Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — Page 1

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MOVEMENTS IN REAL ESTATE

City and Farm Property Continue* in Good Demand. M. A. Gray, the Remington real estate dealer, and family were in the city Thursday. Mr. Gray reports having sold 1,032 acres of land near Monon about two weeks ago all In one day. To Washburn & Greenwood of Remington he sold 520 acres 2 miles southeast of Monon at $l5O per acre; Frank Howard, also of Remington, bought 240 acres 4 miles southwest of Monon —making him 480 acres with the 240 acres Mr. Gray sold him there last May—at- $l5O per acre, and William Barner of Cullum, 111., bought 272 acres, also southwest of Monon 3 .miles, at >250 per acre. This latter tract Mr. Gray sold last October at $l5O per acre. None of this land, he states, did he have listed more than a week beforq. he had it sold. ■'

FOUNTAIN PARK CHAUTAUQUA

Opens Saturday, August 16—Good I’rogram of Attractions. Fountain Park Chautauqua will open its 25th annual session next Saturday, August 16. The program this year is largely musical, and includes the Wolcott band (Aug. 17), the Fowler band (Aug. 24), the Alpine Singers and Yodlers (Aug 17), the Philippine Orchestra and Band (Xug. 19), the Old Home Singers (Aug. 21), the Old Home Concert Co. (Aug. 22), the Davies Lijht Opera Co. (Aug. 23), Alice Louise Shrode Co. (Aug. 27), Vitalii’s Italian Service Band (Aug. 28) Artists’ Quartet Co. (Aug. 29) Buckner’s Jubilee Singers (Aug. 30), etc. Among the lecturers are Brig. General W. K. Naylor, now in command of Camp Grant but who saw service overseas (Wednesday, Aug. 20). All soldiers admitted free on this date; Dr. Charles FitzHenry (Aug. 22); Dr. Roy L. Smith (Aug. 24); Ernest E. St. John (Aug. 26); Rev. Arthur Frederick Ewart (Aug. 27); Vincenzo De Santo (Aug. 31).

LAID TO REST TUESDAY EVE

The funeral of Mrs. W. H. Beam, which was held Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the late home on Elm street, was largely attended, short service being conducted by Rev. E. W. Strecker of the Methodist church. The pall-bearers were W. C. Babcock, James N. Leatherman, J. A. Grant, W. C. Ross, F. «H. King and Sam Roth. The floral offerings were profuse and very beautiful. Burial was made in Weston cemetery, where the sorrowing relatives and friends witnessed the laying away of their loved one. The following obituary was read at the fuperal: Catharine May Wright, horn in Charlestown, 111., September 1, 1865, died August 4, 1919. She was united in marriage to W. H. Beam October 7, 1882. From this union six children survive: Mrs. Merle Wilcox, Springfield, O.; Mrs. Madge Busha, Lafayette; Hurley W. Beam, Chicago; Don Beam, Monon; Mrs. Gladys Merlca, Chicago, and Paul Beam of this city. Mrs. Beam’s parents moved to Caro, Mich., when she was quite young, she living there until her marriage to Mr. Beam, 36 years ago. She was a loving mother, a good and faithful helpmate, whose greatest object in life was the rearing of her family and keeping the home fires burning at all times for the husband and the little flock, one of the noblest traits of a wife and mother, and one which her family certainly appreciated to the utmost and one which renders her loss the harder to bear.

All the children were present at the funeral and among others from out of town were: Mrs. Hattie White of Caro, Mich., and F. B. Ham and family of Lafayette. The sympathy of the community is extended the bereaved husband and children in their hour of sorrow. -

ROSEBUD ENTERTAINMENT At the Rosebud church Sunday, August 10, when a double program will be given, consisting of social, religious and patriotic drills, declamations, readings, essays, solos and duets, both vocal and instrumental, commencing at 10:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. Bring lunch and serve it in the grove. No fees, charges or gate money.—JOHN E. ALTER, Director. LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS .August 6, to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wood of near Fair Oaks, a 4 au £h" ter. .

COURT HOOSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the ' Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL I/egal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various Connty Offices. Jerry Shea and Theodore Phillips of Gillam township were business visitors in the city Wednesday. County Superintendent M. L. Sterrett and wife attended the funeral of Lloyd Armstrong, son of County Superintendent Thomas W. Armstrong of Carroll county at Delphi Wednesday. Marriage licenses Issued: August 5, Gerald Edwin Gifford of Rensselaer, aged 22 August 28 last, farmer, yid Lora May George of Panr, aged 21 March 30 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. August 6, Charles Parr Porter of Parr, aged 23 September 28 last, farmer, and Lillian Besse Brouhard of Fair Oaks, aged 22 July 12 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married in the clerk’s office by Rev. C. W. Postill. The following requisition for supplies for the poor farm for the next quarter, beginning September 1, was approved by the county commissioners at their meeting Monday: 50 lbs. beefsteak. 50 lbs. roast beef. 60 lbs. beans. . 15 lbs. Royal Baking powder-. 100 lbs. corn meal. 30 lbs. best butter crackers. 25 gal. coal oil. 1 lb. ground cinnamon. 1 lb. cloves. 30 lbs. 'Tull cream cheese. 5 bbls, flour. 3 doz. cans of corn. 2 doz. cans (No. 3) tomatoes. 2 doz. (2U tins) 'pineapple. 1 doz. bottles lembn extract. 1 doz. bottles vanilla extract. 25 lbs. best white hominy. 15 lbs. honey. 1 doz. cans best white Karo syrup. 6 cartons Searchlight matches. 100 lbs. Armour’s oat meal. 1 lb. nutmeg. 10 lbs. English currants. 2 lbs. ground pepper. 50 lbs. Carolina rice. 15 lbs. seeded -aaisins. 550 lbs. H. & E. granulated sugar. 2 bbls. salt. 1 doz. large packages tables salt. 100 lbs. American soap. 10 lbs. bulk starch. 6 bars sapolio. 10 lbs. uncolored Japan tea. 30 lbs. Horseshoe tobacco. 10 gal. cider vinegar. 16 pkgs, yeast. 12 pkgs, gold dust. r 6 large boxes bluing. 1 doz. pkgs, grapenuts. 15 yds. 25c gingham. 1 doz. pair men’s overalls. 1 doz. men’s shirts, $1.50 grade. 1 doz. men’s drawers, $1 grade. 1 doz. men’s undershirts, $1 grade. 3 doz. pairs socks, 701 grade. 4 pairs men’s shoes, $5 grade. % doz. men’s caps, $1.50 grade. 2 doz. men’s mittens, 15c grade. 1 doz. men’s jumpers, $2 grade. 4 pairs felt boots. Ball Band. 1 doz. Clark’s thread. 1 doz. women’s union suits, $1 grade. 4 pairs women’s shoes, $5 grade. 1 doz. pairs women’s stockings, 35c grade. There are about a dozen inmates In the poor asylum'.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. R. Rymer of near Morocco, aged 70 years, was brought to the hospital Thursday suffering from a fracture of the femur bone, which she sustained in-a fall at her home. Mrs. Charles Potts of near Morocco underwent a major operation yesterday morning. Mrs. Trevor Eger remains about the same. Earl Adams’ condition is improving slowly. Superintendent Miss Mattle •Hemphill will take a two weeks’ vacation from her duties, starting Sunday. During her absence Miss Ida Dowell will be in charge of the hospital. \ The regular meeting of the hospital board was held Thursday evening. The receipts for the month previous, including S2O rent, were $920; expenditures salaries, $603.68; house expense, $487.67; total, $1,091.?5, leaving a deficit of $171.35.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.

MR. MESSMAN SUES McCRAY

To Quiet Title to a WW-Acre Farm, Alleging Fraud. A suit was filed Wednesday in the circuit court of Kentland against Warren T. McCray, wealthy Newton county stock raiser and farmer, by Herman Messman to quiet title to a 258-acr.» farm. The complaint was drawn bv W. H. Parklson of this city and H. L. Sammons of Kentland, attorneys for the plaintiff. Messman, who is mow a resident of Rensselaer, alleges fraud andr conspiracy. T.he complaint is a lengthy affair, in the whole, charging that McCray has taken advantage of the plaintiff in several business transactions, chief among them in a farm sale in which It is alleged $20,000 Is involved. Yesterday’s Lafayette Journal.

MONON SHOPMEN ON STRIKE

All Trains Were Running as Usual Yesterday, However. Lafayette, August 8. —The allied crafts representing . the Monon shops held a rousing meeting last night in Trainmen’s hall in the Emsing building, corner Sixth and Main “streets, and by a unanimous vote the <men decided to strike this morning at 7:30 o’clock. The action taken last night will affect the entire Monon system and over 1,200 men will quit work this morning. Representatives were present from every craft at McDoel, Hammond, Bloomington, Monon, Lafayette, Indianapolis and every point on the Monon system. The hall was* crowded to its capacity, many standing and others sitting on the floor, and the adjacent street was filled with those who could not gain admission. The meeting was an open one and the men made no effort to conceal any action that might be taken. The crafts affected py the walkout today include the machinists, boilermakers, pipe fitters, blacksmiths, electricians, stationary firemen and car shops men. The maintenance of way of railroad employes at a meeting on Tuesday night decided to sustain the shop men in any action they might take and it is presumed these men, several hundred in number, will go out with the shop men. President Thompson of the car builders’ union presided at the meeting last night. Wilbur Cahill, a member of the local machinists and representative of the wage committee, returned from Washington, D. C., and met with the men last night. Mr. Cahill explained the work the committee had been doing and told of their endeavor to get some action by Federal Director Hines, President Wilson and congress. Mr. Thompson of the Big Four Beech Grove shops of Indianapolis, was present and maje an appeal to the Monon -men to stand by the employes of other roads wh"o~ were out at present. He stated that the Monon system was the only one in the state where men were still at work and asked them to take action to go out. There were other talks by local railroad men of' the various crafts. A viva voce vote was taken and it was unanimously in favor of a walkout. At 10 o’clock yesterday morning 25 machinists and four helpers eranployed in the back shop In the Monon shops In this city quit work and paved the way for the action that was taken last night.. Their action was sustained by a unanimous vote at last night’s meeting. The men have been directed to report for work in the various departments'as “usual this morning at 7 o’clock and then register out in order. The strike affects fully 900 men employed at the Monon shops In this city and several hundred others In various localities. The support given the shopmen by the maintenance of way organization, which includes yard workmen and other branches of labor, will considerably swell the list. The latter local organization has a membership here of 300 members. The walkout this morning will practically tie up the entire Monon system, with the possible exception of passenger traffic. All repair work on cars and locomotives over the entire system will- cease today until the men return to work. With the walkout of the Monon employes today all roads in the state will be affected by strikes.

All trains were running on the Monon yesterday as usual, Agent

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Con nt ry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Haiqtenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesFORMER GOODLAND GIRL DEAD MUs Helen Spinney Dies at Madison, Wis., Last Monday. Miss Helen Spinney, daughter of Mrs. Charles Spinhey, died at Madison, Wis., Monday. She had not recovered from the effects of the influenza, and 10 weeks ago underwent an operation for appendicitis, complications arising that caused her death. She was obliged to quit school owing to illness three wqeks before her graduation from high school. It was her plan to en|ter a hospital and take training for a professional nurse had not failing health prevented. Miss Spinney would have been 18 years of age on September 19. She was born in Goodland and spent her girlhood days in Goodlaud and Kentland, later moving with her parents to Madison. She is survived by her mother and one sister, Miss Vera Spinney, who has bean doing war work in Egypt, and is ' now on her way home. Her father died two years and three months ago. The remains were brought to Goodland Tuesday and funeral services were conducted from the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Hugh Murray.—Kentland Enterprise.

LAFAYETTE LAWYER JUGGED

For Murder of Woman Found Dead in Loan & Trust Building. Edgar Collins, a prominent and well-to-do Lafayette lawyer, has been arrested and jailed on the charge of first degree murder, in connection with the death of Mrs. Clifford Long, who was found dead at an early hour Monday morning in the lobby of the Lafayette Loan & Trust building, mention of which was made in Wednesday’s Democrat. Collins admits his relations with the woman and that they were together in his office in the Loan & Trust building until a late hour Sunday night and that both drank highballs until they were under the influence of liquor. He says the woman .left his office to go home, taking the stairs, while he went down on an automatic elevator, but denies any knowledge of her death and says that the first he knew of her death was when he came down town Monday morning.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The Jasper county board of education met in regular session last Monday with all members present, except Trustees Rush of Newton and Davisson of Barkley. Mr. Rush was threshing at his home last Monday and Mr. Davisson was sick during the forenoon, but was able to get to the session at the closing. The board adopted Dole’s Civics for the seventh and eighth grades. The Heart of America readers for the first', second and third grades to be used as supplemental to the state adopted text was also adopted. A sad experience has fallen upon County Superintendent Armstrong of Carroll county. His oldest boy, a lad in his senior year in the Delphi high school, drowned In the Tippecanoe river last Sunday. County Superintendent Sterrett attended the funeraf last Wednesday. Superintendent Armstrong is one of the speakers in the Jasper county teachers’ institute to be •held September 1 to 6.

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 6

Beam Informed The Democrat at noon, but in the course-of two or three days, he stated, the effect of the strike would be felt, as trains cannot be run very long without shopmen.

SHOE PRIORS UNJUSTIFIABLE

Kays Report of Government <k>mmlMion After Investigation. An exhaustive government investlgationof shoe and leather prices by the federal trade conumisslan in its report to congress declares that the high price of shoes is due to excessive and unprecedented profits taken by every factor in the shoe production industry. The report says, in brief: "Taking into consideration all the circumstances, especially the circumstance that the United States was engaged in war, the large profit taken by slaughterers for hides, by shoe manufacturers and retail shoe dealers can not be Justified, and there is consequently no Justification for prices that consutners have been compelled to pay for shoes.’’

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Thinks Rules Should Be l/aid Down by City Council. Rensselaer, August 6. Editor Democrat—As a citizen of Rensselaer and a lot owner in Weston cemetery, I was astounded to read in last Saturday’s Democrat (the Republican has been conspicuously silent) the report of the field examiners as to conditions of our cemetery finances—especially that all the money paid in for perpetual care of lots had been used to pay current expenses, such as buying burial vaults, operating a greenhouse, etc., etc., Instead of being placed in a permanent fund and kept Intact for the purpose for which it was paid in, the interest to be used for meeting the expense of the care for such lots. I was also surprised to know that there was no rules laid down by the city for the guidance of the cemetery board regarding what said board should do or should not do, and that It was engaged in the burial vault and greenhouse business,. and that the funds were not disbursed through the city treasury. It seams to me that the city council has been very lax in this matter. If we must have a board of cemetery trustees—for my own part I believe the entire* matter should be handled by the council and a cemetery committee appointed from, its members to look after same. The handling and expenditure of the funds should certainly be done by the council or through the city treasury, as the examiners recommend. I do not believe the city, through the cemetery board, should engage in other and private lines of business, such as the operating of a greenhouse, requiring the services of an expert flower grower and the great expense of building, heating and operating of a greenhouse for the sale of plants and flowers, or in the sale of burial vaults, caskets or tombstones. The people who own the cemetery—or have made the cemetery possible through the purchase of lots therein—do not want an expert florist employed to run a greenhouse; what they want and what is the sensible and economical thing to do is employ a working sexton, a man who can and will put in his time in the cemetery, rather than have it all taken up with the growing and sale of flowers, which, if all tho additional expense were taken into consideration, has been a very unprofitable business for the city since it has been engaged in this line. I think the elty council should at once formulate an ordinance for the management of Weston cemetery and the handling of the funds thereof, and that the "perpetual care fund’* should be reimbursed for the thousands of dollars which have been used for other purposes and that this money should be invested in government bonds and the interest thereon turned into the cemetery care fund for the expense of taking care of the lots of the owners who paid the money in for this distinct and only* purpose.—A LOT OWNER.

TAKES POISON BY ACCIDENT

Mrs. Sarah E. Miller was called to Indianapolis Wednesday by the illness of her son, Dr. Paul Miller. The following mention of Paul’s illness was made in Tuesday evening’s Indianapolis News: Paul-Miller, a young man living in an apartment of the Davlan block, 430 Massachusetts avenue, was sent to the city hospital early today suffering from the effects of poison which he had taken. Motor policemen Burke and Burris, who investigated, said they were pnable •to discover whether the poison had been taken accidentally or with suicidal intent. Officials at the hospital said the poison had been taken accidentally. Miller is not in a serious condition.

CHOICE PEA GREEN ALFALFA HAY On track soon. We have only a few tons of thla/that Is not sold. Have It delivered off the car. — IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. ' a 9

Vol. XXII. No. 38

TELLS HINES TO END RAIL STRIKE

President Instructs Director General to Fix Wage of the Workers. . ! ■ DECIDE DEMANDS ON MERITS Wilson Insists, However, That Mar Must lieturn to Work First——■ 450,000 Other Kail Workers Voting on Strike Proposition. j Washington, Aug. 8. —B. M. Jewelf* acting president of the AmerlcagM •'<! erat lon of Labor, wired all railway employees to return Immediately to work pending President- WiU son’s action on the wage adjustHM|H' j Washington, Aug. 8— President. Wltson riotlfied Director General Hina® that he was authorized to take up th» demands of railroad shop employa#®for higher wages and decide them on their merits. The president’s decision was announced from the White House in tSM| form of n letter sent by him to IM! Hines. The president said that “until the employees return to work and again recognize the authority of their organisation, the whole matter must, remain at a standstill.** Letter Seta Him Free. The president said that the lettersent him by Senator Cummins, chairman of the committee on Interstate commerce, "had set mo free to deal ns I think best with the difficult question of wages of certain classes of th® railroad employees," but added: "The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by the men themselves. They have gone on a strike and dieted the authority of their officers nt the very moment when they were urging action In regard to their interests." With the railroad shopmen’s strike growing more acute hourly, DirectorGeneral Hines conferred with President Wilson ns to the possibility of Immediate settlement without recourse, to congress. Upon leaving the president, Mr. Hines sent a hurried call to Director of Operations Tyler of the railroad administration nnd two other officials and held a lengthy secret meeting at the executive offices. Participants at the second conference made known that the strike of shopmen had been spreading to the point where 80,000 men were out and the possibility of a railroad tleup was Imminent Consider Entire Question. The entire subject of methods of settlement, with particular stress on the solution that could be effected without waiting for congressional action, was considered. The 450,0 w members of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks (freight handlers, station, express and steamship employees) began voting today as to whether they will strike Immediately for increased wages or await a solution of the wage question along the lines of the proposal made to congress by Director General Hines. In announcing the issuing of the strike ballot, J. J. Forrester, president of the brotherhood, said this conference with Mr. Hines had not resulted in any change in the situation. Mr. Hines, he said, had nothing further to offer than the proposal for a congressional commission the whole wage problem. Must Have Relief. "The situation with our men," said Mr. Forrester, “is that we must have immediate relief, or our members will commence seeking employment In occupations where they can make a living for themselves and their families. They have been so loyal in numberless cases now that they have eyen. sold their Liberty bonds to live on during the last few months. Our hope is that congress can take some action at once to relieve them.” Increases sought by. the men, Mr. Forrester said, approximate 20 cents an hour over present scales, with time and a half for overtime.

GLIDES UNDER GREAT ARCH

Daring French Aviator In Remarkable Flight at Paris. Paris, Aug. B.—Lieutenant Godfrey, A French aviator, today performed the feat of passing under the Arc de Triomphe in an airplane flight. Godfrey flew a machine with a wing spread of eight yards, which left him a margin of about seven yards to get through the arch. He cleared the opening cleanly, gliding through with his motor stopped. After clearing the arch he turned on the power again, and flew over the Champs Elysee.

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