Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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His, Fot Sale, Mil, ticiip. tic. TO BKNT, NEAT COTTAGE, CITY WATER, well, two lota, fruit of all kind*. Also good, new lawn mower for sale. Mm. Pktxb Givrs, Rensselaer, Ind. HOUSE AND LOTS FOR SALE—House and three lots, well, out-buildings, fruit of all kinds; on Elm St., Rensselaer; price 9800. Enquire at Democrat office. PASTURE FOR HORSES AND CATTLE— We will have plenty of pasture to aeoomodate those wishing pasture for cattle or horses, at the old Cleveland farm in MUroy township, 7 miles southeast of Rensselaer and l miles south of Crockett graveyard; plenty of good water, T.M.Hiblzb. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK KGK3S—Hilldale Egg and Poultry Farm: Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs for setting, $1 for 15. Mbs. Audi Praams, Box 88, Fowler, Ind. LEGHORNS AND LANGSHANS-Pure bred Brown Leghorn and Black Langshan eggs for setting, price 91.00 for iB. Strawberry plants of the finest quality, 75 ets. per 100. Call at “Cottage Grove Fruit Farm,” or address R. P. Bkxjamin, Rensselaer. FENCE POSTS AND OAK LUMBER—Five hundred oeage hedge posts, at 8 cents each, 1000 oak posts, 9 cento. Leave orders for hardwood lumber sawed to order. Mill will start about April Ist. Address at Rensselaer, Telephone 178. D. H. Ykoj*an. FITE PER CENT MONBY-On well Improved farm lands in this and adjoining counties. We can loan on two to ten years time, with privelege of partial payments of 8100 or more at any Interest paying time. Money ready as soon as abstract is approved. Least red tape. No publicity. Baughman A Williams, Attys. and Loan Agents, Rensselaer, Ind.

EXCURSION RATES. Special excursion Sunday, May 10, to leave Bensselaer about 8:80 a. m., for Chicago; 75 cents for the round trip. 83.15 to Anderson, Ind., May 11th, 13th, 18th, final return limit May 15. State Encampment G, A. B. One fare for the round trip to Greenfield, Ind.. Mar 13th and 18th :£tate Convention Missionary Society. i 38.80 for the round trip to Indianapolis, May 18th and 19th, final limit May 2a, I. O. O. F. Only to those presenting certificate signed by Secretary of local lodge. One and one-third fare to Bloomington, Ind., May loth and 16th, final limit May 18th. $63.00 for the round trip to Los Angeles, Call., or San Francisco, Call., May 3d, May 11th to 17, also on May 8d and 18th. Low rate Homer eekers' tickets on sale Ist and 3d Tuesday of each - month. W. H. BEAM, Agent.

A Lesson In Health. Healthy kidneys filter the impurities from the blood, and unless they do this good health Is impossible. Foley’s Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys and will positively cure all ( forms of kidney and bladder disease. It strengthens the whole system, bbfobt or thb condition or IHI FIRST NATIONAL BANK or BBBBBBLABB, INDIANA, at the close of business, April 9,19(3. HBBOUBCBB. Loans and Discounts .......--8 163,248 M ( Overdrafts 960 38 Banking House 6,000 00 Bonds, U.S .... 17,800 00 Due from Banks 68,86* 43 Lawful money in Bank 11,970 75 Total .6223421 82 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock ....$ 30,000 00 Bnrplns 5,000 00 Undivided Profits . 1,164 24 Bank Notes (Circulation) 7,800 00 Deposits... 179,867 28 Total

Healthful Homes Not Water and Steam Sij&tema do not change or affect the life and parity of the atmosphere, but merely temper it to that genial,’even degree or condition best /flfflSfk. suited to man’s greatest comfort U ZgSjSBsL and vigor. IDEAL Boilers and AMERICAN Radiator* . E. J. MURRAY, ; Phono US, Rensselaer, Ind. : ' ' . ' .

THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening. The sewer oommlttee was ordered to oonstrnct the retaining wall at the riter terminus of Makemself sewer. The wall to be 8 feet thick at the bottom and to begin at solid river rook, and to slope to a width of two feet at top, the city to pay the additional expense over original contract prloe. I. B. Washbnrn et al presented a petition for the extension of the water mains from Front street to the intersection of Milroy and South street. Referred to the water committee. Two bids were received for hanling coal to the city plant, bnt the letting of the contract was deferred to a fhture meeting. Under a suspension of rules ordinances for the improvement of Cedar and Susan streets were passed. W. H. Eger et al filed a remonstrance against the Improvement of Cedar street, which was placed on file. An ordinance regulating hawking on the streets was introduced and passed to second reading. It provides for a license fee of $35 for one day, |IOO for one week, and $250 per month. An ordinance for a sidewalk on the north side of Clark street from Elza to Madison, and on Madison to Vine was introduced and passed to second reading. The following bills were allowed:

ROAD FUND. Al Fletcher, work on «treet 7 05 Wm. Huffman, work on street 6 60 Tom Parker “ “ “ 54° C. L. McGee “ “ “ 360 John Bush “ “ “ 300 John McClanahan, work on street.... 2 25 Geo. Platt, work on street 2 10 Frank MoCarthy, work on street..... 2 25 Louis Payne “ “ “ ..... 75 Albert Swartzell “ 60 Earl Sayler, hauling cinders 1 5° John Brown, hauling gravel. 4 5° Geo. McCarthy, hauling gravel...... 45° Joe Rowen, hauling gravel 75 J. P. Simons, work on street 2 25 CORPORATION FUND. C. H. Vick, services as marshal 75 E. R. Hopkins, salary fire chief 25 00 J. L. Adams, hauling hose cart 1 50 W. S. Parks “ “ “ * 5° Rush & Warren “ “ “ > s<> C. C. Starr, hauling hose cart 1 50 Fred Phillips, supt. Makemself...... 14 °° ELECTRIC UGHT FUND. Roy Grayson, unloading coal 1 00 Noble Ball, work on line 1 OO C. S. Chamberlain, salary 37 5° C. L. Thornton, salary.. 25 00 Lem Huston, salary. 25 OO WATER FUND. Harve Moore, work on mains. 3 Conrad Hilderbrand, salary 25 00

BLACKSMITH NOTICE. Having purchased the old Glazebrook blacksmith shop and business on Front street we wish to announce to the public that we have secured competent blacksmiths to have charge of same, among whom is Abe Wartena, and we will be prepared to execute all work entrusted to us promptly and in a workmanlike manner. Horseshoeing, plow work, wood work and repairing a specialty. Give us a call. Waymire & King. Irwip & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than oan be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County.

Fairbanks Scourine only 24 cts a bar, just as large a bar and as good as Sapolio. For an add only. Chicago Bargain Store.

NOTICE OF DEDICATION. The M. E. church at Lee, Ind., will be dedicated Sunday, May 3, 1903. The board has secured the service of Dr. Parr and Elder D. M. Wood, in addition to several looal ministers who have promised to assist, and a good time is confidently expected. There will be an all day service, the first session being called for 10:30 a. m. Arrangements have been made to have trains No. 5, 6 and 3 stop, in addition to the regular service, and entertainment will be furnished for all visitors. D. E. Noland, Sec. Board of Trustees. NOTICE. The general plan of dinner on the day of dedication of tha new M. E. Church at Lee, will be a basket dinner if the weather will permit, but arrangements have been made to hoh'se the people in case of foul weather. Jr *:*■- D. E. Noland, See. Subscribe for The Democrat.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, May .2, 1903.

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items sf Interest (lathered la the Offices and Corridors of the County Capitol. “Honest Abe” will convene Monday. There was $1,786 unloaned school funds on hftnd May 1* Marriage licenses issued: April 25, Eosco Harriott to Ethel Hopkins. —o —- Monday is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes and avoiding penalty. The township trustees willmeet next Monday to make their enumeration report and eleot a truant officer. During the month of April 7 marriage licenses were issued, against 7 for the month previous and 4 for April 1902John Morehouse of Wheatfieid tp., sent down the scalps of 15 young wolves last week for which he wul draw 145 from the county treasury. The Board of Review will meet the first Monday in June hereafter, instead of the third Monday, the law having been changed in this regard. —o New suits filed: No. 6495. James W. Williams vsr Minet S. Rogers; action on contract. No. 6496. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Parker, deceased, vs. Samuel Parker et al; petition •to 6ell real estate. No. 6497. Judson J. Hunt vs. Isaac Saidla et al; action on note and mortgage.

e big damage case from Rose Lawn closed Saturday and resulted in favor of the defendants, Kight et al. It seems that in a general drunk at Rose Lawn a year or two ago in which guns, clubs and other weapons were in evidence, Levi P. (Pete) Hancock, got badly beaten np by Ruben Gandy, manager of the Clay Harris Ranch. Hancock brought action against Wm. Right, the saloonkeeper who is alleged to have sold the booze, and his bondsmen for $2,000 damages, which trial resulted as above.

A YOUTHFUL HORSETHIEF.

*Roy Dilts, the 11-years-old son of Wm. Dilts who lives in the old Walton property, just east of the jail, unhitched Arthur Powell’s team and buggy from the hitch rack on the south side of Duvall’s livery barn, about noon Thursday and drove to the country. Mr. Powell, who resides west of town, went for his team shortly thereafter find it was gone. The sheriff was notified ana a general hunt made. Some one had seen a boy driving a team of that description out of town and the sheriff started out after him. The boy was overhauled near Gifford and brought back to town about 4 p. m., and landed in jail. He had driven the team very hard and was, he said, on his way to visit an ancle who resided in the vicinity of boy is rather wild, and has been in scrapes heretofore. He will probably be sent to the reform school. His case came up iu court yesterday afternoon, after we had gone to' press.

FROM THE “OIL FIELDS.”

/vGserge Stallbaum was down from Walker tp., on business Saturday. Not much is being done in the “oil fields,” that is, actually being done in the “fields,” but the advertisements in the city papers published outside this section of the country, where the readers generally know nothing of the actual facts, represemt the Jasper county oil fields as literally afloat with oil. No donbt the stock promotors are catching lots of snccers and reaping a harvest from the sale thereof. SL Where there is but little oil moet profitable scheme is to sell stock to suocers iu distant parts of the country. • ■

$100,000.00 ‘ To loan on farms at a low rate of interest. This is a special fund. Call at Oncb as insurance companies are refusing farm loans. Also money to loan on Bankable note at onrrent rates. Loans made on City property, and second mortgage. James fl. Chapman. M»km«r’i Bunk Building. Rensselaer, lad.

THAT REMINGTON CHURCH CASE.

Remington, Ind., April 29, ’O3. My Dear Mr. Editor: Yonr paper published an item or two of the case of J. Dyke yb. the Presbyterian church trustees of this place that have drawn the attention of many people here. The items wore true to the facts, also. Here the looal press published an item that this suit was thrown out of coprt and a new suit would have to pe filed. That was an untrue statement, hence your paper set people thinking and asking. I thought it fair to the public and to your paper to inform you of the leading nets of this suit. Rev. £. Dyke was invited by the season here to preaoh as a candidate. Then he was voted unanimously to become the pastor by the cpurch members. This was on Jsdy 14, 1901. Mr. A. J. Bellows at this meeting. On Junes 29,1902, the salary was oontribqled as a subscription for Rev. J. Dyke; salary for the ensuing year. Meanwhile the Presbytery of Logansport had been requested by a letter from the session, written by its clerk, A. J. Bellows, and read and sealed by Mr. Dykn, and mailed by him to Rev. H. G. Rice of Monticello, the clerk of the Presbytery, that the church was never in better shape; that never had so many united (Sc one time, and that it was the desire that Mr. Dyke remain. This letter was written in April, 1902. The Presbytery appointed Mr. Dyke as supply of this church repeatedly. The last time wffis in September, 1902. Mr. Dy|p also has a letter signed by threfi Elders—Bellows, Hartman and Beeks—in which a contract is acknowledged. So it would seem that Mr. Dyke brought suit on the fairest grounds. He had also requested the action of dismissal be changed before suit was brought, but it was denied. Mr. Dyke also protested to the Presbytery of Logansport, through Rev. H. G. Rice of Monticello, the clerk of the Pres-bytery,-pad Rev. Z. T. Thomas, the moderator of the session, appointed by the Presbytery, and requested that the Presbytery do the right thing and correct the wrong t|py bad done. But so far he has had no reply from this angust body. **• P. S.—l have been requested to have these facts published by a member of his church who represents a large portion of the membership who are dissatisfied. V

ANOTHER BIG CLASS.

\he graduating class of the Rensselaer High School will number twenty this year, fourteen girls and six boys, as follows: Misses Lillian Rhoades, Doris Porter, Lizzie Luers, Loe Pancoast, Lola Clift, Glen Day, Murrel Donnelly, Zelma Rayher, Pearl Comer, Pearl McGee, Bernice Sayler, Bessie Makeever, Hazel Lamson, and Messrs De Furguson, Lemuel Hammerton, Boyd Porter, Howard Mills, Thomas Moody, Elbert Antrim.

SIXTY YEARS IN THE MINISTRY.

<R ev. David J. Huston, formerly of Milroy tp., this county, and Rev. James M. Smith celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their entry into the ministry by holding all-day services in the Little Blue River Baptist ohuroh at Shelbyville, last Sunday. Together with the late John Phares they began preaching in April, 1843, their first sermons being delivered in that church. Mr. Smith is eighty-four years old, and lives in Missouri. Mr. Houston is eighty years old, and resides in Goodland.

NEW STORE AT OIFFORD. John Kimble baa again engaged in the general merchandise business at Gifford, having pat in an entire new stock of groceries, dry goods, notions, eto., and will sell the same at the lowest possible prices for cash; will do a strictly cash business and will make it to your advantage to trade with him. Produce taken at highest market £ rices in exchange for goods. lotto: “Full Weight, Honest Measure and Lowest Prices.” MONEY ON FARMS. ■> A special fond to loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Call at First National Baee, No of Pnb. Bq., Rensselaer, Ind.

DRAFT WORKER WEMPE FREED.

Jury Acquits Him After Being Out

Bsvsn Hours. The most interesting case in the circuit court this week was that of the state vs. Ed Wempe, the man for whom Geo. Strickfaden endorsed a draft on a Louisville liquor firm last January and, like the proverbial cat, the draft came back. The particulars have been heretofore published, as well as the arrest and result of the former trial, in which the jury failed to agree. It was thought that a better case had been made out this time than at the previous trial, but the jury after seven hours arrived at a verdict of acquittal. The case was given to the jury at 5:30 Tuesday evening, and the sealed verdict was opened at the re-convening of court the next morning. The prisoner was discharged but was immediately re-arrested on a warrant from Liberty, Union county, where he was wanted for a like charge. The sheriff of Union came up Wednesday evening and took Wemp with him Thursday.

Ada A. Dobbins was granted a divorce from Sloan Dobbins. The cases of Albert Graham vs. Patrick Halligan were dismissed at plaintiff’s costs. The case of Thomas Akers vs. B. J. Gifford for damages to plaintiff’s crops by reason of overflow from defendant’s-ditch, occupied the attention of court and jury and Friday forenoon, when a verdict was returned for Gifford.

SENT TO WHITE COUNTY.

The liquor license case of Kellner vs. the board of commissioners was sent to White coUnty on ohange of venue asked for by Kellner. In this case, it will be remembered, a protest was made before the commissioners against the granting of a license at their April term on the grounds that the applicant’s old license did not expire until June, and he was making application in advance for the purpose of defeating the will of the people of his ward in remonstrating against him when the proper time for a renewal of his license came up. On these grounds, or that he had applied prematurely, rather, the application was dismissed, and Kellner took an appeal to the circuit court. The outcome of the case will be watched with much interest by saloon men all over the state. If an applicant can, or must be granted a license in advance, whenever he applies, without regard to time the old license expires, the new license to date from expiration of the old one, it will be of great benefit to them, for they can take advantage of the moving season to make their applications, when, in many instances, the changes in a ward render many of the residents unqualified voters of such ward, while at ordinary seasons of the year the remonstrators might muster force enough to defeat the applicants.

ISAAC STACKHOUSE DEAD.

The remains of Isaac N. Stackhouse of Indianapolis, were brought here for burial yesterday. Mr. Stackhouse conducted the first hardware store ever in Rensselaer, where the Harris bank now stands, and W. H. Eger learned his trade of tinner from him. He at one time owned a considerable girt of what is now the city of ensselaer. He left here some 30 years ago, and has resided in Indianapolis about 20 years. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1832, was married while here to Miss Margaret Smith, who with five children survive him. The children are Mrs. Horace Brown of Noblesville, Mrs. Carrie Brandt and Mrs. Nellie Atchison of Chicago; Mr. Fred Staokhouse of Denver, and Henry M. Stackhouse, secretary of the ComstockCoonse pump works of Indianapolis.

Mr. Joseph Pom tnviUe, of Stillwater, Minn., after having apent over 12,000 with the beat doctor* for atomach trouble, without relief, waa advised by his druggist. Mr. Alex Richard, to try a box of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. He .did so, and is a well man today. If troubled with indigestion, bed taste in the month, lack of appetite or constipation, give these Tablets atrial, and yon are certain to be more than pleased with the result. For sale at S 5 centaper box.by A. F. Long. A special dale for May only, 2 11 oz bars Fairbanks Scourine, no better made, for 5 cts. Chicago Bargain Store.

VOL. VI. No. 4

ONE GIRL WHO CAN COOK.

Last week the Democrat mentioned the statment of Robert Webster Jones, in the Housekeeper, regarding the divorce court and bad cooking, “An Indianapolis Girl Who Can Cook” writes a reply to Mr. Jones that is worthy of reproduction. Her reply follows: “Has it come to the point where a young man mast ask ‘Can you cook?’ before he dare ask ‘Will you wed?’ ” cries a late magazine writer hysterically. Not at all. Unless he be a young man lacking in discernment and commonhimself. It staggers one to think of cooking and slovenly housekeeping were the direct causes of 400 divorces iu Chicago last year, as stated by the bureau of charaties. But back of that is the fact that 400 men could deliberately walk into matrimony with girls who had not brains enough to learn common cookery or energy enough to keep decently clean. It is the girl who wears dirty finery, haunts the cheap theater, dotes upon trashy novels, primps in private and poses in public, who thinks if she wears a dangling locket that no one will see her frayed skirt; it is this sort of a girl that a few years later is registered at the divorce court in the poor cook list. And the man who voluntarily chooses sach a wife should not be released too quickly from his bad bargain. He deserves a few years of soggie biscuit and burnt beefsteak to bring him to his right mind —if, indeed, he has one. Nothing less heroic will do it. Let the sensible young man open his eyes a trifle wider before matrimony (and keep them half closed for a while after), and-ere he asks any questions of her let him ask himself a few like these: “Is she a girl of good common sense?” “Is she capable?” “Is she industrious?” “Is she neat personally?” “Is her home kept to all appearances as I want my home kept?” If he can answer these in the affirmative he need not worry about her actnal knowledge of cookery. Such a girl as that will learn, and so speedily that his digestive apparatus will not be impaired in the interim. Many of oar best housekeepers and cooks knew practically nothing of either previous to marriage, as their time had been spent in school or in other lines of activity; but having the ability and desire to do, the learning was merely a matter of practice. However, the too highly accomplished girl is to be regarded with a bit of suspicion. Not so much because her time has been spent upon art as because she has cultivated a distaste for the more practical. She regards all housework as drudgery and does not want to learn; so unless she solved the servant-girl problem and he the financial problem their marriage will be a doubtful proposition. But something is radically and inherently wrong with the woman who “can not learn to cook.” It is really a case of won’t instead of can’t* Why, an ordinarily gifted baboon could learn to boil potatoes if be wanted to! If his beefsteak and potatoes are palatable the man of normal appetite will not go gunning for a divorce because the lemon jelly refuses to stand alone. It is not fancy or scientifically prepared food that he demands, but the plain snbstantials. Ho hates moonshiny stu.ff In these days of free cooking schools, with explicit receipts in even the daily papers, with our markets full of fruits and vegetables that need no cooking at all, with good bakeries supplying every kind of pastry, even meats, salids, baked beans aud baked apples, with * flood of pre-cooked breakfast foods, some of which are really eatable, with every conceivable sort of stuff iu cans, how can a woman fail to have some things upon her table that are good? Laziness and slovenliness are at the root of the matter. As these are traits too prononced to be hidden even daring the coart ing days, we have no more sympathy for him than for her. Bnt is it not possible tb&t poor cooking is frequently assigned as a sort of an alias for a poor something else? It strikes the judge in a tender spot (men are usually hungry) and works upon his sympathies to start with. Besides, as onr friend, Mrs. Partington, remarked, “Every other man that gets into courtis named Alias.”

BIRTH ANNOUCBMENTS. April 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Pullens of Barkley tp., a daughter.