Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

May 1. ’ Ellis opera house, May 1. Mandolin Recital at Ellis opera house, May 1. Alf Donnelly spent a few days in Chicago this week. Albert Fendig of Georgia, is visiting relatives here for a few days. O. K. Ritchey visited in Chicago a few days the first of the week. Wanted:—A gentle driving horse. Call at EL. O. Harris’ residence. Horses and milk cows to trade for city property. Enquire at this office. C. F. Fisher of Remington, is the guest of his son, A. B. Fisher, of this city. J. A. McFarland got in a carload of the famous “Ben Hur” flour this week. 'SOver 1,400 dozen eggs taken in last Saturday at the Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. A. Rosenbaum is visiting friends at Hammond and Michigan City this week. See the new 1902 Jay Bird Bicycle, only $12.00, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Lawrence and Christina Hildebrand, went to Chicago to-day for' a visit with relatives. F. J. Donnelly has moved into the D. M. Yeoman property on North Franklin street. VThe frame of Miss Susie Monaghan's house on North Weston street, is up and enclosed. Mrs. Bartley Lyons of Delphi, was the guest of Miss Margaret Haley a few days this week. XMrs G. K. Hollingsworth is in Deft ver, Colo., this week as a delegate to the national convention of the D. A. R. XtMrs. Mary Drake, delegate of St>Magdalen court, attended the annual convention of Ladies C. O. F., at Chicago this week. The “Nick Carter C 0.,” went completely broke here and left some unpaid bills behind them They went from here to Momence. Miss Ella Herron, who has been working in The Democrat office for the past six months, returned to her home in Brookston last Sunday. Only sll 90 for a new Happy Home drop head, 5-drawer golden oak sewing machine, guaranteed 5 years, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Dr. Arthur Kresler, who gradnkted from the Indiana Medical college Thursday, will locate in Rensselaer and have office rooms with Dr. Johnson. Francesville is to have a national bank, capital $25,000. J. L. Beesley, B. F. Crabbs. A. E. Reynolds, A. E. Malsbary and Alfred Whitaker are the incorporators. The Morocco Courier is authority for the statement that Wm. O. Schanlaub, son of John Schanlaub of this city, will begin the study of law in the near future. *bkQards are out announcing the approaching nuptials of Mr. Lawrence Sayler and Mrs. Belle Watson, to take place at the Bedford farm, just east of town, Sunday, May 4, at 11 a. m. Representatives of the N. W. Indiana High School Association met at Monticello last Saturday and it was agreed to hold the Field Day exercises this year at Monticello, May 23. A. O. Garriott of Parr, recently pulled out for the west and has enlisted in the regular army. He is stationed at Ft. Flagler, Washington, and sends us a dollar for a year’s news from old Jasper. KJudge Thompson is going to put up another one-story, frame and metal roof building south of D. M. Worland’s carriage store, and the same will be occupied' by Mackey & Barcus’ marble shop.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATB DISKASKH, ' z ' HBMOBHORDS, '■iMSAtiwo...,. Office First Stairs West of Fendig’s Drug Store. Phone a s i. RENSSELAER, IND.

Corn, 58$c; oats, 42c. Read The Democrat for news. Prosper Clemens has moved to Hammond. Mrs. S. M. Laßue is in Chicago for surgical treatment. Secure your tickets now for the Mandolin Club Recital, May 1, or you may get left. Only $23.50 for a new improved Domestic Sewing machine at the Chicago Bargain Store. Day has opened a lumber yard at his residence on the east side, with Henry Wood as manager. ixThe Rensselaer high school graduating class this year will consist of 18 pupils, 8 girls and 10 boys. The first real April shower this month came Thursday night and yesterday, and it was badly needed, too. " Mr. and Mrs. Albert Alter and little daughter are spending a few days with friends and relatives in the city. _________ rsGeorge W. Goff left Wednesday tor the national convention of I. O. F., at Los Angeles, Cali., to which he is state delegate. Charles Chapman, who is attending school at So. Bend, is visiting his brother James H. Chapman, a few days this week. PsMrs. I. A. Glazebrook and Miss Helen Wasson were delegates at the meeting of the grand lodge of the Eastern Star at Indianapolis this week. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Wolcott, 1; Ft. Flagler, Wash., 1; Makin, Ind., 1; Rensselaer, 1; Demotte, 1; Cleveland, Ohio, 1. The picture of the late M. F. Chilcote which appears in this issue of The Democrat, is an excellent life likeness of him, and was taken perhaps less than a year ago. U. M. Baughman was in Monon several days this week on business matters and looking after some repairs which he is having made to his farm buildings near that place. Mrs. James Adair of Chicago Heights, who bad been visiting her father, J. C. Norman, left Wednesday evening for Spokane, Wash., where Mr. and Mrs. Adair will make their future home.

Miss Dorn Wick wire of Goodlaud. who was so badly injured in the C. & A., railroad wreck at Norton, Mo., last July, is a guest at the home of Judge Thompson She is able to walk about with the aid of a cane. Rensselaer should follow the example of neighboring towns and cities and adopt an anti-sidewalk-spitting ordinance. Such ordinances are sensible and should be adopted and enforced by every progressive town in the country. Albert Warner of Hanging Grove tp., leaves to-day with his wife for Illinois, where they will visit about a week and will then go on to California, where they expect to spend the summer for the benefit of Mrs. Warner’s health. Ira Washburn, M. L. Wilcox and True Wood worth were in Indianapolis Tuesday on business connected with the militia company. The equipment of the company, consisting of uniforms, guns, etc., is expected to reach here this week. L. A. Leach received a telegram from Pittsburg, Wednesday, announcing that his father, John Leach, was a passenger on the illfated boat that was destroyed by fire near Cairo, 111., Tuesday, wherein there were about 75 pas* bengers perished.—Francesville Tribune. Fires did great damage at various places in Indiana last Tuesday, notably at Wolf Lake, Plymouth and Idaville in this part of the state. At the latter place the fire occured early Wednesday morning, and fifteen business firms and buildings were destroyed, entailing a loss of $35,000.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, April 26, 1902.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN MILROY TP.

The 18-Year-Old Daughter of George Wood Is Shot While Handling a Target Rifle. Last Sunday, about 11 o’clock, at the home of George Wood in Milroy tp., occurred one of the saddest and most dreadful accidents in the history of Jasper county. Lydia, Mr. Wood’s 18-year-old daughter, was entertaining her affianced husband, Elmer Johnson, a young farmer of the neighborhood. Johnson had brought with him a small 22-cali-bre target rifle and was shooting at sparrows with it. The girl finally asked him to let her load the rifle, and he handed it to her together with the box of cartridges. In loading the gun it must have got caught some way in her dress, for suddenly it went off and the bullet entered her right breast and passed clear through her body, lodging under the skin at the back. The girl uttered an exclamation and fell back in her chair and in about eight minutes she was a corpse. Coroner Wright went out and made an examination with Dr. Kresler and Stenographer Walker, and the verdict will be accidental shooting. It is understood that Miss Wood and Mr. Johnson were to have been married next February. The funeral was held from the Milroy Baptist church Tuesday at 11 a. m., and interment made in the Benson cemetery. Only last fall a brother of the girl died of typhoid fever. The family have the sympathy of the whole community in their great grief.

Douglas Craft, farmer, aged 42, residing a short distance west of Lowell, was shot and killed last Friday night, and his farm hand, Arthur Moyer, quite badly wounded in the left arm. Moyer claims that they were at the barn together and that Craft shot him and then committed suicide, but the matter is being investigated, and pending the investigation Moyer was arrested and taken to Kankakee and lodged in jail. The options on the land at Horseshoe Bend on the Tippecanoe river above Springboro, have been extended to May 15, in order to give the company time to have an additional survey made. It is said they have procured the services of the engineer who made the survey for the power plant at Niagara Falls, and if his figures come anywhere near those given by the first surveyor the land deals will be closed up and the power plant will be a go.—White County Democrat.

Among the relatives froffi a distance in attendance at the M. F. Chilcote funeral were Dre. Allen M. and Edward Chilcote of Bloomdale, Ohio; Bruce Chilcote of Homer. Mich.; Herman B. Chilcote of Corydon, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Duvall of Allentown, 111., and Dr. Alva, Edith and Mary Miller of Dyer. Owing to delay in Gaylord Chilcote’s receiving the notice of his father’s death and trains being ten hours late over the road on which he would have left after receiving the notice, it would have been impossible for him to have reached here in time for the funeral, so he gave up coming for the present.

There will be a convention of the Sunday School workers of Jasper county held here next Sunday and Monday. The sessions will be held at the various churches as follows: Sunday afternoon at the Christian church; Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church; Monday forenoon at the Missionary Baptist church; Monday afternoon at the Free Baptist church; Monday evening at the M. E. church. At the Monday evening session thirty minutes will be given to an exercise by the primary classes of the home Sunday Schools. Rev. J. H. Carman, of Indianapolis, the General State Secretary will be present at all sessions. The entire program will be good and no one can afford to missone session. The general public cordially invited. ■ •

A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office,

GOFF-ADAMS NUPTIALS.

One of the prettiest country weddings of the season was that of Mr. Bertram Edward Goff and Miss Zora May Adams, which was solomnized at the home of the bride’s parents., Mr. and Mrs. Marion I. Adams, a few miles south of town, last Tuesday evening. The ceremony w’as performed by Rev. W. Ed Meads in the presence of about fifty invited relatives and friends of the contracting parties. After the ceremony an elegant wedding supper was served and the happy couple received the congratulations of their friends. They were the recipients of a large number of handsome and costly wedding presents. Among the guests from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Griswold of Washburn, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brown and son and Harry Foster of Crown Point; Mrs. Olla Hubbard of Kersey, and Mrs. C. B Harrold of Hammond. The groom is the only son of Mr. and Airs. George Goff of this city, a very popular young man, and for the past two years has been associated with his father in the restaurant and bakery business. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs Marion I. Adams, a beautiful and accomplished young lady and very popular in the social set. Mr. and Mrs. Goff begin life with the brightest prospects, and it is the wish of their host of friends that their pathway may ever be strewn with sweetest flowers. They will reside in this city and have rooms at 433 North Cullen street.

ONLY ANOTHER ECHO.

Morocco Courier: A man who professed to be onto the ropes told us the other day that the east and west railroad had been purchased by an Eastern syndicate and that the road would be put through.

MANDOLIN CLUB RECITAL.

The Rensselaer Mandolin Club will make its first public appearance Thursday evening, May 1, at Ellis opera house. The Club have for the past four months been under the management and instruction of Prof. W. D. Perkins, a most competent and able instructor, of Indianapolis. Mr. Perkins is especially noted as a violinist, and he will appear in this role in two numbers of the program prepared. Great care and preparation has been taken and the pupils have worked long and faithfully to make this one of the best musical entertainments ever given in this city. You will always be sorry if you do not attend. The best musical talent of Rensselaer has been secured to assist in this entertainment and the public will be highly entertained and pleased if they spend the evening of May Ist in attendance at the recital given by the Rensselaer Mandolin Club. Don’t forget the date. We pay the most is why the bulk of the eggs and butter come here. Chicago Bargain Store.

LIME. HAIR, BRICK and CEment in stock at all times and at lowest prices. From foundation to roof we can furnish anything in building material. Donnelly Lumber Co.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE.

LIBRARY ENTERTAINMENT.

Mrs. Delos Thompson and Mrs. Frank A. Ross are hard at work on their entertainment for the benefit of the Public Library. This has become an annual event and one deserving the widest interest and patronage. It will be held at the Ellis opera house on the evening of May 9th and will consist of a minstrel performance and a musical comedy, introducing features that are entirely new. The corps of artists has received many valuable additions since last year and will offer the cream of all the latest music produced in New York and Chicago, the newest ideas in minstrelsy and some specialty work of high merit. The Directors of the Library contemplate a very necessary improvement this summer in the making of a card catalogue which the rapid growth of the Library renders imperative and which will increase its efficiency enormously. With this in view, the Librarian is now in Indianapolis taking a special course in classification and cataloguing in the State Library. Owing to the great need of money for this and other purposes, the management earnestly hope that the friends of the Library will give them their liberal support. adv

Take your eggs to Murray’s store White and colored mounting board at The Democrat office. Tickets for the Rensselaer Mandolin Club entertainment on sale at Huff’s jewelry store. The fierce hot winds of Monday and Tuesday did considerable damage in this section to crops on sandy ground. Bro. Clark is branching out again in the newspaper field by starting the Thayer-Shelby News, with John Bowie of Thayer, as editor. The paper will be issued from the Journal office, and makes its bow to the public this week. The Democrat wishes the venture success.

FARM FOR SALE.

Farm, 200 acres, St. Joseph county;. Burr oak land. House, two story, frame, 9 rooms, good condition. Barn 40x70, not bank; 30 acres wood, balance under cultivation. No hills, no stone; excellent farm. Must be sold and will be at 140.00 per acre for cash. This farm must be sold to settle a trust. Call on or address W. J. Reed, 334 N. Hill st., So. Bend, Ind.

ESTRAY NOTICES.

Estray Taken Up: An estray steer, coming 2-year-old this spring, was taken up at my farm in Jordan tp., about ten days ago. Owner cab have same by proving ownership and paying charges. Wm. Washburn. Estray Taken Up. Came to my place, 6 miles northwest of town, on the old Paxton farm, about three weeks ago, one steer and one heifer. Owner may have same by proving ownership and paying charges.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. E. W. Grove's signature Is on each box. She.

CHARLES BURBAGE.

Vol. V. No. 3

M. F. CHILCOTE DEAD.

One of the Oldest Practitioners at the Jasper County Bar Answers the Death Summons. '4 Capt. Mordecai F, Chilcote, whose serious illness had been noted in these columns recently, died very suddenly at his home on North Division street in this city about 9 o’clock Sunday night. His health had been very poor for some years and during the past few weeks he had been very dangerously sick.’ He had apparently nearly recovered from this illness, however, and was out buggy riding Sunday afternoon, between two and three o’clock. In the evening he appeared better than usual and chatted with his nurse, Mr. Imes, for sometime before retiring, which he did about 9 o’clock. Shortly thereafter Mr. Imes heard him breathing heavily and at once went to his bedside, but he was even then dead, so sudden had the summons came. "f. The funeral was held yesterday at 2:00 p. m., from the Presbyterian church, Rev. A. G. Work conducting the services. As a tribute of respect to an old, prominent and honored citizen, the business houses closed during the funeral services. The G. A. R , F. <fc A. M., and K. of P’s. attended the funeral in a body, and the burial ceremonies were under the direction of the Masons, of which order deceased had been a member for over 40 years. The interment was made in Weston cemetery.

[Mordecai F. Chilcote was the fifth child of a family of fourteen children, eleven boys and three girls, and was born in Polk, formerly Wayne, now Ashland county, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1840. He was named for both his father and grandfather, each of whose names were Mordecai. His father was a carpenter by trade and located in Perry tp., Wood county, Ohio, in the early thirties.- This was at that time the Western frontier. In November iB6O, Mordecai came to Jasper county and taught school at Pleasant Grove during the winter of 1860-61. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Col. Milroy's regiment in the three months service, returning home at the expiration of his service, and being taken sick did not re-enlist with his old regiment, but in September he enlisted in Co. K, 38th Indiana Vol., and served until the close >f the war, being promoted to Captain of his Company. A peculiar coincidence in connection with ms sickness was that Willis J. Imes of this city, nursed him during his sickness when he first came home from the war, nursed him in a sickness some years ago, and was acting in a like capacity at the time of bis death. He had five brothers in the war of the rebellion—James and Samuel, (twins), Thomas, John C., and William B. James was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Strawberry Plains, in East Tennessee, and was taken to Andersonville prison, Georgia, where he died in prison. Samuel died in 1892. Thomas, John C., and William B„ still survive. He was married to Lizzie Hammond of Barkley tp., Jasper county, a sister of Judge E. P. Hammond, now of L.afayette, Sept. 26, 1865. To this Union two sons were boin, Fred L., of this city, and Gaylord H. of Los Angeles, California. His wife died in 1886. In 1866 7 Mr. studied law here with E. P. Hammond and Thomas |. Spitler. He wae admitted to the lasper county bar in 1866, and Judge Thompson is the only living attorney whose membership antedated Mr.Chilcote's. He had practiced law here continuously since his graduation and held many local appointave offices, such as member ol school board, republican county chairman, commander of the G. A. R., Post, etc. He was a member of the G. A. R., post and also a Mason and K. of P., member, in both of which orders he had held h'gh offices. While never elected to any office he was once or twice a candidate for the republican nomination for circuit ‘judge and was once a candidate for the legislature, being defeated by George H. Brown, and was a very prominent citizen. Mr. Chilcote leaves two children, an aged mother, five br itners—Thomas C., of Elma, Wash., John C., and William 8., of Rensselaer; Addison S., of Fredonia, Kan.; Biuce 8., of Eckford, Mich.—and one sister, the wife of Dr. Merry of Mt. Ayr.]

New Lumber Yard In Rensselaer,

Where you can get all kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Brick, Cement and Plaster; also the celebrated alabastscent Wall Plaster. I solicit a share of your trade at my old stand. Respectfully,

HIRAM DAY.

A Doctor’s Bad Plight.

'Two years ago, as a result of a severe cold. I lost my voice," writes Dr. M. L.Scarbrough, of Hebron, Ohio, "then began an obstinate cough. Every remedy known to me as a practicing physician for 85 years, filled, and I daily grew worse. Being urged to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Coughs and Colds, I found quick relief, and for the last ten days have felt better than for two years." Positively guaranteed for Throat and Lung troubles by A. F. Long. 50c and •1.00. Trial bottles free.