Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — Page 5

Guaranteed T PRICES p 2' FOR POULTRY, EGGS AND BUTTER, NEXT WEEK AT “THE TWO STORES” This advertisement also 2000 postal cards are being mailed to nearly every family in this county and will show that there is only one firm that pays the highest prices for produce at all times. Our advantages and facilities for handling all kinds of market produce are far ahead of any other in this part of the state. You will always lose money if you don’t secure our prices.

& Young Chicks per lb 10 Old Hens per lb 8c rU Old Roosters per lb 3c m Young Ducks per lb. 8c W Old Ducks per 1b... 7c

WW Y m Mom botne and traveling salesmen everywhere to 11/ J sell Stark Trees. W e PAY CASH Weekly, give I*/ O I A/l best contract, WW best outfit, IfY 111 FTI I BEST prices, BEST stock, and PREPAY FREIGHT. ■ M wV/UL Largest nurseries in the world—43so acres. Capital Stock $1,000,000. Millions of trees and vines, Apple, Peach, Plum, Pear, Cherry, Grape, etc., the largest, finest stock and best sorts ever offered by any nursery. Our men succeed where others fail. Write to-day for terms, etc. STARK BRO’S N. &0. CO., Louisiana, Mo. BRANCHES: Atlantic, la., Fayetteville, Ark., Dansville, N. Y., Portland, M. Y., Huntsville, Ala.

Seven Diseases Caused by Measles. Dr. Miles' Restorative Tonic and Nervine Cured After Thirty-one Years. -I was a perfectly healthy young man np to February iß*c When my regiment was in Camp KandsS I was taken sick with the measles and I did nut enjoy good health up to the time I used Dr. MUAs’ Restorative Nervine and Tonic in 1896. Doctors have told me it came frees inactivity of the Uver. I cannot say how amoT physicians did treat me but have had all kinds. Dieting has never helped me. Biliousness, attacks of headache, rheumatism, nasal catarh, hay fever, asthma, and ahrenic diarrhoea; have all taken their tun with me. Thanks to the Nervine and Tesdc I am coennleUiy restored to health. I have alee used Dr- Mdes* AntiFain Pills with goad results and I think that the Dr. Miles Remedies jpe perfect’’—Rev. Hiram Bender, Sparta, Wis. . *■ “I want to say a Jew fund wards far Dr. Miles’ Restorafivs Nwyap. I k»»e keen troubled very mask with inaamuls since I made the ncrrjiapcraadoa without relief. IwaafciajlyinaiKe a bya wholesale druggist, a personal friend oi mine, to try Nervine. I can assure you it has done me a lot of good. Ido not find it necessary to use it regularly now but occasionally when I find that I am excessively nervous end restless I again take it up as I always keep a supply on hand. It has never failed to give me the desired relief.**—A. Huegin, Publisher “Daily Free-Press” Milwaukee, Wis. All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart Ind. Don’t Forget the Now Lumber Yard Where yoa 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, Hibam Day.

EXCURSION RATES. Low rat® Home*®eker»’ tickets on sale Ist and 3d Tuesday of each month. $31.80 fortheroond trip to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Cok)., June Ist to Sept. 80th. final limit Oct. 31st. VV. H. BEAM, Agent. HONEY TO LOAN. Private funds to loan on farms and pity property at g low rate of interest, also money t? loan on bankable notes and second morv gage. A complete set of abetract books. James fl. Chapman. Makeever's Bank Building. Rensselaer, Ind. MONEY ON FARMS. r A special fund to loan qb Parma • for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial p payments at any interest paying time. Gall at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Morris' English Stable Liniment t; Caras Lameness, Cuts, Braiees, Scratches. oalls, Sweeney. SpaTjna, Splint, Curb, etc. Price, We. per Mttlm S, Sold by A. F. Long.

Turkeys per lb 7c Gobblers per 1b.... 6c Geese per 1b........ 4c Butter per lb 15c Eggs per dozen.... 14c

CHICAGO EXCURSION, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30. Trait) schedule. Fare*. Monticello 8:02a. m 11.15 MedaryviUe 7:40 “ 1.25 Francesville 7:55 “ 1.25 Monou 8:20 *’ 1.00 Lee... 8:30 “ 1.00 McCoyaburg 8:85 “ 1.00 Pleasant Ridge 8:40 “ 1.00 Rensselaer 8:48 “ 1.00 Surrey.. 8:67 ’* .90 Parr* 9:02 “ .90 Fair Oaks 9:09 “ ,85 Rose Lawn...... 9:20 “ .75 Thayer.... 9:25 “ .75 Shelby 9:98 “ .75 Lowell 9:42 “ .75 Ar. Chicago. 11:30 “ End of Bitter Fight. “Two physicians had a long and stubborn fight with an abcess on his right long” writes J. F. Hughes of Do Pont, Ga„ “and gave me up. Everybody thought my time had come. As a last resort I tried Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The benefit I received was striking and I was on my feet in a few days. Now I’ve entirely regained my health." It conquers all Cough), Colds and Throat and Lung troubles. Guaranteed by A. F. Long’s Drag Store. Price 50c, and SI.OO. Trial bottles free. FIVE PER CENT MONEY 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 SIOO or more at any interest paying time. Money ready as soon as abstract is approved. Ler.st red tape. No publicity. Baughman & Williams, Attys. and Im&n Agents, Rensselaer, Ind. Puts An End to it AIL A grievous wail oftimes comes as a result of unbearable pain from over taxed organs, Dizziness, Backache, Liver complaint and Constipation. But thanks to Dr. King’s New Life Pills they put an end to it all. They are gentle but tborongb. Try them. Only 26c. Guaranteed by A. F. Long's Drag Store. dOOD DAIRY FARM FOR SALE. 56 acres, miles of Rensselaer, on gravel road, new 7 room house, new barn 50x38, good granaries, cribs, wagon scales, good drilled well, etc.; tiled. For particulars enquire at this office. LOOK HERE. If you don’t believe you can buy land cheaper of the owner than you can of the agent, just call and see for yourself. Any sized farm from 300 acres down to 60 acres, to pick from. Also a residence in Rensselaer. Two farms to rent for cash, can give possession this fall if desired. Yours for a trade, Robert Michal, j Box 73. Rensselaer Ind. j STOCK TANKS. We are making a specialty of stock and storage tanks of all des- j criptions, and our prices are lower than the lowest. 6-ft. $7,7>0; 8-ft. 812.50; 10-ft. $19,00. ’■ Donnelly Bros. Morris’ English Stable Powder * Sold by A. P. Long

Hides per 1b........ 5c Lard per lb 11c Tallow per lb 2C Rags per lb 1-4 C

Local and Personal. iLCorn 46c; oats, 32c. "iWheat 65 cents; rye, 40 cents. The Democrat, SI.OO per year. Another dollar excursion to Chicago, Sunday, August 30. Train schedule same as usual. A heavy rain fell north of town a few miles Tuesday afternoon, but it missed Rensselaer entirely. from the hail stricken belt generally confirm the great damage done to the corn last week. Most of the farmers agree that the crop through the strip of country the hail passed is cut short three-fourths, while some place the damage at less than this. At all events it is bad enqjugh. CV?be new American Building Loan and Savings Assocication starts oat with U. M. Baughman, A. R. Hopkins, J. M. Wasson, Wm. Donnelly and A. H. Hopkins as directors. J. M. Wasson is president and A. H. Hopkins secretary and treasurer. They already have application for several loans.

\While boring a well on Geo. Tamer’s farm 3 miles south of Mt. Ayr, last week, Downing & Gilmore struck wood at a distance of 110 feet below the surface. After passing through the wood the drill dropped through a cavity of two of three feet into a deposit of sand. How did it get there? is a question that is agitating the minds of our keen scientists. Samples of the wood can be seen at A. D. Babcock’s office. —Goodland Herald. Woleott Enterprise: Since the issue of the Enterprise was off the press latt week it is learned that the time specified in the right-of-way leases or grants to Col B. J. Gifford for his railroad enterprise through this part of the country has expired. In two or three instances near town it is known that the time allowed for the road to be built was three years, otherwise the right was void and a new one will become necessary should he again expect to build the southern extention as mentioned in these columns last week.

A little fracas occurred in town Monday which was aired in Squire Troxell’s court Tuesday afternoon. It seems thatC. W. Duvall bought a horse of S. O. Duvall a year or two ago, and over remarks alleged to have been made by the former regarding this deal the trouble arose. The first trouble occurred, we understand, in Worden’s harness shop between S. O. and C. W. Duvall, where the former threw a chair at the latter and was met with a horse collar in return. Later Ed Duvall met C. W. on the street and several blows were exchanged, the latter’s young-setr John rushing in to help his father and also receiving a slap or two. Affidavits were sworn out against Ed J. Dovall for assault and battery, to which he plead gttilty and the fine and costs amounted to $10.60; and one against S. O. Duvall for same offense is set for trial to-day. Still other affidavits will be filed, it is said.

Squire Trozeil had an assault and battery case from Fair Oaks Thursday night, the prosecuting witnesses being Wm. V. Tolley and against George Lambert, charging him with jerking, pulling and pushing one Bertha A. Tolley, witnesses wife. The prisoner was acquitted. The trouble arose over some wagon wheels. There are upwards of forty case of typhoid fever in and about Goodland, and it is thought by some that the epidemic has been caused from drinking red lemonade at the Wallace circus, which showed there recently. The water ÜBed in making the lemonade is said to have been brought there in tanks from their last show stand. The Herald says, however, that the alleys and vacant lots in the town need cleaning up badly, which might perhaps account for the cases in town but'would hardly apply to those in the sorrounding country. Thus far no deaths have occurred, we understand.

REMINGTON PARTIES INJURED IN RAILROAD WRECK.

In a wreck on the L. E. & W., at the crossing of the Illinois Central and big Four roads near Bloomington, 111., Tuesday, the names of the following persons appear among the list of injured; Daniel Ummell, Remington, Ind„ age sixty-five, probably fatal internal injuries; Mrs. Mary Brodwell, Remington, Ind., with three children; mother bruised; Bessie, head cut open, serious; Lydie, age ten, hand and face hurt; babe of one year bruised. is evidently a mistake in the names of the injured parties, although they may reside at or near Remington. We know of no one in that vicinity of the names given.

TEACHERS FOR 1903-4.

The Rensselaer schools will open Monday, Sept. 7, with the following corps of instructors: W. H. Sanders, superintendent. Margaret Davidson, superintendent of Drawing and Music. high school and eighth grade. W. O. Hiatt, principal mathematics and physics. T. J. Headlee, Science. Miss Effie Warville, English. Miss Maude E. Allen, Latin and German. Ernest L. Talbert, History and English. Edward E. Brooks, Mathematics and History. GRADEB. O. E. Frazee, seventh year. Chas. Sands, sixth year. Sara Wisler, fifth year. Clara Bach, fifth and fourth years. Edith Berry, fonrth year. Lessie Bates, Third year, Bertha Boyer, second year. Bessie Donaldson, second and first years. Stella Shields, first year. Most of the teachers are new ones and come from different parts of the country.

To Graduates of Common Schools of

Jasper County.

Allow us to congratulate you on the zeal and success you have shown in completing the common shool work. You have now taken the first step in yonr educational progress. Do not fail to add to this the second step, more important for success in life than the first, the completion of a good high school course. The Rensselaer high school will open Sept., 1903. It is important that all who contemplate attending at all be present at the beginning of the term. In the Freshman year English and Algebra required of all students. In addition to these subjects each students may choose either Botany or Zoology and either Latin or German. The high school is well equipped with apparatus, has a good library, and is under the instruction of six well prepared teachers. We believe we can make the year both pleasant and profitable for you and shall be pleased to answer any question you desire to ask regarding our school. Respectfully Yours,

W. H. SANDERS,

W. O. HIATT,

OLD SETTLERS’ MEETING.

There will be a grand rally of the Old Settlers and citizens of Newton and adjoining counties at Morocco, Ind , the 15th of September, 1903, commencing at 11 a. m. -Everybody is invited to come and have a good time. After you have heard the many old stories of the past you will go home feeling ten years younger. Bring your baskets well filled. • Dr. M. L. Humstox, J. W, Qsw ali), President. Secretary. i ' Read The Democrat for news.

State Geologist Blatchley Refers To Some of Them In a Caustic Manner.

The Democrat has always aimed to be truthful and reliaßU in its statements and utterances, and for this reason its readers have noted that it has never be§n overly enthusiastic in regard to the so-called “Jasper county oil field.” The Democrat has never believed that oil existed in this locality in sufficiently paying quantities to begin to justify the extravagant reports that have been published regarding same and, for this reason but little has been said in its columns favorable toward it. It is true that a good many thousand dollars have been expended in this field in the way of drilling etc., nearly all of which of late has no doubt been done for the purpose of making a showing so that stock could be unloaded on the unwary. In support of the Democrat’s ideas on this subject w e quote from an article from the pen of State Geologist Blatchley, which appeared a few days ago in an Indianapolis paper; The discovery of oil in large quantities in Texas of 1901 led to the formation of scores of “get-rich-quick” oil companies in different parts of the United States. These companies have filled the papers with glittering advertisments of shares that could be purchased for 5 to 20 cents on the dollar, but which, in a few days or weeks, would increase twenty to a hundred-fold in value. Prospectuses have been scattered broadcast which have told in glowing terms of the immense profits to be made in a year or two. Stock certificates by tens of thousands, representing the finest specimens of the engraver’s art, with pictures of derricks at each corner, with tiers of barrels in the background, have been issued to the gullible, The average American citizen likes to be humbugged, an l the fake oil company promoter has, since 1901, given such citizen the best opportunity he has had for years. The available assets of most of the companies consist of little more than a superb allowance of gall, and a hundred or two dollars invested in prospectuses and stock certificates. A nUmbey of these companies bought room enough on the crest of Spindle Top hill, near Beaumont,Tex., for a derrick to stand upon; leased or bought a small tract of wholly unde veloped and probably barren territory somewhere within a hundred miles radius of that noted field, put down a single productive well on Spindle Top, and then promulgated the news in all ways possible that they had “brought in a gusher,” and that the proceeds from the sale of 200.000 or more barrels which it was daily producing, and others which they would soon bore, would make millionaries of all stockholder, in the company. No more palpable fraud was ever devised to°separate the citizen from his hard earned dollar than these mushroom oil companies. Not one person in ten thousand will ever get a cent of dividend on the stock he has purchased. Not one in a thousand will ever again see the principal he has invested. The oil sharper finds it a great deal easier and more profitable to sell the highly engraved certificates of stock than to drill oil wells or to develop any actual oil property. The Oil City Derrick, in commenting on the multiplicity of such companies has well said. “There are honorable exceptions, and companies are in the field, officered by gentlemen of highest integrity, with no other purpose than the prosecution of a legitimate business upon business lines. They can be enumerated with ease, indentified without difficulty, and indicated by the fingers of one hand. The square companies have no stock for sale. All the rest are fake organizations, or what amounts to the same thing, organizations on paper, with no assests except the the green goods in which they deal—in this instance greentinted paper called certificates —which , might as well be sawdust or pn-ij per waste so far as current value is concerned.” If such companies had confined their operations to Texas, j little would be said about several of them, organized in Chicago and elsewheTe, have bought up or leased small holding sin Ind- j iana, and have been selling their; worthless stock to citizens of this and adjoining States. One of j these, located in Chicago, leased 1320. acres near Wilder, Ind., and, ! then issued an attractive prospect- j 1 us, one ,of the main features of

Supt.

Principal.

FAKE OIL COMPANIES.

which was a portion of the report on the Jasper county oil fields, made by this department in its annual report for 1900. The paper, as prepared and published by me, was in this prospectus, garbled in every conceivable way to make it conform to the best interests of the Chicago Oil Company. Words and whole sentences were omitted or changed, as the interests of the said company demanded. Their prospectus stated that they had seven producing wells in operation, with an output of seventy-five barrels daily, and. that the net profits from the output of these wells in one year would be $100,000; and from 100 wells, which they expected to sink $675,000 a year. Mr. C. K. Mcr--Fadden, of Geneva, Ind., the wellknown superintendent of tho main Jasper county field, recently visited, without making known his identity, the offices of this company.

ABSOLUTE FALSEHOODS. From the letter to me regarding this visit, I quote as follows: “Never in my life have I seen such a brazen and deliberate steal attempted by people who put up an outward appearance of respectability and honesty. Their statements, almost without exception, were absolutely false, and instead of having a production of 125 barrels daily, my field superintendent informs me that the total pro-, duction from their wells would, in his judgment, not fill a teacup with oil in twenty-four hours’ pumping, and that their oil which is used for exhibition purposes must Lave been taken from either our tanks or from those of out neighbors. Another fske oil - ted in New cR) . Jnt inoorporated Hie j ftWß 0 f South Dakota, lms also sent out an attentive prospectus, stating that it has secured 320 acres of land located in Indiana, seventy-five miles from Chicago; that it proposes to sink four wells to each acre, which wells will average two barrels daily. This product, wheii sold at $2 a barrel, will yield a net profit of $967,000 annually, to be divided among the stockholders. Fifty thousand shares of stock at 20 cents each are offered to a gullible public. JASPER COUNTY IMPOSSIBILITIESThe whole Jasper county field* at the present rate of production, will not yield, in twenty years, what a single one of these companies offers to produce in oneryear. Better it would be for the person who has money to invest to buy grass seed and scatter it abroad for the sparrows than to invest in the stock of these or other similar companies. The assurance of some kind of returns from the investment would be infinitely greater. The recent' rich strikes of oil near Parker City and Selma have have caused several of these fake companies to be organized in Indianapolis and adjoining citieß, and their stock is now being widely advertised in certain papers. A few days ago a young man came into my office, said that he had organized a company, and was selling: stock, and wanted to know wherehe could get a map of the oil field “which would show him where to drill to strike oil. From his conversation, I judged that he knew 1 less of the oil business than a poodle dog knows of the map of Assyria, for he asked the question in good faith. The company which he' represented was a fair sample of many of those recently organized associations. It had not an acre of holding—not even a site for a derrick, and yet was disposing of stock at 20 cents on the dollar. The which information he got from me was not the kind which will advance the interests of his company. NEED OF INVESTIGATION. There are many legitimate oil companies in Indiana and elsewhere, which are operating valuable holdings, and which have stock for sale. The remarks above made apply in no mariner to such companies. For the most'part, they do not advertise their stock by the methods mentioned. If each person who has money to invest would investigate, either personnlly or 'through some reliable , person who is known to him, the oil property of the company whose stock he is thinking of buying, it would lessen the profits as well as the number of such fake companies as we have, mentioned. In investing in oil stock or anything else, it never pays to “buy. a pig in the poke.”

W. S. BLATCHLEY,