Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 July 1918 — Page 3

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Indianapolis. The Indiana state board of pardons has recommended to Governor Goodrich that paroles be granted three life-term murder prisoners In Indiana's penal institutions! It. also has recommended a pardon for a paroled "lifer." In the strongest report sent to the governor in many terms the pardon board, following its June session, has recommended two pardons, eighteen . paroles an four commutations of sentences, governor Goodrich has approved the recommendations. The three life prisoners, for whom parole is recommended, are Bufus Warren, convicted as a party to killing a policeman in Madison county; George Stroud, sentenced to prison for life from Madison county, and who saved the life of a guard at the Michigan City prison some time ago when another prisoner sought to kill the guard, and John Fenninger, sentenced from Yanderburg county, December 1, 1002, .,r life for murder. Oscar Savage, sentenced from Knox county in 3010 for life for murder, will obtain release under a commutation of sentence recommended by the board, the sentence being two to twenty-one years. Kokomo. Working men of the city in a mass meeting adopted resolutions declaring that "various industries in the city of Kokomo are employing women in large numbers under pretext that there is a shortage of male labor, when it is known that the only reason for such employment is obtain cheap labor. We deem it a disgrace to the fair name of Kokomo that women be forced Into Industries because their husbands and fnthers have failed to obtain work at fa'ir wages at the same plants and a good many have been forced to leave town to find employment at decent wages. We call upon the patriotic manufacturers of, the city to desist from the employment of women in their factories on men's work at a wage lower than that asked by men, and that Idle men be given preference." Indianapolis. Alleged maladjustments and discrimination against Indiana shippers, existing under the new freight tariffs effective June 25, were discussed at a conference of the Public Service commission. It was brought out that there had been .a heavy increase in switching charges, that there wa-. an Increase of 100 per cent in short hauls of milk and cream, and that there had been flat increases in hauling of some commodities, such as brick and gravel, regardless of what the old rote had been. To protest against these unjust features of the present freight rates, John W. 3IcCardle and Edwin Corr of the commission and O. P. Gothlin, n rate expert employed by the commission, will go to Washington July 7. Indianapolis. County school superintendents have been instructed by Horace Ellis, state superintendent of Instruction, to discontinue using school money to pay teachers engaged -in agricultural instruction in the summer vacation. Mr. Ellis has received an opinion adverse to this practice from Ele Stansbury, attorney general, who takes the attitude that although federal necessity Is apparent for the conservation of food products, no such necessity should break down the statutes of the state. The attorney general is of the opinion that public schools can be maintained only when they are open to all pupils, and this would not be the case if faculties for Instruction were afforded children on farms and in gardens. Gary. An unknown person entered the home of John Forsgren in Tolleston and attacked his wife, Myrtle, and his three-year-old son with an ax. Mrs. Forsgren Is dead of her injuries and a new-born son also is dead. The older boy is in a critical condition. A neighbor found the mother and child and reported the discovery to the police. A man about forty years old, with a kaiser mustache, was seen to leave the Forsgren house. Lafayette. More than S00 wheat fields of pure varieties, free from disense and weeds, have been located In every county in the state and will be used for seed "purposes this fall. These fields were located and Inspected by represntatives of the urtlue department of agricultural extension United States department of agriculture, and county and emergency agents and wheat committees. This is the first step In the 1919 wheat production campaign. Terre Haute. With the end of the fiscal year, collections of internal revenue from the seventh internal revenue district totaled 2l,5So,154.52, the largest collection of any year In the history of the office. Collections during the month of June this year were the largest of any month In the history of the ofilce, a total of $5,739,Bloomington. Eight collectors from the state tax board have been sent to this county to collect delinquent taxes amounting to many thousands of dollars from more than 5.000 persons. County Treasurer R. L. Walker says there are many persons in the county who have been delinquent in their taxes more than 25 years. Kokomo. Thrashermen of this county have ofllelally agreed upon a charge of 4 cents a bushel for oats, 7 cents for wheat and 9 cents for rye, acting under the food administration.

Indianapolis. Between $5,000,000 and $7,000,000 of funds held In counties throughout the state for the construction of roads and bridges, under the three-mile road law, were released for the building of roads through a communication sent out to all county attorneys,, auditors and commissioners of the state by Gilbert H. Hendren, state examiner of the state board of accounts. Wartime conditions and the embargo on the hauling of crushecL-stone and gravel, practically has stopped the construction of roads. Funds amounting to more than .$5,000,000, which will possibly reach $7,000,000 in the opinion of Mr. Hendren, have been raised by bond issues and are standing Idle. The counties are drawing 2 per cent interest from banks and are paying 4 per cent or the bonds. A large part of this mouey can be used for the reason that the specific material named in the specifications is not available on account of government shipping orders. The three-mile law does not provide for the substitution of material. The communication of Mr. Hendren, which has the approval of Governor Goodrich, Otto L. lauss. auditor of state, and M. E. Foley, chairman of the state council of defense, grants permission for the substitution of materials, if it is done in the manner suggested by Mr. Hendren. To avoid legal complication a new estimate will be made, but it must be made by the engineer and viewers who made the original estimate and with the aproval of the present county commissioners and county attorney. The price of the substitute material will be based on the price of the material at the time that the contract for the construction of the road was let. The new and the old specifications must De sent to the office of Mr. Hendren to be inspected by a member of the engineering faculty of Purdue university, delegated by President W. E. Stone. Lafayette. Ten thousand men living in cities in Indiana have enrolled to work on farms this summer, 'either spending a day or two at a time in the fields or their evenings after office or factory hours, according to an estimate made by W. B. Brumfiel, state farm help specialist fpr the department of agriculture, whose headquarters are at Purdue university here. Where men cannot devote a whole day they are urged to spend the evenings helping harvest.- Hundreds of men, who have been unable to get away for a full day, have enlisted in the "shock troops," to go out in the evenings, after the heat of the day and shock rye, wheat or oats. A good example of this work has been at Boonvllle, where forty business men have shocked on an average of sixty to eighty acres of wheat and other grain crops in an evening, permitting the farmers to cut all day. Here Is how the business, factory men and others have enrolled in a few cities: One thousand, six hundred Evansville and Mt. Vernon, the men for service in both counties; Noblesvllle, 300; Muncie, 350; Logansport, 575; Laporte, 300; Bluffton, 150; Huntington, 500, and Crawfordsville, 350. Dozens of other counties have large numbers enrolled, giving Mr. Brumfiel the basis for his estimate. Indianapolis. Indiana is on a strict sugar ration. In addition to statements of quantities of sugar on hand, Xlealers and manufacturers using or handling this commodity, are required to give detailed information concerning their requirements, and subject themselves to still further radical restrictions in the consumption of sugar for the months of July, August and September. J. E. Larger, head the sugar division in the office of Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, has prepared a supplementary classification that will require all distribution hereafter (except that for household consumption) to be on a certificate basis. Franklin. Johnson county's quota of $410,000 worth nf War Savings certificates for 1918 was bought and paid for in cash. Additional pledges indicate that the sales for the year will reach $500,000 or more. Ninety per cent of the families in the county are holders of Savings stamps. A. B. Well, postmaster at Franklin, has been advised that this county is the first in the nation actually to sell Its quota, and have the money in hand. The pledge card system, which has been adopted by the National -War Savings committee at Washington, was organized, and this plan was largely responsible föf- the raising of the quota. Indianapolis. Deep concern for the corn crop in Indiana, which was frosted June 23, especially In the northern section and extending as far south as Indianapolis, was expressed during a conference between M. E. Foley, chairman of the state council of defense, and T. A. Coleman, head of the agricultural extension department of Purdue university. Mr. Folc who has visited a number of northern Indiana counties, said the situation was desperate and that immediate steps would have to be taken if the fanners of the section affected were to grow enouch feed to inst them throuch the coming winter. Indianapolis. A list of all registered veterinarians in the state with their post ofilce addresses is being published by Dr. L. E. Northrup. state veterinarian, for circulation among the farmers and breeders of the state. Merom. The enrollment of 100,000 members was the goal decided upon by the members i.f the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana, who have been In attendance at the suffrage school at Merom. The quota was fixed at 4 per cent of each county, the apportionment for Marion county being about 11,000 members. This Is to include both men and women.

STORES

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Mrs. Browq Bear Resented Spouse's Playfulness

SAN FRANCISCO. Grim tragedy hangs over Bear Hollow in the ravine at the camp tragedy symbolized by a weeping spouse who grieves before the latest golden star to be added to the honor roll of Great Lakes. From

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rosy hues of dawn reached over and gave busie a bear hug. Her eyes fluttering open, Susie reciprocated by walloping John playfully in -the jaw. This bit of tenderness resulted in John biting Susie on the left hind foot, a display of affection which led Susie to 'claw two yards of fur off John's spinal column. John was quite willing to let it go at that for the time being. But the love of a woman, once aroused, is a dangerous thing, especially that of a cave-lady. "Somebody had better hurry and rescue Johnnie Bear!" shouted a recruit, rushing Into Ensign Sharpe's oflice a few minutes later. . "Susie's got him down, and is biting and tearing the hide off'n him." Members of the guard dashed into Bear Hollow but It was too late. Even as they appeared, John rolled out from Susie's claws and lay vith. glassy eyes staring into the blue heavens. He was dead. A post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that a blood vessel had been ruptured by the excitement. Dumfounded by the result of the unleashing of her affections, Susie was overcomeby grief. Last night it was thought she may follow her mate to bear heaven.

Mystery of Intoxicated Cows Is Now Explained TROPICO, CAL. The cows thought it was a perfectly delightful tasting weed. So they ate and ate and ate and so on. But when the chemists analyzed the milk produced by a certain Tropico dairy company- recently and ordered the proprietor arrested as a

bootlegger, things began to happen. 17itr.i. ii m , J .. 1 1 x-iiöl ui au, jL.ropn:u is ury uoue dry. It turned as arid as a sandhill

several months ago. And liquor held MC-HON-by the police, taken in confiscation

raids, had no place In the Tropico jail. The court ordered it destroyed. Accordingly, the officers of the law took keg after keg of it, knocked out the heads of the barrels, and let the contents of barrels and bottles run down the gutters. However, It chanced

that the gutters in Tropico are level affairs, and if there is enough liquid a good part of it usually runs "every which way." And it so happened that a large quantity of rich yellow liquor settled on the ground where a Tropico dairyman had pastured his cows. And several weeks later the unsuspecting bovines chewed down a number of the tall weeds that so suddenly had sprung up in the pasture. And also that Is why the milk sold by the Tropico" dairy had such a faintly satisfying odor, and taste. Careful investigation of the milk revealed a certain small percentage of alcohol, it is said. The dumfounded cow owner so valiantly protested his Innocence of any bootlegging scheme that, an investigation of the .feed df the cows subsequently was made, resulting in the discovery of the mysterious booze weed. For want of a better; name, residents of Tropico have named the -weed "Intoxico." The cows have been taken out of the field where the weed was discovered and a careful watch of its growth is being recorded.

"Sweethearts' Evening" Proves Great Attraction , NEW YORK. From now on every evening will be "sweethearts' evening" at the new Enlisted Men's club, in the Broadway Congregational tabernacle, at Fifty-sixth street and Broadway. This announcement was made by Capt. William R. Fearn, who has

duration of the war. "What I like best is to talk to a pretty girl," said one khaki-clad young man. "That is what all we fellows like best, only some of us haven't nerve enough to speak it out;" he added in confiding to Captain Fearn. The club is open from eleven o'clock in the morning to eleven o'clock at night, and at all times there are older women and men on hand who, in addition to trying to make it pleasant for the soldiers and seamen, will serve as" chaperons. There are four shower baths, and last Saturday 40 men used them. The army men take to water more than the navy men." There are several tables of billiards, and these can be used at any time except during Sunday services. There is a large library. There are 40 small green tables with white tops and green chairs about them. Here, Paris style, meals are served. Dinner is 30 cents and luncheon 25 cents. Religion is tabooed, so that Jews and Catholics will feel as welcome as Protestants.

Peevish Parrot Makes

PHILADELPHIA. There is a parrot on the third floor, back, of an apartment house that has displayed, according to testimony in the police court, some evidence of being a music critic. Tlie bird does not hesitate to remonstrate in no mild language when

vocal selections of neighboring tenants-displease.-Mrs. Pauline Michaelson, owner of the bird, acted as defendant in a summons case. K. S. Jasper, tenant in the first floor front, was the complainant. . He charged that Mrs. Michaelson was responsible for the parrot's annoying attitude. .Mrs. Michaelson said that the bird only remonstrated when vocal selections; rendered by Mr. Jasper as

he awakes each morning are wafted through the airshaft window. Mr. Jasper told the magistrate that he did not trifle with music, and he could hardly recall when the-last note was uttered by his lips. The magistrate knows that no parrot, no matter how innocent he may appear tripping about his cage, is limited in its vocabulary. Taking all phases of the case into consideration and resting his judicial head on his arm on the desk, he meditated for a while and finally announced that a parrot with an unlimited vocabulary should not be limited to the confines of a cage and he believed that it would improve the disposition of the parrot if it were allowed the freedom of the Michaelson home.

The magistrate directed Mrs. wished to preserve the peace of the

the time of their enrollment as rookies in detention two weeks ago, John and would nose out the choicest tidbits from his daily rations and slip them to Susie for dessert, and Susie in turn would lie for hoursscratching John's back. But behind this lovely picture of conjugal bliss stalked the specter of death. Yesterday morning, it appears, John upon being awakened by the MAR-fKvLO-ou$ (TftASS -WE'B are CETTltiC charge of the club, after the first "sweethearts" evening, which was unanimously voted a great success by those present. Not only are sweethearts of army and navy men welcome, but wives, mothers, sisters and girl friends are urged to attend. Pilgrim Hall, the basement of the church, has been fitted up for the uniformed men, and it will be used for rest and recreation quarters for the Trouble for Its Owner Michaelson to release the bird if she apartments. She consented.

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WHEN AGE ARRIVES Rules That One Man Promises He Will Observe.

Of Course There U a Proviso, but the World Would Be Sweeter if They Were Kept Generally in Mind. When I am old I will observe the following items (perhaps) : I will not try to act nor dress nor talk so as to make people think I am younger than Ijim. I will not pretend to be young, nor be angry wThen called old,. nor ashamed of my age I will nöt complain of being old. I will not continually remind people of my old age to secure their sympathy, or to hear them say I am not old after all, or do not seem so. I will not form the habit of indulging in reminiscences. I will be particularly careful not to repeat the same anecdotes over and over. I will not complain of the present and claim the past was much better. If I am deaf, weak-eyed, lame or otherwise afflicted I will not advertise my infirmities, but avoid obtruding them upon the notice of others as much as possible. I will not talk of myself, my works, or my achievements, even of my mistakes, any more than is necessary. I will speak cheerfully or keep still. "I will never indulge in cynicism, never sneer at youth, and I will try always to appreciate what younger folks do. I will be as little bored as I can, and never say I am bored, nor, if possible, act as if I were bored. I will not give advice unless it is asked, and not often then. I will not be irritable. . I will not be a nuisance nor an encumbrance, so far as in me lies. I will not be offended by neglect, but I will remember the words of the sage : "Those who come to see me do me honor; those who do not come to see me do me a favor." I will be as little disagreeable as possible, and will never use my natural disagreeableness as a means of getting my way. I will cultivate the friendship and companionship of oung children, who alone understand old age. I will learn to love to be alone. As Ibsen says: "The freest soul is the soul that is alone." I shall try to show the world that old age is spiritual opportunity and not physical calamity. Forced to become a by-standep, I shall try to be a hopeful one. I shall try to sweeten like the pear Doctor Holmes describes that mellows and becomes full flavored before it drops from the stem, and shall try not to sour and dry and rot. I shall conceive my life's triumph to be to grow triumphantly, victoriously old. In a word, I shall try to adjust rayself to old age, as to all other facts of life Life. Lucky Photographer. It is not always that things turn out so happily for the rash person who ventures to take snapshots on the east coast of England, as they did in the case of a young lady in the following story: She was seen photographing on a j-oint of the coast, and was promptly approached by a special, who informed her of the enormity of her offense, took her name and address, and removed her camera. She heard nothing more .of the matter for some time, but one morning she was amazed at receiving a check running into three figures, and a letter from headquarters informing her that her photographs were not only very good, but resulted in the capture of an enemy submarine. Confidence in the Cause. The champion optimist of America is private B , now on active duty with his regiment somewhere in .France. . The regiment, after a turn in the trenches, v;as whiling away its time in a rest camp, and the officers were seeking to get the men to use some of their spare minutes in the study of French. The men did not take very kindly to the idea, and one of the officers sought to chide them for their lack of interest. Private B cut him off with the following query: "What in h do I want to learn French for? They don't speak that in Berlin, do they?" Pickling Olives. A new method of pickling ripe olives which, it is claimed, will increase the capacities of the factories over 200 pr cent has been discovered by the University of California. Heretofore it has taken 15 days to pickle ripe olives. By this new method it can be done in six days or less. The process is a result of four years of experiments. His Opinion. Willis What do you think of this plan of turning all the clocks ahead an hour each day? Gillis Just another foxy scheme of the bankers to make a man's notes come due sooner, I think. Judge. Some Satisfaction. How did the shortage of gasoline affect you?" "Well," replied Mr. Chugging, "it was a kind of comfort -to know offhand exactly why the old machine .wouldn't run." Washington Star.

HAVE THEIR OWN TROUBLES

By No Means an Easy Task for Stokers to Hit the Furnace Door When Ship Rolls. It was while I was being initiated Into the technique of stoking by shoveling coal under the boilers that a change of course brought the swinging seas dead abeam, and set the ship rolling even more drunkenly than before, writes Lewis R. Freeman In Popular Mechanics Magazine. After falling to hit the "dark spots" and "hollows" two or three times as I staggered to the roll, and once even missing the furnace door Itself, one of the stokers, taking compassion, relieved me of the scoop and put the trouble right with a half-dozen quickly tossed shovelfuls. I was frankly glad to work over to where I could take a "half-nelson" round a bar by the starboard bunker. j A heavy slam-banging from the opposite end of the boiler room indicated that things were not going quite so smoothly there, and edging cautiously along, I was presently able to get some hint of the cause from the words of a volubly cursing stoker who limped out to tell me that the "blinkin skip 'as took charge." Rubbing a bruised shin and glowering balefully from a blackened eye which appeared to have been bumped ngalnst a boiler, he explained, in language more forceful than elegant, that some impractical theorist had encouraged them to experiment with wheels on the side of the skip, with the idea of making it easier to push about over the coal-cluttered deck. In the picturesque language of the sea, it had "taken charg " and so effectually that one swift, straight rush to starboard, followed by a "googly" progress back to port, put every man who, either by chance or Intent, barred Its way, more or less hors de combat. Straight down the one-In-three Incline from the port to the starboard bunkers lolloped the juggernaut, dashing the protesting anatomies of the stokers to left and right as it went. Spitting blood and oaths indiscriminately, one man clung to it all the way, however, and he also It was who taking advantage of the tilt finally rendered it harmless by pushing it over on Its side, where it was left wiggling impotently like an overturned turtle. -1 Primroses. I was at the railroad station in London, England, when the ambulance train came, says a correspondent, and as the stretchers were gently lifted out I idly picked up a damp little bunch of primroses and wood anemones which had fallen at my feet. A pair of quick eyes, slightly dimmed with pain, noticed. "They're mine, miss, if you don't mind must have fallen off of my blanket arms no use at present, as you see." I made the posy quite safe this time, near enough to his face for the fresh smell of the moss which still clung about the stalks to reach him. I wish that whoever had gathered and tied up all these little posies in some peaceful woodland spot, and sent them with such care to Waterloo labeled, "For the Wounded," could have been standing by my side that night. Malaria Attacks Army. The Annales de Medicine says, on the authority of Delllle and his coworkers, '''that the epidemic of malaria that has affected the armies operating in Macedonia forms, if not the most important, at least one of the most important, epidemics known in history. Not since the armies of Xerxes were decimated by malaria in that same region has there been a situation comparable to that of these modern forces in the Macedonian valleys and marshes. The extreme gnr.ity of the infection, the early and large proportion of pernicious caes, the apparent failure of preventive doses of quinine, the prevalence of malignant tertian malaria and the frequency of hemoglobinuria were special features. Little Bread Winners. Before the war 250,000 British schoolchildren under fourteen years of age were working for wages out of school ; since the war the number has largejy increased. Here are a few instances: A boy of ten working fortyseven and three-quarter hours a week in addition to attending school; a boy of eleven years working two and a half hours before school, two and a half hours after school, and thirteen hours on Saturday; a boy of twelve working one hour before school, one hoir at midday, four hours after school, and thirteen hours on Saturday. Saving Ice. In response to a request by the food administration that the use of artificial Ice be reduced to a minimum, a large hotel of New York city has posted a. notice In each room asking that guests use ice sparingly. The result has been a reduction in the calls for ice water. AmraoniaIs used In large quantities In making artificial ice and, because of the demand for this important chemical in the manufacture of explosives, a shortage has been created. Appropriate. Mr. Bacon Are you through with that bonnet you wore last winter, dear? Mrs. Bacon Why, yes. "May I have it?" "I suppose so. But what do you want it for?" ' : "I want to use it on the scare-crow I'm going to put out in the cornfield."