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WEEKLY COURIER QlN ED. DOANE, Publisher ' JASPER - INDIANA Anions tliL other lful slan : on tl;t- tapis?" 'What's Of course those enriched by the war v. Ill build the war'h monuments! When made uncomfortable by the heat, reflect how the crop is growln?! One nice? thin?: about ?rld'e Is that f man clues not have to employ a enddv. The ones who really suffer In cam paign year are the babies that are Whv Keen is fr Is that a straw hat never so attractive after the price Is cut? The cheap" for lihn mi so who said that "talk ?s never hired a lawyer to talk In politics, as In more romantic mat ters, broken harts are usually soon merul'Mj. Lovely woman dresses a reat deal more sensibly than does man in hot : t her. f'ood prices f'tictunte rapidly, but unfortunately there are few fluctuating appetites. While one can wear his old straw hat. It is impossible for him to bum Inst winter's coal. Straws show which way the wind blows those days, even if the straws are woven into hats. It is hard to convert to bolshevisin a workman wearing a $2." silk shirt and driving his own car. Joy that lies in picnics may indicate atavism, but did prehistoric man ever sit down in a custard pie? It looks as If the first person, sin gular, is going to be displaced in either event by the editorial "we." Pefore this campaign is over every student of politics may be able to call each Ohio voter by Ids first name. Ohio is now in the limelight, and while 'betraying a becoming modesty Is not trying to hide behind anything. No m m is wholly good or wholly bail; and it is the same way with can didates. Stop the gush and vitupera tion. old-fashioned parents who fear the children will eat too much sugar will have little to worry about this sum mer. Another advantage In the announce ment of those census figures Is that It calls to attention a lot of thriving lit tle cities widen most of us did not know exist. Pritish labor appears to be swinging back to a conservative attitude, thus vindicating the wisdom of the Prltlsh policy of "Let 'em rave" toward wild eyed agitators. Industry can be depended on to ad just itself if every man who wears overalls in his regular business will keep them on for a series of man sized working days. Pcfore believing the report that a fish larger than any whale has been seen In the Atlantic, one demands to know whether the report wos made by a one-half of 1 per cent American skipper or by a UJ proof foreign sea man. Someone figures that we spend eight billion a year on luxuries. ;5ut he in cluded a lot of tilings that others con sider necessities. Py this time Germany ought to have a faint suspicion that she lost the war and Ines not exactly belong in the class of dictators. Occasionally a letter of congratula tion suggests a recognition of the ln t-t-itable rather than any great senti mental enthusiasm. A Mexican politician desiring con tributions to his enxnpaign fund avoids embarrassing obligations by simply robbing a .pay train. Cities on the Kusso-Polish frontier are becoming so accustomed to being taken and retaicen inni they are tempted to carry a change of Hags to ttl with them. With two newspaper men as candi dal es for the presidency and one of them t.oe.nd to win. the press main tain its supremacy as the ruling fac tor tr the land. Hostile aliens may now leave the country without a penult. And to add to the celerity of their going, we. promise to speed the parting guest. The e-kalser wonders why he has not et been called back to the throne. It might be suggested to him that he ran ti fast to hear anyone calling him. According to it gloomy expert It Is going to cost more to be born, to mar ry and to die; so the pessimistic con clus'.oa Is what 1 the use of living, un how? V . I Seen and Heard J t . In Indiana i 4- Hartford City. The Kenner stock farm, west of this city, added Mar shall's ;iantf a yearling Spotted Poland-China boar to its herd. Mr. Stim son, proprietor of the farm, paid $21, 000 for the animal. Kokorun. Threshing this season has not been satisfactory to farmers, owing to a drop In the market value of grain at threshing time, and thresh ing charges, members of the Howard County Fanners' federation say. Kvansville. Fire In the Vamey Fleet rU; company store spread to the three-story building adjoining, occu pied by the Andrew Jackson Cigar company as a factory. The total loss of both companies is approximately $7.1.(100 Vincennes. Johnson county in low er Kane county will have the banner corn crop In many years, according to reports from some of the farmers. George L. Kyan, oil operator and farm er, expects to market about 9.1.01 K) bushels of corn this fall. Columbus. Joseph K. Clouse of Hope, aged sixty-five, said to be the oldest rural mail carrier in point of service in Indiana, and possibly in the United States, has retired from the service under a new law that pro vides for retirement on pensions. fnr.vfordsvllle. Fourteen head of sheep were bought by the Japanese government at the first live stock sale n.t the Craw fords vi lie live stock pa vilion, recently erected. Ninety-one head of Shropshire sheep were sohl, buyers being present from several states as well as two men from Japan. La porte. Frank Comerford of Chit-ago will deliver the address at a meeting celebrating the fiftieth anni versary of the Northern Indiana Edi torial association at Angola Septem ber ,'5 and 4. Morton Struets of An gola is president of the association and Charles Foster of Monticcllo sec retary. Seymour. The peach crop in Jack son county is the largest In many years. Many trees which have borne no crops during the last five years are loaded and 'the fruit is of fine quality, f J rowers who are not equipped to ship the fruit are offering peaches on the trees at $1 a bushel. The larger and fetter varieties In the commercial orchards, however, are selling from $.''.2.1 to ,S').r0 a bushel at the orchard. South Head. Fire, believed to have been caused by a carelessly thrown cigarette, destroyed the veneer depart ment of the case works of the Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing com pany here, causing n loss of iI7O,0(M Although the Unities were under full headway when discovered, the fire de partment of the city prevented the fin from spreading throughout the $1.000.000 plant. Indianapolis. That the stock yards of the state should be placed under some form of state supervision was the opinion of the live stock committee of the Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations in session at the state headquarters.. The committee also discussed the advisability of estab lishing a market bureau at the state headquarters to assist fanners in the co-operative buying of feed and other farm supplies in wholesale quantities. Itussellviile. Jumbo, believed to have been one of the largest hogs in the United States, is dead at the Suth erlin brothers farm, near here. He weighed 1..T.0 pounds. Jumbo was of the r.ig Typo Poland variety, and w.-w sired by Mammoth Ciant, by Pishor Giant, and was to have been exhibited at the Illinois and Indiana state fairs and the International Stock show at Chicago. The hog was one of the most widely known show hogs In the country. Lafayette. Soy bean growers in In diana and surrounding slates have been invited to a meeting to be held September at the farm of Taylor Fonts, near Camden, Carroll county, to perfect an Organization and make preliminary plans for standardizing varieties and handling this year's so-d crop. A soy bean dinner menu is be ing prepared now by women in. the home economics department of Purdue university for the . meeting. Speakers from Purdue and institutions ir; sur rounding states have been invited to attend. Shelby ville. The Shelbyvillo can nitig factory was opened for the sea son, the first corn being received. The pack will continue until the latter part of September. The com Is said to be of the best uualltv. The cannimr eom- ' pany pays $20 a ton for the corn, 'the j highest price ever offered. Farmers of j Marion township, Shelbv countv. have voted to postpone wheat sowing this year until October 1, which tests have shown to be the 11 y date in the coun ty. Tests will be made by govern ment experts during September to de termine the exact date for the sowing of wheat, to be rid of the fiy, which has been the cause of nuio'i damage and loss to Shelby county farmers. Indianapolis. Governor Goodrich announced the appointment of Miles SchaefTer as state insurance commls sinner. Charles YV. Camp w: s appoint ed state bank examiner. Washington, ,D. C. Indiana has a population of 2.P.10.M4, an increase since 1010 of 221MV5. rr S..1 per cent, according to the preliminary count an nounced by the director of the census. Indianapolis. A late fall will be necessary to mature the Indiana corn Top, according to the prediction of George C. Pryar.t. field agent f the co-opera 1 1 yv repo'rtttij; service. English. August finds some thrash ing done und u great deal of wheat and oats stacked In Crawford county. The scarcity of help I causing a de lay in thrashing. Tomatoes are ripen ing late. . EvansvIIle. Of SI city firemen in Evansville, 0.1 voted against the double platoon system adopted by the state legislature for cities of a popu lation of 1,1,000 or more. Twenty fire men dIC not vote. Indianapolis. The second special session of the legislature cost Indiana taxpayers $20,03.1.18, L. S. Bowman, assistant auditor of state, figured. The legislature worked parts of 17 days, making the. average cost to tax payers $1,70S a day. Indianapolis. Steps will be taken to negotiate a new wage scale with the Indiana coal operators independent of action in other states of the central competitive field, President IM Stew art of the Indiana district of the Unit ed Mine Workers announced. Darlington. Ebenezer 1. McClas key, age, eighty-six, is dead at his home south of here; lie was one of the best known men in this part of the state, having served three time In the Indiana legislature, in ISfiS, 1012 and 1014; was twice elected :s county sheritY, in 1SS and 1SSS, anil had served as president of the Darl ington State bank since its organiza tion on October 14, 1012. Seymour. All dogs in Hamilton county, Jackson county, are under quarantine under the orders of the Jn dlaiia state live stock sanitary board because of the presence of rabies In the community. A dog. afterward found to have been suffering of rabies, appeared in Cortland and bit a num ber of dogs and several head of stock. Prownstown, Owen, Car and Drift wood townships of this county, have been under quarantine for several weeks. (lary. (JaryV municipal tax levy for 1021 will be 7d cents on $100 and will be sufficient to raise a revenue of Sl, 010,000 for municipal, park and li brary purposes, it is said. The rate is fixed by the appropriation ordi nance. Last year's tax levy was 74 cents, but this was cut to .10 cents by the state board of tax commissioners. The levy for the city alone will be 04 cents; the library, .1 cents, and the park board. 7 cents. This will give the library about SOO.ooo :,nd the park board approximately 07. MH). Indianapolis. L. II. Wright, direc tor of the state highway department, has dismissed II. K. Bishop, chief en- gmeer tor the department, ami uns re placed yh Pishop with C. Cray, for merly in the employ of the Portland Cement association. Mr. Wright acted in the matter in connection with (lov ernor (Joodrich. Along with Mr. Pish op go also Wallace Southard, chief of the bureau of plans, and .1. M. Kim mel, chief of the bureau of county aid. The dismissals are to take effect Sep tember J. Xoblesville. Acting on an agree ment made at a meeting lvld a few days ago, a committee representing the Hamilton County Farmers Federa tion, has closed a deal with a Penn sylvania company for the purchase of a train load of bard coal. The Com pany agrees to make prompt shipment for $10.00 at the mines. The farmers pay the freight and they estimate that the rest of the fuel will be close to $1.1 a ton by the time it is in their bins. This is said to bo one of the largest purchases of coal by farmers ever made in the state. Logansport. Six elevators of Cass county are dosed. Inability to get cars to move grain Is given as the cause for the temporary suspension of operation, (''ass county N in ;he midst of harvesting season and should any considerable time elapse under these conditions, serious consequefices will result. Crain dealers say they do not know when they will resume 'the buying of small grain. Indianapolis. Horizontal increases for 1020 assessments of personal prop erty in PJ counties has been ordered by the state board or tax commission ers. The orders are county-wide and were made to equalize' assessment valuations throughout the state. In crease ordered by the board fellow; Daviess. Montgomery. ;ihoii. I'oscy and Warren counties. .1 per cent: Jack sen county, 7 per cent ; Newton. Vigo and Switzerland eountios, 10 percent; Fountain and Johnson counties. 20 per .cent. Increases do not apply to per sonal property of railroads within the counties. The roads were assessed by the board originally. Whiting. Whiting has revolted against the despotism of the Indiana puWlio service commission.' which or- uoreu us citizens to pay ? cents car fare. The municipality has entered suit in the Lake superior court com plaining that the commission acted be yond its capacity in granting the street car companies an increase of 00 per cent in fares over the 1-cent fare for merly in vogue, and fixing car fares at S cents. In effect the city has noti fied the commission ami the Ham mond, Whiting and East Chicago Street Pailway company that It will not pay the higher fares unless it is compel le '? to do so. Jeffersr-aville. School taxes in most of the school units of Clark county will be increased from .10 to 100 per cent. Ju Igi'ig from the rates recom mended by the township trustees. In sor.H'ca-es these are more than double. Sorre units were compelled t3 borrow durlüg the Ins', school year. Il'ishville. Two large stock harn on the Will L. Walker farm, northwest of here, were destroyed by fire. The bis Is only partly covered by Insurance. The fire started from the hark fire of a gas jllne engine which wns li ft running In one of the barns. I Y THE VATICAN Consistory at Rome Tells Arch bishop to Be Cautious in England. IRISH SEIZE 13 SOLDIERS British Troops Taken Prisoner. After Sharp Fighting at Trallee Treated to Tea and Then Released by Captors. London," August 21. The consistory at Koine has directed to Archbishop Daniel J. Manuls of Melboure, Aus tralia, a strong exhortation, urging moderation In his treatment of British political questions. This was learned from a British offi cial message from Home. Tralee, Ireland, August 21. Thir teen fully armed soldiers returning to Tralee In a 'military lorry were am bushed. After sharp fighting from both sides the soldiers were forced to surrender, and were disarmed by civilians. Four of the soldiers were wounded. They were rushed to a hospital. - The re mainder were taken to a farmer's house and treated to tea by their cap tors. Later they were driven a short distance outside the town of Dingle and released. Moeroom, Ireland. August 21. Lieut. Sharmari, commanding a military pa trol, was killed ami four of his men were badly wounded near Ballyvour ney ln a pitched battle with armed ci vilians who made a surprise attack. The attacking party had dug trenches and felled a tree across the road where, the patrolling military passed. No cas tialtles are reported among the civil ians. Dublin, August 21. The holding up and robbing of mail trains and mail motors by armed and mashed gangs is continuing apace. A party boarded a Dublin southeastern train at Farns, taking all the official mails. Twenty raiders held up a mall car near KUbrittain ami seized six bags of mail. Postal officials, with mails from Bun rrana, an important naval and mili tary center, were waylaid and the mails taken. Official letters were re moved from another tram held up near Runcrann. 99-YEAR TERM FOR PRIVATE Soldier Brought From Germany to Federal Prison Killed Sergeant at Coblenz. Loavrnwortb, Kan.. Aujr. 19. Willi nlno other military prisoners from Coblenz. Germany, John Moshcr has arrived at the federal prison here to bpjrin a sentence of 00 years. Mosher, formerly n private in the army of occupation, was eonvicted of killing FjfMst. I-ester Cull in Germany when the sergeant attempted to arrest him for being abrenf without leave. RIOT IN RANDOLPH COUNTY Whites and Blacks Battle in the ing Town of-'Coulter-ville, III. Min St. Louis, Mm:. IS. .V riot between whites and negroes broke out in Coul terville, Randolph county. Illinois, a mining town 40 miles south of St. Lou i. according to the crew of an Illinois Central train. A negro' man and wom an are reported to have been shot and their homes burned. The trouble fol lowed importation of negroes to work In the mines. It was said. SUFFRAGE IS BEATEN IN N. C. House Refuses to Ratify Federal Amendment by a Vote of 71 to 41. Haieich, N. C. Aug. 21. Ratifica tion of the woman suffrage amendment was defeated in the Xorth Carolina bouse 71 to H. The esnate having al reaV voted to poetpone consideration on the amendment until the regular session of the legislature next Janu ary the action of the house virtually ends the ratification tight in this state until that time. WANT TO GET OUT OF U. S. Serbian Official at Paris Says More Than 1,000,C00 Europeans Want to Return Home. Paris, Aug. Hi. More than 1,000,000 emigrant in the United States want to return to Europe, according to a Serbian ollicinl In Paris, who is arrang ing a commission to go to America to arrange for the repatriation of S00.- 000 .Tugo-Slnvs who are said to have signified their wish to return to their 1 atlvc land. Chicago Bandits Get $100,000. Chicago, Aug. 2T. A mail pouch, containing $100,000 In currency, was stolen from the platform of the Illinois Central railroad station at Pullman The money was to have beer, used for pay rolls. Two Die in jJ.irplane Crash. San Antonio. Tex.. Aug. tri. Lieut. Irving C. Stemson and Cadet Everett II. Bursen were Instantly killed when the airplane In which they were riding collapsed and fell lu a cornfield r ear here. MANNIX WARNED GIACOMO PUCCINI j ' -& Jt Xf- : v v 3 f "v , . I & :;::;:v:v:-. Glacomo Puccini, the famous Italian composer of "Madama Butterfly" and other operas. Is coming to the United States soon to write a new opera on American- life, lie will go to Virginia In order to absorb atmosphere for the score. THIEVES GET $100,000 Grab Pouch of Payroll Cash at Pullman, III. Bag Is Snatched From the Hand a 13-Year-Old Helper at Station. of Chicago, Aug. 21. A mall pouch, containing .100,000 in currency, was stolen from the platform of the Illinois Central railroad station in Pullman. The money was being? sent by a hank to Pullman, to be used for pay rolls in plants there. , The bag was ripped from the hands of a thirteen-year-old helper about ho station as he was lugging it from the station mail chute to the post oflice delivery cart. It hail been dropped off the subur ban mail train, which arrived in Pull man from Chicago at 2:02 in the after noon. The boy was Leo YVilgtis, miß Langley avenue. Tle janitor of the station was nearby, Mid on th plat form was a crowd of station loiterers and passengers waiting for suburban trains. As the lad attempted to lift the pouch into the post oflice cart, an el derly man., gray-haired, his eyes shielded Jehlnd horn-rlmmcd specta cles, appeared beside him and said: "Here, boy, I'll rive you a hand with that." Seizing the bag, the stranger tossed it into a black Marmon car, parked five feet away. Pefore young Wllgus could vry out, a younger man. sitting at the steering wheel f the car, had turned on tile gas and the automobile sped north In Cottage drove avenue. There was a third companion in the car. WARNS HUNGER STRIKERS British Government Will Not Be Re sponsible for Prisoners Held in Irish Jails. Dublin, Aug. 20. Warning that hunger-striking prisoners will not be re leased unless .acquitted Is given In an official statement, issued on Wednes day in Dublin castle. The government announces It will not be responsible for consequences of the prisoners ab stenation from food. Th new regu lation is to apply to all awaiting trial on charges of political murders or complicity in such crimes. It hasheen decided by the authorities, however, to release temporarily 22 prisoners in the Cork jail who are awaiting trial for less serious offenses. Among them are 11 r.in arrested with Lord Mayor MacSweney. While the military were searching a house at Dorrygallon, near Kanturk, County Cork, two men oc cupants of the building fired on the soldiers. The hitter returned the fire, killing one of their assailants and dan gerously wounding the other. BALLOON PILOT BADLY HURT Carrier Pigeon Summons Medical Aid to Injured Man Near Los Angeles. Los Angele. Cal., Aug. 21. An army balloon exploded when It came In contact with high tension electric lines near Elizabeth lake, 7G miles northeast of here, seriously Injuring Kenneth Fnuler, pilot. A surgeon was dispatched to the scene from the balloon school at Arcadia uruii the ar rival there of a carrier pigeon with a message from Frazler. Mexican Volcano Is Active. Mexico City, Aug. 21. TIk volcano of Popocatepetl is showing .signs of activity. Luminous .moke Is visible above the crater and ashes are fallm the neighboring town of Ayoti'igo; In the, state of Mexico. Indiana Miners Out Indianapolis. Aug. 21. Many of the Indiana mines are closed. rank Far riugton president of the Illinois mi ner. lm wired the men t) stay on the Job, because Ma sti c no- v.iil result In government action. Back Lame and Achy? Do you get up mornings tired and achy? Kvening ' find you "all worn out?" Likely your kidneys arc to blame. Hurry and worry, lack of r$st, and eating too much meat, throw a strain on the kidneys. Your back gives out; you are tired and likely uflr headaches and dizzy tpelh. Take thins easier and help the kidneys with Doan's Kidney nils. Doan's have brought new strengt'i to thouand-. Asl: your neighlwr! An Indiana Case F. D. Gruniwalt. contractor & farn;er, Marshall St.. Brem en. Ind., says: '"When I first used Doan's I was in bad r. ; . i.i. i -1 ,i r: trouble. I was com- flv rolled to lav off work L . for two weeks and I was almost helpless. Mv back ached and mm niin liier n ir v v.. someone had driven a knlt through It and my head ached. My kidneys acted freely too. I used several boxes of Doan's Kidnev IMlls and they re moved the trouble." Ct Dom' at Any Stora. COc a Cos DOAN'S "ifES FOSTER MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. Klarvest '26 to Bushel So Aoro Whcai in ÜGstorn Ganada Think what that means to you In pood hard dollars with the Krcat de mand for wheat at hiKh prices. Many farmers in Western Canada have paid for their land from a single crop. The same success may still be your?, for you can buy on easy terms. Farm Land at 015 to 030 an Aero located near thriving towns, good mar kets, railways land of a kind which prows 20 to 45 bunhrls of nbeat to the acre. Good prazlnp lands at low prices convenient to your prain farm enable you to reap the profits from tock rnU lnfc and dairying. Loarn the Facts About Western Canada low taxation (none on improvements). healthful climate, pood schools, churches, pleasant social relationships, a prosperous and industrious people. For illustrated literatur. maps, descrip tion of farm opportunities in Manitoba. Saskatchewan, and Alberta, reduced railway rates, etc.. write Department Of Immigration. Ottawa. Can., or t J. M. MacLACHLAN 215 Traction-Terminal Hid a. Indianapolis Ind. Canadian nnvrnment Agrt. One-seventh of the hind in the Unit ed States is cultivated. ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuine . L. a, " IT" y t I tu .1 n u . aw O r a "Bayer Tablet of Aspirin" Is gpnti ine Aspirin, proved safe by million and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only nn unbroken "Bayer package" which contains proper directions to relieve Headache. Tooth ache, Earache. Neuralgia, Rheumatism. Colds and l'aln. ' Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger "Bayer packages." Aspirin is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon oaceticaeldester of Salleyllcacld. Adv. The "lire" of an opal Is due to the presence of water in the gem. MM 7 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief Sil FOR INDIGESTION STOPS -LAMENESS fron: a Bone Spavin, Ring Bone, Splint, Curb, Side Bone, or timilii troubles and gets horse going sound. . It acts mildly but ouickJy acd good re suits are lasting. Does not blister or remove the hair and horse e be worked. Page 17 in pamphlet with each bottlu teilt hon. $2. 50 a bottb delivered. Horse Book 9 R free. ABSORDINE, JR., the antheptic liniment for mankind, reduces Painful Swellicgt, En larged Glands, Wens, Bruises, Varicose Venn j healj Sore. Allays Pain. Will tell you more if you write. $1.25 a bottle at dealers or delirerrd. Llbenl trial btfäe for 10c Kurp. W. F. YOUNG. Inc.. 310 Tea SL. Spriflrf.ld. Bass. ISills PesKy P. ID). O, Just think, a box or P. D. Q. tresk Devils Quietus), makes a quart, enough to kill a million bedbugs, roaches. naa or cooties and Hoys future generations by killing the eggt and does not injure the clothing. , ' Liquid fli'e to the bedbugs is what P. D. Q is like; ldbus stand as good chance as a unovrball In a Justly farael heat resort Patent spout free In every package of P. D. Q. to enable you to kii! them and their egg nestn In the cracks. Your druggist has it or he can get U for you, or ynt prepaid on receipt of price by the 01 Chemical Works. Terrr Haute. Indiana. W. N. U., Indianapolis, No. 35-1920. fesAVisUS o)