Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) Miss Madeline Swing of Peoria, HU is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swing. Mrs. Cecil Rice of Hammond came last Friday for a visit with relatives In Jefferson and White Post. Miss Dolia Nelson of Indianapolis was the guest of her parents here from Saturday until Tuesday. Miss Anne Leonard came down from Chicago Monday for a brief visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Leonard, in Gillam. Mrs. Ted Watson and children of Hebron have also been visiting at the Leonard home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jones went to Indianapolis Monday to spend a few days with Mr. arid Mrs. Gus Daseke. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bledsoe were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Hayworth at Crawfordsville from Saturday until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Kopka, southeast of town, gave a dinner last Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Shirts, son Paul and daughter Winifred; Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Byrd and i children; Misses Lois and Doris Petra and Judson Fitzpatrick. A birthday surprise was given for Mrs. Crist Huppert, northwest of Francesville, last Sunday. Those, present were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolf and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wolfe, of Monon; Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Pearson, Mr. and Mirs. Frank Lowery, sons and daughter. BROOK (From the Reporter) Branson Davis of Oklahoma • was here this week as the guest of his brother, T. L. Davis. Mrs. Leonard Harris of Chicago Heights, 111., spent Monday and Tuesday with her parents In Brook.

Mrs. Albert Gaines of Crete, 111., returned to her home Monday after a visit with her son, Perry Gaines. Kenneth Long came down from Miller Monday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Long. Roy Maple and daughter left Saturday for his home in Kansas after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stath. Miss E. L. Zuck of California arrived the first of the week for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Arthur Lyons, and family. R. W. Kemper will leave for Rockville this week where he will visit a sister and from there he will make a trip to the Pacific coast. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest James went to Kingman Saturday and remained until Sunday evening as guests of their daughter, Mrs. Pearson. We are pleased to announce that Rev. Dillman is to remain in Brook as pastor of the local Christian church. He had made all preparations to move to Monticello and take charge of other work when his old flock came to him with a proposition to stay in Brook and he finally accepted. Another business changed hands this week wheri Bruce Beagley purchased the wholesale candy business of Charles Berlin. Mr. Berlin had established a trade that he supplied by auto truck and Beagley purchased the outfit, stock and good will of the business and took charge Thursday. Mr. Berlin is making arrangements to start in the wholesale candy business in Lafayette and if he can find a house will move there in the near future. Rev. Wilson met with an auto accident last Thursday evening that was entirely unavoidable. He was going south on the road leading south from Highway street when the spindle on one of the front wheels broke, letting the car frame strike the ground. The car turned completely over, smashing the windshield and wrenching the sedan body of the car. Fortunately he was driving only about 15 miles an hour or the wreck would have been much worse. Mr. Wilson was slightly injured.

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It is reported here that the big Catholic school building at St. Anne, 111, was destroyed by fire the other day. And, then, too, our Molke should not be overlooked. Whv not give Moike the job; of park Inspector at Jerusalem? Corn husking, never an easy job, is made doubly hard this year by the stalks being down and badly twisted. Sixty to 70 bushels Is a fair day’s work, under present conditions, even for a good busker. Since the election the writer has heard numerous favorable comments on the strong, able fight put up by the Rensselaer Democrat during the campaign. The Democrat has nothing to regret for its conduct in the campaign—It made a good fight, although a losing one. We suggest that a bureau be established at Washington to promote good feeling between the Republican party and our alien enemies, with Bill Hearst in charge. In this capacity Bill would shine like the headlight on a freight train negotiating a 20 per cent grade. Local weather prophets predict a mild open winter and prove their contention —at least to their own satisfaction —by pointing to the presence of the wild goose, the brant and the sandhill crane in our midst. Many other mild weather signs, these prophets say, are present. Now watch Ireland get her freedom, Germany, the nation that drowned American women and babies, get a separate and easy peace, while the Republican farmer, who couldn’t stand $2 corn and 20-cent hogs, demonstrates the beauty of ♦O-cent corn and eight-cent hogs. We are unable to recall an election where victory occasioned so little joy, seemingly, to the winning party, as was true of the election Just held. Possibly, after the excitement Incident to a political campaign, It occurred to many Republicans —especially Republican farmers—that this turning down of the present good times and going back to “normalcy” was al mistake, in spite of what their party spellbinders told them. »

We dearly love to clasp hands with a game political sport, the man who, having lost, wears the same old smile and looks forward hopefully to the next time. Since the election we have heard not a growl nor a howl from a solitary Democrat, and we have talked with quite a number —all were taking their “medicine” like men. And how different their conduct from the days and weeks of Republican belly-ach-ing after the election four years ago —when disappointed Republicans wept, "raved and tore their hair, and then, for a change, did it all over again. We recall that a Republican newspaper in Chicago even went to the length of suggesting a boycott against California, as a winter resort, because that state exercised its God-given right and went Democratic. No, dear Imogene, if you are looking for a game Republican sport better give It up. There hain’t no sich animal. If a miracle could be performed and a sane method evolved by which the producer and the consumer could be brought face to face, commercially speaking, want and strife would disappear from the land and peace and plenty reign everywhere. Women and babies freeze by reason of the high cost of fuel, while thousands upon thousands of cords of wood each year rot in our forests; fruit and vegetables by the carload

go to waste each season simply because the farmer hasn’t time to bother with such things. Many farmers would gladly give their surplus fruit and down timber to the poor, but, here’s the rub—here’s where tae miracle is required—how are the city’s needy and the busy farmer to get together? And, while the reader is figuring this matter out, the fact should not be overlooked that the middleman is still horning into both consumer and producer, just as • his fathers did clear back to the dark ages.

It has been our observation that nature, if left to follow her own bent, never makes a miscue. Ex- ] lain yourself, you say? Well, now, see here: Whisky has departed from our midst, so has ague. Now what would a man do with ague and no whisky? Huh? We repeat it, what would he do? Can’t we recall the time when every dad-burn bullrush pond in this fair land vomited ague germs six months in the year apd when a lantern-Jawed arid saffronhued * proletariat did nothing but shake for the drinks from the middle of July to the- second frost? But with whisky fleeing before the mob, so to speak, and forced to seek shelter In the subterranean apartments of the lowly millionaire, ague went out of business; for, without whisky, why shou.d a man want to fool away his time having the ague? See, now? When there was ague there was whisky and vice- verci, the two were Inseparable companions, and, finally, when ague sought a more congenial clime, whisky Just naturally gave up the fight, We hope we make ourself clear in this matter.

Ever go into a store and have clerk dog your footsteps back and forth and around and around, working off pale inanities, apropos of nothing, until you were 'driven temporarily insane and began to gnaw op things* and to gibber like a poorhouse idiot? While you may have gone into the store mainly Just to look around, it is quite likely you would have bought something before you left, had you been let alone and not- driven bughouse by the importunities of the zealous but misguided clerk. Will the American salesman never learn that the average customer desires nothing more than life, liberty and the right to buy a pound of prunes or a length of gut sausage on a man to man basis, that he expects only decent treatment, doesn’t want to be patted, hugged, kissed and otherwise manhandled by an officious clerk, in the Interest of trade? You never saw a farmer climb the counter and kiss the clerk who sold him a calf muzzle, then why should the clerk be expected to kiss the farmer who bought the muzzle? The benefits were mutual, why not let it go at that? We have in mind right now a store that has not been illuminated by the effulgence of our presence for a-year or .more because of a habit on the part of one of the clerks of asking fool questions.

Poor fellow, evidently he wanted to be kind and agreeable—probably imagined we would accept his loquaciousness as a mark of the high esteem In which we were held in that particular emporium. We now do the bulk of our trading at a store where the proprietor smokes a rank cob pipe and drinks a homebrew of the most hellish composition —but he doesn’t drape himself on our neck when we go into hi# store and he never asks unnecessary questlonfl. Some day we are going to write a book for the guidance of American salesmen. In this volume we shall endeavor to give a full and vitriolic expose of the pain and humiliation occasioned each year by the American salesman In his dealing with the trade. We , shall strive to show this wart on the body politic that the public is not supposed to resign its right to the protection of the law and the pursuit of happiness every tlhie it becomes a prospective purchaser. In other words, that this footpad—Uriah Heep method of _ dealing with the public is'4ll wrong. That it Is not necessary to commit friendly mayhem on a customer in order to hold his patronage, that the demands of business doesn’t require a salesman to half-Nelson Bill Jones, knock his hat off and short-arm him around the stove a time or two in order to establish a friendly feeling between Bill Jones and that particular place of business, and because —well, because this manhandling nonsense has long. been an established custom. Our book will also contain a scathing arraignment of the girl clerk, who, while waiting on a customer, wears a dreamy, far-away look and hums to herself in a chocolate-drop voice —"Wouldn’t you like to kiss me, wouldn’t you like to um-um-um?” and snatches of other productions by

the latest musical nut, and which convey no particular meaning to a corn and hog raising constituency.

REMINGTON (From the Press)

Vincent McGlynn is reported to be sick with a mild case of diphtheria. Born, to Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Turley Saturday morning, Nov. 6, a fine son, Joseph. A. J. Brooks returned to Pontiac, DI., Friday morning after a visit here with his relatives, x. Miss Myrte Ford, who was here a part of last week, returned to her duties at the county hospital Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Marion W. Parks of Logansport are the happy parents of a second son, Marvin McNary, born Oct. Mrs. Clara Balcom and small daughter Jane of Gary came the latter part of the week and are visiting hei - mother, Mrs. Meehan. W. R. Geier attended the funeral Tuesday of Mrs. Frank Geier at Reynolds, who died Saturday after a several months illness from impoverished blood. August Bernhardt reports the sale of the former Besser property, the old Kuster placed owned by Elvin Clark of Logansport, to Mrs. O. P. Taber. Consideration SI,OOO, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Daugherty of Marion township and , Mrs. Alvin Dunn and daughter Kathleen of Milroy township spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Dunn. Col. Griffith left Tuesday morning for Lawton, Okla., where he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Will Zea, his grandchildren and see the new greatgrandchild which arrived . only recently. had it in mind that the

colonel couldn’t stand it long without going to see the new arrival and he didn’t. Hiram Bowman and two daughters, Margaret and Daisy, of Wessington, S. D., are visiting the former’s brothers, Sam and Ezra Bowman, of this place and other relatives here. From here they will go on to Harrisburg, Pa., and having sold their property in Dakota, will make an extended visit in the east. A copy of the LaSalle (Ill.) Daily Post of Oct. 25 reached our table this week. It contains an account of the death of L. G. Trough of that city, which occurred at Chicago Oct. 24 after an illness of some time. Mr. Trough had been yardmaster on the Illinois Central Railroad for 14 years. He is survived by his wife and two children, one five years old and the other five months old. His mother and brother, Harry Trough, of Bloomington also survive. Mr. Trough was a son of Mr. and. Mrs. Wellington Trough, former residents of this place, where he was, well known as a small boy. Charles Jdttlefleld made a sale of his household effects and other property Saturday afternoon. The goods found quite ready bidders and they brought fair prices. Mr. Littlefield and his aged mother left Wednesday to make their home in the west. From here they go to Clarion, la., where Ed Littlefield, a brother and son resides. They will visit them for a week and then continue to Parker, Arlz., where Albert Littlefield, another son and brother, resides. There they will spend another week and then go on to Santa Barbara, Calif., at or near which place they will make their future home. Charley expects eventually to get into the fruit business In a small way. Remington will wish these people all success in their new home.

POSSUM RUN Ray Hahn spent Sunday with home folks. Eber and Ray Hahn were Virgie callers Sunday morning.. Several from this vicinity attended Louis Davisson’s sale Monday. Miss Ada Hahn spent Wednesday afternoon with Geneva Markin. Wm. Hurley and family spent Sunday with relatives near Thayer. Several from this vicinity attended the celebration in Rensselaer Thursday. O. M. Thomas of Lima, 0., spent the week-end with Wm. Markin and family. Mrs. Wm. Markin, Mrs. Charles Jones and son Paul were Newland goers Wednesday afternoon. O. M. Thomas and Wm. Markin and family took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Merrill. Mrs. Anna Edge and daughter Ruth and Carrie Hahn spent the week-end with Mrs. David Hahn and family, Mrs. J. H. Campbell, Jr., spent Wednesday apernoon with Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughter, Orpha and Myrtle. Ml and Mrs. Estel Marion and daughter Ruth spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Francis Marlon. , Charles Parker and best girl returned home Wednesday mofnlng after visiting a few days with T. J. Parker and family. > May Markin and Alice Sayers spent the week-end with home folks; Several from this vicinity were Rensselaer goers Saturday. O. M. Thomas, -Mr: and Mrs. E. L. Merrill and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Markin spent Sunday evening with Sam Cavinder and family of Kniman. Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell, Sr. and Jr., Everett and Myrtle Parker and David Hahn motored to ChlcagQ early Sunday morning to spend a couple of days. '