Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Commissioners' court meets Monday. —o — Marriage licenses issued this week: August 28, Ira J. Grant to Jennie E. Beal. Quillis Robby to Anna Grey, issued Aug. 29. o The September term of the Jasper circuit court convenes one week from Monday. —o — J. B. Workman, chief of the tax-ferret accountants, was called to lowa on business Friday and will be gone for a couple of weeks. Xjß. W. Sigler, trustee of Keener tp„ is intending to locate at Lowell, and has filed his resignation with the auditor. A successor will be appointed next week. —o — The annual meeting of the Jasper County Council, to pass on estimates of county expenditures for 1902 and to make the 1901 tax levy, will convene next Tuesday. New suits filed: No. 6163. Charles A. Hoyt et al vs. Samuel M. Laßue et al. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, attys. for plff. The action is to recover property alleged to belong to plaintiff which was in the possession of N. L. Noyes of Monon No. 6164. Pauline Preve et al vs. August Hielcher etal. Action for an accounting and adjustment of the deed to William Hielcher, etc. Foltz. Spitler & Kurrie, attys. for plff. No. 6165. Ben Hart vs. Joseph Sigman, John Bill, the civil township of Jordan, et al. Action for an injunction against the building of certain highway grade in Jordan tp. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, attorneys for plff. No. 6166. Everett Heffman vs. Joseph Deveranx; foreclosure of lein. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, attorneys for plff. No’ 6167. Frank Foltz et al vs. Otto E. Gebet et al; damages for failure to comply with contract for sale of lands in sec. 12, Walker tp. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie attys. for plff. No. 6168. Edward T. Biggs vs. Samuel R. Nichols and John E. Nichols; action to recover SBOO still alleged to be due and unpaid on a $2,000 ninety day note given by S. R. Nichols to plaintiff, Oct. 20, 1891; also to recover on a $565 note executed by both parties to plaintiff, March 19, 1894, which is alleged to be due and wholly unpaid; total demand $1,500.00. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, attys. for plff. No. 6169. Norman Warner et al vs. John Kohler et al; attachment, action to recover on note; demand $l4O, cost? and order of sale of property. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, attys. for plff. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has a world wide reputation for its cures. It never fails and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by Long.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISEASES. HEMORHORDB, woubn. Office First Stairs West of Fendig’s Drug Store. Phoney- RENSSELAER, IND.

Teachers’ institute next week. The city schools begin Sept. 9. “Old Arkansaw” Tuesday night. Old settlers’ meeting at Monticello to-day. Makeener, of Nebraska, is visiting friends here, AD. G. Warren of Beatrice, Neb., is visiting friends here. The state fair will be held the week beginning Sept. 16. F. W. Mauck, of Newton township, is again on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Major were Rbmington visitors Thursday. A heavy rain fell south of town Monday afternoon, but not a drop fell here. Prof. Sanders and family returned Friday from their summer’s vacation. <Miss Catharine Burk, of Wolcott, is visiting Miss Mary Meyer this week. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Amos Davisson of near Aix, August 24. Miss Sadie Haff of Valparaiso, visited several days with friends here this week. ■J Mrs. Mary A. Lane of Chicago, is visiting her brother’s family,Al Peters, near Sharon. An interesting letter from John Keiper of near Plymouth, will be found in another column. Rev. Vanduyn, for several years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Goodland, has resigned. The “Josh Spruceby” company played to a full house Saturday night, givirg good satisfaction. T(JV. C. Milliron will engage in fne bakery business at Wabash. Ross Hawkins will go with him. Mrs. Simon Fendig and son of Wheatfield visited a few days with Rensselaer friends this week. W. O. Nelson, of Rens’selaer, brought his photograph gallery to Hebron this week.—Hebron News. S. Parks and family are taking in the Pan-American and visiting relatives in the Empire state. Rev. Monroe of Franklin, will preach at the First Baptist church Sunday morning and evening at the usual hours. U. M, Baughman, of the new law firm of Baughman & Williams, will occupy the E. F. Short residence on the east side. Mrs. William Immel of Washington. 111., was visiting her father, L H. Myers, and daughter Jennie, the past week. > The Wolverine beet sugar factory at Benton Harbor, Mich., which was to take the product of the Shelby district, has failed. Misses Miriam and Mary Hyland of Chicago, who had been visiting here for several days, returned home Saturday. See S. E. Yeoman for fruit and ornamental trees, who represents Jlooker & WymaiTof Rochester N. Y. All stock guaranteed. The residence of Dr. Chaffee at Brook was destroyed by fire last Friday night and nearly all his household goods were lost. Nhe marriage of Miss Luella McCoy, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy, and Dr. A. L. Berkley is announced to take place at the bride’s home Oct. 2. New pensions: William J. Norris, (dead) Rensselaer, increase, sl7; Nancy Norris, Rensselaer, original widow. $8; James Rodman, Fowler, increase, sl7. <The school board has employed Miss Clara Berry of West Lafayette, to teach the fourth year grade, made vacant by the resignation of Miss Lillian Nowels. Frank Cones spent Saturday and Sunday at Chicago and Kmman. The corn in Jasper county he thinks will go over forty bushels to the acre. —Fowler Leader.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, August 31, 1901.

Sylvester O’Meara is very bad sick. Miss Lizzie French gave a breakfast to a number of her friends Wednesday morning. James Mead and Luther Wartena, of Hammond, spent Sunday with Rensselaer friends. US- O. Duvall is back from an extended trip through the nortjpwest and to the Pacific coast. Mrs. F. E. Babcock and son Delevan, are visiting friends at Remington and Goodland, r. and Mrs. and little daughter will take in the PaD American next week. F. E. Duvall of Allentown, 111., is here for a couple of weeks, looking after their farm near Sharon. Moore has bought Mrs. Elizabeth Brown’s 440 acre farm in Barkley tp. Consideration $44 per acre. Only 52 tickets were sold here for the Michigan City excursion last Sunday. Too many other attractions near at hand. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Harrold of Hammond, were called here Saturday by the death of the latter’s sister, Mrs. Daniel Way mire.

Mrs. Courtney, who lately visited her brother, Jack Mongomery, of of this city, died at her home at Galesburg, 11l , Saturday. She had been an invalid for several years. Brother Schanlaub, of the Morocco Courier, and family, came over Tuesday to the Wallace shows. Sid was careful not to let his identity be known whenever in a crowd of Nubbin Ridgers. Rev. S. E. Sines and family are visiting their old home in Parke county. Rev. Sines will attend the annual U. B. conference while away. He expects to be sent to Benton county next year. A Democrat reader calls our attention to the striking of another fine oil well at Delphi in Trenton rock, and thinks it indicates favorably for oil in the Trenton beneath the shallow wells in Jasper county. Eugene Donnelly, son of B. M. Donnelly the photographer, was arrested here Wednesday and turned over to a Delphi officer to answer jumping a bail bond in that city, where he was recently fined for some misdemeanor.

Who said butter was scarce? We receive about 80 to 100 pounds daily and when you want good butter you will find it here at only 15 cents per pound, just what we pay for it in trade. Chicago Bargain Store James Longstretch, of Aix. was in the city Wednesday, carrying his left arm in a sling, as a result of falling down stairs at his boarding house at Chicago Heights one morning last week and fracturing the member near the shoulder. to her home in lola, Kan., Wednesday, after a few weeks’ visit with friends here. She was accompanied by Mrs. Sophia Ponsler, who will spend the winter there with her son, L. H Ponsler. Four “coons,” traveling with the Wallace shows, were jailed at Monticello Wednesday night and several suits of clothes and a numper of lap robes were found in their possession. They will probably board at Michigan City for awhile. • Rensselaer’s trade comes largely from out of town because of the advertising. One advertisement helps the individual merchant. A battery of advertisement helps the whole town. Where there is no advertisement 50 per cent, of the trade goes where the advertisements are. The Fowler Leader admits, since the rains, that there will be some corn harvested in Benton count}’ this fall. The damage from the drouth seems to have been considerably overestimated in northern Indiana, but Jasper and Newton counties are going to be the banner corn-producing counties of the state for this year.

Mrs. F. M. Johnson of Chicago, visited her brother, M. Chipman, a few days this week. /W. J. Imes and M. F. Chilcote attended the Knight Templars conclave at Louisville this week. Alf. Donnelly has begun harvesting his onion crop. He has just built a large addition to his storage warehouse. Advertised letters: Miss Sopha Peterson, Mr. Win. W. Haskins, John W. Meisa, Sol McDaniel, Mr. Joseph Washburn, Miss Bessy Warren. One copy each of the Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican of December 4, 11, 25, 1900, wanted at this office, for which 10 cents per copy will be paid. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 50; oats 32; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 37; oats 20; rye 42. The Democrat this week publishes the complete personal assessment of the town of Remington. Next week we will publish that of Carpenter tp., and the week following Wheatfield and Wheatfield tp. Chase Ritchey, who recently went to Oklahoma, passed examination for teachers’ license successfully and will teach near Yukou the coming school year. He writes home that but one in the class made a higher per cent than he. Mrs. Anne Peters, of near Sharon, whose injury to her shoulder some three weeks ago was found to be a dislocation, had the fracture reduced by Drs. Johnson and English Wednesday afternoon and she is now getting along nicely.

Miss Jennie Myers gave a dinner party in honor of her sister, Mrs. Immel, last Friday. The guests were Mrs. W. D. Foresman, Mrs. Fred Foresman, Miss Alice Foresman, Mrs. Mooney, Miss Kendle, all of Foresman; also Geo. McMullin and wife of Forrest, 111., and Howard Myers and wife of Benton county. Austin’s house, onefourth of a mile southwest of Wheatfield, burned to the ground Thursday about 9:30 a. tn. Nothing but canned fruit and a few valuable papers were saved. Quite a little money was in the house, therefore lost. The house was insured. The family is staying in the barn and summer kitchen. Some of our exchanges are referring to “Horace Marble’s 180 acres of onions near Wheatfield.” As a matter of fact Horae? has no onions at all. There are about 180 or 190 acres of onions growing on his land just north of Wheatfield. all but 27 acres of which are leased for cash to the parties who are growing them. Of the 27 acres Mr. Marble receives a share as ground rent. A typographical error in a Chicago Bargain Store local last week made us say that this store retailed good butter at 12 cents per pound, just what it paid, when the figures should have been 15 cents per pound. The Chicago Bargain Store can always be depended upon to pay the highest prices for country produce of all kinds, whether it be butter, eggs or other produce. This is an advertising age. The merchant who don’t advertise leaves the field open to the one who does. The customer is looking for the best bargains. The advertiser offers them. In the old days a merchant could sit on a molasses barrel in the middle of a ten acre lot and some trade would come to him. Today he is forgotten. The first names that leap to the customer's mind are those which are kept before th? public eye.

For Sale.

A few high-grade buck lambs, ready for service this fall, at $6 per head; also a few’ good ewes. Inquire of Henry J. Gowland, on the L. L. Ponsler farm, north of town.

Mrs. Daniel Waymire of Jordan tp., died Saturday morning after a few hours illness from puerperal convulsions, aged about 30 years. Deceased was a daughter of S. C. Hammond of this city, and was married in 1892. She leaves one child, a boy aged about five years. The funeral was held from her late residence Sunday afternoon and interment made in Welsh cemetery.

The Democrat has been favored with a copy of th? annual catalogue of the Indianapolis College of Law, which, due to the able faculty and high standard of the course of study, has forged to the front ranks of the high grade law colleges of America. The patronage comes from many states. Its course of study has this year been increased 50 per cent, and the tuition fee reduced to SSO a year. The officers are the Hon. John W. Kern, President; Judge Ulric Z. Wiley, Dean; F. M. Ingler, VicePres.; E. J. Heeb, Sec’y.

The Wallace shows here Tuesday had the biggest crowd they have had in the state this season, not excepting cities like Ft. Wayne and South Bend. They gave a very creditable show of general satisfaction. There were about the usual number of “grafts” connected with the show. It is likely that altogether $5,000 was taken in by them here. At the afternoon performance every seat in the big tent was taken and several hundred people were compelled to sit on the ground. The day was an ideal one and people came for miles to see the big show.

jSlt is often remarked that “lightning never strikes twice in the same place,” but this saying was disproved near Goodland on Thursday of last week, when young Otto Floreich was struck and killed on the “Wickwire section’’ north of that town. On June 25th his brother was killed by lightning upon the same farm and in almost precisely the same manner. )Jn the latter case Otto and two brothers were in a wagon going to the house to get out of the storm whefi he was singled out by the deadly bolt and killed. One of the other boys was badly shocked. The brother who was killed earlier in the season had unhitched from his corn plow and was also driving to the house to escape the storm when the lightning struck and killed both he and the team.

The Democrat editor and his eldest son attended the Farmers’ Picnic at Wheatfield last Saturday, and were the only hub visitors present. There was a nice attendance and a good day’s enjoyment was had. Editor Moorman of the Starke County Republican. delivered the address, and did well. Medaryville and Wheatfield baseball clubs played an interesting game of ball, but the Wheatfielders laid the Pulaski county people out by a score of 8 to 4. There was free lunch, a merry-go-around, platform dance, and the usual number of fakirs. Samples of corn grown in that vicinity were on the grounds, the stalks of which were about 14 to 16 feet tall and having two mammoth ears to each stalk. We were told that the corn prospects in that region were the best they had ever had.

Frank Phillips, who had been in Texas and New Mexico for the benefit of his health, died at a hospital inrfCarlsbad, N. M., August 20, or consumption. His mother and brother J. R. Phillips, were appiised of his probable fatal sickness and started to see him the day he died. After new’s of his death was received here, telegrams were sent to try and intercept the mother and brother who were speeding to his bedside, but without avail, ami they traveled the entire distance only ‘to learn the sad news and that the remains had been sent here for burial. They came back at once, the remains, which arrived here Saturday, being kept until their arrival Tuesday afternoon, when they were interred in Weston cemetery with only services at the grave by Rev. Brady. Deceased was about 30 years of age, and had been in the west about two years.

Vol. IV. No. 21

Two Houses Robbed Show Day.

The residence of Mrs. Stockton on North Division street was entered by a sneak theif Tuesday afternoon while Mrs. Stockton was absent at her sister’s, Mrs. Jay W. Williams.’ On returning home (she found the theif ruagming about but as soon as he saw her he ran ujistairs aud escaped from an upper window. The alarm was given and a fellow belonging to the Wallace show was' arrested, but proved to be the wrong party. Later a clew was struck which threatened to lead to gratifying results, it is said, and the property taken, a watch and two valuable rings, was returned with the understanding it is alleged that no further efforts would be made to run down the theif. R. B. Porter’s house was also entered the same afternoon while the family was at the show and a few dollars in cash and some jewelry taken, also a pair of trousers belonging to Mr. Porter. This property has not been recovered at this writing and perhaps it was the work of some other party. Later: Constable Vick and Wm. Childers followed the show to Monticello, but the culprit eluded them and they went on to Goodland Thursday, where they arrested Fred Lacken, who gave his age as 23 years, and Brook as his home. The show people said that he had no connection with them in any way, and it seems he was simply following it up and robbing houses during the families’ absence at the show. When arrested he was wearing R. B. Porter’s pantaloons and cuff buttons, had Mr. Porter’s knife in his pocket, and his feet were encased in Jay Stockton’s patent leathers. He was brought here and lodged in jail, and will take a trip to Michigan City, no doubt, when court meets. He is a brother, i| is said, to the boy living with Judson H. Perkins, east of town.

Constable Vick says there was a big crowd at Goodland show day. One driver of a show wagon was arrested there for robbing buggies and will probably be brought here and put in jail; one lady had her watch snatched from her belt, but we did not learn whether the thief was caught or not. f There were, perhaps, a number of other cases of robbery and several fights took place. Altogether it was a great day for Goodland.

A Reptillian Attraction.

It is quite evident that the graybearded individual who presides over the Apologist enjoyed the Wallace circus immensely, or that part of it where the girls appeared in tights. Referring to the attractions of the parade, he says: ***a big cage ot great snakes m which also rode a handsome young lady, whose plump and shapely' tight-covered limbs must have been a sore temptation to any hungry reptile. Ah! it was great. Perhaps all reptiles are not affected alike by such sights.

Cider Mill Now Running.

We are now operating our mill at our residence, two and a half miles northeast of Rensselaer.

JAMES C. CLARK.

Seed Wheat for Sale.

James Yeoman, of Newton township, raised this year 17.5 bushels of the finest wheat ever grown in Jasper county, on six acres of ground, about 30 bushels per acre. Mr. Yeoman paid a high price for the seed, which he got from Canada. He guarantees it to stand up on most any soil and not to winter kill. It was so guaranteed to him. and he will replace seed of all that freezes out. He is offering this wheat for seed at $2 per bushel, considerably less than the price he paid for his own seed. Samples of the wheat may be seen at the Stoner <fc Day mill, Warner Bros, store and at The Democrat office. It will pay Jasper county wheat growers to buy this seed. Irwin & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest-and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. A whole armload of old paper® for a nickel at The Democrat office.