Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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IIRIHSfIIRI fIHI o uMn WUUi sst in atraßHcml iepartment actual Established Hu:,*™* ' • the free- use of the typewriter on £ F MOORE -F SOHBIBHiBR enterm*. i? a hirst atte-ruianie is ' ( cfisp»--rvtl <iunn* the coming year tt omawri VißnmWi . wilL be tu yuui: sfvantase n ar- , ranitir »itii us at once. If you do m j nc hmsbUd enter before Sept. Ist. ] arerenSTTi tar. write u» at once aid. we will look after voor interest owes) oil wasm bbbjbi— nil simm! positUics.

DR. JACQUES DESSLER, OPTICAL SPECIALIST. 1 take -great pleasure ninmnniar.rrapaiifrue 3e»pie .it Rensselaer aid the «orroundnig country that J iiavr luagtt-tl itgpri die Arcane buildimt. above the Day. light Cinthinp House, a* mu <»Uiuca' frjeeiaiisc. *? rtionmuii experteru e in the jjrofessifm, withtie- iuilfAiire lime* :mijiii*ett£inismmentsi lewhnne to hope that J shall be ybbr-to-piyt-niy3iaiKfrre-~nili-*tusnmiin. anit cx piuonse with responsibility that every canr will hr -treHteil with special use.. Hopmty dun the peepie of RcitsseLagr anri-sinTtnmflnip guuiiw wdLgve me xtrial.lam, very respectfully yams. MR- JMhORBB ■E9BRR t|HafSpKMkt NOTICE-1 desiit to cal! y out atteirumrn the acr that eyes can he examined with tire same accunin at night ie tc iap tune. Exmsxnns free.

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Rsber & Hots Near the Depot. Pay Cash For Hides. VhkL Egg* and Poultry. undCiamc in season.

mu... We xrjshto iirfarmthr .publicthat nsr havv put |*ermanently Iwatvri hi <bh Mill at thr old Creamery Yiuildme. and have a -full equipment as machinery and are prepared to do all kmk Mill Work. Carpenter and Joi. Watt and all kind* of Waaden Wink. ffi CUI fOR M) Mm Articles to be repaired. When van have anyth me that no el*- can hx. give us atrial. MU! MB.

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When others failt© -suit ye® ■■ *fies, wagons, harness. ik± SfeS see Judy and The lief Company.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, ut- . • -k. • "/ ’ L '■ f* *"*.

MOODY & ROTH, Dealers- in. Fresh. Ssalfc and. Cored MEATS Poultry. Game. Etc. _ j .JtBeMSETH aaBSHLUB, IXD. , 1 tZIIZL i MBHE . .... 50 to .57 Cam .....—: 2» I *&■&. nK -.. —c*fca> 21 , :j taut?:. JOkatarenottray.mi ; Wan. Ml—tarn 45 to .50 I iw ... .is i Mim 05-. j BhudUk. . . —. .02 | T-uiipmfe -o« : | mona —————— » ' -fadic and The Lief Baizgy C©Ftinthr 4a®ci. am hand- ****^l W- R Jcsra. \ “ „ ; UMOSL ML JUB H CKAPIAS. r“* bi!Lwfc“.« wa Wj

Rensselaer, Jasper Couxty, Indiana, Saturday, October 8, 1898.

LOCAL MATTERS. Get your sale bills at The Dem- < jcrat office. Goodlaud now has all night | electric Kght service. A. Leopold was in Chicago buying more goods this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McFarland ''spent Sunday in Chicago. Morocco expects to build a fine I new brick school house next spring. The price of cotton reached the lowest point last Saturday for fifty years. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. John Hack, the Lowell bridge | and dredge man. was in the city last Friday afternoon. The hog cholera is said to be i playing havoc among the swine herds up in Porter county. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Clark of Montieello, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Bott last Sunday. The Monon. Francesville and Delphi street fairs were, according to exchanges, a great success. Several from this place attended the meeting of the grand lodge K. of P. at Indianapolis this week.' Last Monday was quite sultry for this time of year, the mercury standing at 85 = in the afternoon. Dr. C. E. Powell has moved back to Alvin, 111., from which place he came a few months ago. Millinery opening October 13, 14 and 15. at Meyer Sisters. Give them a call before buying elsewhere. E. Mayo of Champaign county, 111., has purchased the Evans farm, southeast of town, consideration $36 per acre.

Mrs. Geo. W. Goff returned Friday from several weeke absence at Hunter's Springs, near Attica, where she has been taking treatment Mrs. W. H. Coover anti son returned Saturday from an extended stay in northern Michigan, and is feeling considerably improved in health. In the band eontest at Delphi last Friday the Citizens band of this city was awarded third place, Michigan City receiving Ist and Montieello 2d. Misses May and Lola Adams, of Franklin. Ind., who have been visiting their uncle Wm. Hoover, and friends here for the past month, returned home yesterday. Luce' Bond of Remington, who went to the Klondike last winter, has returned. Many of the glowing accounts of the vast amount of gold there are base fabrications of the transportation companies. Luce and Iris party found none. Mr. Mark McNichol. the gentlemanly and efficient foreman of the Remington Press, has purchased a half interest in that most excellent paper. Mark is a nice, enterprising young man, and The Democrat extends him our best wishes. An acetyline gas plant is to be erected at Wabash as an experiment in furnishing this illuminant for general city use. If successful it will be substituted in all cities controlled by the Dieterich syndicate. Its cost is about one-half that of coal gas or electricity. Miss Gertrude and Lowell Taylor go to Rensselaer today where they wiR engage as teachers in Jasper county for the coming year, Each have taught there with success and the county being short of teachers the superintendent sent here for them.—Wolcott EnJames H. Fisher was 43 years of age Saturday, and his friends and neighbors to the number of about 35. gathered at his home in the northeast port of town to remind him of the occasion. Well filled baskets of edibles and refreshments were brought with them and a very enjoyble time was had by mil i ■'

Type-writer paper, either blank or printed, at The Democrat office. Mr. J. W. ParksofLeland, 111., •was here this week, the guest of W. S. Parks. J. P. Hammond has been re-ap-pointed county truant officer for another year. A new flag floats from the four-hundred-and-eight-dollar-flag-pole of the new court house. A wolf scalp was brought in from Union Ip., last Tuesday, by Jas. Sherman, for bounty. H. J. Bartoo and wife have adopted a 7-months-old girl from the Chicago childrens’ home. George M. Cooper and Thos. Florence of near Blackford and Virgif, respectively, were in the city oh business Tuesday. Rev. J. L. Matthews, for seven years pastor of the Baptist church at Goodlaud, has accepted a pastorate St Salem, Ind. We are prepared to suit all ladies*Jarge or small with bonnet, hat ottoque, made in the newest designs. M. and A. Meyer. The Jasper circuit court convenes one week from next Monday. Ij is not anticipated now that any grand jury will be called.

Miss Luella Boyd of Mt. Vernon, la., who lias been visiting the family of Granville Moody for a few weeks, returned home Monday. County Superintendent Hamilton attended the Northern Indiana County Superintendents’ Association at Valparaiso the first of the week.

A gent s new brown kid glove, found on the street Monday morning, can be had by owner calling at The Democrat office and paying for this notice. The Remington Press states that ex-County Commissioner Jones has just returned from a three months tour through Massachusetts, Connecticut and the east. •Wt a-good correspondent from every hamlet and neighborhood in Jasper county to send us the local happenings of their locality. Send in the items every week, even if you have but a few. Rev. Peter Hinds and Mr. G. E. Hosrner went to Tennessee the first of the week to look after their real estate there and get tenants to work same. They expect to be gone ten days or two weeks. Hon. John Ross, democratic candidate for congressman from this district, spent a few days in Jasper county the first of the week. Mr. Ross is making voters and friends every day in his gentlemanly canvas of the district and will defeat Mr. Crumpacker by a neat majority. Bro. Fred L. Griffin of the Remington Press, accompanied by his wife and family, was in the city Tuesday and made The Democrat a pleasant fraternal call. His father and rnothei, Mr. nnd Mrs. George Griffin came over with him and took the train here for Council Bluffs, lowa, where they will visit friends for a couple of weeks. Arthur Lakin of Co. A, 4th Infantry, Ft. Sheridan, accompanied by his regimental bugler, will arrive in our city today on the 1:45 p. m. train. He will be met at the train by Halstead’s Rough Riders, Sam Yeoman’s martial band and the G. A. R. Post who will escort him to the public square, where short speeches will be made by Capt. Jas. Burnham, B. F. Fergerson and others. An exchange sensibly remarks that all the discussion one way or the other, all the telling of prosperity or non-prosperity, will not change the facts one particle. The people know and realize their own condition. Each man for himself can tell if he is properous. There is no use harping it to him day in and day out. When it rains there is no need of printing the fact in the papers or proclaiming it from the house tops. Everybody knows it. 1 "

PLEASE EXPLAIN

These Official Figures, Defenders of the Court House Ring. The Democrat has said from the first that no true statement of the cost of the new court house would ever be made to the taxpayers of Jasper county, and to substantiate this statement we ask your careful consideration of the following items of record, and also ask that the republican press circle | here, the defenders of the gang that is robbing the people of thousands of dollars every year in the way of reckless expenditures of public money and giving out false statements of its use, explain the matters herein set forth. On June 22, 1898, an “official statement” of the cost of this court house was given out through the official organ, the Rensselaer Republican. From said statement we copy the following: The following is an exhibit of the actual cost of our new court house, not including the improvements of grounds, nor clock, for which settlement has not been made, the same not yet having been accepted. Total (expenditures) TO THIS DATE $141,731,94. The above includes the entire cost of the building, furniture and fixtures so far completed and accepted, and everything is completed and acceped except the clock and bell, and the improvements to the yard. The clock and bell, if accepted, cost $2,300. The filling, coping and walks in the yard, cost $8,300 contract price, to which about SSO will be added for extra cement. These items added to the above total will raise the entire cost of the building t0'5151,381.94. This grand total d6es not include the commissioners’ per diem and other expenses in extra sessions, nor their expenses in journeys taken in the court house business. These items are so unavoidably mixed with other matters, that their exact amount can not be ascertained. It can be positively stated however, that the entire amount of these other incidental expenses would not raise the entire cost of the building INCLUDING everything, to above $154,000. Note -the exact language of the above official statement, and bear in mind that being an official statement it must necessarilly have emanated from the auditor, the only person in a position to give out an official statement. Now comes the “funny part’' of this official statement. The auditor in his published report for the year ending May 31, 1897, statesthat there had been paid out (during the year) on new court house the sum of $50,732.99, and in his report for the year ending Mav 31, 1898, he states there was paid out on new court house during that fiscal year, 898,619.41. This, according to our system of figuring, makes a grand total of $149,352.40. Bear in mind, now, that this sum had actually been paid out on new court house up to May 31, 1898, and that the official statement given out June 22, purported to contain every penny’s expenditures made on same to that date (June 22). During the period intervening between May 31 and June 22, several thousand dollars more was paid out on the court house at the regular June session of the board of commissioners and none of this could have been included in the report made May 31. Neither was the per deim of the commissioners in special sessions, junketing trips, etc., (over $3,250) included, nor the clock ($2,300), yard and coping, walks, etc., ($8,906.50), interest on “temporary loan” ($668), or thousands of dollars more in the way of incidental expenses directly chargeable to the building of this court house, because the statement positively says it was not. But it did contain every cent paid out up to June 22, or so claimed. Now, in the face of these two annual reports, examined and approved by the commissioners, they have the gall to come before the people twenty-three days later with an official statement i stating that the “total expenditures to thiß date” (June 22) are but $141,731.94, or $8,620.46 LESS than the expenditures were OVER THREE WEEKS PREVIOUS. We confess that we are unable to reconcile these two statements, both of which are supposed to have emanated from the same source, the countv auditor. Will the Journal set its statistician (30 years in office) to work on this and figure out just why the total expenditures June 22, (notwithstanding the fact that several thousand dollars was paid out between May 31 and that date) were

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$8,620.46 less than they were twenty-two days previous. We should also like to have the other republican papers tell us by what system of figuring this conclusion, was arrived at. and also publish a true statement of the total cost of that court house for the information of the tax {layers. It is time to open up th books in Jasper county.

Parkison- Kenton.

Addison Parkinson, president of the Commercial State Bank of this city, and Miss Alda Kenton, daughter of Simon Kenton of near Surrey, were married at the office of the county clerk of Cook county, at Chicago, on Wednesday of this week. The groom is a widower, about 76 years of age, the bride being a little past 30 and is well and favorably known. It Ls understood the newly wedded pair are now taking in the Omaha exposition.

FOR SALE OR TRADE.

A good business and business property for sale, or trade for a good small farm. A good investment and a great bargain. Enquire'for particulars at this office or address box 338, Rensselaer, Ind. The Democrat and Indianapolis Sentinel one year, $1.35. Democrat and Cincinnati Euquirer, $1.50.

DON’T MOVE.

Voters who expect to exercise the right of sufferage at the coming election must not change their 1 residence from one ward or precinct after this date. The right to vote requires sixty days residence in the township and county and thirty days in the ward or precinct. Don’t forget this.

THAT CURFEW ARREST. Editor Democrat: Mr. McGowan’s statement in the Jonraal concerning the arrest of Carrie Randle is not true. Here you will find the true statement. He did not arrest her at all. He stopped her at home at her own yard gate coming from Christian Endeavor, and as far as her sitting on the bridge, it is not true and she is able to prove it. xx

CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR BROOK.

Brook Reporter: At the beginning of this week the Catholic congregation iu the town and vicinity, started a subscription paper to see if money enough could be raised to build a church edifice here this fall. They met good success and considerable over SI,OOO was subscribed in three days, with the promise of more, which insures the erection of the church. The church will be located on the north side of town, near the school house, where property has been purchased. The members have not yet decided what kind of a church will he built, but if money enough can be raised a brick will be built, and if not, a frame structure will be erected that will cost about $2,500. Rev. Father Belstein. pastor of St. Anthony’s church at Dehner’s will be the pastor. Work will begin on the church some time next week if all arrangements can be made.

BIG FIRE AT LOWELL.

Two blocks of the business por-v----tion of Lowell was wiped out by fire early Tuesday morning. Caster’s opera house, Waters’ drug store, G. A. R. hall, Davis’ millinery store. Hacker's saloon, Gershman’s tailor shop, Masonic hall, Record office, Pixley’s jewelry store, Wheeler & Nichol's barber shop, Hayward's studio, Deathe’s hardware store, George Heilig's (formerly from Remington) restaurant and bakery, postoffice, Haskin & Brannon's hardware store, Spindler & Pletcher's department store were the buildings destroyed. Loss over $50,000 with only limited insurance owing to the high rates. Lowell is now putting in a waterworks system, but the work was not far enough along to render any aid in fighting the flames. The fire was without doubt the work of an incendiary, as ijt was started at two different points and the fire bell had been tied down to prevent giving the alarm. There is no clue to the dastard.