Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — Page 4
m COUNTY DEMOUNT. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County- " j, F. E. BIBCOCK, EDITOR lID POBLISBER. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION* ONE YEAR..... fIOO SIX MONTHS SOc THREE MONTHS ..25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Renaaelaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’a Store. For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Fff S N N Beware of the men who at e always trying to defend the scoundrels who are fattening on public plunder. A close inspection will generally reveal the fact that they are sharing in the J>ooty.— Hebron News. bkb i I i
Will the Barnacle man please turn his column rules bottom up? The Apologist should now cuss the Appellate court awhile for a change. Men who are robbing the public are public enemies, and should be exposed. Prosperity is sure to strike a few Rensselaer people if the dog cases hold out. “Honest Abe’s” court meets in regular session again next Monday. God pity the taxpayers. Evidently Baby George hasn’t heard (?) about the dismissal of that libel case in the Appellate court. The Democrat is one “shy” on libel suits since last Friday. Will the padded legal and overcharge individual please take notice and govern himself accordingly? By “continuing” bills to the amount of over $900.00, Jasper county ought to make a very good showing on liooks and stationery for the fiscal year ending May ill, 1899.
Marshall’s water rate shows how advantageous it is for him to “stand in,” but evidently the taxpayers don’t “stand in” on the court house water deal. How do you like it, taxpayers? Remember it is in the hightaxed counties of the state and where one party has been in power for years, that the people have demanded au investigation of affairs, and that in every instance n great amount of rottenness has been unearthed. The Commissioners at their last session allowed bounties on wolf scalps to the amount of $l6O. This “wolf business” promises to be one of our most thriving industries, under the fostering care of our present bounty law.—Remington Press. If a six-dollar non-resident notice costs from eight dollars to nine dollars when published in the Apologist, what will it cost when published in a paper which sets its notices without padding and charges only the legal rater Ans.: Only six dollars.
The Barnacle is against tne new reform laws. Certainly. This was to be expected. Under these laws the Barnacle ‘editor’’ will find it difficult to collect $8.25 fora notice of graduation for which the other papers had not the gaul to charge more than $1.50 for publishing. The Democrat again rises to ask where the 45 miles of free gravel road, completed and accepted by the county, as reported to the Bureau of Statistics in the report furnished from Jasper county for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1898, are located? We have endeavored to find where all of this road is located, and only about 23 miles was found. Perhaps it was thought that $4,724.99 would look a trifle extravagant for repairing 23 miles of practically new gravel road, so in making the report referred to it was thought best to anticipate a little and include that famous 16 miles in' Keener tp., and a few miles more which it was presumed would be built sometime in the future. For the same period Benton county paid only $9,268.42 for repairs on 160 miles o //•
Call for an investigation of county affairs, taxpayers.
When may the taxpayers of Jasper county expect to receive the Auditor’s annual report? It was dne the first of last month.
Won’t the Apologist please tell its readers something about that book and stationery steal from September, 1897, to September, 1898? Also, why Jasper county pays nearly three times as much for books and stationery as Newton, Benton or White, the latter having one-third more population?
The new reform laws do not assume that all township trustees and county officers are thieves, as many of the boodle newspapers would have people believe, although some of them are. The statue making the loaning of public money, with or without interest, by any county, city, township or state custodian of public funds, embezzlement, a species of theft, and the least penalty that can be inflicted two years in the penitentiary with a heavy fine and disfranchisement, has been on the statute books for years. Does it proceed upon the theory that all custodians of public funds are thieves? The statute making extortion taking more fees than the laws allow a felony has been on the statute books for years. Does it proceed upon the tueory that all officers are thieves? Everybody, but those interested in robbing the people, knows better.
Based on the rate charged others, Jasper county pays an outrageous sum for water for the court house, and the county council should see to it that this expense is cut down nearly onehalf. With the city furnishing water for all the Monon locomotives and giving them ten incandescent lights for $350 per year, furnishing the editor of the Apologist with several office and house faucets, yard sprinkling privilege and street, sprinkling privilege of 50 feet on two streets, and last but by no means least, water for running his motor, which furnishes power for running his presses, at only $36 per year on a ten year contract, it is an outrage upon the taxpayers of the county to be compelled to pay $350 per year for what little water is used by the county. The Monon will use more than a hundred times as much water as is used by the county, while the Apologist uses at least twenty times more than the county. The padded legal gentlemen of the Apologist, it will be remembered, stated at the time the waterworks were put in that an “advantageous contract” could no doubt be made for furnishing the county with water, and it would seem that such has been the case —very advantageous to Rensselaer, but mighty tough on the outside taxpayers of the county. The Democrat believes with every right minded citizen that a fair price should be paid for this water, but it does not believe that an outrageously extravagant price should be paid, and $350 is $l5O more than a very liberal price.
The Republican party lias no call to indulge in windy declamations against trusts. They have their evil with their good, but are an impregnable part of business necessity, and they are no more to be puffed out by platforms and legislatures than are promissory note partnerships. The Democratic party, sputtering against wealth, naturally sputters against trusts. Let it. The Republican party does not hold that property is a crime, or that the highly organized forms of modern business are to.be disturbed at the request of the same set of persons that is frantic for a cheap dollar. —New Ycrk Sun. The democratic party does not decry wealth, it does decry the abuse of wealth by these cormorants called “trusts.” “They have their evil,” but no good comes out of them unless limiting productions, controlling supply, raising prices—not for the purpose of securing reasonable profits but to plunder the purchasing public—crushing out the small merchants, discharging employes, entailing ruin in their remorseless path, can be called good. Of course the reJublican party believes in trusts. t is the father of them, its policies created them, and their bloodmoney keeps it in power, supplies its corruption fund, with which it debauched and deluded the electorate in 1888, and again in 1896, and a strong effort is being made to consumate the same crime in 1900. None but the trusts them-r selves and their paid accessories, before and after the fact, are in favor of these grinding, soulless, cormorants, these destroyers of the middle and poorer classes. In gratitude for past favors and from natural inclination the republicans will stand by them as a matter of course. “The ox knoweCh his owner and the ass his master’s 'crib.”
• . ' ' ' Y The individual who looks after the bills for “padded legate” at the Apologist office devotes a column and a half of his valuable space in upholding Auditor Murray’s petty spite work in placing $1,850 on the tax duplicate against the editor of The Democrat, which we referred to last week. To show how little there is in the article of this ring defender we copy a few extracts from a letter which was filed with the Auditor when this matter first came up, but which the soiled and reeking libel on humanity who “edits” the Apologist and draws large sums on overcharges in legal advertisements takes good care not to refer: Rensselaer. Ind., Oct. 8,1898. To Henry B. Murray, Auditor of Jasper County. Dear Sir I desire to make this statement to further supplement the affidavit which you now Eiave of mine concerning the transfer of the Remington Press to myself and sister Stella (now deceased). We verbally bought the above plant on March 25 * * * Mr. Babcock retained his key to sanie • * * and did some job work after April 1. The final settlement was made on April 7, * * * I personally know that Mr. Babcock paid off several hundred dollars worth of outstanding bills against said office shortly after this date,- and turned about S6OO worth of our notes over to a party having a claim against said office for that amount. I further wish to say that in all my bnsiness relations with Mr. Babcock I have found him straightforward and honorable in every way, and I believe him to be strictly honest. I make this statement voluntarily, as * * * I wish the facts in the case to appear exactly as they transpired. Fred L. Griffin. The fact that the Auditor did not allow even the offsets mentioned above shows the animus of the whole affair. Neither, when we desired to pay this tax under protest, that we might recover it back in court, would the treasurer accept it on those terms. Subscribe for The Democrat.
State S. S. Convention.
The fifth annual State Sunday school convention held in Columbus, Ind., was one of the largest and best conventions ever held in the state. Every order of the program was carried out to perfection. The Bartholomew county Sabbath school parade was a glorious sight to behold. All mass meetings, prayer and praise meetings were filled with the spirit of God and those who attended these meetings felt it was well to be there. There was a debt of S6OO hanging over the state, which was cleared by collection, and all joined by singing “Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.” We could not find space in our county papers to speak of all the good things that was in store for us. The meeting was filled with the spirit of God from beginning to end, and all went home feeling more determined to raise our banner higher and try to make every township in our county and every county in our state a banner, and our state, a banner state. A Delegate. 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 short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand'
Matt ice. STATE OF INDIANA, ? cc. Jasper County, ■ S In the Jaaper Circuit Court, January term, 1899. Sampaon Evans ) vs V Complaint No. 5703. Meander Bringham et al ) By order c.f Court in said cause. the following defendants were found to be non-residents of the State of Indiana, to-wit: Leander Bringham Mrs. Bringham his wife: and Mrs. Bringham widow of said Leander Bringham: The Fort Wayne and Mississippi Railroad Co.: Jacob Eldridge, Esther Eldridge his wife, and Esther Eldridge widow of said Jacob Eldridge: George Shaffer, Mrs. Schaffer his wife: and Mrs. Schaffer widow of said George Schaffer: George H Roberts, Mrs. Roberts his wife and Mrs. Roberts widow of said George H. Roberts: Samuel Huston, Mrs. Huston his wife and Mrs. Huston widow of said Samuel Huston:Samuel Houston, Mrs. Houston his wife and Mrs. Houston widow of said Samuel Houston: Marshall A. Jones, Mrs. Jones his wife and Mrs. Jones widow of said Marshal A. Jones: Schaffer Roberts & Co., and all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees, and all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees of the unknown heirs devisees and legatees of each and every of the above named defendants. Notice is hereby given said defendants that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to he holden on the Third Monday of March A. D. 1899, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. ( > In Witness whereof. I hereunto set i seal y my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 14th day of January A. D. 1899. WM.H. COOVER, Schuyler C. Irwin Atty. for Pliff. CT Jan. 34-31 Feb. 7.
The bill filed for publishing the above notice three times by the Apologist was $12.00. The same identical notice as it appears to the right is worth but $9.00, or $3.00 less than the price charged. Another illustration of the big returns possible under the “padding” system. Another padded legal will appear next week. , [Thk Democrat will devote considerable attention to “padded legal*,” “overcharges.” etc., during the next few weeks, A new “legal” will appear In each issue, and we would respectfully ask the reader to ponder over the disclosures presented. Perhaps the question of why an opposition newspaper is not wanted in Jaspsr county by certain parties will then be easier to solve.]
W. B. AUSTIN.
| Business...: <; Buggies, Surreys, Wagons, Mowers and Binders, Threshing Machine !; agency, and a full line extras on hand for mowers and binders. The Mc--3 ’ Cormick Mower and Binder; the Studebaker Bros. Farm Wagon agency, (have wagons in stock).' I also have the agency for the Celebrated 3 J Weber Farm Wagon; the World’s Best Threshing Machines and En--3 * gines—The Huber—ask parties who use them. My line of surreys can 3; not be duplicated for the price, I ask you to call and investigate. In 31 buggies I defy competition. Remember, I guarantee all goods I sell, 3 and a special guarantee on prices of mowers and binders. You will find 3 [ these goods at the rear of Isaac Glazebrook’s blacksmith shop, Front St. 3; Wishing my friends all a prosperous season, I ams, <3 Yours Very Truly, i> C. A. ROBERTS, Rensselaer, Ind.
Real Estate Transfers.
Rensselaer Land and Imp. Co. to Standard Oil Co., June 2. Its 10-11, bl 19, Weston's Add., Rensselaer, SBO. Julia E. Heavlin to Robison Fleeger, May 30, se ne 35-32-5, Kankakee, SBOO. John L. Bicknell et ux to Willis E. Bicknell, June 20, pt e)4 21-28-7, Jordan, $3,000. Simon H. Kuster to Mary A. Penwright, May 17, pt nw 25-27-7, Carpenter. $450. Wm. W. Bussell to Thomas Walters, June 8, Its G-9„ bl I, Its 3-10, bl 2, Davissonvilie, S4O. q.c.d. Marion L. Spitier to Edwin L. Gay, et ux, June 23, Its 21-24, Marion, SI,OOO. Frank W. Fisher to John G. Perry, May 1, w y t , 32-32-6, 320 acres, Kankakee, SB,OOO. William B. Austin to Stephen A. Ryder, June 7, sw sw 23-82-7, sw se 22-32-7. eH se 22-32-7, se ne 22-32-7. 200 acres, Keener, SIO,OOO. Charles W. Ellis to John Evelsizer, Feb. 28, w? 4 nw 34-20-5, 160 acres, Hanging Grove, SB,OOO. City of Rensselaer to Isaac N. Makeever, June 22, out lots 61, Rensselaer. Weston’s cemetery, sls. Chas. J. Dean to Mary E. Troxell, April 7, lots 20, bl, 32, Rensselaer, Weston’s Add.,s7s.
Jennings County Farm For Sale. 75 acres, 2 miles of good railroad town of 400, 5 miles from county seat, good 6 room house and all necessary out-buildings, fine orchard, ail kinds of fruit—apples, peaches, pears, cherries, quinces, grapes and small fruits—lo acres rail fenced hog pasture. 5 acres good timber, 00 acres good farm land that produces wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, clover and timothy. A good never-failing well of free-stone water. Price $950, cash. E. C. Davis, Butlerville, Ind. Mention this paper. Subscribe for The Democrat.
Fountain Park Assembly,
Remington, Ind., August sth to 20th, 1899. A splendid program each day and evening. Equal to the older Chautauquas. Held during light of the moon. Get a program of Robt. Parker. Remington, Ind., after June 15, 1899.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
Della M. Elsworth, Mrs. Sylvia Fouriner, Mr. Daiel Hastings, Mrs. F. M. Lewis. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please say they are advertised.
F. B. Meyer, P. M.
fIARRIAQE LICENSES.
Martin V. White to Ida W. Fink, issued June 23. Felix Moritz to Susie E. Callaghan, issued June 23. William Shoup to Charlotte Reap, issued June 24. John W. Bicknell to Nora E. Dunn, issued June 28. David S. McConahay to Irene Huffman, issued June 28.
Non-Resident Notice. The State of Indiana. J In the Jasper Circuit Jasper County. ) Court, January term 1899 Sampson Evans ) _ , vs V Complaint No. 57C8. Leander Bringham etal) By order of Court in said cause, the following defendants were found to be non-residents of the State of Indiana, to-wit: Leander Bringham, Mrs. Bringham his wife, and Mrs. Bringham widow of said Leander Bringham; The Fort Wayne and Mississippi Railroad Co.: Jacob Elridge. Esther Eldridge his wife, and Esther Eldridge Widow of said Jacob Eldridge; George Schaffer. Mrs. Schaffer his wife, and Mrs. Schaffer widow of said George Schaffer: George H. Roberts. Mrs. Roberts his wife, and Mrs. Roberts widow of said George H. Reberts; Samuel Huston, Mrs. Huston his wife, and Mrs. Huston widow of said Samuel Huston; Samuel Houston. Mrs. Houston his wife, and Mrs. Houston widow of said Samuel Houston: Marshall A. Jones, Mrs. Jones his wife and Mrs. Jones widow' of said Marshal A. Jones; Schaffer Roberts & Co., and all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees, and all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees of the unknowm heirs, devisees and legatees of each and every of the above named defendants. Notice is hereby given said defendants that unless they be and appear on- the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the third Monday of March, A. D. 1899, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. , In witness whereof, I hereunto set 5 seal t my hand and affix the seal of said 1 ' Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 14th day of January, A. D., 1899. WM. H.Coover, Clerk.
Rensselaer Markets.
Wheat ; 60 to .65 Corn... 29*4 to 30 Oats ..23 to .25 Rye v .45 Hav....... $6.00 to $6.50 Hogs ...,8.40 to 3.50 Potatoes j .vr, .75 Butter. 10 Eggs 10 Hens 07 Young Chickens 12 Ducks, old 05 Ducks, young 07 Roosters 02 ft .03 Turkeys 04® .06 Hides..... 06 Tallow 03
CHICAGO* INDIANAPOLIS * tOUISVIUS ST, Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8.1899. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mai 1..... 4:48a.m. No. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m, No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. m. No. 39—Milk accomm.. (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 113)4 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) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) ■ 9:55 a. m. ♦No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves.Mail.. 6:32 p.m. iNo. 3S—Cin. to Chicago 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( 9:09 p. m. ♦Daily except Sunday. tSiiuday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stopfor No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frask J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, Vice-Pres, and Gen. M'g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell. Traffic M'g'r, W. H. Beak, Agent. Rensselaer.
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(DENTAL SCIENCE Has reached its highest point in our office. We have conquered pain and anxiety. We have assured our patients that our methods and prices are r-Lj-n-n-n—<— i__i jT_ -* * n keeping with , dental progress. ■ / Confidence lias \ been the keynote (of our success. J if we work for S you once we're yjp|lfe ) sure of getting all B < your work, as well J as the dental work vs>S<'WVwval of your relatives / and friends. J Our dertr.l work cocts !:t- ---\ tie. wears well, and is guar- \ anteed to be the best that S money can buy. s Rensselaer Hi Parlors. \ DR. J. W. HORTOJf. \ orrict upstairs in nsw brick. f first door wbst Of p. o.
\ New Undertaking l In Horton building, one door c west of Makeever House, with a £ comple e and first-class stock of | FUNERAL FURNISHINGS S I respectfully solicit a share of the > public’s patronage and guarantee sati isfaction in every respect. Calls ? promptly responded to day or night. \ ’ A. B. COWGILL, ? Residence at Makeever House, moh »r. Wmvvvwuvvwwwvuvvvuvvvvw Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Patent business conducted for MoDissra ms Oun OrriCK •• osnsitc U.«. Patent Office and we can secure patent in less time than those' remote from Washington. ‘ Send model, drawing or photo., with deacrip-i Hon. We advise, if patentable or not, free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. J A Pamphlet “ How to Obtain Patents,” with, cost of same in the U.S. and foreign countries 1 sank free. Address, C.A.SNOWdtCO. > OPP. Patent Office. Washinston, O. C. !
Monte* English Stable I Inlment Sold by A. F. Long.
Professional Cards. ATTORNEYS _ Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stairs east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office in Hollingsworth Building, Ist floor, rear of McCoy's Bank. Geo. K. Hollingsworth Arthur H. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, Attorneys at Law. ty Office second floor of Leopold's Block, Corner Washington and Vaußenndaer sta. Practice in nil the courts, purchase, sell and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer B. L4S. Association. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L'. N. A. AC.By, and Rensselaer W.L.A P. Co. Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. raaaa raux. c. a. sertua. hu*t a. acuaaia Foltz, Spitier & Knrrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Atto rn ey»-at- La w. Law, Real Estate. Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Real Estate. Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis A Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over Farmers* Bank, on Washington St* RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. R. S. Dwiggins, COUNCELOR AT LAW, Office in Room 7, Forsythe block, Rensselaer, Ind.
BANKING. Addison Parkinson. John W. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, • (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. -v • The Only State Bank in Jasper Co Dißßcroaa. * Addison Parkison, 6. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. _____ PHYSICIANS. I. B. Washburn. E. C. KngH-K-Washbum & English, Physicians & Surgeons, Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Dr. English will givespecial attention to Surgery mall Departments, and general medicine. Office over BUia A Murray’s Telephone 48. DENTIST. _ _ H.L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F. B. Meyer’s drug store. JOHN H. J ESSEN, CIVIL ENGINEER. I make a specialty of all kinds of ditch work. cotMffinction famished. pomptittmUM De,noen * office will receive ' * V \ ! •=. V .v«. : : ' '■ ■ ■ ir;