Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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I M **r"*— AJ F'i - MAJESTIC biscuit X § fcSp-xf S Baked in 3 Minutes 1 i l ljjSjp ....ANTRIM & DEAN’S.... \ Commencing Monday. Feb. 13. 1899. + THE GREAT MAJESTIC. .1 SEt ill HUES £T. ■. i The Great Majestic is unrivaled for Beauty, Utility and Durability. A For doing*prompt and thorough cooking and quick water-heating it has £ no rival. It is made to last a life-time. Does quicker work with One- £ ▲ Half the Fuel than any other stove or range. Don't take chances on ▲ any of the numerous imitations made by the cast-iron stove trade. The A -mj* . Great Majestic is now sold in every srate in the Union. £ ♦ Special Inducements to Parties Purchasing at this Exhibition ♦

Union ttSMB mt. 93 COLU M BIA ST. LAFAYETTE, I NO. Actual Business. Book-keeping, English, Telegraphy, Shorthand and Typewriting. Penmanship. The beat in every way. Send for Catalogue. _ Apr. 29, X yr. S. A. DRAKE, Pres. REASONS FOR INSURING In the Centineiital. Ist. Because It la ooe of the Oldest, Strongest and Beat Managed Companion in the Unitsd States. 2nd. Becanae it adjust* ita loaaea fairly and pays them promptly, without any wrangling about it. _ ... 3rd. Because it has adjusted and paid loose* to over seventy-five thousand farmery. 4th. Because it insures you for Five Yegrs upon the installment plan, permitting you to pny one-fifth of th® premium ftnMMwt wltfcp each year's crop with which to pay y«nr premiums as they fall due. 3th. Because it insures against damage to buildings, and losses of Lite Stock by Lightning. Tornadoes, Cyclones and Wind Storms, as well as loss by Fire. J. F. Bruner, Agt Rensselaerlnd. Office at Makeever House.

hpom ofm connim of toe Commercial state Bank. (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, INO. At the close of its busineaß, on the 12th day of January, 1399. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts »..$ 109,113.82 Overdrafts 938.72 U. S. Bonds and Securities on hand 1,900.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 19,643.72 Banking House. 3,385.00 . Current Expenses... 2,99X82 * Specie, 1,451.88 Cash Items MM.® 9147,599 A 2 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid In. $ 25,000u00 Surplus Fund 1,000.00 Discount, Exchange and Interest.. 5,968.03 Individual Deposits on demand.... 93,909.71 Individual Deposits on time 19,738.08 9147A99A2 STATE OF INDIANA, iw Jasper County. > I, Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. Bhhr L. Hollikoswosth . Subscribed and sworn to before 4 Ssaii > me, this 18th day of January, 1899. < —,—■ > Huior L. Srm.SK, Notar^Publie. This Bank Is prepared to reoeive new accounts, and pays interest on deposits. A share of the publie patronage is sollcted. Ansinon Pabusoh, Jambb T. Randle, John M. Wasson, Gbo. B. Mubbat, B. L. Hollingsworth. Directors. The Democrat and Indianapolis Sentinel one year, $1.35. Democrat and Cincinnati Enquirer, $1.50. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Collins; Mr. F. M. Cltßsug; Miss May Mnknlker; Miss Emma Maguire. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please say they are advertised. E. D. Rhoads, Acting P. M. " 111 r - 1 Craft’s Distemper and Cough Core Sold by A. F. I.ong.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, H|^£,wo MM ,. Office First Stair* West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND.

PUBLIC SALES. The undersigned will sell at Public Auction at his farm, now occupied by E. L. Bowers, 9 miles West of Rensselaer, 3 miles South of ML Ayr and 3 miles North of Foresman. on Wednesday, February 8,1899, The following property: 1 Span Heavy Draft Horses, seven and nine years old; 1 Span Black Mares, seven and eight years old; 5 Three-Year-Old Colts; 6 Head of Yearling Heifers; 6 Head of Calves; 6 Head of Sheep; 1 ChamSlon Binder; 2 Stirring Plows; 1 ulky Riding Plow and other articles too numerous to mention. Come everybody. credit of 12 months will -be given. Jacob Epleb. E. L. Bowers. Simon Phillips & Son, Anct. Remember that thedients 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.

Subscribe for Thb Democrat. ,•■ ■ - THE JASPER LIBRARY. The executive committee desire to say: 1. None of the money received for stock will be used in the legal department. It will be supported wholly by the law and the court. 2. If the library is organized its property is free from taxation and is especially protected against tresspass. 3. It will receive free of expense the books and reports issued by State and National authority. Secs. 5602 and 5594. 4. The township trustee can add the township books and adopt oar Librarian. 5. Each city after the organizations complete may subscribe for 6. When the library procures property of the value of one thousand dollars it can receive annual support: From county not exceeding. .$ 75 From township about 200 From the city about 250 We invite the citizens to help oomplete the organization and increase the library property to one thousand dollars, which will secure the same as a permanent institution. The Executive Committee. * ;>• > • • i v riARRIAOE LICENSES. William B. Walters to Dora E. McMurray, issued Jan. 31. George J. Nichols to Melzie L. Schreiber, issued Jan. 31. Samuel 0. Payne to Grace Bell Tinkham, issued Feb. 2d.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, February 4, 1899.

LOCAL MATTERS. Subscribe for The Democrat The ground hog saw his shadow Thursday. Jan. 30, to Mr. and Mr. and Mil Wm. Mackey, a boy* Tickets on sale at Huffs Jewelry store for the Hillis’ lecture. Blanche Hoyes was in Monticello Thursday on business. “A Turkish Bath,” at the Ellis opera house next Monday night. Just received, new dress goods of all grades and prices at “The Model. ’ r> Harry Bott of the Republican, spent Sunday With friends at Monticello. Sheriff Reed was confined to the house a few days last week from illness. Louis Leopold of Wolcott, was in the city, visiting his parents, this week. Don’t ask for more credit until you have first settled your old bill with Stoner & Day. W illis J. I rues was was in Hammond Thursday visiting his sick son, and on business. C. M. Reynolds of the Monticello Journal, was in the city a few hours Monday night. Geo. J. Nichols and August Schrieber of Wheatfield, were in the city on business Thursday. During the mouth of January over fifty new names were added to The Democrat’s subscription list. Mrs. Harry Butler and little son, of Goodland, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Rhoads over Sunday.

The last and beet of the Fiction Club’s high class entertainments will be the lecture by Dr. N. D. Hillis Tuesday night. Hear him. Miss Arrialla Cotton returned to Chicago with her sister, Mrs. Thompson, and will make that city her home in the future, we are informed. Miss Lizzie Borntrager, left Friday evening for Sedalia, Mo., and San Antonio, Texas, where she will spend the rest of the winter for the benfit of her health. One advantage of the newspaper over the circular as an advertising medium is that it not only prints your advertisement but attends to its distribution as well. “Billy” Frey and Alf. Anderson had a little difficulty Saturday evening. Esq. Burnham assessed the damages to Anderson’s physiognomy at 25 cents and costs, $9.35 in all.

C. O. Carter of Mt. Ayr, was in the city Thursday.

Hear the famous Chicago Divine, at opera house, Feb. 7.

Come and hear Dr. Hillis at opera house Feb. 7. A rare opportunity.

John C. Carmichael and his brother, Lewis, paid a visit to •‘Gifford’s laijd” Thursday on business.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe of the Chicago Bargain Store, are in Chicago purchasing goods this week.

Dr. M. B. Alter’s condition does not improve. He rests easier but his strength seems to be slowly ebbing away.

Lewis Carmichael, brother of John 0., is paying his brother a visit for a few days. Mr. Carmichael resides at Kansas City.

Ladies, you are cordially invited to “The Model's” exhibition of all kinds of new styles in Dress Goods, Silks, Embroidery, and Laces.

The late cold snap created a boom in the matrimonial market. Clerk Cooyer has issued seven licenses during the past two weeks.

Dwight Newell Hillis who is called to fill Henry Ward Beecher’s old pulpit in Brooklyn, N. Y., at opera house next Tnesday night.

Harry Bott, the efficient foreman of the Republican, will, it is said, soon join his family in California and make that state his home.

All parties knowing themselves indebted to the Stoner & Day Milling Co., will confer a favor by and settling their account it once.

The eight-months old son of Mr. and Mm. Nichols Krull died Tuesday night from lung trouble. The funeral was held Thursday and interment made in Mt. Calvery cemetery. The OLicago Chronicle Sunday edition is a model Sunday newspaper. It contains all the news, and many special features that commend it to both old and young. A volume of entertaining reading matter every week for five cents.

The big damage case of Brown vs. the C. I. & L. railroad, which had been occupying the attention of the Jasper circuit for two weeks, ended Saturday in a verdict of something over $5,000 for the plaintiff. The case will be appealed, we understand.

Joseph A., and Harvey W. Robinson, of lola, Kan., are visiting their mother and brothers, Warren and Wallace Robinson, of this city. “Ad,” as he was familiarly called, is well known in this community, and was once a candidate for the office of commissioner on the democratic ticket.

We see by4he Remington Press that ex-Connty Commissioner D. R. Jones has bought a 40-acre farm over in Carpenter tp., paying SIOO per acre. “County commissionering” and farming seems to be a lucrative business in Jasper county. This is the second farm Mr. Jones has bought in the past year or two.

Some months ago a petition was circulated and generally signed asking the county commissioners to erect hitch-racks along the south and east sides of the public square. This petition was to have been presented to the commissioners at their December seesion, but if this was done the records make no mention of the fact.

The mercury took a decided drop last Saturday and lingered about the zero mark for several days, dropping as low as 16 ° below one or two nights. This is alleged to have caused the trouble with “Honest Abe’s” twenty-three hundred dollar court house clock, but as the weather has now moderated and Abe is in special session we may expect this expensive piece of furniture to again ring out the hours and half-hours once more providing it is carefully nursed and kept good natured with frequent doses of hot lemonade

AND THE CLOCK STOPPED.

“Honest Abe’s” clock has been in the tower For a period of ten months or more; From Tom’s strong right arm it receives most of its powe r . But it has become an intolerable bore. For it can’t live without slumber. Tick-tock—Tick-tock. It has stopped times without number. Tick-tock—Tick-tock, And it’s the general impression That when Abe’s not in session. The clock is not worth a tinker's d —. A great deal of indignant language has been expended upon taxpayers who, having acquainted themselves with the merits and demerits of the court house clock, condemned the commissioners roundly for making the purchase. But the chickens arc coming home to roost, and the experience gained since last Friday should set this matter at rest, and condemn this wind and water apparatus for all time. That this make of clock was- absolutely unreliable, and that they had been condemned and taken ont, of at least three places, was known to many persons at the time this clock was on trial, and before it was paid for. Letters can be seen at this office from Chas. Freeman, of Newark, N. J., a jeweler of over 20 years experience with tower clocks. Mr. Freeman’s office is not over onehundred feet from one of these clocks, which, we believe, has since been taken ont. He says it is “utterly unreliable” and is wrong in principle. The motive power, says Mr. Freeman, should be as close to the hands as possible, and the clock will not be a success when controlled by a master clock located a hundred feet or more from the dials; From Alderman Dan. B. Horne of Davenport, lowa, where one of these clocks was purchased for the city hall, and after utterly failing to give satisfaction was ordered ont; From Wm. H. Wayne, manager of the Brooklyn Warehouse and Storage Go., of Brooklyn, N. Y. This company tried one of these so-called clocks, and ordered it out, it proving an utter failure. Our experience has been no exception to that of the other places named. The following table gives the time which this dock did not run from Saturday, Jan. 28th to Feb. 2: Saturday, 16 hours; Sunday 24 hours; Monday, 17 hours; Tuesday, 18 hours; Wednesday, 14 hours.

Dr. N. D. Hillis at Ellis opera house, next Tuesday evening, Feb. 7th.

O. C. Minor the alleged imbeelor from the Big Four at Fowler, got a continuance. *

Rev. Ward died at his home, five miles southeast of the city, Thursday. Funeral to-morrow.

Muslin and knit underwear, and a great variety of dress trimmings and notions to suit dress patterns at “The Model,” Rae Mossier, manager.

Now is the time to get your horses shod. A merry war on prices is being waged by the Rensselaer blacksmiths on shoeing, and four new shoes neatly pat on can be had at this writing for half a dollar, with a prospect of a premium soon being given to get to do the work.

“The business men who think advertising don’t pay,” and “nobody reads the advertisements in the newspaper,” should have been about The Democrat office this week and heard the talk of the formers who dropped in about the twine offer of the Chicago Bargain Store, and McFarland’s $2.00 bill of groceries. They would have concluded that there are a great many people who apparently read the advertising columns of this paper.

The next attraction at the Ellis opera house will be the beautiful extravaganza, ”A Turkish Bath.” The company presenting this operatic comedy embraces many prominent stare of the dramatic profession. It is an immense organization, requiring a larger number of people for this production than anv similar organization on the road. Many new and up-to-date songs, dances, solos, quartettes and other musical novelties will be introduced, v

Vol. L No. 43

A Grand Prodactha OF THE BEAUTIFUL EXTRAVAGANZA. ««. . . . TURKISH BATH. IT HAS MADE a ■lWnilHir The Cleanest Farce Comedy Ever Written Introducing the Popular Irish Mr. Arthur Blackallerand a coDmornmictkKKr COMMEDtANS. Oft ow lot. M*. feta.

POOR FARM SUPERINTENDENCY.

The poor farm matter was underconsideration yesterday afternoon, twelve candidates as follows: A_ G_ Hardy, Ed. H. Morlan. PUSp Blue. Theo. F. Clark, Shelby Grant, and Geo. L. Morgan, of aker, Wheatfield, W. E. Chester, Carpenter, Wm. Novels ami. Chas. H. Mustard, Jordan, amt Jacob Halloway contested for dm keeper-ship. The range of kids were from SI,OOO, the bid of dm H. Mustard in S4OO by Geo. istrim A. G. Hardy's ted was SB9G and the free me of two teams horses. After the bids hat hem. read the court announced that it*morning at 9 o'clock. It seems t» be the general impression that a new man will be packed up.

Advertisers should bear in aiai that The Democrat has a faager circulation among the farawas than any paper published ia Jasper county.

CHURCH NOTICES.

Revival services will begin a& the Christian church Sunday morning, Feb. sth, to last <aa month. All of the Christian peapie anticipate a grand iiiubwb during these meetings, and all aaw going to work earnestly and fully for their success. They invite all of the people of the «ity and vicinity to be at all these services.

Get your job printing done ad The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock* prices and workmanship.

NOTICE.

I have 130 acres of fine Biasgrass meadow that 1 have tmoiT into pasture. Any one having colts or horses to pasture mill 4a well by calling on me. Terms far colts, yearlings, Tic per anatfc; t and 3 years cud, SI.OO, to he pal at the end of each month. to be held until pasturage is f4j paid and satisfied.

GEO. J. NICHOLS,

Wheatfield, IwL

Fob Sale:—Lots 5 and fi, block 13, Newton's addition to Bi—k aer. Enquire at DoßKaar office^.

Horse-Shoeing is Fluctuating.

But Jack Warner stiH sticks to the same old price, 4 New firm® For 50 Cents. Put on ia toutclass style and warranted in gamy on Front street, one block <aoMto of the Nowete House.

Advertising in Tn Ddmomv brings good results. Try it Get your sale liillii ■< Tai flan ocrat office.

JACK WARNER.