Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1920 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1920.

TT-BEATS ... AS IT SWEEPS AS IT CLEANS Why do we advertise The Hoover? Our advertising is only to remind you. The selling of a Hoover to you is best done by Hoover users who are your friends. From them you will hear, in more convincing language than we could summon, why The Hoover is to be preferred. W. J. Wright Rensselaer, Indiana ✓

LOCAL NEWS

Hugh Kirk was in Lafayette on business Monday. Mrs. Ida Benjamin went to Otterbein Saturday for a visit with relatives. Bro. Fitzpatrick of the FrancesAvilla Tribune was a business visitor In the city Monday. | John Collins of Chicago spent the week-end here with his brother, George Collins, and family. Miss June Snyder returned to her home at Indianapolis Monday after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Culp. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth \ little granddaughter, Joan UprX X went, to Chicago Saturday for ’’'plays’ visit. Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Barbre left via auto Sunday afternoon for Vinwhere they will attend the state convention of Christian churches this week. Roe Yeoman, who lately purchased the Mrs. Lucy Clark property on north Weston street, is extensively improving the property, having raised the house some .three or four feet, put a basement under the entire house, and making numerous other changes. The funeral of Thomas H. Robinson, who died at his home in Medaryville Thursday evening, was held at Medaryville at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, services being conducted by the Revs. John Sebring and F. J. Beisel of that City, and the remains brought to Rensselaer and laid to rest in Weston cemetery. - Abe Martin says: “Here’s somethin’ I’m crazy about an’ I’m goin’ t’ git a dish of it when times git normal,’’ said Tipton Bud t’day, as he admired some cold slaw at th’ Little Gem resturint. What’s become o’ th’ ole satisfied customer that stood around an’ joked awhile after spendin’ his money?”

-MID-WEEK SPECIALSIN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ' 1 " | CRAPEFRUIT, each . ...12c NAVAL ORANGES, good sizes 6c and 8c RADISHES, large bunchy 5c LETTUCE, per pound . 30c APPLES, good eaters 2 for 15c BANANAS, per pound 11C CELERY, per bunch •> 10c See our Display off Priscilla Sunbonnets They Open Out Flat tor Laundering 50c and 69c each

J. G. Culp made a business trip to Ottawa, 111., Monday. C. L. Carr of Newton township was a Lafayette goer yesterday. Dr. Rose M. Remmek went to Chicago Sunday to spend a few days. Miss Ruth Gorham went to Indianapolis Friday for a few days’ visit friends. E. P. Honan returned home from Ft. Wayne Monday where he attended a C. O. F. meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cloud of Indianapolis are visiting the latter’s brother, W. C. Milliron, and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Jewell of Lafayette spent Sunday here with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Nathan Fendig. Harvey Davisson left Friday for McAllen, Tex., where he will remain for some time looking after his real estate interests. Car of Armour’s hog and stock food now on track. Save money by taking off the car. —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. ml 9 Miss Mae Hurley returned Monday to East Chicago, where she is employed, after spending the week-end here* with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Hurley. Rev. J. B. Fleming went to Cleveland, 0., Monday to attend a Red Cross meeting. He was accompanied to East Chicago by Mrs. Fleming, who will visit her daughter, who is a teacher in the schools there. Mrs. Charles Horsewood and son left Friday for their home at Swa-i tara/ Minn., after being called here by the serious illness of the former’s mother, Mrs. Eleanor Adams. Mrs. Adams is improving nicely now and is able to sit up some each day. «- William Lynn Parkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Parkinson of Ninth street, who graduates this year from the Rensselaer high school, entertained a number of Rensselaer friends at a dinner party Saturday evening at । his home. The guests Included J. D. Roth, Lawrence McLain, Manley Price, Ernest Harris and Emil Hanley, all of Rensselaer. —Lafayette Journal.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Joe Reeve was in Chicago on business yesterday. Yesterday’s local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 38c; butterfat, 58c. Mr. and Mrs. George Shaall of Wolcott spent Sunday here with their daughter, Mrs. Charles V. May. John Hallagan, Thomas Lonergan and Mrs. Delos Thompson were among the Chicago goers Monday. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Burson and William R. Jones were over from Francesville yesterday on business. W. A. Hendricks of Lafayette got the Ford automobile given away by the Van Rensselaer club last Saturday. Robert Loy, Walter King and Alfred Thompson, who are employed in Chicago spent the week-end here with home folks. No. 9204. Marie Stoller et al. vs. John Mayotte; action for foreclosure of vendor’s lein. Complaint asks judgment for $l,lOO. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coen of Chicago and Albert Coen of Berwyn, 111., were here Monday to attend the Judson Maines funeral. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Muster, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Daniels and George Reed and family were in Valparaiso Sunday, making the trip via auto. Dr. W. L. Myer left Saturday evening for Denver, Colo., to see his sister, Mrs. Lena Todd, who is to undergo a very serious operation. R. J. Yeoman of Newton township went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend the I. O. O. F. grand lodge meeting, as a delegate from Mt. Ayr lodge. •

Mesdames J. I. Gwin and A. A. Hoover went to Indianapolis Monday to attend the Democratic state convention, which will be held there today and tomorrow. The St. Joseph college baseball team went to Wheatfield Sunday and played the team at that place, which resulted in defeat for the college by a score of 8 to 5. Mr. and Mrs. George Gulre and two children returned to their home at Kokomo Monday after a short visit here with Mrs. Guire’s mother, Mrs. Fannie Wasson. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, $1.90; oats, sl.lO;ovheat, $2.90; rye, $2.05. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.60; oats, 62c; wheat, no quotation; rye, $1.35. Orrle Potts went to Lacross Monday for a short visit with his aunt, Mrs. Jerry Miller. He will return to Rensselaer for a few days before going back to his duties at Washington. x Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clark ot Helper, Utah, who had been visitiug relatives at Delphi, came Saturday for a visit with the former’s brother, Leslie Clark, and family, returning to Delphi Monday. Miss Elizabeth King entertained the following young people from Chicago over the week-end: Misses Ruth Clark and Marguerite Cleary and Messrs. L. W. Hughes, H. W. Willis and D, K. Beshoar.

J. J. Montgomery and Councilmen Rex Warner and Fred Waym(ire were in Chicago Monday Investigating the fire truck proposition, the city having decided to purchase a motor truck and dispose of the fire team. Dr. W. C. Miller of Hammond spent the week-end here with, the L. H. Hamilton family, going to Indianapolis Monday to attend a state dental meeting being held there this week. Dr. H. L. Brown of this city is also attending the meeting. Letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ended May 15: Mr. Grover Dietrich, Mr. Joe Fred, Miss Alice Galbrath, Mrs. Peter Lambert, Mr. Jim Shaffer, Earnest Thompson. If not called for above letters will be sent to deadletter office May 31. Mrs. Allie May Potts has sold, her residence property and four lots just south of the Holden greenhouse to Floyd Robinson, who is a partner with Mr. Holden in the greenhouse business. The consideration is $3,000, and possession is to be given about June 1, it is understood.

The following ladies from here attended a district meeting of the Tenth District Federated clubs of Indiana at Lafayette Thursday: Mesdames Ora T. Ross, J. H. Chapman, Frank Kresler, J. D. Allman, C. E. Prior, W. Hanley, Cope Hanley and Miss Muriel Harris. Mrs. H. F. Little of Goodland was elected president and succeeds Mrs. H. H. Clark of East Chicago. Mrs. M, Schultz of Lafayette was elected vice-president, and Miss Fay 4 Paxton of Hobart, secretary-treasurer.

T. J. Mallatt of Virgie was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Charles Mansfield, wife and little son of Chicago spent Sunday at the home of Rolla Gates. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Duvall went to Chicago Monday evening for a few days’ visit with relatives. Delos Dean has a lot of lumber on the ground and will erect a modern new residence on his lot on Home avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilson and little daughter of Hammond spent Sunday here with the J. J. Hunt family and Mrs. Wilson’s mother, Mrs. J. M. Wasson. An incipient blaze in the office of the Benton Review at Fowler last Friday morning did considerable damage to paper stock, ink rollers, etc., before being discovered. _ H. B. Tuteur and Robert Reeve of this city, accompanied by Misses Lena Lyons of Brook and Edna Robinson of Morocco, drove to Lafayette Sunday afternoon and dined at the Hotel Fowler Sunday evening. A Ford automobile belonging to John Collins of near Tefft was appropriated for a joy ride or stolen Saturday night, but was found Sunday afternoon abandoned near San Pierre. It is not known who the party or parties were who took the car or whether they intended to steal it or merely “wanted to use it.”

Important News Events of the World Summarized

• • • A resolution requesting President Wilson to send an American warship and marines to Batum, on the Black sea, to protect the lives and property at that port and along the railroad to Baku, was reported unanimously by the senate foreign relations commitee at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington signed a bill amending the deportation law so as to make possible the deportation of Germans and other aliens who were interned during the war as enemy aliens. * • • Bills authorizing the treasury at Washington to coin special 50-cent pieces In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Maine and Alabama to statehood were signed by President Wilson. • • • Secretary Daniels, before the senate investigating committee at Washington made his long-awaited reply to the criticism of Rear Admiral Sims of the navy’s part in the war. The naval secretary let go a broadside which Included charges that Sims lacked vision, belittled the work of the American navy in contrast to the British, coveted British decorations and aspired to become an honorary member of the British admiralty. • • • Census reports Issued at Washington included: Champaign, 111., 15,873, an increase of 3,452, or 27.8 per cent; Urbana, 111., 10,230, an Increase of 1,985 or 24.1 per cent; Canton, 111., 10,928, an increase of 475, or 4.5 per cent. * * • The shipping board at Washington, under a decree signed by Justice Bailey in the District of Columbia supreme court, Is perpetually enjoined from selling the 20 former German liners seized when the United States entered the war. * • •

Domestic William J. McClendliss, superintendent of the Chicago-Omaha aerial mail division, was killed when an airplane in which he was riding was blown Into a tree four miles south of Oskaloosa, la. * * * Charged with attempted blackmail of a Catholic priest of Kenosha, Wis., Mathew Turk and Dewey Daggerty were held to the federal grand jury by a United States commissioner at' Toledo, O. ♦ ♦ ♦ Perry W. Blacklear, twenty-four years old, of San Diego, Cal., former army air instructor, was killed at 4jnerlcus, Ga., in a fall of 1,500 feet while flying alone in a German Fokker machine, rs’’ -* .v" ♦ • • James Cdosimo, one of the Chicago underworld’s most famous characters, keeper of a restaurant in the old “redlight” district, was shot and killed in one of his case rooms. • • ♦ Persons desiring to journey to the oasis at Juarez, Mex., opposite EI Paso, will have to pay a fee of $2.50 to have their tourist permits .psed by the new revolutionary* government. Henry Labarre Jayne, z lawyer and leader in political reform movements died at Philadelphia, a®ed sixty-three

May Shoe Sale IN this exceptional offer you will find some of our very highest priced Ladies’ Shoes —Latest Styles—in an almost complete range of sizes, and medium widhts They Include Grey, Field Mouse and Brown Leather Shoes with Military or Louise heels, White Canvas Lace Boots in Military or Louise heels. On all of the above shoes you will be given a Reduction of 20 Per Cent from Our Regular Price Also One Lot of Odds and Ends Consisting of Ladies' small sizes, in Shoes, Oxfords and Pumps, sizes range from to 4%, medium widths, at $2.00 to $4-00 One Lot of Children’s Oxfords Consisting of Black Velvet, Kid and Patent Leather, White Buckskin and Tan Calf, sizes to 1. Prices sl-00 to $2-00 This MAY SALE affords you an opportunity for you to secure your Footwear at a Decided Saving on Every Pair You purohase. Columbia Shoe Store GEO. E. COLLINS, Proprietor

Clarence Coombs, piloting an Orcnco plane with three passcugers and himself, rose to the height of 16,200 feet, a new ./orlds record, over Mitchel field at Mineola, N. Y. The record is vouched for by officials. * • • Henry B. Matthews of Decatur, 111., and his companion, Frank B. Hornret, were killed and their bodies burned when a passenger train struck their automobile at Bell crossing near Mnttoon. » • • Directors of Libby, McNeill & Libby, at Chicago, voted a 50 per cent stock dividend on the 1,280,000 shares of stock, par value $lO each. Stockholders will be asked to authorize the distribution of the dividend. • * • Joe Tendler of Philadelphia knocked Papin, the French pugilist, out in the sixth round at Jersey City, N. J. The Frenchman took a fearful beating. • • • Politic* Edmund M. Wasmuth was unanimously re-elected Republican state chairman at a meeting of the state central committee at Indianapolis. ♦ ♦ ♦ Representative Henry L. Flood of Virginia was elected chairman of the Democratic congressional committee at Washington, vice Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, resigned. ♦ • • The Socialist party’s national convention at New York went on record as opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat in voting down an international Socialist declaration of principles. x —— United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts was chosen to deliver the “keynote speech” as temporary chairman of the Republican national convention by the convention subcommittee of the Republican national committee at Chicago, which also decided that someone else shall be permanent chairman of the convention. * • • Illinois Republicans at Snrlncfleld

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turned thumbs down on Mayor WH* 11am Hale Thompson of Chicago and gave Gov. Frank O. Lowden a sweeping Indorsement. After seven hours' debate the Thompson platform wau defeated by a vote of 1,110 to 631. Lowden now will go Into the national convention In Chicago with the entire support of the state delegation. Foreign A London dispatch says the negotlatlons between Denmark and soviet Russia, which has been going on for some time with the view to resuming trade relations, were broken off. • • • A rebellion has occurred in Moscow, but appears to have been successfully quelled by the soviet government, according to private advices received at Copenhagen. • * • Gen. Alvaro Obregon, who fled from Mexico City, disguised as a brakeman, April 13, returned at the head of several thousand troops. * • • * , ’-1 A soviet government has been established in Erlvan, says a dispatch from Constantinople. The old Erlvan government has fled. Soviets also have been seU up in other trans-Caucasian centers. * • • President Carranza, at the head of a large body of loyal troops, is holding out against attacks by enemy forces near San Marcos, according to dispatches received at Vera Cruz. For eight hours during the fighting he personally directed the operations. • * * Forty-six Germans ranking from an army corps commander to a simple private, figure on the allies’ first specified list of alleged war criminals to ba arraigned in the Leipzig supreme court. • • • Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, commanding the United States naval units, arrived at Constantinople on the cruiser Pittsburgh from Black sea ports, bringing with him 50 American relief workers.

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