Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — HARVEST HANDS RATES [ARTICLE]

HARVEST HANDS RATES

One way Harvest Hands Second Glass rates (5 or more on one ticket) will be sold by Wisconsin Central R’y at Chicago, Milwaukee and Manitowoc, to points in Minnesota and North Dakota at rate of sl4 per capita; Angust Ist to 31st, 1904. Write at once for information, to C. 0. Hill, District Passenger Agent, 230 Clark St., Chicago, 111.

Newton county democrats have placed the following ticket in the field: A. E. Purkey of Morocco, for auditor; Charles Spinney of Goodland, for treasurer; Joseph Flagg of Brook, for sheriff; Frank McCarthy of Beaver City, and J. M. Padgett of Morooco, for" commissioners.

Hegewisch, a manufacturing town of 1,500 population near Chicago, in which the labor unions are supreme, has taken to a vegetarian diet, and tabooed meat entirely, out of sympathy for the stock-yards strikers. Three batcher shops there have been compelled to close up, it is said.

The democratic primary election in Starke county to select a county ticket resulted in the nomination of John W. Kurtz for auditor; James M. Harter for sheriff; Morgan Welsh for treasurer; J. E. Jolly for surveyor; August Jachim for coroner, and George Merkert and Adam Schmidt for commissioners.

John R. Walsh of Chicago, president of the Chicago National bank and the multi-millionaire owner of the Chicago Chronicle, is credited by Indiana politicians with an intention of owning an Indiana republican state organ. Indiana republicans are without a party organ and have been so since the demise of the Journal. Persons who know say that Walsh has a representative at Indianapolis looking over the field and is examining especially the Indianapolis Sun with a view to acquiring the same.

We often think we are “it,” nationally speaking, in all big things, and that no other country can out-do us in anything. And yet we occasionally run up against something that causes us to lose a trifle of our self conceit. Taking it with railroads, for example, while American roads kill and maim about one hundred per cent more than the European roads, yet in speed, equipment and long runs, they sometimes get clear away with us. A train has just been put on the Great Western Railroad which makes the run from London to Penzance, a distance of 345 J miles, without a stop and at an average speed of 46.4 miles per hour. There is another train in the opposite direction making the same time. Each train consists of five coaches and a seventy-two-foot dining car.