Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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MIL'S BUSINESS COLLEGE Established 1807, Incorporated 1894. C. P. MOORE, P. STOSSfIEISTER. PnaaioßHT. Bmihbss Mahabbr. OHM Best Business coneoe in Hffllieni IM.

Address, HALL’S BUSINESS COLLEGE, Cor. Broadway and Sixth St. LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

DR. JACQUES DESSLER, OPTICAL SPECIALIST. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. I take great pleasure in announcing to the people of Rensselaer and the surrounding country that I have located here in the Arcade building, above the Daylight 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 I shall be able to give my patients full 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.

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOMS A fcOWIGVILAB Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 15, 1898. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail (don’t stop).... .. 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily)..... .10:55 a. m, No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (dally).. 1:45 p.m. No. 39—Milk accomm.. (dai1y)....... 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily)-1J:12 P- m•No. 45-Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) ...... 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31 a. m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (dai1y)......... ■■ ?55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. SNo. 38—Cin. to Chicag0............. 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily). .. 3:27 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:30 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily( 7:52 p.m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond,has been made a regular stop for No. 30. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDokl. Vice-Pres. and Gen. M g r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic Mg r. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

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 102.

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

PUB Hi 11... We wish to inform the public that we have got permanently located in our Mill at the old Creamery Building, and havea full equipment of machinery and are prepared to do all kinds of Mill Work, Can>enter and Job Work and all kinds of Wooden Work. W CALL FOR MID DEWIER Articles to be repaired. When you have anything that no else can fix, give us a trial. oomin BROTHERS. RBRIMENT 'PHOMS «<M. MIU 'RHOME *«*.

Try The Democrat for job printing.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISEASED * , M' XEMORHORDS, ’ y x Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND.

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

H. W. PORTER DEAD.

H. W. Porter, who has been sick for several weeks, died at his home on North Vanßensselaer street last Friday afternoon. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the residence, Revs. Middleton and Shepherd conducting the Weston cemetery. Hugh Wilson Porter came to Jasper county in 1867 and had resided here continuously since that time. Was married to Rebecca J. Brown in 1873. He served as county assessor for ten years and as town councilman for two terms, and has been an active business man and farmer all his life. His near relatives who survive him are wife, one brother and two sisters.

PARTY AT MARION FREELAND’S.

There was a very pleasant party at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Marion* Freeland, Friday evening Nov. 11. Among the guests that were present were Mr. John Duval and wife, Mrs. Abby Yoeman, Miss Lucy Yeoman, Frank Yeoman, Guss Yeoman, Chester Halstead, Allen Miller, Lillie Parks, Roe Yeoman, Jane Keenie. Francis Biown, Lee Mauck, Grace Yeoman, Glenn Sayler, Lawrence Sayler, Ada Sayler, Garland Grant, Ed Grant, Bert Yeoman, Charley Grant, Kate Mauck, Ina Witham, Callie Miller, John DeYoung, John Mauck, Ernest Morland and others. They spent a pleasant time in playing games, after which they had refreshments consisting of cake, popcorn balls, banannas and candy. Then the good-bye’s were said and they started out through the darkness and mud rejoicing.

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

J John W. Reed ) Phebe Pearl Guy j William D. Nelson ( Sophie Wiess i William A. Gault ( Ada Wood

House and lot for sale:—New two-story house of seven rooms, summer kitchen 10x12, all provided with wire screens, 7 rooms, cistern, , coalhouse, barn 16x18 with shed attached. Lot 75x125 with 15-foot alley in rear, within 100 * feet of principal street of city. Will be sold cheap for cash or on time* For further particulars call at The Democrat office.

THE MENICUS LENSES.

The particular advantage these Menicus lenses possess are that they give much more correct secondary axes and when adjusted to the eye yield more perfect vision through the periphery of the lens, rendering the field of vision much larger and more distant. The above is a scientific fact. If you want a pair of these lenses of the best material in the world, correctly adjusted to your vision, notify, or call on Dr. Chas. Vick, the Optician, Rensselaer, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, November 19, 1898.

LOCAL MATTERS. Next Thursday is Turkey day. Dr. E. A. Kirk of Terre Haute, is here this week, Simon Phillips is visiting his daughters at Fowler this week. Bro, Clark of the Journal, was in Chicago on business Thursday. B. F. Fendig returned from his southern visit on Thursday of last week. The Oxford Press has been discontinued, the outfit being moved to Attica. Corn husking is not half done yet in this vicinity, owing to continued bad weather. John Stwan of Pine City, Wash,, is visiting John Bislosky and other relatives west of town. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson are visiting friends at Union City and Veedersburg this week. The Rensselaer W. R. C. realized some S4O from serving meals to the hungry on election day. Miss Stella Parkinson has gone to Los Angeles, Cal., where she expects to spend the winter. J. C. Shindeler of Pine City, Wash., is visiting his father, James Shindeler, of near Foresman. We understand that C. D. Nowels will leave soon for California, where he will spend the winter. The F. W. Baptist people held an oyster supper at the home of Marion I. Adams, south of town, last evening. Chizum’s majority for prosecu ting attorney was 901 in the district, as follows: Jasper, 64, Benton, 370, *Newton, 467. Miss Bessie Gardner of Attica, is expected home today for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner. B. J. Gifford and Nelson Morris are the two largest land-owners in Jasper county. The former owns 32,000 acres and the latter 26,000 acres. Miss Ina Witham of Monticello, has returned home from her short visit with her grandfather Mauck, and other relatives in Jasper county. Some fellow has expressed the opinion that while the bicycle skirts make women look shorter, they also have a tendency to make men look longer. The grand encampment of the I. O. O. F. was held at Indianapolis this week. T. J. Sayler, and A. J. Knight were among the number attending from this place. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fendig of Brunswick, Ga., fire visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fendig, this week. The couple are but newly wedded, having been united in marriage on Oct. 27. The room lately occupied by Porter & Wishard as a grocery store is being fitted up and will be occupied by B. F. Fendig, the druggist. Haus’ restaurant will be moved into the room vacated by Mr. Fendig. Sheriff Reed went to Crown Point, Wednesday, where he and the Lake county Sheriff canvassed the vote of Joint-representative of Jasper and Lake counties, as required by law. Knotts’ majority in Jasper was 54, and in Lake 527. Perry Marlatt is building a fine new house upon his farm in the neighborhood of Givens’ Hill, north of the city. Mr. Marlatt will move into same from his Barkley tp., farm in the spring, and his son John, will occupy the home farm. Some few errors were made in the official vote of the county as published last week, and we republish same this week. The corrected figures cuts down the republican majority on the state ticket! votes, ana also the majority of Price for surveyor to 86. Some other little changes were also made. The vote as now given is supposed to be absolutely correct.

Get your sale bills at The Democrat office. Eugene Tyner, the Monon water pumper, has moved to Cedar Lake. Read the stock sale ad of D. H. Yeoman andE. A. Yost on another page of The Democrat. When in Rensselaer put your team up at Haff & Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of Makeever hotel. ts A medicine fakir traveling under the name of “Buffalo Frank,” has been holding forth at the opera house this week. • Jerry Schofield has purchased of Hollingsworth & Hopkins one of their new dwelling houses on North River street. Alexander Ross of Benton county, has bought the Neely Wilson farm, 4 miles northeast of Goodland. Consideration SSO per acre. The town council of Monticello have just made their tax levy for 1898. -The total levy for all purposes including poll, is but $2.45. Renssebier’s levy is $3.05. In White county 101 ballotsi were thrown out as illegal. We have riot learned the exact number in thia county, but it was probably about 150. “Bupk' - Stanley, the Logansport Mempeiance evangelist, is I holding meetings at the M. E. j church in this city. Quite a num- i ber of non-drinkers have signed’ the pledge. If yot expect to become a business man, now is the time to get your start while the Union Busi- [ ness College, of Lafayette, Ind., I is offering such great advantages to its graduates. George Shepherd of Goodland,, who recently traded his interest in 1 the tile factory at that place for a I farm near Rensselaer, has now | traded the farm for the J. G. j Perry hardware store at Gobdland. Capj. Chas. H. Price of the 2d Kentucky' regitneftt, was in the city Saturday. He had been visiting his mother and brothers •in Carpenter tp. His regiment has been mustered out and Charlie has returned to his home in Middlesboro, Ky. Had a part of the money used in erecting that $165,000 court house been expended in building gravel roads, so that the taxpayers could have reached the polls, it is quite evident the result of tlie late election in Jasper county would have been much different. C. D. Nowels has leased his two store rooms in the Nowels block to Laßue Bros., and the rooms are now being put in condition for their reception. Later they will secure the third room. Mr. Nowels has disposed of the balance of his stock of goods to his father, who has moved same to his store north of the depot. A petition will be presented to the board of commissioners at their next meeting praying that hitch racks be placed along the south and east sides of the public square for the convenience of farmers and others who may desire to hitch their teams while in the city. Thepetition has been generally signed by all to whom presented. Walter Gumm is putting in an acetylene gas plant, and will furnish gas for the new meat market of Messrs. Hartman & Woodkirk, H. J. Welch’s jewelry store and J. F. Major’s grocery in addition to lighting his hardware establishment. If this proves successful, there will probably be several other plants put in here in the near future.—Remington Press. * The stay-at-home vote in Jasper county makes a falling off in the vote of two years ago of 544, distributed as follows: Hanging Grove, 44; Gillam, 60; Walker, 47; Barkley, 66; Marion, 65; Jordan, 34; Newton, 21; Keener. 52; Kankakee, 20; Wheatfield, 14; Carpenter, 66; Milroy, 12; Union, 43. This is merely a comparison with ’96, and in some townships there were many more who did not vote at the last election than these figures show.

Some of Rensselaer’s business streets need to be improved badly. —-i , 8. C. Rosenberg, the life insurance man, was in the city this week. A boat came down the Wakarusa ditch and landed a boy at Barney Meinbrook’s last Friday. Workmen are engaged this week in putting in the bowling alley in the Strickfaden old saloon building. Application has been made to the Long Cliff asylum for the readmission of Miss Nancy Price, of Barkley tp.. whose condition has again become very bad. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Young, of Jonesboro, Indiana, have been visiting friends at their old home in Mt. Ayr, for several days, returning home Monday. Carrie Goodrich May, wife of Robt. May, died very suddenly on Monday of last week at her home in West Carpenter. Funeral was held Tuesday and interment made in Welsh cemetery. - - The Northwestern Dental College foot-ball team of Chicago ■ contested for honors with the j Rensselaer team at Riverside Park I last Tuesday afternoon, and were) defeated by a score , of 24 to 0 The supreme court decided this week the case of the state vs the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad company, holding that the company must pay the state $30,for the filing of the articles of incorporation whether the articles are filed or not. Geo. Strickfaden, Will Childers, Vance Collins, Christie Vick, Billy Frey and Esq. Burnham were before the United States grand jury at Indianapolis this week to give evidence in the case of Frank Bulger, the young man arrested here some weeks ago for passing raised bank notes. The Rensselaer Republican seemed to stand alone in urging Mr. -Pierson to contest the election of J. F. Major. The party was not anxious to countenance any contest for fear they would lose one and perhaps two commissioners. No notice of contest has been filed, and the limit for filing such notice expired Thursday night. Speaking about advertising in the local newspaper, a metropolitan journal is led to say: “The man who has something worth selling will find no difficulty in disposing of his wares, providing he jets those know who wish to buy. But the best of goods will remain on one’s hands if he conceals them in his place of business and does not let anybody know he has them. He who advertises the most along judicious lines sells the most .goods.” Readers of The Democrat will confer a favor by giving their patronage as much as possible to business men who patronize The Democrat’s advertising columns. No true business man should nor will let his politics or religion interfere with his business, and as The Democrat now has the largest country circulation of any paper published in the county, there is no good reason why its advertising columns should not be liberally patronized by advertisers. Show your appreciation of the patronage given the people by taking your own patronage to the men who advertise in its columns. A letter from Hon. D. H. Patton of Woodward, Okhaloma, states that his son Luther was elected clerk of that county by a plurality of 40 vot,es, and the democrats elected treasurer by 41, and sheriff by 10. The populists elected probate judge by a plurality of 80; register of deeds by 315; county assessor by 85. Republicans elected prosecuting attorney by 70 plurality. W. A; Trrugh, also formerly of Remington, who was a candidate for joint-representative, carried his own county by a plurality of 185, but was probably defeated by a small plurality, as the other county is quite strongly republican. At the time this letter was written the returns of the other county had not yet been received.

Vol. I. No. 32

For Sale:—Lots 5 and 6, block 13, Newton’s addition to Rensselaer. Enquire at Democrat office. * Remember the big stock sale at D. H. Yeoman’s farm, 6 miles north of Rensselaer, next Tuesday. Get your job printing done at The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock, prices and workmanship. Orville Rothrock of was in the city a few hours Wednesday. Orville has been appointed deputy sheriff of White county by Sheriff-elect Warner. Another battle took place between white and colored miners at Pana, 111., Thursday. Some five hundred shots were exchanged and several persons were wounded. It was thought before election, that in the event of republican, success the hew court house would not be large enough to hold the county officers, but it has since developed that there is plenty ot elbow room in all the various offices and no addition will have to be built for some time yet. The official count gives Major a majority of two and only three. These are narrow margins, but J. A. McFarland will sell you groceries on a narrower margin than that. An official test will show that a pound of good butter or a dozen eggs will buy more at McFarland’s grocery than anywhere else. ■, 4 ■ A church supper is not a ceremonious affair, viewed from the standpoint of the ordinary social function. It lacks the starched and ironed formality of the more pretentious events, but it is enjoyable nevertheless. There is about these events a pleasing atmosphere of hospitality, refinemement and sincereity, and the bright change from the commonplace of everyday life, impresses one like the colors of a charming sunset after the day’s work is over. In bygone years a man who scratched his ticket was considered a blockhead, a sort of mental imbecile who required looking after* by his friends, but happily, the American people are getting on to the trick of thinking for themselves, and the time is not far distant wheu-a voter can scratch his ticket until a Philadelphia lawyer* couldn’t tell whether it was democratic or republican, and do it, too, without the fear of being called a fool, or detracting in the least from his standing as an honest, intelligent man. —Morocco Courier. Some men won’t advertise when they are busy —think it will last forever. Some men won’t advertise when times are dull—think, the crack of doom is just about the city line. There arej others who advertise all the time. The latter attract inquirers and orders, and in good times can pick what they want. In dull times they get all there is going—the other fellow is out of business. One is an optimist in prosperity, a pessimist in adversity, and a narrow-gage weakling all the time. The other is just a plain, common business man. What kind are you? Trusts are organized to steal other people’s money. They are a conspiracy to pick people’s pockets. They are operated upon the theory that the • higwaymen adopts. He puts his victim in his power and commands him to be shot. He does not argue. His Sistol does his talking. The trust oes not argue. It comes with its sugar and demands its price, or you will go without sugar. It comes with its coffee and you must pay. the price or go without coffee. It comes with its twine and demands its price or you go without twine. It is organized robbery and it is done under the sacred name of law. This is the most galling part of it. A government ;of the people, by the people, and for the people permits a few conscienceless plunderers to rob the millions without so much as a remonstrance. It sometimes look* as if the government were expressly organized for the protection and ...encouragement of the welL dressed villians of society.— Ex.