Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

iIIIHSHB 1 ■ EftaUttbcd 1887. Incwpontcd 18M. v i C. P. MOORE. F.SVDSSnBSTER.

! AMrs-, HALL’S BUSINESS COLLBOE, Cor. Broadway and Sixth St. LOGAN SPORT. INDIANA.

DR. JACQUES DESSLER, OPTICAL SPECIALIST. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA. I take gmt pleasure in announcing to the people of Rensselaer and the surroandine’ country that 1 bare located here in the Arcade building, above the Day light Clothing House, as an Optical Specialist. My thorough experience in the profession, with the help of the latest improved instruments, leads me to hope that 1 shall be zble to give my patients fall satisfaction, and can promise with responsibility that every case will be treated with special care. Hoping that the people of Rensselaer and surrounding country will give me a trial, I am. very respectfully yours, DR. JACQUES DESSLER, Optical Specialist. NOTICE—I desire to call your attention to the fact that eyes can be examined with the same accuracy at night as at day time. Examination - free.

« ... ... ■ ■» Rensselaer Time-Table. Corrected to M«y 15. lsS*No. 31 —Fast No. s—Loaisrille MaiL (daily* »*»-■. No. 33—Indianapolis Ihul .daily- - 1:45 p.m. No.Sß—Milkmcobhu t daily C4sp.au No. .V LoaisriUc Express .doily *llO2 p. m •Xo. 15 Local frriffct 2:40p.m. North Bout. No. 1-lhiMdulr taomm. No. N-lßlk aceoauo— daily. 741a.m. No.*—Fkst MaiL tdaily •No. 30—Cia.tofUntu Tea. Nail.. CiC p. m JXo. JS-Cia. tofUcapa 247 p.m No. t-lhUmd Expreau .daily.- *47p.m. •No. «C—Local frricht »4*a.m. No. 74 FrH»ht. .daily! 742p.m. •Daily except Sunday. SSie.im.m->r.ktwc— Homm aid LovtU. for No. Ml Fun J. Km. G. P. A_ W. H. Ifc DotL Vire-Prca. aad G«.M rr. (WH-Bocivul. TnhtVcr. V.H.BUL Ir*. fcawlart.

Fisher & Norris Near the Depot, Pay Cash For Hides, Veal. Eggs and Poultry, and Game in season. RENSSELAER, INDIANA , A/VWWWVWVA/WSAAAAAAAAAAf Mi 11... 1 1 We wish to inform the that are '» have got jt-nMneatiy located In oar 1 1 Mil) at the o2dCreamery BwJdi raft, and \ i have a full equipment of atarbittety 1 1 and are prepared to do all kinds »rs 1 1 Mill Work. Carpenter and Job Wort i ’ and all kinds of Wooden Work. i I WE CNLI FOR AMD DELIVER S Articles to be repaired. When yon i 1 have anything dial no eke can fix, 1 ) give as a trial. DOHELLT mm.

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J OwnOmci«»o>wmiiM^!wiwm^c« ! *&S^Suln^r'fkoi^wiai turned i»1 tioaL We rime, HpeMriker eel, fceeri ; chance. OerfeeMtdaetiU pHtkmmri. A to Obtain Pete me.- eiH ] cost at T C.A.SNOW&CO. 1 Ow. Wmwwmr Office. Wmrnwmi, O. C. 1 When others fail to suit yon in price, style and durability of buggies, wagons, harness, eta, then see Jody and The Lief Buggj Company. *ot*=

“%irar DR. MOORE, Specialist, ™Kmo '.‘ffice First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND.

The college building is one of the best in the city, rooms elegant, i equipment unsurpassed, teachers of k experience are employed, methods are modem, systematic, practical. 1 in commercial department actual I business from the start, in the short - j hand department the student has ; the free use of the typewriter on I entering. As a large attendance is i expected during the coming year it ! will be to your advantage to arrange with us at once. U you do not intend to enter before Sept. Ist, or even Nov. Ist. write us at once and we will look after your interest. ; Hundreds of our graduates are hold--1 ing good positions.

MOODY & ROTH, Dealers in Fresh, Salt and Cured MEATS Poultry, Game, Etc. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Tallow. OPPOSITE PUB. SQ„ RENSSELAER, IND. PHONE 10a.

The Markets.

Wheat 55 to .60 Con told) 28*4 OsO. nee 19 to 32*4 Rye 40 May. (Dealers not buying) Hors 3.50 to 3.60 Potatoes 45 to .50 8atter....... 15 *SK» - .12 Hero 06 Young Chickens .-5*4 to .06 Docks 05 Roosters 02 Takers - 04® .06 Hides 05® .06 TnUon- 02

Subscribe for The Democrat. 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 lon hands and there is no delay— I ho examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no ml tape. Why do you wait on insurance I companies for 6 months for yonr money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on handW. B. Austin. FARfI LOANS. I have plenty of money to loan ion real estate. A special low rate | of interest on farm loans in large amounts. I also loan money for f short time on real estate or personal security at current bank I rates. 23t8. James H. Chapman. FARM FOR SALE. 80 acres, four miles of good town, all fenced, fair buildings, 50 acres acres of corn will go 40 to 50 bushels per acre, one-third of crop goes with land. Will sell for sls per acre if sold soon. F. A. Woodin, Foresman, Ind. WANTED—TOWN PROPERTY. I have several good Farms ranging from 40 to 400 acres which I wm exchange for real estate in Eenaselaer. Long time will be given on residue. James H. 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. CaH at once for particulars. Hollingsworth A Hopkins, Bensselaer, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, October 29, 1898.

LOCAL MATTERS. Quail may be shot after Nov. 10. Get your sale bills at The Democrat office. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield, was in th.e city Thursday. 22 pounds “C” sugar for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store. W. H. Coover went to Indianapolis Wednesday after election supplies. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. G. M. Robinson and Mrs. Thos. Thomposon have returned from West Baden. Mrs. S. Lucas of Carpenter tp., was the guest of Mrs. F. E. Babcock Thursday. A. J. Kitt, late of the Goodland Herald, is temporalily connected with the Kentland Enterprise. The finest line of fur collarettes, jackets, and capes. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Margaret Lewis of Barkley tp., has been granted a widow’s pension with about S9OO back pay. The event of the season in the show business will be Faust next Thursday at Ellis’ Opera House. The Chicago Bargain store has unloaded a car of the finest Michigan apples here this week ever brought to the city. J. A. Lamborn of Remington, and Chas. Fraser of northern Benton county, were in the city on business Monday. Joe Reynolds, who is working for the Coukey Printing Co. at Hammond, spent Sunday at his home in this place. The Rensselaer foot ball team played at Crown Point last Saturday and met their first defeat in two years. Score 16 to 6. Capital to do business is furnished by the Union Business College, of Lafayette, Ind. Send for catalogue and samples of writing. Harry F. Bennett, a cigar and confectionary dealer at Monticello, succumbed to too much “prosperity” and closed his doors last Monday.

Maj. Thos. B. Carter, the noted secret service detective of Indianapolis, was found dead in his bed at Louisville last Monday morning. Heart disease. Mr. John W. Iliff and Miss Fannie Jonas were married at McCoysburg last Sunday, at the residence of the groom’s father, Elder J. C. Brady officiating. Geo. Kepperliug, a member of Co. I, 161st Indiana, who was home on a fuHough, died at the home of his sister, at Chalmers, last Sunday, from typhoid fever. C. H. Porter, of the late firm of Porter A Wisliard, has secured a position with the wholesale grocery firm of Reid, Murdock <fc Co., of Chicago, and will move to 1 that city. * • Miss Leila D. Middleton left yesterday for Washington City, D. C. where she will enter the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School for Deaconesses. She will be gone for two years. 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. A two-story brick addition is being built in the rear of Laßue Bros, store, the lower floor to be used by them as a warehouse, while the upper floor will be used as a stage dressing room for the opera house. Strayed ;- T From my pasture 7 miles, southeast of Rensselaer, on or about Oct. 7th, one red yearling steer, marked with hog ring in under part of left ear. Any information leading to the recovery of said steer will be reasonably rewarded. A. G. W. Farmer-

Next Monday night is hallow’en. 21 pounds “A” sugar for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store. J. A. McFarland and J. J. Eiglesbach have each put in fine new computing scales in their places of business. When in Rensselaer, put your team up at Haff & Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of the Makeever hotel. R. 0. Bates’ lecture on AndersonvilleattheM. E. church Thursday evening was well attended and the lecture was a very entertaining one. H. W. Porter, who was thought to be improving last week, has suffered a relapse, and it is now thought can live but a very short time. Timothy O’Herron, road master of this division of the Monon, died suddenly at Monon last Monday night, from the bursting of a blood vessel in the head. W. J. Imes has been chosen by the democrats for election commissioner, and J. E. Wilson for the republicans. These two, with the county clerk, compose the board.

Some repairs will probably have to be made soon on the new court house. The frescoing on the basement ceiling has peeled off badly and the south stairway has settled nearly one-half an inch, allowing some of the marble pieces to become loosened, and detached. Mrs. Guss, widow of the late Joe Guss, who was murdered by a negro in Woodbury, Tenn.. accompanied by her son William, has returned to Jasper county and expects to make this place her future home. They have been stopping at Reynolds the past few months. The negro who killed her husband is now said to be in jail awaiting trial. William B. Austin has closed up eight farm loans within the last two weeks, ranging in amounts from S3OO to $5,000 at 6 or 7 per cent, according to amount. In no case has the applicant had to wait over three or four days for his money. Insurance companies take from three months to three vears to close up loans, consequently Mr. Austin gets the business. Congressman Crumpacker , addressed a *fair sized audience at Ellis opera house last Saturday night on the republican issues of the campaign, and Wednesday night Hon, U. B. Hunt, republican candidate for Secretary of State, held forth at the same place. The republicans are making a desperate effort, but the people don’t seem, to enthuse as th'ey would wish to have them.

Next Sunday is Quarterly Meeting (lay at Trinity Methodist church. Rev. Dr. Beck, the Presiding Elder, will be present and preach at night. In view of the members from the country and the old people, the Lord’s supper will !be administered by the pastor at i the morning service. The loveI feast service will be held at 3:00 pm. and the quarterly conference at b a. m., Monday. Mr. Arthur Lakin’s furlough expired Thursday and he returned to his regiment, the 4th U. S. regulars, at Ft. Sheridan, Chicago. Mr. Lakin desires to express his thanks to the G. A. R., the W. R. C. and Halstead’s rough riders, the families of J. Duvall and Joseph Lane, for their kindly attention, and also to the people of Jasper couny generally who have so generously endeavored to make his short furlough as pleasant as possible. The perfect town, says an exchange, is the one in which you see a farmer patronize a home merchant. The merchant talks to the farmer through the columns of the local newspaper, the labors ers spend the money they earn with their own tradesmen, thus enabling them to offer better bargains. The spirit of reciprocity etween business men and farmers and laborers results every time in making the town a satisfactory one to dwell in. Such a condition is what we should all strive to promote in Rensselaer.

TO TAXPAYERS.

A Few Official Figures of County Receipts and Expenditures. The recognized official organ of the republican party in Jasper county appeals to republicans to “stand by the ticket” because it “is better to have our party friends in office.” In the light of past experience the “party friends” a e not the friends of the taxpayers, and the continuance in office of the ringsters who have dominated the republican party in this county for years means a continuation of exorbitant taxation and extravagance in the administration of public affairs in Jasper conuty. We have taken the trouble to secure from the county auditor’s annual reports the following official figures in regard to financial matters of the county, and respectfully submit them for your consideration: Receipts Co. revenue 1890. $23,387.14 Receipts Co. revenue 1896. 36.354.75 Gain in receipts over 1890 $12,967.61 Expenditures County revenue 1890 $21,388.38 Expenditurers County Revenue 1896 $38,711.40. Gain in expenditures over 1890 $17,323X3 Thus we see that the average | increase in the receipts for the six years was over $2,000 per year. But the expenses of the county kept pace with the increased revenue, and a little more so, the average increase in ordinary expenses per year for this time being almost $3,000. (We do not | give the figures up to 1898 for the j reason that the ordinary expenses | have been so mixed with the new | court house expenses that it is im- ! possible for us to make any true statement for the years 1897 and 11898.) Now, the question arises, where has all this money gone? The ordinary expenses of the county should not have almost doubled in six years. We do not know where all of the money went but we can show where a few thousands have gone and will proceed to do so. POOH FARM. Cost of maintenance 1890 $1,842.43 Cost of maintenance 1898 3.581.45 Increase over 1890 $1,739X2 COMMISSIONERS' COURT. Cost ill 1890 $125.00 Cost in 1898 .2^15.68 Increase over 1890 $1,890.68 COOKS AND STAIONKRY. Cost in 1890 $863X8 Cost in 1898 2.882X8 Increase over 1890 $2,019.44 The above few items show how county expenses under republican ring rule have increased in only eight years. Is there a taxpayer in the county wholielieves for an instant that the legitimate expenses should have increased in the ratio shown? Do the people wish any further evidence of rotted management? Willthey listen to the wail to stand by the ticket and keep party friends in office? Such a conclusion is an insult to I their intelligence, and we sincerely j believe they will rise in there might at the coming county elecI tion and sweep this corrupt ring j from further control of county finances. Many honest and conscientious republicans have had their eyes opened by The Democrat's exposures and fully realize that it is a duty they owe to themselves and to the republican party of Jasper county to purify their party by setting down on ring ; domination good and hard at the approaching election, and that their party will be stronger and better for their having done so.

Type-writer paper, either blank or printed, at The Democrat office. D. B. Levis’ “Uncle Josh Spruceby” is, to use a slang expression, “a warm number” from start to finish, and was greeted by a packed house here on Tuesday night The company has the finest and best orchestra ever seen in out city, and the music alone was well worth the price of admission. The play, while familiar to many, was given with much better scenic effect than ever heretofore, while the many and varied specialties were all excellent. The street music was much above the the average, and taken all in all “Uncle Josh” is all right in all the term implies.

Vol. L No. 29

PORTER J. WHITE’S Magnificent Production of ••Faust” Absolutely the Most Elaborate and Costly Production in America. The Following Great Electrical Effects will Positively be Produced: The Rain of Fire! The Electric Sword Duel! The Electric Morning Glories! The Electric Circle of Fire! The Electric Flower Bed! The Electric Fire Fliesl The Electric Necklace! The Electric Stars! The Electric Skull! Ellis* Opera House, Nov. 3. Subscribe for The Democrat. Try The Democrat for job printing. 20 pounds granulated sugar for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store. A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. ! The High School football team will play the Goodland team at that place to-day. 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. 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. Several members of Iroquois lodge, I. O. O. F.. will go to Shelby to-night to assist in instituting a new lodge at that place. Get your job printing done at The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock, prices and workmanship. The tax cases have been got rid of until after election, when they will no doubt be dismissed and the costs taxed up to the county. Bring your job printing to The Democrat office. We appreciate your favors, do nothing but the best work and charg moderate prices.

Mulberry and Rensselaer contested for honors on the gridiron at Riverside Park Thursday afternoon. Score 27 to 0 in favor of Rensselaer. A file of The Democ rat will henceforth be found at Kelley’s News Dejtot. north side of public square, where copies of sa me are also kept on sale. For Sale. Rent or Trade: —Store building in Foresman. 20x60 with back room and side room 10x60. Good chance for riirht party. J. D. Rich. owner-. Brook. Ind. F. E. Randle of this place and Geo. Phillips of Monon. have purchased the Pojrue grocery at the latter place, and are now in possession of same. Mr. Randle will move his familv to Monon soon. —rro j,. - • . 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. Homer Hardy had quite an exciting experience Th ureday evening, while starting from White’s livery barn his team became unmanageable and ran away, landing on S. P. Thompson's fence. One of the horses was severely cut, bat no other damage was done. Geo. A. Strickfaden and Byron Zimmerman laid a wager yesterday that Byron could not walk to Monon in five hours. Byron started on his long journey at 12:55 p. m. yesterday, with Billy Adams as companion to see that he didn’t lay down or get lost. Up to the time of going to press no report has been received indicating how the matter will terminate.