Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1901 — Page 1

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l' Commercial State Bank North Side of Public Square, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. siQiemeoj 01 condition oi Close 01 its Business, white 3isi day oi ociober, 1901. RESOURCES. u LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts $162,066,511 \\ Capital Stock Paid in .. $ 25,000.00 Overdrafts .'. 570.00 ; Surplus Fund 3.000.00 U.S. Bonds 1,900.00 li Unuividwi Profits... 42.00 Due from Bunks and Bankers.. 39.299.10 ! 1 Discount. Exchange and Int ... 4.445.13 Bunking House 5,585.00 j| Deposits 196.254.78 Cash 9,381.28 ji $228,741.91 f $228,741.91 We respectfully call the attention of the public to the foregoing statement of our condition, as reported to the Auditor of State. We have money to loan on farm and city property and on personal security at reasonable rates and without delay. We pay interest on Savings, sell <1 rafts on Foreign Countries, make investments on First Mortgage Security for our customers, rent safe deposit boxes for safe keeping of papers, and tansaet a jfenerul banking: business. We respectfully solicit a share of the public pat ronuge, promising fair and courteous treatment to all.— Addison ParkisON, John M. Wasson, JambsT. Randle, Geo. E Murray. E. L. Hollingsworth. Directors. 5 Per Cent Farm Loans a Specialty.

■ a ■ ■■ || You cannot afford to be Hnminu l\/SP9I ’ ignorant of the value of lIUIIIIIIJ IVIOuI I Hominy MeaUs a feed ■ ■ mm mm ■ a ■« corn, cooked and steam Havß You Tr od t? 1 H ; d Gi f, * ■ ,riai ————■ ______ and you will beconvinced that it is the best and most economical feed you can get. An)' kind of grain accepted in exchange. Call at the Feed Store. COX & BRANCH. ■ 1 THE QQ CENT. | ..Racket Store..! The Greatest Wonder ot the 20th Century. i Nothing over 99 cents in the Store. Just that alone is en- < ough to satisfy the most skeptical that the bargains we < give are ahead of anything ever before presented to the J people of Jasper County and vicinity. We make it our \ special aim to buy the latest and most up-to-date goods < in everything manufactured on the globe, and to sell the \ same at figures that the other fellow cannot possibly J duplicate. No matter how low’ the price seems to you, J the quality of our goods must he maintained. \ We have just received a shipment of < Quadruple Plated Silver Ware, ! guaranteed to wear and give satisfaction for 12 years, < that are very special bargains, including everything < manufactured in the silverware line, at prices that we < defy the entire world to duplicate at 110 Other place Ollljf \ the 99 Cent, Racket Store. 1 ] We also have the genuine Flo Blue Ware w’hieh has < been all the rage, in Johnson Bros., English semi-porce- < lain. Nothing better in the line of table dishes on < earth, to sell for less than 50 cents on the dollar. Do < not miss this chance. You can get a 100-piece set for < just one half w hat you would pay elsewhere. These are only a few of the cracker-jacks we have in < bargains. Visit us when in Rensselaer, you will he a < steady customer afterward. j Very Respectfully \ RANSFORD & FRANKS, i Proprietors' ot The 99 Gent Racket Store. <

Spreads Like Wildfire. When things art* "the best" they become "the best selling." Abraham Hare, a leading druggist, of Itellville, 0., writes: “Electric Hitters are the best selling bit: ters I have handled in 20 years." You know why? Most diseases begins in disorders of the stomach, liver, kidney, bowels, blood and nerves, F.lectric Hitters tones up the stomach, regulatesliver, kidneys and bowels, puriii'-s the blood, strengthens the nerves, hence cures multitudes of maladies. It builds up the entire system. Huts new life and vigor into any weak, sickly, run-down manor woman. Hrice 50 cents. Sold by Long.

m sa .„. DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE IMSKASK.S, . HKMOHHORDB, ' » Office First Stair* West of Fendig’s Drug Store. Phone 251. RE2INSSEL AE3R, IND.

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OIL LAND FOR SALE. 200 acres, all or part, in the Jasper Co., Ind., oil field. It lies about £ of a mile north of Asphaltum, on the wagon road, and is in 28-31-5. It is not leased. Address the owner, Charles Foley, Danville, Ind. When you feel that life is hardly worth the candle take a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tanlets. They will cleanse your stomach, tone up your liver and regulate your bowels making you feel like a new man. For sale by Long.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, November gi, 1901.

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Marriage licenses: Nov. 2, Lemuel Chambers to Bertha Williams. Nov. 5, Robert Harmon to Ophelia McClanahan. Nov. 7, Joseph Grube to Iva B. Grimm. —o — New suits fifed: No. 6211, 6212, 6213, 62TT 6215, 6216, 6217, .6218, 6219, 6220. State of Indiana for use of John W. Fish, construction commissioner, vs W. B. Austin, Wm. Pruett et al, Staver Carriage Co., James Leopard et al, Robert Parker et al, David C. Pulver et al, Martin O. Pruett et al, Mary S. Sanford et al, Anna D. Mitchell, William A. Rinehart et /l, respectively: action to enforce Motion ditch leins. ParsoM & Nye, attys. No. 6221, Frank R. Johnson vs. Charles H. Stultz; action on notes und chattle mortgage. Ferguson & Wilson, attys. No. 6222, Julius Hine vs. Willis W. Wright et al; action to quiet title. Foltz, Spider A Kurrie, attys. No. 6223, Mary A. Jordan et al vs. John C. Jordan et at; action in partition. FergUson & Wilson, attys. No. 6224, William D. Burddt vs. Real P. Benjamin; action on promissory note. Foltz. Spitler & Kurrie, attys. No. 6225, Thomas Hnrris vs. Lewis Harris; appeal from justice’s court. Jasper Guy, atty —o The November term of commissioners court closed Wednesday. Following is a report in brief of the business transacted except bills allowed, which will appear in our next issue: Advertisement ordered fcSr 8 new bridges; two in Jordan, t wo in Newton, two in Barkley and two in Walker. J. M. Wasson, Frank Parker and Web Jackson appointed reviewers in Angeline Walters <>t al petition for ditch, to meet Nov. 3>. Report of reviewers in John Armstrong et al ditch approved and ditch ordered established; final report ordered for Nov. 20. Same action in Nancy E. Brown et al ditch. • Sylvester Grey, J. F. Irwin and Wm. Washburn appointed reviewers in Jacob D. Rich et k ai ditch, to meet Nov. 20. John W. Hutchinson et al petition for ditch was dismissed. Isaac N. McCurtain et al highway was ordered established on payment of S2O dnniagi s to John C. Frazee within (i 0 days by petitioners; one-half cost of viewers to be taxed to Mrs. Candace Loughridge. Barbara Kelley ot al • petition for ditch; John O’Conner, .David D. Gleason and Brusnahan appointed reviewers, to meet Nov. 19. A liquor license was granted Reason M. Dunn of DeMotte. Contract was extended with taxferrets to include years 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901. The board entered such an order of record at the September, 1901, term, but they no doubt wanted to make it doubly sure so as to catch ‘Honest Abe’s” omitted telephone assessment, therefore made the order again. Warren Robinson, J. C. Porter and F. M. Parker were appointed viewers in matter of vacation of certain highway in Barkley tp., to meet Nov. 18. Henry Grow, Felix French, and Wm. Daniels appointed viewers in Amos H. Alter et al petition for ditch, to meet Nov. 11. A strip of gravel road i;i Marion tp., wns accepted and declared a part of the township’s free gravel road. A quit, claim deed wns ordered executed to Ellis Walton to certnin lands in Rensselaer. There were $2,892 of uuloaned funds on hand Nov. 1.

FOR SALE.

A Registered short horn Bull, three years old, a good breeder; an extra choice lot of Poland China Boars and Bpring gilts; also one yearling Boar; all eligible to register D. A. Bickel, Remington, Ind.

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MRS. MILTON HAKEEVER DIES.

XMts. Nancy Makeever, who has bethi sick for several months, died at her home in Newton tp., Tuesday morniug, aged about 76 years. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, from the residence. Rev. C. D. Royse conducting the services, and interment made in Weston cemetery.

DIED.

Charles Everet, son of C. V. and Maggie Shroyer, was born sept. 9, 1901; died November 6, 1901, aged 1 year. I month and 27 days. “Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” “He cannot come to me but I can go to him.” Heaven will seem nearer and will be dearer to this bereaved family since Charley has gone home to live with Jesus. Funeral services were conducted by the writqr in the home, in the presence of sympathizing friends. Interment in Frayter Cemetry. Levi Byrd, Pastor.

MONON EXCURSION RATES.

$3.30 for the round-trip to Indianapolis. Novemlier 19th to 21st. good returning up to November 22d. One and one-third fare for the round trip to Indianapolis, November 19, 20, 21, aud 22, good returnn up to November 23d 1 One fare for the round trip to Richmond, Ind., November 21, 22 and 23, good returning to and including November 25t. Thanksgiving day rates: One and one third fare for the round trip to all points not exceeding 150 miles, November 27th and 28th, good returnrng November 29.

V- BIRTHS."; Nov. 1, to Mr. and Mrs. F.iank Maloy, a son;.s Nov. 1, to "Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Krull, a son.

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Mann Spitler was down from Thayer Thursday. Kniman’s new M. E. Church will be dedicated Sunday, Nov. 17. Township Trustee S. D. Clark of Wheatfield, was in town yesterday. Tickets for Eli Perkins’ lecture are now on sale at Huff’s jewelry store. - R. T. Newman will move to Rochester nnd start a feed and hitch barn. Dont fail to turn out and hear Eli Perkins, at the opera house, Monday night. Grace Jacks is clerking at the Racket Store, takiug Miss True George’s place. Eli Perkins, the famous humorist, at Ellis opera house, Monday evening. Dont miss it. Apples at $1 to $2 a barrel less than Chicago prices. Chicago Bargain Store. corn is now worth 51) cents per bushel at the elevator. 6 cents less than is paid for old corn. Mrs. Henry O. Harris and granddaughter Marceline, are preparing to spend the winter in the south. A. Leopold was in Chicago again this week in the interests of securing the proposed factory for this city. John McGlinn of Wheatfield, has sold his 240 acre farm in Walker tp. to an Illinoisiau for $35 per acre.John rim of Jordan tp , was in the city Tuesday. He will retire from the farm and move to Remington shortly. The wife of Lundy Magee left town a few’ days ago, while Landy was away, and is said to have departed for the west. 7* waney Makeeverlast week pur- j chased the Ellis Walton two corner lots on Cullen and consideration $2,000. Leek who recently sold his farm northwest of town, lias bought Frank Krnsney’s 290 acre farm in Newton tp., consideration ! $45 per acre. Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 56; oats 38; rye 45. One year ago today tho prices were, wheat 65; corn 33; oats 20; rye 42. The Democrat can furnish printed or engraved calling or invitation cards on very short notice. We can make you close prices on both classes of this w r ork. Twenty-four choice varieties winter apples, nil No. I stock, free from worms, just received, $3 to $4 per barrel. Chicago Bargain Store. J. C. Kaupke of Kankakee tp., was in town yesterday. Mr. ‘ Kaupke will have a sale on the 27th. and expects to start for Oklahoma apout the first of the month. Martha Franklin, a maiden Indy aged 65, was found sitting upright in her chair, dead, at her home in Goodlaud, Wednesday. It is thought she had been dead two or three days when found. She lived alone and wns quite well to do.

About thirty live of the friends of Mr. aud Mrs. Earl Duvall met at the home of C. W. Duvall last Friday night, from there proceeded in a body to the home of the former. The surprise wns complete. A very pleasant evening was spent. The date for holding the Woman’s Meeting has been changed to Thursday, and will hereafter he held in the ladies’ Suiting room, first floor of court house, instead of in the east court room. Next meeting Thursday, Nov, 14, 2 p. m.

h£M nx Weller sold his UK) acre farm (>J miles northeast of Goodland, to M. O. Foster, of Lexington, for $10,300; also, the Montgomery heirs sold their 1(K) acre farm, five miles northeast of town toChas. Brown, of Raub, for $55 per acre. Goodland Herald.

A SUGGESTION.

j A few weeks ago the postmasters of the Tenth congressional district held a meeting at Lafayette, the alleged purpose of which was to exchange views, etc., on bettering of the mail service to patrons. This is a laudable undertaking and we hope will bear good fruit, but we would like to offer a few kindly suggestions for the improvement of service to the patrons of the Rensselaer postoffice which we think will be heartily endorsed by every one of such patrons. Ist. Let the office be kept open until 8 p. m., each night, and the outer door be left open until 9 p m., each night and all day on holidays. 2nd Let the outer door be kept open from 8 a. m., to 4 p. m , on Sundays. If this were done (ami we understand it is in most towns as large as Rensselaer) patrons provided with lock boxes could go in at any time and get their mail. As it is, these patrons, who pay from two to three times as much for their boxes as do the call Ixix patrons, have very little advantage over the latter. There is nothing in the outer room to steal, and it would be very easy to prevent loafing therein. 3rd. Let mail be made up at 8 p. m., each night to go south on the 11:30 train. In this way letters could be mailed in reply to those received by business men on the 6:35 and milk trnin mail, for Indianapolis, Chicago and other points, reaching their destinations early the next morning. As it is now there is no mail out of Rensselaer, between 5:45 p. ni. and 7:00 a. m., and with the out-going mail facilities we have, if taken advantage of. is altogether too long a time between mails. All these impovements in our local mail service could be brought about with very little extra work to the postmaster and his assistants, and the salary of the office here is such that the patrons ought to have all the good tilings possible. Many towns, much larger than Rensselaer, have not our advantage of mail train service, and we believe we should embrace what we have in this line. The Democrat would like to have an expression from the business men of Rensselaer on the suggestions made above. We feel that the sentiment in favor of their adoption must be practically unanimous.

ROBT. A. HAMILTON DEAD.

R. A. Hamilton of Goodland, Chief engineer of the proposd east and west railroad and one of the promoters of that line, died suddenly at Rochester Monday morning of heart disease while seated in a chair at the Arlington hotel. y Mr. Hamilton was a brother to John A. Hamilton, also of Goodland, who is the president of the company promoting the east and west road. It was the former who worked up the organization of the company and who has been one of the principal pushers in carrying the matter along to its present encouraging stage. He first became interested in the line with Mr George H. Tenney of Kendallville, whose long illness and final death put a temporary stop to the work. The writer had been intimately acquainted with Mr. Hamilton for about sixteen years, and in his numerous visitis to Rensselaer in tho past two years in the interest of this railroad. “Bob” always gave us a call and a hearty grip of the band. His whole mind for some time has been wrapped up in this railroad enterprise, and it is to be deplored that lie could not have lived to have seen it carried through to a successful conclusion, which we anticipate it soon will be. He leaves a wife, three sons and two daughters, to whom we extend our deep sympathy in their hour of sadness.

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Vol. IV. No. 31 * «

THE ART OF STARTING.

Tbe Personal Element Cat* Quite * Figure in Foot Racing. Skillful starting, says Pearson** Magazine, like most instances of physical prowess, is a matter partly of natural aptitude, partly, in a foot race, of cultivation. Men differ in what may be called personal error; in. the duration of the interval between the act of will and the translation of it into action. Some men have to aim further in front of a driven partridge than others because it takes them longer to pull their triggers. Similarly, one runner takes longer than another to set his limbs in motion; both hear the bang of the pistol at the same moment, but the one actually move* his legs, or jumps into his stride, appreciably the sooner. And personal error, in this sense, ia found to vary from day to day in the same man, being distinctly more pronounced when he is stale or jaded than when he is fresh and fit No amount of cultivation will altogether remove this personal difference between individuals; but each may reduce his own error to hit own minimum by continued practice of a right method. By an incessant repetition an action becomes so habitual that it is done without conscious volition. The feet of an expert dancer thread of themselves the complicated steps of a jig or hornpipe; and in a similar way a sprinter’s limbs after due practice seem to start of their own accord at the sound of the pistol, the muscles of his legs aeem to hear the bang direct. An expert starter when in position on the mark, or when “set,”a» it is called, is in a concentrated, strained state from which the detonation releases him automatically; his highly educated muscles fall at once into the requisite actions, and knowing they will do so he can fix hia whole attention upon reaching the tape. Hewill arrive there all the more quickly for having but one idea to govern hi* body.

ARE ALL NEATLY KEPN.

Th« Farmhouse* and Barns Scrupulously Kept The farmhouses in Norway are all neatly kept, says W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record-Herald. There is always a matting of pine boughs spread before the door to tripe your feet on. The barns and the cattle are scrupulously clean. The Norwegians do not take so much pains with them, however, as is done in Holland, where the people curry the cows and rub them down every morning and evening like the horses, and often, particularly near the towns, hang lace curtains in the stable windows. There seems to be a close relation between the human kind and their animals. The men and women talk to the horses and cattle as if they were understood. We had e “skydsgut,” or driver, the other day, who held continuous conversation with his horses. Every time he came to a hill he vonld walk beside them and talk to them all the way np in a gentle, caressing sort of way, like a child talking to a doll, and once, when he stopped for water and the near horse wanted to think more than the driver thought was good for him, he scolded like an old woman. The horse shook his head and rattled his harness impatiently, as much as to say: “You get back onto yonr box and attend to you business, and I’ll attend to mine." When you have a legal notice to be published, such as notice of appointment, notice of final settlement, n’ltice of survey, notice of administrator’s or guardian’s sale, non-resiewnt notice, or any other notice Biot controlled by county or towiLhip officers, bring it to The Denßx rat office. Our prices for thisil-ork are lower than others by rea In of our Betting them without r*iv padding whatever, and we {"111 appreciate the favor. ‘,l

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