Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — Page 2

..Seeing is 'Believing., Regardless of so-called 50 per cent, reduction sales our prices are still below the /I IWI prices of others. JJA. Inspect our line of [if WOMENS SHOES H and CHILDREN'S VIIULV fl?' 1 and convince yourself that s—the above heading is true. MM Every Day is Bargain Day With Us. x* ** Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. Same Room aa Occupied By

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ■ OP RENSSELAER, IND., MARCH 14, 190 s. KRHOCUC'EB. LIABILITIES. Loans $225,367 36 Capital Stock $ 30,000 CO U. S. und County Bond* ... 26.100 00 Surplus and Profits 15,724 39 Bank Building ... 7,000 00 Circulation 7.500 00 Cash and due from banks 70,809 06 Deposits 276,052 03 *329,276 42 - $329,276 42 DIRECTORS, A.Parklson, John M. Wasson, E. L. Hollingsworth, President. Vice-President. Cashier. Janies T. Randle. Oeo. E. Hurray. farm 10m 0 specnim 1 snare 01 lour Mooooe is mom.

Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CAKE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OK OLD ONES-TO GROW RICH? Do you want to know about rich farming lands, fertile, well located, on a Trunk Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at from 13.0 > to $5.00 an acre which will be worth from $30.00 to $150.00 within 10 years ? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (8) short weeks? Ot places where truck growing and fruit rais'ng yield enormous returns each year? •Of a land where you can live out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing profitable nianufactt r ng industries; of rich mineral locations,and splendid business openings. If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me. I will gladly advise you fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLI-, KY.

IVofe Votzr Coupons \ I On page three of this issue of The Demo- s Icrat we make public what we term a Popularity t Voting Contest. It is our intention to conduct J this contest on a fair and square basis and every s vote that is sent in to be voted so the Church, £ s Sunday School Lodge or Club wi Ibe correctly 2 and honestly counted for the one voted for. We $ £ wish to state that the prize offered by us is / worth every cent of $300.00 and that the $ £ CHASE Piano, manufactured by the Starr g J Piano, Co., which we are giving away, can not » £ be purchased of any dealer in the state of Indiana, x or any other state, or of the manufacturer, £ for one cent less than $300.00. £ £ To clearly show that the prize we are offer- fi S ing is of the value we claim for it, we have proJ cured from the Starr Piano Co., a written guar- ? antee which shows the full value to be worth the I selling price of $300.00, and to be of the very best of workmanship and fully warranted for a term of five years. There will be no outside people connected with this contest, and at no 5 5 time will we allow any person to say that we £ have a scheme or chance game, or anything of that sort, for there is no chance or scheme connected in any way shape or form. It is merely a popularity voting contest between the many different Churches, Sunday Schools, Lodges and Clubs in our field. All votes are to be sent addressed to i Jasper County Democrat 1 Rensselaer, Ind. g.

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TROUBLE IN THB CHOIR. They'a trouble good an’ plenty down in Rhodesestown to-day, An' they'll be a social cyclone 'fore it’s ended so they say— An’ p'raps they'll have t* git another preacher fr their church, Since ol’ Brother Lukens promises t’ leave ’em in th’ lurch. It all come about through flirtin’—leastwise, so th’ preacher said, While some others thought 'twao caused by Solomon a'beln’ dead— But th' trouble all was started, so th* elders seemed t’ think, By th* preacher's misconstruction o* th’ meanin'of a wink. Sukey Perkins—she’s th' alto—ain't much up on readin' notes. But her voice is qualified for sump'n better’n herdin' shoats, So th’ leader o’ th’ choir, called Ned Collinson by name, _2.' ' . , Volunteers t* take her voice an' sorter cultivate th’ sameSo it happened that they had t’ sing a duet Sunday night— One o' them cantakerous anthems that you have t’ git jest right, An’ f'r fear she’d make a slip an’ let a tra-la-la git by, Ned agrees t' notify her by a movement o' th’ eye. “Solomon" sings Ned; “Was not arrayed!” sings Sukey back at him, An'they kept ondressin’ Solomon with energy an’ vim Till th’ preacher wondered what in thunderation it c'd be That made Solomon so long dressin’; and he turned his bead t’ see; Well, by jumpin' spruce! jest there was where poor Sukey had t’ go Into a musical conniption fit with Ned an' so He give th' tip by droppin' down th' lid o’ his left eye, An'th’preacher seen th’ movement, an' heheaved a angry sigh! Then up he jumped, an' grabbed his bat, an’ started toward th’ door A-vowin' thet he’s gone f’r good, an’ won’t be seen no more, Instillin' righteous principles an* pushiu' folks up higher Where th’ devil’s got a mortgage on th’ people in th’ choir! —H. E. Warner, in Inland Printer.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: The government has already ran up against a snag in the investigation of the cotton leak from the Department of Agriculture. Two of the witnesses summoned from New York to answer questions in the investigation before the grand jury looking to the indictment of Holmes and perhaps other persons in connection with the leak have refused to answer and the court has given them one more day to consider their decision before sentencing them to jail for contempt. The ground taken by these witnesses, Haas and Peckham, both of whom are advised by counsel, is that the court has no jurisdiction to compel them to answer and that their answer might tend to incriminate them. Mr. Haas read a long statement to the court, prepared of course by his counsel, and asked the jury to make it a matter of record. How far the witnesses will go in their refusal to answer the questions of the district attorney is of course a question, but the ground on which they have based their refusal makes it possible that the court will not compel them to answer. At the same time their refusal on the ground that their answers might incriminate them, while it may be purely technical, renders their refusal the more interesting and probably will convince the jury that they know something worth revealing or perhaps better worth keeping secret. In either case it makes the proceedings of the grand jury more mysterious and interesting than ever and serves to convince the general public that the district attorney is going to have a whole lot of trouble in getting to the bottom of the case. He has promised that there is already sufficient ground for criminal proceedings but this is only natural to a man in his position and people will be more ready to believe that he is right after he has secured a conviction than before. t t t It seems however, that the trouble in the Department of Agriculture did not stop with the cotton leak. There have been other troublea under the surface in the Department and one of them was brought to light Saturday by the resignation of Dr. Geo. T. Moore of the Bureau of Soils. Secretary Wilson has complained year after year that he could not get men of the scientific calibre required by the Department for the wages that the government was willing to pay. The government has been pretty libeial and the appropriations for the Department have about doubled since 1898 but it appears that the private employers are still able to outbid the government. Dr. Moore while in the employ of the department devised a nitrogen compound that was supposed to be highly beneficial as a soil enricher and the device was patentled under his name by the AgriI cultural Department and a num-

ber of pamphlets written on the subject. It was about as good a n advertisement as a patent compound could have though the fact that it was patented by the department precluded the possibility of there being any commercial monopoly in its use. However, there was a company formed in West Chester, Pa., which was willing to take the risk and offered Dr. Moore a substantial salary and a good block of the company’s stock to come with them. The Doctor thought over the proposition and dickered with the department for a raise of salary. The negotiations dragged on and the raise was deferred for a long time. Meanwhile a block of stock was made in the name of the Doctor’s wife and stood that way till a hearing was had the other day from a couple of men on an agricultural paper when all the facts were brought out Dr. Moore wrote a letter to the Secretary tendering his resignation and stating that he did not want to embarrass the department by continuing in his present position if it should be any embarrassment. Sec. Wilson did not say whether it was an embarrassment or not but he accepted the resignation. t t t

In addition to the fresh row in the Agricultural Department, the government is confronted with more trouble in the Government Printing Office. That big institution has just been treated to a very funny investigation by a special government commission in connection with the purchase of seventy-two type setting machines. The commission was one of the most extravagantly secret in all of the numerous government investigations in Washington, and its report is now in the bands of the executive but has not yet been given to the public. Now it seems however that the government is tired of paying printing bills of the size recently presented to it, and as the appropriations demanded by the printing office have jumped from $3,500,000 in 1898 to $7,000,000 in the present year, a committee of which Senator T. C. Platt was the chairman, has been appointed to ransack the affairs of the office and get a little reduction if possible in the size of the bills. This committee bas not yet had a chance to meet. Rather it has had plenty of chance but the weather has been too warm and the members have not gotten together. When they do. however, they will find a nice state of affairs. The government has been saddled with the printing of the reports of Dr. Seldon Jackson relative to the breeding of reindeer Alaska. These reports are lengthy and profusely illustrated and the public which is deeply interested in the raising of reindeer in Alaska is some limited. But the reports have been printed under the authority of the Department of the Interior and they have helped largely to swell the printing bill. The Daughters of the American Revolution have also gotten the government to publish the reports of all their factional fights and feminine hairpulling which are too long even for the Washington papers to handle in detail, and the printery bas been made to reproduce all their portraits and the portraits or almost anyone else that wanted to get into print. t t t It is quite likely that this sort of thing will be stopped and stopped suddenly, but it has cost the government seven million in the past year and it may be said incidentally that the same sort of extravagance has run riot in a good many of the other government departments. If the same matter is handled sensibly and in a business like way by the coming Congress, it is quite possible that the appropriation bills might be so cut down that the Republicans would make good their boast that the deficit could be met without resort to additional taxes. But it is very doubtful with all the private and influential interests at court if anything will be forthcoming from the numerous investigations except a generous coat of white, wash.

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. FARM FOR SALE. Half section of land, good buildings, well fenced, two good wells, two good wind pnmpe, and running water besides. A good stock farm and a good investment at the price. For price and terms see A. G. W. Farmer, R-R-4. Rensselaer, Ind. Come to The Democrat office for all kinds of job printing.

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OBITUARY.

Andrew J. Smith was born in Union Co., Ohio, Oct. 24, 1830; died in Monroe Co., Mo., July 18, 1905, aged 74 years, 8 months and 24 days. Deseased was married on March 10, 1863 to Sarah A. Redding of Union Co., Ohio.’ To this union there was born 9 children —5 sons 4 daughters—namely: Wm T., of Monroe Co., Mo; Mrs. Flora B. Lawer of Radnor, Ohio; Mrs. Zellie Deeter of 1 Talmage, Ohio; Mrs. Lillie Deeter ' (deceased); Andrew J. Jr., Rem-! ington, Ind.; Mrs. Minnie Smith, Remington., Ind.; Benjamin T., Fredrick W. and, Louis S., still at home. The family moved from Ohio to Jasper Cx, Ind., in March 1887, and resided there until Feb. 1904, when they moved to Monroe Co., Mo., where they now reside. Deceased leaves a wife, 5 sons and 3 daughters to mourn their loss. The funeral was held in the Christian church in Santa Fe, Mo., July 19, conducted by Rev. R. Revis, in the presence of a large and sympathizing congregation, after which he was laid to rest in the Santa Fe cemetery to await the resurrection.

FOUNTAIN PARK ASSEMBLY. An Unsurpassed Program for the Season Opening August la. Ar.g. 12, Old Soldiers and S. S. day. Aug. 13, Father Vaughn day. Aug 14, Scientific day. Aug. 15, Dr Driver day. Aug, 16 Gov. Hanly day. Aug. 17, Athletic day. Aug. 18, Farmers day. Aug. 19, Gov. LaFollette day. Aug. 20, Dr. Spurgeon day. Aug. 21, Prof. Krebs day. Aug. 22, Elias Day’s day. Aug. 23, Childrens’ day. Aug. 24, G. R. Wendling day. Aug. 25, Stockho’ders day. Aug. 26, Rally day. Aug. 27, Closing day.

INDIANA STATE FAIR.

The prize list of the fifty-second annual Indiana State Fair is out and is being mailed to exhibitors and other interested parties. The date of the fair this year is September 11 to 15, and it will be held at Indianapolis as usnal. The prize list has been revised and enlarged, and it shows that $30,000.00 will be awarded in prizes in all departments. The management will leave nothing undone to make this the greatest fair in its history. The special free attractions will be announced later. Prize lists can be obtained by addressing the Secretary, Charles Downing, Room 14, State House, Indinianapolis. Entries will close September Ist.

For sale. miles west, S3O. J. M. Helmick & Son. (Aug. 12.) Wheatfield, Ind. Gilbraltar flour, $1.35; XXXX Minnesota $1.40; the same as others ask $1.50 and $1.60 for. John

WAGON BOXES BEST MADE ONLY sl3. OO REHSSEUEB FEEt STORE A.L. BTtAJVCW S. U. DOBBINS o. Live Stock and General Auctioneer and expert in handling a sale and getting you good prices and giving you satisfaction at a reasonable price. Come and see me. MT OFFICE IS WITH FERGUBON, HERSHMAN A FERMI, Law and Reul Estate. West Side Public Square, RENSSELAER, IND. Poland China Hogs FOR SALE OF EITHER SEX. Sow* sired by (Ohio’s Hog) Wichita Chief. Captain Sunshine and Sure Perfection the Great, bred to a son of L. & W. and Sure Perfection 82029. Prices reasonable. J. F. FENWICK, R.F. D. No. 1. Goodland, Ind.

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