Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — Page 1

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JASPER COUNTY HAS GAINED 917

In Population Since 1910, According to Census Report. Jasper county gained nearly 1,000 in population during the past dedade, according to the 1920 census report made public Thursday. This Is less than twice the gain made in Rensselaer alone —which was 519 — leaving the gain for all the rest of the county 398. However, this is a better showing than many of our neighboring counties made. In 1910 we had a population of 13,044, and the gain of 917 is 7.0 per cent.

MRS. ANDREW DOAN IS DEAD

Mrs. Andrew Doan of this city, who underwent an operation at the county hospital Thursday for strangulated hernia, died shortly after noon yesterday. Mrs. Doan was perhaps about 50 years of age and is survived by her husband and one grown son. Mr. Doan is a blacksmith and with his family moved here from Crawfordsville about two years ago. At this writing no funeral arrangements had been made.

ALLEGED AUTO THIEVES JAILED

Car Stolen at Morocco July 5 Recovered Northwest of Knox. Murle Casper and Lester Manis, both of near Culver, were brought over from Kentland Wednesday evening by the Newton county sheriff, in default of S3OO bonds each, to await trial at the next term of the Newton circuit court on the charge of having stolen at Morocco July 5 a Ford car belonging to Arthur Cooper of near Brook. The boys—one is past 2-1 and the other is under age, it is alleged—were caught at an early hour Wednesday morning by the sheriff of Starke county and an officer from Culver, with another young man by the name of Henry Hineman, said to be of Chicago, and were in the Cooper car at the time. They were first arrested for stealing a car near Culver and were arraigned at Plymouth, where they were turned loose and Hindman took leg bail at once, it is said, and made his getaway. The other two were re-arrested on the charge of stealing the Cooper car and taken to Knox and later taken to Kentland, where they were arraigned before Squire Mock Wednesuay and bound over to the clr cult court. They were defended in the preliminary hearing by Attorney W. J. Reed of Knox and H. L. Sammons of Kentland, and such a sdff 'fight was put up that they came near getting off there also. However, it developed that they had made an effort to dig out of the Kentland hoos-gow Tuesday after noon and were apparently not the innocent country jays their attorneys tried to make the court believe they were, and the latter bound them rover in bonds of S3OO each, and the sheriff of Newton county brought them to Rensselaer, securely handcuffed, and placed them in the Jasper county jail for safe-keeping. It seems the Kentland bastlle Ins a linoleum-covered floor, and the prisoners had rolled up this linoleum, cut a hole in the floor and dug away the dirt underneath almost enough to reach liberty. The jailor visited the bastile and the boys hearing him coming had hurriedly replaced the linoleum, but were sweating like beavers when the jailor opened the outer door. They attempted to explain this away by complaining or the heat in the jail. However, the latter noticed that the linoleum had been disturbed, and on examination found what they had done tow-ird digging out. The number plates that were on the Cooper car when stolen were found Tuesday near Ade„ and other plates were on the car when it was found. It is said that the boys claimed to have bought the Cooper car from someone, but could give no satisfactory explanation, and the court thought the evidence against them was sufficient to warrant holding them. The prosecution believes that the ■ boys were engaged, with the Chicago party who got away, in stealing cars that are being run to Chicago and sold, and hopes to have plenty of evidence when their case comes to trial to send them up for a few years’ time. The following account of the arrest of the boys as published in the

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL 1 * - Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Attorney E. M. Laßue went to Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday on business. County Superintendent M. L. Sterrett went to Bloomlington Tuesday to attend a rural school betterment convention being held in that city. Representative W. L. Wood has introduced a bill in the legislature to increase the - salaries of county auditors $1,200 per year on petition of 200 taxpayers. The Ed Oliver-Jasper County Farms Co. case, which has been draggling along in the adjourned term of the Jasper circuit court for the past two weeks, is likely to last the greater part of next week, the attorneys say. Marriage licenses’ issuedj July 14. Everett Greeley McClea* of Barkley township, aged 41 May 16 last, farmer, and Mary Margaret Roudebush of Parr, aged 31. Aug. 23 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. J. B. Fleming at the Presbyterian manse.

Representative Fifield of Lake county has introduced a bill in the special session of the legislature that will probably curtail road improvement considerably should it become a law. The bill is to amend the county unit road law by restoring the “lost” amendments giving the township trustee jurisdiction over dirt roads and increasing the number of petitioners required on road petitions from 50 to 200. New suits filed: No. 9213. Lee Evans et al vs. C. C. & I. C. Railroad company et al; action to quiet title. No. 9214. Lulu May Burris vs. John Burris; action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married April 16, 1919, and lived together until Oct. 30, 1919; that on Oct. 29, 1919, defend-i ant by the judgment of the Newton circuit court, duly given and made, was convicted of an infamous crime.

SHORTAGE MAY REACH $50,000

President of Raub Elevator Company Makes Estimate. Lafayette, July 15. —No trace has been found of Lee Kelley, manager of the Raub Grain company’s elevator- at Raub, who disappeared June 28, leaving his accounts in confusion. Accountants are still at work on his books, but, according to Henry Carson, president of the company, there is a shortage which may amount to $50,000. The company is protected to the extent of SIO,OOO by Kelley’s bond. It is not known what caused the shortage. One report is that Kelley speculated on the board of trade and another is that he lost money in legitimate business, the break in the cash grain’ market in recent weeks being regarded by some as responsible for his losses. Kelley formerly was in business at Frankfort with his brother, Frank Kelley, a grain dealer of this city. The Frank Kelley mentioned above used to be in the grain business at Remington.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

W. H. Sayler entered the hospital Wednesday to have hie injured limb, which he sustained in an automobile accident last week, treated. Mrs. Sayler, who had her arm broken and shoulder dislocated, is improving. Mrs. Elmer Brenneman of west of town entered the hospital Wednesday evening for medical attention. A daughter was born Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Eib of Barkley township. Mrs. Allen of Wheatfield is doing nicely and expects to leave the hospital tomorrow. All other patients are doing nicely.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920.

SEN. HARDING’S SIDE-STEPPING

Ghosts of Former Editorials Are Resurrected to Haunt Him. We notice that Senator Hardiqg, the g. o. p. candidate for President, is trying to side-etep some of tne editorials that appeared in his paper during recent years and which we now being called up by his opponents to haunt him. He seeks to escape the responsibility by saying that they were written by someone else in Ips newspaper office. / Reminds us of the Rensselaer Republican: When some irate person calls there to whip the man who wrote “that piece,” if Looie is in the editorial chair he lays the whole thing onto Clarkie, and vice versa. If they both happen to be in It is laid onto Howard, and when all three are present a general rush is made for the back door. There’s nothing like having an alibi.

GET READY FOR CHAUTAUQUA

Lenzo’s Band, Smith-Spring-Holme*, Orators and Entertainers. It would seem impossible to crajn more good things into five days than the Mutual has found place for on tie bursting programs now announced. The Circuit that opens here next Wednesday, July 21, is one of the, four operated by the Mutual that will be busy this summer conducting assemblies of democracy throughout the middle west. The program as outlined is one of the best balanced ever offered to any community anywhere. In spite of increasing high costs for salaries, rail-

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Daylight saving time was abandoned In the Chicago stockyards Thursday. It was explained that the necessity for conformation with railroad schedules prompted the change, and that since the double time standard went into effect deliveries have been running an hour behind tip market schedules, “causing incon venlence and needlees expense in overtime pay.”

“Real ripe buttermilk” contains 3 per cent alcohol, Dr. Herbert Watson, Delaware state chemist, infoi-med Judge Hastings in Wilmington city court recently. Every vender of buttermilk is liable to prosecution, Watson said. Long before the dry wave engulfed the whole United States buttermilk had become very popular among the “brass rail brigade,” much to the astonishment of the barkeepers. It was sold at almost all bars. It was reserved for a scientist to discover the reason.

Fred Y. Wheeler of Crown Point, editor of the Lake County Star, the oldest paper in Lake county, lost his suit for divorce Tuesday in the Laporte circuit court. Judge Frank Gallaher ruled that Mr. Wheeler had not conducted himself in a manner tending to ease the alleged strained relations with his wife. The court awarded S4OO to Mrs. Wheeler for court expenses. The case was take i to Laporte county on a change of venue.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilegraphlc Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Cities and Town*—Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Localities. FOWLER MAN BADLY INJURED When His Auto Collides With Street Car in Lafayette. Lafayette, July 15.—Struck by one street car and thrown in front of another, an automobile owned and driven by Harry A. Comley of Fowler, an undertaker, was wrecked on the Main street bridge over the Wabash river Tuesday night and the occupants injured. Comley was on his way to Lafayette to meet his wife. He was accompanied by his 8-year-old daughter Jeanette, Frank Louett of Fowler and Miss Helen O’Neill of Goodland. The automoblk, which i* said to have been traveling at high speed, sideswiped the first car, skidded and ran head-on Into the other. Comley was thrown through the windshield, and when found had th 3 rim of the wrecked steering wheel in his hand. He was hurt internally and severely cut about the head. The injured man was taken to a hospital. Mise O’Nelil was badly cut and bruised about the arms and legs, and Louett has an Injured eye and leg. The little girl was asleep on the rear seat and wae not hurt. While a crowd of sightseers was about the wrecked car another automobile driven by John Rieka approached at high speed. The driver put on the brakes and the ca» skidded and turned completely around, landing in the midst of the frightened- crowd. W. J. Snyder, a traveling man, was struck and knocked down, being injured about the hips.

VAN RENSSELAER CLUB PICNIC TOMORROW

Plans for the Van Rensselaer club picnic, to be held at Lake Maxinkuckee tomorrow, July 18, are nearly completed, practically all members having been personally notified of the occasion, the dinner menu being completed and diversions for the afternoon planned to please all who make the trip. According to the picnic committee of the club, all members and with their cars are to meet at Milroy park at 8 o’clock Sunday morning, and leave from that point in a body. The trip as planned is by way of Wheatfield and North Judson to Culver, consuming about three hours' time. The picnic will be held in a shady park at Culver near the railroad station and lake. A very good time is assured all who go.

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LENZO’S WIZARD BAND AND TROUBADOURS

In presenting this band to our pattons for the first time, we had in mind the exacting requirements of a Chautauqua audience. Tills organization has had much experience in this work and possesses all the requirements usually demanded, and some new special features. Besides the Incomparable ensemble numbers in regular formation, these men present many unique and unmatched Instrumental solos in strikingly novel ways. The band divided into smaller units of trios, quartets, and sextets, each with a specialty offering distinctly its own. Then the numerous vocal offerings stand out like challenges. Five picked men who appear specially costumed as Spanish Serenaders, and other larger troubadour groups lend a varied richness to the already outstanding programs. -This is indeed a “wizard” band, Isng to be remembered. They present a full program afternoon and evening.

WHERE ARE ALL OF THE FLIES

Columbus, Ind., July 15. —"Why have we no flies this year?” is a question that is being asked here by hundreds of Columbus residents. Not that the citizens are displeased, but they are curious. In the spring the usual precautions were taken by screening doors and windows, and energetic housewives provided themselves with the usual number of fly swatters. Few flies came to fight. Here and there an isolated specimen may be seen, but these are scarce. No one seems able to explain the condition. Some say it is because of the cold weather during spring, but others meet this argument with the statement that there have been equally inclement springs many times, but always the flies arrived in full force about the first of June.

BIG DANCE There will be a dance Saturday night, July 17, at Meyers's hall, Knrtman. Good floor. Music by Horton and Healy.-—LEE MYERS, Mgr.

DROUTH EFFECTIVELY BROKEN

Tuesday Afternoon and Night When Over Two Inche* of Water Fell.

More than two inches of water fell in Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon and night, the best rain that we have had since early spring and one that effectively broke the long drouth here. While rains had Callen all about us during the past few weeks, up to within a half-mile to a mile of town, they had almost missed us completely, barely enough falling here to lay the dust a few times until these rains came Tuesday. There was quite a little wind Tuesday afternoon, in fact, a couple of miles north of town and up in Barkley township a number of trees are reported to have been blown over and the oats were knocked down badly In many places. There were several showers during the afternoon and most of the night, and they were accompanied by a great deal of lightning, more perhaps than we have had altogether during the entire summer. These rains were quite general and were unusually heavy in various sections of the state. Considerable damage was done in many places by the lightning and wind, while some sections that had recently had heavy rains got too much.

THE ART OF CAMOUFLAGING

The Public I* a Virtue Among the G. O. P. Campaigners, Anyhow. A dtepatch from Topeka, Kas., says that rather than give her age when she went to the city hall in that city to register Wednesday, Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, a former teacher in the Rensselaer schools from Sept., 1884, to 1887, and now a prominent Republican woman worker, left without registering. According to Rensselaer people who are intimately acquainted with Mrs, McCarter and knew her well when she taught here, she was born May 3, 1862, and was therefore 58 years of age on May 3, 1920.

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Vol. XXIII. No. 32

STRIKE TIES UP CARS IN CHICAGO

GM Kilim 111 Mill) Hut Winn Truck Carrying Passengers Is Wrecked. WALKOUT IS UNEXPECTED Elevated Line* and Steam Roads Swamped With Thousands of Persons Attempting to Qet to Work. Chicago, July 16.—Street car service was completely paralyzed here by an unexpected strike of electrical workers, machinists and track laborers, through which 2,500 men were called from their jobs with less than ten hours' notice to the company. Nearly normal service today was promised, however, In an official statement from the Company’s main office. Power for operation Is to be developed through the use of non-strlkers, it was said. Girl Killed, 7 Hurt In Crash. One girl, Rose Stein, 14, is dead at St. Mary's hospital as a result of the street car strike. She was killed and seven others were seriously injured when a motor truck crowded with passengers bound for the loop ran into an electric light pole at Robey and Thomas streets. ‘'Flivver" Overturns; Three Injured. A “flivver bus," carrying workers to the loop, overturned at Fullerton avenue and Leavitt street, injuring three of the passengers. The street car company appealed to the chief for police protection of all power plants, saying that violence was feared. Fearing disorder ns a result of Wie company's efforts to offset the strike. Chief of Police Garrity and First Deputy Superintendent John Alcock took personal command of the forces and ordered reserves held ready for Immediate call. No trouble occurred during the confused hours following the walkout. Not until 5 a. m. was Willison Fish, genera) manager of the Chicago Surface lines, sure that a walkout of any kind was coming. At that hour power plant and car barn was tied up. Utter confusion followed. Thousands waited at street corners for cays that did not come, unaware that a strike had been called. Elevated lines and steam railways were swarppetl. Private automobiles were commandeered and limped downtown under swarming loads. The morning rush became a confused, belated jam. No Warning Given. The strike order came without warning following a conference yesterday afternoon between representatives of the company and six unions which did not sign the new wage agreement accepted by men In the operating forces of the system June 1. The conference was arranged as a peaceful meeting for the discussion of a contract, according to Manager Fish. Instead, It developed Into a wrangle and the strike order followed. Issues were not made clear, but statements today from Michael (“Umbrella Mike") Boyle and Irwin Knott, business agents of Electrical Workers’ Union No. 9, indicated that the men's grievances are these: 1. Dissatisfaction on the part of the machinists and track laborers with their present wage scales. 2. Resentment by the electrical workers over the fact that the company is operating its shops at Vincennes avenue and Seventy-seventh street under an “open-shop” policy. 3. Dissatisfaction with “working conditions” which the business agents refused to discuss In detail. According to Boyle, the electrical workers, Whose strike caused the tieup, arc satisfied with the pay they are now receiving.. They are striking in an effort to make the Seventy-sev-enth street plant a “closed shop” and to remedy certain “working conditions.” The track laborers and.the machinists not only want the “closed shop,” but also Insist that they should be given a 33 per cent increase in pay. They base their wage demand on the fact that the company recently received a 33 per cent Increase in fares to meet the expense of higher wages to employees. The street car company operates 82 power plants in the city. Sixteen of these are manned by union men and were completely tied up by the strike.

Germany Signs Another Pact.

Berlin, July 16.—A peace compact: between Germany on one hand and Lettland and Oouriand on the other., was signed here.

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