Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — Page 1

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GEORGE MAUCK IS MARRIED

Rensselaer Boy Takes a Bride at Hammond Saturday. George W. Mauck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mauck of Rensselaer, and Miss Velma Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Thompson of Hammond, were united in marriage last Saturday In Chicago at the home of the officiating clergyman. Rev. W. G. Winn, a former pastor of the Christian church of Rensselaer. The groom, who had been employed for some time as a «presß feeder in the W. B- Conkey Printing plant at Hammond, returned from overseas service a few months ago and resumed his work in the Conkey plant. The bride is the girl Georgei* left behind htaf when he entered Uncle Sam’s service in the world war, and their marriage is the culmination of an extended courtship. The young couple came down Tuesday afternoon to visit his parents and other friends here until yesterday, wheh they returned to Hammond where they will reside at 809 South Hohman street. Mrs. Frank Critser of Park avenue gave a dinner Wednesday evening in their honor. George is a former employe of The Democrat and a fine young man. We unite with his many friends and friends of the bride in extending hearty congratutfi*t&ne.

ARMY HOSPITAL TRAIN HERE

Encamped on Court House Lawn in Real Army £tyle. The hospital truck train from Camp Grant, 111., arrived in Rensselaer Thursday and will remain for four or five days. This t train departed from Camp Grant, Hl., on September 10 for a tour of central Indiana and Illinois on an educational mission. The' object of the train is to better acquaint the people of the country with the army and the work of the medical department in particular, for which branch the convoy is now accepting recruits for the one year enlistment period. >The members of the party camp with the train, carrying rations, tentage, field range, and in fact portray the work and life of a med-

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RED CROSS COMMITTEES FOR THIRD ROLL CALL

The various committees of the third annual roll call for the American Red Cross in Jasper county are completing arrangements to make the coming drive the most successful of any yet conducted. Everyone should answer the third roll call in support of the great peace program being worked out by the Red Cross. If you are not familiar with their plans you should acquaint yourself with them, The newspapers will be full of information concerning them during the campaign and literature treating the subject is available at the Red Ctors headquarters. The drive, which begins November 2 and ends November 11, the first anniversary of the arnjistice, will be conducted in this county by the following committees: Chairman, Nell Meyers. ■ Assistant chairman, Jane A. Parkison. „ „ , Publicity chairman, Lon Healy. Newspaper publicity committee, T, H. Hamilton, F. E. Babcock, Mr. Bartoo, Mr. Bowie. Posters, street and window display, W. J. Wright, Leona Kolhoff and Martin Sauser. Chairman of speakers’ bureau, the Rev. J. B. Fleming. Roll call cashier, Florence Allman. Roll call supply manager, Mrs. Nelle Tritt-Shafer. The county is divided into township units with the following chairmen : " Keener, Mr. DeCook. Wheatfield, Mrs. Simon Fendtg. Kankakee, Mrs. Alfred Duggleby. Walker, Mrs. John Pettit. Union, Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan. Barkley, Mrs. C. P. Moody. Gillam, Mrs. John Ryan. Newton, Mrs. John Rush. Marion, Charles Postill. Rensselaer, Miss Muriel Harris. Hanging Grove, Mrs. John Phillips. Milroy, Charles C. Wood. Jordan, Julius Huff. Carpenter, Mrs. C. G. Hand. On Saturday night, November 1, there will be a county mass meeting pn the court house lawn. Dr. Brewiter, of Cleveland, Ohio,.will speak. This meeting is in charge of the following committee: Mrs. J. J. Hunt, Martin Sauser, , . Howard Mills. ~ 1. ,

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. Monday, Nov. 3, is the last day Cor paying the fall installment of taxes. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy of Remington were visitors in the city Thursday. Only one more week for paying the fall installment of taxes to avoid delinquency. Attorneys P. R. Blue of Wheatfield and John Greve of Demotte were business visitors in the city Wednesday. New suits filed: No. 9117. Petition of Central Garage of Rensselaer to change name to The Central Sales Co. The Woman’s Franchise League will meet next Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock at the court hou'se. All members are urged to be present. —Advt. Marriage license’s issued: Oct. 23, Albert Franklin Kerns of Gifford, aged 27 Jan. 22 last, farmer, and Hattie Lelah Graham of Knimani, aged 17 June 19 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Female being under age, her Another, Bertha May Graham, gave consent to issuance of license. ■ i i Some w»». or a dozen witnesses were taken over to Kentland Thursday on the case of the petition of Marion I. Adams for a guardian for Earl Adams, but the entire day was "consumed by the attorneys in making up the issues and getting ready to hear testimony, which was begun; yesterday. One of the witnesses who put in all day Thursday at Kentland, only to have to go back again yesterday, says that the time of all these witnesses was wasted Thursday, sitting around waiting for the issues to be made up, and he thinks that the court and lawyers should get together on an agreement not to call the witnesses until practically ready to go to trial with a case..

With the completion of the J. W. Hitehings stone road In Jordan township, which Is now practically done, Rensselaer, ForeSman and Brook will be connected by an east and west stone' road, as this road connects the gap on the west with the Foresman road. The road connects on the east with stone roads already in and connecting with the Rensselaer-Remington road about 60 rods south of the slough bridge, some four miles south of Rensselaer. The F. L. Hoover road connecting with the road leading west from the Catholic hemetery and running south past the William M. Hoover homestead and connecting south thereof with the road heretofore mentioned, has also been completed recently. <•

PUBLIC SALE DATES The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, Oct. 28, John Guss, 10% miles north and 3-4 mile west of Rensselaer. General sale/ including horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Monday, Nov. 3, Ed Weickum, 1% miles south of Kersey. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, etc.

CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES

A medical and physical inspection of all school children has been authorized by the board of education. The physicians are heartily .in sympathy with the plan and have

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MORE POTATOES

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

BERT WELSH.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919.

CITY COUNCIL SHOULD ACT

In Matter of Completing Street Contracts in RensselaerBy th® way, what is to be done about the completion of the street contracts in Rensselaer, which work has been dragging along for the past three years or more? The acceptance of this work was rejected by the city council some imonths ago, and the contractor ordered to complete the work according to plans and specifications, yet not a stroke of work has been done since that time. The council should take immediate steps to see that these contracts are completed.

ARE MOVING TO KNIGHTSTOWN

Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall Leaving Jasper CountyMr. and Mrs. John Duvall shipped their household effects to Knightstown, Lnd., last week and will leave tomorrow via auto for that x place where they will keep house for their son Ed, who is engaged in the dental business there. Mr. Duvall has purchased a new Monroe automobile of Hugh Kirk, the local agent, and went to Indianapolis Wednesday to drive the car home- He was accompanied home by his son Ed Thursday, and all will leave Sunday for Knightstown. Their other son, Sflnvuel Duvall, recently succeeded his father in the milk business here and will carry on the same.

‘PENNYWISE; POUND FOOLISH’

In Reducing Tax Levies to Fool the Taxpayer. The state board of tax commissioners cut the Jasper county levy for gravel road repair from 8 cents to 6 cento, or 2 cents lees than the county council, after considering the matter very carefully, deemed the lowest possible figure it' - could be cut to and give us anything like a reasonable sum to keep up the repair of our stone roads. The council cut the estimate of the county commissioners from $50,000 to $35,000,. and now the by the state tax commissioners chips off about SB,OOO or $9,000 from the latter figures. The Democrat believed that it was not necessary to levy a $50,000 tax for gravel or stone road repair, but floes think that $25,000 to $27,000 is too little. There is no economy in letting our stone roads, which have costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, go to destruction simply to please three men sitting in the state house at Indianapolis that they may make it appear favorable for the new tax law. ,

It should be remembered that the SIO,OOO to $12,000 heretofore received from the county’s share of automobile license fees and which went into the road repair fund. Is cut off under the new law and goes 7 to the state highway fund. The greater part of the reductions made In the various towns and townships in the county from the levies as fixed by the taxing officers thereof is in the school funds, arad these reductions will greatly embarrass the schools, it is said. While we all want as low a tax levy ah is consistent with the necessities that must be taken care of, there Is such a thing as being “penny wise ,dnd pound foolish.’’ Because of the unreasonable boosting of the valuations as fixed by the township assessors and passed by the county board of review, taxes in Rensselaer and Jasper county are going to be much higher next year than they are this—that is, while the levy is lower, the total amount one will have to pay, because of the thribling of valuation, will be much more than he pays this year on the same amount of property.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Walter Bates of Rensselaer underwent an operation for gallstones and appendicitis Thursday, and at this writing is doing nicely. Kenneth Brown, who was injured Monday when struck by an automobile, is improving nicely. Mel Abbott entered the hospital Thursday evening for (medical attention. Henry O. Harris entered the hospital Wednesday for medical attention. Mr. Harris Is 88 years of age and is in a very critical condition. <

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS DF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towne—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesDEMURRER WAS OVERRULED Township Trustee Ordered to Haul All Pupils to School. Wabash, Oct. 23. —Judge Hunter of the circuit court here Monday overruled a demurrer to the complaint of the state on relation John D. Miley and others against Frank Truss, trustee of Waltz toVnship, an< ordered the trustee to haul all high school pupils in Waltz township to school. The suit to the outcome of a mandate issue by the court some time ago in which *the trustee was ordered to carry the high school pupils. The trustee refused, saytog that the state board of accounts would not favorably pass his bills for the carrying of pupils. Mr. Truss contended that the mandate would not overrule the opinion of the attorney-general who said high school pupils could not be carried by township trustees in Indiana. Both the attorneys for the plaintiffs and the defendant would like to see the case go to the supreme court though for final decision, as the ruling affects every trustee in the state. All of the other township trustees here have been carrying high school pupils as they have not been placed to any extra expense by doing so.

FR. MERCIER VISITS CHICAGO

Defends Course of America Entering War When She Did. Chicago, Oct. 22. —Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, today, the second of hie visit to Chicago, was permitted to engage In a less strenuous program than yesterday when he was busy from early Imiorning until late at night. Except for a meeting at the Umiverslty of Chicago, where the degree of IzL. D. was bestowed on the prelate, his time today -was given over mainly to visits to Catholic Institutions and greetings to fellowcountrymen. Committees started today to complete a fund of |IOO,000 for rehabilitation of Belgium In the hope that a check for the amount may be presented to the cardinal before his departure for St. Louis tomorrow. In his addrdss last night to the largest audience he said he ever faced, Cardinal Mercier defended the action of the United States In waiting until the tfimSS It did to enter the war. "I think, so far as I know, your people and your country have been right.”

NEW CATHOLIC BOOK STRIKES AT SINN FEIN

Dr. Walter MacDonald Says Ireland “Never Was Nation.” Chicago, Oct. 24.—1 n a special cabled coyprlgfated article by WillHam H. Brayden, the Chicago Daily News, under a Dublin, Ireland, date line, Wednesday exploded a bomb on the friends of Irish freedom here, telling the story of a hook that appeared In Dublin yesterday, perhaps the biggest political event in Ireland In months. As the story proceeds, previous to this publication, the opponents of the Sinn Felners of the most parts accepted their assumptions and admitted their fundamental principles, while differing as to methods and having no faith in the possibility of the attainment of all their aims. Now the whole basis of their case is attacked by an author of the highest eminence, who pours a flood of corrosive criticism on the assumption that Ireland Is or ever was an Independent nation. The author is ■ Dr. Walter Macdonald, prefect of the Dunboyne

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Sale blHs printed at The Demo-, crat office while you wait.

GOOD RECORD FOR “RAT DAY”

Nearly 00,000 Rato Slaughtered in 88 Counties. Final reports from 28 Indiana counties, Just compiled by Walter Q. Fitch of Purdue university here, state leader in the “rat day” drive* of May 27, 1919, show that 57,100 rats were killed in these counties in the single day’s effort- The enterprise was arranged by Mr. Fitch at the request of the Indiana food production committee, the object being to make "rat day” an annual affair in Indiana and thus rid the state of many of these rodent destroyOTS of food products. No record of rats killed in other counties could be obtained, but the state leader estimates that more than 150,000 rats were iput to death in the campaign. In a report to Governor Goodrich and the food cotomittee, Mr. Fitch recommends that the governor set aside one day each year for rat killing and that the fight against the rat pest be continued from year to year. Knox county led all others in the number of rats killed on Mai 27, 10,000 being reported slaughtered there.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Oct. 18, to Mr. and Mrs. George Blaze, on the R. A. Park Ison farm, a daughter.

REV. BARBRE RETURNS HOME

Attended Christian Church Convention at Cincinnati, O. The international convention of Christian churches, which had been in session at Cincinnati, 0., the past week, catoe to a close Monday night. Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Barbre, who attended the meeting, returned home Tuesday. The attendance was one of the largest of these annual gatherings. Besides ministers who rode on clergy certificates, the railroads reported that 5,000 reduced fare tickets were sold to persons attending. This does not include those of Cincinnati and nearby towns who came in on Interunbans and many who did not receive the reduced fare tickets. The meetings were held in Music hall, one of the finest convention auditoriums in the middle west, which seated 10,000 people. Many things were done at this

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HIGH PRICES NOT JUSTIFIED

Milllon-Ton Sugar Crop Soon Available, Refiner Says. Washington, D. C., Oct. 21. — Federal control of the sugar crop was opposed today before the senate agricultural committee by C. A. Spreckels, a New York refiner, who blamed governmental interference for the sugar situation. There is no shortage, he said, although the supply Is “dislocated.” One million tons of the 1919 crop, will be available before Jan. 1, he added, to relieve the situation. Mr. Spreckels said he would not object to government control if it would reduce the price to the consuknier. Instead, he Insisted, it has brought about an Increase In price. “If the matter was left to the law of supply and demand, it would soon get down to a proper basis,” he added.

OPPOSED TO REDUCED LEVY

Howard Qounty Teachers Condemn Tax Board ActionKokomo, Oct. 24-.—Resolutions condemning the action of the state tax board to reducing the tuition levies for Howard county have been addressed to Governor Goodrich by school teachers of the county. The resolutions were a t a joint institute held Saturday. The resolutions deny the assertion of the board that money can be borrowed to keep the schools running, and set out that the schools can. not be operated for any less sum than that fixed by local officials and not accepted by the board. "The arbitrary action of the tax board deliberately imposes on the children an inferior teaching personnel,” the resolution® say.

Potatoes are going to be higher. Lay in your winter’s supply from the car we are now unloading. Nice White Rurals for Friday and Saturday, $1.75 per bushel—, ROWLES & PARKER.

Vol. XXII. No. 60

PUBLIC GROUP HEEDS WILSON

Body Emerges From Wreckage of Industrial Conference and Organizes. WILL CARRY ON THE WORK Stock Quip la: “Labor Had Walk* out; capital Has Lockout; Public, as Usual, la Holding Bag.” Washington, Oct. 24.—Heeding the expressed wish of President Wilson, the public group emerged from the wreckage of the Industrial conference and prepared to carry on the work which bumped Into a finish before It got a start. Capital and public were on deck. Secretary Lane Informed them he had consulted with the president, who took the position that the withdrawal of the labor bloc has changed the nature of the conference. With labor absent, he pointed out, the work of formulating an Industrial peace program might be turned over to the middle group. So the confer* ence Itself came to an end, the employers’ bloc departed and the assemblage went Into the receivership of the public group. Only Sense of Humor Left. The stock quip In the corridors all morning was: "Labor had a walkout; capital has a lockout; the public, as usual, is holding the bag.” The public group met at once and, after .long deliberation, appointed a committee to prepare a program and to'tjetermlne the scope of the inquiry which is to be made into industrial conditions and ameliorative measures. Secretary Tumulty sent over a letter the gl'ht of which was that ths president wants to know what is in the thoughts of the conferees. The subcommittee embraces wide variations of though. It is composed of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Ida M. Tarbell, who wrote the history of the Standard Oil; John Spnrgo, the ex-So-clnlist; Thomas D. Jones and Ward M./Burgess, both employers. Efforts will ba made to retain the Interest of both the Inbor and qapltal groups. Rockefeller held a conference with three of the Inbor leaders —Fbank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor; W. H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists, and John H. Don lln, president of the building trades department. They spent an hour or two discussing the situation and, later, members of the public group appeared quite cheerful. As outlined by Secretary Lane, the task which the group has before it Is “to undertake to find that machinery by which there can be a reconciliation or adjustment or peace or a way to solve any of these great Industrial problems.” Wilson May Urge Survey. One Inside report is that the public group contemplates recommending to President Wilson that he appoint fl commission to Investigate the entire field of industrial troubles. i In case such a suggestion Is made, ft is planned to accompany It with fl report dealing with specific matterfl such as high cost, production and dl» trlbntlon, shop councils, arbitration and conciliation, freedom of contracts, strikes and lockouts, responsibility of association and vocational training. | Some of the leaders are inclined to believe that the public group as now constituted is too hetrogeneous a body to travel far, If anywhere. Even if it Is retained a request may be made that it be expanded in membership.

DECLARES MINOR AIDED REDS

Secretary of War Baker Tells Senate of New Evidence. Washington, Oct. 24. —Robert Minor, American newspaper cartoonist, detained by American military authorities in France on charges of being connected with plans of German spartaclsts to circulate bolshevik literature among American troops, was released because of Insufficient evidence to warrant his trial, the senate was Informed by Secretary Baker. While recommending the release, the judge advocate of the’' A. E. F., Baker said, expressed opinion that Minor waa guilty. Since the release <ff the cartoonist, the secretary added, evidence has been obtained connecting him with the preparation of 6,000 paipphlets, which were to be circulated among American soldiers on the Rhine. Minor acted. Baker said, at the request of Meth Filip, a German spartadst leader.

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