Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

LEE, | M’COYSBURG | V J THE 99 CENT. ..Racket Store.. ! Nothing over 99 CENTS in the store and !; from that down to 1 cent. Goods you pa}’ as I; high as one, two and three dollars for at other !; stores, you get here at 99 Cents. We handle | everything that is possible to buy that we can |! sell for 99 Cents and less—all the latest and ;! newest novelties in everything that the world ;! produces, including Fine China, Glassware, > Crockery, Silverware, Jewelry, Notions, Hats !; and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Soap, Stationery, !; Ready-Made Clothing,Wrappers, Reefers,Cloaks, 'l Dolls, Hardware, Woodenware Enameled Ware, ;! Tinware,Pictures.Hosiery and Underwear.Ladies’ ;! Waists and Ladies’ Skirts, Collars, Ties, Gloves, |! Mittens, Window Shades, Lace Curtains Curtain !; Rods and fixtures, and in fact everything you <! need and at prices that defy competition. We ;! have the largest assortment of Hand and Parlor |! Stand Lamps at prices that will make you won- ; der how we can possibly sell them at such low figures. Lamps you have paid two and three !; dollars for at only 99 Cents. Come early and !; secure one of these bargains and many others !; too numerous to mention, at no other place only —the 99 CENT RACKET STORE. TO SMOKERS—We have a job lot of cigars which j! we will close out at prices never before heard of in Jas'l per county. Come and examine stock and prices We also have a very special bargain in Ladies’ Underwear ; !■ and in Ladies’ and Gent’s Umbrellas, which will pay j you to investigate. We are adding new goods all the ! '! our trade is increasing every day. Our cus- ! ij tomers are our best advertisement. Ask them where ; they got so and so and invariably they will say at the 1 99 CENT RACKET STORE—the only one in Jasper > |i county. We have the finest Musical Orchestra in the ! '! world, always free. Costs you nothing to hear the fin- | i| est music that is played. Bring in the children. It is J !; a pleasure to trade, as the music entertains the children 1 !' while yon are waited on. . Our place can be found at 1 |i 218 Washington street, Rensselaer, Ind. > THE 99 CENT~RACKET STORE, | RANSFORD & FRANKS, Proprietors. | JUST RECEIVED. ♦ X A fine line of Up-To-Date Pattern Hats, X X and Street Hats, also. If you want the very X X latest style hats money can’buy, call and see 4 4 my line for they are trimmed in the city, by 4 4 expert trimmers, and are not old material or X X shelf-worn, but are strictly swell hats. X 4 If saving money is any object, give me a X X call. Location near depot. X 4 -MRS. C. E. HERSHMAN. 4 ♦ ' ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

A new remedy for bilhousness is now on sale at ling’s drug store. It is called Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. It gives quick relief.and will prevent the attack if given as soon as the first indication of the disease appears. Price, 25 cents per box. Sample tree. The Democrat can furnish printed or engraved calling or invitation cards ou very short notice. We can make you close prices on both classes of this work.

A Fiendish Attack. An attack was lately made on C. F. Collier of Cherokee, lowa, that nearly proved lata!. It came through his kidneys. His back got so lame he could not stoop without great pain, nor sit in a chair .except propped by cushions. No remedy helped him until he tried Electric Bitters which effected such a wonderful change that he writes l e feels like a new man. This marvelous medicine cures backache and kidney trouble, purifies the blood and builds up your health, Only 50 cents at Long’s drug store.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, October 26, 1901.

PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

Read Murray’s clothing ad. Thos. Callaghan was down from the north Monday. Read every page of The Democrat to get all the home news. T. M. Callahan, Mayor of Newland, was in the city Monday. Geo. Hanna and wife of near Kniman, were in the city Monday. John Kimble of Gifford, was a business caller in the city Monday. The Commercial State Bank installed a hot water heating system this w 7 eek. W. R. Dennis of near Pleasant Ridge has bought a 60 acre farm in Wheatfield tp. E. L. Hollingsworth attended the state meeting of bankers at Indianapolis this week. Mrs. J. A. Larsh and Miss Harriet Yeoman took in “Ben Hur” at Chicago Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman visited their sons D. M., and J ames, at Ambia, this week. V(JThe Chicago excursion last Sunday was well patronized, 186 tickets being sold at this station. Nelson DuCharme of Kniman, will cry sales in all parts of the country; terms reasonable. ts. Miss Grace Jacks returned last week from Danville, 111., and will remain at home for the present. Corn husking is here; get your gloves and other husking supplies at Lee's hardware at McCoysburg. A ty|>ographical error last week made us say that Oct. 28 was Arbor day. when it should have read Oct. 25. Misses Margaret Merritt and Rosella Burton and "Walter Forbes of Remington, were Rensselaer callers Saturday. The Democrat contains “home news ’ on e\ery page again this week, and you will have to read each page to get it all. Mrs. Henry Ropp and little daughter weut to Elroy, Ohio, Tuesday to visit a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Sullenberger. B. S Fendig arrived home from New Orleans with his bride Monday. For the present they will reside with his mother on Front street. W H. Coover is home from an extended prospecting trip in the West. He has decided to locate in Colorado, either at Boulder or Colorado Springs. R S. Dwiggins and wife of Jacksonville, Ohio, visited here over Sunday, leaving on Monday for California, where they expect to make their home. Jasper Guy, E. W. Culp, Geo. Besse, C. R. Grritfith, Henry Welsh, D. Y. Garrison and Miss Lelia Middleton were among the Remington people in the city Monday. t£G. M. Wilcox & Son, the hustling Surrey merchants, have another full page ad in this issue of The Democrat. Rend it and see what bargains they are offering their customers. The Henderson Stock Co., closes a week’s engagement at Ellis opera house to-night. The company has been puttiug on some good plavs and have enjoyed a good patronage • Three big wagon loads of cabbage from near Demotte, were brought here Thursday to dispose of. That section of the country produces nice cabbage and in fact all kinds of vegetables. Mr. and Mrs. Turner Merritt of Remington, passed through Rensselaer Sunday enroute to DeMotte, his brother’s, John Merritt’s wife, being very low with typhoid fever. She died before their arrival. James Overton returned Saturday from an extended stay in the West with his son Randle. The latter is not improved in health to any appreciable extent, and expects to spend the winter at Lamar, Colo. In another column will be found a complete list of overy personal property tax-payer in Wueattield 1 and Wheatfield township,together with the personal assessment of I each, as shown by the assessment j sheets for 1901.

Matt Zimmer of Wheatfield tp., was in the city cn business Tuesday. Wanted—To sell the hardware and lumber we have. Lee, at McCoysburg. Mrs. J. F. Rank of Chicago, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. J. F. Irwin. ing a new corn crib 24x60 near their elevator. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bartoo and Miss Opal Sharp went to Chicago Wednesday to take in “Ben Hur.” Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Makeever of Denver, Colo., returned home Saturday after two weeks visit with relatives here. '•- X S. H. Howe of Thawville, 111,, has purchased Derby Bros. 352| acre farm in Hanging Grove, tp., consideration $23,395. Albert Nichols of Jennings county, who has been visiting friends in this vicinity for the past two months, returns home today. ■ John Pearson of Hanging Grove, tp., has traded his 280 acre farm to George Cottingham of Fairbury, 111, for a 160 acre farm near Wolcott. Mrs. James Yeoman and Mrs. Joseph Yeoman are this' week visiting Mrs. H. E. Wade at Hammond, and Mrs. Charles Yeoman at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. W asson returned a few days ago from a visit with their daughter, Mrs. A. S. Nowels, at Geneva, Ind., and also at other points. Mrs. Peter Scallen of Lafayette, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hordeman, Sr , west of town for several weeks, returned home Monday. The Democrat has a nice lot of items from West Jordan this week. We hope the correspondent will favor our readers each week with news from that quarter of the county. Elmer Medworth is home from Chicago for a short time, nursing a sore arm. He got it cut quite badly on a circle saw in the factory in whicn he is working in the Windy City. The Democrat readers would like to hear from the Egypt (Jordan tp.)correspondent whom we requested some time ago to furnish items from that neighborhood. Can it be the brothers have cast our “Joseph" into a pit? Charley Kelley came down from Rockford, 111., Sunday to spend the week with his mother. Mrs. Agnes Kelley. He expects to leave about next Monday for Colorado Springs, Colo., where his brother Chase, is attending school, and where he hns secured a position in the laundry department of the Antler hotel, one of the largest hostelries in Colorado. If you are not already a reader of The Democrat we invite you to become one. No difference what your political preferences art*, you will find more real county news in its columns than all other papers published in the county combined, and its subscription price is no more than any one of the others. This is no idle boast, but a fact which every fair-minded man must admit. It will do you good even though you may not be a democrat. Try it and see. E. P. Honan has lately become a bloated land owner, having purchased of W. B. Austin the 80acre tract in Baikley tp., known as the Norman eighty. Ed does not intend to farm the land himself, howeyer. at least not yet, but will sell it again if be can get his price for it. Otherwise he will probably fit up asummer residence on the tract and flee to the fastness of blooming Barkley for a few weeks each summer to escape the heat and dust of the city, Mr. Lawrence Kellner, of Carpenter tp., and Miss Anna Gallagher were married at the home of the bride in Jennings county, Tuesday last. Miss Christina Hildebrand of this city, attended the wedding as one of the bridesmaids The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gallagher, former residents of Carpenter tp., while the groom is tho son of John Kellner of the same neighborhood. They will reside upon the farm formerly occupied by Mr. Gallagher in Carpenter tp.

Nowels has sold his residence property and two lots here to Mrs. Lucy Clark of north of town, price $1,500. Mrs. Clark will move into same in the spring. old dwelling on the corner soferth from the Makeever House, is being torn down. It is stated that Judge Thompson will erect a big brick business block upon the site next season. Mrs. B. Forsythe returned Friday from New Philadelphia, Ohio, where she had been for some time at the bedside of her aged father, who has been dangerously ill. She left him much better. The Iroquois Gun Club will give a blue rock shoot at Riverside Park, Thursday, Oct. 31, commencing at 9a. m. There are 15 events advertised and some good sport is anticipated. Entrance to the grounds is free. The rains that fell during the latter part of the summer helped out late planted potatoes in many localities, and it is now thought the prevailing price will not be over 75 to 85 cents per bushel in this locality during the winter, although nearly all consumed must be imported from other states.

JASPER’S EARLY FINANCIERS.

Fowler Lender: A great many fine stories have been told about the North American wild cat bank at Morocco. William Yeatch says that there never was a bank at that place during those times of state banks. George Spitler and others, of Rensselaer, issued some money and had the place of doing business printed Morocco, but they never had a room at that place and never did any business there. John Murphy, a farmer, on whose land the town of Morocco was built, was given a hundred dollars in gold to redeem any notes of the bank that might be presented, but none were ever presented. One time there came in a hack to Rensselaer two strangers. The town was small at that i time and everybody knew the other fellow’s business. Mr. Spitler surmised that the strangers had notes of the Bank of North Amrriea for redemption. He gathered a number of his cronies about him and the strangers were entertained with stories how the woods and swamps about Morocco were infested with bold robbers and none could scarcely escape with their lives. The strangers, whatever might be their business, did not go to Morocco, but turned around and returned to the east. Number one good Jersey cow for sale, 6 years old, will be fresh

L. S. RENICKER.

soon.

WHO WAS IT?

Morocco Courier: Who sympathized with you when your little girl was sick? Was it vour home merchant or wns it Sears A Roebuck? Who carried you last winter when you were out of a job and had no money? Was it Montgomrey, Ward A Co., or was it your home merchant? When you want to raise money for the church or for some needy person in town, do you write to the Fair store in Chicago, or do you go to your home merchants? How much does Siegel, Cooper & Co. give towards keeping up the sidewalks in your town, or paying the minister’s salary? When you were sick, how many nights did Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. sit up with you? When your loved one was buried, wasn’t it your home merchant who dropped the tear of sympathy and uttered the cheering word, or was it Marshall Field A Co?

ESTRAYS TAKEN UP.

Came to my place, 3 miles northwest of Rensselaer, Tuesday, Oct. 22. seven young hogs.

J. L. SMITH.

To Rent. Two, 320 acre farms, well ditched, near Kidman, and fine, 160 acre farm near Demotte, Indiana, to parties who can do a large amount of plowing this fall, and put in 300 acres of corn next year. Apply, Warren Springer, 197, S Canal St. Chicago, 111. FOR SALE. About Oct. 10, until Nov. 1, I will have a complete assortment of Nursery Stock, consisting of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, at Kressler's Feed Barn. Will sell cheap. F. A. Woodin. Read The Democrat for news.

Vol. IV. No. 29

DANCE TO-NIGHT.

Remember the dance at Warner Hall, to-night. Saturday, Oct., 26. Yourself and lady are invited. Good music and good order will be maintained. Bicknell & Bowers, Mges.

’TWAS A BIG JOB.

I.nkp County News: <lt is believed that at last the Monon Company has got the better of the far-famed Klondike sink hole, just north of Cedar Lake. For nearly three months a steam shovel has been loading cars with dirt, and 25 or 30 men have been unloading it into the sink hole. The work has gone on every day except Sundays, and during that time it is estimated that 6,000 car loads of dirt, 125 cars of stone and 250 cars of old ties and old bridge timbers have been dumped in and disappeared from view. The original track and big trestle work over the sink also went down into the innards of the earth along with the rest of the stuff mentioned. The sink hole ia about 350 feet long, and the arnount of material dumped into it would make a solid embankment as long as the sink and 60 feet wide and 60 feet high. The track lias been relaid and the work train has been running over the sink for several days, and it is now expected that the regular trains will begin running over it Monday.

Fendig-Oppenheimer.

The following report of the Fendig-Oppenheimer wedding ia copied from the New Jewish Ledger: The marriage of .Miss Rosye OppenHeimer and Mr. Ben S. Fendig was solemnized on Wednesday evening at the home of the bride’s mother on Carondelet street in the presence of relatives and a large number of friends. In a corner of the parlor a canopy of ferns was arranged holding a huge bow T knot of flowers, under which the couple stood while Rabbi Heller performed the ceremony. The bride, the accomplished daughter of Mrs. A. Oppenheimer. was elegantly gowned in a lovely costume of white organdy trimmed in ribbon and carried a shower boquet. She was attended by her sister, Miss Belle Oppenheimer as maid of honor. The ushers were Messrs. Ed and Joe Oppenheimer. The groom, a prominent young man of Rensselaer, Indiana, was attended by Mr. Morris Israel, as best man. To the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march, played 011 the violin by Dr. Nathan Eiseman, the bridal party entered the parlor, the bride leaning on Ihe arm of her brother, Mr. Albert Oppenheimer. After the ceremony a reception was held when the contracting parties received the good wishes and congratulations of the many guests present. Mr. and Mrs. Fendig left the following day for a bridal trip before going to their far away home in Indiana.

Subscribe for The Democrat If you need side 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. Any one in need of a stump pull ler, call on C. A. Roberts, agent for “The Monarch.” 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. If you need Life Insurance, call on Bruner & Randle. Forsythe Block, Room 7. 5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison. MODERN DENTISTRY. Dr. Horton is offering special inducements to those liviug at a distance, the remainder of the year 1001. If yon require highgrade deptalwork of any kind at moderate cost it will pay you to investigate. Office opposite the court house.