Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1904 — Page 6

| Loans on Land, j We make our own inspections; no delay, no extra expense; interest 5 per cent f Loans on City Property and on Personal security also. 3 Call, write or telephone No. 35. I The First National Bank ; / RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ' | FARHER FRIENDS, f | WHI this Interest You? | The line of goods I shall handle this season are all J grade, every Buggy and Carriage will be a guar- J f anteed job. I have several good makes —Studebaker, J Page Bros., Gates, Osborne and others. J Studebaker Farm Wagons are the best ironed and J have the best box ever put on a wagon. J The two best mowers and binders on the market — X > McCormick and Milwaukee. I have extras for both J machines. The best of all, the Kemp Manure Spread- J er, makes farmers more-money than any implement J ever put on the farm. I have the Birdsell Clover J > Huller of South Bend, Ind. It gets all the seed. An J English sparrow would go hungry on the seed it J > leaves in the straw. I have the McCormick Shredder, J i and Corn Harvester, the world’s best. Come and see. J I am, yours truly, X c—C. A. ROBERTS. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I tons Sod [Mini I | PARR, IND. j g *TFIIE YEAR 1904 finds us with a com- £ * plete Farmers Supply Store. Our -g grocery department is tilled with a comS plete new stock of fresh goods. Our dry goods department is complete with good £ line of staple goods. Our farm implement / £ department is also complete. Can furnish 5 you with everything a farmer needs on a t * farm. We have the largest and best * * selection of good farm and driving horses 2 in Northern Indiana. Everyone has a £ g chance to try the horse before he takes it * 5 away. If he isn't right, don’t take him; £ try another until you are satisfied, It is a 5 satisfied customers we want. Our buggy g * department is the largest and most com- S plete that you can find. Our buggies are 3 bought right and sold right. We will sell ? you a cheap buggy or a good one. We \ will tell you just what you are buying. g We want you to get value received for ? ' > every dollar you spend with us. It is sat- 2 isfied customers we want. Rememberwe ? sell for cash and on time, but not on open account. Come and see us, if you don’t 3 buy, for we will then become acquainted. 2 But remember our business is to sell 5 rt goods and lots of them. 5 fiK m istiiiiij W. L. Wood, Proprietor.

FACTS IN FEW LINES

Letter boxes with electric bells In them as letter thief telltales are shortly to appear In Paris. In the course of a murder trial at Cape Town recently the defendant, an aged Malay trader, admitted that he had twenty-seven wives. ..The value of the diamonds in the United States Is estimated to be $500,000,000. Of this amount $170,1)00,000 worth are owned by residents of New York. London claims during the past year to have had fewer murders and fewer burglaries than In previous years. There has also been no case of murder In which there was failure to bring the perpetrator to book. Warned by the great destruction of literary treasures In the Turin fire, the Italian minister of public instruction has ordered that in the new national library at Florence all important manuscripts shall be placed In a special room. Russia bought from the United States In 1903 nearly $20,000,000 worth of goods, which is double the average of previous years, and sold the United States nearly $11,000,000 worth, which Is an Increase of 50 per cent over previous years. The Cuban government has ceased negotiations with a Chicago contractor for the raising of the Maine, blown up six years ago In the harbor of Havana. The contractor failed to sign a contract or furnish a guarantee that he would do the work. New Orleans reports the best building prospects ever known In that city. Plans are definitely adopted for structures which will cost more than $6,000,000, the largest single undertaking being a hotel which will represent the investment of about $1,000,000. As a means of defense for women in case of attack from a ruffian a stiletto hatpin is about to be placed on the European market. It is made of fftae steel that will bend but not break, has a fine, hardened point and a handle with which to grasp it as a weapon. John Shumaker, aged seventy years, of Newcastle, l’a., is held to he the oldest active fireman in the United States. He has been a fireman since he was fourteen years of age and has always maintained a deep interest in the business of fighting the-flames. French tobacco raisers in 1900 and 1901 received $166 and $l7O per ton, while for foreign tobacco the administration paid $270 per ton in 1900 and $262 in 1901. In 1898 $340, or exactly double the price of home raised tobacco, was paid for the foreign article. Lloyd's returns show that during 11X13 the total addition to the steam tonnage of the United Kingdom was 1,008,756 tons gross and of sailing tonnage 34,595. About 93.5 per cent of the tonnage consists of new vessels nearly all built in the United Kingdom. The police department of New York has issued orders that a stenographer shall be sent to take in full all speeches made in public by known anarchists. The reports will be filed in the department records and will be used if necessary in prosecutions that may be commenced.

Considerable attention has been paid during late years to the buoying and lighting of the upper St. Lawrence until today a good, clear channel with fourteen feet of water at any season is clearly marked all the way from Kingston to Montreal. Modern gas buoys burning acetylene gas light the channel at all needed points. The number of suicides in Berlin is alarmingly on the increase. In 1900 the number was 434; in 1901 it was 525; in 1902, 5G4, and in 1903, G6l. Whereas the population in this time has increased only 3Mj per cent the rate of increase in suicides is 38 per cent. In 1900 there were 23 suicides to every 100,000 of population. In 1903 the number was 31. England is the best customer France has in the wood market. That country also buys woods of Sweden, Norway, Russia and Finland. The country of purchase depends very largely upon price. The countries above mentioned which sell the most cheaply get the business of England, whose ships are in every port ready to load with any kind of freight for a return trip. International balloon ascents, both manned and unmanned, were made in November and December, 1903, in many European countries, the British islands excepted, and kite observations were also made at the Blue Hill observatory in this country. The highest altitudes attained were: Trappes, near Paris, 16,000 and 14,800 meters, and Itteville, near Paris, 11,200 and 10,800 meters. At Zurich the balloons reached 13,000 and 17,000 meters. According to a Philadelphia physician, in a generation or two the Japs will average the same stature as Europeans. It Is only their legs that are short, he says, and this comes from their habit of sitting in cramped position on the floor. Western customs arc being adopted, and he thinks the little brown men will soon lengthen out. Of course some of his brother physicians poohpooh this notion. They point out that chairs are almost unknown among Hindoos, who on the whole are rather long legged. In 1875 it was communicated to the British government that the Khedive Ismail Pasha, being in desperate need of money, was willing to sell his 170,002 shares of stock in the Suez Canal company at a fair price. Disraeli was then premier, and he didn’t hesitate a minute. England paid $20,000,000 for the khedive’s holdings, or at the tate of $113.60 per share. Since then the dividends on Its purchase have aggregated $24,000,000, and today the shares are selling at S7OO each. This shows a profit on the transaction of $103,000,000. *

THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The city council met In regular session Monday evening and took the preliminary steps to reduce the salary of the employes at the city plant, which were raised by the old council just before their retirement. A resolntion was introduced reducing the salary of the superintendent from SIOO to SBS per month and the other employes from S6O to $55. Final action was deferred until the light committee investigates the matter. The marshal was instructed to grade the street at E. Peacock’s and to put a tile across same under the supervision of Councilman Grow. The street committee reported the curbing on River street which was put in when it was improved two or three years ago as defective and broken. The matter was referred back to them for investigation as to the liability of the contractors. G. K. Hollingsworth was elected school trustee to succeed himself. There was no contest. The old board of cemetery trustees were re-elected, E. D. Rhoades for two years, A. F. Long for three years and N. H. Warner for one year. The following bills were allowed: CORPORATION FUND. Jesse Grayson, assisting engineer ... .$ .90 Firemen, salaries 93-75 Fire Department, disability fund 3.75 F. M. Abbott, salary 22.50 Win. Postill, assisting engineer 1.80 B. H. Dillon, salary night watch.’.... 45.00 Matthew Worden, strap 75 H. L. Gamble, city engineer 37-90 A. E. Kirk, assisting engineer 6.75 WATER FUND. Globe Oil Co., valves and packing.. . 25.57 Harve Moore, work on main 80 John Hordeman “ “ “ 875 Ed Randle “ “ “ 5.40 Eli Gordon “ “ “ 80 Conrad Hildebrand, salary 30.00 ROAD FUND. Wm. Shellhart, work on street 75 Guy Henderson “ “ “ 75 Ed Randle “ “ “ 5.10 Tom Parker “ “ “ 10.20 F. Rutherford, hauling gravel 14.00 John Ramey, work on street 1.50 Chas.Seelman “ “ “ 3.30 Roy Grayson “ “ “ 3.25 Frank Ellis “ “ ** 2.10 James Thompson“ “ *• 1.05 Perry Thompson “ “ *• ........ .75 Roy Grayson “ “ “ 1.50 Donnelly Lumber Co,, sewer pipe.... 10.02 The National Drill & Mfg. Co., road grader 217.25 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Central Electric Co., supplies. .41 Victoria Coal Mining Co., coal .... 254.38 Western Electric Co., carbons 12.87 C. S. Chamberlain, salary 50.00 Lem Huston, salary .... 30.00 C. L. Thornton, salary 30 00 Donnelly Lumber Co., lumber 10.43 J. H. Chapman, height 156.03 Chas. Morlan, making light duplicate 11.00

THE GARRICK THEATRE. Richard Carle’s newest musical farce, “The Maid and The Mummy,” which is now running at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago, has proven an immense popular success. The piece is light and the lines are witty, while the music is especially fine, having a great deal of the same quality that made “The Burgomaster” and “The Prince of. Pilsen” famous. There are many novelties in “The Maid and The Mummy” and the work of the large chorus has proven immensely successful. In one number the figures formed by the chorus have become so popular on account of their intricacy and fine dancing, that encores start before the song begins. This is in “ Peculiar Julia” sung by John Slavin and the chorus. Another musical oddity is “Sad Experiences” sung by Fred Lennox, John Slavin and Edgar Norton. The dance in this is characteristic. There are some twenty musical numbers in the piece. The scale of prices at the Garrick Theatre has been arranged as follows: At night, the lower floor, $1.50 and $1; balconies, 50c, 75c and sl. At the matinees on Wednesday and Saturday the prices will range from 50c to sl. The cSst which is presenting “The Maid and The Mummy” is the largest that has yet been seen in Chicago in a summer offering. It includes Fred Lennox. John C. Slavin, George Beane, Edgar Norton, George McKay, Thomas Hadaway, Jess Caine, Louis Christy, Pearl Andrews, Violet Dale, Mrs. Annie Yeomans, Janet Priest and Madge Vincent. HAY DEALERS NOTICE. Wanted: —Men to cut hay. The highest price per ton will be paid persons for cutting and stacking 10,000 acres of hay, by the Northern Indiana Land Company, who also have 5,000 acres of hay for sale by the ton, to hay dealers or persons wishing to do their own cutting and stacking. The Northern Indiana Land Company calls the attention of hay dealers and others to the fact that this will be a good opportunity to get good hay at a reasonable price. The hay will be ready to cat about June Ist. Contracts and terms can be had by applying to W. N. Pence, DeMotte, Ind.

Morris’ English Stable Liniment ■ ne®, p®r kcdttfc Sold by A. F. Long,

1 1 Si 0! Hi CONNER OF WASHINGTON AND VAN RENSSSLAKR STREETS. \ | I \ DIRECTORS: g John Eger, Pres. Delos Thompson, Cashier. \i\ S Lucius Strong Granville Moody Warren Robinson I Does a general banking business, Loans Money on if all kinds of approved security; buys notes, pays in- j terest on savings; pays taxes for customers and others. £ —" ' """ ' rmis Bonn mu tie Gin 10 in® Even ulO lie cusionters (MM mm | Telephone 42. sole Bonking Principles. | Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CARE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OP INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OR OLD ONES-TO GROW RICH? • Do you want to know about rich farminß lands, fertile, well located, on a Trunk Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at frdm $3.0 ) to $5.00 an acre which will be worth from $30.00 to $150.00 within 10 years? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (6) short weeks? Of places where truck growing and fruit raising yield enormous returns each year? Of a land where you can live out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing profitable manufacturing industries; of rich mineral locations, and splendid business openings. If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me. I will gladly advise you fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE, KY.

* Fanners’ Mutual * ® isurance Association, Of Benton, White and Jasper Counties. REPRESENTED BY MARION I. ADAMS, . RENSSELAER. IND. Insurance in force Dec. 31, 1903. 51.695,762.75. Increase for year 1903. $221,566.54. J DEPOSIT YOUR SAVINOS IN THE ? < Iroquois Building, < ? Loan and ? > Savings l < Association...? You may withdraw the full amountof j S your deposit, including interest, with- S f out any deductions whatever. Loans c V made on real estate repayable in small \ A monthly payments with a definite C \ contract stating exact number of pay. N ? ments, No commission is charged, / S riAKE YOUR APPLICATION AT ( > ONCE FOR A LOAN. f S JOHN EGER, Pres. J. H. S. Ellis, V, P S ( J. H. Chapman, Sec. and Treas. / Real Estate Transfers, Lucinda W. Antrim to Rachael C. Scott et al, May 27, It 5. bl 9, Newton's add *6OO. Lucinda E. Baker L. Lacosse, June 7, it 11. 12. bl 13, Fair Oaks. Original Plat, $325. Eugene Clinger to Clint Tyler et al. June 4, It 12, 20, bl 15, Fair Oaks, *SOO. Carrol C. Kent to Peter H. Zea, Sept. 30, 'O2, Its 15,16, 17. 18,19. 20, bl 9. Fair Oaks. *55. George M. Kessinger to Henry M. Bayne, Aug. 26. ne nto 3-28-7,63.42 acres, sw nw 3-28-7, 40 acres, pt nw nw 3-28-7, 20.97 acres, Jordan, *6,2C0. Malina Kianska to Clair M. Rice, June 1, It 4, bl 3, DeMotte, SSO. Clair M. Rice to Frank M. Hart, Juiie 7, It 4, bl 3, DeMotte, S2OO. Sheriff Jasper Co., to Edward T. Biggs, Jnne 13, pt ne se 25-32-6, Wheatfield, *490. MONET DISEASES are the moat fatal of all disMLEY'SSBMW or money refunded. Contain! remedies recognized by eminent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles. PRICE 50c. tad SI.OO.

LIVER TROUBLES "IflndThedford’s Black-Draught a good medicine for liver disease. V It cured my ton after he had spent ■ ■ *IOO with doctors. It is all themed- ■ icine I take.”-MRS. CAROLINB ■ I MARTIN, Parkersburg, W. Va. § § If your liver does not act reg- j I ularly go to your druggist and ■ II secure a package of THedford’s I ■ Black-Draught and take a dose j ■ tonight. This great family ■ ■ medicine frees the constipated m ■ bowels, stirs up the torpid liver I and causes a healthy secretion ■ | Thedford’s Black - Draught § i will cleanse the bowels of tm- I I purities and strengthen the kid- S ■ neys. A torpid liver invitea ■ J colds, biliousness, chills and j S fever and all manner of sick- H 1 ness and contagion. Weak kid- 1 neys result in Bright’s disease | ■ which claims as many victims m ■ as consumption. A 25-cent I ■ package of Thedford’s Black- I | Draught should always be kept ■ I in the house. ■ i “I used Thedford’s Black- * Draught for liver and kidney com- ■ plaints and found nothing to excal f I COFFMAN, Mar- ■ blehead, 111. I THEDFORD’S I BLACK--1 DRAUGHT I nw WANTED We want a man in this locality to sell the world renowned WHEELER & WILSON, the only sewing machine so far in' advance of all others that with it the dealer can readily overcome all competition. It is backed by a reputation of 50 years unparalleled success and thousands of the first machines made are still giving ’heir owners faithful service. We prefer a man with experience in some kind of canvassing (but this is not absolutely necessary) and who can procure a horse and wagon. To such person we can offer exceptional inducements. We do not sell our machines to catalogue houses or department stores. We furnish them to our authorized agents only and protect them in their sale. This is a splendid opportunity for some energetic man to establish himself in a good permanent business. When answering, please give full information regarding yourself, age, previous occupation, etc. ADDRESS Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. 7D-74 Wabash Ave., Chicago, HI. 1