Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 27, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 April 1915 — Page 1

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Jasper, Indiana. I uiday, APRIL 9, 1915, No. 27.

Brewers Buy Farmers' Grain During the fiscal year 1913, the liquor industry in the country used $113,513,971.00 worth of farm products. This amount is not computed from the market quotations upon grains at Chicago and other markets but as based upon the carefully compiled reports on farm prices issued by the Department of Agriculture. The $113,513,971 worth of farm products consisted of barlev to the value of $55,236,641, corn $30,924,335, wheat $869,938, rice $7,288,786, hops $11,155,215, rye $4,604,476, molasses $2,056,626, fruit $751,835 and other agricultural products $626,119. The value of farm products used in the manufacture of fermented liquor, principally beer, was $87,520,287, or over 77 per cent, of the total. Beer making, like bread making, furnishes an important market for the farmer. The destruction of either industry would be a severe blow to American agriculture. Indiana Biewers Association

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When Washington started on his journey to the French Commander, St. Pierre, with a message from the English Governor Dinwiddie of the "Dominion" or Virginia, asking the French to withdraw from territory that belonged to the English Sovereign, he surely did not realize his undertaking, but a spirit so courageous as his afterward proved to be would dare to do anv task required of him. He set out from Williamsburg, then the capital of Virginia. Oct. 31, 1753 to travtrse more than five-hundred miles, much of the way. a pathless as well as wintry desert. His route la through Fredricksburg, Alexandria and Winchester, to Will's Creek or Fort Cumberland near the boundary of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Here taking leave of every vestige of civilization and having procured the services of Mr. Gist, agent of the Ohio Companv, as interpreter and guide, his party of eight plunged into the wilderness. They passed through snow and storm, over mountains and down through thickets into Hooded valleys. Coming OHM the Youghiogeny River, which is still called by its Indian name, they followed it to the Monongahela and that to its junction with the Alleghany. The Fork as the site of Pittsburg was called, was then a desert but Washington afterward reported it as a suitable place for a fort. From the Fork he went down the river twenty miles to Logtown to deliver a friendly message of greeting Dinwiddie to the ereat chief. Half King, of

the Southern Hurons whose friendship was courted by, both French and English. The chief said the land in question did not belong to either the French or English but that the Great Spirit had given it to the Indians and allowed them to make it their home and hunting grounds. AfW a fripndlv council Half Kinir and three of nis

principal men accompanied Washington one hundred miles north to Fort LeBouef on French Creek.

Here St. Pierre, wno had been in command ot the fpu davs. received him with the courtesy

and hospital attentions of the French gentleman. But to Dinwiddie's request that the French would leave the territory which belonged to the English, he replied that it did not become him to discuss treaties but referred him to the Governor General of Canada, the Marquis Duquesne, as he acted under his orders and he should be careful to obey. The return of Washington in the dead of winter, Jan. 15, 1754 to Williamsburg after an absence of eleven weeks was fraught with many dangers. A treacherous guide aimed his musket at him hut it missed fire, and in crossing the Alleghany River which was tilled with floating ice, they were knocked from their rude raft into the water but saved themselves by swimming to an island where they remained all night and managed to dry their clothes. On his return, his reports were published with applause not only throughout the colonies but in England. Troops were raised in Virginia, and Washington was made Lieutenant Colonel and intrusted witn the command. ,,. . u Our histories tell us of his campaign against the French and Indians, his surrender at Fort Necessity and receiving for his garrison the honors of war. Washing on afterward accompanied Gen. Braddock on his expedition against the French who had by this time built a Fort at the junction of the Monongahela and Alleghany but were ambushed at Braddock's Fields on the Monongahela. At this place now is a good sized city where the idgar Thompson Steel Works are situated one of the largest manufacturing plants in the U. S. After the treatv of peace with the r rench which was concluded at Paris in 1763 Fort DuQuesne was called Fort Pitt and later Pittsburg. There were troops kept at this very important point and in spite of the depredations and atrocities of the Indian settlers; came'into the valley. Pontiac, an Indian chief whose father was an Ottawa and his mother a Chippewa woman, was very bitter against the English and continued to stir up the Indians against the whites. He was supposed to have led the Ottawa and Chippewa warriors at Braddock's defeat. Pontiac, if not fully equal to Tecumseh, stands closely second to him in strength of mind and breadth of comprehension. He attended a drinking carousal at Cahokia, Illinois 1769 and was murdered by a Kaskaskian Indian. Among the early settlers to come into the valley about 1780 was Hugh Miller a Scotchman, and wife and three children, a boy of five years, a girl of three and an infant a few months old. Beautiful farms along the river could be secured almost for the making or clearing and the jriver afforded a cheap means of transportation. A Block-house had Jx?en erected for refuge near the battleground of Braddock These block-houses were built upon an elevated place

t-gnerally surrounded by a ditch and in wooded counries could be Built easily and quickly. Large logs of one or two rows were sometimes placed upright with loop-holes every three or four feet to shoot through. They were usually rectanguler or in the shape of a Greek cross and all surrounded by a stockade that would accomodate a number of troops and people. The joof was often covered with earth to protect against "burning. They were frequently built with two stories, the lower tor barracks and the upper one for families there for safety. The first summer had passed and Hugh MHler's small clearing had produced corn and vegetables while tha forest had furnished them with game, fish, and berries. In the autumn the sky was overcast with wild pigeons migrating southward, now none are tobe seen so deadly has vbeen the hunters aim. Wild geese and ducks were numerous and the pioneer's table was well supplied with wholesome and delicious meats. With their two good Cows which had to be their team for cultivating as well, thev started to make their fortune in this almost wilderness. It was the evening of a bright October day, the reddish tinge of the sun's rays still lingered on the tops of the trees on a high hill in the distance. As Hugh Miller gazed not so much on the beauty of the ferest but from the necessity of being on che alert for the stealthy foe, who still clung to the teachings of Pontiac that they might yet be the possessors of the land, he could discern a form near a large rock, then another was seen and he knew bv their hiding they were unfriendly Indians that would be there to attack them in a short time. Going to the cabin he and his wife hurriedly made ready to start for the Block house over a mile down the river. Mrs. Miller carrying the youngest child and a small bundle of clothes which were always tied up ready, started with the boy while the father with his gun and carrying the little Jane or Jincy as she was called in the family brought up the rear. Hastening with all their strength they were not out of sierht of their home when the Indians were so near that Hugh had to set down Jincy in order to fire on them. .j The little girl being frightened dodged into the brush while her father continued to fire supposing the little girl was with her mother, until his deadly aim had brought down two that were much in advance of the rest. (Concluded next week)

The Story of a Hen. Once upon a Time there was a hen who became, in Her own estimation, the Wisest Ever. She had Kept her lamps working Double Turn, and her perspicacity, in Constant operation, until She imagined she had Hatched a scheme that would Enable her to live nicely without being Guilty of perspiration. Thereupon she Cut out the Shell Game, resolving to Devote her time to more Pleasant recreation than That of supplying the suffix to the popular breakfast food Knowm as Ham and. But in order that She might not be the Subject of discrimination in the Diurnal distribution of the chop Feed and other poultry comestibles, she continued at Intervals to disturb the Ambient with the national Hymn of her race. The inter-reuben Citizen Who was presumed to be her Lawful master, upon hearing the Vociferous announcements, sought Diligently for evidences Of her industry; But finding after a Time that there Was nothing to it, he got Busy with the Ax, and disposed of the Remains for Two bits in merchandise at the Grocery. Moral- Tell it to 'em, but Make it on the Level. The present-day newspaper, if it be right, depends upon the great and impartial public for its patronage and is not supported by funds drawn from corporations committees, candidate?, individuals or gangs ofindivi duals having interests in conflict with those of the pubiic.

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