Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1907 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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<U Jt, Personal j Recollections of a Dollar \\X / I am a dollar. A little \ x\MA I" M .age wt>rn * “ayb®, but still y ,n circulation. I am proud of myself for being in cireolation. I am no tomato can dollar—not I. HBHBB This town is only my adopted home, but I like it and hope to remain permanently. When I came 2JF HE out of the mint I was - —adopted into a town like I :* this in another state. But Hz 'YN- after a time I was sent off ' *< • to a big city, many miles H away. I turned up in a H * Mail Order house. For sevoral years I stayed in that HI B&r Clty ’ Millionaires bought |Hz'< ’ ' "Bms; cigars with me. I didn’t like that for j believe in the plain people. . » Finally a traveling man brought me to this town and left me I was so glad to get back to a smaller town that I deter■tined to make desperate efforts to stay. |B One day a citizen of this town was about to send me back to ffißiat big city. I caught him looking over a Mail Order Catalogue. HKiddenly I found my voice and’said to him—he was a dentist, by He way: M “Now, look here, doc. If you’ll only let me HB stay in this town I'll circulate around and do |n you lots of good. You buy a big beefsteak me, and the butcher will buy groceries, F and the grocer will buy dry goods, and the dry ■ goods merchant will pay his doctor’s bill with |O me, and the doctor will spend me with a B farmer for oats to feed his buggy horse, and will buy some fresh beef from the Hand the butcher will come around to his tooth mended. In the long run, » e *’ ll be more useful to you here at you’d send me away forever.” .B as a mi R ht .v stiff argument. Ho hadn’t looked Htefore So h. Jgjwgfl? 4 ; , Heulate around home again. Bose ail the other dollars that are sent t. « * icago H city were kept circulating right here at home. * own grow. ~ BEST. NOW-AIN'T I RIGHT?

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BARN AND FARMHOUSE BURNED.

Geo Gorham’s barn near the railroad caught fire about eight o’clock Sunday evening and was almost completely destroyed before the fire company could reach the same and extinguish the fire. There was a Jersey cow, three pigs and about a dozen chickens lost in the fire. The loss was perhaps $l5O, with $75 insurance on the barn, none on contents. Through the efforts of U. M. Baughman and others a subscription was raised of $105.25 to assist Mr. Gorham—who Is a poor man and has but one arm—to rebuild and buy stock in place of that lost. As the lumber dealer sold Mr. Gorham the lumber to rebuild at cost and the carpenters did the work free gratis, he is really better off and will have a better barn than he had before the fire. The house on John Groom’s farm 3| miles northeast of town was burned Monday afternoon while the tenant, Cyril Steele, with his family were absent from the house. About half the contents were saved. The fire is supposed to have started from 0 a defective flue. There was no insurance on the house, but $l5O on contents, we understand. Mr. Groom’s loss is probably S3OO to S4OO on the house.

HE WASN’T SCARED A BIT.

The little 3-year-old eon of John Maxwell of near Valma wandered away from the house Thursday about 10 o’clock and his disappearance caused considerable excitement in that neighborhood. Nearly all the men in the neighborhood got out on horseback and hunted for the youngster. He was found about 2 p. m., in the woods about 1| miles from the house, walking around, kicking up the dead leaves and was as unconceaned as would be. The finding him alive Xd uninjured was a great relief to his parents and to the searchers, • . - * t '!‘ ■■■.■■■ ■■ 1 Wo buy eggs—highest market price paid. Fendig’s Fair.

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BOTH GO “DRY.”

Keener and Wheatfield On The Water Wagon.

REMONSTRANCES ARE HELD 6000,

And Five Saloons Will Be Put Out of Business.—Other Proceedings of County Commissioners.

The county commissioners finished the business of the term Tuesday and adjourned. Perhaps the most important business to Wheatfield and Keener townships that came before the board and a matter that has been watched with great interest in all other parts of the county, was the matter of the remonstrances against the traffic in intoxicating liquors in the above named townships. An application from Demotte was filed, but the remonstrance being sufficient makes that always “wet” town now as dry as tinder. An application had been published for Kersey but was not filed, so both Demotte and Kersey are now dry. The remonstrances filed contained 84 names in Keener, a majority of 15, and 94 in Wheatfield, a majority of 12. The three saloon licenses in Wheatfield will expire at 12 o’clock midnight as follows: Wm. F. Weese, Sept. 12, 1907. John McGlinn, Sept. 17, 1907. Mike Bernicken, Oct. 3, 1907. It is general! j’ believed here that Kankakee and Walker will now follow Keener and Wheatfield’s example and close the saloons in those townships, one each at Kniman and Tefft, which will make Jasper county entirely dry. The licenses now held there expire as follows: Wm. Ballinger, Kniman, Sept. 12.1907. Aaron Timmons, Tefft, March, 14.1908.

Contract approved in the Kan-kakee-Wheatfield stone road matter. There was allowed Sternberg & Bon $3,037.96; Steve Comersl,6oo; E. S. Thornton S3O on Iroquois ditch, balance of $135.40 and $13.75, respectively, to two latter to be paid when main channel is completed. There was $25,58 allowed on the Moffitt ditch; $833.03 on the Haynes ditch. Wm. C. Iliff was appointed supt. of construction of the GarrisonHorton ditch. Drainage commissioner directed to meet April 19 on the Thomas Davis ditch and report on or before May term. Amended report filed in the petition for improvement of the O’Meara ditch, which was approved. In the E. L. Williams ditch matter, H. Marble, H. W. Marble and M. Delehanty remonstrated; remonstrance overruled; set for trial May 7, 1 p. m. Petition and preliminary report in the John W. Humes ditch referred to drainage commissioner for final report, to meet April 10 and report on or before first day of next term. Drainage commissioner granted additional time in Pletcher Monnett ditch; directed to meet April 15. In the Moody-Davis ditch, assessment of Margaret Tudor was reduced $3 and ditch ordered established; James K. Davis appointed supt. .. John J. Lawler et al, petition for highway; John R. Wilson, John Hudson and Jacob Heusler appointed viewers, to meet April 20. to. . Auditor directed to give notice for letting contract for removal of bridge over Iroquois river (the Gangloff bridge) and replacing same after dredge has passed through; also same with Padgett bridge. Letting to be on April 15. Auditor directed to give notice for letting contract for bids for grade at Hebron bridge, on first day, of next term. O. F. Stackhouse, trustee of Marion tp., granted permission to ©Xb6HCi SQulvlOual |3OOr 161101 XO John Alberson, Cecil Potts, Allis

Potts, Marion Smith, Sarah Platt and Frank Ramey, not to exceed 815 each per quarter.

MRS. JOHN GROOM DIES.

Mrs. John Groom, who was taken to the asylum at Longcliff recently, died at that institution Wednesday morning. Owing to poor health Mr. Groom was unable to attend the funeral and burial. Undertaker Wright went to Logansport Wednesday and took charge of the remains and accompanied them to Attica, where they were buried beside her first husband, it being her request that this be done.

PULPIT ANNOUNCEMENTS.

' CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The subject of the morning sermon is, “God the Avenger;” in the evening, “Is Christ’s Life Imitable?” All are welcome. TRINITY M. E. CHUROH. On account of the re-frescoing of the church, Trinity M. E. congregation will hold their services at the First Baptist church a few Sundays. So that all services, including th? midweek prayer meeting, will meet there for the present The usual services on next Sabbath, to which the public will be most cordially welcomed. CHURCH OF GOD. Subject of discourse: Believing the Holy Scriptures are .truly an inspired revelation of God’s purpose and will concerning man, how can we account for the widespread confliction of ideas, now existing even among the devout, the most learned and intelligent of our day, as to what those Scriptures really teach? Perhaps two or more discourses. The first on Sunday morning next. “Hearing is seeing,” come and see. “He that answereth a matter before he beareth it, it is a folly and shame unto him.” Prov. 18:13.

VERDICT FOR HEAVY DAMAGES.

Chicago Lawyer Obtains Judgment Against Big Four Road For $35,000. Theodore K. Long, a Chicago lawyer, was given judgment for $25,000 against the Big Four railroad in the Newton circuit court this week. He had sued for $50,000. Long was a passenger on a Big Four train that was wrecked at Earl Park in January 1905, and was fastened in the wreckage in such a manner that he could not be extricated for over two hours. He was quite seriously injured and lay there clad only in a night robe with the mercury below zero. The verdict is based largely on the testimony of the section foreman of that division of the road, who testified that the broken rail causing the wreck had been in that condition for nearly a month prior to the accident, and that he had personally notified the company and requested material for making repairs.

STILL MORE CHANGES. Among the changes of address of readers of The Democrat as re. ported to this office, in the past three weeks, are: M. B. Cover, Petton. Ind., to Valparaiso, Ind. Jeaae Ball, Rensselaer to Mitchell, So. Dak. Geo. Boulks. Rensselrer, R-4, to Remington, R-4. Wm. A. Timmons, Rensselaer, R-4, to Plymouth, Ind. > Geo. L. Maines, Rensselaer, R-2 to R-l. Claude Williams, Rensselaer to Rensselaer, R-4. Bryant Cawley, Sanborn, Ind., to Tipton, Ind., Mason Barlow, Rego, Ind., to Paoli, Ind. Joseph Caln, Rensselaer, to Hastings. Neb. Theodore Phillips, Lakewood, New Mexico, to Dayton, N. M. Dr. G. W. Proudly, Akron, 0., to Altoona, Pa. Bert Nees, Gifford to Kniman. ; Richard Butler, West Chicago, Hl., to 94 Bast Illinois St., St, Charles. 111. P. C. Pursley. Britton. So. Dak., to Amherst, So. Dak., R-l. B. F. Funk, Toto, Ind., to Knox, Ind., R-R-4. A. M, Clark, Olney, 1U.,"t0 Gardner, Kan. Wm. A. Wilmington, Tefft to Tdkna, Mont. A full line of baby carriages and go-carts at Jay W. Williams’. Our line of rugs and lace cur* tains are the finest ever shown in this city, at money-saving prices. Rowles & Parker. The former Ideal is now known 1 as the “West End Clothing Store.” wool carpets 55c a yard at

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

Seven marriage licenses were issued last month, against 11 for the month previous and 10 for March 1906.

County Treasurer-elect J. D. Allman and Lyman Zea attended the funeral of James Parks at Remington Tuesday. Deceased was a brother-in-law of Mr? Zea’s.

ICounty Assessor Lewis and Township Assessor Hordeman and assistants L? Strong and Jas. Donnelly, and Green Thornton of Newton attended the district meeting of assessor at Lafayette last Friday.

a part qf the trustees were irf Monday to the board of education meeting, and nothing of importance was done. Those in attendance took out their enutneration blanks for the annual school enumeration.

said that an increase of sipne 20 per cent will be made in the assessment of real estate in Indiana this year. Compared with other property real estate has been assessed too low, the state tax board claims, and it is practically sure to be raised by this board.

Trustee Huston of Milroy tp., was over from Perrysburg, Monday, to attend the county board of and look after township matters. ~7He has a couple of deals in consideration for his store and property at Perrysburg, and as soon as he gets rid of same will return to Milroy.

'VClerk Warner received his allotment of copies of the new Acts Monday morning. As soon as the secretary of state receives receipts from all the 92 clerfe the proclamation of the governor will be issued, putting into effect the new laws that contained no -emergency clause. This ought to be in a very few days.

The libel cases of E. T. Jones of the Monon News against the editor of this paper which were set for trial in the Newton circuit court Thursday, were continued to the May term. The prosecuting witness left Monon, we are told, some four weeks ago, and his family left there last week. They are reported to have gone to Momence, 111.

August Schreiber of Roselawn, formerly of Jasper county, was denied a liquor license by the commissioners of Newton county this week because the location of the room was not in accordance with the law. An appeal was taken to the circuit court. No remonstrance for that township was filed, and it is presumed that the anti-ealoon people were not sucsessful in their efforts to make Roselawn and Thayer dry.

Charles Gallagher of south of town, was arrested Saturday evening for intoxication, being only the third-arrest made here on this charge since Rensselaer went dry last fall. He was lodged in jail until Sunday morning when he was arraigned before Spuire Irwin and fined $5 and costs, $12.50 in all, which he paid. It is alleged that he got his liquor at the drug stores on prescriptions procured through misrepresentations to two different physicians.

The case of Eric Lund, the contractor on Newton county’s new court house, vs. the commissioners of said county, wherein Mr. Lund claims a balance due him of $3,000 on the first contract for said building, has been sent to this county on change of venue. The first contract, it will be remembered, was knocked out by a' supreme court decision stopping the work, and, as we understand, this suit is brought to recover a balance for work done on the first contract,

The Sorenson shooting affray at Roselawn recently, is to be aired in court here, the oafs having been sent here from Newton county on change of venue. Sorenson has

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had Guy Givens, the young man wounded in the shooting, arrested on surety of the peace proceedings and in default of bond he is now confined in jail here at Newton county’s expense. Givens is a half brother to Ben Baker, who died at a hospital Sunday as the result of a horse’s kick, as told in our Fair Oaks correspondence, and he was allowed to attend the funeral at Roselawn Tuesday, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor.

New* suits filed:, No. 7143. James H. ‘ Chapman • va. Mack Sullivan and William P. Michael; suit on note. Demand S6O. No. 7144. Horace Marble vs. Andrew Grube et al; road case from Wheatfield tp., appealed from commissioners’ court. No. 7145. Jamffl H. Chapman, trustee of A. McCoy & Co., bankrupts, vs. Orlando A. Yeoman; suit on account. Demand $l5O. No. 7146. The First National Bank of Rensselaer vs Thomas 0. Cain and David M. Worland; suit on note. Demand SBO. No. 7147. Oliphant Hall vs. The C. I. & L. Ry. Co.; suit for damages. The complaint alleges that plaintiff was injured Oct. 27,1906, at Francesville, while employed as section hand, in throwing off coal from an engine tender for use in the depot at said place, which work he was directed to do by the section foreman, in being thrown violently from the rear end of said tender to a flat car in the rear thereof by reason of the engineer starting up the engine very suddenly and without signal or warning of any kind to said plaintiff; that he was thrown from said flat car to the gronnd and hiaright foot mashed and injured and ligaments torn loose, etc., and made a permanent cripple, and will never be able to perform ordinary physical labor. Damages in the sum of SIO,OOO is asked. ■ Transcripts in the following cases have been received here from Newton county: State vs, Sorensen; George Troupe vs. Mary Francis; Adolph J. Roy vs. Mary Francis; John R. Gray vs. C. Rider et al; Erick Lund vs. the Board of Commissioners of Newton county; Mary C. McConnahy vs. George W. Dearduff et al. No. 7153. Simon P. Thompson vs. Samuel M. Laßue et al; suit on notes and foreclosure of mortgage. Demand $3,000.

The April term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday. The grand jury has not been called. The petit jury is called for tne third Monday of the term, the docket being very light. Following are the names of the grand and petit jurors and their places of residence: GBAND JUBY. J A Tilton...Wheatfield Blias Arn01d..... Barkley Shelby Grant Marion W S DeArmond....Kankakee Andrew Grube Wheatfield Warren Robinsonßensselaer PBTIT JUBOB6. Amos Alter.. Union Loliis ZickWalker Geo P KetchumMarlon George Besse.... Remington Jaoob A Rentier.... . ..Carpenter Frank Weber. ........Newton WmA Dunn ...Jordan J M Snedeker.... Barkley CC Hammond .........Newton Frank I> Hoover ~«....Marion Wm HGratner .... ...... ..Barkley RW Burris ...Gillam Milton A Jones .... Kankakee WmE Culp.....Hanging GroVe Ernest MorlanNewton John W No wel s.Newton

To Rent On Shares:—About 2 acres of fine potato ground, only five blocks fronrcourt house. Enquire at Democrat office. Now is the time to bloom out in new array. Nature is blooming out in beauty at this season, and your bloom out will be easy if you cametous;our new spring lines are complete in all departments. Rowles & Parker. FOR SALE. At great sacrifice for 10 days: solid oak book case; center stand; gasoline lamp; International dictionary and stand; International cyclopedia (1898 edition) and many other books of great value to the teacher and student. All are in first class condition. Telephone 3 on 72, or 322 S. Cullen St.

Dance at Warner's Half, Thursday evening, April ii. Good music and good order.