Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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Rensselaer Bargain Store. These Prices Go Into Effect July 17th. „ . „ Each X lg«l. Tin Jacket Glaaa Oil Can,..s 8p Bcreea Doom and Fixtures.... $76 X 3 Nutmeg* ' ■ 01 No. 8 Wash Boiler, galvanised.... 76 X Per Dob 18 qt. Flairing Pail, No. 8 Wash Pan, galvanized 08 X Bqt Machine-Made Ball Ft. Jars. 60 4 qt. Bnamel Coffee Pots 86 X Rubbers for Mason Jars 08>4 No.B Washboiler, tin.... 66 X 1 pt. Tin Cups 18 .10 qt. Tin Palls 10 p Jelly Glasses 17 18 qt. Tin Pails 15 X Pert> 4 qt. sprinklers 80 X Roasted Bulk Coffee 08* 6 qt. Sprinklers 86 |1 *» Package Katosa Coffee 10 I*> Coffee Mills 80 o RoUed ° ato oa * 8 qt. Artie Ice-Cream Freezer 185 X Breakfast Bacon 08* 4 qt. Artie Ice-Cream Freezer 176 | Bellies 07 Good Beflector Kitchen Lamp... 35 And everything I have will sell acBest Ironing Board on Earth 75 $ • cerdingly. These Prices are Strictly Cash or Produce. '"CI —t • C. E. HERSHMAN, Near Monon Depot. Rensselaer. Indiana.

LOCAL WATTERS. The old settlers’ meeting will be held here Sept. §th and 9th. White county’s new democratic clerk took his seat last Friday. Miss Gertrude Alter of Clinton county, is visiting Mrs. C. B. Steward. The Standard Oil Co. will establish a distributing station at Monticello. Our Wheatfield correspondent speaks of an oil well being struck in northwest Gillam. Miss Kate Wood of Monon, visited her sister, Mrs. Frank Randle, of Rensselaer, this week. Clerk-elect Major and Wm. Townsend, were over from Remington Monday on business. Harrison Wasson has moved to Chicago Heights, where he has secured a position in a factory. Mr. Robt. Carmichael and Uttle daughter of Oak Park, 111., are visiting Julius Huff in Jordan tp. Mr. O. Finney, the head grocery clerk at the Chicago Bargain Store, is visiting his parents at Bunker Hill. The Kentland Enterprise, to get out of the clutches of the arrogant ready-print trust, has gone to all-home print Charles Pefley and Geo. Minicus claim tp have caught a 14pound pickerel at the Kankakee the first of the week. The “kissing bug” is said to be abroad in the land, and all the old maids who have read of its antics now keep their windows open nights. See the “machine made” fruit jars at McFarland’s before buying elsewhere, They are 200 per cent, better than those cheap things you bought last year. Mrs. Peck and daughter Mary, Mrs. D. H. Patton, of Woodword, Okla., and Miss Orpha Timmons, drove over from Remington Thursday and spent the day here. The Indiana bar association held its annual meeting at Indianapolis last week, among the new members admitted were W. B. Austin and Frank Toltz of this city. ’ . Owing to so much of our space being token by advertisers this week we are obliged to omit the usual “paded legal,” but this matter will be taken up again in our next issue. _ - ; James Yeoman, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman of Rensselaer, was recently married, the oride being Miss Ver Sourwine, of Wilkenson, Ind. They will reride at Ambia. - Albert E. Alter, late of Clinton county, has purchased the Parr grain elevator and will operate same. Mr. Alter is a bright, wideawake young business "man and should have the patronage .of the farmers of that locality.

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Mrs. I. B. Washburn visited Monticello friends this week. Chas. Ramp has celery plants for sale, now ready for transplanting. Prof. S. E. Sparling, of Wisconsin University, is visiting at the old homstead southwest of town. The Indianapolis News plant was sold at receivers’ sale Wednesday for $986,000, And still the “official organ” of Jasper county is valued by its owner at only $350! J. A. McFarland was called to Parke county on the sth inst. by the serious illness of his aged mother, whose subsequent death occurred Monday. She was 72 years of age. Mr. McFarland returned home yesterday. The Iroquois Improvement Co. (Yeoman & Woodworth) have purchased a strip of land of Simon P. Thompson, across the river, south of Cullen street, 100 feet wide by 180 rods long, an will at once put a force of men at work crushing stone for road making purposes. The monthly entertainment for the benefit of the Public Library will be given in the court house Friday evening, July 21. This entertainment will be given by the college students of this city, and will be an interesting and instructive affair. Program will be published next week. * Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Haff of Valparaiso, were here a few days this week. Mr. Haff says the smallE)x scare is about over at Valpo. usiness in the city was so dull that he closed up his barn until people got over the scare. There were no very serious cases and no new ones have developed for some days. ■ The trade of the Smith & Guss grocery stock for a 40-acre farm south of Monon fell through with, owing to a flaw in the title to the land. Smith has now tra r dsd the stock together with his house and lot, we understand, to Laßue 8r05.,, for a 40-acre tract of land in the northern part of the county, and other property. The County Commissioners have purchased two fine type writers for use in the Clerk’s and Recorder’s office. The machines work on a flat record page and hereafter the records instead of being copied in ink will appear in print. The new plan will enable the office to make a beautiful and endurable •record, and as easily read as a newspaper.—Kentland Enterprise. Hon. W. B. Sinclair of Knox, democratic candidate for state superintendent of, public instruction in’96 and *9B, who had been sick for several months, died last Thursday and the remains were taken -to his old home in Putnam county for interment Saturday. Prof. Sinclair was a cousin of Lee and I. A. Glazebrook of this county, and was (me of Starke county’s most honored citizens for the past thirty years. He was 43 years of age. v : y

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, July 15, 1899.

Indiana farms for sale or trade. Address, S. Schanlaub, 'I . Morocco, Ind. Dr. Schell, the general secretary of the Epworth League, will preach at Barkley church Sunday evening. Dr. A. E,. Schmaedel met with a painful and severe accident while at work in Dr. Horton’s laboratory Tuesday afternoon. A drop of sodium splashed into one of his eyes and burned the pupil quite badly. Dr. I. B. Washburn tests eyes for glasses l y the latest methods. The best lenses put in any desired frame. It does not pay to ruin >our eyes with improper and cheap lenses. Satisfaction guaranteed ivhfn possible. An ice cream supper and lawn social will be given by Aid society at the home of Steve Frotzman, on the George Pumphrey place, Wednesday eve, July 19. Music furnished by the Mt. Ayr band. Also, the quilt made by the aid society of No. 7, Otterbein church, will be sold. Everybody cordially invited. A damage suit has been commenced by Jacob Dluzak against James A. May for §IO,OOO on account of a terriffic assault made upon him not long ago by the latter for an alleged theft. The parties live near Woleott. The plaintiff is represented by D. H. Moulds and Reynolds & Sills.— Monticello Herald. 1

M. T. Tyler of Brook, committed suicide at his home in that place last Sunday morning, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He lived a few hours after the shooting. 11l health ond financial reverses are given as the probable cause. Tyler was a former resident of Wadena, Benton county, where he conducted a store. He leaves a wife and three children. Captain Willian Astor Chandler, Congressman from New York, is the president of The New York Star, which is giving away a forty dollar bicycle daily as offered by their advertisement in another column. Hon. Amos J. Cummings, M. C.; Col. Asa Bird Gardner, District Attorney of New York, ex-Govemor Hogg, of Texas, and Col. Fred Feigl, of New York, are among the well known names in the Board of Directors. “Honest Abe’s” $2,300.00 court house clock took another “poor spell” Thursday night and when people were going to their work yesterday morning at 7 o’clock, the thing merrilly chimed out the hour of 2. The machine was hurridly set aright on the arrival of the court house employes. Perhaps the “kissing bug” has been getting in his work on this expensive piece of machinery, and has rendered it unfit for service in hot weather also. The Remington Fair Association will, in addition to the regular program, introduce a new and novel feature in the way of entertainment this year, consisting of “Kemp’s hippodrome and wild west congress of fancy and rough riders.” Prof. Kemp will give ten performances daily, consisting of bareback Roman standing races, chariot races, hnrdle races, five mile change race, etc., etc. The company composes 14 people and 21 horses, ana is bound to be a great drawing card.

L. L. Ponsler returned Saturday from a two week’s sojourn at Indiana Mineral Springs, near Attica, where he had been taking treatment for infl amatory rheumatism. He was benefitted considerably by the treatment and would have liked to have staid a couple of weeks longer but felt that he must give his personal attention to his agricultural work. Mr. Ponsler was informed by the management of the springs that Rensselaer furnishes them more rheumatic patients than any other town of equal size in the country. At the time Lute left, there were five other patients there from this oity, as follows: Mrs. A. S, LaRue, Mrs. Tutuer, Mrs. Jas. Leatherman, Mrs. L. Hopkins and Mrs. Malchow.

JASPER COUNTY’S FIRST COURT HOUSE.

Photograph and Historical Sketch of the Old Log Structure In Which Was Held the First Session of the Jasper Circuit Court, in 1839.

THE OLD SPITLER RESIDENCE AS IT APPEARS TO-DAY.

(We are under obligations to the Goodiand Journal for use of the cut of this historical old structure and the sketch from the pen of John Ade of Kentland, which accompanies it. Ed.] idea of the subject described herein it will be necessary to go back a little in the history of the State. And, by the way, how much more hseful and interesting the study of history and geography might be made in our public schools if they would take subjects in theft immediate vicinity, commencing in the town, township and county, and then broadening out in their researches; but this merely by way of introduction, and to give vent to one of my hobbies. At the organization of the State of Indiana in December 1816, more than three-fourths of the state was in the possession of the Indians, or hjj4.so recently been purchased that it' had not been surveyed or offered for sale. At the organization of the State but fifteen counties had been formed, and the northwestern portion of the State was occupied by Pottowattomie Indians until 1838-’39, when they were removed to what was then the far west. A wonderfully interesting account of this removal was given to the writer of this sketch by Dr. Fitch, of Logansport, (deceased) who was in the government service at that time and assisted in their removal. In 1826 the county of Warren was. organized and embraced the territory now included in the counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, and it is necessary at this date to go to Warren county for records of land titles of early days. In 1838 the county of Jasper was organized and embraced the territory of what now is Jasper and Newton counties, with an area of 975 square miles. The first session of the Jasper Circuit Court after its organization was held in 1839, at the residence of George W. Spitler (who had been elected to and then held the offices of clerk, auditor and recorder) who then lived in the house represented in the above cut, two miles south

The May-Dluzak Fracas.

Four state cases have been filed in the Jasper circuit court against James A. May and Frank May for assault and battery as a result of the fracas had out in Milroy tp., a few weeks ago, mention of which was made in The Democrat two weeks ago. The cases are as follows: State vs James A. May and Frank May, assault and battery upon Jacob Dluzak. State vs James A. and Frank May, assault and battery upon Agnes Dluzak. State vs James* A. May and Frank May, assault and battery upon Michael Dluzak. State vs James A. May and Frank May, assault and battery upon Frank Novinski. Bonds were fixed at S2OO in each case, and were signed by James A., Frank and R. W. May. The

of the present town of Brook, Newton county. At this session of the court held in that old log house Isaac Naylor acted as Judge with Matthew Terwillinger and James T. Timmons as associates. The prosecuting attorney was Joseph A. Wright, afterwards twice governor of the State. Rufus A. Lockwood, afterwards a lawyer of national fame, was also there. This was the only term of circuit court held at that place, as the county seat of Jasper county was located at Rensselaer soon after and the next term of court was held at that place. There was, however, two terms of what was known as the probate couit held at the Spitler residence, with David McConnell as judge. The whole proceedings of this first term is summed up with the following entry: “There being no business before the court it adjourned.” At a subsequent session letters of administration were granted to Elias Clifton on the estate of John Wolf, and the granting of a marriage license to James Lacy and Matilda Blue, the ceremony being performed by John Lyons, Esquire. The house was used as a dwelling until 1864, when the property having passed into the possession of Harvey Bell, he built a new frame house near the old residence into which he moved his family, using the old building for a stable, and it was so used until about three years ago, when a new barn was built and at the present time is used merely as a cattle sbed. Prior to 1864, and before Bell came into possession of the place, it was owned by Elam G. Smith, formerly a prominent druggist of Kentland, now a resident of Winamac, Ind., who lived in this “original seat of justice” two or three years. Since those times it has passed through the hands of Thomas Britt, Chas. Cleaver, W. T. McCray and W. H. Ade, and is now owned by Sherman White, of Brook. Such in brief is a hurried description of the old building with its surrounding history. John Ade.

cases will come up for hearing at the September term of court.

“Old Jimmy” Ragon Dead.

James Ragon, an old bachelor, who has resided west of town for several years, died Sunday afternoon at the home of Joseph Ellis, a neighbor, who had found him sick at his home the previous Tuesday and took him in and cared for him. He was about 60 years of age, and served in a Minnesota regiment during the civil war. Funeral services were held Monday and interment made in Weston oemetery. ' • ■

Wanted, Farm Land. I have a $2,500 stock of merchandise, and good brick store building, free of incumbrance, to exchange for land in Jasper county. James H. Chapman.

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John G. Reynolds Dead.

Word was received here Thursday night of the sudden death of John Reynolds at the home of relatives at Chalmers. Mr. Reynolds had but recently recovered from a severe illness, and together with Mrs. Reynolds had been visiting relatives in White county for the past two weeks. His death occurred at a boat 8:30 Thursday evening, and was caused from his old ailment, kidney trouble No final arrangements had been made for the funeral at this writing, but it is understood that the inteiment will be made at Monticello to-day or Sunday.

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THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The Common Council met in regular session last Monday evening. Bids for the proposed street improvements were presented by the Brownell Improvement * Co., of C.iicago; the Indiana Macadam A Con- ■ struetion Co., and Heinzman Bros., the court f bouse contractors. The bids of the Macadam • & Construction Co. much the lowest, but further action was postponed until Wednesday evening, when all bids were rejected as toO high, and the work again ordered readvertised for bids, except that around the public square which was dropped altogether.' The bids were as follows per lineal foot: Van Rensselaer street from Washington to Harrison: Brownell Imp. Co., 66.25; Indiana Con. & Mac. Co., $5.60; Heinzman Bros., . $5.90. * Harrison street from Van Rensselaer to Cullen: Brownell Imp. Co., $5.97; Indiana M. , & C. Co., $5.60; Heinzman Bros., $5,90. Cullen street from Harrison to Washington: t Brownell Imp. Co., $8.00; Indiana Co.. $5.88; , Heinzman Bros., $6.40. , Cullen from Washington to Cornelia: Brownell Imp. Co., $2.95; Indiana Co., $2.58; , Heinzman Bros., $3.18. Cullen from Cornelia to Clark; Brownell , Imp. Co., $1,60; Indiana. Co., $1.21; Heinz- . man Bros., SI.BO. Forest from Clark to Oak: Brownell Imp. Co., $1.65; Indiana Co., $1.22; Heinzman Bros., SI.BO. Vine street from Forest to Main: Brownell Imp. Co., $1.67; Indiana Co., $1.23; Heinzman Bros., $2.00. Cedar street from Division to Milton: Brownell Imp. Co., $2.10; Indiana Co., $1.82; Heinzman Bros., $2.30. A motion was made that the contract be let to the Indiana Macadam A Construction Co. for all the streets, but the motion was lost and another motion to postpone action until Wednesday evening carried. Warren Robinson et al petitioned fora gravel road on Melville street. Matter referred to street committee. A plank walk was ordered constructed at A Mrs. Hoover's property in Newton’s addition, and a cement walk on the west side of G. K. Hollingsworth’s property. The city attorney reported the former proceedings for the construction of the Plum and Fraukli n street sewer to have been i nsufficient and a new ordinance was adopted for the construction of the same. The chairman of the water works committee was directed to investigate as to meter water rates. i The following bills were allowed: CORPORATION FUND. Thos. McGowan, salary as marshal.... $ 45 06 J. W. Childers, night watch $0 06 T. J. McCoy, per diem 3 months 10 00 S. C. Irwin, per diem and expenses... 46 25 C. E. Mills, per diem city attorney.,.. 8 00 H. R. Kurrie, per diem city attorney. 26 00 Geo. E. Murray, per diem councilman 18 00 C. J. Dean, “ “ 18 00' C. G. Spitler, “ “ •* 18 00 John Eger. “ “ •• 18 00 John F. McColly, ” “ “ 18 W J. C. Gwin, “ “ “ IS 00 H. L. Gamble, city engineer 4 50 Ernest Middleton, assisting engineer. 180 E. F. Short, hauling fire apparatus... 1 50 Ellis A Murray, mdse fire department. 88 C. C. Starr, per diem 6 months 37 50 J. H. Hoover, cleaning river 115 SPECIAL FUND. Mary E, Eannal, real estate.... 00 06 BPXCIAL ADD. FUND. C. C. Starr, interest water works bonds 286 12 C. C. Starr, ’* on school debt.... 390 80 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. C. S. Chamberlain, salary electrician. 00 00 Peter Giyer, salary engineer 45 00 Lem Huston. “ asst, engineer 46 00 S. C. Irwin, statements, duplicates and postage...,- . 485 Sayler-Bales Lum. Co. coal and d'v'g 180 $3 Varney A McOuat, electrical supplies. IS 38 D. E. Hollister, salary as pumper..... 45 00 White A Marion, repairs 810 ROAD FUND. John Mooemiller, work on street V John S. Ramey, ’* “ “ IJO I. N. Hemphill, drayage IB L. A. Hopkins, burying dog 00

5,000 Acres of Land for Sale. Will be sold within 30 days, in tracts and terms to suit those wanting a home. At from $15.00 to $50.00 per acre. For particulars call upon or write to Ray D. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind. Jay A. Thompson, (or) Parr, Ind. Subscribe for The Democrat. Don’t waste your fruit by putting it in poor cans. You can get . the heavy “machine made” cans at McFarland’s at the same price. Morris'English Worm Powder Sold by A.