Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 40; oats 28.

See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans.

W. H. Eger has been suffering from lumbago this week.

Representative and Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson spent Sunday at their home in Rensselaer.

Prof. G. W. Michael of Lafayette, was in the city on business a few hours Saturday.

Jerome Harmon has moved from the east part of town into the Ed Gay property north of the railroad. * V “The Wings of the Motming,” The Democrat’s interesting new serial, will begin next week. Don’t miss reading the opening chapters. 'TMiss Cannie Lee of Terre Haute, who has been visiting her friend Mrs. W. C. Babcock, for the past two weeks, returned home yesterday. \ C. F. Wren, a former railroad agent here, was the guest of N. S Bates a few days last week. Mr. Wren is now located at Medera, Cali. yWalter Hershman of Walker township is the guest of his brother, C. E. Hershman, this week. He came down Sunday and got snowbound.

‘ Mesdamea A. F. Long and J. F. H&rdman were called to Lincoln, Neb., this week by the serious illness of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile.

A Attorneys Jasper Guy and Ira W. Yeoman, of Remington, and John Greve of Wheatfield, were attending to cases in the circuit court here this week.

D. J. Pettit of Wolcott, was in the city Tuesday, making final settlement in court in the estate of his mother, Mrs. Ann E. Pettit, late of Remington, deceased.

siU'he basket ball game at tbe Armory last Friday night between Veederaburg and Rensselaer high school teams, resulted in a score of 11 to 4 in favor of Rensselaer.

XMiss Orabel Duvall, who has been visiting relatives in Grand Rapids, Mich., for the past few months, is also taking a coarse in short-hand and type-writing while there.

B. S. Fendig left Wednesday for New Orleans to visit his wife and relatives a few weeks. Mrs. Fendig is now in a hospital there, we understand, having recently undergone an operation. Howard Brock way, a fine clarinet player of Brookston, came up Saturday evening to assist the band in their concert Monday night, and while here was the guest of Rev. J. B. Bair and family. „ Ora Wiles and family left Wednesday for their new home in Ekin, Ind., where Mr. Wiles has bought a butcher shop and restaurant. Tbe best wishes of their many Jasper county friends go with them to their new home, Duvall Bros, expect to build a one-story brick 40x80 on the site of their recently burned livery barn, with two business rooms each 20x40 fronting on Van Rensselaer street, and having the entrance to their barn on South street. In the rear of this they will, have a two-story stable and hay barn.£

A freight wreck near Pleasant Ridge Tuesday night delayed all mail trains for several hours Wednesday The north bound milk train did not get in here until noon.

Brook Reporter: The Goodland Herald says that the people over there are agaiust the legislature saddling Jhe county treasurer deficency, caused by the Gilman bank wreck, on the taxpayers of Newton county. They are of the same opinion over here,

Fire Friday destroyed two brick blocks at Knox, causing a property loss of $25,000, partially covered by insurance. The following firms suffered loss: Hartzler & Son, hardware, $10,000; Republican office, $4,000; Julius A. Arnsdorff, merchant, $7,000; ,A. O. Castleman, $3,000; O, B. Smith, attorney, SSOO.

John Bislosky and family moved to Chicago this week. They will reside at 607 West 63d street, and John will have charge of a coal business near there. He has some stock in an Indiana mine and will look after the Chicago end of this mine’s product. The Democrat wishes him much success in his new line of business.

The Farmers’ bank at Wolcott, has been in sore straits for the past few weeks, and has taken in no deposits nor paid anything out, we understand. Its former owner, Mr. Settle, is said to have drawn out most of the deposits on his personal notes, and the bank run out of cash. Efforts are being made to reorganize, and creditors are holding off, waiting developements. rrank Lakin of Union township has rented his home farm to Chas. Reed and Ike MoCurtain for a period of three wiUbava a _p»fel4e-sftle--oa-JilDn-day, February 174 b, after.which W will go to Tulsa, Indian Territory, where he has a son, and will perhaps locate there permanently. Mr. Lakin is an old and respected resident of Jasper county and we regret to see him leave.

Uncle Jacob Johns, an old resident of Milroy township, died at his home in that township Tuesday at 12:30 p. m. aged about 70 years. The funeral was held Thursday from the Milroy Baptist church, conducted by Rev. Morrow of Wolcott; burial at Benson cemetery in Milroy township. Deceased was an old soldier and leaves a widow and four grown children, three daughters and one son.

Rochester Sentinel: Ah, what a dandy old fashioned winter this is! Just snow enough to make it right, just cold enough to make us hurry, and just sunshine enough to keep everything bright and charming. Talk about the glories of the Florida sunshine and the southern California flowers if you will, but such a winter day as this is a dream for poets and a jubilee for the prosaic. Let ’er snow.

Francisville Tribune: The Jasper County Democrat is making a strong fight to prevent the legislature from passing Representative Wilson’s bill to relieve Treasurer Nichols of the loss of some $28,000 in the McCoy bank failure as was detailed in' our last week’s issue. It look 9 as though this requested legislation is another case of robbing the people to relieve a few men of wealth of their bond financial obligations.

We are informed by a gentleman who was in Chicago last week and had bnsiness at the stock yards, that Tom McCoy’s position there is that of a cowpuncher, driving cattle from one pen to another. This gentleman saw Tom at his work several times and talked with him briefly. He says that work doesn’t seem to agree with Tom, as he has apparently lost fifty pounds in flesh since he last saw him.

Indianapolis Sentinel: For the failure to pay a fine of SSOO for the fraudulent use of the mails, assessed a year ago, Stephen B. Kealing, who was arrested Sunday at Medaryville, Ind., by Deputy United States Marshal Tom Martin, appeared before Judge Anderson yesterday afternoon and was committed to jail until the tine is paid. Kealing says he owns a silver mine out in Colorado, but he did not have the capital to ’extract the ore.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, February iB, 1905.

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: Feb. 13, Henry Wagner to Maude Wandfer. The annual meeting of the township assessors will be held at the office of the county assessor on Friday, Feb. 24. —o — The expensive automatic dumps in the court house water-closets have recently been replaced with the cheaper and perhaps more satisfactory hand or chain dumps Under the old system some of them were out of order most of the time. —o — The eleven criminal cases pending against the McCoys in the White circuit court were continued this week for the term; also the old case of J. F. Heinzman vs. the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county for the balance alleged to be due him on the building of the new court bouse here seven years ago. o The grand jury has been in session all week, but up to yesterday morning no indictments had been returned in court, although we understand some three or four have been found. Owing to bad roads it has been difficult for witness to get in, and the jury will hardly finish up its work this week. —o —

Several citizens of Kankakee township have been before the grand jury this week, and it is rumored that people up there are responsible for the grand jury being called it bis term. It is said that a “blind tiger” in Dunnvill e has been causing the good people up there considerable vexation. To oust this place they wanted a grand jury called. —o — Appellate court action: “5073 Engle vs. Johnson et al. Jasper C. C. Affirmed. Black J. A real estate broker who was employed to find a purchase for land at a certain price, 1300 down and the balance all cash by March 1, and who brought his employer an offer at that price, S3OO down and the balance all cash by March 1, except for a mortgage of SSOO, which he offered to assume, and which offer the the employer refused to accept, is not entitled to recover his commissions for a sale.” Not much has been doing in the circuit court this week but routine business. Some few defaults have been entered up and

WILL VETO RELIEF BILLS.

Governor Hanly Reported to be Against Special Legislation, Because Unconstitutional.

An article in an Indianapolis paper a few days ago stated that it was rumored that Gov. Hanly would veto the bills for the relief of public officials who lost money in banks, should they pass both branches of the legislature, because of their unconstitutionality. The article says that the relief provided in these bills is not to come out of the State treasury. If it was a county officer that lost money in a bank, the bill directs the county auditor to draw a warrant for the amount named on the county treasurer. If it was a township officer, the loss is borne by the township. A statement to the same effect appeared in a Cincinnati paper, therefore it is likely that there is something in the report. It is said that Governor Hanly, who is considered one of the foremost lawyers in the state, does not favor the burdening of our statute books with laws that are clearly unconstitutional, and that he has invited in three prominent Judges of the state who will go over the acts passed by the present legislature carefully with him before he affixes his signature to them, and all laws that are clearly unconstitutional will be vetoed. The governor shows remarkable good sense in this, if the reports are true, for it is not right to place such laws on our statute books and compel people to go to the vexation and expense of taking them

some matters on the probate docket disposed of. Mrs. Mary Galbraith was given a divorce from her husband Sylvester Galbraith, on the grounds named in her conplaint, and the custody of the two minor children. Jasper Guy was granted leave to amend his blank complaint for damages filed some time ago against his wife, Josephine Guy, and defendant is ruled to answer March 10.

—o— New suits filed: No. 6818. Bertha Vos vs. John Mueller and August Vos; action to cancel mortgage and to restrain sale of real esiate. No. 6819 State of Indiana vs. John Moritz, Charles E. Kersey, John Greve and Milo Michaels; suit on bond. No. 6820. Mary E. Peck vs, Geo. A. Peck, action for divorce and alimony. The parties to this case reside at Demotte; were married some twenty years ago, and have one child, a daughter, now a young lady. The charge is cruel and inhuman treatment, failure to provide and habitual drunkeness. —o — The delinqment tax sale Monday was attended by about the usual number of bidders and all the property advertised was sold except the old laundry site near the river and some lots belonging to T. J. McCoy, on which there were no bids.

The K. of P. building was bid off by the Dickenson Trust Co., of Richmond, Ind , who hold a $12,000 first mortgage on the property. The 537 acres of land in Hanging Grove, owned by Mattie J. Rinehart, against which there was $1,217,23 delinquent tax, was bid off by E. L. Hollingsworth, who took 40 acres and pays the delinquencey

TRUSTEES’ RELIEF BILL PASSES.

House Bill 113, for the relief of townships trustees of Jasper, county who lost funds in the McCoy bank, passed the state senate Tuesday by a vote of 26 to 18. This bill, having previously passed the lower bouse of the legislature, is now up to the governor for his action.

SUNDAY SERVICE AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

The Knights of Pythias will attend the morning service in a body. The subject of the sermon is “Humanities Claim.” The subject of the evening sermon is, “Who is the Christ?” A cordial invitation is extended to all. G. H. Clark, Pastor. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

through the courts to get relief from bad laws. Thursday’s Indianapolis Star contained the following additional report regarding Gov. Hanly’s intentions in this matter: “The Governor has given out word that he will veto the bills for the reimbursement of various Northern Indiana office holders, who lost money in recent bank failures. One of these bills has been passed, but has not been signed by the Speaker, at the request of those interested in it, that the governor may be appealed to before he has a chance to veto the bill. “Representative Salisbury, author of this bill, which seeks to permit the reimbursement of G. W. Willenar, treasurer of Steuben county, in the sum of $5,152, lost in the Kinney & Co. Angora Bank, had a talk with the governor yesterday, but to no avail. “It is understood that during the interview, in which the governor declared his intention of vetoing these bills, the governor voluntarily made reference to the fact that while he was a member of the House he secured the passage of just such a bill. This bill became a law. “*1 am older than I was when I got that bill through and I know more now,’ is said to have been the explanation of the governor to Mr. SaLabury”

PART OF McCOY LANDS SOLD.

Madison, Ind., Parties Purchase 1,880 Acres in Jordan Township at S6O Per Acre.

The trustee has closed a sale of 1,880 acres of the 2,300 acres of McCoy lands in Jordan township to James Hill and son, William Hill, of Madison, Ind., at #6O per acre, or $112,800 for the entire lot, subject to the approval of referee Bowers. The price is generally conceded to be a fair one. There still remains some 400 acres unsold of the Jordan tract

POOR FARM FACTS.

False and Misleading Statements of Rensselaer Republican Refuted. The position of superintendent of the county poor asylum is no “soft snap” these days and on the contrary is one of a vast deal of labor and responsibility. There are now 16 inmates at the asylum many of whom are almost helpless either from age or mental or physical defects and to give them the constant and efficient care that they require is an enormous labor. Nearly half of these inmates are of advanced age and six of them from 80 to 105 years old. When Mr. Blue took charge about two years ago there were only eight inmates. By the next quarterly report the number.had increased to 12 and has varied froih that to 17 ever since. In spite however of the greatly increased expense of this increased number of inmates, so careful and successful a farmer and manager is Supt. Blue that the asylum is now more nearly on a self supporting basis than since anyone can remember. —Rensselaer Republican. The above is about as reliable as anything pertaining to the management of county affairs ever is that appears in the above named paper. The Democrat has published the quarterly reports of the various poor farm superintendents as made to the board of commissioners for several years past, and we have published thorn as they appear on the records in the county auditor’s office, too. They speak for themselves. To again verify these figures we went over the various reports a few days ago, and we find the receipts and expenditures of the farm for the past five calendar years to have been as follows:

RECEIPTS. EXPENSES. 1900.. Ji, 760.07! $3.i70-33 1901.. 1,781.48 2,695.73 1902.. 1,075.00 2,414.27 1903.. 2,791.34 J 3.661.78 1904.. 1,753.82 2,880.98 fOfthis amount $8:11.97 waa turned in by ex-Supt. Hardy when retiring, on March 1, 1900. sOf this amount $1,499.97 waa turned in by ex-Supt. Clark ou retiring on Feb. 1, 1908. Mr. Clark served as superintendent two years and eleven months, and during that time, notwithstanding hundreds of dollars was paid out for tile, furniture, bedding and other extraordinary expenses, the total expenses were $8,280.33. (including Jan. and Feb. 1900, and not including Jan. 1903, as the figures of expenses are by calendar years;) while the total receipts for the actual time of his administration were $5,159,55, or an average of $147,45 per month.

This leaves a deficit for the entire three years of Clark’s administration of $3,120.78, or less than S9O per month, and the farm was very much improved in every way during this time, there was threefold the stock and produce there at the end of his administration than there was when be went there, and much more than at present.

Mr. Blue, up to Jan. 1, has served one year and eleven months. The total expenses of that period have been (including the month of January, 1903) $6,542,76, while the receipts for the actual time he has had charge of the farm have been but $3,045,19. It will thus be seen that the deficit for the period of his administration has been $3,500, or over $l5O per month.

Daring Mr. Blue’s administra-

tration there was little more if as much extraordinary expense as under Mr. Clark’s administration, and for the past year there has been none whatever. The average number of inmates of the poor asylum under Mr. Clark was 10; under Mr. Blue it has been 13, and no report of Blue’s has shown more than 16, and but one report of Clark’s as few as 8.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT.

X Feb. 7, to Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Yeoman of Newton tp., a daughter.

\ Feb. 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gassoway, west of town, a son.

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and 520 acres in Union; also a half interest in 320 acres acres in Gillam. The unsold Jordan tp., lands are the poorest of the tract and offers of $25 or S3O per acre have been made for it. The Union tp., land is also rather poor, but the Gillam farm is quite a good one. No bids were made on either of these tracts, we understand.

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following coming public sales. For complete list and description of property, see another column: [ Saturday February 18, Gifford & Callahan at Newland; general sale of horses, cattle, hogs and a lot of new farm machinery of all kinds. Monday, Feb. 20, W. A. Shook, and C. R. Davis, 6 miles north and 2 miles east of Rensselaer, on the Chris. Arnold farm; general sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farm tools. Monday, Feb. 20, John F. Kelly, 7 miles northwest of Remington; general sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farm implements. Wednesday, Feb. 22, Mason Kenton, 1 mile southeast of Sur-

rey, 5 miles northwest of Rensselaer; general sale of horses, cattle, farming tools, etc. Thursday, Feb. 23, C. C. Kent, at the old Kent ranch, near Fair Oaks; big sale of horses, mules, cattle, farming tools and household furniture.

Saturday, Feb. 25, E. W. Lakin, 3 miles east of Fair Oaks; general sale, horses, cattle and farm implements. Monday, Feb. 27, Frank Lakin, near Blackford; general sale, horses, cattle, bogs, sheep, household goods, etc. Tuesday, Feb. 28, V. H. Thornton, on the Lang farm at Surrey; general sale, horses, cattle, hogs, farm implements, household furniture, etc. Thursday, March 1, Mary A. Haltihan, \ mile southwest of Newland; general sale, horses, cattle, hogs and farming implements.

DEATH OF LEVI RENICKER, SR.

Levi Remcker, Sr., died at his home in Carroll county Thursday morning, from paralysis, aged 74 years. Mr. Renicker resided in Marion and Barkley townships, this county, for fourteen years, was a respected citizen and waa well known to most of our readers. Three of his sons, John, Sherman and Levi, are still residents of Jasper. He leaves a widow and seven children, six boys and one girl. The funeral was held yesterday at 10 a. m., at Pyrmont, Carroll county, and burial made there.

SOME COLD WEATHER.

\ Monday morning was the coldest weather we have had in this locality for twenty years, thermometers registering from 23 to 26 below zero. More snow fell Saturday and Sunday, and the north and south roads in some places are drifted full, so as to make them practically impassable a part of this week, and some of the rural mail carriers have been out on their, routes only a part of the time.^ Mails have been delayed and freights are an uncertain quantity, For several mornings the meroury was down below zero, but yesterday it had moderated considerably. During the week few farmers have been to town and, taken altogether, it has been one of the dullest weeks for trade that Rensselaer has experienced for many years.

Fob Sale: The Indian Asphalt Company cottage in the Jasper county oil field. New, completely furnished, and thoroughly modern; entry hall, living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry on lower floor, and six bedrooms and bath on second and third floors. Great opportuinty for boardinghouse, as there will be renewed activity in the oil field in the spring. Very advantageous terms to responsible parties. Call or address, Indian Asphalt Co. Asphaltum, IndL