Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Page 5

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Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk ....Wm. H.Coover Sheriff Nate J. Reed Auditor Henry B. Murray Treasurer .. Jesse C. Gwin Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor John E. Alter Coroner Truitt P. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assesser John R. Phillips COMXIIBSIONEBB. Ist District Abraham Halleek 2nd District John Martindale 3rd District Frederick Waymire Commissioner's court—First Mondays in March, June, September and December. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk ..Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Starr Attorney....» .C. E. Mills Civil Engineer H. L. Grumble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcels COUSCir.MEN. Ist ward M. B. Alter, F. B. Meyers 2nd ward John Eger. C. G. Spitler 3rd ward Wm. H. Beam, J. R. Kight JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney Albert E. Chizum Terms of Court.—First Monday in January; Third Monday in March: First Monday in June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. THUBTERS. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake Hanging Grove A. W. Prevo Gillam John F. Pettit Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed ...' Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton -C. C. Bierma Keener J. C. Kaupke Kankakee Albert S. Keene Wheatfield John A. Lamborn Carpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer Union TOWN OB CITY A. Beasley Remington M. F. Chiicote Rensselaer Edward T. Wheatfield Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rehsseiaer CHURCHES. First Baptist—Preaching every two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, m; Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday: prayer meeting 7p. m. Rev. V. Fritts, pastor. Free Baptist—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6:30 P. M. Rev. D. A. Tucker, pastor. Christian —Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. C. E., 2:30; "S. Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. H- N. Shepherd, pastor. Ladies' Aid Society meets every vVednesday afternoon by appointment. Presbyerian—Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:3o; Sunday school 9:30; Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladies'lndustrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist E.-Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 alternate Sunday: Prayer meeting. Thursday at 7. Rev. H. M. Middleton, Pastor. Ladies* Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church.of God—Comer Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:80; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Catholic Chvrch—St. Augustine's. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:30 and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:3.0 p. m. Rew, Edward Jacobs, pastor.

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge, No. 128, A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. H. L. Brown, W. M.; W. J. Imes, Sec’y. Evening Star Chapter—No. 141,0. E.S., meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Mrs. C. W. Hanley, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. Catholic Order Forresters— Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 3 p. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; E. P. Honan, Chief Ranger. Odd Fellows—lroquois Lodge, No, 144,1. O. O. F., meets every Thursday. Bruce White, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment—No. 201. I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. S. C. Irwin, C. P., John Vannatta. scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree LodgeNo. 846. meets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Maude Hemphill, N. G.; Mrs. Laura Shields, Sec’y. I. O. op Foresters—Court Jasper, No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff. C. D, H. C. R; R. P. Johnson, R. Maccabees—Rensselaer Tent, No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. C. E. Tyner, Commander; F. W. Cissei, Record Keeper. Pythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. 83, Knights of Pythias. meets every Tuesday, C. W. Hanley, C. C.: N. W. Reeve, K. of £ cfc o. Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,— No. 47, meets 8d aud 4th. Wednesday, every month, Mrs, G. E. Murray, M. E. C. Mrs. O. A. Yeoman, M. of R. C. Grand Army.—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night. D. H. Yeoman Post Commander, J. M. Wasson, Admtant. Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. Q. Alter, President; Mrs. Hattie Reynolds, Sec’y. Holly Council.—No. 7, Daughters of Liberty meets 3d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Moss, Recording Secretary. A handsome envelope, either square or oblong, for 5 cents per package at The Democrat office.

Notice of Appointment. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has duly qualified as administrator of the estate of Cynthia E. Goodrich, late of Jasper county. Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. ROBERT C. MAY. James W. Douthit, att’y for administrator. 31-33 Application for License. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the first ward in tlie City of Rensselaer, the cit 1 - zens of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, and the citizens of Marion township, Jasper county Indiana, that the undersigned, George A. Strickfaden, a male inhabitant of the btate of Indiana, and over the age of twenty-one years, and has been and is of good moral charicter, not in the habit of becoming intoxicated, and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted wth the sale of intoxicating liquors, and has been a continuous resident of said ward for over ninety days last past, and that this applicant is the actual owner and proprietor of said business and will befsuch if license be granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of said Jasper county, Indians, at their December term, 1M)8. said. term commencing on M anday. December sth. 1898, for a license to sell ana barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors, in a le.-s quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the following premises to-wit: The precise location of the premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and barter intoxicating liquors as aforesaid, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises is as follows to-wit: The one story frame, iron-clad building, situated on lot number four (4), ip block number three (3), of the original plat of the town of Rensselaer. Jasper county, Indiana; said building and the room therein in which the applicant desires to sell said liquors being more,particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point on the westerly line of Vanßensselaer street, five (5) feet southerly from the northerly corner of lot number four <4.» in block number three (3) o the original plat of the town of Rensselaer, Indiana, and running thence westerly parallel with Washington street for a distance of fifty (50) feet; thence southerly parallel with Vanßensselaer street for a distance of twenty-two (22) feet and tour (4) inches; thence easterly parallel with Washington street a distance of fifty (50) feet; thence northerly parallel with Vanßensselaer street twenty-two (22) feet and four (4) inches to the place of beginning. Naid room being fifty ,50) feet long and twenty-two (22) feet and tour (4) inches wide by outside measurement, and said room being forty-nine (49) feet long and twenty-one ,21) feet and so ir ’.4) inches wide by inside measurement. There is one single sash door in the northerly side of said room adjoining lan alley, and one sash doer in the westerly end of said room. The front of said room is a glass front, adjoining the sidewalk and fronting on said Van Rensselaer street. That the said described room is separate from any other business of any kind and that no devices of amusement or music of any kind or character is in said room, and that there is no partition or partitions in sa ; d room: that the said room can be securely closed and locked and admission thereto prevented; that said room is situated on the ground floor and fronts on Vanßensselaer street in the Citj' of Rensselaer, Indiana, and is so arranged with glass windows and glass doors so that the whole of said room may be viewed from said street. The said applicant will also at the time and place of applying for said license, make a further request for the privelege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked for a period of one year from the 14th day of December, 1898, at which time the license now held by said applicant will expire. GEORGE A. STRICKFADEN. 31-33

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) Should Senator Burrows fail to develop strength enough among the republicans of the Michigan legislature to get renominated, and his failure is expected, Secretary Alger, with the combined backing of Gov. Pingree and Mr. McKinley, will, it is understood, make a rush for the Senatorship. . * ♦ It is announced that the administration has sent an ultimatum to Spain, demanding immediate action upon the demand of this government for the Philipines. Just why that announcement should be made now, is a little bit puzzling, but perhaps those who made it know what they were doing, and why they are doing it. • * • According to those who know, the republican rejoicing over the alleged defeat of silver in the Congressional campaign is premature. It is predicted that many republicans elected from Western districts will vote for silver, if it is made necessary for them to vote either for or against it, because the sentiment of their states regardless of politics, is for silver. * * « * There may be democrats who are downcast over the result of the election, but if so, they haven’t been seen. All those who are talking on the subject express the opinion that the party made a splendid showing under the circumstances, and that reducing the republican majority in the House almost to the vanishing point, puts the democrats in a better position to make a winning fight in 1900 than they would have been had they captured the next House. With both branches of Congress in their hands, the republicans will be certain to make lots of good democratic campaign material in the next two years. • * • Administration republicans have already begun to put out feelers to ascertain what chance there will lie of getting an administration man elected Speaker of the next House, ' instead of Czar Reed. They are afraid of Reed, who is known to hold anti-administration views on the expansion question, and believed to hold them upon others, but they are also afraid to show their hand unless certain that enough votes to control the republican caucus can be secured. Every republican elected to the next House is to be carefully sounded to ascertain whether he would, if the administration desired it, vote against nominating Reed for Speaker. In putting out those feelers, the name of Representative Henderson, of lowa, is suggested as a possible administration candidate for Speaker, but care is taken to leave the impression that no particular candidate would be insisted on; they only wish to ascertain whether it is possible to defeat Reed. ♦ * • Mr. McKinley has been getting some very bad advice concerning the recent race trouble in North and South Carolina, but he has been wise enough not to accept it, or at least, not to try to carry it out. These unwise advisers have been trying to get Mr. McKinley to order Federal troops into both of those states, although no request for troops has been received from the governor of either. He has been told that the same section of the U. S. Revised Statutes, under which President Cleveland sent Federal troops into Illinois during the railroad riots, gave him the authority to do so regardless of the regularly constituted authorities of the states. He has done nothing further than to countenance the semi-official statement that if any Federal official in either state was interfered with, a force of deputy U. S. Marshals would be used to protect them, and in case of their inability to do so, that they would be reinforced by Federal troops. Some of the men ordered out of both states, among them a white Post Master, from S. C. are in Washington, trying to pose as martyrs, and to persuade Mr. McKinley to get mixed up in their quarrel; but every one of them would gladly compromise by aocepting an appointment in Washington. * • * The outcome of the efforts of Boss Hanna and other McKinley boomers to jolly “Teddy” Roosevelt into supporting the claims of Mr. McKinley for renomination in 1900, by promising him that they will support him in 1904, will be watched for with interest. Before Roosevelt was ever thought of as a rough rider or as Governor of New York, Mr. McKinley secured Platt’s promise of support in 1900; but as Roosevelt only put on the Platt collar after he had practi-

cally made his nomination for Governor a certainty, in order to get Platt’s machine to help elect him, he may through his jSower aS governor, be able to prevent Platt controlling the state delegation to the next National Convention, thus making it impossible for Platt to deliver the promised votes to Mr. McKinley, without his consent. What Roosevelt will do, will depend, in the opinion of those who know his disposition thoroughly, upon what he thinks will best promote his own political interests and upon what he thinks he can accomplish. If he gets the idea that he can secure the nomination himself, the S Hying of the friends of Mr. Mcinley will have no effect upon him, whatever. It is whispered that Hanna intends to tempt “Teddy” by offering to throw Hobart overboard and make the ticket McKinley and Roosevelt.

CORRESPONDENCE

VIRGIE. —Roads muddy. —Plenty of rain. —Farmers are busy gathering their corn. —Sunday school every Sabbath. Everybody invited. Earl Leech has been husking cornforM. Clifton. —Miss Lulu Clifton visited at Mr. Truss’ Sunday. —Mr. and Mrs. Clifton visited at Mr. Leech’s Sunday. Miss Myrtle Richmond is working for Thos. Florence. —Mrs. Rilla Ridraour visited at Mr. Plummer’s Sunday. —Miss Iva Grimm visited Miss Emma Bowman Sunday. —Miss Eva Crevison has returned home from Fair Oaks. —Mr. and Mrs. Hochbaum visited at Chas. Swin’s Sunday. —Chas, and Anna Weise visited their sister, Miss Sophia Weise. —Wm. Taylor and Daniel Rogers were in this vicinity Sunday. —Mis. H. Hochbaum and Miss Iva Grimm visited at Mr. Plummer’s Monday. —Miss May Leech returned Monday from McCoysburg, where she had been visiting her sister.

BLACKFORD.

—Weather very nice and cool at this writing. —Jesse Jenkins is going to build him a new house in the spring. —Corn shucking is about over in this part of the neighborhood. —Dan Lakin and Philip Durant are building a chicken fence for George Jenkins. —Roy Hurley and family of DeMotte, visited the former’s brother, John Hurley, last Sunday. —Anderson Jenkins and his son Jessie shucked corn for Victor Yeoman a few days last week. —The hunters in this locality report that game is very plentiful, especially rabbits and squirrels. —Mrs. Stanley who lives west of the tile mill, is visiting friends and relatives at Indianapolis this week. —Jack George is building a new dwelling house for John L. Nichols. Charles Reed and wife are going to reside in it till spring. —Emmet Pullen, who is in the habit of hunting once in a while, went out last Tuesday and caught two dollars and a half’s worth of game. —O. Hurley and Alvin McCurtain are keeping boarders for Gifford’s railroaders. They report that they have twenty boarders and would like to have a few more.

SHARON.

—“Hank” Timmons is a Wolcott visitor this week. —The Endeavor Society is well and : s progressing nicely. —Mr. McKee of Michigan, is here visiting with relatives. —The Sharon Transfer made a trip to Rensselaer last Monday. —Corn husking is at a standstill owing to the incessant rainfall. —Ducks are plentiful and hunters are bagging them by the score. —D. M. Waymire has built an addition to his residence near town. —Homer Timmons is suffering from the effects of a sprained shoulder. —An oyster supper was give’’ at the residence of Marion A<h: last evening. . •

PUBLIC SALE ! ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ I will sell at Public Sale at my farm 6 miles North of . Rensselaer, on . J Tuesday, November 22, 1898, The following property: 35 Head of Two-year-old and Three year-old Steers; 50 Head of Calves and Yearlings; 25 Head of Cows and Heifers; 5 AVork Horses; 4 Four-year-old Norman Colts (unbroke); 2 Two-year-old Colts; 500 Bushels of Corn in crib; Farming Implements; Mowers, Binders, Breaking Plows, Cultivators, Harrows, Planters, Hand Corn Shelter, Wagofis, Buggies, Harness, Cutter, Bobsleds, and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS; a credit of 9 months will be given purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent, interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when due, 8 per cent, interest from date. 8 per cent off for cash. No property to be removed from premises until terms of sale are complied with. ' D. H. YEOMAN. Phillips & Son, Auctioneers. E. A. YOST.

—G. G. Garrison is having a large amount of wood sawed by Ward, the “hustler.” —Mr. and Mrs. Del Thornton visited over Sunday with Mrs. Thornton’s parents here. —Mr. Nagle of Wolcott, has been improving his farm here in the way of adding an addition to his residence. —The republican party may well rejoice over the election of their candidates, as it was only the condition of the weather that saved them, enough democrats staying at home to defeat the entire republican ticket. —Miss Florence Gray the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gray, living 4 miles south of Sharon, was buried last Sunday. She was a bright student and a most estimable young lady. She lingered for several months and succumbed to that, dreaded disease, consumption. The family have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.

NORTH BARKLEY.

—Laura Ponto visited Mrs. L. ■J. Beedy Saturday. —Dick Zook did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. —George Beedy has a very painful felon on his finger. —B. F. Funk of Ada, Ohio, moved to Deadwood Monday. —The onion business is rather slack this week it being too wet to load. —John Reniley of Rensselaer, visited Searle Steel a few days last week. —B. J. Gifford is loading twelve car loads of oats on the new railroad this week. —John Fanson and T. M. Callahan visited Alf. Donnelly and family Sunday. —We would like to know when Estil Pierson is coming out to the Gifford ranch to shoot “snipes” again? —Eva Meitzler, Orla Hewitt, Lewis Lemon and Chess Castor attended the dance Saturday night at Will Coady’s, near Medarville. —The following is a love letter received by a certain young lady of North Barkley: Dear Miss.— It’s to-night that I take the pen to write you few words of what I am long since thinking to write you I am sure you will be surprise, and say that I am a curious boy to write to a girl that I have seen only about twice. But if I wait till I see you a one hundred times it might take long, and it is not only to have seen you that has encourage me to write you. But it is also what I have heard about your charracter from my sister She has told me that you were a good little girl and that she would have a good confidence in you. trusting my sister word and having seen you it looks to me like truth, and since that time my head has been troubled with many thoughts and few wishes. They are too numerous to mention but one of my wishes is to know if it is useful for me tothink of you or r ot, if you could hope it useful for me, you can also hope it useful for you, this will be all for today, for health I am well and I hope this let - er will reach the same. I also hope you shall excuse my writing and its eloquence english is not my language. But it seems to me that we can understand us. I will now close my letter not with a big but with a little hope to receive an ans. soon. I remain as ever, your—l don’t know what?

WANTED-TOWN PROPERTY. I have several good Farms ranging from 40 to 400 acres which I will exchange for real estate in Rensselaer. 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, at once for particulars. . ttOLLfNGSWORTH & HOPKINS, Rensselaer, Ind.

A DIALOGUE.

What is a trust? A boy asked his father. A trust, my son, in the modern sense, means an aggregation of persons who control large manufacturing concerns (making the same articles and who possibly have been cutting prices) formed into one mammoth company, this company is formed for the purpose of curtailing the cost—to the people? Oh, no, my son, of course we tell the people that is what trusts are formed for, but we don’t mean anything by it. Do you mean to say you do not tell the truth to the people, father? Oh, no, my son, we mean that the cost of manufacturing can be reduced to the trust —self preservation is the first law of nature, you know—and this enables us to limit production, maintain prices and secure a fair remuneration on the investment of our capital. And then if anything is left—we gobble on to that, too, and we usually have a soft snap.

DISTRICT VOTE.

Following is the vote for the congressional candidates in the Tenth distiict: „ CrumCounties. Rcss packet. Benton 1257 1799 Warren 856 1781 White 2324 2262 Newton ...908 1433 Porter 1093 2533 Tippecanoe...., ..4258 5426 Jasper 1400 1628 Lake 3103 3810 Laporte .4407 3 984 Total -■_■■■ 20,206 24,656 Crumpacker’s majority 4,450 Ross run 88 ahead of the state ticket in Tippecanoe (his own county) while Crumpacker run 94 ahead in Porter. I have a complete line of ladies’ and childrens’ millinery in trimmed hats, caps, walking hats and sailors. Miss Thompson as summer. Come early for good selections. Mrs. C. E. Hershman.

Commissioners’ Court Allowances.

[All claims allowed for the full amount unless otherwise specified.) October Special Sessions. J W Horton, work for prisoners $ 175 H L Gamble, eng. Keener tp. gray. r.. 6 25 H Landon, med. aid poor as per cont. 20 00 T J Joiner, cash paid for labor ct. h.. 4 40 Same, salary as janitor for Sept 45 25 Same, laundry for ct. house 2 91 J W Tanner, labor on ct. h.yard 11 65 Chas. Goss, two young fox scalps.... 2 25 J. C. Gwin, assignee, 1 old wolf scalp 7 25 Same, castings for c. h. boilers 17 45 L. N. Wells, erroneous taxes, 13 72 J. E. Meyers, relief poor, Walket tp.. 4 00 L. H. Hamilton, cash paid for Teachers’ asso 50 25 Trustees Presbyterian chnrch, rent of church for Institute 15 25 J. F. Pettit, viewing and reporting road 3 25 J. W. Cavinder, same 1 75 H. C. Meyers 5ame...... ...., 1 75 Hemphill A Son team for commlssio’rs 9 75 I. N. Hemphill, hauling for county.. 1 75 W. N. Jones, rep. on roof of jail and residence 1 75 B. S. Fendig, 1 old wolf scalp 7 25 H. J.Bartoo, blanks for surveyor'soff 2 00 RobinsonAßyan,cattleforpoorfarml 675 15 November Sessions. Porter A Wishard, mdse, poor Hanging Grove 2 85 T. J. Joiner laundry and soap for c. h 5 12 Same, salary as janitor for October.. 45 25 Gwin A McCoy, mdse, poor Hanging Grove 4 55 W. S. Parks, drayage for county.,.. 75 Thos. Parker, wood for county 69 00 E. W. Morlan, painting’ for<'o. 144 25 Wm. Everly, two new tdpri ■-> fa-Jor-dan tp. $585.25 c nt. Joseph College, tiling gravel road 30 02 Geo. E. Murray, erroneous taxes.... 9 67

The Markets,

Wheat • 55 to .60 Corn (old) 39 Oats, new......./ .1 20 to 28 Rye..... .40 hay, (Dealers not buying). Hogs 3.50 to 8.00 Potatoes 45 to .50 Butter .15 Eggs 10 Hens 04 Young Chickens 8M to .04 Ducks..,..; 05 Roosters .OS Turkeys .056 .07 Hides •• .....04 6 .OS Tallow 0»