Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — Page 4

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Delivery Car Wins Big Race After Strenuous Service in Army

Ail Competitors Outrun by War Scarred Veteran of Many Campaigns; 50,000 Soldiers See Speed Classic.

Merchants, (arene rs and other users of light commercial cars who appreciate what motorized equipment means in the way of quick and reliable service, will be interested in a race story brought back from France by discharged soldiers. As told by Major Hayes McFarland, who went overseas in command of the 311th Supply Train, the story is reproduced from Automobile 'topics of July 12: "Those Memorial Day. races at St. Nazaire and the entirely carefree performance of a battle-scarred Dodge BrCnTers light delivery truck are still talked of wherever there are doughboys who were coming through that port about the first of June on their way home. Four first places and two seconds against a andxed field, out of six events scheduled, is a good score for any car. Hence the pride of the .31 Supply Train and of the Motor Transport Officers at Nantes, France, in the little racer which they rebuilt in five days out of a truck that had been all over the battle fields and had come finally to the Nantes park. For the car which represented Nantes at the races on La Baule beach near St. Nazaire turned in Just such a score, after exactly that war experience. "Fifty thousand soldiers, it is estimated, were waiting at St. Nazaire to have their service records checked up and the last animate traces of their overseas service removed from their persons. For Memorial Day by way of celebration an automobile race was plainly indicated, as the doctors say. When permission was given some three weeks before the event there was a wild rush, to use the words of an officer who was present, to build racing cars in every Motor Transport shop in St. Nazaire, and every town within the limits of Base Section No. 1, S. O. 8., for which that well knqwn port is headquarters. Some 40 cars were finally entered, ranging in size from the ever parent four whose name needs no mention, to sixes, eights and twelves. "Motor Service Park "767” at Nantes picked the best material it had available, a Dodge Brothers light delivery vehicle' which after hard service at the front, had been 'driven overland to the park, where it was being kept in general service. To make a racer out of it, the fenders and body were removed, the wheel-base shortened to 100 Inches, the compression increased by planing down the cylinder heads slightly, reaiprocating parts lightened, and a stock roadster gearset substituted for the commercial gear ratio already in place. With these few changes the car was ready for its imiile-a-minute per-

HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

MOROCCO „ (From the Courier) . Mr. and Mrs. Jaimes Ricker of Brook and Mrs. Lyman Barce of Rensselaer were Sunday guests of Arthur Dlrst and family. Wednesday Postmaster Frank Billings purchased of William Russell the latter’s 40 acres lying onehalf mile south of Morocco. There are no improvements on this 40 and the price ipaid was $325 per acre. Roy Pettigean drove to Kankakee ■with his truck Sunday night and took a load of Spotted Poland China hogs to the fair for-E. G. Perrigo. Mr. Perrigo is one of the best breeders of Spotted Poland Chinas In the country, and we .need not be srarprlsed if he takes in a number of blue ribbons this fall. W. H. Myers, fprimer publisher of the Courier, has purchased of James L. Johnson a 92-acre farm 1n Fulton county, located seven miles from Rochester and hear the towns of Leiters Ford and Germany. Mir Myers Intends to occupy the farm after the first of next March, , and It is probable that he and his family will remain here until that time. Mrs. Dice Ellis was taken to Longciiff Monday for treatment. Mrs. Ellis has been failing for some time and recently went to the hospital at Rensselaer, where she showed much Inmprovement, but the nature of her affliction made the attention of a specialist necessary and it was thought best to take her where she could have such services. 'U-l - ' Thrfee young men, Russell S'oueie, age 24, of St. Anne and Ezra and Sylvanus Fortin, aged 19 and 21, of Beaverville, were killed at St. Anne at 11:20 Saturday night when the Saxon car in which they were returning from a dance was struck by the Dixie Flyer oh the C. & E. I. The boys were held up at the crossing by a passing freight train and as it passed they drove upon the track directly in front of the passenger train, which is said to have been late and running unusually fast. The Fortin boys were killed Instantly, but Soucie lived until early Sunday' morning. SCHOOL NOTES. Miss Mabel Kemper has been employed by Grant Davisson to teach in Barkley township. Miss Kemper graduated from the Wheatfield high school last winter and received her 12 weeks’ professional training at

formance in races from one to 49 miles on a beach that was only seven miles long. •‘ln the first race, one- mile against time in a field of ten starters, the little car finished second with a time of '63.4 seconds. It won the second race, 21 miles, free-for-all, with 18 starters, showing 21 minutes 4 seconds for the distance and beating cars considerably larger and 'usually regarded as more powerful. "The second day’s racing turned out a large crowd to cheer for the little white racer with its red “N” in a circle. The first race of the second day was at 14 miles for light cars only. The Nantes entry won easily: time 13 minutes 19.4 seconds. The next race was a 49mile free for all with 16 starters. Over this distance the rough surface of the course had a chance to make itself felt, and one of th< entrants turned over, killing its mechanician and injuring its driver. The race was won by a composite car. Our Nantes entry finished second, time 46.01. “The third day of the race meet promised a double winning. The first event was a mile against time for light cars only, and this proved easy for Park "767’5” entry, the time being 50 seconds flat. The final was a free-for-all with officers driving at 49 miles. The earlier races had been run with enlisted men at the wheel, and the “N” racer had been piloted by Sergt. Paul Harvey, with Sergt. William Mowry as mechanician. For the last event, Noble Van Burkleo replacedr the sergeants of the 311th Supply Train. There were 20 entries and on the fourth lap, somewhere between 21 and 28 miles on the way home, the Dodge racer was a mile ahead of Its field when the race had to be stopped on account of two serious accidents. “To properly Judge the time/ It must be remembered that the beach at La Baule is only seven miles long and narrow. The cars had to slow down to something like 15 miles an hour in making the turns for races longer than the distance. The course was rough, too, and spotted with ditches and buimips. On the last day and, this is on authority of an officer, who knows automobiles intimately, the car was in as good condition as on the first. “The car, Sergt. Harvey its 'driver, and Lieut. Van Burkleo were sited in a letter of congratulation from the commanding officer of the Nantes area for their performance.” W. I. HOOVER, Agent, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Valparaiso since school closed at Wheatfield. Trustee Duggleby of Kankakee and Trustee Fairchild of Keener have each filled their high schools with qualified high school teachers. They each found it necessary to pay the salaries demanded by teachers of the qualifications necessary to teach in commissioned and certified high schools. Mr. Harrington of Union, township has not secured his faculty at Fair Oaks to' date. He is lacking a teacher to take the positions held by Daza M. Brown and Mrs. Sterrett last year. All schools in the county under the county superintendent and trustees supervision of the county superintendent and trustees are filled except the Fair Oaks high school. Gladys McGlynn, who taught for Warren Poole of 'Hanging Grove, will teach for Charles Wood of Milroy township the coming year. Miss McGlynn has returned, from Terre Haute recently where she and her sister Mildred were in school. Miss Mildred will teach for Burr Porter of Carpenter township. Miss Dott Porter, who taught for Charles PostllJ at the South Marion consolidated last year, has gone to Seattle, Wash., where she will enter the Washington state university. Glenn M. Tindall resigned as music Instructor at the last moment. Mrs. Loren Sage of Rensselaer has kindly consented to take charge of the"institute imnisic.

United States Mints Break . Records in Making Pennies

United States mints established a new record for monthly output in June by turning out 98,161,000 pieces of money, Director Ray T. Baker announced. Of the total coins, 91,364,000 were pennies, which was 13,000,000 greater than the previous record made in December, 1917. The remainder consisted of 6,427,000 nickels and 370,» 000 dimes.

Fue Oil in Colombia.

Fuel oil of a good grade and sufficient quantity to supply the river steamers of that country has been' found in Colombia. Diamonds worih. SIOO 000 have been obiuined in t«vo i_tDths on a farm in the Orange Free State. i

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Static Disturbances Might Be Far-Off Brotherly Hands Knocking at Our Very Door

In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” there Is a man who ran with his fingers in his ears, shoutirfg at the top of his voice, that> he might not hear. In developing the possibilities of terrestrial communication it is of consumnfute Importance that we shall find a way to put our fingers our ears and shut out the extraneous noises of the “statics” Buckner Speed writes In Harper's. It Is a cheap fancy and unprofitable science to muse about “high and far off things” belWrc we are ready for them. We go on doing the thing next to us, doing It well, conquering the obstacles that it is profitable to conquer, and we do well in doing so; but little by little In doing so we are unquestionably reaching and feeling our way toward the ability on our own part to- be cognizant of voices emanating from spheres other than our own; and if there are beings of like or greater Intelligence than ours elsewhere. we shall In time certainly be in communication with them. It may be even now that some of these static disturbances which we try so hard to shut out are far-off brotherly hands knocking at the door that we now hold fast closed.

Some Curious Experiments With Both Flame and Air

“One of the many curious experiments made with the purpose of securing long-range and reducing air resistance resulted in a “flaming shell,” writes J. H. Van Deventer in Everybody’s. “The forepart of the shell contains a mixture of phosphorus and copper oxld, which is ignited as the shell leaves the gun; not, strange to say, for the purpose of setting fire to the enemy’s works or trains, but simply to increase the range. Experiments have shown Increased ranges of almost 20 per cent for these flaming shells. The explanation seems to be that the gases given off coat the shell with a sort of frictionless gas film. Wind-tunnel experiments show that air resistance is cut down almost 75 per cent by these gas films.”

Rubies and Sapphires Are the “Jewels” in Watches— Higher Value Than Diamond

There are in every good watch from 7to 21 “Jewels.” Some of them are rubies, others sapphires—two kinds of gem stones rated much higher in market value than the diamond. These sapphires and rubles, furthermore, must, to sgryj watch-making purpose, be flawless. --- The watchmakers get them cheap, because the gem stones used for this purpose are of Inferior color and brilliancy —useless even if they were bigger, for jewelry. A watch is snid to “run” on so many stones. The more valuable the timepiece the greater the number of stones used in its make-up. The tiny gems, pierced to receive the axles of wheels, offer a minimum of friction, and do not wear out easily. Enormous quantities of these watchjewels are cut in Switzerland. To each stone Is given a rounded form with a hole through the center.

HINTS FOR POULTRY

Tenants and other persons desiring a temporary shelter for poultry would do well to consider a straw shed house, according to T. S. Townsley of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. Such a house is very simple to make and will serve as excellent quarters for poultry during at least one winter. If a supporting frame is built before thrashing time it is no extra trouble to blow the straw from the thrashing machine over and around this frame to form a shed completely closed in with straw on all sides excepting the south. A supporting frame can be easily made by setting a post for each corner of the proposed shed and placing across tbe top of these posts heavy poles to form the supports for the framework of rails, boards or light poles, which will hold up the straw. After the straw has been thrown over this frame a front such as is used on any modern poultry house can be built on the south side. This front should Include some open space and some windows to provide veijiilation and furnish light. The inside or the house may be equipped with dropping boards, roosts and nests, just the same as any other poultry house. A straw shed house of this type 20 feet square on a farm near St. Peters, Mo., furnished shelter for 125 hens. These birds came through without a frozen comb and laid all winter. If such a house becomes infested with mites during warm weather the birds can be allowed to roost outside during the summer months and a new house can be built each thrashing time.

Sea Water in Sponge.

A constant circulation of sea water is taking place with the sponge In Its natural habitat. This flow is accomplished by a series of cells, the like of which Is not to he found in any of the higher animals. The British and Foreign Bible Society issues‘the Scriptures in upward of 370 languages and dialects.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. z STATE TROOPS QUIT HAMMOND Four Companies of Militia Withdrawn From Strike Duty at Standard Steel Car Company’s Plant—Some to Stay Until After Labor Day. Hammond, Aug. 29. —With the strikers of the Standard Steel Car company settled down to a quiet and peaceful hold-out for their demands for increased wages, shorter hours, recognition of the union and better working conditions, four of the eleven companies of state militia which were rushed here during the recent rioting, were ordered withdrawn. There are no indications of further trouble. No signs of a settlement of the strike, which involves 2,<#00 workers, are in evidence as yet. .AdJut. eu. B. 11. Smith, in charge of the men, ordered the units from Gary, Fort Wayne, Elkhart and Goshen to pack equipment and prepare for withdrawal. They left Hammond at ten o’clock in the morning. The other seven companies will be kept in the strike zone until after the Labor day celebration, guarding against a possible demonstration by the strikers on that day.

Contractors Sue County.

Evansville, Aug. 29.—A suit for $25,000 has been filed in the superior court here by Smith & Trussler. road contractors, against Louis Wlnternheimer, John Koch and Walter Williams, county commissioners of Vanderburg county; Willis Copeland, county auditor; Newton W. Thrall, county treasurer, ano August Pfaflin, county surveyor. In the complaint it is set out that the county officials unlawfully awarded the contract for the building of the Slaughter avenue road to Philip J. Euler, as he was not the lowest bidder. After the contract was awarded, a suit w’as filed against Euler and the county officials by another contracting firm to enjoin them from building the road. Philip C. Gould, judge of the circuit court, in commenting upon a dispatch sent out from Inditinapolis to the effect that he would ask for ac investigation of the way the county commissioners here have been letting road contracts, stated that he would order the investigation in the event that the state board of accounts turned up sufficient evidence, as had been Intimated.

G. F. Schutt Dies.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 29.—Washington hotel circles were given a shock with the news that George F. Mchutt, former Hoosier, for the past several years the proprietor of the new Ebbftt and National hotels in Washington, had died at Province Lake, N. H., where the and Mrs. Schutt went a pionth ago to visit at the summer home of their friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Emery. He was president of the Indiana Society of Washington. The brief message did not give the cause of death, though a cough he contracted in July is supposed to have led to complications. Mr. Schutt was at one time the publisher of a newspaper !n Fort Wayne and he still has many acquaintances at Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Peru. Mrs. Schutt lived at Peru, Ind., before her marriage. She was Miss Anna Constant. He was fifty-nine years old.

Culver Wino Double Victory.

Culver, Aug. 29—Racing cutter crews of the Culver summer naval school scordd a double victory over rowers of the Detroit Naval Training station in a mile event pulled on Lake Maxinkuckee. The cadets entered their light and heavy crews both against the Detroiters and both showed superior form, crossing the finish line eight lengths ahead of the training station crew. The Cplver Dinghy crew also captured the four-oared event from the visitors. .

Two Hurt in Boiler Blast.

Carthage, Aug. 29.—Two sons of John Overleese of Arlington were injured when the boiler of a gas rigging outfit exploded on the farm of Fred McMannus, three miles east of Carthage. Earl Overleese, sixteen years old, is suffering from burns and scalds. His brother, Rhulln, fourteen, is suffering from injuries as a result of the firebox from the outfit hitting him. It has not been determined what caused the explosion.

Couple Ordered Released.

Evansville, Aug. 29.—William Legrande, a traveling salesman of Jersey City, N. J., and Miss Millie Lane of Louisville, Ky., who were arrested here upon the complaint of Miss Effie Chapin of Champaign, Hl., have been released from custody on order from Charles F. Werner, special representative here of the department of justice. Werner decided that he would not be able to hold Legrande for alleged violation of the Mann white slave act.

Farmers Plan to Raise $5,000.

Lafayette, Aug. 29.—Delegates from eight counties, comprisifig the Third district of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations, will convene in this city to perfect plans for raising Tippecanoe county’s quota of $5,000 allotted as this community’s share of the $200,000 guarantee fund to be raised in Indiana before the first annual meeting of the association to be held in Indianapolis in November.

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ployees’ wages while the government was conducting Its campaign to reduce living costs. It was expected that a statement would be issued after the conference. Meantime the union ©facials declined to discuss what attitude Mr. Gompers had taken with regard to the president’s decision.

Pittsburgh Strike Ends.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 29. —The striking street car men voted 2,822 to 408 to return to work, accepting the war labor board’s award of five cents an hour increase.

FARM FOR «ALE 240 acres of land to be sold at at 2 o’clock p. mi The place to be on account of old age of the ©taper. Location: 6% miles northeast of Medaryville; 6% miles southeast of flan Pierre. ’ Good 5publlc auction on Tuesday, the second day of September, 1919, room house, fair stable, new henhouse, new double corn crib and grainary; 40 acres of good timothy hay land; the remainder of the farm Is all tillable soil, except several acres of timber pasture. The land belongs to Mrs. Margaret May, Route 3, Medaryville, Ind. a3O ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS I I am prepared to half-sole your tires with Gates Half-Soles on V'” of all sizes. These are punctureproof and guaranteed 3.500 miles Cost only one-half as much as you pay for standard tires. Tire and tube repairing at reasonable prices. Also handle Gates’ tested tubes in all sizes. Ford Special Oil, lubricating oil and grease. Free air and water. Come and see how Gates’ *Half-Sole tires are put op. All work will be given careful ;.t----tention. ’Phone 109. —JOHN J. EDDT. An armload of old papers for So at The Democrat office.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 80, 1819.

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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. Every farmer wno owns his farm ought to have printed stationery with his name and the name of his postoffice properly given. The prln* ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he special* Izes In or his specialties In stock. Neatly printed stationery gives you personality and/a standing with any , person or firm to whom you writ* aad Insures the proper reading al your name and address.