Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — Page 1

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal Newi Epitomized— Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. The regular July meeting of the county commissioners will convene next Monday. Sheriff and Mrs. T. D. Woodworth returned home Monday afternoon from a 10 days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Newt Pumiphrey near Columbia City. Attorney Frank Davis of Brook has been in Rensselaer since Saturday to be near his daughter. Miss Louise Davis, who is a patient at the county hospital. The county board of review which has been in session for the past three weeks, will complete its session Saturday. Very few changes have been made in the assessments, at least no material changes. In the recent school enumeration (not including Lake county) Starke made the best showing of any of our neighboring counties, a gain of 53. Benton county lost 14; Jasper 64; Newton 66; Porter 47; Pulaski 136, and White 103.

The Catherwood vs. Catherwood et al lawsuit, taken to the supreme court about a year ago from the Jasper circuit court on appeal of Robert Catherwood, was affirmed Friday. The suit grew out of an accounting filed by appellant who was in charge of handling an 80-0-acre farm in Benton county belonging to the Catherwood estate. The syllabus of the decision of the higher court follows: •_ (1) This is a suit by the appellees for partition and an accounting in regard to an 800-acre farm in Benton county. The appellant obtained an injunction in a Chicago court against the prosecution of the suit for accounting, all of the parties being residents of Chicago, but the appellate court of Illinois reversed this judgment after partition had been made of the lands and before the cause was finally finished. Thereafter by changes of venue the cause reached the court below. This court had jurisdiction of the suit regardless of the fact that a suit involving the accounting was pending in a court in Chicago, as a similar suit in another state is not a cause for abatement. (2) The fact that the Benton circuit court had heard and determined the matter of partition did not prevent the granting of a change of'venue, especially where the appellant was the one who asked for the change. (3) The appellant’s answer admits numerous demands for an accounting, so that the omission of such fact from the findings is not material. (4) It appearing that appellant in the management of the farm was acting as trustee, he can put no reliance upon the tenancy of a co-tenant to make the occupier liable for rentals. (5) The record showing that the term was extended to complete this cause, the judgment was not rendered In vacation. (6) The Illinois litigation being for the benefit of the appellant and for the benefit of the estate, appellant was not erititled to reimbursement.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Clarence Hansson of Francesville underwent a major operation Monday. Mrs. Merriman Tudor of Barkley township underwent a major operation Sunday. Mrs. Ray Herr of McCoysburg was brought to the hospital Sunday for observation. A daughter was born Sunday evening to Mr. and Mrs. William Shaw of South Bend. Miss Louise Davis of Brook entered the hospital Saturday for treatment. Miss Davis had her tonsils removed a few days previous and suffered a hemorrhage, hence her return to the hospital. Ralph Motzlnger, who was Injured recently in a motorcycle accident, was able to return to his home In Chicago yesterday. Mm. George Kanne and baby returned to their home east of town Mr* Elizabeth. Carlin of Parr remaine in quite a serious condition.

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DATE FOR LEGISLATURE MEET

Not Yet Set—Probably Will Convene Next Week. No date has been set as yet for the convening of the second special session of the legislature to be called by Governor Goodrich to correct errors in laws passed by tho last' regular session and provide money to run the various state institutions, but it is thought the call will be issued fn a day or two for the meeting next week. Let s see, what was it the Republicans said In the last gubernatorial campaign about the Democratic administration of the state institutions and how they (the Republicans) would effect great savings in the conduct thereof if only the dear people would return their party to power once more in Indiana? Do you recall those campaign pledges, Mr. Taxpayer, and how they have been fulfilled?

A CHANGE IN TRAIN SERVICE

Is Likely, to Take Place Soon on thb Monon Railroad. A new time card is likely to be । put in effect on the Monon soon and two or more new trains added, probably adding a new fast train between Chicago and Cincinnati, leaving Chicago about 11 p. m., and ( only stopping on signal at county seat towns. No. 35, southbound, leaving Chi- ’ cago now at 12 o’clock midnight, will , probably leave about three hours later, passing through Rens-J selaer about 5 o’clock instead of at 2:27. This will make it convenient to go to Indianapolis without hav- [ Ing to get up in the middle of the night, as at present. For the past few years trains' have not run through to Cincinnati over the Monon, as formerly, but it is# understood that this is to be changed, and the fast trains will I run through without change between Chicago and Cincinnati. It is not known definitely »just when the new schedule will go lnto ( effect, but it is understood that the Monon is ready and Is only waiting on the Ohio road for it to get its equipment ready, the through trains to be run jointly, of course. The new time schedule will not he likely to affect trains on the Louisville division of the Monon.

PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL

The common council met in regular session Monday night with all members present, except Councilmen Warner and Waymire, and transacted the following business: Ordinance No. 201, appropriating S7OO to the Rensselaer band, was introduced and passed to second reading. In matter of petition of Sam Karnowsky et al to narrow Walnut street, from Scott street to Cullen street, thus making the entire street 60 feet In width, was Introduced and passed to second reading. The usual number of claims were allowed.

ATTEND DERN FAMILY REUNION

At Columbia Park In Lafayette on Last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Daugherty of Barkley township, their sons, George and Lynn Daugherty, and families, Thomas Eldridge and wife and Isaac Marlatt, wife and children, drove to Lafayette Sunday where they attended the Dern family reunion at Columbia park. Mrs. W. H. Daugherty’s maiden name was Dern. There were about 75 relatives present and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by all, as they met many relatives they had not seen for a number of years.

A “BUCK AND GAGGED" SESSION

Governor Goodrich is going to call another session of the legislature, and as all members will be “bucked and gagged” before being allowed inside the legislative halls. Isn’t it a beautiful state of affairs that our so-called representatives must be muzzled before being allowed to meet and take up the work we have delegated them to do. With state commissions galore governing us, we are about as “free” as Seln Feiners In Ireland.—Brook Reporter (Rep.)

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RENSSELAER, JASPER- COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1920.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. REED UNSEATED AS DELEGATE Renegade Missouri Senator’s Proxy Failed to Get Him, In. The Democratic national committee Saturday night recoghized Palmer group of delegates in the Georgia contest, and refused to give Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, bitter opponent of the league of nations, a seat in the convention. The vote to keep Reed out of the convention was 34 to 12, and came After a long public hearing and an hour and a half of discussion behind closed doors. An effort to place the senator on the floor of the convention, although the Missouri state convention re-» jected him as a delegate-at-large, was expected and because of his attitude toward the administration during the senate fights over the peace treaty, it was said to be possible that strong resistance would be met before the committee. Following the state convention the Fifth district elected Reed as a delegate for the second time. He also came armed with the proxy of the alternate from the district whose selection was approved by the state convention. ■ I The Missouri delegation asserted that he had no legal claim to a seat In the convention and served Informal notice on the national committee that if Reed was seated as a delegate the entire state delegation would walk out of the convention. At the bottom of the fight, 1 of course, Is the feeling that grew out of Reed’s opposition to the league of nations and hls despicable attempts to embarrass President Wilson.

WHOOP ’ER UP FOR GOV. COX

San Francisco, June 28. —Ohio set off the first real fireworks of the Democratic convention Saturday on the arrival of her delegation. Behind two brass bands —one red coated —the Ohioans whooped it up for Governor Cox and megaphoned the glorious Buckeye state. The Gem City Democratic club of Dayton arrayed in green Norfolk jackets, white trousers and shoes, straw hats with red, white and blue bands evoked much applause. Each marcher was equipped with a red Coxpennant

HIGHEST AUTO LUXURY TAX

$21,500,000 Collected at Detroit for First Four Months of 1920. Detroit, June 25. —The highest automobile luxury taxes ever paid In the United States, amounting to $21,500,000, were collected from manufacturers in and around Detroit for the first four months of 1920, according to John A. Grogan, collector of Internal revenue. This sum represented an expenditure of about $417,857,000 by customers. The manufacturer paid this tax and passed it on to the purchaser.

BIG FIRE AT SCHNEIDER

Damage estimated at $50,000 was done by fire at Schneider, a new town on the New York Central railroad, a few miles west of Shelby, Sunday. Five stores and a hotel on Front street were destroyed. Office employes saved the railroad station. Schneider has no fire protection.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

LAFAYETTE DAILY RAISES RATE

Paper Will Be $1 More to Mail Subscribers After This Week. The Lafayette Journal-Courier announces that Its subscription rates will be increased $1 per year to mail subscribers, beginning July 5. In making the announcement, It says: The Journal Courier is among the last of the Indiana daily newspapers to Increase its mail subscription rates but this step is made imperative by ever increasing costs of production. On July 1 newspaper postage rates will be increased 25 per cent, making a 75 per cent increase during the past 18 months. Express rates on newspapers have doubled, the price of print paper is eight times what it formerly was and other 'hosts have Increased proportionately, it has bebome necessary to increase the price or jpail subscriptions."

FISH AND GAME ORGANIZATION

Formed by Jasper County Sportsmen Friday Night _____ ' A number of fishermen and hunters gathered at the Moose club rooms Friday night and a fish and game club was organized, to be known as the Jasper County Fish and Game club. State Organizer A. E. Bodine of Indianapolis was In attendance and constitution and bylaws were adopted. The following officers were elected: C. W. Eger, president; Willis A. Lutz, vice-presi-dent; Charles Pefley, secretarytreasurer. A membership committee was appointed, consisting of Ray Wood, Frank Kresler and Lee Myres of this city, and Chauncey McCulley of Remington. The purpose of the club is the conservation of fish, game and birds.

BIG RACE OPENS AT ’FRISCO

With Cox of Ohio as Favorite—lndiana la for Marshall. - All eyes are turned this week, of course, toward San Francisco, which is distinctly in the limelight because of the fact that the gentleman who is to succeed President Wilson in the WTilte House is to be nominated there some time during the week. Vice-President Marshall is the Indiana member of the resolutions committee. Of course all is guess work as to who the candidate will be, but indications all point to Governor Cox of Ohio as the favorite with the delegates. Indiana will vote for Vice-President Marshall, despite his protest that he doesn’t desire the nomination, unless he absolutely refuses to permit his name to go before the convention. It is not likely the nomination will be made before Thursday or Friday, probably Thursday, however. Following was the first day’s program: Bugle call by a detachment of marinas at 12 o’clock noon. Presenting the colors. Singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Call to order by Vice-Chairman J. B. Kremer, Montana. y Prayer by Monsignor P. L. Ryax, vicar-general of the Roman Catholic arch-diocese of San Francisco. Reading of the call for the convention by Secretary E. G. Hoffman. Address by Vice-Chairman Kremer announcing temporary organization and presenting National Chairman Homer S. Cummings as temlporary presiding officer. Keynote speech by Chairman Cummings. Announcement of committees. Adjournment.

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DEMOCRATS WILDLY CHEER DISPLAY OF WILSON PICTURE

Half Hour's Applause Follows Unfurling of Immense Flag and Banner.

CUMMINGS' KEYNOTE SPEECH Arraigns the Party of Plutocracy and Brings Out Waves of Applause — Convention Settling Down to Work. San Francisco, June 29.—From the shadow of the Golden gate the hosts of Democracy sent a roaring tribute across the country yesterday to President Wilson. The national convention flung aside for the moment the business before it, while delegates carried on a demonstration that swept the great gathering off Its feet. It was a half hour before the outburst evoked by a sudden display of the president’s portrait could be stilled. Again and again as hls name was mentioned the cheers broke out anew to culminate in the shout o» approval that adopted and sent to the White House tonight a striking testimonial of hls party’s faith and pride in the man who has led it through troublous years. Arrangements for the first na-

PRESIDENT WILSON

tlonal political convention to be held In the far west had been well made. The great hall, its clean architectural lines almost unmarred by added decorations, was ready and through a dozen wide entries thousands poured in with little delay or congestion. They found a wide octagonal space awaiting them, with a massive organ rearing its stockade of pipes above the platform and the other sides rising to a far line of seats under high windows framing squares of California’s bluest skies. In the center of the hall where delegates sat railed within a wide square of seats, an inner celling was suspended, colored in soft, old blue, that rested the eye and lent something of quiet dignity to the scene. Below, a forest of standards bearing the names of states and territories was the only reminder of national conventions of the past. Perched high beside the organ in a special gallery, a military , band whiled away the time. As the noon hour and the open* Ing time approached, a color guard of marines appeared on the platform. A six-foot sergeant, with the gleaming folds of a regimental flag in his hands made a vivid spot of color on the platform. At his side stood the armed non-commissioned officers of the color guard and with them two marine buglers. When Vice Chairman Kremer of. the national committee gave the signal, a bugler sounded “attention," the sharp, staccato call rang out over the uproar of conversation. The first notes of the Star-Spangled Banner rang out from the band and the organ together, and as delegates, alternates, spectators and attendants stood In tribute a monster flag dropped from the celling to form a wall of color behind the platform. It obscured the view of the band gallery and organ loft, but as It fell, the booming tones of the organ rose from behind It, joining with the majestic thunder In the national anthem. From floors and galleries,

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delegates and spectators joined In the mighty tones. Then came the touch that set the convention off with a wild shout ol exultation. The great flag was gathered slowly upward in the slings and as it rose it uncovered a flag-, draped and illuminated portrait of President Wilson, placed against the high pipes of the organ. For a moment there was a brief pause. Then came the tumult. A wild shout rang from the floor* It was caught up and echoed from side to side. Rising with hysterical force, the sound grew and grew a formless thing that had In It something that stirred the blood and pulled at the emotions. The delegates leaped on their chairs, waving and shouting. They stampeded Into the aisles. Jostling and cheering In a packed mass before the platform. Over In the Virginia section, a delegate ripped the standard from the loop and charged toward the speaker’s stand, waving It high In the air. Other states followed. Some of them were slower to get In motion but the shouting and tumult

VICE-PRESIDENT MARSHALL

continued, standard after standard came up and the march around the hall began. In the New York section, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt seized the standard and rushed into the crowded aisle battling 'with others who sought with eager hands to uphold the sigu A shout of added intensity marked the delegates’ recognition of the Incident and a cheer for Roosevelt was all but lost in the general tumul». It was long before order could be restored. Even when Vice Chairman Kremer had launched upon his speech echoes of the storm still lurked in the air. He was repeatedly Interrupted by the clamor of approval that greeted every thrust at the Republican party or at any reference to President Wilson. When Chairman Homer S. Cummings of the national committee had been elected temporary* chairman and escorted to the platform they finally hushed and listened with close attention to his keynote address. Delegates expected something to cheer at. They were in the mood for it and they were not disappointed. Mr. Cummings began in a quiet voice. A few shouts of “louder” came from far back In the hall but he had not proceeded far before the great throng was so still that every syllable was carried to the highest galleries. It was a long speech. Mr. Cummings suggested that to his hearers, but cries of "go on” and “take your time” met him. He drove his points home hard. When Mr. Cummings characterized the Chicago platform as a “masterpiece of evasion,” a shout greeted the attack and a moment later when he declared that the “old guard” had sold the honor of the national convention at Chicago to name a “reactionary candidate” grew Into a roar punctuated with cries of “gp to It,” “hit ’em again.” The chairman went through the history of the league from the first

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