Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Simon P. Thompson, a member of the firm of Thompson A Bro., of Rensselaer, Indiana, having been elected to the office of Circuit Judge, said firm has been dissolved by mutual consent, after an existance of over twenty-six years, and had come to be regarded as among the leading legal firms in the State. Frank Foltz and Harry R. Kurne, who have been in the law department of the office for some years will continue in the law business under the firm name of Foltz & Kurrie. They are young gent emen of recognized ability, studious, ambitious, of good habits, and are fortunate in stepping into a well established business, which they will endeavor to retain and increase by closo application and strict attention devoted to the interests of their clientage. Marion L. Spitler, a member of the old firm, aid Charles G. Spitler will conduct the abstract and loan business under the firm name of M. L. 4Spitler <t Son. Jf these gentlemen anything .ve might say would be superfluous. They have long been engaged in the depart j ment which they will continue, and have extensive acquaintance and experience. David J. Thompson will settle the accounts of the old firm.

A UNIQUE INDUSTRY. Hew Lnbriceting Oil Is Obtained in Peee» flylvanla. The lubricating oil field of French Creek, in Venango County, Pennsylvania, is one of the most curious spots in all oildom. The business had its start in the well of Blacksmith Evans, at Franklin, in the ''o’s, and since then slZ,ooii,loo worth of oil has been taken from the few miles square of territory where this oil alone is found. Around its prescribed limits wells that yield argely of the regular illuminating oil have been drilled, but none of that kind of oil has ever been found within the lubricating oil limits. This small but rich oil district extends into the village of Franklin, the county seat of Venango County, t.nd there are wells in many private yards in that place.’ The production has fallen off greatly, though, and the price also. The monthly yield now is not more than 7,00 barrels, and the price is below :4 a barrel. The oil is refined at Oil City, and eighty different commercial products result, be ides the oil itself. Franklin en oys a monopoly of the heavy oil trade, but tho business is conducted on a much more economical basis than when Blacksmith Evans was getting his _OO barrels a day from his pioneer well and rec iving $3) a barrel for it. There is little or no gas in the lubricating oil rock, and every well has to be pumped. As many as fifty wells are pumped by one engine. This is accomplished by an ingenious device called the p.imping rig. The wells to be pumped are connected with sucker rods screwed together, reaching out in all directions, frequently more than a mile from the engine. In the woods around 1 ranklin these sucker rods may be encountered, working slowly back and forth with the regular motion of a piston, and no engine within sight or hearing. The same thing may be seen in the streets of Franklin, where the long arms reach in to connect with the wells in the village boundaries. J he well- are not pumped regularly, but by “heads." Twice a day there is sufficient accumulation of oil in the wells to be pumped out, and then the many-armed engines are started and k pt going until all the oil of that “head” is pumped out Sometimes a new well will start off with a yie d of ten or I fteen barrels a day, but this phenomer al yield doee not last long. Taking it all in all, the lubricating oil corner of the petroleum fields is altotether unique.

' Hers Is a Good Work. Miss Wro lo consecrated herself to prison w< rk in 1 inland twelve years ago. From that time she has patiently, with unostentatious heroism, visited at least once every year all the prisons and every prisoner in Finland. She enters the prison in the early morning and leaves it late in the day and every day of the y ear finds her steadily pursuing the same ministry. Many of the most hardened criminals have been brought to repentance through her.

Hm Ij b-Mds. State of Indiana, . County of Jasper, j ss ‘ In the Circuit C'urt, January Term, 1897. Lo .la F. Hopkins vs. John T. Wampler, and Mrs Wampler wife of said John T .Wampler. John T Wai. pie), and Mrs Wampler wife of said John 1 Wampler, are hereby notified that Louis F Hopkins has filed hie co i pleint to foreclose a mortR ge up n certain real estate in said county, in which said defendants appear to have an interest, and that said cause will come up icr hearing on tho second day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be held at the Court House, in the Town of Rensselaer, in said County and State, commencing Monday, January 4th, 1897. Witness my hand and the < —■ s seal of the Jaspei Cir- -> seal. .- cuit Court, this Novem- < ——- > bcr 4th, 1896 Wm.H.COOVER. lerk Jasper Circuit Court. Wm, B. Austin. Att’y for P ! aiiitiff. Nov. 6, 1896- $6.

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