Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL MATTERS. Excellent sleighing. Lent began Wednesday. Subscribe for The Democrat. Commissioners' court meets Monday. C. C. Sigler of Monon, was in the city Thursday. Remember the Passion Play next Friday night. Miss Virgie Austin is visiting friends in Crawfordsville, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock •were in Chicago Thursday. A. B. Cowgill is visiting his old home in Christian county, 111. Alf. Donnelly was in Lafayette on business last Thursday and Friday. Misses Mary Wheathers and Leona Biggs spent Sunday in Monticello. E. M. Parcels has added some new up-to-date chairs *to his tonsorial parlors. Joe Jackson will move into one of the John Makeever houses, east of the court house. Mr. Harvey Crain has moved his family to Kniman, Jasper county. --Goodland Herald. Miss Alice Wartena of Hammond, is visiting in the city with friends and relatives. Thirteen marriage licenses were issued in Jasper county during the month of February. John D. Sink of Newton county, is a candidate for the republican nomination for prosecuting attorney of this judicial Circuit. D. V. Garrison, James dowry, Geo* Besse, John McLaughlin. E. W. Culp of Remington, were in the city on business Tuesday. The O. P. Benjamin manufacturing company at Lafayette, has become a victim of too much prosperity. Liabilities $50,000; assets $35,000. ,

Mr. John Kepner of Sheldon, Hl., who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Kepner, of this oity, returned to Sheldon Wednesday. Uncle James Culp, who has been spending a couple of mouths with his son E. W. Culp, at Remington, returned to his home at Lee last Monday. It is reported that the remonstratora to the application for a license for conducting a saloon near the depot have twenty or thirty more names than are necessary to defeat the license. H. C. Crouch, a well known Monticello merchant, died last Sunday in Phoenix, Ari., where he had gone for the benefit of his - health. The deceased was a nephew of W. J. lines of this city. New pensions: Peyton Davidson, Francesville, increase, sl2 to sl4; Washington Crabb, Fowler, increase sl6 to sl7; Joseph B. Kennedy, Brookston, original, $8; Solomon Wolf, Medaryville, in•crease, sl2 to sl4. T. F. Clark, the new superintendent of the poor asylum, moved in this week and ex-Superinten-dent Hardy has moved to town. The Democrat trusts the expenses of this most expensive institution will show a gratifying reduction under the new management.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, WO'IBN FlrSt SUirS WeSt Of P<>St OffiCe ’ RENSSELAER, IND. ' ‘ "b

David Thompson has gone to Florida. . Mrs. Wm. Greenfield is visiting Remington friends. Some of our correspondents evidently got snow-bound this week. - Ray Thompson has moved his law office into rooms lately occupied by Hanly & Hunt. Rev. Middleton expects to move in a few days into the property at present occupied by J. W. Doutbit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lakin returned Tuesday from an extended visit with friends in lowa and Nebraska. It would pay you to buy overcoats now, for next winter, at the prices we are making. Chicago Bargain Store. George Bales, late of the SaylerBales Lumber Co., has purcha.-ed the Paxton lumber yards. Mr. Paxton will remove to Lamar, Colg. In two days last week over for’ y onion orders came in to Alf Donnelly, the Jasper county onion grower, the orders running all the way from 300 pounds to 1,500 pounds. Lost: —Somewhere north of town, Saturday evening Feb. 3, a 3 inch iron pump top. Finder will be paid 25 cents for bis trouble if he will leave same at The Democrat office Andrew Ropp. A marriage license was issued in White county a few days ago to Elmer Phegley and Amy B. Heath. Elmer is a former Jasper county resident and The Democrat "unites with his friends here in extending congratulations.

The Parr quart-shop saloonist is said to have run the business for all there was in it up to about the time the circuit codrt convened, when he left for parts unknown. He seems to have been very “fortunate” in escaping the law. Mrs. Geo. Gowland, of Rensselaer, was visiting members of her family in Goodland and vicinity, this week, and called to renew their Herald subscription; Mrs. Gowland says she likes Rensselaer, both the town and people.—Goodland Herald. John L. Brandt will give the Passion Play lecture the Christian church in this city next Friday evening. The lecture is illustrated with the finest of moving pictures and is highly recommended by the press. Admission 15 and 25c. The lumber, steel and other building material trusts will play hob with building operations the coming season. People will put off building for a while in the hope that these trusts will be killed and the price of building material again cpme down to a reasonable figure.

Charles E. Mills, the present prosecuting attorney by. appointment from Governor, is writing letters advising the people at large that he will be a candidate for the nomination. Jasper county is greatly blessed by' having the judge, and that should be sufficient. —Kentland Enterprise (rep.) William N. Conn has sent in his resignat ion as republican postmaster of Winamac. The main causes impelling Mr. Conn to do so were, as he says, family trouble with his divorced wife, Myrtle Conn, and republican dissatisfaction over his appointment as postmaster. At the November term of the Pulaski circuit court Mrs. Conn was divorced from her husband and he gave her all his possessions. F. M. McDowell will be his successor in office. J. P. Hammond has secured a position as cashier and looal manager of the new bank which Robt. Parker of Remington, is about to establish at Wheatfield, and has withdrawn from the race for the nomination for township trustee of Marion tp. This move will cause an aching void in the truant and deputy treasurer’s offices, etc,, etc., which will be * hard to fill Perhaps, though, these various offices will be held on to as a sort of side line.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, March 3, 1900.

The Trelegan’s Stock Co., is holding forth at the opera house all this week. They close their engagement to-night with “Rip Van Rev. Middleton received two letters and some Manila papers from his son Ernest, last Monday. Ernest dosen’t appear to think that the war of conquest in the Philippines will be over soon. J. W. Parks of Leland, 111., arrived here Wednesday from Redlands, Cali., where he has been spending the winter. He went to Remington Thursday, 'accompanied by his brother Thomas Parks. R. B. Porter, R. A. Parkison, John R. Phillips and Fred Waymire have thus far announced themselves as candidates for renomination to the respective county offices now held by each. The republican county convention will be held March 19. Marion tp., republicans will hold their township convention next Wednesday. At present the following men have announced themselves as candidates for township office: Chas. M. Blue, J. C. Porter, Geo. W. Goff and Harvey W. Wood for trustee, and J. W. Cowden and Caleb A. Hopkins for assessor. W. J. Connor, an experienced hotel man from Kentland, has purchased J. F. Brunner’s lease and hotel fixtures and will take charge of the Makeever House to-day. Mr. Bruner has rented the D. S. Makeever residence property on North Division street, and will devote his attention to the insurance business, we understand. Monon has been without a saloon for more than a year. During their street fair last fall the temperance people of the town employed a detective to locate ’’boot leggers” and ’’blind pigs’’ and as a result three indictments havelieCn found against John Berry, a farmer; one against D. W. Strouse, a druggist: and one against James Cochell, a pool room manager. All of these cases are being heard and disposed of at this term of court. —Monticello Journal.

It seems a little strange that the republicans did not spring the name of Horace Marble for representative until after the announcement of W. H. Coover for state senator. The judicial and representative conventions are to be held here next Thursday, and. as Jasper county cannot reasionably expect both the representative and senatorial candidates, in the event of Mr. Marble’s selection Mr. Coover’s chances for securing the latter nomination will be very slim indeed. It would seem to an outsider that Marble had been introduced to down Coover.

Rensselaer was pretty well snow bound Wednesday ana Thursday. Tuesday night and Wednesday morning the heaviest snowfall for years fell throughout this section, and sidewalks and roads were nearly blockaded. All the trains were late Wednesday-but continued to run. Thursday the weather moderated somewhat and by Thursday night the denizens of our burg had got shoveled out sufficiently to allow pedestrians to get along fairly well. The snow is from 18 inches to 2 feet in depth, and seems to have been quite general. Should it go off in a hurry it will probably cause considerable damage throughout the country.

Jasper county is losing quite a number of its best citizens this spring who are moving to Jennings county, in the southeastern part of the state. Last week John Stillman of the west part of Carpenter tp., moved down there with his family, and this week T. Z McMurray and Henry and Joseph Fisher, Geo. E. Nichols and Mrs. Minerva Stanley expect to take their departure for that part of the state. Mr. McMurray with his family left Tuesday. All have purchased farms in Jennings county, near North Vernon and Butlerville and expect to make their home there in the future. The best wishes of hosts of friends go with thebe most excellent people to their new home.

To-day’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; com 29|; oats 22; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were: wheat 62; corn 29|; oats 27; rye 40. The Burford and Weatherhog cases against Jasper county, set for trial in the White county circuit court the first of the week, are both pending on demurers to answers. The All Star Bowling team, one of the crack teams of the country, played a series of games at the city bowling alley yesterday afternoon and evening. Three exhibition games were played in the afternoon and in the evening two games were played with the Rensselaer Bowling Team and they gave one exhibition game.

Mrs. J. H. Thornton, who had been very ill “for some weeks, died last Sunday from paralysis, aged about 50 years. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon under the charge of the W. R. C., and interment made in Weston cemetery. Deceased leaves a husband, John H. Thornton, four sons by a former marriage and a daughter by her last marriage. When a city council betrays so much love for the Bell telephone monopoly that it will not grant a franchise for an independent telephone company it is open to suspicion. The Kokomo council has just refused the petition of an independent telephone company for a franchise and as a result the people - of Kokomo will continue to pay excessive rates charged by the Central Union branch of the monopoly. —Monticello Journal. C. J. McDonald, the well known fruit agent who has been plying his business here for some years, comes from quite a remarkable family. He has four brothers who weigh respectively 240, 280, 250 and 360, while his own weight is 240. The combined weight of the five brothers is 1,370, an average of 274 pounds each. There are two sisters whose weights-are 100 poundsand 126 pounds respectively. The average weight of each of the children is 228 pouude.

L. T. Kent, trustee of Prairie Township, has shown what we consider, good sense by advertising four of his district school houses for sale, and will try the plan of transporting the pupils that formerly attended school at these buildings to other schools. At present the trustee pays the Brookston school board S3OO annum and under the new plan will pay S2OO per month, by this arrangement he wilt save the cost of building four new school buildings that., would probably cost SI,OOO each ind the expense of the salary of four teachers, which average about S3OO each per year. It will not cost any more, if as much, to transport the scholars as it wi 11 to buy the fuel and other supplies for the schools. It will save SI,OOO per year to the taxpayers and provide better school privileges for the scholars. His action could probably be followed by other trustees to the advantage of the taxpayers and also the scholars.—White County Republican.

MONEY TO LEND.

Persons desiring to borrow money on farm land will find it to their advantage to call at the office of the undersigned. The largest expense in obtaining a farm loan is paying for abstract, Notary fees, etc. I will make you a farm loan at a rate of interest as low as the lowest, AND MAKE YOUR ABSTRACT free of charge. Loans made promptly, interest payable annually at the end of the year, privilege granted to pay part or all of principal at interest paying period.

James H. Chapman.

Office removed to second floor Makeever’* Bank Building.

He Fooled The Surgeons.

All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of West Jefferson, 0., after suffering 18 months from Rectal Fistula, be would die unless a costly operation was performed; but he cured himself with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the best in* the world. Surest Pile cure on Earth. 25c a box, at Hunt Bros. Drug Store,

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THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The Common Council met in regular session Monday night with Charles G. Spitler in the chair, the mayor being absent. The following councilmen were present, Spitler, Eger, Murray, Dean, McColly and Gwin. The following is the report of the business transacted: E. R. Hopkins chief of the Rensselaer Fire Department filed his report as to the membership of said department and the condition of apparatus. On motion said report was referred to the committee on fire department.

THE TELEPHONE FRANCHISE

Some objections bad been made by the city attorney to the ordinance granting a franchise to the Halleck Telephone Co., which was presented at the last meeting, and the former drafted a new ordinance which embraced all the features of the old franchise, added some minor features and prevents the franchise from being disposed of without the consent of the council. This action would delay the matter a few weeks, the introduction of the new ordinance retiring the old one, which had been passed to second reading, to the rear. Councilman Eger moved that the rules be suspended and the new ordinance be adopted, but other members of the council appeared to be unfriendly to any independent company meddling with the preserves of the Bell and Jasper County Telephone Co., in Rensselaer, and the motion was lost for want of a second. Councilman Murray then moved that the ordinance be referred to the ordinance committee. (It will be remembered that this was done with the Central Union Co., about a year ago, and the ordinance has never been heard from since. Since that time the Jasper County Telephone Co., entered into a combination with the Central Upion or Bell people. The burying of the ordinance, no doubt, was a good thing financially for the former company but not very good for the people, as the latter company is a heavy taxpayer on its lines, while the former is exactly the opposite.) Evidently remembering that the, action in burying the Central Union ordinance was still fresh in the minds of their constituents, no one wanted to take the responsibility of seconding this motion, and it was also lost. Councilman Eger next moved that the ordinance be passed to second reading; second by Councilman Dean and motion was carried. A sort of a general discussion of telephone matters was then indulged in by the city attorney, members of the council and Mr. Halleck, who was present, and who replied to his opponents on every criticism presented. The ordinance is not yet through the council by any means, and it may never get through. Its opponents seem desirous of delaying matters, and if they can delay it until after the spring election and a Jasper County Telephone and Indiana Macadam Co., council is elected, the people need expect no reduction in telephone rates, no free toll service and no independent telephone company to enter Rensselaer for many moons to come. Following claims were allowed: Chas. Freeland, hauling cinderss 2 50 Joseph Brook, work on street 1 75 Geo. Platt, “ “ “ 1 57 John S. Ramey ” “ “ 67 Whita & Marion, repairs on hitch rack 50 J H Hoover, work on street 1 20 Logan Nichols “ “ “ 75 James E. Ennes “ “ “ 75 White A Marion, rebate license fee.... 10 00 Leslie Clark, printing and stationary. 9 00 B F Feudig, electric light globes 9 92 C 8 Chamberlain, salary to Feb. 15.... 30 00 Lem Huston, “ “ “ 22 50 Peter Giver. “ “ “ “.... 22 50 General Electric Co., electric supplies 321 Central Electric Co, “ “ 4 52 Crane Co. repairs, etc. 75 Nowles. Sayler-Lum. Co coal & ha’ling 389 60 D E Hollister, salary 22 50 White A Marion, pipes, fitting, etc 9 32 Chas. E. Mills, insurance on pumps.. 6 75 Fblts, Spitler A Kurrje *• “ “ 675

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HARRIAGE LICENSES. Alfred C. Rowe to Frances Larsen, issued Feb. 23. Winnie N. Sherrill to Rosa S. Barker, issued Feb. 28. W. L. Weakly to Nannie S. Urch, issued March 1.

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ELLIS OPERA HOUSE, oiii! iw--f mm m 9, i9oo. For the benefit of the Jasper Public Library THE (HIM UW SOCIETY. Of St. Joseph’s College, will render the following program: Music, “Georgia Lady Love” .....Columbian Orchestra. Oration,“Education”....Mr. Wm. Hordeman “Over the Hill to the Poorhouse,” ) “Over the Hill from the Poorhouse,'') • Mr. D. Neuschwanger. “Itwas onlya Dream.”... ......Mr. I. Rapp. “ Alcestis of Fieri.”.. Dialogue (Mr. J. Mutch 1 Mr. S. Hartman Music, “I have all I can do to Keep My Hands off you.” Columbian Orchestra. “Betti and I are out once more,”..Wm, Arnold “The Lost Steam 5hip.”..... Mr. V. Schuette. Song, Two Little Ragged Urchins.”....Mr. J. Mutch, “The Yankee Still Ahead.”......Mr. P. Welsh Othello, Act lll.Scene 3rd,).... (Othello, Mr. D. Neuschwanger 1 lago, Mr. I. Rapp. Admission ag cents. Reserved seats 35 cents, at Huff's.

Business Now For 1900.

Buggies, surries, wagons, mowers and binders, threshing machine agency and a full line extras on nand for mowers and binders. The deering Roller and Ball Bearing machine and the South Bend wagons. Also the Lafayette wagon, the Boss threshing machine, the Russel and the Gaar-Scott. Our line of surries can not be beat for the prices. We ask you to call and see our goods before buying elsewhere. Remember we guarantee all goods. We also handle the John Deere goods, the Brown cultivator and harrows, and the Ohio Rake Co’s goods; and best of all the Deering binder and mowers ; and binder twine. Goods will be found at our wareroom near Monon depot. Wishing our friends a good, prosperous season, we are, Truly Yours,

RENICKER BROS.

Circuit Court Notes.

The circuit court adjourned last Friday until Monday, March 5. A few new cases have been filed during the term, among which is that of Fanny M. Reece of Kankakee tp., for a divorce from her husband Wm. H. Reece, whom she alleges is now a non-resident of the state, and a change of venue case from Lake county. The latter case is that of the Lake Agricultural Society vs the C. I. & L. Ry. Co. Complainants ask for SIO,OOO damages, alleged to have been sustained to several hundred acres of land owned by through fire caused by sparks from defendants locomotives, etc.

BINDER TWINE. 11| to 12J cents a pound for the Deering, best made. Chicago Bargain Store, 5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison. We sell envelopes and writing paper cheaper than any place in the city. . The Democrat.

Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at Public Auction at his 1 mile southeast of Virgie, on Tuesday, March 6th. One span of mares 8 and 9 years old; one two-year old colt; one yearling steer; two cows, both fresh in a few days; two farm wagons; one spring wagon; one Deere riding plow; one walking plow, one harrow; two cultivators; one gopher; two sets work harness; one set of hay ladders; a quantity of househoold and kitchen furniture, and many other articles not herin enumerated. Sale will begin promptly at 10 o’clock a. m. Nine months credit will be given without interest on sums over SSXO. 7 R. B. Goodrich.