Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1920 — Page 1

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RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP

John Ryan Had Enjoyable Outing, Visiting In Several States. J. P. Ryan was down from Gillam township yesterday. He returned last Friday night from his eastern trip and reports having had a splendid outing. He visited Pennsylvania. New York, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D. C., and saw many former Hoosiers who have located in the states named, all of whom are well pleased and are getting

along fine. Among those he visited were Van Collins, eormerly of Rensselaer, who has a fine farm in Pennsylvania and is getting along splendidly, and Roy Heiltzell and Frank Hernigle, both formerly of Medaryville. Mr. Ryan liked some of the country very much and other sections he was not so well pleased with, it being too hilly to suit him. However, old Indiana looked mighty good to him when he got back home and crops here were the best he saw any place.

WILL SWEEP ENTIRE COUNTRY

Democratic Prosperity Will Not Be Qhanged for G. O'. P. Poverty. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Powell of Chicago came down Sunday for a few days’ visit with C. R. Weiss and family and to eat fried chicken at Mr. Weiss’s bountiful table. Mr. Powell’s business takes him all over the country, from New York to Texas, and he takes a lively in-

terest in the presidential campaign, being a strong supporter of Governor Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and heard the latter speak in Chicago a few nights ago. Mr. Powell says the Democrats will Bweep the country in the November election on the league of nations issue and Its record for constructive laws passed, like the federal reserve banking law, the federal faA, loan law, 'etc., and the improbability of the people voting for a change at a time when everybody is prospering beyond their fondest expectations. , ~ -

MANY CHANGES TO DEMOCRATS

In Wabash County Over League' Issue—McCray Losing. Ground. H. Paxton and two granddaughters, Misses Catherine and Mildred Russell, returned to Wabash yesterday after a few days’ visit here with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Charles Grow, and family. Mr. Paxton says there has been a great many political changes to the Democrats in Wabash since the Republican national convention in Chicago and Harding’s speech of acceptance, in which he came out against the league of nations and advocated a separate peace with v Germany. This did not set well, and scores of life-long Republicans have said that they intended to support the Democratc nominee on the league issue. McCray, the Republican candidate for governor, has also lost greatly in Wabash county because of the exposure of his tax schedules and his line-up with Jim Goodrich, Mr. Paxton says.

VISITED MICHIGAN FRUIT BELT

Charles Pefley and Fred Hemp,hill were up in southern Michigan the last of the week investigating the peach, apple and potato crop. The best grade of peaches will not be ready for shipment for two or three weeks yet and Mr. Pefley expects to secure a carload of them for retail here as soon as they are ripe. While there is a large crop of peaches and apples there, the. price is holding up well and no very low retail prices are looked for. Mr. Pefley brought back with him a small branch of Wealthy apples. This branch was perhaps, two feet long and about as large in diameter as a lead pencil. On the lower end of the branch, in a space about 12 inches long, it was covered completely with clusters of apples, none perhaps less than 2% inches in diameter, and there were 22 apples in this short space.

DON'T PUT OFF REGISTERING

Remember that Saturday, Sept. 4, is registration day. There will be a second registration day on Monday,/ zfW; 4, but don't wait until theU” ome out next Saturday and register and make sure of it and have ? iV off your mind. No person can vote at the Nov. 2 election who la not registered, therefore it be* hooves all voters, both male and female, to register early. The pollrf will ibe open from 8 a. mtill 9 p. m. for receiving registrations. f \* . ~*

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL iA i - Legal New* Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices.

New suits filed: No. 9229. A. D. Babcock vs. Spencer Hamilton estate; action on disallowed claim. Demand S2OO. The Jasper County Teachers’ Institute opened Monday with a good attendance and got down to active business yesterday. A report of the institute will be given in Saturday’s Democrat. Garland Grant, a young farmer of just west of town, went to Chicago last Wednesday where he was •quietly married to Miss Eliazbeth Ryan of that city. The young couple returned here Wednesday and at once ’ took up their residence at the Grant farm. Mr. Grant is a prosperous J farmer and quite well known in this community. His bride was for some time a nurse in the county hospital. I

The will of the late John Donohue of Remington was filed for proobate Monday. The instrument was executed May 24, 1913. In item 1 It is asked that 80 acres of land in Benton county and the residence property be sold and the proceeds used for paying all just debts and funeral expenses, the remaining money, if any, to go to the wife; 160 acres of land, also in Benton county, is bequeathed to the wife, Sarah Donohue, for her life time, and at her death to go to his son, Martin F. Donohue, “who shall within a year after the death of sadd Sarah Donohue, pay to each of the four other children $3,000 each.”

Marriage licenses Issued: Aug. 27, William Joseph Deno of Remington, aged 23 July 21 last, farmer, and- Marie Cora Edwards, also of Remington, aged 19 Dec. 18 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Aug. 28, Richard G. Gasaway of Virgie, aged 47 Dec. 25 last, fanner, and Blanche E. Aylsworth of Union township, aged 43 Sept. 6 last, housekeeper. Third marriage for male, second for female, last previous marriage® dissolved by death in 1913 and 1916 respectively.

Aug. 28, Keith John Story of Chicago, aged 24 Aug. 23, engineer, and Frances French Hollett of Rensselaer, aged 19 July 4 last, instructor. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. E. W. Strecker at the Mpnnett school, from which the bride graduated some seven years ago. X Under the provisions of a law passed by the recent special session of the- legislature and carrying an emergency clause, therefore going into force and effect on and immediately after its passage, all miscellaneous claims to be presented to any county or city board for allowance; must be published at least five days before the meeting of any board authorized to allow claims, said notice to state the time when same will be presented for allowance, name of claimant and nature of services or articles furnished .and amount and price charged. No miscellaneous claim can be allowed by any board until such publication has been made. 'Persons having claims against tlje county, city, county hospital or city or town schools must file same in time for such publicar tion in order to have them allowed and paid. A penalty equal to the full amount of. the claim is fixed for failure of the proper of-! fleer to comply with the provisions of this law. The law makes numerous changes in the publication of legal notices and also requires that’ an annual statement be published by town and city school boards, similar to that now required by the county commissioners.

Willie Hays is like the man who yells “ouch” before he gets hurt He issued a denial of Governor Cox’s' -charges of a huge Republican slush fund before the nominee made them, public. Says had made up his mind beforehand to label anything the governor said as false. r -J , . • ; . ’ / , . ’ 1 !

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1920.

ANNUAL REUNION HELD SUNDAY

At Dunn’s Bridge of the Hershman and Stalbaum Families. A reunion of the Hershman-Stal-baum families of Gillam and Walker townships was held at Dunn’s Bridge Sunday, Aug. 29. Some 68 members of the two families were present A fine dinner was spread at the noon hour and a very pleasant day was enjoyed by all. It was voted to make the reunion an annual affair, same to be held at Dunn’s Bridge on the first Sunday in August of each year. The following officers were elected: James Linton, chairman; Leta Hershman, treasurer; Bertha Hershman, secretary; Helen Dean, Bertha Stalbaum and Mrs. Glenn Dean, entertainment committee. , „

Following are the names of those present: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller and daughter Thelma; Mre. Lyman Dean and , daughter Helen; Glenn Dean and family; Fred Stalbaum and family; ’ Harry Stalbaum and family; William Meyers, Jr., and wife; Mr. and I Mrs. Ray Anderson; William Stalbaum and family; Mrs. Charles Stal- ■ baum and family; William Hershman and family; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hershman; Mr. and Mrs. Alva Hershman and "Sheet”; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hershman and son Bert; Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Record; Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Woolever; William Grube and family; Mrs. Rebecca Hershman and children, and Mr. and Mrs. James Linton and son Frank.

THREE DEATHS AT HOSPITAL

Mrs. Charles Pollock, Rater Whilby and Thomas Crockett Die. Mrs. Charles R. Pollock of near Morocco died at the county hospital Friday night about 11 o’clock, after only a short illness from uremic poisoning. Deceased was 22 years of age last July and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Standish of Mt Ayr. Besides her parents she Is survived by her husband and an infant child but a few days old. The funeral was held at Morocco Monday afternoon and burial made In the Morocco cemetery.

Rafer I. Wilby, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Whilby residing on the Hlllls ranch near Fair Oaks, died at the county hospital Sunday evening about 7:30 o’clock after only a few days’ illness from pneumonia. The young man was born Oct. ’ll‘, 1899, and was therefore 20 years, 10 months and 18 days of age at the time of his death. The funeral was held at the M. E. church at Fair Oaks yesterday morning at 10 o’clock and burial made in the Fair Oaks cemetery.

* Thomas A. Crockett, who had been lying at the point of death at the county hospital for several weeks, passed away Sunday evening about 8 o’clock. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, from the residence in the east part of town, conducted by Rev. Strecker of the M. E. church, and burial made in the Crockett cemetery, southeast of Rensselaer, the burial ceremonies being in charge of the G. A. R., of which deceased had long been an honored and active member. The obituary of Mr. Crockett appears in another column of The Democrat.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Ethel, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fritz; Miss Viola Owen, daughter of Mr. and' Mrs. Charles Owen of McCoysburg, and John Russel, little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sage of this city, had their tonsils removed yesterday morning. ,■ Mrs. Clifford Parkison of Pleasant Ridge had her tonsils removed Saturday. Mrs. Grover Brown and babe were able to return to their home at Roselawn yesterday. James T. Walter, Joseph Larsh, John May, Earl Russell, Harlow Denton, Inez Kiplinger, Mrs. R. D. Gor- 1 ham and babe and Mrs. Harry Lent are aU improving nicely. George Antcllff seems slightly improved.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

To lepphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. QUARRELED WITH LADY FRIEND Drives Buggy on Railroad Track and Then Awaits Death.

Ferdinand Dye, age 22, waß killed at San Pierre, In Starke county, Friday night by Monon passerfger train No. 1, en route from Michigan City to Lafayette. The accident occurred on a private crossing on the John Hobey farm. According to reports, the young man quarreled with Mrs. Hobey’s daughter, who he had been keeping company with, and leaving the house drove his horse and buggy on the railroad crossing and waited for the train to hit the vehicle. He had wrapped himself in a blanket and evidently was prepared to die. Hugh McMillan, engineer of the train, says that Dye stopped deliberately, with the buggy squarely on the crossing, the horse being clear of the track. The horse Was not InA

jured, but the buggy was torn to pieces and Dye’s head was crushed. He was dead when trainmen 1 picked him up. The young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dye of Hamlet, Starke county. For several months he had been running a farm near San Pierre. The crossing Is only 300 feet from the Hobey home and is In plain view of the house. Mrs. Hobey and her daughter were among the first to reach the scene of the accident.

METHOD IN THEIR MADNESS

The acknowledged Republican ■state organ, the Indianapolis Star, with a candor most refreshing, admits that all this pow-wow of the Republican politicians about the dangers confronting the country by a continuation of the Democrats in power, the adoption of the league of nations and its condemnation of President Wilson is simply for effect by “an aggregation of politicians out of power.” In this connection the Star says: It can hardly Wave escaped the attention of persons born longer ago than the day before yesterday that the Republican nominees are consumed with an insatiable passion to get in. One means to that end they concedve to be a withering contempt for about everything the Democrats have started. It would be impossible for the most resourceful genius to contrive a mess of crimes and misdemeanors approaching in iniquity the most negligible undertaking of the Wilson administration. It will not do to indulge ourselves in too desperate alarm over this exhibit in misanthropy on the part of all faithful Republican statesmen because this is but part of their regular Job. At the hour of going to press none of them can think of a deadlier blight upon unborn generations than the league of nations. The more they contemplate it the worse it grows, and curiously it is given to taking on different and mutually exclusive aspects to contemporaneous observers, and even to the same observer at different times. To some ardent patriots It has appeared through the telescope the same evening In right ascension as a "horrifying super-state and also as the sum of all international impotence. Though this spectacle may cause the groundlings to laugh and the judicious to grieve, there is, alas, no help tof it. It is a perfectly awful thirty to think how demented men can become when their party is concerned, who are perfectly sane on every other subject In the world.

Remember The Democrat carries good quality lead pencils and penholders In stock at all times.

A WORLD RECORD HOG PRICE

Indianapolis Firm Gives $6,650 for Boar Pig at Oxford Sale. Lafayette, Aug. 31.—A world record price for a boar pig was paid Saturday afternoon at Colvert Brothers’ sale of Big Type Poland China swine at Oxford, Benton county, when Kendall & Hackley of Indianapolis gave $6,650 for Triumph, a six-months-old animal sired by Liberator, dam Model Giantess 111. This is the highest price ever paid for a boar pig of any breed. Forty head of hogs were sold and the total proceeds of the sale wore $20,695. Model Qiantdss 111. is a brood sow for which the Colvert

Brothers paid $11,300 at Kansas City last fall. Out of her last litter of 14 pigs she raised 10 of them und six of these were.sold at Saturday’s said' for $11,450, an average price of $1,908.32. TTiere were 300 buyers at the sale, representing 35 different states.

OF COURSE THEY DIDN’T LEAVE

Their Campaign of Lies Will Avail Republicans Nothing. In speaking of the Governor Cox meeting at South Bend recently and where Looey published an alleged statement of a partisan cohort that “a third of the audience were so disgusted with the address that they left the *hall during the speech,” Editor Steinbach of the Kentland Democrat, who was present at the meeting, says:

The writer can bear witness to the fact that “not a third” of Governor Cox’s audience "left the hall” either In "disgust” or otherwise when he spoke at the coliseum (the only “hall” he spoke in) in South Bend on Thursday night of last week. The writer was there and observed that the mammoth coliseum structure wsb packed to the limit long before Governor Cox was introduced, and though the night was very warm and the candidate spoke for nearly, an hour, scarcely as many as one out of every 1,000 persons present went out while he spoke—and these perhaps because pf, the discomfort of the heat or other reasons of their own.

MANY REPUBLICANS ARE TO AID THE DEMOCRATS

Senator Elaner Predicts Popular Uprising Against Goodrichism— G. O. P. to Help Cox. Indianapolis, Aug. 30. —The Democratic state ticket will have practically no opposition In Jackson county, Edward P. Eisner of Seymour, Ind., said here a day or so ago. "Everyone Is tired of the Goodrich administration,” Mr. Eisner continued. "Republicans as well as Democrats are opposed to the Goodrich tax law and they are determined to be rid of the centralization of power In the hands of the state tax board. It Is the most oppressive measure that has ever been inflicted upon Indiana.” Mr. Eisner stated that he has heard a number of Republicans declare their Intention of voting for Oox because of his stand on the league of nations. “Women were a bit hard to interest in the campaign at first,” said Mr. Eisner, “but now that the federal suffrage amendment has been ratified they are waking up rapidly.” Mr. Eisner says that the poll has been taken in Jackson county and the poll books show a substantial majority of Democratic women. Mr. Eisner represented Clark, Jackson and Scott counties in the Indiana senate during the last session of the state legislature. Ha is favorably remembered by the suffrage workers of Indianapolis because he introduced a bill providing that women should be entitled to hold office and sit on juries.

ATTEND ROOSEVELT SPEAKING

At Montlcello Monday—Many Meet Candidate at Depot Here. Quite a number of Rensselaer and Jasper county people went to Monticello Monday to hear Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for vice-president, who spoke there and at Delphi Monday afternoon and in Indianapolis at night. Many Rensselaer people went to the Monon station and saw Mr. Roosevelt when he passed through here on the U:1'8 a. m. train, and many of the large number at the station shook hands with the candidate, who came out on the car, platform to greet them.

An armload of old papers for 8e at The Democrat office. >

DR. McGULLOCH “'is coming Democrat Nominee for Governor of Indiana will apeak at New Ellis Theatre 8 o’clock p. m. lii, September 13 Everyone ia cordially invited to come out and bear Dr. McCulloch.

SAYS THAT REPUBLICANS MISPRINT THE PACT

Democrat Woman Chairman Bhowa Falsity of Statements Made by Mrs. Keallng. Indianapolis, Aug. 3D. —In a letter to tbe public Mrs. Martha Marson, Democratic chairmjan of the women's organization of Marion county, replied to an article over the signature of Mrs. Joseph B. Keallng, Republican state woman’s chairman, in which Mrs. Kealing discussed the league of nations in the Indianapolis Star.

Mrs. Marson declared that Mrs. Keallng should at least read the covenant before "attempting to educate the women on it” Mrs. Keallng made the assertion that, under article 10 of the cownant, “American boys would be sent to other far parts of the world when ordered to go by foreign nations in tbe league, and I do not believe American mothers desire this." "Article 10 does not give foreign nations any such power,” says Mrs. Marson’s statement, "and either Mrs. Kealing is Ignorant on the subject or she Is purposely appealing to the prejudices of American mothers.

“She states further,” continues Mrs. Marson, "that bad the league been properly ratified American boys would at this moment be in Europe I engaged in the warfare now being carried on there.” "This again is deliberately misleading. England, France and over 30 other nations belong to tbe league now and their boys are not engaged in war between Russia and Poland. Why should the American boys be/ there? The truth of the matter is that in failing promptly to ratify the league, America has given encouragement to the Boolshevlsts of Europe and civilization is again menaced because the league Is not functioning properly becauos of our absence from it."

Mrs. Marson points out in. her statement that America’s entrance into war here or abroad would be decided by congress as heretofore and declares that Mrs. Healing’s statement that “we would not have that power under the Wilson league” is misleading and untrue. “Women should read the league covenant,” says Mrs. Marson, “and not be led away by such partisan statements as this. “The council of the league can do nothing on any matter which comes before it except by unanimous consent, and as we would be a member of this council, consisting of nine nations, we can not be forced into anything that affects our nation without our consent.” Mrs. Marson says that the lenders of the Republican party are against any league of nations; their platform is against it and Senator Harding is against it, and there is a deliberate attempt to mislead the women voters on what the league now adopted by so many nations, really means.

“The league is to simply do away with war altogether,” she said, “and surely the women of America favor the conception; they should therefore inform themselves on the issue and not allow themselves to be misled by mere partisan misrepresentations. "The women have been given the ballot, let us prove worthy of the honor by intelligent action and not be actuated by mere partisanship. The great covenant of peace contains a moral Issue and the women of America can do no better, thing to show their capacity to be citizens than to vote for and work for the present league of nations.” Senator Watson continues in his public speeches to insist that America did not declare war on Germany. Jt will be hard to make the boys who spent months in France and Germany and the fathers and mothers who sent them there, believe this. _ __

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