Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Pei* Year.

Professional Cards. Edward P. Honan, v v 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. IW" Office over Commercial State Bank. Practice in all the 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.Ry. and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. fRAMK rOITX. O. O. SPITLAR. MARRY R. KUKRI I Foltz, Spitler & Knrrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attomeys-at-Law. 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 & 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 iu 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. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. __ __ BANKING. Addison Parkinson. John M. 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 dihkctoks. Addison Parkison, G. E. Murray. Jas.T. Ran--die, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Ihterest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. PHYSICIANS.

E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postoffice, Rensselaer, Indiana. Omes Pmomb. 177. Rbsidbmcb Pmomb, lIS. 1. B. Washburn, Physician & Surgeon. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Ornci Tslbbmonb No. U. ftSSIOBMOS PhOHB No. 97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. DENTIST. H. L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F B. Meyer’s drug store.

"'W DR. MOORE, Specialist, Bi llIkwos». Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND. • .. • . .. .

LOCAL MATTERS. Mrs. W. H. Parkison is reported quite sick. Geo. R. Wendling next Wednesday evening. George Borntrager returned Wednesday from a stay in Chicago. J. F. Irwin is taking the mud bath treatment at Indiana Mineral Springs. Miss Maggie Kenton will speak in Free Baptist church next Sunday evening. Wm. Norris, who has been sick fora long time, is reported as failing gradually. Mrs. S. M. Freelove of Goodland, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Babcock. The plant of the Lafayette Bridge Co., was totally destroyed by fire last Friday night. H. E. Remley and Harvey Davisson were among the Wheatfield visitors in town Saturday. Come in and subscribe for The Democrat and get the Indianapolis Sentinel one year free. E- M. Parcels was in Monticello on business and visiting his mother a few days this week. A large number of Rensselaer people attended the Chicago and Lafayette festivities this week. Editor Schanlaub, Sam Bartholomew and Joseph Wright, all of Morocco, were in the the city Sunday. The Dluzak damage cost against the Mays, in the White circuit court, has been continued to next term. James H. Chapman has moved his law and real estate office into rooms upstairs in the Makeever block.

Porter J. White carries a comjpany of 20 people, and guarantees I the finest performance of that play ; ever in this play. J. Summers of DeMotte, Ind., is moving his family to Hammond. Mr. Summers is a nephew of H. C. Summers.—Hammond News. Go to St. Augustine’s church, Sunday night, Oct. 22, aud see the Passion Play, produced by moving pictures. Doors will be open at 7 p. m. The Goodland Herald and Journal will be consolidated after this week under the name of HeraldJournal, with A. J. Kitt as pubblisher. James Letter’s son Robert who accompanied his father to Nebraska last winter, has enlisted in the regular army and will go to the Phillipines. The Imperial Stock Co., are holding forth at the opera house this week. The company is much above the average and is drawing very good houses.

Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest ana commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. M. L. Spi tier, who has been lying at the point of death for the last several days, was reported slightly better yesterday afternoon, but it is hardly thought that he can recover. The Aetna powder works near Miller’s, Porter county, blew up again Tuesday evening about 7:30 o’clock with a shock that was felt for many miles. Four men were blown to atoms. j • New pensions: Daniel S. Johnson, Foresman, increase, $8 to sl2; James W. Mason, Brookston, original, $8; John Burgh, Brookston, supplemental, $2; Joseph J. Bums, Fair Oaks, increase, $8 to sl2. The foot ball game last Friday between Rensselaer and Sheldon resulted in a score of 35 to 0 in favor of Rensselaer. The high school team, which went to Goodland to play the team at that place, also won put by a score of 11 to 6.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, October 14, 1899.

All money refunded at the end of the 3rd act to those who are in the least dissatisfied with Sorter J. White’s production of “Faust.” Births: Oct. 8, to Mrs. and Mr. S. B. Jenkins, a son; Oct. 9, to Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Cooper, jr., of Barkley tp., a son; Oct. 12, to Mrs. and Mr. Charles Pefley, in town, a son. All democrats. The coroner’s verdict in the Wm. Shelfer case, censures the railroad company for failure to blow the whistle or ring the bell at Chupp crossing, south of the cut where Sheffer was kilied. Mrs. Mary High of Williamsport, an aged lady who came to attend the Henkle-Dowler nuptials, fell through a trap door into the cellar at the Dowler residence Wednesday afternoon and suffered a fracture of her left limb. Miss Orrie Clark of the Vermillion county hospital corps, and Miss Grace Tolby of Battle Ground, after a pleasant visit of three weeks with relatives and friends in the city, returned to their respective places Wednesday.

An old bachelor by the name of Hopper was killed at Rose Lawn Tuesday by being struck by a Monon train. It is said that he had been drinking and was considerably under the influence of intoxicants when killed.—Lowell Tribune.

Peter Butter while getting gravel from the Wetti pit in Union tp., found a stone ax about six inches long by three and a half wide. A round hole had bren drilled through it in which a handle could be put. The ax was found twenty-five feet under ground.— Benton Review.

A girl, named plain “Mary” a! her birth, dropped the “r” when she grew up and became Miss May. As she began to shine in a social way, she changed the “y” to “e” and signed her letters Mae. About a year ago she was married, and now she has dropped the “e” and its just plain “Ma.” That’s evolution.—Ex.

Rev. H. M. Middleton has been granted a vacation of six weeks and will leave with Mrs. Middleton next Tuesday for Chattanooga, Tenn., and Central Georgia, where they will spend a few weeks viewing the country and enjoying the southern climate, after which they will return via Oluo and visit briefly with friends there.

John 0. Conner of Kniman, was taking in the fall festival at Chicago this week. Mr. O’Connor was engaged in work in Chicago at the time of the great fire in 1871. It was while taking a pleasure drive that he heard the first tap of the bell announcing the fire. His employer’s store and his own belongings consisting of several hundred dollars, clothes, etc., were destroyed entirely. It was only through his knowledge of the lay of the city that his life was even spared.

At Chicago last Tuesday: “This crush is awful! I’m being squeezed to death!” complained the Rensselaer man. “This crush is lovely! I’m being squeezed almost to death!” sighed the Monticello girl of 35 summers, with an ecstatic look upon her face. “It’s singular,” said a policeman, “how spinsters without any attractions wedge themselves into the thickest parts of the crowd and don’t seem to mind it a bit, while a man who is being subjected to the same pressure kicks and ‘beefs’ around to beat the band.” William Pulver, an aged citizen of Lowell, died last Saturday morning, at the ripe, old age of 71 years and three days. Btis illness was of short duration and was indeed a shock to his children, most of whom knew nothing of his illness. He was the father of Mrs. P. W. Clark, Mrs. Myrtle C. Veach and Miss Qrace Pulver of this place, all of whom were present with the exception of Mrs. Clark who is at the Presbyterian hospital at Chicago, at present, and on account of her illness, it was thought best not to advise her of her father’s death.

Come to The Democrat office for your sale bills. Have you taken advantage of our Indianapolis Sentinel offer. 100 good envelopes with your return card printed thereon for only 50 cents, at this office. For Sale: —Lots 5 & 6, Newton’s addition, 134 feet front, good location. Easy terms. Enquire at this office. You should see C. A. Roberts for Buggies and Road Wagons before buying. It will cost you nothing to see them. At the rear of Glazebrook’s blacksmith shop.

Isaiah Fisher is the latest applicant for a saloon license at Kniman, having published notice of his intention to apply at the November meeting of the commissioners. If the people of Walker tp., don’t want a saloon in their midst they should take the same tack as have the people of Monon, where a Monticello attorney was given power or attorney by the remonstrators to remonstrate against any and all applicants. Thet they can do this, and that such remonstrance is legal, the courts have held in several counties, and only last week Judge Palmer of White county, held the same way in the Monon cases. Unless the people of Walker tp., do something of this kind, applicant after applicant will come forward until the temperance people become tired of the trouble and expense of circulating a remonstrance against every individual applicant, and then some one will slip in.

The many friends of L. H. Ponsler and family will be sorry to learn that Mr. Ponsler contemplates moving to Ilio, Kansas, in a few months. He has leased his farm here to Fred Schultz for the coming year. Mr. Ponsler is interested in a large brick works at Ilio and expects to make that city his home. He says that Ilio is in the center of the natural gas belt, of Kansas and is one of the most prosperous cities in the state, Four years ago it had a population of 1,700; today it has 7,000, and is growing rapidly. Several zinc smelters are located there, and several million dollars is invested in this business alone. A large cement works is now in course of construction and business of all kinds is flourishing. The gas pressure is very strong and the field has been thoroughly tested by experts and pronounced to be practically inexhaustible. The cheap fuel is attracting manufacturers an.l capitalists in great numbers.

Fortnightly Fiction Club Lecture Course.

Oct. IS, George P. Wendling. Dec. 20, Salisbury Orchestra. Jan. 25, John Temple Graves. Feb. —J. B. DeMotte. Season ticket holders can have seats reserved Monday, the 16, by calling at Huff’s jewelry stores

HENKLE-DOWLER.

A very pleasant, social 'event occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dowler, on Scott street, last Wednesday evening, it being the marriage of their daughter, Miss Harriet, to L. Wesley Henkle, of Williamsport. At eight o’clock the groom and bride entered the spacious parlors, where were assembled about 75 relatives and close friends of the family, and in the presence of this large congregation, they were united in marriage by the Rev. H. M. Middleton, of the Trinty M, E. church. The bridal party was led by little Hazel Hopkins and Maud Robinson, Mr. Frank Wood acting as groomsman and Miss Mable Wood as bridesmaid. The groom is well and favorably known to our people, having resided here most of his life, while the bride is one of Rensselaer’s most promising young ladies. The young couple w ill leave for Williamsport to-day, where the groom is engaged in the dairy business. They will begin housekeeping at once. The best wishes of hosts of friends will follow them. The wedding presents were quite numerous.

PASSION PLAY LECTURE.

At St Augustine's Church, Sunday Night, Oct. an. An illustrated lecture by the Passion Play Exhibition Co., will be given at the Catholic church of this city Oct. 22, at 7:30 p. m. The lecture will be given under the auspices of St. Augustine’s church and will be both instructive and entertaining. It will be a reproduction by means of the magniscope of the Oberammergan Passion Play, as produced by peasants of Oberammergan, Bavaria, every ten years, with but few interruptions since 1633, representing the principal events in Christ’s life, during the week which ended with His crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

Reynolds’ Bank Robbed.

The bank'at Reynolds was entered by robbers and the safe blown open and about $3,000 in cash taken, on Wednesday morning at about 3:30 o’clock. Bloodhounds were placed on the trail of the robbers and they followed it to Monticello, thence south to Delphi where all trace was lost. The bank is owned by J. C. Vannatta of Brookston. It carried burglar insurance, therefore will lose nothing. Thomas Rutherford of Reynolds, has been arrested. It is thought he knows something of the robbery.

A Big Show Coming.

Porter J. White’s instructions to the opera house manager is to clear his stage of everything, including all scenery, mechanical effects and furniture as they carry everything from a thunder sheet to a SIO,OOO garden set in which there are over 6,000 square feet of scenery used and eight calciums, one car load of effects.

Colored Baptist Missionary.

Rev. A. H. Chase, M. D., a Baptist missionary from Central and South Africa for 13 years, will preach in the Free Baptist church, next Sunday morning. He will also preach at Parr in the afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, and at Vaughn F. B. church in the evening at 7:30.

Lecture at Free Baptist Church.

Rev. A. H. Chase, M. D., colored missionary in Africa for 13 years, will lecture at the F. VV. Baptist church, Monday evening, Oct. 16, on “Habits and Customs of the Natives and Wonders of the Nile and Congo,” with an interesting portrayal of many dangers and thrilling adventures. He will give some information regarding the present trouble in South Africa. Admission 15 and 10 cents.

Attention Farmers!

Please bear in mind that I am permanently located in my new blacksmith shop near the depot, where I am prepared to do all kinds of blacksmithing. Horseshoeing and plow work a specialty. Give me a trial order. Abe Wartena. All kinds of ditch surveying promptly attended to, at reasonable rates. Orders may be left at The Democrat office.

JOHN H. JESSEN.

The Circuit Court.

The regular term of the Jasper circuit court closed last week, but the case of Brown vs the Monon railroad company, which was commenced during the term is still grinding and promises to last a part of next week yet. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, as special Judge, occupies the bench. It is a marsh fire damage case and scores of witnesses are brought here. The Peters vs Jones case, from Kniman, to quiet title, etc., occupied the closing days of the regular term. This case finally resulted in favor of the plaintiff. Case of State vs Jones, false tax listing; continued. The Jasper County Telephone case, action to restrain the proper officers from collecting certain taxes; sent to White county on change of venue asked for by defense. Goodrick divorce case; dismissed by plaintiff.

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- Tit SOCIETY EVENT OF ETC SEISM, j Ellis’ Opera House, 1 ONE fcIGHT ONLY. I FRIDAY, OCTOBER aoth, 1899. Special engagement MR. PORTER J. WHITE*| Accompanied by MISS OLGA VERNE, —iis- • 6 if . . FAUST . . J Positively producing the following original effects. “The Rain of Fire.” "The Electric Sword Duel,” | ’’The Electric Fire Flies,” “The Electric Stars,” The Electric Morning Glories,” ‘The Electric Necklace,” “The Electric Circle of Fire.” _ “The Electric Skull," Together with Electric Owls. Snakes and many other weird and dramatic effects. Full Choir lor the eonatfli sente, uni mmih mm omrae. SEAT SALE OPENS Monday. Oct. lft-Noon-•7.6ai fact of Electric Wire, 11.960 teet feet ol Scenery. One Car Load of scenend Dramatic Effects. Cl AAA FORFEITED, if this is not the vItUUU finest production of “Fans*” ~ " vvv ever in the city.

Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at Public Auction at his residence, 5| miles north and 14 miles east of Remington; 1£ miles west and * 14 miles south of Sharon; miles | south and 1£ miles east of Rens- 1 selaer, on Thursday, Oct. 19,1899, 12 head of horses, as Follows: Bob Mack, pacing record 2:24J, b. a. 8 yrs. old, a race horse able to beat ? his record, and the best sire ever in this country; 1 Bay Mare 9 yra. old, wt. 1300, in foal by Bob Mack; 1 Bay Mare 8 yrs. old, wt. 1200, in. foal by Bob Mack, with sucking colt by Bob Mack at side; 1 Gray i Mare 8 yrs. old, wt. 1500, in foal by Lock’s gray horse; 1 Bay highbred Driving Mare 5 yrs. old, wt. 1100. in foal by Bob Mack; 1 Sorrel Driving Mare 8 yrs. old, wt. 1100; 1 Gray gelding, wt. 1200; 1 Bay Gelding, a good work horse; 1 Sorrel 2-year-old Filly; 1 Tearing Sorrel Filly; 1 Yearling Bay Colt, weanling, horse 7-8 Norman. 1 five-year-old Holstein Cow, fresh in Dec.; 8-year-old Shorthorn Cow, fresh in Dec.; 2-year- J old Shorthorn Heifer, fresh in Nov.; 6-year-old Hereford cow, fresh in the spring; 2 Two-year-old Hereford Heifers. One-half interest in a Keystone Corn Husker and Shredder, nearly new; Buckeye Mower, good as new; Cultivator, used one season; Disc Harrow; 3 Walking Plows; New Brown Check-Rower with 80 rods wire; Birdsell Wagon; Single Buggy; Double Buggy; Road Cart; 2 Sets Work Harness, and other articles too numerous to mention. Sale will begin at a. m., sharp. A credit of 11 months. Hot lunch served on grounds. Mala Garrison. A. R. Opdycke, Auctioneer. Money to Loan. I have made arrangements whereby I can make a loan on short notice, without giving you. the trouble and expense of going | to the county seat. Low rate ol interest. Call on or address, John O’Conner, | Kniman, Ind. Calves for Sale:— Two Here-, ford spring calves, bulls, at reason-* able prices, J. W. Pierck. ADVERTISED LETTERS. :3 John Andrews, Jamas D. Boss, Isaac Wample, Mrs. Jack Webber. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please say they are advertised. F. B. Meyer, P. M. * 43 Estray taken up— At my faring | 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Rensselaer, (old Paxton, farm) on Saturday, heifer, weight about 800 pounds, color red. Owner may have same by proving property and paying charges. Charles Burbagk. * , ' ■ * A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.