Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL MATTERS. Read Jack Warner’s new ad. Remington fair, Aug. 22 to 25. Fountain Park Assembly, Aug. 5 to 20. Battle Ground campmeeting, Aug. 3 to 14. The Democrat editor and family spent Sunday in Chicago. R. S. Dwiggins has gone to Oden, Mich., for a month’s outing. Quite a number of Rensselaer people spent Sunday at Cedar Lake. ’’ Attorney John Greve of Wheatfield. was in town on business Wednesday. A camp of Modern Woodmen of America is to be instituted at Mt. Ayr to-night. Carroll county old settlers will hold their annual meeting on Saturday. Aug. 12. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cox are visiting friends and relatives in Henry country. The town of Wolcott has given up the project of erecting a new school building this year. Frank Nicholson and Harvey Gates of Remington, were in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. The Dem< x rat and the Indianapolis Weekly Sentinel one year ror $1.35; Democrat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer. 51.50. cash in, advance' The widow of the late Elwood Spriggs of DeMotte. who was a soldier in the war with Spain, has been granted a widow's pension of sl2 per month. Applications are again being published for saloon licenses at Monon, where the remonstrators have knocked out every applicant for the past few months. Drs. Washburn A English have dissolved partnership. Dr. Washburn retaining the old office rooms and Dr. English opening an office over the postoffice. The bids for the various proposed street improvements in Rensselaer are to be opened and acted upon August 14. Bids will be received until 8 p. m. of that day. Edwin Mauck. of Anderson, spent Sunday with his parents in Newton tp. Mrs. Mauck had been visiting here for several days with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. D H. Yeoman. The Goodland Journal each week contains an interesting letter trom Rev. H. A. Henderson, a Goodland young man who recently went as a missionary to Nanplia. Greece.

Bro. West of the Benton Review. will celebrate his first year’s work of converting the republicans of his county by getting out an illustrated souvenir edition of 3.000 copies. Sept.’2l. The Chicago Bargain Store is the only house in town that bought one car load of 100 gross MasoiY fruit jars and they can afford to sell half gallons at 39 cents a dozen: the quarts at 34 cents a dozen. John O'Conner of Kniman, was in town Wednesday. Oats are nearly all harvested in his locality, threshing has begun and the yield is good. Mail is now being carried on the Coal Road and everything is moving along harmoniously. Raising the left arm as high as you can will relieve choking much more rapidly than being thumped in the beck, and it is well that everyone should know it, for often a person gets choked while eating when there is no one near to thump him. And now comes an Indiana man who has discovered a process for making rubber from crude oil, and at about one-fifth the cost of the regular product. The rubber is said to have been thoroughly tested and possesses all the qualities of the genuine article.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISEASES, * •“> , BRMORRORDS, r ‘S,.™,. Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND.

Reynolds has a new paper, the Sun. D. A. Stoner was in Chicago Sunday. Dr. English was in Chicago Wednesday. Geo. W. King of White county has made an assignment. Ambia, Benton county, had a §30,000 fire last Tuesday night. A bicycle, second hand, fSr $lO.00, at the Chicago Bargain Store. 100 good envelopes with your return card printed thereon for only 50 cents, at this office. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Yeoman and little daughter of Ambia, are visiting Rensselaer relatives this week. Mr. and Mrs Wm. Mullan of Lafayette, are visiting the former’s uncle, J. C. Norman of this place, this week. Our Sharon correspondent tells of a young lady south of that place having been bitten by the kissing bug. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ferguson of Logansport, are visiting the former's parents. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ferguson, of this city. The Democrat would like to know what has become of its Kniman and Blue Sea correspondents? Our readers would like to hear from them regularly. Mrs. James Welsh, Mrs. Laura Michael and W. H. Ritchey started for Rice county, Kansas, Thursday, to see their sister, Mrs. Foster Downing who is dangerously ill. A large number of the clerks of this city, accompanied by the band, picnicked at Cedar Lake last Wednesday. All seem to have enjoyed the day. The Rathbone Sisters also picnicked at the Lake the same day. In all about 65 tickets were sold.

Mr. and Mis. Ezra Nowels and two children of Lamar, Colo., arrived last Friday for a few weeks visit with Rensselaer relatives. Mr. Nowles is in the law practice at Lamar, and this is his first visit to his old home in twelve years. He finds many changes in the county since he was a resident here.

A bank officer in Perth Amboy. N. J., deliberately stole §142,000 of the bank’s money, and was sent i to prison for six years as a punishment. He is a comparatively i young man. and at the end of his term will still be comparatively young. What a travesty on justice! iNo wonder honest people are disgusted when they see how some of i our judiciaries mete out justice to offenders of the law.—Ex. Onion growers in Jasper county have a very bright outlook for a . big crop this season, but Alf. Doni elly as usual can probably beat I them all. A bunch of six onions—- ! 3 White Globe and 3 Red Globe— I grown from seed upon his farm I north of town, were deposited upion our table last Saturday that ■ averaged 10 inches in circumference and tipped the scales at 4 each. Who can beat this. Captain William Astor Cliandl er. Corigresman 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-Governor Hogg, of Texas, and Col. Fred Feigl, of New York, are among the well known names in the Board of Directors. On last Saturday the directors adopted a two days' program for the third annual meeting of Old Settlers on September Bth and 9th, 1899. There will be an old fashioned picnic dinner each day. On September Bth, in the afternoon, speeches will be made by Hon. E. Hammond, of Lafayette, Ind. Hon. John L. Pierce of Lebanon, Ind., Hon. W. W. Gilman of Goodland, Ind. The 9th will be Jasper’s own, assisted by W. W. Pfrimmer of Kentland, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, July 29, 1899.

Subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. New oats are starting at 19| cents in the Rensselaer market. Mrs. A. S. Nowels of Hammond, is visiting friends here this week. Henry Butler, the Goodland butcher, was in the city yesterday. Attorney E. P. Honan was in Chicago on law business Thursday. Rev. T. H. Ball, of Crown Point, is working upon a history of northwestern Indiana. Luetgert, he of sausage notoriety, died at Joliet prison Thursday morning of heart disease. Jacob Dlazak of Milroy tp., was again arrested Wednesday on the corn stealing charge and was taken to Monticello, where he gave bond for his appearance next Monday.

On application of W. B. Austin. Judge Thompson yesterday appointed a receiver for the DeMotte Canning Co. J. F. Irwin was appointed. The factory is not being operated now, and about all the old stockholders have dropped out. Geo. H. Parks, a brother of W. S. Parks of this city, died at his home south of Remington last Monday, after a brief illness, aged 38 years. Deceased was one of the best known and most respected farmers of Gilboa tp., and his early death is deeply deplored. The cause of his death was a bowel trouble. He leaves a wife and three children.

Strickfaden’s bowling alley is to shut down the first of the month for a few weeks while some changes in the interior arrangements are being made. The partition is to be removed at the west end of the alleys, the whole thing moved west to the end of the building, another alley added and a gallery erected on the east end for spectators. The change will cost some six hundred dollars, it is said. The young people of the Baptist church gave a social at the home of Marion Adams, southeast of this city, last Saturday evening. Over 100 people were present and all speak very highly of their entertainment. Plenty of good music, and a large, well-kept lawn, well lighted with Japanese lanterns, afforded no end to amusements for the young folks. Ice cream and cake were served.

Blaine Shafer, a well known young man at Monticello, has been arrested on the charge of attempted blackmail. He is alleged to have tried to scare a Logansport doctor into paying him §250 or he would "blow" something he claimed to know injurious to the doctor’s professional reputation. A trap was set for him and he was caught redhanded. Shafer has always borne a good reputation and his friends hope that he will be able to extricate himself from his serious position.

An Anderson Indiana genius has perfected some sort of a harmless fluid which, poured over a cake of ice, will render it almost everlasting. Three blocks of ice were treated with an application of the fluid and have been exposed to the sun’s fiercest rays for the past three months and are said to be as large and cool as when first exposed. This story has a somewhat chilly sound, and what makes it even more so the inventor is an ice dealer, yet it is given out as straight goods and the inventor has applied for a patent.

The new law’s governing the management of poor asylums makes it mandatory on the superintendent of such asylum to file with the county auditor estimates of supplies for the subsistence of the inmates and maintenance of the asylum, on or before the Thursday preceding the first Monday in March, June, September and December of each year, for the subsequent three months, and requires the auditor to advertise for bids for furnishing such supplies. Nothing of this kind has been done, however, in Jasper county.

A social will be given this evening at the home of George Kessinger in Jordan tp. Ice cream and cake will be served for only 10 cents. The proceeds will go toward enclosing the Welsh cemetery with a good fence. Everybody invited. An old settlers’ organization was perfected in Newton connty last Tuesday, at a meeting held at Brook. Dr. M. L. Humston of Goodland, was made president, and A. J. Kitt of the Goodland Journal, secretary. The first meeting will be held at Brook, Aug. 24. The Democrat is fighting in the interests of every tax-payer in Jasper county. Remember this, and remember that every man engaged in plundering the public has from time immemorial fought by every means in his power to keep the public in ignorance of the true facts. The Apologist editor and Miss Jessie Bartoo left for Colorado Springs. Colo.. Thursday, where it is said the latter contemplates locating. It is also rumored that the Apologist editor is looking for a location in the West, some place where "official organs’’ and pianos escape taxation provided the owner has the requisite amount of firearms. Something is evidently wrong with the striking apparatus of "Honest Alie s’’ $2,300 court house clock. Yesterday morning at 5 o’clock it chimed out the hour of three. Under the old per deim law a special session of "‘Honest Abe’s” court would no doubt have fixed matters all right, but now it is difficult to say just what can be done.

A Successful “Barrister.”

Last Monday August Rosenbaum, the saloonist, was arrrested on three "counts." and arraigned before his honor Esq. Burnham. The first charge was that of failure to remove screens from doors and windows promptly at the time prescribed by law on closing up lime. The other cases were for selling beer to minors. It seems that several boys chipped in and got Dal Daywitt of Union tp.. to buy them a keg of beer last Saturday evening, which he did. purchasing the beer of Rosy. Several if not all of the boys were minors, and they proceeded to the rear of the city hall where they bowled up in great shape. Rosenbaum was arrested for selling them the beer. He plead not guilty and. wishing to get through with the matter with as little expense as possible, he proposed to dispense with the sen ices of an attorney and plead his own case. The various witnesses were examined by both the prosecutor and Rosy, and when it came time to make the closing argument. Rosy is reported to have made a very flowery speech which completely awed the court and prosecutor. Like the fellow whose grandmother was going away on a long journey. Rosy “sposened’’" the case. "Suppose now." he is reported to have said, "that yon. your honor, or Mr. Mills should come to me and want a keg of beer to take over to the river to the girls, must I ask you what you are going to do with it? Not by a d sight. It would be none of my business. I Lave a license to sell beer and the man I sold this to was of age. I know nothing about what he was going to do with it, nor did the law compel me to follow him up and see what became of it.” This argument was a clincher, yet the court and prosecutor evidently desired tosay something, but Rosy would "chip in” every time they started to talk and gave them no chance to figure up the costs, and he was acquitted on all three counts. Daywitt, the man who bought the beer, however, was arrested Monday night and was fined §25 and costs, and he is now laying out same at Jasper county's expense in the county jail. Geo. Strickfaden was also arrested on the screen charge but was acquitted.

Shoots His Brother.

Willie Battleday. the 9-year-old son of George W. Battleday. living 5 miles southwest of Mt. Ayr. was shot and instantly killed by the discharge of a gun in the hands of his little 5-year old brother, last Friday afternoon. Just how the accident occurred is not definitely known, but it is supposed that the boys who were in the habit of snapping caps on the gun. were engaged at this pastime when the fatal shot was fired. The boys had not played with the gun for sometime, however, and in the meantime an older brother and a neighbor boy had been shooting cartridges in it, on the 4th of July, and had snapped the last cartridge which failed to fire, and the gun was replaced with this still in it. Now it seems that Willie had procured some gun caps and wishing to hear the noiseof the snapping of the cap. placed the barrel of the gun to his ear and requested his little brother to pull the trigger, which he did. causing the old cartridge in the gun to explode sending the bullet entirely through the boy's head. The extreme youth of the smaller boy. will undoubtedly, prevent the true facts ever coming to light. To use his words, he says, "I did not hurt brother, because I only pulled the trigger.” Willie was an unusually bright and attractive little boy. and a large concourse of relatives and friends on the day following the accident, followed the remains to their last resting place in the Brook cemeterv.

Another Oil Well.

While drilliue a well for Delos Thompson. 24 miles east of town. Thursday afternoon, workmen struck a vein of black lubricating oil. There is said to be quite a large quantity of the oil. more, probably than in any of the finds heretofore made. Bring your job printing and legal notices to The Democrat.

THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The regular meeting of the common council was held last Monday evening with the full council present, except Mayor, and councilman Spitler occupied the chair. New cement walks were ordered in on Cullen st., in front of John Makeever's property, anti on south side of Washington from Cullen st. east to Division. Walk was condemned in front of Christian church, and the council is contemplating ordering in a new walk along the whole block. Warren Robinson and other property owners on Melville st., desire to build a gravel roadway along that street from Grace to Merritt st., and askeel the city to ; furnish gravel and labor for grav- ' eling street and alley crossings. The city agreed to do this. Charles Piatt was the only bidder for the construction of the Vine st., and the Jefferson st., sewers: Jefferson st.. 13 cents per lineal foot and $5 each for catchbasins: Vine st.. 18 cents per foot and ss* each for catch-basins Bid was accepted. The stray water fountain was located on south side of Washington street, 30 feet west of Cullen. The treasurer's c report to June 12 approved at the previous meeting of council and which we overlooked in our report of said meeting. showed the following condition of the varioas funds at that time. Corporatioa Fund, balance ... S 1-871 *> Road Fund, balance. 12 11 Electric Loxbt Fund, overdrawn 185 31 Water Fund, overdrawn........ 35 9® The following bids were allowed. cnKFOBAXios mt®. Cit. Corner Band, donation to July 15. $ 5 Hunt Brow. tndse 80 Eiuacrnic Lioht mt®. Hunt Bros-, mndrie*. 1 57 Say lev-Bales. Lum. Co_ roal a ddiv'r 127 9® warn mt® Hunt Brow, sundries 5) H. E. Wlutv. repnirctoboiler 25 John Hordennan. same 45 ■Bad nw. Leslie Clark- pub, notice Vine st. sew. 4 50 Harry Macce. wk on streets 4 h> Alfred Byrd, tame 4 40 B. H . Dillon. same...,. 1 «5 S. Adams, same ... 135 A. Haas, same 3 J.P.Rowen. 5ame.....,....,*........... 2 5® F.Swartnd. same 52 White £ Marion, repairs on hitch rark 25

Vol. 11. No. 16

Get your wedding and at home cards printed at The Democrat office. A handsome line to select from. For Sale:—Lots 5 & 6, Newton’s addition, 134 feet front, good location. Easy terms. Enquire at this office. 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. The Democrat carries the largest and finest line of job stock of any printing office in Jasper county and can furnish anything in this line in large or small qualities and on very short notice. Another great saving to the community. You would be paying about 90 cents per dozen, for onehalf gallon fruit jars if we had not reduced the price to 39 cents per dozen.

CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

For the benefit of those of our readers who have not read the new township reform measure, or who gave it little attention when previously published, we re-publish a complete synopsis of the law in this issue. One-half gallon Mason fruit jars, 39 cents per dozen; quarts, per dozen. 32 cents. The above are the lowest prices ever quoted. If any one meets these prices we will go one better, as we lead, others follow.

CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

Dan. the crippled son of Hiram Day. was riding a cart or a sort of bicycle upon the walk near his home Thursday evening, when a man came along and, so Dau says, ordered him off the sidewalk, but before he could comply, he grabbed Dau and threw him and the machine against a tree, injuring the boy quite badly. A physician was called, we are informed, and lit is thought his spine is injured. When you have a non-resident notice, notice of appointment, notice of survey, notice of final settlement, etc., to be published, insist on your attorney having the publication made in The Democrat. Our prices for this work are as reasonable as others and the clients themselves control this class of legal advertisements. Remember this and see that the paper of your choice gets the advertising.

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.

Free baptist Church.

Next Sunday is Mission day. Text. Matt. 28-19, will be used by the pastor. The A. C. F. meeting will be led by Miss Blankeubaker. Missionary meeting, 7:45 p. m. A program consisting of songs, recitations, papers, etc., is being prepared.

Jasper’s Promising Oil Territory.

Three South Bend parties who hold 60 per cent, equally divided, in new oil wells down in Jasper county. 50 odd miles south, are jubilant over the superior quality of lubricating oil pumped from their new find in paying quantities. Work is to be pushed there as experts pronounce the oil product unexcelled. The names of the fortunate South Benders will be announced later. —South Bend. Times.

■ao-Acra Farm For Sale. Good farm, all under cultivation except 14 acre grove, good house and barn, good well, all well fenced, 3 miles west of Rensselaer. Price §42.00 per acre, part time. John Francis, Rensselaer, Ind. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Miss Cena Call, Mrs. Maggie Holland, Joe Lanie, D. E. Macy, Rev, G. W. Tupper (2). Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please ■ say they are advertised. F. B. Meyer, P. M. 1