Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — Page 1

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Serial Story Will Hereafter Appear in Saturday Issue. The Wednesday issue of The Democrat is supposed to be a 4page sheet only, but owing to the large amount of advertising and numerous public sale notices it has been issued for several months in 8-page form, until the last issue, when it went back to the 4 pages. It will be issued hereafter in the 4-page forrii except when more space is required, when it will consist of 8 pages. The serial story will hereafter appear in the Saturday issue. We make this explanation because many thought their last Wednesday paper four pages shy—it having been issued so long in the 8-page form, same as the Saturday issue.

MANY DEMOCRATS EXPECTED

At the District Meeting to Be Held In Rensselaer Today. In addition to the chairmen and prominent Democrats who will be here today from the various counties of the district to attend the organization meeting, Mrs. y John 1. Gwin, district chairman of the woman’s organization, will have Mrs. Maude K. Taylor of Chicago, a member of the Woman’s Democratic national committee, to address the women at night, and also experts Mrs. Alice Foster McCullough ■of Indianapolis, state chairman. Mrs. Alfred A. Hoover, chairman of the woman’s county committee, urges all the ladies interested in politics to especially come out to the meeting this evening. The afternoon meeting is a business meeting for the purpose of organizing, etc. The evening meeting will be addressed by both men and women prominent in the party, and it is expected that in addition to other prominent Democrats of the state Dr. McCullough of Indianapolis, one of the Democratic candidates for the domination for governor, will be here.

STEEL BANK VAULT ARRIVES

For F. & M. National Bank —Big Box Weighs 15 Tons. The big steel safety deposit vault lor the Farmers & Merchants National bank was unloaded Wednes<day and hauled to the bank building with a traction engine. It is .composed of three layers of steel .and is 1% inches thick, the inner layer being composed of a supposedtoibe impregnable non-burning metal —that is, a metal impregnable to acety.line gas fire with which so many small country bank vaults have been entered by burglars of late. The huge> box weighs 15 tons. .vault, except at the door, of course, is surrounded by some two feet of solid concrete. The opening has two steel doors, each three inches in thickness, so it would take .quite a long time under the best of conditions for cracksmen to gain an entrance thereto. The outside door .also has a time lock, of course. This vault is for private safety deposit boxes alone, and another and separate vault adjoining this is provided for the bank’s use proper.

SHOULD PROVE DISCONCERTING

To Republican Spell-Binders When . Campaigning Here. According to the reports "recently published, the resources of the four banks of Rensselaer on Feb. 28 were $2,705,238.93, with deposits of $2,088,355.26. The resources of tho two Remington banks were over $1,000,000, in round numbers. We' have not the figures at hand of the Bank of Wheatfield or the Bank of Demotte, but these two institutions will probably increase the to' tai resources of the eight banks in the county to over $4,000,000. One Remington bank alone has deposits of $776,869.58. These figures speak wonderfully for the prosperity of the people of our county, and it is not likely that the opposition will use them while campaigning here this /all.

LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Meh. 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Flpyd Amsler of near Surrey, a son. March Is the time to look after j»our khrubs ifor April planting.— HOLDEN’S GREEN HOUSE, phone 426. -. al

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. “Commodore” O’Connor was down from Kniman yesterday. As yet Jasper’ county is without a county agent to succeed Stewart Learning, recently resigned, although efforts are being made to secure a successor soon. The considerations named in the transfers published in this issue of The Democrat are close to $300,000, bringing the total for the first two and one-half months to about $3,000,000. Attorney E. M. Laßue has resigned as commander of the Dewey Biggs post because of his candidacy for the nomiantion for judge, and Dr. I M. Washburn, who was vice-com-mander, succeeds him. No. 9192. Frank Butterworth vs. Marquis D. Losey et al; action to quiet title. No. 9193. George W. Kennedy vs. Jesse Dunn. Stfit' on account and for damages to premises of plaintiff. Demand $258.50.

—- John A. Dunlap has filed his peti tion as a candidate for judge of the Thirtieth judicial circuit this week. This makes four candidates for the nomination from Jasper county to date —Mose Leopold, Emmet Laßue, George A. Williams and Mr. Dunlap. Frank Foltz, who has been confined to his home for the past few months by a severe attack of heart trouble, is now up and about as usual and is down town every day. Mr. Foltz’s many friends in Jasper and neighborring counties, where he practiced law for many years, will be pleased to learn of his recovery. For some time it was feared that he would not get out again. Marriage licenses issued: Meh. 17, Jesse Monroe Nussbaum of Benton county, jafed 24 Jan. t 2B last, fanner, and .Selma Catherine May of Remington, Aged 19 Meh. 30 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Meh. 18, Edgar Darius Nesbitt of Rensselaer, aged 34 May 3 last, civil engineer, and Annabelle Wartena, also of Rensselaer, aged 22 May 6 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

The following letter An the Indianapolis Star’s column of “Views or the People,” is along the lines advocated by The Democrat: John A. Riggs, assistant secretary of agriculture, is urging curtailment in* the construction of new roads. High prices and shortage of labor and materials are the reasons given. Over in Illinois bids for the construction of hard-surfaced roads ran as high as $48,000 and $50,000 a mile, $16,000 higher than amounts pai,d for like work last year. Highway officials, supported by the governor, have wisely decided that the state can not afford to build roads at such prices. ' In the Attica Ledger of Meh. 12 appeared advertised estimates of increased construction costs for eight roads to be built in Fountain county. The old estimates amounted to $131,574; the new estimates to $206,300 —$74,726 more than the old estimates,'or an increase of 56 per cent. When the new assessments for tax levying purposes were made the rates were reduced. But the reduction in rates was not proportionate to the increase in assessments. Indiana farmers will have to pay more dollars in taxes this year than they did last year. And if this road building fever keeps up, in a year or two the rates will be back where they were and we shall have to pay from $2.50 to $3 an acre in taxes every year, if not more.

SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR

Information has reached the federal court at Indianapolis that a private still was being operated here In Francesville, and yesterday a secret' service officer from Washington was here investigating. This Information was picked up In Monon, where the detective changed trains, and from where his department is said to have been “tipped off.” — Francesville Tribune.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1920.

ISAAC C. RUEBELT IS DEAD

Former Superintendent of Rensselaer Schools Died Yesterday. I. C. Ruebelt of Finchville, Ky., a former superintendent of the Rensselaer schools many years ago, died at 2 a. m. yesterday at the home of his wife’s mother, Mrs. Peter Rhoads, where with Mrs. Ruebelt he had been for the past two weeks. His age was about 60 years and he is survived by a wife and two children, Julia Ruebelt of Finchville, Ky., and Ray Ruebelt of Leavenworth, Kan. The daughter, who is teaching at Finchville, came Thursday. Mr. Ruebelt had not been in good health for the past year, since suffering an attack of the flu, and was not teaching this year. His condition was not considered serious until Sunday, when he was taken with pneumonia and gradually grew worse until his death. Funeral arrangements had not been fully completed at the time of The Democrat going to press, but will be held some time Sunday and burial made in Weston cemetery.

AT LAST TO GET RYAN DITCH

Agreement Is Reached and Long Controversy Now Ended. While Special Judge Isham entered an order Wednesday establishing the Ryan ditch, it was not until Thursday that the finishing touches were added which, it is understood, now practically assures the improvement being started in the near future and the ultimate completion of the ditch, which has had a long and stormy path through the courts for the past 10 years, having been to the supreme court twice. Thursday morning, the court’s minutes show, that all the defendants and plaintiffs, both petitioners and remonstrators, withdrew request for special findings, and the court found for the petitioners; that the ditch is of public utility and the amended report of the drainage commissioned should be confirmed and approved, except as to assessments and damages modified by the court. Judgment establishing ditch; referred to County Surveyor Nesbitt, construction commissioner. Agreed that all costs heretofore made shall be taxed up to the ditch and paid out of Ryan ditch fund.

The estimated benefits on the main ditch are $315,000, which with damages allowed and assessments reduced, will now be about $310,000, in round figures. The estimated cost is $242,000, and while it is scarcely expected that the work can be sold at this time at the latter figure, it is thought it can be sold at a slight advance over this estimate. The- dirt estimate is It cents per yard and the rock $1.25 per yard. This case has been in the courts since October, 1909, when the original petition was filed. It has had a stormy passage since that time and the higher courts have had two twists at it. Friends of the improvement contend that many farmers affected have lost enough in crops drowned out in a single season to pay their entire assessment. • In any event, if it had been constructed several years, ago it could have been dug for considerably less money than now and the landowners would have had it practically paid for and been reaping the benefits all these years.

KENTLAND GETTING A TASTE

Of New Tax Law—Petition to Issue School Bonds Denied. Petitions of the tdwn of Kentland and of Jefferson township in Newton county for authority to issue $175,000 in bonds, jointly, for the erection of a joint high school at' Kentland, were denied by the state board of tax commissioners Wednesday. The town of Kentland proposed to issue $35,000 of the amount. An election was recently held in Kehtland and Jefferson township on the proposition of consolidating and the vote was largely in the affirmative, but now the state tax board sitting at Indianapolis\and knowing absolutely nothing of the local conditions, say No, with a big N. Local self-government is absolutely denied the people under the present tax law, and our opinion is that the voters will set down good and hard on the party responsible .for this law at the election next fall.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Mani Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. A BENTON COUNTY Young Man Makes Sensational Escape From Officer. A thriller good enough for a movie was staged near Oxford Tuesday, when Constable William Ruby j of this city attempted to serve a warrant on Ellery Slagle, a farm hand. Constable Ruby had conducted a diligent search for his man and finally located him on a farm wagon, on a country highway. Slagle was riding with another man and an extra horse was being led beside the wagon. Mr. Ruby, who was in an automobile, drove up to the wagon and asked for Slagle. The constable was taking the warrant from his pocket to serve when Slagle Jumped from the seat of the wagon/to the back of the horse and dashed down the road. The constable ordered the automobile turned around and the chase was on. , When Slagle saw that the machine was gaining on him he caused the horse to jump a ditch and a fence, and away went the fugitive across a field. The horse stumbled, but Slagle vaulted from his back and was on again as soon as the horsd regained his feet. Mr. Ruby in the meantime left the machine and was giving chase on foot. Another fence was crossed by the horse, and it was headed for a woods. Mr. Ruby who had taken a short cut through the field, arrived at the woods a few seconds later, found the horse, but Slagle had disappeared in the wilderness and is still at large. He is wanted on a statutory charge.—La-' fayette Journal. /

JUDGE J. H. GILLETT SUICIDES

Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court Ends Life by Hanging. /Hammond, Meh. 17. —Judge John H. Gillett, 63 years old, formerly chieC'sjustice of the supreme court of Indiana, hanged himself in the garret of his home yesterday with a clothes line. The body was discovered by his son Gerald. Judge Gillett’s wife died a year ago and he had been despondent ever since, according to friends. Mr. Gillett was chosen as .a judge of the supreme court in 1902 and served as chief justice from 1903 to 1908. Before that time he was a circuit judge in this county for 12 years and also had served as assistant attorney-general of Indiana. Since retiring from public life he had practiced law in this city and was the author of several law books.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

(By M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt.) The next regular teachers, examination will be held at the high school building Saturday, Meh. 27. All January conditions, state and county, must be ’ removed then. Teachers are urged to make a state license. There is little excuse for experienced teachers holding county license only. The experienced teacher who has used her time properly during her teaching experience this closing year does not fear the teachers’ examination. Jasper county records show that our present teachifig staff has been well represented on the successful list in the state department at Indianapolis. This is a credit to any county and to the individual teacher who assisted in making this record. Teachers are advised to make their licenses early so that opportunities can be grasped when they appear. No school official will welcome an applicant unless the applicant can produce a license. A number of college men and women in the county have been asking whether there would be a possibility of teaching the coming year without a license. The law on 11-

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“The man who whispers down a well About the goods he has to sell, Won’C reap the golden, gleaming dollars Like one who climbs a tree and hollers,? Well, I am hollerin’. I have a carload of Buggies to sell. —C. A. ROBERTS,

COUNTY SURVEYOR IS MARRIED

E. D. Nesbitt and Miss Annabelle Wartena Wed Thursday. County Surveyor E. I). Nesbitt and Miss Annabelle Wartena, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abo Wartena oi this city, were united in marriage Thursday evening at 7 o’clock at the homes of the officiating clergyman, Rev. W. T. Barbie. They were accompanied by Misses Hose Liters and lone Zimmerman. They left immediately after the ceremony on a wedding trip of 10 days or two weeks, during which they will visit his people in Grant county. The young couple did not make their plans known publicly, hence The Democrat is unable to say where they expect to go other than as above stated. The best wishes of the many friends in Rensselaer and Jasper county are theirs.

WOULD POUR HOT LEAD IN EAR

Of Sleeping Husband, Was Threat of Wife, Saya Complaint. The new divorce complaint of Frank L. Wlldrick vs. Lillie Wildrick of Remington, which was filed in the Jasper circuit court Tuesday, is quite a voluminous document, and in view of the fact that both plaintiff and defendant are well known at Remington, Goodland, Brook, Morocco and Mt. Ayr, where plaintiff has taught school, as well as to many people in and about Rensselaer, The Democrat publishes the complaint in full, omitting some of the headings, etc. John A. Dunlap of this city and M. E. Graves of Morocco are attorneys for plaintiff, whom, it is understood, will present evidence in this case that he held back in the former case because of not wishing it made public: g The plaintiff above named complains of the defendant and says that the plaintiff is now and so. more than two years last past has been a bona fide resident or the state of Indiana and for more than six months last past has been a bona fide resident of Jasper county of said state. That the plaintiff and the defendant were duly married on Jun® 21, 1906, and lived together until the month of May, 1918, at which time the parties separated and have not since lived or co-habited together. That at the time the parties hereto were married plaintiff was engaged in teaching school and has ever since said time followed said profession and is now employed as superintendent of the public schools in Monroe Center, Ill.; that during plaintiff’s life he has aspired to the attainment of proficiency and prominence in his profession and has worked diligently as a student to that end and now holds a life’s license under the laws of Illinois as a teachers Is now and always has been of a studious disposition believing in the value of higher education and enjoying the educational work and the association with people of like temperament. That the defendant acquired only a meager education and is not of a studious disposition, having no as-

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NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. C. O. Swift of Chicago, a sister of Mrs. Milt Roth of this city, underwent an operation for appendicitis Tuesday evening. Mrs. W. P. Baker, who has been a patient for some time, underwent a minor operation Wednesday. Mrs. Thorston Otterberg of north of town underwent a major operation Wednesday and is now doing nicely. • "I The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kosma of near Thayer was brought to the hospital Wednesday for’ medical attention. Mrs. May Baldwin of Morocco entered the hospital yesterday for medical attention. Glen Leavel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leavel of this city, had his tonsils removed Thursday. \ Fred Magee of near Francesville, a nephew of Harry and Landy Magee of this city, entered the hospital for "medical attention Thursday. Miss Ruth Dodson of Oxford, teacher in the Morocco schools, had her tonsils removed Tuesday and returned to Morocco Thursday. M. B. Carpenter of Morocco is in quite a critical condition at this writing. Mrs. Relddle’s condition remains about tjie same. Lewis Miller was able to leave the hospital Thursday. Victor Yeoman of Barkley township had an X-ray picture taken of a fractured ankle Thursday. Mr. Yeoman was helping repair the Schroer bridge in Barkley township and in some manner fell from the

Vol. XXII. No. 102

ERBERT REGIME RULES BERLIN

Socialist Government Again In Control of Affairs In Germany. RED FLOOD IS RECEDING J Regular Troops on Guard in Streets —Kapp’s Soldiers Fire on Crowds Which Jeered Them. Berlin, March 19.—The Ebert govet'nment Is again In control In Berlin. Vice Chancellor Schiffer, In whose hands the sudden retirement of Dr. Wolfgang Kapp emporarlly placed the administrative power, and Gustav Noske, minister of defense, are engnged in bringing about order in the city and restoring activities to their normal basis. President Ebert and the full ministry are expected back in Berlin today. Regular Troops on Guard. Itegular troops, loyal to the Ebert regime. at* guarding the streets and detachments of them spent part of the day in tearing down wire entanglements and barricades which the revolutionary soldiers had erected In profusion. '

In this connection there was an unfortunate accident, the firing of a mine to destroy a barricade at Kottbuser, In southeastern Berlin, killing 12 per* sons and Injuring 28. The Baltic troopl, leaders of the Insurgent bands that marched Into Berlin Saturday morning, took vengeance on the people who hooted and jeered them In Wllhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden. / After withstanding the Jeers for a time they opened tire, wounding several persons. After the troops had passed Brandenburg gate they fired a parting volley with machine guns, wounding a score more. Geneva, March 19.—Colonel Bauer, former chief of staff of General Ludendorff, and other military leaders of the Luettwitz troops In Berlin and Hamburg have been assassinated by their own men, It was learned from Beilin. Americans Ask Aid. Coblenz, March 19.—Two hundred Americans who have been attending the fair at Leipsic have telegraphed nnd telephoned Major General Allen, ( commanding the American army of occupation, urgently asking for- help to leave Leipsic, where they describe conditions ns dangerous to their lives. Firing Is almost continuous In various parts of Leipsic and all the light and water services have been cut off, according to the Americans, who are principally buyers from various parts of the United States. General Allen has directed the German railway commission of the Rhineland provinces to prepare a train, which will be in charge-of American soldiers. The train will carry sufficient fuel for the journey both ways and food for several days for the guards and the returning Americans. The latter will probably be brought to Coblenz, but may, if the majority desire, be taken to the Swiss frontier. Kapp Suicide; Report. London, March 19— Berlin report says Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, head of the reactionary uprising, who resigned, has committed suicide, according to an Exchange Telegraph company dispatch. The reports were received by telephone In Amsterdam from Berlin. President Ebert has arrived in Berlin, according to another telephone message received In Amsterdam. He has ordered the Imperial court at Leipsic to bring action against the leaders of revolution. Doctor Kapp, Gneral Von Luettwitz, Gottlieb Von Jagcw, Admiral Trotha and Captain Erhart, the correspondent says. General Von Luettwitz has left Berlin with his forces, according to the telephone reports. Gustav Noske, Ebert’s minister of defense, arrived In Berlin by airplane.

NINE UNION CHIEFS INDICTED

Charged With Perjury in Connection With Shooting Up Town. Charleston/ W. Va., March 19.—Indictments charging perjury were returned by the Raleigh county grand jury against j’ R. Gilmore, president of the district No. 29, United Mine Workers of America, and nine other officials of the organization, according to advices received here from Beckley. The Indictments were In connection with the recent trial of Tony Stafford, who was convicted on charges growing out of the shooting up of Glen White, a mining town, two years ago. The accused union officer testified at the trial.

bridge, a distance of about 12 feet, hence the broken ankle. He will be laid up fhr some time.