Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — Page 4

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Before Xmas Reductions B.N.FENDIG'SSHOE STORE GIVE SHOES FOR CHRISTMAS | Wc announced on Oct. 15, the beginning of a permanent policy of reduction to which we have strictly adhered. This necessitated reductions in our prices in keeping with and greater than the rcductiofis of the manufacturers. Our second reduction was made Nov. 15, and on Dec. 15 we made the reduction which we had anticipated making Januaryl, hence you can buy shoes now as'cheap as after Jan. 1, 1921. All SIB.BO Shoes, men or women $12.20 All 15.50 Shoes, men or women sll.lO All 13.85 Shoes, men or women Fq qr All 12.20 Shoes, men or women , rq qc now All 10.00 Shoes, men or women qr now * All 8.00 Shoes, men or women nr now All 6.50 Shoes, men or women ar it now ” Children’s Shoes correspondingly reduced. We have 50 pair of Men’s 4 Buckle Overshoes, g-xx mostly large sizes, at per pair 4>0.0U All Comfys and House Shoes are reduced 10 to 15 pr ct $2.25 quality, now $2.00 $2.75 quality, now ; $2.25 $3.00 quality, now, $2.50 VISIT OUR STORE WHEN LOOKING 1 FOR USEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS B. N. Fendig THE SHOE FITTER Opera Houseßlock

THE LEAGUE ADJOURNS

The first meeting of the assembly and council of the league of nations came to an end Saturday night. , “We have," said President Hymans, “tried a great experiment, and we have succeeded.” He thought that the league had shown wisdom in “refraining from amending the covenant of the league of nations at this time.” “The great work for the future activities of the assembly," he further said, “is the constitution of the international court.” There was a clash between the assembly and -the council over the question of mandates. The leading disputants were Lord Robert Cecil and Mr. Balfour, the former representing South Africa. It was insisted by the former that the council was exercising dictatorial powers as against the assembly, which was have the fullest information as to the action of the council —in this case, with reference to mandates. This is a matter that will have to be adjusted. As far as mandates are concerned, there should be the widest publicity, since the mandatory is responsible to the league, and the

CHRISTMAS SALES! For the remainder o£ the week we will offer the following articles at the reduced prices. Numerous others not listed.

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league is responsible to the various governments. Certain it is that no mandatory should make a profit out of its trusL in Mesopotamia, or anywhere else. There can be no doubt that the league has made a great Impression on the consciousness and conscience of the world. When it is remembered that those who opposed It .were sure that it would break up in a row, the mere fact that it survived its first meeting is of considerable importance. But it showed positive strength, and those who participated in this first meeting are clearly of the opinion that the organization will prove tp be most useful, and a great power for good. It has more members than It had when the meeting began, some of them enemy powers —which is as it should be. Indeed, membership seems to be prized everywhere except in the United States. Doubtless this country will be a member when the next meeting takes place. It is becoming increasingly apparent that we cannot maintain our policy of Isolation, and ought not to wish to do so. —Indianapolis News.

On Saturday the bouse passed, with one important amendment, the senate resolution calling for the revival ot the War Finance Corpora lion. By the amendment the house struck out the section In which congress expressed the opinion that the Federal Reserve Banks should extend liberal credit to farmers. That section was extremely objectionable, not so much in Itself, for it would have accomplished nothing, as an indication of a purpose on the (>art of congress to Interfere with ' the administration of the federal reserve banking system. The bill itself went through by a- vote of 212* to 81. But there was nevertheless strong opposition to it. Mr. McFadden, chairman of the banking committee, characterised it as class legislation, said that It wouls lead to Inflation, and charged (hat the farmers were being deluded into the belief that they would be helped by It. "No advance to farmers,” he said, “has been made* by the corporation for more than a year, and could not be authorised under this measure.” Mr. McFadden warned the bouse that the project was "nothing else than placing the hand in the public treasury for the benefit of special Interests.” And he continued: I don't believe, honestly, it is going to help the farmer in the way he expects. You will be called upon to revive the grain corporation and other government war agencies., Until the consuming public receives the full benefit of these declining prices I think nothing should be done to Interfere. Mr. Madden of Illinois, another Republican, said: Already Europe owes 112,000,000,000 to us. This would add another billion to that debt. It sustains |lgh prices, moreover, and does not aid tne working classes, whose wages are being reduced all over the country. It may at least be said t£at this is not- a well-considered piece of legislation. Congress has acted on impulse, rather than on knowledge and sound principle—certainly this Is true ot the senate. It may find that It has created a very ugly and embarrassing precedent. For the farmer class is not the only one that is I suffering from falling prices. What the farmer chiefly needs Is a foreign market, and the effect of this legis- । latlon, if it raises prices, and ot 1 the proposed embargo tariff, will Ibe greatly to narrow the foreign i market, by making farm products so dear that foreigners will not be able to buy them. There will also be a curtailment of the domestic demand. Our people have already struck against high prices; to their unwillingness to pay them will soon be added their Inability to do so. It is becoming clearer every day that the Republicans in Washington are, as has been said, greatly in need of leadership. —Indianapolis News.

Remember The Democrat office when you are in need of sale bills. We are experts in this line.

NOTICE OF BOND SALE Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, December 30, 1920, at 1 o’clock p. m„ the undersigned Treasurer of Jasper County, Indiana, will offer for sale $25,200.00 of the bonds of said Jasper County, issued for the purpose of raising nroney to pay the cost of locating and constructing the Claude Spencer Road Improvement, No. 3222, in Milroy township of said county. Said bonds will be twenty in number, dated December 15, IQ2O, for $1,260 each, with interest at 5 per cent, payable semi-annually on May 15th and November 15th of each year, and mature as follows: Bond 1, series 1, due May 15, 1921, and one bond due each six months thereafter until all are due. Said bonds will be sold by sealed bids to the highest and best bidder therefor at not less than their face value. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. JOHN T. BIGGS, Treasurer Jasper County, Indiana.

Kodak Albums 75c value at.... .65c $1,15 value at. ...86c $1.25 value at.... 94c 1.35 value at.. sl.Ol 1.50 value at. .sl.lO j 1.75 value at.. 1.31 Shaving Sets $3.00 value at.. $2.25 $2.50 value At $2.00

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF

KEEPS LONELY VIGIL

Girl Has Task of Guarding Forests From Fire. Former Newspaper Woman Has Spent Two Summers In Quiet Lookout on Top of Mountains. Denver. —Following two successful seasons, during which pretty Miss Helen Dowe of tills city, in her capacity of forest Are lookout, has discovered more than a score of Incipient blazes, officials of the National Forest service are convinced that women are equally qualified as men in the art of chasing down the tiny wisps of smokh that sometimes lead to serious conflagrations In the thickly wooded districts of the Rocky mountains. Miss Dowe Is the only member of her sex to the West who holds, the position of forest fire lookout From June until late October Miss Dowe lives on the summit of Devil's Head peak* 9,300 feet high above sea level and 65 miles southwest of Denver. From sunrise to sunset Miss Dowe scans the horizon, sweeping the thousands of acres of forest land beneath her powerful glass, constantly alert for the least sign of smoke, which often means birth of the terror of the timber country —the forest fire. There are no Sundays or holidays for Miss Dowe. Occasionally, after a heavy downpour of rain or when clouds obscure the earth below, she gets a brief respite. Going to the fire lookout station early In summer, she must cook her own meals and perform all the work necessary to keep her cabin and lookout station in repair. She must chop her own firewood and carry her own water. Previous to assuming her duties as forest fire lookout. Miss Dowe was a Denver newspaper woman.

DECORATED BY FRANCE

Miss Mary Dingman of New York returned recently from Europe where she spent three years establishing Y. M. C. A. in the war-torn countries of Europe. She spent some time doing relief work in Russia and was awarded two French decorations for her war activities.

PROVES BEAT LACKS ‘COPPER’

Citizen Hangs Dollar Bill on Broken Street Light and Waits In Vain. s Chester, Pa. —When an electric light in Prospect park fliqkered out some three months ago J. B. Geary, whose home is close by, says he waited patiently night after night for the policeman on the beat to report the matter and have a good bulb hung there. Geary took a new crisp $1 bill and tacked the bank note on the light pole. Then he watched for the coming of the policeman. “Had the policeman been on the job he would have been rewarded with the 81 bill,” said Geary, “but he has not put In an appearance and the money is still waiting for him to claim it.” Other people have come that way and several dozen passers-by have attempted to pull down the money before his very eyes, Geary says, but he has given them to understand that the dollar belongs to the policeman that gets around there and has the light fixed.

Old Drum.

Eugene, Ore. —Among the early day exhibits at/the Lane County fair will be a drum that was made 61 years ago In Waupaca, Wls., and that still has one of the original heads. The drum will be exhibited by F. H. West. It was made in 1859 by Mrs. West’s father. To the martial notes of the old drum was mustered In Company A, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry, the regiment that is noted in Civil war history for having carried a live American eagle throughout the war.

Slain by a Dog.

Greensburg, Ind. —William S. Smith, aged forty-five, starting on a hunting trip, was shqt to death by his dog. The dog pressed the trigger of Smith’s shotgun as It scrambled about in the automobile, just as the hunting party was starting.

Paying the Penalty.

Lawrenceburg, Ind. —Dearborn "nd Ohio county jury commissioners have been ordered to make no men and women in tin* th' names in the jury wheel, for mt with the vote must serve.

EDITOR'S FORD CAR IS STOLEN

And a Sermon on Leniency Shown Criminate la Printed. Bro. R. M. Isherwood of the Lafayette Times la offering >SO reward for the recovery of his new Ford sedan (motor No. 8.950.846) stolen from Fifth street in that city a'few nights ago within 20 minutes of the time he had parked it there, and in commenting on the methods of automobile thieves and the leniency shown this gentry by the courts, Mr. laher wood says: Am I sore? Well, I was "just going" to have it. Insured —but didn't 1 think some gentleman once remarked : "He who steals my purse steals trash."And had he lived in this age he might well have added: “He who ’ steals my Ford steals that which is very necessary to my comfort.”

- A detective from a nearby large city tells me the police recover about 80 per cent of the stolen cars, and I hope our Elizabeth gets In that classification eventually, but not as yet. Fryikly, I think the authorities are much to blame for autos that are stolen. This same detective told me that a thief they had convicted and sent to the pen for two to fourteen years had been pardoned after serving a few weeks, and hadn’t been out a month when they -discovered that a large barn on the outskirts of the city which he had rented had in it sixteen stolen machines. He got 'Wind of their coming and escaped. One of the machines recovered was owned by a Dallas, Tex., man. Recently a youth was heroized here. He had been caught in Elizabeth, N. J., with a stolen car —caught tjy accident. After he was caught he got “good”—wanted to come right back here and give himself up and “take his punishment like a man.’’ He appealed to his father, who was a wealthy man, and dad came on and squared all accounts. The youth came back bubbling over with repentance. The grand jury was in session and the grandstand play was made, they pinned a badge on young thief, (so to speak) and sent him back to Elizabeth, N. J., a shining example for other boys to go and steal autos and be forgiven and turned loose to steal more or not, just as their inclinations and necessities direct. > These are but two cases —I could cite you several more, all to the same point. Should the courts convict, the thief is soon paroled and it is little wonder that so many automobiles are stolen.

Stealing Ford cars is a pleasant, profitable and not at all dangerous pastime as the laws now are. All you have to do is watch your victim, where he or she parks the car. See that the owner is engaged, so that you will not be disturbed for a few minutes. Then take the car, drive It to a city where the very respectable dealer “asks no questions,” hut your price. You should get >SOO without question for a 1920 Ford sedan in good shape. The respectable dealer figures it needs some repairs before he can sell it under his guarantee. The first of these is changing the engine number —the tools are near at hand. No second-hand car runs real well under the original engine number. Then the tires are too good for a second-hand car and they are removed and other, older tires, put on. Having a spot-light handy it is thrown in for good measure, and if it carries an extra tire this is removed, for extra tires do not go with Fords. Then a 813.50 safety steering wheel —one that prevents stealing a Ford —is slipped on and the car is ready for sale —possibly to the original owner, if he happened along, for he couldn’t; possibly identify it, and 8675 is the price of it now —“used only by the owner who took excellent care of it.” At that you are saving nearly 8200, which is worth saving in these days. When a Ford sedan is stolen by a professional there Is precious little chance to get the bunch of tin back, but if this one can be recovered, I’ll bet you that Superintendent Scherer and Sheriff Weinhardt get it.

Egypt is said to have made a billion dollars out of recent cotton deals.

FOR SALE For Sale at Bargains—All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come, in and look them over, in the WhiteFront Garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts For Sale —Recleaned timothy seed at Rensselaer Garage, phone 365. For Sale —Extra large, pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels, $2 each.—MßS. N. SCHMITTER. phone 922-D. jl For Sale —The Rensselaer school board is offering for sale the 500 feet of iron fence surrounding the intermediate school building. If interested see EDWARD P. LANE. ts For Sale—Bo-acre farm, miles south of Fair Oaks, 3 miles northwest of Parr. Good buildings, land partly tiled. Price >SO per acre, easy terms. —W. A. McCURTAIN, Rensselaer. ts For Sale—Having bought the William Hershman foundation stock of pure bred Bronze turkeys, I will have a limited number of hens and toms for Hens, $8.50 and up; toms, $lO and up, owing to markings.—ALVA D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind., R. F. D.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1920.

SPEND A Merry Xmas AT THE Ellis Saturday Dece’ber 25 WHEN THE Gordon Players PRESENT IB HU Stem Mu' By Grace Miller White ATTERNOON AT 2.30 Adults 39c Children 17c Tax Paid NIGHT AT 8:30 Adults 55c Children 28c Tai Paid Seats Now at Long’s

For Sale—l6o-acre farm, well drained, - most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn, corn cribs, good well, fine orchard; land all in cultivation. Can give good terms on this. Price 880.00 per acre.—CHARLES J. DEAN & SON. ts For Sale—Some real bargains In well Improved farms located within 3 miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains in improved farms of all sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call 246, office, or 499, home—HARVEY DAVISSON. ts For Sale—Having Installed an electric metal pot for its model 6 Linotype, The Democrat has for sale a 4 or 5-gallon gasoline air pressure tank with guage, about 20 feet of 3-8 Inch Iron pipe with couplings and elbows, some gasoline burners, the metal pot taken out, etc. Any or all of the above win be sold at bargain prices.—THE DEMOCRAT.

For Sale—A lot of standing timber, 4 miles west of town on county farm road; 50 cbnts per load for dead timber, 81 per load for green wood. Loads not to exceed 12 feet by 3 feet. No cutting or hauling on Sunday. Call me before entering premises.—A. M. YEOMAN, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr exchange. J2O For Sale—The Democrat has for sale several bundles of heavy used wrapping paper, running about 27 to 28 large sheets to c. bundle, suitable for putting under rugs or carpets, building paper or for wrapping heavy parcels, at 25 cents per bundle. Rebuilt Typewriters at Bargain Prices—The Democrat has just got In another lot of high-class rebuilt typewriters of standard makes which it can sell at one-half or less than the price of new piachines. They hre all in A-l condition, with new rubber tympans, new ribbons, etc., and look almost like new and .will do just as good work for many years as brandnew machines. ' Included in this lot are the following: 1 L. C. Smith, a' visible writer, standard ‘keyboard, with back-spacer, tabulator, etc., a mighty fine machine and in the pink of condition. Price 865.00. 1 Underwood, visible, standard keyboard with back-spacer, tabulator, etc., a fine machine at less than half the cost of a new one. Price 860.00. 1 Smith Premier No. 10, visible writer, back-spacer, tabulator, one or two-color ribbon, a dandy machine for those preferring double keyboard. Price 845.00. 1 Smith Premier No. 5, invisible writer, one or two-color ribbon, a good serviceable machine at the very low price of 830.00. Oliyer No. 5, with tabulator, backspacer, etc., a fine machine. Price 840. Ona Oliver No. 9 (latest model out) can scarcely be told from a brandnew machine and is practically as good in every way as one right out of the Oliver factory. Has tabulator, back-spacer, two-color ribbon, etc. Price 850.00. Above prices are for cash, but will take your old machine In as part payment or will sell on part cash and balance monthly payments, if desired. If you want a typewriter it will pay you to call and look these machines over.—THE DEMOCRAT.

WANTED Poultry Wanted—Turkeys, chickens} ducks, geese, veal, etc. —PHONE 313 for prices. ts Wanted—To buy poultry. Call 461 or 39 and we will come and get It. Highest prices paid.—WALLACE & HERATH. ts Trucking Wanted—l have a new ton v truck and solicit business in this line. If you have moving or any other trucking to do, call 473. — FRANK HAMER. ts MONEY TO LOAN Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. . E. P. HONAN. ' ts < Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DEANI SON, Odd Fellows’ Building, BF •- , ■elaer. vw’