Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1919 — Page 4

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HAPPLNINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GOODLAND (From the Herald) A eon was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Guthrie Tuesday. Edith Railsback of Rossville, Illinois, visited here this week with Louise Constable and Leona Leming. Miss Hope Kilgore returned home Wednesday evening after visiting with Miss Blanche Walker at Warsaw. Born, Monday, July 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Starkweather, a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hartsock on Monday, a daughter. C. A. Medlock and daughter, Ellenloyd of Salem, Indiana, came Thursday for a visit with his brothers here. Mr. Medlock has recently retuirned from overseas where lie was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work. Charles Babcock received a dislocated left ankle and bruises when the team ran away with him at the Seaver Davidson home Monday morning. He was brought to town and his wounds dressed and went home to recuperate. A. J. Clayborn, the fireman, who was Injured Im the wreck on July 14 came out from Logansport Tuesday for a visit with the Frank Weishaar family,, where he was cared for after he was injured. He seems to be getting along fine, but is enjoying a few days off. Several threshing runs have started in this community and the yields have been fairly good. Some oats at the Mark Crandall farm averaged 46% bushels per acre. The oats threshed this week have averaged from 32 to 42 bushels, this will make an average of about 37 bushels. Goodland had a rather unusual visitor Monday in the person of Josiah Henry, who was a resident of Halifax, Novia Scotia last year when the great explosion laid parts of this city in ruins. He lost his wife and son and his property. He is a mam past sixty and was on his way to Tacoma, Washington, to make his home with two daughters. Luck to him.

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Last Sunday afternoon Mias Grace Norton was Injured, receiving a badly sprained ankle and badly brulaed otherwise. Miss Norton in company with Earl Thomas was riding in a Ford juat south of Brook when the radius rod broke and the car went into the ditch. Same was gotten back onto the road and they were hitting it for Brook when the car buckled up and turned over and Miss Norton was injured. She was taken to Brook for treatment and later brought home and is getting along as well as could be expected at this time. Last Sunday morning about six o’clock an auto party met with a bad accident when the steering rod came loose and tfep machine took the ditch and turned over a hedge fence injuring several of the occupants. The party was from Indianapolis and were enroute to Chicago and when near the C. L. Constable and S. H. Dickinson homes the above mentioned accident occurred. Two young ladies of the party were thrown clear of the car, one was severely Injured receiving many body bruises. Dr. Bassett was called and gave medical assistance and the party proceeded on their way. "

FRANCES VI IaLE (From the Tribune) •Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Srnoyer, Sunday, a son. Will Whitaker and son were in Chicago the first of the week. Miss E:-tel Wright of Monticello was the guest of Miss Ruth Jones last Saturday. Dr. and Mrs. M 'ton Lidlky of Darlington were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Foster. Mrs. A. C. Ross of Zionsville is here spending a few days with her aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Davis. Rev. J. S. Van Orman and family are enjoying a two weeks vacation with relatives at Shelby and Hammond. Clifford Boulden, who has been home on a furlough, has (returned to Camp Taylor to be discharged from military service. • Butch” Bird, Thomas Curtis Hudgens and Ray Engle, who have been in like overseas service arrived home since Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones of Wolcott and Harry Jones of Monon

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

were the gueets o! Mrt. Harrison Wilson and Mrs. Mary Comstock last Sunday. Mrs. Peter Stiller, who was seriously inj’iiod a week ago, when t>he was struck by an automobile P slowly i ecovering at the home of ber daughter, Mrs. Clarence Brodgen, southwest of town. John Colbo, Jr., has returned from Canada where he spent about three weeks visiting relative*. While there he purchased 320 acres of land but does not intend to locate upon it, being quite well satisfied with his productive farm west of Francesville. Mrs. Dora Stalnaker and daughters, Mrs. George Bradshaw and Miss Sarah Btalnakei, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hessenger, Mrs, Alberta Robinson and Lieu'. Stalnaker and wife of Indianapolis were the guests of relatives here over Sunday.

BR(M)K (From the Reporter) Dr. and Mrs. Parkinson were over from Rensselaer on Wednesday visiting relatives. Miss Ethel Reed is in Indianapolis taking an advanced course in library work at the State Library Commission. Ed Larson of Minnesota Joined his family on Saturday. The latter have been visiting at the Marshall Johnson home. Miss Hazel Rolls of Chicago is spending her vacation with her grandmother, Mrs. K. Rolls and her aunt, Mrs. G. E. Vest. Frank Rich was operated on recently for a growth on the left breast and is now convaieMng m the hospital at Indianapolis. Mrs. Bessie -Rich and daughter, Lois, of Goodland and Miss Louise Rich of Indianapolis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rich on Wednesday. We understand that the farmers of Brook and vicinity are taking the necessary steps to organize an elevator company for the purpose of buying grain at Brook. Word comes from Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Unger that they will remain in the east for several weeks yet. They report heavy rains inte/i ering with the usual run of 1 nt>ness. The situation of the Ade elevator deal remains unchanged. The farmers offering $24,000 for the property for which the elevator

company paid $30,000 a number of years ago. Miss Ella Lyons' returned from Indianapolis on Sunday evening. She brought her sister Grace with her. The latter is slowly convalescing from her recent operation. They will remain for some time. We are told that the owners of the Thayer gas well tried to pull the pipe on thl last well and in someway stopped the flow of gas and now the Thayer citizens will have to return to the use of coal.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Don Guild is home from Chump Custer, Michigan. R. F- Ze hr and Misa Clara Eggert of Monticello spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Holt of Gillam township. • Buck” Wayne returned Sunday ftom eleven months service overseas. He has been with the 309th Engineers. Or* Coburn, he says, is In a New York hosp-tal taking treatment for throat trouble. . Mrs. C. E. Weiss and baby went to South Bend Wednesday for a two week’s visit with Mrs. Weiss’ 'mother, whose seventy-fifth birthday will be celebrated Saturday in the annual home coming of the children. , Dr. and Mrs. C.\E. Linton ait?«'<ied the funeral of the Doctor s father, W. H. Linton at Flora last week. ’ W. H. Lintou. was well known to many of the citizens of this place, where he had visited many times. Mrs. Albert Benham received word from her daughter, Mildred, saying that -her husband had arrived in New York, July 19. Mr. Miller has been in France nineteen months, enlisting in railroad work in January, 1918. . Mrs. Sarah Domke and Mrs. Eva Hunt are visiting their brother, F. C. Horner at Flora this week. Dr. Blanche Horner, who has been practicing at Rochester, Minnesota, will go to California, near San Francisco, to practice her profession. Miss Nell Ryan, who has been teaching school at Akron, Ohio, and Miss Florence Ryan, who has been doing clerical work at Washington, D. C., came last week for a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ryan of Gillam township. J. W. Reed, brother of Frank

Reed, and family of Mulberry spent Sunday here with Frank Reed and wife, the Arthur Pevo and Guy Reed families. This week these same families have as guests, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Blackburn and family of Indlanapolla Mr. and Mrs. Georfe Winters and daughter, Sophia, entertained at their home Sunday the following people at a family reunion: Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Benford and children of Winamac; Mr. and. Mrs. Ernest Winters and baby, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Holt and children of Glllaan. Medaryville took honors last Sunday when our team defeated the Monon aggr Ration. The game was close and hotly contested through the entire nine Innings, the score standing Bto 9. Both teams played {.ood ball, good fleiuing, good hitting and good pitci.'ig being displayed ty both sides. A freak rain and hail storm visited the section lying south of James Lackey’s to Francesville last Monday right after noon. The hall began falling at the farms of Paul Engle and George Hansell, not doing any mentionable damage there, but gaining volume as it traveled east, by the time it had reached fields along the Monon railroad it riddled cornfields and farther east it was so heavy that chickens were killed. An Interesting club report comes from Maora Wright, member of the poultry club of this township. In March she set 30 eggs from which she batched 21 chickens; these .she raised to the broiler age and sold 15 of them at |1.26 each or 118.90. Her expenses for the time were: hatching eggs, >1.00; hen feed, 35c; 16 pounds of chick feed, 80c; 2 pounds of bran, 6c, making a total of >2.21 for expenses. By the simple process of substraction we get the difference of >16.69 as her cash profit and in addition she has five of the chickens left.

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, etc. —KUBOSKE & WALTER.

WEDNESDAY, JULY SO, 191<«

NO SWIVEL CHAIR FOR FORD’S SON

staybd at homk during war TO HALF IN PLANT—RIFUSRD TO TAKI UNIFORM. FATHER WAS RESPONSIBLE Declares He Told Rdeel TMI War Work In Factory Needed Him— Would Not Aooept Safety Pi ret Commission. ML Clemens, Mich. —Henry Ford, during the last hour of his seven days on the witness stand, took occasion to claim full reponslbllity for his son, Edsel Ford’s, claim tor exemption from the selective dralt. "He wanted to enlist," said Mr. Ford, ’but 1 told him that he could do more good where ne was. He was offered several commissions which would have permitted him to wear a uniform and stay right in the factory, but be wouldn’t accept them." t Having made their decision, It wa* shown, ooth Mr. Ford and his son refused to camouflage it behind a swivel chair commission carrying boots and spurs. This subject, the introduction of which has been awaited ever since the trial opened, did not develop along the lines which had been generally expected. Mr. Ford’s inclination to shoulder full responsibility, his statement that bls son was absolutely essential to the war work being done in the factory and bls revelation ot the fact that Edsel Ford turned down, several offers of a commission, disarmed criticism. The charges, spread during a political campaign, and recently repeated on the floor of the United States senate, to the effect that the young president of the Ford Motor company bad shirked his duty were so fully refuted that Tribune counsel did not pursue the poinL It was the first time that a full explanation of the facts in connection with Edsel Ford’s war work has been made public and It was easily the feature of the eleventh week of tho trial. Henry Ford spent seven days on the witness stand and of this time he gave less than two hours to his own lawyers. As long as counsel for The Tribune was hammering him Mr. Ford sat'' Quietly in the witness chair answering tho constant fire of questions with great patience. But the Instant his own lawyers took him in hand hte attitude changed. He became selfconscious and diffident. He would not accept the efforts of his counsel to provide him with an opportunity to reveal tho full extent of his patriotic work during the war, his humanitarian views, or his advanced ideas of the relations which should exist between capital and labor. “It is all In the records,” said Mr. Ford. “I have told It all here once.” He avoided, with care, anything that verged on boasting. He would not even describe the extent of the war work which his factories did and when record breaking performances in the production of munitions was mentioned he declared, “we did all we could, let It go at that. I want to forget i about IL I feel just as the soldiers feel. I don’t want to talk about my war work.” The witness did, however, after being pressed, explain that his son had bought out the minority stockholders of the Ford Motor company because these interests had insisted on Mr. Ford squeezing the last dollar out ot the public, the government, the workers afrd the product He wanted to out loose from his associates, he said, so that he could carry out his ideas of the distribution of profits to am ployees through increased wages and to the public through lower prices. It was either buy or sell and Mr. Ford had considered selling and organizing a new company. His son, however, took up the task of buying out the minority stockholders and succeeded, despite the general belief in the financial world that this stock could not be purchased. One of the most interesting developments of Mr. Ford’s testimony came out when It was testified that the only legislation he has ever sought was that for the protection of birds. Other men ot millions, it was shown, keep lobbyists In the national and state capital to urge and work for special privileges, but the one favor that Mr. Ford has ever asked from the lawmakers had nothing to do with his own interests. It was a curious bit: of testimony and left a deep Impression on the audience in the court chamber. The subject was a result of questions concerning Mr. Ford’s list of frlbnds. He named Thomas Edison and John Burroughs, rhe naturalist, as his best friends outside of his immediate associates. Litigation in which Mr. Ford has been interested was another subject of interest. It was shown that when the automobile business was in the first years of its growth all manufacturers of motor cars were compelled to pay tribute to what was known as the Selden patent on Internal combustion engines. Mr. Ford fought this patent for ’seven years and won and by bis victory freed the entire industry from its shackles and made possible the wonderful growth which has marked the last few vearp' ,

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