Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

A NEW PLAN

To Improve That Jordan Townshlp*Road. THREE TOWNSHIPS ARE TO UNITE. Petition* Now Being Circulated For Elections in flarton, Jordan and Carpenter Townships. It being found that the proposed plan of improving that three miles of notorious bad road in Jordan tp., would not do, as the county could not appropiate money for the improvement, a new plan has been devised by which the three townships interested will bear the expense—Marion, Jordan and Carpenter—and petitions to that end have been circulated this week and will be presented to the commissioners at their session next week, asking for an election to vote on the proposition. The petitions are being generally signed by prominent taxpayers of all the townships interested, and if the election carries this section of the most extensively traveled road in the county will be filled in with gravel and an eyesore to the county removed. In the event of this road being improved, it is probable that Jordan tp., will go ahead and build an east and west road from the Range Line road to the Newton county line. Because Jordan township has been reliably democratic for many years —we know of no other reason—our republican friends have poked couoiderable fun at that township, but for some years Jordan has raised the best crops of any township in the county, and her people generally are as wideawake and prosperous as are found anywhere, and when it comes to improvements that are beneficial to the people they will not be found backward. The only reason this section of road has not been improved long ago is because of the few people of that township who use it and the fact that there are few people living on the road. Some of the heaviest landowners along the line are good republicans who did not want the improvement made because it would hit their pocketbooks a little. By the proposed plan it will be a very light assessment on everybody in the three townships, and it is hoped that it will go through. S. A. Brnsnahan, of near Parr, finished threshing Tuesday and his yield was a trifle under 40 bushels per acre, a very good yield considering the wet season and the lay of the land in that section.

DEATH OF MRS. MARGARET DAY.

Mrs. Margaret Day. widow of Wilborn Day, deceased, aged 82 years, 9 months and 23 days, died at the home of her grand daughter, Mrs. Milt Michaels, in Barkley township, last Friday evening. She had been in poor health for some time, but yet her death came rather suddenly. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the residence of Mr. Michaels, on the Wm. Day farm, Rev. Clarke of the Christian church conducting the services. Interment in the Smith cemetery in Barkley tp. Mrs. Day had lived in Jasper county over fifty years, and was the mother of fourteen children, but six of whom are yet living— William 8., of Rensselaer; Charles Day and Mrs. Amanda J. Antrim of Kingman, Kan.; Mrs. Mattie J. Verrick of Norcator, Kan., and George Day of Iroquois county, 111. Her husband died thirteen years ago.

AUTOMOBILE GOES WRONG.

Probable Fatal Accident Near Frankfort.— Rensselaer Man With The Party. Frankfort, Ind., August 2 John Rynearson, deputy State oil inspector, living at West Lafayette, was injured in an automobile accident, just west of this city, thia morning, and probably will die. Mr. Rynearson, with his wife and ten-year-old son John, and his brother-in-law, John O. Martindale, of Rensselaer, left Lafayette early to-day in a sixty-horse-

power automobile, to drive through to Indianapolis. When near Wild Cat creek, west of this city, while going down a steep hill, Mr. Rynearson, who was driving the machine, attempted to change the speed from medium to alow, but touched the wrong lever and increased the speed. The machine got beyond bis control and jumped over a fifteen-foot embankment, ail of the occupants being buried beneath the machine, except Mr. Martindale, who was thrown twenty feet to one side. Mr. Martindale took Mrs. Rynearson and son from under the automobile, but before Mr. Rynearson could be freed it was necessary to get a team of horses and drag the machine off him. Mr. Rynearson suffered a dislocation .of bis left hip, and his skull was fractured. Physicians entertain no hope of his recovery. He was brought to this city and taken to the hospital. The other members of the party escaped with slight bruises. The machine was wrecked. Mr. Rynearson was appointed deputy State oil inspector only a few months ago. He is about fiftyfour years of age. Later reports state the Rynerson died Thursday. The Martindale mentioned, is ex-county commissioner John Martindale of Newton tp.

“FOR GIVING WIDEST PUBLICITY.”

Such Is Intent of Law Requiring Publlcatione In the Two Lending Party Papera, Says Judge Nye. Medaryville Advertiser: In the suit of the Winamac Republican vs. Auditor E. S. Rees, tried before Judge Nye last Saturday, the Republican was victorious, and all legal matters will hereafter be published in the Winamac Republican and not in the Monterey Sun. The court, in giving its decision, among other things says: “There is no politics in thia. The statute was not enacted for the purpose of distributing patronage equally between the two party papers. The statute contemplates giving the notices the widest publicity possible, so that the public may read them, and it is assumed that the widest publicity will be given when published in the two leading party papers. It is not incumbent on a taxpayer to take every paper published in every corner of the county to see the fiublished county notices. The aw providee that he shall find them in the two leading party papers of the county, and so he has a right under the law to find them there. The auditor interferes with this right when be fails to so publish them. If be does not conform with the law, he may be restrained by any taxpayer in the county, and compelled to observe and follow the law.”

VINCENT EISELE’S B ARN BURNS.

Four Horses and ■ Cow Perished In Flames.-Other Storm Notos. A severe electrical storm, accompanied by a good soaking and much needed rain, fell throughout this section of the state last Friday evening, continuing during the greater part of the night. The lightning did considerable damage in different parts of the county, the greatest being the burning of the Vincent Eisele barn three miles south of Rensselaer, together with four good horses, one cow, several tons of hay, seven sets of harness and other contents. The barn was struck about 9p. m. The loss is about halt covered by S6OO insurance. Charlie Dluzack of Jordan tp., had two cOWs killed. They were insured in the Farmers’ Mutual. James Kennedy, also of Jordon, had an implement shed struck and burned, together with contents, consisting of binder, planter and other tools. Lightning struck at several other places in Jordan and burned a shock of oats at Ben j, Barger’s and one at Ord Yeoman’s, but no further damage there is reported. A. R. Schultz of Union tp., had a good horse killed, worth $l5O and insured for one-half that amount. 8. H. Hopkins of Barkley tp., had a cow killed. Over south of Mt. Ayr the barn of Philip Stacker was struck and burned.

> 18 lbs. oLgranulated sugar for SI.OO at the Clearance Sale, at the Chicago Bargain Store. -

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, August 5, 1905.

MORE CANDIDATES

Our Piano Contest Growing in Interest. THE DEMOCRAT’S LIBERAL OFFER. Remington K. of P. Lodge and nt. Hope Church Are Still In the Lead.

While this is a busy season of the year with the people of Jasper county, still interest in The Democrat's free piano offer continues to grow and some new contestants appear this week. If you would like for your church, Sunday school or lodge to secure this handsome and expensive instrument as a free gift from The Democrat, it behooves you to get in the contest and get your choice announced. Some church, Sunday school or lodge in Jasper county is going to get this S3OO piano free of cost and if you get in the swim it may be the one of your preference that gets it. Don’t delay the matter, but get started at once and induce your neighbor to help out your choice of the contestants by subscribing for The Democrat, if he is not already a subscriber. His vote may be worth much to you, and besides aiding in a worthy cause he is getting the best paper published in the county a full year at a very modest price, one dollar. The vote on the contest to date stands as follows:

Mt. Hope Church, Jordan tp 70 Remi n gton K. of P. L0dge..........7..... 60 Barkley M.E. Church 40 St. John’s Court, C. O. F., Remington?... 40 Rensselaer Court, C. O. F 30 Milroy Baptist Church 30 Rensselaer Christian Church 20 Barkley Christian Church ......... 10 Knitnan M. E. Church 10 Gillam Christian S. 5.... 10 All votes are being carefully filed away and will be counted at the end of the contest by a disinterested committee of three who will award the piano to the contestant securing the greatest number of votes. 1$ case of a tie vote the piano will go to the two tieing contestants, and they can settle the tie between themselves.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. t — o — Attorney W. J. Reed of Knox, was in the city Saturday looking after business matters. There were no nnloaned school funds on hand August 1 expcept what has already been spoken for.

There was a rush in the marriage Jicense business Saturday, no less than four being issued. This swelled the total for the month to 8, against 5 for the preceding month and 9 for J uly 1904.

A big hole has been dug up in the court house yard and an opening made in the tunnel from the heating plant to get out the old steam pipe which has been in eight years and replace it with new. The old pipe is rusted so badly that it is unfit for use.

The Democrat publishes in another column the annual estimates of Jasper county for the year 1906. Under the new law the road tax levy is now made in May, and in a number of the estimates as published herein the road levy is not included. This makes some of the townships levies appear extremely low as compared with others.

The commissioners of White county held a special session Monday to let the contract for twelve miles of stone roads in Honey Creek township, in which the town of Reynolds is located. No bids were filed, however, contractors claiming that the roads could not be built for the estimate, some $1,700 per mile. A new set

of viewers will nuw be appointed, it is reported, and the estimate raised. —c—- • Trustee Phillips was down from Gillam Monday on business. His township got a big rain also Friday night and there was considerable wind with it. Many fields of corn were blown flat to the ground, and some of it will hardly straighten up again, he thinks. The barn of Ezra Bowman, near Francisville Pulaski county, was struck by lightning and burned and the residence of J. E. Tillett was struck and somewhat damaged.

Marriage licenses issued: July 29, Charles H. Faulkener, of Jasper county, aged 29, to Mary Magdaline White, of Medaryville, aged 19. First marriage for each. July 29, William Wesse, of Wheatfield, aged 33, to Lizzie Kellerman of Dunnville, aged 22. Second marriage for each, groom’s first wife having died Aug. 11, 1901, and bride having been divorced, but date not given. July 29, Thomas Joseph Thurston, of Remington, aged 22, to Leia Ella Gibbs, of Remington, aged 20. First marriage for each. July 29, Tull Elbert Malone, of Buffalo, Ind., aged 21, to Grace Rebecca Hines of Rensselaer, aged 16. First marriage for each.

Following is the assessed valuation of Jasper county for 1905, exclusive of railroad and other corporations: Hanging Grove $ 459,065 Gillam 488,960 Walker 453,460 Barkley.. 800,775 Rensselaer City 1,248,700 Marion 1,271,390 {ordan 573> 01 5 Tewton 644,550 Keener. —35375° Kankakee 202,760 Wheatfield 284,595 Wheatfield Town ’<5775 Carpenter ’>376,9’5 Remington Town.. 373>3’0 Milroy... 195,480 Union 604,040 Total $9,446,459 The railroad and corporate assessments last year were $1,134,091, and will probably be about the same this year. The mortgage exemptions in the county this year are $407,030, against $409,035, in 1904, and should be deducted from these fiigures to give the net taxable assessment.

New suits filed: No. 6890. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., vs. Mattie M. Rinehart et al; action in foreclosure; demand $50,000. This action is brought on mortgage given by the principal defendant on her Hanging Grove township lands on April 7, 1904, and which it is generally understood was turned into the McCoy bank to assist that institution in liquidating some pressing debts at that time. The land has since been covered with other mortgages until the amount as shown by the county records is $115,000. The land was appraised last week by the sheriff and R. B. Harris, in the attachment proceedings of Trustee Chapman, at only $56,330. This action will probably cut out all the other creditors unless the Bowens, of Delphi, try to save something on their mortgages, which are for SBO,OOO. There is another mortgage for $3,500 ahead of the Bowen mortgages, however, given to one Horace Russel. The deeds do not show that any of these mortgages have ever been released. The complaint alleges that all the interest notes that have become due are unpaid. No. 6891. Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs. Martha E. Stoner and Daniel A. Stoner; action in foreclosure; demand $4,500. No. 6892. Jesse C. Gwin vs. Peter H. Zea and Harriet Zea, his wife; suit on note and foreclosure of mortgage, demand SIOO.

WANTS FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGES.

The widow of the late Isaac Parsons of Monon has sued two saloon-keepers at that place and their bondsmen for $4,000 damages, charging that they sold her husband liquor during the latter days of bis life and at times when he was intoxicated, and as a consequence thereof he became demented and incapacitated for business, thereby causing him to waste and squander his money which should have been used for the support of plaintiff.

"The Hustler” at Ellis Opera House Monday night.

THE BIG IROQUOIS DITCH.

Friday Date for Letting Contract For the Improvement. LARGE NUMBER OF CONTRACTORS ON THE GROUND EARLY. Main Ditch, Pinkamink, Gifford and Davisson Laterals Sold to Stewart & Son, of Kokomo.

Yesterday at 1 o’clock was the time set for the letting of contract for the construction of the great Iroquois ditch, which is to mark an epoch in the history of Jasper county, and is one of the greatest drainage enterprises ever attempted in the county. It has been hanging fire for many years, but it is now hoped that all the difficulties have been overcome and this great improvement which it is expected will drain thousands of acres of land and furnish outlet for many thousands more will be speedily constructed. A large number of contractors were on the ground all week, from four or five different states, and when the engineer offered the work at public outcry the bidders were as follows:

As the bidding was quite long drawn out we give only the two last bids, all the other bidders but Sternberg & Son of Winamac, and H. H. Stewart & Son, of Kokomo, dropping out early in the game. Stewart, rock, 87.25 cents per yard ; earth above rock 9.50 cents per yard; main ditch 6 cents; Pinkamink and Gifford laterals, 6.70 cents; Davisson lateral 820 cents. Sternberg was the same, except 77.50 cents on rock. This is all much less than the estimates. The estimates were sl.lO on rock; 25 cents on dirt above rock; 7 cents on main ditch, and the laterals about 9 cents. (We have not the figures at hand in the laterals.) The other laterals had not been let at time of going to press. Of course The Democrat went to press too early to state which contractors will be awarded the work, as there are many preliminaries to begone through with before final contracts are signed up. The engineer furnished the following information to prospective contractors, to aid them in bidding, which will be of interest to Democrat readers. As a “section” is 100 feet, it is easy for the reader to figure the length of the main ditch and laterals: 1. All bids will be by the yard, and the computation in the record shall settle the yardage. 2. No part of any ditch will be

TO INCLUDE ALL THE WARDS.

Remonstrance to Include Entire City To be Filed Next Month. The anti-saloon movement in Rensselaer is now to include the whole city, The Democrat is informed, and the remonstrance that has been circulated in the First ward will not be filed with the county auditor to-day, but will go over to the September term of commissioners’ court, when it is the intention to have blanket remonstrances against the saloon business in the Second and Third wards ready to file. There are four saloons here at present, all located in the First ward, the other wards having successfully remonstrated against every applicant for the past ten years. In the First ward the efforts of the anti-saloon people have been only partially successful heretofore, closing the saloons two years ago for a few months only. Now. under the Moore law, which makes a remonstrance once filed containing the names of a majority of the voters of a city ward or township, as the case may be, and remonstrating against the business instead of against the individual, effective for two years, they hope to win out by a safe majority, it is said. Of the 4 saloons here, Kellner’s Schultz’s and Hildebrand’s licenses expire next month,while Strickfaden’s expires Dec. 14. Those having the remonstrances in hand a re working the matter quietly

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let until bids are received for all. The ditch is an unit, and all or none will be sold. 3. The main will be sold before any arm, and each arm sold in succession, going up stream. 4. The working sections will be fixed as the work is offered, traveling up stream. The stone work is reported below station 970; the earth work from 0 to 970. 5. Before any bids are accepted they may be revised by lessening the price and increasing the quantity by adding other working sections. 6. The lowest bid, if made good by a certified check or cash equal to 5 per cent., will also become the best bid. This is to secure a contract 7. The contract consists of agreement to do the work and a ’ bond double the amount of the bid to be executed within six days. 8. Each contract will be conditioned to commence work within thirty days from the time means are provided by sale of bonds or assessments, and to complete the lower section in one year from the time means to pay are provided. 9. Contracts for upper sections must be completed in order, none exceeding 18 months. 10. The earth work to be commenced at the upper end; rock work at the lower end of the working sections of main ditch. 11. Read the notice, the suggestions of the committee, and these observations, and make due inquiry before bidding. No upper section can be received until the outlet is constructed.

STATEMENT OF POINTS. The rock work extends from 971 to 1102. The railroad crosses near Parr at 313. Burke’s bridge is at 614. Alter’s mill dam is at 472. The widths are as follows, commencing at its source: 6 ft. from 0 to 274—Kurrie, 8 “ “ 274 “ 372—Swaim. 10 “ “ 372 “ 437—Lakin. 12 “ “ 437 “ 546—Davis’n. 16 “ “ 546 “ 661—Gifford 25 “ “ 661 *“ 878—Pink’i’k. 30 “ “ 878 “ 1027, g’y cut’ff, 35 “ “ 1027 “ 1102—mouth.

and the public is generally kept in ignorance of who has signed and who has not, also the number of names secured.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

x/July 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Welsh, south of town a son. July 30, to Mr. and Mrs. James Price, northwest of town, a 2J lb. boy. "XnJuly 31, to Mr. and Mrs. John Richards in the north part of town, a daughter.

“THE HUSTLER” IS COMING.

Will Be At Ellis Opera House Next Monday Evening. Manager Ellis promises local theatre-goers a treat for next Monday night, in form of a HighClass Musical Farce Comedy. On that occasion J. A. Bradley’s mirth provoking Comedy, “The Hustler,” will make its initial appearance in this city. This company comprises some of the most prominent artists in the country, and gives an intertainment equal to any seen in larger cities. For this evening the management has decided to make the price of admissioh 25, 35 and 50 cents, which is indeed very liberal, considering the high standing of this company. Reserved seats now on sale. One-third off marked price in plain figures, all wash goods, ribbons, bonnets, etc., at the Chicago Bargain Store.