Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1903 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 36c; oats, 820. Wheat 65 cents; rye,' 40 cents. It pays to trade at Bowles & Parker’s. * James Rash spent Sunday with his family near Monon. A. M. Bringle was down from Fair Oaks Batnrday on business. Charles Fraser of Benton Co., was in the city on business Wednesday. Reduced prices on ladies’ and childrens cloaks at Rowles & Parker’s. Tom Orant of Rose Lawn, was a business caller in the city Wednesday. City Attorney Williams will go to Ohio next week to spend the holidays with his parents. Don’t fail to see those fine furs—reduced prices for the Holidays, at Rowles k Parker’s. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. O’Connor of Delphi, were the guests of Hon. and Mrs. E. P. Honan Sunday. Elmer Gwin, who has been sick for the past two months with fever, is just barely able to sit np a little now. Most of the big corporations are handing out Christmas gifts to their employes in the shape of a wage reduction. John Bioknell of Jordan tp. has leased the Hildebrand livery barn near the river bridge and will run j a livery and feed stable therein. < Mrs. Perry Washburn of Kentland, and Mrs. C. A. Caldwell of Hornellsville, N. Y., are visiting at A. D. Washburn’s this week. W. R. Dennis of near Pleasant Ridge, recently bought a fine fruit farm nerr Bangor, Mich., and will move upon same in a few months. Several carloads of dressed poultry has been shipped out of Rensselaer this season, B. S. Fendig alone having shipped four or five carloads. The entertainment advertised to take place at the opera house to-night has been declared off, Mr. Stewart having been called to New York by a death in his family. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter received the intelligence that their daughter, Mrs. Ernest Fritts of Dunkirk, had fallen on the ice last Saturday and broken her arm in two places, Thomas H. Posse and Israel J. Lefler have been appointed carriers for the-new rural routes soon to start out of Francesville, with L. E. Burson and Addie C. Lefler •üb^tutes. Mrs. J. P. Warner fell on the ioe at her home on Front street Saturday morning and fractured her thigh bone. Her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Pefley of Remington, is nursing her. Preparations are being made for a Christmas tree and free entertainment at the F. W. Baptist church on Christmas eve. A cordial invitation is extended to the publio to attend. Joe Putts has engaged in the poultry buying business in the old Jake McDonald* quarters on South Front street. Tuesday night he shipped out a big carload of dressed poultry to Bridgeport, Conn.

Miss Fairy Chilcote, aged 18 years, died at the home of her mother near Sharon Wednesday morning from consumption. The funeral was held Thursday and interment blade in the Crockett cemetery. As. a a result of republican misrule and extravagance, the corporation and road funds of Rensselaer are overdrawn $6,000, and $7,200 has been overdrawn in the electric light improvement fund. How do you Uke this record, Mr. Taxpayer. Clarence, the 11-yeas-old son of landlord Dobbin* of the Nowels Hotel, met with a serious accident Thursday morning. While playing around the scnoolhouse fence his foot slipped and he ran one of the iron pickets into his right thigh, the same Entering to the bone.

Read Murray’s half-page ad. Dance, Armory Hall, next Friday night. Neen Littlefield is visiting in Pontiac, 111., this week. The Chioago Bargain Store if the only house that received a car of this year’s potatoes. Mrs. Chupp, aged 78 years, who lived with her son near Surrey, died Thursday morning. 24 and 3 yd. table linen patterns, napkins to match, for Xmas presents at Rowles & Parker’s. Mrs. N. S. Bates and daughters, Miss Alice and Mrs. Jennings Wright, were Chioago visitors this week. E. P. Honan goes to Star City, Pulaski county, Monday to try a case for the International Harvester Co. The new dynamo for the electric light plant is now here and it is hoped that when in position better lights will be had. The Judy case at Lafayette has been grinding again all week. The argument is practically closed at this writing and it was expected the case would go to the jury yesterday. ■ Miss Laßue of Kansas City, who has been visiting her uncles, the Laßue brothers, for the past two months, was called home Thursday by a dispatch announcing the death of her father.

Alf Donnelly returned yesterday from a trip to Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Frankfort and other points, on onion business. He reports little success. It looks as if “Old Alf” was going to get left again this year. Owing to an unexpected amount of advertising this week we are obliged to curtail our local news columns somewhat, and among other things leave out some lines written on the deaths of Dr. Washburn and L. S. Gant. S. M. Laßue has traded the stock of goods in the Bedford building for a farm in White county, owned by James Tatman. Mr. Tatman is now in charge of lhe store and opened up for business yesterday. See bis ad in another part of this paper.

Coleman Merritt of Remington, who has been clerking in a store here for some time and boarding with his brother John, will move his household goods here next week*, into the Robt. Michals property on South Vanßeusselaer street. Rev. Elam will oocupy the Parker property, vacated by Rev. Hall, instead of the Michals property, as previously stated in these columns. The Anglo-American Association of medical men and Btudents, recently formed in Berlin, Germany, has elected Dr, James H. Honan, a brother of our townsman, Attorney E. P. Honan, president of the association. The object of the association is to assist American and English students and for interchange of though ts and ideas. The honor of being elected to the presidency of this association is a great one and shows that Dr. Honan is very popular in Berlin.

The 3-year-old child of Arch Elijah of near Mt. Ayr, died Thursday from the result of a gunshot wound accidentally inflicted bv an older child Monday. One of the boys who had been out hunting left his gun standing in the corner, and a younger child picked it up and, playfully pointed it at a still younger 6hild with the remark, “I will shoot you.” The gun was discharged and the child fell to the. floor with a bullet hole in it’s head just below the ear. The funeral was held yesterday.

Jasper Kenton received a letter Wednesday from his brother, W. W. Kenton, of near Mitchell, So. Dak., in which the writer stated that he had never enjoyed a fall and winter so well as the present. Snow gently fell there last Friday to the depth of about one foot, since which it has turned clear and cold and the mercury stands at about 16 below zero, and people are going about their work as usual. Mr. Kenton said they had just finished husking and have a full 5,000 bushels. A large shipment framed pictures just received a little late but prioes will make them disappear like snow in the hot sunshine. Chicago Bakgain Stoke.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, December 19, 1903.

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest Gathered in the Office* and Corridor* of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: Deo. 12, Edward Shfffer to Nellie May Iliff. Dec. 14, Elmer B. Monesmith to Clara Sims. Dec. 16, Ora Craver to Emma Johnson. —o— New Buits filed: No. 6593. Jacob J. Keller vs. John Mohler; action in foreclosure. No. 6594. Cortland Cook et al vs. Chandler Oil Co.; action on lein. No. 6595. Michael Messner vs. George R. Davis, etal; action in foreclosure. The will of the late Dr. Washburn was .filed for probate Tuesday. It was executed Jan. 25,1892, and bequeaths all testator’s property both real and personal, to his wife, Mrs. Martha A. Washburn. The two sons, Warren W. and Dr. I. M. Washburn, are administrators. It is reported that the commissioners of White county have contracted for a tax-ferret “investigation” in that county on a 35 per cent basis, with J. B. Workman, ex-auditor of Owen county, who has had charge of the “investigation” here for the past three or four years. We thought better than this of White county. James N. Leatherman, auditor elect, filed his official bond last week in the sum of SIO,OOO, with James T. Randle, Albert Hopkins, Charles W. Coen, William S. Day, Wm. C. Babcock, A. K. Yeoman, J. C. Gwin, J. D. Babcock, J. L. Babcock, D. H. Yeoman, Granville Moody and Walter V. Porter as sureties. The bond was approved by the commissioners. The appellate court on Tuesday handed down a decision in the case of Ben Hart vs. J ohn Kellner, John Bill, trustee of Jordan tp., et al, sustaining the decision of the lower court. The court held: “Surface water flowing- from higher ground along a natural depression in excess of the capacity of a tile drain therein may lawfully be repelled by the lower landowner by means of an embankment. The rule* as to obstructing water courses do not apply to surface water.*' The defendants were represented in the case by Attorneys E. P. Honan and C. W. Hanley. The case was tried in 1901 and a decision rendered against Hart, who appealed to the supreme court. The costs in the case are quite heavy, probably amounting to SSOO, which fall on plaintiff Hart.

The largest line and daintiest patterns in ladies’ fine linen handkerchiefs ever shown in town. Rowles & Parker. XMAS ENTERTAINfIENT AT PARR. A musical and literary entertainment will be given by the F. W. Baptist Sunday school at Parr on Christmas night, Friday, Dec. 25. A fine program has been arranged and a good time is assured. A small admission fee will be charged. Everybody come. Headquarters for your Christmas shopping. Chicago Bargain Store. CHRISTMAS BALL. A grand balPwill be given in Armory Hall, Rensselaer, Ind., on Christmas night, Dec. 25. Good music and the best of order will be maintained. Yourself and lady are invited to attend. a Shindler & Bowers. M. W. A. ELECTION. Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday night, Dec. 30, 1903, there will be an election of officers of Rensselaer Camp No. 4412 for the ensuing year, and a full attendance of Woodmen is requested. F. E. Babcock, V. C. H. L. Brown, Clerk. MASQUERADE BALL. A grand Masquerade Ball will be given in the Warner Hall, on Christmas night, Dec. 25, 1903. Everybody invited. Come and have a good time. Music by Professor Steadman. Doors open at 7:30; unmask at 10:30, and then everybody dance. Spectators 50c. Tickets on sale at Parcel’s barber shop. E. M. Parcels. Beven Du rocs for sale— four gilts bred, three males ready for service. Geo. Pumphret & Son. . r? T'. .

DR. WASHBURN DEAD.

Carelessness of Chicago burgeons Is Cause—Had Left Forceps In Body From Former Operation. Rensselaer people were shocked Saturday morning to learn that Dr. I. B. Washburn had died the night before at Valparaiso, where ho had the day previous underwent a surgical operation at the private hospital of Dr. Loring. The doctor had attended the meeting of the Kankakee Valley Medical Association at Hammond and from there accompanied Dr. Loring, an old friend of his, to Valparaiso to be operated on. Dr. Washburn underwent two operations, about two and three years ago, respectively, at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, for what proved t4be an ailment of the liver. He recovered from these operations except for the past year he had complained of considerable pain id the region of the back, and later this shifted to the front of the body and an abscess formed fallow and to one side of the W 1 * This abcess .refused to heal and it was for 'the purpose of determining the nature of the trouble that the operation Turediy was determined upon. The operation developed the fact that a pair of steel forceps, some 5$ inches long and two inohes wide, such as are used by surgeons in catching up arteries, had been left in his body from the former operation at Chioago, and had imbedded themselves in the tissues of the liver and had caused all his trouble and suffering of the past year or more. But for this he would probably have been a well man and alive to-day. The forceps were considerably corroded from their long presence in the doctor’s body. He is said to have rallied from the operation but the shock in his weakened state was too great, and about 7 o’clock Friday evening he passed away. The remains were brought here on the 10:55 a. m., train Saturday and brief funeral service was held Sunday afternoon from the Christian church, by Revs. Elam of this city and A. L. Ward of Arcadia, a former pastor of the church here, after which those who desired to see the remains repaired to the residence and took a farewell look at their neighbor, friend and family doctor. The interment was in Weston cemetery and was in charge of Rensselaer Post No. 84, G. A. R., and the I. O. O. F. of which orders deceased was an honored member. [Dr. Israel B. Washburn was born July 9, 1838, near Royal Center, Cass county, Indiana; died Dec. u, 1903, aged 66 years, 4 months and 2 days. He was the oldest son of Moses L. Washburn, and the grandson of Isaac Washburn, who located in Indiana in 1835. Another ancestor is Col. Emanuel Washburn, who fought under Braddock and Washington at that terrible defeat near where Pittsburg, Pa., now is, in the French and Indian war.

He was brought up on a farm, educated in the country schools, in a seminary at Logansport, and took a scientific course in Franklin college. - He graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, at the age of 22, and soon after enlisted as a private in the 46th Indiana regiment, and served three years. He was soon made an assistant surgeon, and later promoted to be the surgeon of the regiment. He was married July 5, 1864, while still in the country’s service, to Miss Martha A. Moore, who survives him, as do also four of the eight children born to them, namely: Mary S. Washburn of Chicago, Warren W. of Goodland, Dr. Ira M. and Helena E. of Rensselaer, all of adult age. The four that preceeded him in death were Lulu May Hawkins, born May 15, 1865, died in 1891; Essie Augusta, bom Aug. 18, 1869, died Oct. 11, 1871; Ellis Moore, born Jan. 9, 1876, died Aug. 2, 1876; Donald, born Nov. 11, 1885, died Jan. 18, 1888. At the close of the war he located at Star City, Pulaski county, in the practice of his profession. In 1870, he represented Jasper, Pulaski and White counties in the state legislature. He later practiced medicine and also conducted a drug store in Logausport. In 1877 he moved to Rensselaer, and was a continuous resident here until bis death. While a resident here he has served as county treasurer, as county health officer, town councilman and member and first president of the county council.]

Ail the ladies say they never saw such fine hand painted china ware in Rensselaer. Chicago Bargain Store. The Original Kalamazoo Petticoats, nothing nicer for Xmas presents. See them at Rowles & Parker’s. Extra fancv Michigan apples, Spies and Baldwins, only 200 end 25c per peck. Chicago Bargain Store. Don’t forget that fine line of Japanese obina for Xmas presents. Rowles & Parker.

FORTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.

CommMsloner Halleck Settle* • Judgment On That Baal*. The law library and office fixtures of County Commissioner Halleck, were levied upon this week on an execution in favor of the Deering Harvester company, to satisfy a judgment taken several years ago. The execution was issued about six months ago, and the amount involved was about S4O. Mr. Halleck stated that he would take advantage of the exemption law, which gives a married man an exemption from execution of S6OO, and W. H. Parkison was selected by the sheriff or Mr. Halleck as one of the appraisers, and Geo. A. Williams by plaintiff’s attorney for the other. The appraisement of the library and office furniture, we understand, totaled $378, one or two cases and tables, Mr. Halleok stating, was the property of bis wife. After the schedule was made out And as Mr. Halleck was about to swear to same, stating that it was all the property he possessed, he stated that as it was a joint judgment, against himself and brother Ransom,, that if he (Abe) scheduled it would force Ransom to do the same, and perhaps he had better confer with the latter by phone. This, it is presumed, was done, for a short time therefor Mr. Halleck settled the judgment by compromise,paying $15.80 or 40 cents on the dollar. He had offered to pay 40 cents on the dollar in settlement of this judgment, we understand, some days earlier, and the judgment creditors had agreed to accept that amount. It is likely that in the conference with his brother Ransom it was thought better to pay the sls than to both take advantage of the judgment exemption laws and file a schedule. It is understood that Mr. Halleck still carries a bank account in Chicago, and many people think that he could, if he chose, wipe out several of the score or more of judgments that have accumulated against him during the past dozen years and still remain unsatisfied. Our fancy Wisconsin potatoes are worth 20 cents per bushel more than Michigan grown. Chicago Bargain Store.

FARM LOANS.

We make farm loans on the most favorable terms and iu the shortest time obtainable anywhere. Loans on city property are made by us for one, two, three, four and five years, with privilege payments on any interest payment day; also loans on personal security. Call at our office and see if we cannot make jnst the kind of a loan you are needing, or call us up by telephone as we have both the long distance Bell and Independent telephones in onr office. Austin & Hopkins, Rensselaer, Indiana.

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Vol. VI. No. 37

THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening and transacted considerable business. A warrant was ordered drawn in fayor of the Oeneral Electric 00. for $858.92 as part payment od the new dynamo. The contract for the Vine and Milton street sewer was let to W. F. Smith at the following price: 10 inch pipe at 40} cents per lineal foot; 8 inch at 36} cents; 6 inch at 30} cents; catch basins $2 25 each. Sewer pipe to be first quality. J. H. Jessen filed a bid as follows: 43 cents per foot for entire sewer for first quality pipe and 40 cents per foot for second qnality. John H. Jessen was granted 30 days more time in which to complete the Division and Scott street sewer. G. A. Strickfaden was granted a city saloon license. The purchase oi 25 arc lamps, transformers and switch board was ratified. A petition of Jnlins Taylor etal for an arc light at Elmer and Milton streets was referred to the light committee. The treasurer presented the following report for the month ending November 30: Amount on hand in corporation fund $39; water fund, $1279.25; road, $233 61; eleotrio light, $23.81; electric light improvement fond, $5962.21- Orders unpaid in corporation fund, $2,193.97; in road fund, $2261.05. The following bills were allowed: CORPORATION FUND.

G. A. Williams, city attorney 78 50 B. H. Dillon, salary 45 00 H. L. Gamble, city engineer 15 00 Ed Randle, assisting engineer 75 Firemen, salaries 94 75 Fire dept, dues disability lund 3 75 A 1 Fletcher, hauling hose cart t yf J. L. Adams, hauling hose cart .... 150 F. M. Abbott, salary , 45 00 Anderson Coupling & Supply Co., hose couplings 149 00 ELECTRIC LIGHT IMP. FUND. J. H. Chapman, freight on dynamo. 57 60 Western Electric Co., supplies..... 9 00 Geo. Spitler, labor at plant 9 40 Martin Thornton labor at plant 17 40 Tom Parker, labor at plant 3 45 Jamey Willis, labor at plant 11 70 Peter Giver, labor at plant 30 20 James Clark, labor at plant 4 00 Frank Giver, labor at plant 9 60 E. J. Murray, rollers 1 50 Bud Stevenson, labor 6 56 Jasper County Telephone Co., poles 132 70 Walter Francives, work on line 9 38 Frank Moats, work on line 9 38 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Ferguson & Wilson, insurance 57 76 Victoria Coal Mining Co., c0a1..... 289 10 Illinois Electric General Electric Co., supplies 18 72 A. L. Branch, hauling coal 67 15 C. S. Chamberlain, salary., 42 50 C. L. Thornton, salary 27 50 Lem Huston, salary 27 50 water fund. J. H, Chapman, freight 165 52 John Hordeman, work on mains ... 340 Conrad Hildebrand, salary 27 50 White & Marion, work on main.... 10 40 Warner Bros, merchandise 18 57 ROAD FUND. James F. Irwin, drain tile 19 57 Warner Bros., merchandise 12 15 Platt & Yeiter, street crossings 194 48 J. P. Simons, work on street 3 25 Ed Randle, “ “ ,r 2A5 Peter Giver “ “ . fg John Brown “ “ “ dp A 1 Fletcher “ “ “ 6«> Don’t be imposed upon by taking snbalV tutes offered for Foley’s Honey and Ta*. For sale by A. F. Long, druggist.