Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1904 — Page 6

39 Ceil MUMt-Ml 9mt MIHl^ Tk*\ home you know where >Sk RANSFORD keeps store; we are always ready to adjust matters satisfactorily to our customers; we could could not do otherwise if we wanted to; we are not above making mistakes. We ask jour coorporation in helping to adjust matters when you can and we want your trade. We are giving away some beautiful Premiums this month, something different that you ail will want; when your purchases amount to $5.00 and sio-00. Save your tickets, they are valuable, They cost you nothing but the trouble of saving them and they mean a good deal to careful buyers. Remember, we are Headquarters foe Toys, China, Glass-Ware, Fancy Vases, Celluoid Goods, Albums, Jewelry, Silverware, Haveland China, Books, Games, House Furnishing Qoods, Overcoats, Sweaters, Holsery, Underwear, Shirts, Pants, Vests, Coats, Blankets, Hats. Caps, Trunks and Traveling Bags, Skirts, Capes, Coats for Ladles, Misses, and Children. In fact we handle most everything. Give us a call and see for yourself that we tell the truth if the other fellow does not. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, we can be found with our full force at THE 99 CENT RACKET STORE BENSSEAER, IND., E. V. RANSFORD, Prop. N. 8.-We are open evenings to 10:30 through the holidays.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capitol. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: The agitation for an extra session in the Spring has measurably subsided, but the tariff revisionists are still inslstant and the proposition now at the front is that an extra session for its settlement shall be held next Fall —say, from September Ist to the regular time of meeting in December. This suggestion seemß likely to take the form of a determination shortly, for it solves the problem to the satisfaction of all members of the majority party. It is also pretty certain that there will be very little legislation at this session except the regular appropriation bills. This conclusion is concurred in by the men who make the program: by Messrs. Allison, Aldrich, Fairbanks, Lodge and others in the Senate, and Cannon. Payne, Hemenway, Grosvenor, Dalzell, and others in the House. Bills alleged to be for the benefit of the Philippine Islands have already passed the House and will probably become laws during this session. The bill providing for two new states may also pass. The appropriation committees of both houses are decidedly against a general river and harbor bill and a large public buildings bill, though an incessant clamor for both is kept up by those whose constituents helped re-elect the present administration and demand some more barrels of “pork.” In ihe House Speaker Cannon has with much candor sounded the alarm of “A big deficit in the Treasury,” and he will use his great influence against tapping it for hundred-million-dollar appropriations. In the Speaker’s chair and out of it, with gavel in hand or only with potent forefinger upraised, he calls attention to the fact that there has been an election which decided against “the Meddlers” and revisionists and the latter think that he calls attention to it with “damable iteration.” Their cries for immediate nourishment will probably be temporarily quieted by the promise of a chance

to tap Uncle Sam’s Pactolian reservoir next autumn, “when the corn is full of kernels and the colonels full of corn.” The President’s annual Sermon has now been thoroughly digested. Indeed, a large part of it has been predigested by something like a score of members of Congress. It is felt to be so chock-full of beautiful moral sentiment and maxims concerning correct conduct that it might have been dictated by Marcus Aurelius and Chesterfield. It shows that real goodness is preferable to real badness and will convince almost anybody that right doing is more creditable than wrong doing. In these respects it could not be improved. The people of this District are much pleased that he gave a whole column to its needs and elaborated plans for its elevation to become a working model for the whole country. His demand for a compulsory education law here is not well timed; partly because we have a compulsory education law now, and partly because no compulsory attendance can possibly be enforced here while the high schools are so pampered and receive so large a proportion of the fundsi,that there is no shelter for the primary grades and six Qr eight thousand youngsters who ought to be receiving elementary training are running wild in our streets and alleys. What is needed here is a vigorous reduction of the high school curriculum until all the cljildren below the fifth grade are sheltered under a roof and marshaled under a teacher. If all the recommendations of the message crystalize into law, there will be much stronger central government in Washington than was ever contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. For a long time the drift has been towards centralization—the Executive in the White House controlling nearly all the great enterprises in which the people are engaged. Mr. Roosevelt would add to the existing list the control of of railroads, banks, trust companies, insurance companies, factory conditions, hours of labor on railways, etc. He would have Federal commissioners to inspect all 1

rolling stock; to decide on all through rates of freight; to hold inquest on railroad accidents; to enforce the block signal system and regulate airbrakes; to enforce sanitary conditions wherever laboring men are assembled. As there are over a million and a half of cars and engines, (1,573,000) and several times that number of wheels to be hammered on and brakes to be tested, it would obviously require a good many men and a good deal of money for their adequate inspection. And how much more complete would it be than the General Slocum inspection? The 11,000 accidents which occur in the United States yearly involving 8,000 deaths and 60,000 persons injured, would require a large army of coroners and a vast multitude of inquests. This would be building up a beaurocracy of tremendous proportions which might end in nominal socialism and actual imperialism. Above his colleague’s cry for economy Senator Hale has made his voice heard demanding SIOO,000 for a statue of Benjamin Franklin in this city. As we have already a suberb marble statue of Poor Richard of heroic size on Pennsylvania Avenue, presented to the city by Mr. Stilson Hutchins, and as there is not yet in our streets or parks any Btatue of Robert Morris, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and a multitude of others, this proposed duplication of Franklin seems quite superfluous. It is certain that the frugal almanac-maker himself would not approve of it.

The introduction of bills to reduce the number of Southern Congressmen because of alleged disfranchisement of negroes will be followed by a most unhealthy excitement during the remainder of this session. Messrs. Platt and Crumpacker may attempt in vain to reimprison the Afrite which they have released. John Sharp Williams has met the proposition with defiance and Carmack with a joint resolution to investigate and expose the amount of money collected from trusts and others to effect presidential elections. Platt’s bill would reduce the total number of Southern Congressmen nineteen, but the Senator with an

exhibition of pretended generosity alleges that if the Constitution were strictly and rigidly enforced the reduction would not be leas than thirty In the cut-down proposed by Platt’s bill Georgia would lose more than any other state, being reduced from eleven to eight. It is safe to anticipate that the controversy thus stupidly begun will end in a tumult surpassing the Force Bill disputation as a hurricane surpasses a zephyr Heated conferences were held Friday on both sides showing a lack of unanimity on the part of both the friends of the measure and its opponents. Butyhe storm gathers and the end cannot be foreseen at present.

EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.

Oxford Tribune: After reading how the McCoys did it to the people of Rensselaer, and Fred Gilman to the people of Goodland, we feel that the people of Oxford owe a debt of gratitude to Zim Dwiggins for being so to them.

Morocco Courier: The temperance people scored another victory over the saloons this week when they filed a remonstrance against the application for liquor license of Peter Gorman. The remon strance had enough signers to do the business and a few to spare. Morocco now has but one saloon and it looks like its days were numbered. And what then?

Starke County Republican: Coroner Solt of San Pierre, has been a busy man in the week just gone by. He has been called upon in his official capacity four times, one suicide, one death from natural cause, one murder and one railroad accident. This is a little strenuous for the doctor, and he is about "all in” himself.

North Judson News: From a Kansas paper we learn the girls of that state have a new way of entertaining. They give ‘‘slumber parties.” At these the girls stay up most the night and then stay in bed the next morning until they are sure that their mothers have the breakfast dishes washed. Come to think of it, there’s nothing so very new in that except the name.

Pulaski County Democrat: Statistics show that foot ball is responsible for the deaths of thirteen young men . and boys this year. This is a frightful result, and shows the brutal tendency of the sport. This is many times as many as lost their lives through pugilism during the same time, yet pugilism is usually considered the most brutal sport of all The number of jseriously injured is little less appalling and much greater.

Chicago Examiner: Of the three hundred and odd violent deaths in Chicago during the month of November just past, forty were credited to alcoholism, while it is safe to say that ninety per cent of the suicides, the homicides and the fatal cases of consumption and some other diseases could be traced to the same cause. As for the misery, the sin, the crime and the poverty in the world, alcohol is the source of nearly all of it.

White County Democrat: National Chairman Thomas Taggart has assumed active control and management of the Indianapolis Sentinel. It is hoped by Democrats throughout the state that Mr. Taggart will be able to bring the Sentinel back to Rs old time position as the State organ of the party. But Mr. Taggart must heep himself and his paper in touch and sympathy with the party that does the voting and not with the party that promises the money. His recent experience with Wall street crowd should prove a valuable lesson.

Hon. E. P. Hammond, of this city, who was colonel of the 87th Indiana during the civil war, may be appointed to a place on the National Soldiers’ Home board to succeed Hon. Geo. W. Steele, of Marion, who, it is said, is to be made governor of the National Soldiers’ Home at Marion. News of the proposed change came from Washington to day. Colonel Hammond has not sought the honor of being on the board, but will accept it if tendered to him. He is one of the best known veterans in the state and is a lawyer of marked ability.—LaFayette Courier, Dec. 7.

5 PER CENT LOANS. We can positively make you a loan on better terms than yon oan procure elsewhere. No “red tape.” Commission lowest. No extras. Funds nnlimited. See ob before borrowing or renewing an old loan and we will save yon money. IRWIN & IRWIN. O. O, F. Building.

BIG PUBLIC SALE. , ■ The undersigned having leased his farm, will offer at Public Sale at said farm, 1H miles West of Reusseiaer, on the Bunkum road, com manning at 10 o'clock a. m., on Thursday, Jan. S, 1905, 8 HE \D OP HORSES—consisting of 3 Brood Mares—l Black Mure seven years old wt. 1720, in' foal to Shire horse; 1 Bay Mare seven years Old, wt. 16(0, in foal to suine horse; 1 Bay ten vyt. 1300, in foal to sumo horse; 1 Brown Filley. years old In theSpring;3 Geldings coming two-year-old; 1 Spring colt, filly. 3 MILCH COWS-coming fresh the last of February. 61 HEAD OP HOGS-consisting of 8 Poland China Brood blood I’olaml * f . farrow the latter of March; 53 Poland Chiua Shouts, weight from 75 to 100 pounds each. FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS, ETC. Consisting of 1 Peering Binder (nearly new); 1 McCormick Mower; 1 Hay Rake; 1 Studebaker Farm Wagon; 1 New Top Buggy, rubber tired; 2 Walking Cultivators; 3 Walking Plows, one 16 inch, two 14 inch; 1 Ton foot Steel Harrow; 1 Disk; 1 Corn Planter with 80 rods of wire; 1 Endgate Seeder; 1 Hand Corn Sheller; 1 Cider Mill; 2 Endgate Scoop Boards; 1 Tank Heater; 1 75gatlou Cooker; 1 set Blacksmith Tools; 1 Bobsled; 1 Straw Fork with 150 feet rope; 2 Sets Double Work Harness; 1 Set Single Buggy Harness; 10 Tons Timothy Hay in mow; 150 bushels of corn; Household and Kitcheu Furniture and many other articles of lesser importance. Terms; —All sums of $5 and under cash in hand, sums over $5 a credit of 12 months will be given on approved security, without interest if paid when due, but if not paid when due 8 per cent interest from date, f per cent off for cash on sums over 85. JOHN E. BISLOSKY. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitlkk, Clerk. Hot lunch on grounds.

Beal Estate Transfers. Harriett vV. Ferguson et al to Joseph G. Jackson, Nov. 22, pt. sw 19-29-6, Marion. SI,OOO. George K. Hollingsworth to Margery Liston, Nov. 12, pt si4 sw 16-28-6, Marion, $0.26: q. c. d. Auditor Jasper County to Wm. L. Clifford, Nov. 19, pt ne se 9-31-5, 10 acres, Walker, $8.16. T, T. D. John N. Bennett to Joseph D. Vansickle, Nov. 14. ebi ne 31-32-6, SO acres, Wbeatfield, $2,500. Northern Ind. Land Co. to Elias Ray, Nov. 15, ne 2-32-6. wH 2-32-6, all 3-32-6, pt se 35-32-6, nw 19-32-6, sw 19-32-6, WheatHeld, s % 25-32-8, se 25-32-8, (Newton Co.) 1903.59 acres, $57,905. Andrew J. Robinson et al to Wilford M. Garvin. Oct. 25, und !4 S/4 sH ne 15-28-6, Milroy, SBOO. George A. Williams to Wiiliam M. Turner, Nov. 26, Its 7,8, bl 27, Weston's 2d add. Rensselaer, 1830. James E. Myers to Nora E. Bicknell, s)4 sw 9-30-6, 80 acres. Barkley. $1 Robert Barker to James \V r . Edwards, Oct. o its 5,6, bl 10, Western add. Remington, $225. A. H. Brubaker, to H. S. Schumaker, Oct. 21. sw 11-29-5. 160 acres. Hanging Grove. SII,OOO. Peter Normensen to Joseph Benes, Nov. 2. ne 21-32-7, nw 27-82-7, 200 acres. Keener, SIO,OOO. George W. Michael to C. W. Ament, Nov. 29, ne 21-29-6, Marion. SIB,OOO. Charles D. Mallatt to Albert Helsel, Nov. 30, its. 18. 19. 20, bl 6, Fair Oaks, S3OO. Rebecca E. Postill to Mary D. Paxton, Nov. 1, nnd H w)4 nw 14-29-7, 80 acres Newton, SB,OOO. Benjamin J. Gifford to Indiana Asphalt Co., July 27, 1903, pt 32-31-5, Walker, $575.* 92. Same to same. July 16, 1903, pt. 32-31-5, same township, $69. ‘ ~ ' ;• Henry B. Murray et ux to Samuel R. Nichols Nov. 23, Its 1 to 16 inclusive, bl 1 Sunny* aide add. Rensselaer, $540. „ Mary D. Paxton to Charles W, Postill et ux, Nov, IwH ne 10-29-7, 34.50 acres, Newton, $1,750. Mary D. Paxton to Rebecca E. Postill, Nov, 1, pt lta 4,5, bl 7, Rensselaer, SI7OO. Edward Mitchell to George S. Gnild, Nov. 25, pt se nw 36-31-5, pt ne nw 86 31-5. 14 4-7 acres, Gillam, slls. Rebecca Jane Smith to Marion Tudor, Dec. 12 pt ne 4-29-6. Marion, SI,BOO. Christian F. Arnold to RebeccaH. Eib, Deo. 1, s!4 sw se 28-30-6, se sw 28i30-6, ne ne 38-30-6, nbb nw ne 33-80-6, 120 acres, Barkley, $9,200. William Kight to Frederick Sommers, Sept 26, its 1,2, 3,5, Rensselaer, Weston's 2d add. S6OO. Clement Schuh to Dexter R. Jones, Dec. 3, ptnw 25-27-7. pt sw 25 27-7,77 acres, Carpenter, $8,470. Pittsburg Cin. Chi & St L. Ry. Co., to John S. Moorhead, pt sw 24-27-7, Remington, sl, q. c. d.

Upholstering and Repairing Having sold my bicycle repair business, I have concluded to'put in the place of it. and in connection with my undertaking business, a first-class Upholstering ami General Furniture v Repair Business. I have secured the services of a first-class upholsterer. Work called for and delivered to any part of the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. 'PHONE 56. A. B. COWGILL. V '• J Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure Sold by A. F. Long,

Say! Give Me a Starter How muoh?' Going, Going and am almost Gone—but am still in the ring for all sales for this coming season. Come and see Rifl, or write me. or 'phonJ me for dates and terms, if yon need an up-to-date Auctioneer theouly Living Auctioneer that ean make and save you money, come and see me. Can give you the best of reference for 30 year* past. S. U. DOBBINS, X, * - The Old Hoosler Auctioneer. RENSSELAER. - INDIANANOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper county, state of Indiana, administrator oithe estate of Abraham Pruett, late of Jasper countyrxieceaaed. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. _ . j( a. McFarland. Administrator.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiaua, i Jasper County, > _ In the Jasper Circuit Court, February Term, 1905. James M. Hill ) vs. > Complaint No. 6735, John Allen Yale etal.) _ „ Now cornea the plaintiff, by B. P. Honan, his attorney, and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants, Amos Goff and Mrs. Goff his wife. Polly Ann Lida and Mr. Lida, her husband; Mary Ann Kimble and Mr. Kimble, her husband; Hester Goff and Mr. Goff her husband, are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the 2nd Monday of February A. D. 1905. at the Court House ia Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in tbeir absence. In witness whereof. I hereunto set my hand , , and affix the Seal of said Court, at } SEAL £ Rensselaer, this 9th day of Decem- ‘ > der, A. D.. 1904. C.C. WARNER. Clerk. VTOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. By virtue of an 'order of sale directed to the undersigned Commissioner from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court of the State of Indiana, on a judgment obtained in said Court on the sth aay of December, 1904, in fa"orof Rose A. Kessick and Simon Kessick, her husband. as plaintiffs, and against Nancy Z. Kessick. John Kessick, and Eunice A. Kessick. as defendants, for partition of the real estate named and described in the said plaintiffs’ petition, I will, on the 19th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1904, offer for sale to the highest and best bidder the following real estate, to-wit: — The North West Quarter (N.W. Vi) of the South East Quarter (S. E. kk) and the West half(\V. V 4) of the North East Quarter (N. KM> of the South East Quarter (S. E. t*) of Section Thirty-Six (S6>. Township Thirty-One (31. North. Range Seven (7) West, containing sixty (60) acres more or less. Terms of sale:—One-third (K) cash, onethird 04) in nine (9) months, and one-third (ts) in eighteen (18) months, if sold on time purchase mortgage taken, as fixed by court in order of sale. Said sale to take place in Ferguson, Hershman & Ferguson’s office, at Rensselaer. Indiana, at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M., of said day, when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned. No bid will be received for less than twothirds the appraised value of said real estate. B. F. r ERGLSON. Commissioner. Dated at Rensselaer. Ind., Dec. 7,1904. Ferguson. Hershman St Ferguson, plaintiffs.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. To the citizens of Carpenter township and town of Remington, in Jasper county, in the state of Indiana. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned John Ulm. a male inhabitant of said township, town, county and state and. for more than ninety days last past a bona tide and continuous resident of said town and' township, over the age of 21 years, a man of good moral character, not In the habit of becoming intoxicated, and in every way a fit and proper person to be intrusted with a license to sell intoxicating liquors, will make application at the January term. 1905, of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county in the state of Indiana, the same being a regular term of said Board which will conevneon the second day of January, 1905, at the court house in Rensselaer, in Jasper county, Indiana, for a license for the period of one year, tosell intoxicating liquors, consisting of spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors that are or may»be used as a beverage in a less quantity than live gallons at a time, and in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold: said premises are situated in the town of Remington, Carpenter township, Jasper county and state of Indiana, and are particiNarly described as follows towit: In a certain room situated in a one story frame building, located on a part of lot three (3) in block eight (8) in the original plat of the town of Remington in said township, county and state and more especially described as follows: Commencing at a. point on the south line of said lot three (3). fifteen (15) feet and ten (10) inches due east from the southwest corner of said lot 8 and running thence north fifty-two (52) feet and eight (8) inches: thence east sixteen (16) feet and two (2) iDcbea; thence soutn fifty-two (52) feet and eight [B] inches; thence west sixteen 146] feet and two [2] inches to the ulace of beginning. The room in said building wherein said liauors are to be sold and drank is situated on the ground fioor thereof and is the only room therein and is fifty-one fsl] feet and nine [o] inches inches in length, fifteen [ls] feet ana eight [B] inches in width and eleven [lll feet eight [B] Inches in height. Said building fronts south on the public highway known as and commonly called North Railroad street in said town, and said building has no partition or partititions therein. That the from and rear of said room is arranged with glass doors and windows so that the whole of the interior of said room can be viewed from said highway and from the rear of said room. That the door* and windows of said room are furnished with suitable locks and bolts so that the same can be securely closed and ingress and egress prevented at such times as applicant is prohibited by law to keep said room open. That said room is furnished with movable screens so that the whole of said room can be viewed from said highway. That said room does not connect with any other room in any building and that said building has but one room therein. That said room does not contain and will not contain any devices for amusement or any musical instruments of any kind er any gambling tables of any kind or any devices for gambling of anv kind whatsoever. That applicant has no partners in said business but is sole owner and proprietor thereof. That applicant is not engaged in saloon business in any other place within or without the state of Indiana: that applicant does not own any interest in any saloon. That applicant baa not been denied a license in this or any other county in Indiana within two years last past. Applicant will also aak the privilege to sell cigars, tobacco, and soft drinks. JOHN ULM, Applicant. The Democrat for county news.