Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — A VOICE FROM GIFFORD. [ARTICLE]

A VOICE FROM GIFFORD.

Newland, Ind., May 11, 1903. Mr. Editor: I notice in your last issue you say one Charles Doan was fined $8.65 for assaulting Thomas Akers, both of the Gifford district, i beg leave to correct this statement as neither Doan or Akers live in what is termed the Gifford district. Akers lives across the river in Porter Co., and Doan lives somewhere near there, but am not positive just where he does live, I have noticed tor the past few years that it has been the custom for newspapers of Rensselaer, whenever any deviltry had been committed any place north of town, that it was always in the “Gifford District.” Now I don’t think this is hardly fair. While I will frankly admit that we have a good many tough characters, we still have a few “white” people here also; some just as good as you will find anywhere else. Of course our country is new and we have people from ail over the state of Indianaand other states, and of course once in a while got a bad bargain, but just as soon as he was found out he was bounced out again, and as a general rule they move from here to the city of Rensselaer, where most of them can be found at the present time. Now I don’t want to be understood as saying that all the people that go from here to town are not good people, as some that I know that left here and went to Rensselaer are all O. K., and very nice people. But I mean the majority.

I do not object to taking our share of blame, but it seems to me that it is the delight of some people to give the “Giffora district” the “devil.” Let some one in town or thereabouts get boozy and nothing will be said to him, but let a “Giffordite,” as they are called, go to town, and say one word out of the way and he is arrested and fined at once, and a great long description of the case will appear in the next week's issue of the papers. “A Giffordite.” [So far as The Democrat is concerned it has at no time published anything about anyone from the Gifford district except what was considered the truth. Regarding the drunken cases that come up in the Justice courts, we must necessarilly rely considerably on the court offices for our information, but we have usurlly referred very briefly to such cases and always confined our remarks to facts as we understood them to be. Ed.j “A man living on a farm neal^here came in a short time ago completely doubled up with rheumatism. I handed him a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and told him to use it freely and if not satisfied after using it he need not pay a cent for it,” says C. P. Rayder of Pattens Mills, N.Y. “A few days later he walked into the store as straight as a string and banded me a dollar saying, ‘give me another bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. I want it in the house all the time for it cured me.” For sale by A. F. Long.