Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

MANY CHANGES.

This spring has brought about many changes in Jasper county. Scores of farmers have sold out and went to other localities and ' many more have moved to other farms in this county Following are the changes in addresses of Democrat subscribers since Eeb. 1: J A. McCullough, Remington to Reefaburg, Ind. John Rush, Remington to Inwood, Ind. J G Moritz, Wlieatfleld to Kersey. Ira Brown, Gifford to Knimau. 'Elmer Babcock, DeMotto to Rensselaer R-D-l. Joseph Salrin, Wheatfield to Asphaltum. John Ciager, Aix to Wheatfield. John Keith, Wheatfield to Leota, Mich. F. M. Goff, Kniman to Fair Oaks. Frank Cooper, Aix to Indianapolis. I. E. French, Brook to Hutchinson, Kan. Wm. Woosley, Newland to Gifford. John Gray, Remington to Rensselaer, R-D-l. C. F. Pence, Fowler R-D-2 to Fowler R-D-5. W. H. Sbessler, Monon to Geary, Oklahoma. Wm. Prewett, Boulder, Colo., to Longmont, Colo. A. O. Moore, Rensselaer to Pleasant Grove. John Blocher, Wheatfield to Norwich, No., Dakota. Geo. Blocher, Wheatfield, to Norwich, No., Dakota. Bert Blue, Rensselaer to Francesville. T. J. Gleason, Francesville to Rensselaer. C. E. Morris, Rensselaer to Parr. S. F. Armentrout. Virgie to Shelby, Ind. E. H. Blake, Remington to Wabash, Ind. J. J. Reed, Rensselaer to Armour, So. Dak. Survetas Gerrard, Hillsboro, Tenn., to Devil's Lake. No. Dak. W. T. Pierson, Keeler, Mich., to Surrey, No. Dak. John Hefferlin, Rensselaer to DeSmet, So., Dak. Emma Burger, Tefft to Chicago. Chas. Carter, Mt. Ayr to Silver Lake, Ind. E. E. Gunyoti. Rensselaer to Cyclone, Ind. Geo. Poieel,Gillam to Medaryville, W. L. Criswell, Wolcott to Rensselaer. W. G. Renicker, Rensselaer to Pyrmont, Ind. Sam Norman, Surrey to Parr. G. G. Brown, Rensselaer toJlymouth, Ind. Frank Arnott, Valma to Rt\welaer. Henry Hayes, Parr to Blackford. John Gaffey, Rural No. 1 to Parr. A. Foster, McCoysburg to Brookston. J. E. Claery, R-D-l to Rochester. Ind, Esper McCleary, Gifford to Berwyn, Neb. W. R. Nowels, Rensselaer to Flora, Ind. J. O. Cline, Virgie to Wheatfield. Wm. Hammond, Sharon to Fair Oaks. James Lefler, Rensselaer to Pleasant Ridge. Thomas Knight, Aix to Rensselaer. John S. Hurley. Blackford to Rensselaer. John S. Hurley. Blackford to Rensselaer. Arthur Williamson, Kersey to McCoysburg. A. Pruitt, Goodland to Rensselaer. John Berger, Remington to Huntington, A. S. Nowels, Geneva to Columbia City. Ernest Cockerel, Westville to Rensselaer. CHANGBD TO BUBAL BOUTS XO. 2. Victor Yeoman, Surrey to R-D-2. Josiah Davisson, Aix to same L. D. Mauck, Surrey to same J. G. Andrus, R-D-l to same W. C. Sutton, Aix to same J. V. Lesh, Parr to same Alva Potts, Valma to same C. S. Hamacher, Virgie to same. Mrs. F. J. Ganf, Virgie to same. J. M. Hill, Aix to same. Simon Kenton, Surrey to same. Mason Kenton. Surrey to ssme. Harvey Davisson. Wheatfield to same. A. B. Long. Kniman to same. Nelson DuCharme, Kniman to same. J. W. Humes, Aix to same. Samuel Potts, Aix to same. John W. Faylor. Aix to same. Peter Hordeman. Rensselaer to same. Walter Harrington, Parr to same. Amos Davisson. Aix to same. Cattle Pasture: Anyone desiring posture for cattle, see A. A. Hoover, Rensselaer, Ind.

For Sale: —For a few weeks, my farm, of 80 acres, 4| miles north and 4 mile west of Remington. Buildings nearly new, including concrete house, (twostory), good horse stable, good crib and grainary combined, and other sheds and out-buildings; about 200 rods tile-and considerable young timber. Also 40 acres in White county, about 5 miles northwest of Wolcott. This land is not improved and has considerable white oak and other oak timber Will sell this tract for S2O per acre cash. John L. Turner, Remington, Ind. Chronic Diarrhoea. Mr. C. B. Wingfield, of Fair Play, Mo., who auffered from chronic dysentery for thirty-five years, says Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy did him more good than any other medicine he had ever used. For sale by A. F. Long. HORSE BILLS. The Democrat would remind the owners of stable horses that it is fully prepared to turn out folders, cards or large horse bills on short notice and at very reasonable prices. The best selection of horse cuts in the county. Give us a call if wanting anything in this line. Can't Keep It Secret. The splendid work of Dr. Kirg’s'New Life Pills is dally coming to light. No such grand remedy for Liver and Bowel troubles was ever known before. Thousands bless them for curing Constipation, Sick Headache. Billiousness, Jaundice and Indigestion, Try them. 35c at A, F. Long's drug store.

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

Corn, 54c; oats, 41c. New pensions: Wm.' Platt, Fowler, increase, sl2. John Casey of Fair Oaks, was in the city Wednesday. Miss Ethel Sharp’s school in Milroy tp., closes to-day. Mrs. J. A. Larsh visited in Chicago a few days this week. Albert Bouk was down from Walker tp., on business Tuesday. J. W. Cowden was over from Logansport Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Leslie Clark visited relatives at Bloomington and Indianapolis this week. Miss Maude Merritt of Remington, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Merritt here this week. Mrs. C. H. Porter of Delphi, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Williams, this week Farm For Rent: 80 acres, 4 miles south of Mt. Ayr. Enquire of G. 0. Pumphrey, Rensselaer, Ind. Mrs. Wm Heischy of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Oscar Hauter, southeast of town, this week. Miss Viola Glaze brook returned last Friday from an extended visit with relatives in Putnam county. J Thos. A. Crockett was 60 years sltt- last. Monday and had lived just 50 years of this time in Jasper county. Ed Phegley of Pulaski, is visiting relatives abo nt Rensselaer. He expects to go to Dakota in a few weeks, he says. *lMr. and Mrs. Sylvester Gray weht to Bluffton, Ind , last Friday to look after a farm that Mr. Gray bought near there last fall, Pruett of Goodland, has moved to Rensselaer and occupies Mrs. Adams’ property, on NortnVfm Rensselaer street. •4 Mr and Mrs. Zack Stanley went to Jennings county Saturday to visit the former’s mother, Mrs. Minerva C. Stanley, near Grayford. About forty men are now at work clearing up the ruins of the fire and making ready for the new buildings to be built.—Wolcott Enterprise. CJames Lefler has moved from tne Churchill farm northwest of town, to the Squire Moore farm in Hanging Grovs tp , which he has leased for five years. S. Nowels has finally purchased the lumber yard at Columbia City which he was negotating for some time ago, and will remove from Geneva to that place. 4-J. J. Reed’s family left Tuesday for their new home at Armour, So. Dak., where Mr. Reed recently purchased a section of land. fThe best wishes of their friends in Jasper county go with them. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sprague of Jamestown, N. Y., missionaries for the National Spiritual Association, lectured at the Church of God Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to large and attentive audiences. 'Vriie real estate transfers published in another part of this paper represent the number of deeds filed for record in Jasper county in the past two weeks. It passes all previous records in the history of the county. \Harrison Warren has bought the C. F. Stackhouse 80-acre farm north of town of A. A. Blair of Piper City, 111., paying therefor $77 50 per acre. Mr. Blair paid Mr. Stackhouse $75 per acre for the farm last summer. The “Two Little Waifs” company, which held forth at Ellis opera house Wednesday evening, was the best that has showed here for a long lime and carried the finest scenery that was perhaps ever seen in Rensselaer. They had a good house and richly deserved it.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, March 8, 1902

Ernest Cockerell has returned from Westville, and will buy property and make Rensselaer his home. List your farms for sale with me. I can sell them. Frank Cooper, 2024 Hovy street, Indianapolis, Ind. ts. UOne prominent evidence that Spring is not far off is the arrival of the small boy with his pockets bulged out with marbles. For Sale Cheap:—Good 7-room house, well and out-buildings, good shade, four lots, well located; terms to suit. R. D. Thompson. 'KMr- John Hopkins of Barkley tp., and Miss Lydia Metzger of Carroll county, were married near Pyrmount, Ind., Feb. 23, Rev. John Clear officiating./The Democrat joins John’s frienusTn extending congratulations. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, R-D-2, 1; Beaver City, Newton county, 1; Rensselaer, 2; Rensselaer, R-D-l, 1; Remington, 1; Waterford, Wis., 1; Gillam, 1; Newland, 1. Henry Eiglesbach had Fred Fatka arrested a few days ago for trespass and provoke. The cases were heard before Esq. Burnham and Mr. Fatka was found guilty and fined $5 and costs in the former case and $1 and costs in the latter. When the new rural route started last Saturday' 59 patrons of the route had put up boxes. Of this number 29 were Democrat subscribers. We also send 44 Democrat’s on the R-R-l. How is that for the popularity of the “Taxpayers’ friend?” Nine of the score or more of applicants for the republican nomination for city marshal have made formal notice of their candidacy. Their names are: Christie Vick, A. D. Burns, Mel Abbott, David Gassoway, Charles Platt, Joseph Rowen, Lyman Zea, Jerome Harmon, Lem Huston. John Hefferlin and family left Tuesday for their new home near DeSmit, Kingsbury county, So., Dak. Mr. Hefferlin has rented a large dairy farm (640 acres) on shares, and will run the same the coming year, selling the milk to a creamery of which there are two within a few miles of the farm. Capt. G. W. Payne and Mrs. Nancy Davidson of Fair Oaks, were united in marriage at the home of J. F. McColly near the depot, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. D. T. Halstead officiating. The groom is aged 71 and the bride 54. * They will reside at Monticello, where Mr. Payne owns residence property. A. W. Marsh, a former resident of Rensselaer, died at his home in Harriman, Tenn., Feb. 27, aged 68 years. The remains were brought here for burial and the funeral held from the residence of his son-in-law, Charles Gorland, on River street at 10:30 Sunday morning, Rev. Meads conducting the religious services. Burial services were under direction of the G. A. R’s and John Blocher and Jesse Root of Wheatfield, will leave March 25th for Normich, North Dakota, where they will make their future home. Sixteen cars loaded with their belongings and those of several others about Kouts will leave Kouts on the 25th. This is the neighborhood where bo many Carroll county Dunkards have located during the past few years, and all are well pleased with the country, we understand. Orlo Abbott and Miss Melvina Mae Thornton, daughter of G. L. Thornton, 4 miles northwest of town, were married at the home of the bride’s parents Thursday evening in the presence of about 75 relatives and friends, Rev. Q. D. Royce officiating. A fine wedding supper was served. The groom is a graduate of the agricultural department of the University of Wisconsin, and the young couple will reside upon a farm about one mile from Appleton, that state.

If you want elegantly printed calling cards, almost equal to engraved, at the price others charge for poorly printed ones, come to The Democrat office. Two desirable building lots, 67x150 feet, total frontage 134 feet by 150 deep, located in desirable part of town, large shade tree in front yard, lay nicely for drainage and fine cellar can be put in at small expense; will be sold cheap for cash or part time. Enquire at The Democrat office. Married, at 10 o’clock a. m., March 5, at the residence of S. M. Lemoine, near Fair Oaks, Albert Rowen to Miss Myrtle Odle, J ustice S. M. Lemoine officiating. The groom is a well known young business man of Newton county, the bride a daughter of Daniel Odle, trustee of Colfax township, Newton county. Shopped of Kankakee in the city Saturday on business. Mr. Shopped sold his farm in that township some time ago and bought a 126 acre farm in Putnam county, three miles from Greencastle, and moves there with his family this week. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shopped were reared in Owen county, and in moving to Putnam county is like getting back home. <J?he best wishes of their many Jasper county friends go with them to their new home. '/sMrs. F. W. Sever, of Colfax, Wash., who came here with her husband about two months ago to visit her daughter, Mrs. A. S. LaRue, and was taken sick almost immediately after her arrival here, died suddenly Monday evening. She had recovered partially from her late illness and was up and about the house some the day of her death. Deceased was about 68 years of age and leaves a husband and several children. The remains were taken to Milford, 111., for interment Wednesday. “Sim, the Cattle Dealer,” seems to have shown no partiality, but beat the friends who had stood by him for years. Yet he was an “honest, careful and painstaking” county commissioner, says the Apologist, and The Democrat man ought to be trampled under foot for having him arrested for paying the Apologist money from the county treasury that it was not entitled to. We opine one or two others would try to have him arrested for some of his private acts were he to return to Indiana. ACharlie and Fred Fisher and Albert Nichols came up from Jennings county Monday and will work here the coming summer. Charlie will work for Fritz Zard, Fred will work for Will Stucker and Albert will work for Lee Glazebrook. They report wheat and rye as looking fine in Jennings and say there is a large influx of people from other localities again this spring. Several are from Jasper and adjoining counties and many more from Clinton county. Land values there are climbing up rapidly and all those who purchased there within the past few years could sell out now at an advance of several dollars per acre if they desired to do so. Rev. Peter Hinds has sold his farm and left about two months ago for Tennessee. One of the chief matters to take into consideration by advertisers, in placing their advertisements in newspapers, is circulation. It matters little how nicely an advertisment is written or its mechanical make up, if it is not seen by the people you wish to reach. Of The Democrat’s large list of readers nearly all reside in Jasper county, less than 225 papers going outside of the county, while those within the county go largely to farmers, the very people the merchant wishes to reach. Our subscription list is open to the inspection of all advertisers who desire to satisfy themselves regarding this statement. If you can reach twice as many people, and the very people you want to reach, through The Democrat that you can through the columns of any of our local contemporaries, and for the same money that it costs you in the latter, you are standing in your own light when you fail to advertise therein.

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest Gathered in the Offices and Corridors of the County Capitol. •ZFred Waymire has announced nirhself for renomination for county commissioner, this time from the second district. —o — This is the busy season in the recorder’s office, a large number of transfers of land now being presented for record. Dr. Washburn, owing to poor health, has resigned from the county council. His successor has not been appointed. We notice that our old friend, Fred L. Griffin, has given another chattel mortgage of $250 on the Remington Press to Robt. Parker. —o — Marriage licenses: Meh. 4, George W. Payne to Nancy Davisson. Meh. 5, Orla Abbott to Melvina Mae Thornton. D. Babcock, ex-township trustee of Marion tp., has announced himself as a candidate for the republican nomination for county treasurer. Lamborn and Blue may now just as well go back and sit down. —o — The president of the Halleck Telephone Co., has recently given a chattel mortgage for $1,500 on all the lines owned by the company. The mortgage also covers any extentions that are being built or may be built. , —o—jsThe county council at its special session Tuesday appropriated $6,300 for the street improvement about the public square; $3,000 to the tax-ferrets; $175 to pay for that vault furniture for the recorder’s office which has lain in the basement corridors for the past three years; $575 for judgements against the county; $3,900 for bridges; and numerous smaller appropriations. —o —

An appeal was filed in the supreme court yesterday by the treasurer, auditor and county assessor of Jasper county from a judgement enjoining the collection of any additional taxes from the Jasper County Telephone company, operating in that county, for the years the company has paid the taxes assessed against it by the state board of tax commissioners. The officers claim that the instruments, switch boards in the different franchises of the company were not included in the assessments of the state board, but that these were subject to local assessment. They also claim that the capital stock was placed $4,455 in excess of the true value of the company’s tangible property.—lndianapolis Sentinel. It’s too bad that “Sim, the Cattle Dealer,” cannot be “vindicated” from the charge made by the McCoy’s, by re-election againt his|fall. Remember, it’s not The Democrat this time that makes the charges of crookedness, but two of the leading republicans of the county, whose “Sheepskin Band” discoursed inspiring music in Sim’s behalf at nearly every school house in Jasper county in the last two campaigns. But probably McCoy with his band, while trying to foist the “cattle dealer” on a confiding public in 1898 and 1900, did not forsee that retributive justice was at hand. Quite a number of just such candidates are now seeking nomination for county office at the hands of McCoy’s party. Let us await developments, and meantime let us pray. —o— Owing to lack of time to secure a full report of the commissioners' proceedings, we will leave the minor transactions until our next issue, giving only the more important business done: Liquor license granted August Rosenbaum; license refused Wm. Frey in 3rd ward Rensselaer on account of sufficient remonstrance. Fred Way mire resigned as commissioner from Ist district and was reappointed from 2nd. No appointment made from Ist district tor political reasons, it is said. Appointment will be made at next

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meeting, after the county convention, when the nominee of said, convention will probably be appointed. The delegates to the judicial convention will also have been seleced at this time. —o— New suits filed: No. 6293. Benjamin J. Gifford vs. John Kupke; action on account. Ferguson & Wilson, attys. No. 6294. Bert O. Gardner vs. Johnathan Lee et al; action to quiet title. Hollingsworth & Hopkins, attys. No. 6295. Alfred McCoy et al vs. Simeon A. Dowell and the Rensselaer bank; action in garnishment, demand $llOO. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie and Jesse E. Wilson, attys. Plaintiff’s allege in complaint that Dowell was indebted to them for some S7OO and that the Rensselaer bank has in its possession a draft made payable to Dowell for some S9OO which they seek to garinshee. We learn from Mr. McCoy that Sim had about this sum of money from the proceeds of property sold, and he bought a draft at McCoy’s bank with it and the draft was left in a safety deposit box at said bank, it being understood that out of the amount the notes he was owing McCoy’s should be paid. Just about the time the cattle dealer was about to leave for lowa he sneaked into the bank, it seems, when both Tom and Mr. McCoy were out and, of Cashier White, who knew nothing about the matter, got the envelope containing the draft and took it with him. The McCoy’s at once ordered the bank in Sim’s town in lowa to refuse to pay the same. Dowell went to another town and, on both himself and his wife endorsing the draft, got the money on it there and it came around to the bank for payment. The Chicago bank protested it and it is now alleged to be in the hands of the Rensselaer bank. This is another bit of the slick work of one of our “honest, careful and painstaking” county commissioners, which the Apologist has been telling you about sprouting wings. Sim left thousands of dollars in debts and judgements behind him when he left here and his name will be a fragrant memory for years. No. 6296. Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association vs. Mary E. Ball et al; foreclosure, Geo. K. Hollingsworth, atty. No. 6297. William B. Austin vs. Gamaliel G. Garrison and Elma Garrison; foreclosure. E. P. Honan, atty.

Subscribers writing to have the address of their Democrat changed should always give the old address as well as the new one. In our list we have many subscribers of the same name, and if John Smith simply writes, “Please send my Democrat to McCoysburg hereafter,” we are at a loss to know which John Smith is meant. Please bear this in mind, as it is most important. Thomas J. High, a well-to-do farmer residing near Chalmers, came home one night last week under the influence of liquor, got into a quarrel with bis family and finally burned his house and its contents to the ground, it is alleged. He was arrested and bound over to court on SSOO bonds. His wife has now applied for divorce and asks for $6,000 alimony. Much is heard these days about athletic training for girls. A morning paper recently gave the Comtesse DeParis family a great write up. They (three or four of them) were such sdperb rifle shots, such expert swimmers, and as equestrians had few equals and no superiors. This may do for dudesses and bloods, but for the ordinary girl there is a training, or at least should be, that is much more essential than athletics. Thousands of mothers who have raised boys and girls, who as men and women have directed the destinies of great nations, would not have known what athletics looked like. The training that girls need more than any other is that training which will enable them to make homes. Subscribe for The Democrat.