Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1904 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and' Country Readers. Corn 38c; oats, 38c. Next Friday is Arbor Day. E. L. Hollingsworth was in Chicago Thursday. Miss Hattie Yeoman is visiting his brother at Ambia. ' A $25,000 Carnegie library will be built at Hammond. 4j. r. Sigler of Mt. Ayr, made a hasty business call here Wednesday. Judge Thompson is again able to be out, after several weeks sickness. Mrs. Patrick Halligan, northeast of town, is reported quite sick. Mrs. M. V. Burke, of Crawfordsville, is visiting his son Mont and family. -sX Attorney W. J. Reed, of Knox, was looking after matters in court here Tuesday. Theodore George is home from Chicago, making an extended visit with his mother. Fountain Park Assembly, Remington, Ind., Robt. Parker, Supt., August 13-28,1904. ts. Attorney M. H. Beard of Wolcott, is confined at his home in that city with smallpox. The Marion township republicans will nominate their township ticket on Thursday, April 28.

Arthu£ Hilling departed Tuesday for North Dakota where he will be employed on a large ranch. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Heffner returned last week from a two or three months’ sojourn in Florida. George Payne was fined $1 and costs —$12.80 in all, in Squire Troxell’s court last Saturday for a plain drunk. Everett “Brown, of Pleasant Grove, went to Indianapolis Monday to attend the Indiana State League trap shoot. Bertha Payne Middletown,formerly of this place, lias begun proceedings for divorce at Hammond, from her husband, Fred Middleton. Esper McCleary writes us, renewing his subscription, and orders his address changed from Berwyn, Neb., tg Broken Bow, Neb. In addition to furnishing an enjoyable evening’s entertainment, the C. O. F. lodge cleared over SSO from their dance last week. __ New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, R-R-I, 1; Zion City, • 111., 1; Ludlow, 111., 1; Wheataeld, R-R-I, 1. y Mr. and Mrs. James Flynn are' yisiting their son Hallie at Chesterton. A bouncing girl arrived at the honse of the latter a few days ago. » George Hanna and family, -of Walker township, were shopping in the city Tuesday. Mr. Hanna says ifh quite wet in his locality, and some of the oats he sowed last week are covered with water, v. W. F. Smith of this city vu awarded the contract for building 11£ miles of stone roads in Salem township, Pulaski county, Tuesday, at $31,700. Conover, Taber & Co., of Remington were awarded the White Post township roads at $30,650._

Miss Vivian Rush of Monon, is visiting here, the guest of Miss Lizzie Brown. Fred Chapman is assisting in the postoffice nowadays, and makes a very able assistant. Attorneys Guy and Westfall, of Remington, were looking after matters in court here Monday. Advertised letters: Mrs. Viola Reynolds, Mrs. Mary Sammeton, Wm. Schunneman, Wm. Bierly, Milton Hall. James Warren and William Chilcote, who have been staying at the Marion soldiers’ home, are here on a furlough. Geo. Duggins was given a fine and costs amounting to $17.40 in Squire Irwin’s court Saturday for a Friday night drunk. Earl Sayler has moved to Saybrook, 111., where with his brother Eugene, he will operate an electric light plant. Ella Callahan of near Giffford, and Mr. Edgar Camp of Notre Dame, were married at the latter place Tuesday morning. 'L Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Yeoman of Kingman, Kan., and Mrs. Nellie Hanscome of Chicago, were here to attend the funeral of Mrs. W. E. Moore. Sylvester Galbraith has traded his property in the northeast part of town for the Chestnut ten acre farm, north of town, and will move on same Monday. W. A. Huff, the jeweler, is talking some of moving to Niles, Mich. He has made an offer on a jewelry store there and the matter is still pending at this writing. VC. E. Mills is confined to the house with sickness again. We understand It is the old ailment that kept him laid up for several months a year or two ago.

We see that Jacob R. Hazen, formerly of Jordan township, this county, has been selected by the democrats of Jennings county as a delegate to the state convention. W. H. Craig of Indianapolis, who several years ago edited the People’s Pilot at this place, was here Wednesday looking after populist interests. He found very few of the “old guard” were left. __ ___ Geo. Barcus is in Wabash this week with a force of men getting things in shape for his removal to that place. Work has begun there in the foundry department and arrangements are being made now to move in May. The republicans of Keener tp., turned down their old trustee (by appointment) S. L. Luce, who was a candidate for nomination, and nominated Henry Feldman for trustee and F. M. Hart, present incumbent, for assessor. The five weeks old baby of Mr. and Mrs. F. E.. Roy, of Jordan township, died Tuesday evening from lung fever. The funeral was held Thursday from the Catholic church at Remington and interment made in the Catholic cemetery west of that place. Chas. L. Mann writes us to send his Democrat to Kokomo, and adds that he has charge of the domestic department of the big store in which he is now employed, and has several people under him. He says that he likes the town and his work very much thus far.

Chas. Phegley, southwest of town returned Sunday from Newcastle, where a dispatch from that place states he had gone to take treatment from a madstone for blood poisoning. The dispatch also stated that the stone adhered for 400 hours, and that he returned much benefitted. Spriggs, the sage of Walker township, was down on business Monday. Mr. Spriggs got kicked in the side by a colt a few days ago, and had one or two ribs fractured, while Mrs. Spriggs is just recovering from an injury received several weeks ago from falling from a chair. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers’ home at Lafayette, last Friday, the new cottage to be erected by this county was ordered to be placed on the circle in the southwest part of the grounds, opposite the Porter county cottage. There are now 708 ex-soldiers in the home, and the deaths last month numbered twelve.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, April i 6, 1904.

vliss Bessie King has resigned her position as telephone girl with the Jasper County Telephone Co., 4o take effect to-day, and will go to Muncie, we understand, to take a course in a business college there. Bill N. Jones, who has been spending the winter in Nebraska, returned home Monday evening. He is looking hale and hearty for a 72-year-older, and says he has gained fifteen pounds in weight the past winter. Uncle Sitoon Phillips went to Fowler Wednesday to visit his daughter for a few days. He feels a little old now, as a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Longweil at Foresman, Tnesday, making Mr. Phillips a great-grandfather. Wolcott Enterprise: Lowell Taylor was home this week after having taught a successful of school in Jasper county near Rensselaer. He is expecting to go Shoshone, Oklahoma, where he will engage in the real estate business with an agency there.

X Mrs. Mattie Sharp has secured tne services of Miss Anna Thompson of Marion, Ohio, an experienced photoprapher, who will be here the last of this month and remain with her permanently. In the meantime Mrs. Sharp is looking after the business herself, assisted by her niece, Miss Opal Sharp. yi Cold and flurries of snow, marked the weather record of the past week, with quite a solid freeze Wednesday night. Thursday was the brightest day for two weeks, and the atmosphere also was warmer. Farmers are late with their sowing and are doing considerable fretting over the bad weather thus far. VC. W. Bussell of Hanging Grove township, brought in seven wolf pups Thursday to claim the bounty on them. They were but a few days old apparently, and Mr. Bussell tried to trap the mother after finding their nest, but without success.' Six of the pops had died from exposure and were turned over to Charlie Spriggs for “stuffing,” while the latter’s son Samuel, will try to raise the other one. YThe funeral of Mrs. William E. Moore was held Saturday afternoon from the M. E. church, Rev. H. L. Kindig conducting the services. Van Rensselaer Chapter D. A. R., attended the services in a bodKfend the following members were hohorary pall bearers: Mesdames E. P. Honan, Geo. Ketchum, T. J. McCoy, G. E. Murray, Candace Loughridge and Granville Moody. Interment was made in Weston cemetery.

The Logansport Presbytery ended Wednesday night after a series of interesting meetings and speeches. The meetings were all largely attended and other places were well represented. T)he opening sermon was given by the retiring moderator, S. S. Sitt of Chalmers, on the subject, Man’s Pre-eminence, what he Thinks. The address was very strong and eloquent and was listened to with a great deal of interest. Rev. James S. Cooper of Kentland was elected moderator with Rev. Wilson of Mishawaka as temporary clerk. The music 1 for the session was splendidly furnished by the choir of the first Presbyterian church of this city.

Prof. Harry Arnold commenced another term of dancing lessons last Friday night with a large number in attendance. On account of another engagement, the date was changed this week to Thursday night instead of Friday, but will hereafter be, as usual, on Friday night. Unusual interest is being manifested along this line and Mr. Arnold is chock full of new and pleasing dances, marches, etc., and gave his students a pleasant surprise Friday night in the way of a snow ball fight. The balls, although white, were not the kind to get under your collar and run down your back, but consisted mainly of cotton, and these with serpentines and several other paraphernalia made things lively for a while. A record breaking crowd was in attendance last night. Programs are given at each dance. * Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, no., April 30, to Dee. I. Rate for 15 days $9.15, 60 days $9.55. Season ticket $11.45. On April 25. See ad. elesewhere for train service.

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Remember, this month is the last for filing mortgage exemptions. —o — There is little doing in the matrimonial line these days. Only one license has been issued since March 26, a period of three weeks. —o — The case against Thomas Keefe, the alleged Brook jewelry store burglar, was continued in the Newton circuit court last week on motion of the state, and Keefe was returned to jail here to await the next term of court in Newton. Q Not much has been doing in court this week except make up Issues and set a few cases down for trial. No trial calendar has, however, been made up at this writing. The petit jury will be here Monday and it is -thought will be kept but the one week. The two libel cases of Abraham Halleck vs. F. E. Babcock, were sent to Benton county by Judge Hanley, change of venue from the county having been asked for by defendant.

—o— New suits filed: No. 6649. John F. Judy et al vs. Peter Roy; action in replevin. No, 6650. Wm. B. Austin vs. Harm Bowman, Gerritt Gravenstuk and J. J. Fry; action on note, demand $l5O. No. 6751. Isaac W. Warner et al, vs. David K. Fry. et al; transcript from Newton county. No. 6652. Martha A. Bennett, administratrix vs. the Chicago & Eastern R. R. Co.; action for damages. This is an action for damages for the death of Leo Bennett, aged 22 years, a resident of Kankakee county, 111., who was killed oa defendant’s road at Wilder’s, Ind., last fall, by alleged carelessness of defendants. The action is brought by deceased’s mother. No. 6653. Albert J. Bellows vs. Phillip Hawn; insanity petition. No. 6654. Grand Detour Plow Co. vs. Marshall P. Warner;action on note. No. 6655. Lester Hawn vs. Selia Hawn; action for divorce. The above is a case from Remington, and the complaint alleges that the parties were married Jan. 19, 1904, and that on March 3, 1904, defendant wholly abandoned plaintiff and has since lived apart from him against his wishes, etc.; that she has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment of plaintiff, in that she refuses to live with plaintiff or write to him, and has forbid plaintiff writing to her. No. 6656. S. L. Luce vs. Augustus Rogers; application to send defendant to reform school. No. 6657. Ella Ward, executrix of the Georgiania Prairie, vs. Edward Prairie, widower of Georgiania Prairie, deceased; petition to sell real estate No. 6658. John J. Lawler et al vs. James S. Ingersoll et al; action to quiet title.

Loans on farms and city property made by Austin & Hopkins on the best terms and shortest time of any firm in Jasper county. In the display window of E. D. Rhoades, there is on exhibition a fine lot of wild game of many kinds. The specimens were obtained from several different gamesters of the city and stuffed by Chas. Spriggs, who has exhibited much skill as a taxidermist. Several of these specimens are of much value and are attracting considerable attention from all. Samuel Hendrickson was initiated into the mysteries of Woodcrat in Rensselaer Camp No. 4412, Wednesday evening. The degree work was done by the team from Monon, who came over twelve strong. A very pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Refreshments were served. The next meeting will be held April 27, at which time there will also be work to do. At a special meeting of the city council last week the contract for the library sewer was awarded to W. P. Smith at 35 cents per foot for 8 inch sewer and 30 cents for six inch connections, and $2.25 for oatch basins. The total cost will be about $240. Other bidders were John H, Jessen, 40 cents per foot for sewer, ond W. F. Osborn 41£ cents, $2.75 each for catch basins. - -

DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET.

#/Fhe democratic city convention was held Thursday night at the court house, as per call. There was a dearth of candidates for most of the offices, owing to the overwhelming majority of the opposition in the city and the further reason that many democrats seemed to feel that the republicans have got the city in a terrible financial condition, and that they should be allowed to work out their own salvation, i/' The only contest ftßaki Marshal, where the names of John Hordeman and Abraham Simpson were presented. On ballot being taken Mr. Hordeman received 26 votes and Mr. Simpson 11. The former was declared the nominee of the convention. There were no nominations made in the Third Ward for councilmen and the city committee was empowered to fill any vacancies that might occur on the ticket. Some of the nominees were not present and later declined for private reasons to allow their names to be used. The city committee, therefore, met yesterday morning and filled up the ticket, and as finally made up it is as follows: Mayor— George H. Maines. Clerk— Joseph Jeffries. Treasurer—U. M. Baughman. Marshal —John Hordeman. Councilmen: Ist Ward i J - A - McFarland. Ist w ard j g MITH Newell . 2d Ward \ jOHN SOHANLAUB. -a Yv ara jj, JJJiglßsbach. 1 Bruce White. 3 d Wil'd j Moses Tuteub.

After the convention proper was over addresses were made by Hon. E. P. Honan and Prof. G. W. Michael. Mr. Honan produced figures showing the deplorable financial condition of the city at the present time as the result of republican misrule; that city orders were outstanding and unpaid for want of funds to the amount of about $6,000; that the man who worked on the streets at $1.50 per day could not get his money after his work was done, without hawking his city order around town and submitting to a cut if disposed of at all to some money loaner; that the democrats proposed to bring the city out of the quagmire of bankruptcy, and thus enable the man who earned his money by the sweat of his brow to get pay for his labor direct from the city treasury and at full face value. Mr. Honan was followed by Prof. Michael, whose remarks were more general in a political way and were listened to with close atattention by the audience. Mr. Michael warned his hearers against keeping one party in power too long, stating that long lease of power and continued party success made careless and corrupt officials. We think citizens generally will agree with us that the ticket is an exceptionally good one. Later The Democrat will have something to say as to the personnel of the candidates and about our present state of financial affairs in Rensselaer.

REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.

The republicans met last Friday night and renominated the following city officers to be voted for at the May election: James H. S. Ellis, Mayor. Charles Morlan, Clerk. James H. Chapman, Treasurer. Mel Abbott, Marshall. At the ward convention Monday evening every member of the extravagant old council was retired, andean entire new set of men nominated, as follows: , j \ Chas. J. Dean. Ist Ward, j n L Brown 2d Ward ) James F. Irwin. Id \\ ard, j c G Spitleri oj i Henry Grow. 3d W ard, | John Carmichae i. The action of the republican citizens in retiring every member of the old council is a slap at their record during the past two years that oannot be misconstrued. The council manic ticket as a whole is considered a very good one.

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Vol. VI. No. 2

MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH.

Is Date Set For Democratic County Convention.—U. M. Baughman Elected County Chairman. The Democratic County Central Committee met here last Saturday on call of County Chairman Honan for the purpose of re-organizing and set a date for holding the county convention, also to appoint delegates to the state convention of May 12. After discussing the pros and cons regarding the convenience of farmers for attending the county convention, it was finally decided that Saturday, May 28, would best accommodate the greatest number of delegates thereto, coming after corn-planting, or the time when corn ought to be planted, at least, and that date was set. In the matter of delegates to the state convention of May 12 (which is for the purpose of selecting delegates to the National Convention, each district meeting separately at Indianapolis and choosing its delegates) the following delegates and alternates were elected :

delegates. Geo. O. Stembel, Wheatfleld. E. W. Allen, Kankakee Township. John Garriott, Union Township. John Schroer, Barkley Township. K. P. Honan, Rensselaer. Geo. W, Michaels, Rensselaer. Ellis Jones,Carpenter Township, Frank Welsh, Jordan Township. ALTERNATES. Dr. Rice, Keener Township. Thomas Callaghan, Walker Township. S. A. Brusnahan, Union Township. Joseph Stewart, Hanging Grove TownshipF. E. Babcock, Rensselaer. Wm. A. Locke, Remington. Karah McDillip, Milroy Township, There was considerable discussion over instructing the delegates for Hearst, but it was finally decided not to instruct them for any one candidate. The delegates stand seven for Hearst to one for Parker.

The county central committee was re-organized by electing U. M. Baughman, chairman; N. L. Littlefield, secretary; and Smith Newell, treasurer. A resolution was unanimously adopted endorsing The Jasper County Democrat as the official Democratic organ of the party in Jasper county. It was decided to name the delegates to the congressional, judicial, representative and senatorial conventions, at the county convention. Also, either to ratify the selection of the delegates to the state convention and empower them to act at the regular state convention in 4 July, or to name new ones, as the county convention may demand.

J. L. HEAD.

J. L. Head, of Peru, Ind., General U. M. C. representative, will assist the management in the Rensselaer Gun Club Tournament, to to be held here April 20-21. Mr. Head is one of the best known live bird and target shots in the United States, and has been twice the holder of the Indiana live bird championship. George Little, of the Union Metallic Cartridge Co., will look after the seere*ary and office work. There will be several expert shooters representing the different ammunition houses in attendance, and it is expected that at least twenty-five amateur shooters will be present. One of the cups to be Bhot for is on exhibition in Huff’s jewelry store window.

And please remember The Democrat office is especially “it” when it comes to horse bills. Dozens of people are taking advantage of our big subscription offer of the Democrat and the St. Louis Twice-a-Week Republic, both papers for only $1.50.