Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — Page 1

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MRS. D. E. HOLLISTER DEAD

Death Came Saturday Morning After Extended Illness. - Min D. E- Hollister, who had been in very feeble» health for scene time, died at the county hospital Saturday morning. She was taken to the hospital on the. Tuesday afternoon previous. Mrs. Hollister was 76 years of age and had been a resident of Jasper county for the past 36 years, coming here''with her husband from Ohio In 1883. Deceased is survived by her husband, D. E. Hollister; one daughter, Mrs. 'HI R. Wood, of this city, and one son, J. S. Hollister, of Billings, Mont. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. B. Fleming, were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Wood, on south McKinley avenue, and burial made in Weston cemetery.

MORE POTATOES

Will be in Rensselaer with a carload of Wisconsin potatoes Saturday and Monday. For further information call phone 452-Whlte-—BEßT WELSH.

YOUNG LAD STRUCK BY AUTO

Son of Harry Brown Receives a 6 Broken Leg and Bruises. Kenaieth, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown of four miles north of Rensselaer, had a. narrow escape from death at about 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, when struck by W. D. Bringle’s Oakland car at Aix. As it was, both hones of the boy’s right leg were broken ‘ below the knee, a gash cut scalp and the skin scratched on his face. He was also bruised on the ‘side where the car hit him, but a careful examination after he was brought „to the hospital disclosed that the skull was not fractured nor any ribs broken. The boy goes to school at Aix, »id Mrs. Brown had driven up tJtere in their Ford car to bring himi home when school was ’out. She had stopped her ear on 1 the west side of the road across from the Aix store, after taking the boy in—there being some teams of horses near the store on the east side —and sent the lad in to see if she could get some sugar. , He returned to the car and told her that she could get sugar and she gave him the money to pay for same, and he started back across the road. Mr. Bringle, accompanied by his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Goetz, was coming south in his car. He saw the boy cross the road and climb onto the running board of the Ford. He was not driving fast and had sounded the horn, but the noise made by the Brown car, the engine of which was running, drowned) the sound evidently, so far as the injured lad was concerned, and when he, started across road the Bringle car was too close to avoid striking him-. He was struck 'by one of the front lamps onl the car, thrown to the ground and the car passed over him, but the wheels did not run over him. Mr. Bringle says that he could have stopped the car when partly over the lad, but feared to do so because of perhaps injuring him worse to stop with him underneath the car, therefore he did not stop until the car had passed completely over him. When picked up the boy was doubled uip and was unconscious, but (before reaching home he came to and was brought to the hospital where his injuries were looked after and he was reported yesterday to be doing nicely, and if no complications set in his complete recovery is only a matter of time. Mr. Bringle is an experienced driver and is known as a v<y careful driver, and while held blame- - less for the accident, which was unavoidable, he felt as badly about it as though the boy had been his own. He thought the boy was killed when he stopped his car, and it was so reported in Rensselaer Monday evening, but fortunately, and almost miraculously, he escaped with the injuries above ( stated, for which the many friends / of both the family and Mr. Bringle feel very thankful to a kind providence-

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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. i . Attorney John Greve was down from Demotte yesterday on business. " X Monday, Nov. 3, is the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes. Frank Davis, the big, good-na-tured Brook attorney, was a visitor in the city Saturday. " New suits filed: No. 9116. National Life - " Insurance Co. et al vs. Premier Live Stock Farms’ association; suit on contract. Demand >225. Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 20, Edward Porter Gilmore of Rensselaer, aged 37, barber, and Mary' Annabelle Stockslck, also of Rensselaer, aged 24 March 28 last, clerk. First marriage for each> Attorney A. D- Babcock, accompanied ’'Ey his son Dorr, who is fitting himself to don dad’s legal shoes when the latter gets ready to retire, was over from Goodland Monday on business at the court house. Mr. Babcock’s eldest son James is a successful attorney in Indianapolis, and another son is now attending Wabash college, fitting himself for the legal profession also.

DON BEAM BUYS BUNGALOW

Wood Spitler, who has been over in Illinois for some time superintending the building of bridges on the Smith & Thompson concrete road contract near Springfield, for the Rensselaer Cement Products Co., was home last week closing up the sale of his bungalow on north Cullen street to Don Beam. The consideration is understood to have been >4,000. Mr- and Mrs. Spitler will store their goods for the present, it is understood. Mr. Beam, who had been night agent at Monon for some time, will now be stationed at Rensselaer, holding a position in the Monon depot here.

HOME FROM VACATION TRIP

W. J. Wright returned home Friday afternoon from a five weeks’ vacation spent with Bert Marshall and family at Olene, Ore., some 14 miles from Kalamath Falls, a hustling, wide-awake lumber town of about 10,000 ..population. At the latter place hundreds of women and girls are employed to the box factories and they go through the streets to and from their work clad in overalls, as unconcernedly as you please. Mr. Wright - enjoyed some good big game hunting while there and returned home considerably improved in health.

FORMER COUNTY TREASURER

Of' Newton Died in Indianapolis Hospital Saturday. Frank Rich, a former well known citizen and Democrat of Remington and at one time treasurer of Newton county, where ihe later resided, died at a hospital In Indianapolis Saturday and the •body was shipped to Rensselaer and thence taken overland to Goodland, where burial was made. Mr. Rich was a brother of J. D. Riclh of Brook and Walter, Rich of In>dianapolis.

EXTEND THANKS FOR SERVICE

Oct. 20, 1919. The officers and members of the Jasper County Breeders’ association desire to thank the Deleo Lighting System (people for their admirable service to furnishing light during the Stock- Show. The association desires to heartily recommend this system of lighting and believes that it is a imost efficient service for modern farm houses. RUSSELL VAN HOOK, Sec.-Treas., Jasper County Breeders’ Association. —,

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1919.

VISITING HERE FROM OHIO

Arthur Powell and Family Drove Down Saturday. Arthur Powell and family of near Bryan, 0., drove in Saturday evening for a week’s visit with relatives in this vicinity. Mr. Powell bought a 103-acre farm 6 miles southeast of Bryan last spring having two sets of improvements. He moved into one set. and retained a few acres of ground thereby, but the rest of the farm was leased. The crop from the leased land brought him about >l,400 and about two weeks ago he sold the farm for >2O per acre more than he paid. Mr. Powell is well pleased with' the country and expects to buy another farm thereThey raise a great many sugar beets in that section and some 35 acres were out on Mr. Powell’s farm this year. The average yield is in the neighborhood of 15 tons to the acre and the price now Is >lO per ton, making it a very profitable crop Indeed. Some of the beets grow to weigh as much as 15 pounds. Mr. Powell brought a couple down with him that weigh 8 pounds and they are on display in the window of The Democrat office.

MARRIED YESTERDAY MORNING

Ed Gilmore and Miss Anna Stocksick Become One. Edward Porter Gilmore, proprietor of the Gilmore barber shop on Washington street, and Miss Mary Annabelle Stocksick, for some years employed at the F. D. Burchard variety store, were quietly married at 5:45 o’clock yesterday morning at St. Augustine’s Catholic church by Rev? Father Daniel, •under a special dispensationFollowing the ceremony the young couple left at 9 o’clock with Mr. and* Mrs. Harry Kemper in the latter’s automobile for a trip to Niagara Falls, and on their return will take up their residence in rooms in the H. R. Kurrle building on Washington street, recently vacated by B. D. McColly and family. The Democrat joins the friends of the young couple in extending congratulations.

SOUVENIR OF WORLD’S SERIES BALL GAMES

Earl H. Smith and Riohard Roder of Chicago visited here last week with Ray Fidler of east of town. Mr. Smith is a tenor soloist and recently completed a tour of state fairs. He sang in the coliseum at the Indiana state fair at Indianapolis and also at the world’s series baseball games in Chicago. After his return to Chicago Mr. Smith sent Ray a baseball used by Pitcher E. W. Cicotte in one of the games of (he world’s series in Chicago, and which MrFidler prizes very highly.

MORE REAL ESTATE DEALS

George F. Meyers reports the sale of Miss Mary Goetz’s 10-acre farm just south of the ball park and now occupied by George E. Collins, to Alfred K. Moore of ■Hanging Grove township. The consideration? was $3,700’, and possession Is given March 1 next. Also the 98-acre farm owned by Bert Griffin, 6 miles south of Rensselaer, on the Jackson highway, to a Mr. Woodward of Jefferson county, 0., who will move here and take possession March 1. The farm is at present occupied by Henfy Schafer.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

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PRESIDENT IS NOW BETTER

Wilson Is Able to Attend to a Portion of Business Matters. Washington, D. 0., Oct. 21—Announcement yesterday that President, Wilson had appointed Owen D. Young of Schenectady, N. Y., as a member of the public group of the national industrial conference, was cited at the white house as refuting reports that Mr. Wilson's illness had rendered him incapable of attending to any business. These officials said it was not the first official action the president had taken since he became ill. Dr. Grayson at 10:30 last night issued the following bulletin: "The president has had a better day than usual.**

CHRIS SACK DIED AT HOSPITAL MONDAY NIGHT

Chris Sack of Rensselaer, aged 82 yetrs, who had been In a critical condition at the hospital for the past week, died at about 7 o’clock Monday evening from the Infirmities of old age. No arrange-, jnents had been made for the funeral at the time of going to press.

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IN HANDS OF A RECEIVER

Lincoln Chautauqua System in Financial Straits. The Lincoln Chautauqua bureau, which has put on chautauquas In Rensselaer and neighboring towns several times, is now In the hand? of a receiver, according to The Billboard, In a dispatch published from® Chicago. The liabilities are reported to be in the neighborhood of >125,000, while the assets consist of the Chautauqua tents and equipment and the contracts which they hold with various towns for programs next season and for which >2OO a town has been offered for the contracts held in Illinois and Indiana.

SEE “THE END OF THE ROAD’ V At the Star Theater Next Friday, Oct. 24, 1:80 to 11 P- M. The Star theater is to show Friday the most daring film ever produced, a picture which is a revelation of sex and of the terrible menace constituted by ignorance and recklessness in sex relations. The picture, "The End of the Road,” has won the endorsement of organized and individual welfare workers, of press and tpulpit, for the thorough manner in which it covers the subject of sex and for the artistry which delivers the warning without recourse to the sordid or vulgar. Richard Bennett, who violated stage traditions in putting on the boards “Damaged Goods,” plays the lead In “The End of the Road.” Opposite him) plays a new film star, Claire Adams, who has been called the most beautiful girl in the pictures. It is said she is to be starred in a picture now under way. A strong company supports them in “The End of the Road,” which, in brief, shows the road of life as traveled by two girls, the one instructed in sex facts by a wise mother, the other permitted to gain her knowledge; at perverted sources. The latter finds misefy, the other happiness “at the end of the road.” The picture Is of shocking in some of its scenes, withal without sordidness, that children under 14 are not permitted to see It except in company of their parents, or bearing their parents’ consent. The picture will be shown from 1:30 to 11 o’clock.—\dvt. Country Sorghum at ROWLES & PARKER’S. 020

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Talegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. TO BE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST Irish Question to Be Loader in U. 8., Says DeValera. • Dublin; Oct. 17.—The Sinn Fein convention was held at midnight Wednesday at some place at present unknown. Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein organization, addressed 500 of the delegates. He said that the Sinn Fein would not falter in its demand for a republic in Ireland and would have no discussions with any England party. * Mr. Griffith added that Eamon DeValera, "president of the Irish republic,” who is now in the United States, was convinced that the Irish question would be a leading issue In the American presidential contest It had been the intention of the Sinn Feiraers to hold the, convention In the Mansion house here, but the government Issued orders to prohibit the assembling of the Sinn Fein, Irish volunteers and Gaelic League. Nearly 2,000 delegates from all parts of the, country came to Dublin for the meeting. The Mansion house was guarded by 200 police and 200 soldiers during the day, but’ these were withdrawn In the evening- The police were armed with revolvers, while the soldiers had full field equipment. A large force of soldiers were held in reserve, but the day passed quietly.

PREVENT HIGH SUGAR PRICE

Department Warns Wholesalers That 10 Cents Is Fair Price. Washington, Oct. 21.—Steps to prevent an abnormal increase in the price of sugar because of a shortage were taken yesterday by the department of justice-Attorney-General Palmer notified beet sugar refiners, who have been withholding their products from the market until the price situation became more stabilized, that the United States sugar equalization board had decided that 10 cents was a fair price to be charged the wholesaler and that any charge in excess of that amount would be regarded in violation of the food control act. Refiners were asked to telegraph their concurrence to this price, which would mean that they would put their supply on the market immediately, thereby relieving the stringency. The price to the wholesaler heretofore has been 9 cents so that the new price means an Increase of, 1 cent a pound. Retailers have been permitted to charge 11 cents a pound for controlled sugar under the old prices. While the depaHment of justice and the sugar board did not say what the new retail price would be, it was assumed that the Increase would not b« greater than the wholesale advance.

NOTICE FARMERS AND STOCK BREEDERS All farmers and breeders of good livestock who reside In Jasper county, together with the officers and members of the Jasper County Livestock Breeders’ association, are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the> courthouse in Rensselaer Saturday evening, Oct. 25, at 8 o’clock. The purpose of this meeting is to receive a report of the secre-tary-treasurer and to finish up all business' connected with the re.cent livestock show. At the request of a considerable number of breeders who were not represented at the last meeting, permanent officers and corpmitteemen will be selected at this time to take charge of the affairs of the organization for the coming fiscal year.—Jasper County Livestock Breeders’ Association, by Fred A. Phillips, president; Russel Van Hook, secretary-t easurer.

Vol. XXII. No. 59

OLD RENI DENT OF GOODLAND

Died Ust Week at Age of 87 * Yean—Native of England. Henry Butler, for over 50 years a resident of Goodland, where ho wae engaged in running a 'meat market and buying stock for much of this time, died last week at the home of Ibis son, West Butler, near Ciburubusco, Ind., and burial waa made at Goodland Friday. Mr. Butler came to America to 1865 with his wife and three eons, and after about two years’ residence in Chicago came to Goodland, where he had since resided. He Is survived by his wife and two sons, West and Thomas, three children —Harr£, Alfred and Fannie —having preceded him in death. Mr. and Mrs. Butler were visiting their" sons, West and Thomas, near Churubusco when he was suddenly stricken with apoplexy and died about 24 hours later.

PUBLIC HALE DATES The Democrat has printed bills for the following publio sales: Tuesday, Oct. 28, John Gusa, 10 Vi miles north and 3-4 mile west of Rensselaer. General sale. Including horses, battle, hogs, farm tools, etc.

BIG ATTENDANCE SATURDAY

At Htock Show, Which Was Pro. nounced Extra Good. One of the largest crowds ever assembled in Rensselaer attended the Third Annual Jasper County Livestock Show, which closed Saturday night. With ideal weather conditions, plenty of music and a splendid line of exhibits, the great crowd enjoyed itself thoroughly and many expressions of satisfaction were heard from all sides. The' exhibits were drawn from every section of Jasper county and several herds were shown from Newton and Pulaski counties. The exhibition was essentially a, hog and cattle show, with the hog exhibits predominating, the two large tents being filled to overflowing with porcine exhibits. The judge, John W. Schwab, was emphatic in declaring that it was the best show of hogs held in. the state this year, with the exception of the state fair. In the Hampshire classes, many state fair and international winners found strong competition among the hogs of the younger breeders and the judge had many difficult decisions to make. Sinee the last show the development of the Spotted Poland China breed in this locality has been especially marked and one of the features of the show was the large number of high class representatives of this type of hogs. That the Duroc Jersey breeders are on the job wai evidenced by the high quality of the exhibits of this breed. The Chester White hogs drew forth considerable favorable comment on account of the uniformity and excellence of the individuate. The Big Type Poland Chinas were represented by three herds, the foundation animals in every case being from the Sage herd. The Hereford exhibit far surpassed any previous showing of the breed, both in the quality and in the number of herds represented, practically every breeder having one or more animals at the show. The exhibit was greatly strengthened by a herd of international standing. The Shorthorns were represented by the usual enthusiasts who maintained the reputation of the breed in a creditable manner. The first exhibit of Angus was made. The following ds a list of awards: Angus- , Aged cows, first, Charles Stal-

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ANNUAL MEETING RED CROSS

Please take notice that the annual meeting of the Jasper county Aapter of the American National <ed 'Cross will be held on Oct. J;9, 1919, at 7:30 o’clock of said Flay at Rensselaer, for the election of am executive committee or board of directors, consideration of and action upon reports, - and transaction of such other business as may properly come before the chapter. Each member of the chapter is earnestly urged to be present. NELLE TRITT-SHAFER, Secretary. 029

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