Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — Page 1

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

IHmstlßf Paragraphs From Iha Various Dapartmen I s OF JASPER COUNR CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized —♦ Together With Other Notee Gathered by Ue from the Varloue County Offices. John O'Connor of Kniman was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. County Agent and Mrs. Dwight M. Mawhorter left yesterday to spend the holidays with relatives at Wawaka and Ligonier. , will of the' late Frank Kuboske ; of was filed for probate in the county circuit court a few days ago.* The Instrument was executed September 15, 1920, and bequeaths to the wife, Stephena Kuboske, all the real and personal property to have and to hold as her own. Emmet Laßue’, sitting as special Judge Tuesday afternoon, denied the receivership asked for In the suit brought by Frank Melrose of Remington against Dr. Besser. The suit was brought for the purpose of collecting rent due on a tract of land which the plaintiff had purchased from the defendant, a suit bearing upon thß ownership of said land beta? now pending in the appellate court Don’t go out hunting on Sunday or the game wardens may get you. A White county man was arrested a few days ago an an affidavit filed by Deputy Game Wardens Randall and Stansell, charging him with this offense. He claimed that he was simply returning to a neighbor the gun he had borrowed and was not hunting on the Sabbath day, and a Jury, after an all-day trial, acquitted him, but It probably cost him SSO for attorney and other court expenses, and he will, no. doubt, wait until a week day before returning any more borrowed guns. New suits filed: No. 9285. W. Ci Babcock Grain company vs. Floyd M. Garrett. Sult on note. Demand $239. No. 9286. Samuel W. Noland vs. E. Grant Sutton estate. Disallowed claim. Demand $92. No. 9287. State Bank of Monon vs. E. Grant Sutton estate. Disallowed claim. Demand $183.08. No. 9288. State Bank of Monon vs. E. Grant Sutton estate. Disallowed claim. Demand $499.28. No. 9289. Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs. Willie F. Granger et. al. Action to quiet title.

Marriage licenses issued: December 2L Charles E. Lowry of Francesville, aged 22 September 18 last, farmer, and Sarah Elizabeth Pullins of Jasper couLty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Pullins, aged 19 Oetober 26 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. December 22, William Walter Shumaker of Pennville, Ind., aged 28 February 28 last, carpenter, and Anna Bernice Bullis of Rensselaer, aged 25 January 5 last, housekeeper. First; marriage for each. Married in the clerk’s office by Squire S. C. Irwin. December 22, Hein Bokma of Remington aged 29 February 8 last, farmer, and Hattie Sigman, also of Remington, aged 28 December 24 Inst, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married in the clerk’s office by Squire S. C. Irwin. December 22, Curtis Harmon of Remington, aged 21 September 17 last, farmer, and Lucella Alberts, also of Remington, aged 19 July 12 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. December 28, Della L. Headlee of Wheatfield, aged 81 July 21 last, farmer, and May Wilmington, aged 54 November 22 last, housekeeper. Second marriage fox each. Previous marriages dissolved by divorce in 1919 and 1918. Married in the clerk’s office by Squire S; C. Irwin. December 23, Bernard Leo Hurley of Rensselaer, aged 21 April 17 last, laborer, and Martha Jane Critser, also of Rensselaer, aged 23 February 23 last, housekeeper. First marriage ' * <each. * *

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TO REOPEN STORE NEXT WEEK

C. L. Murphy Has Purchased Brand New Stock of Groceries. C. L. Murphy, who recently contracted with Abe Groceteria Stores company of Chicago for the transfer of his lease, and which company failed to fulfill Its part of the agreement, has bought an entirely new stock of groceries and hopes to have same In and be ready to reopen his store by next Thursday. By the closing out of practically all of his old stock during the past few weeks, be will reopen with an entirely fresh, new stock and it is possible that ffe will reopen on the cash and carry plan, making no deliveries except where an extra charge is made for them, thus being able to sell at a closer margin of profit than do stores that deliver and charge for the same, whether the goods are carried away or delivered. He will also do a strictly cash business, which Is another item that will be of benefit to the cash buyer. , Mr. Murphy has enjoyed a very good business right along and with the reopening of his store with an entirely fresh, new line of groceries, at the lower prices in effect now, he will be able to attract many new patrons who are looking for the opportunity to save money on their grocery purchases.

SCHOOL AND CHURCHES CLOSE

At Remington on Account of Prevalence of Diphtheria. The public schools was closed Monday, a few days In advance of the regular holiday vacation on account of the prevalence of diphtheria, a number of new cases having been reported. Every precaution should be taken by each Individual so that the disease may not spread any further than it now has. The churches have also agreed to close for the' present and all Christmas exercises have been abandoned, it not being considered right to hold gatherings of any character. In consequence the various families will arrange their, own little celebrations at home this year. The lecture course number which was scheduled for Wednesday evening has also been called off. Five new cases of diphtheria since last Saturday were reported this week, as follows: A young son of Burdett Porter, two children of Newboldt’s and one of Mrs. Maggie Banes. All are under quarantine. Rollie Turner is also reported as suffering from diphtheria. Remington Press.

THE NEW FIRE TRUCK ARRIVES

The expensive new fire truck contracted for several months ago by the city at a cost of >7,669, was unloaded from the car Wednesday and is Indeed quite an imposing looking piece of apparatus. With the addition of this new truck the fire team will be sold and the expense of feeding and taking care of the horses will thus be saved. Whether or not this saving overbalanced, however, by the upkeep and many times greater investment, remains to be seen. However, there should be very little expense for upkep for a few years, at least, and the possession of the truck should mean greater efficiency for the fire department.

REMINGTON G. A. R. OFFICERS

The Rfemington G. A. R. post has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: « Post commander, J. H. Biddle; S. V. C.» George F. Shaull; J. V. C., Joseph Lacost; adjutant, H. H. Walker; J. M., J. P. Shelmon; surgeon, Hypolite Clair; chaplain, Robert F. Erwin; officer of the day, Ezra Bowman; officer of the guard, Jacob Easterday; patriotic instructor, B. F. Cresse; dele-, gate to state encampment, Jacob Easterday; alternate, Edward Hemphill; installing officer, H. H. Walker.

PUBLIC SALE DATES

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, Dec. 28—Thomas E. Reed, 7 miles south and 3% miles west of Rensselaer. Big general sale, including 12 head of horses and mules, 48 hbad of cattle, 36 head of hogs and a large amount of farm tools. Thursday, Dec. 30.—Lee W. Jennings, 4 miles south of Wheatfield. 120-acre farm and personal property, consisting of cattle, horses, hogs, household goods, etc.

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THE TWICB-A-WBEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1920.

Coming Down on Christmas Morn

FOOTBALL FANS WILL FEAST

Local Team at Barnes’ Restaurant Next Thursday Night. Rensselaer football fans will banquet the local team at Barnes' restaurant next Thursday evening and .discuss football prospects and plans for next season. Plates are to be laid for 120, forty of which are tor the team, manager, etc., and are to be free, while the other’eighty are to be $2.00- per. Edward P. Honan is to be toastmaster, and it Is strictly a “stag” affair. Following the banquet, which Is to be served at 8:30 o’clock, the assemblage will adjourn to the Van Rensselaer club rooms, where a smoker will be enjoyed.

FAHRNER-KANNAL NUPTIALS

The marriage of Gertrude Kannal, eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Jesse Kannal, and Leslie Fahrner, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fahrner of Santa Rosa, Calif., was solemnized Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents on Park avenue. Rev. J. C. Parrett, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Hammond, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, read the Impressive ring service. The ceremony was performed In the large living room before an embankment of ferns and palms, in the presence of near relatives. The bride wore a traveling gown andrhat of midnight blue charmeuse, also a beautiful antique necklace of her grandmother’s, the late Mary E. Kannal, and a corsage bouquet of sweet peas. Mrs. Fahrner has lived in Rensselaer all her life and is very well and most favorably know here, where she has hosts of friends who extend hearty congratulations and best wishes. She Is a member of the local chapt-r of the Tri Kappa sorority. Mr Fahrner is a graduate of Missouri university, holding two degrees from the School of Journalism, and is also a prominent member of the Dana Press club. He served two years in France during the world war.

Mr. and Mrs.' Fahrner left immediately after the ceremony for a two weeks’ stay in Los Angeles and from there will go to Pasadena to attend the floral pageant. After escorting the young couple to the train, the guests returned to the Kannal home and were served a two-course breakfast After February first Mr. and Mrs. Fahrner will be at home In Santa Rosa, Calif., where Mr. Fahrner is junior member of the Fahrner Motor „ company.

JASPERCOUNTY'S SHARES6OO

Of Unexpended Y. M. C. A. War Fund for Educational Work. Jasper county has approximately '5600.90 to be used in educational work for ex-service men. If this sum is not sufficient, there is a possibility that more can be secured. This money comes from the $3,000,000 national war work council fund of the Young Men’s Christian association of the United States. The proportion for Indiana was $131.000, and of this amount $98,000 is to be used for educational purposes under collegiate grade. The S6OO to be used In Jasper county is out of this fund. There is still about sll,000 to be used for ex-service men new In colleges. According to present plans, this money must be used by June 30, 1921, or it will revert back into another fund.

The money can be used to send ment to Purdue short courses, busjness colleges, night schools or in the taking of correspondence courses. The amount of money to be used on one individual cannot exceed >2OO for day school work, or >IOO for night school. The cost of correspondence courses varies from >lO to >lls. Some of the groups of correspondence courses are as follows: Agricultural, architectural, civil engineering, commercial, electrical, mechanical.

This is something that ex-service men should take advantage of. One should remember that there is no expense attached to this work. Jasper county has this money to her credit and it should be used here. If it is not used it will go into some other county of the state.' • The local educational committee consists of M. L. Sterret, Cope J. Hanley and C. R. Dean. They have charge of the awarding of scholarships and are very anxious for applications. Only those who have an earnest desire to Improve their education along the respective lines of their work should apply for these scholarships. Any member of the committee Is ready and willing to talk to anyone interested in this line of work. This should be done within the next few days.

FOUND DEAD IN BED

Cyrus Hubbell, aged for several years proprietor of the HubbeU house at Francesville, was found dead in tied jpoaftay. He had lived in Pulaski nearly all his life, and is by a widow and two brothers, W. Hubbell of Francesville aS®Edward Hubbell of Monon. >

DIVORCE MAY NOW BE GRANTED

In Less Than Blxty-Day Limit, Saya the Appellate Court. A divorce may be granted by a trial court at a date earlier than sixty days after the filing of the divorce complaint, It was ruled in a decision announced by the appellate court Tuesday. The court may hear evidence and grant or refuse the divorce decree sought in a suit at any time after the return day named in the complaint, which usually Is about ten days after the filing of the complaint Courts of the state have been acting In the last six years on the theory that a divorce trial can not be heard until sixty days have elapsed after the filing of the suit. The appellate court, in affirming the action of the Laporte circuit, court In granting a divorce to an applicant twenty-four days after the filing of the suit, said that the act of the legislature in 1913, attempting to amend an act of 1873 to require the sixtyday limit, was void because the act of 1873, sought to be amended, had been repealed. The court did not question the legislature’s right to enact a law fixing t£e limit, but said such a law had not been properly enacted.

HURT. GRUBB USES SHUTGUN

Another Chapter In Marital Troubles of Wolcott Couple. Another chapter has been added to the troubles and disagreements of Robert E. Grubb and his wife, Nellie L. Grubb, who reside in the Wolcott vicinity and who have had their difficulties before the White circuit court on a number of occasions. This chapter might easily have been the last, had the alm of Mr. Grubb been more true. During the November term of court, which Just adjourned last Saturday, a replevin suit was heard in which Mrs. Grubb waa the plaintiff and Mr. Grubby the defendant. Mrs. Grubb wished to obtain possession of certain property she claimed she owned. The case was heard before Special Judge Coombs of Frankfort and his decision was rendered Friday in court He entered Judgment for the plaintiff as to certain of the property, which amounted to about $l2O, and a Judgment for five dollars damages for the detention of the property. •

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SAGE-SUNDERLAND NUPTIALS

On Wednesday occurred the wedding of Miss Florence Sunderland and Albert W. Sage. The young couple decided to give their friends a surprise and want to Kentland, where, after securing the license, they were married at the M. E. church at 2:30 o’clock, the Rev. C. L. Harper, pastor at Kentland, officiating. The young couple took the train immediately for Indianapolis to remain for a few days. Mrs. Sage is the daughter Qf Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Sunderland of Foresman. She is a graduate of the Brook high school and made a special study of expression at Valparaiso univer. slty. She is a reader of note, a musician and a charming young woman, thoroughly versed in the arts of the home. The groom is a prosperous young farmer of Jasper county, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Sage of Rensselaer. The young couple will make their home on the home farm where the groom has been located for several years. They have the best, wishes of a host of friends In Foresman and Brook for their future welfare. — Brook Reporter.

HURLEY-CRITSER NUPTIALS

Bernard Leo Hurley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley of this city, and Miss Martha Critser, daughter of Mrs. Eli Critser also of Rensselaer, were united in marriage Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. E. W. Strecker, the ceremony being performed at the Methodist parsonage. The groom has been employed at Henning, 111., with a dredging company for some time, and the young couple will leave for that place Monday to take up their residence. The Democrat extends congratulations.

NOTICE, TELEPHONE PATRONS!

The Rensselaer exchange of the Jasper County Telephone company will be closed'from 12 to 1 o’clock on Saturday, December 25, while the employes are out to a Christmas dinner. Please bear this in mind and govern yourself accordingly. W. L. BOTT, Mgr.

Vol. XXIII. No. 78

HOUSTON WARNS OF DEFICIENCY

Secretary Says New Sources if Revenue Must Be Found te Aid Treasury. SPEAKS ON SOLDIERS' BONUS Senate Finance Committee Told Government Must Not Incur New Burdens During Next Flsoal YearWashington, 24.—A gross dets dency In national fiscal transactions of $2,100,000,000 this tiscal year and 11,500,000,000 the next fiscal year was, forecast by Secretary Houston ini speaking on the soldiers’ bonus bill. He said the government must find new sources of revenue nud incur no new bunlens. • Receipts Should Exceed ExpendituresConsidered aside from the public debt, Mr. Houston said, the ordinary) receipts for this year should exceedl ordinary expenditure;] by about SBOO,000,000, and next year the excess should be $586,000,000. These sums, however, are inadequate to take cara of the interest on the public debtwhich is about $1,200,000,000 annually., Mr. Houston said, as well aS the interest on the current floating debt and the total laid aside annually for retiring the public debt “We will start the year of 1922-25 with a deficit of $1,500,000,000, said Mr. Houston. “We face, in the fact that many sources of revenue are declining, so we will have to loot around for new sources to tap without placing greater burdens on the treas* ury.” Profits Tax Source of Doolins. Asked as to what sources of revenue were declining, the secretary said principally the excess profits tax, but that the productivity of higher groups of Income taxes also was falling offBe eited Internal revenue figerea showing a steady decline in tax payments by those receiving larger in-* comes of the country. Mr. Houston warned, incidentally,, against "tampering with the sinktar fund." He declared the present arrangement for retiring the great war debt was “sound and workable" and should be allowed to continue in force. “When we go to tampering with the slklng fund I believe we are gone,” he said. , , Opposes War Flnancs Body. < In connection with the requirements, immediate and future, of the treasury, Mr. Houston reiterated his opposition to a revival of the warfinance corporation. He declared the whr finance “corporation would calk upon the treasury for depayment of the credit of $886,000,000 It had with the treasury, which would be compelled to embark on a new borrowing period to the extent that the corporation called for money. The secretary expressed the belief that the solution of the problem of aiding exporters was through private financing rather than by government action. There were indications, he said, that exports woulcf continue to Increase without treasury help. No Agreement on Loans. Asked regarding the status of the) government loans to the allied and associated powers, Mr. Houston said the treasury had not yet reached an agreement with them relative to final maturity dates on the nearly $10,000,000,000 of loans. Few of them, he added, have paid any Interest in actual cash, most of the Interest accredited to them being In the form of “book adjustments against credit authorized.” The hearing was adjourned until Monday, when Mr. Houston is expected to be asked for a direct expression on the soldier bonus bill.

WAR CLOUDS SEEN IN EAST

French Leader Declares Greece, Rueala and Balkans Threaten. Paris, Dec. 24.—War clouds are, banking in eastern Europe and uneasiness is spreading all over tiie world, according to a statement by General Sarrail, former commander In chief of the allied armies at Salonlkl and now a member of the French chamber of deputies. In a remarkable Interview. “I am pessimistic regarding the situation not only in Greece, but in thei troubled Balkans, where the little entente, pro-German in its alms. Is in. power, and also In Red Russia, whence a resumption of the offensive against Warsaw may be fully expected,” said General Sarrall.

It is now time to order your automobile licenses for 1221. Come in and let me fill out your application for you.—MABEL NOWELS, at The Democrat office.

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