Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — Page 4

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THE COLLEGE VOTE

The early reports as given in the papers of yesterday showed a heavy majority io American codleges for ratification of Che peace treaty. More meh and women voted for ratification without change than for the Lodge reservations. The total vote of those who would ratify with reasonable reservations and with no changes was 23,799 as against 8,035 for the Lodge plan. Out of a total of 35,216 only 3,382 voted to reject the treaty. Today the showing is even more favorable to ratification. Of over 100,000 votes cast by faculties and students of 475 universities and colleges, 46,259 were for ratification without reservations, while there were 33,304 who favored ratification by compromise—a total of 79,563. There were 23,577 votes for the Lodge reservations, and only 11,690 against ratification. There has been some question as to whether the senate cared to have indications of public opinion, and also as to the propriety of petitioning it. Such conclusions are unjuet to the senate. Apparently it is eager for returns from the colleges. For request has been received from Washington that the results of the college voting be telegraphed to Senators Hitchcock and Lodge. This referendum simply confirms facts already known, but it does so strongly. Both the great parties are represented in our colleges, probably a majority in •the northern institutions belonging to the Republican party. Senator Lodge must have been particularly interested in the returns from Harvard, his own university. His plan received only 462 votes, as against 693 who favored ratification with no changes. Adding to these latter the 1,169 who voted for compromise, we have 1,862 favorable to the treaty. Only 131 voted against ratification. The vote of Yale must have been quite as interesting to Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, a graduate of that institution. It showed 1,070 for compromise, 250 for unreserved ratification, and only 331 for the Lodge plan, and 118 for defeat of the treaty. On this occasion the colleges undoubtedly reflect the prevailing opinion of the nation. They speak in a representative capacity. On this issue, colleges, labor unions, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, churches and farmers’ organizations stand together, xlt is only a kindness to the senate to inform it of the situation. For a long time many senators honestly believed that the people were either indifferent to the treaty, or opposed to it. Now they know better, and the knowledge may very properly influence their action. The senate is entitled to, and no doubt desires all the information it can get.—lndianapolis News.

Two Americans were killed and three wounded in a light with forces of General Semenoff In Trans-Baikulia, the London Daily News learns from Harbin. The Americans captured an ■armored train. • * ♦ San Joaquin, a town of 3,000 inhabitants in the Jalapa district, state of Vera Cruz, was destroyed by an earthquake, according to reports given out by the department of agriculture at Mexico City. * * * Eyewitnesses estimate the casualties in Berlin on Tuesday at 50 killed and 100 wounded, according to the Reuter correspondent. Bullets took a heavy toll, he says, and the police finally were compelled to throw bombs ■among the rioters. ♦ ♦ ♦ A Hague dispatch says ex-Kaisei ■Wilhelm is in a state of semi-prostra-tion due to the agony and terror with which he viewed the growing determination of the allied statesmen to hale him before an international tribunal. • » * Plundering on a large scale occurred in the occupied town of Oberhausen, Germany. Men stormed the town hall, seized arms, threw the archives into the street, and stripped the shops. • ♦ • Northern and eastern France were swept by a violent storm, reports to Paris stating that three persons have been killed and 12 injured. Heavy •damage Is reported from various ♦cities. • * • (Between 30,000 and 40,000 of the ‘German prisoners In France will be repatriated through Switzerland within the next few weeks, according to a Geneva dispatch. These prisoners liave been interned in southern France. * * * Minister of Defense Noske showed Ids teeth to the radicals again when •machine guns were turned on mob ♦of communists and Independent so♦ciallsts who attempted to storm the rreictistag at Berlin In order to protest against the so-called “Betrleb-sraeto-gesetz,” a bill that would place 'the workmen’s councils in the various Industries on a legal basis. Twenty of the mob are dead And more than one hundred wounded. \ IMF ♦<« .

MEDICINE TIME.

“Now, you are aure you won’t forget to five the lad his medicine every two hours?” asked Doctor Slash. “Not likely,” returned Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “Half an hour before it’s time he’ll be setting up In bed hollering and cussing that he’ll be dod-blasted to tnnkett If he’ll take a bllnkity-blanked drop of any everlast-ingly-jammed medicine left by any dad-donged old fool of a dod-durned doctor, and no blankity-bllnked dad of his'n had better try to make him take It, neither."

It Didn’t Work.

"Attractive visitor you had just now.” "Yes," said the impressionable business man. “She’s a book agent and the best-looking person who has been about these premises In many a day." “What’s she selling?” “A life of Cleopatra. I thought I might lead up to suggesting a little dinner for two by saying I liked the modern ‘vamps’ much better, but she merely fixed me with a cold stare, took my order for a copy of ‘Cleopatra’ and swept out.”

OF COURSE.

"This article says that we should <ive our shoes a day off occasionally." "To rest their weary soles, eh?”

Natural Supply.

The colors fair In twilight skies Still paint their wonder stories. They never did depend on dyes From foreign laboratories.

Freedom’s Atmosphere.

“Don’t your wife object to your running around with your men friends?” “Not my married men friends," replied Mr. Dubwalte. "But she draws the line on bachelors.” “Why so?” “She says whenever I go out with a party of bachelors I always return home greatly Addressed.”

Always Some Drawback.

“Company for supper. Aren’t you glad?” “I don't know.” “We'll have a lot of good things to eat.” “I know, but we’ll have to be on our good behavior, too, and won’t be allowed to eat a lot.”

No Breeding.

Briggs —I see the anarchist who blew np part of the attorney general’s house was killed because he stumbled and fell. Griggs—Yes; that’s the trouble with them —they haven’t learned how to enter a gentleman’s house. —Life.

Bloodthirsty Difference.

“When the -vollector presents his bill I just tell him he can’t get blood from a turnip.” “Then he ain’t as smart as a mosquito—a mosquito gets blood every time he presents his bill.”

Not So Nice.

“My youngster is going in for home athletics.” “A good thing, eh?" “I suppose so. He wants to do gymnasium work on the grand piano.”

She Wants to Know.

“How’s tricks?" inquired Wombat of Flubdub, as was his custom. “Who Is this Trlx you fellers are always talking about?” declared Mrs. Wombat.

A MIDNIGHT SCARE.

Willie Firefly—Tee hee, those foolish bugs think I’m a ghost!

Pessimist.

I do not care For Oswald Squigger, He makes his little Worries bigger.

None of Them Horrid.

“Allow a horrid blan to kiss me — never!" ' “Neither would I. But thank goodness there isn’t one among all my male acqualdtances.”—Stray Stories. “ -

Romance In Real Life.

“Was your first meeting with your wife romantic?” “Naw. We used to make faces at each other over the back fence when we were kids.”

A Variant.

She— l’d like to ask you a question. He—Ask it, dear. Sh^ —Am I the only girl whose moneA you ever loved? A. ' v

Damp Ardor.

“How wvas the ambitious reporter’s story colered?” “From fee comments on It, I should judge wi(J a wet blanket’’

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

SPLENDID DESIGN FOR FARM HOME

Five-Room Bungalow That Has Strong Appeal. MAKES THE HOUSEWORK EASY Will Accommodate Good-Sized Family and Is Moat Conveniently Arranged —Sleeping Porch Attrac* tlve Feature. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Addresr all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only Inclose two-cent stamp for reply. There now is Tittle difference in the homes designed for farms from those that are erected in cities. The comforts and conveniences that are found In town are embodied in the homes that are being erected on the farm, with the additional features that the work of the rural housewife requires. To promote home building and to provide plans for houses that can be erected at a minimum cost, the United States department of agriculture recently designed a number of farm homes. All of these houses were small, tut were planned so that the family would have a modern home. The accompanying design follows out this idea. Here is a five-room bouse that will accommodate a goodS’zed family. It really is a four-room square house, with the kitchen added

at the back and a sleeping porch put on the side where' the bedrooms are located. A screened porch adjoining the kitchen also is a feature. The dimensions of the main part of the house are 36 by 28 feet, while the kitchen and porch projection Is 20 feet 6 Inches by 18 feet. As will be scon by the accompanying Illustration this home has an attractive exterior. The gables in the roof of the porch and the house, the method of applying the siding and the sleeping porch projection, all combine to make this an excellent design. Four rooms, living and dining rooms and two bedrooms are contained In the main portion of the house. The floor plan shows how they are arranged. The living room is large, 17 feet 6 inches by 12 feet, and is connected with the dining room by double doors. The dining room is practically square, being 13 feet 6 Inches by 14 feet 6 inches. A 4-foot passageway runs alongside the dining room and opening off it are two bedrooms and the bathroom. The front bedroom is 12 by 14 feet 6 inches, and the rear bedroom is 11 by 14 feet 6 inches. One of the exceptional features of ’this design is the sleeping porch, which is connected with both the bedrooms. The dimensions of the porch are 9 feet 6 Inches by 18 feet 6 Inches, large enough to accommodate two full-sized beds. It may be partitioned If desired.

The kitchen is arranged to accommodate the needs of the farm. Adjoining it is a pantry on one side and a

cooking room on the other, while the large screened porch that opens off it provides a comfortable and pleasant place for the many duties that can be performed out of doors in the summer. A second entrance leads from the porch to the passageway, so that all the rooms in the house may be leached without going through the kitchen.

The bathroom Is so located that there is little expense required to connect It with the water system from outdoors, and from the kitchen range where the water is heated. Running water now is found on most farms, and for this reason the design has been made so that it can be carried into the house at little additional cost. What will appeal to the housewife iu this design is the convenient arrangement of the rooms all on the one lloor. There Is no running up and down stairs required in doing the work, neither are there any unnecessary steps to be taken in getting from one room to another. The cost of this house easily can be ascertained by consulting the local contractors and material dealer. Material and labor costs vary in different localities, but no matter where the farmer lives he will find that this house is comparatively Inexpensive to build, while, at the same time, it will make a comfortable, convenient and attractive home. Much has been written and more has been said about the advantages of building modern homes on the farms. When a farm home is to be built, however, there is no good reason why it should not embody the features that n ake for comfort and ease in doing the work required to keep it up. When these advantages are put into a design for a farm home, it would seem foolish to build anything else. Building a home is something that roost farmers do only once in a lifetime. Before building, therefore, it is wise to make a careful study of home designs. Consideration should be given to the size and number of rooms required; but greater thought should be expended on making the room arrangement compact and labor-saving. In this way the new home will be satisfactory to everyone who is going to live in it. Now is an excellent time to build. Trices of both material and labor will not be less for a number of years to come. If in this generation. Just so long as foodstuffs cost as much as they

Io now, labor, which is more than 80 per cent of the cost of building, will require living wages. Those w r ages will »me down only when the price of food ip reduced, a condition that no .producer wants to see.

And He Spoke.

A county superintendent visited a consolidated school the other day. On his entrance the children began to cheer. • The teacher was puzzled, especially as the cheering continued, and called on one of the children for an explanation. “We want him to make a speech,” he told her. “Pleased she turned to the superintendent. “What a compliment,” she fluttered. The superintendent grinned. “Perhaps not,” he said. “You see it hasn’t been so long since I was a boy that I can’t remember how we’d rather listen to the dryest kind of a speech rather than recite a hard lesson.” The teacher was embarrassed. And not the least bit relieving was the next speech of the school head. One of the boys said, “Oh, we weren’t going to recite. The teacher was going to read to us.” “Well, I’ve been there, too,” laughed that portly man. “So I’ll go on and speak, anyway.”

No Sense in Playing Martyr.

Affecting the abused mortal won’t keep "you from paying the fiddler. Some folks are always being made to bear the burden of things—so they would have you believe. The fact is so many people can’t do a really big day’s work and they throw in lots of bluff to make up for the shortage. But the more bluff they use the more they call attention to what they are. Air is unstable and the hotter it is the more it starts things. So beware of playing the martyr. There’s nothing in it and the sooner you give it up the better. Face the music like a man. Be master of the situation instead of a whiner.

Parcel Post to Siam.

The Siamese director general of posts and telegraphs has officially notified the American consulate at Bangkok, relates the New York Times, that parcel post service between Siam and the United States via “Hongkong-Pa-cific” came into operation as from October 10, 1918. The rate from Siam to the United States is 95 stangs (about 35 cents gold) for parcels up to one pound in weight, and 40 stangs (13 cents gold) for each additional pound, each parcel being limited to 11 pounds in weight.

All Liable to Error.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the hearts of the most lovable. —George Sand.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. MEMORIAL PLAN IS TOPIC Citizens' Committee Named by Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Evolves Program for Proposing Expenditure of Large Sum. Indianapolis, Jan. 16.—Plans for a state war memorial that will cost in the neighborhood of from $10,000,000 to $17.000,(MX) are being considered by the citizens’ committee named several months ago by the Chamber of Commerce to devise a program for memorializing the Indiana men who saw service in the world war. The committee, which is headed by Charles A. Book waiter, has held conferences with the state, county and city officials and has evolved a tentative program which has been sanctioned in principle by the various governmental authorities Many details yet remain to be worked out, but it is considered practically certain .that when the second special session us the legislature ir called this spring it will consider and act upon the memorial proposition. The program thus far accepted follows closely the one proposed by Mayor Jewett when he started an agitation last spring for the erection of a coliseum here. The committee favors locating the building on the block bounded by North, Michigan, Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, with a plaza on the south leading to the federal building and one on the north leading to the Indianapolis Public Library. The latter plaza would call for the removal of the state school for the blind, which the state has been considering for several years. The city and county would buy the site, according to the present plans, for approximately $4,750,000.. It is understood that the city obtained options on the tract in question at the time it was thought a coliseum would be erected and that these options are still aljve. It has been suggested that the city would pay 6C per cent of the money necessary for the site and the county 40 per cent, but the county commissioners favor an 80-20 per cent basis. They declare that 85 per cent of the population of Marion county resides in Indianapolis. The plans have been discussed with George Kessler, a landscape artist. - ' Word reached Aguaprieta, Sonora, Mexico, through military channels, that 13 members of a roaming Villa band were executed by Gen. Eduardo Gonzales south of Ures Sunday night. • * • A Korean national army has crossed the Siberian frontier into Korea and has captured En Chin from the Japanese provisional government forces, according to a cablegram from Shanghai to the Korean National association at Honolulu. , ♦ * * Raymond Poincare, president of the French republic, was elected senator for the department of Meuse on the second ballot by a vote of 742 out of 772 votes cast. President Poincare was not a candidate, says a Paris dispatch.

fl FOR SALE For Sale——Good seasoned wood that will bijrn. —PHONE 352. ts For Sale —7-room residence, well located, close to churches and school. Terms. FLOYD MEYERS. For Sale Cheap——4 iron sled runners, can attach to buggy or spring wagon. Call phone 334. ts For Sale—Fine 119-acre farm with fine buildings, good soil and good location; $75 per acre. Ask me. —JACK BISHOP, Buchanan, Michigan. j 24 * Wood For Sale—We have dry 4-ft. wood for sale at our farm near the Moffitt switch, at $5 per cord on ground; also plenty of green wood at $4.50. —D. F. MAISH. Enquire of O. W. Cedarwall, phone 910-G. 324 For Sale—National cash register, registers up to $29.99, total adder and ticket delivery. Latter can be used or not, as desired. Copper finish and a handsome machine. Will sell for about % original price. —THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—Bl% acres of farm land, lying 3-4 -mile from city UAiits, Rensselaer, and 80 rods west of St. college. It is well ittniproved, smooth land, well fenced, tiled, has orchard and small fruit, early garden, good water; fine neighborhood.—S. J. ASH, Rensselaer, R-4. j 24 For Sale—Six-room house, one lot, 1 on Van Rensselaer street; fair condition. City water and lights. —MRS. J. J. EDDY, phone 603. Rebuilt and • Second-Hand Typewriters—l Remington No. 10, visible, 2-color ribbon, back-spacer, etc., SSO; 1 Oliver No. 9 (brand 1 - new) $57; 1 Simjth Premier No. 10, visible, 2-color ribbon, backspacer, etc., s4s'; 1 Smith Premier No. 5, 2-color ribbon, fine condition, S3O; 1 Densmore No. 5, backspacer, etc., $25; 1 Remington, S2O; 1 Blickensderfer in A-l con-

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, IM*.

dition, oak ease, SIS.—THE DBkA OCRAT. For Sale—-Two houses and 8 lota adjoining on Franklin street, one 4-room, one 6-roam house; well, fruit, ete. Lots 75x180 feet. Mbre ground adjoining can be purchased reasonably.—M ARION COOPER, phone 642-Black- 12 For Sale or Rent—-Good 5-room house, barn and 1 garage, city water, etc. — JAMES' DONNE lA.Y, Rensselaer, Ind. J3l For Sale—Fino navy beans, 10c per ipound.—E. P. HONAN, phone 334- ts For Sale —10-room house, including two large halls and pantry; two basement rooms. All in excellent condition. Corner of Susan and Weston streets. Telephone 603.— MRS. J. J. EDDY. For Sale—24o-acre farm, well Improved, 3% miles north of Rensselaer. —MRS- J. J. EDDY, phone 603. For Sale at Bargains—All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come in and look them over, in Lae white-front garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts For Sale or Rent—Big 40x80 threepole tent, 10-foot wall; just the thing for public sales- We are through with it, as we are now in our new white-front garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts For Sale—l6O-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn, corn cribs, good well, fine orchard land all in cultivation. Can give good terms on this. Price SBO per acre. —CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. ts

New and Rebuilt Typewriters are carried in stock in The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply Department. We handle the Oliver, brand-new and various other makes in rebuilt and second-hand, typewriter we can save you some If you are in the market for a money.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale —Farm of 80 acres, known as the Samuel (Hart farm, Walker township, Jasper county, mineral rights reserved. This is an excellent opportunity to own a farm at your own price, easy terms and immediate possession. If interested write J. L. LEONARD, Crawfordsville, Ind- 128 For Sale—Some real bargains in well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains in improved farms of all sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home. — HARVEY DAVISSON. ts For Sale—Good two-story, bouse, with bata, electric drilled well, large cistern, lots of fruit, splendid shade t"ees; on corner lot—really two lots each 75x 150 feet, each fronting improved street and improved street on side. Splendidly located on best residence street in Rensselaer. Lots alone worth more than entire property can be bought for.—F. E. BABCOCK. ts

LOST Lost—Plush robe, black on one side and red and black on the other, between my residence and the K. T. Rhoades garage. Reward. —E. J. RANDLE, phone 69. 324 FOUND Found —Fountain pen. . Owner can have same by calling at The Democrat office and paying 25c for this adv. Found—Thursday morning, southeast of Rensselaer, a wool blanket. Owner may have same by calling at The Democrat office and paying 25c for this ad. FOR RENT For Rent—4o-acre improved farm, 2% miles west of Surrey, 8% northwest of Rensselaer, known as the Henry Zacher farm. —JOHN BACHELDER, phone 928-D, Rensselaer, R-4. j2l WANTED Saw Gumming and Furniture Repairing.—ELMER GWIN, phone 418. ts Wanted—Middle-aged lady to look after elderly lady that takes very little care.—Call Monon telephone 19-C at our expense. j3l Wanted —About 200 bushels of good milling buckwheat; —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, telephone 456. J 24 Teams Wanted —About Meh. 1, for road work in Illinois; about 20 good teams; will pay 90 cents per hour. See DELOS THOMPSON, at State Bank of Rensselaer. J3l Custom Sawing — Parties having logs to saw in the neighborhood of the Moffitt switch in Unioh. tp., can now haul them in, as we have a yard located near the crossroad west of switch.—D. F. MAISH, Fair Oaks farm. Enquire of O. W. Cedarwall, phone 910-G- J 24 FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to lona am farm property In any auma up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. M Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DE'ZI & SON, Odd Fellows’ Rensselaer. ts ———————————— —————————— Money to Loan— l have an unlimited supply of money to loa*j on good farm lands at 5%% aiffkUmual commission or 6 % without commission, as desired. Loans will be 'made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years.' See me about these various plans.—JQißN A. DUNLAP. ts