Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL MATTERS. Easter Sunday falls on April 15 this year. J. W. Sargent has moved to to Monticella The Newton circuit court will convene Monday. J. R. Wilcox of near Surrey, has moved to Rensselaer. D. Washburn of Fair Oaks, wIS in the city Saturday. Trustee Kaupke of Kankakee tp., was in the city Monday. W. A. Rinehart of Buffalo, was in town a day or two last week. Miss Della Nnuman of lowa, is visiting her uncle C. A. Roberts. Fred Parcels has the agency for the Frankfort steam laundry. Mrs. J. M. Wasson is visiting her daughters in Chicago this week. Mrs. L. Strong is visiting her daughter, Mrs. D. M. Yeoman, at Ambia. Mrs. Eleanor Adams and family moved to their farm in Jordan tp., last week. J. H. Jessen was down from West Pullman to spend Sunday with his family. Newton county republicans will hold their county convention at Brook, June 12. Miss Sadie Cody, who has been in Michigan for the past year, has returned home. Mrs. H. J. Bar too of Goodland, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Erastus Peacock, who is quite sick. Mrs. J. M. App of Lafayette, has been visiting for the past week with her daughter, Mrs. Sam Roth.

Mrs. James Maloy bas been visiting in Chicago for the past week with her son, Bernard Maloy. W. B. Austin has disposed of his interest in the Jackson livery barn at Monticello to G, Lowe of that place. Will Zea of Kerning ton has purchased the J. P. Sherman farm near Aix, Mr. Sherman will move to the hub. George Bales has purchased the Nowels-Sayler lumber yards, having disposed of the Paxton yards to J. C. Gwin, Several of our last week’s corresSmdence did not reach us until onday of this week, owing to the snow blockade. Delos Thompson and Lawler Bros, have purchased the Gregory ranch of 5,600 acres in Northern Newton county. T. J. Sayler accompanied Chas. end Joe Paxton to Lamar, Colo., Monday. If pleased with the country he may locate there. George E. Yeager of Hammond, « brother to Frank L. Yeager of Newton tp., has enlisted in the navy for four years’ service. The Mohon News says that Mr. and Mrs. Miller of Lee vicinity are the distinguished parents of 2l children, the latest heir arriving one week ago to-day. Harry Wemple, who has been visiting here for some time, returned to Chicago, to his work, the first of the week.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, women. Office First Stairs Wert of Port Office. RENSSELAER, IND.

Harry Gardner is visiting in Monticello this week. Amount of unloaned school fund on hand March 1, $3,413.46. Frank Hunt is at the bedside of his brother at Knox, who is sick. The annual meeting of the county assessors was held at Indianapolis this week. W. D. Mauck of near Mt. Ayr. was in the city Saturday and had his name enrolled on The Democrat’s list of readers. Remember the township convention at the court house next Wednesday, call for which appears elsewhere in this paper. Fred Sargent who is now located at Monticello as a partner of Fraser & McElhoe, in the real estate business, was in town a few days this week. Chas. W. Spitler has announced himself as a candidate for the republican nomination for city mayor—the only announcement thus far made. The Kennedy school house in Barkley tp., was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night of last week. Loss about S4OO, which was nearly covered by insurance. The remonstrators secured 136 names to the liquor license remonstrance in the third ward. About 90 was all that was necessary to defeat the application. The Jordan tp., democratic committee met at Egypt school house last Saturday and decided to bold their township convention on Saturday, March 31, at 2 p. m. Maggie Kenton returned Tuesday after four months evangelical work in LaGrange and Noble counties. Her work was very successful, many being added to the churches. Kokomo has the Bell telephone system, owned by ihat monoply. The city council has recently refused a franchise to an independent line. That coterie of city dads will bear watching.—Goodland Herald. The Marriage of Miss Cecil Brown of Barkley tp., and Mr. Roy McKinsey, of Rensselaer, occured last Monday in Remington. The bride is well known among our young people and the groom is an employe in the barber shop of C. W. Rhoades. The two trees, old land marks, standing in front of the Horton building at the corner of Washington and Cullen streets, were cut down this week to make way for an office building, a part of the rear of the building now occupying the lot being moved around the front. A maiden fair with sun-kissed hair came tripping down the street, her face serene, her age sixteen, gee whiz! but she was sweet. On the icey street. down she came quick, with a jolt that shook her curls; but the words she used must be excused, for she’s one of our nicest girls.

A grand entertairment will be given in the opera boose on 16th of March, under the auspices of the W. C. 0. F. About fifty children will take part and as they are being drilled by the best talent in music, elocution, and dancing in the city, it is sure to be a success. The well known fairy tale, “Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper/’ will be reproduced in a four act extravaganza. The entertainment between the acts will be worth the price of admission. Five cars of stock and goods of Joseph Fisher, Geo. Nichols and Mrs. Stanley were shipped early In the week to their new home in Jennings county and their families followed soon after. Mr. Henry Fisher has purchased six farms, aggregating 887 acres in Jennings county and he has secured some good bargains. His deals were all closed up this week and he is well pleased with his purchases. We can commend these people to the citizens of Jennings connty as excellent people and most desirable citizens. The best wishes of a host of friends go with them to their new home. ~

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

New pensions: David J. Thompson, Rensselaer, original, $6. Joseph Law, a resident of Newton county for the past fifty years, died last week. S. A. Dowell announces himself as a candidate for re-nomina-tion for county commissioner. John Carder of Parr, will make application for a liquor license at the April term of commissioners’ court. Wm. Plummer, the Kankakee poet, will give an entertainment at Good Hope church, Union tp., on the evening of March 28. Geo. W. Burk has sold his 240acre farm north of town to an Illinoisian. Consideration said to be $14,000. Mr. Burk will remove to Colorado, we understand. To-day’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 29J; oats 22; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were: wheat 62; corn 28J; oats 26%; rye 40. Cummings & Darroch have sold the Maloney ranch of 1,120 acres lying two miles north of Morocco, to a Chicago party. Consideration $31,000.00. —Kentland Enterprise. The big snow is gradually disappearing, but enough still lines the sidewalks, and, as it melts, runs back onto the walks; to make it decidedly unpleasant getting about, while the “sledding” remains fairly good. We acknowledge receipt of bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Wisconsin, with compliments of S. E. Sparling. The bulletin is on “Construction and Maintenance of Country Roads,” and therefore cf more than passing interest. Judge Thompson got quite a bad fall last Sunday night while up to render some service to Mrs. Thompson, who was ill. He fell down the back stairs at his residence nnd as a result was feeling for a few days much like the man who went up in a balloon and. walked back. Monon has now been'one year without saloons It has ass rded sufficient time to test the conditions where no saloon exists. The people are satisfied with the results. There seeiiis to be no disposition on the part of the business men, whom it was feared would suffer under the new regime, to let the saloon in again. While it is not claimed that keeping out the eradicates the drink habit, yet it seems to be proving the most effectual restraint that has yet been placed upon the drink habit.—Monon News.

News was received here this week of the death of Jesse Grubb, who died Feb. 28, at Boulder Colo., of consumption. Mr. Grubb, was about 33 years old. He lived in Rensselaer for several years, during which time he was agent for the American Express Company. He was married in 1892 to Miss Maud Benjamin, who died about 5 years ago. He has since married again, in Goshen, and this wife survives him. He also leaves two children a girl about seven years old, by the first marriage and an infant daughter, by the second marriage. Geo. H. Mains of Livingston county, 111.,wh0 purchased the Henry Fisher farm north of town, moved here with his family this week. Mr. Mains was delayed some in Setting here by the illness and nal death of one of his sons, a young man about 24 years of age. The boy had been very sick for several weeks with long fever and died while Mr. Mains was on his way here to close up the deal with Mr. Fisher early last week, a dispatch informing him of the death overtaking him at Reynolds. He immediately returned home and buried the young man and came on Saturday and closed up the trade with Mr. Fisher.

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A Case for i>!ll Nicholson.

Doc Hnnter which is postmaster atßaub, has been on one .of his habitual drunks. —Fowler Leader

No snow to speak of fell last week south of Frankfort, and at Indianapolis and on south not a flake of snow was seen last Monday. Considerable rain has fallen in the southern part of the state and the unmacadamized roads were quite bad. Wheat is looking very brown on top, but it is too early yet to determine how well it has wintered. The writer was in Jennings county a couple of days the first of the week and while there met T. Z. McMurray, who moved down last week, and other parties from this section of the state who had resided there for two years. These parties expressed themselves as well pleased with their location. Probably twenty or thirty families from this section have located in Jennings county during the past three years, and, without an exception so far as we have learned, all are much pleased with the change. Fred McConnell, the absconding cashier of the Ambia Bank, has been arrested in Minneapolis and taken to Fowler where he gave bond in the sum of SI,OOO to appear at the April term of court. Sheriff Warner of White county, made the capture. McConnell’s peculations took place some three or four years ago, and amounted to about $9,000 which it is claimed was lost in speculation on the board of trade. He fled to Honduras, but remained there only a short time returning to Minneapolis where he got work in a car plant. A reward of SSOO had been offered for his capture which will go to sheriff Warner, who located and arrested him.

Delphi dispatch to the Saturday’s Indianapolis Press: Fifty years ago to-morrow thirty-five men from Carroll and White counties and sixty from Tippecanoe county started for the gold fields of California. The organization was known as the “Forty-niners.” They had their wagons made in this city and shipped them from here to Lafayette and thence by steamer down the Wabash, Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to St. Joseph, Mo. At St. Louis the party bought a great deal of provisions and at St. Joseph bought a number of cattle. They started from the Missouri River April 25, 1850, crossed the Great Desert, and reached their destination at Hangtown, Cal., in July. On their arrival at that camp the party seperated and went to mining gold. Soon after reaching California a number of the party died. Some of them returned as soon as possible, and some remained a number of years. Several of them got a considerable amount of gold, but only a few secured enough to compensate them for the great trials they had undergone. There are quite a number of those who made the trip are still living in this vicinity. Among them are Charles Gros. Samual Milroy and John Wilson of this city, and Jacob Troxell of Rensselaer. There are several also residing in-Tippecanoe and White counties. Every two years they hold a reunion on April 25, the date they left the Missouri River. This year this reunion will be held at the home of Jacob Troxell at Rensselaer.

Sid’s Compliment to Kentland.

A stranger came into Kentland one day last week, and after looking around a bit went over to an empty freight car and handed himself. He was from Illinois, and was mentally unbalanced. Morocco Courier.

Circuit Court Notes. Busines of term dosed np yesterday. Nothing of special importance has been up this week. Eleven final settlements of estate were made during the term. But two changes of venue were taken from the county, and none from the court. The jury served ed but five days, and the total allowances for the term will come within $420. _ fIARRIAOE LICENSES. August Malchow to Viola E. Brown, issued March 2. Rov McKinsey to Cecile Brown, issued March 5.

About Township Nominations.

Next Wednesday is the day set for holding the Marion tp., democratic nominating convention, and Tlhe Democrat desires to make a few remarks on the subject of selecting township candidates that apply not only to Marion township but will apply equally well to every township in Jasper county. Too little attention is generally given to the qualifications of the nominees for local offices, especially to those in which there is no big thing in the way of salary, but the selection of local officers is of much more importance to the taxpayers' than is the selection to many of the offices to which large salaries are attached. The selection for township trustee should fall upon a man of good business qualifications, at least fair education, and, above all, honest and upright in every way. The township trustee handles more of your money than does the county or state officers. For members of the township advisory boards the same qualifications are necessary, especially the latter ones. Make no mistake here. For township assessor a man in the prime of life, a man of sound judgement as to property values and one who will show no favoritism, should be selected. The road supervisors are important offices. See that good,straight, men are selected, men who are interested in good roads and who will see that every dollar of the road fund buys one hundred cents worth of labor or material.

Justices of the peace and constables’ offices generally go begging, but in a township like Marion these offices yield a very fair remu-1 neration, and a democratic justice ; and constable should be elected here by all means. Select a man for justice who has not passed to second childhood and yet has reached a mature age, a man, say, between 30 and 50 years old, and one who will mete out justice to saint or sinner, regardless of his religious or political affiliations. For constables do not select almost anyone “to fill out the ticket,” but nominate good, conscientious men, men whom you would expect to do you or your neighbor, justice in selecting a jury or in the serving of papers. Your pocketbook is sometimes placed at the mercy of unscrupulous justices and rascally constables. See that YOUR ticket is made up of men whom you or your neighbor can each trust. With a good, clean ticket of this character it seems to us that success awaits the democrats of this township next November, but, let the result be as 4 will, it is better to suffer defeat with a clean ticket than to win success with a rascally one. All good citizens are interested in good government, both local and national, and while party prejudice often carries through a bad ticket, the calm, sober-minded, intelligent voter sooner or later recognizes true merit, and ultimate success will finally rest with the party that makes it a point to go into the field with a ticket for which it need make no apology.

Jasper Was Turned Down.

The republican representative and judicial conventions were held here Thursday and resulted in Jasper’s candidates being turned down. Horace Marble of Wheatfield, was presented by Jasper for Representative, while Lake presented Dr. Bell of Hammond. Bell was nominated. In the nomination for prosecutor, C. E. Mills of Jasper, and John Sink of Newton, were presented; The former county had the most delegatee, but a number failed to stand by the candidate from their own county and Sink was nominated by a majority of two votes. Sink is a resident of northern Newton.

■ For Sale. The undersigned, will sell at private sale on his farm 2$ miles west of Rensselaer, 1 span of mares, 1 yearling horse colt and 1 milch cow; cow will be fresh by last of the month; will sell for cash or on time, to suit purchaser. W. E. Moore. Subscribe for The Democrat.

Vol. 11. No. 49

Don’t Sign It.

Just as we go to press we leam:§! that a petition is being asking the city council to refuse to J grant a franchise to the Halleek 1 Telephone Co. All citizens who are opposed to monopoly should refuse to sign any such petition.

A New Daily Paper.

C. B. Harold and Leslie Clark, ‘ will establish a new daily paper in | Rensselaer next week, to be known % as the Evening Journal. The first J issue of the new paper will appear next Saturday, 17th. The editorial | management of the paper will be under the charge of C. B. Harold with Leslie Clark as publisher. It will be non-political, we are informed. We wish the promoters J| abundant success.

Republican Township Nomination.

The republican township ticket nominated here Wednesday was as follows: Trustee, Charles M. Blue; assessor, Caleb A. Hopkins; Advisory board, Geo. W. Goff, J. C. Porter and Harvey Wood, (defeated trustee aspirants); Justice of the peace, J. M. Troxell; constables, Joseph Brooks, Alton Grant; road supervisors, Jesse Nichols, Ist dist., Albert Biggs, 2d, W. Parkison, 3d. The balloting for trustee was quite spirited, and four ballots were necessary to agree on choice, as follows: Ist 2d 3d 4th Charles M. Blue 116 151 169 175 J C Porter 73 71 70 66 GeoW Goff.... 76 78 72 71 Harvey Wood 69 61 45 37 Vote for,assessor: Caleb Hopkins 209 J W Cowden 158 The other nominations were made by acclamation. There seems to be a great deal of dissatisfaction among republicans over the methods alleged to have been used to nominate Blue. Schools were closed in various parts of the county to enable the teachers to attend the convention and vote for Blue—it made little difference whether the teacher resided in the township or not. It is also thought that the number of votes cast was rather large for the - number of people who voted, and many republicans who are not in sympathy w’ith any such questionable work are kicking lustily.

NOTICE. Having sold my lumber yard I desire to close all my business by March 20. All accounts not settled by cash or note will be left with a collector and costs added. I will be at my office until March--20. J. W. Paxton & Co.

Corn and Seed Oats For Sale. For sale at Thayer farm, 8 miles north of Rensselaer and 5 miles east of Fair Oaks, corn, also whits oats for seed.

BIRTHS. March 3, to Mrs. and Mr. L. B. Josserand, near McCoysburg, a daughter. March 3, tp Mrs. and Mr. Grant Tyler, in town, a son. March 4, to Mrs. and Mr. Nate Barker, west ot town, a daughter. March 5, to Mrs. and Mr. S. W. Gardner, southwest of town, a daughter. March 8, to Mrs. and Mr. Oscar McClure, a daughter. March 7, to Mrs. and Mr. David Hahn of Milroy tp.. a son. March 8, to Mrs. and Mr. Clarence Clemons, in town a daughter.

5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. We know yon hate to smell the smoke. Stock np your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes Otr $700.00 every year. Takes 35 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your greet grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red, tape. , Chiloote & Parkison. Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at e low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure Sold by A. F. Lon*.