Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 October 1917 — Page 2

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WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher

JASPER - INDIANA You tan le economical without being miserly. A goose that hys he goldan egg has no chance with a hog. 0 One way to popularize the npplo would he to popularize the price. These are the days when the gummed flap of the envelope leaves a bad taste In the mouth. The dove of peace is still flying round, hut finds It difiicult to And n place to alight. Men who ask. "Why are we at war?" mihf as well ask why we resist roblery and murder. The fellow who started the war novacation movement seems to have taken one himself. It Is n Blander to say of some women that they will go to almost any lengths. Just look nt their skirts. When arguing with an Idiotic antagonist n man always fools that ho Is up against a stifT opposition. Some of those Russians haven't had freedom long enough to realize that it Is worth fighting and dying for. Another goorl way to win (Ms war to support the American cause solidly at home, as well as at the front. Japan Is going to make a big loan to Russia. Truth to say. war, as well as politics, makes strange bedfellows. Kassian soldiers receive G cents a day. It doesn't seem reasonable to expect to hire flrst-class heroes for that. King Alfonso Is reported to be walking lame. All European monarchy has more or less of a halting gait these days. Chicago packers announce that they will butcher no more ewe lambs. It's tlio male that pays the price in war times. The average exemption claim seems doomed to look as limp as a dishrag by the time Uncle Sam gets through with it. One of the strangest aspects of the great war is the time it required both Bides to realize the value of large fleets of nirplanes. "The emperor distributed a number of iron crosses." Not to mention the number of wooden crosses he is responsible for. v In spile of the wonderful advances that have been made In medical science, the ukelcle germ has not yet been Isolated. Doubtless the kaiser will be pleased to hear how large a percentage of our drafted army is physically unfit or unwilling to serve. A sporting writer declares that sports will be purified by war. We fear the war is going to produce entirely Coo many dead game sports. Madagascar has a tree that produces cofiiee which Is free from cafTein. That's all right. Only trouble is, cofee without caffeln is not coffee. The railroads have discontinued a lot of their passenger trains, but that doesn't seem to Interfere with the unerring accuracy of the motorist who insists on catching one just abaft the front seat. There is only one worse bore than a week-end at some house party, and that is to hear the other fellow tell what a bore it is. Owing to the increasing price of silver, the stnudcrd dollar is worth more than it ever was. but. notwithstanding that, It buys less than it ever 4fd. America Is sending its bravest and best to fight for the world's freerjom, and in justice to them it must employ prompt and stern measures toward any persons who by word or sign give aid mid comfort to the enemy. The proposal to turn the surplus cabbage crop Into sauerkraut will strike the ultrapatriotic as InrroducInc an alien enemv dish upon our tables. Rut the best way In such a ?gse Is simply to intern It Before going into the smoke of battle Sammy wants his smoke of peace, and good tobacco is said to be sadly lacking in France. A little less Improving advice and a few more cigarettes would be appreciated by Sammy. The man who started this year as an mnatcur gardener, with a little parch In the buck yard, will be something of n expert In 1918. Another thins that makes a body Rick Is for a child to get home to din'ncr just after everything; has been !"clcancd and put away." Although the pacifist? keep preaching that the war is not popular it Is hard to assimilate their ravings in the tface of the fact that 943,11! volunteers

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ITALIANS TAKE IMPORTANT PEAK Open New Drive 0,i Enemy In Isonzo Sector.

NEW AIR RAID ON LONDON Germans. Continue Mighty Attack on England Berlin Reports Artillery Firing on the Belgian Coast and North End of West Front. London, Oct. 1. The Italians, in another powerful attack, have captured the high ground to the south of Podlaca and southeast of Madoui, in the Isonzo sector. The official communication from Rome reports the capture of forty-nine officers and 1,360 men. The Austrians made desperate attempts to recover these positions, but were repulsed with heavy losses hy the Italian fire. Air fighting was brisk on the whole Julian front Squadrons of airplanes bombarded enemy depots at Berie, northeast of Nahresina, and military works of the fortress of Pola with excellent results. Two enemy airplanes were brought down. The Berlin statement has reported heavy artillery firing on the Belgian coast and along the northern end of the western front. In many quarters it is believed that this preliminary bombardment forecasts another great British drive and that the cloak of silence which suddently has hidden activity on the western front will, when raised, reveal movements on the part of Sir Douglas Haig. Attack Zeebrugge. The British for a long time have been hammering the German lines in Flanders with the idea of eventually making the submarine and aerial bases at Zeebrugge and other points untenable. The present blow if successful may force the enemy to evacuate these Belgian coast towns. A heavy artillery action has been in progress on both sides of tho Meuse, Verdun sector, while on the Aisne front the German infantry attacked the French trenches, but were repulsed with considerable losses. The official communication issued by the war office also reports air raids around Dunkirk, where several civilians were killed. Heavy German attacks in the Ypres sector are reported in Field Marshal Haig's statement from headquarters In France. All of the attacks were repulsed. The London district was again raided during the night by German airmen. This is the second raid within two consecutive nights. In the first raid eleven persons were killed and eighty-two "were injured, it is announced officially. The material damage was not great. There is a circumstantial but unconfirmed report that one enemy machine was brought down in the last raid. While there was a bright moon, there also was a slight mist, and the raiders were invisible to persons in the streets. No details 'of this raid or casualties have been received. ALL SALOONS MUST CLOSE War Order Affects Places Near Hoboken Piers, Hoboken, N. J., Oct. 1. All saloons here within half a mile of the United States army piers must close Oct. S, it was announced by United States Attorney Lynch. This order, it is said, will affect two-thirds of Hoboken's saloons. Mr. Lynch has been notified, he said, by the war department that the sale of liquor must be prohibited in tho vicinity of the piers. The action is the outcome of several months' efforts by the federal authorities to obtain a restriction of liquor selling near the piers, but the saloon men have evaded previous orders. Mr. Lynch said the present rule is absolute and will be made effective by armed force if necessary. GIVES THE GRAIN CROP VALUE McAdoo Declares 1917 Crop Will Reach $17,000,000,000. Atlantic City, X. J., Oct. 1. Impressing on the bankers the necessity for maintaining an ample gold reserve for tho government's uses, Secretary McAdoo frequently digressed from the address he read to the American Bankers' Association here to reiterate the importance of keeping every -possible dollar ready for patriotic duty. The bankers were pleased with the news Mr. McAdoo brought from the secretary of agriculture that the 1917 crop will reach $17,000,000,000, a gain of $2,000,000,000 over 1916. These, figures, Mr. McAdoo said, had been estimated a few days ago by that department Drowns Two Sons in Weil. Rochester, N. Y.. Oct. 1. Mrs. Carl B. Diehl. residing at Townsend, while in a fit of insanity, drowned her two boys, one aged 5 years and the other eighteen months, in an old well near the house. She later dragged the bodies from the well and laid them on the grass, whore they were found by a neichbor.

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X Baseball Fan Dies in N T3W YORK. It was the ninth inning. home team. Two men were out, In the crowd that had gathered in the

the Bronx hoys. Nine strange and unnamed young men had come to dispute supremacy with them. The two men were out, one man was on base and one run was needed to tic the score iu the ninth. Young William picked a bat with great care. He faced the pitcher with the confidence of youth. "Strike one!" called the umpire. The pitcher wound up again. He sent one over the plate with a snap and there came a report that sounded like a rifle in full play. The ball sped' on and on over the head of the center fielder. The man on base ran home and young Koch made the circuit of the bases. Everybody lost sight of the elder man in the general jollification that followed the home run until somebody called out that a man had fallen in the crowd. Young Koch ran over to see what had happened. He found his father dead. Heart disease had asserted itself and the excitement of the moment in wbJch he saw his son proclaimed a local hero was too much for the old baseball -fan.

California "Fresh-Air" Cranks Attend Gampfire LOS ANGELES Eighteen miles northwest of this city, near Roscoe, a colony of cranks has been enjoying the next-to-nature life during the past week -under the watchful eyes of Dr. Leroy Henry, chief crank of the bunch. The word "cranks" is not inappropri

ate, because the folks themselves call themselves such and their present sir it is the "second annual campfire npfii of California cranks." Moreover, the colony had its rendezvous at Camp "Don't-Give-a-Durn," located on "Freedom Hill." Evidently the conventions are not observed to the letter and "have a good time" seems to be the mainspring of the outing. The cranks have been enjoying the simple life for more than two "weeks.

Two sessions daily have been held, one at two o'clock and the other at seven o'clock, each lasting a full two hours'. The rules of the camp forbade a discussion of the main topic. Incidentally there have been music and some recitations. Each crank has his or her own blankets and food and such a thing as a bed is taboo. No, indeedy ; old Mother Earth is good enough. Doctor Henry announced in the beginning that repose would be upon "garden beds softened with pick and rake," and it has been so. Doctor Henry, who gets his mail at Burbank, invited his friends to wear washable clothes "and for a few days to live the simple, relaxed life under the trees with the birds and stars and intellectual friends." He also told them: "Tone up your inner life and adjust the wheels in your head so your soul, if you have one, will have as good a chance to grow as your potatoes and bank account."

Pitiful Story Touched Kindly Heart of Judge KANSAS CITY. A red velvet hat with a brim that drooped ; a faded pink kimono, pinned by facile feminine fingers into the semblance of a gown ; a lace that an artist w?ould seek anywhere except in a police courj: a face not yet woman, but no longer child with

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"This girl," the patrolman, said, 'jis thirteen years old. Her parents are divorced. She's been living with her mother." pointing to the nervous, sharpfeatured woman, "at 22 West Seventh street. The mother has been teaching her petty thievery and shoplifting." A neighbor woman stepped forward. "I've seen the mother beat her with a wash stick," she said. "And other things." The court looked at the girl. The girl looked at her mother. "Don't be afraid," the judge said. "Are those things true?" No one but the judge was close enough to hear the answer, but a tremor swept the hat fringe again. "When I took her from the house," the patrolman ventured, "she begged me to take her away anywhere." "Five hundred dollars," said the court to the mother. "And this," looking at the girl, "is a case for the juvenile court." The judge looked at the wondering eyes under the red hat brim, and took off his spectacles and polished them furiously. Burglar-Proof Iron Safe Levied On by Attorney NEW ORLEANS. David F. Williams, a carpenter here, now probably is satisfied that even a burglar-proof iron safe in one's home is not proof ji gainst lawyers, the courts and the civil sheriff's forces. Three or four

months ago the National Surety company signed a sequestration bond for Williams, it alleged, for $3,023.55. Williams failed to deliver the goods and the bonding company had the amount to pay. The National then brought suit and secured a judgment against Williams. How to satisfy the judgment was a puzzle, however, as Williams had no property that the bonding company's attorney, William Grant, could dis

cover. Eventually, however, Mr. GraDt learned that Williams had an iron saie in his house at S16 Second street. Taking a chance shot, Mr. Grant had this safe seized. Williams refused to open it until the deputy sheriffs threatened to send for a safe-lock expert and have it opened. Williams relented, opened the strong box, and in it were found $1,3-10 in cash and $4,400 in mortgage notes made out in the name of Mrs. Catherine Sheeny. Williams declared that neither the money nor the bonds belonged to him. Saturday Williams called at the sheriff's office, met Mr. Grant, and the claim was compromised for $2,500. Williams paid that amount in cash.

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a Moment of Happiness The game stood 3 to 2 against the and William Koch. Jr.. came to the bat. ball park on the old Morris estate in the Bronx, where this critical situation developed, was Koch, Sr. He was fiftyfour years old and a baseball fan of the real, 24-karat kind. He was fond of the sport, proud of his boy and always ready with a whoop or a cheer for a play that made his team feel as though it had friends behind it. William, the junior, belonged to a cluh of local youngsters that played under no particular name any aggregation which came along and thought that It could take the laurels from unyj ( fiQm EXPANDS llhmrr SVriuLKriti TOUCH OF h NATURE -FEBIS LIKE ßlRD SO AM' W puzzied round blue eyes. A big kindly patrolman not in uniform. A thin, nervous woman the defendant. "Tell ns about it," said .Tudge Joseph F. Keirnan, not at all in his court manner. The fringe on the red hat brim trembled a very little. The lips that were not too red quivered still less. That was all. "You tell us, then," Judge Keirnan said to the patrolman. ! THOUGHT SURE THIS SAFE WAS. dAFE ACIN Tflrt THERE

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ANA NEW EMS IN Paragraphs of Interestto Readers ot Hoosisr Readers. News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points in the State and So Reduced In Size That It Will Appeal to All Classes of Readers. Russell Sparks, member of 150th held artillery, the Indiana regiment at Camp Mills, Mineola, L. I., received a serious injury . A train he was trying to board ran over his foot. A Christmas cheer fund for members of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Rainbow Division of American troops has been started at Greencastle at a meeting of citizens. ' A number of Greencastle and Putnam county boys are in the Rainbow Division now ready to go to France. The First District Dental Society which closed its convention at Evansville, voted to refund dues to ail members called to the colors and to carry them during the war without fees. Dr. J. A. Brumfield of Princeton was elected president. Dead in bed for ten days, the body of Mai Liundy, 70 years old, a recluse of Williamsburg, was found in his home by William McNutt, a friend. Coroner Morrow pronounced death due to heart disease. He was formerly a professional nurse. The police at Anderson have recovered automobile electric equipment valued at $400, which was stolen from the Remy Electric plant, it is alleged, by John Morgan. It is claimed he carried the articles from the factory, a piece at a timee, in his dinner bucket. Two men were suffocated and three others escaped death when working in a large silo at the state farm, near Greencastle, by gas formed from corn which was being put in the silo. The dead are: Stanley Zuch, age 29, of Haammond, and Charles Chaffin, age 33, of Olexandria. Grace, five-year-old daughter of A. W. Dare, was burned to death when she obtained a can of gasoline and poured the fluid in the cook stove. The explosion which followed caused the child's clothing to become ignited and she was fatally burned before aid could reach her. George N. Murdock, agent in charge of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, at Indianapolis, has received word from Washington officials advising him that men who failed to report for mobilization for the national army are to be treated as ordinary deserters. A cruel joke was played at Connersville on relatives and "friends of Chester Quayle, who is in the draft camp at Louisville. A rumor was started that he had committed suicide. It spread throughout the city. Relatives were alarmed and began seeking information. He was found alive and well at Louisville. The latest movement started by the Indianapolis headquarters for the American Fund for French wounded is the conservation of yarn. Odds and ends of yarn left from knitted articles, of any color or quality, are to be collected and knitted into squares 6x6 inches and made into afghans for the French children and convalescent soldiers. While at play with her four sisters on her father's farm near Crown Point, Ind., Edna, 7 years old, daughter of August Schneider, was shot by a hunter. The ball lodged at the base of the skull and she was rushed to a Gary hospital. The sheriff is holding Fred Heising, a photographer, and Henry Kreiger of Chicago Heights, under $3,000 bail, which each furnished. William L. Robins of St. Paul, Ind.. was returned to Fort Benjamin Harrison by Deputy Sheriff David Spellman, who had captured him at Waldron. A few weeks ago Robins was arrested at St. Paul by Decatur County officials and turned over to the authorities at Fort Harrison, as he was wanted for deserting at Fort Bliss, Tex., and then again made a dash for liberty, escaping his guard. James Maddey of Norton, Kas., when in an automobile with 'his sisters, was pursued by automobile bandits between Gary and Hammond, who fired on the party. Mr. Maddey turned his car into a swamp, turned off the lights and remained there till daylight. The bandits were in the vicinity all night but unable to find him. When daylight came the bandits left. Eighty-seven tornado and fire insurance companies doing business in Indiana are alleged in a petition -filed in the Marion county superior court to have violated a permanent restraining order, issued by Judge Weir some years ago to enjoin them from combining to fix rates and stifle competition. The petition, which was filed in Room 4, by Ele Stansbury, attorney-general of Indiana, asks for a contempt of court citation. This is another step in the long fight against tho alleged insurance comtiinAtion in the state.

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Marion All on, a teacher ra th public chool at Clifford, Brown county, resigned to antor tho national army as a conscript, Mrs. Charity Benimm of Banlinm. widow of a civil war veteran, foil from her chair while at tho dimuw table and suffered serious injuries. A golden eagle, measuring sevon and a half feet between tho tips of its extended wings, was killed soutiiwest of Elwood, near Aroma, by Arza Leeman. Mrs. Grace Meredith of Wabash, one of the leaders of the Woman's Benefit Association, formerly known as the Ladies of the Maccabees, will represent Indiana at tho dedication of the new homo office of tho association at Port Huron, Michi, Oct 2. Mrs. Mary Adams, 50, was instantly killed near Lafayette when tho auto in which she was riding was struck by a Wabash freight train. Miss Gould Mills and Walter Rinehart, the driver, were seriously injured. Joseph D. Torr was arrested at Greencastle after he had served about nine years as deputy postmaster in the Greencastle office. Ho resigned his place as a result of disclosures made by, postofilco inspectors, who found a shortage of $2,500 in his accounts. A tract of twenty-five acres, be

tween New York avenue and Indianapolis boulevard, in Whiting, has been sold to the Great Western Smelting and Refining Company of Chicago by Oliver O. Forsythe for $40,000. A plant to cost 50,000 will be constructed. A jury in circuit court at Muncio awarded $1,500 to Mrs. Matilda Nicewanner, who sued the estate of her sister, Mrs; Rachel Henderson, for $6,000 for services given as a nurse during thirteen years in which Mrs. Henderson lay ill. Other relatives opposed the claim. An Austrian, whose name was not given out has been arrested at Greencastle charged with cheering the kaiser and condemning President Wilson. He was working on Rector Hall dormitory- at DePäuw. He has talked pro-German strongly for the last few weeks. He will be held for federal officers. Three women were probably fatally injured and one man badly hurt when an interurban car, traveling toword Lafayette, struck a touring car bound for Frankfort. The injured are Mrs. Leona Hinton, Frankfort; Miss Mary Leslie, Monticello; Miss Delia Morecraft, Frankfort, and William Weidman, Frankfort. Free inoculation against typhoid fever of residents of South Bend, including school children, will be commenced as soon as the vaccine is roceived from the state health department. One hundred and eighteen cases of typhoid and live deaths have been reported to the health office to date. No deaths have been reported during the last few days. Resolutions were adopted by the executive committee of the Indiana Patriotic League at Indianapolis, denouncing Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin as being unworthy to hold a seat in the United States senate because of his alleged disloyal conduct and his statements in a speech he made at St. Paul a few days ago. The resolutions favor the expulsion of LaFollette from membership in the senate. The Indiana industrial board has been called on to determine whether the loss of a man's only good eye causes total blindness in the eyes of the workmen's compensation act. Arthur Blair of Harmony was eraployed by Clay county and was splitting coal when a piece struck him in tho right eye, destroying the sight. He was already blind in the other eye. Blair filed a claim, for $5,500 declaring the loss of his good eye caused total blindness. "Sixty-three persons in Indiana died of typhoid fever during August, a new record for this malady in the state," said Dr. J. N. Hurty, state health, commissioner. "During tho past month tuberculosis, which has been responsible for more deaths than any single disease in ordinary months, were crowded into second place by typhoid fever. During the month of August there were 2.9S9 deaths reported and 5,479 births recorded in Indiana." Henry Snyder, age sixty-eight, who was injured at Covington while firing an old civil war cannon as a feature of the ovation given the Fountain county soldiers who were leaving for Camp Taylor died after lingering two days. He was directly in front of the mouth of the cannon ramming down a charge of wadding for firing tho last salute, when the gunner, who did not see him, pulled the trigger. His right arm was blown off at the elbow, and his left arm at the wrist. Beat the h. c. 1. by getting your fish from E. C. Shireman. state fish and game commissioner. Shireman and his deputies have their fish stand, or rather the state's fish staud, just , north of the Riverside bridge over ' White river at Indianapolis. Tho river will be seined for rough fish from Riverside to Broad Ripple, The tlah will hn mirl fnr n patiJs n nmiTffl J t-J If AAA WW WW AVA W w W w at the river. Rod Fleminc and, a score of fish and game commissioners are handling the task, as they ave handled similar tasks along othor streams in the state.