Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington According to a Washington dispatch ballots cast by women in the coining presidential election will fall short of the potential men’s vote by over 2,500,000, provided the suffrage amendment is ratified and laws enacted. • * * It is announced at Washington that President Wilson will pass the summer at the summer home of Charles R. Crane, former Chicagoan, at Woods Hole, a village on the southern coast of Massachusetts. * * • Charles A. McQueen of Cleveland, 0., was appointed by the department of commerce at Washington as commercial attache at Santiago, Chile. Population statistics announced by the census bureau at Washington included Kankakee, 111., 10,721; increase, 2,735, or 19.6 per cent over 1910. • • * Senator Newberry of Michigan, who returned ‘to Washington, will not reHume his seat in the senate until questions as to his status in the Michigan election conspiracy cases have been disposed of. A committee amendment to the post office appropriation bill providing for A transcontinental air mall route between New York and San Francisco, via Chicago and Omaha, Neb., was adopted by the senate at Washington. Nearly 700,000 persons have been added to the population of Chicago within the last ten years, bringing the total number of Inhabitants of the city to 2,884,827, the census figures just completed for the government reveal, according to Washington reports. • • * Domestic The Chicago city council passed the $180,560,963 approjtriatlon bill for 1920, provided $36,255,830 for meeting city hall expenses and allowed the 18,050 city employees an average Increase in salary of 10 per cent. Five hundred Chicago firemen, representing all except 36 of the 175 fire department companies, voted unanimously to resign en masse In protest over the

At Last It’s Here! A Cash and Carry Grocery Department This is the latest addition to this Big Variety Store —the one thing necessary to make this store serve the people of Jasper county to the fullest extent. ~OF Saturday; mJ this department will be open to the public carrying a complete line of package goods of all qualities, and specializing bn Boulevard and Renroh Brands of high grade goods put out by one of the oldest and best known grocery houses west of New York. Everything So Arranged and Plainly Priced that you can serve yourselves no delays in service-—no heavy overhead expense —no delivery system to add to the cost of your grocery bill. FREE- ■To each purchaser of SI.OO or more groceries on - — our opening date, a handsome new style shopping bag—it’s beauty is not marred by any advertising matter..

small increase. • * • Simplified spelling, which has been used in the publications of the Modern Language Association of America since 1911, was abandoned by the association at Columbus,*O. Three persona were killed and one Injured when the auto in which they were 'driving from Bay City to their home stalled on a railroad track at Quannlcasee, Mich., and was struck by a train. Harry E. Simon, a former army flyer of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Arthur L. Peterson of Viborg, S. D., a student aviator making his first flight, were killed at Sioux City, la. • • The bituminous coal miners accepted a 27 per cent Increase In wages and an eight-hour day, which was awarded by President Wilson’s coal commission. The joint .wage scale committee of the miners and operators signed an agreement at New York. Eight persons were killed and 40 seriously Injured when the roof of the O’Farrell theater in San Luis Potosi, Mex., collapsed during a theatrical performance. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Mississippi house of representatives at Jackson again refused to ratify the suffrage amendment by a vote of 94 to 23. The measure passed the senate. • » • The Bay City Foundry and Machine company's plants at Bay City, Mich., were destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at between $65,000 and $70,000. ♦ ♦ * Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Md., Is considering a trip to Rome, In conformance with a new ruling requiring the presence there once In five years of each cardinal. ♦ * ♦ Following years of friction between the “Big Four” of the railroad unions and the American Federation of Labor, it was announced at New York that the two bodies will join forces. • • • Patrick Cudahy, wealthy meat packer, left an estate valued at approximately $2,500,000, according to the Inventory of appraisers, filed in the county court at Milwaukee, Wls. • • • Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealth} young Philadelphian, recently courtmartialed for desertion because of his alleged failure to report for military service, was sentenced to five years in prison at New York. The action -of President Wllson’f

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coal commission lm granting bltumlm ’ oos mine workers a wage Increase ol 27 per cent means the price of coal at the mines will advance 65 cents tc $1.25 a ton, it was announced at New York. Material augmentation of the known death list of over 161 and property damage running to many million dollars loomed when restoration of wire communication would permit compilation of accurate reports from the wix central West states struck by a series of tornadoes. The storm also did much damage In Georgia and Alabama. The known dead in the South totals about seventy-five and may be double that number, according to a Chicago dispatch. • • • By a walkout of all employees of the municipal reduction plant at Chicago collection of city garbage was tied up. The strikers included the drivers of the wagons, workmen at the plant and clerks. • • * A Sioux Falls, S. D., dispatch says high winds, accompanied In many places by a pelting rain and snowstorm, have virtually paralyzed wire communication to all points in the eastern half of South Dakota. • * * A snowstorm accompanied by a wind, swept across central and western Kansas, covering the wheat belt. From several points a 45-mile wind was reported which razed silos and outbuildings, according to a Concordia dispatch. • * • An armed caravan moved through New York’s financial district with a treasure of ten tons of gold in rough, metal-bound boxes loaded on five twohorse trucks. The gold, valued at $9,300,000, arrived from England. * » • Four employees of the Atlantic Refining company at Philadelphia were killed and ten Injured in a collision between a passenger motorbus and a Philadelphia' & Reading Hog island train. Obstructions in the Culebra cut district of the Panama canal were removed and the great waterway is again open for traffic after a six-day Interruption, according to a Panama dispatch. • * ♦ George Sherlock of Orange, N. J., flying a post office department airplane, was instantly killed while trying to land on Heller field at Newark, N. J., after completing a trip from Washington. • • • An agreement was reached between the Carpenters’ District council apd

DDIMPCQC Thursday and Friday ’ rnllluLOO April 8 and 9 NELL SHIPMAN in ‘Back to God’s Country’ From the story “Wapi, the Walrus” by James Oliver Curwood F / \ k\ i -JObWaQglgF \\ . \ He had seen Dalores come dripping from the stream and tiptoed forward to seize her. Suddenly from a chasm in the rocks a great bear arose, growling fiercely, and the girl snuggled behind it. Never a film like this. Winter scenes and Wapi’s great fight for Dalores’ life actually photographed up in the Arctic Circle, (North of 53°) 16 varieties of wild animals. An actual battle between a powerful, savage Dane wolf dog and an entire team of Malmutes is something you neveTr have seen. AnuiCCTAXT Adults, 30c-war tax 3c, - total 330 ADIH-loolUll — Children, 15c, war tax 2c, - total 170 A FIRST NATIONAL- ATTRACTION

the Carpenter Contractors’ association ar Chicago whereby the carpenters are to be given a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. * * • Brig. Gen. William H. Harts, who was commander of American troops in the Paris area after the armistice, arrived at New York from Paris. He is expected to answer charges that he was responsible for cruelties. ♦ * * Jess Walker, nineteen years old, of Evansville, Ind., was sentenced at New York to die in the electric chair the week of April 25 for the murder of Samuel Wolchok, March 11, 1919. Personal Miss Minnie Webb Curtis,. former national president of the W. C. I. U., died at Dallas, Tex. ♦ * ♦ Elmer Apperson, fifty-eight, of Kokomo, Ind., formerly president of the Apperson Motor Car company, was stricken with apoplexy while watching the automobile race at Los Angeles, and died a few minutes later. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Henry C. DeKock et ux to John D Alexander, Meh. 1, It 16, bl 1, McDonald’s add, Demotte, $350. Michael Kanne to John M. Kanne et al, Meh. 1, ne sw, e% ne, se, 8-31-6, ne ne, 17-31-6, 312.15 acres. Walker; pt 25-29-7, 198.30 acres, umi % n pt ne, 36-29-7, 77.50 acres, Marion, $2. Grisilda Barzdys et baron to 'William H. Minor, Meh. 30, its 4,5, 6, pt it 7, bl 7, outlot 6, pt outlot 5, Wheatfield, $4,300. Notice special meeting of COUNTY COUNCIL Notice is hereby given that the county council of Jasper county, Indiana, ''will meet in special session Monday, April 5, at 1 o'clock p. m., in the auditor’s office, to consider additional appropriations for 1920 and such other matters as may legally come before them. • SCHUYLER C. ROBINSON, Auditor Jasper County. Azi armload of old papers for 5c at The Democrat office.

- , fc ' — 4! FOR SALE For Sale—7-room residence, well located, elose to churches and school. Terms. FLOYD MEYERS. For Sale at Bargains—All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come in and look them over, In, tne white-front garage.—KUBOSKE A WALTER. ts

For Sale— 1 3-4 horse International gas engine, good as new, used only about 10 days.—KUBOSKE & WALTER Garage. ts For Sale—Pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rock eggs, $1 per setting; $6 per 100— MRS. NICK SCHMITTER, phone 922-D. al4 For Sale —One black cow with three weeks old calf, a good milker; 4 shotes, wt. about 100 pounds.— HARRY HIBBS, Rensselaer, R-2, phone 904-D. . a 3 For Sale —4 geldings and 2 marea 4 years old; 2 cultivators; 1 mower; 1 disc, 10-foot; 1 spader, 8-foot. Would trade for wind pump or tractor disc. —JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l, phone Mt. Ayr 92-D. alO For Sale—A Mogul tractor, 8-16, with Oliver chilled plow. Also some good brood sows, some with pigs, others to farrow shortly.—RAY D THOMPSON. For Sale—Windsor player piano, nearly new, with 25 rolls, cabinet and bench. First check for $450 gets this fine instrument or will accept bankable note. Address BOX 24, Wheatfield, Ind., R-l. ' alO For Sale—l9lß Ford Touring car, in good running order; tires all new. —J. M. ALLEN, phone 950-F, Fair Oaks, Ind. alO Eggs for Setting—Pure-bred Buff Orpingtons, $1 per 15 if taken from my place; $1.50 if to be shipped via parcel post.—JAMES E. GILMORE, Rensselaer, R-2. jnl For Sale —Three second-hand National cash registers, all different and at different prices. Call and see them if in need of a register.-j-THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—Good 8-room house, bath, pantry, cellar, well, city and cistern water, good barn, hen house, wash house and other outbuildings; 5 lots 180x170, well fenced, plenty of fruit.—MßS. JACOB R. WILCOX. a 3 For Sale—l6o-acre rarm, well drained, most all level, black soli; 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 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—96 acres of the best land near Niles, Mich.; fine stream, very good buildings, including bank barn. This is in fipe shape and not a pound of sand on the place. Adjoining properties held at S2OO.

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Will sell for $l4O, Including wheat and clover crop. Possession any time or will let A-l tenant remain. Positively will not trade. Owner H. S. EVANS, 826 Webster Bldg., Chicago. als FOR RENT For Rent—s-room house in Parr, small barn and truck patch therewith. Call 939-D or write me at Parr.—CLYDE GUNYON. ts For Rent —The lower floor of the I. O. O. F. building at Gifford; Is suitable for a store and has been previously used as such. Enquire CHARLES BRITT, Gifford, phone 923-B. ts Pasture for Rent by the Acre—9o acres east of Pleasant Ridge, and two pastures of 90 acres each and one of 200 acres at Fair Oaks. — Call ERNEST BEAVER, 938-1. ts

WANTED Trucking Wanted—l have a new ton truck and solicit business in this line. If you have moving or any other trucking to do, call 473. —FRANK HAMER. If Wanted—To hire threshing machin* to thresh 900 to 1,000 acres, 1% to 3% miles northwest of Mt. Ayr. —John S. Fry, Grover Makeever and Alex Elijah, committee, R. F. D., Fair Oaks. a 8 Young Men, 17 upward, desiring railway mail clerkships, sllO month, write for free particulars examinations. —J. LEONARD, (former Government Examiner) 222 Equitable Bldg., Washington, D. C. aS Wanted Rooms—For the large company playing “Mutt & Jeff’s Dream” at the New Ellis Opera House Thursday, April 8. Any party having any rooms to rent for this day please call the opera house< phone 41, giving location, party’s name and price of room. The company numbers more than 30 people. —NEW ELLIS OPERA HOUSE. a 3 LOST Lost—Package containing two photographs tied in newspaper, some place between my home and Rens-, selaer. Finder please leave at The Democrat office.—AßCH LINTON, Remington, R-4. FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums ■* to |lo,oto.—E. P. HONAN. M — ' d Money to Loan—CHAS. J. "DEAN & SON/ Odd Fellows’ Building, Rensselaer. x ts Money to Loan—l have an unlimited supply of money to loan on good farm lands at 6%% and usual commission or 6 % without commission, as desired. Loans will he made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years. See me about these various plans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP*# _ , ’ „ tl ’