Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1920 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1920.

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LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. F D. Burchard returned home Friday from a visit with friends at Knox. J. M. Merlca of Tuscola, 111., spent the week-end here with his brother, Alex Merlca, and family. John McColly left Friday for his home at Hinsdale, Mont., after a visit with relatives here. C. A. Tuteur ot Indianapolis came Saturday to spend a few days with his mother, Mrs. Anna Tuteur. • ~ Mrs. Ross Ramey, Mrs. Homer Harvey, and daughter Urietta were among the Lafayette goers Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lee and Mr. and Mrs. J. Medacco of Chase, Mich,, came Friday for a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. John Worden of Wabash, who was called to Remington last week by the death of his brother, George Worden, returned to his home Saturday.

Hallowe’en passed off very quietly In Rensselaer this year. Except for the usual defacing of store windows 'with soap by the small boy, little devilment was committed. Rev. W. H. Sayler, W. D. Sayler and Mrs. Jeff Smith were called to Marion, 0., Saturday by the death of their brother, Benjamin Sayler, who was a former resident of this city. The Newton-Jasper Medical association met in the Van Rensselaer club rooms in this city Friday evening. The evening was spent in a general discussion of medical problems. Walter Bates has secured a position in a blacksmith shop in Lowell and will move to that place this week. Ike Wiltshire will move into the .Bernard Nagel property on Park avenue, vacated by Bates, and Mrs. Laura Harris will move to the property vacated by Wiltshire, Which she recently purchased.

Cents and Non-Cents ’ . I - —-r i (A Cereal in Ate Parts) CHAPTER VII ' > . ' I ' :■ ; f .. about high prices. | . ;• ■' \ ■i \ (To be continued) ;<■ ';t ■ J

Lloyd Hopkins of Mt. Ayr was a visitor |n the city Saturday evening. Rev. C. L. Harper of Kentland was a visitor In the city Saturday. F. M. Makeever of north of Mt. Ayr was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Fred Berger and W. N. Beal of Goodland were visitors in Rensselaer Saturday evoking. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Knaur and son George spent Sunday in Wolcott with their daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin and daughter Genevieve motored to Attica Sunday and spent the day. Mrs. Lillian Wood and two daughters of Laporte cape the last of the week for a visit with relatives. James Hill returned to his home at Lowell Monday after a visit with the A. C. Pancoast family in Newton township. Theodore Hurley and son Leo and Rolla who are employed on a dredge* contract near Henning, 111., came home Monday to vote. Among the Chicago goers Friday were Misses Mayme and Isabelle Bever, Vern Davisson and A. E. Sullivan of this city and H..A. Lyons of Brook. • Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown moved yesterday Into a part of the Earl Reynolds house on McCoy avenue, where they expect to reside until they build on Home avenue. . i William Jasperson and Miss Mary E. Alexander, prominent young people of Tefft, were united in marriage Saturday noon by Rev. E. W. Strecker at the Methodist parsonage. Cox might be elected or even Harding might get it, but one thing is sure —every’ buyer of a Sellers cabinet this week will get a fine set of aluminum ware FREE at Worland Bros. —Advt.

C. H. Armstrong was down from Walker township Monday. Mr. Armstrong, who recently had a public sale, has bought Gail Michals’s general store at Kniman and will take possession shortly. Mr. Michals expects to move upon a farm. r ■ Rain fell nearly all day Monday and a part of Monday night. Yesterday morning was quite a bit cooler, and it kept growing colder during the day. (At the hbur ’of going to press Tuesday afternoon the mercury was down to the freezing point, and the skies were cloudy. “Fair and “colder,” is the weather bureau prophecy for today. Mrs. Eliza Pancoast and daughter of Rensselaer passed through Crown Point this Thursday morning on their way to Chicago to visit Mr. Pancoast, who is in a Chicago hospital for eye treatment. Mrs. Pancoast was Eliza Livingston in ,her girlhood days and has lived near Rensselaer for the past 40 years.— Crown Point Star. Mr. apd Mrs. John Starkweather and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Starkweather of Goodland were Sunday guests at the F. E. Babcock homp. Mr. Starkweather is * a brother of Mrs. Babcock’s aged mother, Mrs. S. M. Freelovy, who suffered a Severe stroke of paralysis almost a year ago and has since been in an almost helpless condition. He- also suffered a light stroke on the lame night his' sister was stricken, but has almost fully ' recovered, while Mrs. Freelove has never regained use of her left side, which was comnletelv naralvzed.

THE TWICE.A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

A. E. Wallace spent Sunday with his family in Chicago. | Hildred Pefley took in the Cox speech at Gary Saturday. Yesterday’s local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 60c; butterfat, 58c. I ' Mrs. C. G. Newby and Miss Helen Leatherman were Lafayette goers Saturday. Among the Chicago goers Monday , were John Marlatt, D. S. Makeever and John Stockton. Henry Holmes of Logansport is visiting his sister, Mrs. M. P. Warner, at this writing. Mrs. Jerry Tullis and two children of Hammond came Saturday for a visit ylth relatives. Omar Osbtrne of Lafayette spent the week-end here with his parents, । Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Luers of southeast Marion is quite ill with whooping cough. . . j Mrs. W. L. Bott entertained the D. A. R. at 'her home on north Cullen street Saturday afternoon.

C. B. Steward and Mrs. Hale Grant and daughter Frances were among the Chicago goers Saturday, In Sunday’s football game between Rensselaer Independents and the Lafayette Battery C, the score was 12 to 7 in favor of the locals. ■lll I ■ I—— ■ Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, 67c; oats, 47c; wheat, $2; rye, $1.50. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.22; oats, 67c; wheat, $2.11; rye, $1.23. Edson Murray returned home Sunday from Sullivan, where ne had spent a few days with his wife, who recently underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils. Vera Bever, little daughter of Mr, and Mrs. pilfford Bever of this city, underwent an operation in a Chicago hospital last week for the straightening of her eyes which have been crossed from a babe. She is reported as getting along nicely.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Gwin of Elkhart sp'ent the week-end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin, going from here to Denver, Colo., where Mr. Gwin has been । transferred by the Sinclair Oil Co., with which compamy he is employed as assistant sales manager. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McFarland expect to leave tomorrow for Biloxi, Miss., where they will spend the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Mann, and husband. Harry Eger and family will move into the McFarland property on Weston street. ' * Joe Kosta of Newton township was in Chicago Saturday night at the big meeting and demonstration in the colllseum for Gov. Cox. Joe managed to get within about 25 feet of the speaker and was one of those fortunate enough to get to shake hands with the candidate and his wife. It was a huge meeting and the speaker was cheered for 20 minutes on coming out on the platform before he could open his talk.

Mri and Mrs. John G. Broym ot Monon announce the marriage of their daughter, Bonnie E., to Worley M. Myers of that place, on Sept. 4 last! the marriage taking place in Chicago and was kept secret by the young couple until last week. - The bride is a popular Monon young lady and for some time has been employed in kindergarten work in Chicago. The groom Is employed In the steel works at Gary, and is also a popular young product of Monon. I ~

Jean Elizabeth Baker, little eight-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Baker, who reside with the lattOr’s father, Arthur Trussell, three miles north of Rensselaer, died at the Trussell home Monday forenoon from pneumonia. The funeral" arrangements had not been made at the time The Democrat went to press, owing to the mothed being in Ohio, where she had gone last week to attend the funeral Of a relative, and had not yet returned home.

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WM. J. BRYAN SAYS FILIPINO WON THE HONORS

(In a •Ifned, copy rich ted article writ, ten from the Democratic convention hall at San Francisco for the International News Service, William J. Bryan paid the following remarkable tribute to Jose P. Melendo, the young Filipino who is in charge of the Philippine Independence Publicity campaign in the United States:)

By WILLIAM J. BRYAN.

The greatest personal victory yet won In this Democratic convention was scored by a young Filipino by the name of Jose P. Melencio. He has charge of the Philippine Publicity Bureau at Washington. He Is only twenty-six years' old and received his education In the public schools of the Philippines—under American teachers, as he proudly boasted —and at' Georgetown, D. 0. He is a remarkably promising young man. Speaking with grace, using the best language and without a trace of embarrassment, he presented the claim of the Filipinos to independence. The audience. was astonished at the strength of his argument, the skill with which he marshaled his facts and the high tone of his speech. lie captivated everyone and committeemen and visitors paid hlih the cbmpllment of rising and cheering when he concluded hts plea. When one of the committee asked him some questions he returned to the platform and answered them with as much logic and precision as if he had taken weeks to prepare his answer. It was a remarkable triumph. As one who began twenty-two years ago to fight for the promise of independence I was proud of this illustration of what the Filipino Is capable.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES

The University of Santo Tomas Is 25 years older than Harvard. The Filipino people number 10,850,640, of which 9,495,272 are Christians and only 9 per cent non-Chrlstlans. They have been Christians for 800 years and have a culture and refinement that will compare very favorably with that of other nations. There are only 6,684 Japanese In the Philippines. There are about 100,000 Japanese in California alone, or 15 times as many as in the entire Philippine archipelago. English Is taught exclusively In the Philippine public schools. Two mil-lion-natives now speak English fluently, and there are 700,000 English speaking children In the public schools. It is destined to be the national language. Seventy per cent of the Inhabitants of the Philippines over ten years of age, according to a census Just completed, are literate. This is a higher percentage of literacy than that of any South American country, higher than that of Spain and higher than that of any of the new republics of Europe whose independence is being guaranteed by the Allies. The Filipino people are unanimous in their desire sot independence. Whenever they are called upon to deposit their ballots they have always ratified this aspiration. At every session before adjournment their representatives In the Legislature reiterate their faith in the principles of liberty and the independence of the Filipino people.

The Filipinos deciare they have ne grudge or grievance against the American people. Their appeal Is accompanied by a message of friendship and gratitude for all that America has done for them. They point out that Uncle Sam gave Independence to Cuba, and they hope that they, too, will receive that boon without which, they declare, no clvlllied and patriotic people car enjoy! the maximum of happiness and self-respect

A special delegation of Filipinos, of flclally representing the Filipino peopie, attended the Republican and Dem ocratlc National conventions, seeklnj an Indorsement of the Filipino desir« ;for Independence ih the two platforms Their arguments, briefly stated, wer< ; as follows: First.—That the American Declaration of Independence declares thai • governments derive their just powen from the consent of the governed; Second.—That the American Congress, In the Jones law, solemnly promised the Filipinos Independence upos the establishment of A' stable government, and that their claim that the said stable- government is now in e» istence in the Islands has been officially confirmed by Americans own representatives there ;; and Third.—That America went before the world |n the recent war aS the avowed charhplon of "self determination,” American soldiers having been told It was one of the thing* they were fighting and dying for. •, ,

COAL! t T We have secured through the State Food and Fuel Commission a promise of several carloads of coal and three cars are now on the way here, with more to follow. Will be able to quote prices on arrival of these cars. Farmers Grain Co. PHONE NO. 7

BRITISH COAL STRIKE SETTLED

Settlement of labor Battle Is Contingent on Ballot of Miners. BILL ANSWER TO PLOTTERS — ■ T Emergency Powers Given by Commons Not Due to Coal Strike, but Are to Curb People Bent on Destruction. London, Oct. 29. —The strike of coal miners throughout Englund and Wales was settled, but the settlement Is contingent on a ballot of ’the miners. The government announced the ballot would be taken immediately. The terms which the executive body of the miners recommends to the men provide for an advance of 2 shillings a shift for persons eighteen years old, with a corresponding advance for younger miners. The miners pledge themselves to co-operate to the fullest extent to obtain an Increased output. It Is provided that the Increased wages shall remain operative until a permanent wage board Is established, which will be operative by the end of March. The additional cost pf the miners’ claims will come out of the excess revenues obtained from the export of coal. The output for last September is the peerage struck which will Influence the rise or fall of a sliding scale which Is to operate to the extent of a 6 pence reduction in wages If the output does not come up to the September figures or a rise of 6 pence if the output is Frank Hodges, a member of the mlners’ executive body, said: “We have got terms from the government which the executive are submitting to a ballot of the men for their judgment. The executive are recommending their adoption as a temporary measure until a national wages board is established.” Government Measure Passed. ” The government’s emergency hill.

i ■ j O Ermallnda. sweet Ermalinda, The name you bore as Christ's dear Spouse, Your work is done, you’re sweetly resting Now safe within your Father’s House. Christ chose you from a thousand others To do Him honor as His Bride; You heard His call and you responded, Nor scorned' to love the Crucified. While others sought but earthly pleasures, You drew back in you> own heart's cell, There gave your” thoughts to contemplation Which neither heart nor tongue can tell. You loved Ift Christ His suffering members And tried to .ease their every pain; The orphans lohe beyorid the Ocean Whose fathers had been cruelly slain. To give them food and drink and clothing You sacrificed both time and health. You sacrificed your every comfort Not caring for earth’s joys and wealth. And when at last the Master called you. Whilst you were suffering sad and sore, Your loved ohes sought to ease -and soothe you, You said: "My Jesus suffered more.'\ Now you have gone to meet your Bridegroom To rest upon His bosom dear, But you will ne’er forget your loved ones Who still In sorrow llngef here. Yes, to ds all, the Master** calling, Oh pray that we may hear His voice, - ! 'That we, like you, may e'er be ready And so with you In Heaven rejoice. l\~►•• ' * I ; Prayers and sympathy of the Sisters. Above verses were composed by Ven. Sister Anna, whom for a number of years taught at the Parochial School here, to whom Julia Kosta, deceased, confided her Intentions to enter convent, unbeknown to her parents. ~ ■ . „ ■ Sister Anna Is now teaching at Attoville, Ohio. —Advertisement

which provides for all contingencies In the event the miners’ strike should Involve the railway and transport workers, was rushed through all its remaining stages and passed the third reading, which Is final. The vote was 238 to 58. The bill is not, the product of the coal strike or of other recent industrial crisis. It was framed months ago and Is the government’s answer to the plotters against the existing form of government in this country. It does not propose the suppression of the authority of parliament even in emergencies. It proposes merely that the government shall be empowered to act instantly In the event of a sudden move on the part of the revolutionary elements to gain their ends by taking possession of the nation’s means of life. । Some Bent on Destruction. “In Great Britain, as In other conntries, there are people bent upon destruction," said Edward Shortt, secretary of state for home affairs. “Their creed is one of savagery. They would not hesitate to starve women and children by the million if they fancied themselves thus able to bring civilisation to the ground. We are determined that such methods shall not succeed. Tills can be managed witbout at all setting up a dictatorships The powers of parliament will not be curtailed. Everything done under the emergency powers bill will be subject to revision and reversal by the house of commons and the house of lords. “It is Intolerable that the community should be placed 1n a position of begging for Its supplies of food and other essentials from trades unions or sectional bodies of any kind. England does not Intend to give np ita democratic government for a government by starvation.”

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