Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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A MATTER OF HEALTH pfii Making POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS HO SUBSTITUTE

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 39; oats 28. Next Thursday is “Ground Hog Day.” ________ G. D. Clymer of'Goodland, was a business visitor in the city Mon- ‘ / "'Miss Maude Zeigler returned Saturday from a five weeks visit with realitives at Streator, 111. O. K. Ritchey has several entries of Mammoth Bronze turkeys at the Chicago poultry show this week. • An interesting letter from Mr. L. Strong, who with ‘bis wife is sojourning in California, appears in another column. Advertised letters: Mrs. Gilbert Green, Mrs. Lydia Perkins, Mr. Vanch Richter, Mr. William C. Smith, W T . J. Conpor. Remember the big Poland Cliiua hog sale to-day. in the old Renicker implement room on North Van Rensselaer street. ..Jay W. Williams attended the funeral of F. M. Oswalt at Kentland Thursday. Mr. Oswalt was an old friend of Mr. Williams.’ Owing to the blustering weather Tuesday, A. J. Harmon’s big stock sale west of town was postponed to next Wednesday, Feb. 1. Monticello has just opened a new skating rink, and the attendance has far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the promotors. E. T. Jones, The Democrat’s office foreman, has rented the Greenfield property on Scott street and his family will arrive \here from Cincinnati to-morrow.

WjSliss Carrie Gwin, who has been employed as compositor on The Democrat for several months, has resigned and taken a position in the postoffice. Charlie Dluzack and sister Tfena of Remington, and Joseph Luers spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Candace Brown, of Union tp., Three of White county’s excounty commissioners died this week—John T. Barnes of Idaville, James W. Dye of Wolcott, and C. Tam of Idaville, *\pfa L. Wiles of Barkley tp., who ha'll bis public sale Thursday, has gone to Ekin, Tipton county, where he has bought an interest in a butcher shop, we understand. F.* M. Oswalt, a prominent Kentland citizen, died at his home in that place Monday. John Flaherty, also an old residend and a prominent saloonist of Kentland, this week. -iThomas Cain, who has been employed on a street car line in Peoria, 111., for the past year or two, has returned home and will work the home farm south of town the coming year. A birthday surprise was given at the home of J. A. Keister in Jordan tp., Monday night, in honor of his son Leonard. The jarty was a great success. About wenty-five guests were present and a good time was bad. H. B. Wiles and sons Mack and lease of Sheridan, were guests of >ra Wiles, the former’s son, of larkley tp., several days this reek. They returned home ThursE, accompanied by Ora, who probably locate in;{(jTipton nty. ■PS

T Joe Thomas moved in from Newton tp., this week. He occupies the Philip Blue property on Scott street. Word comes from Wabash that the Barcus horse-stocks people are thinking of reducing their force, and that some of the families who went there froth here may return. Correspondence from Laura last week arrived too late for publication. All correspondence must reach this office not later than Thursday morning to insure publication. Correspondents will please remember this. jMr. and Mrs. John Guss of Biwabik, Minn., are visiting old friends and relatives in Jasper county for a few weeks. Mr. Guss was caught for about $5,000 in the failure of McCoy’s sheepskin bank, $1,500 direct and $3,500 indirectly.

Write personal letters to members of the legislature, urging them to vote and use their influence against the passage of House Bill No. 182, the bill to saddle the county funds lost in McCoy’s sheespkin bank onto the taxpayers of Jasper oounty. The wife of Fritz Fastnow, a farmer residing near Reynolds, White county, committed suicide on Thursday of last week by taking paris green. She had been in poor health for some time and was not right mentally for a couple of weeks before committing the rash act. K. Ritchey, on nine entries of Baonze turkeys at the poultry show in Chicago this week, won eight prizes, but we are unable to state what they were at this writing. Orph Halstead of Newton tp., won first on old tom, which was a tine looker and weighed 46 pounds. F. M. Timmons of Kansas, who has been visiting his mother in Remington and two sisters, Mrs Keister and Mrs Laura Harris and other relatives and friends in Jordan tp, for the past three weeks, returned home Saturday. Mr. Timmons had been gone from this county for eighteen years.

Archie Robbins, who received a fracture of the spine while making a dive into a net from the court house tower at Monticello last October, died at the home of his parents in Hartford City last Friday as a result of his injuries. Deceased was 22 years of age and had traveled with circuses since he was 1& Scores of the heavest taxpayers of Rensselaer and vicinity have in the past few days vigorously expressed their condemnation of the effort to saddle the the loss of county funds in the McCoy bank failure back on the taxpayers of the county, and it is probabley that something will be doing that will make hard sledding for this iniquitous measure in the legislature. Miss Belle Bailey, of Chicago, representing some Chicago firm in the selling of a patent medicine, was arrested here Thursday on the charge of practicing medicine without a license, the complaint being made by a Rensselaer doctor, and the case was set for bearing before Squire Irwin yesterday afternoon. The prosecution claims that defendant has been treating patients here.

Rev. J. B. Bair, pastor of the Baptist church, solemnized the marriage at his home of Mr. Fredrick Bherman Wailing and Miss Lydia Adaline Potts. Both the bride and groom live near Pleasant Ridge and are highly respected worthy young people. They will begin housekeeping at once near their former homes. May peace and plenty be theirs, is the wish of their many friends. In the report of the Trustee of Hanging Grove tp., published in The Democrat last week, two errors were made by the compositor that toe desire to correct. The amount paid to Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie for legal services for four years, should have read SSO instead of $80; and another item of $12.70 to the same firm, in the special school expenditures, should have been charged to Reed McCoy for school supplies. Dress lining remnants lo yd., cheese cloth 2 ots yd. calico 3 cents jd. for all new goods. Clearance Sale, Chicago Bargain Store. Read The Democrat for news.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, January 28, 1905.

GILMAN AGAIN HEARD FROM.

Writes • Letter ter Publication end Promleee to Pay Every Dollar It Not Moleeted. F. D. Gilman, the late banker of Goodland who is now a fugitive from justice, had the following letter in last week’s Goodland Herald: “In consideration of the fact that much has been printed and circulated about my departure and the affairs of the Home Bank that was not based on facts, I believe a few words to the point would not be out of place at this time. On my departure I did not take any money or papers nor anything belonging to the bank or any of the depositors, nor did I borrow any money from anybody, neither have I at any time raisapropriated or otherwise squandered any money or moneys belonging to the depositors of said bank or any other person; any statements to the contrary are wholly without foundation. I desire to state that my failure was due solely to my over confidence in the ability of men whom I have 1 known and trusted for yenrs and their inability to meet their obligations to me when needed. My entire efforts during the last four months have been with the sole object of finding

SLICK WORK, BUT IT FAILED.

Some Unrecorded History Relating to the Former Letting of the County Stationery Contract.

There is an interesting Story connected with the first letting and later rescinding of the order of letting of the stationery contract in this county. It seems that on the day of letting three bids were tiled, one by the Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., of Lafayette, who have had the contracts here for several years without opposition —it being generally believed that the big stationery firms of the state have divided up the territory and do not encroach on each other preserves, thereby practically defeating the purpose of the present law governing the letting of contracts for such supplies—a Terre Haute firm, which, it would seem, is not in the combine and the editor of the Rensselaer Journal, the latter bidding on the local class only. On examination of the bids it was thought that the Lafayette firm was somewhat below the Terre Haute firm as a whole. Some of their items were as low or lower than the cost of the raw material, without any printing whatever. Envelopes at $1.50 per thousand, etc. The board made an entry of record awarding the contract to the Lafayette firm. Then agent of the successful bidder, we understand, asked to take the papers containing the bids to another room and copy them, saying that he had no copy of his own schedule. This favor was granted him, and when next the auditor saw the schedule of prices he found that the figures had been raised on a great many items that would have, made a great difference in the total of the oontract. For example, envelopes that were to have been furnished at $l5O per thousand were now $4.50, and a proportionate raise in a great many other items, while both the bid and bond of the

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following coming public sales. For complete list and des"cription of property, soe another column: Saturday, Jan. 28, Smith, Harmon & Co., sale of high bred Poland China swine. Sale will be held in Rensselaer. . Monday, Jan. 30, J. O. Cline, of Hanging Grove township; general sale of stock, implements, household furniture, etc. Tuesday, Jan. 31, Moses Lambert 9 miles north and f miles west of Rensselaer; general sale, horses, cattle, hogs, farming implements, household goods, etc. Wednesday, Feb. 1, Frank Shindelar, 1 mile west of Parr. General sale, horses, cattle, hogs, farm implements. Wednesday, Feb. 1, A. J. Harmon, 3 miles west of Rensselaer, third annual stock sale; postponed from last Tuesday. Thursday, Feb. 2, F. M. Parker & Son, 3 miles northeast of Rensselaer; general sale of horses, hogs,] farming implements, etc.

some business that possessed sufficient merit to meet every dollar I may owe. In my judgment I have found suoh a proposition and if unmolested in this undertaking for a reasonable time I believe I can pay each creditor in full. This is the height of my ambition. Having had the confidence of the people of Goodland and vicinity for years, I expect to merit the same again as a result of the outcome of this, undertak-

ing”

FOUND A HUSBAND AT FRANKFORT.

Mrs. Mattie Morlan of this city, who has figured in court here considerably the past year, was married to Lincoln Rogers of Frankfort, at the latter place Monday. Rogers’ wife died about two months ago and he applied to a Chicago matrimonial agency and was put in communication with Mrs. Morlan. All the courting was done by mail, and the parties never saw each other unti 1 the day they were married, when Mrs. Morlan went to Frankfort in response to Rogers’request. Rogers’ is said to be about 44 years of age, while Mrs. Morlan’s is given at 39.

Terre Haute firm was gone altogether—they having no representative on the ground, having simply mailed their bid—and neither have turned up at this writing. v Auditor Leatherman called the attention of the commissioners to the matter, but if they were visibly shocked at the exposure there is no evidence to that effect. Nothing in paiticular was done except that the auditor on his own responsibility wrote the Lafayette firm regarding the matter. He got no reply, and later telephoned them, but the only satisfaction he got was that they would speak to their agent about it when he came in. If they did so they made no report to Auditor Leatherman, nor did they say anything whatever regarding it. At the regular meeting of the commissioners in January Mr. Leatherman informed that body that if the matter of awarding this contract was in such shape that the board could not rescind the order, that he (Leatherman) would get out a restraining order against it; that he did not propose to stand for any such methods. Then the order was made rescinding the former order. So much comes from having an honest man in the auditor’s office, and it is not likely that any more slick work of this character will be attempted with him by the gentlemen implicated in this affair. Mr. Leatherman is not saying who changed the figures and made away with the papers in the Terre Haute bid, but someone did it, that’s certain. The same thing is said to have occurred at Monticello and Kokomo, we understand, where the same Lafayette firm was after the contracts.

Monday, Feb. 6, Robt. Michal, one mile east and one mile-south of Rensselaer; general sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farming tools. On Monday, February 6, Michael Stibbe, Union tp., eight miles North, and two and a half miles West of Rensselaer, -general sale of hogs, horses and farming tools. Tuesday, Feb. 7, B. O. Gardner, 3 miles east of Rensselaer; general sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farm implements. Tuesday, Feb. 7, E. L. Harlow, 4£ miles northeast of Mt. Ayr; general sale, horses, cattle, hogs, farming implements, household goods, etc. Thursday, Feb. 9, Hugh McKinney, 2f miles northeast of Pleasant Ridge; general salehorses, cattle, hogs, farm implements, etc. Town Talk flour only $1.45 a J bbl and guaranteed good as any flour made or money back. Chicago Bargain Store. Buy your farm leases, deeds, mortgages, etc., blanks at The Democrat office.

BONDSMEN WANT RELIEF.

Legislature Asked to Relieve Treasurer Nichols From Loss of County Funds in McCoy Bank.

A petition is being circulated by County Treasurer Nichols praying the legislature to relieve him of all loss of county funds deposited in the McCoy sheepskin bank and saddle the loss on the taxpayers. This move ought by every sense of right and justice to be defeated, and counter petitions should be circulated at once and in every nook and corner of the county. The circumstances surrounding this loss are such that the treasurer and his bondsmen should stand the loss. Nichols was nominated and first elected by McCoy influence, the McCoys holding second mortgages for thousands of dollars on his real estate, and when the bank closed its doors the records in the recorder’s office and the report of the trustee of the McCoys showed an indebtedness of Nichols to the McCoys of thousands of dollars, and that he was also overdrawn on his personal account some sl,200. When Nichols was first elected he had trouble in giving a bond, and the matter was finally fixed up by the three banks here going on the bond, an understanding, no doubt, having been arrived at regarding the use of the county funds by these banks. It is generally believed and understood that the interest on the county funds deposited iu the McCoy bank was being used by Nichols and applied by the bank in paying his personal indebtedness to them. When the bank closed its doors —or since the truth has come out, rather—it was found that some $23,000 of county money was in this rotten concern. No statement of the amount deposited in the other banks has ever been made public, but considering Nichols’ obligations to the McCoys is it not to be inferred that most of the county funds were deposited there? Also, were they not deposited there for Nichols’ own private gaiu and to enable Tom McCoy to buy fast horses, steam launches, et cetera? Another point, the other banks

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Qathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 20, Harvey Zinzer to Lottie Hartman. Jan. 20, Edward Weller to Hattie Gaunt. Jan. 23, Frederick S. Waling to Lydia Adaline Potts. —o — A misplaced comma in the report of new suits filed in last week’s Democrat made No. 6788, James H. Chapman, trustee in bankruptcy of A. McCoy & Co., read that the amount of the note was $10,60, when it should have read $1,060. The county council is called to meet in special session on Monday, Feb. 6, to re-appropriate funds for the building of a new cottage at the soldiers’ home at Lafayette, and to appropriate funds for paying some old 1904 claims. All funds previously appropriated, of course, lapse on Jan. Ist, and go back into the general fund of the county, hence the necessity of reappropriations at this time. —o — Jasper county’s delinquent tax list is longer this year than usual and the total delinquency will reach a larger sum than for several years. The sale of lands and lots to satisfy the delinquencies will take place on Monday, Feb. 13, at 10 a. m. Among the property advertised for sale and the amounts of the delinquencies are: Rensselaer Castle Hall Association, (the new block on the corner of Washington and Front streets, Rensselaer,) for $638 77; the T. J, and Hattie McCoy residence property that was blown up with dynamite a few months ago,

LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE WANTED By one of the leading Life Insurance Companies. Only men of character and ability need reply. State experience, where now occupied and give references. Address, “Life Insurance,” care this paper.

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here knew the condition of the McCoy bank for sometime before it closed, and the writer heard one of the bankers who is on this bond say that he knew “the McCoys (their bank) had been losing their credit for a year or more.” It is not in evidence that these bankers who were on Nichols’ bond lost a dollar by the McCoy failure. Knowing the condition of the bank, as they acknowledge they did, and being on the bond of the county treasurer, why did they not look out for the interests of the taxpayers of the county by seeing to it that the $23,000 deposited there by the treasurer was either gotten out or fully secured before the crash came? The amount involved in this matter is nearly one-half the county taxes raised here in one year, and if this additional burden is to be placed on the shoulders of an already over-taxed people it will be adding insult to injury. It cannot be urged that the county treasurer had no other place to deposit the county funds but the McCoy bank, or in any bank, for that matter. There were four other banks in the county and there is also a vault in our expensive new court house with safes, etc., for the protection of public funds, and the fact that there was so large a sum in the McCoy bank proves conclusively that it was there for the purpose set out elsewhere in this article. The Democrat has none but the best of feeling, personally, towards each and all of the bondsmen of Nichols, but it owes a duty to the people of the county, its patrons and supporters, that it does not hesitate to perform, and it feels that it would be remiss in such duty did it not oppose the saddling of this loss on the taxpayers of the county. Active work will defeat the proposed measure, we believe, and no time should be lost in getting counter petitions started all over the county, or the bill for the proposed measure was introduced in the legislature Tuesday by Representative Wilson.

$179.07; T. J. McCoy, lots 9 and 10, block 6, Robinson add. Rensselaer, $75,50; Alfred McCoy and Mattie A. Rinehart, Hanging Grove tp., lands, $1,217,23. Every town and township in the county is represented in the list. —o — New suits filed: No. 6795. William Schleman vs. Edward Perigrin et al; action on accouut and claim. No. 6797. John F. Judy et al; vs. Walter Wiseman and James Wiseman; suit on note. No. 6797. John Makeever vs. Harry Rishling et al; action on note. No. 6798. Henry Shide and John Wagner Jr., vs. August Vos et al; action in attachment. In this case it is alleged that plaintiffs entered into contract with defendant for the purchase of his 80 acre farm in Jordan tp., assuming a mortgage of SI,OOO. The farm is apprised in the writ of attachment at $2,400. Plaintiff’s paid defendant SSOO and alleged that they were and are willing to pay balance on clear title being given them. Mr. Vos bought a farm in North Dakota last summer and in said trade gave an additional mortgage on this Jordan tp., farm for $4,100, which plaintiffs knew nothing of, but which was recorded last July. Vos left home rather mysteriously some twp weeks ago, and it is reported that his family know nothing of his whereabouts. It is thought she is in North Dakota, where the understanding has \>een he would move the coming spring.

Fancy apples 15, 20 and 25c per pk. at Chicago Bargain Store. The Great Clearance Sale will continue a few more days. Chicago Bargain Store.