Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 August 1918 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER HEN ED. DOANE, PubiUhor JAtPEH - - - - INDIANA

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. Nobody over saw an ugly Red Cross nurse.

The boyu of twenty-one are now the men of the hour.

Coal is no longer "ordered." It is earnestly requested. Bread is the staff of life, but very few Americans need a staff.

When Haig found himself against the wall he got his back up. Thus far there has been no suggestion of a chewing gum ration.

The able-bodied man who is out of work this year is indeed a slacker. Golfers deny that golf Is either a sport or an occupation it is a career. The telegraph messenger girls will get there just the same If not sooner. Thnw TT-boat raids swamped a few

schooners and all our recruiting of-'

fices.

Atlantic cities with their submarines make the Pacific ports squirm with envy. Speaking of speed, some American dyes are now as tast as the best in Germany.

I The optimist watches the baseball score. The pessimist gazes at the thermometer. Conservation of doctors Is good, but conservation of health Is better and less expensive. "irnnnnmv is not only becoming re

spectable again, but it almost entitles one to a decoration. "Huns Hate Bohemians," reads headline, which puts the unimpeachable O. IC. on the Bohemians. There are submarines and then again there are piain marines and not so ver plain at that ! About the best example of doglike devotion that we know of Is the man who goes calling with his wife. Sauerkraut is now known as "liberty

cabbage," but it is not to De urines with, even under the new name. Anyone dissatisfied with the way this country is running the war has a fine line on how the kaiser feels. If all the reports of food shortage had been true. Berlin would have starved long ago. When Prussia is not trying to excite terror she Is begging for sympathy. The "work or fight" rule will be considered hardship by the loafers but there are lots of folk who are working who would rather fight three days

than to work one. We have reached the point where we realize that a patriot finds a great incentive to fight In merely anticipating what he is going to do to the enemy when he gets him. A girl is getting somewhere on the road to discretion when she learns that maniage is one of the most solemn events of human life instead of an uproarious, hilarious jamboree. The patriotic girls may as well begin to chop seven inches of heel from their shoes and get ready for service. The war is calling another 2,000,000 bovs this year and the work must

go on. There are 15,000,000 Americans eligible for military service and nearly every one of them is willing to fight. Probably the kaiser now regards the way in which shipbuilding, troop transporting, ammunition making and other war industries are speeding up In the United States, as anything but Idiotic A good way to stop the women's practice of wearing birds on their hats would bo to make them wear all the plant-destroying bugs that same bird might have eaten in the course of a month or so.

We are not sure just at what identical moment the average girl awakens to the knowledge that a career awaits her, hut we suspect that it is some day when she is in the midst of washing the dishes.

With opportunities for employment to many, no longer need a woman marry for support. Who knows but that one of these days the girls will hark back to the old-fashioned custom of wedding for love!

This season witnesses a demand for marching men In camps rather than for dancing men at summer resorts.

American resource has shown Its value abroad, Its. duty now is to curb the submarine menace at home, and 'it will be found equal to the task.

Ollicial estimates plaev the population of Germany at the end of next year as 7,025,000 below what it was in 1014, and If we keep on we shall have the place whittled down to a point jwhere it will not worry even Belgium,

I Happenings

Washington, D. C "Barley and rye

are cereals good for human consumption and should not be fed to animals where other grain is available, a? indicated by numerous wires from Indiana to us," says a telegram from Cecil Barnes, head of the United States grain corporation. The information answers numerous inquiries that have come to the federal food administrator from all parts of the state, asking

whether it is permissible to feed barley and rye to hogs. The grain corporation insists there .s still a plentiful supply of corn in Indiana suitable only for feed, and asks to know why

In the face of this condition "agricultural leaders" should desire to use the more valuable cereals, even though their supply be bounteous and their price lower. The grain corporation has Issued no positive order on the subject, but will expect in every instance that the question be solved in the light of the facts Indicated above. Gary. Englewood's 1,000 or more

vacant houses are to be depended upon to solve partially the housing problem for war workers in the Calumet region, according to present indications. Mayor Hodges and others have given up hope of Gary's receiving a slice of the new $00,000,000 appropriation now under consideration at Washing-

ton, as officials conducting a survey or the Calumet region had figures from the Chicago Renting association that at least 1,000 houses in Englewood on the South side in Chicago are empty and that with adequate transportation . ....

facilities between Chicago anu uau l,0Ot families could be accommodated. It is said immediate steps will be taken to improve transportation on both the Lake Shore and South Shore lines, including a new schedule during the early hours, when men are bound for work at the ammunition plants here, and in the evening so they may secure quick transportation to their homes. Evansville. German war bonds, the proceeds of which went toward spreading Teutonic propaganda in America, Mexico and South America, were bought by Evansville residents, it has

been definitely learned. The name ol each Evansville buyer is now in the hands of A. Mitchell Palmer, United States custodian of alien enemy prop

erty at Washington. It is said the bonds were not sold in large numbers in this city and they were obtained before the United States entered the war. It is known that one local man owns 20,000 worth and another, who holds none himself ,has some for his wife, which are being held by his father-in-law. Montpeller. A review of the highgrade petroleum fields east of the Mississippi river for last week shows a ninff nfp In finished work.

lltJllV w There was a drop in the number of finished wells in the Indiana field compared with the previous week, there being only four against 25. The new wells were : Oakland City district, M.

Murphv estate, IS'o. 2 Bumble tract, 30 barrels ; A. B. Bement, So. 1 Way tract, 25 barrels ; Sullivan district, William C. Kennedy company, No. 30 Dix tract, ten barrels; the H. & S. Oil and Gas company, No. 2 Hopewell tract, dry. Evansville. Sleeping echoes were awakened In Sunset park, on the Ohio river, one night recently, by the roar of a cannon. Police and night watchmen made a hurried investigation and discovered a young inventor experimenting with a shell with which he hopes to conquer the U-boat menace. The inventor is William Schnabel, custodian of Willard library, who believes

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In has invented a nonricocneting sneu

that will prove effective in getting rid

vr ciiKmnpino T-To regards the

experiment a success.

Indianapolis. A large number of Indiana state banks have applied for membership In the federal reserve system recently. P. H. Wolfard, deputy in the office of the secretary of state, said that from five to ten banks have applied at the office each day for several weeks and have asked for their incorporation papers. The banks must obtain copies of these papers before they can obtain membership in the reserve system. Indianapolis The importance of householders in Indiana getting their orders for their winter's coal supply tho hooks of retail dealers at once

was pointed out in a statement by Horace II. Herr, director of conservation of the state fuel administration. Lafayette. Lafayette will have no Phnntnnnnn course this summer. The

Tippecanoe county council of defense expressed its disapproval of the project, and It voted not to permit the Chautauqua plans being carried out there at this time. Monticello. The county council ot defense has recommended that the churches of Monticello hold their services in the schoolhouses during the ninths ns a coal conservation

measure, since the schoolhouses will have to be heated. Windfall. Wheat in Tipton county has about the usual acreage. The crop

is now being thrashed, witn goou y em and quality. The oats and meadow crops look favorable. There is a large

acreage of corn, ana tue umsr frost Is not as great as was estimated. Of a total of 2.640 acres, there Is probably a loss of 237 acres, about 10 per CDelphl. A district conference of the Church of the Brethren of middle Indiana will be held at the Flora church on ugust 0 and 7. Arrangements are being made to entertain several hundred persons at tha meeting.

Indianapolis The weekly report of the state crop and weather condition issued by J. H. Armington, meteorologist of the Indianapolis weather bureau, follows: The week averaged three degrees below normal In temperature, but there was about the usual amount of sunshine for the season. Showers occurred on the sixth to eighth, with heavy falls at many places in the southern half on the elghüi. The cool weather retarded somewhat the ripening of oats in the central and northern parts of the state, where the crop will be ready for cutting within the next two weeks. Wheat harvest is

nearly finished In most localities, and considerable thrashing has been done in the central and southern counties, with very satisfactory yields. Thrashing will begin generally in the north within the next few days. Corn grew well and much of that damaged by the June frost Is recovering nicely. Considerable buckwheat is being sown over the areas of totally killed corn in the northern section. Seed clover Is coming nicely, and small fruit, truck, cannery crops and pastures improved during the week, and are now in good condition generally; but in numerous localities early potatoes, on 'account of previous dry weather, are only fair to

noor

Indianapolis. A step characterized as "the most important development in relation to the high schools which has occurred in a generation," has been taken by the state board of education in approving a change In the program of work outlined for the Indiana High schools. The new plan was embodied in an elaborate report submitted by a special joint committee representing both the state board of education and a council of high school principals and superintendents, with President W. E. Stone of Purdue university as chairman. After six wppIcs' studv of the problems present

ed, the committee evolved a program nf o-pneral reauirements for courses of

study In the high schools. State officials are accenting the interpretation of the new curricula, which show that students may omit the study of foreign languages which Includes German if they so desire, at least when they are not intending to go to college. The report from the special committee contains thoughtful suggestions for safeguarding the curriculum

against misdirected innovations, ana certain definitions essential to its interpretation. Battle Ground. A series of summer institutes, to the number of at least

fifty, Is being planned for the young people of the Methodist church this summer, in various parts of the country. A summer institute is an Intensive school of training, where, for six days, young people are schooled in the latest methods of church, work, and are taught the-meaning of the-Chris: . i ,i -r 4-1- n nrnn

nan religion as appueu tu iems of modern life. Incidentally, an institute is an exhilarating treat of ifiiAiocnmo nnf -floor fun. and recrea

tion, and offers a unique opportunity "or fellowship. For the sixth time an . .. . ...mi l- 1,1,1 4- Tfntflfl ßrniind

msuiure win ue neiu iu jjuluc -,

from July 22 to 2S.

Indianapolis. Dale I . Bessire oi tms

city and Nashville, Brown county ad

vises people that can do so to Duy their winter apples direct from orchards. The prices of barrels and other containers have advanced 300 per cent he says, and this will be charged up to the consumer, as well as the increase in freight rates. A considerable saving, he says, is therefore possible for those that can buy at the orchards. As to the fruit outlook in Brown county, he says all crops are

failures except apples, ana tins ciup "looks mighty slim generally." Muncle. The seventeenth annual convention of the Kappa Alpha Phi fraternltv will be held in Indianapolis, August 3. As a war move the national fraternity has decided to make the convention a one day's business session, leaving out all social events that usuniiv form a part of the annual con

vention program. With the exception

of Thomas Smith of Alexandria, ueus-

urer all national officers are in muitnrv service. There are more than

sixtv members of the fraternity in the

One Hundred and Fiftieth Field arm-

Indianapolis. Representatives of

nil TCmvorth league, Christian Enüeav

or nr.d Baptist Young People's society

of Indianapolis and vicinity are work-

in for a closer mterorganization. At

an annual meeting of the executive

committee of the Federation of Chris

fiin Voiinc People's organizations the

church workers decided their organiza

tion shall operate along civic lines.

The constitution of thö society is be-

in"- revised to permit monthly meet

CITY

WASTT1NOTON

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DOCTOR URGED AN OPERATII

Would Do Many and Varied Things With a Million

WASHINGTON. Nothing is more refreshing than a choice bit of Idiocy after a day's work that requires a double portion of brains. Allien accounts for the hereby quoted proposition: "If somebody gave you a million 1 11 4-1, l c ffnrnnnn XVOIllfl VOll ShOW

UUliaio una ai.Lci.uvui iivu.u ;

KHAT WOULD.

YWJO0 IF vi Min

in i fi tv

--" WOULD NEVER -MEYER (SET MftRWHD, AND I WOULD vyritF

POFTKT

nn in the morninc?"

The answers were what dear Mr. Venus would call "warious." One big youngster, who was keeping up with the Joneses, admitted that a sudden million might possibly induce him to phone to the chief for a day off. Another, hobnobbing with a fpiiow-siiburbanlte over the feminine

inconsistencies of hens, stepped out of his chicken run long enough to make

if- fiisHnctlv understood that it would

take more than any little old measly million to keep him from helping to get t indorsed by applause.

ah in T?.m,Hnn wi sninnnd flimsies with the relentlessness of that

other fate Who does business with shears. And now he was scanning a firt

issue, hot-caked from the press which was wnat uie ouieia ub

because confidentlally-ril; your own stun geu uu xxfa. . 1, .,4- 4-V.n unff vf5 ll Q Tlfinor TOD 11 V.

UUUUL LUC X COL Ul LUV LJLJ- - " And, as Exception read, it needed no seventh daughter of a seventh daughter to diagnose the lines in his face, and the good things mentally and humanely they stood for. ny 4-un4- n,0ffv fho nno insignificant side comb in the crowd whose

X KJL uiai uiaLLtJ. , v'v" .v o - efi nnnnfrh n nichirp. a raise in salary and who aiün t

know Exception's everyday name could have predicted, without cards or iii n uin- -hoi nf nnv fortune that should ever come his way

would go toward the honest helping of that universal relative, our brother Tflvppntion had already gone on record.

man uuu Wime one yu.o v.uuwuw4..0 x - If he had a million dollars he would buy a bean orchard and hoard it

Which shows that it is always desirable to he prepared for the best.

No Long Journey Downtown for This Youngster .t-tt-o t n coioi jniumv-ir hnv in tii if? town who is coiner to turn out to be

I cecrF,ii mnn nr fi clever crook, it is hard to tell whlcli.

but you may form your own opinion after I tell you what he did the other . . j 1 A-

day. Educators have a tneory time "badness" is often a species of pentup energy, and that the same talent for mischief shown by many boys, if turned to good channels, is the very talent that will make the boy successful in after life. Kemember that in considering the following : This young fellow delivered a special delivery letter, with the familiar

blue stamp showing a boy riding on

a bicycle on it, to a certain residence nn the northwest section. It was an apartment house. The boy rang the bell in the downstairs hall, but, receiving no answer, mounted the steps to the apartment in question. the next apartment, and

OLlll 11 U uuswei. öu iuc - when a woman answered the bell he asked if she would take the. letter for

the absentee. ,r ' , nntt "Why, you had better take that letter down to Mr. So-and-So s ofiice, said the woman. "Tes, mam," said the boy, and departed. When he came to the row of mail boxes, he stopped, looked around, and acted. He did not hesitate in the least. His power of decision was very good. Power of decision is a fine thing, too. He calmly tore the special delivery stamp off the letter, and dropped the missive into the proper mail box, making it appear as if the regular-mailman had delivered it.

Instead I took Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound, and Was Cured. Baltimore, Md. "Nearly four year

I suiterea irom organic trouuj, u- . m 3 hurl.

achM and evtry month would htTf to stay in bed rnont of the time. Treatment would relieve me for a time but my doctor was always urging mo to

have an operation. My sister asked me to try Lydia E.PinkVi tt' Vecre table

Compound bef ore) jf consenting to an (fl operation. I took five bottles of it and ( it has completely C rnr ma and EQT

work is a pleasure. I tell all my friends i 1 r l f rrA what

wno nave any uruuuio ui uu --

Lydia Hi. rinKnam a vegewuio pound has done for me. Nellie B.

Brittingham, 609 Ualvertontta., oaiuxnore, Md.

It is only natural for any woman w dread the thought of an operation. So many women have been restored to

health by this tamous remeuy, uyui; a.

Pinkham's Vegetable uompounu, an operation has been advised that it will pay any woman who suffers from euch ailments to consider trying it be

fore submitting to sucn a reying

Clear Your Skin Save Your Hair

With Cuticura

3.n Diet:-- TllciB

25c. each. Sample each of "Cmtler, Dept. I, BmM."

SAW OMEN IN HAWTHORNES

Red Berries Growing in Place of White

Had Deep Significance for This Irishman.

ya DoriY mew

ME COIN CJLE&K OOWflTO Hi

OFflCE

DONTLET

iTHf AGENT

FOOL töU fM ONLY

PAYING $50

FOfcMY APARTMENT.

ASK Hin

ABOUT TH-

inrlinnnnolis. Two motortruck mail

rnntps out" of Incliaiuipoiis will oe op

erated within the next two weeks, Rob-

ni 15. Snrinssteen, postmaster, was in

fnrmpfl in a message from the post

vKi-pr general's ollice at Washington.

One of the routes will be from IiuVian-

mnlis to Versailles, making connec

Hnn with a route from Cincinnati, O.,

tn Versailles, and the other will be

fmm Indianapolis to Bedford, connect

in- with a route extending from Louis-

am 11 p. Kw. to Bedford.

Cambridge City. Wheat thrashing is well under way in western Wayne ennnrv. The duality of the grain is

good and the yield better than had

oxnectcd. Thrashers are cmug

tnr 7. 7V. and S cents for thrashing

wheat, o cents for oats and 10 cents Clover hay is above the av

erage, the quality ofi potatoes is excel-

innt- hut the cron is below normal.

Garv. Milk cans and a pallbearer's

have been used to bring

Uiv vv whisky into Lake county in violation

nf tho Indiana prohibition law. accorti

4 . - U to the authorities, who have made

I throö arrests as a result.

Real Estate Man Thinks Women Talk Too Much TWO women were being shown an apartment by an agent. Sure, it is possible to get an apartment in Washington if you know where. That's

the trouble, knowing where they are. These women knew, evidently, because there they were, being shown around bv the real estate man himself.

As the trio passed up the steps who should issue forth from an apartment but Mrs. Smith, friend of the two ladies. "Oh, Mrs. Smith, so glad to see you," said one lady. "You can tell us

about this apartment we are going to rent." The real estate agent had stopped, waiting for the women. He was about

three feet away. "I sure can tell you about that apartment," said Mrs. Smith, failing utterly to see the agent. difference if she had seen

that gentleman, because it happened that she had never laid eyes on said agent in all her life. She always paid by check. "Aiv rionr hrwithefl Mrs. Smith, "don't you let the agent fool you on

thA sink that stons un. and "

UIUL UUUlUUtiJl. i"'"

Then came a whirlwind or aavice, wnicn me iwu prupecLivu icuauio took in eagerly as did the agent.

That worthy began to blush, it must De conresseu, ana tue uo vuui bejran to blush a little themselves, but innocent Mrs. Smith kept right on.

"You know, she continued, tnat aparimeuL ib uaucuj anc ul. is he going to charge 3Tou for it?"

"Sixty dollars," said one of the two ladies. 'T pay $50 for mine," said the all-revealing Mrs. Smith.

Pet Polly Went to Gladden More Lonesome Person

1 MAX In search of congenial companionship went to a bird store to buy

Jrk a parrot that could talk, xnere were v.uuCiSauVuu..o

he tacked off in another direction for a specially suggested roil , Dut, uisap-

rknlnt-rrl rpflimpri to tirst DaSC

Even the humor of Ireland Is given

a new hue by the war. Nothing es

capes Its Influence.

Two of us were seeinj? a bit or uud-

lin from the vantage point offered by

a jaunting car. And no irisnman i

more filled with the effervescent spirit of the old sod than the "garry" driver of Dublin. We crossed the river Liffey a river once fragrant with the fragrance undesirable. Now it is spic and span. The driver made comment, "Sure, It usen't to be so classic," he said, with a brogue as broad as the clean-swept walk along the now "classic" bank. "They'll be catchin' salmon tn the Llffey yet, it's that clean an swate now." We passed a square, all blooming with hawthornes. "Now look," said our driver, pholosopher and guide. "The hawthornes are all red this year. I'm thlnkln' It's an omen. They've been

white in other years, but this year they're all red. Sure It's an omen. I don't know what it means, but it's an omen o' some kind." His tone was lugubrious, but his melodious rounding of the turns In his pronunciation was delightful. The blooms were red and, omen or no omen, they were beautiful.

Diary of a Gardener. Monday Spaded up garden, leveled seed beds. Tuesday Leveled up seed beds, planted radishes. Wednesday Made new beds, planted radishes. Thursday Killed Jones' hen, blacked his eye. Friday Jones' dog bit me, broke hoe on him. Saturday Made new seed beds, planted radishes. Sunday Rain, snow and sleet-Judge.

Tfre

Balance!

HELLO, t coLonu!

HELLO POLlX

owner of the store, always ready to please a customer, considered the case apart from its financial aspect :

"Come back later, colonel, ana

I'll see if I can't find a talker for you."

So the colonel man went oil ana returned at the time set, to find a knowing green polly posed near the counter on a perch. And of course the man extended social greetings.

"Hello, Polly!" rrVin nnrrnf- rpsnnndod with thO

same jovial spontaneousness. ,4Hello, colonel!" That settled the deal.

nd for a long time there liveü in tms town a iuuwuiuu -knowing parrot who called out to each other at every coming and going:

"Hello, Pony i" "Hello, Colonel !" thin ir. And the colonel was oiu

enough to have learned that every little counts. And he was entirely satisfied

with tlie social gifts of his two-woraea lrienu uuui ji found a loneso'mer person than himself, who was blind and wanted a parrot

that could talk, so, aner a Dattie mat wuuiu uuc - Persians look silly, lie turned the bird over to a new owner and now in thU

town there is a lonesome old woman wno cans out to nur wmumvu .

"Hello, Polly I"

as betweenPOSTUM and oiher table beverages is in favor of the Wholesome. Healthful drink.

POSTUM

isallthisandmore. It's most delicious. Besides there's no waste, and these are days when one should Save. Try INSTANT