Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — Page 3

Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect Feb. 5,1905. South Bound. No. &—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 2:04 p.m. No.33—Milkaccomm., (daily). ...... 6:15p.m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily). .113)5 p. m. No. 35—Cincinnati •" (daily).. 11:30 p. m. •No. 45 Local freight 12:54 p. m. No. 31—Past Mail 4:43 a.m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 36—Cincinnati fixpress (daily).. 4:43 a. m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No.B2—Fast Mail, (dai1y)...... ...... 3:55 a. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. •No.3o—Cin.to Chicago Ves.Mail.. 6:32 p.m. tNo. 36—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight 3:55 a. m. •Dally except Sunday. t Sunday only, _ , , No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon. Fbank J. Rbbd, G. P. A„ W. H. McDobl, President and Gen. M g r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M »r, W. H. Bxam, Agent. Rensselaer. I. 1. & I. RAILROAD. In Effect May 29, 1901. Stations InJaspebCo. I West East ” ~ ■ am pm am pm Shelby. Mail and Exp...3:10 5:16 9:50 4:48 DeMotte, “ " ...8:56 5:03 10:05 5:03 Kersey, “ “ ...8:54 5:00 103)7 53* Wheatfield, “ “ ...8:43 4:47 10:18 5:15 Duunville, “ *' ...8:35 4:38 10:26 5:22 GEO. L. FORESTER, D. P. A., SOUTH BKND, IND.

Bell Phone 131. Lafayette Phone 370. WABASH Arrival and departure of trains from Th* Passenger Station Twelfth and Erie Streets In effect Sunday, June 35. 5:25 a. m. GOING EAST. No. 2, Toledo & Pittsburg Ex. da.. 2:88 a.m No. 8. Buffalo Mail, daily 6:01a.m No. *6. Mail and Express daily 8:48 a.m No. 4. Continental Limited, dai1y..2:25 p.m No. 24. Alantic Express, daily 2:52 p.m No. 00. Lafayette Ac. ex Sunday ar.7:25 p.m GOING WEST. No. 51. Springfield Ac.,ex.Sunday..6:ls a.m No. 8. Kansas City Fast Mail daily.B:l3 a.m No. 7. Mail and Express, daily 1:03 p.m No. 1. Continental Limited, daily.. 1:41 p.m No. 5. Fast Mail, daily. 7:51 p.m No. 3. Western Express, daily.... 11:58 a.m No. 6 does not run between Ft. Wayne and Detroit No. 2, Eastern Express daily, has through sleepers St. Louis to Boston; St. Louis to New York, and buffet sleeper St. Louis to Toledo, Vestibuled free reclining chair car, St. Louis to Buffalo Through sleeper and chair car Pittsburg. Sleeper to Montreal. Dining car serving meals. No. 4. Continental Limited, daily, has through Pullman sleeper. St. Louin to New York and Boston. Coaches St. Louis to New York without change. Dining car serves meals. Does not handle baggage between Lafayette and Fort Wayne. No. 6, Mail and Express, daily, has connection with sleeper at Toledo for New York and Boston via Lake Shore 4 Michigan Southern and New York Central R, R. No. 8. Through deeper to New York City, via D. L. 4W. Ry. Chair car to Buffalo free. Sleeper to Detroit and Buffalo. No. 1, Continental Limited, daily,same service as No. 4. Does not handle baggage for stations between Lafayette ana Danville Junction. No. 8, Western Express daily, has sleepers Toledo. Borton and New York to St. Louie; also 2 free reclininfr chair cars to St. Louis, and Bt. Louis to Kansas City and Omaha. No. 5, Fast Mail, Coach Toledo to St. Louis. Does not carry baggage. No. 8. Coaches and chair cars to St. Louis, through sleeper and free reclining chair cars to Kansas City without change. Ocean steamship tickets sold to all parts of the world. A. C. BIRD. Vice-President. HENRY MILLER. Genersl Manager. C. 8. CRANE. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent. H. V. P. TAYLOR. Asst. Gen. Pass, and Tkt. Agent. St. Louis, Mo. L. J. FERRITOR, Supt.. Peru, Ind, THOS. FOLLEN. P. 4 T. A.. Lafavette. Ind. Tn, towmship and coumty (JITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshal ..Mel Abbott Clerk - Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief C. B. Steward COUNCU.MBN. Ist ward -C. J. Dean, H. O. Harris 2d ward J. F. Irwin. C. G. Spitler 3d ward Richard Grow. J. Carmichael COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. Warner Sheriff John O'Connor Auditor J, N. Leatherman Treasurer - S. R. Nichols Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor - Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton County Assessor John R. Phillips COMM IMIOM BBS. Ist District .Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick Way mire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. THUBTBBB. TOWMSHIPS. Washington Cook Hanging Grove Theodore Phillips .Gillam Albert Bonk Walker Grant Davisson Barkley Charles F. Stackhouse .Marion Charles E. Sage Jordan W. B. Yeoman Newton Henry Feldman Keener Charles Stalbaum Kankakee Robert A. Mannan Wheatfield Anson A. Fell Carpenter William C. Huston - Milroy Harvey Davisson Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer George Hesse ...Remington Geo. 0. Stembel -Wheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney O. R. Graves Terras of Court. —Second Monday in February. April. September and November. LADIES Safe, Quick, Reliable Regulator Superior to other remedies soM st htab prices, gsssafe Ur. LaVranoo, Philadelphia, Pa.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. l ew, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA Judson J. Hunt, _ low. nosirocis, loons ana Real Esme. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs In Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farms and City property .personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Attorneys for American Building, Loan and Savings Association, Office over Chicago Department Store, RENSSELAER, IND. J. F. Irwin s. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. U. M. Baughman. Geo. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Farm loons, Abstracts ana insurance. Loans on improved Farm Lands and City Property a specialty. Collections and Notary work promptly attended to. Office over First National Bank, 'Phone No. 829. Rensselaer, Indiana PRANK POUTS. O. 0. SPITUSK. MARRY N. KUKRIS Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson 4 Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate, Insurance Attracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. B. F, Ferguson Geo. E. Hershman D. M. Ferguson FERGUSON, HERSHIAN S FERGUSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in all courts. Will give careful attention to any and all kinds of legal business intrusted to us. Office west of Public Square, down stairs. Phone No. 31. HBN6BELAEB, - INDIANA.

N. Littlefield, Real Estate Dealer. Immigration agent for Manitoba and Western Colonization Company; 50,000 acres in the famous Red Ri”er Valley. Office in I. O. O. F. building. Opp. Court house. Renssklabr, Ind. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, ... Indian*. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over I mes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Offick Phons 177. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Eclectic Physttn om sum. RENSSELAER, - ■ INDIANA. Chronic Disease* a Specialty. H. O. Harris, K. T. Harris, C. H. Mills. President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Your Business. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RKNSSBLAKR, INO. Addison Parkison, Pres. John M. Wesson. Vice-Pres. E. L. Hollingsworth. Cashier. SUOOBSSO* TO TH* SUIISSM OT TH* M***>*lM STAT* BANK. Opened Msrch 3d, 1802, at the old location, NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted; deposits received, payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security. Drafts on all cities at home and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 per cent farm loans. Your business solicited. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larch’s drug store Szv-wwwww'wwwwww, , > We promptly obtain U. 8. and Foreign ? < 1 Send model, sketch or photo of invention for <' free report on patentability. For free book, i' ('HowtoSocureTDinr MADIfQ write?

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Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: Tbe Keep Commission which conducted the inquiry into the Government Printing Office scandal has continued its work with the other departments with less parade of secrecy than in the Printing Office case and has turned up a state of affairs already that will cause a lot of trouble for all the departments involved. It has been known for a long time that the government was one of the best and easiest things to work when tbe astute salesman came around and the revelations that have already been made show that someone has reaped a harvest in several of the departments over the furnishing of supplies. There has heretofore been not tbe slightest system about the purchase of government supplies such as ink, mucilage and stationery. The result is that a lot of departments were getting tbe same brand of supplies and the prices made to the purchasing agents varied from ten to a hundred per cent. Take ink alone of which all the departments use barrels annually. The highest price was paid by tbe government Printing Office which gave $4.32 per dozen quarts. The lowest price for identically the same ink was made to the Post Office which got it for $1 34 a dozen quarts. Other supplies showed the same wide range of prices. In the case of mucilage the' Agriculture Department went the limit in paying $3 for a dozen quarts. The Post Office was again the lowest priced department, giving $1.65 for its adhesive fluid. The government Printing Office used a home-made mucilage but this could not have been from motives of economy, for it cost 384 cents for the same quality. The item of lead-pencils which are used in millions annually shows the same astonishing range of prices. The qualities vary so much as to make a comparison difficult, but the prices range all the way from seventy two cents to 12| cents per dozen. There are about 150 different grades used but the same pencil will be furnished to various departments under different trade names and the prices will vary to corres[K>nd. The price of blotting paper varies even more than the articles previously named. The War and Navy departments are the most extravagant in this regard. They go as high as $7.74 per dozen reams in sheets of 19 by 24 inches. The Post Office gets its blotters for $4 and the Department of Agriculture pays from $5.33 cents upward, t ft

The matter of pens and writing paper of type-writer and a number of other things showed just as startling variations. The commission did not go into the prices paid at the stationery room at the Capitol. If it had there would have been some interesting revelations, for there the government goes in for high grade stationery, pen knives and many things such hs sachets and reticules which Congressmen are hardly supposed to use. They are all charged up to the government however and come in handy for the wives of congressmen and senators. There is another great source of waste in all the departments too. It is esteemed no crime to steal stationary from the government and there is hardly a government clerk in the city who ever spends a penny for pens, ink, paper, lead-pen-cils and the like for home use or for his children at school. Some of the users of this sort of stolen goods have the grace to cut off the names of their department from tbe letter heads before they are dedicated to private use, but there are a remarkable lot of school exercises, compositions and examination papers that are turned in to the school teachers here with Department of the Interior, War Department and Department of Agriculture and Geological Survey still on them and the very exercises themselves are written with government pencils and corrected with government erasers. Washington is a nice town to live in a great many respects if you work for the government. t ft It is suggested that hereafter there shall be a central purchasing bureau that will deal in stationary and like supplies for all tbe departments. It is claimed that this will cheapen the cost of material to tbe government. But it will probably work the other way. In the first place it will add another bureau to the circumlocution office. There will be the purchasing agdnt who will get a good salary but whose salary will be nothing in comparison to tbe

amount of graft that will be at his disposal. There will be the additional machinery for distributing the supplies to the various departments and in addition to all that there will be an instant combination of interests outside the department that will force the government to pay the highest possible price for all supplies and if necessary will pool the result of the contracts to prevent cut-throat bidding by firms outside the combination. It is very hard to beat the private firm that is out to “do” the government and it is not likely that the Keep Commission will devise a way of doing it. t t t The commission is not yet through with the purchasing system of the departments and there may be still more startling revelations before they get through. It is understood that they will next take a fall out of the Civil Service Commission.

REFORM LONG DELAYED

The President Outwitted by the Railroads. 4 CONGRESS LIKELY TO DO LITTLE. Republican Politician* Cannot Be Relied Upon to Regulate Rate* or Curb the Treat*—A Political Revolution Must Precede Reform Legislation. Last winter President Roosevelt set himself up as the regulator of the railroads, the curber of trusts and the champion of tariff revision. The people everywhere acclaimed him their champion and are still looking t 6 him as their deliverer and leader. Since that time there are signs that the president has weakened on the strenuous campaign he outlined against corporate aggression. His Intention to call congress together In extraordinary session and recommend that body to enact the necessary laws has been abandoned, or at all events postponed to such a late day as to be practically a concession to the railroads and trusts. That this view of the president’s nonaction is not alone the way the Democrats look at it Is shown by the fact that even such a stanch friend of the president's policy as the Chicago Tribune, through its Washington bureau, sums up the situation by saying: Delay was the one thing asked for by the railroad companies. When they secured an agreement from the president that he would not call congress in extra session before October, and possibly not at all, the railroad managers believed they had the battle half won. The various railroad managers who today are contributing money for the support of an Independent press bureau which is endeavoring to influence public opinion have sent out confidential advices to practically every large railroad tn the United States to the effect that the president has "changed his foot" and he ts no longer convinced of the necessity of railroad rate regulation along the lines he laid down so successfully in his annual message to congress last December. It openly Is claimed by other railroad officials that they have succeeded in throwing dust in the eyes of the president and there will be no legislation in the direction of the absolute regulation of railroad rates at the next session of congress. As the Tribune is the great Republican authority of the west, it is probably right in its information of tbe machinations and intrigue that have encompassed Mr. Roosevelt to prevent him from action. But it is impossible to believe that he did not understand the reasons advanced for delay were the stratagems of the enemy and that if given time they could use their vast influence and wealth to blind the eyes of enough of the people to turu the tide of battle. If the fight is lost against the plunderers of the people President Roosevelt will be to blame, for he had the result of the campaign in his own hands if he had called congress together in early session. That would have focused the public eye on their doings and compelled them to take up the legislation they were specially called together to consider. To meet two or three weeks before the time for the regular session will be useless, as it was last year. The time will be frittered away, and the real work of the session will be postponed, as usual, until after the holidays. The president may still be as strenuous as ever for the necessary legislation to control the railroads and revise the tariff, but with all his power he cannot hurry congress to action except by calling it in special session at such an early date that there would be nothing else to do but act on the presidential recommendations. The president has made a great error as a political tactician, and having excited the people to believe they would attain relief their disappointment will be great If they do not obtain it The crucial test, as President Roosevelt has told us, is “doing things,” und his popularity will be in the scale until he ac-* compllshes what he set out to do. Tbe Republican party is so Inextricably involved with the railroads, the trusts and the tariff beneficiaries that It is perhaps an Impossible task for any Republican reformer to accomplish anything of moment. Probably nothing but defeat at the polls and the retirement of Its leaders to private life will Insure a reformation of the Republican party. Forty years of power have debauched the Republican politicians, and a reformer such as President Roosevelt is looked upon as a danger to their grafting propensities. As It looks now the president will have more aid and assistance from the Democrats than from the politicians of bls own party.

List Your Farms With Me IF YOU WANT TO Exchange Them for City Property OR MERCHANDISE. I ALSO EQVIT&S I/f FA'RMS. Can Deal Your City Property CALL OR ADDRESS F. E. MA R TIAf 9 McCOVSBURG, IND.

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FOR SALE. High grade and Recorded Shropshire Rams. Hall Zimmerman. Remington, Jasper Co., Ind. R-R No. 3. $1,300 Worth Of Feed Just Received. One car Small Grain Wheat, $1.25 per 100 pounds. One mixed car, Bran, Shorts and Middlings, $1 to $1.20 per 100 pounds. One car Hominy meal—2s tons extra quality Meal—sl.ls per 100; per ton $22. A. L. Branch, Prop. TO FRIENDS OF THE DEMOCRAT. Instruct your attorneys to bring legal notices in which you are interested or have the paying for, to The Democrat, and thereby save money and do us a favor that will be greatly appreciated. All notices of appointmentas administrator, executor or guardian, survey, sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc., the clients themselves control, and attorneys will take them to the paper you desire, for publication, if you mention the matter to them; otherwise they wiH take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish. FENCE POSTS FOR SALE. Split white oak posts at reasonable prices. Located 7 miles northwest of Rensselaer. Rankin Halstead, R-R No. 3. Rensselaer, Ind. $3.50, Lafayette to Detroit and Return, Saturday, Sept. 33rd. via Wabash System. Special train will leave Lafayette 11:45 p. m. Tickets good returning on all regular trains Monday, Sept. 25. Bicycles checked free. Excursion rates to Blanc, Windsor, Star Island and beautiful St. Clair flats. For f further information call on or address. Thos. Follen, P. & T. A. Lafayette, Ind. The Democrat handles Farm Leases, Mortgages, Deeds and other legal blanks.

160 Acres Free! Walk, Write or Telegraph. In the best spring wheat belt in the world, in the clear sunshine where health is improved, Then waste no time; if you cannot come and look for yourself, have the locator of government land to file for you. Write for particulars. B. F. Gaines & Co. Hanley, Assa. See Baughman <fc Williams for farm and city loans. FOR EXCHANGE. 80 ACRES clay loam soil in Jackson county, Ind., all level land in culivation except twelve acres timber pasture, has new three room house, varanda, summer kitchen, good barn, good well, some fruit, two miles from good town. Will trade for town property or other land. Price S4O, 80 ACRES in Jackson county, Ind., six miles from Seymour, on pike road, free mail, telephone, 45 acre* cultivated, 35 acre* timber pasture, 40 acres bottom, near school, good four room house, good barn. Owner will take part in good town property. Price 135. 114 ACRES eight mile* from Seymour, Ind., on pike road, half mile to school and church, telephone, good water, plenty of fruit, new four-room house, large barn, smaller barn, good grainary, crib* and other outbuilding*. Much of thi* farm 1* fenced hog tight. Can trade for good property and give time on part. Price SSO. 255 ACRES In Bartholomew county. Ind. near the Johnson county line, all good land, with large eight-room house, large barn and other outbuilding*. 1* all fenced with new fence. This ia a good stock and grain farm. Mortgage $3,500 due five year*. Owner will trade for town property or merchandise or smaller farm. Price S4O.

70 ACRES iu Jackson county, Ind. This is a good farm, all in cultivation except twenty acres in timber pasture, fenced hog tight, has good six room house, large barn and fruit, on pike road and good neighborhood. Will take part trade. Price $45. 155 ACRES, eight miles from Seymour, on pike road, has four-room house, large barn, and some fruit. This farm has been somewhat neglected, but is a good tract of land and would make a good stock and grain farm, and is a bargain at price named. Owner will take equity in good town property or smaller farm. Price $35. In addition to the above I have a large list of farms of all sizes for sale on easy terms In Jackson county, Ind. I also have a large list of wheat land In Kansas to trade for land in Jasper county or for town property. I also have a large list of town property to trade for land in Jasper county. If you desire to dispose of your farm I would be pleased to hear from you. and would be glad to make an effort to secure for you what you want. G. F. MEYERS, Office over Murray's Store. “cnaaelaer, Ina. HTffl S DEALER IN < \ C 111. Nt Ml A tel. > REMLM.IIO. 5 - ■ ■ 1 ® Fanners’Miiuol nsnronce iwioiloo, ® Of Benton. White and Jasper Counties, RKHKKBKXTKn BY MARION I. ADAMS, RENSSELAER. IND. Insurance In force Dec. 81. 1904. $1,895,559.32. Increase for year 1004, $199,798.98.