Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — Page 1

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OUR GEOGRAPHY MUST BE BAD

w« Had Supposed Knox Was the Coon-/ Seat of Starke. Daniel HoUlhgsworth, a fur buyer, uriho makes this city Quite often, tells of sitting at a table in a hotel in Knox a few days ago and while talking to an auctioneer, who had cried a public sale that day, the clerk of the sale came to the table amid paid the auctioneer $14.00, wthioh represented tihe auctioneer’s commission for the sale. The remarkable thing is that the sale which netted more than $2,000 was all paid in cash. Not a single note was given. Surely the KNOX county farmers are prosperous.—Rensselaer Republican, Jan. 21. «

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Jan. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lang of Surrey, a daughter. Jan. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Noland, a son.

MRS. ROBERT CROCKETT DEAD

Died <\t Home in Detroit Sunday Morning of Influenza. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Qrockett received a telegram Sunday evening from their son Robert at Detroit, Mich., stating that his wife -had died that morning at 9 o’clock from influenza, after only a few days’ illness. Mr. Crockett had written his parents last week that he was recovering from the “flu’’ but said nothing of his wife being sick, and thev news of her death wias a great shock. Deceased was about 30 years of age and is survived by her husband and one daughter, 5 years old. The funeral and burial was ’held at Detroit.

MISS NANCY REES DIED SUNDAY

Miss Nancy Rees, who had been in a helpless condition for the past year or more, died at about 2 o’clock Sunday morning at the home lot Mrs. Joseph Myers on Front rstreet, where she was being cared for. Deceased was a sister of the late Mrs. William Baker of this city and is the last surviving member of her family. Her age was about 78 years. The funeral was held at 10:30 a. m. yesterday from the home of her niece, Mrs. J. J. Eddy, services being conducted by Rev. J. B. Fleming of the Presbyterian church and burial made in Westop cemetery.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

A daughter was born early yesterday morning to Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Wangeliin. , Mrs. Ralph O’Riley underwent a minor operation Monday. Mrs. Helen Thompson left the hospital yesterday after a few* days treatment for an ulcerated tooth. Howard York returned to his home yesterday after an attack of the grip. Miss Blanche Elijah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Elijah of near Mt. Ayr, entered the hospital yesterday suffering from pneumonia.,. Mrs. Ida Coover, nurse at the hospital, is confined to her room with sicknes.

PROCEEDINGS OP CITY COUNCIL

The city council met in regular session Monday evening with all members present, except Councilman Warner, and the following business was transacted: On motion it was voted that the city take the necessary legal steps to sell the lot on Van Rensselaer street now occupied by the present fire house. The light superintendent was authorized to extend light line to John Bicknell property at the north end of Jefferson street upon deposit of the estimated cost thereof. The usual grist of claims were allowed.

AGED KEENER TP. MAN DEAD

Cornelius Evers, aged 71 years, for many years a resident of ! Keener township, died at his home, two miles souifh of Demotte about 3 o’clock Saturday morning from influenza. Deceased is survived by his wife, five sons and one daughter. ’ Funeral services were held at the church yesterday afternoon /fend burial made in the Holland cemetery.

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COL. EDWIN P. HAMMOND DEAD

Vitoru Soldiir and Jurist Died at Home In Lafayetta Tuesday. BURIAL TO BE IN RENSSELAER Funeral Services Will Probably Be Held Friday—Arrangements Not Vet Fully Completed. Edwin P. Hammond, aged 84, one of the oldest Jurists of the civil' war colonels in the state, died at his home in Lafayette yesterday morning. He had been ill for a week and Saturday the members of this family were eumlmoned to his bedside, there being little hope for his recovery. Mr. Hammond was a life-long resident of Indiana and was graduated from Depauw university in 1857. He practiced law and resided at Rensselaer for a number of years and went to the civil war, Where he advanced from a noncommissioned office to th*e office of colonel of the 87th Indiana volunteers. He was judge of the circuit court in the thirtieth judicial district and in 1883 was appointed to the supreme court of Indiana. He was a member of the board of directors of the National Soldiers’ home and was for a long time prominent in Republican party affairs. A brother, Abraham A. Hammond, was many years ago governor of Indiana. Funeral arrangements had not been completed when The Democrat went to press, although it was understood the interment would be made in Weston cemetery in Rensselaer.

ELISHA WARDEN PASSES AWAY

Aged Resident of White County Was Bnried Last Friday. Elisha Warden, White county’s noted house mover, died at his home in Monticello last Wednesday night after a long illness from bone cancer. Mr. Warden was a lifelong Democrat and had been a member of the Masonic lodge at Monticello for over 40 years. He was born in Delphi, but hiif parents removed to White county when he was bu.t four years of and he had since resided there. He was 87 years of age at the time of his death and is said to have been the oldest continuous resident of White county. He had followed house moving most of his life and had gained a reputation all over the country in this line of work. At one time h.e was called to Texas to move a church and during his career in this Line of work he had moved several buildings in Rensselaer and neighboring towns.

MEET AGAIN AFTER 63 YEARS

Hoosier Cousins, Then Boys, Traveled West in Covered Wagons. Lafayette, Jan. 26. —A reunion, echoing an adventure of 63 years ago, is being held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Stone in this city, two cousins who went west from this county in 1866, meeting here for the first time since then. C. H. Smith and G. B. Herrington, both residents of lowa, were small boys when they climbed into a cov* erefl. wagon with their parents and started for the state in which they now live. It took them 21 days to make the trip. Soon after arriving at their destination they separated and the meeting here is their first on Hoosier soil since the day they started away in the prairie schooner. Both are gray-bearded men now, Smith being 77 years old and Herrington 76.

LEWIS HOG SALE WENT BIG

Many Buyers Present and Good Prices Prevailed Saturday. A large number of buyers from all over the country attended the John R. Lewis hog sale held in the new annex of the Main garage here Saturday. The highest price paid for any one animal was $605, and on the 57 sold the average was sll7 per head, or a total of $6,525. Thirteen head of these hogs were bought by Jasper county men, the other 44 head going to various points over the couinitry.

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FUR THIEVES HAVE CONFESSED

Chas. and Clarence Hughes, arrested last week as auapected of having committed the Margoweky fur robbery several weeks ago, have settled with' the Junk dealer by payment of S4OO cash and turning over an automobile valued at S3OO, This was done after Clarence Hughes had signed a sworn confession of gudlt and Charlee had corroborated the same. Their bonds were fixed at SI,OOO each by Justice E. G. Smith and they were released on their own recognizance. Frank Dalton, who was the first to be arrested and after released, is told to hiave been responsible for peaching on his companions, in a conversation with Margowsky on the day of the arrests. He is credited with saying the Hughes boys were handling too much momiey for the amount of trapping they were doing.—Monon News.

JASPER CO. HAS 3,862 VOTERS

In Count of Males Recently Completed——All White But 8. According to the final compilation of the sexennial enumeration of voters in Indiana there were a total of 806,726 males in Indiana 21 or more years of age at the time this enumeratloni was taken, of which 20,800 were colored. On the basis of this enumeration the next session of the legislature is required to redistrict the state for representative and senatorial representation in the general assembly. The constitution provides that not more than 50 senators nor more than 100 representatives shall sit in the legislature. It provides for the apportionment of districts, the arrangements and details of which the legislature works out on the basis of the enumerations which have been taken every six years by the township trustees since 1886. Since the last enumeration in the state has gained 31,344 voters; since 1907, 77,537 voters. The colored vote has increased approximately 2,657 since 1913, and 3,735 since 1907. The advent of women into the voters’ class will greatly increase the 805,726 total —will double it, the politicians estimate. This is the last of the sexennial enumerations. The 1919 legislature provided for the taking of the enumeration by the registration process and thus accomplished two ends with one means. In the enumeration just taken Jasper county is credited with 3,862 white males of voting age and 3 colored males; Benton county, 3,591 white, 19 colored; Lake county, 46,615 white, 1,995 colored, Newton county 2,938 white, 1 colored; Pulaski county 3,412 white, 1 colored; Starke county, 2,896 white, 5 colored; White county, 4,815 white, no colored. With the exceptions of Lake and White counties Jasper has a larger vote tbaui any of its neighbors (not counting Porter, which corners with Jasper on the northeast and has 5,741 .white voters, 2 colored).

QUITS PULPIT FOR BUSINESS

Third Pastor at South Bend Resigns to Earn Larger Salary. South Bend, Jam 26.—The Rev. W. H. Freshley, pastor of the First Evangelical church of South Bend, is the third minister to give up the pulpit in South Bend in the last six months. :Hte has accepted the management of the local store of a national merchandise company. His reason for giving up the pulpit is that he can not gain a proper living through the small salary paid. His income in commercial lines will be double that which he received as a preacher, he said. The first of the three ministers to resign was the Rev. G. E. Enterline, who gave up the pastorate of Che Indiana Avenue Christian church to become identified with a local electrical equipmenj house. The second to give up the pulpit was Dr. C. A. Lippinoott, who now is manager of the co-operative department of the Studebaker corporation.

You want to hear the Chinese “Mark Twain” at the Presbyterian church, under auspices of Lyceum course, Friday evening, 8:15. Admission 50 cents and 25 cents. J. G. Culp will have a general sale at hie farm In Barkley town- . ship on Feb. 26. —Advt.

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List of Those Who Rave Paid Subscription Accounts During Week. Following are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat during ths 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 la changed. Those indicated by an * are new subscribers: O. K. Rainier,* Rensselaer. George Antcliff, Brook. David Horsewood, Ligonder, Ind. James W. Amsler, Rensselaer, R-4. T. A. Caldwell, Parr, R-l. Aaron Blake, Wolcott. Frank Shindelar, Hegewisch, 111. Qeorge Kanne, Rensselaer. Bd Dennison, Foresman. John Baughman, Rensselaer, R-l. Wm. R. Bull, Remington, R-4. John Knapp, North Clynner, N. Y. Geo. Wortley, Loganarport, Ind., R-4. F. F. Lakin, Fair Oaks, R-2. Minnie Wallace, Remington.

CHINESE STATESMAN TO TALK

Third Number Lyceum Course, Presbyterian Church, Friday Night. “China was determined to have a government for the people, by the people and if given time we can work out our own destines, but seven years is not time enough to demonstrate wihat* we can do iae a republic,” says Dr. Ng Poon Chew, Chinese statesman and journalist, who lectures at the Presbyteriau church Friday evening at 8:15 o’clock. “A national debt of $600,000,000 was 'hcunlded down to the new republic. Our debt is not so much per capita as that of other nations, but our natural resources have not been developed. Upon our in* termational relationships depend whether we live or die. “All nations of the world save one have imposed upon China, and that one has won the everlasting gratitude and the everlasting good will of China; that nation is the United States.’’ Dr. Chew is a polished, cultured, extensively educated mau. Hlb command of the English language is truly remarkable and particularly fluent. There Is only the slightest trace of a foreign accent. Because of his keen sense of humor he has often been called the “Mark Twain of China.” This will be the third number of the Lyceum course.

FRENCH TO REPLY TO DUTCH

Allies Continue Efforts for Extradition of Bill Hohenzollern. Paris, Jan. 26. —The reply to the refußgl of the Dutch government to comply with the demand of the allies for the surrender of former Emperor Williaxu was the first subject discussed today at the first meeting of the council of the ambassadors, created to carry on the unfinished routine work of the supreme council of the peace conference which disbanded last week. It was decided that the French legal experts available should go im/fco all the aspects of the case and prepare the reply, which probably will be submitted for approval of the council early next week. The discussion in the council did not disclose the trend of opinion among the members further than that it appeared to be the view that the legal phase of the question had become the chief one. The council was presided over by Premier Millera/nd. Hugh C. Wallace, American ambassador, was present with the other members of the body. After disposing for the day of the extradition question the council decided to give the representatives of the Jiugo-Slavs four days’ additional time to reply regarding the proposed compromise on the Adriatic question, including the disposition of Flume. This carries the question along until Wednesday. The council received a letter from Stanislaus Patek, Polish minister of I foreign affairs, calling attention to the possibility of a strong aggressive imiovement by the Bolshevik! against Polish territory and recommending that a plan be adopted for ■ defensive measures. ' The letter asked that the question be called to i the attention of Marshal Foch.

PUBLIC SALE Horton and Heltzell’s big public sale will be held at "Suitsus farm Feb. 2<J, 1920. Livestock and tan>plements. Watch for particulars, ts

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Ttlesraphle Repsrts From Many • Parts ol ths Gouirtry. SHORT BITS BF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities aid Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesWEEK’S WEATHER FORECAST Washington, D. C., Jan. 26. — Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday are: Region of the Great Lakes: Colder weather with temperatures below (normal greater portion of week. Occasional snows probable. Ohio valley and Tennessee: Cold weather the greater portion of the week, probably without precipitation of consequence until possibly after middle of the week.

38 STATE COAL MINES IDLE

Car Shortage Unusual for Monday— Tieup at Chicago Terminal. Terre Haute, Jan. 26.—Thirtythree mines were shut down in the Indiana coal field today on account of car shortage. This was an unusual condition for Monday' because Saturday's Shutdown of the mines ordinarily permits Che railroads to accumulate enough cars to keep all the mines running Monday. Congested conditions of the Chicago terminals, which prevent the return of empties, are chiefly responsible for the present shortage.

SAYS LEAVE BODIES IN FRANCK

Widow of Col. Roosevelt Opposes Return of Soldier Bodies. New York, Jan. 24.—Mrs. Edith Kermlt Roosevelt, widow of Theodore Roosevelt, is honorary president of an association of gold star mothers and fathers organized hers to oppose the return of the bodies of American soldiers killed in France. At the organization meeting yesterday Col. Edw«yrd Olmstead, assistant chief of staff of the 27th division, and several army chaplains spoke against transfer of the dead, asserting it was Inadvisable for practical as well as sentimental reasons.

ECHO OF LOST INDIANA CHILD

Teeth Disprove the Finding of Little- Winters Girl. Newcastle, Jan. 24.—Dr. W. A. Winters, father of Catherine Winters, who mysteriously disappeared from her home here In March, 1913, tonight said he did not believe the body of the child unearthed at FT. Wayne this week was that of' his daughter. Dr. Winters asserts he would be able to identify the body by dental work he had done for his daughter. Although it has been seven years since his daughter disappeared, Dr. Winters runs down every clew, no matter how meager the details or Impossible the circumstances. He still retains hope she Is alive. Catherine was 9 years old when dbe disappeared.

NIBLACK ANNOUNCEMENT MADE

Vincennes Man Democratic Candidate for Governor. Vincen/nies, Jan. 24. Mason J. Niblack of this city was the honor guest at a dinner given at the Union Depot hotel last night at which he announced bis candidacy for the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Niblack, who is a former speaker of the house of representatives and Who was a Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor four years ago, surprised those at the banquet by failing to discuss any political issues. He devoted his speech to telling his hearers that, in his opinion, most persons take politics too seriously, and that in the event it was necessary to inject politics into different issues, the national government 'provided a wider field for it. Mr. Niblack said he believed in selecting a man for aui office in this or any state‘that the voter should select a man who from a business standpoint was qualified to handle the affairs of the state.

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Vol. XXII. No. 87

OOMIJK3 PUBLIC BALK DATES The Democrat .iaa prnted bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, Feb. 4. John M. Dale. 11 miles northeast of Rensselaer. General sale, including 7 head of ■horses, 14 heed of cattle, 45 head of hogs, farm tools, etc. Friday, Feb. 6, Mrs. Mary Friend, 7 miles south and 4Mi miles west of Rensselaer. General Bale, including horses, cattle, bogs, farming tools, etc. Friday, Feb. 6. Casa Cox, miles west and 8 miles north of Rensselaer. General sale, Including horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, lmplaments, etc. DIRK CALAMITY WOULD RESULT Should the “Demand” for Tickets Kxceed the “Applications.” Harvey Davisson and son, Verne, left this ufternoon for Chicago, and will leave tomorrow with a large party of land seekers for the Rio Grande Valley of Texaß. The APPLICATIONS for tickets on these excursions now exceed the DEMAND and many have to be refused passage eaeh trip.—Rensselaer Republican, Jam. 28.

REPUBLICAN LIE IS NAILED

Government Motor Trucks Not Rotting at It. Benjamin Harrison. Statements published In a Cleveland newspaper that “2,700 trucks are rotting” at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and that "the cost of watching those trucks are at least four times their value,’' are untrue, according •to a statement Issued by Colonel Everard E. Hatch, commanding officer at Ft. Harrison. Colonel Hatch says sheds have been erected to bouse all the machines stored at the fort, and he said every truok Is blocked up from tires and springs and the engines flushed with heavy oil. In August when he took command at the fort, he said there were 9,000 trucks, 4,000 of which were without shelter, ©beds for all these truckß were completed by the middle of December, he said. There are now about 5,000 trucks at the fort and sill are “in perfect conditiop and not deteriorating,” Colonel iHlatch declared, quoting an assistant of the state highway commission as saying, when he saw some of the trucks which were being burned over to the department of agriculture: “These cars are In firstclass condition, and essentially equal to what they were when they were first taken from the factory —motor, differentials and transmission perfect.” Colonel Hatch said that neither Captain W. 8. King, quartermaster at the fort, or any other officer, has authority to sell awy of the cars. The cost of guarding the trucks Is practically nothing. Colonel Hatch said, as the work Is being done by the garrison at the fort, numbering about 500 enlisted men, who are receiving military, educational and vocational training. Colonel Hatch Invited investigation and examination of the work now being done. —Jndtftnapolis News.

2,22 6 FLU CASES IN CHICAGO

Epidemic B«*s Record in City and Spreads Throughout State. Chicago, Jnn. 23. —Chicago's 24-hour Influenza record was shattered as the twin ijlagues continued to spread throughout the city, und downstate reports Indicated that the epidemic was becoming state-wide. Two thousand two hundred and twenty-six new cases of influenza and 237 new c-uses of pneumonia were reported, while 48 deaths from pneumonia and 31 from Influenza occurred. The number of new cases Is higher tiiun that for any day of the 1918-19 epidemic....

OPPOSES WOOD’S PROMOTION

Baker Objects *to Making Officer a Lieutenant General. Washington, Jan, 23.—Secretary Baker wrote Chairman Kahn of the house military committee disapproving of the promotion of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood to the grade of lieutenant general as proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Dyer (Rep.) of Missouri.

NORTH JASPER AGED MAN DIES

Peter Salter of Wheatfleld, who ihadi been in the county hospital for the past couple of weeks, died at that institution Sunday night. Deceased was perhaps 60 years of age and had no relatives living so far as known. Burial was made in Weston cemetery yesterday morning.

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