Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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""Professional Cards. >;*•*»*. ATTORNEYS * Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstract*, Real Estate, Loam. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stain east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. —— 1 ■ «"——-—— Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Beal Estate. Office In Hollingsworth Building, Ist floor; rear of McCoy’s Bank. 7“ Geo. K. Hollingsworth Arthur H. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, Attorneys at Law. EN~olßee second floor of Leopold’s Block, Corner Washington and Yanßensselaer sta. Practice in all tne courts, purchase, sell and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer B. L. A S. 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. £&«Offiee over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. »»»« rotrs. e. a. wnu. harry m. rurrii Foltz, Spitler & Knrrie, to Thompson A Bro.) f Attorneys-at-Lsiw. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Park iso n Notary Tublic. Notary Public. Chilcote &. Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. ‘ • ■ „ Law, Seal Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over Fanners’ 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. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, Indiana. Lju'vßeal Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. ____JANKING. Addison Parkinson. John 11. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co Diucroaa. Addison Parkison, Q. E. Murray, Ja*.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 bough* at current rates of interest. A •bare of your patronage Is solicited. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Poatofflce, Rensselaer, Indiana. Omee Phorr, IT7. duiMßei Phorr, Its.

I. B. Washburn, Physician & Surgeon. Dr. Washburn will (ire special attention to Diseases of the Bye, Ear. Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He aleo tests eyes for jrlnues. Omei Tiliphom No. 41. Rbsiosnos Phonb No. ay. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. H. L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F. B. Meyer’s drug store.

"V DR. MOORE, Specialist, Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELrAER IND. • ' . - '.,-. ‘ • . .

LOCAL MATTERS. Another big frost Thursday night. Come to The Democrat office for yonr sale bills. , Commissioners’ court meets in regular session Monday. A death-occurred at Monticello this week from diphtheria. Miss Helen Kelley is attending the Wisconsin University. {[ Have yon taken advantage of our Indianapolis Sentinel offer. The two best wagons on wheels, Studebaker and Weber, for sale by C. A. Roberts. Ed Rhoades has purchased J a mes Antrim’s interest in the Antrim & Dean hardware store. The Indianapolis Sentinel Free To Every Paid-In-Advance Subscriber To “The Democrat.” Hollingsworth & Hopkins have moved their law office to rooms over the Commercial State Bhnk. "ar . 1 o J. N. Pierce went to Lebanon, Boone county, last Monday to see if be could find some cattle for safe. B. F. Fendig, Geo. E. Murray and C. C. Warner are taking in the Dewey blow-out at New York City this week. Miss May Dart returned last Sunday, from a two week’s visit with her brother George and family, in Chicago. The Leif Buggy Co. of Attica, has closed up their branch store at Goodland and moved the stock back to Attica. The Halleck telephone lines are now connected with the court house and an instrument placed in the auditor’s office. Superintendent Miller, of the Starke county poor farm, was arrested last week for brutally beating a 77-year-old inmate. The first heavy frost of the season fell Wednesday night. But little of the late planted corn but what was out of the way, however. Dr. Washburn was called to Monticello Wednesday to see Mrs. John Timmons formerly of Barkley tp., who is lying at the point of death. Oliver P. Hodge, of Owen county, and Miss Cora E- Huber, of Wheatfield, were married at the court house by Judge Thompson last Saturday afternoon. Rev. Watkins is attending the State First Baptist Church Asso., at Cosperville, Noble county, Ind., this week. He drove through, accompanied by his wife. A. Lincoln Kirk, impersonator, will give one of bis popular entertainments at the F. W. Baptist church in this city, Oct. 10. Admission 25 and 15 cents. The Monon excursion train to Chicago to-morrow will make no stops north of Rensselaer. This is the last cheap excursion of the season, only 75 cents for the round trip. Marriage is evidently a failure in Newton county. Seven divorce cases are on the docket for the next term of court and no marriage license issued since the middle of September, Benjamin Vandusen, a Shelby section hand, has been arrested for incest, the complainant being his 14-year-old daughter. Vandusen formerly resided in northern Jasper, going from there to Tennes--866, We have a fall line of fall and winter millinery goods and are prepared to suit everbody. Our Opening will begin Oct. 4th and continue for two weeks. Please call and see us, before buying elsewhere. M. & A. Meyer. We pay salary of 115 per week and expenses for man with rig to introduce our Poultry Mixture in the country. Hustlers wanted. Reference. Address with stamp, American Mfg. Co., 124-126 Lafayette Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, September 30* 1899.

J. A. Larsh of Remington, was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday? Our Remington and Fair Oaks correspondence “failed to connect” this week. Monticello sportsmen will have a “shoot” at the fair grounds at that place, Oct. 3. 1 Mrs. P. W. Clark went to Chicago Thursday, for medical and surgical treatment. Come in and subscribe for The Democrat and get the Indianapolis Sentinel one year free. Frank Harlacher, formerly of Remington, has purchased a half interest in a Monticello restaurant and bakery. C. D. Nowels and family have been visiting Mrs. Nowels’ parents near Flora, Carroll county, for the past ten days. Notice the change in C. E. Hersh man’s bargain ad this week. Date of Millinery Opening, Oct, 5th to 7th. Judge Healy is still very low. There has been no signs of improvement in his condition for the last several days. Outside of the city of Rensselaer The Democrat has the largest circulation of aiiy paper published in Jasper county. Advertisers should remember this. Lillie M. Goodrick has begun divorce proceedings in the circuit court against her husband, Robert B. Goodrick, alleging infidelity, etc. The complainant resides at Fair Oaks. Judge Kent of Frankfort, holds that liquor license remonstrances may be signed by power of attorney, in a decision handed down last week. This decision, if good law, will have a sweeping effect in the saloon fighting business. Thirteen marriage licenses had hden issued by Clerk Coover for September, up to yesterday noon, against 14 for September of last year, and 9 for September two years ago. Seventy-five licenses have thus far been issued for the present calander year.

The season of the year for country dewspapera to begin (punching up those subscribers who promised to pay their subscription in wood has arrived. Democrat subscribers will please take notice and save us the trouble of calling their attention to this matter. The Benton Review of last week was issued as a souvenir edition, and was a very neatly gotten up number indeed, containing much interesting matter pertaining to early days in Benton coanty and many cuts of prominent people, pretentious business houses and residences. The Strickfaden bowling alley will he opened up to the public today after a close of several weeks, during - which time extensive changes have been made, a new alley added, a gallery for spectators erected at the east end, and the whole interior handsomely repapered and repainted. Hiram Collins of White coanty, who murdered Joseph Ward near Chalmers a few months ago, was found guilty and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment in the Michigan City penitentiary. Collins is no doubt partially insane and is hardly accountable for his acts. He has a wife and nine children. An exchange says that there is a tradition that the hickory nut crop foretells the wheat crop of the following year, a large nut crop being followed by a large wheal crop and vice versa. If this sign is reliable an enormous wheat crop/ is probable next year, for the hickory trees give promise of an abundant yield this fall. Fowler Leader: Tile Snnday Times asks the county superintendent to rise and explain how he puts in.3l4days of the year in school work. Don’t you have any business of your own ? Don’t your family require any of your time? Don’t you go fishing, hunting or on an outing With the children? What do you do all the time? Good paan, rise and explain.

M. A. Thomas and J. M. Gardner have begun action in the circuit court against Laßue Bros., for commission on a land deal. Lafayette is arranging for a big time at its business men’s carnival, Oct. 10 to 13 inclusive. The Monon will make cheap rates for the occasion. Attorney Douthit informs us that Mrs. Douthit, who was recently taken to Chicago for medical treatment, is getting along as well as can be expected. Fowler, Benton county, will have rural free mail delivery, commencing Oct. 9. Population served, 800. length of route, 31 miles. F. H. Jones, regular carrier,. B. H. Jones, substite. The Hildebrand saloon building is being rebuilt with brick. It will be but one story in height. M. L. Hemphill has also rebuilt his blacksmith shop which was destroyed at the same time the saloon was so badly damaged by fire. See the big 2-page ad of the Chicago Bargain Store on the inside pages of this paper. This is the largest advertisement ever before placed in Jasper county, and its equal is not often seen outside such cities as Chicago or New York. Estray taken up— At my farm, 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Rensselaer, (old Paxton farm) on Saturday, Sept. 23, a two-year-old heifer, weight about 800 pounds, colrr red.. Owner may have same by proving property and paying charges. Charles Burbage.

The wolf bounty has been cut off by the county council of White and a number of contiguous counties. The act,, is generally commended. The average Indiana farmer does not ask to be paid for doing his plain duty. He can be depended upon to destroy anything that proves a harm to himself or neighbors.—Monon News. Two pages of this issue of The Democrat are taken up with a big ad for the Chicago Bargain Store’s fall opening, which curtails our space somewhat for regular local news. However, our readers will fitjid this advertisement interesting < reading', and by perusing its great bargain offers and taking advantage of same, they will save many dollars on their fall purchases. Next Monday Governor Mount and staff will start on his itineracy in delivering the captured rebel flag of the Terry’s Texas Rangers to the surviving members of that regiment, at Dallas, Texas, for which purpose the late republican legislature appropriated $250. While then is nothing wrong in the returning of this flag, or all others for that matter, had a democratic legislature and democratic governor done this thing the republican press and patriotism howlers would have gone into spasms of agony. Yanse Anderson, ayenng Dane employed as seotion hand at Monon, got his right leg cut off by a switch engine at Monon Wednesday morning. Anderson was troubled with rheumatism somewhat and it is supposed that he could not get out or the way of the engine in time owing to this ailment Anderson made bis home in Rensselaer with James Norris. He was a member of Rensselaer Encampment I. O. O. F. and the subordinate I. O. O. F. of Monon. Several head of cattle were recently stolen from a pasture west of Chalmers and driven to Benton county where a man by the name of Hawkins, near Otteroein bought them, paying about $350 for the bunch. The man having them in chaige told a very straight story as to how they came in his possession, etc., ami Hawkins believed him. The. cattle were finally recovered by the owner and suspicion rested on one Bert Wickam of near Monticello, as the thief. Saturday evening he was arrested and placed in jail. Monday he was arraigned before Judge T homp80n and on a plea of guilty was gi ven an indeterminate sentence in the reformatory. Wiokam is about 25 years of age.

ANOTHER BIG CATTLE SALE.

More than 700 Head of Stock Sold at McCoy & McDonald’s Sale. Last Saturday morning opened damp and cloudy but along about train time the sun began to dispel the mists and Uncle Mac was seen on the bank comer passing boqnets to “The sweet singers of Israel.” All were loaded in the hack and taken to the train. About 100 of our citizens boarded the cars and in a few moments were landed at McCoysburg. In about five minutes Tom J. Cline, of Delphi, that prince of auctioners, had us corralled in and about the inclosufe and after stating the terms of the sale, called upon Uncle Mac to say a few words, which he did as follows: “Friends, we’ve got a h— of a lot of stuff here and it’s good stuff too, and we are going to sell it, so d— cheap you can’t afford to go home without it.” Well the sale started rather slow and Mr. Cline concluded the crowd was hungry and adjourned for lunch, which was free and the crowd did justice to it. The writer thinks some of the folks enjoy the gastronomic talent of William Goat for the way they mowed back “wittles” was a sight. After lunch the sale began in earnest and was kept np incessantly. A car load would be selected out, drove up to the auction block, sold off in a few minutes and another lot called for; during the wait the choir would sing or the sheep skin band would play and the whole thing was one continuous sound of amusement and business from the word go. The crowd was estimated at 500, but the way the wagons, buggies and carriages were lined up around, one would think Barnum’s Great Show was giving an exhibition. These sales are a great benefit to the county and should be continued as they stock up our grazing ranches and save our buyers time and labor in hunting them. Let us hope that McCoy & McDonald will continue the good work until all our farms are stocked. A Guest.

A New Paper for Remington.

It is rumored that E. J. Bailey, a former partner with the writer in the ownership of the Remington Press, is contemplating starting a new paper at Remington and will issue his initial number about the middle of October. Mr. Bailey is a thorough mechanic in the art preservative and will no doubt issue a first-class paper.

Mr. Marshall’s Fire-Arms.

Monticello Herald: Our esteemed neighbor, the Rensselaer Republican, grows facetious on the subject of wolf bounties and hurls a half column of sarcasm at the Herald and Remington Press because they approved the repeal of the bounties. It continues to shout “Wolf!” as if the varmints were really becoming a serious menace to life and property over there, and perhaps they are. In view of the interest Bro. Marshall seems to be taking in the subject, the Herald is inclined to modify its views about it to some extent. In counties where editors are known to have recently purchased guns the bonnty ought perhaps to be allowed to remain at least through one more wolf season. The press should always be given a chance to win out on its investments.

You can get The Democrat, State Sentinel and Cincinnati EnJuirer each a full year for only 1.50, cash in advance, if taken soon. The Democrat doesn’t want to appear impertinent, but really it would like to know how those committees are getting along with the Gifford railroad and what the prospects are in regard to securing the road for Rensselaer?

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beaver of Milroy tp., and Wm. James of White county, returned "the first of the week front a three weeks visit with relatives in Lincoln coanty, 'Oklahoma. They report having had a nice visit and good sport, hunting and fishing. The crops in that locality, consisting of corn, cotton, peanuts, etc., are good.

VoL. 11. No. 2<d

Look Here. Boys.

Another big dance at Warner’* 1 Hall, Rensselaer, Ind., on SatuisJ| day evening, Oct. 7. Come andjf bring your sweethearts and havei a good time. Managed by Kellner & Bicknell.

Here We Are Again.

Last cheap excursion to Chicago, Oct. 1. 75 cents for the round trip. Rensselaer is the only place north of Lafayette at which train

W. H. Beam, Agent.

stops.

Millinery Opening,

Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 4. and lasting two weeks. M. &A. Meyer.

CLOVER HULLING

Having purchased a brand-new clover huller witn attachments for threshing crimson clover and Altai va, I am prepared to do work ’ in this line in a satisfactory manner and at reasonable prices.

CHICAGO FALL FESTIVAL.

Oct. 3to 1 a One Fare For the Round Trip Via the flonon Route. ~ It’s going to be a hotter time than the World’s Fair. Grand Military and Civic Parades, Fireworks, Magnificent Electrical Illumination, Bicycle Races, etc. Ask for program.

W. H. Beam, Agent.

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— ft no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for yonr money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand’

FOR SALE OR TRADE.

A good 80-acre farm 2 miles east of McCoysburg, tiled, good 4-room house, new barn 32x40, double corn crib, good granary and wagon slied and other outbuildings, 2 good wells, all under cultivation except 12 acres in timothy. Price f4O per acre. Call on or address Geo. Fbedline, Lee, Ind. J

Want Yotir Trade.

Hiving bought tbs grocery stock of H. J. Dexter located m r " Odd Fellow’s block in front of court house, I will continue the business with Philip Blue in charge, with a complete line of j groceries, queensware. cigars, tobacco, etc. We ask a liberal share of your patronage. Fair dealing || our motto. S. Galbreth.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

Frank N. Bostian, W. J. Bonn- I er, George Conway. C. E. Downing, John Emit, Chas. Fraser, James Hill, R. W. Hurkins, W. "Q F. Heneger, C. E. Jackson, C. M. Moore, S. W. Mooney, D. E. Macy, H. L. Richardson, H. C. Sims, A. Timmons, J. B. Wilson. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list wifi please say they are advertised.

F. B. Meyer, P. M. i

5 Per Cent. Farm Loans.

A special fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent, interest, with privilege to make partial payments any interest paying time. Call on or write, Commercial State Bank, no. side Pub. Square. Rensselaer, Ind 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. The Democrat carries the lar-. gest and finest line of job stock of any printing office in Jasper coanty and can furnish anything in this line in large or small quanties and on very short notice. ’ ft

Morris’ English Worm Pow4ar ! r fS££Eß± Sold by A. F. Long.

Andrew Ropp.

W. B. Austin.