Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — Page 1

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WILL MOVE TO TOWN THIS FALL

D. S. .Makeever to Remodel the Old A. McCoy Homestead. Mr. and Mrsl D. S. Makeever of Newton township are planning to thoroughly remodel the old A. McCoy homestead on McCoy avenue, .which Mr. Makeever has owned for several year®, and move to town and oc-i cupy same yet the coming fall providing they can get the remodeling completed in time. Their plans include repairing the basement, putting in a new furnace, rearranging the entire Interior, building on a new sun parlor, putting In hardwood floors and a complete new bathroom outfit. The entire cost of the Improvements will total several thousand dollars and will add much to the general appearance of the property, on which scarcely a dollar has been spent since it was occupied by the McCoy’s some 15 years ago.

FOIL ATTEMPTED JAIL BREAK

Automobile Thieves Saw Through Bars—Discovery Thwarts Escape. Sheriff Woodworth’s suspicions and close watch of the two alleged automobile thieves in jail here as prisoners of Newton county, resulted in his finding Wednesday morning that one of the bars of a window on the west side of the jail had been sawed in two in two places and the bar beside it was partly sawed in two. Only this timely discovery prevented their escape. The bar is 7-8 of an inch in diameter and it had been sawed in perhaps % of an inch in one place some years ago by a prisoner. This had been filled in and the bar painted, but these prisoners evidently found the gash and with some sort of tool completed the cut clear through. They then sawed into the bar about a foot above where they had severed it, cutting about 2>-3 of , the way through and then breaking it the rest of the way by pulling on the severed end. They had carefully replaced the piece of bar and covered the cuts with soap, evidently waiting for a favorable opportunity to saw out the other bar and make an opening wide enough toi admit their bodies or, perhaps, I lie in wait with this 12-inch bar and beat the sheriff into unconsciousness when he came in where they were and make their getaway, the piece of bar making a very formidable weapon.

It had been Sheriff Woodworth’s custom to Inspect the corridor each morning and test the bars at windows before letting the men out ot the steel cage into the former, and he had been more careful about this since finding that two knives with which they were provided, to eat their meals came back after one of the meals last week with the edges hacked, as if they had attempted to make saws of the knives. Since that time he had fed them without providing knives. A complete search after the discovery of the severed bar Wednesday morning flailed to disclose any implement, although some sort of a saw had been used. They both denied any knowledge of having hacked the knives, when questioned about it, as they also did any knowledge of the severed bar. While they were eating their breakfast Wednesday morning the sheriff made his usual tour of inspection, and on taking hold of a bar at one of the west windows—the cells and cage are in the center, between two corridors —a piece 12 inches long gave way and fell from his hand to the cement floor. Mr. Woodworth Immediately ordered the men back into the cage and made a thorough search of their quarters and later of their persons, but found nothing in the shape of a saw that they could, have used to sever the bar, and at this writing it still remaina a mystery, although a closer watch than ever will be kept on the prisoners and their quarters. There Is but one other prisoner in the jail, Estel Florence, who is awaiting trial at the September term of the Jasper circuit court on the charge of forging the name of C. R. Weiss to a number of checks a few weeks ago, and during the day he Is out in the corridor with the two auto thieves, but at night he accupiee a separate cell The sawIng of the bars must have been done Tuesday, during the day time, but young Florence has evidently been cowed by Mannls and Kasper

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From tlw Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL « Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Attorney and Mrs. G. A. Williams left Wednesday morning via auto for Bellefontaine, 0., for a visit until the first of the week with relatives there. Marriage licenses ’ issued: July 29, Hugo Rider of Remington, aged 32 Meh. 1 last, farmer, and Freeda Banes, also of Remington, aged 18 May 4 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. The Democrat is informed that nothing has been done, so far as known here, by Newton county toward paying the $4,000 bill presented many months ago for taking care of the latter’s prisoners during the many years they have been housed and looked after in our jail. This is a matter that should be pressed to a settlement. The records disclose that more Newton county prisoners have been confined in our jail than we have had of ( our own, and many of the former have been bad ones to handle, too. Our jail has been damaged at different times by prisoners from NeWton and the taxpayers of Jasper have paid for the repairs made necessary thereby, while all -Newton county has ever paid is the Insignificant board bill, which goes to the sheriff, personally. Unless Newton county will come across and settle the back charges and agree to pay a reasonable compensation to us for housing its prisoners we should refuse to take them, and thus relieve | our sheriff of the care and worry. and our taxpayers of the expense of | such task. This matter should not be delayed any longer.

Prosecuting Attorney Murphey was over from Morocco Wednesday, and informed’ The Democrat while here that the report that he had agreed not to prosecute any more drivers of new cars having only “In Transit” printed cards on them instead of the regulation metal dealer plates, in compliance with protests made by Rensselaer* garages and business men, was incorrect. He said that he had taken the matter up with the attorney-general and secretary of state, and Intimated that he would start prosecutions again. He also said that they were getting after these violators all over the state, which is apparently an error, as we have seen no mention made of such prosecutions in the newspapers and probably 100 new cars have been driven through Rensselaer this week, bearing only the “In Transit” cards, and they had not been molested at any place. If a general state-wide move is made to enforce compliance with this law, well and good, but it does not seem just right to prosecute in the Thirtieth judicial district and let them go in the other court districts of the state, including Marlon county, where many of these cars leave the capital city.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Elnore, seven-year-old daughter of MY. and Mrs. E. L. McFadden of east of. town, and Anna, seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs./ Gustave Heilscher of near Parr, underwent minor operations Thursday. Mrs. C. E. Prior returned to her home yesterday morning. Mrs. W. H. Sayler and John Moosemiller returned to their homes Thursday. Daniel Cumerford, aged 73 years, who had been a patient at the county hospital for several months, died Thursday evening at 5:30. Prior to his coming to the hospital Mr. Cumerford was an Inmate of the county poor asylum, and very little Is known of his relatives, although tip. old gentleman had told the hospital of a son, George Cumerford, of LaSalle, IIL At this writing no funeral arrangements have been made, as Undertaker Wright was trying to Ideate the son.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920.

CAMP TAYLOR IS TO BE RAZED

Jasper County Soldiers Received Training at This Camp. Camp Taylor at. Louisville, Ky., to which most of the Jasper county conscripted men were sent during the world war, is to be abandoned, and the First division, now stationed there, is to be transferred to Camp Dix, N. J. The camp must be abandoned, salvaged and disposed of before June 30, 1921. Camp Zachary Taylor was completed during the summer of 1917, at a cost of $7,500,000. It comprises 2,300 acres of land and contains 2,500 buildings. The government holds title to the land and the money derived from its sale and the sale of the buildings and other improvements will revert to the federal treasury. Camp Taylor has trained 125,000 recruit®, Including the 84th division. It has held a maximum population of 63,000 and now ha® approximately 7,000 officers and men of the First division. Major-General Charles P. Summerall, commander of the division, states that the personnel can be moved in 24 hours' notice, but that probably four months would be required to move the supplies, which are estimated to total $25,000,000.

OATS ARE TURNING OUT BIG

While Wheat Yields Are Fair and Grain Is of Fine Quality. Threshing is very general now in vicinity of Rensselaer and it is possible to secure figures on many of the yields, especially of wheat, not many fields of oats having been threshed at this writing. The wheat is all fine quality and most of It is grading No. 1, none lower than No. 2. It is probable that $25,000 worth of wheat has been taken in by the elevators here this week. Following are some of the yields reported: Tom Cain, 4 miles south of Rensselaer, 10 acres of wheat, averaging 21 bushels per acre. Al Daugherty, southeast of town, 20 acres, averaging 25 bushels. Beaver & Lawler, on old Dr. Hart-* sell farm, west of town, 40 acres fly-infested, averaging 9 bushels; 40 acres good wheat, southwest of town, averaging 20 bushels. Willis Lutz, on farm near Lee, 20 acres, averaging 27 bushels. Charles A. Reed, on Walter Porter farm, southwest of town, averaging 28 bushels per acre from one field. Frank Kanne, on former S. E. Sparling farm, west of college, 15 acres, averaging 16 bushels; 50 acres of oats, averaging 64 bushels per acre. E. Wuerthner, northwest of Rensselaer, averaging 27% bushels -of wheat per acre. George Spangle, on Mrs. J. W. Williams farm, northwest of town, averaging more than 17 bushels per acre.

A reader of The Democrat requests us to publish a little instance of local profiteering. A farmer brought in 96 pounds of Ye»low Transparent apples to a Rensselaer store this week and received 3c per/pound, or $2.88 for the two bushels. The merchant retailed the apples to his customers at 15c per pound, e a total of $14.40, making a net profit on the two bushels of $11.52. And yet there are some people who blame the Democratic administration for the high cost of living. This farmer, our informant said, stated that he had a lot of these apples, but he could not afford to take the time to gather and bring them to town and then only get 3c per pound for them. He did not have time to peddle them out around town, and would therefore feed the balance of them to his hogs.

NEVER SAW BETTER OATS CROP

John P. Ryan was down from Gillam township Thursday. They had not begun threshing yet in his section of the county and he thought they would not get started until next week. While there are only a few small patches of poor wheat in Gillam this year, Mr. Ryan eays that the oats are the best they ever raised. In fact, he said that he never saw as good oats all the way along between his place and Rensselaer as they have this year. There have been no rains since the oats were cut and the shocks are standing so thick In the fields and are such a beautiful golden bolor that they present a splendid picture, indeed. The oats straw this year Will make lots of good rough fodder for the cattle.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilegraphic Reports From Many farts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. WOMAN DROWNED IN KANKAKEE Mise Elizabeth Hague of Chicago was Browned in the Kankakee river near Blue Grass at 11:30 last Sunday morning. She had been in bathing and when last seen alive was sitting on a boat and was intending to go and dress and when they went to look for her they found her dead body about 300 feet from the boat. As the story goes the young lady, who was about 25 years of age, had dreamed for three nights that she was going to drown and it may have been that this was working on her mind, but the true facts as to her drowning will never be known. She, in company with her mother and a friend, had only come to the river the day before. The remains were brought to Lowell and prepared for burial by William Sheets and were sent to her old home at Huntington, Ind., Monday.—Lowell Tribune.

GET YOUR COAL FOR THRESHING at the Jasper County Farms Co. store, Newland. $lO on track; $10.50 from shed. Place your order by phone —No. 922-G. als Why not buy a >ome in Rensselaer? See C. W. Duvall, who has a number ot good homes for sale, priced to meet any sized pocketbook. Phone T4T. S-W 500 SHARES Of CAPITAL STOCK Of the Rensselaer Building, Loan A Savings Association Will Be Offered to the Citizens of Jasper County, at Par Value for the Next 30 Days. On the 22nd day of November, 1915, at a meeting of the representative citizens of Jasper county, held in Rensselaer, the Rensselaer Building, Loan & Savings Association was organized with the capital stock of $100,000.00. Like all such organizations it was formed for the purpose ot encouraging the building and improving of homes in Jasper county, giving every energetic citizen an opportunity to own his own home. A second purpose of the organization was to encourage thrift and savings. An effort was made to give every one an opportunity to become an Investing stockholder who was permitted to subscribe for stock and pay for it on a monthly Installment plan. This organization has shown a steady growth and has been managed at an exceedingly low overhead expense. Moderate dividends have been declared each year for the Investor and over one hundred persons have been benefited by its loan advantages, approximately $150,000.00 having been loaned to the citizens of Jasper county for home building and improvement. At a recent meeting of the Directors of this Associa-t tlon the capital stock was increased to $200,000.00 and it was then decided to give the citizens of this county an opportunity to purchase stock In this live, wide-awake association on the monthly payment plan. The par value of each share of stock is SIOO.OO, such stock to be paid for at the rate of $2 00 per month per share. No one person will be permitted to subscribe for more than ten shares and no one family will be permitted to subscribe for morethan twenty shares of this issue; This provides an ideal way for any person to lay aside a small amount of Ms earnings eateh month for future emergencies as the amount paid in can be withdrawn at any time upon proper notice to the Association. This organization Is governed by State law and Is examined once a year by State examiners. For further Information or particulars see any member of the Board of Directors of this Association or D. Delos Dean, Its secretary, Odd Fellows Bldg., Rensselaer, Indiana. —Advt

SPECIAL SESSION STILL AT IT

Deadlock Between Two Houses of Legislature Continues. Gov. Goodrich’s second special session of the legislature is still deadlocked over the tax remedial meas-> ure and the “home rule” bill, and today is the 18th day of this particular special session. When it will adjourn is not known at this writing, but the session cannot last over 40 day® according to statute. An agreement has been reached between the two houses os the war memorial building plan, $2,000,000 cash and the grounds of the school for the blind and St. Clair park being appropriated for a site.

PLATFORM DANCE JULY 31 There will be a platform dance at Duggins’s grove, 2 miles north of Virgie, Saturday night, July 31. Good mu«ic and a good time assured. Come. —Advt. J3l

OWE MCCRAY’S CO. $59,000

Allege It Is' a Gambling Debt and Raub Grain Co. Refuses to Pay. The Indianapolis News of Friday evening contained a lengthy article from W. H. Blodgett, its well-known staff correspondent, on the affairs of the Raub Grain company, of Raub, Benton county, whose manager, Lee W. Kelley, recently absconded, leaving the affairs of the company in a very tangled condition. The article states that while a complete audit hae not yet been made, enough has been learned to show that there is a shortage chargeable to Kelley of about $70,000, of which $39,000 In round numbers is due the Sawyer Grain Co., of Chicago and Indianapolis (Warren T. McCray of Kentland, vice-president), and $6,000 in round numbers to McCardle & Black of Indianapolis. The balance is due farmers who sold their grain to the Raub Grain company through Kelley as managerj but they will not lose anything because the members of the company are all financially responsible, and though they can not be called on to pay more than $15,000, the capital stock of the Raub Grain company, they have announced that they will pay the farmers in full for their grajn and already have paid many bills.

The company will refuse to pay the $39,000 due the Sawyer Grain company, also the $6,000 due McCardle & Black of Indianapolis, on the ground that these are gambling debts contracted by Kelley's speculations in margins and gambling on the grqin market by Kelley without the knowledge and consent of the board of directors or the individual stockholders. Mr. Fraser of Fraser & Isham, attorneys of Fowler, who have been employed by McCardle & Black to collect the $6,000, says the deal was a legitimate one and not gambling. E. G. Hall of Fowler, attorney for the Raub Grain Co., says that the claims of the Sawyer Co. and McCardle & Black are gambling debts, outlawed by statute, and he advised the Raub Grain Co. to refuse to pay them, according to Mr. Blodgett. If the concerns at Indianapolis and Chicago wished to force payment, Mr. Hall said, the matter would be thrashed out in the courts,, which, he said, have time and again held that margining on the board of trade was gambling and gambling debts are not collectible. So It was decided to notify the Sawyer Grain company of Chicago and Indianapolis and the McCardle & Black Grain company of Indianapolis that the Raub Grain company repudiated the deals made in Its name by Kelley and would not pay the losses he suffered. In addition to the $39,060 open account owed the Sawyer Grain Co., says Mr. Blodgett, there are two notes signed by the Raub Grain company, “per Lee W. Kelley, manager," for SIO,OOO each, making $59,000 the Raub Grain company owes the Sawyer Grain company. The Blodgett article goes on to state that William Simmons is presi•dent of the Sawyer Grain Co. of Chicago and Indianapolis, but a studied effort seems to have been made to refrain from mentioning the fact that Warren T. McCray, the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana, fa the vice-president of this same Sawyer Grain Co. This news fa of Interest to the people of Indiana generally, and the fact that both the correspondent and the News tailed to mention it is not to Its

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Vol. XXIII. No. 36

GOAL DEALERS BLAME ROADS

Seek Edict From Commerce Commission Against Carriers to Halt Famine. SUPPLY SIXTH OF NORMAL Retail Merchant* Ask Washington to Stop Seizures and Force Quick Deliveries —Chicago Periled. Chicago, July 80. —While coal operators of Indiana were engaged in session here and an urgent call to operators throughout the central competitive district was calling them ail to an emergency meeting the retail coal bureau,. representing Chicago retail coal dealers, sent an urgent protest and appeal for relief to Washington. Addressed to the Interstate commerce commission, the appeal .•■■rotests against the arbitrary methods of the railroads In seizing and refusing to deliver coal consigned to Chicago. Ask Order for Relsas*. The bureau asks an immediate order from the commission, releasing enough steam coal to protect essential Industries and institutions. The telegram Is as follows: “Interstate Commerce Commission, “Washington, D. C.: "Carriers this section are refusing to deliver any bituminous coal now In transit or to accept billing from Illinois or Indiana mines except to public utilities, hospitals or railroads. “Dealers are absolutely shut off and no provision made for stores, office buildings, ice and cold storage plants and similar essentials, nor are hospital* protected, as 96 per cent are dependent on wagon deliveries from dealers’ yards. “Dealers here had no advance notice of this' arbitrary action and as situation is desperate pray for relief in the way of official order releasing sufficient atca«n coal for their yards to protect essentials. “RHTAIL COAL BURKAU.” The coal operators are to meet here today to discuss the coal and strike situation. They will represent all of the larger mining Interests in Illlnoi*, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Directly upon the heels of this announcement came that of Frank Farrington, president of the striking mine worker's in Illinois .that the Illinois situation Is “very promising.” Mr. Farrington’s statement says that there is every prospect of a settlement to the satisfaction of the strikers within a few days.

Supply One-Sixth of Normal. Coal In dealerg' yards In Chicago is a sixth to a seventh of the normal supply, W. H. Leland, vice-president of the Consumers company, said. He declared that if nothing is done to improve the constantly diminishing receipts Chicago will be “going on a vacation” next week. "The normal supply In Chicago at this time of year is around 600,000 to 700,000 tons,” Mr. Leland said. “These figures relate to coal In dealers'.yards. Ah the coal on hand in the yards of Chicago today is not more than 100,000 tons. “My own company should have at this time between 175,000 and 200,000 tons in the yards apd be receiving 7,500 tons a day. We have today approximately 80,000 tons and our receipts today are 8,500 tons. Tomorrow they will be lower. Very little coal is left on the road here.” President Has Coal Report. Washington, July 30.—Secretary of Labor Wilson’s report on .the coal situation, with recommendations for adjusting labor troubles In the Industry, now is in the hands of President Wilson. The voluminous document went over to the White House from the department of labor early this afternoon, and the president Immediately began a careful study of It. As the report had been requested by the president. Secretary Wilson considered it confidential and declined, therefore, to make it public or to discuss Its contents.

CAPT. E. R. MONFORT DIES

Former Commander of the G. A. R, Pangs Away In East. Cincinnati, July 80. —Capt. Ellas R. Monfort, former postmaster of Cincinnati and formerly national commander of the G. A. R., dltd at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. B. Burtls. Oak Corners, N. Y., according to a message received here.

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