Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J. A. McFarland sports a new delivery wagon. Good Binder Twine now only 9 cents a pound at the Chicago Bargain Store. Miss Laura McClellan will leave Tuesday for Crawfordsville where she will keep house for her father. It was recently published in two of the Rensselaer papers with glaring headlines that Rensselaer was to get a condemned cannon from the government but it seems that the list of guns available were considered too heavy and the expense of transportation would be too great, consequently no selection was made, and no gun will probably be had. The fourth quarterly meeting of this conference year will be held at the Methodist church in Rensselaer, tomorrow. The pastor will preach at 10:45 a. m. Love-feast at three p. m. At 7:30 p. m., Rev. Dr. Beck, the Presiding Elder, will preach and hold the communion service, Quarterly conference at 8 o’clock Monday morning. The public is cordially invited to the Sunday services. Gifford’s lieutenants in Barkley and Marion townships will not submit to the late decision of the voters of Barkley and Carpenter, it is said, and will endeavor to have new elections called in those two townships, when they hope to run in enough spellbinders to carry the elections for the road. At this time no definite plans have been formed, so far as learned, by Mr. Gifford, but those who know him best say that lots of scheming will be done to secure the $31,800 voted in this township. It is claimed that if he merely runs the ; line across this township the money is due and payable, and he will not throw this sum over his shoulder if possible to secure it.

Christina Myers vs Lewis H. Myers, for is the title of a new case filed in the circuit court last Monday. The plaintiff alleges that she was married to the defendant in 1855, at Circleville, Ohio, and they lived together until April 1899, when he deserted her without cause and left no provision for her support, and has not since contributed to her maintenance except by giving her SIOO. She alleges that defendant is worth property in Jasper county, Indiana, (west Jordan tp.) worth $35,(XX) and of a rental value of $2,500 per annum, and property in Illinois worth $5,000 and of a rental value of SSOO per annum, and that the whole of said property is unincumbered. Plaintiff alleges that she has no means of support and asks the court to allow her SSOO per year from the rents of defendant’s real estate for her support Hanley & Hunt are plaintiff's attorneys.

After the vote of Carpenter tp., on the railroad subsidy was announced one of the prime movers here who has spent much time and money in efforts to fasten this tax on the people, remarked: "We will have another election called in Carpenter township and take over 20 or 30 workers (heelers) from Rensselaer and we can carry Carpenter township like falling off a log.” From what knowledge the writer has of the people of Carpsnter tp., gained from a residence of eight years among them, we do not believe they would take kindly to the idea of a gang of Rensselaer ward heelers going over there and running a township election for them. The voters of that township will nodoubt be pardoned if they resent the imputation that they do not possess a sufficient amount of intelligence to know how they want to vote and to carry on an election without assistance from the money-grabbers at the hub, and no doubt the “heelers” would be served something like the Kentland heelers who went to Morocco to "assist” Beaver township in voting in the late county seat election—loaded into their carriages and headed toward home, with a polite request to make tracks as fast ns possible. The above methods may win in Marion tp., but we hardly think they will in Carpenter. Subscribe for The Democbat.