Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — Page 8

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The Grouch with the “Stomachache” la the fellow who is forever “crabbing” about hard times, high prices, profiteering and panics. He gets his dope from the yellow newspapers, the broad cheated, narrow minded banker and the bullet headed “finanseer” who sees everything going to destruction compared to which the “Crime of 73 was a glorious achievement. But, “Cheer up. Grandpa, t’aint so.” These are the biggest times in the history of this great nation. We have merchandised in Rensselaer for six years, and when it comes to real bona fide prosperity in which absolutely all, not just a few, but everybody is participating, this particular era has all past American history “backed off the boards.” i Are prices high? Listen!' Go back five to ten years when prices were so low that compared to today’s market they look like a joke. Even so, did you enjoy the luxuries, the extent of luxuries, the comfort and the advantages you enjoy today? Not on your life. Neither did your friends, that’s why you were satisfied, but today look at the transformation (not the one your wife wears), and note the difference. Automobiles, everybody's get ’em. They are so common that the fellow who walks is an aristocrat. gasoline at 30 cents a gallon with repairs, upkeep and depreciation, running into the billions. Victrolas, phonographs, talking machines in endless variety, and with records from jazz to grand opera so plentiful that everybody is bored to death. Moving picture shows outdoors, indoors, roof gardens and The Princess playing to continuous crowds. Electric cars, electric fans, electric launches and electric appliances. Simply touching a button you get your week’s washing or a slice of toast. Short hours the limit, back pay, “Oh! boy,” high wages, well rather. De luxe working conditions, silk sox, silk hose, silk shirts, silk skirts, silk underwear, silk Teddy bears, silk bloomers, silk pajamas, camisoles and corsets, not the exception, mind you, but actually the rule. Fur trimmed suits for the ladies, and fur lined coats for the men with a full dinner pail and a full wardrobe. Free education, free libraries, books, newspapers, magazines ’n everything. And to cap the climax, everybody, yes everybody standing with head erect under the greatest flag beneath the shining sun, with traditions of ineffaceable glory running back to the v Mayflower, overwhelmed by the most bountiful crops within the memory of Jasper County, safeguarded by the best laws in the universe which you yourself had a voice in creating and administered by Christian men of your own type and sfter your own heart. What more could you ask? Brace up you lobster and “kwitcherkickin.” • • • ■ • ..., i Hilliard & Hamill t p nA /

NEWS from the COUNTY

LEE Rer. Olin Stewart and family are here this week, visiting relatives. The Queen Esther girls met Thursday afternoon with Miss Edith Clark. D jj Trout shipped out three carload® of fat cattle from here Sunday evening. Mre. Nan Stiers’s brother’s wife

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and little son of Chicago were here a few days, visiting with her. Mrs. Artie Clark and children have returned to her home after being at Joseph Clark’s most of the summer. O. A. Jacks and J. H. Culp have been doing carpenter work for Trustee Parker on school houses this week. Ephriam Gilmore has returned from Kansas, where he was called by the serious illness of his brother, -who died and was buried there last week. C. A. Lefler and family and O. E. Noland and wife, the Noland girls and their husbands and Gifford Marrs and family spent Sunday at Lonnie Noland’s. Miss Lural Anedrson is home thiß week from Muncie, where she has just completed her school work. She will return there the last of the week to begin teaching next Monday in the Muncie schools.

- MILROY G. L. Parks’® entertained several guests Sunday. Earl Foulks attended institute at Rensselaer this week. . Marion Garvin Is staying with Mrs. Merry in Rensselaer at present. Mm Lillie Mitchell and children spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. Thomas Lear. Mm. Jesse English visited her daughter, Mr®. Earl Foulks, and family the last of the week. A poultry culling demonstration was held by the county agent at Mason Barlow’s Tuesday afternoon. Mesdames Earl and George Foulks, Mm. Alice Osborn and Mm. Frank May called on Mrs. Saltwell Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Alice Osborn of Lebanon, Mo„

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and Mr®. Frank May visited the latter’® sister, Mrs. Roy Culp, and family Tuesday. Mrs. Alice Osborn and Mrs. Mary May and daughter Ruth spent Wednesday night with Mrs. George Foulks and family. Joe Rees, Frank and Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks went to Monticello Monday and took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Floyd visited relatives in Pulaski county Sunday, taking a niece home who had been visiting them for several days. CMnton Drake of Columbus, 0., who had been visiting hi® cousin, Mrs. George Foulks, and other relatives, returned home last week. Mrs. Fred Saltwell is in poor health, having fallen to the floor Saturday morning early and lying there until she became conscious again, not knowing how long she had been unconscious.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Ernelst Harris left today to resume his school work at Purdue. Dick Harris and Walter Ponsler visited Erhardt Wuerthner at Surrey Wednesday. Mrs. Martin returned this week from a 10 days’ visit with her folks at New Lenox, 111. Haskell Randolph and wife went to Buchanan, Mich., to spend the week-end with relatives. Martin Hickman, wife and daughter of Prairie View, 111., visited here over Sunday with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Spangler bf Jonesboro spent a few days visiting Mr. Spangler’s sister, Mrs. Lloyd HopldnS. Born, Thursday, morning at 8

o’clock to Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Brown, a seven-pound boy. He has been named Max E. Mrs. David Line of Munfordvllle, Ky., is here visiting her daughters, Mrs. Chas. Pharis and Mrs. Ruby Mitten, of Rensselaer. Helen Duvall, who visited her uncle, J. R. Sigler, last week, went to Rensselaer Wednesday for a few days’ visit with her aunt, Mrs. Merry. Mr. and Mrs. Osban and James Blake and Miss Worland from Hammond and Mr. and Mrs. Worland and daughter of Chicago visited over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ode Sbellenbarger. Miss Marie Harris is home from Muncie where she has been attending summer normal, preparatory to the opening of school. Marie will teach at No. 6, Newton township, Jasper county. . Alex Elijah sold 80 acres of the land which he purchased this spring of J. J. Lawler to Dr. Smalley. The land joined the doctor’s place and we understand the consideration was SIOO per acre. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Frye and two children and Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Gemmer of Silver Lake spent Saturday and Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Rhberts. Mrs. Frye and children remained for a week’s visit. Riley Ashby, wife and babe came Tuesday of last week and are spending a two weeks’ vacation with Riley’s grandfather, J. B. Ashby. Riley is still employed In the postoffice at Gary and likes his work fine. Mrs. F. M. Coovert has severed her connections as clerk at Lee’s store and Mrs. Jas. Whited has taken up the work in her place. The Whited’s will move here this week from Parr so that their two sons may enter high school next week. Mrs. Hile, the postmistress, finally received her permit to remove the postoffice 'from the Hopkins room to her own building, recently purchased of Dr. Martin. She removed the office Monday evening, the section men assisting after work hours on the road.

EDWARDS-DENO NUPTIALS

On Wednesday morning, Sept. 1, at .8 o’clock, at the Sacred Heart church in Remington, one of the prettiest weddings of the season w>as solemnized when Miss Marie Edwards became the bride of William Deno, the Rev. Father Baker officiating. The bride wore a bridal veil and was attired in a beautiful gown of silk chiffon over silk, and carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses. She was attended by two bridesmaids, the Misses Marie Jasheway and L/illie Sene sac of Fowler. Miss Jasheway was attired in a gown of pink Georgette and wore a white picture hat. Miss Senesac wore a 1 gown of blue Georgette and also wdVe a white picture hat. The groom was attired in a suit of dark blue serge and was attended by his two brothers, Edward and Elmer Deno. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards of near Remington. The groom is a prosperous young farmer of Jasper county and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Deno, also of near Remington. After the ceremony the young couple were served a dainty fourcourse wedding breakfast at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Deno. They left on the afternoon train from Rensselaer for Chicago, where they will spend a short honeymoon, after which they will be at home to their many friends, after Sept. 8, on a farm northwest of Remington, where the groom has a house prepared for his bride. The best wishes of their many friends are extended to them. **

TROUBLE WITH COAL PRICES

Too Many Middlemen Must Take , Their Toll in Advance. People who lay all blame on the local dealer for the outrageous prices for coal are barking up the wrong tree. While Jasper county and the city of Rensselaer have contracted for mine run and screened Linton coal from $2.80 to $3.35 per ton, f. o. b. mines, local dealers say they are unable to make any such contract. Ih fact, except for steam making purpose®, not much Indiana coal is sold here for local consumption, our best soft coal coming from Kentucky and West Virginia. The bane of the coal business at the present time Is the coal speculator. It is said that some carloads of coal have changed hands as many as a dozen times after leaving the mines before It finally reaches the local dealer. And each owner has mlade a profit on the coal, too. That many of the mine owners have a stand-in with these speculators is apparent from the fact that the local dealer find® it almost impossible to buy direct from the mines. One of these speculators offered Oity Light and Water Superintendent Chamberlain a car of coal last week at $8.50 per ton, f. o. b. mine, when the city had a contract direct from the mines at $3.36. This is the same sort of game that vras played in the sugar hold-up and is now being played in the print paper steal. The Republicans have had the , congress in both branches for the past two years but they have enacted no adequate laws by which these hold-up men can be prosecuted. / The last ipecdal session of Governor Goodricii’s “best legislature in 50 years” enacted a state coal control law, but the governor and members of his family are largely interested In coal mines and this law has already been attacked in the courts by the mine operators, so it 1s probable that little or no relief r > - v. I ■■ >•

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will be had from this source. It is very apparent, however, that the local dealer makes but a very small part of the big difference between the price of coal at the mines, as paid by the county and city, and thjat paid by the consumer.

ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

J. P. Warren and Samuel Spriggs of Oklahoma City, who have been visiting at Lafayette for. some time, came Thursday evening for a visit with relatives and old friends here. Lead pencils, all kinds and at various prices, for school work at The Democrat office. A good pencil can be had at 2 for sc; a better one at sc, and a still better one at 10c. Mrs. W. I. Hoover and daughter, Miss Irene, returned Wednesday night from a two weeks’ visit in Cleveland, 0., with her sister, Mrs. Frank Coburn, during which time they visited Toledo, Cedar Point, Put-in-Bay, Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N. Y. They report a most enjoyable time, indeed.

What Our Customers Say: . x. . . i .. ’ ~i .. ■■■ -■ ■ —— >mm ' Judson Creamery & Produce C°-. August 1, 1919. North Judson, Indiana. . Gentlemen: We are satisfied with the treatment we are receiving from you. We are receiving more than we really expected through the hot, dry weather. We think two of our neighbors will commence selling to you In a short time. Thanking you for past favors, we remain, as ever, your friends, T . ADAM ZARTMAN, Rochester, Ind. ‘ WATCH THIS SPACE FOR OTHER LETTERS Judson Creamery & Produce Co. Your BEST Cream Market NORTH JUDSON, INDIANA Dlstribators if B&* & Milking Machinis Writ© for literature on the best Milking Machine on the aHarket,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,

A new invoice of correspondence box stationery in all the latest shades and tints just received in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. Why not buy a tome In Rens-> selaer? See C. W. Duvhll, who baa a number of good homes for sale, priced to meet any sized pocketbook. Phone 147. Sam Scott, son Kenneth and daughter Catherine of near Bluffton drove up Thursday evening for. a visit unover Thursday evening for a visit unfriends here. Sam says they havo Democrats to spare over his way and the number is beigg largely increased from Republican ranks right along.

COMMUNITY SALES REGULARLY At Roselawn (4th Saturday) and Demotte (Ist Saturday) of each month, respectively. Parties having stock, tools or anything else they, wish to dispose of are invited to bring same in and seU It at these sales. Stuff will be sold on reasonable sale terms.—BUßT HAN AWAY, Auctioneer; H. C. DeKock. Clerk.