Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — Page 8

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The WEEK'S DOINGS

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Mrs. Jasper Guy is recovering from a six weeks’ illness. Mrs. John Gray of Hobart was the guest of Mrs. John Ritenour and family last Friday. Louis Rachovsky went to Indianapolis Tuesday on account of a Jewish holiday celebration. Mrs. Mary Lewis- went to Logansport Monday for a short visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Boatman. Will Bahler went to Fairbury, 111., Monday to attend the funeral on Tuesday of Mrs. Allig, a very old friend. Mrs. Mable Boicourt was the Remxington delegate to the national Red Cross convention at Cincinnati this month. Mr. and Mrs. Luce Bartoo and son, Mrs. Mary Lewis an<| Fred C. Griffin visited Turkey Run and the Shades Sunday. Messrs. Biddle, Easterday, Bowman and Walker went to Indianapj oils Monday to attend the national meeting of the G. A. R. Miss Doris Hicks went to Wooster, 0., last week where she enrolled for a four years’ college course in a girls’ educational institution. Miss Nina Gray went to Depauw university Monday where she entered on a four yeans’ university course, with music on the side. Mrs. Cecil McCain of Indianapolis came Saturday Tor a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Wahl, and other relatives here. Mrs. John Ochs went to Indianapolis Monday night and will visit her mother at Bloomington for a few

To the Public Commencing Oct 1 we will run our busion a thirty-day cash basis. All welding must be cash when work is done. Hemphill Bros.

weeks, with possibly a trip into Kentucky. Gus Merritt has sold his property to Charley Watson, who will get possession Meh. 1. Gus decided just what he will do for a home after that time. ' Mose Segq has bought the old Barnes property on Indiana street pnd ia fitting it up for his own He will retire from the farm and move in after election. • Alva Monohan, who has been visiting friends here the past two weeks, returned to Galesburg, 111., Friday where he works for Pete Engle. He reports crops fine in that locality. Mrs. John Westmire of Aberdeen, S. D., formerly Miss Hattie Graham of Remington, is in town for a few days, greeting old friends. Mrs. Wtestmire has been a resident of South Dakota for 36 years. Mrs. George Eck, who has been at the Wabash sanitarium at Lafayette the past week for treatment for rheumatism, from which she has been suffering terribly, is reported to be improving -nicely now. Rev. F. A. Sheets started Monday for Washington, D. C., to be present at a meeting of the 15th international congress against alcohol. This is the first time the congress has ever been held In the United States. Mrs. Hitchcock was pleasantly surprised Wednesday when her brother-in-law, Dr. Hitchcock, and wife of Gary, whom she had not seen for 30 years, stopped on their way home from an automobile trip y and took dinner with her.

S. T. Hackley received a message Wednesday stating that his brother Robert had died quite suddenly at his home in Campbellsville, Ky., on Tuesday, Sept. 21. No particulars were received, and himself and son Robert and wife and daughter, Mrs. Ad Hensler, left Wednesday night to attend the funeral which was to be held this Thursday afternoon. The deceased was 75 yeans of age and was born and raised in the place where his death occurred. A large traction engine, to which was attached a water tank and corn shredder, went through the bridge just west of Fountain park Saturday night and just about wrecked the entire structure. The first span of the east end gave way, the planking and girders going clear to the ground, leaving the engine standing pretty much on its "tall light.” The driver was not Injured, though he might very easily have been crushed between the engine and the tender had they gone but a bit farther onto the bridge when It collapsed. The rig was the property of Mr. Stillman of Goodland, and aside from The delay It caused and the work of getting it out, suffered no loss. The bridge, however, will have to be replaced before it will ever be safe for heavy loads again, and from the appearance of its supports it never was safe for even light loads.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

ROSELAWN WllHam Boyle was an Indianapolis visitor Monday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Snow Wednesday. Dr. Fritz's son took dinner with Roy Sheldon and wife Monday. Elva Call made a business trip to Fair Oaks Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Duke Dieama of Shelby took dinner with Mrs. Ed Myres Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes of Warsaw are spending the week with friends here. Essie Studon is helping Mrs. Ross Thompson with domestic work this week * The dance at Asher Baker’s Saturday night was said to be well attended, Claude Burton, wife and children spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sheldon. Myrtle Hall of Fair Oaks is helping Mrs. Clarence McDonald with housework this week. S. W. Butts and wife of near Enos took dinner with their daughter, Mrs. Elva Call, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Parm Zobrosky of near Mt. Ayr called on Mrs. Elva Call Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith and David Frye and wife motored to Valparaiso Sunday afternoon. W. T. Kight is much better at this writing. He has been suffering with a carbuncle on the nape of his neck. Oscar Atwood and wife were home from the hay camp for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Clark called on Ed Harsha and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith attended the funeral of Ruth Nees of Wheatfield Sunday. She died In a hospital from ptomaine poisoning. Kenneth Nowels took Ed Harsha and Mrs. Elva Call to St. Joe, Mich.. Tuesday, returning Wednesday. They brought back a load of peaches for their own use.

TAGGART’S KINDNESS RETURNED IN KIND

BRIDGET NAGLE REMEMBERS YOUNG TOM’S COURTESY AND PROVES HER LOVE.

Thomas Taggart, Democratic candidate for United States senator, learned early in his political career how sweet it is to be remembered by helpful and appreciative friends. The story of Bridget Nagle will never grow old, for it is typically a story which illustrates the mutuality and unselfishness of the friendships that brighten Thomas Taggart’s career all along the way. When young Tom Taggart —he was 19—left Xenia, Ohio, to go to Garrett, Indiana, to help open an eating house for his Ohio employers, he was escort to little Bridget Nagle, a pastry cook from Dayton, Ohio, an elderly, friendly body, who, as It happened, was very thinly clad, and consequently not prepared to withstand the bitter cold Of the harsh December time.

At Deschler, Ohio, in a tireless barn of a station, the two were called upon for a long night wait on a delayed train. Young Taggart induced the matronly Bridget to try for a nap. When she awok* 3 *wo hours later, cozy, snug and r id, she found the boy had wrappi uer carefully in his new overcoat, and that Tom was exceedingly busy slapping himself and performing all sorts of acrobatic stunts in an effort to keep his blood sWrring. —- — ■ . • ~ “God bless you,” said the little Irish woman as she returned the overcoat to its owner. Tom Taggart blushed and smiled and hurried the little lady to the train. But that’s not all. Ten years later Thomas Taggart entered upon an up-hill battle for political honors —auditor of Marion county. At the time Bridget Nagle was still in Mr. Taggart’s employ. She called upon him. “They tell me you’re gettin’ into politics,” she said. “Thats very true,” was the reply. “I want to be county auditor.” "You’ll be needin’ a lot of money, mebbe?”suggested Bridget Nagle. “It will take some money, yes,” said the puzzled Thomas. The little Irish lady reached into the bosom of her dress and produced a roll of bills. “That’ll help,” she said, -simply, handing Mr. Taggart SIOO, all her savings. “I’ve loved you ever since the night you put your overedat on me and went cold yourself, over there at Deschler,” she declared, now would she be denied her part in the election of her friend. “That was the one and only contribution to my campaign fund that year,” said Mr. Taggart, when reminded of the episode. Bridget Nagle had good reason to remember Tom Taggart and his chlvalric friendliness in after years. Her contribution to the first Taggart campaign bore good fruit and a rich harvest.

O. I. C. SWINE AGENCY W. J. Holmes is the authorized agent for Jasper county for the L. B. Silver Co. famous O. I. C. swine and also the Silver Livestock Powder, for hogs, cattle and poultry. Mr. Holmes now has some of these hogs here and can furnish breeders with anything they want in the O. I. C, line, as well as the Livestock Powder. Call at his headquarters, the Knickerbocker electric - shop, and he will be glad to show youi— Advt ol Want ads in The Democrat are read by more people In Jasper and surrounding counties than those appearing in any other newspaper in this county.

HIGHWAY BOARD SENDERS FOODS

Goodrich Political Appointee* Let Contract* for Sum* $6,000 In Ex- ' cess of Amount* Paid Per Mile for Better Road* in Marlon County. - TAX BOOST IS PREDICTED The Indiana state highway commission, all of whose expenditures are subject to the approval of the governor, is now spending the money of the taxpayers of Indiana at a rate which will require revenue amounting to $212,937,732 to complete the building of the 3,600 miles of road designated for improvement by the commission, according to the Democratic state handbook. Unless the taxpayers of Indiana call a halt on the politically dominated organization which is now being directed by L. H.*Wright, with the approval of Governor Goodrich, they will have to pay taxes amounting to such a staggering sum that an increase of $3.15 in the tax levy would not be sufficient produce the qsoney in one year and a consistent levy of 32 cents higher than the present levy for ten consecutive years would be necessary to raise the expenses of the highway construction work now contemplated. z Loose Methods to Blame.

The tremendous cost of state highways in Indiana is due to three things: 1. The letting of contracts for construction to political favorites at more than $6,000 a mile excess cost over the price Marlon county pays for better constructed roads. 2. The expenditure of sums at least half as large as the construction costs of roads in overhead expenses such as salaries, traveling expenses and office expenses in the support of the highway commission. 3. The maintenance by the commission of an expensive retreat for political workers in the form of a vast “maintenance” department presumed to keep up the roads under state supervision to which it attached a "motor transport” department equipped with government trucks. — Prior to August 1, 1920, the state highway commission had expended $1,743,873.06, only $974,751.8?, of which had been spent in actual construction work on highways. Prior to this date contracts had been let and the commission had obligated Itself to pay $4,738,741.36 for 133 miles of hard surfaced roads. The average cost per mile of construction work on these roads was $35,633.37. Waste Total of $823,403.

During the period that the state highway commission was contracting for roads at an excess cost of $6,191 a mile and thereby wasting $823,403 of the taxpayers’ money it was also spending in its operation for salaries and expenses the sum of $769,121.24, or an overhead of approximately $5,879 a mile and at the time the overhead costs reach this point only about, one-fourth of the contract work underway had been Completed. Of course, there will be more overhead ’expenses in the completion of these contracts now let and if it continues at the same rate as heretofore it will be four times $5,879 a mile or $23,516 a mile, a sum equal to approximately 66 per cent, of the cost of construction. Here again is a tremendous outlay of the people’s money and in a proportion that no one will attempt to say is necessary in the conduct of private business. At the same time that these excess profit contracts were being allotted to the favored few and the overhead expenses were equalling 66 per cent, of the construction costs, the department was operating a maintenance department and a “motor transport” department. The maintenance department was costing the taxpayers an average of more than $50,000 a month and very little maintenance work was being done. The expenditures of this department to August 1, 1920 from April 1, 1920, when it was organized, were $202,687.57, the cost per month having increased from $7,110.11 in April to $95,775.95 in July. The "ipotor transport” department, equipped with trucks lent to the state by'* the government, had absorbed $201,160.57 of the taxpayers’ money up to August 1, 1920, an average of $14,000 a month or $168,000 a year. In other words, the highway commission, as at present operated, is spending $35,633.37' a mile for road construction and the overhead cost of this construction is at the rate of $23,516 a mile. Reaches. Staggering Sum. There are approximately 74,000 miles of highways Indiana. The commission proposes to take over and improve approximately 3,600 miles of these roads, or about 5 per cent. -ij Basing as estimated oost of this work on the actual cost of completing 133 miles now under contract, an idea of the Ultimate costs of improving 5 per eent. of Indiana’s roads by the Goodrich commission methods may bo obtained. Unless there is a radical change in the manner in which the taxpayers’ money Is expended, the coat will be 3,600 times $85,633.37 pipa 1,600 Umot $23,516 or $212,637,783.

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Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Investigation of the naval government of the Pacific island of Samoa wag ordered by the navy department at xWashington. It will be conducted by Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes. • * * D. C. Wills of Cleveland, 0., was appointed a member of the federal reserve board at Washington by President Wilson. • Secretary Colby at Washington has refused to grant the request of antisuffragists from Tennessee that he rescind his action in proclaiming ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. * « • Hearings on Increased intrastate passenger rates in Illinois were set by the interstate commerce commission at Washington for October 11. Briefs must be filed with the commission before October 9. Vast quantities of liquor are being smuggled over the Canadian border Into the United States, according to statements made at Washington. * * • Secretary Houston of the treasury department at Washington hopes to see the government buy In upward of $200,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds during the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30. • ♦ » The total population of the United States, exclusive of outlying possessions. will be found to be almost 105.768,106, according to unofficial estimates by statisticians of the census bureau at Washington. The allied governments will owe the United States nearly $12,000,000,000 for loans made to them during the war by the time they are scheduled to resume interest .payments in 1922, according to a Washington dispatchl. • • • Domestic Seven thousand barrels of whisky, real Kentucky bourbon, wept up in flames at Law’renceburg, Ky. The whisky, valued at $4,000,000, was destroyed when fire wiped out the Cedar Brook warehouse. Governor Cox’s train on the way to Prescott from Phoenix, over the Santa Fe, was wrecked one mile north of Peoria, 16 miles from Phoenix, Arlz. Neither Governor Cox nor any memberof his party was Injured. * • • Decision to accept the wage agreement made between operators and miners’ committees about two weeks ago was reached by the representatives of the men in session at Des

Moines, la. * * * J — Missing his train at BuffaloTSamuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, went to Rochester, N. Y., by airplane. A reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in the price of manufactured cotton goods was announced by the Amoskeg Manufacturing company of Manchester, N. H. * • • Four armed bandits held up-a branch of the First State hank at Mount Elliott and Mack avenues at Detroit, .Mich., and escaped with an amount estimated by bank officials at $30,000. * • * The general assembly of Connecticut at Hartford, ratified the nineteenth amendment in accord with a message of Governor Holcomb to the second special session in a week. V • • An unidentified negro, believed to be from Chicago Heights, was shot to death by a posse which had surrounded him after he had been caught robbing the home of William Walters, near Bonfield, Hl. ♦ * • Theodore Schude, who confessed to impersonating Arthur Kincaid, American army lieutenant, was sentenced at Fort Sheridan to three years in th# federal prison at Fort Leavenworth. Twelve extra guards, armed with rifles, patrolled the roads adjoining the estate of John D. Rockefeller -at Tarrytown, N. Y. No statement could be obtained at the Rockefeller home. Pilot John L. Eaton, missing several days,after leaving Reno, Nev., eastbound in a small plane, is alive and safe at Shafter, Nev., according to advices received at San Francisco. * * * To be In style In Boston one must carry his lunch. Mayor Andrew J. Peters Is doing It. So are several thousand other business men and women who believe that the lunch box Is the only weapon left to fight the pro* iteering Restaurant keepers. • • * Fire originating over the kitchen of the main clubhouse of the Peoria (Ill.) Country club burned the structure to the-ground. The loss is estimated at $150,000, exclusive of the private stock in lockers. ..

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER », I»2P

Thirty per cent of Europe’s population is still on bread rations, Herbert Hoover told the American association of the baking industry at Atlantic City, N. J. • • • Nearly 3,000,000 acres of land in Wyoming, California and Montana, were classified during August by the department of interior at Washington under the stock-raising . homestead, law. ♦ ♦ • The Cincinnati Yardmen’s association voted to end the strike begun last April. Leaders said that as the men in Chicago had decided to return to work it would be futile to continue the strike there. Mrs. Myrtle Stiles, who has been on trial at Rotan, Tex., was found guilty of manslaughter following the slaying of her divorced husband, Roy Winters, and given ten years in the penitentiary by a jury. * * • Re-establishment of prewar prices on all products of the Ford Motor company, effective immediately, was announced by Henry Ford at Detroit, Mich. * * • Personal

Dr. Eric Doolittle, distinguished astronomer, died at Philadelphia. He was director of the Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Doolittle was born in Indiana in 1870. * * • Edwin C. Dinwiddle, former legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, was elected chairman of the Fifteenth international congress against alcoholism, which convened at Washington for a six days’ session. * * * Miss Clara D. Noyes of Washington, director of nursing of the American Red Cross, sailed for Europe for a tour of inspection of the nursing activities. • * ♦ Brig. Gen. William J. Nicholson, former commander of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh infantry brigade, Seventy-ninth division, was elected president of the Army and Navy club of America at New York. * * *

Thomas E. Wilson of Chicago was re-elected president of the Institute of American Meat Packers at Atlantic City, N. J. • * * Miss Mary Super, formerly a nurse in the Children’s Homeopathic hospital in Philadelphia, is back home, considerably shaken by her experience at the hands of Turkish nationalists in Had jin. • ♦ J Sporting “Babe” Ruth, home-run champion, broke another record at St. Louis, scoring his 148th run of. the season in the eleventh inning to give New York a 4 to 3 victory over St. Louis. * * • Foreign Six thousand bodies of American soldiers who died in Europe have now been sent back to the United States, according to Major Sampson, assistant the head of the graves registration service at Paris. France will pay every dollar of the $250,000,000 loan due in New York October 15, M. Francols-Marsal, minister of finance, officially announced to the cabinet council at Paris. It is reported at Copenhagen that conflagrations are raging all over the Russian governments of Tver, Goroslav, Kostroma, Archangel, Vologda, Vladimir, Moscow, Rjaesan, Vjatka. In Vologda 500 houses were burned and 150 persons perished. In Saratow 300 perished and 25,000 are without shelter. In the suburbs of Petrograd great fires are raging. * • • County Councilor Lynch, a prominent Limerick Sinn Feiner, was shot dead in his hotel apartment in the center of Dublin. His assailants are alleged to have been “black and tan” police. • • • Two Japanese have been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on conviction of an attempt to sell documents' stolen from the Yokosuka naval station to Americans, according to newspapers at Tokyo.

* • • An agreement has been reached between the government and the railwaymen at Rome by which the men will receive Increased wages amounting to 200,000,000 lire (normal value. $40,000,000). * • * Premier Alexander Millerand agreed to be a candidate for the presidency of the republic, to succeed President Deschanel, who has tendered his resignation, according to an official announcement at Paris. Bolshevism is showing Its hand at Turin. Four persons were killed, a score wounded and general rioting followed the murder of policemen. Auxiliary police forces wrecked the town of Balbriggan, near Dublin, in retaliation for the shooting of two police officers. • * * A dynamite bomb exploded ifi front of the club, in Talayera, a suburb of Madrid, doing enormous damage, but inflicting no casualties.