Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING

Mr. and Mra. John Schroer Married 50 Years Ago In Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. John Schroer celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Sunday at their home in the east part of town, and about 60 of their relatives and friends were present in honor of the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Schroer were married Aug. 18, 187 Q, at Janesville, 0., but have been highly respected residents of Jasper county for the past 37 years. Among those present Sunday were three who attended the wedding 50 years ago in Ohio —James Longstreth of Parr and Mrs. John Clager of Wheatfleld, brother and sister of Mrs. Schroer, and Mrs. Alex Hurley of Rensselaer, a niece of Mrs. Schroer's. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Schroer hope that they may live to celebrate their diamond wedding, 25 years hence.

MIKE KANNE DIES SUDDENLY

While Out at His Farm In Gillam Township Monday Forenoon. Michael Kanne, one of Rensselaer’s best known citizens, died' very suddenly Monday forenoon while out looking after some fence building at his farm In Gillam township, occupied by James Poicel. Mr. Kanne had driven out to the farm in his car and stopped at the house and talked with Mr. Poicel regarding building some fence. v. . He ate an apple while at the house and then said he would go out to the field where the fence was to be built and look it over. A son of Mr. Poicel’s was mowing in the field and he saw Mr. Kanne come out there, but on his next round saw nothing of him. He thought this a little strange, and got off the mashing and went to some trees or BTtlsh, where the thought he might have gone, and found him lying on the ground, dead. A doctor was summoned at once from Medaryville and the sons notified here, but the body was not removed from where it was found until after the doctor arrived and saw that the old gentleman was beyond all medical aid. The doctor thought the apple had produced an attack of acute indigestion, which was followed by a stroke of apoplexy. The body was brought to Rensselaer Monday evening and the funeral will be held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church at 9 o’clock tomorrow (Thursday) morning, and burial made in Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of town, beside his wife, who departed this life Aug. 12, 1918. Mr. Kanne came to Jasper county 14 years ago with his family and purchased several good farms near Rensselaer. All were good farmers and good workers and “the Kannes' were soon known as among the best farmers in Jasper county. A few .years ago the father bought ground and erected a modern home in Rensselaer, where he had since resided. He had always been stout ana rugged and was one of the last men in Jasper county one would have expected to pass off so suddenly. His death was a distinct shock to the relatives and many friends of the family. Mr. Kanne was born in Illinois Nov. 6, 1848, and therefore lacked less than three months of being 72 years at the time of his death. He is survived by 10 children, eight sons and two daughters. The sons are John of Campus, HI.; Joseph, George, Frank, Tone, Ed, A 1 and Art kanne, and Mrs. Stephen Kohley of near Rensselaer and Mrs. Gaylord McFarland of Barberton, O. Another son, Gus, who resided in Illinois, was killed in an automobile accident there a few years ago.

THOMAS GRANT IS A LIAR

If He Made Any Such Statement as Attributed to Him by Looey. Thomas Grant returned today to South Bend where he is with the National lumber Co., owned by Paxton Brothers. He had spent the week-end with his family. Mr. Grant heard the millionaire Democratic presidential candidate at South Bend and reports that a third of the audience v sere so disgusted with the ad- -' Jrass that they left the hall during speech.—Rensselaer Republican. . JfifpMr. Grant made the statement attributed to him by the Republican he is a liar of the first water. The statement is too silly for any man with an ounc'i of common sense to make or for an editor with a thimbleful of brains to publish.

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From Ihs Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Former County Commissioner D. S. Makeever has keen very sick with kidney trouble at his home in Newton township for the past three or four days and is still confined to his bed. Marriage licenses issued: Aug. 21, Arthur Yeiter of Rensselaer, aged 23 Mch. 18 last, laborer, and Myrtle Stiles, also of Rensselaer, aged 20 Dec. 25 last, housekeeper. First marriage for male, second marriage for female, previous marriage dissolved by divorce in November, 1919. Another case of high-grade bond envelopes, bought a* a bargain, just received in The Democrat’s Job printing department. As we bought these envelopes at an extremely low price, as envelopes sell nowadays, we can offer our patrons an exceptional bargain while this case lasts. We also have bond paper to match the envelopes and can turn out a handsome job of each at a very reasonable price. Nightwatch Richards, assisted by Mort Murray, lodged Mrs. Ralph Wiseman and her sister, Miss Ethel Allee, in jail Saturday night, and they were left there until shortly after nooii Sunday, when they were turned loose with a lecture from the former. It seemß the girls had “attracted” home with them. several boys Saturday night, when they wentj to their home in “Rabbit Town,” | and the father fired a few shots from a revolver to scare the boys away, which was resented by the girls. A row resulted in which, the husband of one of the girls tele-1 phoned to the nightwatch to come' out there. John took the bull by, the horns and landed the females in' jail. The father and the husband both said they could not do anything with them, and the former is said to have threatened to leave the whole outfit and dig . out *of town. The girls didn’t seem a bit' peeved over being shut up in Jail for a day and are evidently not worrying half as much over what will be done with them as are the city authorities.

PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL

The city council met in regular session Monday night with all members present, except Councilman Waymlre. In the matter of the Weston and east Washington street sewer, plans and specifications were filed by the engineer and on suspension of rules same was ordered constructed. ' Temporary plans and specifications for the new city hall were submitted by Architect Brack of Kentland and same were taken under consideration. The mayor was authorized to sign contract with Bi-Lateral Fire Hose Co. for the purchase of 500 feet. of fire hose of $696. 9 John Platt was directed to clean Cedar street sewer on east Washington street. The mayor was authorized to sign contract with the Linton Coal Co. for coal for city plant. The usual number of claims were allowed.

THE PUBLIC THE SUCCESSFUL MAN

Editor Looey delights in referring to Governor jCox as the millionaire Democratic candidate for president. Well, if Mr. Cox is a millionaire he has made his money by his own individual efforts, as he started in life a poor boy in a newspaper office in a little inland Ohio town. Harding’s father bought a newspaper for his son and gave it to him —and the latter never got beyond the little town of Marlon. Sneers at the man who has made a success in life honestly and by hds own efforts will never get you anywhere, Looey. We want and need the experience of live, successful men in office, not dead ones nor failures.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1920.

DIVERS VIEWS ARE PRESENTED

At Country Club Proposition Mooting Last Friday Night. At the meeting Friday evening at the Van Rensselaer club rooms to discuss the country club proposition there was quite a diversity of opinion as to what sort of grounds should be secured. Some wanted an exclusive country club with fine buildings, sunken gardens, fountains, etc., etc., while Others wanted grounds that could be used for a fair grounds, with race track, etc., and when not in such use could be used for golfing, etc. Others wanted a park, a playground for the children, others a memorial building, etc. The country club plan seems to have but little backing and it is not probable that anything at all will come from any of the propositions presented. Mose Leopold presided at the meeting and appointed a committee, composed of Dr. I. M. Washburn, Dr. M. D. Gwin, J. H. Chapman, J. N. Leatherman, Rev. J. B. Fleming, Mrs. Ora Ross and Mrs. W. O. Rowles, to further investigate the proposition.

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UNEARTH HEAD OF MASTODON

In Oliver Ditch Near Newland —ls Finely Preserved Specimen. The skull and entire upper Jaw, with the exception of most of the teeth, of a mastodon, was unearthed by the dredge at work on the Oliver ditch about a half mile directly north of Newland, in Barkley township, last Friday. The head is in a remarkably good state of preservation and two of the smaller front I teeth are still fast in the Jawbone. ! It is about three feet or more in length and runs down to nose or mouth, showing where the tusks were joined on. In fact, a little of each tußk is jjtlll attached to the head. . I The writer drove to Newland Sun- ■ day and saw 'the find, and it is well worth seeing. It is almost as large as a flour barrel and probably weighs 40 to 50 pounds. At the back of the skull, where it joined onto the backbone, the Joint has a sort of greasy appearance, as though it had been but recently torn loose from the backbone, and that the flesh of the animal had been preserved for thousands of years in the water and muck before disintegration set in. The head was some six or seven feet from the top of the muck ground, in the side of the ditch bank, and when we were there Sunday little or no effort had been made to search for any other parts of the skeleton, although it was said that one rib, some three or four feet long, was also picked up. It was the intention to make further search, however, for it is very evident that the rest of the skeleton is nearby and, if as well preserved as Is the head, it should prove one of the most perfect specimens of these pre-hls-toric monsters ever unearthed in this country, where they evidently roamed hundreds and thousands of years ago, as frequent finds of parts of skeletons have heretofore been made both in Jasper and other northwestern Indiana counties. Some 22 years ago the Norman boys, it will be remembered, found two large mastodon teeth in the Iroquois river near the Pulllna bridge in Barkley township that weighed 3% pounds each.

MRS. SARAH MACKEY IS DEAD

Mrs. Sarah Mackey, widow of Henry Mackey, died at about 16 p. m., Monday at her home in the east part of the city, aged about 74 years. She leaves two sons, W. H. and Grover Mackey. At this writing the funeral arrangements had not been completed, but it was understood that the funeral would be held some time today.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

A BADGER KILLED IN KANKAKEE

, Animal la Unusual In Jasper County Weighed 40 Pounds. Just about daylight last Saturday morning, while F. W. Fisher of Kankakee township was building a fire in the kitchen range, the family dog was attracted to the barn lot where he set up considerable barking as though there was some animal there. Mr. Fisher paid little attention to it for a time, but finally went down to the lot and found that the dog and cattle had some animal in a corner of the wire fence which resumbled a woodchuck or groundhog, except that its nose turned up-, ward like a Berkshire hog, and a white stripe ran from the nose up through the forehead. The animal had the dog buffaloed, but Mr. Fisher, with the aid of a pitchfork, soon put it out of cammission. One of a gang of threshers, who came to his place that morning and had previously lived where this sort of animal Is more common, pronounced it a badger, which are rarely found in Jasper county. The animal had claws on its front feet about three inches in length and weighed about 40 pounds. Mr. Fisher will have the pelt tanned for a rug.

ROOSEVELT AT MONTICELLO

Will Pass Through Rensselaer on Train No. 37 Next Monday. The first of the state or national candidates for office in the coming election in November, to speak publicly in Monticello, will be Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for vice-president, who will be in Monticello on Monday, Aug. 30. It was at first announced by the speakers’ bureau that Mr. Roosevelt would pass through Monticello at noon on hds way to Delphi to speak, but through the efforts of a number of Democrats of this city, arrangements have been made to have the candidate for vice-president stop off at Monticello, and after a short address here, he will be taken by automobile to Delphi where he will speak, concluding In time to catch the afternoon Monon train from there to Indianapolis where he has another engagament to speak” at 8 o’clock in the evening at Tomlinson hall. v Mr. Roosevelt, according to present plans, will arrive here on the 12 o’clock Monon train, and will be taken at once to the band stand where he will talk.—White County Democrat.

WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN ARE DOING

The subject of taxation in its various phases and its practical relation to the every-day life, of the average citizen was ably dealt with Friday afternoon at the regular meeting of the Democratic Woman’s School of Citizenship, by Ellis Jones of Remington, the Democratic member of the county board of review. The centralizing of the taxing power in the hands of a few men, entirely removed from the locality over which they are empowered to exerelse the powers of taxation," was shown to be a great mistake of the present Republican administration, and is frankly admitted by most of the members of that party. The present candidate of the party, however, has publicly endorsed the present administration and those who vote for him are no doubt aware of the fact that they are voting to continue the injustice under which we are all suffering at the present time. Mention was made of the fact, that when the state government was turned over to the Republicans at the end of Governor Ralston’s administration, the state was entirely free from debt, which is in marked contrast to the present state of affairs, in spite of greatly increased taxes. When the people speak this fall at the ballot box, they will begin the correction of these injustices by placing in power Dr. McCulloch, a man who for 18 months helped to correct the injustices of the world by serving in the American army overseas with such distinction that he was the recipient of the Croix de Guerre.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS Tolographlc Ruperts From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cltlea and Towns — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. SPECIAL DAY 8 AT STATE FAIR Monday, Sept. 6th, Labor day. Tuesday, Indiana Farmers’ Federation day; war veterans, soldiers and children admitted free. Wednesday, Indianapolis day. Thursday, all Indiana day.—Advt.

CHARLES B. LANDIS STRICKEN

Former Delphi Congressman Seriously 111 In California. Burt Lake, Mich., Aug. K. M. Landis has been called to Los Angeles, Calif., by a message announcing the serious illness of his brother, Charles B. Landis, formerly congressman from the Ninth Indiana district. Mr. Landis, after retiring from the congress, became a resident of Wilmington, Del., where he was connected with the Dupont Powder company ,and where, during the war, he accumulated a large fortune. Last spring he was preparing to go with Mrs. Landis on a trip to South America, when he suffered a stroke which made necessary an abandonment of his planß. Later he went to California in the hope of benefiting his health, and it is supposed that he has suffered a second stroke, ae his son has been summoned from South Amerioa.”

ENGINEERS SOLVED PROBLEM

Locomotive Suspended 25 Feet Above Ground for Three Days. Greencastle, Aug. 23. —The big Monon locomotive, suspended 25 feet in the air when a bridge over a switch near the Indiana Portland Cement company’s plant gave way last Thursday night, and left one end of the engine on the bridge supports and the other end on the abutment, was removed yesterday afternoon. Thousands of persons watched the workmen build a temporary trestle work from the ground up to it and saw them put a track under the locomotive and pull it off the bridge on to the main line. The accident fortunately occurred at a place where the Monon trains could detour over a switch owned by the company. The engine hung on the bridge three days. A crane used by the cement company was used to handle the heavy timbers which were used in building the trestle under the engine.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Lloyd Holliday of Brookston, Anna Louks of Remington and Maurice Adair of Rensselaer had their tonBils removed yesterday morning. Miss Inez Kiplinger underwent a major operation yesterday morning. Mrs. J. J. Miller of this city underwent a minor operation yesterday. Mrs. Ross Pollock and babe returned to their home eadt of town yesterday. Dr. Hewitt brought a little Hilliard boy down from Demotte Monday and had his tonsils removed. The lad returned to his home yesterday. A son was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Brown of Roselawn. Mrs. Harry Lent of Brook entered the hospital Friday for medical attention. Mrs./Ed Rose and baby and Mrs. Joseph Wilson were able to return to their homes Sunday. Mrs. Elmer Brenneman is improving nicely from her recent operation. The condition of George Antcliff remains unchanged. Harlow Denton of Lake Village, who was so badly Injured last week by % threshing machine, hat! his left arm, which was very badly broken and mangled, amputated Friday night. He Is now doing - quite, well and It is thought will recover. Thomas Crockett is very low and has been for "several days. It is thought he cannot long survive.

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ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCER

Miss Nell Meyers to Be Married on October 12. Miss Nell Meyers gave a dinner party Friday evening to about 20 of her girl friends at which she announced her engagement to Mr. Elmo Blakemore of Kennet, Mo., the wedding to take place on Tuesday, Oct. 12. - The announcement was a complete surprise to her friends and was made in quite an unique manner. When coffee was served each guest was presented with a slip of paper with typewritten instructions to hold their place cards to the flame and read. The cards bore the following words which had been written in lemon juice: “If on the flames you hold your card, You will And a puzzle hard; Work it out, then you will see What the future holds for me. • Nell and Elmo; October twelfth.” Miss Meyersyis a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Meyers of Rensselaer, and is a very attractive and accomplished young lady. She is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and also of Wisconsin university. She later taught one year in the schools at Kennet, Mo., where she met her fiance. She also held a government position at Washington, D. C„ during the recent world war. Mr. Blakemqre is an excellent young and is a graduate in pharmacy.

ANOTHER FARMER GAN SEE IT

Farm Tools Doubled In Price WHII4 Grain’s More Than Trebled. We were talking to a farmer Monday and in the course of our conversation the matter of politics came up. We had supposed this farmer was a Republican and that he was one of the standpatters, but were greatly surprised when he said that he was going to vote with the Democrats this fall, as will all the other members of his family. "Why,” said he, "should I vote against my own interests and the interests of the country? Everybody is prosperous; there is not a tramp anywhere from Maine to California. Everybody is working or can get work if he wants it and at the highest wages ever known. Everybody has money and, even though prices are high for everything we buy, we have all got the money to pay for what we want and have a little left—something that we didn’t used to have. We can better afford to pay these high prices than we could the low prices for what we had to buy 10 years ago. "Why, 10 years ago, for example, 1 needed a new corn planter. I had to haul 100 bushels of corn to market and it took every bushel to pay for that S4O planter. Last spring I needed another planter, but the price had risen to $75, but it only took 50 bushels of corn to buy it where it had taken 100 bushels 10 years ago. I had $75 left out of 100 bushels of corn where 10 years ago it hiid taken every dollar that 100 bushels brought. “No, I am perfectly satisfied to let well enough alone, and our votes this year will be cast for Cox and Roosevelt, for I have made more money—as has practically every other man- in the entire country—during the past eight years than I had made before in all the years of my life.” . ,

WOODB HOLLAND PLAYERS The amusement loving people of Rensselaer will be pleased to learn that the Woods-Holland Players will play a three-night' engagement in Rensselaer, starting Monday, Aug. 30. , The opening play will be “The Girl From Kilarney,” a comedydrama in four acts.- Our feature play for the second night will be "A Dangerous Woman, ,f from the pen of Morrle B. Streeter. This play was written especially for this company. There is an abi/ndance of good, wholesome comedy and a very interesting story. “At Circle C Ranch, a breezy western pk*y,vwill close the engagement. Feature singing and dancing specialties will be introduced each night. Prlcee, including war tax, will be 25c for children and 50c for adults. Doors open 7:30; curtain 8:15. Tent located on the corner of Rutsen and Van Rensselaer streets.— Advt. „ LATE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Aug. 33, to Mr. and Mrs. Don Warren of this city, a son.