Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — Page 5

SATURDAY, MAY 8, I®2o.

HOOVER IT BEATS ... AS IT SWEEPS AS IT CLEANS DON’T ~ make home a “NO-MAN'S LAND" this Spring! Why yank up your rugs to have them whanged on the line or carted to the cleaners? Save yourself all that tearing up and expense. Have immaculate rugs the year 'round, not just for a few weeks semi-annually. Beat, sweep and suction clean your rugs where they now lie on / the floors —straighten their nap, freshen up their colorings —with THE HOOVER End housecleaning upheavels forever. W. J. Wright Rensselaer, Indiana

LOCAL NEWS

Harvey Davisson left Thursday for Kansas City on business. David Haste of Monon was in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. Miss Hattie Grant went to Indianapolis Thursday to spend a few days. B. G. Parks, Hugh Kirk and Mrs. G. F. Meyers were Lafayette goers Thursday. Mrs. Clifford Payne went to Indianapolis Thursday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Long. Several members of the local temple of Pythian Sisters went to Kentland yesterday to attend a district meeting of the order. » embers of the Ladies’ Literary jKuh) held a 1 o’clock luncheon at 'the home of Mrs. John A. Dunlap f on College avenue yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Babcock of near Goodland and Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Edmonds of Fowler were here Thursday to attend the funeral of Maurice Gorman. z Mrs. Philip McElfresh passed her Slst milestone Wednesday, and a fine dinner was served at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Harrison Warren, in honor of the occasion.

OUR Cash and Carry Grocery Department The freight service has been generous with us this week. We have many items we had not been able to secure heretofore. * “We Do Not Meet Prices, We MAKE THEM” How are these for This Week? No. 2 can Red Beans per can IvC No. 2 can June Peas gfl E No. 2 can Sweet Corn. 1 J & No. 2 can Tomatoes I I C No. 2 can Wax Cut Beans.... | mhU" We expect to have another shipment of those good Oranges, Bananas, Grape Fruit, Cabbage, Cocoanuts, Lettuce, Etc., for SATURDAY. “

Holden’s Greenhouses will fill your orders for Flowers on Mothers’ Day.—Advt. mlO The Virgie Sunday school will give an entertainment and ice cream social at the Virgie school house on Saturday evening, May 8. Everybody welcome. —Advt. m 8 * Rev. J. B. Fleming, who has been away for several weeks on Interchurch World movement work, has completed his assignment and will be at home regularly now. Mrs. J. K. Smith of this city, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Elsie Constant, of Indiana Harbor and Mrs. Roy McColly of Indianapolis, spent Thursday in Roselawn with relatives. — I — Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were Dr. A. R. £resler and mother, Mrs. J. C. Kresler, Mrs. Don Beam, Dr. I. M. Washburn of Rensselaer and Mrs. Julius Huff and Mrs. A. J. McCashen of Jordan township. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parkison at the county hospital Tuesday afternoon lived but a short time. Brief funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon and burial made in the cemetery at the Barkley church. Letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ended May 1: Mr. James Bavis, Mr. Elkanah Galbreath, Mr. George Stover. If not called for the above letters will be sent to the deadletter office May 17.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Yesterday's local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 38c; butterfat, 61c. J. A. Tanner, Parr, Ind., experienced general blacksmith, wiH appreciate the patronage of th*e people of that community.—Advt. ml 9 Among the Chicago goers Wednesday were Moae Leopold, G. W. Royster, Raymond Dixie, Mrs. F. A. Turfler and Mrs. C. H. Porter. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, $1.75; oats, $1.07; wheat, $2.85; rye, $1.95. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.58; oats, 64c; wheat, $2.30; rye, $1.50. H. E. Morrow of Armarilla, Tex., came Wednesday, called here by the serious illness of his mother, who is at the home of her son, Frank Morrow, south of town. It is understood the quarantine on the Claude Kruzan home will be lifted Sunday. Mr. Kruzan has been confined to his home for the past two weeks with a very mild case of smallpox. No other members of the family took the disease. The home taient play, “Before Breakfast,” given the opera house Wednesday and Thursday nights under the auspices of the charity board, was very good, indeed, and drew • a large crowd both nights. The cast was composed of 16 high school students and one handled his or her part well.

The, law increasing pensions of soldiers of the Mexican and civil wavs to SSO per month and their widows to S3O is now effective and this quarter’s checks, to be sent out in August, will have this Increase added, it not being necessary for any person now on the pension rolls to make application for the Increase. Earl Duvall has purchased a Nash touring car and will drive through to San Diego, Calif., with his family, starting the latter part of June. He had previously Intended starting about the middle of May, and have his family follow about the first of July, but has now decided to put off leaving until later and all going together. The trial of John and Pete Cordllla and Frank Newell, murderers of Frank Jennings of Laramie, Wyo., on the night of Sept. 7 last, came to an end the first of the week and the criminals were given a sentence of 20 years in the state prison. Miss Alice Jennings, teacher in the Rensselaer schools, is a sister of the young man who was murdered. Mrs. J. J. Hunt and mother, Mrs. J. M. Wasson, went to Hammond Wednesday to visit the latter’s daughter, Mrs. Jesse Wilson, and family. A fire at the Wilson home Tuesday morning did considerable damage to the contents and th? roof and attic of the house were burned before the flames could be extinguished. The fire is supposed to have originated from crossed electric light wires.

Contracts-4or eight roads were let by the board of commissioners of White county Tuesday as follows: Bahlor road, West Point township. Sell Bros., $35,449; Kent road, Brookston, Northern Construction Co., $58,500; Wilson road, Prairie, John H. Day, $17,675; Gross road, Honey Creek, G. A. Kellenburger, $16,864; Brock road, Monon, G. A. Kellenburger, $15,633; Ward road, Liberty, William Moneyhun, $2,1,000; Dieter road, Big Creek, G. A. Kellenburger, $18,931; Bostick road, Monon and Honey Creek, G. A. Kellenburger, $17,261. ... A road referendum vote in Union township on the question of the improvement of Renck road, which includes Main street In Monticello, was held in connection with the primary. A total of 739 votes were cast in favor of the improvement and 13d against.

While the nights have been quite cool for the past several days and it has not been hot_ enough during the day time to warm up the ground very much, a little corn has been planted this week and considerably more will be put out next week If the weather continues favorable. The oats sown before the Easter snow are generally reported to be coming along quite nicely, except in ,a few places where they were drowned out. But some of those sown since that tinife have not done very well. The Minch road was before the board of commissioners for action yesterday (Wednesday). It attracted about 100 men who were interested in its construction. After deliberation the board appointed John C. Vanatta, Jr., engineer and directed him to survey the entire road and file, his report After the report is filed the board of commissioners may establish any part of it and the board Indicated, although it is not yet time to make a permanent record under the law, that at the proper time it would establish the road from Monon to the Tippecanoe county line.

Mrs. Norman Warner celebrated her 84th birthday anniversary Thursday at the home of her son Hale, with whom she lives. In the eve-> ning there was' a big dinner, to which 14 of the near relatives partook. Mrs. Warner's general health is quite good, despite her advanced age. _ Up to yesterday noon no Kentland nor Fowler papers had been received here containing the official vote of those counties, but it is understood that J. D. Rich's plurality for joint representative on the Republican ticket was over 900, the total unofficial vote of all the Republican candidates being given as Rich, 1,768; Simpkins. 801; McCain, 671; Tolan, 53g. .An automobile driven by Wade Windle, and occupied by Mr. Windle’s wife and three children and a neighbor, Van Rodgers, was struck by a Nickle Plate train at Knox Saturday night when the parties were starting for their homes after spending the evening in town. Mr. Rodgers was killed Instantly and a six-year-old daughter of the Windle’s died on the way to the hospital at Ft. Wayne. The rest of the occupants were badly injured but it is thought will recover.

WINNERS IN HIGH SCHOOL VOTE

Defeated at Polls in Tuesday’s Primary in Jasper County. As another evidence of the unreliability of th 6 straw vote, the Renssela’er high school students at a mock primary held Tuesday morning ’/elected” Lowden for president, McCray for governor, Halleck for judge and Rich for representative for the Republicans, and McCulloch for governor and Babcock for judge for the Democrats. However, the Democrat students seemed to have made a better guess on the result as given by tfie voters in this county than did the Republican students. Of course, this was the vote of the students, showing their preference as follows: REPUBLICANS For President Frank O. Lowden 62 Leonard Wood — r ..51 Hiram Johnson .....26 Warren G. Harding.. 6 For Governor Warren T. McCray ......... 74 James W. Feeler 49 Edward Toner 21 For Judge Abraham Halleck 42 George Williams ....40 John A. Dunlap 30 Emmet Laßue 26 E. R. gummings 7 For Joint Representative Jacob Rich 71 Richard C. McCain .. 43 Alexander Tolan 18 Warren D. Simpkins ....12 DEMOCRATS For Governor McCulloch 21 Risk 15 Niblack - 6 Eisenbarger - 5 For Judge Babcock 32 Cunningham 15

BIG WHISKEY STILL IS FOUND

Prohibition Officers Also Arrest Two Men Near Hammond. Hammond, May 5. —Prohibition enforcement officers confiscated a still Tuesday which they say they found on the farm of V. Minishan, 10 miles south of Hammond. Large quantities of whisky and mash were found, they add, and it is alleged |hat while the officers were raiding the place N. Marnya of Hammond drove Up in an automobile to get two 10-gal-lon jugs filled. Both men were arrested. The still is alleged to have had a capacity of 100 gallons a day.

HEREFORDS AND CERTIFICATES

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told. Only a few days after this assessment was made, 75 head sold at $131,000, one bull alone, if our memory serves us correctly, selling at $17,000, $4,000 more than the entire 265 head was valued at for taxation by the owner. — Therefor? the Kentland papers must be in error when they made this pre-primary denial. The Indiana tax law says that all property must be given in at its real cash value. How is this determined? Did Mr. McCray Imagine for a moment that the 75 head of cattle he sold at public auction some 10 days after he had listed them tor taxation would sell for less than SSO per head? Nobody believes any such thing nor do they believe that one having $300,000 worth of livestock should get off for taxpaying purposes on $13,000. In other words, should a $17,000 bull of the millionaire be assessed at no more than the SSO cow of a poor widow or a day laborer? Now as to the subscriptions for treasury certificates, the complete report of Indiana subscriptions Issued by Federal Reserve bank of Chicago about May 15, 1918, 'an official copy of which we have before us at this moment, snows that Mr. McCray's bank took only sl,-

<?)• \ \\ । imJk® \ i i n us Here are 7 reasons why (Slothes VWAOK MaWIC for YOUNG MEN retain their shape: 1. Canvas which has been thoroughly shrunk. 2. High-pick hair-cloth insures shape retaining. 3. Fine quality white felt. 4. Silicia strips. 5. Linen tape, felled on by hand. 6. All linen stays, used to prevent pockets from sagging. 7. Patented neck pad, which eliminates wrinkles below the collar. They ’re Insured Protected by The Gold Bond Qertificate of Guarantor POPULARLY PRICED! G. E. MURRAY & CO. - RENSSELAER, INDIANA

000 Feb. 27, 1918, and SI,OOO April 22, 1918, a grand total of $2,000, a less amount than any other bank In Newton county except the Bank of Brook, which took not a dollar. The Kent State bank of Kentland took $20,000, or 10 times the amount taken by Mr. McCray’s bank. A comparative statement of subscriptions to this loan by the banks of Jasper and adjoining counties was published in The Democrat of May 25, 1918. It is possible Mr. McCray never suspected this information would be made public, and its publication in was no doubt a painful surprise to him, a man who had “led in every Newton county activity in support of our government” during the war. Such a showing would never do for a perpetual candidate for governor, so when the Victory Liberty loan certificates were offered a remarkable showing was made by Mr. McCray's bank, it taking $12,000 Dec. 5, 1918; SII,OOO Dec. 19, 1918; $15,000 Jan. 2, 1919; $12,000 Jan. $12,000 Jan. 30, 1919; $2,000 Feb. 27, 1919; $29,000 Meh. 13, 1919; $10,500 April 10, 1919, and $10,500 May 1, 1919, as shown by the official report of the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago, a grand total of $114,000. More than any bank tn Newton county. Ever) the Brook bank saw a great light after these delinquents had been smoked out by The Democrat, and It took $55,000 of these certificates. But where does the leadership of Mr. McCray come in for all this good work? The war was over before his

GO TO BIBLE SCHOOL Next Sunday—“MOTHER’S DAY” First Christian Bible School Next Sunday is Women’s Day in this school May 16 is Girl's Day. WATCH FOR OTHER SPECIAL DAYS

bank came to the support of the government in taking these treasury certificates and the fact that thia was trtle had been published in the newspapers. Is he entitled to any great credit for the very liberal subscriptions to the Victory loan after having been smoked out on the previous loan and when the gubernatorial bee got to buzzing again In his bonnet in December, 1918, and the early part of 1919 W

DOG MUZZLING EFFECTIVE THE 15TH OF MAY

Effective May 15, all dogs In the city must be muzzled. Dog ownen should not delay in this matter. By order of DR. M. D. GWIN, City Health Officer.

CITIZENSHIP SCHOOL MAY 8

The women’s school of citizenship will meet promptly at 1:30 Saturday afternoon. The law requires both parties \to call a reorganization meeting so the members of the class who are on time will have a practical demonstration of the party organization. Be on time! —MRS. ALzFRED HOOVER, Co. Chm.

"The man who whispers down a well About the goods he has to sell, Won’t reap the golden, gleaming dollars — Like one who climbs a tree amt hollers.” ' — Well, I am hollerin’. I have a carload of Buggies to A. ROBERTS. Try a want ad in The n

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