Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — Page 5

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920.

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LOCAL NEWS

Floyd Meyers went to Indianapolis on business Thursday. Miss lone Zimmerman and Mrs. G. F. Meyers were Lafayette goers Thursday. James R. Hemphill of North Platte, Neb., is here visiting his aunt, Mrs. E. P. Honan. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Schafer and Mrs. A. E. Conrad went to port Thursday to attend the funeral of a relative. Mrs. Charles Harmon and L. A. Harmon went to Springfield, IJI., Wednesday to attend the funeral of the latter’s mother. Mrs. Nellie Wilson left Thursday for her home at Sheridan, Wyo., after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. J. W. Crooks. Carl Stockwell, who has been employed at the C. W. Rhoades garage for some time, left Wednesday for Tracy, Tenn., where he will be employed. Mrs. W. E. Jacks has purchased of Simqn Hochstetler his residence proper#”^on north Weston street and will get possession of same Oct. 1. Consideration is understood to have been $3,000. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Urban Carlin of Hammond was buried in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of Rensselaer Tuesday morning. Mr. Carlin is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Carlin of near Parr. ' The all day’s rain Wednesday stopped the planting of corn for a couple of days at least, and the cooler weather following gave us quite a heavy frost Thursday night, not heavy enough, however, to do any injury, it was thought. Tuesday was the fourteenth birthday anniversary of Miss Catherine King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. King of Elm street, and in the eyening 14 of her young friends gathered at the King home and gave her a surprise. Games and music furnished entertainment, after which refreshments were served.

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C. A. Ross and Rev. A. G. Work were Chicago goers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Shea were down from Gillam township Thursday. Dr. J. W. Horton left Tuesday for a visit at his old home in New Jersey. Mrs. D. M. Yeoman returned home Thursday from a few days’ visit in Chicago. Mrs. Laura Michael went to Reynolds Wedensday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Michael. Robert Platt went to Evansville Tuesday where he will be a patient at the U. S. Marine hospital. Miss Bernice Tilton - went to Demotte Tuesday for a visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Greve. • Miss Marie Comer of Union township, who for several weeks had been in Chicago taking treatment, returned home Tuesday. Car of Armour’s hog and stock food now on track. Save money by taking off the car. —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. nil 9 L. R. Eisenberg of Chicago is spending the week-end here with his wife, who is here for an indefinite stay with her mother, Mrs. Nathan ' Fendig. E. G. Warren returned to his home at Lawton, Okla., the first of the week after attending the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Harriet Yeoman, of Remington. Lawrence Corey of the White County Democrat attended the Democratic district meeting here Tuesday, and made a brief call at The Democrat office while here. Peter Osmer of Lafayette, a* Indiana war veteran, has been appointed adjutant of the State Soldiers’ Home near Lafayette, to succeed H. R. Canfield, resigned. - Mrs. W, H. Barkley came down from Chicago Tuesday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Starr, after which she will join her husband at Aberdeen, S. D. The Newton County Farmers’ association has purchased the Ed Harris elevator at’ Mt. Ayr. The conisderation, it is understood, was $20,000, possession to be given July 1.

A. F. Long has sold his property in the east part of town, now occupied by Roy Burch, to Mrs. Jackson Freeland of Newton township, who will move to town about Sept. 1 and occupy same. The consideration was $2,000. * Charles Mann visited bis wife, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McFarland, here for several weeks, Tuesday. Mr. Mann, who is a mail clerk on the Big 'Four road, with a run between Cincinnati and Chicago, has recently been transferred to the Louisville & Nashville road, with a run between New Orleans, La., and Montgomery, Ala. E. G. Perrigo of Morocco in Rensselaer Thursday evening on his way home from Lafayette where he had been looking after some business matters and also visited liis sister-, in-law, Mrs. George Crockett, at the St. Elizabeth hospital. He reported that Mrs. Crockett was now getting along very nicely. Mrs. Perrigo, who underwent an operation for appendicitis Sunday at the West Side hospital in Chicago, is also ’getting along nicely, he states.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Yesterday’s local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 38c; butterfat, 58c. The Priscilla Sew club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. F. D. Burchard. , "-'r i W. L. Branson of near Foresman was 41 Chicago business goer Wednesday." • The St. Joseph college baseball team played the Whiting team at the latter place Sunday, which resulted in a victory for the college. Quite a number of tourist cars are beginning to go through the city these days, several we have noticed bearing license plates from quite distant states. A Chicago baseball team played the St. Joseph college team at the college Thursday afternoon, which resulted in a victory for the visitors by a score of 8 to 4. John Eger, who has been confined to his home for the past couple of weeks with illness, is improving slowly. A trained nurse from Chicago is daring for him. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, $1.86; oats, $1.07; wheat, $2.90; rye, $1.95. The prices one year ago were’: Corn, $1.63; oats, 64c; wheat, (no quotation); rye, $1.37. A federal investigation of the recefit primary in Indiana might result' in a few prominent gentlemen being sent south to work for Uncle Sam a few years without salary. Mrs. Nellie Hawxhurst, who for the past three years or more has been- in San Diego, Calif., for the benefit of her health, came Thursday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Delos Thompson, after which she will return to her home at Battle Creek, Mich. Worth Johnson of north of town writes from Pensacola, Fla., that he and S. M. Maresca are enroute for Rosario, Argentine, S. A., on the U. S. S. S. Corvalls. They will take a cargo of lumber. It will be several months before they will be back to the U. S. " “Miss Mame Moon, proprietor o’ th’ t). K. livery barn, shows keen insight in big questions when she says, ‘Th’ next president should be a student o’ government questions, keep out o’ Mexico an’ understand German.” One good thing about garden makin’ this spring—you’ve already got your ole clothes on.” — Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spain and children and Harry R. Porter of Wabash and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Spain and son of Rensselaer were guests of Mrs. Spain’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Criswell, north of this city, over the week-end. Other guests Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hinshow, Dale Criswell, Mr. and Mrs. Riley McClintic, all of this city. Miss Jessie Criswell accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Spain to their home in Wabash for a short visit. —Monticello Herald. Democrat want ads get results.

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BIQ HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernel* Culled From Event* of Moment In All Part* of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. Personal William Dean nowells, the novelist, died at New York. Mr, Howells returned a few weeks ago from Savannah. While in the South he was stricken with influenza and never had fully recovered. • • • Washington Legislation designed to aid the railroads and shippers In the car shortage situation by extending the use of the $390,000,000 revolving fund provided in the transportation act from five to fifteen years was agreed upon by the senate commerce committee at Washington. • • * Telegrams were sent by the department of justice at Washington to all United States attorneys reiterating the department’s policy of holding the margin of profit on sugar sales to one cent for wholesalers and two cents for retailers. • * • President Wilson’s hitherto unpublished war instructions to the officers of the Atlantic fleet, given In person on the quarterdeck of the flagship Pennsylvania on August 17, and bidding them "throw tradition to the winds,” “strike the word prudent from their vocabularies” and “do the thing that Is audacious to the utmost point of risk and daring,” were made public at Washington by Secretary Daniels.

Wins Case Without Witness. Noblesville, May 14. —Although she did not have a single witness to testify In her behalf, a Jury returned a verdict IA favor of Rosa Davis, administratrix of the estate of her late husband, Charles E. Davis, in her ease against the Centnp. Indiana Railroad company, awarding the plaintiff damages in the sum of $3,000 on account of the death of her husband. Davis was a brakeman for the company and was crushed to death in March, 1917, while he was attempting to couple two cars. All of the testimony brought' out in behalf of the plaintiff was the result of the cross-examination of witnesses who testified for the company. Escape Fire by Sheet Rope. Logansport, May 14.—Cut off from the fire escape by flames which enveloped the rear portion of their apartment on the second floor of the restaurant at Burrows, seven miles Houth of this city, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Emerick and their seventeen-year-old daughter knotted togefher the ends of the sheets from their beds and escaped from the burning building in their night garments by way of the front window at three o’clock In the morning. ’ Sunday School Meet June 21. Crawfordsville, May 14.—The tentative program for the state convention of the Indiana Sunday School association. which will be hold here .June 21, 22, 23 and ft. includes addresses by many prominent' Sunday school workers. Hundreds of Sunday school workers from all part* of tfie state are expected to attend the convention. Order $1,000,000 Sewer, Anderson, May 14.—After a discussion that lasted for hours the city board of works decided to construct the proposed $1,000,000 trunk sewer and to advertise for blds May 24. Petitions with 2,(XX) signatures opposing the sewer were presented, but those favoring the plan were well represented. 7 • Frustrates Jail Delivery. Anderson,- May 14.—An alleged attempt of Ray Comer of Fort Wayne and Harry Bright of Crawfordsville, held in jail In connectiorf with tlio theft of an automobile from Rex Kaufman here, to escape, was frustrated by Sheriff Lewis, who found an iron bar suspended on a wire dangling from Bright’s window.

A HARMONIOUS (?) CONVENTION

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to the national convention. A threat o£ no support for Davies was made in order to take Howard county delegates away from Wood. The combination of the old guard Watson-McCray forces for the convention today is reported to include Davies for state treasurer, U. S. Lesh for attorney-general, Arthur E. Linn of Laporte for lieutenant-gov-ernor and W. G. Oliver for state auditor. The Tenth and Eleventh district delegates to the Chicago convention were instructed to vote for Hl Johnson for president. The delegates from this district are Walter E. Schrage of Whiting and Thomas Bauer of Lafayette, with A. K. Worstell of Valparaiso and Ada Bush

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of alternates. The presidential elector from the Tenth district is J. B. Lyons of Brook. The “old guard” put over Senators Watson and New,' Governor Goodrich and former Senator Beveridge as the "big four” to the national convention, and gave two places to the women —alternate delegates at large. One of the delegates at large is an Evansville negro, says the Lafayette Journal. The entire ticket as adopted by the convention follows: United States senator—James E. Watson, incumbent, Rushville. Governor —Warren T. McCray, Kentland. Lieut.-Governor —Emmet F. Branch, Martinsville. Secretary of State —Ed Jackson, incumbent, Lafayette. Auditor of State —William G. Oliver, Franklin. Treasurer of State —Ora J, Davies, Kokomo. Attorney-General—U. S. Lesh, Huntington. Delegates at large to national convention — United States Senator James E. Watson, Rushville; United States Senator Harry S. New, In. dianapoHs; Governor James P. Goodrich, and former United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis. Alternate delegates at large to the national convention —State Chairman E. M. Wasmuth, Indianapolis; Mrs. Charles A» Carlisle, South Bend; Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, Indianapolis, and W. A. Gains, Evansville. Presidential electors —L. C. HeusPresidential electors at large —L. C. Heusmann, Indianapolis; John Barbezette, Terre Haute. Superintendent of public instruction—L. N. Hines, incumbent, Crawfordsville. Reporter supreme court —Will H. Adams, incumbent, Wabash. Judges appellate court: First district —E. A. Dausman, incumbent,

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Goshen. Second district —Ira C. Batman, incumbent, Bloomington. Judge supreme court: Fifth district —Julius Travis, Laporte.

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