Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — Page 2

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HE JIM COUNIT DEMOCRIT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF ■ JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Tolaphoooo Office 315 Residence 311 Kntered as second class mall matter Puna 3, ISOB. at the poetoffice at eelarr, Indiana, under the Act of March Published Wednesday and Saturday Fhe Only AU-Home-Print Newspaper In Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION J 2 SO PHR ANNUM—STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY Twenty cents per Inoh. - Special position, Twenty-five cents inch READERS Per line, first insertion, ten cents. Per line, additional Insertions, five Seats. WANT ADS One cent per word each insertion; minimum 26 cents. Special price If run ene or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has an •pen account. CARD OF THANKS Not to exceed ten lines, fifty cents; hash with order. ACCOUNTS All due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash With order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1920.

TAX LAW

Here is the plank of the Repub* lican platform on the tax law: We commend the last general assembly for its action in revising the tax law of Indiana. The virtues of this law commend themselves, the defects have been made apparent through its enforcement. We pledge ourselves to immediately correct these defects through proper legislation. We believe that the control of tax levies and bond issues should be restored to local taxing units in order that the right of self-go verm ment by the various counties, townships and municipalities of the state may at all times be preserved. A more insincere and dishonest piece of writing is hardly imaginable. First, the tax law is commended. How can the revising of u law be praised without carrying with it praise for the revision? Second, it is said that defects have appeared in the enforcement of the law. That is untrue. The defects are inherent in the law. It needed no trial to prove that the taking away of the right of local taxing units to fix their tax levies was an abridgement of the right of selfgovernment. The defects of the tax law are radical in character and not minor as the platform would lead the reader to assume. They were as apparent when the law was passed as they are today. The tax law was the crowning achievement of the Republican legislature. It was a blunder, a crime on the people. A party that was so stupid that it could not see the collossal defects of the tax law until pointed out to

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them by an enraged people, has little warrant to ask the people to give it another chance to undo its own blunders. If the tax law is a sample of Re-t publican efficiency, of the party’s ability to conduct the government of the state nothing can be expected for the future but more blunders, more outrageous legislation. — Evansville Courier.

BELGIUM’S QUICK RECOVERY

Hardest Hit Country In War Is First to Reach Normal State. Belgium, all but about one-eleventh of whose territory of 11,373 square miles had been for four years occupied, pillaged, devastated, combed for its last stand of flax, sifted for its last speck of gold by the Germans, with a seventh of its population toiling like slaves in Germany and the balance kept alive at home by food largely contributed by the United States, has been first to reach a normal state, and, after 16 months of feverish activity, now leads all the European belligerents in rehabilitation. One year after the armistice Belgium was the first to cease rationing her people. She had reduced the cost of living from 1,110 per cent above normal to 244 per cent. At the end of the war nearly 1,000,000 persons were out of work. By February, 1920, no one was out of work unless he wished to be. Eightyseven per cent of the coal mines, 100 per cent of_ the railways and 75 per cent of the textile factories had recovered their pre-war activities.

The tax returns for the first six months of the fiscal year 1919-20 had been estimated at $60,000,000; the actual returns were nearly a third over that sum. In the year before the war the trade of Belgium, export, import and transit, amounted to $1,725,000,000; in 1919 it amounted to $1,022,000,000. In 1913 imports worth $100,000,000 came from the United States; in the first 10 months of 1919 Imports from the same country were valued at $300,000,000. Incidentally, Belgium has killed profiteering by co-operative buying and selling. She borrowed $250, i ■ 000,000 at 5 per cent from Great "Britain and used $55,000,000 of it to purchase material from the departing American army. The net profit, exclusive of the loss of that distributed freely, was $5,000,000. —Current History.

“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 and hollers.” — Well, I am hollerin’. I have a carload of Buggies to sell.—C. A. ROBERTS. ‘ . -ts

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

“Yankee Trick"

k NE night in 1862, fifty cavI airy men rode into a vil- * lage in Virginia, and following the telegraph line,

IJA • st °Pl>ed before a house where the ' ® wires entered a window on the second story. Kicking open the front door they mounted to a room used for a telegraph office, where they found a clicking key, but no person present. A woman’s hat hung on a peg, a small pair of feminine rubbers were on the floor, and an umbrella with a mother-of-pearl handle stood ih a corner. A kerosene lamp was burning on the table to which the electric key was fixed. “This office is evidently run by a woman,” said the major commanding. “Come, sergeant, sit down there and get to work." A sergeant stepped to the table and the major read to him a message to be sent to General J. E. B. Stuart, as follows : “We have destroyed the bridge as ordered, and there is no retreat for that force of the enemy encamped on the other side. But the destroyed bridge is only five miles in their rear, and if they learn that it is down they may slip away by another route. It may be well, therefore, to move upon them as soon as possible.” “Put that in cipher,” said the general, “and send It at once.” A reply to the message was received, stating that two divisions would move simultaneously from different points on the federal force and a third would occupy the position of the wrecked bridge. All would move together by sunrise. The major was instructed to remain where he was till ordered away, and be sure to hold the telegraph connections. The men bivouacked in the yard «urrounding the house, while the officers awakened the occupants and secured sleeping rooms. The major, to make sure that no message of warning for the enemy should be sent, remained in the telegraph office. He had been on duty for several days, with but /a few hours’ sleep. There was a lounge in the room, very bulky and with a soft cushion. The major locked the door and threw himself on the lounge. He was so tired that he found it-difficult to go to sleep. The key on the table kept clicking with the usual words passing over the wire, for the messages that had been sent from that office having been in cipher those controlling the line could not know that the station was In the hands of the Confederates. Big what bothered the major was a clicking which seamed to be within the lounge on which he lay.. It appeared to be an echo from the key on the table, for when the key clicked the lounge seemed to click. But the major was so lost to consciousness that it would have taken the report of a cannon to arouse him. He was awakened at seven o’clock in the morning by one of his junior offi-

cers knocking at his door. Arousing himself, he got up and, after .a hearty breakfast, called for the sergeant who had sent the message for him, In order to be prepared to receive the announcement of the capture of the federal force which was to be surrounded. The sergeant called up general headquarters and was Informed that no news had yet been received from the Confederate forces which had gone to make the Capture. The major was instructed to hold the station until ordered away. At nine o’clock a clatter of horses’ hoofs

was heard simultaneously on all the roads leading into town. The major sprang to the window" and saw federal cavalrymen galloping from every direction toward a common center, that center being the telegraph office. There were hundreds of them, while he had but fifty men. There was nothing to do but await capture. In a few minutes a force had surrounded the Confederates in the yard and an officer, throwing himself from his horse, mounted the stairs In the house, followed by two orderlies. Throwing open the door the orderlies covered the major, who, having no Idea of resisting such a force, surrendered.

“Put That in Cipher," Said the General, “and Send It at Once."

••Captain," said he to the officer who had captured him, “will you be good enough to explain how you knew w® were here?" “Certainly. Your telegram to General Stuart was repeated to our general commanding the force you intended to capture. We lost no time In getting on the other side of the river and, being advised of the movement of your troops, a superior force was sent to cut off that division which was to have got in our rear. This force of yours ha, been captured." The major stood with eyes wide open. “You say our dispatch was repeated to you from this oflice?” “It was." “I sent it in cipher.” “We got it In plain English." “How could you have done that?” At this point the top of the lounge on which the officer had rested was lifted and under it the face of a young girl was visible. “I can explain the matter,” said a soft voice. "This office being in an exposed position, I had this lounge made for me on purpose, In case I should need a hiding place. I’ve got an electric key in here with me, connected with the main line by a concealed wire running from under the lounge. Wher I heard the Confederates coining 1 opened the lounge and got in. I heard the major tell his man the message before it was put in

cipher. So I was enabled to transmit it in plain language. I knew the major was on the lounge, so I only used iny key when the one' on the table waS clicking. That’s all there Is to it; it’s not much of a story." “Not much of a story!” exclaimed the federal captain. “Well, that’s a good one! Only changed capture of our men into capture of Johnnies.” “A Yankee trick!” cried the major. “You’re not a Southern girl, are you?” “No, I’m from Conn ec 11 cu t I was brought down here with the Union army to act as operator."

‘1 knew you were from New England. They are very cute up there," replied the major. “Give me your name and address at home. When this war Is >ver I’m going to hunt you up.” “To kill me for this?” asked the girl, playfully. “To kill you? No; to marry you if you’ll have me. Any girl who can play as smart a trick as that is worth going to Connecticut for, and doing a big job of courting to win.” The major was marched away. But he kept his word. After the war he sought the girl and married her. 'Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.)

DAY BELONGS TO THE NATION

3hnce 1868 the Ceremony of Decorating the Graves of the Heroes Has Been Observed. Memorial day;' or Decoration day, as it was at first called, is said to have really originated with some southern women, In Columbus, Miss., soon after the Civil war. In caring for the graves of their loved ones who had fallen only a few months before, they strewed flowers not only on the graves of the Confederate but also on-those of northern soldiers who had fallen in the same battles. Three years after the war Gen. John A. Logan, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued an order in which he named May 30, 1868, “for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country, and whose bodies lies In almost every city, village or hamlet churchyard in the land.” The day Is now a legal holiday in practically all states of the Union, although all of them do not celebrate May 30, the date being earlier In some parts of the South. In the South there is also a separate memorial for the soldiers of the “Lost Cause,” and this is called “Confederate Memorial day.” In Louisiana it is celebrated on the birthday of Jefferson Davis (June 3), who was the first and only president of the short-lived Confederacy.

Our Nation's Heroes.

On Memorial day a thrill runs through every little hamlet in the land. Instinctively our thoughts turn to the little mounds beneath which sleep the nation’s dead. Ten thousand preachers tell ten million worshipers to honor the Blue and the Gray. Temples grand and cross-roads chapels ring with patriots’ hymn and national anthem. Somehow the very flowers breathe a fragrance that makes the blood flow a little faster. The reason Is ’tls Memorial day and the nation honors her warrior dead. We think of them with awed reverence. We follow the crowds, the band plays, orators extol, and little children place flowers beside the Stars and Stripes of the veterans.

“To Kill you? No; to Marry You if You’ll Have Me."

MR. AUTOMOBILE BUYER I am talking to yo<u, and straight from the shoulder. The Nadh Six, either In open or closed car, offers more for the money than any other touring car on the market, selling below 13,000. This is a broad statement. Make me prove it. Drop me a line. Ring my phone. And I’ll be there. Demonstration gladly given. Office phone 273. Residence 253. Prices F. O. B. Kenosha Nash Six—s passenger; wheelbase 121 inches. . |1,595 Six — 7 passenger;' wheelbase 127 inches.. 1,765 Nash Six — 4 passenger Sport Model; wheelbase 121 Inches 1,745 Nash Six —Roadster; wheelbase 121 Inches 1,595 Nash Six—Touring Sedan; wheelbase 127 Inches.. 2,725 Nash Six — 4 passenger Coupe; wheelbase 127 Inches Prices subject to increase without notice. G. W. GILHAN Retailer GOODLAND, INDIANA

CERTIFICATE OF ENROLLMENT ROBERT Sound, PURE BRED Stallion. No. 3022. (Laws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter 28). The pedigree of the Stallion Robert, No. 59688, American, owned by Fred H. Linback, P. O. Pleasant Ridge, Ind., Jasper county, described as follows: Color and marks, black, white snip Pereheroti; foaled in has been examined / in the office of — tiie Secretary of lion Enrollment ’ Board, and It is (Not exact likeness) hereby certified that the said stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in a pedigree register association, society or company recognized as standard in accordance with section 4 of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. The above named Stallion has been examined by a duly qualified licensed veternarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified In the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. C. M. MCCONNELL, Pres. HARRY M. MOBERLY, Vice-Pres. Not good unless countersigned by W. B. KRUECK, Secretary. Renewed in 1920 within the time specified in section 8 of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. Void after January 1, 1921. Robert will make the season of 1920 as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at my farm, one-half mile north of Pleasant Ridge; Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at my place occupied by Albert Linback, 1 mile east and 3 miles sputh of Rensselaer. TERMS —$15 to insure colt to stand and suck. FRED LINBACK.

CERTIFICATE OF ENROLLMENT BONILLIANT Sound PURE BRED Stallion No. 12361 A (Laws of Indiana, 1913. Chapter 28) The pedigree of the Stallion Bonnllliant. No. 27158 American, owned by I. L. Jones, P. O. Rensselaer, Ind., County of Jasper, de- ( ySgfc. scribed as follows: Color and marks, red roan; breed, Fr e e h Draft; foaled in the year 1907; has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board and it is hereby (Not exact likeness) certified that the said stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in a pedigree register association, society or company recognized as standard in accordance with Section 4 of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. The above Stallion has been examined by Dr. H. J. Kannal, a duly qualified licensed veternarian, and is certified by affdavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such In the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. ' _ (Seal) C. H. ANTHONY, Pres. C. M. McCONNELL, Vice-Pres. Not good unless coutnerslgned by H. E. McCartney, Secy. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this 4th day of April, 1918. Renewed March 15, 1919. h. e. McCartney, secy. Renewed February 7, 1920. W. B. KRUECK, Secy. Renewed in 1920 within the time specified in Section 8 of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. Void after January L 1921. . BONILLIANT will stand during the season of 1920 at my place, 3-4 mile west and 3-4 mile north of Alx. Terms sls to Insure colt to stand and suck. Disposing of mares or moving from county, the fee becomes due and payable at once. Not responsible for accidents. Breeding hours, morning and evening. I- L - JONES.

INDIANA. STALLION ENROLLMENT BOARD. Certificate of Enrollment Sound GRADE Stallion. No. 15137 B Laws of Indiana. 1913, Chapter 28 The pedigree of the Grade Percheron Stallion, Gabon, Jr., owned by Joe F. Sheurich, P. O|, Rensselaer, Ind.. R. u. D, 2, County of Jasper, described as follows: Color and marks. Black; stripe; left hind foot white. I’oalin the year 1913, Sire, Gabon, Stud Book No. 61994, has been examlned in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Not an Board, and it is exact likeness hereby certified that the said Stallion IS NOT OF PURE BREEDING -and is, therefore, NOT ELIGIBLE TO REGISTRY in any Stud Book recognized as standard by the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. The above named Stallion has been examined by Dr. R. Y. Oosten, a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Enrollment Law. Not good unless countersigned by W. B. KRUECH, Secretary. C. M. McCONNELL, President HARRY M. MOBERLY, Vice-Pres. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this 28th day of April, 1920. Note —This certificate expires annually January Ist, and. must be renewed before March 15 th, following. Gabon, Jr., will stand the season at my place, 5 miles north and 1 mile west of* at 10 to Insure colt to stand and suck. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur. j-30 JOB r. BKEURICH.

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1920. V

, RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect March 30, 1919. NORTHBOUND. No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:34 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5 01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:51 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 2:27 a.m. No 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 *.m. No. 37 Chicago to Indianap’s 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chgo to Indpls and F L 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 81 Chicago to Indianap’s 7:31 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICIALS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sanda Civil Engineer ....L. A. Bostwick Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden ... .J. J. Montgomery Councilman Ward No. 1 Ray Wood Ward No. 2 J. D. Allman Ward No. 3 Fred Waymue At large—Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL OFFICIALS Circuit Judge C. W. Hanley Prosecuting Atty...J. C. Murphey Terms of court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICIALS Clerk Jesse Nichols Sheriff True D. Woodworth Auditor 8. C. Robinson Treasurer John T. Biggs Recorder George Scott Surveyor L. D. Nesbitt Coroner W. J. Wright Assessor G. L. Thornton Agricultural agent.... S. Learning Health Officer .... F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS District No. 1 H. W. Marble District No. 2 Bert Amsler District No. 3 Charles Welch Commissioners’ court meets the first Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Brant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter Benj. F. LaFevre Gillam Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Huff Jordan Alfred Duggleby Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Charles W. Postill Marlon Charles C. Wood Milroy John Rush Newton Walter Harrington Union John F. Petet Walker John Bowie Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendent C. M. Sands, Truant officer.

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Abstracts, Real Eacate loann. Will practice in all the courts. Offie* over Fendig's Fair. Rensselaer, Indiana. George A. Williams D. Delos Dean WILLIAMS & DEAN LAWYERS All court matters promptly attended to. Estates settled. Wills prepared. Farm Loans. Insurance. Collections. Abstracts of title made and examined. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor to Frank Folts) t Practice in all courts Estates settled ( Farm loans Collection department Notary in the office Over T. & S. bank. ’Pnone No. 16 Rensselaer, Indiana. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE Five per cent Farm Loans Office In Odd Fellows’ Block Rensselaer, Indiana. E. N. LOY PHYSICIAN Office over Murray’s department store. Office hours: 10 to 12 and 3 to K. Evening, 7 to 8. Phone 39. Rensselaer, Indiana. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the State bank Office ’Phone No. 177 Residence ’Phone No. 177-B Rensselaer, Indiana. F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to typhoid, pneumonia and low grades of / fever. Office over Fendig’s drug stoev. ’Phones: Office No. 442; Kes. No. 442-B. Rensselaer, Indiana. F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteo* athy. Post-graduate American School of Osteopathy under the founder. Dr. A. T. Stiff. Office hours: 8-12 a. m.; 1-1 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Indiana. Office 1-3 Murray building Rensselaer, Indiana. J. W. HORTON DENTIST JOHN N. HORTON MECHANICAL DENTIST Dentistry In all Its branches practiced her*. Office Opposite Court House Square. DR. W, E. RUSSELL Veterinarian (Successor to Dr. J. Hansson) Telephone 443 Rensselaer, Ind.

Jasper Reduction Co REED & REED, Props. If you lose any livestock, notify us and we will send for the carcass promptly. We also take old, crippled or diseased animals off your hands. Telephone 906-1 or 17-Black.

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