Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

MONEY MONEY MONEY Money to Loan for one. two, three, four or five years, on farms > or town property, on the best 3 gj terms obtainable anywhere. 2 We also buy good notes, and loan n C money on personal security and •< chattel mortgage. We loan our own funds and conse- >■ quently can close a loan on 3 5 shorter notice than anyone in © 5 the county. n ® Our regular customers are our best * advertising mediums. Try us before closing a loan, as we > can accommodate you with any 3 U kind of a loan you want, if you S have good security. Hj AUSTIN & HOPKINS, Rensselaer, Ind. MONEY MONEY MONBY

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City end Country Readers. Corn, 50c; oats 80c. TvJS. P. Honan will deliver the Uth of July address at Parr. "L O. K. Ritchey was in Chicag oa few days the first of the week. Mrs. Cecil Mckinzie of Barkley tp., is visiting in Indianapolis. Delos Thompson has another new auto, of the light tonring car type. -*<?eo. F. Meyers was in Seymour, Ina., several days this week on business. Anna Pierson of Chatsworth, 111., spent Sunday with George Ketchum, Sr. ''.Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Long of whlnut, lowa, are visiting their old home in Gillam tp.

Mrs. Ernest Fritts and baby are visiting relatives and friends in Delphi and Dunkirk. Advertised letters :ffMrs. O. P. Naylor, Alfred Scutlar, Musselman & Golding. T. Gaffey, A. McFarland lefk this week oiran exended prospecting trip to North Dakota and other points. Waymire has bought the M. H. Hemphill livery business and will personally conduct the same. Clara Parker and Tillie Malchow have returned from attending a term of the Terre Haute normal. -VMr. and Mrs. Coleman Merritt oKHemington, were guests of the former’s brother, John Merritt, here Sunday. Judge Thompson visited his wife, who is taking treatment in Dr. Fletcher’s sanitarium at Indianapolis, Sunday.

Michigan City is progressing backward —the salary of the postmaster there has been reduced from $2,600 to $2,500. -V'Ted Eger, who has been attending Harvard university at Cambridge, Mass., came home Monday for the summer vacation. p><JSIrB. John Greve and Mrs. Robt. Mfcnnan of Wheatfield, were guests of recorder Tilton and family a few days the first of the week. —-\Mra. Frank Lambert and Mrs. Schainhaus of Brooklyn, N. Y., with their two daughters, are visiting their brother, Peter Hordeman, Sr., west of town. H. C. Hoshaw was called to Lafayette Monday by the funeral of his sister, Mrs. J. L. Bronson of Chicago, whose remains were taken to Lafayette for burial.

\ Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Deleoust of ~Ocalla, Fla., arrived Saturday to spend a few months with the former’sparents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Hallagan, northeast of town. Mrs. Emma J. Turpie and two daughters of North Platte, Neb., are east for a visit with the former’s brother, U. M. Baughman, of Rensselaer, and relatives in Monon, Medaryville, Logansport and Ohio. If you want to have a good,' pleasant time the 4th, go to Parr. The oitizens of that enterprising little burg have provided an excellent program for the day and the committee says everything will be as advertised. Mrs. S. H. Hopkins of Barkley tp., reoeived a message Monday stating that her father, Heifer Cramer, who had been dangerously sick for some time, had died at his home in Wabash that morning at 5 o’clock. The old gentleman was past 92 years of age.

Mrs. W. F. Reynolds and baby of Chicago, are visiting relatives here. A special shoe and clothing sale at great reductions until July 4, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Miss Edith Marshall' is home from Billings, Montana, where she has been teaching, for the summer vacation. jMisß Edna Ritchey of Traverse Caty, Mich,, is here for a couple of months visit with her father, W. H. Ritchey. -Ljdisses Grace and Fame Haaa ifisited their brother, Rev. C. W. Postil, and attended the E L. convention at Remington Tuesday and Wednesday. “\t£ncle John Tillettof Gillam tp,. was in the city on business Tuesday. The crop prospects in his township are rather poor, he says, owing to too much rain. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. C. W. Coen went to New Haven, Conn., Tuesday to attend the graduating exercises of Yale College, their son Delos being one of the graduates.

-4-John Knapp of New York state, wtio recently bought the A. O. Moore livery'barn, has moved here with his family and resides in the Tom Saylor property on Front street. -iX)wing to the farmers being so busy there was not much of an attendance to the Summer Farmers Institute Wednesday. The sessions were interesting and instructive, however. Henry Downing, of Goodland, with his brother John Downing, of Nebraka, were shaking hands with old acquaintances here Wednesday. Both were residents of Rensselaer twenty-five years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Johnson of Indianapolis visited Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Miller here this week. Mr. Johnson has just graduated from the law department of Bloomington University. Mr. Johnson is a sister of Mrs. Miller.

•\JPIr. Washburn and family returned home Friday evening from a week’s automobile trip through the gas belt and as far east as Cedar Springs, Ohio. They traveled about 500 miles all told, and had little or no trouble with their auto. E. Linder of Milford, 111., was here Wednesday and bought the Huffman farm of 310 acres, lying in sections 34 and 35, Hanging Grove tp. Mr. Linder does not expect to move on the farm, having bought it for an investment purely. "XMr. Harry Elwood Reed and Miss Della Mae Hanniford, both of Barkley tp., were united in marriage at 3 p. m., Tuesday by Squire Irwin, in the clerk’s office at the court house. They will reside on the farm of the groom’s, mother in Barkley tp. The M. E. church at Monticello was struck by lightning Sunday evening while services were going on ana a panic was narrowly averted. The bolt struck the spire and passed down to the roof, tearing off the slate shingles and doing quite a little damage. Dr. Rose M. Remmek, optical specialist, will make her regular visit to Clarke’s jewelry store, June 28 to July 1. Modern methods in eye examinations means accurate knowledge of the conditions affecting the sight and the remedy supplied with proper glasses.

Rey. A. G. Work will preach his farewell sermon at the Presbyterian church to-morrow morning. Rev. Work has been a very popular preacher with his congregation aud they are sorry to lose him. He goes to a much larger church, however, where his field of usefulness is, much greater. No one has been engaged in his stead as yet. \-(ih K. Hollingsworth and family, of Chicago, arrived here a few days ago via automobile, and will spend the summer in their residence in Rensselaer. George has about the best looking proposition in the automobile line that ever struck Rensselaer, and it is a goer from goerville. It has a leather top that can be raised or lowered, a plate glass shield in front, makes little noise and can give the best horse that ever came down the pike a race for the money. The maohine is called the Franklin, andnost about 12,000.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, June 24, 1905.

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest (lathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Trustee Stallbaum of Kankakee tp., was in Monday to get his June draw of township funds from the county. —o — The gravel road bonds for the system of gravel roads in both Hanging Grove and Gillam townships are advertised to be sold on July 6. In Hanging Grove there are $15,000 and in Gillam $19,500. —o — Marriage license issued: June 20, Harry Elwood Reed, of Barkley Rged 19, to Della Mae Hanniford, also of Barkley, aged 17. First marriage ibr each. June 21, Charles E. Richardson, of Enid, Okla., aged 30 years, to Mary L. Brusnahan, of Rensselaer, aged 20. First marriage for each. o In the figures published in this column recently, showing the total personal assessments of the various townships and towns for 1905, an eror was made in the figure, for Marion township from which we secured our information, and the correct total is $216,725, (/decrease of $10,520, instead of a decrease of nearly $20,000, as Bhown in the former publication.

—o— New suits filed: No. 6881. Wm. B. Austin vs. R. A. Hasper and Abel Hasper; suit on note. Transcript from Newton county. No. 6882. Wm. B. Austin vs. A. Hasper, C. A. Fry and {J. J. Fry; suit on note. Transcript from Newton county. No. 6883. James H. Carr et al, vs. Ezekial D. Clark et al; action to quiet titter The last will and testament of Isaac Blake, deceased, late of Remington, was filed for probate Tuesday. The instrument is dated Jan. 16, 1903, and Everd H. Blake, a son, is appointed executor to settle the estate and 'carry out the provisions of the will. The property oonsists of a quarter section of land in Jordan township. The will directs that all personal property be used in settling of the just debts and the remainder, if any, go to the wife (now deceased) and to the afflicted son, Emery I. Blake. A life estate is also bequeathed this son and decedent’s wife in the real estate, and at their death to be equally divided among decedent’s surviving children.

The county board of review will close its twenty days session today, and not a complaint has been heard. Nothing has been done of importance, except the changing of the valuation of horses in several townships. In Hanging Grove the assessment on horses was reduced 20 per cent; Walker and Newton, reduced 10 per cent; Kankakee, and Wheatfield reduced 5 percent; Union and Gillam raised 20 per cent; Carpenter raised 10 per cent, making the average in each township as follows: Hanging Grove.. .$43.84 Gillam 43.50 Walker 38 43 Barkley 44.64 Marion 47.00 Jordan 41.65 Newton 45.00 Keener 36.00 Kankakee 39.34 Wheatfield 39.90 Carpenter 47.78 Milroy 37.70 Union 38.40 It will thus be seen that CarSmter leads on good horSes and eener has the poorest; Marion stands second best.

The question of assessing the cash in the hands of the trustee of the bankrupt McCoys has been discussed, but at this writing nothing definite has been done. It seems that the assessors agreed at their meeting last spring that, as the claims against the McCoys were so near worthless it would not be proper to list such claiims, and they were not assessed for taxation. It seems, however, that the trustee on March 1 had some $30,000 in cash that belonged to these creditors (he now has a great deal more, of course) and the question of placing this on the duplicate has been talked over considerably. It will probably not be listed, however, from what we can learn. Bring in your, eggs, highest prices paid. Fendig’s Fair.

RICHARDSON-BRUSNAHAN.

rsMr. Charles E. Richardson of Enid, Okla., and Miss Mary Brusnahan, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brusnahan, west of town, were nnited in marriage at B:30 a. m„ Thursday at the priest’s home in this citytyJn the presence of several relatives of the bride. They left for the southern part of the state for a visit with relatives and jto-morrow will start for their home in Enid, via Chicago. There is a pleasant little romance connected with the marriage of the young couple. Both attending the Valparaiso normal a year ago last winter and met there and fell in love with each other. After returning home a correspondence was kept up, resulting in the happy marriage Thursday morning. Mr. Richardson graduated from the law department of the Valparaiso school and located in Enid for the practice of his profession. The Democrat extends congratulations.

TEACHERS FOR COMING YEAR.

Following is a list of the teachers engaged for the Rensselaer schools for the coming school year: Superintendent, I. N. Warren. Principal, James H. Gray. High School—Elwopd Brooks; Edith Shedd, English; Miss Anna Mallatt, Latin; Miss Jennie Muth, Music and drawing; Miss Allen. German aud Latin, Science and History teachers not yet decided upon. Grades—Miss Stella Shields, Ist; Miss Edith Marshall, Ist and 2d; Miss Grace Nowels, 2d and 3d; Miss Lessie Bates, 3d; Miss Hattie Eiglesbacb, 4th; Miss Lena Jackson, sth; Miss Clara Parker, 6th; L. Sterrett, 7th. Mr. Gray, the principal, is from Forest, Clinton county, and Miss Muth is from Colorado. The grades are filled with all home teachers. The. school board thinks it has secured the best corps of teachers that the schools have had for a number of years.

IROQUOIS DITCH MEETING.

At the meeting at the court house last Saturday of those affected by the proposed Iroquois ditch, Granville Moody presided and B. D. Comer was secretary. The business transacted was as follows: Sherman Thornton, D. H. Yeoman, Henry Amsler, B. D. Comer nda Delos Thompson were appointed as committee to select a superintendent and recommend the appointment of anengineer. Themayor of Rensselaer and the trustees of Marion, Newton, Barkley and Union townships are exofficio members of this committee. A committee of one was selected as to each of the laterals, as follows: Pinkamink, Joe Halligan; Donnelly, R. B. Porter; Gifford, Charles Pullins; Nowels, E. T. Harris; Yeoman, Richard Grow, Davisson, S. T. Comer; Lakin, J. E. Alter Swain, S. P. Thompson; Kurrie, H. R. Kurrie; Hopkins; Nehemiah Hopkins. A committee of the following persons was appoin ted to draft a petition for a stone road election in Marion township and Rensselaer, as follows: Granville Moody, R. B. Harris, Warren Robinson, J. A. Knowlton, James Amsler, Shelby Grant and S. P. Thompson. It was recommended that the bonds be issued drawing 5 per cent interest and to run 20 years. It was also recommended that the contract be let and bonds sold near the first of September, 1905, one advertisement.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES.

The Sunday school and morning worship will be held in the high school building. The subject of the morning sermon is “The Strength of Weakness.” The evening services will be held in' the east court room of the court house. The subject of the sermon is “Peace.” All are welcome.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMNTS.

June 20, to Mr. and Mro. Vern Shook, in the east part of town, a daughter. Binder Twine at 9 cents a pound, guaranteed to be as good as others ask from 11 to 12 oents for, at , John Eqer’s. If you want to save dollars attend the great reduction sale of dry goods continuing until July 4, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

YOUNG CYCLONE IN JORDAN TOWNSHIP

Sunday Evening’s Storm Does Considerable Damage and Some Stock Was Killed.

Saturday evening at about 6< o’clock and again Sunday evening at about 7 o’clock, this section of the county was visited by a severe rain and electrical storm and quite a little damage in the way of stock killed and bnildings damaged by the wind was done in different parts of the county, the most of which was on Sunday evening. On one of L. H. Myers’ farms in Jordan tp., the wind unroofed a large two-story house, broke down eight large cherry trees loaded with fruit, and two apple trees. Unroofed a part of the barn and damaged it so badly that it will have to be re-shingled; turned completely over a big farm wagon and hay rack and reduced the rack to kindlings. On his other farm—the Bill Esson place—the barn was partly unroofed and a large, new crib was turned upside down and so badly damaged that it will have to be entirely rebuilt. A large rock weighing over a ton, that was used as a corner stone of the crib and was partly oat and partly buried in the ground, was turned half over. Two large cherry trees and several shade trees were blown down here also. Mr. Myers estimates the damage to his buildings at S2OO. On the Frank Corbin farm, one mile south of Mr. Myers’, a large cattle and hay barn was completely demolished. A steer was also killed by lightning on Wm. Washburn’s farm in Jordan tp.,

GETS GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT

Hon. Jesse E. Wilson of this 1 city has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior, to succeed Melville Miller of Lafayette, who has been let out to make room for Mr. Wilson. The office pays $4,500 per year and comes to Mr. Wilson through Senator Beveridge. He will take his new position Sept. 1, and will move to Washington. Jesse’s many friends congratulate him on his appointment.

TENT MEETINGS.

Ten days special meetings will be held in a tent on the M. I. Adams farm, beginning Thursday, June 22, 7:30 p. m., conducted by Rev. A. R. Harper. All are cordially invited to attend each and all of these services, which will be held each evening, beginning with a song service. Special Sunday service. To-mor-an all-day meeting will be held. Sermon at 10:30 a. m. and in evening by Rev. Harper; S. S. at 2:30; sermon at 3 p. m. by Rev. G. H. Clarke, of the Christian church. There is a good grove handy where teams may be hitched. Come and bring your dinner and remain all day.

THE STONE ROAD SYSTEM

May by short hauls and easy grades cover nearly thirty miles of permanent road bed. It maj not reach your home or property, but it is your system of roads all the same. You should help the committee to select connected streets and roads that will help the present and future of the city and township to convenient access to markets, churches and schools and make our city attractive to residents and visitors. If you live, or your land is, on the new system, work for its success for selfish reasons. If the roads built by the former trustees conferred a favor on you support this system out of gratitude. Help to secure the best possible selection, and work for the one selected. The committee will hear your suggestions if made before the full system is adopted. Talk with the members individually, and meet with them when they deliberate on the ways to be incorporated in ballot. **

TRINITY M. E. CHURCH.

The Children’s Day service which was to have been given last Sabbath evening by the Sunday School, was posponed for one week on account of the storm, and will be given Sabbath evening at 7:30. The publio cordially welcomed. Gilbraltar flour, $1.35; XXXX Minnesota $1.40; the same as others ask $1.50 and $1.60 for. John Eger’s.

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At Henry Kolhoff s a windmill was blown down. At Mark Reed’s, also in Jordan tp., lightning struck his barn, and several cherry trees were blown down. Barney Maienbrook, south of town, had a cow killed by lightning. In the same neighborhood lightning killed a cow for Marion I. Adams, and a steer for Joe Adams, and struck the chimney on Vinoent Eisele’s house. R. A. Parkison had four 1,000 g>und steers killed at his farm in arkley tp., Saturday evening, and the barn on the Mrs. Barkley farm, occupied by Wm. Miller was struck and damaged some and one chicken killed. Les Miller, Everett Brown and John Randle were in the barn at the time but escaped injury Victor Walker, also of Barkley, had a horse killed. At E. M. Thomas’ residence, in the east part of Rensselaer, Saturday evening, a bolt of lightning struck the house, and tore a big hole in the roof, passing on down to the first floor where it tore a conch to pieces and tore the casing from a door. The family had taken refuge in a cyclone cellar they had Tmilt for shelter during heavy storms, and therefore escaped injury. At Remington the barn of J. B. Thompson was struck and burned to the ground with all contents, including a team of horses.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.

Thomas J. McCoy and Wife Attend Hearing Before Referee Bowers Yesterday. The matters recently ruled upon by Judge Anderson of the federal court concerning the McCoy bank matters were taken up by Referee Bowers here yesterday. The usual number of Lafayette attorneys were present, and among the distinguished visitors were T. J. McCoy and wife, Mrs. Hattie McCoy. This is the first time the latter has been in attendance at any of these hearings, we believe, although Tom has frequently been here on invitation of the officers, The bearing was still going at time of closing the forms for this issue of The Democrat.

NEWTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE MATTER.

The supreme court on Tuesday heard argument in the Newton county court house, case, participated in by Herman E. Rogers of Morocco and Merrill Moores of Indianapolis for the “autis” and E. B. Sellers of Monticello and Addison C. Harris of Indianapolis for the county commissioners. The question involved is the power of the county council to make an appropriation at a special session of money for building a new court house, the appellants contending that the county reform act does not authorize such action. A decision will be made in a few days.

TOO SPARSELY SETTLED.

Congressman Crumpacker has written Postmaster Meyers that, owing to the sparsely settled dis* tricts of a part of Jasper county complete free rural mail delivery can not be made at present. By re-arranging some of the old routes and establishing a few new ones, however, he thinks the majority of the inhabitants of the county can be accommodated Examination for carriers on the the new route to be established out of Tefft August 15, will be held here to-day.

GET YOUR LAWN MOWER SHARPENED.

I have just set up in my shop a fine new machihe for sharpening lawn mowers. It does the work to perfection. We also grind all kinds of edge tools, and do saw filing. M. L. Hemphill, For Rent.—A desirable room for department store, also office rooms and basement at the corner of-Washington and Front streets, Rensselaer, Indiana. Baughman & Williams. See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans.