Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 62, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 July 1919 — Page 7

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Many Americans Are Eager to Get Onto the Soil WASHINGTON. That a greut n.nny Americans, Including rHurnH soldier 8I,.I s.itlor. are eager to become farmer Is shown by the work of the bvtuif -kers' bureau of the Uuited States railroad administration. Imring th lirst three months of VJl'J obout 14.i

person applied tu tin bureau for help in pitting farms. About lü per cent of these were men Imck from war, and u large number of women were also among the applicants. Town folk who wunt to pet nut hi tlit country make up another larg section of the back-to-the-soil army. Fanners who Lave sold out land lit fancy prbes in tliik!y settled parts of the ountry. and want to buy

larger f .1 :t --. farther West, are also b'i. .- ; ; i'H'ant.s. Sonn of these farmers want to Luv place for boys ju-t h.i '"' ar- There arc also a number of application from farm ers in C:i; i'i i Those generally went there from the United States und now ;.ut r 'urn. The t:.- : returned from war usually state they wish to continue an out,i r ?' 't I Intt restlnjc to note that a majority of the returns! soldiers : : r that they have Jut been married r that they are Just about to be !:.;.rf.-l. ! .r of the wnnien who write to the bureau express an interest In fnuit-

d.iirylng or ioultry raising; hut there are some women who want to . heavy work of general farming, and Mme who want to raise cattle. -r of caH three or four women have pooled their resources to buy Most of these Intending women farmer are unmarried. A majority who give their previous occupations have been school-teacher. :! one-half of the tillable land In the Fnited States Is uncuiti' led.

To I e exact, there are about 'JTo.ot n, mo eres of pood farm land lying idle. T: Ijv! is scattered throughout the West aud S-uth, and can he purchased r ! rate prices. ;.i eminent oR'.cials predict that there will be a continued heavy demand ;! Ufr the world for AmericHii food products for Koine years.

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American Legion Appeals to the American Women AMERICAN women are taking up the American Legion idea enthusiastically. The name of the English nurse. Edith Cavell, who was shot ly the Cermans, has been chosen as the title for the first post. The Edith Cavell post of the American Ieplon will l.e composed.

of yconianettes of the Brooklyn navy yard. After it whs ileclded at the St. Loui American Legion caucus, that women were eliciMe for membership in the lecion Chief Electrician Janie F. (5Krii k called together the yeomanrttes of the I'.rooklyn station and on May 12 the first application for a woman" lot was filed by them. Within the next two week applications for

I'dith Cavell pot were received from j every state of the I'nioii. Headquarters has now ruled that the tSrst 't would he plven to the yeotnniiettes of the Brooklyn navy yard. Washn, I. ('.. came second with a l'.ety Ross jist. Next In line came appllfrom the West for a Martha Washington post and a Molly Pitcher tH.'st. !;.i'tan wpsi fifth with an application for a I'.arhnra Frietchie pet. i! e war and navy department have paid ollU ial tributes to the work !. American women did In Üie preat war. Many America 11 girl1 and -n of more mature ape mulerwent virtually all the dar.pers that the men "eat. Thousand of American women crossed the sea In the day of

:ur,:.e danper and entercl on work in Frame which took them well into ' i. ti- of fire. Scores of women have won decorations from the American f ,'v"rt.rri. nt. or from the allied government of Europe, not only for the heroic rk of Mf -sacrifice, but for hlph courage In time of great danger.

INBMAM MEWS

"Millions for Bonds, but No Tax on Ice Cream" Of n "IAL Washington has been keeping an ear close to the ground to see how 1 tr lle takes the tax on luxuries. "We need the money," Is their motto. 1::: J .1 the same they want to know Low the ieojIe feel about it. "Millions f r t- 'i.-N. but not one cent on Ico

cr :it:. -ei tns to ie iiie answer. The experience of the revenue :'. . ,n collecting this tax show conc.":v.iy that the Amerinn triple : as averse a ever to paying a tLi vV.kIi looks like a tax. and which tss te paid everw day instead of 1 - a year in a lump. I' uNo shows that the attitude of t!. kw r.ige man towunl being taxed r : h the same as his attitud- to-

" ! riving a tooth pulled. He wants t.l ! ng done quickly and painlessly, an-1 Ju! as he trusts the dentist to pull -.-r.-ht tooth and not to remove an Indispensable molar, so hetnit congress t'.-an economically sound tax. and refuses to worry atout that phase of t r .itter him-elf. He will buy Liberty lotid with a whmip of Joy, stimulated by a parade ' a little oratory. He will pay a heavy tax In the way of tariff without a f.':irT because he doesn't see the money go. He will pay an income tax. t':-r some swearing and perspiring, because the thing is done all at once, and injured finances mid feeling have time to recover before the dreadful day (uie around again. Rut he w ill not dally plank down an extra penny or no for soft drink. It remind him constantly that he I- being taxed. It causes him to carry around a lot of small change. The cash girl get nil mixed up. and It s a general me. The fact that a luxury tax Is the niot equitable, and economical tax which can be levied docs not mean anything to him.

Picture Is the Real Universal Language

Ti: real universal language, the one that Is understood everywhere without s' iry. Is the motion picture. This has been demonstrated recently by a tnrr.Ur of American exjorter who are using the movie for such difficult tasks h 'ing shoes to Asiatics who al-

have gone barefoot, and soap to T-.le who regard water exclusively eeverage. The movie does not enter easily ic' domestic trade, or even Into trade between equally civilized coun'rW Rut when It comes to trading n,'h the hinterland people of the tr"r'c. mho are Just becoming acquainted with modern convenience. th" Is a boon.

A great difficulty which American , m . "'" has encountered In foreign countries Is the cautious attitude of natives t'Jard a nrw proposition. . m . .... '"r example. It is no eay matter to convince the peoi'l of" Ind n T''li;e that ao American chair Is a desirable piece of furniture. F-ven if :es iKfnt SIH.tks thHr iaoruate tI)(i employs eloquent arguments even if !t on the queer-looklni objevt-the nstlves hesitate. In uou a situation tbe movlnj picture often has saved the day snd the salesman reputation. run off a reel of film In the tillage market place or in a bulldtn. The native sees chalra In process of construction from nannies pieces cr He gets used to the Idea of a chntr.

tniiiiiiiiiitiMuiimiiii!'."iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuri IllufTti n The weevil has lii-stroytd lit least one third of the Wei's eoiinn when: 1 rop. Süiaü traits of wl.eut hp being l.ft llllflit. Anderson. The wheat harvest Is In full svih;r in Miolisoii e.iMtit. I'ari'ier retort tluit sj.ruig wto-ut. tried for the seri.nd iluie in this country, is far behind the winter wheat. The infer crop proinle a yield of thirty five bushels 11 n itrre. Terre Haute. The inland 'oul and Miniiii; company has been plueed in the hands of h receiver Oil the petition of -IS fi.nner employees, who allege that they Mre ut'.uhh' lo collect payicent for seivlii-s reniTed. Ir'red t rlsz. u local attorney, was named receiver. KvHiisvllIe. Throhit g of wheat Is gettirip litnler way In soiitloTii Indiana. If the weather remains fair, it will be general in this region in a few la;. Some already threshed In Vanderbiirg eotiii'y tste-l ,,s jNiuiids to the buhl, iimkiiip It No. i in prn.. In certain reruns the v ield is sail) to be normal, while in others the yield is below normal. Oreetitield. Wheat hnrvest u nearly completed in this district, and. although the straw is ijiiiisfaMv heavy. It is o-tiiiiutt-d the v i-ld vvil! be about four t:ishe!s an acre Miialler h;.n last y. ar. A tour was mu le by the county agr i;!tnml agent, and a gov e.-mio-i-. specialist, i'l a-i attelapt to find fields of hIh-iii whi'-h might he certified f-r seed. Not one field could he folllld that did not c n ain b-ss than 'I p-r cent .f iis. ns... ,,r foreign grain. Wasliiii'oii The traiisiM.rt Mai-

I Dolia. v.,i.fi sailed from St. Nazaire : fur "..isT..ti. Mass.. June has on board TJ."i Pi'liana casual trMips. The 1 tratisjM.rt Aro'i.u, vvtiich s:l;,., from I St. Nazaire for Newport News. Va.. the same day. has on l-eard ne :Ticer m.d ;e nidi from Indiana wb, are trav- : eling as ias;ia!s. The tr;tiiiirt 'ön1 Tal 'locthafs. which s.u!. from St.

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brir.ginp one officer and '21 men from Indiana who are IKTe-1 as -auals. I.j.fi.vette. I.;,faye!-e HI11 West Ijif:i tte ph)s !nns have adopted a pew S. heh:le of fe-s. which is j dts ided ndvain-e ever i barges H.at have prev;:iiel here for the hist few j ear.. The in-Tense amounts to pm .er ent in Some cases und . per cent in others. i IPace -.iils !,. h h.ive been .1 are Under the l.ovv s(l,,.!u!e. House calls which tire n-w hjive be-n ra!s-d ti and culls between 7 p. m. m,. 7 11. In. are raised ' $4. Telephone consulfation iirol advice calls for a fee of II. Hammond. At a Joint meeting of ofi'cials of the various Cities of the

I'aiumet region held lu re t consider I

sanitation and the ollution of Ijike Michigan by sewage. Imgdon I'earce. 'hic:igo sanitary ejert. said that It will cot the cities of Hammond. Whit inc. ;ary and Kast Chicago 2.."mn.niiiy to construct an Intercepting sewjige system. It was pointe! out that rifles sunn will le prohib!ts froia dumping their sewage Into the lake. The cities were shown t have a imputation of i"i.. a growth of 2.V) per cent dnee l'.b. Indianapolis. A few- years ngo ten. twenty and thirty thousnnd-dollar Investment In Indiana farm lands meant trans:ctions involving large acreages nd were unirsual. Sime I'.M4 fin ill lands ha ve been increasing s"ad i!y in value and now the Jtloo.m in vestno-nt Is not uncommon. Two such deals were reported in one day recently. Benjamin Johnson ..f Kichniond fold his farm, known 11s the Kenner st-k farm, situated near Hertford 'ity. to V. A. Slmpstm of Ilr.ntlnpbnrg. for a price totaling more than $loo.iM. K. M. Murphy of North Salem purchased for $bi.'v ip,. -" mre farm of Jethro C. Mink, near I'reensf.urg. In addition. Mr. Meek receive"! farm land valued at Jld.Kio Washington. P. C. Pension of $2? have been granted the following In-

dipn ans: Nancy Arnold, (reenshurg; Mary A. Ma um. Columbus; I'rilla J. Cutcl. Muii'le; Mary Thei. Itising Sun; "!nthy . Kedinon. Ienver;

Martha K. Inies. Westvüle ; Klsle IM-1 omew County Cow Testing associamin, Kokoma: !xla M. rit. Van I tlon Imvv that Mazurka' (hdden Oem. Buren; Mary K. Arford. Hiding Sun; the three-year-old reglstere! Jerey, Harriet J. Api-bgnte. Frankfort; Harb j again lead in the amount of butterfat etta K. Shrill. I'.rlmfield; Kllrnbeth It. ! reduced, her yield for the month be-

Rushvll'e. Four large fiirin have been s.,id in Itush county In the Iat few .1-iys at price averaging fWS.o' to $'.'o an a re. r.vrnisv iUe. -Irdiun-i day for tha eelit liii '. :il Iposit oil, to he held In I.vaiisv this fall. ' ha bet n flxsl for o.-tober 10. (toertior tioorlch ha p-. .1 :is,.d to be the guest of the city tl.a' day, ami will bring t1s stuff with him. Coli;i ,l tjs. The spring wheat crop In I'a tholoiuew county is a failure Three !iuiidped acres were planted with this variety. About twietlnrds of The u : titer w bent crop hi:s been cut and f. : rs s;ly the yield Is about rwoth r.s nf the estimate, due to damage by Munt and scab. darj.- I n Tri-plja.- Tom and Albert P.at. I.elor and ' IU d" Parker, four of the five bandits who held up the Tolleston State lank and murdered Cashier Herman 1'eeker, were sentenced to the electric chair, and the fifth. I.-e Spiers, who made the first confession, und P.. Itielich. accessory lifter ti e fact, will serve life terms. IJ01 bester. The rultoii County Wool 1 ; rowers' association sdd more than in! jMiiin-N of wind to a New York company at '7 to ?1 unts h iM.iind. About pouie's were shipped from Lucerne and about 10.- ) pounds from Kewanna duriag the Inst week. Win at is threatened by seuli in ail pfirts of the etiunty and smut Is ilnirig some damage. Terre Haute. Iicclaring that eonl orders for the flrst lialf of tie year have kept Indiana mines operating on onlv V per cent of the time. P. S. I'enna. secretarv -treasurer of the Indiana Iotum'.iiotis n;ierators' assocln'Ion. has issued a Statement warning consumers of 11 serious fin-l shortage during the co'iilng winter. Trunorf atlon of wheat, which gains priority over fuel, will tftx ransport ation to tl.e limit, the warning id. Vin-ennes. Jewelers say that the pearl industry has dwindled to only an occasional find lure because small

shells 1. re now taken before the iearl has had time to grow. The Wabash I

river has been depleted of large shells in the last few years. The pearl button Industry still flourishes here tecause shells, which had no market value a few years ago. now sell at 40 a ton. when formerly ?12 a ton was considered Idgli for flrsT cj;ss shells. !'or Wayne. Fleet Ion of otücer for Mil- coming year by the Indiana Christian Fndeavor lnbn. which held its imnual convention in Fort Wavne, resulted as follows: President. O. F. Cllliotn. I '.erne ; general secretary. Miss Mary I'oy Tho"is.n. Indianajxe lis; treasurer. Fvan Wdliar'.s, F'ort Wayne; first v Ice presdetit . Itev. A H. Moore. Tiptop ; s nd vice president Itev. J. W. I.ake. Warsaw ; thirl vice president. Uev. Hiliis p. Avery. Munde. pedford. The Indiana Quarries company has landed the contract for the stone work on the offce building of the Ceneral Motors company at Detroit. Mich. The deal Is said to involve .l.uio.i" und ! understood to be the largest single contract ever awarded the local stone belt. It mean great activity and 'he employment of n.nny stonemen here to complete the contract. It I said that the building will be IS stories high ami cover an area of ground a half mile In circumference. Indianajioli.s. The Liberty kitchen, nt which housewives have wTtiessd d tränst rations nd obtained information on home economic during the war fmd since In Fort Wayne. South I'eiid. Terre Haute, Kvansviile and In'latKijwdis ainj the home demonstration agencies in 20 counties in this state have closed. This action was taken by Professor Christie of the

agricultural extension department of Purdue university, which carr'ed on the work, because of the little likellIi.mmI of inngress making an appropriation t carry on the work. Indianapolis. Speculation as to the probable length of the sp.v-fal session of the legislature, which Coventor Coodrich hn announced would be oa'j,., either the lat week !n August or the first week In September to ratify the woman suffrage amendment to the fed" ml Constitution, was rife among officials nt the state cnpltol. Although (eocnior Goodrich has announced hi Intention of making plan to limit the .ession to one week and to the consideration of only the suffrage resolution and several emergency matters, It I the belief of a number of officials that It will be lmossible to udjourn the session in five or six day. Columbus. Itecnrd of the Parthol-

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Hennlnger. Indianajdls ; Josephine K. Sears. Ft. Wayne; Clara M. C.enrhart. Ft. Wayne; Mary K Trout. Frankfort; Pell Allen. Cicero; Clarissa Itrechdol. Walton; Amanda S. John. fJary; flarlssia A. Hutton. fireenfieid; Mary Crovesi. Covington; Catharine Ilrown. Mentone; Mary J. Kelso, Otrell. anl Mary F MK'onnell. Greensburg. A pension of 112 has been granted Mary K. Cnyer of Attica. Peru. Wheat harvest I In progresm In Miami county and most report Indicate the j ield will he mall. The heavv rain and hot weather during the early part of June damage the growing grain severely. The destruction of crop by army worm ha not lcen extensive. Hurtford City. Three week ago prospect for wheat Indicated that the larget yield In many year. Today the outlook La for let than half a crop and the jield of poor quality. The damage, (he county affect aaya, la due principally to ch, which I prMnt ta Dearly all flelda.

Inc ell iounds. which It I estimated, equals st4 pound of butter. The record of thl cow also show unusual richness In milk, the 73.9 pound of fat coining from W72 pound of milk given during the month. Of the 327 cows tested, twenty produced mora than forty pound of butterfat. seren more thnn fifty pound, four more than sixty pound and one more than aerenty pound. Alexandria. There ha been some loss in the wheat field due to heavy rains, but the yield thl year will be exceptionally large. Farmer way where the wheat field were damaged by the rain the rornflelda profited. A number of farmer have started catting wheat. Marion. June, month of bride and rose, broke record for the last 12 month here and report made by the county clerk here show 61 marriage licenses were Issued. Iat June, while the war was on and so many young men were away from home, the number of license fell to SI.

"Mystery Man of the A. E. F." Brings Woe and Joy HniuiKKX. N. J. When Private Ib.land Phillips; Hrrived here the other day o.t the Mount Vernon from Itrest three sorely disappointed mother watched Lim walk past on the dock Mrs. Unland Phillip of Flushing, I I.; Mrs. Kintiiii Phillip of F.vanstou, III.;

Mrs. It. A. Phillips of Yonkersf. Kacb had confidently believed that Roland Phillips would prove to be her lost non. Phillip became the "mystery man of the A. E. F." when he was found wandering In the streets of Purl.

MiWy f vIclim "f n"''- HI Id utiücutlon l3"'lm li A ,aK wore nIssl". eloihlng und (VeTjliy li j Personal possession gave no clewH a

baMe hospital In France, whe. e It wa"

learned that hi name was Roland I'hllllps. Furtlicr than that no one could learn. Mrs. Kmmu l'hllllp.s of Kvanaton. wlotse son Unland was rejiorte! lost In action but never definitely bulletined a dead, believed she had discovered her boy. Mra. Itoland Phillips of Flushing. L. I., was convinced that the "mystery man" wok her boy, Roland, reported killM In action. In order to clear up the mystery tlencrul Pershing ordered the man sent home. Something In the sight of his native land must have Jogged the soldier's memory. Anyway, something happened to the delicate machinery of hi mind. In a flash It came to him that his home was in Ilvunsville, Ind. Many reportera were wuiting to talk with the "mystery man." and to them he made the announcement that he remembered that much about himself. The newspaper men worked the wires. They soon discovered that the soldier Is the son of Mrs. Kmma Phillips of "in; Grant street, Ilvunsville. The mother hud not heard from her son since Faster, when she received a greet log from him. When she was nntilied of her son having been found the mother suffered a complete breakdown, due to her weakened condition following months of grieving. Verily, a Ceneral Sherman said. "War is hell." And he might have added "for the 1. .others.

Woman's Land Army Unit Makes Good in Nebraska CIIADKON, NKR. Unit No. 1 of the woman land army, three New York girl who have taken to real farming, ha been In Chadron for a month. It 1 composed of Miss Ann Murshall. Miss Kutherlne Sampson and Miss Linda Schroeder. All Chadron was at the

Btatlon to see the girl arrive. It put thnn down as of the "city type." And city Klrls are hou.-e plants, the Chadron'tes reckoned. Marcus J. Cain was waiting for the land army. Cain live IS miles out of Chadron on a 4.O00-acre farm, with seven men worker. Next morning Cain arose to pilot the New Yorkers around the place and show them their duties. Put he wo late. The tirst thing on the

schedule had been "milk the cows. It was Just sun-up. Cain found his army out milking the cow. And that wn not Coin's only surprise. He found that the iirmy. clad In businesslike bloomers und hieh Iww.ts. was able to do ntiy Joh on the ranch on which it was put. and to do It a efficiently and as quickly as did the men. Chadron expected a failure. Cain's first vksit to town was an event. He wn surrounded by a crowd who wanted to know alout hi "farmerettes." Cain's answer was rontnlned in four words sent by telegraph to the Woman a Land army In New York: "Send more farm girls." Chndmu Is now speculating Just bow long Cain ran keep his land nrmy Intact. There are more bachelors with farms out in this country than anywhere else on the face of the earth. In the month they have been here the girl have won fume for themselves, beside- experience, admiration and ?2 a day with board, room and laundry thrown in. The Woman' Land army stands high in this part of Nebraska. If It ha any more farmerettes like these three that are already here northwest Nebraska can take care of them.

Red Cross Canteen Wedding Eloquently Pictured CHICAGO. Married nt 3 p. m.. In the Red Cross canteen: Miss Luella Irene Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. It. Powell of Casey, la., to Sergt. Hon T. Deal of Cedar Rapid. Let F.lmer lou -las, the staff photographer, tell of the wedding which wa celebrated I

the lake front hut Klmcr was there. He took the picture, he ate some of the wedding cake, and, did he kiss the bride? We pause for a reply. "You see the bridegroom pawed through Chicago some time ago on hi way back to Iowa when he got out of the war," sa Klmcr. "The Itil Cross girls gave him hucIi n good time In the

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v V 4'V-"i spend the happiest day of his life there. So he wrote and asked them If be couldn't com back and be married there and they said ye. Sergeant Deal Is going tobe a high school teacher nt Fort Podge, la. "I?y cacky! It was the prettiest wedding I ever saw. So sweet and simple and everybody wa so nice. They had all the frills, too, you can bet. The bride was drewd beautifully with white dress, n big hunch of flowers, and a veil, and everything. First, though, I must tell you how the Hod Cross girl all lined up. a double row, for the couple to pass between. MaJ. C Stanton of tin? I ted Cross gave the bride nway and then he lent her hi beautiful gold sword to cut the wedding cake with. One of the Hed Cross ladle had baked it. nnd it was omc cake. It's the first time they've ever bad a wedding in a lied Cross canteen."

James Anagnoslopas Takes an Interesting Trip GENKVA. IL1 Somebody told James Anaguoslopa. a farmer at Geneva, that they saw In the paper where he had been sued in the fodcrni court iu Chicago nnd that It said the case wn to be called the very next day. Jamca knew nothing about It, but he went to

Chicago, hunted up the federal building and went into Judge Carpenter's court Clerk Claussen wa calling out name of men who had failed to appear during the past four year. He reached the name of James Anagnoslopa. and James answered "here." My. what a aensatlon ! About eight pa Ira of hand grabbed James at the same time and presto! he wa in a

dungeon vile. It appears that the missing man had been Indicted four years before and had Jumped hi ball bond. The government had sold the horaei of two workmen, hla bondsmen. When they questioned James of GeneT he spoiled It all. He wasn't th man a-tall. Then Jamea of Geneva got huffy and demanded hh car far from Judge Carpenter. The Judge sent him to District Attorney Clyne, who sent him to Marshal Bradley, who sent him to Commissioner Msson, who sent him back again. After three round trip James sat down on the step and wept "Boale" the charwoman objected and complained to Marshal Uradley. Mr. Bradley theo dog up 70 cents and told Jame to go back to Geneva and oarer even think of coming to Chicago again. James of Geneva I safely home galn and I Inclined to think he I ft lucky man, all things considered. Geneva, he says. Is good enough for him; he never did care for big cltUa tlkt Chicago. He says he's going? to take Marshal Bradley's advice.