Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

"The Brick Are All Right."

Such is the verdict of the three members of the street committee of the city councj/Vind;- we are informed, two of the county commissioners, who accompanied the junketing party to Brazil and other points at the expense of the brick manufacturers to satisfy themselves that the brick shipped here for paving about the public square.were all right and the same as are being used at other places. The only obstinate member of the party, we are informed, is “Honest Abe,” whose remarks last week that "the opinion of a hundred experts would not change my mind regarding them,” showed conclusively that he was strongly biased. As a matter of fact, Abe knows no more about paving brick than the average man who never saw any put down, and that he did not desire to learn anything about them was evidenced by his alleged refusal to go into the factory and see the process by which they were made, but staid outside while the others honestly sought for knowledge in the matter. It would seem, as stated by us last week, that Mr. Halleck’s trip was entirely unnecessary, as he was determined to reject the brick all along. It is altogether probable that he would not have accompanied the party at all had not the expenses of the trip been paid by someone else and dim visions of the pleasure had in the company of those ‘‘pneumatic clock experts,” who are alleged to have accompanied the junketing expedition from Chicago to Milwaukee when the memorable purchase of the court house clock was made, flitted across his memory, and perhaps—well, how was he to know but some brick experts might be along with the present junketing party. But, to come back to the brick matter, we understand that Abe reported that it was just as he had thought, “all the good brick were being shipped to Indianapolis and other points, while the culls were being shipped to Rensselaer.” The other members of the party five besides the contractor —report that the brick are precisely the same as are being shipped to all other poiuts including Valparaiso, and the same as they found in each of the numerous kilns in the yards, and the same as they saw being put down at Brazil and other points. Mr. Halleck, however, refuses to be convinced and at this writing (Wednesday) is still in the city trying to work up a sentiment against the acceptance of the brick. His avowed intention, if sustained by his colleagues on the board—of refusing to allow pay for the improvement—will simply result in another law-suit for the county, and is it not about . time to call a halt on lawsuits against Jasper county that some public officer may gratify a little personal spite? Lawsuits are expensive, as the frequent allowances to pay attorneys, etc., and the SSOO Burford judgement testifies to. The commissioners office in this county should not be allowed to descend into a mere petty spite office, where each member can punish his personal enemies at the taxpayers’ expense.

Our peach buyers disappointed us but we will be ou the ground and see them loaded for the next sale, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20. Chicago Bargain Store. 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.

For Sale. A few high-grade buck lambs, ready forservice this fall, at $6 •’ per hea<j; also a few good ew_j> Inquire of Henry J. Gowland, on the L. L. Ponsler farm, north of town. All orders for peaches will be filled next Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20. at same prices as near as possible, at about SI.OO bushel for good peaches. Chicago Bargain Store. Subscribe for The Democrat.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISK ASM,’ HBMORHOKDS, . ■ , Office First Stairs West of Fendig’s Drug Store. Phone 351. RENSSELAER, IND.

State fair next week. Dr. Arthur Kresler is home for a brief vacation. Agnes Kelley is going to movb to Rockford, 111. Edward and Emory Mills are attending Purdue University. A 12-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McClure, Tuesday. Thomas Jacks and family of Lee were guests of G. A. Jacks Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Meara visited in Chicago a couple of days this week. The Monon advertises another 75 cent excursion to Chicago Sunday, Sept. 22.

The new law firm of Baughman & Williams have a business card in The Democrat. John McGlynn and Geo. Meyers of Kniman, were in the city on business Tuesday. Editor Robertson of the Wheatfield Telephone, wife and little son, spent Sunday here. F. D. Gilman and John Putt of Goodland, were business callers in the city Monday. Anyone in need of a Stump Puller, call on C. A. Roberts agent for “The Monarch.” Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Williams visited their daughter, Mrs. Chas. Porter, at Delphi this week. Joseph Milner and Miss Minnie Beasley of Remington, were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Andrew Potts remempered The Democrat force with a fine, large watermelon a few days ago. SMr. and Mrs. W. A. Huff and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thompson were Chicago visitors the first of the week. Coleman Merritt of Remington, spent Sunday with his brother John, of the Chicago Bargain Store. Nelson DuCharme of near Kniman, was in the city Tuesday getting bills struck for his public sale for Sept. 24. U Nelson DuCharme of near Kniman, has purchased the S. Galbraith 80-acre farm in Barkley tp., consideration $2,800. Mrs. Frank Robinson returned to her home at lola, Kansas, Saturday, after several month’s visit with relatives and friends. A car load, over 300 bu. fine Michigan Peaches, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20. Chicago Bargain Store. D. A. Whitney, who has had charge of T. M. Hibler’s breeding horses at the latter’s farm in Milroy tp , went to Chicago Saturday to seek a situation. The case of Shrimplin vs. John F. Judy, mention of which was made by us last week, was tried at Williamsport a few days ago and decided in Judy’s favor. Dr. Horton is making extensive improvements to his residence. The family are living in J. C. Cbilcote’s house while the improvements are being made.

-• Miss Fannie Wood, who for the past 3| years has been employed as compositor in The Democrat office, has resigned her position to take a place in J. H. Chapman’s office. Attorney A. D. Babcock and J. G. Perry of Goodland, were in the city on business Saturday. Mr. Perry is building a new house and a new barn upon his Kankakee tp., farm. John A. Kople has sold his 120farm 4 miles northwest of town, to Tilden Proudy, of near Mt. Ayr, consideration $6,000. The sale was made through Woodin & Agate of Foresman. VkMrs’Tlickinan expects to leave next w£ek for Lockesburg, Ark., to visit her aged father, whom she recently located after a separation of forty years and whom she had supposed all this time was dead.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, September 14, 1901.

W. H. Coover is prospecting in Colorado. Rev. C. D. Royce is attending conference. C. A. Roberts has sold 8 McCormick corn binders this season. Ex-Sheriff Reed and wife of Remington, were in the city yesterday. W. O. Schanlaub and The Democrat Editor spent Sunday in Chicago. Simon Phillips is visiting hie daughter, Mrs. Vanatta at Fo w ler. this week. 4 and Mrs. H. J. Bartoo leave tne first of the weekfor the Buffalo exposition.

Oscar Tharp and wife and son Glenn, and family, of Monticello, are visiting relatives here. C. D Nowels and family spent a few days the first of the week with relatives in Carroll county. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Surrey, 1; Wheatfield, 1; Rensselaer, 1; Morocco, 1. John Kresler injured his back so badly Thursday while moving a buggy, that he required being carried to his home. Sale day of peaches postponed to Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20. Chicago Bargain Store. Miss Della Nauman returned Wednesday.. from Shanendoah, lowa, after a months visit with relatives O. Schanlaub will go to Morocco today to enter upon his duties as teacher in the Morocco schools, school beginning Monday. Joe Conway, the Parr saloonkeeper, was tried in Esq. Troxell’s court last Friday for assault and battery upon Harry Kelly, and acquitted.

May of near Wolcott, and Halstead, one of Michael B Halstead’s sons, west of town, are. expected home from the Klondike in a short time, they being now on the way. They have done fairly well in digging for the elusive metal, it is said.

F. C. Robertson of Goodland, was in the city Tuesday. He said that a very heavy rain fell at Goodland Monday night, accompanied by considerable wind and lightning. The new grain elevator was struck by lightning, but only slightly damaged.

pThe 14-year-old son of John Ward of Milroy tp., died Sunday afternoon after a few weeks illness from typhoid fever. The funeral was held Monday from the Milroy Baptist church, Rev. D. J. Huston conducting the services, interment in the Crockett cemetery.

If you need sale bills, come to The Democrat office for them. Remember that The Democrat reaches twice as many farmers as any other paper published in the county, and that a free notice of your sale will be published in its columns with each set of bills.

X There were 220 tickets sold here to the Chicago excursion last Sunday, a greater part of those going being Rensselaer people. The train carried 17 coaches, all heavily loaded. It was about one hour late in reaching Chicago, and returning reached Rensselaer at 3:15 a. m.

N. S. Bates remembered The Democrat last Monday with a basket of the famous Lombard plutns, of which he raised several bushels. To show how prolific they grew this season, he also gave us a small branch upon which in a length of six inches there were 21 fine large plums.

The Democrat contains more real home news, news about county affairs and news from all over tne county, than all other papers in the county combined, and it costs no more than any one of the others. This being the case, it ought not require much diliberation when about to subscribe for a home paper.

PRESIDENT'S CONDITION.

A change for the worse took place in the President’s condition Thursday night, and a dispatch received by C. H. Vick at 11:55 A. M., yesterday, from the Indianapolis Journal contained these depressing words: “President’s condition extremely critical and physicians have little hope.” Later: The bulletin issued at .2:30 p. m., by his physicians, justbefore we go to press, states that his condition is much improved, and better than it was Thursday at the same hour. J. L. Foster and son Lewis, of Elwood, were in town Thursday. Elmer Gwin spent a few days at Indianapolis, this week on business. Miss Candace Brown is learning to set type in The Democrat office. X.A full account of the attempted assassination of President McKinley will be found on an inside page of today’s Democrat. For Sale: One hundred and fifty yards of all wool carpet in good condition. Will sell at a great bargain. C. D. Nowels. The Democrat now has an excellent correspondent at Wheatfield, who will furnish our readers a bright, newsy grist of items from that thriving town each week. L. Parks and daughters, Pearl and Dollie, of Surrey, visited the former’s mbther, Mrs. C. A. Samson, at Delphi this week, and also took in the street fair there.

those from Rensselaer, who attended the national encampment held at Cleveland this week, were: D. H. Yeoman and daughter Harriet, Henry Grow, Mrs. J. C. Porter, Mrs. George Hoover and Miss Hattie Phegley.

<Mr. William Porter, Mrs. GerRobinson, Miss Ora Clark, Newton Pumphrey and Daisy Nauman are camping on the Tippecanoe near Monticello this week. Several others from this place expect to go over and spend Sunday with them.

Eugene Donnelly of this city, who was recently taken to Delphi for failing to settle an unpaid fine and costs of s2l, and upon whose person a revolver was found when arrested, was fined there last week for carrying concealed weapons, the fine and costs amounting to sl6 60, says the Carroll County Citizen.

*xfhe barn and cribs on Mrs. Harry Kunie’s farm, northwest of Parr, were destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. The farm was occupied by the Shindler brothers, who lost a threshing machine, farming implements and other personal property. Total loss on building and contents, SI2OO to $1,400, with no insurance. Origin of fire unknown.

A. F. Long is fitting up a corn display window, and requests farmers to bring in not over four of their best ears of corn and place it on exhibition. Each exhibit will be labeled with grower’s name, and a committee will examine the samples and a prize will be given for the best exhibit. Samples of corn will be received all of next week, and the Saturday following the prize will be awarded. last Sunday was Mrs. Chas. Ramp’s 44th birthday, some 25 or 30 of her friends decided to’give her a surprise, and to say she was surprised would be expressing it mildly. All came with well-tilled baskets and the tables were loaded with all tne good things to eat the land affords. aSome very beautiful as well as useful presents were left as tokens of love and esteemAfter the day was well spent in a . social way the guests departed, ' feeling it was well to be there.

I The city schools opened Monday. The enrollment is 532. Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat.. It gives all the news The Starke County Democrat issued a very neat and creditable daily during the street fair at Knox this week. See S. E. Yeoman for fruit and ornamental trees, who represents Hooker & Wyman of Rochestor N. Y. All stock guaranteed. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 52; oats 33; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 36; oats 20; rye 42. J. F. Major was appointed commissioner to sell | of 40 acres of land occupied by Margaret A. Beaver, in Milroy tp., in the case of Plummer vs. Beaver, at private sale, at not less than the appraised value. William Collier, at the present moment the foremost comedian on the Americans stage, will play an engagement of two weeks, beginning Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Grand Opera House, Chicago, at which theater his play “On the Quiet” last season made a tremendous hit. Subsequent to that engagement Mr. Collier went into New York {where he appeared in this delightful comedy for six months. He has the strongest supporting company he has ever had and is this season under the management of Jacob Litt.

The Ladies Industrial Society, assisted by the Epworth League, gave Mrs. J. F. Warren a farewell reception at the home of Rev. C. D. Royse last Tuesday evening, some 75 or 100 guests being present. Light refresh monts were served and some vocal and instrumental music was rendered by some of the young ladies of the League. These, coupled with a good social time by all present, comprised the program of the evening. All departed, wishing Mrs. Warren a safe journey and a bright and prosperous future. /Robert Randle, who recently purchased of Ellis Jones of Remington. the old Renicker farm in Barkley tp , has sold the same to J. T. Bowden, of Pontiac, 111., consideration, $53 per acre, cash. Mr. Bowden has leased the farm to Horatio Ropp, and contemplates buying property and locating in Rensselaer. This farm was purchased about a year ago by Mr. Jones at S4O per acre. He got ♦6OO rent for it this year and three months ago sold it to Mr. Randle at $44 per acre. The latI ter makes a profit of $9 per acre, lor $1,450. Not bad for three 1 months ownership.

The Northwest Indiana M. E Annual Conference convened at Brazil Thursday morning. Bishop Fitzgerald of St. Louis, Mo., presiding. There are about 200 ministers in this conference district, and the probability is that there will be a large number of changes in pastors’ charges this year. One presiding elder retires, Rev. J. H. Cissel of the Crawfordsville district It is not likely that there will be many changes in pastors in Jasper county, but there will probably be changes at Goodland and Mt. Ayr. Rev. A. P. DeLong, pastor of the church at Goodland, enjoys the distinction of being one of the first three pastors to hold a charge six years, which is made possible under the new conference rules permitting appointments for an indefinite number of years. Up to last year it was only possible to appoint five years in succession to the same charge.

Geo. Mitchell Goes to Remington.

Owing to the condition of his health, Supt. Murphy of the Remington schools, has been obliged to resign and Princijial Marshall has been promoted to the superintendency. Mr. Geo. E. Mitchell of this city, late of the Rensselaer schools, has accepted the principalship and will move to Remington and assume duties Sept. 23. TkThe best wishes of George’s many friends go with him to his new field of labors.

Vol. IV. No. 23

A BOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Marriage licenses: Sept. 7, Charles W. Thompson to Anna Flickenstine. —o — No additionshave been made to the “omitted tax duplicate” since our report last week. —o — The county council made no appropriation for the street improvement about the public square at its meeting last week, the co missioned not having asked for anything. —o — New suits filed: W. B. Austin vs. George W. Tanner, William W. Burns and Geo. W. Houser; complaint on note, J. H. Chapman, attorney for plff. Gather B. Runkle vs. Lawson Bruce et al; action to quiet title. W. B. Austin, atty for plff. ' — o A big farm mortgage was recorded Friday, given Sept. 5, by Samuel R. Nichols, ex-township trustee of Barkley tp., to Warren S. Goodell et al for SII,OOO. The mortgage covers 339 acres of land in Barkley tp. Sept. 6. a second mortgage for $12,748.56 was given by Mr. Nichols to A. McCoy’s bank on same lands, making a total of about $24,000 The county commissioners took another whack at The Democrat man last week by cutting his bill for publishing the annual estimates of expenditures from sl2 to $9. To show how fairly we were treated by the gang it is only necessary to state that we were never asked to appear before them to show cause why it should not be cut, but the figures of the old CowPuncher, of whose ability in this line they have had many a striking example, was accepted and the cut made. The same notice was published by the Journal and a bill for the same amount was filed, and of course they had to cut his bill the same as our’s. This gang, under the leadership of “Honest Abe,” has courted lawsuits ever since it has been in power in Jasper county; it has paid out hundreds of dollars of the people’s money for public printing and other purposes illegally, and of course resents interference from The Democrat in its raids upon the county treasury. Only one member of the gang is financially responsible for a penny in any way, two members being wholly law-proof. Jasper count} - is particularly unfortunate in having such a lot of small-bore officers as these to manage its finances, and while we dislike very much to put the county to the expense of paying for the cussedness of this contemptible set of officers, we have decided to no longer submit to their petty spitefullness, and a suit will be filed to recover the amount of the claim as filed. We are perfectly willing to accept the verdict of competent printers as to whether our bill was a just one or not.

Obituary.

Ancil Snodgrass, whose long illness has been frequently mentioned by us, died at the home of hie mother, Mrs. Nancy SnodSrass, in the east part of town, [onday evening, of consumption, aged 35 years, 5 months and 8 days. Deceased w’as born in Jordan tp., his father, Walker Snodgrass. being one of Jordan's early settlers. He joined the K. of P’s at Otterbein in 1885 and remained a member of the order until the disbandment of the Otterbein lodge. In 1889 he began work as telegraph operator and for the past few years had been stationed in. Texas. He leaves a mother, also three brothers John of Rensselaer. Arthur of Givin, lowa and Fletcher of Lafayette. The funeral was held from the residence Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Meads conducting the services, and interment made in Welsh cemetery. The pall bearers were all K. of P’s.—C D. Nowels, Harry Whiting, Henry Purcupile, Chas. Robinson, C. C. Warner and J. J. Hunt.

Cider Mill Now Running.

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

JAMES C. CLARK.