Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1920 — Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 31, IWO.

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NEWS from the COUNTY

JACKSON TOWNSHIP Let us hope that the worse is ever. * Who ever saw a winter lite this, where the next day is just like the day before? Charles and Jay Makeever expect to establish a sawmill in their tim' her this spring. It is a waste of time to ask a person how he or she feels these days. Sick of course. We are pleased to note that exPostmaster Peck of Morocco, who

” Let’s take it easy for a while” — Ches. Field A CIGARETTE that invites you to enjoy a smoke as you never have before—that’s Chesterfield. Not merely fine tobaccos, mind you, though we use the finest of Turkish and Domestic leaf, but an exclusive blending method that brings out hidden flavors—flavors that others have failed to find. That’s why Chesterfields are different. That’s why they saHafy. And this method । is a closely guarded secret. That’s why none but Chesterfields can satisfy. And Chesterfields reach you in prime shape r for smoking always—because every separate package is wrapped in moisture-proof glas- * sine paper. x . fliesterfieM —and the blend ' cant be copied

has been dangerously siek, Is recovering. Enney Schanlawb will bld adieu to northern Jackson township this week and move to his farm near Mt. Ayr. There may have been short intervals when Dan Odle wasn’t trustee of Colfax township, but history does' not record it. The man wiho lamps the* first bluebird this spring would be hard to beat in the event that he concluded to run for some public office. Coming down to cases, wouia any Democratic candidate for president suit the ‘‘Peerless Leader,” whose first name was not William J. Bryan? Milton Shuey, agent at Enot and a brother of Mrs. Oscar Schanlaub of Mt. Ayr, died of pneumonia recently. He leaves a wife and three children. Lloyd Blankenbaker, while trying to execute a new and original step on the ice, slipped and circled the pond twice on his left eyebrow. At

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the present writing he is going to school on two good hickory crutches. Says Charley Davis’ Enterprise"lt looks now as if the prohibition issue might regurgitate and refuse to be digested by the body politic.” Regurgitate—ah, yes, yes! At first we thought it was a new nickname for Bryan. We j-uet can’t turn down this kind: Three rings: “ ’Lo, old spord, thad you? Cob dowd do by chords. Ib god a awful co'd in by head, ad lb took quinide till lb as crazy as a lood. Ib out ob sbogen tobacker, doo.” Wolves, it would seem, are unusually numerous in this part of the county. Several have been seen in this locality withHn the last two weeks, attracted probably by the fragrance shed abroad by Dan SChanlaub’s Missouri goats. It would be sad indeed if that sinkhole or stinkhole or whatever ft is called, should be the means of severing friendly relations between The Democrat and the Morocco Courier. Let Jasper county have the state highway, but save .is from thia ‘ With the shadow of death over so tni.any homes, with an epdiemic of sickness raging, it* would seem that the public dance and other forms of amusement might be cut out until conditions get netter. There is a time for dancing and merry-making, but - certainly that time is not now. David Deardurff believes in keeping prices down, even though it affects his own pocketbook. David is sawing "'wood at $1.50 an hour, while most of his competitors, we are told, are Charging $2 an hour. We observe that the Republican newspapers keep right on assenting that the American people are opposed to the league of nations. When a boy, one of our schoolbooks contained a story about an insane German accuntant who for montns and months kept right on repeating, ‘‘once one is two,” but facts and figures, you see, were against him. __ , . . Grandmother Margaret Wright, formerly of this township, died on Friday morning of last week at the home of her son, Lincoln Wright, in Morocco and with whom she had been making her home. For sev-

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oral years prior to her death Grandma Wright was afflicted with eye trouble, terminating to total blindness. She was one of the pioneers of Jackson township. With the wet elements iq both of the two old parties looking askance at the dries, and vice-versa; with labor having a crow tc pick with capital; with the bolshevik! ready to throw their influence where it will do the most harm, with the Republican party split wide open on the question of the league es nations, and with two such (perfectly lovely peacemakers as Mayor Thompson of Chicago and W. J. Bryan abroad in the land, there Is no apparent reason why the conning campaign shouldn’t show lots of pep right from the start. Perhaps the saddest of the many sad deaths from Influenza is that of-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Babbett of Morocco. Some time ago these young people bought a nice farm in Pennsylvania and only recently moved to their new home, each In the full enjoyment of health and with every prospect of a happy and successful future. But they had been in their new surroundings scarcely twb weeks when both were stricken with the prevailing dread malady-*-lnfluenza —and one morning last week their bodies arrived in Morocco for burial, their deaths occurring only a few hours apart. It is impossible to arrive at a correct solution of any question when one starts arguing from the wrong premise. The bolsheviki start out with the supposition that the rich are happy and the poor miserable. In theory this line of bull listens good, but as a matter of fact it is not true. If you are looking for A person who Is never quite happy, who seemingly hates everybody, including himself, so o the rich every time. Ou the other hand, who has not seen and envied the man with a wife and seven children —with a patch on the rotunda of his panft as big as the state of Rhode Island, who, though possessing nothing but two strong arms and an unblemished appetite. Is as happy as a fool? There are few more pitiful objects 4n this wide, wide world than the poor nut who is forever chasing the almighty dollar and wno is blind and deaf and dumb to everything else. With the present influenza epidemic—with death stalking abroad on every hand —one naturally would think Chat the moneygrabber, for once, would be constrained to forego his mad pursuits and take council with niuneelf, would see and consider the rranstiory nature of earth and earthly things—but not he. There is another forty acres of land in the neighborhood" for sale and he must have it, and by hook or by crook he must get the money to pay for it. His neighbors may minister to the sick, (provide for the widow ana the orphan and bury the dead, but he is too busy to lend his time to such trivialities; he must buy land.. He already has twice the numeer of acres that he and his Children will ever need, but what of Chat. iHiis shriveled soul crys, ‘‘Buy, cheat your neighbor, oppress the poor if necessary, but get more land. And what is it all about? Thou fool, this day thy soul shall be required of thee,” was said of the moneygrabber nineteen hundrea years ago and the words are just as applicable to this class of men today as when first uttered. After a fitful, feverish life in which every noble impulse has been stifled, unloved by his neighbors and unwept bv his kinsmen, the money-grabber arrives at that common rendezvous, the grave, where is no Inequality of station or rank or wealth where the millionaire is divested of his wealth and where the beggar relinquishes his poverty, where the rich are as poor as the P®° r “‘ “ d the poor as rich as the richest. Don’t be a dollar-chaser; it doesn t pay.

FAIR OAKS iHealth is still very good with us, barring a few colds. . We are to have about a doze” high school graduates here this 8P Russell Wake of Roanoke was a guest at Abe Bringle’s from Sunday until Monday evening. Mr. Miles of west of town will have his sale soon and will then leave for Bowling Green. Mrs. Downing, who has been down with the influenza for a week, is reported better at present. Mrs. Shein of Monon came up and spent a couple of days with her parents the last of the week. Amy Bringle came home from Lafayette while recuperating from the “flu" and spent a few days with reported that Mr. Bott, who Ilves in the Eliza Fay Kimble property will move back to Brook la wind Saturday blew Pud Cliffton off hie job.of feeding cattle, and now Ha y Young is doing the stunt. . Jesse Garriott has just r ®cently put a new roof on (his re ’’dence. He is undecided as to when he will go to his Job in the west. g F, L. McKay sold his last week to Enos Moffitt and will move to Hammond in the near future to work in the shops. We feel sure that during the n. cent cold weather the groundhog had to go into the farthest bedroom of his dwelling to escape the frost. After the zero weather of Sat ” r day and Sunday morntags, the weather moderated and it tnawea some Tuesday, but there is still considerable ice and th L. L. McCurtain, who lives on the Stahl farm south of his children to school last fall with old Dobbin and the »hay, but now he brings them in one of those trusty Fords. - Uncle Josiah Thompson was down to h!8 newsstand a few days ago. His afflicted Hmb derful improvement during the past couple wepks and it is almost completely healed up again.

TAXES DUE MAR. Ist ' I Money on hand when the assessor calls is a liability. Preferred Stock in the RENSSELAER MFG. CO. is Non-Taxable Tax-Exempt Non-Assessable and pays • 8 PER CENT INVEST in Rensselaer Manufacturing Co. 8 per cent, non-taxable Preferred Stock before March the first.

Wayne Call and wife and Undo Hiram Smith of Chicago Heights visited his brother, Fred, on the Hufficker ranch Tuesday. Fred will move about the first of March out to the Simmons farm west of here. Our old friend Joe Kosta of south of town has contracted for one of those Delco lighting plants to be ins stalled in his residence and barn. He will also have a water system j>ut in his house. Joe is sure coniing to the front. One of Al Prather's boys, who Ilves on the Vondersmlth place, west of town, came to town Saturday on foot and loaded up with a small sack of flour, a couple of sacks of cornmeal nnd a pall ol syrup and started for home He

They couldn’t be built now for When the talk turns from politics to railroads, and the traveler with the cocksure air breaks in with, “There’s an awful lot of ‘water’ in the railroads,” here are some hard-pan facts to give him: American railroads have cost $80,900 a mile —roadbed, structures, stations, yards, terminals, freight and passenger trains —everything from the great city terminals to the last spike. A good concrete-and-asphalt highway costs $36,000 a mile —just a bare road, not count- , ing the cost of culverts, bridges, etc. Our railroads couldn’t be duplicated todefy for $150,000 a mile. * They are capitalized for only $71,000 a mile — much less than their actual value. Seventy-one thousand dollars today will buy one locomotive. English railways are capitalized at $274,000 a mile; the French at $155,000; German $132,000; even in Canada (still in pioneer development) they are capitalized at $67,000 a mile. The average for all foreign countries is SIOO,OOO. Low capitalization and high operating efficiency have enabled American Railroads to pay the highest wages while charging the lowest rates. . t '' <Jhis advertisement is published by the dissociation of Railway Executives Tlwtt ditiriit inftnnatitn tnani»t At railroad titvafita way obtain liftratnrt by writing la Tht Auociation of Railway Eagtntiatt, bl Broadway, Ntw M

got about a half a mile from town and got eo cold that he couldn’t go any farther, as the wind wan facing him and it was bo Intensely high and cold. He sat down by the roadBide and it la thought that had it not been that Jake Trump came along with a load of wood and found him that he would soon have been chilled to death. Jake brought him back to town and got him thawed out and he was then taken home.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL I have moved any real estate office to the rooms over Co-Operative Meat Market, on north side of square.—GEOßGE F. MEYERS. f 25

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