Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL AIRGOERS ARE OUTDONE

By People of Neighboring Towne, * It Seems. • Don’t know what’s die matter with Rensselaer people, whether they were lacking Ln nerve or cash, but during the three days LieutDunn was here with the D. R. Craig passenger-carrying airship not over a dozen or fifteen people availed themselves of the opportunity to go skyward at 115 per go, while on the Wednesday previous some 25 ascensions with passengers were made at Remington during a few hours in the afternoon. At Goodland Monday a nice business was reported, and Tuesday, at Kentland, 33 passengers were taken up. Mr. Craig is contemplating the purchase of another plane, says the Lafayette Journal, the business far exceeding his expectations.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS - July 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Eldridge of’ Barkley township, a daughter.

RECOMMENDA TIONS ARE MADE

By State Board of Accounts Regarding Cemetery Funds. City Treasurer C. M. Sands is in receipt of the following letter from Jesse E. Eschbach, head of the state board of accounts, regarding the loose manner of handling the funds of Weston cemetery that has been in vogue for many years, as disclosed by the recent examination made here of city accounts by the field examiners. (No examination of the cemetery accounts had ever been made by previous examiners): July 24/1919. Report No. 21077. Jasper County. Mr. Charles M. Sands, City Treasurer, Rensselaeir, Indiana. Dear Sir: —The above numbered report made by our examiners upon the accounts of your office for the year 1918 shows cemetery funds in the hands of the secretary of the cemetery board. This cemetery being owned and , controlled by the city, in accordance (with section 8949 Burns’ R. S. ’l4, Ithe funds received by the board should be paid over to the city treasurer and deposited as public funds in the regular depositories. You will please note the recommendations and suggestions of the field examiners relative to same. Please see that these funds are deposited as required (Sec. 7545 Burns’ R. S. ’14.) Yours very truly, JESSE E. ESCHBACH, State Examiner. The receipts and disbursements of the cemetery fund is set out in the report of the field examiners as follows for the calendar year 1918: RECEIPTS Bal. on hand Jan. 1, 1918 $ 83.00 Receipt burial lots 1,708/00 Perpetual upkeep 600.00 Burial vaults 45.00' Upkeep, etc 943.64 Pasture «45.00 Sale of flowers 1,443.27 Total bal. and receipts. $4,8’70.91 DISBURSEMENTS Salary sexton $1,080.00 Labor 1,101.99 Plants and flowers, 695.33 Coal 251.96 Burial vaults, cement.... 355.69 Receiving vault 2 -J 3.60 Greenhouse expense 76.18 Collection expense 49.52 Interest 1 ®3.00 Cinders 65.35 Gravel . 40.65 Hauling stone 22.50 Lawn mowers, etc 44.50 Repairs Clerical work • 10.00 Miscellaneous expense .. 121. Total disbursements ..$4,324.65 Bal. Dec. 31, 1918 546.26 CASH STATEMENT Dec. 31, 1918, State Bank of Rensselaer 226.42 In fads of A. F. Long, secy 319.84 Total .. . $ 546.26 The recommendations made in the report and referred to by Mr. Eschbach are as follows: COMMENTS, CEMETERY All funds should be turned over to the treasurer as soon as collected and by him deposited to the credit of N. H. Warner, treasurer. Cemetery funds are public money and should bear interest at the rate of 2 % on dally balances. We are unable to find where the bank has made such credit. The sexton should be supplied ■with duplicate receipt book. He should issue (receipts for all moneys collected by him and turn over to the treasurer at least once each week, all moneys coming into his (hands, together with duplicate receipt therefor. Likewise should /he secretary issue receipts in dupliJ*ate for all moneys coming into hands and at least once each ■ week turn over to the 'treasurer all moneys received by him together with duplicate receipts. In his periodical z staement to the council

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From thu Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomised—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Ofiicee. County Superintendent M. L. Sterrett spent several days this week in Indianapolis. Attorney E. B. Sellers 'of Monticello was a business visitor in Rensselaer Thursday. County Drainage Commissioner John Wrassner of Pulaski county was a visitor in the city Wednesday. Judge C. W~Danley is recovering slowly from a very severe attack of shingles and was able to be down town Thursday for the first time in several weeks. W. C. Babcock, the grain dealer, is the wiho has purchased Treasurer ' May’s residence. Possession is given January 1, when Mr. May will move back to Rem»ington. New suits filed: No. 9078. Emil Besser vs. Jeptha Hart et al.; action to quiet title. No. 9079. John Ulm et al. vs. Barbara Kelly et al.; action to set aside conveyance of real estate. Marriage licenses issued: July 29, Albert Newton Hudson of Rensselaer, aged 23 September 22 last, automobile mechanic, and Hazel Marie Moore, also of Rensselaer, aged 19 Augufct 14 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. July 31, Berrier Rudolph Corlson of Lake Village, aged 23 Sep■tember last, farmer, and Jeanette Reeler of Fair Oaks, aged 19 April 19 last, housekeeper. First marriage for male, second for female, first marriage dissolved by death in December, 1918. Joseph Kosta and George H. Hamimerton of Union township Thursday paid one of the Ed Longstreth notes due the Watkins Medical Co. and on which they were surety, amounting to $655.36. They say that Mr. Longstreth and bls wife are now making some $175 to S2OO per month and board, working on a dredge to Wisconsin. However, both Hammerton and Kosta were blessed with good crops of wheat and oats this year, and the day they ipaid this surety debt the dollars were raining down from heaven on their corn. * * At the meeting held Tuesday evening to take further ‘action on the proposed County Home Coming celebration for the returned soldiers, it was decided to hold the celebration on Friday and Saturday, October 3 and 4. It is understood that the committee considers the SSOO appropriated for the purpose some time ago by the county council as entirely inadequate, and will go before the council at its regular meeting in September and ask for more money. The Democrat believe that if the celebration cannot be given for the SSOO appropriated that it had better be abandoned altogether, and ventures the opinion that a large per cent of the returned for whose benefit it is to be given, will agree with ue on ( this point.

TO WATER PATRONS

Water ordinance No. 168, section 8: “It shall be unlawful for any patron of the water department to sprinkle lawns, gardens or streets more than two hours during any one day, and only between the hours of 6 o’clock a. m. and 8 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. and 8 o’clock p. m., and in case of fire it shall be unlawful for any such patron to permit any faucet or hydrant to reimdin open and running for any use.” Section 22: “For violation of any section of this ordinance, the offender shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $1 nor more than $50.” / City Water and Light, by C. S. Chamberlain, Supt. , a 7

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RENSSELAER, JASPBR COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919.

OATS YIELDING FAIRLY GOOD

Probable Average for County Will Be Around 30 Bushels. From what information The Democrat can gather the probable oats yield in Jasper county will average at least 30 bushels per acre, which is not at all bad and much better than expected because of the extreme hot, dry weather. The quality also is better than expected. Wheat threshing will generally be over with this week and the oats threshing will then be general. Some of the wheat runs are not completed at this writing and no oats havd been threshed in such neighborhoods. The oats yields thus far reported are from 30 to 4 8 bushels per acre, with more around 35 bushels than. higher than that. Over in Carpenter township the yield is reported at 30 to 45 bushels. Tom May’s yield is reported at 45 bushels, and George Wood’s, west of Remington, at 40 bushels. Floyd Gratner of Barkley township is said to have had a yield of 48 bushels per acre. Joseph Nagel of southwest of town reports a yield of about 46 bushels per acre on 70 acres. Up about Gifford a yield of 30 bushels or better is reported. Up in Kankakee township the yield is reported at 30 to 35 bushels per acre. The grain men say that the quality is good, testing out around 32 pounds to the bushel, and that the oats are far better than expected, both in yield and quality.

ELECT NEW BANK DIRECTORS

George A. Williams Is President and J. P. Hammond Cashier. A meeting of stockholders of the new Farmers & Merchants’ .National bank was held Wednesday afternoon in the court room at the court house and the following directors were elected to serve until the first annual meeting next January: George A. Williams. Walter V. Porter, J. P. Hammond, W. L. Bott, Oren Parker, Elza Grow and Isaac Leopold. The directors later to the day met in the temporary quarters secured for the bank in the Hollingsworth building and elected George A. Williams president; Walter V. Porter, vice-president; J. P. Hammond, cashier, and Clifford Payne —now with the First National bank —assistant cashier. An examiner was here from Chicago Tuesday to look into the situation and report to the comptroller of the currency on the proposition of issuing a charter for the proposed new bank. It is said that he recommended to the promoters that the stock be increased to $75,000, instead of $60,000 as determined by the promoters last week, and that this will be done; also, that he stated before leaving that he would recommend that a charter be granted.

COPIOUS RAINFALL THURSDAY

Drouth Is Broken Throughout This Section of the State. Rensselaer and vicinity was blessed with splendid rains Thursday, which was of almost inestimable value to the corn crop and will probably help the late potatoes to some extent. A good rain fell over at Remington and vicinity oat an early hour Thursday morning, and up through Union township and the north part of the county they got a fine rain shortly after daylight. In Rensselaer a splendid rain fell during the forenoon and another good rain came shortly after noon, while still more came at an early hour yesterday morning. These rains of course put a temporary stop to the threshing, but everyone was happy to lay off and the farmers now feel that a very good corn crop is assured, except in some few places where it had been badly hurt on the higher ground by the drouth. These rains evidently touched every section of the country in this part of the state.

Kuboske & Walter are now located In the big tent, where the C. E. Prior poultry house used to stand, and are prepared to do all kinds of garage work there until their new garage Is erected. Give us a call.—Advt. \ Try a want ad In The Democrat.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilegraphic 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* BAD CONDITIONS IN BOHEMIA But People Hope for Better Times, ' Writes Mrs. Dvorak. Joe Kosta of Union township has received his first letter since the war closed from Mrs. Dvorak, his only sister, residing at their old home hi Bohemia. Her husband, a village blacksmith, was forced into the Austrian army in the beginning of the war. He, with 100,000 other Bohemians, was willLpgly captured by the Russians. Then, with the rest of his countrymen, <he enlisted in the Czeeho-Slovak army and kept on fighting In Russia until about a year ago, when she last heard from him. She writes that prices of food and clothing are almost prohibitive in Bohemia. Rye has sold as high as 600 crowns per bushel, and the clothing is in most part made of paper. She writes of many old schoolmates of Joe’s and their sons who gave up their lives for their country. However, now the people there are living in hopes of better times since they have gotten their freedom. Those not loyal to the new republic lost their land, Includiiu; the emperor. .

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The state department mailed licenses from Indianapolis last week to the co'unty superintendent for distribution In Jasper county. Those who received licenses were Lena Williamson, Laura Warnock and Myrtle Irene Howard, Remington; Effie Wesner and Grace Knapp, Wheatfield; Alma Garllng, Francesville; Jane Parkison, Pleasant Ridge; Mabel Atwood and Oka Pancoast, Rensselaer; Vera Kern, Silver Lake. There were several who were conditioned in one or two subjects. There were 14 manuscripts sent to the state department for grading last Saturday. The teachers of Jasper county are^ licensing themselves in state licenses as well as country. Thq, townhip trustees are getting their statistical and financial reports to the county superintendent. Reports complete and on file to date are from Grant Davisson of Barkley, John Bowie of Wheatfield, Julius Huff of Jordan, Charles Postill of Marlon, Warren Poole of Hanging Grove, and John Rush of Newton. The county Institute will be held from September 1 to 6 this year. One essentially attractive feature about the program is the home talent. Talks will be given this year by Trustees Postlll and Rush, Sppt. C. R. Dean, Richard Bowie, Rev. J. B. Fleming and others. A number of vocal and violin solos will give the program variety.

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN HERE?

List of Those Who Have Paid Subscription Accounts During Week. Following are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat since last Saturday’s issue and, especially to those received by mail, this publication shall act as a receipt until the date on the label of their paper *s changed. Those Indicated by an * are new subscribers: Mrs. J. E. Gilmore, Fair Oaks. J. M. Sauser, Rensselaer. * J. B. Reed, Francesville. *W T. Barbre, Rensselaer. Shelby Comer, Rensselaer, JK-2. K. Zillhart, Chicago. Marion Cooper, Fair Oaks, R-2. •Jacob Spitzer, Fair Oaks. George W. Brown., Mt. Ayr., Peter H. Zea, Atlantic Highlands, N. J. H. R. Milner, Remington. J. A. Leibenguth,— Parr, R-l.

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, publicmeetings, etc. —KUBOSKE & WALTER.

ANOTHER DEATH AT HOSPITAL

Mrs. Etta Sumner of Barkley township died at the county hospital Tuesday evening about 6 o’clock after a several weeks’ illness. Mrs. Sumner was born in Ohio and was 64 years of age at the time of her death. Deceased is survived by several children, among whom are Sylvester Otto” Adame, Mrs. Floyd Tantier and Aaron Sumner, all residing near Rensselaer. The funeral was held at the Barkley M. E. church Thursday afternoon at 2:30, services being conducted by Rev. Kramer, former pastor of the church, and burial made in Weston cemetery.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Miss Ruth Hoyes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hoyes of Rensselaer, had her tonsils removed Wednesday. Dott Porter of Remington had her tonsils removed Thursday. Mrs. W. H. Beam underwent a very serious operation Thursday evening about 8 o’clock and at this writing had rallied from the operation but was In a very critical condition. Glen Baker of Barkley township underwent a major operation yesterday morning. Mrs. Frank Alter and Mrs. Trevor Eger are irniproving.

A PECULIAR ORIGIN OF FIRE

Here Are the Facta and You Gan Provide Your Own Theory. Jaimes Britt of Barkley township used to scoff at fires starting without some well established cause, but he won’t do so any more. Wednesday evening his son went to the milk house, which adjoins their summer kitchen, and has a cement floor, to clean up to come to town to the band concert. This was about 6:30 o’clock, and he hung bls sweaty overalls on a nail at one side of the building. The heat was so oppressive that Mr. Britt, after going to bed in the houe6, got up and took a pillow and went out on the front porch and lay down and went to sleep there. About 12 o’clock he was awakened by the rain and noticed a bright light which he first thought was from the headlights of an automobile, and supposed the boys had returned from town. Not hearing anything of z them, however, after perhaps 10 minutes and the light still continuing to shine, he went around to the back of the house to Investigate. He found one side and the roof of the milk house all ablaze. - Fortunately Inhere was no wind and a trough full of water was handy. A few buckets of water extinguished the fire and an investigation disclosed the boy’s overalls in a charred heap on the cement floor, with several of the boards at the side of the building against which they had hung burned away and a hole 'burned ,in the roof directly over them. Had tfae fire not been discovered in time the entire building and dwelling house would have been destroyed. But how did the Are start? The boy was in the habit of carrying matches in his overalls pockets, but the overalls were damp with sweat and no doubt dampened the matches. The Are evidently did not start for several hours after the overalls had been hung up against the wall. Did the matches Ignite from spontaneous combustion and set the overalls on Are and thus communicate to the building? This theory is now held by Mr. Britt, and is evidently tfhe correct one, for no other possible cause can be assigned for I the Aames.

ROSEBUD ICE CREAM SOCIAL The young people of the Rosebud Sunday school In Union township will hold an ice cream social at the church on Friday evening, August 8. Pie and cake will be served. —Advt. a® OAR OF MIDDLINGS On track now. We have Installed a truck and pan deliver feed to you cheaper than you can come after it.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS. Office phone 456; residence phones 610 and 550-Red. VAUDEVILLE AT NEW GAYETY The vaudeville season opens at the new Gayety 'next Friday and Saturday nights. Singing and dancing. Several acts.

Vol. XXIL No. 36

AN EARLY PROBE OF FOOD GRAFT

Official Inquiry Into Soaring. k Pricesof Necessities May * ' Soon Be Started. PRESIDENT TOLD OF UNREST Advisory Board of Brotherhood of Ixtcomotive Knglncers Sound* Warning of Hangers Confronting the American People. Washington, Aug. I.—Attorney General Palmer lummoned the heads of Important government department* ta confer with him Immediately on the high coat of living and to conalder ap. propriate measures to reduce prices tc the average citizen. Those requested to meet In the attorney general’s office were Secretaries Glass, Houston, Redfield and Wilson, Director General Hines, Assistsnt Secretary of the Treasury Lefflngwell and Chairman Murdock and W. B. Colver of the federal trade commission. Washington, Aug. I.—“ Reduce the dally increasing high cost of living os face bread riots.” That in effect, is the chief slogan now being Impressed on President Wilson and his chief aids-by national labor and sociological • leaders. It is expected here that President Wilson will, 4ft. the very near future, ask congress to take drastic measures to end a situation that dally is becoming more and more Intolerable. The president was studying the report presented to him by Warren G. Stone and the advisory board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Thelr flat declaration that “a widerad spirit of unrest exists among classes, especially among wage earners whose wages will no longer provide adequate food, shelter and raiment for themselves end families," has stirred the chief executive very deeply, his friends declare. This concrete, warning by the chiefs of the engineers of the dangers confronting the American people furnished a complete summing up of many similar statements which have been pouring in on the White House and the various government departments ever since the president came back from Europe. Living Down or Wages Up.

On top of this statement caffiß an announcement by William G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, that unless the railroad administration had taken action by October 1 on the demands of the brotherhood, either that wages of the trainmen be increased or the cost of living reduced, steps looking to the enforcement of the demands would be taken. Mr. Lee said a resolution containing this adopted last night by the special committee of sixteen appointed at the recent convention of the trainmen at Columbus, O„ would be sent to the railroad administration. The resolution provided that in the absence of action by the date named the committee would reconvene to consider “the necessity for using the protective features of the brotherhood.” Mr. Lee made public an abstract of the report of hearings recently held by the board of railroad wages on the trainmen’s demands, at which he declared an “upheaval" was nearer in. this country today than ever before, due to the unrest arising from mounting living costs. The., railroad and government departments had better be assisting "to crush profiteering" by the packers and other industries, he said, than "shouting across the table at each other” at hearings to consider further increases. “All of us are to blame,” he said, “because we are exerting every effort to get more money for ourselves and better conditions. Every day we must realize that the profiteers are taking double from the working men what is given them, and the trouble with the people on Capitoi hill, with us and with every corporation and with everybody, is that we are exerting ouK selves to get the dollar, while the working man is merely existing and while the profiteer Is piling up millions. » “I will admit to you, gentlemen, that we are going the wrong way. I admit to you that it is time to call a halt; and I admit to you that until we get together, until we commence together to stop this, there will be hell in this country—and it Is nearer today than I ever knew it in my years of experience. Just let somebody drop a match in this country of ours and’lt wIH be a sorry day for all of us. “Unless my vision is most terribly obscured, there is something coming to us pretty soon In this country that we bad better take notice of. Worse Than Peril of 1914. J "We are nearer wgr. in this world

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