Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mka. Stella Seip was able to leave the hospital yesterday afternoon, going to the home of Mrs. George Kennedy in the west part of town. Mrs. J. W. Merry of Mt. Ayr entered the hospital Friday for modleal attention. A son was born Saturday morning *o Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Lilja of weet of town. Tom Huston is recovering from his operation and is able to be up a f»rt of the time. Mrs. J. J. Eddy, who entered the hospital a few days ago, underwent an operation Monday for empyema. Mrs. C. J. Dean returned to her home Sunday. Mrs. W. P. Childers is recovering niceQy. Superintendent Mattie Hemphill is eon fined to her room with Illness.

AMERICAN LEGION, ATTENTION!

Meeting of Dewey Biggs post, American Legion, Thursday night, Jan. 22, 1920, in law library, third floor court house, at 7:30. Amendment of by-laws and other important matters to come before meeting.

A NORTH AND SOUTH HIGHWAY

Through Tippecanoe and White— Wolcott-Montmorenci Road. At a meeting of the Tippecanoe county council, county commissioners and the Rotary club of Lafayette last Saturday, the former authorized the commissioners to go ahead and Issue bonds to the amount of $8 65,000 to build 19 of hard-surfaced highway under the couoty unit law. This road will be 18 or 20 feet wide and will begin at the Montgomery county line south of Romney and extend north to Elston, where it will connect with the Sheenan road already constructed *to Lafayette. From Lafayette it Awill extend on north on what is * called the river road to the Browm gravel road, and thence on north to the White county line. It was officially stated at this meeting that the matter had been taken up with the commissioners of Montgomery and White counties and they had each agreed to continue the road on through their counties without interruption, Montgomery county south to the Putnam county line and White county north to Monon. This line follows near the Monon railroad from Lafayette. Henry W. Marshall, owner of the Lafayette Journal Courier, who was one of the prominent citizens of Lafayette present at this joint meeting of the county council, county coanknissioners and Rotary club and spoke In favor of the road, is quoted by the Journal Courier as follows: Henry W. 'Marshall, Sr., stated he believed the plan was the best that has been suggested. He pointed to the great territory that would be served which is a feeder to the Channels of trade in Lafayette. He said he was one who did not believe in building all the roads asked for, but he felt this road should be built. He also spoke of the attempt of the state highway commission to practically cut Lafayette off in the road construction program, but said he had the assurance of the director of highways that before the plans of the commission went to the governor for final approval the 22 miles of road running north from Montmorenci to Wolcott would be included, which with the road from Lafayette to Montmorenci would keep the Jackson highway intact. (He also said the road west would not end at Chase as originally planned, but would continue to Boswell, and that the road east would be continued to Kokomo instead of to Middlefork as originally planned. If the state highway commission does take in this road from Montmorenci to Wolcott, as Mt. Marshall states he has been assured by Mr. Wright it would do, it is of pleasing interest to Jasper county people, who were much disappointed When the Montmorenci road was left out of the system as first selected by the state highway commission. K

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Jan. 17, to Mr And Mrs. Charles Snow on tlhe Hallagan farm, northeast of town, a son. " Jan. 18, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles $ Britt of Barkley township, a daughter.

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

inlerostlnt Paragraphs From tiro Various OeparMs OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. New suits filed: No. 916 i. Thomas M. Callahan vs. Jessie Grimm; suit oh notes. Demand |l5O. The Hansson vs. Hansson divorce case, taken to Newton county on change of venue, is set for trial there next Thursday, with Judge Berry of the Benton-Warren circuit as special judge. Yes, this is leap year and there are five Sundays and five Sunday evenings and one day extra in the month of February. If you can’t land “him” with all this advantage you will have to wait until 1948 for a like favorable opportunity, so far as the Suqdays are concerned. A petition for a dredge ditch in Salami township has been filed in circuit court by Joseph E. Pelsy and others. The proposed ditch starts in the east edge of Jasper county, and follows the route of the Lawrence ditch south of Francesville, emptying into the Monon. —Pulaski County Democrat. The adjourned November term of court, designed especially to hear the Ryan ditch case but during which a few minor matters and estate causes were heard, was expected to be wound up by Judge Hanley yesterday. Special Judge William Isham of Fowler will mot hand down bls findings in the Ryan ditch until the February term. Miss Annabel Wartena, who had been employed as cashier in the Rowles & Parker department store for the past year or more, has resigned her position and it is understood will soon become the bride of "one of our prominent county officials. It is also rumored that one of the lady employes at the court house is soon to be married to a Carpenter township young farmer. Marriage licenses issued: . Jan. 19, Bert White of Crown Point, aged 24 July 23 last, laborer, and Maggie Baker of Roselawn, aged 21 Dec. 9 last, housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first marriage having been dissolved by death in 1918; first 'marriage for female. Jan. 19, Albert Jenkins of Rensselaer, aged 19 Jan. 8, farmer, and Golda Mae Toombs of Walker township, aged 19 May 29 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Male being under age, this mother, Eliza Coleman, gave .consent to issuance of license. Jan. 19, Calix C. Paquette of Rensselaer, aged 22 Meh. 16 last, skating rink manager, and Hattie McCurtain, also of Rensselaer, aged 22 Meh. 18 last, housekeeper. First marriage for eaCh.

CROWN POINT ALSO CONCERNED

A few of our representative citizens were somewhat disturbed over a map published last week by the Indianapolis Star changing the Course of the state highway from Rensselaer to Mt. Ayr through Shelby to Crown Point instead of striking a point % mile south of Kersey, thence 2% miles west, thence north through Demotte, over the new Kankakee river and Hebron grade. It remains to be seen whether there was a mistake in the map or whether the comimdssion has gone against the wishes of the people who want a direct outlet from their trucking district to the Calumet district Where there are hundreds of thousands of people whom they desire to feed.—Crown Point Star.

Charles Scnieman, living 4 miles northwest of Rensselaer, will have a big general sale Feb. 19,. also closing out his pure-bred herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle and 80 head of pure-bred Duroc hogs, Including 30 bred sows and gilts. J3l Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1920.

JASPER COUNTY WAR MOTHERS

Turn Organization Into Auxiliary of American Legion. The Jasper County War Mothers -who have maintained an organization in this county for the last two years, and whose work has met with a great amount of local success, but whose membership was limited to the mothers of men in service in the recent war have decided to turn their organization into an auxiliary to the American Legion. The auxiliary will adimlt to membership all the mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of men who served in the world war. This movement is made at this time because the War Mothers feel that their membership should not be limited as it has been in the past and also feeling the need of such an organization in the county —'they felt that one patriotic organization was as much as the population of the county would warrant. Mrs. Claire Thurston, who has been designated by the state headquarters of the American Legion to assist in the organization of auxiliaries, will be here Thursday night, Joto. 22, and a meeting will be held in the west court room on that night at 7:30 o’clock for the purpose of perfecting the organization. All mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of men who served in the world war are invited and urged to attend this meeting.

A SPECIAL SESSION PROMISED

Later by Governor Goodrich to Iron Out Some Wrinkles. Representative W. L. Wood returned Saturday from attending Gov. Goodrich’s special session of the legislature, which ratified woman’s suffrage. Mr. Wood was one of the members of the legislature Who refused to sign up for the special session, as required by the governor, although a majority did so, and he states that the latter promised him and several others who did not sign away their prerogatives that he would call a special session/ about Meh. 1 to take up matters that these members had insisted should be taken care of at the session last Friday, including the ironing out of several tangles in laws enacted at the regular session, such as the tax law, county unit road law, etc. Relying on this promise the members who had kicked on a oneday session, for the suffrage question solely, did not raise any rumpus and permitted the well-oiled program of the governor to be carried out, although Lieut.-Gov. Bush, who is a candidate for ‘ the governor’s seat, paid his respects to the latter in the senate chamber during the course of his speech in convening that body of which he is by virtue of his office the 'presiding officer.

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN HERE?

List of Those Who Have Paid SubDuring Week. Following are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat during the past week and, especially to those received by mail, this publication shall act as a receipt until the date on the label of their paper is changed. Those indicated by an * are new subscribers: Bert Spall, Remington’, R-3. Walter Kelly, Rensselaer, R-3. C. B. Steward, Rensselaer. Elzie Grow, Rensselaer. N. Rasmussen, San Pierre, Ind. Sigo Bros., Remington, R-2. Perry Marlatt, Rensselaer. ♦Mrs. Fannie Wood, Kankakee, 111. Vesta Brown, McCoys burg, R-l. Marion Cooper, Rensselaer. E. J. Randle, Rensselaer. J. ’T. Randle, Rensselaer. ♦Laura Brinker, Francesville. Joseph Moore, Rensselaer, R-l. S. J. Ash, Rensselaer, R-4. John P. Walter, Rensselaer, R-4. J. A. Kolhoff, Rensselaer. T. G. Brown, Roselawn. Mrs. Laura Harris, Rensselaer. ♦C. L. Fritts, Demotte. Louis Mathew, Remington, R-3. Noah Zeigler, Rensselaer, R-l. F. E. Marlon, Parr, R-l. B. M. Makeever, Rensselaer,' R-3. C. F. Stackhouse, Rensselaer, R 2. ♦James Rodgers, Rensselaer, R-2. Della Ritchey, Rensselaer. Manno Miller, - Morocco, R-2. Ivan Handley, Fair Oaks, R-l. ,Jo»hn Mann, Rensselaer. Mrs. Laura Michael, Rensselaer. W. C. Diff, Wolcott, R-3. I. L. Jones,. Rensselaer. Thos. E. Cooper, Remington, R-l.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of tlw Country. SNORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Hzppeniny in the Nearby Cl ties . and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. “DEACON" W. A. ROACH DEAD Secretary of State Died at Indianapolis Saturday Afternoon. William A. Roach, familiarly known as “Deacon” Roach, died at his (home in Indianapolis at 4:40 o’Clodk Saturday afternoon after a brief illness from hardening of the arteries, the result of uremic poUotndng. Mr. Roach had served as secretary of state since 1917, when he was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of Ed Jackson, resigned, and was elected to succeed himself at the general election the year following. He was born in Delphi Dec. 24, 1874, and had resided there all his life up to the time of taking Charge of tho office of secretary of state. (He is survived by a wife, his aged father, William Roach, of Delphi; one sister, Mrs. Edgar Cox, of Delphi; two half-sisters and one halfbrother, Mrs. Walter Dobbins, Mrs. Luther Grantham and Harry Roach, all of or near Delphi. Funeral services were held at the Methodist • church In Delphi at 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon and were attended by the governor and other state officials, who went to Delphi in a special car.

SHOULD BE MORE PATRIOTIC

And Thereby Save Gasoline and Wrecking Car Bills. Some of the Rensselaer boys who have exhibited such lack of patriotism and bad taste as to pass up the Rensselaer girls for girls in neighboring towns, have been having quite a strenuous time in paying their semi-weekly or weekly visits to their lady-loves during the past several weeks, since the extrerme cold weather find the drifted roads set in. They have not only hiad to use wood alcohol in the radiators and chains on the rear Wheels of their cars, to make the tripe, but even then they occasionally get stuck Ini a snow drift or the car skids off into the ditch and they are compelled to hike to some farm house along the road, rouse out the inmates and send an S. O. S. call to some Rensselaer garage for assistance. This fate befell one young businessman here Sunday night. His attraction resides over in central NeWton county, and on driving home in the wee, small hours of the morning, perhaps with only one eye half open at that from loss of sleep, his car skidded off into the ditch a couple of miles this side of Mt. Ayr and all efforts of the aforesaid y. b. m. to persuade it to come back on the grade were futile. So, after working for nearly two hours at the fruitless task, he made his way through the snow to a farm house and after gaining admittance to the telephone put up such a hard luck tale to John Schultz of the. Rensselaer Garage that the latter left his warm bed, cranked up the old reliable wrecking car and, armed with derricks, pulleys and chains and two blocks and tackles, drove to the scene of the disaster and soon had the car back in the road. They reached. Rensselaer shortly before Old Sol put in his genial appearance over in the east and, snatching an hour’s sleep, the lovesick young man was on deck at his place of business about 8 o’clock Monday morning, not in the least dismayed over his mishap, but vowing that if this confounded weather keeps up he would buy a pair of tire chains before making another trip to Brook.

PUBLIC SALE Horton and Heltzell’s big public sale will be held at “Suitsus” farm Feb. 20, 1920. Livestock and fcn> plements- Watch tor particulars, ts Best Job work at Democrat office.

PAQUETTE-M’CURTAIN NUPTIALS

Mlm (Hattie McCurtain, daughter of Mrz. S. E. Rees of this city, and Calix Paquette, also of Rensselaer, <mtunager of the skating rink at the Gayety theater, were married yesterday morning at 10 o’clock by the Rev. Father Daniels at his home. The young couple were attended by Sylvania Marquie and Mdse Mabel Budreau. A free wedding dance was given last night at the Gayety skating rink by Mr. Paquette In homor of his bride.

COMING PUBLIC SALE DATES

The Democrat aas printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, Feb. 4, John M. I>ale, 11 miles northeast of Rensselaer. General sale, including 7 head of horses, 14 head of cattle, 45 head of ihogs, farm tools, etc. Friday, Feb. 6, Mra. Mary Friend, 7 miles south and 4H miles west of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, farming tools, etc. Friday, Feb. 6, Cass Cox, miles west and 3 miles north of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, Implements, etc.

CHRISTIAN REVIVAL CLOSES

Many New Members Added During the Special Meetings. The revival which has been runcing'at the Christian church the past two weeks, closed Mon.’ay night with a reception for new There was a large attendance of the new and former members and friends of the Church. At tile opening of the service, the pastor extended the invitation agailn and three more people responded, which -made the total confessions and new members 72. One hundred forty-four have been added the past year during the pastorate of the present minister, Rev. W. T. Barbre. A forward looking and progressive program was set forth in the meeting Monday night. Every branch of the church plans to go forward and new lines of work will be taken up. The young people will meet Sunday eveming at 6 o’clock to organize for work. The Bible school has set a high standard at which it is working. They are determined to keep the average attendance of the school up All branches of the church work have been strengthened by this meeting. Several were baptized at the meeting Monday night and the rest will be baptized Sunday evening. Prof. Brock remained for the reception Monday night, while Mrs. Brock felt compelled to return home Monday. These Christian workers won their way into the hearts of the people from' their first appearance and many were the regrets expressed at the parting. On Sunday evening the large congregation by a rising vote asked that they return for a meeting next year. The church board was to act officially on the matter last night. A program of Chort talks and musical numbers was followed by refreshments served by a committee of ladles. This social hour was a very fitting Close for this very successful meeting. **

J. G. Culp will have a general sale at his farm hi Barkley township on Feb. 26. — Advt.

“Hail, Columbia,” was written by Joseph 'Hopkinson April 29, 1798, when the United States was threatened with a war with France. It was comlposed to the air of «the “President's March,” for a young actor and singer in the Philadelphia theater, and became at once highly popular.

ATTENTION, CATTLE AND HOG FEEDERS

The Iroquois Roller Mills is in receipt of the following letter from the Golden Grain Milling Co.: Iroquois Roller Mills, Rensselaer, Ind. Gentlemen: Our Mr. W. S. Dickason informs us that you are going to push our FAT BACK HOG FEED, and we appreciate that you want to try this feed out, or at least have it tried out with some of your good customers, and ascertain whether it has all the merit we claim for it. I presume there are 25 or 30 mills manufacturing HOG FEED today, and it is reasonable to expect they are claiming to have the heet HOG FEED »n the market. Before going into both tfhe HOG FEED and CATTLE FEED business, we gave both of these particular feeds con<slderable study, in fact, I have in my office 3,200 government bulle-

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tins on “Hog Feeding Tests” Chat were conducted by the United Staten government and various state agricultural colleges. There Is nothing going into our HOG FEEDS but what wiH make good, solid, flrni pork. We find a great many ot our competitors using peanut meal, a product that we know will make soft and oily pork. We find other competitors that are using rice bran, and while rice bran is quite digestible in a pig’s stomach; we are fully convinced that it is not digestible in a hog’s stomach, and a large quantity of rice bran will prove very detrimental. We have no apologies to make for a single ingredient that enters our HOG FEEDS and that doesn’t except the WHEAT SCREENINGS that we use. The SCREENINGS that we use come out of our own elevator, and are sorted, and the bitter feeds are taken out when sold and the balance of the 'broken grains reground and bolted. Very few of our competitors anywhere in the country maintain a chemical laboratory, and once or twice a year they send a sample to a public Chemist and have it analyzed, and we assure you, they do not send many samples, for It costs about 120 for each sample that is analyzed by a public chemist. If they manufacture ten different kinds of feed, you, can readily see that it will cost them *2GO every time they have their feeds analyzed. We maintain our own chemical laboratory, right here in this very office, under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist druggist, and his assistant, and every single carload of RAW MATERIALS that come into our plant, is analyzed in this laboratory before It is spotted at our mill for unloading. Every single carload of finished feeds that is shipped from our plant is analyzed before the car Is (permitted to leave our city. Even the feed we loaded out for you this morning la being run in our laboratory at this very hour, and if there is anything wrong with the feed, that it is not up to our standard, the car will be ordered back to our plant late today. In this connection will state that we run our guarantees all above what we clglm for them on both our tag and bag, so it is never necessary for us to order back any of our feeds. The first time you came to St. Louis we will be glad to show you around our plant and let you see the great care we take in the 'mlamufacture of all of our feeds. We really should have advanced our HOG FEED $1 per ton the last time we Changed prices on our other feeds, but we have been holding off simply because we had some, RAW MATERIALS purchased quite a little under present prlcee. .If it becomes necessary to raise the price on our FAT BACK HOG FEED during the next 10 days or two weeks, I will protect you on two or three carloads of feed, subject, of course, to your acceptance at the time we raise our prices. For your information McCoy & Garten of Indianapolis handle five, six and as high as seven carloads of our FAT BACK HOG FEED per month, and I presume they tried at least a half dozen different feeds before taking on the sale of our FAT BACK. We have been shipping them our HOG FEED for a matter of about 18 months, and they will be glad to tell you that it runs Identically the same today as it did at the time we made our first shipment to them. On the 11:30 mail this morning we received an order from Mr. W. 8. Dickason to ship you a 40-ton carldad of feed as per our order acknowledgment attached. It so happened that we had an extremely large car spotted at our loading dock which was immediately used for your order and on the 1 o’clock switch your car Is leaving our plant and we have Just dispatched you a wire giving the car number. This is just a sample of our GOLDEN GRAIN service that we give to our customers during normal times. However, durifig the last few months we have had to disappoint many of our good friends and 1 customers only on account of the. car shortage, which we, of course, feel that you appreciate Is a circumstance beyond our control. We appreciate the mighty fine business that you have given us and we assure you that whenever within our power, we will give you 24-hour service on your orders. The only occasions on, which we will fall down will be those times when we simply do not have empty equipment In our yards that can be loaded with your orders. Yours very truly, GOLDEN GRAIN MILLING CO.,

The Iroquois Roller Mills have been endeavoring the last two yeare to get a feed that is of a high quality and right in price, and we feel that we have located we have been looking for. We cannot recommend this feed too highly, as we have sold since the first of Decemlber 12 cars of 30 tons each, making 360 tons. The Lyons’ of Brook, who are among the largest feeders in the state, have bought two cars of this feed. If you are a feeder come in and let us show you.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, 'phone 456.

G. G. Keith,

Sales Manager