Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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Fisher & Norris Near the Depot, # Pay Cash For Hides, Veal, Eggs and Poultry, and Game in season. i RENSSELAER,. INDIANA.

DEPOiII OF THE CONDITION OF THE Commercial State Bank. (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER. IND. at the close of its business, on the 21st day of July, 1886. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts $ 90,018.91 Overdrafts 1.001.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 26.296.46 Banking House 5.585.00 Current Expenses „... 1,086.43 Currency 1,353.00 Specie.. 1.205.99 Cash Items. 714.48 $127,261.27 » LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $25,000.00 Surplus Fund 1.000.00 Univided Profits 104.10 Discount. Exchange and Interest 2,046.85 Individual deposits on demand. .. 76.906.64 Individual deposits on time.... 22,203.68 $127,261.27 STATE OF INDIANA, Ice Jasper County. { I. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Rensselaer. Indiana, do solemnly swear that the at>ove statement is true. Emmet L. Hollinc; b worth . ( —»—■, Subscribed and sworn to before ] Seal, r me. this 2d day of August. 1898. ' ’ Charles G. Spitleb. Notary Public. This Bank is prepared to receive new’ accounts. and pays interest on deposits. A share of the public patronage is solicited. Addison Pabkison, James T. Randle, John M. Wasson, Geo. E. Mvbeay. ■ E. L. Hollingsworth. Directors.

LOCAL MATTERS. M. O. Gant of Parr, was in the city on business Saturday. Carroll county old settlers’ will hold their annual meeting today. A. Leopold is in Cincinnati this week buying his fall stock of goods. Ephraim Sayers and wife of south west Carpenter, were in the city Saturday. The state convention of 'the Catholic Order of Foresters will be held in this city, Aug. 23-24. Thos. Thompson and son Ray, have leased the old clerk’s office, east of the public square, for a law and real estate office. Misses Blanche Hoyes and Lessie Bates wheeled over to Goodland last Sunday, returning via rail Monday morning. The Indiana State Council of the Catholic Benevolent Legion held their ninth annual convention at Delphi last Tuesday. * A lodge of Rathbone Sisters was organized at Monon Monday night. About a score of members of Rensselaer Temple attended. The Monon will run One of its popular excursions to Chicago to-morrow. Fare from Rensselaer only 75 cents for the round trip. B. F. Forsythe and wife and the latter’s sister, Miss Smith of New Philadelphia, Ohio, are spending the week among the lakes in Michigan. Hog cholera is reported as being very prevalent in Fulton county, and as present in Clay, Floyd, Ripley, Wabash, Wells and Whitley. The 161st regiment left Camp Mount Thursday, having been ordered to Jacksonville, Fla., where they entered Gen. Lee’s division. The B. Y. P A. of the First Baptist church will give an ice cream social at the residence of Mrs. Shields, west of the river, Tuesday evening, Aug. 16. Everybody invited to attend.

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$^ r ernon Nowels is visiting at Toledo, Ohio. MarkYPeterson, of Morocco, was in the city Tuesday. The Rensselaer schools will open Monday, Sept. 5. O. B. Mclntire of Indianapolis, was in the city Monday. F. J. Gant of Kniman, was in the city on business Wednesday. G. K. Hollingsworth and family are spending a few weeks at Oden, Mich. A pension of $6 per month has been granted James DeWolf of Morocco. The town ,pf Lowell has let the contract for a waterworks system to cost $17,430. Miss Carrie Irwin of Sheldon, Ills., is visiting the family of J. F. Irwin this week. Thos. Harris of Remington, was in the city Tuesday advertising the Remington fair. Ross Grant, a clerk in the Seigel & Cooper store at Chicago, spent Sunday at his home in this city. Sheldon 3, Rensselaer 1, is the way the score stood at the close of the ball game at Sheldon last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osborn of Remington, were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parks, over Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Parker is now able to be about, after a short but very dangerous attack of inflamation of the bowels. James Gardner, the new proprietor of the Nowels mills, has moved into the Sears property on the west side of the river. Hon. John Ross, democratic candidate for congress from this district, was in the city a few hours Wednesday morning.

Miss Lena Washburn, who has been spending the summer with her sister Mary, in Chicago, returned home Wednesday night. Watch The Daylight Clothikg House for the finest line of clothing, shoes, hats, caps and Seat’s furnishings ever shown in asper county. Elmer Bridgeman and family of Morocco, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Royster, last Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Royster, who had been visiting here for the past few days, returned home with them. O. P. Taber and F. R. Curtis of Remington, are down in Jennings county this week. They think of purchasing considerable real estate there if favorably impressed with the country. The twenty-four annual fair of the Remington Fair Association will be held this year as usual on the beautiful shady grounds of the association, £ mile north of Remington, on Aug. 23 to 26 inclusive. Four thousand dollars in cash premiums are to be distributed. The fifth annual mid-summer festival of the Indiana courts of the Independent Order of Foresters of America was held at Crown Point last Saturday, attended by several thousand people. Fifteen courts were represented and the day’s entertainment was lavish in its profusion. Elias Kislter, a Logansporter, lately returned from the Klondike, says Dawson city has about 75,000 people. Thousands of men are out of work, and those without prospects are leaving as rapidly as possible. Wages have fallen from $1.50 an hour to 80 cents an hour, and with but seven hours work a day the ordinary laborer does not make enough to pay his board at $2 per meal. A man has discovered the reason that an engine is called she and the argument is that they wear a jacket and apron, have shoes, hose, and drag a train behind them; they have a lap, need guides, ride wheels, will not turn out for pedestrians, foam and refuse to work; theV attract men, are very contrary and it always takes a man to manage them.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, 'August 13, 1898.

The Remington fair opens one week from Tuesday. Arthur Hopkins of Chicago, is spending a few days in the city. Misses Emily and Bessie Eger are visiting friends in Lafayette. The Rensselaer Sunday schools go to Fountaih Park to-day in a body. Mrs. Chas. Roberts and daughter are visiting friends in Newton county. Mr. and Mrs. James Dunlap qf Mt. Ayr, were in Rensselaer Thursday. Township Assessor W. O. Roadifer and wife, of Carpenter, were in Rensselaer Wednesday. Miss Adeline Chilcote, who has been attending school at Terre Haute, returned home yesterday. A “Dewey” picnic was enjoyed by about 20 young people at Nagle’s grove Wednesday morning. Miss Goldie Schanlaub, of Mt. Ayr, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Blanche Schanlaub, of this city. The Modern Woodmen of America of northwestern Indiana will hold a big picnic* at Kentland, Sept. 6. Supt. Hamilton was up at Kniman last Saturday on business connected with the enlarging of the school building at that place. Our ready print publishers inadvertently left out our continued story, “A Tangled Skein,” in this issue. Same will appear next week as usual. Mayor McCoy, C. E. Mills, L. H. Hamilton and a few others from Rensselaer, attended the republican convention at Indianapolis this week.

F. M. Clamo has given up his lease on the Nowels hotel and will return to Illinois in a few days. Mrs. Alice Knoles of Cayuga, is now in control. S. E. Sparling will lecture Sunday evening at the F. W. Baptist church on the subject of England and Wales, and the homes of English authors. Frank Myers, P. W. Clark’s, assistant jeweler, returned home Wednesday night, after a several days’ visit with relatives in Pennsylvania and Ohio. A Logansport oil expert was in town last Friday and investigated the oil find at Burgess Dillon’s. He said it was simply a “pocket” that would soon be exhausted. See C. A. Roberts for a Studebaker Farm Wagon—it has Slopesholder Spokes, others square ones —and for a Dewey Buggy, and Hobson Carriages. All warranted. Remember we have a plate script for printing calling cards, which makes them look almost as well as an engraved card costing four times as much. We can also furnish genuine engraved cards, invitations, etc., if desired. Marshal Brown pf Wjheatfield, brought here and ttimed over to Sheriff Reed a young man named Claude Gray, who had been working for Rawley Morehouse of Wheatfield township, and is charged with stealing $45 from a fellow employe. He is about 18 years of age. Joseph Bomtrager returned last week from a vist to Ohio and brought with him a bride, in the ferson of Miss Mary Zink, of Wapaonita, Ohio. The newly wedded couple will reside with the groom’s father, south of town, until Mr. Borntrager can erect a dwelling of his own on one of his farms.

The best is generally the cheapest, but the best is not always the lowest in price. It is well known that the limestone belt of Indiana produces the best winter wheat, and that the Plansifter process makes the best flour. J. A. McFarland now sells flour from the Plansifter Mills at the lowest price, both patent and and straight > grade. •Sample 25 lb sacks at 60 and 55 cents.

Burly Parks of Remington, was the guest of W. S. Parks this week. . iThos. Zraik moved, his fruit store to Spring Valley, Ills., last Saturday. The merry-go-around pulled up stakes Thursday and departed for Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig and Mrs. E. W. Allen of Wheatfield, spent Sunday here. ' Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parks, and Messrs. Will Broadie and Homer Hardy of Remington, were in the city Thursday. Charles Gray’s condition yet remains very critical, great difficulty being now experienced in getting his stomach to digest any sustenance. Arnold Weyman, until recently a teacher in the St. Joseph college, is now studying for the priesthood in St. Charles Seminary, at Carthagena, Ohio. { The cement walks in the interior of the court house yard are nearly completed at this writing. The outside walks will probably be made next week. See C. A. Roberts for Weber Farm Wagons, the King of all; Birdsell Clover Huilejs and extras; Huber Threshing machine extras for Separator and Engines. Misses Maude Hemphill and Delma Nowels entertained about thirty-five of the young people on Tuesday evening, at the home of Miss Hemphill, in honor of Miss Meda Busey of Bunker Hill. The eix-year-old daughter of Mrs. W. H. Gwinn of near Pleasant Ridge, died last Sunday from diptheria. The funeral was held at Crockett cemetery. We understand that an older daughter is now down with the disease.

Yesterday, at Riverside Park,** Rensselaer and Crown Point contested for honors on the diamond. Next Friday and Saturday a Hyde Park dub will play Rensselaer. We go to press too early to give the result of yesterday’s game. Try a sack of Plansifter High Patent, made from wheat grown in the “limestone belt.” It is the best flour from winter wheat ever brought to northern Indiana. Trial 25 pound sack, 60 cents at McFarland’s grocery. Straight grade from the same mills at 55c. The northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will convene at Plymouth on .the first Monday in September. Bishop Warren, of Denver, Col., will preside. The conference has 300 churches, 40,000 church members and as many Sunday school scholars and teachers. There are 225 ministers, members of the conference. Cincinnati Enquirer: In response to an inquiry made by Mr. Max Herbst, of the K. of P., as to whether orders drawn on a treasurer of a lodge by the secretary requires a war stamp, Collector Commingore yesterday informed the gentleman that no order for money was exempt from the taxes imposed by the act of June 13, 1898, for the purpose of defraying the war debt. Judge D. P. Baldwin of Logansport, has taken possession of the leading republican paper of that city, the Journal, under a mortgage which he has held on the plant for several years.- A large number of bills owed to employes, paper houses and others, will probably remain unpaid. Republican politicians who held stock in the plant will lose the amounts invested. Dr. S.. N. Caldwell died at his home in Mt. Ayr, last Tuesday evening, after an illness of heart trouble of over two years duration, aged 72 years. ' Dr. Caldwell had been a resident of Newton county since 1866, and was one of the best known and most respected citizens of the county. He leaves a wife and five children. The funeral was held Thursday tnorning, at Mt. Ayr, and interment made in Weston cemetery at this place.

TO DEFEAT CRUMPACKER.

A STRONG ANTI-CRUMPACKER CLUB TO BE FORMED. At Least 500 Young Republicans of this Cjty to be in Line for John Ross. Hammond Daily Leader, (rep.j The rank and file of the Republicans of Hammond are dead sore to-day. Congressman Crumpacker has written a letter to one man which is regarded by him and his many friends as the meanest kind of an insult, not only to the founders and builders of Hammond but to the true leaders of the Hammond Republican party and every real man in Lake county. The letter says he wishes he had 2,000 Hammond postoffices so that they might be given to all the soreheads. He further intimites that lie can get along very nicely without Hammond Republicans and especially without the leaders who put him where he is now by the liberal use of their own cash. There is a whole lot more of the buncomb which would seem to indicate that Crumpacker was not himself when he wrote it. The letter has set the “kickers,” as he designates them, on fire, and nothing will be left undone that may tend to defeat him in this fall election, so great and strong does this opposition promise to become that not only Crumpacker but the whole Republican county ticket will be jeopardized. There is plenty of material to work on and it will be used. The committee will send out a delegation of twelve and with a rousing good drum corps, a first-class quartet and the best of speakers. The entire county will be canvassed, meetings be held in every hall and school house in the county by antiCrumpacker We are confident that such a move, with the great truths that will back up the crusade* can but result in his defeat. His vote on the Hawaaiian question and his work with the alone should beat him. A largely attended meeting was held Sunday and another will be held tomorrow, and the way the young men are coming up against the pretender from Valpo is truly marvelous. One of our leading Republicans subscribes SI,OOO to the anti-Crumpacker campaign fund which will be swelled to $4,000 to $5,000. An open air meeting at the comer of Hohman and State streets is to be held some evening when the first gun in the campaign will be fired. Never before has there been such an interest in a congressional campaign as will be seen this year. Here is hoping that the result may be diastrous to the pretender and his usurping hirelings in Hammond. Three cheers and a tiger for John Ross of Lafayette, the next congressman from the 10th district.

Peace is Declared.

Judge Wiley and wife went to Indianapolis the latter part of the week. Mrs. Wiley will enter the sanitarium for treatment. This move has been contemplated, we learn, some weeks.—Fowler Republican. Mrs. Olive Boice is endeavoring to dispose of her property in Fowler so that she can join her husband, A. C. Boice, in Riverside, California, some time in September.—Fowler Review. Good correspondence stationery, cheap at The Democrat office.

Grand Midsummer Excursion to Chicago.

The Monon will run a special excursion August 14th to Chicago. Every effort will be made to provide for the comfort of excursionists, and an extra car will be put onto carry bicycles. Train will leave Rensselaer at 8:18 a. m. and arrive at Chicago 11 .-00 a. m. Returning leave Chicago 11:90 p. m. Fare 75 cents. See bills.’ rv W. H. Beam, Agent.

Vol. I. No. 18

Another New Railroad.

It is reported on good authority that B. J. Gifford will build a linn % of railroad connecting with the 3I road at Sec. 25, just east of DeMotte, and running thence southeast to Sec. 13, in Barkley tp., ; Mr. Gifford will put a gaftig of surveyors at work next Monday morning, and* expects to have rolling stock on the road within ninety days. The road will be built by Mr. Gifford himself to provide transportation for his farm products in the locality through which it will pass. It goes nearly or quite the entire distance through lands owned by Mr. Gifford, and will be some 14 or J. 5 miles in length. Bring your buggy, wagon and harness wants to Judy and The Lief Buggy Company and they will supply you. They have the material and ability to do it.

The City Council.

The regular meeting of the city council was held Monday evening and the following business transacted : An ordinance defining the duties of fire warden and fixing a penalty for failure to comply with the warden’s directions, wasadopted. The consideration of the Curfew ordinance was postponed until next regular meeting. The committe on electric lights was authorized to establish arc lights at the following locations, viz: At intersections of Scott and Division, Forest and Vine, Clark and Van Rensselaer, Plum and Franklin, Elm and Franklin streets. The street committee was authorized to contract for and have constructed, two culverts in ditches which cross Vine street, in Austin & Paxtop’a»addition. A wooden sidewalk bridge was ordered constructed over Make-em-self ditch, where it crosses the side-walk line on the easterly side of Main street An ordinance to prevent the obstruction of Make-em-self ditch and requiring the owners of lots through which it runs to keep it clean, was read for the second time and postponed until next meeting. The report of C. C. Starr, City Treasurer, dated July 11th, 1898, shows balance on hand as follows: Corporation fund, $4,556 09 Road fund, 982 25 Sinking fund, 2,546 69 Electric Light Fund, (paid out) 3730 24 Water Works fund. 36 25 Special Addition School fund, 2937 08 Washington Street Improvement fund 102 50 Report approved by Council. Get your job printing done at The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock, prices and workmanship.

Trustees’ Service Account.

Below we publish the allowances made by the commissioners on account of township trustees’ service account for the years 1896, 1897 and 1898. 1896. 1897, 1898. Hnnrinar Grove.. $141.00 $165.00 $156.00 Wheatfleld 217.00 241.00 283.00 Kaukakee 173.00 170.57 227.43 Walker 157.00 117.90 179.00 Jordan 117.00 140.00 170.00 Keener 209.80 200.50 273J0 Carpenter 262.00 396.00 272X0 Marion 400.00 480.00 380.00 Union 218.00 249.00 242.00 GiUam............ 163.00 170.00 271X0 Milroy 112.00 113,00 11BX0 Barkley 152.00 234.00 3WXO Totals 82,238.75 $2,709,87 $2,972X0

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