Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 44c; oats, 35c. Roastin’ ears appeared in the Rensselaer markets Tuesday. V*The stone work on the Thompson block is nearly completed. sLMrs. John H. Jessen is visiting relatives in Lebanon this week. ''LE. L. Hollingsworth and family are sojourning at Charlevoix, Mich. A. Williams of Ft. Wayne, is the guest of his brother, George A. Williams. Henry Hunsicker of Kankakee township, was a business visitor iu the city Tuesday. and Mrs. H. E. Kurrie are visiting the former’s parents in Paoli, Orange county.

New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Newland, 1; Hammond, 1.

The annual encampment of the Indiana National Guard will be held in Indianapolis next week.

The Racket Store, G. M. Wilcox & Son and Fountain Park have new ads in The Democrat this week.

Ljrank Donnelly is building himself a handsome pew residence on the corner of Front and Susan streets.

If you have troubles, just see Hooligan’s Troubles” and you will forget yours. At opera house Monday, Aug. Ist.

sjLF. E. Babcock and son George, and E. T. Jones, The Democrat’s office foreman, spent Sunday andMonday in Chicago.

Eldon Hopkins has been employed by the city school board to succeed R. W. Sprigg as janitor of the school buildings.

The Monon will run another excursion to Indianapolis, Sunday, July 81, $1.26 for the round trip. Speoial train will pass Rensselaer about 7:00 a. m.

Donnelly, the onion grower, Iras out 16 acres of onions this year, and they are looking fine. He says he never had better prospects for a big crop.

Grace Nowels has been engaged to take Miss Howarth’s place in the city schools, and Morgan Sterrett of Rockfield, Ind., to take the place of Mr. Sofcds.

The Goodland Herald says that the schedules filed in bankruptcy by J. A. Patton, the Goodland poultry dealer, shows his liabilities to be $102,000 and assets only $37,000.

Miss Edith Marshall, who taught in Elkhart the past two years, has resigned her position in the Elkhart schools to take a position in the schools in Billings, Montana.

Rev. Gilbert Small, a well known Presbyterian minister, died at his home in Idaville Wednesday afternoon, aged almost 77 years. He was at one time stationed at Rensselaer.

Britt Marion returned Tuesday from his trip to Bucklin and other parts of Kansas. He announces that he was well pleased with the country and expects to move there in a few weeks.

+ A son was born to Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Robihson of Williamsport, Pa., Saturday. Both the parents were farmer residents of Rensselaer, the mother being formerly Miss Iva Washburn.

Mies Barbara Schmitter of Delphi, returned home Sunday after a month’s visit with her sister, Mrs. Billy Merica. Barbara made a host of friends while here, who hope she will visit again in the near future.

Proceedings in the Gilman bank failure at Goodland seem to be moving along with great precision, as the first meeting of creditors will be held at Goodland, next Saturday, July 30, before Referee Bowers.

Mrs. John Nordyke, of Monticello, attempted suicide Tuesday at her home in that city by taking morphine and chloroform. She was discovered in time to save her life. Family troubles are said to have been die cause of the rash act.

J. H. Culp of near Lee was ib the city a few hours Wednesday on business.

The frame is up and enclosed for Milt Roth’s new house on North Cullen street.

Miss Leah Knox returned home Monday after a two weeks’ visit with relatives in Lafayette and Lebanon.

If you have cares; if you have the blues; if your business goes wrong, “Hooligan’s Troubles” will relieve you. At opera house Monday night, Aug. Ist.

Found, on the road 3 miles west of Rensselaer, a ladies’ purse. Owner can have same by applying at The Democrat office and paying for this notice.

I. S. Wade, of Lafayette, has been here several days this week in the interests of the prohibition cause. The prohis. will put out a full county ticket here, they anannounce.

George Sawyer of near Brook was a business caller here Wednesday. Corn is looking well in his neighborhood. Mr. Sawyer says, but oats wiil be rather a light crop.

\ The city council held a special session Monday night and approved the report of the city commissioners on assessments of benefits on the Division and Scott street sewer. The total assessments are $1,019,65.

Mr. George H. Maines, who has been suffering considerably with rheumatism for the past three months, still has to use a cane to get about. Unless he gets better in the next week he will go to Indiana Mineral Springs for treatment, he tells us.

■JvHaying will be pretty well over with in Jasper county thin week, except the feild hay crop, which is harvested later. The crop is said to be light. Most of the 11 early oats have been cut, but oats harvesting will not be in full swing on the later variety until a few days yet.

C. E. Hershman and children went to Valparaiso Wednesday for a month’s visit with her father. Mrs. Hershman is out in North Dakota, and will try his chances with the crowd that is gathered there in getting a Rose Bud reservation when it is opened for settlement next week.

Dr. Ernest Mabew, formerly of Rensselaer, died at his home in Red Bluffs, Cali., a few days ago He was born in this city and was about 28 years of age. His wife died some two years ago. He was the last surviving child of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mahew, his two sisters havipg died in the past two years.

Brook Reporter: Some few farmers who have early oats are talking of starting the binder next week, but the greater part of the oats will not be ready to cut for another two or three weeks. The fine weather of the past ten days has made a wonderful change in the looks of the oat crop and it now promises to make at least a good average crop

from this vicinity registered at the world’s fair during the past week were: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Francis of near Rensselaer, Mabel and Ella Watson of Wolcott. W. A. Hopkins, of Rensselaer, Maude McKee, Maude Burroughs and Lillian Scott, Monon. A special Pullman car party of about twenty Monticello people are also at the fair this week.

Alf Donnelly has been making some extensive improvements to his farm residence, north of town; raising the front part of the old house, making it two-story, and built a two-story addition in front of this and added a large new porch on the south and west sides. The improvement will make Alf’s one of the finest farm booses in that section of the township.

There will be a union vesper service on the lawn of the Presbyterian church Sunday evening at 6:30 o’clock. There will be special music by a large union choir, assisted by a male quartette. Short addresses will be given by J. B. Bair of the Baptist church, J. M. Elam of the Christian church, and H. L. Kindig of the M. E. church, on “The Ministry of the Church, (a) “To Its Own. (b) “To the Community.’* (c) “To the Nation.” The addresses will be limited to eight minutes each.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, July 23, 1904.

Call at Wildberg’s Ideal clothing store and take advantage of the 25 per cent reduction prices on Men’s and Boys’ Suits. This sale will last all through July.

A nice rain fell here Thursday morning, laying the dust and doing lots of good to crops, as well as cooling the asmosphere, which had been hot and sultry since Saturday. The rain was much heavier in the north part of the county, we understand, but did not extend over a mile or two south of Rensselaer.

*KR. w. Sprigg has sold his residence property to W. H. Eger, and departed for his future home in Oklahoma City, Okla. His family will follow later. Mr. Eger paid $1,400 for the Spriggs property, and its acquisition makes him the owner of that entire block except the one lot owned by the Journal editor.

Frank Guss of Biwabik, Minn., who was reported in a Rensselaer paper last week as having been killed at Duluth, Minn., while working as brakesman on a railroad, writes us under date of July 17th and says that he is still in the land of the living and is worth a good many dead men. He is working on a railroad at Biwabik, and is also living there. We have not been able to learn how the report that he bad been killed got started here.

It is announced that the Rensselaer Castle Hall Association proposes to inflict another street carnival on the people this year. The excuse given for the questionable proceeding is the same as that used by the highwayman—they need the money. If Rensselaer must again be cursed with a carnival we sincerely hope that the present city council is made up of men with sufficient strength in their verterbrae to refuse the use of the streets for this purpose.

k The new salary schedule for rural mail carriers has been completed. The new schedule applies from July 1. The last Congress raised the maximum, salary from S6OO to $720 a year.Vlt was found that the maximum rbute was 24 miles iong. and to carriers on routes of this length, numbering about 12,000, the maximum salary will be paid. The salaries of carriers on routes shorter than the maxionim was fixed by deducting $lB for each mile less than 24. The net result has been slightly over two thirds of the whole force of 24,500 rural carriers have received increases of $l6O a ypar in their salaries. The remaining carriers have received increases of less than this amount.

7>Few towns nowadays as large as rtensselaer but have oue or two automobiles in their bailiwick. Kentland, Goodland, Remington, Wolcott and Monticello, all much smaller and less wealthy than our town, each have from one to three or four “autos,” but Rensselaer is still behind the times in this matter, and not a machine of that kind is now nor ever has been owned by any of her citizens) Strange as it may appear, Toni MpCoy, with all his extravagancies and the free use of other people money, never bought an automobile. Tom was a lover of fast horses, it would seem, which are about aB expensive a luxury as an auto, and the latter craze never got a good hold on him.

S. H. Hopkins of Barkley township, created a little excitement in town Saturday forenoon by having a runaway. He was driving a pair of sprightly mules to a buggy, and one of the tugs became unloosened and slapped about the legs of the “near” mule,, and they tore down North Vanßensselaer street at a 2:40 gait, Mr. Hopkins vainly trying to stop their flight. Arriving at the corner by Renicker’s old implement store the mules made a sharp turn east and the driver went out of the buggy headlong, landing on the north side of the street, while the runaways went on,but were caught near the Catholic church. “Farmer” was uninjured, but the buggy, an old one, was pretty well demolished.

Bros. Marshall aad Clark, For Instance.

Kentland Enterprise: Rensselaer ministers are holding out door meetings, and guaranwee but a five minute sermon. It evidently takes heoric measures to get some people out to church.

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest (lathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. The Phillips ditch is advertised to be let August 3. —o — New suits filed: No. 6690. The W. L. Carnahan Company vs. William R. Crisler et al; action on note and account. —o — Not much is doing in the clerk’s office these days, and only two marriage licenses have been issued thus far this month. The republican county central committee is to meet here to-day on call of Chairman Williams to dicuss matters connected with the county campaign to probably fill up their county ticket. —o Tom McCoy must have had a few dollars salted down, as he has paid the school board the full amount still in his hands as treasurer of same at the time the McCoy bank went under, and a few days ago, paid the Rensselaer Castle Hall Association $365 in his hands as treasurer of that organization. 1 — o — We understand the McCoys are preparing a schedule of their assets and liabilities, together with a list of their creditors, which they are required to file with the referee in bankruptcy, after which the latter must notify each of said creditors of the “first meeting of creditors” to select a trustee. This is about all that is “doing” in the bank matter at this time. —o — W. H. King, a farmer residing west of town, aged *SB years, was declared insane Tuesday by Squire Troxell and Dr. Hartsell, and application was made Wednesday for his incarceration at Long Cliff asylum. Mr. King lives on the farm of his son, Frank King of Rensselaer. He labors under the hallucination that there is gold on the farm, buried there by Indians long ago. He has dug several deep holes in his search for what he believed was buried treasure. Ten years ago, it is alleged, he fell off a wagon and struck on his head, and four years ago was overcome by the heat and was laid up for a few days.

A HUGGING CASE IN BARKLEY.

James Wiseman, the Aix storekeeper, was on trial Monday, before Squire Thornton, charged with having recently hugged Mrs. Luella Mohler, wife of John Mohler, a farmer residing near Gifford, against that lady’s consent and will. The offense is alleged to have been committed one day when Mr. Wiseman was out through the country with his huxter wagon. He sold her some hominy, she alleged, and when she stepped in the stairway of her home and reached up to get a basket of eggs to pay for it, Wiseman, who had followed her into the stairway, put his arms about her *nd hugged her vigorously, the 'while breathing words of impassioned love into her unwilling ear. Mr. Wiseman denied having done anything of the sort, was not even in her house, but said that he did sell the woman some hominy, and characterized the matter as a “hold-up” game. On the court’s rendering a verdict of guilty and assessing a fine and costs of about S2O, Mr.Wiseman promptly appealed the case to the circuit court.

ARE AFTER ROSEBUD LANDS.

Jasper county is pretty well represented in the rush for the Rosebud reservation lands. In addition to those previously mentioned in our correspondence items, J. F. Bruner, Bert Goff, Will Barkley, I. A. Glazebrook, Will Woodworth, Robt. Michal, Jeese Nichols, C. J. Dean, Wm. Hoover, Jr., one of the Churchill boys, and perhaps several others from the vicinity of Rensselaer whose names we have missed, are on the ground and have supposedly each filed on a quarter section. Old soldiers can file by proxy, and each one going from here expected to also file tor one old soldier. The date for filing expires to-day, and it is estimated that there will be about 150 applicants for each quarter section. The distribution is to be by lot, and each applicant will stand only about one chance in 150 of being successful. The lands are said to be exceptionably fine. *

FIRE AT GOODLAND.

The fire fiend visited Goodland again Sunday morning, and left the black and smoking ruins of Roy’s saloon, Harrington’s livery stable, the building occupied by Byer Bros, poultry house, and the cold storage house of the Columbia Brewing Co. It is thought that new hay in the livery barn started the fire by spontaneous combustion. The loss is estimated at $25,000.

WOMAN SUICIDES AT WINAMAC.

Mrs. J. M. Steis, wife of County treasurer Steis, of Winamac, was burned to death on Wednesday night of hist week about 9 o’clock from gasoline with which she had accidently or otherwise saturated her clothing, and then set it afire. She lived 4 hours after the flames were extinguished. Deceased was 48 years of age and leaves a husband and three children. Her mind had been affected for the past two years, and it is generally thought that that the act was that of an insane person.

BLOOMERS NOT IN IT.

.The ball game here Thursday afternoon between the Star Bloomer Girls and a pick-up nine of Rensselaer, resulted in a score of 20 to 4 in favor of the latter. There was not a very large crowd in attendance and the gate receipts were about $126. Of this amount the Bloomers got 80 per cent and the band boys, who were managing the affair, 20 per cent. The Bloomers couldn’t play ball a little bit, and had it not been for the two or three men players with them, who are expected to do the playing, they would not have made a score. vOf course such attractions are\a graft on the public, pure and simple, and it is expected that the novelty of the thing will draw the crowd, rather than the expectation of seeing a good game.

A “DIE TO WIN” INSURANCE.

U. M. Baughman, when he injured his leg several weeks ago, congratulated himself that he at least had a good safe accident policy, and if he had to be laid up he would draw enough benefits to in part pay his doctor bill. The policy was in the Postal Insurance Company of South Bend. When he sent in a certificate of disability the company informed him that it only paid benefits for “total disability,” and sent him a check for one week’s benefits only. The only way, apparently, for a policyholder in that company to win is to be so near dead tjbat he must be flat on his back and require the services of a half dozen attendants to lift him about. The Postal company will hardly do a rushing business in Rensselaer, we imagine, after the way it has treated its first policy-holder here to be injured.

MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH.

The Chicago Daily News’ declaration that “ ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch’ is a play for all the world —saints and sinners, old and young” would seem to be amply confirmed by the laughing hit the comedy has made at the Grand Opera House in Chicago. To judge from the incessant laughter and applause which greets the various scenes of this odd play, from the rise of the curtain on the picturesquely poverty-stricken interior of Mrs. Wiggs’ house, there would seem to be no exaggeration in any of the multifarious compliments paid to it by the press of Chicago. Seldom has a dramatic presentation of quaint types provoked such spontaneous mirthfulness as is invariably the condition of the spectators who make this theatrically conducted tour to the now famous Cabbage Patch by the footlight route of the Liebler & Co., dramatization of Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice’s amusing stories.

For Sale: A Deering Binder, almost new, only cut 40 acres. Enquire at this office. File your claims with E. P. Honan in the McCoy bankautcy proceedings. He has the necessary blanks. v - ■ \ For a good, clean shave or a hair cut, go to Dyers Red Front barber shop on Cullen street, opposite Makeever House. 40 cords of seasoned oak wood for sale, delivered in cord lots or more to any part of the city. Enquire of E. P. Honan.

VOL. VII. NO. 16

MORE THAN THEIR SHARE OF ACCIDENTS.

TJ. M. Baughman went to Monon Wednesday to visit his father, H. M. Baughman, for a couple of days. The latter in climbing over a wire fence the other day, fell and broke his arm. By the way, fate has been dealing unkindly with the Baughman family of late. For years they had no sickness and no accidents in the family, but last November C. M. Baughman—a brother of U. M. Baughman of this city—who lives at Logansport and was a freight brakeman, received an injury to one of his knees while handling freight and is still laid up from the injury. A few weeks ago a sister residing at Medaryville fell from a step-ladder and injured her hip, knee and ankle, and has not fully recovered from the injury as yet. U. M. Baughman’s injury to his knee several weeks ago is still giving him a great deal of trouble and he is obliged to use crutches to get about at all. And now the father falls and breaks his arm.

RANSOM COUNTY, THE BANNER COUNTY OF NORTH DAKOTA.

Mr. William B. Donohue, representing the John Mueller Land Co., of Lisbon, No. Dak., will take a party of land-seekers to that section of the northwest about Aug. Bth, and would be pleased to correspond with anyone in this vicinity desiring to join the party. Crops in that locality are looking fine, and prospective purchasers will be granted special low rates, good for thirty dayß. Call on or address Mr. Donohue, at Brookston, Ind., for further particulars.

RECORD RUN FROM CHICAGO.

What is considered the record run from Chicago to Indianapolis was made Monday by Mbnon engine No. 301, hauling five coaches and a baggage car, in three hours and forty-six minutes, actual running time. The train was a special, carrying Chicago Elks to the convention. The engine was run by engineer Jim Murphy and fireman Charles Martin. It left Chicago at 10:04 a. m., but was delayed twenty-five minutes by a derailed freight car. Fifty minutes were consumed in running from Chicago to Hammond, only twenty miles, but the distance from Hammond to Indianapolis, 164 miles, was covered in 176 minutes, with nine stops on the way.

A Word To The People. Listen.

This makes the fifth year out on the road for “Hooligan’s troubles,” and millions of people have laughed at this matchless sidesplitter. This splendid company of fun-makers is well recommended wherever they appear. Standing room only is the warning in all towns —packed to the doors. Beyond doubt the funniest comedy on the road. Three long acts of constant laughter. Bring the whole family and enjoy an evening of pure fun. Get your seats early, else you’ll have to go way back and stand up. At the opera house Monday night, August Ist.

PROHIBITION CONVENTION.

The prohibitionists of this county have deoided Aa make a vigorous campaign will hold a county convention in the court house Saturday afternoon, August 6. All prohibitionists are urged to be present at 1 o’clock sharp and assist in planning for an active campaign. A complete county ticket will be nominated and township committeemen selected. I. S. W T ade, of Lafayette, Rev. J. M. Elam and others will deliver addresses. Don’t fail to be present. Bring your friends. Jas. Yeoman, Chm. J. M. Elam, Sec’y.

OFFICES FOR KENT. Two good offices, west side of public square. E. L. Hollingsworth, at First National Bank. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat offioe. RENSSELAER CITY BUS LINE. Hotel Nowels House. St. Joseph’s College. Thomas Owen, owner, driver. Meets all trains, carries passengers and transfers baggage to any part of the city. Call on Tom’s bos for dances. Phones —No. 186, livery bam, and 239 residence, Rensselaer Ind.