Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — Page 5

Royal Baking* Powder Absolutely Pure DISTINCTIVELY A CREAM OF TARTAR BAKING POWDER Royal does not contain an atom of phosphatic acid (which is the product of bones digested in sulphuric acid) or of alum (which is one-third sulphuric acid) substan-. ces adopted for other baking powders because of their cheapness. ROYM. BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK.')

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 44c; oats 30c.. Miss Hester Halleck is sick with typhoid fever. The Wheatfield town school will begin Monday. Miss Bessie Davis is attending DePauw University. W. A. Rinehart was here from Queen{City, Mo., a few days this week. Hardman is attending Wabash College, taking the forestry course. F. E. Martin, the McCoysburg real estate agent, has moved to near Kokomo. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Peck, of Walker tp., were visitors in the city Wednesday. Mrs. John Schanlaub and daughter Blanche are visiting in Sheldon, Ill., this week. Miss Muriel Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Harris, is sick with malarial fever. M. Worland left Tuesday with James Clark on a land prospecting trip to Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brand, of Remington, spent Sunday with the former’s mother here. Several cases of typhoid fever are reported through the country and in and about Mt. Ayr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Balcom of Remington were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Harris. Mir and Mrs. G. E. Murray were in Indianapolis Wednesday to attend the wedding of Mr. Murray’s sister. Burglars broke into John Garrity's saloon at Mt. Ayr. Tuesday night of last week and robbed the safe of $31. T. J. Richardson of Barkley tp., left Tuesday for a visit with relatives in Orafino. Neb., and Kingman county, Kans. James Maloy returned to Her home in Steeger, Ill., Saturday after a week’s visit here with her mother, Mrs. O’Meara. Dr. Aaron Wood and family of Brook were guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood Sunday, making the trip via auto. Miss Mildred Searcy returned to her home in Greencastle Saturday, after a few weeks’ visit with Mrs. J. L. Smith, northeast of town. Nowels has purchased an interest in the Simon Leopoldrestaurant and will resign his position as clerk in the Murray store. Mrs. George Bell left Monday for a couple of weeks’ visit with relatives and friends at Goodland and Kentland and at Danville, Ill. ___ Lloyd Jessen, now of Logansport, is in temporary charge of the Western Union office here while Miss Spaulding is away on a vacation. _____ The Michigan peach crop is only about half that of last year and, as a consequence, this fruit is at least one-third higher than usual. Frank McCarthy, Lena Jackson, Wade LaRue, Blaine Mary Wright and Thena Myers are attending the State University at Bloomington.

Mrs. R. W. Marshall and daughter Florence are preparing to move to Santa Cruz, Cali., where Mr. Marshall is now located. A. F. Shesler, east of town, is building a new barn to take the place of the one burned a few weeks ago by lightning. Ed Hopkins takes Lem Huston’s place in the city light plant and Lem takes the place of C. L. Thornton, who has gone to Washington. Mrs. Len Letter accompanied Miss Nellie McCarthy to Danville, Ill., to-day, and will visit there and at Boswell, Ind., before returning. Len Letter, of near Pleasant Ridge, lost his iron-gray driving horse Wednesday night. It was found dead in the stable Thursday morning. is reported that Harry Wiltshire is contemplating charging an extra nickle for shining the heels of shoes hereafter, a la the Barber’s Trust Editor Marshall and daughter Lucille left Thursday for California, the former to visit a few weeks and the latter to enter Pomona College. Uncle Wm. E. Moore, who has been suffering for the past few weeks with a huge carbuncle on the back of his neck, is now able to be out a little, although considerably weakened. Miss Clara Fendig, who has been spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig, will return to-day to Brunswick, Ga., where she will teach again this winter. sw. F. Hodges, the lawyer, is preliarlng to build a residence at Gary, the new steel town in Lake county, and with his new partner, C. V. Ridgely of Olney, Ill., will locate there for the practice of law. The fourth annual festival of the Lowell K. of P’s. will be given at Oakland Park in that place on next Thursday, Sept. 27. Quite a number of Rensselaer people have signified their intention of attending. Mrs. W. J. Merica is preparing to move to Shelbyville, where “Billy” is employed in a bakery. They are unable to get a house there at present and will store their goods for awhile and take furnished rooms. Morocco Courier: Attorney E. E. Pierson is preparing to remove to Indians Harbor, in a few weeks and will be on the ground ready for business when the town of Garry blossoms, as it is sure to do in the near future. E. E. Malone of Monticello, has bought a saloon at Casey, in the new Illinois oil field, and will move to that city. Mr. Malone’s wife was formerly Mrs. Lucy Malohow of Rensselaer, and both have, frequently visited here. Jonathan Pancoast, aged 87 years, died Monday evening at the home of his son in Newton tp. The funeral was held Wednesday from the residence and burial made in the Yeoman oemetery. Deceased was one of the pioneer settlers of Newton township. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gwin died Sunday morning after a few days’ sickness, aged 19 days. The funeral w»b held Monday afternoon from the residence on the north side and interment made in the Crockett oemetery southeaet-of town.|>

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ketchum and Mrs. E. C. Furling returned to their home in Chicago Saturday after a week’s visit with the family of their cousin, George Ketchum, east of town. It is said that the 27th Infantry on its return trip from Indianapolis to Chicago will follow the same route as they did in going. They were expected io camp at Montioello last night, near Wolcott tonight, and at Rensselaer to-morrow night. O. E. Bolser of near Indianapolis has rented the Bedford restaurant room on South Van Rensselaer street and has moved here with his family. He will occupy quarters in the K. of P. building for living rooms. A new bake oven is being pot in for his use. Brook Reporter: The school enrollment of the different towns of this county show that Brook is a close second in the number of her pupils. Goodland comes firet with 268; Brook next with 262, Morocco gets third place with 245, and Kentland bite fourth spot with 235. There has been some delay in spreading rock on the Marion road system because of the non-arrival of the stone crusher. The machine arrived this week and the work of hauling rock will soon begin. It is the intention to employ 40 or 50 teams in hauling, 4t is said. The official calls for the democratic representative convention and for the Carpenter and Marion township conventions will be found on the second page of today’s Democrat. The names of the delegates and alternates to the representative convention will also be found on second page. The largest mortgage recorded in this county for some time was filed with the recorder Saturday. It is by the Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad to the Guarantee Trust Co., of New York and William A. Wildhack of Indianapolis, trustees, and is for $20,000000. The recording fee is $19. The man who is unintentionally violating the law will thank the one who is the means of setting him right in the matter. On the other hand if a man is willfully and intentionally doing an unlawful act, he will, of course, cuss the man who is the means rs his being compelled to desist. Isn’t it so? Carney, the man stabbed at the Monon street carnival last week, is said to be recovering from his injuries. The Monon News says too much booze was the cause of the trouble, and that it is understood that a Medaryville man did the stabbing. No arrests have been made, and those who saw the affray are very reticent over the matter. As the C. I. & S. local was rounding a curve one-half mile of Shelby yesterday morning, an axle under a sand car broke square in the middle, makipg a bad wreck. Two cars were thrown over against the right of way fence. Ten cars in all were wrecked, and 300 feet of track will have to be rebuilt. No one was hurt. Horatio Ropp, who has been working at the Babcock & Hopkins elevator on night work for the past eight months, missing but one night during that time, has started a plumbing shop with Eph Hickman, on Front street, and will resign his job at the elevator after this week. He will be janitor of the I. O. O. F. building during the winter. Winamac Journal: A gambling den over a saloon at Rensselaer was raided last Saturday night, when the officers captured several of the inmates, besides a lot of poker chips and about forty decks of cards. One of the gamblers “pulled” was a oounty officer, but the Rensselaer Republican politely withholds his identity, although it mimes the others. Dr. A. H. Littlefield of Claridon, Iowa, was the guest of his brother, N. Littlefield, here a few days last week. He was on his way to the national meeting of dentists at Atlanta, Ga., as one of the four delegates from his state. Albert has been in the dental business there only about seven years and to be selected as one of the delegates to this convention speaks volumes for him. A. G. W. Farmer, of south of town, did not have the tallest stalk of corn entered in The Democrat’s tall corn oontest, lacking about a foot, but he brought in at the same time a sunflower that the “Sunflower State” would not beat every day. The stalk one foot above ground measured 9 inches in circumference and the flower itself 15 inohes in diameter and weighed (after being cut off) Jan even 10 pounds.

Mr. and Mrs. John Eger will leave to-morrow with their Bon Trevor for Boston, where the latter will re-enter Harvard college. Mr. and Mrs. Eger will be absent a week or ten days, visiting Boston, New York and other points in the east. John has not takeh a vacation in a great many years, and is entitled to a good time this trip. The young man giving his name as Charles W. Manegold, who surrendered himself to Sheriff O’Connor and said that he was a deserter from Ft. McPherson, Ga„ was taken to Chicago Saturday by Joe O’Connor and turned over to the officials at Ft. Sheridan. Manegold said he was sick, hnugry and tired, and wanted to be returned to his regiment. - ► The Gifford distriot has escaped a visit from * Jack Frost thus far, and the prospect of a good crop of corn—where corn is planted, there being much uncultivated land there this year—is , good. Tom Callaghan has quite a number of acres of onions near Newland that he is now harvesting that are yielding well and are of fine appearance. This season has been especially favorable for that locality Bill N. Jones says the worst thing about the formation of the Rensselaer Barber’s Trust, whereby an extra nickel is charged for having the neck “scraped” with a shave, is the effect it will have on the g. o. p. in Jasper county. The people, he says, are hollering so much about the trusts that to set up one right under the nose of our home folks will certainly have a disastrous effect ou the republican vote here. * Attorney W. J. Reed of Knox was in the city Saturday. He was on his way to Remington and from thence to Monticello, where the damage case against the Panhandle railroad for the killing of his father at a crossing at Remington a few years ago, came up for trial again Monday. The case was once tried in this court and a judgment for some $2,500 secured. The railroad company took the case to the appellate court where they were granted a new trial.

Advertised Letters: —Miss Pauline Hines, Mrs. Catherine Jenkins, Miss Disa Longwell, Mrs. Anna Lambert, Mrs. Wm. Norton, Mrs. Dora M. Reeves, Mrs. John White, Mrs. J. N. Harvey, Mrs. Mary Williams, Miss Cora Stower, Miss Eva Thompson, Miss Iva Reams, P. O. Box 143, Jack Stoner, J. W. Brown, H. A. Pickering, F. C. Moore, Or win D. Lacax, Alva Fisher, F. McEllfreßh, Dauga Co.,P. Deehan, Jay G. Jones. Ira Osborn, sou of J. F. Osborne, a former resident of Rensselaer, was here this week and expects to locate here in the barber business. He is said to be a first-class barber and will not belong to the Rensselaer barber’s trust, it is reported, and will not exact an extra nickel for shaving the neck of his patrons, even though they have necks as long as a giraffe. He will occupy the Makeever building, formerly occupied by Freeman Wood, it is said. A woman must have written this: “Did you ever notice that tobacco is always clean. If a man drops a piece of meat, no matter how clean the floor may be, he will either give it a kick or pick it up and lay it to one side. He will never eat it. But let him drop his plug of tobacco on the ground and no matter how dirty the spot was where it fell, be will pick it up and give it a careless swipe on his coat sleeve or on the bosom of his pants and then take a chew with greater relish than ever.” Kellner, Hilderbrand and Rosenbaum state that they will go out of the liquor business entirely in Rensselaer, the former to devote his entire attention to his ice business, Hildebrand to move to Chicago where he recently bought a saloon, and Rosenbaum to conduct a soft drink establishment and restaurant in the room where hie saloon has been located. Kellner has leased quarters in the rear of the Fritts fruit store and the Paroels barber shop and will store hie fixtures therein for the present. Quite a party left here Tuesday for the west, some going to Washington, some to the Dakotas and some to Kansas and other points. Among the number were B. F. Ferguson and daughter Ethel, C. L. Thornton and family, Judson Maines, James Cambe of Remington, Miss Minnie White, Miss Grace Sayler, of Monticello, Mr. and Mrs. John Mills and Henry Mills, who were going to Washingon end most of whom were under Mr. Ferguson’s chaperonage, and Andrew Charles and Henry Snow who were bound for North Dakota.

People who desire to vote in the November election shonld not move out of the township or county in which they live between now and election day. Under the provisions of the law sixty days’ residence in the township or oounty is required, while in a precinct thirty days are sufficient. The movements of voters will be watched carefully from now until election day and every precaution will be taken by party managers to prevent anv loss of votes by change of residence. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Brown returned Monday to their home in Plymouth, the former after two weeks’ and the latter about six weeks’ visit with old friends and relatives in Jasper oounty. Mr. Brown is still in the feed and bitch barn business at Plymouth and is having a good patronage right along. Crops in his looality are fine this year with the exception of hay and oats, which were light. Land values continue to increase there as here —have about doubled since he went there. John Keiper is still on the farm be bought some five or six years ago and could make a nice thing if he wanted to sell, but he does not care to do so now.

CARD OF THANKS.

To the neighbors and friends who assisted us in our late bereavement, we desire to extend our heartfelt thanks. We also wish to extend our thanks for the beautiful floral offerings. Lewis Davisson and Family.

NEW FIRM.

Having opened a new plumbing aud steam-fitting shop on Front street, first door south of the Nowels house, we are prepared to do all work in this line in city or country at reasonable prices and in a workmanlike manner. Pump repair work and everything pertaining to the plumbing business done with dispatch, 4 Furnishings

ROPP & HICKMAN.

on hand.

NOTICE.

Owing to the scarcity of help and the great amount of work in keeping so many small accounts which keep me up late, after a hard day’s work, I have decided to change my present system to cash on and after Oct. 1, 1906. Ido not make this move because of any loss, but rather because the present system has too much work and expense for me and saves my patrons nothing. I thank you all for your kind and liberal treatment in the past, and hope you will find no fault in the new system. Thanking you again, I beg to remain your servant,

It’s wortb a few minutes of any man’s time to look into our new fall clothing. Drop in, we would like to show you.

Rowles & Pabker.

REPUBLICAN TEXT BOOK.

Word Picture* of RepnbltranUm Edited by Roosevelt. It Is comforting to know that “the proof’ of the Republican campaign text book Is In the hands of President Roosevelt for revision and approval. We shall thus soon know where the G. O. P. and the president stand on disputed questions. We know that Speaker Cannon has induced the president to stand pat ou the tariff, but it will be more certain how strong the stand pat attitude of the president is to see it in print, revised and approved. Chairman Sherman of the Republican congressional committee, after an Interview with the president, informs a waiting public that “the book will be a stand pat document, with word pictures of the record of the Republican party and reasons why that party should be kept in power. What picturesque language may we not expect when the editor has added the word painting!' The chapter on Panama and Santo Domingo and the Philippines will be worth all the dollar. And to think that Mr. Roosevelt’S achievements—for he at present is the Republican party—edited by himself, with his Inmost thoughts laid bare and his trumpet appeal to the voters to once more stand pat for the G. O. P. and victory, can all be obtained for $1 and your name enrolled on the scroll of fame as a subscriber to Republican success! ____

Town Lovers.

A girl stands in the middle of a circle of players and says the following lines, altering the names to suit those present: There is a girl of our town; She often wears a flowered gown. Tommy loves her night and day And Richard when he may And Johnny when he can. I think Sam will be the man. She points to each one as she names him, and at the last line the one selected immediately runs away. If the girl catches him he pays a forfeit, or else the game is begun again with the boy in the middle- Chief or Police Dismissed. St. Louis, Sept. 20,—The board of police commissioners, sitting as judges and jury, sustained the charges filed many months ago against of Police Matthew Kiely aud dismissed him from the service.

O. H. McKay.

GQODSAREIMPROVING

Stats Pure Food Crusade Has Bettered the Quality of What We Eat. WHOLESALERS HELP THE CAUSE Thief Escapes from Jail While He Visits the Corpse of His Sweetheart— Items. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 21.—As a result of the work of the laboratory of the state board of health, food and drug conditions in Indiana have Improved in the last year. This is especially true as to spices, vinegars, cream of tartars and olive oils, according to H. E. Barnard, the chemist of the laboratory. “Last year abont every other sample of cloves and pepper was adulterated, usually with ground cocoanut shells,” said Mr. Barnard. “Recent analyses show that two samples out of fifty were bad, a considerable Improvement Wholesaler* Friends of Pare Food. “Now, the wholesalers are protected In their desire to push the sale of good goods," continued Barnard. “Now, when cheaper grades of spices are asked for they can tell the retailer that he buys them at his own risk, as the state law prohibits adulterants, and the state laboratory is enforcing the state law. The result is, usually, that the retailers buy the genuine spices.” Says Sharp Things of Vinegar. Barnard said that there were still a great many vinegars that were not what they shonld be, though the per cent, of adulteration was not more than half what it was a year ago, when it was 02 per cent. “Really, there is only one firm that persists In selling vinegar that Is Improperly labeled,” he continued, “and that is a wholesale firm outside the state, The attitude of the Indiana wholesalers is excellent, many of them refusing to buy vinegars until they have been tested in our laboratory. (Other Goods Improved. “Of fifty-seven samples of cream of tartar recently examined, only one was impure; that contained alum and starch, and was evidently made by an * expert, as the acidity was good. The samples of olive oil that were boughs at the groceries recently were all good. These were all bottle goods, and their excellence is due, in part, I think, to the establishment of the port laboratories, which see to it that all of the imported olive oils are pure. HER LOVER WAS A THIEF Perhaps That is Why the Girl Committed Suicide—His Temporary Jail Break. Mnncie, Ind.. Sept. 21.—His sweetheart dead by her own hand and himself serving a jail sentence for larceny, Lawrence Duffy broke away from the guard at the county jail and ran to the home of the girl he had loved, Miss Addie T.inville, to on her face. ITe threw his pursuers off the scent when he escaped, and remained In the room with the dead girl for two hours. Then be returned to prison to serve the remainder of his time. He will not be punished for Ills misdemeanor. He had written a note to the sheriff and left it in the hands of another prisoner, tolling why he had run away and saying that he would return, hut his fellow-prisoner failed to deliver the message, fearing that lie might be implicated by so doing. The Linville girl swallowed poison and gave no reason for her act. How to Utilize an Accident. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 21. —William Adams, a railway engineer, who lost nearly all the flesh from his arm in an accident, is recovering at the city hospital, where the skin from a negro woman’s leg was grafted on his arm. The woman’s leg had to lx* amputated because of nn accident, and Adams made no objection of the color. Novel Campaign with * Cannon. New Albany, Ind., Sept. 21.—Capt. Tom Hanlon, of this city, who is managing the congressional campaign of W. E. Cox in the three-cornered congressional fight In this district, has obtained a cannon with which to fire salutes at the Cox meetings. The cannon has been christened "Tom Taggart.” Will Fight Higher Insurance Rate. Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 21.—Concerted action by the retail business men of the state Is the plan decided on by the Lafayette Retail Merchants’ association in beginning a fight against the increase of fire Insurance rates recently made by the companies doing business in Indiana. Threatener la Insane. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 21.—John Fricke, who Is said to have made threats against the life of Mayor John W. Boebne, has been arrestad and declared insane. His wife was also declared insane. {Will Import Swedish Work mem. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 21.—At a meeting of the Evansville Majmftcturera’ association, it was decided to send to Sweden and Import 200 workmen of that country to work in the local factories. i - -i- ---, Poor Job of Counterfeiting, Noblesville, Ind., Sept. 21. — Counter- . felt half-dollars and 10 cent* piece* , have made their appearance hero. They are very poor imitations.