Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1904 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Com 49c; oats, 29c; rye, 550. Merchant cigars at J. W. King’s. Bruce Day has gone to King man, Kan. To-day is “old settlers” day at Monticello. The Rensselaer city schools will open Monday, Sept. 5. Mrs. Roy McKenzie is visiting friends in Indianapolis. Excursion to Chicago to-mor-row; $1 .00 for the round trip. Walter Forbes and Will Zard took in the world’s fair last week. vffflisses Clara Fendig and Edna Wildberg visited in Chicago Wednesday. J. G, Perry of Chicago, was in the city on business Monday and Tuesday. '""vErnest Clark of Davenport, la., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Clark. Dr. Merrill of Englewood, 111,, was in the city on business Monday and Tuesday. ■.Thomas Brusnahan and son of northwest of town, are prospecting in North Dakota this week. Jasper Kenton returned Saturday from South Dakota, where he has been spending a few months.' yJudge Clark Price of Ashland, 'Kansas, was the guest of his bro*ther, County Surveyor Price, Monday. Misses Ethel and Roxie Kennedy of Morocco, spent Monday and Tuesday with Miss Mildred Harris. Jesse Nowels and family of Brook, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nowels. V Miss Vesey Grow, Miss Hazel fllcColly and John F. McColly are visiting friends in Chicago Heights. > fiileen Littlefield and family have been visiting relatives at Remington and taking in the Park meetings this week. The Monon will run another excursion to Chicago Sunday, Aug. 28. Fare for the round trip from Rensielaer SI.OO. i ..Mrs. Ellis Iliff and children of Heights, are visiting Mrs. Iliff’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kohler, West of town. Robt. Clark and family expect to leave about Sept. 15th for Palouse, Wash., where Mr. Clark expects to go on a farm. /vMrs. Henry Ballard of Lebanon, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. John Jessen, for several days, returned home Saturday. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Remington, 2; Goodland, 1; Robinson, 111., 1; Manitowoc, Wis., 1. jL Mrs. John Borntrager went to Wapakoneta, Ohio, Saturday for a visit with relatives and friends and to attend h§r brother’s wedding. Advertised letters: Miss Grace Dingbam, Mrs. Carrie Healy, Mr. Fred Hallar, Master Henry Hess, Mr. Elmer Humphfrey, Mr. Ayr Vawn. B. D. Richardson, who has been spending vacation with his parents at Valma, returned to Manitowoc, Wis., Thursday, where he will teach again in the city schools this year. SyW. O. Schanlaub goes to Morocco to-day and will attend county institute at Kentland next week. The Morocco schools in • which he will teach the coming year, will open Sept. 5. The Monon will run a special train to Lafayette, next Thursday, Sept. 1, leaving here about 7 a. m., and returning in the evening on account of the Tippecanoe County Fair. Fare $1.40 for the round trip. There was a small freight wreck east of the Coen & Brady elevator Saturday morning, in which a couple of box' cars were quite badly smashed up. One car was so badly wrecked that it was set fire to and burned after the track was cleared.

Dr. Honan visited in Chicago and Hammond this week. j(Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Catt of Cmenoa 111., are visiting here. \Nicholas Krull of Monon spent Sunday here with the family of Charles Ramp. To-morrow will see another big crowd at Fountain Park if the weather is good. jLG. K. Hollingsworth and family returned Monday evening from their summer’s outing. G. C. Sherman of Minneapolis, who has been visiting Mrs. 8. C. Irwin, returned home Tuesday. Ed Openheimer was fined $1 and costs, $9 in all, in Squire Irwin’s court a few days ago for a plain drunk. Harvey Phillips of Carroll county, a former resident of this cbunty, has been visiting relatives here this week. XMr. and Mrs. John Ogborn of Pine Village, have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Grey this week. Werner Miller left this week for Portersville, Cali., for a month or six week’s visit with his brother and sister and to see the country. John Doe was fined $3 and costs in Squire Troxell’s court Thursday for a plain drunk. In default of payment he is laying it out in jail. wedding of Miss Helena Washburn of this city and Mr. Everett McLeod Graham of Indianapolis, is announced for September 14. White County Democrat: Walter R. Lawson, the Reynolds hardware and implement dealer, has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. George C. Reynolds is named as assignee. ‘''sMrs. T. F. McDonold and chil'dren of Chicago, wife of the High Secretary of the Catholic Order of Foresters, is visiting Mrs. E. P. Honan this week. Mr. McDonold will join them to-day and spend Sunday here. I. C. Reubelt and family left Wednesday for Robinson, 111., their new home, where Mr. Reubelt has beon employed as superintendent of the city schools. Robinson is in Crawford county, and has a population of about 2,500. _____ Tribune: Mrs. M. Eger, mother of Mrs. Frank Malov, the Misses Carrie and Lizzie Eger, and John Eger, President of the State National Bank of Rensselaer, and wife, all of Rensselaer, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maloy here Sunday. In the obituary that recently appeared in The Democrat of Mrs. John W. Smith, through some error, the name of one of deceased’s brothers, Charles F. Pence, of Hart, Mich., was omitted. We make this correction at the request of the relatives of deceased. John H. Brown returned Wednesday from his trip to North Dakota. He was so well pleased with the country about Lisbon that he bought a quarter section and may move out there next spring. His son Harry was also well pleased with the country and remained to help in threshing for awhile. Did you ever see a real live Hippopotamus? Perhaps you haven’t in several years, because this specious of the animal kingdom is almost extinct. If you wish to see a monster blood-sweat-ing, man-devouring Hippopotamus, be sure to visit Gollmar Bros.’ Big Railroad Shows, which exhibit here, Monday, Sept. 5. Tom Owen, the bussman has sold his bus business to Joe Jackson and will leave in a day or two for Tracy, Minn., near which place he has secured a position as foreman of a 1,500 acre cattle and farm ranch, He is to receive $3.50 per day and free house rent. The best wishes of Tom’s friends will go with him to his new home. Rev. Fisher returned the first of the week from attending the annual M. P. conference at Elwood and visiting friends at Frankfort. Owing to Mrs. Fisher’s poor health he has retired from preaching and will move to Elwood, where his daughter is, in a few days. He will be succeeded here by Rev. Wilcox of West Virginia, who will move his family here soon.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, August 27, 1904.

"/-Miss Pearl Hoover is the guest of Miss Pearl Blue, at the county farm. __________ Lee Richards, who has been at the reform school for some time, is back on parole. Ladies’ shirt waists, suits and skirts, one-half price to close at the Chicago Bargain Store. jSE). E* Hudson, for a long time Monon agent at Parr, has been promoted to the agency at Broad Ripple, near Indianapolis, "SC. S. Chamberlain received notice yesterday that he bad drawn No. 262 in the Devil’s Lake land drawing, but as the expense of proving up is probably more than the land is worth, he will not likely do anything further in the matter. Hundreds of people from Rensselaer and vicinity attended Fountain Park Sunday, and the crowd there that day is said to have been a record-breaker up to that time. A Remington man who drove from Rensselaer to Remington Sunday evening after 6:30 o’clock says that he met 112 rigs between the two towns, all coming toward Rensselaer. Rev. Fisher of the Methodist Protestant church, tells us that there is a good prospect of the United Brethern and the Methodist Protestant churches of the country consolidating, and there is also a prospect that the Congregational denomination will join the consolidation, thus doing away with two denominations entirely. Charles Carter and family, of Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, drove over last week for a few days visit with friends about Rensselaer and Mt. Ayr, his old home. Mr. Carter says the dry weather bad done considerable damage in his section, and in passing through Marshall and Starke its effects on corn were qnite pronounced. He likes his new location quite well and seems to be prospering. The Democrat’s new newspaper press will arrive this week, and we expect to erect same in our new quarters, one doer north of our present location, the first of the week and to issue next week’s paper from the new press. This press, by the way. weighs over four tons, and prints a larger surface than any newspaper press in the county. When erected and in working order our friends are invited to call in and see the press in operation. The Gollmar Bros, circus, which is to exhibit here Monday, Sept. 5, showed here some four or five years ago, out in the ball park. It was then a wagon show, and was pronounced an excellent show. It is now traveling by rail and is said to take over twenty big circus cars to transport it from place to place. It ought to be and no doubt is a much better show than when seen here four years ago. It will occupy grounds in Leopold’s pasture, in the southeast part of the city, while here, the same grounds usually occupied by the Wallace shows when exhibiting in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Brown, of Plymouth, returned home yesterday, the latter after a six weeks’ and the former a three weeks’ visit with relatives in Rensselaer and their old home neighborhood in Jordan township. Mr. Brown is still in the hitch and feed barn business in Plymouth and is doing well. He says that wheat was almost a complete failure in Marshall county and corn has been hurt considerably by the dry weather, but oats were excellent and among the largest ’yields ever harvested there. John Kieper, he says, has a fine farm, is prospering and likes his location very much. Tremont (Ill.,) News: The Allentown Correspondent of the Peoria Herald-Transcript has the following to say of Mr. Wilbur Duvall, one of Allentown’s enterprising young men: Wilbur Duvall graduated from the Valparaiso College of ‘Pharmacy last Friday, at Valparaiso, Ind. He led the class in his grades, making an average of 94$ in the finals. We are all justly proud that one of our boys should do himself such credit. His sister, Miss Cora Duvall, spent the commencement week with him. Wilbur will take but a two weeks’ vacation, then return and take a course in dentistry. His vacation will be spent with relatives and friends here.

ANOTHER SENSATION.

W. S. Parks, a Respected Citizen, sald to Have Clone Wrong. Rensselaer still continues to be the scene for the unexpected to happen, and the latest in this line is the disappearance of William S. Parks, a heretofore highly respected citizen, under circumstances which has caused no end of gossip. The disappearance of hire. Charles Nichols, wife of the Monon section boss, at about the same time as Mr. Parks, and the now rumored report that they had had been quite friendly for some time, is given as the cause of Parks’ disappearance. Will left Rensselaer on the early north - bound train on Tuesday morning of last week, and is said to have purchased no ticket. Several Rensselaer people bound for Niagara Falls were on the same train, and to these he is said to have stated that he, too, was going to take in the Falls’ excursion. When the others got off at Hammond to change cars, however, Will remained on the train, and in reply to inquiries of friends as to why he did not get off, is reported to have said he would go on to Chicago and take a train for the Falls from there. We are told that he wrote Mrs. Parks from Chicago stating that he was going up in Dakota and probably Minnesota, and would be back. It has since developed that he had sold his dray and express business to Abel Grant last May, but nothing was said about the matter, and as Grant was not to take possession until September Ist, it was not known that the sale was made. Grant took possession of the business Wednesday. The woman in the case, if such there be, is said to have arrived at an understanding with her husband, and in consideration of $l5O, which was paid her, relinquished all claim on their little home and chattels. She left town on the milk train, which passes through Rensselaer for Chicago three houTB after the train taken by Parks. William S. Parks comes from a most excellent family in every way, none of whom, so far as we have ever heard, did a dishonorable act. He came here from near Remington sbme twelve or fifteen years ago and engaged in the draying business, in which he prospered. He was most highly respected, was a pillar in the Christian church, former Chancellor Commander of the Knights of Pythias lodge, an ex-member of the city council of Rensselaer, and was looked upon as the soul of honor and a model husband and father. His wife has also been prominent in church and society affairs, and is a most highly esteemed lady. They have two sons, just entering their teens, and apparently there was no family in Rensselaer more devoted to one another. He had a nice residence property here and also owned ten acres of land adjoining the city bn the south, for which he paid some $2,300 for about two years ago. In addition to this he recently sold his farm in Benton county to his father, Thomas Parks, of near Remington, for some $12,000 to $15,000. His father is a highly esteemed gentleman, and is no doubt worth $50,000 to $75,000, and has but four children, so that Will’s financial prospects were of the brightest kind. It is said that he took considerable ready money with him when leaving, which, if true, would indicate that he had fully considered the act he was about to do. That one of his standing could do anything of this sort is hard to believe, and the now apparently vain hope is still felt by some that he will return and make a satisfactory explanation of the whole matter.

Fresh home-made candies at King’s. Just received, a new line of cheviots and ginghams at Rowles & Parker’s. A complete new stock of men’s and boy’s hats and caps, jnst received at the Chicago Bargain Store. That new dress pattern now awaits your inspection in all the latest weaves at Rowles & Parker’s. A few more days, 10 per cent off on carpets and rugs, 20 per cent off on lace ourtains at the Chicago Bargain Store.

DEMANDS A RETRACTION.

R. W. Marshall, deputy prosecuting attorney, has served notice on The Democrat and the Journal, demanding a retraction of certain paragraphs of an article that appeared in those two papers some two weeks ago over the name of W. L. Wood. The Democrat had nothing to do with the writing of said article, knows but little of the matters alluded to therein, and therefore cannot retract. Personally The Democrat is friendly to all the parties connected with this matter and bears Mr. Marshall nor none of the others no ill will whatever. He would have been given space to reply to Mr. Wood in these columns had he asked for it. If there were matters false and libellous in the article complained of, as Mr. Marshall alleges there were, Mr. Wood is financially responsible for any damages that the former’s reputation may have sustained.

ONE DISCORDENT NOTE.

A large number of Rensselaer people drove over to Fountain Park Tuesday to hear Bryan. Every one expressed themselves well pleased with his lecture except Bro. Marshall of the Republican, his voice being the only discordant note heard. Of course a liberal allowance should be made in his case.

BERRY PARIS DEAD.

jkjlerry Paris, an old and respected citizen of Rensselaer, died at his home Wednesday at 6:15 p. m., after a prolonged illness, aged 78 years and 10 months. The funeral will be held Sunday at 2:30 o’clock from the Church of God, Rev. D. T. Halstead conducting the services. Interment in Weston cemetery.

BAD MIX-UP AT REMINGTON.

Last Friday afternoon William Chappell and Jasper Guy, the well known attorney, both of Remington, had a few words and Chappell b«it Guy up pretty badly. It is said that seventeen stitches were necessary to sew up the cuts in Guy’s face. Chappell is a young, large and powerful man, weighing about two hundred pounds, while Guy is considerably older and very diminutive, probably not weighing over one hundred pounds, and could offer little resistance. No arrests have been made at this writing.

ARRESTED FOR DESTROYING MELON PATCH.

night a gang of boys ranging from fourteen to seventeen years of age got into Charles Schleman’s melon patch west of town, and finding the melons all green, are alleged to have pulled up all the vines and practically destroyed the patch7\One of the boys was traced to H. C. Hoshaw’s and on being confronted with the matter confessed and implicated Tom Babcock, Temple Hammerton, Pat Kohler, Harry Collins, Ross Zard and John Robinson. Warrants were sworn out in Squire Irwin’s court for malicious trespass, and the first five named have been apprehended, plead guilty and received a fine of $1 each and costs, about $9.40 in each case. Sam Hoshaw and John Robinson have evaded arrest thus far. Had the boys not destroyed the melon vines it is not likely Mr. Schleman would not have prosecuted them, but it is provoking to have a nice mgfon patch ruined, and it is hoped this will be a lesson to all the boys in Rensselaer.

TWO BIG DAYS AT MEDARYVILLE.

Sept. 16 and 17, the old settlers of Pulaski and Jasper countieo will hold a meeting at Medaryville, Ind., in Homers Grove. No expense or work will be spared to make this meeting a grand success. You are invited to attend. The town is yours these two days. Come and take it, good music, sports and amusements of all kinds. Ballon ascention, base ball, good bands, free dinner to all. Free shows all the time, and a big shoot given by the Medaryville Gun Club. > N. F. Thomas, Sec.

Twenty kinds of fresh canned goods, only 7sc a can, for a few more days at the Chicago Bargain Store. A few more left of men’s allwool suits $1.90, $2.22, $3.33 and $4.44, worth triple, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

Vol. VII. No. 21

OUR SPECIAL COUNTY EDITION

Will Set Forth the Superior Advantages Enjoyed BY THIS LOCALITY THIS PALL AS A TRADE CENTER. Realizing that the bank failures in our immediate locality has had a tendency in some quarters to create the impression that Rensselaer and surrounding towns have been so effected as to injure their prospects and advancement, we have decided to publsh a large fall edition of The Democrat, setting forth the fact that Rensselaer and surroundings were never in a more prosperous condition and that the opportunities this fall for trading has never been excelled in the past. The edition will contain cuts and write-ups of our business men, a write-up of Jasper county and the surrounding towns. We will send large numbers of this edition of The Democrat to the farmers of this section and the business men should not fail to give this worthy enterprise a strong and generous support. We have secured the services of Mr. E. L. L. McNulty, an experienced newspaper man and ad writer, to complete this work, and he will call upon the business men during the next few weeks to secure their co-operation in making this edition a credit to Rensselaer, Jasper county and the towns represented. Now is the time to show the people that all have confidence in Rensselaer and her future prospects. Let every business give support and encouragement to this enterprise.

“COMRAD” FOX HELD UP.

The Niagara Falls excursionists returned home Friday night and report a fine trip. A. J. Brenner was among those who went over to Toronto, Canada, by boat, and he thinks Toronto is a very ‘fine city. He says he never saw a better looking, better dressed or more healthy appearing lot of men and women —especially the women—than he saw there. The party had considerable sport with “Comrad” Fox at the Falls, and the Comrad made the air sulphurous with his remarks concerning the various hold-ups that are practiced there on all visitors. At one interesting place they visited all failed to observe the sign over the entrance, and did not pay anything on entering. Comrad said this was the best thing they had seen yet and it didn’t cost a d cent, either. When they started to go out and the good-looking girl in attendance said, “Fifty cents each, please,” Comrad threw his bands in the air and denounced the whole place as a den of robbers.

Fresh fruits, all kinds, at King’s Fruit Stand. See those new fall suitings at Rowles & Parker’s, Excursion to Chicago. Sunday, Aug. 28; train to leave Rensselaer 8:48 a. m.; SI.OO for the round trip. Gold Medal flour makes more bread and better bread than any other flour, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Guaranteed 40 lbs. more dough to barrel Gold Medal than any other flour, at the Chicago Bargain store. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. __ August 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Byron Iliff, a son. August 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Owen Hurley of Barkley township, a son. August 20, to Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Wishard of Noblesville, a daughter. August 20, to Mrs. Lucy A. Mahin, at James Donnelly’s, north of town, a 9$ pound girl. Owen Hurley, northwest of Aix, an 8£ pound boy. Morris* Engflsb Worm Powder Sold by A. F. Lone,