Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1906 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 46c: oats 30c. Next Tuesday is “show day.” And the weeds continue to grow. Keep on the shady side of the street. \-Mf7and Mrs. J. Jr Hunt spent Styiday in Chicago. Duvall is visiting relatives ir/Michigan for a few weeks. It is a crime to drag a fish seine through a stream in Indiana. and Mrs. Ed Mills, of Chi-, ctgo, are visiting relatives here. P. Meyer of Danville, 111., Sunday with Rensselaer relatives. Misses Lucile and Star .Marshall are visiting relatives at Marley and Joliet, 111. Mrs. Rose Ladd of Oxford is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. J. lines, here this week. Louis Harmon and children are visiting relatives and friends at Pontiac, 111. Francesville Tribune: Willis Poole of Rensselaer made his usual Sunday visit at this place. Kenton, of Mitchell, Sb. Dak., is visiting old friends here. Crops are excellent in his locality. The three-year*son of Charles Warne, of near Parr, broke an arm last Friday by falling from a hay mow. s /Mrs. G. D. Gregory expects to xeave next week for a three month’s visit at her old home in Kentucky. //Mrs. G. F. Meyers and Mrs. F. jE. Babcock will leave Monday for a ten days’ sojourn at West Baden and French Lick. Ernest Fritts and E. M. Parcels are running a refreshment stand at Monticello this week during the carnival there. Miss Eva Griggs, who holds a position in the Marshall Field Store at Chicago, is visiting her parents in Barkley tp. Have you noticed the crowds at the biggest sale of real value ever intown. July 14th to July 28th at the Chicago Bargain Store. A two-year-old child of Henry Defrees of Thayer, was killed by, the south bound 10:55 a. m. train Monday. It had wandered on the track. "Vjiyed King, who has been clerking in Eger’s grocery for some years, has gone to Winona Lake' where he has secured a position in a grocery. Oxford Tribune: Factories pay. The elevator factory made us a dollar Wednesday, within a half hour after the deal was closed. And we put it in the old sock. The 8:30 p. m. train Sunday killed a 2-year-old colt and disabled a sucking colt belonging to Mr. Woods, on the Amsler farm, just east of the corporation line.

Threshing will be in full blast next week. Mrs. W. H. Beam was a Chicago visitor Monday. uHarry Eger is visiting relatives 4n Grand Rapids, Mich. 3. J. Brenner has been confined to his home for the past ten days by sickness. Miss Pearl Potts, of Chicago Heights, 111., is visiting her parents here this week. George Hopkins is visiting relatives and friends in Goodland this week. /Miss Lena Teeter is visiting Mrs. Hattie Stearns at Indianapolis for a few weeks. '"'Mrs. Anna Warner of Sheldon, 111., is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle, here this week. It is estimated tnat the wheat crop of Indiana will be 7,000,000 bushels greater than in 1905. Lake County Times: Mrs. Eva Moore of Rensselaer will be the guest of Miss Margaret Blair this week. Goodland Herald: Seaver Davidson is visiting near Rensselaer this week with his uncle, George Davidson. Owing to some trouble about the abstract the sale of the Nowels House block to B. S. Fendig has fallen through with. J. R. Phillips. Wm. Willett and J. P. Gwin of McCoysburg were at Hammond Monday as witnesses in the Rinehart cases, Advertised letters: Mrs. John Ogier, Mrs. J. A. Percy, Mr. L. C. Stage, Mr. Warner Huff, Jas. A Alexander, H. T. McElfresh. The Brook Reporter says that town now has a population of !,-> 209, a gain of 532 in the past six years. And Brook a “dry” town, too! xJEarl Sayler has traded his residebce property here and his interest in a farm in Gillam for a 160 acre farm near Elbow Lake, Minn. The various Indiana editorial associations will hold an editorial rally at Lake Winona, August fill. A grand good time is anticipated. Miss Anna Hanson, who has been up at Winona Lake for several weeks, returned home Tuesday. Her sister, Miss Jennie Hanson, will remain for some time yet. Frank Haskell was called to Mt. Ayr early Wednesday morning by the serious condition of his father, G. K. Haskall, who had suffered a paralytic stroke. He is about 75 years of age. W. Williams returned Sunday from a two weeks visit with relatives at Cleveland, Ohio, and in New York. He also visited Washington and reports a most pleasant trip. Oxford Tribune: The editor of the Benton Review and the editor of the Fowler Leader are scrapping over the capacity of a beer barrel. If they would drink the contents then their scrap will be interesting.

THE 99c RACKET STOREj i: Greatest Sale of the Season! : I > yM nether Mammoth Purchase of Enameled Ware more stupendous, more beautiful and larger pieces | than ever before, to be placed on exhibition in one of 1 | our store windows. The whole lot of over 1,000 pieces to wB Mi dRh I j! be sold at only 18) kdUII I I- - ' | ;; Only one piece of a kind to a customer, but you can get Onepieceof each kind. What more do you want? I < ’ And the beauty of it all is, this sale will take place on Tuesday, July 31, when the big circus is in I ]! town. Do not forget the date, you can save enough on this one deal to take the whole family to the circus. I / We have hundreds of other bargains just as good in other lines. We carry the largest variety and the most 1 < up-to date goods of any house in northern Indiana. Our quality is the best, our prices are the lowest, our ! J I service is all right. Anything not satisfactory we will cheerfully exchange or refund your money. We are g ; not perfect; we are just common mortals like everybody else. We try to do our best, which everybody i ’ ought to do. Remember the day and date, | Tuesday, July 31, 1906. J J; Sales last as long as there is a piece left, and starts at 9 o’clock in forenoon. Do not miss the greatest sale 1 ■ of the season. Our location is Makeever Bank Building, north of Court House. : E. V. RANSFORD, Prop., . Rensselaer, Ind.!

Miss Lucy Wiltshire visited friends in Monon this week. Misses Nellie Ade and Mabel Sell are visiting young lady friends here this week. From all reports the oats in west Jordan are the best in the entire county this year. T. J. Sayler, of Lamar, Colo., is visiting old friends here. Mrs. Sayler has been here for several weeks. •Another nice heavy rain fell here Thursday afternoon, doing an mense amount of good to the growing corn. Jackson township, Newton county, will vote to-day on the proposition of building several miles of stone roads. The Goodland Herald states that the little daughter of John Ulm, Jr., of southwest Jordan has a mild case of diphtheria. The Star mail service from Aix to Rensselaer will be discontinued on July 31, and superseded by rural delivery service, mail to Rensselaer. Mrs. Frank Wood returned to her home in Minneapolis, Minn., VVednesday, after several weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Catt. Mrs. Dora Tanner, wife of Geo. E. Tanner, who has many relatives and friends here, died at Sisterville, W. V., last Monday from consumption. She resided in Kansas. Latest reports frt m J. E. Spitler state that his trouble has been diagnosed as Bright’s disease by the Lafayette doctors, and that he is in a very feeble condition, hardly recognizing anyone. He can live but a few days, it is thought. QsA good rain fell here Saturday. During the storm lightning struck a tree in the yard at Larkin Potts’ and the bolt entered the house and tore off some of the plastering, melted the wire support of a stovepipe and scared Mrs. Potts considerably. The Flynn & Collins River Queen Mill took in its first load of new wheat last Friday. It was of the Turkey Red variety and of excellent quality. There was a larger acreage sown here last year than for some time, and the yield is from 25 to 30 bushels per acre. The Democrat editor returned this week from bis sojourn in the east and had a most pleasant trip and visit. As there has been much interest manifested by our readers and many inquires made about the farming conditions of central New York, which was touched upon a little in last week’s letter, the matter will be taken up again next week and more fully entered into. ' The meaning of the word luck may be fully explained in the following: “Luck means rising not later than 6 o’clock in the morning and living on a dollar a day if you earn two, mind your own business and not meddling with other people’s. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trams you failed to catch. Luck means trusting in God and your own resources—Syracuse Register.

'-yMiss Maude Daughrety is visiting in Monticello this week. Miss Beulah Yates visited Miss Maucie Myers at Monticello several days this week. The circus Tuesday will be located on the Monnett lands along the Remington road. zAlf Donnelly and J. H. Chapman left yesterday for Virgie, Texas, on business. Will Donnelly is located there. . X? Edward Jenkins, residing on th& Range Line road, had a good cow killed by lightning last Saturday. The animal was insured for S4O. Bro E. A. Walker of the Wolcott Enterprise was calling on the fraternity here yesterday. Everett is a fine fellow and prints an excellent paper. Kentland Enterprise: Mrs. Jack Heilman is visiting at Mt. Ayr and Rensselaer... .Miss Nora Bridgeman, of Rensselaer, is visiting at the home of her uncle, George M. Bndgeman. / /*‘Jakie” Wright, formerly of Rensselaer, and Miss Ada Blystone of Frankfort, were married at St. Joseph, Mich., a few days ago. Both ara mutes. Jacob is employed in the oar shops at Michigan City. A copy of the Newton County Sentinel, Morocco’s new democratic paper, has reached our table. E. R. Schanlaub, brother to John Schanlaub of Rensselaer and Sidney Schanlaub the former editor of the Morocco Courier, is its publisher. The first issue is chock full of live, spicy locals and carries a large amount of advertising. We extend our paw to the new candidate for public favor. “yJL G. Hough of Goodland was In the city a few hours Thursday. Rue lived in Rensselaef some eighteen years of his youthful days, leaving here about thirtytwo years ago. While here he called on a number of his friends of boyhood days and visited the ‘ old swimming hole” around the bend of the river. He said he didn’t go in swimming because he had no pail to carry water to wet the clay bank where the boys used to slide down into the water. Capt. John B. Williams, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and Jay W. Williams, of Rensselaer, Ind., and J. J. Williams, of Cleveland, Ohio, the three brothers of Mrs. Stokes, quite surprised her last Friday noon, by walking into the house one after another. Their coming was entirely unexpected by any member of the family, but they were none the less welcome. It is the first time the whole family has been together in thirty years, though Mrs. Stokes has often visited them at their homes during that time; and each of them has visited her a number of times, so that their faces are not unknownin East Hampton.—East Hampton, (N.'Y.,) Star. Keep your eyes open for nice new nobby styles for fall suits and overcoats at reasonable prices at Duvall & Lundy’s. No date limits on sale. Special discounts on entire big line of Oxfords until sold. The G. E. Murray Co.

FARMERS AND AUTOS

Some of Them Seem to Think That the “Devil Wagon” Has No Rights. COUPLE OP INSTANCES NOTED Curious Coincidences of Births in One Family Father and Child Killed. Columbus, Ind., July 27. —The farmers of this and neighboring counties have taken matters into their own hands as far as owners of automobiles are concerned, and local autoists say they will go armed hereafter to protect themselves while on the country roads. E. D. H. Reap and Lon Cox, of this city, started to Edinberg, and when near that place they were met by a man driving a horse hitched to a buggy. who promptly pulled a revolver and shouted for them to stop. He Waved His Artillery. They stopped. The man was still a square er more away, but he continued to wave theweapon and swear at them. After he had driven past he left his horse standing and came back to the machine, still waving the gun and threatening to shoot if the driver started the engine. After he had gone the two went to Edinburg and took the town marshal aboard. They went back through the section of the county for the man with the revolver, but he could not be found. Was a Middle-of-tbe-Road Man. l»ore Ogden, of this city, also had an experience with a farmer. He was driving his touring car west of the city when be caught up with a man and girl driving a horse. The horse did not frighten at the auto, so the man looked back, laughed and kept in the center of the road. In vain did Ogden toot his horn and call for the man to turn out. Wouldn't Let the Auto Passu When they struck a stretch of road wide enough to pass, Ogden pulled his machine in the ditch and tried to go around the vehicle. The farmer pulled in front of him, however, and the automobile sideswiped the rig. The autc was scratched considerably and one lamp was broken, but the horse, buggy and occupants escaped unhurt. The name of the farmer could not be learned. NOVEL BIHTH COINCIDENCES Two Generations of a Family Consist of Nine Children, Born at Intervals of Two Years. Clay City. Ind., July 27. Among the pioneer families of Clay county none are more numerous and better known than the Hendrix family. Their ancestry in the United States dates back to the beginning of the seventeenth century. As a most phenomenal and unprecedented coincidence In the family genealogy there were of the fourth generation nine sous and daughters of* Henry Hendrix, all of whom were born at intervals of two years from 1702 to 1778. The third son In this generation was also named Henry. To him also were born nine sons and daughters of the fifth generation, all of them at intervals of two years, from 1798 to 1814. He Whistled a Merry Tune. Kokomo, Ind., July 27.—A bold burglar whistled a merry’ tune while he appropriated what pleased him upon the second floor of the home of Mrs. Koxanna Copeland, 51 Pearl street.

Mrs. Copeland and her three granddaughters were asleep on the parlor floor and were awakened by the intruder, but found the stair doors locked. Slate Tronble Is at an End. Linton, Ind., July 27.—The strike at the new Summit mine, where over 200 men have been idle for six weeks, has been settled and the mine will resume at once. The trouble was caused by a dispute over whether the company or mnlera should move the slate. At a conference it was decided that company should move the slate.

Walks Out of Jail and Escapes. Winona, Minn.. July 26. —Deputy Sheriff Parr left the door open after feeding the prisoners in the jail and Loyal Nichols, a desperate criminal, walked into the street and escaped. .When last seen he was making for the Wisconsin shore in a row boat The clothing discounts still continue at the G. E. Murray Co.’b store. See G. E. Hersh man for farm and city loans and fire insurance. 28 photos for 25 cents, show day, at the Penny Photo Gallery, east side of public square. Will leave next day after show. George Nierengarten, Photographer. In spite of the big sale of suits we bad, we still have the choicest and newest styles left. The Ideal. Headquarters for Threshing Coal. All grades at Coen & Brady’s. No old stocks carried over, but new, nobby and up-to-date suits and overcoats will be on hand Aug 1. We invite you all to call and inspect our lines. Duvall & Lundy. Clearance discounts in all departments at the G. E. Murray Co.’s big store. Our prices on overcoats and full suits will be lower than any sale prices as we buy for cash and sell for Cash, and we don’t ask one price and take another. One Price Clothiers. Duvall & Lundy You should buy your fall stock of shoes and clothing now and save 50 per cent. Chicago Bargain Store. Wait for Duvall & Lundy’s overcoats and fall suits. No old stock and no moth eaten stuff to push off. All new and up-to-date at reasonable prices. Duvall & Lundy. Nothing spasmodic about the Wildberg Sale, the best stock in Northern Indiana to be sold out at less prices than has been known for years. jqOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT. The State of Indiana,) Jasj >er County, f Xu tfee Jasper Circuit Court, September Term. 1908. Thomas A. Tyler ) vs. >• Complaint No. TOM. Daniel Antrim, et al. ) Now comes the plaintiff, by Judson J. Hunt, bia attorney, and files hla complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendant, Caleb J. Antrim, la not a resident of the State of Indiana. Notice la therefore hereby given eaid defendant, that unless he be anifappear on the eighth day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holdeu on the Bnd Monday of Sertember. A. D.. 1808, same being the 18th day of September. 1906, at the Court House in Kensselaer, in said County and State, aud answer or demur to said eomplaint, the same will be heard and determined in his absence, lu Witness Whereof, I hereunto set my ( , hand and affix the Seal of said