Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1905 — Page 1
Jasper County Democrat.
SI.OO Per Year.
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MONEY TO LOAN for one, two, three, four or five veura, on farms or town property, on the best terms obtainable anywhere. We also buy good note*, and loan money on personal security and chattel mortgage. We loan our own funds and consequently can close a loan on shorter notice than anyone in the county. Our regular customers are our beat advertising mediums. Try us before closing a loan, as we can accommodate you with any kind of a loan you want, if you have good security. AUSTIN & HOPKINS, Rensselaer, Ind.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. XCorn. 47c; oats 29c. A. H. Hopkins was in Lafayette on business Monday. Mrs. Peter Giver, of Wabash, is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Yeoman of r Ambia, visited relatives here this week. Squire Troxell came down from Demotte to the Decoration day exercises. Y*Ce. W. Lakin, of Union tp., is visiting Frank Shindler at Hegewisch, 111. and daughter Iris spent Monday in Monon. Home grown strawberries are now in the market. The crop will not be large. Zea came out Saturday resplendent in a complete new police uniform. Attorneys Yeoman and Guy were over from Remington on busi- . ness Wednesday. M. H. Groves and Levi Hawkins, of Remington, were in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ancel Cox, of Oklahoma. are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cox. The annual convention of Rathbone Sisters for this district will be held in Rensselaer next Thursday. X! One hundred and fifteen tickets were sold from Rensselaer last Sunday for the Chicago excursion. Miss Madge Beam left Wednesday for a three weeks visit with Miss Mabel Kenton, at Artesian, So. Dak. J. W. Cowdenand daughter and Mrs. Manly Burk of near Logansport, are visiting friends here this week. 'X.Drs. Katharine Corcoran and Frankie Walsh of Chicago, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan over Sunday. C. F. Arnold writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Punta Gorda, Fla., to St. Petersburg, Fla., where he is now sojourning. The St Joseph’s baseball team went up to Lowell Tuesday and played a return game with the team at that place, defeating them by a score of 11 to 3. Hopkins was here from Wabash Sunday and rented his residence property in the eaßt part of the city to John Merritt, who moved into same this week. Thomas and Albert Bissenden of Paxton, 111., have moved here and occupy the Watson property north of the railroad. They will engage in the cement block business, we understand. Mr. and Mrs. John Renioker of Barkley tp., and Levi Renicker of Rensselaer accompanied C. J. Dean on a prospecting trip to Minnesota this weok, with a veiw of purchasing land there. tAfra. Purcupile has moved hes illinery store from the K. of P. J building into the room in the Nowels block, lately occupied by Fred Phillips,dwhere she is preSared to attencr to the wants of er numerous patrons as formerly. Lightning struck the barn on Simon Kessick’s farm in Union tp., Monday afternoon and set fire to some hay and straw, but Mr. Kessick put out the flames without damage to the bam, although' he got his hands burned considerably patting the fire out.
Mrs. Ed Mills, of Chicago, is visiting relatives here for a few weeks. ___ Mrs. W. E. Guss, of Chicago, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C/Starr 4-Aliss Daisy Nauman, of Chicago, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Roberts this week. YMTs. Mary Mathena and son, of near Lafayette, visited Mrs. L. Muster a few days this week. <A-E)r. I. M. Washburn attended tne meeting of the county health officers at Indianapolis this week. The Christian church people have let the contract for their new church edifice to Rush & Warren. Mrs. Sarah Pruett is visiting relatives in Chicago this week and from there will go to her farm in Jackson county, Ind., to remain until September. \Guerney Jessen gave a swell at the armory Thursday night to a number of his friends, the occasion being in celebration of his twenty-first birthday anniversary, Friday evening, June 9, a lawn social will be given at the home of Marion I. Adams, south of town, in behalf of the Free Baptist church. Everyone is cordially invited to come out. Thomas Smith, an old gentleman residing in the west part of town, was knocked down by a team here Decoration day and one of his bands was quite badly out from the horse stepping on it. Littlefield, of Remington, and Dr. A. H. Littlefield, of Clarion, lowa, were guests of their brother, N. Littlefield, here Thursday night. Dr. Littlefield returned to his home in Clarion yesterday. Michigan City Dispatch: A street carnival for Laporte this summer has been suggested and the guardians of the public morals are up in arms. One minister cards the Herald on the subject and pronounces such affairs a modern scourge. V Prof. W. O. Schanlaub, of Morocco, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schanlaub, of this city for a few days. Will has been re-engaged as principal of the Morocco schools for another year. He will go to Valparaiso the 14th to attend the summer term of normal.
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New subscribers to The Democrat last month by postoffices: Remington, 2; Mt. Ayr, 1; Tefft, 2; Rensselaer, 1; Rensselaer R-R-l, 1; Lisbon. No. Dak., 1; Rome City, Ind., 1; Meaick, Mich., 1; Valparaiso, 1; Oxford, 1; Hutchinson, Kan., 1; North Judson, Ind., 1; Demotte, 1. Total for month, 15. Miss Fane Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson of this city, and Frederick C. Black of Frankfort, were married at the home of the groom’s parents in Frankfort last Saturday. Mr. Black is a baker and was employed in Goff's bakery here some time ago. They will reside at Danville, 111.
E. P. Honan was obliged to turn down an urgent invitation and ten dollars per day and expenses to preside at the State meeting of Catholic Order of Foresters at Burlington, Vt, this month, beoause of bis being expected to preside at the State meeting here, to be held at Mishawaka on the same date, June 12 to 14, inclusive. Advertise your city by using souvenir post cards ou sale at Sharp’s photograph gallery. The new library buildihg, the Jasper county oonrt house, St. Joseph’s College, the new gymnasium at St. Joseph’s College,“the Old Mill,” veiw of the Iroquois above the Washington street bridge are now on sale apd others will be added from time to time. Your choice, two cards for five cents. I. N. Warren, who has been engaged by the Rensselaer school board as superintendent of the city schools for the next school year, was raised in Rensselaer and was once principal of schools hero. Since leaving Rensselaer he was At Laporte for some time and at present holds the position of principal of the high school at Ft. Dodge, lowa. The salary paid him here is to be $1,250 for the first year, or S6O less than paid Prof. Zanders, #ith the promise of a raise next year if everything is mutually satisfactory.
Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, June 3, 1905.
COURT HOUSE NEWS.
Items of Interest Qathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court, also the board of review, will convene Monday. . —o — Recorder Tilton and family spent Sunday with relatives in Wheatfield —o — Ex-Township Trustee S. D. Clark, of Wheatfield. was in the city on business Thursday. —o —' There were 6 marriage licenses issued last month, against J 3 for the previous month and 7 for May, 1904. There was only $l5O in unloaned school funds on hand June I, and there are applications on file for several thousand. —o — Charles E. Sworts has been appointed administrator of the estate of his father, the late John Sworts, deceased, of Union tp. —o — Clerk Warner was in Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday, and Miss Alice Bates ’tended office during his absence. . —o —
The special gravel road elections in California and North Bend townships, Starke county, this week, the improvement carried by large majorities. —o — Marriage licenses issued: May 29, Dr. Franklin Petry, of Thayer, Newton County, aged 31, to Elva Amy East of Wheatfield, aged 19. First marriage for each; ceremony by Judge Hanley at clerk’s office. —o — Gov. Hanley has appointed Chas. R. Milford as judge of the newly created sixty-first judicial circuit, composed of Fountain county, and Grant Hall of Fowler as prosecutor of the old circuit of Benton and Warren counties. —o — Thurman J. Smith who was arrested several months ago for passing counterfeit money at points along the Three-1 railroad in this county, was found guilty in the federal court at Indianapolis last week and was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth. Smith resided near Wheatfield.
SAYS ’TAINT SO.
It has been reported here that Mason Kenton and Charlie Zard, who located near Mitchell, So. Dak., this spring, are dissatisfied, homesick and want to get back to Jasper county. In refutation of this report Jasper Kenton showed The Democrat a letter from Mason written last Thursday, May 25, in which he states that none of them have been homesick or dissatisfied for a moment, but are well pleased with their change. Mason finished planting 150 acres of corn last Friday and has 140 acres of oats, which he says are “all there, none of them drowned out, and will hide a jack-rabbit.” He also has 140 acres of wheat and 40 acres of barley. Charlie Zard has 100 acres of corn planted and William Kenton has 200 acres. Mason ocoopies Jasper Kenton’s section of land near Artesian.
LILLIAN NOWELS TO WED.
A dispatch from Flora has the the following mention of a former resident and teaober in the Rensselaer school: “Miss Lillian els, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels, of this place, announced last evening her coming marriage to James Guild MoGimsey, on Monday, June 12. One of her society mates belonging to the “So Club” of which Miss Nowels is first matron, arranged a party social, which was held at intervale at the homes of the fourteen members. A dinner of nine courses was given, one coarse at each of the homes of nine members. At the home *of Miss Nowels place cards were used, and on each card was a line of poetry. These all read together uniquely annonnced in full the secret. Miss Nowels is one of the most popular young women of of this city, and for the last three seasons has held the position of primary teacher in local schools. Her betrothed is also well known here, where tor two years he held the position of principal in the public sohools. At present he ie a mail clerk on the Pennsylvania railway running between Plymouth, Ind., and Pittsburg Ps ”
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?
One night last week, according to a story told by Lyman Zea, the new nightwatob, he was at Goff’s restaurant at abont 2 o’clock in the morning—there being something going on that Mr. Goff was keeping open—when the telephone rang and a voice inquired if Zea wns there. On being informed that he was called for, Lyman went to the ’phone and asked what was wanted. The voice replied that a “rough house” was going on at Madame Brown’s in the east part of the city, and that he was wanted there at once. Lyman asked who was talking at the other end of the line, but without deigning a reply, thev rang off. Being a little suspicious by this, Lyman went up to the Nowels House and called Madame Brown and asked her what the trouble was at her establishment. She replied that there was no trouble at all; that everything was quiet and “nothing doing.” Lyman went back to the restaurant once more and soon the
VIEWS OF RENSSELAER AND VICINITY.
New Gymnasium Building at St. Joseph’s College. Photo by Sharp.
’phone rang again, and on his going to the instrument he was urged to hurry up and come down to Madame Brown’s to quiet the row. The party at the other end of the line rang off without answering when asked who it was talking. The operator at “Central” informed Lyman on his immediate inquiry that the call came from the city hall, and he hastened up there to try and find out who the parties were who were attempting to have sport with .him. On arriving at the hall all was dark. He struck a match, he states, but it went out. Someone was passing and he told him to go get a lantern, that he wanted to see who was in the building. Then the electric lights were suddenly turned on, and who do you suppose he found there? City Marshal Abbott, - * Constable Christie Vick, Ex-Nightwatch Burgess Dillon. There was no one else about. It is unnecessary for The Democrat to comment on this matter — we will leave that for the citizens of Rensselaer—but remember that it was 2 o’clock in the morning, and that whatever Mr. Zea’s shortcomings may be, he is the duly elected and qualified nightwatch, clothed with authority as such officer, and is paid for his services out of the city treasury by the taxpayers of Rensselaer. Two of the men, he Btates, that he found sitting in the city hall at that unseasonable" hour, and whom he think tried to get him into trouble, are also public officers, while the third was but recently such, and was an active candidate for reelection against Mr. Zea.
ROBT. DOWLER BADLY HURT.
Last Friday afternoon, while working on a scaffold building a g>rch at Jessie Gwin’s, Robert owler, an aged citizen and carpenter, lost his balance and fell over backwards to ■ the ground, about eight feet below, alighting on his head and shoulders. He was completely paralyzed and nnconscious for some time and was not removed to his home until Sunday. He is still partially paralyzed and is in a very precarious condition, with recovery in doubt. The old gentleman is 74 years of age.
RICHARD III.
Friday, Jon© 9th, Bhakespear,s powerful drama Riohard 111. will be presented at St. Joseph College by the Senior students. A good rendition of this intensely interesting play is promised. At College Auditorium, 8 p. m. ’ Tickets at Fendig’s. at 860.
BOTH FEET CUT OFF BY CARS.
Ed Greenwalt of Taylorville, 111., who a little more than a year ago married Miss Florence Wood of Rensselaer, met with an accident Thursday morning of last week that will at least leave him a terrible cripple for life if not proving fatal. Mr. Greenwalt, it seems, is an engineer at the paper mill at Taylorville, working on the night shift. On being relieved last Thursday morning he started for home along the Wabash tracks. On the way he passed a freight train running slowly. The engine and several cars had passed him when he suddenly grew faint and dizzy and put out his hand against one of the moving cars to steady himself. In some manner he tripped and fell and was thrown under the train. Both feet were cut off and a large flesh wound was made on the left knee. None of the trainmen had noticed him and he lay there for some time before discovered by a little girl who called help and the injured man was removed to his
| home. Four doctors were sumI moned and after a consultation j the right foot was amputated just above the ankle and the left foot at the instep. He withstood the operation well and if there are no internal injuries it is thought he may recover. Mr. Greenwalt is 37 years of age and has a wife and baby. Mrs. Greenwalt is a sister of Mrs. Elmer Gwin and Messrs. George and Harry Wood of Rensselaer. At last reports the injured man was getting along as well as could be expected.
CHILDREN’S DAY AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The subject of the morning sermon is “Lasting Impressions.” This will be an illustrated sermon and is intended to be helpful to young people, The evening service will be conducted by the children of the Sunday-school. An invitation is extended to all.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
The meetings still continue at the First Baptist church. Rev. G. M. Lehigh is preaching powerful gospel sermons, full of zeal and earnest. A fine interest is manifested by the large audiences that assemble from night to night, and listen with intense interest to the preaching. It is expected that Mr. Lehigh will remain over Sunday. Come and hear him.
J. B. Bair, Pastor.
WILL REMINGTON REMAIN DRY?
Interesting Legal Proposition to Come Before the County Commissioners Next Monday.
Thursday was the last day for filing withdrawals from the power-of-attorney remonstrance at Remington, but no withdrawals were filed. This would naturally lead one to believe that the applicant, Joseph Ulm, had acknowledged his defeat and would not press the matter farther The Democrat understands, however, that the applicant’s attorneys will rely on the proposition that the power-of-at-tomey has expired and that it ia of no force or effect at this time. The original powers-of-attorney as shown from the papers themselves, were given along in December, 1902, and at various times thereafter as late as May 28,1903, which latter is the latest date bourne by any of them. A power-of-attorney in cases of this kind is said to be good for only two years,
Vol. VIII. No. 9
IROQUIOS DITCH A GO.
Compromise With Clifford and Railroad Co. Likely to Be Effected. The rulings on the demurrers in the Iroquois ditch case, which is pending in the Carroll circuit court, have been postponed until next Monday, Jnne 5. In the meantime, it is said that the connty commisioners have agreed to credit remonstrator B. J. Gifford with benefits to the county of some $2,500 which will remove his objections to the ditch, and $1,500 is being raised by subscription to pay the Monon’s expense of bridges, etc., which will have the effect of their withdrawing their opposition. The Democrat is informed that the $1,500 will be raised by Monday next, in fact over $1,400 had been subscribed Thursday, several of the more prominent land owners benefited having subscribed SIOO each. The ditch is badly needed and it is an improvement that must come sooner or later. If it will do what its supporters think it will do, it will more than pay for itself in one wet season. Let it be built as soon as possible that the farmers affected thereby and in fact the entire county, as well as Gifford and the railroad people, be reaping the benefits from its construction.
“RAILROAD JACK’’ TO-NIGHT.
The new “Railroad Jack,” the great comedy success, will make its first appearance at the Ellis opera house, this, Saturday night, and no doubt be accorded a welcome second to none. The company is headed by that dainty singing and dancing soubrette, Miss Madelon Caufman, and Jas. DeNoyer, character comedian, with an adequate support, and the the superb scenic surroundings of the production could not help but make a deep impression. The play is mounted in a most elaborate manner, the stage Betting being in keeping with the ideas.
AND ONLY TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, TOO.
Goodland Herald: The new court house is being constructed very rapidly by the contractor and the best of material is being used up to date. In fact the building will far surpass the expectations of every one and will oe large enough and good enough ToT any county. There seems to be no inclination on the part of the contractor to run in any shoddy material. The outside bricks are made of pressed sand and cement, laid with red mortar and the doors and windows are finished in building stone. Considering the price for which the contract was taken, the building is entirely satisfactory.
REJUVENATING McCOY BLOCK.
The appearance of the old McCoy bank building has been greatly improved by removing the old iron balcony on Washington street and part of the way along the Van Rensselaer street side, changing of the door north on the latter street to a window and covering the entire brick exterior of the building with cement and lining it off into rubble-faced blocks, giving it the appearance of a new stone build*, lag. Read The Democrat for news.
and must be then renewed to again be of force. If this proposition is held good it is evident that the applicant will win out and Remington will again have a saloon, something that it has not had now for about two years. In the event that the commissioners should decide that the power-of-attorney is good and in force until the party granting same shall notify the grantee of its revocation, then the applicant's attorneys will produce evidence that the parties granting same were tpld and so understood that the power-of-attorney was to be but for the two years. The remonstrators filed their power-of-attorney remonstranoe yesterday, and the matter will come up for a hearing next Monday.