Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — Page 1

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MILROY FARMHOUSE BURNED

Dwelling on Sol Guth Farm Totally Destroyed Thursday Afternoon. The large farmhouse on the Sol Gwth farm, some two miles south of Crockett, cemetery, was totally destroyed by fire at about 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon, together with practically every article of household effects of the tenant. Jay Fosdick. When first discovered the entire top of the house was ablaze, and it is supposed the fire caught from a defective flue. Mr. Fosdick and most of the men of the neighborhood were away to a sale and therefore there was no one there in time to save any of the contents to speak of. The house was worth at least $2,000, it is said, and was insured in G. H. McLain’s agency for sl,600. Mr. Fosdick had about S6OO insurance on his household effects, it is understood. The farm is owned hy Sol Guth of Washington, 111.

PLAN EXTENDED AUTO TRIP

Fired Phillips and Family to Drive Through to Pacific Coast. Fred Phillips is now a gentleman of leisure with a comfortable bank account, the result of a few years of close attention to farming and stock raising and the rise in value of his real estate, and he contemplates putting in. several months the coming summer in a trip west which promises to be exceptionally enjoyable. As soon as school is out, with his wife and daughter, Grace Augusta Phillips, he plats to leave via auto on a trip through Colorado, New Mexico, the Yellowstone country and probably on to the Pacific, coast. -• The.” .expect to leave here early in June anti will drive through by * easy stages, stepping enroute whenever and whoever they desire for short time, and to return by another route, via the same conveyance. They expect to oe gone three months or more. Fred recently purchased a new Oldsmobile cne-ton truck, and on the chassis of this he will build a comfortable tent house, fitted up with all the conveniences imaginable for living, sleeping and cooking. It will be fitted with electric lights and will he quite large and roomy. Whenever they pull up at the side of the road at night and stop their car they are camped for the night, and camiped most comfortably, too. Fred has been studying up on design, and equipment for his “house on wheels” for several months and will combine the desirable 'features of such outfits as he has read of in the various newspapers and magazines. This will certainly be “some trip,” and the rest of us poor mortals who must keep our noses to the grindstone will good-naturedly envy him the pleasures in prospect.

D. A. R. CHAPTER ENTERTAINS

Husbands of Members at J. H. Chapman Home Tuesday. The General Van Rensselaer chapter, D. A. R., with their husbands as guests, fittingly observed Washington’s birthday Tuesday evening at the 'home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman. After a buffet supper, the con> pany was entertained by means of reflectorscope pictures and silhouettes, showing phases of American history as follows: Screen pictures of Indian period. Reading, "Hiawatha’s Wooing, Mrs. Chapman; silhouette—-the ar-row-maker, George Padgitt; Mihndhaha, Mrs. Edson Murray; Hiawatha, Edson Murray. Screen pictures of the colonial period. Reading, "The Stately Minuet,” Mrs. Kannal; silhouette — Misses Dorothy and Virginia Thompson. This was followed by a modern dance silhouette given by- Misses Gwendolyn and Mary Elizabeth Kannal. Screen pictures of the civil war period. Solo, Marjorie Loughridge; silhouette —“A Southern Belle,” Mrs. Long; solo —"Old Black Joe,’’ Dr. Brown; silhouette —Mr. (Honan. The present time was typified by a moving picture showing the modern young woman in dealing with \ a difficult situation. The modern young lady, Gwendolyn 'Kannal; her maid, Mary Elizabeth Kannal; her suitors, Dr. Brown, Thomas Padgitt, Edson Murray, George Padgitt. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Dean were guests of the chapter.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Commissioners’ Court will convene Monday for the March session. Attorney Frank J. Cook of Lacross was in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Counity Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt was at Crown Point Tuesday as a witness in a ditch case. The hearing on' the petition oi the Jasper County Telephone Co. for an increase in rates will be held in the state house in Indianapolis Meh. 10. While Jasper county is negotiating with a couple of men at present to succeed County Agent Leaming, no contract has been made with either at this writing. Maps of Jasper county in different sizes and prices are on sale at The Democrat office. Also maps of Carpenter township, giving name and location of each landowner in the township. Tnese maps were made by L. A. Bostwick, the wellknown civil engineer, which is a sufficient guarantee as to their corn rectness.

The will of the late Theodore Keiper was filed for probate Thursday. The instrument was executed Feb. 9, 1920, and was witnessed by Mathew Worden and J. J. Eigelsbach. John T. Keiper is named as executor. Testator bequeaths SSOO to St. Augustine’s Catholic church of Rensselaer, also SSO to the pastor of said church for masses. The balance of the estate, both real and personal, is to be equally divided between the three children: John T. and A. T. Keiper and Mrs. Bert Abbott. New suits filed: No. 9178. Premier Stock Farms association vs. Joseph Sei tier; action, for possession of real estate which, it is alleged, belongs to plaintiff and of which defendant ha!s possession and refuses to relinquiiskh same. Demand possession of real estate and $360 damages. No. 9179. Charles Bender vs. Charlie Bibos; foreclosure of mortgage. Demand $650. No. 9180. Fred Bender vs. Charlie Bibos; foreclosure of mortgage. Demand S4OO. Marriage licenses issued: Feb. 24, .'Howard Milton Wooden of Remington, aged 21 Jam. 11 last, clerk, and Margaret Lenore Pick ering, also of Remington, aged 20 Meh. 4 last, clerk. First marriage for each. Feb. 24, Sebo Henry Ehmen of Melvin, 111., aged 29 Dec. 4 last, farmer, and Ethel Muriel Fleming of Rensselaer, aged 22 Nov. 1 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Feb. 25, Lester M. Hawn- of Remington, aged 50 June 1 last, laborer, and Anna M. Millman, also of Remington, aged 48 Nov. 26 last, housekeeper. Third marriage for male, last previous marriage dissolved by divorce in 1904; first marriage for female. Feb. 25, William J. Alexander of Goodland, aged 25 Oct. 25 last, farmer, and Hazel G. Meyers of Wheatfield, aged 24 June 3 last, First marriage for each. Feb. 25, George William Bernhardt of Remington, aged 28 Dec. 30 last, farmer, and Agnes Mary Platt of Rensselaer, aged 26 July 31- last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

BOX SOCIAL

There will be a box social at the South Marlon Consolidated school Wednesday evening, Meh. 3, 1920. Free moving pictures for entertainment. Bring boxes and money and be there by 7:30 p. m. Proceeds go to pay for new Victrola —MINNIE WAYMIRE and ADA HUFF Teachers. m 3

- TUB TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920.

MONNETT SCHOOL PUPIL DEAD

First Death Among Pupils Sine* School Was Established. Georgia • Irene Ricftardson, a daughter of William A. Richardson of Clinton, Ind., but who had be*b attending the Monnett School for Girls, died at the county hospital Thursday evening about 5 o'clock from an acute attack of meningitis or an infection of the middle ear, caused from a recent attack of in-1 fluenza. Her age was 14 years, 8 months and 26 days. Brief services were held at the school, after which the remains were shipped to Ridge Farm, ill., yesteirday where burial will ba made Sunday. This is the first death that haß occurred among the pupils of the school in the past 12 years, or since the school was established.

DAN CUPID HAS A BUSY WEEK

Several More Marriages Take Place in Rensselaer and Vicinity. The truth of those old lines of the poet; “In the spring a young raran’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,’’ is as true now as it was in days of yore, but in this “Twentieth Centurry Limited” age it should also include the young woman, for it takes two to make the matrimonial bargain complete, and judging from the number of marriages taking place this spring, both the young man and the young woman are similarly inclined and are getting an early start, too, on Miss Spring, who is still lingering in the lap oi Old Man Winter. Of course the fact that this is Leap year and there are not only 29 days,'but five Sundays and five Sunday nights in February may have something to do with but there is no getting around the fact that Dan Cupid has been kept on the trot all month and will probably catch a few belated victims next week. t Up to yesterday noon there haa been- 17 marriage licenses granted in Jasper county during the present month, and no doubt the month will close another record-, breaker.

George William Bernhardt near Remington and Miss Agnes Mary Platt were quietly married at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. E. W. Strecker, at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening. The bride is a daughter of Mi. and Mrs. Charles Platt of this city and for some years past had been employed in the Jasper county court house. ©he is a graduate ot the Rensselaer high school and a very capable and industrious young lady. the groom is an industrious young farmer of near Remington and served Uncle Sam in the late unpleasantness with Germany. The Democrat joins the imany friends of this excellent young couple in extending its hearty congratulations.

The marriage of Miss Ethel M'uriel Fleming, daughter of Mr. ana Mrs. A. J. Fleming of this city, and Sebo Henry Ehmen of Melvin, 111., took place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Methodist parsonage, the Impressive ring ceremony being read by Rev. E. W. Strecker. The young couple were attended by Wallace Miller and Miss Nina Thurlow. They will commence housekeeping on a farm near Melvin, 111., about Meh. 1.

UTTERBURG-GORDON

The marriage of Miss iHhlsie B. Gordon and John A. Utterberg took place last Tuesday at 12 o’clock noon at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. William T. Barbre. The young couple were attended by Mr. apd Mrs. Thorsten Otterberg. After the cteremony a wedding dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Werner on McCoy avenue. The young couple will make their home on a fanm eight miles east of Rensselaer.

We desire to express our heartfelt thanks for the tmany kindnesses and sympathy extended in the death of our son and brother, Herman Wagner.—PETEß WAGNER AND FAMILY.

BERNHARDT-PLATT

EHMEN-FLEMING

CARD OF THANKS

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHDRT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesCLOSE PORTER COUNTY BANKS Two Institutions Ordered Closed by Auditor of State. The Farmers’ State bank of Valparaiso and the Hobart 'bank, a subsidiary Institution, were closed Wednesday by order of the auditor of state because of an alleged shortage of $225,000 which is said to have been caused from stock speculations. W. H Gardner of Valparaiso is president of the banks. It is announced that the depositors will lose nothing as Mr. Gardner has turned over his 465 shares of stock and will further reimburse the institutions. The stockholders are also wealthy men and will make good the loss and the institutions will open again fur business in a few days, it is announced.

CREEK RESTAURANT CLOSED

Proprietor and Wife Leave Town and Sheriff Takes Possession. The Charles Bibos restaurant was closed Wednesday morning and Sheriff Woodworth now carries the key. This action was taken after Bibos’s having left a week or 10 days ago and his wife leaving on one of the night trains Tuesday night. While it had been susplcloned for some time that Bibos’s business was all "shot to pieces,’’ and that as a result he was playing a losing game, nothing of a public nature had developed i>ntil this week. For some reason his place had not taken well here and the patronage kept falling off right along. The result was not, therefore, unexpected. The fixtures had been purchased of Bender Bros, of Chicago by the former iproprietors, on payments, and when they sold out to Bibos the latter assumed these notes. There remained unpaid $523 on one set of notes and $250 on another. Suit has been filed in court here on these mortgage notes against Bibos, the former proprietors, who gave the notes, having been relieved by the mortgagees who accepted Bibos in the assignment. Bibos was also behind one month in his rent to Mrs. Haus, and owed a small meat bill, a grocery bill, a couple of weeks wages to his two waitresses and a few other local bills. He is also said to have been indebted to some extent to wholesale houses.

TO GIVE FREE MOVING PICTURE

The Jasper county committee for the near east relief has arranged for a moving picture depicting the scenes in Armenia, Syria and Persia, which will be given free to the public at the Princess theater Tuesday, Meh. 2, at 1 p. m. This will be a film with educational value which every man and woman should see. In connection with the film a lect/ure will be given by I. N. Yohannon, a native of Persia. He knows first-hand of the conditions in the near east, his wife and daughters having been through the awful experiences. It is a rare privilege for the community to hear this lecture free. The lecture and film will be given only once, lasting just one hour, from 1 to 2 o'clock. The committee wishes it understood that no offering will be taken at this meet-* Ing. It is given purely for the instruction of the public.

ANNOUNCEMENT E. P. Lane and D. M. Worland have formed a partnership and will open a real estate, loan and insurance agency in Rensselaer, under the' firm name of Lane & Worland. Their quarters will be in the new Farmers & Merchants National bank building. List your property with , them.—Advt.

COMING PUBLIC SALE DATES

The Democrat aas printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, March 2, Frank Payne, 8 miles north and 1 mile east of Rensselaer. General sale, Including horses, cattle, hogs, implements, etc. Saturday, March 6, J. M. Witham, miles north of Virgie. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, grain, hay, farm tools, etc. Also farm of 100 acres where sale is held. Monday, Miffi. 8, W. H. Tyler, 3-4 mile southeast of Demotte. General sale, including horses, mules, 44 head of cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, Meh. 10, Lewis Todd, 314 miles northeast of Fair Oaks. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, farm tools, etc.

NOTICE TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS You will meet at my office Monday, Meh. 1, to get necessary supplies and information. G. L. THORNTON, County Assessor.

WILL LEAVE FOR NEW HOME

County Agent Learning and Family Go to Minnesota Next Week. County Agent and Mrs. Stewart Learning expect to leave Monday or Tuesday for their new home near St. Peter, Minn., where they will go onto a finely improved 275acre farm which Mr. Learning has purchased from his father-in-law. This fanmi is located two miles out from St. Peter, which is a county seat town of 4,500 population l . Mr. Learning expects to engage In the livestock business and will raise cattle, horses and hogs principally. St. Peter Is in Nicollet county, some 100 miles southwest of Minneapolis. Mr. Learning was up there for five years before coming here, first In teaching school and later as county agent, and is therefore well acquainted with the county, which is Mrs. Learning s old home. They raise about the same crops there as in Jasper county, but the winters are generally more severe, of course. Mr. Learning has served Jasper county exceedingly well during the few years he has been located here as county agent, and the best wishes of hosts of friends In all parts of the county go with him and his family to their new borne.

DIES FOLLOWING OPERATION

Mrs. Caroline Kepner-Turner, who underwent an operation at the county hospital Tuesday morning, died Wednesday morning ut 3 o’clock, the operation disclosing a cancerous growth. Deceased was about 57 years ot age a>nd is survived by her son. Max Kepner, her aged mother,. Rebecca Kepner, two brothers, Isaac Kepner of this city and John Kepner of Sheldon, 111., and two sisters, Mrs. John Schanlaub and Mrs Robert Wartena, both of Rensselaer. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the late residence, services being conducted by Rev. C. W. Postill, and burial made in Weston cemetery.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. J. M. Shields of this city underwent a major operation Thursday and at this writing is doing nicely. Mrs. J. C. Gwin entered the hospital Wednesday for medical attention. Miss Anna Buillis was able to leave the hospital yesterday. A. Karnowsky of Hoopeston, 111., a brother of Bam Karnowsky of this city, entered the hospital Wednesday for medical attention. Francis Storier ot Morocco underwent an operation Thursday. Mrs. Helena Reiddle’s was not so good yesterday. All other patients are doing nicely.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Feb. 23, to Mr. and tyre. Jbhn N. Price of Parr, a daughter. Feb. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Faye Clarke, a son. Feb. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rockwell, a daughter, named Doris Ernestine. Feb. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Timmons of near Moody, a son. Feb. 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Daniels of Rensselaer, a son.

ta not yet come when this government; can entertain a concert of powers, the very existence of which most depend uport a new spirit and a new order.”

Vol. XXII. No. 96

UNITED STATES STANDS FIRM

Textof Correspondence Bstween Wilson and Premiers Made Public. SPLIT RESTS WITH ALLIES Now Up to Great Britain, France and Italy to lleclde Whether to Yield or Permit Withdrawal of Peace Treaty. Washington, Feb. 27.—“ The government of the United States stands pat.” This was the official construction placed on the correspondence between the United States government and the governments of Great Britain and France with relntlon to the Adriatic settlements. It is up to Great Britain, France and Italy to decide whether to yield to President Wilson in the Adriatic controversy or to stand pat and thereby cause him to consider withdrawal from the senate of the peace treaty with its league of Nations covenant The president demands the allies return to the Adriatic plan of December 0 to which he and the British and Italian premiers subscribed. Correspondence Made Public. The full correspondence was made public by the state department. It consists of the Joint memorandum signed on December 9 by Premier Clemenceau for France, Sir Eyre Crowe for England and Undersecretary of State Frank L. Polk for the United States; the British and French revised proposals of January 14, the text of the cable sent on January 19 by the secretary of state asking the point of view of the British and French governments In undertaking to dispose of the Adriatic and Russian questions before ascertaining the views of the American government; the statements of the French and British prime ministers of January 2T; President Wilson’s protest note of February 10, in which he threatened to withdraw the German treaty from the senate if the British-French attitude was persisted in; the reply of the French and British prime ministers of February 17 and President Wilson’s note of February 24, which brings the correspondence up to date. The whole correspondence makes about 12,000 words. , '

Memorandum of Dec. 9. The Joint memorandum of December 9 subscribed to by France, Great Britain and the United States, and which it was supposed had settled the Adriatic question, provided In substance the following: Istria was to have a frontier which, while “widely overstepping" the recognized ethnical line between Italy and Jugo-Slavla, would have given to Italy more than 300,000 Jugo-Slavs and further extended eastward to give Italy territory in the region of A,lbona, also including Jugo-Slavs, as against 40,000 Italians to be placed under the League of Nations. The so-called Assling region was to be permanently demilitarized. There was to be a free state of Flume under control and for future determination by the league with full autonomy for the city of Flume. The city of Zara was to have complete sovereignty under the league and complete control of Its own affairs. The Islands of the Pelagosa group, Lisea and the small islands west of It, Lussin and Unle, were to pass to Italy on demilitarized basis, with local autonomy for the Slavs in Lissa. Italy was to have a mandate over the independent state of Albania under tlie league. Albania’s frontiers north and east were to be those fixed by the London conference of 1918, but the south was left for negotiation. Greece was to have certain territory, the lines of some of which were to be left for negotiation. The city of Valona and such hinterland strictly necessary to defepse and economic de-' vetopment were granted to Italy in full sovereignty. Rebuke to Premiere. In the note of President Wilson to the aHted premiers, discussing the Adriatic question, he said: “If agreement on what is just and reasonable Is not to determine International issues; if the country possessing the most endurance in pressing Its demands rather than the country armed with a just cause is to gain the ■ upport of the powers; if forcible seizure of coveted areas is to be permitted and condoned and Is to receive ultimate justification by creating a situation so difficult that decision favorable to the aggressor is deemed a practical necessity; If deliberately Incited ambition Is, under the name of national sentiment, to be rewarded at the expense of the small and weak; if, in a word, the old order of things which brought so many evils .on the world is still to prevail, then the time