Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 15.1895. South Bound. Ko. 31—Fast Mail (don't stop) 4riSa.m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10ri5a.n>. No. 33 Indianapolis Mail, (daily)— 1:43 p.m. No. 39—Milk aeeomm.. (daily ) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11U2 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4rio a.m. No. 40—Milk aeeomm.. (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast MaiL (daily)... 9:53 a. m. •No. 30-Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. [No. 3S—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Exprcae. (daily)... 3ri7p.au •No. 46-Local freight 9:36 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily!.. - 7:32p.m. •Daily except Sunday. [Sunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a tegular stop for No. 30. Frank J. Rud, G. P. A_ W. H. McDokl, Vice-Pres, and Gen. M'g'r. Chas. H. Rockwell. TraMe M'g'r. W. H. Beam. Agent. Keusaelaer.

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

H 1... We wish to inform the public that we have got permanently located in our Mill at the nldCreamerr Building, and have a full equipment of inachinery and are prepared to do all kinds of Mill Work. Carpenter and Job Work and all kinds of Wooden Work. WE CfilL FOR MD BEUWR Articles t»> be repaired. When you have anything that no else can lix, give us a trial. . DONNELLY BWfflS. RKSIDINT ’FHOWB Jd. >OI.

I I I Caveat*, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-. 1 ent business conducted for MontnaTtf ees. J 1 Our Office is opposite U.S.PatentOfTicei' and we can secure .patent in less time than those’ ’ ] ►remote from Washington. ] , ►[ Send model, drawing or photo., with tleserip- • ] 'tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of 1 [ , .charge. Oor fee not due till patent i« secured. '► 1 'A PAMPHLET, “ How to Obtain Patents,” with > ’ [cost of same in the U.S. and foreign countries' [ , sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. ’' Opp. Patent Omcc, Washinotm. O. C. ► I When others fail to suit you in! price, style and durability of buggies, wagons. harness. etc., then see Judy and The Lief Buggy Company. ,

'-A,,.,,. DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE HlstAsES XEMORHORDS. < . , , ; . , Office First Stairs West of Post Office. REINSSEEAER, UND. 'Sr. I-/fed ?.■,£s? - ■ '■&?■'£ i AAk ' ~ , sji.« .. r -u v.'.iil

MOODY & ROTH, Dealers in Fresh. Salt and Cured MEATS Poultry, Game, Etc. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Tallow. OPPOSITE PVB. SQ_ RENSSELAER. IND. PHONE KU. The Markets, Wheat..... 50 to -55 C0rn.;.... .. r , .27)4 Oats, new........ ... 19 to 22 Rye .38 hay. (Dealers not buying)..,.. Hogs 3.50 to 3.00 Potatoes ...45 to .50 Butter is Egg’s .12 Hens .05 Young Chickens to .06 Ducks .05 Roosters 02 Turkeys .....04© .06 Hides .........05® .06 Tallow .02

Judy and The Lief Buggy Co., will sell anything in their line to you individually, independently of any one else as security. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for i short times at current bank rates. | Funds always on hand* W. B. Austin. __ 'FARR LOANS. I have plenty of money to loan on real estate. A special low rate :of interest on farm loans in large 'amounts I also loan money for short time on real estate or personal security at current bank rates. 23t8. James H. Chapman. FARM FOR SALE. 80 acres, four milesof good town, all fenced, fair buildings. oO acres acres of corn will go 40 to 50 bushels pet acre, one-third of crop goes with land. Will sell for sls per acre if sold soon. ' F. A. WoofoN, - . Foresmnn, Ind. WANTED-TOWN PROPERTY. I have*several good Farms ranging from 40 to-KM) acres which I will exchange for real estate in Rensselaer. Long time Will be given on residue. James BL Chapman. FARM FOR SALE. Quarter section good land for sale, on easy terms: SSOO cash, balance in small annual payments to suit buyer. It is a bargain. Call at once for Hollingsworth A* Hopkins, Rensselaer, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, October 22, 1898.

LOCAL MATTERS. October 28th is Arbor Day. Subscribe for The Democrat. Get your sale bills at The Democrat office. The first hard frcst of the season fell last Friday night. Mr. Geo. W. Gouthier of Remington, spent Sunday here. S. H. Norman has moved to Pike's Peak, Brown county. 22 pounds “C” sugar for 81.00. Chicago Bargain Store. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Powell of Washington, D, C., are visiting friends here. F. J. Sears will locate at Indianapolis, where he has purchased a livery stable. D. W. Shields went to Tennes-: see on business Tuesday. He will return home today. Thos. Clifton has traded the Fowler Republican for the lately established Oxford Press. The finest line of fur collarettes, jackets, and capes. Chicago Bargain Store. A bowling alley is to be put in the Roberts building, opposite White’s livery barn, we are informed. , i

Editor Healy of the Chalmers Ledger, attended the RensselaerAttica foot ball game here on Tuesday. We understand that John Makeever is figuring on putting up two business rooms just east of his hotel building. Foot ball teams or associations which give exhibitions and charge an admission fee, are required to pay the $lO war tax license. The 8-year-old daughter of Fred Schultz of northeast of town, was quite badly scalded from spilling boiling water upon herself last Friday. Voters should bear iu mind that in the November election a blue pencil instead of a stamp is used, and instead of a stamp mark they will make an X. The D. of R. gave a Klondyke social last Saturday evening for the benefit of the Odd Fellows’ orphan home fund. The receipts were a little over sl7. Several cases of diphtheria are reported at McCoysburg. In the family of Wm. Arnott, one death occurred Monday. There are three more cases in the same finally- _______ Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Griswold of Washbum, 111., have been visiting friends here for the past week. Mrs. Griswold is a sister to Mrs. Wm. Hoover and Marion and Joe Adams. I have a complete line of ladies' and . childrens’ millinery in trimmed hats, caps, walking hats and sailors. Miss Thompson as trimmer. Come early for good selections. Mrs. C. E. Hershman.

Bro. Griffin of the Remington Press, came over Sunday to meet his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George Griffin, who had just returned from a visit with friends at Council Bluffs, lowa, and the Omaha exposition. < . V. Selsor of Carpenter township. has sold his 100-acre farm near the Remington fair grounds toAVny Sterner of Brook. Mr. Selsor takes in the deal a half section of land i# Henry county, Mo., ami expects to move to that country within the next few months. Sheriff Wickwire of Newton county, brought Henry Powell of Brrxik. over Monday and placed h i m in jail here to serye out a ninety day sentence for carving up a Brook bartender recently. He was also fined SIOO and costs, and should he lay out this, he will be a permanent boarder of Sheriff Reed’s for several months.

Mose Leopold is home from college, sick. David Pettit of Wolcott, was in the city Tuesday on business. MisS Hattie Phegley visited friends in Monticello this week. 21 pounds “A” sugar for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store, Mr. fiougham of Franklin, Ind., visited bis neice, E. H. Shields Monday and Tuesday of this week. A large number of people from Rensselaer and vicinity took in the Peace Jhbilee at Chicago this week. H. W j Porter, who has been confined to the house for several weeks from iljness, is now reported on the mend. The business at the recorder’s office Thursday -assisted Uncle Sam ovet 850 in the way of war revenue stamps sold. I H. T. Bott has given up his job with the W. B. Ccnkey Printing Co., at Hammond, and resumed his old position in the Republican office. Peter ftinds, of Milroy tp., has purchased a 74-acre farm near North Vernon, Jennings county, and experts to move there the first of the yefcr. Work lor all. If you have not received the catalogue of the Union Business College, of Lafayette, Ind., send for one and see what its graduates are doing. The only casualities of the At-tica-Rensselaer foot ball game reported are a sprained ankle and a broken leg for two of Attica’s players. Oh, it’s great sport. B. F. Fendig left Tuesday night on an extended pleasure trip through the south. He will visit his sister at Tampa, Fla., and a brother at Brunswick, Ga., while away. The football game Tuesday afternoon between Attica and Rensselaer teams ended up in a squabble. The spore so far as the game was played; was 5 to 0 in favor of Rensselaer.

Rev. Middleton went DeMotte ; Thursday to conduct the funeral I services of Miss Mary Bradbury. ’ Rev. Middleton also attended the funeral of Rev. Moses Wood at Battle Ground Thursday. The “Curfew” case against Car- ! rie Randle came up in Esq. Burnham's court Saturday. Defendant j plead guilty and was assessed $1 and costs, the smallest fine in the power of the court to administer. W. L. Bringle and John and ' Wm. Dennis returned last week ; from a land prospecting tour through Nebraska. Corn in that locality will make from four to j thirty bushels per acre, but the wheat crop was good. None of ! them bought any land. B. J. Gifford unloaded $7,210 iin gold in court Monday in part payment on a claim where the Philadelphia Trust Co., was plaintiff. thus reducing the claim to such a figure as to shut the plaintiff out from Laving the cas • tn u - furred to the U. S. courts. A great deal of complaint is being shade l>y the farmers about the la rue amount of rotten or mouldy .corn this year. They are afraid to ; !ea\ ’ it in the field for stock to cat. and about the only disposition that .can i-.ifciV lie made of it is to put it in a pile and burn it. Tile bail corn runs from about two to six I.ushels to the acre. Herbert V. Rees, deputy hend consul of the Modern Woodmen ' of Amerigo,. is here for the purpos< of working’up the membership of the local lodge at‘this place- There is no better insurance and social i order in existence today than the IM. W. A., and we have no doubt ' Mr. Rees will meet with the sueteess here that has crowned his es- : forts elsewhere. Ho has just added 42 to the membership of the i lodge at Brookston, and has met . with equally good success at other points. He is a thorough gens | tieman and an enthusiastic worker jin this most excellent fraternal ' order, i , ~

HOW ABOUT IT?

Will the Would-be Official Organ Explain this Matter? A little matter has been brought to our attention in regard to the peculiar methods of our commissioners in letting contracts for furnishing books and stationery for the county. Haying no statistician at the court house to look the matter up for us, and not being able to spare the time ourselves, we will simply state the facts 'as given to us, and next week will inI vestigate the matter thoroughly ! and report. In the meantime, if I our informant is wrong in the matter we would earnestly desire to > have the would-be official organ so state, and fully explain the transaction to it's readers. According to our informant, a little more than one year ago an agent for the W. B. Burford Co., of Indianapolis, came before the board of commissioners to secure the stationery contract for the coming year for his company, and offered to furnish same for $1,200. The commissioners “took the matter under advisement and promised to communicate with the house. This they failed to do, however, and contracted with Wilson, Humpherys & Co., of Logansport. at $1,400, which was S2OO more than Burford asked. Wilson, Humpherys A Co. failed to furnish stationery satisfactory to the officers and the next time Burford’s man came here on his regular trip, he made arrangements with the commissioners to furnish them stationery for the county as he had previously been doing, and from that time on Burford furnished all of said stationery and Wilson, Humpherys & Co. furnished nothing. They were simply dropped, but continued to draw money until their $1,400 contract was fully paid. Thus, during this time, Jasper county was paying for two sets of stationery from two different companies, while, as a matter of fact, only one set was furnished, which, of course, was all that was needed. As previously stated, we have not had the time to look this matter up thoroughly, but our information came from a reliable source, and the fact that $2,882.08 was paid for books and stationery last year is additional proof that our informant knew very nearly what he was talking about. Such wasteful and shameful, if not criminal use of the public money, (if true,) could hardly be surpassed by expert boodlers anywhere, and the people of Jasper county should consider for themselves whether they desire the further service of such officers and the other ringsters.

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NOTICE. The Democratic voters of Jordan township, Jasper county. Indiana, are requested to meet at Egypt school house. Tuesday evening. October 25th: for the purpose of selecting members of the election board to serve at the coining election. By Order of Tp. Com.

"I ORE PROSPERITY.

'l'lie republican papers and tire campaign orators toil us how prosperity is smiling on the people all over the country , anti Jasper count y in particular. We dislike io be ('ailed a calamity howler, but the fact remains so far as the people of Jasper county are concerned , they must be told of their prosperity or they woujd scarcely realize it. During the seven days ending. Oct. 20, there were plpecd on record in the recorder's otliee of. Jasper county, 10, real estat mortgages, aggregating sl2, 152.59: 21 chattel mortgages, aggregating $15,(>53.21, and 1 mechanics lean for S6O. During the same period 6 releases of mortgage, three of which were chattel, aggregating $5,588,03 were placed bn fecord. Don’t say anything about this tonight when Mr. Crumpacker tells you how prosperity •is smiling upon the people of Jasper county. He might become somewhat confused if you did.

Vol. I. No. 28.

Democratic Speaking

Center Schoolhouse, Milroy Tp., MONDAY, OCT. 24, At 7;30 p. in., Lee E. Glazebrook and others will address the people and instruct them in the manner of voting, and on WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, At 7:30 p. m., My. Glazebrook and. others will speak at Egypt Schoolhouse, Jordan Township. A cordial invitation is extended to the people to come out and hear a calm, earnest discussion of matters in which all are equally inter—- ! ested I , ■ Good correspondence stationery cheap at The Democrat office. 20 pounds granulated sugar for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store. A whole armload of old [wipers I for a nickel at The Democrat office. A handsome envelope, either square or oblong, for 5 cents per • package at The Democrat office. For Sale:—Lots 5 and 6, block 13, Newton’s addition to Rensselaer. Enquire at Democrat office. Former Police Inspector Bonfield, of Haymarket riot fame died at his home in Chicago this week. The Democrat and Indianapolis Sentinel one year, $1.35. Democrat and Cincinnati Enquirer, $1.50. If you have for sale a farm, house and lot, or any other property of a salable nature, try advertising it in The Democrat. ’ Bring your job printing to The Democrat office. We appreciate vour favors, do nothing but the best work and charg moderate prices. Advertisers should bear in mind that The Democrat has a larger circulation among the farmers than any [wiper published in Jasper county. We want 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. We occasionally send out a few sample copies of The Democrat to people who are not regular sub--1 scribers, with a view of inducing them to become such. These papers are stamped • Sample Copy,” and anyone receiving such need have no hesitancy in taking them from the post office, as there is no ; charge made for sample copies. Remember that theelients themselves control the publication of legal notices, such as non-resident, notice of appointment or final settlement, administrators' notices, notice of survey and many others. Bear this in mind when having occasion to get any legal notices of the above class published. and insist on your attorneys having the same published in The ; Democrat.

No man can long do his duty in business or socially ami politically without making enemies. If you comhiat .the wrong, you must incur the enmity of the wrong , doer/ There are persons who get through i’i'e With \> f"W t';.. Jiie-. but world is no better'for their having lived- A natural life is no factor in the warfare that is being waged between right and wrong, and when you can write bn a man’s tombstone, "He was without enemies." you can safely inscribe on the other side "And did nothing for the good of mankind.” It. is only the man who has the courage of Iris convictions, and will stand for the right regardless of the consequences to himself, who is of account in the warfare against evil. But the character of the enemies a man has will determine the kind of work he has accomplished. If he has been of any account in a conintunity, you may know it by the enemies he has made.—Ex.