Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — Page 4

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Are You Going to the Christian Bible School NEXT SUNDAY? * Let us make next Sunday a stepping stone to the greatest school we have ever had SUNDAY, JUNE 13, “EVERYBODY’S DAY”. The Children’s Day Program will be given then.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

iThe Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. SHOULD HANDLE OWN AFFAIRS Public Service Commission Indicate! Favor of Home Rule in Deciding Appeal Made by City of Laporte. Indianapolis, June 4. —What amounts Ito a declaration of attitude by the public service commission on the questiota of city or commission jurisdiction over extensions by a public utility is contained in an order the commission has issued in a ease brought by the city of Laporte. The commission dismissed for want of jurisdiction the city’s petition that it require the Laporte Gas and Electric company to show cause why the company falls to serve all the citizens of Laporte. The commission ruled that if the city of Laporte desires the relief sought, “it may, by ordinance or resolution, order and direct the Laporte Gas and Electric company to make the desired additions and extensions” and continues that “if it believes the requirements unreasonable the company may appeal to the cornanission.” Commissioner Paul R. Haynes in writing the order in the case had in mind the laying down of a policy that the commission in passing on his proposal might adopt as its fixed one regarding the extensions and additions problem. He wrote in the order: “The commission has no authority under section 73 of the public [Service commission act to assume original jurisdiction over additions and extensions of public utilities, and its jurisdiction in the matte- ’« confined to a

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review on appeal, under section 110, ot the orders of municipal councils requiring extensions, or the failure of municipal councils to pennit extensions prayed for by the utility.”

Students Take Ephebic Oath. Evansville, June 4.—One of the features of the annual commencement exercises of the Central high school of Evansville to be held Friday evening, June 18, will be the taking of the ephebic oath by all of the graduates. More than 100 seniors will receive diplomas, this being the largest class in the history of the school. William Carleton, president of the class of 1920 and one of the speakers, will preside at the commencement exercises. The ephebic oath follows: “I will not disgrace my sacred weapons nor desert the comrade who is placed at my side. I will fight for things holy and against things profane, whether I am alone or with others. I will hand on my fatherland greater and better than 1 found It. I will hearken to the magistrates and obey the existing laws and those hereafter established by the people. I will not consent unto any that destroys or disobeys the constitution, but prevent him, whether I am alone or with others. I will honor the temples and the religion which my forefathers established. So help me Agraulos, Enyalius, Ares, Zeus, Thales, Auxo Hegemone.”

Every farmer who owns his farm ought to have printed stationery with his name and the name of his postofflee properly given. The printed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he specialIses in or his specialities in stock. Neatly printed stationery gives you a personality and a standing with any person or firm to whom you write and Insures the proper reading of your name and address. U

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Sporting Gaston Chevrolet drove an American car to victory in the International sweepstakes at Indianapolis Speedway before a cheering multitude of 125,000 spectators. Chevrolet, piloting a Monroe special, made the 500 miles In 5 hours, 40 minutes and 16.14 seconds, an average of 88.16 miles an hour. His is the first American-made car to win the event in seven years. * « • Politics A plank demanding' a nonintervention policy in Mexico may be included In the labor platform presented the Republican and Democratic national conventions by a committee of the American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers, it was4earned at Washington. • * • Gov. William C. Sproul at a caucus of Pennsylvania national delegates at Philadelphia announced that his name would be presented to the Republican national convention as a candidaterfor president, but was opposed to the delegation taking any formal action as a unit. • * • Two Lowden delegates from the Fourth Missouri district, one a recipient of $2,000 from the Illinois governor, according to testimony befort the senate committee on campaign expenditures at Chicago, were thrown out by the Republican national committee. The men denied credentials were John S. Boyer and H. N. Albus, both of St. Joseph, Mo. * * • Gen. Leonard Wood gained two delegates to the Republican national convention at Chicago when the national committee seated Frank J. Hogan and James J. Cobb, representing the District of Columbia. • • • The Republican national committee began the task of making up the temporary roll of the convention at Chicago. One contest only was decided. This was the Arkansas one. The “lily white” delegation, the majority of whose members are claimed by Governor Lowden’s friends, was seated. • ♦ • ’ Domestic Representatives of the nation’s railroad workers told the United States railway labor board at Chicago that only “an Immediate and partial award of an increase of nt least 18 cents per hour to all railroad employees pending final settlement of their wage demands will meet an increasingly critical situation and prevent a complete collapse of transportation in the United States.” • » • Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas debated at New York the modern industrial .question: Is the right to strike inalienable? Is a law preventing strikes that-affect the production or distribution of necessities of life an infringement upon liberty of the-worker? Are the interests of the public* paramount? Can society act to protect itself? ♦ * ♦ Forty-two persons were injured, four seriously, at Liscomb, la., when a squad of former soldiers fired a Memorial day salute. * ♦ • Five persons were kille<L'- and a score injured in a head-on collision of two St. Louis & San Francisco passenger trains near White Oak, Okla. • * * Anthracite coal mine workers will abide by any decision of the presidential coal commission to settle their wage dispute and all danger of a stoppage of work in the hard coal region has passed, according to an announcement made at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. • * * Sailors and marines from the Great Lakes station renewed the race rioting begun between negroes and bluejackets in Waukegan, 111. The uniformed men charged the Shetman hotel, center of the negro district. They were beaten off by provost guards from the Great Lakes station. Two marines were wounded. ♦ * ♦ Expressing the hope that his action would serve as a moral lesson to all dealers throughout the country* 'who may be charging unjust prices for necessities, Federal Judge'Harland B. Howe of Burlington, Vt., imposed a $55,000 fine on the John A. Roberts company of Utica, N. Y„ convicted of profiteering in clothing. ♦ » * Miss Grace Hampton of Santa Barbara and Roger B. Thompson of San Francisco, son of W. O. Thompson, president of the University of Ohio, were killed at Santa Barbara, Cal., when an automobile in which they were riding ran into a stone bridge near Carpinteria. * * * Martin Kowalczky, Peter Sarneckl and Joseph Ballman of Chicago were found guilty by a jury before Federal Judge Landis of violating the prohibition . law by selling “moonshine” » whisky.

The Delaware legislature adjourned line die without ratifying the Susan 18. Anthony federal suffrage amendment. • • • Cheaper collars were promised at New York when representatives of >ne of the largest collar manufacturing corporations of New York nnaounced that wholesale prices had seen cut to enable retailers throughjut the country to sell its product at 25 cents each. They are retailing as high as 35 cents. * • • Declaring that they cannot live on present wages and expressing the belef that the railway wage board will ?rant their demands, 300 delegates rep•esenting the United Brotherhood of Railway Maintenance of Way Emjloyees and Railway Shop Laborers )pened a convention at Chicago. • • • - ■ Personal Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Taft at New Haven, Conn., announced the engagement of their daughter, Helen, to Frederick Johnson Manning, instructor in history Jn Yale university, and former arniy lieutenant. The marriage will take place in Canada in July. * * • Foreign Polish troops have taken the offensive between Borisov and Bobruisk on the center of the front, which Is under attack from the Russian bolsheviki, and occupied the line of the Beresina river, according to an official statement issued at army headquarters in Warsaw. • « • Mastering a tempest that was raging in the Hankone mountains, 40 miles southeast of the metropolis, the Italian aviators, Lieutenants Masiero and Ferrari, arrived in Tokyo, completing a flight of 12,000 miles from Rome. Tills is the longest airplane flight in history. • • • America’s Memorial day in France was made virtually a joint FrancoAmerican ceremony by the presence of French military and civil authorities at all services in the nearly 500 groups of graves in France. On many programs French outnumbered Americans and prominent Frenchmen everywhere took part in the exercises. * * * ’ Threats by Villa to destroy the property of the Alvarado Mining company at Parral, Mex., unless he was given $50,000, were reported to the state department by the American consul at Chihuahua. * • • Washington A complete agreement on the house merchant marine bill was reached by house and senate conferees at Washington. Under the agreement provisions providing for a permanent shipping board of seven members were retained. The bill provides for a reserve of $25,000,000 annually. * * * Charging that Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, had a “perverted sympathy” for the criminal anarchist, Attorney General Palmer told a house committee at Washington that in dealing with attempts of the government to rid the country of dangerous aliens, Mr. Post had employed a “self-willed and autocratic substitution of his own mistaken personal viewpoint for the obligation of the public law.” • • * Provisions of the war revenue act requiring the president and federal judges to pay an income tax on their salaries were declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme court at Washington in a 7 to 2 decision. Under the act the president paid on his salary of $75,000 a year, approximately $16,000 in taxes. ♦ ♦ ♦ Agreement on the $436,000,000 annual sundry civil appropriation bill was reached by senate and house conferees. • * * Anthracite miners and operators formally announced at Washington acceptance of President Wilson’s offer for the appointment of a commission to decide their wage controversy. ♦ » * President Wilson signed the annual agricultural appropriation bill, which continues in force the present cotton futures contract, under which trading on the cotton exchanges is carried on. » » * The house passed the soldiers’ bonus bill by a vote of 289 to 92. All officers and men under the rank of captain are included in the bill as passed by the house. ' Five forms of adjusted compensation are provided. The cash bo-, nus is to be paid on the basis of days , served., • • f After making slight modifications in the house bill broadening the powers of the government to deport alien anarchists and to prevent their admission into the country, the senate immigration committee ordered the measure favorably reported. * ♦ * The United States senate was heckled from the galleries by a dozen women sympathizers with the cause of Irish freedom. The women were busted by ushers. ♦ * * The elevator law of North Dakota 'was held valid by the United States Supreme court at Washington. The North Dakota legislature passed a law authorizing expenditure of state moneys raised by taxation, in the establishment and operation of state grain elevators for the convenience 1 and profit of its citizens. ,

CITES NAVY'S RECORD

DANIELS ADDRESSES GRADUATING CLASS AT ANNAPOLIS. ■- ” *1 " ■— Secretary Tells New Naval Officers to Venture Into Realm of Things New and Untried. Annapolis, June 4. —On the spirit and will of its officers to cast off “slavery to tradition” and venture into the realm of things new and untried depends the future strength aud efficiency of the American navy, Secretary Daniels told the graduating class of midshipmen at the naval academy here In presenting diplomas to its 289 members. Citing as an object lesson the navy’s record of resourcefulness in the world war, as best exemplified in the North sea barrage, the secretary delivered an earnest appeal to the young officers not to let the weight of accepted theories restrain their efforts to keep America sea power at the forefront In strategy and Invention. “To some men tradition is a taskmaster, a hard rule, a beaten path,” the secretary declared. “To others It is a star in the firmament, a light to the pathway; wings on which to mount for clearer vision and wiser action, to win the goal, not by precedent or rule, but by an illumination that is spirit and not deed. “No two wars were ever won by the same tactics and few by the same weapons. The military leader of the future may navigate his ships by radio and the day may even come when all his fighting craft may be ‘airy navies battling in the central blue.’ ” Coupling with his admonition against diffidence and skepticism toward the untried, a reference to the “doubt among naval statesmen” in accepting the American navy’s proposal for the North sea barrage. Secretary Daniels declared the spirit that gave birth to that "great and original conception” won for the navy the honor of contributing the “outstanding offensive” against the submarine menace.

WOMAN CAUSE OF RACE RIOT

White and Negro Sailors in Big Street Clash at .Newport, England. Newport, England, June 4. —White and negro sailors clashed in street fighting in this cltjf Large crowds assembled in the thoroughfares, windows were smashed and a number of houses badly damaged. Several combatants, however, were beaten severely and one white sailor was arrested. Careful handling of the crowd by a large force of police finally restored order. The encounter was caused by a quarrel over a woman.

Legion Reward for Bergdoll.

Greensburg, Ind., June 4. —Joe Welsh post, American Legion, of this city has offered a reward of SSOO for the capture of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the wealthy Philadelphia draft evader, who escaped recently from two army sergeants.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, June 3. Open- High- Low- Closing. est. est. ing. July ...1.74%-74 1.76% 1.73% 1.75% Sept. ~1.60%-59% 1.63 1.59% 1.61%-% Oats — July 93%-93 .94% .93 .93%-% Sept. ....79%-% .80% .78% .79%-% Rye— July ...2.05% 2.08 2.05% 2.06% Sept. ..1.91 1.93% 1.91 1.93% FLOUR—Car lots, per brl, 98 lb sack basis: Rye, white, in jute, [email protected]; dark rye, [email protected]; spring wheat, special brands, [email protected]; to retail trade, 315.50 @15.75; hard spring, [email protected]; first clears, [email protected]; second clears, 37.75@ 8.25; hard winter, [email protected]; soft winter, [email protected]. HAY—Choice and No. 1 timothy, 342.00® 44.00; standard and No. 1 clover mixed. [email protected]; No. 1 and 2, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, [email protected]. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 92 score, 52%c; higher scoring commands a premium; firsts, 91 score, 51@51%c; 88-90 score, 47@50c; seconds, 83-87 score, 41@46c; centralized, 51%c; ladles, 44@45c; renovated, 49c; packing stock; 34@40c. Prices to retail trade; Extra tubs, 55%c; prints, 57%c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 37@40e; ordinary firsts, 35%@36%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 37@39c; cases returned, 36@37c; extras, packed in whitewood cases, 46@ 47c; checks, 30@33c; dirties, 33@35c; storage firsts, 41%@41%c; extras, 42c. LIVE POULTRY—FowIs, . 35c; broilers, 34@35p; roosters, 20@22c; ducks. 26@28c; geese, 20c. ICED POULTRY — Turkeys, 48@50c; fowls, 35@36c; roosters, 20@22c; ducks; 26@ 28c; geese, 20@22c. OLD POTATOES—Per 100 lbs, northern, round, [email protected]. NEW POTATOES—Per brl, [email protected]; sacked, 100 lbs, [email protected]; hampers, 33.00@ 4.50. CATTLE—Choice to prime steers, 312.75 @14.25; choice to good steers, [email protected]; fair to good steers, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, 38.50@>11.50; yearlings, fair to choice, [email protected]; good td prime cows, [email protected]; fair to good heifers, 310.00@ 13.00; fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners’, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; veal calves, [email protected]; bologna bulls, 37.75@ 35. HOGS—Choice light butchers, 314.40@ 14 75; medium wt. butchers, [email protected]; heavy butchers, 270-350 lbs, fair to fancy light, [email protected]; mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, 312.40 @13.25; rough packing, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP r- Native lambs, [email protected]; spring lambs, [email protected]; western lambs, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Buffalo, N. Y., June 3. CATTLE—Receipts, light; strong. CALVES—Receipts, 400 ; 25c higher; 36.00 @16.50; few, 317.00. HOGS—Receipts, 1,600; steady to 10c higher; heavy, [email protected] mixed, 315.40@ 15.50; yorkers, [email protected]; light yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; roughs, 312.00 @12.25; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 1,600; •teady, unchanged. _

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920

(Under thia head notloea will be published for' 1-cent-*-word for the first Insertion, %-cent-a-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notices. No notice accepted for less than 26 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.) for sale For Sale—2-yearold Hereford bull, eligible to register; gentle.—V. M. PEER, Gifford, Ind. j-5 For Sale—A pair of gray draft colts broken and worked. Price $220.00. —S. J. ASH, phone 945-C. j-5 Typewriters and Cash Registers— Both becond-hand and rebuilt; bought and sold. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—A small patch of tall grain ready to mow for hay. Also a small amount of cow hay.—S .J. ASH, R-4, telephone 945-C. J-5 Lumber for Sale—l have a surplus of lumber I will sell. Good Georgia pine, all sized and milled. Prices right.—J. W. SAGE, phone 258. J 9 For Sale —Four room house almost new, new barn and garage, on lot 50x150, West Elm street; price sl,200.— ALBERT HURLEY. Call Eger's grocery. j-12 For Sale—h. p. electric motor, Fairbanks Morse, 1200 r. p. m., 3-phase, 110 volts. This motor is practically goed as new, and will be sold at two-thirds cost of new motor if taken at once. —THE DEMOCRAT. T ts For Sale—lo-room modern house, close in. Might trade for farm. — GEO. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale at Bargains—All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come in and look them over, in tae white-front garage.—KUBOSKE A WALTER. ts For Sale—lOO-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 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 Wanted —Lawn mowers to sharpen, at the county heating plant, by the jail.—Phone 639, LEN GRIGGS. For Sale—Notice is hereby given that the trustee of Union township, Jasper county, Ind., will, at his office, on Monday, the 14th day ( of June, 1920, receive open bids for five steel bridge stringers 30 feet long, the property of said township. Sale will be made to the highest bidder.—WALTER HARRINGTON, TrusFor Sale—Good two-story, 7-room house, with bata, electric lights, drilled well, large cistern, lota of fruit, splendid shade t-ees; on corner lot—really two lots each 75x 150 feet, each fronting improved street and Improved street on aide. Splendidly located on best residence street in Rensselaer. Lots alone worth more than, entire property can be bought for.—F. E. BABCOCK. 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 RENT Pasture for Rent by the Acre —90 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 List your farms with us before our new spring booklet goes out to other agents with whom we are working.—GEO. F. MEYERS. ts Wanted—Men to put In 400 rods of tile.—Call ERNEST BEAVER, 938I. ts Trucking Wanted —I have a new ton truck and solicit business In this Une. If you have moving or any other trucking to do, call 473. —FRANK HAMER. ts. LOST Lost —On street Saturday, a money purse containing $25. Finder please leave at The Democrat office for owner. 1-3 FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. ts Money to Doan—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows* Building, Rensselaer. ts Money to Doan—l have an unlimited supply of money to loan on good farm lands at 5%% and usual commission or 6 % without commission, as desired. Loans will be made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years, gee me about these various plans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. tl As The Democrat has the largest circulation of any paper In Jasper county Its, advertisers are assured of the very best results. Try us. .