Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER CALLED

W. R. Brown Answers the Last Long Roll Call. W. R. Brown, who had been in a critical state of health at times for the past several months from heart trouble and for the last couple of weeks or more had been con* fined to his home altogether, passed away at the family residence on McCoy avenue at 9:30 o’clock Thursday night. Mr. Brown was born in Illinois on Feb. 4, 1846, and was therefore past 74 years of age at the time of his death. For the past 25 years he had been a resident of Jasper county, 15 years ago moving to Rensselaer, where he had since resided. He was a soldier of th£ civil war. Deceased is survived by his wife, two sons, Everett and Clint Brown, of Huntington, and one daughter, Mrs. C. C. Harmon, of Evansville, also one half-sister and one halfbrother, Mrs. Top Burgett and Dewight Brown, of Illinois. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Christian church and burial made to Weston cemetery. The G. A. R., of | which Mr. Brown was an honored member, will have charge of the burial ceremonies.

RAISE OF OVER 50% IN TAXES

For This Year Greater Than What You Paid for 1919. Jasper county taxpayers who gasped over paying taxes this year (for the 1919 levy) will faint dead away when they come to paying their spring installment of 1920 taxes, payable on or before the first Monday in May, 1920, as the average raise in levy is about 60 per cent over the total levy for last year, the last installment of which must be paid on or before Monday, Nov. 1. In other words, where you paid $1 this year you will have to pay about $1.60 next year, on an averiage. In some of the corporations I the increased levy is less than 60 cents and in some tt is more, the average increase for 1920 for the entire county being about 60 per cent. The following table gives the total rate in each corporation in the county for both 1919 (the last installment of which is now due) and 1920, the first installment of which is known as the spring installment and must be paid on or before Monday, May 4: CORPORATIONS. 1919 1920 Corporations. 1919 1920 Barkley , ? 94 $1.26 Carpenter —- -73 -97 Tjillam - 99 1-73 Hanging Grove 92 1.46 Jordan 99 1.12 Kankakee —— 1-50 1-83 Keener - 1-53 1.58 Marion l-°0 12 9 Milroy 60 1.21 Newton - l- 03 4.67 Union - 1-43 1-78 Walker 1-19 l- 54 Wheatfield 1-49 1-77 Wheatfield (town) ........ 2.18 3.07 Remington 1.71 2.22 Rensselaer - 1-99 2.20 This tremendous increase in levy comes on top of a big boost in the personal the real estate assessment not having been changed over 1919, of course. Study these rates over, and if you know what your real and personal assessment is you can figure out to a cent the amount of money you will have to dig up ne*t year to pay taxes under the beneflcient Goodricli' tax law, which is endorsed by the Republican nominee for governor,. Warren T. McCray, and which will remain on the * statute books in the event of McCray's election and the election of a Republican legislature;- as he has publicly endorsed this law in his campaign throughout th&vState. The Democrats are pledged in their state platform to repeal this law and enact ip its stead an equitable tax law which will, meet the requiremehts and will not prove burdensome to the taxpayers. It is up to the people to decide Nov. 2 whether they want a continuance of Goodrichism with its? continuous increase ( in tax burdens or the rdlief which will be granted by electing a Democrat governor "aftd a Democratic legislature.

CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE

As I expect to leave for California soon I wish to dispose of the residence property I own on north Cullen street and a 50x150 residence I lot' two blocks from court house on north Weston street.—C. W. DUyALL. ’rl . ;i ■ -

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Ifltarosling Paragraphs From tho Various Doportonots OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. Attorney A. D. Babcock was over from Goodland on business Thursday afternoon. And it is Just as well with the rest of the excitement, to keep in mind, that Monday, Nov. 1, is the last day for paying tlie second or fall installment of 1919 taxes. New suits filed: No. 9260. Michael J. Kuboske et al vs. Walter Chapman et al; action for possession of Saxon car and damages in the amount of SIOO. No. 9261. John F. Judy vs. Frank Matusick and JefTry Matusick; action in replevin, to recover possession of some livestock and for $l5O damages. John C. Snyder of Crawfordsville, i Supreme Secretary of the Tribe' of Ben Hur, mJade a might good speech in the west court room Thursday evening in the interests of the Democratic cause. Senator Keller of New York, who was to be here also, was unable to fill his appointment, but Mr. Snyder didn’t need any help, as he is a host in himself.

Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 20, Leigh Ancel Timmons, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Timmons of Barkley township, aged 21 Aug. 6 last, farmer, and Olive Helen Ellsworth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Ellsworth, also of Barkley township, aged 20 Aug. 10 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Oct. 20, Harold L. Fidler of Rensselaer, aged 26 Sept. 25 last, farmer, and Martha Ruth Daugherty, also of Rensselaer, aged 19 Nov. 16 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

LITTLE WILLIE’S WHISTLING

Little Willie Hays, Republican national chairman whose testimony before the committee investigating the huge campaign fund of his party was so thoroughly disproved by Republican witnesses;, just now is .claiming every northern state and a part of the south for Harding. This is in keeping with Republican tradition, to claim everything till the last. It will be remembered that in 1916 the Republican managers claimed everything . for 405 electoral votes, and he got but 254. No one will be deceived by the extravagant claims of Little Willie, who is like the boy who whistles when going past * a graveyard at night. r

NAME ONE FALSE STATEMENT, PLEASE

Republicans, do not be misguided by continued personal abuse and false representations coming from i Democratic 8001*068. A majority ofI the Republicans in Indiana expressed their choice of Warren T. McCray •as their candidate for governor.— Rensselaer Republican. The Democrat challenges the Republican to name a solitary statement that has been published during this campaign regarding Mr. McCray that is untrue. Every statement made is substantiated by public records, and when the Republican editor brands any one of them as false he himself Is guilty of uttering the falsehood.

Democratic _ Speaking: REMINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 23— Elmore Barce and"' James E. Scanlon. Afternoon, 2:30; night, 8. RENSSELAER, Saturday; Ocfc 23 —Congressman Lynn W. Wilson of Connecticut. Night, 8:00, Ellis Opera House. RENSSELAER, Tuesday, Oct 26 —Judge Thomas P. Riley of Boston, Mass., prominent Irish orator. Ellis Opera House, 8 p. m. PARR, Thursday, Oct. 28 —J. H. Hindsley of Indianapolis. RENSSELAER, Friday, Oct. 29— J. H. Hindsley of Indianapolis, at Ellis Opera House. Night, REMINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 30— J. H. Hindsley of Indianapolis. Night. Job printing that please* Is oar specialty.—THE DEMOCRAT.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920.

McCRAY’S ASSISTANT HELPS COVER FACTS

Efforts Made to Keep Board of Trade Connections From the Voters. IndianapoUs, Oct. 22. —Warren T. McCray, Republican candidate for governor, is trying hard to suppress the facts of his connection with the Chicago Board of Trade and the Sawers Grain company of Chicago, which deals in grain futures. In listing his business assetß in his campaign speeches he has carefully refrained from mentioning his relations with the board, which Senator Capper of Kansas recently referred to as a “gambling hell.” From all indications word has gone out to the subordinates in the Sawers Grain company, of which Mr. McCray is vice-president, to allow no information concerning his relation with the company to get to the public. * Photograph la Refused A request was recently made of A. S. Swanson, manager of the Indianapolis branch of the company, located on the fifth floor of the Board of Trade building, for permission to photograph the signs on

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DISFRANCHISING THE WOMEN

Candidates, Is a Long Suit of the G. O. P. Organization. Thanks to Republican opposition to women candidates being placed on the ballot in Indiana, the name of Mrs. Mary E. Drake for county treasurer will not appear on the Democratic ballot in Jasper county, and in many other counties of the state where the county boards of election commissioners are Republican, like successful efforts were made >to defeat the will of the voters. The state board of election commissioners —which is also Republican —was appealed to in such counties in the efforts to keep women off the ballot, and the appeal was not in vain, the state board deciding that no candidate voted for at the /primaries in May -could resign uq* -less such resignation was made within the three days following. This is a little more of the distasteful centralization of power of which we have had a surfeit under the Jim Goodrich reign. Under the old law certificates of nomination were not filed until about 15 days before an election, thus permitting, as the law provides, for the filling of any vacancies -that might occur on a ticket, before the filing of such certificate, by . the county chairman of the party on whose ticket a vacancy occurred by reason of death, resignation or moving from the election district. This provision was as it should be, but in their endeavors to disfranchise women candidates the powers that be —the Republican* state election board —has enlarged this by ruling that no resignation, can be made after three days, and therefore the resignations of W. D. Bringle for treasurer, Vern Davisson for sheriff and William Fitzgerald for commissioner from the first district cannot be accepted, and Mrs. Drake, Richard Bowie and Albert Stembel —whose names were selected by the Democratic county central committee, do not appear on the county | ballot, but the former stands instead. | With the treatment accorded tlie women by the g. o. p. in Indiana, at least, it is difficult to see how any w'oman can support that ticket any place along the; line at the coming election.

“BABE” RUTH’S AUTOGRAPH

The College Inn has on display in its window a baseball which was received* Tuesday evening by J. E. Murphy, Grand Knight of the local order of K. of C. The ball was presented to the order by “Babe’* Ruth, the great baseballist and drawing card, and bears the autograph of the famous player. During a recent game in which “Babe” Ruth’s club met Indianapolis one of the state officers of K. of C, explained the movement of the order to build a home for delinquent and dependeht boys, and suggested to “Babe” that he autograph several I balls' which would be presented to the councils first subscribing their allotment toward this home. Bishop Dwenger council was one of the first to go “over the top,” and hence the ball.

NOTICE No hunting or trapping will be permitted' on my lands—WM. HERSHMAN. «23 ' V.r-^7

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. FROM ALL THE DENOMINATIONS 15,309 Clergymen Are for the League of Nations Covenant Chicago, Oct. 21. —A total of 15,309 clergymen of various denominations has signed a petition, published in Christian Work, urging immediate ratification of the peace treaty, including the league of nations covenant without nullifying reservations. Only 816 of the clergy refused to sign the appeal. Included among the signers are 4,019 Methodist pastors, 1,399 Congregational, 2,409 Presbyterian, 1,784 Baptists, 1,163 Christian, Disciples of Christ; 811 Episcopal, 644 Lutheran, 314 Catholic, 138 Unlversallst, 126 Unitarian and 121 Jewish. The principles underlying the league have been indorsed by 10 great religious organizations and conventioris.' Following are excerpts from resolutions adopted: Northern Baptist convention—We express our opinion that such great moral issues should not be degraded to the plane of partisan politics, and respectfully urge upon our president and senate the ratification of the

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CHESTER ROWELL OUT FOR COX

California Republican Leader to Stump the State for Governor. Washington, D. C., Oct. 18.—Chester Rowell of Fresno, Calif., chairman of the Republican state central committee in 1916, former Republican national committee member and for many years one of the strongest supporters of Hiram W. Johnson, has come out for Governor Cox. Mr. Rowell will begin this week a speaking campaign v for Cox and Roosevelt In California, speaking with Senator James D. Phelfn, candidate for re-election. Mr. Rowell formerly was editor of the Fresno Republican, which he soli recently. He was one of the leading members of the Progressive party and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt For the last two years Mr. Rowell has advocated the league of nations and presided at the meeting In San Francisco which President Wilson addressed on his trip to the Paciflic coast. During this period Mr. Rowell did not break personally with Senator Johnson and was understood to favor him for the Republican nomination for president, despite the divergence of their views on the league.

ADDITIONAL VOTING BOOTHS

And Polling Clerks Are Provided in Several Precincts. To handle the additional number of voters at the November election, by reason of the granting pf suffrage to women, additional voting booths will be placed in precincts where necessary and two assistant polling clerks will be provided in such precincts, Bald assistant clerks to be of opposite politics and under the same rules and regulations as the regular clerks, but such assistant clerks need not sign the returns, which need only be signed by the regular poll clerks. Six voters may enter the polling room at one time in precincts having the two additional polling clerks. In Jasper couhty 18 new sets (three to the set) of booths >hav? been- purchased, at an expense of $450. One set of these will be used in the new south precinct added in Barkley township, and the others will be used in the larger precincts of the county—four in Marion; three in Carpenter; one each in Keener and Wheatfleld. x Where the voting is by printed ballot, instead of machine —as in Jasper county—no voter shall remain in a booth longer" than three

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CARLOAD OF POTATOES COMING I will have a carload of fine Wisconsin potatoes oh track in Rensselaer some time next week. Wait for them. Phone orders to 492. 627

MRS. A. MERRY PASSES AWAY

Former Mt. Ayr Lady Died at Home Here Wednesday Afternoon. | Mrs. Addaline Merry, aged 70, died at her home on the corner of AnI gelica and Scott streets Wednesday afternoon at about 2:30 o’clock, after a several weeks' Illness. Mrs. Merry was the widow of the late Dr. J. W. Merry of Mt. Ayr, and who died Jan. 1 last. Her maiden name was Chilcote and she was born in Wood county, 0., Feb. 18, 1850, was married in 1869 to Dr. J. W. Merry, and with her husband resided in Mt. Ayr for some 35 years where Mr. Merry practiced medicine and conducted a drug store. Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Merry, with her two daughters, Mißses Blanche and Jessie Merry, both teachers In the Rensselaer, schools, moved to Rensselaer. She Is survived by her two daughters and also three brothers: Thomas Chilcote of the state of Washington, Bruce Chilcote of Oregon and James Chilcote, who was her twin brother, of Fredonla, Kas. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the late residence, services being conducted by Rev. E. W. Strecker of the Methodist church, Ibd burial made In Weston cemetery beside her husband.

BIG STOCK SHOW IS NOW ON

Exhibits and Attractions Drawing Large Crowd of People. The Jasper County Stock Show and Fall Festival opened Thursday and was In full swing as The Democrat went to press yesterday. Not very much was doing Thursday except for'the bringing In of the stock and the arranging the eihibitions and putting up- of the various stands and amusement attractions, which latter pretty well cover the streets on the north and west of the court house, and offer many schemes for Investment. » .The exhibit of cattle and hogs Is good and 1b pronounced by many the best of any of the shows heretofore given. The I*oßoll of the judging will be given In the next issue of The Democrat. A good five-piece Jazz band is furnishing music for the show, but the platform and piano were not gotten ready for them until Thursday evening. It would seem that the most of the work done Thursday should have been done the day before, as a three-day show was advertised. People who .came Thursday could not have been very favorably impressed as a result of the delay in getting the exhibits in place and the amusements in running order. A large crowd was* in yesterday afternoon, and today and toqight, if the wdather continues fine, there will no doubt be many thousands of visitors here. ...

WOMEN POLL FAVORS GOV. COX

Shelbyville, Oct. 21.—Governor Cox will run strong with the women voters of Indiana If a poll taken at a meeting of the Ladles’ Auxiliary of the Knights of St. John, held here recently, is any criterion. The vote showed 55 for Governor Cox and 10 for Senator Harding. The women represented this city, Greensburg, Mllhousen, Batesville and Oldenburg. All of the women declared they were supporting the Democratic nominee because of his straightforward manner in championing the league of nations.

MR. AUTO OWNER

Do you know you can ' have your car insured for SSOO against fire, theft and collision for but $8.50 per year? Let me call and explain. I also write the old reliable Fanners’ Mutual Insurance against lightning, hail, cyclone and fire, that will cost you about $3.50 per *I,OOO a year. —S. A. BRUSNAHAN, Parr, Ind., phone 932-C.

ALIEN ENEMIES CANNOT VOTE

All forelun-born voter* must bring their naturalization paper* to the poll* with them on election day or they will not be allowed to vote. This I* to prevent alien enemies who are not In possestflbn of their Anal citizenship papers from voting. This applies to both Germans and - Austrians, as we are legally still In a state of war with those countries, and the state board of election commissioners and the attor-ney-general, have ruled that alien enemies cannot vote.

Vol. XXIII, No. 60

BANKERS URGE THRIFT CAMPAIGN

Committee Asks Drive to Increase Accounts of Small ' Depositors. ' SAVERS ARE HOPE OF NATION Business Must Purge Itself of “Misdemeanors” Before It Can Hope to Exert Influence in Nation’s Affairs. Washington, Oct. 22. —A three-year thrift campaign to reach every family in the country that has no bank account was proposed to the American Bankers’ association by its committee on public and private thrift. As a part of the campaign, government officials would be culled to practice utmost economy so as to reduce the expenditures of the federal government. “The recent orgy of extravagance, declared the committee’s report, ‘‘haa Indicated very clearly the need for more popular realization of the need for saving when and as the opportunity presents itself. The time Is at band when thrift and bavlng will be regarded as not only possibilities, but actual necessities.” - Small savers are to be the chier source of financing the normal growth of commerce and Industry, the report said, adding that present tax policies offer a serious chfeck to Increased Investment by holders of large wealth. Business Must Reform. Amerlenn business must purge Itself of Its own “misdemeanors” before It can hope to exert the fullest Influence In the affairs of the nation, Jo-; seph H. DeFrees, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States, declared In an gddress. “One of the most fruitful sources of the unrest In this country at the present time,” said Mr. DeFrees, “la the belief on the part of a great number thnt business In many Instances Is securing an Inordinate profit. # “It Is the theme of the agitator, and Is used ns Justification for various unfair exactions which are put upon business. Clean Own House First. * “We are quite ready to complain In the public Interest about excess profit taxes and inadequate production for a fair wage. Let us do nil we can to correct our own jnlsdemennors and then our voice of protest will hnve a larger influence in correcting those of others.” Mr. DeFrees told the delegates that business should adopt an “advisory’* position rather than a dictatorial attitude in dealing with the government. He said most members of congress were willing to receive Information gathered by organizations which had made a study of particular questions, but that they deeply resented action by any body which savored of a demand. The nverage legislator, he snld, will no longer yield to demands, but Is anxious to render a service where \he Is shown thnt beneficial results may be obtained. Too Much Money Hidden. The people of the United States are cnrrvlng around In thdlr pockets of hiding at home $3,000,000,000 of American currency, or nearly one-half the total supply, said Fred W. Ellsworth, vice president of the Hibernia Bonk and Trust company or New Orleans, at the convention. j “This means that for every family In the country there Is an average of SIOO, a large proportion of which should be In the banks where it could accomplish for the business community infinitely more than It can resting In dismantled sugar bowls or In trou'sers pockets,” Mr. Ellsworth continued. Would Be Aid to Banks. “As a matter of fact, right now $3,000,000,000. of American currency, as a basis for credit, would enable the banks to tqke care of a very large proportion of necessary business which Is suffering fdr the lack of adequate .financing.” Bankers, he said, had undertaken by collective and co-operative movements' to show the people .by advertising how to do this saving and Investing.

GIRL IGNORES TRAIN ROBBERS

Loses Braid of Hair When Bandit Shoots in Buffalo Holdup. 'feufTalo, N. Y., Oct. 22.—A holdup of a New York Central railroad train in the railroad yards here resulted in the 'woundingjof a trainman and netted the bandits less than SIOO. A shot fired by one of the robbers grazed the head of Mary Jane Smith, thirteen years old, of Cleveland, whh, prompted by curiosity, disobeyed the command of the bandits that all the passengers remain in their seats or berths. A braid of hair was shot from the head of the Smith girl.

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