Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

SI.OO Per Year.

THE CITY COUNCIL.

Little Business at Monday Night’s Meeting, EXCEPT ALLOW BIG GRIST OF BILLS And Appoint Inspectors for the City Election to be Held Tuesday, November Seventh. At the regular meeting of the common council Monday evening, little business outside of allowing claims was transacted. All members of the council were present. Following is a report of the business transacted: The Light Committee reported in favor of installing two new arc lights, one at the corner of Webster and Walnut streets, and one at corner of Webster and Park streets, both north of the railroad, and same were ordereddnstalled. Election inspectors were appointed for the city election as follows. First ward, H. J. Kannal. Second ward, E. D. Rhoades. Third ward, M. H. Hemphill. The marshal was instructed to make arrangements for meals for the election boards for the city election. Chief of the Fire Department was instructed to investigate the cost of new fire hose and report at next meeting. Some of the old hose has given out and the fire chief thinks the department ought to have 1,000 feet of new hose. The following claims were allowed: COBPOBATION FUKD. George A William*, city attorney .* 50 50 George E Marshall, printing 27 00 F M Abbott, salary, marshal 22 50 Lyman Zea, same, nightwatch.......... 22 50 H L Gamble, serv city engineer 9 30 Harvey Robinson, assisting same 1 50 J H 8 Ellis, per diem at mayor 16 00 H O Harris, same, councilman 1* 00 C 3 Dean, same 16 00 J F Irwin, same 16 00 C 3 Spitler, same 14 00 Henry Grow, same 16 00 J C Carmichael, same 16 00 G E Marshall, printing notices 15 00 ROAD FUXD. • Platt A Yeider, cement wk, crossings.. 252 32 Andrew Gangloff, sand and gravel 7 12 Hattie Randle, same. 2 40 Henry Luers, same 19 65 Thos Knox, same 60 3 W Childers, salary street com 22 50 D H Yeoman, oak lumber 33 26 Geo McCarthy, hauling sand 19 60 Geo Smith. Mm 5.............. ... 23 00 Chas Parker, 5ame........ 20 90 Thos Parker, same 17 80 Al Fletcher, same 19 20 Harry McGee, same 15 40 Wm Simons, same... 10 20 Leroy Thomas, work on crossing 15 40 OSBaker, same 15 40 ChasSeelman, same.. 4 50 Bd Randle, same.... 15 40 Art Bailey, same 15 40 Chas Platt, same 3 75 B H Dillon, work on cinders 3 75 WATBB FUND. Conrad Hildebrand, salary 30 00 BLECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Rush & Warren, rep roof light plant.. 10 80 B F Fendig. lamps 25 51 C S Chamberlain, salary to Oct. 15 50 00 C L Thornton, same 30 00 Lem Hustom, same 30 00 Central Electric Co, supplies 18 70 J L Adams, hauling 2 95 Allis-Chalmers Co, bolts 2 50 Victoria Mining Co. coal 65 73 Tom Hoyes, work on line 10 12 Earl Sayler, same... 28 17 C S Chamberlain, trip to Chicago and telegrams 8 10

FAULTS IN MODERN FOOT BALL.

Harvard Publication Says Sport Is More Injurious And Less Interesting Than Several Years Ago, Cambridge, Maas., Oct. 19.-The Harvard Bulletin, a univeristy publication, in its issue yesterday contains an editorial on “The Trouble With Foot Ball.” It says in part: “Something is the matter with a game which grows more and more uninteresting every year; which takes the time and attention, not only of the players, but also undergraduates as a body, until for weeks they talk and think about nothing but foot ball; which requires the constant attendance of skilled surgeons; which injures men so that they are crippled for weeks and in some cases made permanently unfit for athletic exercise. “It is often said that the constantly increasing attendance at the important-foot ball games controverts the statement that they are less interesting than they used to be. The truth is that the sale of tickets is due to a very large

extent to the advertising which he newspapers give the games. “The unanimous opinion of the men who saw the games in the early ’Bos is that they were infinitely more interesting to watch than those which are played today. The sport is dull. One sees a player plunge into a group of a dozen others and there he disappears. That is all there is to about 75 per cent of the formations in the modern game.” The editorial quotes W. H. Lewis, one of the Harvard coaches on the matter of slugging, and asks: “Why are men coached to ‘slug’ and to violate the rules with the reservation that they.must not be seen by the officials? We know that players are coached. To be a little more concrete everybody who watched the Pennsylvania eleven in Cambridge last fall saw two or three men whose playing was simply barbaric, but no one can deny that they were very effective men for their side. There is something radically wrong with the game. It ought to be substantially changed or else abolished.”

DEMOCRATS NOMINATE.

All Candidates Nominated By Accla. mation At City Convention. Owimg to Monday being the last day for filing certificates of nomination for city candidates it was necessary to hold the convention Monday afternoon on account of the lateness of the call. For this reason the con vention was not very largely attended as many who could attend a night convention did not care to leave their work to come in the daytime. Geo. E. Hershman was made chairman of the convention, and L. Strong secretary. Nominations were all by acclamation, and candidates had no opposition. Following is the ticket nominated: Mayor, Charles A. Roberts, Clerk, William Barkley. Treasurer, U. M. Baughman. Councilmen at large, John Eger, D. H. Yeoman. Councilmen Ist Ward, Henry Hildebrand. Councilman 2nd Ward, John Schanlaub. Councilman 3rd Ward, Eli Gerber. The certificates were duly filled out and certified to and filed with the city clerk the same afternoon, and the city campaign is now on. The indications are that it will be a quiet one, and yet this does not mean that the republicans will carry everything by. their old time majorities. There is a large element of dissatisfaction among the voters of the city, and many republicans will refuse to vote for a continuance of the old regime.

NATIONAL REVIEW SOLD.

Chicago, 111., Oct. 23. —Announcement was made to day of the merger of the National Daily Review with the New National Woman's Daily at St. Louis, and the purchase by,.the Lewis Publishing Company of the subscription list and good-will of the Review. Transfer was made to-day. The Review has been published for ten months. J. J. Hamilton has been publisher of the Review and Ora Williams editor. Tbe Democrat, in common with many other newspapers of this section of the state, had clubbing rates with the Review and sent in quite a number of subscriptions to that paper. We take it from the above clipping that tbe parties who bought the subscription list will fill out the unexpired subscriptions, and trust all those who have subscribed for the paper will get value received. While The Democrat does not guarantee subscriptions to other papers with which it may have clubbing rates, yet it feels an in. terest in tbe matter and has written the publisher of tbe Review to learn what arrangements have been made for filling out the unexpired subscriptions. As soon as we get a reply we will publish the same in The Democrat.

RUMHAQB SALE.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold a Rummage Sale, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3 and 4, in the Eger shop on North Van Rensselaer street, first door north of Parker’s carriage store.

STOCK WANTED.

I have stock pasture, and staw sufficient to feed 400 to 500 more cattle than I am now feeding. For prices, etc, address. A. B. Davis, Wolcott, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, October 28, 1905.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol.

Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 21. Daniel A. Gross of Kankakee tp., aged 32, to Clarissa Francis Jones of the same township, aged 18. First marriage for each. The north-enders have appealed from the decision of Judge Hanley in dissolving the Newton county court bouse case, and more fur will fly before that new court house is completed evidently. Ed Finnegan, deputy sheriff of Pulaski county, was here Thursday morning serving notices on parties affected by the proposed Ketman ditch in Pulaski, Starke and White counties. Notice of tiling of petition appears elsewhere in this paper. —u — New suits filed, No. 6949. James P. Clark vs. Rial P. Benjamin, et al; action to foreclose mortgage, demand $450. No. 6950. Coen & Agate vs. Wm. E. Leek; suit on account, demand S3OO. This suit is for commission on a land sale.

Mrs. Mary Jones of Tefft wrote clerk Warner a few days ago; asking for the names of the witnesses who swore to the age of her daughter, Miss Clarisa F. Jones, who was married last Saturday to Daniel A. Gross, in the clerk’s office, Squire John Greve of Wheatfield, officiating, audit is inferred the girl was under age, although she swore she was born in May, 1887. She looked much younger than this. Geo. Ketchmark of Tefft and Greve both said she was 18, we understand, and the former signed as a witness. Nothing further has been heard from the matter since the clerk wrote Mrs. Jones.

—o — A special session of the county commissioners was held Saturday and the contractors on the Garrison ditch were allowed $1,505 on main ditch and $70.04 on lateral No. 1. The bids submitted for new bridges—one in Milroy and one in Wheatfield townships—were above the estimates and the matter of letting contracts was continued until the regular November term. -iLen Griggs of Barkley tp., was appointed fireman at the court house heating plant at a salary of $35 per month. The Horton ditch bonds were also signed up at this meeting.

A FEW FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS.

Although studied efforts are usually made to keep foot-ball accidents out of the papers, yet such a great number do find their way into the papers that The Democrat has made no effort to keep track of all of them and the few that appear below are only a part of those reported: Auburn, Ind., Oct. 20.—Prof. Joseph Colburn of tbe St. Joe High School suffered a fracture of his left limb while playing foot ball here Wednesday. Willimanic, Conn., October 22. —John C. Dondero. age 27, died today as the result of an injury received in a football game in Jewett City yesterday. Doctors state that a cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of death, superinduced by the player’s poor physical condition at tbe time. A brother of Dondero was kicked in the eye soon afterward and will lose tbe eye. Cloumbus, Ind., October 24 On Saturday the Columbus H. S. squad will go to Indianapolis to see the game between Purdue and Indiana. When the season opened here the two Ruddelle brothers promised to be stars. In the game with Hanover, E. Ruddelle broke his shoulder bone and in tbe Franklin game G. Ruddelle was struck on the head and fainted two or three times after the game. Neither will likely be able to play again this season. Frankfort, Ind., October 26. Rennet Monroe, son of, Superintendent Edwin Monroe, of tbe Franbfort high school, had bis

left arm broken in three places last evening while playing football with the second eleven of the school. This is the second accident to members of the high school team. Ted Spray having had his collar bone broken in a scrimmage a few days ago. Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 26. “Gigantus” Harp, the Wabash full-back, is nursing a broken nose as a reminder of the slugging indulged in by Notre Dame in the game at South Bend last Saturday. He did not realize the extent of his injuries until yesterday, when he consulted a physician.

Capt. McCrea, of Indianapolis head of the Lake Forest (Ill.) college foot ball team, is laid up with an injured ankle and may not be able to play any more this season. Hellman, Hamilton and Berndt of the Manual Training High School team (Indianapolis) are out of the game because of injuries. Carrithers, the Illinois star, has his knee in a plaster cast and will be laid up for some time. Several of the Harvard team are in the hospital—O’Brien with a broken nose, Squires, Pierce and Cunniff with broken hands, Montgomery and Myere with fractured cheek bones, Capt. Hurley with a strained thigh muscle, and Hall, with water on the knee. At Terre Haute, Addie Lee, captain of the Rose eleven, is out for the remainder of the season with a broken ankle

HUNTING A HOLE TO GET OUT.

Nothing has as yet been heard from the postoffice department regarding its decision No. 2 in The Democrat’s piano contest in which the assistant attorney general reversed himself on his decision of last July on the same identical matter. The postmaster here wrote the department at once on receiving their late decision in the matter, holding that the proposition was in conflict with the postal rules, and therefore advertising regarding it was not admissable to the mails, and called their attention to the previous ruling in the same identical matter. He has received no reply as yet, nor has the writer to a similar letter. It is probable that the official has seen that he is in a hole over the matter and is hunting a place to crawl out gracefully. The contest can in no way be classed as a lottery. There are no tickets or chances given out, no “drawing” takes place nor is there any valuable consideration paid for the privilege of expressing a choice in the matter. If there is no politics in the recent decision brought about by Olarkey of the Journal and his man Friday, it is likely that a more careful investigation of the matter will show the official who gave the decision that he is in error, and he will so state. This blowing hot and then cold ought to be above Uncle Sam’s officials in the postoffice department.

NOWELS HOTEL TRADED OFF.

C. D, Nowels has just closed a deal of his hotel property here for a fine farm of 300 acres in Adams county, 111,, lying 14 miles north of Quincy. Mr. Nowels gets the landlord’s share of the corn crop this year, and as there is 170 acres of fine corn on the place this will be quite an item. He has also sold the hotel fixtures to the new owner for SSOO cash. The farm has a large house, new barn and other improvments, and land in that locality is selling at SIOO per acre, the price Mr. Nowels values his land at. It looks as if he had made an excellent deal, and it is likely the other man thinks he has also. The new owner of the hotel block is Robert A. Minks, of Dewey, 111., and he will continue to lease it until be disposes of same.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

\/Oct. 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Len MbCurtain of Parr, a daughter. Oct. 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Fay of Parr, a daughter. VOct. 21/ to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cooper, Jr. of Union tp., a son. Oct. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Smith of Newland, a daughter, Oct. 25, to. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Elder of Surrey, a daughter. Oct. 25, to Mr. add Mrs. Firth Nelson of Marion tp., a daughter.

GRANT-STAM WEDDING.

The following account of the wedding of Mr. Orlan Grant of this city to Miss Virginia Stam of Hammond, is taken from a Hammond paper of Wednesday: As the clock struck 12 this noon Rev. Charles Smith united in marriage one of Hammond’s most popular young ladies, Miss Virginia May Stam and Mr. Orlan Grant, of Rensselaer. The ceremony .-took place at the bride’s home, No. 1 Bellevue place. The room was decorated with yellow draperies which harmonized with the yellow crysanthemums that hung from the alcove in which the bridal couple knelt as the minister spoke the sacred words. Mr. Kasson gave the bride away. In the little group in the alcove stood John Eiglesbacb, of Rensselaer, as best man; Miss Ruth Harris, of Rensselaer, as bridesmaid, Miss Irene Mott, of Hammond, as maid of honor and Ruth Woodin as flower girl. The bride was gowned in white silk muslin and held a beautiful bouquet of brides roses. Miss Harris wore white silk and held a bouquet of white chrysanthemums. Miss Mott was dressed in yellow silk and held a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums. Miss Edith Goodman played the wedding march while during the ceremony the enchanting strains of “O Promise Me” floated through the quiet room. After the impressing ceremony the bride's people and guests were seated to a dainty wedding breakfast. The newly married couple left this afternoon for an unknown destination; they making a secret of their trip in order to escape the rice. The out of town guests from Rensselaer were Mrs. Harris and Miss Mildred, Miss Bessie Eger, Miss Lenna Grant, Mr. Gurney Jessen, and Mr. Van Grant.

McCOY BANK DIVIDEND DECLARED,

And Will Probably Be Ready For Creditors About Nov. 4. Trustee Chapman and Judge Thompson were at Hammond several days this week on McCoy bank matters. A dividend of 20 per cent has been declared in favor of the bank creditors and 40 per cent to A. McCoy individual creditors, as previously stated in these columns as likely to be done. As soon as the necessary papers can be signed up and the checks made out and “O. K.’d” by the referee they will be delivered to the creditors. It will probably be the latter part of next week before this can done. Another matter that was adjusted was the question of $15,000 indebtedness of McCoy, Son & Porter; $1,600 of A. McCoy & McDonald, and $2,400 of A. & T. J. McCoy, the referee bolding that this was due the bank, and therefore it will go to the bank creditors instead of to individual creditors.

SCHOEN MAY RECOVER.

Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 26.—A surgical operation was performed to-day on Edward Schoen, the Shortridge High School foot-ball player, who was seriously injured in a 1 ecent game at Rensselaer. The operation was on the right kidney and liver. The surgeons thinks Schoen will recover.

REPUBLICANS NOMINATE.

The republicans at their city convention last Friday night nominated the following ticket. Mayor, J. H, Ellis. Clerk, Charles Morlan. Treasurer, Moee Leopold Councilmen at large, C. G. Spitler, J. F. McColly. Councilmen, First ward, H. L. Brown; Second ward, J. F. Irwin; Third ward, J. C. Gwin. The mayor, clerk and Spitler and Irwin are present incumbents. Grow, Dean, Carmicbeal and Harris, the other incumbents, were retired.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Sunday, the morning subject will be “Effectual Prayer,” and evening, “The Minority Report.” Everyone will be welcomed.

J. C. PARRETT,

FREE BAPTIST CHURCH.

The subject for Sunday morning service will be, “Communion,” followed by the ordinance. Evening subject, “Figs, good and bad.” All are welcome.

A. R. Harper,

Read The Democrat for news.

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, Oct. 31, Nelson DuCharme, on the former Isaac Parker farm 4 miles north and f mile east of McCoysburg; big general sale, horses, cattle, farming implements, etc. Thursday, Nov. 16, Everett Finney, administrator of the estate of John G. Heil, deceased; administrator’s sale, at decedent’s late, residence 1| miles south and 2|_ miles west of Wheatfield, horses, cattle, farming implements, etc.

PROCRASTINATION, ETC.

On July 10th a protest was filed with the city council of Rensselaer, against the payment of any more of the city funds to the county treasurer for collecting special assessments of the city, and asking that steps be taken to collect back the $l5O that had heretofore been illegally paid out for this purpose. The matter was referred to the city attorney for an opinion, and at the next meeting he handed in his opinion, which was against paying the claim then pending, but made no mention of the matter of collecting back the amount previously paid out. The matter was again referred back for an opinion on the latter phase of the case, which up to date has not been rendered, nor has any further effort been made to have this money returned to the city treasury, where it belongs. Why this procrastination? The city treasury is practically bankrupt and yet no effort is being made to collect back this money that the council had no business nor no legal right to pay out. We have never seen a set of city officers who were so anxious to pay out public money—when they had none to pay even—as our present council and its predecessors. This money belongs to the people of Rensselaer and should be collected back. Even while city orders were being hawked about the streets hunting buyers, because there was no money in the treasury to pay current expenses, the council increased the salaries of all the city employes, unnecessarilly and without reasonable excuse. They have increased the pay of the engineers and firemen at the light plant to S6O per month, when equally as competent help could be secured at sls to S2O less per month. So far as actual work and number of hours is concerned the fireman or engineer at the court house heating plant works harder than do the city employes, and yet a half-dozen applicants have been tumbling over one another to get this job at $35 per month. It has appointed a street commissioner at a salary of $45 per month that was needed about aa much as a dog needs two tails,, thus releiving the city marshal of absolutely anything to do except draw his city warrants for $45 per month and then run about the city to find someone who would buy it from him at a discount, there being no funds to pay the warrants but little of the time. The new council, if republican, will be no better, and the people may expect nothing but extravagance and graft in the management of city affairs if they elect these men. When the management of public utilities is conducted on a business basis, when officers elected to look after the people’s interests do look after them as conscientiously as they do their own private affairs, then The Democrat will be for municipal ownership, and not before. But from what we have seen of the workings of municipal ownership, or public graft, in Rensselaer and elsewhere, we are square agin’ it.

TRINITY M. E. CHURCH.

The pastor will speak on the following subjects at the Methodist church Sunday: Morning subject, “The Threefold Character of Living;” Evening subject, "The Christain Life.” All services as usual. The public cordially welcomed.

Pastor.

Rev. Will H. Flagg will preach at Rose Bud Sunday, 11:00 a. m„ and at the M. P. church, corner Van Rensselaer and Clark streets, 7:30 p. m. The meetings here will continue. The church has been temporarily furnished until the new pews arrive. You are invited to attend and you will be comfortably seated.

pastor.

Vol. VIII. No. 30

PUBLIC SALES.

M. P. CHURCH.