Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

REMINGTON AGAIN

Its K. of P. Lodge In the Lead Once More, IN THE DEMOCRATS PIANO CONTEST Many Vote* Cast This Week and One New Name Is Added to th List of Contestants. The Remington K. of P’s. did not occupy second place long in The Democrat’s Popularity Contest —in fact the friends of the order corrected the matter as soon as they learned “where they were at” by sending in enough votes to again place it at the head. Mt. Hope has also gained many votes during the week, but not enough to hold the lead, and has fallen back to second place again. Several other contestants have also gained considerably and thd Parr Baptist church now third in the list, while a new cfindidate has appeared in the person of the Gifford lodge of Red Men, a healthy young lodge of that prominent order, and, in fact, the only lodge of Red Men in Jasper county. This friendly popularity contest is fast growing in interest all over the county, and in • fact among The Democrat’s readers throughout the country, and its readers in distant states, most of whom were former residents of this county and therefore interested in the success of some one of the contestants, are sending in their renewals and casting their votes for the organization of their choice. The vote at the hour of going to press stood as follows: Remington K. of P. Lodge 315 Mt. Hope Church, jordan tp 300 Parr Baptist Church 180 Rensselaer Christian Church 140 Wheatfield K. of P. Lodge... 100 Rensselaer Court, C. O. F .. 90 St. John's Court, C. O. F., Remington.... 90 Gifford United Brethren Church 90 Milroy Baptist Church 80 Barkley M. E. Church 70 Gillam Christian S. S. 70 McCoy,burg Sundav School 40 Gillam M. B. Church 40 Barkley Christian Church 40 Remington Christian Church..... 30 West Barkley Sunday School 30 Rose Bud Church 30 Virgie Sunday School 20 Kniman M. E. Church.... 20 Shoshone Tribe. 1.0. R. M. (Gifford) 20

It is not too late by any means for new contestants to enter the field, as each new subscriber is entitled to 20 votes and each old subscriber to 10 votes on each dollar paid on old subscription. If the name of your Church, Sunday School or Lodge is not yet entered in the contest, see some of its friends interested and get up a few new subscribers and forge to the front. Remember that twenty new subscribers means 400 votes, which would place it to the front, and as nothing succeeds like success this woul/1 give you a prestige that would bring other votes from subscribers having no particular choice. If you are not already a subscriber to The Democrat it behooves you to get in line and become one, and thus help the organization of your choice to secure this valuable instrument. 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. In case of a tie vote the piano will go to the two tieing contestants, and they can settle the tie between themselves.

JASPER COUNTY FARM.

We are informed that the Jasper County Poor Farm under the management of Philip Blue, from Aug. 31, 1904, to Aug. 31,1005, shows receipts from all services $2,981.63 and expenses $2,352.88, leaving a net balance of $628.75. The invoice shows S6OO more -personal property Aug. 31.1905, than when Mr. Blue took charge of the farm, and yet during the last year The Jasper County Democrat has repeatedly spoken of the farm as a “financial sink hole.”—The Which Is It Review. If the “publisher” of the Review would do his own thinking and informing instead of letting interested parties do it for him he might publish more accurate news ■—were he so inclined, of course. The facts are that the reports of the retiring poor farm superintendent show that the receipts for

the year ending August 31, 1905, were 92,981.63, and the expenses for the same period were *2,205.60, leaving an apparent surplus of $776.03. BUT, the report for December did not contain the 1150 quarterly salary for the superintendent, which would cut this apparent surplus down that much, and in the March, 1905, report is included $256 that was reported in sales’ report of June, 1904, and therefore has no business to be reported as a part of the “receipts” for the past year. The two items cut down the apparent surplus of $776.03, to $371.03, which shows, on the face, that the farm has been self supporting for the past year. During the past year, however, there has not been scarcely anything paid for improvements or repairs of any kind, and the expenses are for maintenance alone. We do not know, either, how many outstanding bills there may be that properly belong to the expense account of said year. It might be well, also, to give the receipts and expenditures for the preceding year, and (including the $256 reported in June, 1904, which we have very proper: ly excluded from the March,. 1905, report in our figures above) we find that the expenses for the year from August 31, 1903, to August 31, 1904, were $3,092.47, and receipts for the same period were $1,626.61, making a net deficit for that year of $1,465.86. Now, regarding the property on hand as reported. We know nothing about the values placed on the property in either case, but accepting each as correct and we find Blue’s report shows $185.47 worth more than Clark’s. The corn, potatoes, etc., in the Blue report are still in the field and are estimated. They must also be harvested, and the yield is problematical. The two reports are published in another part of this paper side by side and the reader can judge for himself. The figures The Democrat has published have been taken from the records and were not given to us by any county officer who might be interested in making a good showing, on paper, for the late administration and a bad one for the previous one. We think the records in the auditor’s office will bear out the statement that the Jasper county poor farm has been a gigantic sink-hole.

BENNETT TAKEN TO DANVILLE

Constable Peck of Walker Land* a Young Man Wanted For Stealing a Buggy. L. C. Peck, constable of Walker tp., came down Saturday and turned over to Sheriff O’Connor Daniel Bennett, a 19-year-old lad whose parents reside on one of Gifford’s farms near the Buck Horn school house in Walker. About a month ago Bennett, whose folks moved from near Danville, 111., last spring, took one of bis father’s horses and went to Danville, it is alleged, and stole a fine rubber tired buggy and a single harness from a farmer near that city. He drove the rig back home, but was t racked by officers and was found washing up the buggy when they appeared on the scene. He saw the officers in time to make bis escape to a corn field and they went back home with the property but without the thief. Constable Peck assisted in the recovery of the stolen property and was told that he would be paid $lO reward if he caught the young man. He has kept tab on him since and been in communication with the Danville officers, who secured requisition papers and sent them on to Mr. Peck. Saturday morning the latter went to where the young fellow was at work threshing and made the arrest, brought him here and put him in jail and notified the Danville officers who came up Sunday and took the prisoner back with them He took his arrest coolly and made no trouble at all. It is reported that he stole a livery rig at Danville some three years ago and was sent to the reform school for that job. This will probably prove a more serious matter.

CAR LOAD OF PEACHES.

John Eger will receive another car load or fine Michigan peaches next Tuesday and Wednesday. This will be the last shipment of the season. Remember The Democrat office for job printing.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, September 23, 1905.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. Next Friday is the date set for the re-selling of the Iroquois ditch improvement. —o — Squire Irwin officiated Tuesday afternoon in marrying Mr. Harry Hibbs and Miss Grace Long. The ceremony took place in the clerk’s office. —o — Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 19, Henry Elwood Hibbs, of Momence, 111., aged 21, to Grace Edna Long, of Jasper county, Ind., aged 18. First marriage for each. —o — The Horton ditch bonds (sl,840) and the Evers ditch bonds ($7,000,) were sold last Friday, the State Bank ot Rensselaer taking the former at S3O premium, and the Trowbridge & Niver Qo., of Chicago, taking the latter at $lO7 premium. —o — The hearing in the McCoys’ petition to be discharged from bankruptcy which was set to come up before Judge Anderson at Indianapolis last Monday, has been continued until next Monday, when it is expected other matters connected with the estate will be ruled on. —o — The record books in the auditor’s and the clerk’s offices are now being written up on the new record type writers purchased some time ago. Miss Alice Bates operates the one in the former office and Miss Jean McFarland that of the latter. They make a handsome record and the saving on books alone will pay for the machines in a few years, as there is a gain to the page of from two to four pages over the old system of hand written record. It would seem that it would be a matter of economy to purchase one of these machines for the recorder’s office also. —o — New suits filed: No. 6928. Albert M. Kellenberger ys. Viola Kellenberger; action for divorce. The complaint states that plaintiff now resides in Barkley township, Jasper county; that he was married to defendant on Dec. 24, 1899, at Roulette county, No. Dak.; that they lived together until Dec. 31, 1902, when without cause defendant abandoned him; that she is guilty of adultry and many other things, wherefore a divorce is asked for. No. 6929. August Para vs. Jacob Francis; suit on account, appeal from Albert VanDoozer’s court at Wheatfield. No. 6930. James H. Chapman, trustee of the estate of A. McCoy & Co., bankrupts; vs. Seth B. Moffitt; suit to foreclose chattel mortgage. Demand *6OO. No. 6931. J. E. Ausgsburger vs. Christian Gerber; suit on note. No. 6932. State of Indiana on the relation of William L. Lewis, vs. Myrt B. Price; action in quo warranto. A special session of the county commissioners was held Tuesday and the Hanging Grove bond issue was approved and signed. These bonds and those of the Gillam gravel road were bid off some time ago by E. L. Hollingsworth, but the sale hung fire because of some little irregularity which was finally fixed up and the First National Bank took the Gillam bonds and the State Bank those of Hanging Grove. The bond of M. B. Price as engineer in the Iroquois ditch matter was approved. It is in the sum of $5,000 and is signed by the National Surety Co., of New York. The bond of J. P. Gwin as superintendent of construction of the Hanging Grove gravel road, in the sum of SI,OOO, signed by R. B. Porter, as surety, was also approved. Special tax levies have been made as follows for the year 1905 on each SIOO valuation; Keener tp., gravel road, 80 cents; Gillam gravel road, 60 cents; Hanging Grove gravel road, 40 cents. —o — The circuit court has been grinding all week. The jury was

not called until Wednesday and the Iliff et al highway case from Jordan tp., appeal from commissioners’ court, is the only case yet before it. This case was begun Wednesday and was still grinding at the hour of going to press. Following are some of the more important doings thus far: The Moffitt ditch case has been set for trial Oct. 2. Dr. H. G. Jones filed a new bond as guardian of his insane brother, Dr. Jones of Kniman, with M. A. Dilts, S. A. Marsh, F. L. Morland, 8. G. Low and Fred Kroft as sureties. The old bond was released on its petition filed some time ago, In the new indictment against Jasper Guy, of Remington, for shooting W. H. Kenyon several months ago with intent to kill, a plea of not guilty was entered and bond given in the sum of SSOO with Harvey Hartman, of Remington, as surety. Frank Hershman, guardian of Frederick C. Pickner; Hershman resigns as gnardian and James R. Guild of Medaryville appointed in his stead.

ALL SENT TO WHITE.

Criminal Cases Against The IlcCoys Venued From Jasper County. The old criminal cases against A. and T. J. McCoy for embezzlement of deposits while carrying on a banking business here in 1904, just previous to their failure, on grand jury indictments returned last April, were up in the circuit court Saturday. The McCoys were represented in person and by their attorneys, Haywood & McHugh of Lafayette, and the State by E. B. Sellers of Monticello, who has been retained to prosecute the casesand who had charge of the matters before the grand jury. Two interesting points of law were raised by the defendants' attorneys in their plea in abatement. One of these was that Moses Tuteur, one of the jury commissioners whose duty it is to select the names of men to sit as grand and petit jurors, was interested in the indictment and conviction of the McCoys, by reason of having lost funds in their bank, and that this disqualified him as such jury commissioner and made the indictments bad. The other point raised was that in criminal cases taken from the county in which the prosecution is begun, on change of venue, and the indictments are then nolled or dismissed, the defendants have the statutory right to elect whether further prosecution shall be commenced in the original county or in the county where the cases were dismissed; that defendants were not given any opportunity signify their choice in this matter. In the eight new cases against the McCoys (none of the indictments spoken of last week in these columns were against son-in-law Rinehart), the bond was fixed at S3OO in each case. The indictments, we understand, are on practically the same charges as the old indictments that were sent to Lake county and later dismissed because of the belief of Mr. Sellers that they were faulty. H. A. Taylor of Lafayette, a brother-in-law, and James F. Irwin of Rensselaer, went on Tom’s bond and a certified check was put up for the old man. The defendants’ attorneys will raise the same objections to these indictments, we understand, and they, too, will be sent to White county, the court indicating that he would make the same ruling, sustaining the State’s demurer to defendants plea in abatement, as in the old cases.

RENSSELAER GUN CLUB SHOOT.

The Rensselaer Gun Club will hold a two days tournament at the Warren Robinson farm, in this city, Sept. 26-27,1905. We have been promised some of the best amateur and professional target shoots in the United States and expect to make this shoot one of the best held in the state this year. Event 8 constitutes a 25 target race for the championship gold medal worth $25.00, open to Lake, Newton, Fountain, White, Tippecanoe, Benton, Pulaski and Jasper counties. The medal will be shot off the first day. Everett Bbown, Mgr. Second hand wheels at Gwin's, as good as new, at very low prices. Come and see us.

QUO WARRANTO

Proceedings Brought By Engineer Lewis TO OUST ENGINEER MYRT B. PRICE In the Iroquois Ditch Matter.—Suit to Test Power of Commissioners To Discharge Plaintiff. The state of Indiana on relation of William L. Lewis, vs. Myrt B. Price; proceeding in quo warranto to oust defendent as superintendent of construction of the Iroquois ditch, is the title of a case just filed in the circuit court. This case is brought by the engineer appointed in July, 1905, to superintend the sale of construction of the said ditch and who was discharged by the county commissioners at the September term and defendant appointed in his stead. Appeal will also be taken from the last order of the board discharging Mr. Lewis. This case will decide the matter of the appointment of Mr. Lewis, as to whether he was appointed to superintend the sale and construction of the big ditch, as was generally understood, or simply to conduct the sale of August 4. Lewis was ordered to give a $5,000 bond, which he did, paying $25 for said bond in a bonding company. If he was appointed for one day’s work he would receive probably three or four dollars for the day. The outcome of the matter will be watched with interest by the public generally as well as the hundreds of people interested in this ditch improvement. The Democrat is informed that there was no dissatisfaction with Mr. Lewis by any of the petitioners, and that he has been advised by a number of them to “hold on,” which probably accounts for the bringing of this action. Ferguson, Hershman & Ferguson are plaintiff’s attorneys in the matter.

RENSSELAER TO HAVE A CARNIVAL

Hoosier Amusement Co. Granted Privilege of Streets to Show Here Next Week. At a special meeting of the city council Wednesday afternoon the Hoosier Amusement Co., that is this week showing at Monticello, was granted the use of the streets here for show purposes next week, and the company will be here Monday and set up their shows, opening up to the public Tuesday. The company carries good letters of recommendation and is highly spoken of at Monticello. The Democrat’s views on carnivals are well known, and it still bolds to its former utterances on this subject. It still believes that it would be much better for the city and its business interests to hold a good rousing 4th of July celebration every year, and some other similar attraction later in the season, than to turn the streets over to a carnival for a whole week. There is one feature of the street privileges to this company, however —and for which the taxpayers again have this paper to thank for mentioning the matter last week—that we do endorse, and that is, if have carnivals, let those benefitted pay the city for the extra expense it is put to by reason thereof, and this company pays the city for lights, water, extra police and cleaning up the streets after them, being reimbursed of course by those business men here who think a carnival is of benefit to their lines of trade.

If you want extra fancy sound peaches, come in next Tuesday and Wednesday. Sept. 26 and 27. Chicago Bargain Store.

THE HOOSIER GIRL.

The Terre Haute Express has this to say: “The Hoosier Girl” entertained a big audience at the Grand last night. The play is one with a rural atmosphere which allows opportunity for rustic fun. Roxana, the Hoosier girl, as presented by Miss Katie Watson, is a jolly, lively part which is deservedly popular. She has a very pleasant natural and easy style of her

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own and was easily the most interesting person on the stage. Mr. Gus Cohan as Heinrich Wetzel, the German farmer boy, was very conspicuous. He is a clever comedian and his work last night has had no equal on the local stage. The company is far above the average and the story is a simple romance along familiar lines. The musical numbers, song and dances, united in making one of the most enjoyable performances of the season. At Ellis opera house, Monday night, Sept. 25.

OF INTEREST TO ALL OF OUR LADIES.

The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity well know that Miss Mary Meyers has been conducting an up -to - date Millinery establishment in our city for the past ten years. During that time they have learned of the correct styles that always prevail at her place of business, and that they avail themselves of this knowledge is shown by her large and increasing trade. Her millinery openings each season have become quite a feature with our ladies who look forward to these events with a great deal of pleasure and anxiety, for she always has a display that gladdens the hearts of the ladies. At her new place of business next door to Harris bank, she will on 28, 29, and 30 of this month have her Annual Fall Opening, and. invites all our ladies to inspect same as she firmly believes this will surpass all previous openings. Miss Hattie Grant, so well known to all of us, still occupies the chair of head trimmer, and our ladies have learned to know that work emanating from Miss Meyers’ establishment is of the highest class and the styles original, distinctive and artistic. Don’t forget the dates—Sept. 28, 29 and 30.

TRAGEDY AT CEDAR LAKE.

Harry Hohman Shoots His Former Sweetheart. Then Kills Himself. Cedar Lake was the scene of another tragedy Sunday afternoon. Harry Hohman, of Hammond, was engaged to marry Miss Ida Taylor, a maid employed in the Binyon hotel, on the east side of the lake. Several weeks ago Hohman went to Oklahoma prospecting, and during his absence the girl married a saloon-keeper named Jeanette of Steger, 111. Hohman learned of the marriage and came home. Sunday they drove to Cedar Lake and Hohman also went there, He met his former sweetheart on the grounds by herself, and shot and killed her, and then turned the weapon on himself and put a bullet in his temple, dying instantly. Homan was the son of prominent parents at Hammond, and was quite well to do in his own right.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES.

The subject of the Sunday morning sermon at the court house is “The Church and the Community;” in the evening, “The Man with the Withered Hand.” All are invited to attend.

THE Pl. E. CHURCH SERVICES.

Rev. H. L. Kindig will speak at Trinity M. E. church next Sabbath on the following subjects: Morning, “The Greater Miracle;” evening, “The Work of Life,” a sermon especially to young people. All services as usual. The public cordially welcomed.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

The usual services will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. B. Bair, Sunday morning and evening. “Tithing” will be the subject in the morning, in the form of a paper by Mr. E. L. Miller, a banker of Peru, Ind. This is of vital interest and deserves the attention of all Christian people.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Rev. R. S. Strain, of the Presbyterian church at Monon, will conduct services at the Presbyterian church here Sabbath morning and evening. Subject for morning, “A holy life may be maintained in spite of surroundings; subject for evening, “Following our vision. ” All the members and supporters of the church are most earnestly urged to be present, and a general invitation is extended to all. Every style of Chicago’s leading Cloak house will be shown next Wednesday, Sept. 27. { Chicago Bargain Store.