Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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COUNTY OFFICERS OF L O. O. F.

■Meted at eMeting Held In Rensselaer Last Week. At the county meeting of the I. O. O. F. last week the following •Acers of the county organisation were elected: President, A- H. Dickinson, Remington; vice-presi-dent, C. W. Harner, Remington; secretary, C. E. Simpson, Renssel aer; treasurer, G. E. Collins, Rensselaer. There are 539 members of the five I. O. O. F. lodges of the county, as follows: Rensselaer 239, Remington 173, Parr 49, Gifford 39 and Wheatfield 39- . There aiV 4M Rebekahs In the pounty—Rensselaer 202; Remington 195, Parr 51 and Gifford 11. Ten candidates were given the Rebekah degree by the Rensselaer lodge. Eight candidates were given the Initiatory degree Remington lodge. The first degree work was given by the Welcott lodge. There were eight candidates from Rensselaer, one Remington and three from Gifford.

MARRIED IN CAPITOL TUESDAY

Mtss Wilda Littlefield Becomes the Bride of Lester C. McNemar.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester C. McNemar arrived in Rensselaer Thursday evening from Washington, D. C., where both have had government joaitions. The latter was formerly MUa Wilda Littlefield, daughter of Postmaster N. Littlefield of this •ity, and her husband is a resident near Chicago and is a graduate fromi the law department of Chicago University and is a lawyer by profession. He holds a position in the Judge advocate general’s office in the aurvy department. Mr. McNemar met Miss Littlefield at Washington where she had been for nearly a year past, and the young couple were married at her Wording ' house in Washington Tuesday morning. They came to Chicago Wednesday and to Rensselaer Thursday evening for a few days’ stay with the parents of the bride, after which they will visit iris people near Chicago for a tew days, returning here again before back to Washington, Mr. Mcleave of absence expiring Jan. 1. The young couple will make their home in Washington for thepresent. Mrs. McNemar is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and one of this city’s .most popular young lady’s. The Democrat joins her many friends in extending most hearty congratulations.

SUNDAY EVE SACRED CONCERT

At the Presbyterian Church Beginning at 7 o’Clock P. M. Prelude—“ Praise Ye the Father,” Gounod . ..... .Organ and piano Anthem—" Let Us Now Go Even Unto Bethlehem,” Simper. .Choir Selo —“The Birthday of a King,” Neidlinger. . . Mrs. A. H. Hopkins Ladles’ Trio—"TheYe Were Shepherds,” Lynes — ....... Mrs. Chadbourne, Mrs. A. R. Hopkins, Miss Watson Anthem —“Jesus Came the Heavens Adoring,” Shepard. .. .Choir Solo —“Come Unto Me,’’ Handel Mrs. Schaupp Anthem —“Rejoice in the Lord” West Postlude—Christmas Carols .....

NOTICE TO MEMBERS D. A. R. The Daughters of the American Aevolutlon will meet with Mrs E. J. Randle Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1919. It will be the children’s party and each member is entitled to bring a child. Come at 2:30, as there will be a business meeting, and unable to attend please notify hostess. Come prepared to pay dues. —MRS. E. P. HONAN, Regent. Frances E. Bostwick, Sec’yNOTICE TO OLD SOLDIERS All members of the G- A. R., Veterans of the civil war, Ladies of the G. A. R. and Relief Corps are requested to meet at the G. A. R. hall at 10 o’clock Sunday morning,’ Dec. 21, to go in a body to attend services at the Christian church. D. H. YEOMAN, Commander, W. H. WOOD, Adjt.

DAYS TO SHOP

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomised—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Township Trustee Pettit was down from Walker yesterday. P. D. Wells~of Morocco was a business visitor in the city yesterday. County Commissioner Charles Welch and wife of west Carpenter were in the city shopping yesterday. County Auditor-elect S. C. Robinson of Gillam township was in Rensselaer Thursday. The Jasper county jail has been without a prisoner now for Several days, or since John Visak, the Newton county prisoner, was taken to the penal farm. i —— s—•J— * Better apply for your 1920 auto license now. Miss Mabel Nowels, at The Democrat office, will fill out your application and send it in at no expense or trouble to you other than the license fee and the small notary fee. ts

Attorney George A. Williams leaves today for Carthage, IIL, to spend Christmas with Mrs. Williams, who haff been up there since being Called by the recent death of her mother. She will return home with Mt. Williams after Christmas. in behalf of, tie members of the executive . board of Jasper county chapter, A. R. p., I wish to thank Miss Nelle Meyers and her commit; tees for the efficient manner in which they handled the third Red Cross- roll - caII.—NELLO TRITTSHAFER, Sec’y. The census enumerators for the 1920 U. S. census will begin their work January 2. The enumeration in cities must be completed In two weeks, while 30 days is, given for the enumeration of farms. The names of the enumerators for Jasper county have not been announced at this writing.

V. M. and Waiter Peer have purchased the interest of the other five heirs In the D. M. Peer farm of 192 acres in Walker township, and have sold 47% acres A>f same to Elmer Cambe, a brother-in-law. There was originally 272 acres of this farm, but in dividing it up. the mother was given 80 acres, leaving 192 acres for the seven heirs. New suits flled~No. 9150. Frank L. Wildrick vs. Lillian Wlldrick; action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married June 21, 1906, and separated in May, 1918; that defendant was guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment; that for four years prior to their separation defendant was constantly nagging and quarreling with plaintiff whenever he was in her presence. The parties"have one child, Virgie Wildrick, aged 11 years years, which plaintiff asks the care and custody of. The parties reside at. Remington. No. 9151. John F. Burns vs. Arthur L. Carpenter; suit for damages. Demand $5,000. The defendant is the owner of the Remington telephone exchange and plaintiff alleges that in driving into a farm yard last August a telephone wire which defendant had through carelessness and negligence left loosely suspended from the poles—or which had become loosened and dropped down and had not been put back in place by defendant —caught plaintiff in the mouth, badly lacerating same,, tearing out six of his teeth and breaking his jaw bone.

NOTICE All persons having county warrants or claims due them from the county are requested to call at the auditor’s office before December 30, 1919. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Ind. We now have on hand a supply of lump and stove size soft coal. Phone your order to No. 7.— FARMERS’, GRAIN CO. d 24

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919.

MT. AYR WOMAN IN INJURED

Mrs. Ira Chupp Thrown Against Circle fiaw. Mrs. Ira Chupp, who was assisting in the buxzlng of some wood, received an ugly wound of the limb when her dress caught In the 'rapidly revolving saw at her home Friday. saw is operated with a gasoline engine and runs at a high rate of speed, and had it not been that just at that moment the drive belt had been thrown by the men preparatory to quitting the accident would undoubtedly proven more serious. As it was she was drawn into the saw and an ugly jaggered wound cut to the bone of the thigh. Mrs. Chupp’s husband is at present at Nappanee, having accompanied Dan Stutsman’s car- of emigrant goods to that place. But all the care possible was given the sufferer and when heard from last was doing satisfactorily.—Mt- • Ayr Tribune.

MOTHER OF BOY BANDIT PAYS

Fine and Costa Assessed by the Jasper Circuit OourtThe mother of John Visak, the Indiana Harbor young man who was held in' jail here several months as a prisoner of Newton county awaiting trial for shooting and pounding a northern Newton deputy sheriff last summer when the latter attempted to arrest him for stealing, In company with another young man, an automobile from a doctor at Indiana Harbor, sent Sheriff Woodworth Thursday the 1100 her son was fined here at the last term of court, together with the costs, something over |29. Young Visak was given a sentence of 90 days at the penal farm in addition to the fine and costs, and is now serving same. Had the fine and costs not been ‘paid he woulA have had to remain at the penal farm 129 days more. His mother Is anxious to get him back home as soon as possible as he Is her partial support. His father is one of the foreigners who went out on tire steel strike some time-ago and has struck himself out of a job, the officials of the plant refusing to take him back, hence the anxiety to get the boy back home to help furnish the table.

NEWS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio has entered the race for the g. o. p. nomination for president. Moses Atlass, an old and prominent Jewish citizen and business man of* Lafayette, died Tuesday ’night, aged 75 years. He is survived by seven children. Norman Harry of Kentland, a son of Attorney and Mrs. W. E. Harry of Brook, died In a Chicago hospital last Tuesday, following a month’s illness from ‘heart trouble. His age was 25 years. James Paris Pond, age 17, of Monon will serve a sentence of three months at the Indiana state farm for cutting automatic block signal wires of the Monon railroad near Lee. According to Pond, he cut them for a joke on one of his friends employed by the Monon. James Whiteakker of Newton county got his right armi broken in two places and the member badly lacerated last Saturday .afternoon while working with a porn sheller at the John Cassidy farm west of Goodland. His arm got caught in the machinery while *he 'was attempting to clean out the cob stacker. Which had become clogged, and so firmly was his arm enmeshed In the gears that it was necessary to partly wreck the machinery to release him. He was taken to the Watseka hospital and it is probable that the arm will have to be amputated.

Ivan, 5-year-Old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sturgeon of Newton county, was Instantly killed Sunday afternoon from being struck by an automobile driven by Walter Powell of near Dehner’s church, Benton county- The accident * occurred about midway between Kentland and Goodland, on the south road. The driver of the car said that he noticed three children cross the road in front of his car but did not see the little boy at all. The child’s skull was fractured and nearly eyery bone in his body was broken, the body being dragged for some distance and was .badly .mutilated. . ■ A,

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities aad Towns—Matters of Minor Mention Froth Many Localities. AMERICA CAN NOT QUIT NOW Dr. Rershy Deprecates Opposition . * to Peace Treaty.

Bloomington, Dec. 18. —Dr. Amos S. Hershy, professor of political science- and international law at Indiana ■university and a national authority on this subject, who was a mam her of the American delegation at the peace conference In France, deprecates the opposition to the league of nations and says that "America simply can not quit.” Dr. Hershey, who received a jeave of absence from Indiana that he might become one of the representatives of the United States in the parleys, gives his views in an article published in the university's Alumni Quarterly, p "We went into the war with certain professed purposes,” he says. "It was not merely to avenge ourselves upon Germany and Austria for incalculable and hitherto unheard of wrongs, or even to protect ourselves and western civilization against the German menace, but we made war upon war Itself, and aimed to make the world safe for freedom and democracy.

“Now, suppose we are to attempt to cut ourselves adrift, abandon our ideals and our promises, refuse to co-operate in the great task of reconstruction after the actual fighting is over, say again in effect to Europe: 'You attend to your own affairs, we’shall attend to* ours,’ whal other epithets should we deserve than those of ‘quitters,’ ‘slackers’ and ‘deserters’? Suppose, further,/thq.t in course of time we should discover (as we are bound to discover in the long run) that we can not quit, that the historical period of our national Isolation is over, that the age of internationalism or international has come, that we can not, if we would, disassociate ourselves from our brethren overseas, what a shame, what a disgrace, what a national humiliation that would be.”

Dr. Hershey admits that the treaties and the so-called league or covenant of nations are. “very defective,” but goes on to say that he believes the league is “based bn a sound and workable principle.” In answer tq the charges of a “Shantung outrage,” Dr. (Hershey frankly admits that “it Is an outrage.” “It constitutes,” he says, “the oae big hole in the doughnut, as a cartoon exhibits It. “Unquestionably the dice which Japan played in the peace conference were loaded. China and the United states were helpless. The alternative was a situation which no far-seeing statesman cared to face. We have it on the highest authority that Japan threatened to withdraw from the conference disgusted and disgruntled. In the background stood the shadow of her possible alliance with a revived and vengeful Germany and a Ger-man-made Russia.” Dr. Hershey says China’s only hope, “a slender hope,” is in the league of, nations. Despite his admissions that the treaties are defective, Dr. Hershey believes they should be “left as thy stand” for the present. Under the present 4condltions, he adds, “tinkering is a difficult and dangerous business.” "It reminds us of Nero fiddling while Rome was burning,” he asserts. "However, I see no objection to interpretive reservations or resolutions by the senate forming no part of the ratification Itself, or even to mild reservations which would not change the essential character of the treaties or necessitate a revision at Paris or elsewhere. I am sure that few, If any, of the participants In the work of the peace commission would care to resume that dreary task.”

STILL HEARING FROM HOME

Republican Obstructionists in Senate Being Scored for Inaction. Wednesday the directors of the Cleveland chamber of Commerce telegraphed the Republican senators, urging speedy action In passage of?the peace treaty and league covenant. American Industry and commerce were, they said, left In the dark over future arrangements, and "a stricken world” was without security. Peace must be made in such a way as to define clearlj the relationship of this country both to Germany and to its associates in the war. In other words, the treaty must be ratified. On the same day the directors ot the Chicago Board of Trade adopted resolutions asking that the senate "get together and adjust their differences on the peace treaty.”

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Theodore Helper, who has been suffering from a diabetic infection sor z some time, underwent an operation on his foot yesterday morning. E. E. Smith is reported a little better at this writing, although still quite sick. All other patients are improving.

1 UotW I Methodist Rev. E. W. Strecker, pastor.— 9:30, the Sunday school will have a special Christmas program at this hour, to which the public Is most cordially invited. It will be necessary to begin promptly on the hour. You will find a warm church and a warm welcome; 10:45, morning worship with special Christmas music and sermon, theme: "The Meaning of Christmas”; 6 p. m., the Epworth League will discuss the subject: “The Christmas Message and the Christmas Spirit”; 7 p. m., the choir has prepared a splendid Christmas program for the evening. The services of the day will all abound with the spirit of Chrlstm<s. Come and receive a blessing that will give to Christmas a more exalted meaning for you than ever before. Presbyterian Rev. J. Budman Fleming, minister.—The big holiday of the year Is upon us, the day that gives big significance to every other day— Christmas. Sunday, Dec. 21, will put us.ln the Christmas spirit and bitch us up with the angel choir that sang at the birth of the world’s SavloY 2,000 years ago. The Bible school at 9:30, with the orchestra to lead in a service of praise, will tune us up and give us the key for the day. Beginning at 10:45 we will have an hour with Christmas hymns and at 7 o’clock the choir will give us a sacred concert. We want every member and friend of the congregation and the stranger who will to help us make this big day big .by attending all of these services. First Christian Rev. W. T. Barbre, pastor.—The Christmas spirit will be carried out In all of the services Sunday. Bible school, 9:30, with a Christmas program by the different classes and departments. Every member of the schooL is urged to be present. Morning worship, 10:45, sermon theme: "The Prince of Peace.” The G. A. R. will be with us. The adult choir will give special music. Every member of the church should attend this service. Everting service at 7 o’clock. The two choirs will render several special numbers. The public Is cordially Invited to these services. First Baptist Sunday school and Bible study, 9:30 a. m.; morning worship and sermon, 10:45, We expect to continue this regular morning service. Church of God Elder'S. J. Lindsay will conduct the following services: Saturday, 7;30 p m., Bible lesson; Sunday—--9:30 a. m., Bible lesson; 10:45, sermon; 7 p. m., sermon. Christian Science Rensselaer Christian Science society holds regular services Sunday at 10:45 a. m.; Sunday school at 9:45; Wednesday evening at 7:30. Subject Sunday, Dec. 21: "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?” A cordial Invitation is extended to the public to attend any service.

ALL ABOARD FOR CUBA!

Cuba promises to be a very popular winter resort in the future for U. S. citizens who have a thirst and the financial means to gratify it. It is but a short trip across from Key West, Fla., to this oasis where everything Is going to be wide open 24 hours each day, according to present .“dope.’’

Vol. XXII. No. 76

PLAN TO CURB PACKERS TOLD

Attorney General Palmer Announces “Big Five” Surrenders to Boveroment. LIMIT PUT ON ACTIVITIES Must Sell All Holdings in Stock Yards, Railroads and Terminals, NewiM>aperw and Storage Houses. Washington. Dec. 19.— Attorney General Palmer announced that the five big packers, tbelr main subsidiaries, principal stockholders and managers had surrendered to the government s contentions against the monopolistic, growth of the packing Industry und itu control of unrelated Industries. Ry the entry of a permanent In* juuetion decree, to which the packer® have consented, their activities are toi be confined to meat and eggs, butter, poultry, cheese and con* densed milk. Refrigeration is to bo limited to the cars necessary for carrying their output. By the decree, which is to be secured* by the attorney general within th® near future, the packers are to be re-, quired to sell their holdings In publici stock yards, stock-yard railroads and) terminals, to disassociate themselve® with the retail meat business, and with| all “unrelated Hues." This -s to bo done within two years. This solution of the packers’ cltu-i atlon, which had its Inception with an| investigation by the federal trade com-l mission and with the placing of the* information in the hands of the attor-, ney general, will render unnecessary; the filing of snlts against the packers,! which were In the hands of the Chlca-| go grand jury when Its early full sea* sion was adjourned.

No Livs Stock Control. •'Tn general,’’ says the department of justice statement, "this decree prevents the defendants from exercising any further control over the marketing of live stock. It forever prevents them from any control over the retailing of meat products. It eliminates them from the field of meat substitutes with the exception of eggs, butter, poultry and cheese, which are left for future consideration and appropriate action; and therefore, the price of meat Is within the control of the people themselves. “It places the conduct of these great aggregations of capital Immediately under the eye of a federal court with referepce to their business practices. But, greater than all, it establishes the principle that no group of men, no matter how powerful, can ever attempt to control the food table of the American people, or any one of the necessities or component parts of It. "The department of Justice, having In mind the necessities and Interests of the whole American people In this critical reconstruction period, feels that by insisting upon this surrender op the part of the packing business it Nas accomplished more for the American people than could have been hoped for as a result of a long-drawn-out legal battle." Under the decree, the defendants of whom there are 86, are compelled: ( 1. To sell under supervision of the United States district court, preferably to the live stock producers and the public, all of their holdings In public stock yards. 2. To Sell, under the same supervision, and in like manner, all their Interests In stock-yard railroads and terminals. 3. To sell all their Interests In market newspapers. . 4. To dispose of all their Interests In public cold storage warehouses, as necessary for their own meat products. 5. To forever disassociate themselves with the retail meat business. 6. To forever disassociate themselves with all “unrelated lines,” Including wholesale groceries; fresh, canned, dried or salt fish; fresh, dried, evaporated or canned fruits; confectionaries, sirups, soda water fountain supplies, etc.; molasses, honey, Jams, Jellies and preserves; spices, sauces, relishes, etc.; coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, nuts, flour, sugar, rice and cereals (with an exception to be noted), bread, wafers, crackers, biscuit, spaghetti, vermicelli, macaroni, cigars, china, furniture, etc. \ Abandons Branch Houses. 7. To abandon forever the use of their branch houses, route cars and autotrucks, comprising their distribution system, for any other than their own meat and dairy products. 8. To submit perpetually to the Jurisdiction of the United States district court under an Injunction forbidding all the defendants from directly or indirectly maintaining any combination or conspiracy with each other or any other person or persons or mpnopoliZ'

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