Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — Page 5

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 19M

WE HAVE THE STOCK a have the most complete line of Furniture, Rugs • and Linoleum that we have ever carried. We do not have to order these gods for you as we have them in stock. Keep in mind that we deliver to your home. W. J. WRIGHT Rensselaer, Indiana

LOCAL NEWS

M. R. Halstead of McLeod, Miss., is visiting relatives LOTS FOR SALET also good barn.—Apply to J. J. EDDY in person. Mrs. John K. Smith was called to Muncie Wednesday by the death of her half-sister. Paul and Vbronica Kohley went to Naperville, 111., Wednesday for a visit with relatives. F. D. Burchard was called to Hartford City Wednesday by the serious illness of his aged mother. Mrs. Grace Chappell of Grant Park, 111., came the first of the week for a visit with Mrs. Laura Hatton. . • Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were Kenton Parklson, Fred, Dan and Omar Waymire, Van Moody and Willlaum Traub. Mr- and Mrs. Homer Hendrickson visited the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Jenkins, of Monticello over the last week-end, the former returning home Sunday evening but Mis. Hendrickson remained for a longer visit.

Dance at Gayety Theatre TUESDAY EVENING January 20 Music by Horton Brothers No Charges Calix Paquette

SPECIALS for Friday and Saturday White Star Flour, 49 Rolled Oats, bulk, 4 pounds $3.75 pounds 25c Every Sack Guaranteed. Alco, the Nut Marft- L » rd Compound, per rine, per pound. .32c pound 240 Beans, Fancy H. P. Full Cream Cheese, per Navies, 3 lbs. 2Sc pound 38e 'Royal Baking Powder, 12 oz. can. 38c Crisco, pound can. .33c • ' Bring us your Butter and Eggs. We pay more. Phone 95 ROWLES & PARKER «5

Mrs. C. H. Porter was a Chicago goer Wednesday. If you have poultry for sale, call C. H. LEAVEL for prices. Phone 647. s ts Charles Pefley left again Wednesday for Missouri on a fur-buy-ing trip. G. A. Williams and B. K. Zimmerman were Indianapolis goers Wednesday. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill went to Peru Thursday for a visit until Sunday with relatives. Attorney Mose Leopold and Charles Chamberlain were in Chicago on business Thursday. Mrs. S. J. Ash of south of town spent the week in Indianapolis with her mother, A. B. Sharpie. Mrs. E. W. Strecker, Mrs. H. B. Murray, Mrs. Earl Whited and Willis Lutz were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. Mr. andl Mrs. James Clark went to Roselawn Wednesday afternoon to attend the funeral of a niece of the latter. John McDonald returned to his home at Cambridge, la., Wednesday after a visit with the George Spangle family of west of town. Charles Battledlay and John Rush of Newton township were in Chicago Monday where they had three carloads of fat cattle on the market. MrA. Ivan Sayler and children returned to their home at Anderson Thursday after a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. a. K. Moore, of McCoysburg. The Democrat job department turned out several thousand large size bills Wednesday for a big sale that is being put on by a store in one of our neighboring towns. Abel Grant, the drayman, has been confined to the house for the past several weeks with rheumatism, and Mrs. Grant anxi sister, Mrs. Caddie Tourneau, who had intended to go to California to spend the winter, have been uniable to leave as yet as a result of Mr. Grant’s condition.

THE TWICE-A-WEBE DEMOCRAT

An armload of old papern for 6c at Th* Democrat office. Russel Morton went to flouth Bend Wednesday on business. J. A. McFarland and Whde Jarrette were Monon goers Wednesday. Yesterday’s local grain prices: fat prices: Eggs, 63c; butterfat, 62c. Frank Cochran of Hanging Grove township is very sick with pneumonia. Mrs. Orval Laanbert of northwest of .town is recovering from her recent illness. Lloyd Hopkins of ML Ayr was a business visitor In t'be city Wednesday evening. Pefley pays more money for raw furs. Bring them In; the price will be right. Phone 475. ml Mrs. C. G. Spitler went to Wheatfield Wednesday for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Clark. Mrs. Nat .Heueon of north of town went to Kankakee, 111., Wednesday for a visit with relatives. The William Wortley children of Newton townchlp are slowly improving from an attack of scarlet fever. D Mrs. Joseph O’Connor of Hammortd came Wednesday for a visit with her brother, Van Grant, and family.

Father Morse and 10 of the students from St. Joseph, college presented a play at Lafayette Tuesday evening. Miss Bessie Hemphill returned to her home in Chicago Thursday after a visit since Christmas with her aunt, Mrs. E. P. Honan. Yterday’s local grain prices: Corn, J 1.35; oats, 81c; rye, J 1.65; wheat, J 1.65. The prices one year ago were: Corn, J 1.15; oats, 63c; wheat, J 2.11; rye, J 1.45. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton entertained at dinner Thursday Mrs. Jesse Hammond of Coats, Kan.; W. V. Porter and wife and M. I. Adams and wife of this city. '■ " " ■ y— — A little flurry of snow came again Thursday night, and there was some wind with it, piling up drifts quite badly on the country roads, it was reported yesterday. A protracted meeting began in the Baptist meeting house last night. Services nightly at 7:30. A minister from Watseka, I 1 and others will speak. All invited. — JOHN FENWICK. ✓ Relatives in Lafayette are endeavoring to locate George Reed, formerly of Rensselaer. His brother, John W. Reed, of Cicero is critically ill and his presence is requested there. A. K. Moore an<f family of Hanging Grove township moved this week into their new home at the south side of town, which they recently purchased of Miss Mary Goetz, after having a good public sale on Jan. 13.

Elisha Warden, an aged Monticello 'house-mover, well known in Rensselaer where ho has done considerable work in years gone by, is lying at the point of death in his home in that city. He is past 82 years of age. • Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Catt returned Wednesday evening from attending the state convention of optometerists at Indianapolis. Whije there they were guests of the general manager of the White-Haines Optical Co., one of the largest optical coampanies in this country. The Rensselaer Independent basketball team played the Lowell team at the latter place Monday night and were deefated by a score of 33 to 10. In a game Wednesday night between the local high school team and the Goodland high school team, the score was 18 to 13 in favor of Rensselaer. Lieut, and Mrs. Gwin Thomas of Monticello are visiting the latter’s piarents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Halleck. Lieut. Thomas will leave soon for Minneapolis, Minn., where he has been assigned as Instructor in military science and tactics at the Minnesota university. His wife will remain here until he gets settled there. It is charged against the roundedup “Reds’’—undoubtedly a moderate statement —that they are "members of an organization that entertains the belief in the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the United States, or advocates the overthrow by force or violence of all forms of law, or teaches opposition to all organized government.”

UNCOVER HUGE U. S. SHIP GRAFT

Government Defrauded of Billion Dollars by Pacific Coast Shipbuilders. 20 MAGNATES ARE INVOLVED Grand Juries to Act In Three State*— Fraud Said to Have Been Worked by Payment of False Vouchers. San Francisco, Jan. 16. —Frauds involving more than 11,000,000,000 in connection with the building of ships for the government in Oregon, Washington and California have been unearthed by government investigators. It became known here when William H. Tidwell, special agent of the treasury department, was appointed chief assistant to Special Assistant United States Attorney General Bert Schlesinger here. The government, according to Information from authoritative sources, is alleged to have been defrauded through shipyard conspiracies working by the payment of false vouchers for sums that shipbuilders obtained illegally. Score of Magnates Involved. A score of very prominent shipbuilding magnates are understood to be involved in the investigation, which Is said to have reached the strge calling for special federal grand Jury sessions in the cities of Oregon, Washington and California where big shipbuilding plants are located. Cost-plus contracts awarded by the government for construction of vessels during the war, by which the builders were allowed 10 per cent over what they claimed to be the cost of construction, were said to have been the medium of the alleged frauds. First Jury Action In Seattle Assistant'Attorney General Schlesinger is to leave for Seattle, where, it is understood, the first federal grand Jury sessions dealing with the reported discoveries of government agents working under Schlesinger will be held. Subsequent meetings of federal grand Juries will be held in other large cities of the coast In rapid succession, it was said.

It is understood that Attorney General Palmer, on the strength of the scope of the alleged discoveries of graft, has ordered the United States shipping board to hold up claims approximating $37,000,000 to await the outcome of the investigation. Silent In Washington. Washington, Jan. 16. —Department of Justice officials admitted an investigation of financial transactions In Pacific coast shipbuilding had been ordered, but declined to indicate the nature of the evidence obtained. Officials of the shipping board likewise were silent on the reported disclosures of fraud. The investigation, it was recalled, was instigated by former Chairman Hurley of the shipping board. It was the intention of the board, about eights months ago, to go into the books of the shipbuilding companies Itself, but plans later were changed and the entire matter turned over to Attorney General Palmer. There was no Intimation at that time, however, that the alleged fraua would attain any such proportions as government agents now believe they have uncovered. Names of Suspects Veiled.

Information which came out piecemeal here tended to show that at least seven large shipbuilding corporations were Involved in the alleged fraud. Their Identity was not disclosed and probably will not be until federal Indictments have been obtained and executed. e The government was said to be preparing its case with a view to avoiding certain legal technicalities which have led to long-drawn-out fights in attempts to recover illegally paid funds on certain other war-time contracts. The opinion vnong officials here seemed to be that the alleged fraudulent transactions were limited to on the Pacific coast. It was said that no reasons for investigating Atlantic and gulf coast yards had been presented thus far. Although several illegal transactions were discovered in some of the Eastern yards shortly after the signing of the armistice they were cleared up without resort to courts.

FIND HARRY S. NEW GUILTY

Alleged Son of Indiana Senator Convicted of Second Degree Murder. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 16.—Harry S. New was found guilty of second degree murder. The jury was out forty-five hours. New was charged with shooting to death Miss Freda Lesser, his fiancee. New, Is said to be a son of senator New of Indiana.

HUN SUB CAPTAIN A SUICIDE

Moraht, Sinker of French Warship Danton. Takes Poison. Berlin, Jan. 16. —Capt. Moraht, combander of the submarine which sank the French battleship Danton and other vessels, died in a hospital at Hamburg after having taken poison, according to a dispatch to the Lokal Anxelger, _■. , . _ . -- J

The First National Bank of Rensselaer CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 81, 1019.

RESOURCES Tztans and Discounts (833.103.40 Overdrafts — — 4,476.71 U. 8. Bonds and Treasury Certificates * 93.588.25 Bonds. Securities, Etc 23,000.00 Stock in Federal Reserve bank 1,400.00 Banking House ——— 18,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures 6,061.16 Real Estate 6.000.00 Cash and Due from Banks 88,263.48 Redemption Fund — 660.00 Interest Earned — — 11.166.62 Transit Items ———— 6,914.22 3890,686 72

With a Chateau-Thlerry and a Cantigny already afloat and new Americas towns getting ready to appropriate all the names of points in Europe where our doughboys covered themselves with glory, we shall soon have imperishable records on both sides of the ocean, but the average American pronunciation is apt to leave the origin of some of these treasured names in doubt. The American with a furnace to heat !hls whole house who grumbles at the cost of coal and the need of conserving it, may be taught a lesson in patience by reading of the people of Paris who have only one little coal stove on wheels and distribute its limited heat by moving it from dining-room to living roam and bed room.

Automobiles

January 16, 1920. Dear Sir: "Hudson reputation Is our first thought.” Back of the universal satisfaction of 75,000 Hudson owners is that recent expression of President Chapin of the Hudson Motor Car company. Many qualities make up that Hudson refutation, among tlbem being Its workmanship, its distinction and comfort, its speed, power and endurance. But the greatest of these is endurance. Owners the world around attest to this quality. It means absolute dependability, freedom from operating or repair troubles —a car that is always ready to serve. Recent letters, showing regular service of tens of thousands of miles, abound in such phrases as “not a single adjustment," "without a bit of trouble,’’ "motor Ihas never been touched,” “has always run like a top.” When may we drive around to your office or home end show you how that Hudson super-deependa-blllty will serve and satisfy you? Yours very truly, HUGH KIRK.

|, . I!JJ 11 The Home. b l oF e °° D 1 IkidM I Groceries I I ’ I | You Will Find I S the best livers in town among our satisfied and reg- 9 w ular customers. This is Because We Handle the H I Class of Goods that is appreciated by that Class of 9 I People and Render a Grade of Service Acceptable » to Them. I Specials for Saturday only I S 3 cans Choice Sifted Early June Peas, 18c quality .43c 9 9 3 cans Choice Canned Corn, 18c quality 43c ■ 9 3 large packages Macaroni or Spaghetti 25c ■ I Amerikorn, the Nation’s Breakfast Food, per pkg. .2oc ■ ■ Virginia Sweet Pancake Flour, 40c package .... .-,.35C ■ 9 2 Dozen Delicious Sweet Pickles -25 c H H Quaker Corn Puffs, per package 9® 9 9 Head Lettuce Celery Cabbage Carrots ■ Parsnips Turnips Cranberries ■ Grapefruit 9 9

LIABILITIES Capital Stock I 60.000.0 S Surplus —— —60.660. M Undivided Profits, Isss Expenses, Interest and Taxes I-aid 7,848.81 Interest Collected but not earned — —— 665.18 Circulation —■———— 24,400 00 Dividends Unpaid • 2®-M Deposits 858.311.U1 Liberty Loan Payments —- 16,328.14 Bills Payable Federal Reserve Bank 65,311.88 (890,686.13

THE NEW Ellis Opera House Will Open MONDAY January 19th with THE KING PLAYERS In “KICK IN” BY WILLIARD MACK The Most Successful Crook Play Ever Written. PRICES: Main Floor. . .50c, tax 5c Loges 35c, tax 4c Balcony 35c, tax 4c Gallery 25c, tax 3c Seats on Sale Saturday Long's Drug Store or PHONE 41 “ Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office. Best Job work at Democrat offiea.

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