Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1907 — Page 5

HBwMDMAjM j|HM an Unseen dangeii ■PRS inFood Smßra- ‘■'••»ite ••-•-'• : B TO GUARD SHIPS against the unseen dangers at xa t United States Government maintains lighthouses. To guard your home against the un-, seen dangers of food products, the Govemment has enacted a pure food law. The law compels the manufacturers of baking jgJ||pWWW^ j powder to print the ingredients on the label of each can. The Government has made the label your X V-<>.vV L-rKSajjlEl «o that you can avoid alum—read it carefully, if it does not! J sol ® cream °F tartar hand it back and gßgßßffiil Say plainly■HI ROYALS ROYAL as a pure, cream of tartar baking powder—a pure product of grapes —aids the digestion adds to the health* fiulnos of food.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.! Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 37c; oats 36c. pMjs. George Ulm is visiting relatives in Ohio. yiMrs. Bessie Cain of Lake Village—is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P.Benjamin, here this week. Joe Leach of Barkley tp., is preparing to move to near Geddes, So. Dak., where he will manage a big ranch.

A. J. Harmon will occupy the Mrs. Benjamin property, in the west part of town, soon to be vacated by S. C. Irwin.

A few cases of scarlet fever are reported at Lowell, and the schools have been closed to prevent a spread of the disease.

Greenbury Lewis has bought the Lewis Arnold farm in Barkley tp , of the widow, and the latter will move to Wabash county,

Mt. Ayr Pilot: Fred Seward intends locating in Rensselaer some time next month, He intends to work with his team this coming summer. . VM-th. S. N. Pullins, who has been sick in bed for some six weeks at the home of Mr. Pullins’ parents in Barkley tp., is reported as improving now. Read the public sale ad of W. E. Rich of Remington, in another part of this paper. A rare opportunity to secure some pure bred horses and cattle. The basket ball game last Friday night between Rensselaer and Hammond high high school teams, resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 28 to 2. V-Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor took Mrs. Mildred Mikels to the asylum Tuesday. His mother and the woman’s brother-in-law, Stephen Marlin, assisted him. \rMr. John W. Rishling of Lee, and Miss Mabel Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wood, will take place to-morrow at the home of the bride’s parents, southwest of town.

Goodland Herald: Some of the papers in reporting the Gilman trial state that Wm. Keene was in debt to the bank at the time of the failure, when the facts of the case are that the bank owed Keene $1,535.63.

Uncle Newman Snow will profit by the new service pension law. He is now 81 years of age and a -veteran of both the Mexican and civil wars, but draws a pension of only 112, as a civil war soldier. Under the new law he will receive S2O per month.

A daughter was born Thursday, Feb. 7, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Duvall of Allentown, 111., both of whom are well known here, the mother being formerly Miss Addie Cbilcote, a teacher in the Rensselaer schools. This is their first child. The Rensselaer friends of the parents extend congratulations.

xHenry Hildebrand was down from Chicago yesterday, Sharon items were received too late for publication last week. Omar Day, who has been attending school at Purdue, is home sick with mump*. JW. C. Mill iron has bought a at Knox and took charge of same last week. Read what Buster Brown has to say about Rowles & Parker’s shoe sale elsewhere in this paper. W. A. Rinehart of Queen City, Mo , ’A. McCoy’s son-in-law, was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday. . A good crowd greeted “Uncle Josh Perkins” at the opera house Monday night, and a good show was put up.

JE. D. Rhoades and son Leonard attended the national meeting of the retail hardware dealers at Chicago this week.

Mr. and Mrs T. A. Besse of near Surrey are visiting at Ridge Farm, 111., this week. They will move to South Dakota shortly. Remember W. E. Rich’s public sale of pure bred horses and cattle at Remington next Tuesday See ad elsewhere in this paper. Rev. C. D. Boyce, of Spencer, lowa, a former pastor of Trinity M. E. church of this city, stopped off here Tuesday while on his wav home from a visit to Indianapolis,

New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, R. R. 4,2; Rensselaer, R. R. 3,1; Brook, R R. 3. 1; Hegewisch, 111., 1; Chicago Heights, 111., 1.

Lost, a heavy lap robe, between Good Hope church and River Side farm on Sunday, Feb. 3, ’O7. Black on one side and brown on the other. Rather woolly. Finder please i eturn to this office and receive reward.

The remains of Mrs. Frances Murfitt, who died at the home of her son John Murfitt, Jr., of near Mt. Ayr, were shipped from here Wednesday to her old home at Orland, 111., for burial. Deceased was about 71 years of age.

The paper trust has put the screws on so heavy on the price of firint paper that the Chicago daiies have advanced the price of Sunday papers to the newsdealers to 4 cents per copy, and the latter now retail them at 6 cents.

VCooney Kellner put up some 61\ven-inch ice Monday and Tuesday from the river, near the Gangloff farm, east of town. We understated be has much more ice up this year than he had last, and that it is thicker and of better quality.

Mrs. Ponsler, the aged mother of Mrs. L. Strong and Mrs E. T. Harris of Rensselaer and Walter Posler of Mt. Ayr, died last week at the home of her son Lute Posler at lola, Kan. Her remains were brought back to Brook for interment Tuesday, beside her husband in the Brook cemetery, She was about 80 years of age.

The muslin underwear sale continues at Murray Co’s.

Attend Rowles & Parker’s semiannual discount shoe sale Feb. 15 to March 2d, inclusive. It means a big saving to you.

See and hear Miss Phoebe Mae Roberts, the “Gibson Girl” beauty and reader, at the regular Library Lecture Course entertainment, at the Christian church, on Tuesday night, Feb. 26.

Harry Kurrie accompanied his brother and wife on their return to their home in Philadelphia, from attending funeral of Mrs. Kurrie, and will tak&\a much needed rest for several days.

We notice that our old friend and true-blue democrat, B. F. Funk, formerly of Wheatfield but now of Toto, Ind., is preparing to join the trust magnates and is one of a committee calling a meeting to be held at Knox to organize an onion growers’ association. Now watch the price of onions soar. A very shy Wheatfield youth sat on the sofa with his lady love. Too diffident to pop the question, he gradually slipped his arm around her waist and after a long silence blurted out, despairingly, “I don’t seem to be making much progress.’’ “Perhaps not,” replied the young lady, “but anyhow you are holding your own.”

Tuesday, Feb. 19th, at the K P. room, the ladies of the M.E. church will serve a chicken-pie dinner, beginning at 11:30 and serve until all are served; also in the evening, at 5:30, a supper of cream chicken, salad, fruit and cake will be served, to which the public is cordially invited. Price of meals, 25 cents. Remember the useful articles that will be on sale also.

VG. O. Pumphrey of Rensselaer purchased three head of hogs at the J. A. Teter pure bred Duroc Jersey brood sow sale at Remington Monday, paying a little over SIOO for one of them. The sale was well attended, buyers from several different states being present, and the average price was about s6l per head. One hog sold for $350. The entire sale aggregated $2,400.

/The weather here the first of tke week was rather warm and balmy, more like April than February, and by Wednesday considerable frost had gone out the top of the ground. Wednesday night a little mantle of snow fall and the ground froze. The snow about all disappeared Thursday al--though the mercury was not high enough for it to thaw any except in places exposed to the sun.

The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Short (or Reed, as hejs usually called), mention of whose probably fatal sickness with scarlet fever was made last week, died at about 9p. m , Monday. The funeral wes private and burial was made in Weston cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The father, who was also stricken, z ls now convalescent. A younger child also has the disease but is getting along nicely. No other cases are reported.

Read The Demohrat for news.

The G. E. Murray Co. has decided to continue the muslin underwear sale all this week.

The finest fancy Michigan potatoes in town, 50 cents per bushel, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

The next number of the lecture course will be the Roberts-Clarke Recital Co. at the Christian church, Tuesday evening, February 26. One of the best numbers of the course. Don’t miss it.

Wanted:—Gentleman or lady to travel and collect for firm of §250,000 capital. Salary §1,072.00 per year and expenses. Salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. References required. Headquarters at your home. Address, Armstrong Alexander, 125 Plymouth Place, Chicago, 111. The Newton county council 1 appropriated SI,OOO at a special meeting recently to pay extra counsel in the prosecution of the Fred Gilman cases. The report that has gone out that the defense’s attorneys also asked that they be paid by the county, which was refused, needs a little explanation. Mrs. Gilman paid Fred’s attorneys in the trial just had, but in the event of an acquittal or conviction and a new trial was granted, it was askeddhat the county pay his attorneys for the next trial.

OUR NATIONAL LEGISLATURE

Synopsis ofCtJje Proceedings in tbs Senate and House—Hills, Resolutions, Etc.

Washington, Feb; 12. The senate passed the army appropriation bill, carrying sßl,fioo.ooo. The amendments which increased the pay of army otliccrs 20 per cent, and permitted the go\ eminent to accept reduced rates on army supplies, and permitted officers and enlisted men to accept reduced transportation,were defeated by points of order.

Bills relating to the government of the District of Columbia were considered in the house. The Indian appropriation bill was sent to conference. Washington, Feb. 13. The senate occupied the da.v in argument on the bill granting the government the right to take an appeal on points of iaw in criminal cases. No action was taken on the measure.

After the passage of a number of bills under unanimous consent the house resolved itself into committee of the whole to consider the naval appropriation lull. A number of recommendations of the naval appropriations committee was on points of order eliminated from the bill. The army appropriation hill, the fortifications appropriation bill and the omnibus lighthouse bill were|sent to conference.

Washington, Feb. 14. The senate passed the bill giving the government the right to appeal to the supreme court for a construction of the constitutionality of any law involved in a criminal suit. The District of Columbia appropriation bill, carrying nearly eleven million dollars, was passed after an hour’s consideration. The bill establishing an agricultural bank In the rid lippines was taken up, but McCreary offered as an amendment the house Philippine tariff bill passed last session and ho action was taken. A message from the president urging consideration of legislation affecting the public lands was received and read in both houses. The first night session of the senate of the present session was held to consider private pension bills, at which 991 were passed, McCumber being the only senator on the floor. Headway was made by the house tn its consideration of the naval appropriation bill and more than half the bill perfected.

Ah Sin Gets Into Trouble.

Honolulu, Feb. 15.—Chief of Detectives Taylor has been offered $1,400 a week by an association of Chinese gamblers for their protection and to secure them a monopoly of gambling In Honolulu.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Orain. Chicago, Feb. 14. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May .. .$ .79% $ .79% $ .78% $ .79% Julv ... .79 .79% .78% .79% Sept 78% .78% .78 .78% Corn— . Feb 44% .44% .44% .44% May ... -4«% .47% .49% -47% July ... .40% .46% .46% .46% Oats — Feb 38% .38% .38% .38% May ... .40% .41 .40% .40% July ... .37 .37% .36% .37% Fork— May ...17.35 17.52% 17.35 17.40 July ...17.50 17.62 i% 17.50 17.52% Short Ribs— May ... 9.50 9.G0 9.50 9.55 Cash sales —Winter wheat—By sample: No. 2 red, 77c; No. 3 red, 74(<2 76c; No. 2 hard, No. 3 hard. 68@76c. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, 83@86c; No. 2 northern, 80 @B4c; No. 3 spring, 76@84c. Corn— By sample %c higher: No. 3, 42%0 42%c; No. 3 white. 43c; No. 3 yellow, No. 4, 39@41c. Oats—By sample %c higher:-No. 2,30@30%c: No. 2 white, 41%@!42c; No. 3, 38%@39c; No. 3 white, 39@40%c; No. 4 white, 38@39%c; standard, 41c.

Live Stock, Poultry and Hay. Chicago, Feb. 14. Hogs—Receipts 25,000. Sales ranged

RESOLVED « - HE never told a lie AND VUE : SHOIW ALL BE rHE A Successful merchant cant afford to IIIipMWWI mis represent and a I bHI»MS Lsa/ccessfvl merchant Dots ' W p'' s \NOTAiSR£PRESEm: \wf flw? WiSIhB - H£ IWEKTbCO A Ut THE GREATEST THING GEORGE WASHINGTON EVER. DID WAS To TELL HIS FATHER. THAT HE CUT DOWN THE CHERRY TREE. HE SET A GOOD EXAMPLE. IT 15 EASY To TELL THE TRUTH WHEN TELLING THE TRUTH WILL DO YOU No HARM BUT ARE THERE NOT MANY WHO TELL FALSEHOODS FOR IMMEDIATE BENEFIT RATHER THAN THETRUTH? WE CHALLENGE ANYONE To SHOW WHERE THIS .STORE EVER MAKES A WRONG STATEMENT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOODS OR To SHOW THAT THE REDUCTIONS WE MAKE IN PRICES AT TIMES ARE NOT GENUINE REDUCTIONS. OUR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE OF ALL OUR WELL KNOWN BRANDS OF SHOES OPENS TOMORROW AND LASTS UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT MAR. 2ND. EVERY SHOE IN THE STORE AT A DISCOUNT, WOMEN'S $3.50 SHOES NOW $2.95 “ 3.00 " " 2.65 ° 2.50 " “ 2.20 “ 2.00 “ “ 1.75 MENS 4.00 “ " 3.35 " 3.50 " “ 2.65 “ 3.00 " “ 2.45 “ 2.50 " " 2.20 “ 2.00 “ “ 1.75 MENS HIGH CUT SHOES 1 2 AND 14 INCH TOPS, BLACK OR TAN. $5.00 GRADE NOW $4.30 4.00 “ “ 3.35 3 50 ‘ ‘ ‘ 2 9 5 BOYS HIGH CUT SHOES $2.50 “ “ 2.15 2.00 “ “ 1.75 BOYS AND MISSES DRESS SHOES AND SCHOOL SHOES AT 25 ANDSOC OFF DISCOUNTS EXTENDED ALSO THROUGH OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF SHOES FOR LITTLE FOLKS. NOTHING RESERVED, EVERY SHOE IN OUR INTIRE STOCK INCLUDED IN THIS SALE, AND AT PRICES THAT MEAN A BIG SAVING FOR YOU. RESPECTFULLY, Rowles 8p Parker.

at |7.12R£677.10 for prime shipping hogs, $7.00617.05 light mixed packing, $6.25676.80 pigs. Cattle—Receipts 5.500. Quotations ranged at $5.05(§ 6.00 for good to choice corn-fed steers, [email protected] choice to prime beeves. $4.0067 4.75 choice to fancy cows. $3.656/ 4.25 good to choicj heifers,. Sheep —Receipts 44.000. Quotations ranged at $5,506/6.00 good to prime native wethers, $4.50675.00 plain to fair mutton ewes. $6,256/6.65 fed yearlings, $7.25677.65 good to choice lambs. Live poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 12c; chickens, fowls, 11 Vie; springs. 11c; roosters, 6%c; geese, [email protected]; ducks lie. Hay—Choice timothy, $18.006719.00; No. 1 at [email protected]; No. 2 at $14.00 @15.50; No. 3 at $13,006/14.00. Choice prairie at $13.506714.00: No. 1 at $12.50 @13.00; No. 2 at $10,006/11.00; No. 3 at $9.006710.00; No. 4 at $8.50679.00. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 14. Dunning & Stevens. Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Hogs—Receipts 30 cars; lower; heavy, [email protected]; yorkers, $7.35677.40; pig5,[email protected]. Sheep —Receipts 30 cars; steady; native lambs, $7.70677.80; westerns, $7.50@ 7.65; yearlings. [email protected]; wetherc, |5.256?5.75; ewes. [email protected]. Veals— Steady; best, SIO.OO.

Notice of Ditch Sale Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as Superintendent of the John H. Gilldenzorpf, et al Ditch. Cause No. 5975, pending in the Newton Circuit Court will offer the sale thereof of the main line of ditch and the lateral thereto separately on the Fifth Day of March, INI. at the postoftice in the village of Mt. Ayr, Newton county, Indiana. The main line of ditch is to be constructed from Station O to Station 8 plus 12 of eight (8) inch tile. From Station 8 plus 12 to Station 14 plus 75 of twelve [l2] inch tile. From Station 14 plus 75 to Station 38 of fourteen [l4] inch tile. From Station 38 to Station 60 plus 50 of sixteen [l6) inch tile. The lateral ditch is to be constructed rem Station O to Station 8 plus 40 of

eight, 8, inch tile. From Station 8 plus 40 to Station 18 plus 80 of ten, 10. inch tile. From Station 18 plus 80 to Station 25 plus 4 of twelve, 12, inch tile. The main line of ditch and the lateral thereto will be let separately. The contractor shall enter into a contract by giving a good and sufficient bond that he will complete the work in al{ respects according to the plans and specifications for same and as pererder ®f court and within the time specified in the contract. The undersigned as Superintendent reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Said work will be let to the lowest and best bidder or bidders. I have on hand a complete copy of the final report for inspection of prospective bidders. Dated this Bth day of February, 1907. EDWIN HARRIS, Feb. 15-22 Superintendent.

Notice of Collection of Ditch Assessments. To David Mauck, Isaac Stucker, John Kirz and James Brohosky, John Romine, :John Gilldenzopf, Frank Yeager, and Rosa Stewart, John Barinda, Jackson Civil Tewnship of Newton County, Indiana and Colfax Civil Township of Newton County, Indiana. You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned has been appointed Superintendent of the John H. Gilldenzopf, et al Ditch. Cause No. 5975, pending in the Newton Circuit Court and that the court has ordered the construction of said improvement without delay. Therefore, in order that I may have funds on hand to pay the expenses of said improvement and for the construction thereof, you are notified that ten per cent of your benefits will be payable on the first day of April, 1907. However, collections will be made quarterly from said date to the amount of thirty per cent every three months, being payable on the first day of July, 1907; October 1, f 1907 and January 1, 1908. Payments to be made at my residence in Jackson Township, Newton County, Indiana. Dated this eighth day of February, 1907. EDWIN HARRIS, Feb. 15 Superintendent, ( ♦ ,