Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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TRYING A NEW AUTO STUNT

Eugene Hasty Pulled Off an Acrobatic Exhibition Yesterday. » Eugene Hasty pulled off a new auto stunt yesterday morning with the W. J. Wright Dodge truck. After striking the lamp post at the corner of Washington and Front streets and demolishing the globe, the car come on down the sidewalk in front of the Rensselaer Baking Co. shop for about 75 feet, before the driver stopped the brute. Fortunately no one on the sidewalk was struck and the only damage done was to the street lamp, headion up on the sidewalks and headon up on the sidewalks and against the store fronts, but this was the first time we ever saw one make a straight shoot down the walk.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Orie Hensler and Robert Sheets of Remington had their tonsils removed yesterday morning. A son was born Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Gus Johnson of west of town. Oren Parker expects to return to his home today. Mrs. Bradford Poole is improv ing nicely.

STATE TAX BOARD CONSENTS

To Issuing Additional Road Bonds to Complete Roads in County. Taxpayers in the townships affected will no doubt be interested to know that the state board of tax commissioners has magnaminously consented to the Issuance of additional bonds to complete the following roads in' Jasper county: Kankakee township, Slight road, $2,000; Wheatfield township, Barlow road, $14,000; Jordan township, Gorman road, $800; Hitchings road, $4,000. Governor Goodrich’s “best legislature in 50 years’’ provided that i road contractors should be relieved of the contracts entered into when prices were lower —even though such contractors had never made any honest effort whatever to get busy and complete their contracts. It also provided—one of Governor Goodrich’s pet measures for the centralization of governJ.'uent —that no bonds could be issued for any public improvement without supplication, meek and humble, being made to the state board of tax commissioners sitting in upholstered revolving chairs in the state house at Indianapolis, and which application in each case is an added burden of expense to the municipality desiring to issue bonds. Of course, the fact that the aforesaid gentlemen at Indianapolis know nothing whatever .regarding the needs or necessity for the improvements desired to be made cuts no figure whatever. Their consent imust be secured before a bond can be issued.

YOUNG IRA DEWEY IS DEAD

Lad Who Attempted * Suicide Recently Died Yesterday Morning. Ira Dewey, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dewey of seven miles south of town, who attempted suicide on Sept. 2 by shooting himself with a rifle, died at the county hospital yesterday morning at about 4 o’clock. The lad was thought to be getting along nicely, but about noon Thursday suffered a severe hemorrhage of the wound. He afterwards rallied and seemed some better, but suffered another hemorrhage about 2 o’clock yesterday morning and passed away at 3:50 o’clock. The boy is survived by his parents and two sisters, Miss Alice Dewey, who resides at home,. and Mrs. Edna Biggs of this city. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the family home in ’Jordan township, and burial made in Egypt cemetery.

“KATCHA-KOO” HAS BIG CROWD

Local Talent Play Scores Great StFccess on Opening Night. The Gayety theater was crowded to its capacity Thursday evening when the amusing production “Katcha-Koo,” by local talent and under the auspices of the local charity board, was staged under the directton of Phil D. Merriam of the John B. Rogers Producing Co. The cast all acted their parts well and everyone spoke very highly of the production, which held the boards (-again last evening.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. The Newton circuit court will convene one week from next Monday. Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 1, Bernard Brookema of Chicago, aged 32 Meh. 16 last, salesman, and Agnes Clery, also of Chicago, aged 32 Sept. 28 last, housekeeper. Second marriage for each. First marriage of male dissolved by death in 1918; first marriage of female dissolved by divorce in July, 1919. Sheriff Wood worth received a telephone message yesterday from the sheriff of Lake county, who is asking for men from neighboring counties to act as deputy sheriffs in protecting steel workers in Lake county who desire to return to work but are afraid to do so for fear of bodily injury fromi the more radical of the strikers. Twentyfive men were asked for and the pay is $6 per day. H. W. Greist, county health commissioner of White county, has ordered the White county jail closed on account of its unsanitary condition, etc. This jail has been a bone of contention for the past 20 years and has repeatedly been condemned by the state board of health, the state board of charities and by county grand juries, and yet nothing has been done toward building a new jail. The health commissioner says that it should be demolished.

COURT NEWS

The report that John Burris’s sister from Illinois was coming over with $2,500 in gold to bail John out of the Jasper county bastile, seems to have been a little premature as he is still in durance vile. Marion I. Adams vs. Earl Adams. Change of venue granted defendant and cause sent to Newton county. The Lake case against Lazer W. Soric and Paul Grundwell, brought here on change of venue from the Lake circuit court, occupied the boards Wednesday and Thursday, with Judge Hlanley in the wool-sack and a jury of 12 tried and true men in the box. Several attorneys were here from Lake county in this case, in which the prosecution is based on defendants having collected a large fee and then giving their client the lurch, it is alleged. Amos Davisson ditch. Construction commissioner flies report showing concrete obstruction placed across drain. Construction commdssioner ordered to cause removal of obstruction at once. Following allowances made: , Rice Porter, $1.25; Lawrence McLain, $4; J. J. Miller, $1.25; E. D. Nesbitt, $82.40; Thos. Lowe, $22.50; Herbert Hammond, $1.25. Randolph Wright ditch; allowances made: • Lawrence McLain, $1.50; E. D. Nesbitt, sl6. Barkley Township ditch; allowances made: Thos. Lowe, $1.25; E. D. Nesbitt, $9.40; Herbert Hammond, $1.25. Benton Kelley ditch; allowances made; Lawrence McLain, $4; E. D. Nesbitt, $41.55; Thos. 1(0 we, $13.75; HL Hammond, $1.25. Charles N. Dickinson vs. Frank Hill. Affidavit for change of venue by defendant granted and cause sent to Newton county. Eugene L. A Garey vs. David Popel and Ed Oliver. Cause dismissed, judgment vs. Popel for costs, costs paid. Joseph I. Hajmll vs. Ed Oliver et al. Defendant Garey files anjswer. ' | John H. Alberts vs. Ben May. Cause dismissed, cdsts divided. Grant Whitby by W. R. Whitby, next friend, vs. Michael Duffy. Jury trial, judgment for plaintiff for $45. The Lake county disbarment case was still grinding yesterday, the prosecution not yet having finished Its evidence until then? Ralph Sprague vs. Premier Stock

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919.

NEW BANK TO OPEN TODAY

THE FARMERS’ AND MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK RECEIVED ITS CHARTER YESTERDAY AND WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS THIS, SATURDAY, MORNING.—Advt.

WASH COOK’S BARN BURNED

Fire of Unknown Origin Destroys Big Barn in Hanging Grove. The big barn on the Wash Cook farm near McCoysburg was 4®" stroyed by fire yesterday morning about 8 o’clock. The barn and most of the contents, consisting es hay, grain, harness, tools, etc., was destroyed, together with a large straw stack • nearby. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Cook is visiting in Arizona and the family does not know how •much insurance was carried nor in what agency. A telegram was sent to Mr. Cook.

TATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Sept. 29, to Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Schroeder on north Van Rensselaer street, a daughter. Sept. 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Verne Sanders, a son. Sept. 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles England of Rensselaer, a daughter.

MAYOR HODGES MAKING GOOD

Tells Gary Strikers . Where to “Head In,’’ and They Obey. According to W. H. Blodgett of the Indianapolis News, Mayor William F. Hodges of Gary is built of the type of Mayor Ole Hansen of Seottle, who put down a strike in that city several months ago and put the “reds’’ to flight by his stralght-from-the-shoulder talk to them, and gained national prominence as a result. Mr. Blodgett says, among other things in connection with the perfect order Mayor Hodges has maintained in Gary during this big strike, in Tuesday evening’s News: Gary faced a tense moment at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon when Mayor Hodges found a large number of men on the streets wearing picket badges. He confronted the chairman of the committee, “What do you mean,” exclaimed the mayor pointing to the array of pickets in sight, “by putting so many pickets in the streets? You know that is a violation of the agreement and we will not permit if.” “I don’t think we have broken

HAD INTERESTING AUTO TRIP

Aged California Woman Visiting Old Friends Here. Mrs. William Upton of San Francisco, Calif., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Barnes here for a few days. Mrs. Upton, who is nearly 70 years of age, had lost her husband and two children by death, and her own health becoming impaired she decided to take an automobile trip to the east in the hope of being benefited thereby. She accordingly started out from San Francisco on May 12 last in her Ford roadster and since that time has visited at the following principal places: Springfield, Ill.; Columbus, 0., attending the Methodist centenary there; Gettysburg, Pa., visiting the ■ old South House which stands between the two firing lines; Washington, D. C., spending 12 days there and visiting all points of interest; Atlantic City, N. J.; nine days in New York city; Albany, Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Detroit, Mich., and thence to Lebanon and Kirklin, her husband having been born and raised at Lebanon, and thence to Rensselaer, reaching here Thursday evening to visit until Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, old friends of hers and whose wedding she attended at Bakersfield, Calif., several years ago. Mrs. Upton drives her own car and has had a delightful trip. ,Her health is much Improved and she will drive on from here to her home in California, which she exexpects to reach in November, visiting friends and stopping at various places along the way. She has now driven nearly 7,000 miles and has passed through 17 different states.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK •

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Farms association of Walker township. • Judgment for plaintiff for $283.75 and for H. J. Kannal and Rijey Snyder, who filed under, for $56.45 and $15.50,1 respectively. Property levied on, 16 Duroc-Jersey sows, ordered sold, or so many of same as necessary, to satisfy judgment and costs.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities* “SHAKE," GOVERNOR, “SHAKE" Cannot Villify the President With Impunity in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 2. Governor J. B. A. Robertson in a statement today said Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, who was egged and forced to cancel his speech on the league of nations at Ardmore last night “got what was coming to hlnr.” “If Lt were an I. W. W. going over the country speaking against the government of the United States the Republicans would favor giving him the same treatment as that accorded Senator Reed," says the statement. . “Reed got just what was coming to him. While this is a country of free speech this privilege does not give any iperson the right to vinify the president and draw his namie into the mire. “Neither Senator Reed nor any other man can come into Oklahoma and with impunity insult the president of the United States, I am surprised that any misguided Democrats of the state have been willing to give time enough to attend such meetings as are being held by Reed and hie kind.’’

RENSSELAER SCHOOL NOTES

High School Superintendent C. R. Dean left Thursday evening for Frankfort, Ind. Mr. Dean Is the lay delegate from Rensselaer to the M. E. conference, which met at that place. The enrollment in the high has reached the highest in the history of the school. Already there are 232 splendid young people taking advantage of the opportunity which is offered to them. Since several others are yet to enter, it is probable that the number will come near the 250 mark. The football team meets Rem-

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MUD PIES FOR POWDER PUFFS IS THIS SOCIETY GIRL’S LOT WHEN SHE JOINS “THE OTHER HALF”

Mary Pickford in “The Hoodlum’’ Has Role Which Gives Her Widley Contrasting Situations for Comedy and Drama. 'Society girls who take life as one continual round of automobiles, parties and expensive frocks may get some new ideas of how to lavish wealth if they will see “The Hoodlum,” starring Mary Pickford, produced by her and which will be seen Oct. 10 and 11 at the Princess theater. Rich Girl—Poor Girl As Amy Burke, Miss Pickfora depicts the part of a girl whose chief life problem is how to spend money. Amy’s day begins with a lesson from a high-priced tutor who is awed by her vast wealth and consequently quite indifferent as to her education. 'Her other diversion is a high-priced roadster which she pilots around with the speed of a race track marvel. Her wealthy but unscrupulous grandfather- has also employed a groom who accompanies her on all auto excursions and whose advice she does not heed. All of this luxury suddenly tydes away showing Amy as a tenement girl whose real character is brought out when her devoted but poor father returns to town after a long absence. She prefers to live in a tenement with her father than to continue living at her grandfather’s house without him. How a discovery made by Amy while living to the tenements aids her in restoring to respectability a man whom she loves and whom her grandfather had unjustly sent to the penitentiary makes a pleasing and interesting ending 'to this second of Miss Pickford’s releases under the banner of First National. —Advt.

A FORMER RENSSELAER BOY

Carl Clift of Brazil Returns Home After Year in Army Overseas. In renewing their subscription for The Democrat, Mrs. Charles Clift, formerly of Rensselaer but now of Brazil, says that their son Carl of the 829th aero squadrort has just returned home after 18 months in the army service, of which time one year was spent overseas. He saw a great deal of the country over there and had a world of experience. Was in Scotland, England, France, Belgium and Germany. He was stationed at Romorantin, France, for some time in the largest aviation field in France. He worked on a number of wrecked German planes, and the number 13 played quite an important part in his service—he enlisted on the 13th of the iraonth, was 13 days crossing the ocean, they had 13 boats in their convoy and landed on the other side on the 13th. He was 13 days coming back, and was discharged on the 13th and arrived home on the 13 th, and Mrs. Clift writes that she thinks 13 must be a lucky number for him. She says that he surely looks fine.

AL GRANT OF MOROCCO KILLED

In Auto Accident Near Paulding, 0., Last Sunday. Albert Grant, a well-known citizen of Morocco, was killed in an automobile accident near Paulding, 0., Sunday, and his wife was seriously Injured and is now in a dangerous condition. Mr. and Mrs. Grant, accompanied by their son and daughter, the former about 19 years of age and the latter about 21, had been to Niagara Falls and were on their way home. At 11 o’clock Sunday morning when near Paulding they met an approaching car directly at a small culvert with open, unguarded ends. The approaching car had to ixull to the center of the road to make the culvert, and then pulled to the side of the road again. The son was driving the Grant car. The d&ughter was also in the front seat and Mr. and Mrs. Grant in the rear seat. Young Grant did not see the culvert and in order to prevent a collision with the other car pulled to the side and the two side wheels of their car dropped off the edge of the culvert but the momentum of the

car carried them across. However, tfhe drop of the wheels- was sufficient to throw Mr. and Mrs. Grant high above the seat and the car went out from under them. Mr. Grant lit on his head on the stone road and died an hour later. Mrs. Grant suffered a broken arm, was badly cut and Injured about the head, and rendered unconscious. The son and daughter were not hurt. The father and mother were taken into Paulding, and the remains of Mr. Grant were prepared for shipment home, arriving in Morocco Tuesday. Mrs. Grant was placed in a hospital, and the son and daughter drove home Monday, the daughter, Miss Vera Grant, accompanied by Earl Kessler and Miss Eva Kessler, returning to Paulding Monday evening and wired home that there was some improvement in Mrs. Grant’s condition, but she was not considered out of danger.—Kentland Enterprise.

PUBLIC SALE DATES The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, Oct. 7, William Jeffers, 3 miles east of Wheatfield, on stone road. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Thursday, Oct. 9, John Duvall and Omar Morlan, at residence of the former 2 i&iles west of Rensselaer, on cemetery road. General sale, Including horses, mules, cattle, hogs, corn in field, farm tools, etc. Friday, Oct. 10, Earl Schwanke, 1% miles south and % mile east of Demotte. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, several swarms of bees, corn in shock, farm tools, etc.

NOTICE, REDMEN!

The regular meeting night has been changed from Monday to Friday nights. All members govern themselves accordingly. The next regular meeting will he Friday /evening, Oct. 10. —BY ORDER OF | SACHEM. 08 I Best job work At Democrat office.

Vol. XXII. No. 54

REJECTS FALL AMENDMENTS

First Teston Treaty Is Hailed as Victory by Both Sides. VOTE IN SENATE IS 58 TO 30 \ 1- ■ f Ix>dge Says He Is Delighted Beyond Measure and Hitchcock Declares Vote Shows No Changes at All. 1 Washington, Oct. 8. —By a vote of 30 to 58 the senate rejected Senator Fall's amendment disentangling the United States from participation In the multitude of commissions which will enforce the terms of the peace with Germany. The vote of 80 to 58 was on the amendment to eliminate American representation on the commission to delimit the boundary between Germany and Belgium. On succeeding votes on other amendments Cummins and Kenycn of lowa, Jones of Washington, Sterling of South Dakota, and Townsend of Michigan, Republicans, and Thomas of Colorado, Democrat, Joined the supporters of the disentangling program. On the amendment to keep the United States out of the Silesian imbroglio, 40 senators were recorded for the proposition. Both Sides Seem Satisfied. The leaders of both factions professed entire satisfaction with the result. Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, made this statement: “I am delighted beyond measure. The result conclusively shows that the treaty must be written to suit us or Il will be rejected." Senator Hitchcock, the administration leader, said: “The action Indicates a well defined determination on the part of the senate not to do anything which will send the treaty back to the other signatories. It indicates the defeat of all textual amendments, and of all reservations which have the effect of amendments.”

For the Amendment. Here is the way the senate lined up on the first roll call oh the Fall amendments f Republicans— Senators Ball of Delaware, Borah of Idaho, Brandegee of Connecticut, Calder of New York, Curtis of Kansas, Dillingham of Vermont, Elkins of West Virginia, Fall of New Mexico, Fernaid of Maine, France of Maryland, Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Gronna of North Dakota, Harding of Ohio, Knox of Pennsylvania, La Follette of Wisconsin, Lodge of Massachusetts, McCormick of Illinois, McLean of Connecticut, Moses of New Hampshire, New of Indiana, Newberry of Michigan, Norris of Nebraska, Penrose of Pennsylvania, Phipps Of Colorado, Poindexter of Washington, Sherman of Illinois, Wadsworth of New York, Warren of Wyoming, Watson of Indiana —29. Democrat —Senator Gore of Oklahoma —1. Total, 80. Vote Against Changes. Against the amendments: Republics ne—Senators Capper of Kansas, Colt of Rhode Island, Cummins of lowa, Edge of New Jersey, Hale of Maine, Jones of Washington, Kellogg of Minnesota, Kenyon of lowa, Lenroot of Wisconsin, Keyes of New Hampshire, McCumber of North Dakota, McNary of Oregon, Nelson of Minnesota, Smoot of Utah, Spencer of Missouri, Sterling of South Dakota, Townsend of Michigan —17. Democrats—Senators Ashurst of Arizona, Bankhead of Alabama, Beckham of Kentucky, Chamberlain of Oregon, Culberson of Texas, Dial of South Carolina, Fletcher of Florida, Cay of Louisiana, Gerry of Rhode Island, Harris of Georgia, Harrison of Mississippi, Henderson of Nevada, Hitchcock of Nebraska, Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick of Wyoming, Kirby of Arkansas, McKellar of Tennessee, Meyers of Montana, Nugent of Idaho, Overman of North Carolina, Owen of Oklahomaj Phelan, of California, Pittman of Nevada, Pomerene of Ohio, Ransdell of Louisiana, Robinson of Arkansas, Sheppard of Texas, Shields of Tennessee, Simmons of North Carolina, Smith of Arlzlna, Smith of Georgia, Smith of Maryland, Stanley of Kentucky, Swanson of Virginia, Thomas of Colorado, Trammell of Florida, Underwood of Alabama, Walsh of Massachusetts, Walsh of Montana, Williams of Mississippi, Wolcott of Delaware —41. Total, 58. Pairs: Senator Johnson of California, for, with Senator Martin of Virginia, against; Senator Page of Vermont, for, with Senator Johnson of South Dakota, against; Senator Reed of Missouri, for, with Senator King of Utah, against.

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