Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

SI.OO Per Year.

WE wish to inform our patrons and the general public that we have succeeded in getting a first class upholsterer and repair man and we are now in a position to do all kinds of new and repair work in that line, also that we are prepared to do all kinds of painting and decorating, picture framing and pasteling. We are here to stay and bound to give satisfaction. Try nnuun I w UB and y° u will 866 •LIT “ 'Vork £55 BROS f° r and delivered. pnone 205 A RENSSELAER M INDIANA VV

Among the Feeders.

Kentlnud, lud,, April, 13,1901, We have fed 250 lbs of Acme Food to 67 head of cattle and have ordered seven hundred and fifty (750) lbs more of your agent. Everett Halstead, today. We like Acme Food. It is undoubtedly a good digester and a moneysaver to the feeder. McCkay & Herriman. Rensselaer, Ind., April, 17, 1901. I am feeding Acme Food and I am sure It is an appetizer and a good digester. Wm. I. Hoover. Morooeo. lud., April 17. 1901. I eat Acme Food for indigestion. It gives relief in five minutes. It is the best thing for dyspepsia I ever used in my life. I would recommend it to dyspeptics. CYKUB BRI'NTOX. Rensselaer, I ud„ April 17, 1901. I have used Acme Food for horses. 1 think it is a good food and I believe it pays to feed the Acme Food. Omab More an.

Sample Buggy For Sale. We have secured a specially constructed buggy from the Tripp Bros. High Grade factory, and not Beading it, will sell the same at $65.00 cash. It is their regular SK).OO job and they, wishing to introduce their work in this locality, offered us an SBO.OO buggy at a very low price, advising us to sell it at *65.00 cash or $70.00 payable in bankable notes, and in this manner advertising their work. That it is a special piece of work is an absolute fact, as it has taken five weeks to make it up. It is guaranteed one year. G. M. Wilcox & Sox, Surrey, Ind. Irwin Irwin are making lojfns on farm or city property at a low rate of interestand commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jas- - per County. Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. It gives all the news If you are contemplating buying a Buggy or Surrey this spring it will be greatly to your advantage financially to see Cowgill & Worland's stock. They will have in a car load this week to select from. In buying car-load lots we get them cheap, consequently we sell them cheap. Bring your trading stock along. COW'OILL & WOBLAND.

Have You Seen?

The New Machinery at the Rensselaer Steam Laundry. It is the best and latest improved in the United States. No more pockets in open front shirts. Our New drop board Shirt-Ironer matches every button hole perfectly and holds the neck band in perfect position while ironing. Do you realize you are working against your own city when you send to out of town Laundries and indirectly working against your own interests? We claim that with our present Equipment and Management our work is Equal to any Laundry in America. Our Motto: Perfect Satisfaction or no charges. We make a specialty of Lace Curtains. Send us your rag carpets, 5c a yard. Rates given on family washings. Office at G. W. Goff’s. Phone 66. Prompt work. Quick Delivery.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISEASES, . . ,1 " S S£%wo«». Office First Stairs West of Post Office. Phone >sl. RENSSELAER, IND.

Read Laßue Bros, page ad. The street sprinkler was started Monday. A good cow for sale. Enquire at this office. Marshall is quite sick wuh the quinsy. New pensions: Leander Burnam, Monon, Additional, SB. /..Seventy-five cent excursion to Chicago, Sunday, May 5. Dr. Ira Washburn is driving a right smart rig nowadays. Y«T. J. Hunt returned Monday from a trip to St, Joe, Michigan. HMiss Clara Goetz is visiting her sister, Mrs. Rose Graf, at Chicago. Miss Tillie Fendig is clerking in Loeb & Foust’s dry goods store at Delphi. J. J. Hunt has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late E. W. Morris. New subscribers to the Democrat this week by postoffices: Gifford, 1; Goodland, 1; A. Leopold is building another tenant house on Front street, opposite his own residence. Mrs. Seelman of Fairbury, 111., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Win. Augspurger, north of town. Miss Bessie Foster of Elwood, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Foster, of south of town. 'VGeo. Spitler went to Cineinnatti Saturday, where he has a position with the bill-posters of Robinson’s circus. /An effort is being made to re-or-ganize the Citizens Band. It is hoped that the efforts may meet with success. Miss Mable Wood left for the northern part of Missouri Thursday, where she will sojourn for an indefinite time. new kiln is being built at the Irwin tile works, west of town, this week, thereby doubling the capacity of the plant. Leopold is fitting up the room over Ellis A Murray’s clothing department and will hang out his shingle as attorney-at-law.

The first installment of taxes must be paid on or before the first Monday in May (May 6) to avoid going delinquent aud having the penalty added. > ■ - Win. M. Morris has moved back from Chicago Heights, and moved in with his father-in-law. Win. Nowels of Jordan tp., for whom he will work this season. While repairing the windmill upon his farm in Jordan tp., last Monday, Robt. Michael got caught between the rudder and the wheel aud had one rib fractured. Miss Freda Kohler who has been teaching school in Milroy tp., closed her school last Friday and went to Chicago Heights W ednesday where her parents now reside. The Halleck Telephone Co. expect soon to extend their line from Kouts to LaCrosse. Agent Ripley says there will be a reduction in rates over this system next month. —Hebron News. And Jasper County is still furnishing storage room for that $375 lot of “vault furniture for the recorder’s office,” which has lain in lioxes in the court house basement for over two years past. * Sim Fendig is the proud possessor of one of the “Hustler” M. W. A., buttons. These are only awarded to members who secure five new applicants during one month.—Wheatfield Telephone. YThe viewers’ estimate of the cost of the proposed new stone roads in Grant tp., Newton county, is $58,539.90. There are about 30 miles of highway in the proposed improvement. The election will be held Saturday, May 11. J. McCoy has been appointed by Governor Durbin as a member or his staff. There is lots of honor in the position but not. much salary, as the members must serve without pay and furnish their own uniforms, which cost about $l5O.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, April 20, 1901.

D. J. Pelilit of Wolcott, was in the city yesterday. .JMrs. D. B. Nowels went to Lainttr, Colo., Tuesday. Mrs. J. A. Larsh is visiting heg parents at Frankfort. Mrs. A. Lewis has been very sick with lung fever this week. John O’Connor of Kniman, was in the city Thursday and yesterday. F. D. Gilman, the Goodland banker, was in the city on business Monday. First excursion of the season, Sunday, May 5,75 cents to Chicago and return. Dr. Besser a graduate in Osteopathy will be at the Nowels house Friday of each week. Geo. Murray Hid G. K. Hollingsworth went to Kansas City. Mo. t on business this week. Y\Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardman celebrated their China wedding on Friday evening of last week. About sixty invited guests were present, The 14-year-old son of Wm. Hochbaum of Walker tp., lost the ends of two fingers and injured an eye while monkeying with a dynamite cartridge a few days ago. Fern Nelson, wlnThas been “central” girl in the Halleck telephone office for several monthe, leaves to-day we understand, for Goodland where she will take a similar position in the WashburnBell exchange. The Democrat sincerely thffnks “A. A.” for his kind and complimentary letter, and trusts that it may continue to merit his confidence and esteem. We regret that we have not space this week to publish the same.

J, F. Warren left Tuesday morning for Oklahoma City, Okla. He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Carrie, who expects, to remain only a few weeks. Mr. Warren will not remove his family to Oklahoma until fall at least. Estrayed: From my farm, 4| miles northeast of Rensselaer, April 13, two yearling colts, a bay, white face and white hind feet; the other black; both mare colts. Information should be addressed to Carry Lowman, Rensselaer, Ind. YErank K ing has purchased the feed and hitch barn on North Cullen street recently erected by E. F. Short. The latter, we understand, will seek a location in some other town, where feed barns are not quite so numerous as in Rensselaer. Preaching at tlie First Baptist church Sunday morning at 10:30 sharp, by P. Rev. H. Faulk. Subject, “Resurrection.” At the close of the service the ordinance of Baptism will be administered in the river. Preaching in the evening at 7:30. Come. * 7 lodge has sold the old building which occupies the lot recently purchased from G. E. Murray to I Right, who will remove it to near the depot, it is understood. The price received was $125 and the contract requires that it be removed within 30 days. Pearl Lemaster, the young lady who caused the superintendent of schools at Winamac to lose his job recently, by disclosing his alleged misconduct, was married last week to a young Winamacian. The young couple will reside at Upland, where the groom has a position in a factory. Our Pulaski correspondent mentions the birth of a quartette of babies to J. T. Washburn and wife of Indian Creek—three boys and one girl. Had they lived they would have been a great attraction, as a matter of course, but death claimed them even as they saw the light.—Pulaski County Democrat. The “QuoVadis” oompany played to only a moderate house here last Friday night, and yet it was the best rendered production ever given in Rensselaer, and deserved a crowded house. Every member of the company was a real artist, awFenc-h part was carried out to perfection. Those who failed to attend missed a rare treat, indeed.

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. • Rurrie are visiting at the latter’s old home, Paoli, this week. Fred Fatka,of southeast Marion, who has been having quite a seige of sickness, is improving. Kellner and son, Conrad, were called to Chicago • Tuesday night by the sudden death of Fritz Hess, a relative of theirs. The little two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Rosenbaum fell out of a chair Wednesday morning and fractured her right arm. The Democrat has just got in a nice new stock of mounting board. It is all new and in the popular shades. Remember this when in need of any. Miss Belle Wood, of Battle Ground, went to Rensselaer on Monday where she will spend the summer with her sister.—Carroll County Citizen. '{About an inch of snow fell Wednesdey night, and Thursday night there was a hard frost. However, nothing was far enough advanced to do much of any damage. /Joe Hordernan has sent his sister, Mrs. Conrad Hildebrand, and sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hordeman, each a most elaborately embroidered silk handkerchief, the work of Philippine women. Mrs. Hettie Reynolds has moved into her mother’s house on South Weston street, and Ross Goble has moved from South Scott into the Marsh Warner house, vacated by the former, on South Weston street. vThe Milroy Circle presented the G; A. R. post with a fine silk banner at the latter’s meeting on Friday eve of last week, after filling the “old vets” with choice edibles from a number of baskets which they had brought with them. W. T. Beahler of Carpenter tp., was in the city Monday and had his name enrolled on The Democrat’s subscription list. Mr. Beahler has just been appointed administrator of the estate of his father, George Beahler, late of Goodland.

#he bans of marriage of Miss Kate Halligan of north of town, and Mr. of Richmond, were published at St. Augustine’s Catholic church last Sunday for the second time. We understand the marriage will take place about next Sunday. Wm. Ridenour of Yirgie, returned last week from a prospecting trip to Oklahoma, and was so well pleased with the country that he made arrangements to locate there permanently and left Tuesday with his family. He locates in Garfield county. The meetings at Free Baptist church are still progressing with good interest. Rev. W. E. Meads has arrived on the field and is to be installed as pastor of the church. He is an able and efficient worker and a good and forcible speaker. Meetings will continue until Sunday evening. Goodland republicans held their town convention last Friday night. Harvey Wax wood, the colored candidate for the nomination for marshal, received only 13 votes — 10 colored and 3 white. And Goodland town is about three to one republican, too! How our republican friends do love the colored man—when he’s a long ways from them. Franklin Landers of this city has sold to L. M. Fairbanks, a brother of Senator Fairbanks, 1,530 acres of land in Newton County, four iriles from the Kankakee River. The consideration named in the deed is $61,600, or S4O an acre. As part payment, Mr. Landers takes a four-story flat of eight apartments in Chicago. The value of the flat, as estimated in the transaction, was $35,000. Mr. Fairbanks owns a large grain elevator in Chicago and deals extensively in land. The land purchased of Mr. Landers is for the most part of a very fair quality of grain producing soil, and Mr. Fairbanks will cultivate it under his own personal supervision.—lndianapolis Press.

If you want a good second-hand wheel, either ladies’ or gents, see Cowgill AWorland. They have lots of them to sell for cash or on easy payments. Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 37; oats 24; rye 42. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 35; oats 24; rye 45. Louis Lidka, a 19 year-old youth of Wheatfield, was adjudged insane a few days ago, and will be taken to the insane asylum Monday, application having been accepted. It is rumored that the report of the tax-ferrets will rattle up the dry bones of quite a number Jasper county people. So far as investigating the county officers is concerned, however, it is not anticipated that anything has been done or was intended to be done in that line. But little has been doing in the circuit court this week. Monday the case against Samuel English to recover money which the latter is said to have owed the estate of Mrs. Jane Shaw, deceased, was tried, but the court reserved his decision until Monday. Owing to the Court’s not feeling well, no court has been held since Tuesday. Peter Hordoman and Peter Skillen went to Cineinnatti Saturday night, called there by the serious illness of Wm. Hordernan. William was taken ill and wrote home that he would arrive here last Thursday evening, but he became so much worse that he could not leave, and was taken to a hospital where he is receiving the best of treatment and is now getting better. Peter Hordernan is still at his bedside at this writing. ' Bro. Schanlaub of the Morocco Courier, is as patriotic as anybody and no one howled louder or marched further or thirsted for Spanish gore more than did he. But when he comes to paying taxes the brother is like other people —he don’t care to pay more than his share. ’’From the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,” Sam Bartholomew has been an appurtenance of the Courier office, and Sid, like the good democrat and loyal citizen that he is, has regularly listed him for taxation. As Sid had no mortgage on Sam of coarse he could get no exemption, so he severed the umbilical .coril that had heretofore attacheoSSam to the Courier office and placed him in the field as a candidate for marshal of that bailiwick, and Sara has a good chance of winning new laurels.

May B. Sherman vs. James P. Sherman, is the title of a new divorce case filed in the Jasper circuit court Wednesday. The complaint alleges cruel and .inhuman treatment, and failure to provide suitably. The parties were married at Chicago, May 14, 1891, and lived together as husband and wife until April 16,1901. They have two children, a boy aged 8 and a girl aged 6, both of whom plaintiff asks the custody and control of. The plaintiff alleges that defendant frequently struck her and used oaths, etc., toward her. She alleges that he has legacies due or about to become due him, and asks for SI,OOO alimony and S2(X) per annum for the maintenance of each of (lie children. The parties reside in Rensselaer, having moved here from Union tp., about a year and a half ago. The defendant has spent much of his time in Chicago since the family moved to Rensselaer. Mrs. Sherman is a member of the M. E. church of this city and is a respected and popular lady. Her husband has been married twice previous to his marriage with her, we understand, having been divorced from both his otjier wives. He is about twice the age of the plaintiff.

Thoroughbred Cattle For Sale.

I have for sale at the James W. Pierce farm, southeast of town, 10 to 15 head of good milch cows, mostly Herfords, (some thoroughbred) some of them now fresh; 1 thoroughbred Herford bull, two years old, and 2 thoroughbred Herford bulls, yearlings. Wm. Washburn, Adra.

Vol. IV. No. 2

Obituary.

John Thomas Drake was born in Cook county, 111., seventeen years ago last January, and died at the home of his mother, south of town, Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. of pneumonia. His sickness was of very short duration, but his suffering was intense. Funeral services were held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Wednesday. The High School Juniors, a class of twenty-two attended services in a body and accompanied the remains to the depot, from where the family took them to Sag, Illinois, for burial. He leaves a mother, two brothers and three sisters to mourn his loss, also a large concourse of friends. IN MEMORY OF JOHN DRAKE. Tuesday about 2:35 p. m., just as the chemistry class had been dismissed, word was received that John Drake had died, after a sickness of only one week. This was not only a sad blow tb his mother, but to his many friends and especially to his class. Glad hearts were turned to sorrow and heartfelt sympathy was extended to the bereaved parent, brothers and sisters, by everyone. It was just a week ago last Sunday that he was among his friends and apparently enjoying the beu of health. The Tuesday following he was taken sick. By Saturday a slight cold had developed into lung fever and pneumonia, and he was in a critical condition. He steadily grew worse until Tuesday noon when he took a change for the better. But this change was only temporary, and at about 2p.m. he died. He was conscious till the last and at noon he recognized two of his schoolmates and shook hands with them. John was a boy who everyone admired and was willing to be a friend to everyone; was good natured and as a result he was considered the leader in his class; whenever a party or social was announced he was among the first to get it started. The Junior class will never forget the many happy hours they have spent in his company, at parties or socials. At his books he was a bright scholar and gave promises of a bright future. He was a great reader and found a delight in good books, and he had a better knowledge of books than any one in the school, He was an obedient son and a favorite in the family circle. It is indeed a hard blow for a young m#n just in the bloom of manhood to be snatched away by death, but since all of us must die, death should not r>e looked upon so cruelly- Dtath was a relief to John’s sufferings and he departed from this world of pain and woe, in peace. John's cheerful mood, and his jovial manner of entertaining will forever live iij the hearts of his schoolmates. He the young and strong who cherished . Noble longings for the strife. By the roadside fell and perished Weary with the march of life. By The Class.

Suit For $5,000 Damages.

A case was tiled in the circuit court Monday by Vincent Eisle of Carpenter tp. against John Franckowiak. also of Carpenter tp., in which Eisie demands $5.(*00 damages. The complaint alleges that about t» o’clock on the evening of Dec. 22, 1900, just at dusk, the plaintiff with his wife aud children were driving along a public highway in Carpenter tp., when he met defendant coining from an opposite direction and driving some eight or ten head of cattle; that when near plaintiff’s team.defendswung a stick which he carried in his hand and struck one or more of the cattle, which frightened the team and caused them to jump into a ditch at the side of the road, throwing out the occupants, seriously injuring plaintiff’s leg, catibing him to be laid up and unable to attend to his business, etc,, etc., and causing the team to run away and break up the carriage more or less. The family of plaintiff were also bruised up considerably, all of which is alleged to have been due to defendant’s carelessness and negligence to observe proper care to avoid frightening plaintiff's horses. The complaint is in three paragraphs and demands $5,000 damages. Both parties are farmers, residing northwest of Remington.

We Plead Not Guilty.

Born, last Friday, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Babcock, of Jasper county, a son. —Goodland Herald. This must mean Jordan township Frank, not us. For Sale or Trade; Good two story 8-room house, good barn, acre of ground, three blocks from court house. Will sell cheap or trade for piece of land located not more than 5 miles of town. *

J. T. LAMSON,

Rensselaer, Ind. Come to The Democrat office for mounting board.