical independence of all members. This is a solemn promise made by each member that it will never endeavor to by conquest or aggression any of the territory or possessions of any other member. In common parlance, we would agree not to rob any of our associates in the league and they would agree not to rob us. “If this league is consummated, as conitemjllated, It means immediately that four-fifths of the world, and eventually all the world, agrees

to cease from wars of conquest and despoilment If adhered to it would eliminate the causes which have produced most of the wars of the past. If observed, there is not a member of the league, great or small, that ever would have its Individual political existence threatened; and no more would the history of the world be encumbered with the frightful wreck of people and nations through lust of conquest. k “The second obligation assumed by each member of the league individually is to ’preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the league.* This is a natural corollary from the first. In the former we undertake not to rob our associates ourselves, and in this we agree not to permit others to do so; each associate assuming a like obligation to us.” There have been claims that under the league as proposed American soldiers could be drafted for the quelling of rebellions in other countries. Senator Swanson conclusively disproved this assertion by saying: “It should be noted that this guarantee of territorial integrity and political Independence is limited to those cases where they are threatened or attacked by external

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FORMER JASPER COUNTY MAN

Died of Injuries Sustained in Being Run Over by Truck. Roy Vandercar, a brother of Bert Vandercar of Wheatfield, and a highly respected young man of Knox, died at the St. Joseph hospital at Mishawaka Saturday morning as a result of Injuries sustained while attempting to jump on a moving truck in use on the Rodgers & Robbins stone road contract southeast of Knox. The accident occurred on Tuesday of last week. One of the hind wheels of the truck ran over his right leg, breaking it in two places, and it was thought he also sustained internal injuries. Friday night his case developed into an acute attack of peritonitis and he' passed away early Saturday morning. Deceased was born October 16, 1885, on a farm near Tefft, and was a quiet, bard working young man. He is survived by his mother, two sisters and three brothers.

PIG WISE, HEALTH FOOLISH

Dr. John N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, advises town boards and city councils not to permit the raising of hogs in towns or cities. During the emergency the state board did not oppose the war plan to Increase the pork supply. It was believed that the need for meat at that time overbalanced any menace to health that may have been involved. Now, however, some Indiana cities aire issuing permits to raise hogs within the city limits. Health authorities regard the tendency as one to be deplored. “Let us not be pig wise and health foolish," said Dr. Hurty. "Hog raising ought not to be attempted in a closely populated place." .

LATE BUYERS OF NEW CARS

Among the late purchasers -of automobiles through the Dr. J. Hansson agency are: Floyd Spain of northeast of town, a new Victory Scout Elgin; Paul Tanner of Barkley, an Elgin; Thomas Clark of near Morocco, an "Elgin. Dr. Johnfeom of Rensselaer is understood to have just purchased a new Victory Mitchell roadster through the same agency.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

July 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook of Hanging Grove township, a daughter. July 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stover of Union township, an 8pound daughter. This is their fourth child, the other three being boys.

PLACE FERTILIZER ORDERS NOW

Farmers desiring to use commercial fertilizers this fall should place , their orders at once with the Farmers* Grain company. Please give this matter your Immediate attention so we may be able to care for your wants in this line. —H. H. POTTER, Manager Farmers’ Grain company.

Vol XXIL No. 34

LANSING SEES NEWSPAPER MEN

His Midi No Arrangements to Appear Bison Senate Committee. SILENT ON SHANTUNG ROW Secretary of State Says Both Great Britain and the U. 8. Would Bo Obligated to Equal Extent by the Treaty. Washington, July 20.—Secretary Lansing gave his first audience to newspaper men since his return from France. The secretary said he had, not made any arrangements to appear before the senate foreign affairs committee. He expects to be In Washington for some time and the senate, committee can call him if it sees tit to do so. The senate has naked the state department for the protest which it understands Secretary Lansing, Mr. White and General Bliss 'made against the Shantung award. Mr. Lansing was asked if be would state the nature of that protest. He declined to do so. The secretary’s attention was called to the statement from the White House relative to Shantung in which it was said the president "exerted all the Influence he was at liberty to exercise in the circumstances to obtain a modification.” He was asked if it was fair to assume that the argument which he and Mr. White and General Bliss made followed the line of argument made by the president. His reply was: "That would be a dangerous assumption.”

Lansing Surprised. Mr. Lansing was told of the debateIn the senate over the French treaty-. He assumed that the text of the treaty already had been presented to the senate and when told that it had not been expressed surprise. It was explained to him that the criticism of the Republican senators was that “under article 4 of the treaty it was provided that the treaty should be submitted to the senate at the same time as the treaty of peace. “How do they know that if the treaty hns not yet been presented?" he asked.

He was told that what purported to be a true copy of the treaty has been read to the senate by Senator Brandegee and was asked if he would confirm life allegation that the treaty actually did provide that it was to be given to the senate coincidentally with the peace treaty. He refused to confirm it It would be improper, he said, to make known any part of the treaty until the (ull text had been given to the senate. "But,” it was suggested, "the fall text of the treaty has been printed in the Paris Figaro and the London Times and the complaint Is that it should be published abroad before it Is published here.” "It makes no matter whether or not it had been published abroad, they have no senate to deal with there as a part of the ratifying power, and we have,” be replied. “But because it must be a party to ratification is the very reason why the senate complains that Europe gets the text of the treaties before they are given to the senate,” was further suggested. To this Secretary Lansing made the following reply: "The complaint is that the treaties,, are not made public by the state department. If they were made public by the state department before it was possible to send them to the senatethere would be even greater complaint. Then we would be accused of propaganda. We would be accused of making the document public In order to form public sentiment in its favor before it was given to the senate. I know quite likely that would be my contention in those circumstances if I were senator.” Britain Bound Like U. 8. Secretary Lansing was asked if it wei;e true that there was a difference in the texts of the French-American and the French-British treaties. He declared that the difference was only In phraseology. Both Great Britain and the United States, he asserted would be obligated to an equal extent. He admitted that, as sent out from Paris, the language of the French-British treaty meant something very different from the languageof the French-American treaty, but he declared that the quotations given in the Paris dispatches were not correct. When the secretary was asked what progress was being made in the resumption of American trade with. Germany, he replied: , “We are still at war with Germany and., will be until the treatv of na»no

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