Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

JACKSON TP., NEWTON COUNTY A little tbo warm to husk corn, but this is a condition that likely will improve with time. The wise and the beautiful Ham Lewis is, we observe, making a noise

like the next governor of Illinois. Eugene Debs, the Socialist presidential candidate, like Mr. Harding, is conducting his campaign from the dear old home this year. The voice of the sandhill crane fcas been heard in this' locality in the last day or two. This' means a warin, late fall, with Ohio and Indiana going strongly Democratic. Nelson Hough, who had been in declining health for some time, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed Schanlaub, on Tuesday of last week. . Deceased was 67 years old. It is a-poor rain that doesn’t wet somebody’s cabbage patch and, by the same token, it is a poor campaign lie that isn’t being used by Republican spellbinders this year. When the Chicago Tribune refuses to stand for the Republican gubernatorial candidate, then know ye that the effluvia In the party of the dear old elephant is tolerably rank._ A few of’ the more forward farmers began husking corn the fore part of this week. Most of the cotn in Newton county appears to be quite dry and in good condition for storing. “Of two evils” we are exhorted to “choose the lesser." But, say, now, lookit here. Supposing you tried to. apply this maxim to two candidates like our Jim Watson? Huh? Uncle Jacob Stutsman is figuring

on leaving these diggln's at no distant day. Uncle Jake, we are told, will move to thcT" eastern part of this state, where two of his sons now reside. Having changed his view on the league covenant 10 times since his nomination for president, even Mr. Harding’s most bitter political enemies could hardly accuse him of being sot in his ways. Jay Makeever returned from the Cox meeting at Lafayette so full of enthusiasm that he is offering to wager his hogskin saddle that the Democrats will carry every state in the Union and then some. If the republicans will agree to make Bill Hearst and his yellow newspapers a permanent .fixture in their party, the Democrats, we feel assured, will forgive them for the other things they have done. “Them silos may be all right,” said a young man from Kentucky, who is visiting relatives in this locality, “but I’d hate almighty bad to have to climb one of the dern things every morning in order to get to the feed.” There is quite a nice crop of quails at the present time, but that doesn’t mean that this will be true of the quail crop next spring or next summer. In this world of pot hunters and cold winters, poor Bob White is an uncertain quantity. A new silo, we note, is going up at Frank Makeever’s place. Something like a dozen silos have been built in this locality since last spring, and double this number, it is predicted, will be built by farmers here next year. Evidently silo building is just getting nicely under way in Jackson township. Quite a number of farmers are already feeding their cattle, and in fact not a few have been feeding since the first of August. With high-priced feed and about a ninemonth feeding season, how many years will elapse before the beef producer, under these conditions, becomes a millionaire? Moike Duffy, the quitter, administered another serious (?) blow to the league of nations, through the Kentland Enterprise, last week. If Moike could be made to understand that his political opinions cut no congealed aqua-puri in this county it would save lots of printer s ink and nice white paper. Elmore Barce of Fowler has been making some good Democratic speeches in this county. Mr. Barce has the happy faculty of explaining that much mooted question, the league covenant, so that any person of ordinary intelligence can understand it, sometning which many political speakers seem unable to do.

That brand of Republican, who would rather vote for a yellow dog than vote for a Democrat, is not totally extinct, •in spite of our churches and free school system. We heard a Republican make the above remark only a day or two ago. In size and shape his head resembled a Bartlett pear, while the seat of his pants began about two inches below his ears. Pears are plentiful this fall and cheap in price, $1 to $1.25 a bushel. The low price is due largely to the fact, it is said, that housewives used their entire supply of cans in caring for the peach crop, and to the scarcity and high price of new cans. One farmer north of Morocco advertises 500 bushels of pears for sale, and a big pear crop is reported thi’oughout central and northern Newton county generally. B’ys, hev ye heard the news, the late o’erpowerin’ sinsation? Our Moike hev left the Dimmycrats—hev scrapped the rague of nations. Moike hev bin wantin’ to be congressman since Hek he war a pup, but the Dimmycrtits they trun him down and that bruk poor Moike s heart, and he says, "Begad, 111 flop. But from the cold hicjacets of the dead—politically shp’aking, av course —when the elefunt hev trun Moike in the aif, when the g. o. p. at him hev took a bat —our Moike will rise again and be a Dimmycrat. Uncle Press Roberts, that grand old Democrat and who at the present time is acting as township committeeman for his party, feels that he is entitled to a rest from active political work, and he proposes to retire after the November election and let younger members of the party do the hustling. Uncle Press may quit active campaign work but the Democratic boys in old Jackson township will continue to regard him as their leader and to look to him for advice and instruction, the same as they always have.. Why, dad burn it, come to think it over, we just naturally couldn’t get along without Uncle Press, and that s all there is to it. . / Last winter two mules lived on the highways in Jackson township practically all winter, the poor brutes getting no feed but dead grass and no water, except as kind-hearted farmers provided it. Towards spring the mules disappeared, but about three "weeks ago they returned to this locality, probably to wander about and suffer through another cold winter. The township trustee should take this matter up, if he hasn’t already done so, and make the owner of these animals under

stand that we are supposed to be living in a civilized age. As wtf have often remarked in these columns, the average American .boy is a natural born genius. Give him a knife, hammer and nails and a few old boards, and ten to one he’ll go to work and make a fairly good flying machine, a motorcycle, or rig the grindstone with a selfstarter. The other morning we met two boys in the road with a rimchine that was fearfully and wonderfully made, so much so that it caused our nigh mule to turn a double flipflop and break a tug and a hame strap. The lads had dug up the running gears of an old buggy, to which they had fitted a steering wheel, similar to that on an automobile. *The propelling power was furnished by a venerable, sad-eyed horse, hitched between shafts in the rear of the vehicle, the horse pushing the- contrivance as he moved forward. One of the boys was perched on old Dobbin’s back, the animtol being urged to something like "a dog trot by means of sundry whacks on his devoted ribs, while the other manipulated the steering wheel, and in this manner they passed on down the road —as the novelist would say, “the synosure of all eyes.” LEE Joseph Stewart is improving at this writing. Ezra Wolf and family of Barkley visited Sunday at Frank Eldridge’s. Mrs. C. A. Holeman’s condition of health is not so well at this writing. The Ladies’ Aid did work Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Charles Jones. Arthur Stewart and wife called on H. C. Anderson and wife Sijpday afternoon. Mrs. Ephriam Gilmore’s niece from Illinois is here during this week, making the former a visit. S. M. Jacks’s little son Kenneth has had to quit school for the present on account of ill health. Harry Noland is home on a short vacation from his work with the Western Union Telegraph company. H. C. Andersoh and wife and S. M. Jacks and family took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks. Dwight Large has been in Illinois with his father during the past week. The latter’s condition of health .was not so well. - . Elmer Gilmore and wife and baby went last Friday to Butler, Ind., and visited Ray and Asa Holeman and Elzie Webb and families, returning home Monday .- with a load of fruit. Wm. Brock’s have begun building a new house where the one burned this summer, on his farm. The family is living now in the house south of Lee, where Uncle David Culp used to live.

FAIR OAKS Bert- Wame filled his appointment at Gifford last Sunday evening. A daughter was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Warne. Mrs. James Clifton visited over the last week-end with her daughter, Mrs. A. DeKock at Demotte. Charles B. Steward of Rensselaer delivered a piano to A. C. Campbell l&st week. Miss Amy Bringle left Tuesday for Corinth, Miss., to visit an old school friend for a week. Rev. TOdd delivered a splendid sermon from the M. E. church pulpit here Sunday at 11 a. m. We are wondering why Mr. v Harding did not accept Governor Cox’s challenge to debate the league of nations? Mrs. C. A. Gundy and son Charles went to Westville last week to stay with her daughter, Mrs. Weaver, indefinitely. Mervin Dunn expects to move to Wheatfield after the election, where he will engage in hauling sawlogs this winter. t Sam Kettering and family left Sunday for Dunn’s Siding where he Will take charge of the section on the C. & E. I. Bert Warne was in Rensselaer Tuesday and purchased a new Ford truck which he expects to use in hauling wood this fall and winter. Sid Schanlaub, ex-editor of the Morocco Courier, is the first in this neck of the woods to begin eribtyng corn. Sid is a firm believer in the eld saying, “the early bid gets the worm,” but it would be a bad thing if he would tear up his nest Jxying to get if. , The first numner of the lyceum course, which was to have been held at the school building Monday night, did not materialize, owing to an accident which the speaker got into, making it impossible for him to get here. The date has now been set for Nov. 12. I Wm. Spry, wife and son of North Dakota; who have been visiting relatives in Jasper and adjoining counties the past couple of months, left here Tuesday for their home. They thought it would take them about 3V<2 days to make the trip, if the weather was favorable. Attorney Elmore Barce and Emmet Scanlon of Fowler, the latter the candidate for Joint-representative, and Mrs. A. A. Hoover of Rensselaer, chairman of the woman’s Democratic county committee, were here Tuesday evening to enlighten the people on Democracy and the league of nations, and they certainly did a good job. “Pud” Clifton is the last ip these parts to join the Ford ranks. He went to Rensselaer one day list week and made known his wants’ to the Ceptral Sales C 0.,, upon which they- trotted out a brand-new Ford and started him home rejoicing., and if all reports are true he will ip the near future enter * the life boat on the matrimonial sea. That’s right, boy, step in! j- VIRGIE Miss Alice Kiersma has a light case of scarlet fever. Miss Maud Hill spent Friday night with. Mrs. L. E. Harrington. Dr. C. M. Rice and son visited with Ansel Potts and family Wednesday. ' ~ , T. J. Mallatt was taken suddenly ill Wednesday night, but is better at this writing. ’ _ \ Mrs. Gladys Maher and Mrs. C. A.

Harrington visited laßt Thursday at Thos. Florence’s. Mrs. Bertha Terpstra and chHdren visited her folks, R, G. Gasaway and family, Wednesday. W. W. Zellers and Elvin Potts were Rensselaer goers Wednesday night for Ford repairs. Mrs. Jack Wells and daughter Ruby spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Thos. Florence. Mrs. L. R. Zellers and daughter visited her sister, Mrs. Firman Pettet, of near here Tuesday. Miss Gladys Ogle and Misses Elsie and Jessie Zellers attended the township institute at Fair Oaks Saturday. Mart Reed’s sale was well attended and things brought a good price. Mart will move to Hobart in a short time. Several from here attended the Democratic speaking at Kniman Monday night. They report a fine and interesting speech. Nellie Cover was taken to the Lakeside hospital in Chicago Saturday to undergo an operation for appendicitis. The last word received was that she was a little better. A large number of young people assembled at this place Tuesday evening and held a charivari for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mortell. A fine time was had and the guests departed at a late hour, wishing the bride and groom a happy married life. Mrs. Ura Gwin.of Rensselaer delivered a very logical talk on the league of .nations Friday eveirtng and, although the weather was inclement, she had a much larger crowd than any Republican that has spoken here during the present Campaign, In her talk she made the league of nations like the gospel, so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein. The only thing that she seemed to neglect was to inform the German friends of Union township that their mother country would have been parceled out among the various allied powers and Germany would have ceased to evermore be a menace to the peace of the world had it not been for the I influence of President Wilson at the peace table. -