Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1907 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 48c; oats 40c. —— Mrs. Verb Hopkins is visiting relatives in Wabash. Mrs. India Gray, aged 51 yeafrs, died at her home in Lee Wednesday. and Mrs. J. A. Larsh and children were visiting in Kokomo this week. Mrs. Hale Warner was called to Denver, Ind., Saturday by the death of a cousin. Gustavus Lowe, an old and business man of Monticello, died Saturday. | (Walter Lutz and mother have gone to Colorado Springs, Colo., to spend the summer. Frank Leek, the mail clerk, has a new Bruick auto, a two-sehted machine and a good looker. Miss Con Adams is home from Cincinnati, phio, where she has been employed in a millinery store. Mrs. Nathan Eldridge of Barklev tp., was called to Wabash Thursday by the sickness of a relative'.

Warren Griggs „of Chicago Heights, visited bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L »Griggs, here Tuesday and Wednesday. Richard Beck went tq Fowler Monday to act as best man in the marriage of William Windier and Miss Blanche Gress. Geo. Meyers has rented the former Grooms property on North Weston street, to R. P. Benjamin, who has moved into same. W. R. Lee has moved into Fred Tyler’s new house on North Weston street. Folks thought that he was going to-rbut he is not, evidently. —< w Postmaster Van Alstine of Monticello has grown tired of his job and sent in bis resignation. Several “patriots” are""noxious to succeed him. k , « . _ - Elias Hammerton, carrier on mail route 2, is taking a vacation and visiting his son and daughter at East Lynn, 111. Tom Cain is “subbing” for him, /\Frank Hill has moved his famlily here from Madison to the former McCoy farm in Jordan tp., which hia father bought after the bank failure, The battery of artillery that stopped over Sunday here a few weeks ago, will camp here again Monday night, it is expected, on its way from Indianapolis back to Ft. Sheridan. Mrs. W. H. Beam is laid up with a broken limb. She was Sweeping her back porch Monday morning when she slipped and fell, fracturing her left limb between the knee and ankle. Geo. Strickfaden has disposed of his interests in the furniture and lease of the hotel he was conducting at Muncie, and with his .family hasjeturned to Rensselaer. They will’remain here until he decides on a location.

The farmers have been kept out of their fields about all week by wet weather, and yesterday morning it was raining again. There is probably over 100,000 acres of corn yet to be planted in this county, and the outlook is not encouraging to farmers. Lyman Zea spent Sunday at his home here. He now has a posi-' tion as one of the two nightwatchmen at the Monon shops in Lafayette, and tells us it is the best and most desirable job he has ever had, both in point of salary and duties connected therewith.. In the annual readjustment of postmasters’ salaries, Rensselaer remains the same as last year, lacking about |IOO in receipts of enough to entitle it to a raise. Morocco and Oxford are each reduced tlOOf while Brook is raised SIOO. -Other neighboring towns remain same as year. Next Sunday is Children’s Day at Trinity M. E. Church. In the morning the pastor will speak on the subject: „ “The Meaning of Children’s Day.” In the evening the Bunday school will render an exercise entitled “The Girdle es Youjh.” The public cordially inAnd in the meantime the whetting of knives for machine candidates will go on. The political weather indications for Jasper county is an unsettled barometer and Squalls from unexpected quarters. Raincoats will not avail against the elements in the weather that is to come.

150,000,000 bottles of Coca-Cola sold in 1906. On sale at Tick’s 4 States. >ZMiss Katie Shields will teach one of the grades in the Brook schools next year. Hungarian seed for sate- atlhe Globe Onion Farm, 1J miles north of Rensselaer. Alf Donnelly.' Charley Smith, the foreman of the Republican, is taking a two weeks vacation visiting in Cinsinnati.'Ohio. A/W. D. Parks of Bourbon took a Toad of stock to Chicago Wednesday and also visited his father C, L. Parks at Surrey. Mrs. Jesse Grant fell as she was leaving the choir stand at the Christian church Sunday evening and broke her right ankle. \ZMrs. W. S. Parks visited in ’'Martinsville last week and attended the unveiling of the Law* ton monumept at Indianapolis Decoration day.

The father and mother of A. L. Branch moved here from Stockton, Cali, and will keep bouse for the latter, occupying the James Matheson property. Helen M. Gougar, one of the best known women in Indiana and a noted temperance agitator, fell dead in her home in Lafayette Thursday from heart disease. She Was 64jears of age. Starke County Democrat: Mr. Hanna, who has had a law office at Winamac for some time and was deputy prosecuting attorney for a time, came here the latter part of the week and he and prosecutor Reed have formed a partnership. Superintendent Dickerson, leaving all worldly cares safely locked in the chest at home, and accompanied by his family, left Tuesday morning for his farm’ in northern Jasper county to spend the summer.—Newton County Enterprise.

Sunday will be Childrens Day "at the Christian Sunday school. This together with the contest with (he Monticello school should give a large attendance at the morning session. At night the children will give an exercise entitled “The Stai; of Promise.” All are welcome. ' The Rensselaer C. E, district convention was held here at the Christian church Tuesday and Wednesday, of the four connties of Benton, Jasper, Newton and Warren. A fair attendance was had. It was not decided where the next convention would be held, but it will probably be at some point in Warren county. ;

8, B. Thornton, in writing us to change the address of his Democrat from Spokane, Wash., to Chewana, Wash., says: “We are now located on our homestead, within 5 miles of the new town of Chewana, located on the Columbia river where the C. M. & St. P., Ry., are putting in a large bridge for the proposed line of their road. We are well pleased with our location.” The Chicago Chronicle, wnich flopped from professed democracy to its real position as a republican paper in the last presidential campaign, has suspended. It bas been a losing game with the Chronicle since it refused to support Bryan in 1896, although professing democracy, and its banker owner John R. Walsfa, having got into the law’s dutches with something over a hundred indictments against him for McCoy methods of banking, no doubt hastened its end. JvThe Fourth of July committee has had to abandon the airship idea As an attraction here that day. The airship people want $350 to come here and SSOO if the “ship” flies. As the weather conditions must be just right to assurg an ascent and a great deal of disappointment would naturally result did it not “go,’’the committee felt that'the chances against its making any ascent at all were too treat. Besides, the expense is too eavy for a town of this sizet Other attractions will be secureq that will probably please better than an airship and cost less. , A reader asks us to “call attention to the fact that Memorial Day Is a day for solemn thought and feelings of reverence, an anniversary for thousands of funerals. I hear many people complaining bitterly upon seeing dances and bhurch festivities carried on on that day, which seems to license the bummy element to drink and run buggy races on the highway, as 1 saw Decoration Day just passed. While the law has classed it as a holiday, yet ’tie not a day for hilarity, not like New, Year’s or the 4th of July., It is the most solemn day in all the year, and it is a great shame that some people wish to turn it into a festive one.”

Three dollars gets-The Democrat and Chicago Dally Examiner each a full year. Fob Rent:—Two suites of rooms over Ferguson & Ferguson’s office, suitable for office or residence purposes. Apply at First National Bank. Mrs. Brit Marion visited her father, J. H. Payne and brother, Geo. Payne, at Hammond Saturday. The latter is in poor health and with his father, went to Colorado this week. Remember that The Democrat handles the genuine “Quaker Brand” parchment butter wrappers, the best paper for this purpose manufactured, and that we charge no more for this than others charge for inferior paper. matter of the improvement of Division street came up at a special meeting of the city council last Friday evening and only about 40 per oent of the property owners having remonstrated, it was decided to make the improvement as asked for, 40 foot roadway with cement curb on each side. The improvement will extend from the Forsythe residence corner to a point north of the depot.

Jacob R. Hazen formerly of 'Jordan tp., but now of Jensings county, was here last Friday with a gentleman from Rossville who was figuring on trading an 80 acre farm which he owned-in Jennings county for a dwelling and several lots in Rensselaer. Mr. Hazen told us that he had sold both bis Jennings county farms, getting 14,800 more than he paid a few years ago, and had bought a finely improved 8 acre poultry farm in the outskirts of North Vernon, and also owned a hotel property and three Mother rental properties in that place. He now devotes most of his attention to real estate and has a properous and businesslike appearance. -

The following people from out of town attended the funeral of Mrs. J. L. Brady here last Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Washburn, John Ade, J. U. Wildasin, Mrs. James McAlexander and Henry Duttenhaver of Kennand; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Brown of Knox; T. F. Clark of Battle Ground; Mr., and Mrs. Chase Moore and Mrs. Laura Fisher of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Mueller of Indianapolis, Mr. and Mrs. Berry of Muncie. A little change was made in the funeral services from first announcement they being held at the Christian church instead of from the house, and at 1:30 instead of 1:00 p. m. The funeral was. largely attended. f

The writer took his first ride over the '‘lndiana Harbor” road, as it is generally called, in going to Kentland Monday. One can make excellent connections from Rensselaer to points along that line by taking the milk train north from here in the morning to Shelby. A wait of about an hour is had at Shelby, where you get a train for Schneider, a division for the “Harbor” road, 6 miles west of Shelby,. Here

6 miles west of Shelby,. Here you find four trains, bound for the four ways of the compass. Schneider is not much of a town as yet, and the water come right up to the doorsteps of the few houses there. However, it looks like quite a busy place when all four passenger trains are there. The south bound train stops at al I stations and arrives in Kentland at about 10 a. m. The fare from Rensselaer to Kentland by this route is but SI.OB. If one wishes to return to Rensselaer the same day he can leave Kentland on the same road at 7.27 p. m., (after having had over nine hours there) and go to North Hayden, 1| miles west of Lowell, where a hack is always in waiting for this particular train and the hack fare to Lowell is 25 cents. A wait of about two hours in Lowell and you catch the Monon train due here at 11:30 p. m. This makes the most convenient and economical route to Newton county’s capital that we have ever had, and one,that will 4>e generally patronized by Rensselaer people when it is generally known the good connections made and the small expense. Of the new road, it is a dandy. Excellent trains of nice modern qoaches, has a smooth even road bed, and a very good passenger traffic is being worked up. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Ver’in Bell Hany Morehouse (3) Jno Bradock / Miu Nellie Haalman L. Heidaiman Mia* Corey None Jas. J. Kearns Mia* Jessie Pare Joaeph B. Raub Maggie Kardybnsh Rosco Clawson Mae Smalley (3) J. B. Tbosebern Ruby Scott ' Kobt. B. Connolly Flora Wilcox Dr. A. B. Donovan Mn. Ray Holman Ernest E. Fisher (3) Mn. Fannie Ham Ooms/ and see me for Osborne mowers and binders and get my prices on a general line of implements. £ V anob Collins.

diamond wedding celebrated IN WALKER TOWNSHIP. About one hundred invited relatives and friends of Mr. and Mirs. John Wen rick met at their home SaturdayTMay 25, 1907, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage.V The parlor was appropriately / ateoorated and a bounteous dinner was served and a most enjoyable time had. In fact, everyone present assisted in merriment and true thanksgiving for the goodnessjvhich God has bestowed updwThe aged couple, who are over 80'and 83 years, respectively, and are yet quite active in life, in fact their taking a part in the festivities was a comlpete surprise to those in Those present from away wercL.

Mr. Wenrick's sister, Mrs. Mary Strong of Leonidas, Mich., who was also present at the marriage 60 years ago of John Wenrick and Mary Baumgardner, the couple who were the center of attraction; niece, Mrs, Levi Strong, es Kalamazoo, Mich.; nephew and niece, Elmer E. Glick, wife and daughter Flossie, of Jackson Center, Ohio; niece, Miss Bessie Wenrick, of Piqua, Ohio; son, J. F. Wenrick and wife of Goodland, Ind.; daughter, Mrs. Wm, Cooper, 'husband, two daughters and two sons, of Virgie, Ind.; son, Noah Wenrick and son George, of Rensselaer, Ind.; James Campbell, wife and daughters Blanch, May and Zelma, Rev. Peter Owen and wife; Grandma Brown, and Mrs. Frank Dunn,' of Medaryville, Ind.;, Alva Hershman and wife. Ben Rouse and wife, of Asphaltum, Ind,; Neal Williamson and wife, of Lee, Ind.; Geo. Stembel and wife, Simon Fendig, wife and son, Mr. and Mrs. John Pipter, Andrew Misch and wife, Mr, and Mrs. Albert Fischer and children, of Wheatfield, Ind., J. F. Petit, wife and three daughters and MrL Sarah M. Petit, of Laura, Ind. Those present from this vicinity were: Hugh GaSey and wife, L. C. Peck, wife and daughter, F. M. Hershtnan, wife and son, Mrs. A. Summers, Everett Green, wife and four children, Wm. Wenrick, Mrs. L. Brown, Miss Katie Wenrick, snd Miss Edith Wenrick.

Owing to the fact that Miss Lillian Karch’s funeral was conducted early in the afternoon a number of the guests were hurried away and a complete list of presents with the donors names cannot be given. Following is a list of presents and donors: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. O. Stembel, of Wheatfield, a beautiful lamp; Mr, and Mrs. A. Misch, of Wheatfield, a decorated water set; Mr. and Mrs. John Pinter, of Wheatfield, decorated tea set; Mr. and Mrs. S. Fendig, of Wheatfield, a fruit set; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers, of Wheatfield, picture; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Glick, of Jackson Center, 0., to Mrs. Wenrick, a handsome gold ring; Mrs. Levi Strong, of Kalamazoo, Mich., a silver fruit spoon and picture; Mr. and Mrs. A. Hershman, of Asphaltum, pickle dish; Mrs. L. Brown, .to Mrs. Wenrick, washbowl and pitcher, and to Mr. Wenrick, a set of gold cuff and collar buttons; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cooper, of Virgie, berry dish and handkerchiefs; Miss Katie Wenrick, a complete dinner set, Mr. and Mrs. Wenrick both say they had a fine time and enjoyed themselves very much. This is one couple who claim that life on this earth has been a heaven to them. Friends and relatives departed for their homes wishing Mr. and Mrs. Wenrick another such a happy gathering. %• The Money of China. China is In some respects the most democratic country in the world, and there is no centralization, no unity and no uniformity. Each province, even each little town, Is a law unto Itself aqg uses its own language, weights, measures, etc. As regards money, the confusion is the same, and each province has its currency, and the money of one province has an entirely different value from that of another. In China the tael is a financial unit for which there is no coin equivalent The word tael Is used both as a measure of weight and as a measure of value. As a weight measure the tael corresponds to the American ounce in that It is one-sixteenth part of a Chinese pound or cattie. A cattie, however, is usually one and one-third pounds. • As a tael of currency the weight ranges from 540 to 588 grains. The tael of currency is decimally divided down to the sixteenth place of decimals, each with its own name, but usually only three places of decimals are used, and 10 cash equals 1 candarin, 10 candarin equals 1 mace, 10 mace equals 1 tael.

Each province in China, also each city, and many smaller towns, have a different tael of valu’e, as the tael Is supposed to be an ounce (Chinese) of silver, but there is no uniformity as to how many grains constitute this ounce, and the fineness of the silver also varies at each point. Live Within Your Means. So apportion your wants that your means may exceed theta. With £IOO a year I may need no man’s help. I may at least have "my crust of bread and liberty.” But with £5,000 a year I may dread a ring at n&y bell. I may have my tyrannical master in servants whose wages I cannot pay. My exile may be at the fiat of the first long suffering. man who enters a judgment against me. For the flesh that lies nearest my heart some Shylock may be dusting his scales and whetting his knife. Every man is needy who spends morp than he has. No man is needy who spends loss. I may so ill manage that with £5,000 a year I purchase the worst evils of poverty—terror and shamep I may so well manage my money that with £IOO a year I purchase the best blessings of wealthsafety and respect—Bulwer. ;

Sock Up s' You got bargain suspenders last Saturday, this Saturday you get bargian sox A The greatest window of dandy fancy dress and serviceable work SOX f' .f * ■ K > You ever saw at £ Cents Pair Sale begins at 11 o’clock on Saturday, JUNE 8, Be on hand ’ ■< . J. •: - S— - - - - - -- THE GEO. E. MURRAY CO.

CHANGE IN HER MIND

Mrs. Nold Now Concludes Not to Prosecute Her Aged and Thieving Brother. PUTS UP A DEFENSE FOE Hilt He Has Cost Her $50,000, but She Says He Is Now Non Compos Mentis—State News. Indianapolis, June 6. The further the police go into the investigation of the case against Frederick William Hoen, the old man robbed his sister’s safety deposit box of about $60,000 worth of securities, the more they are convinced of his propensity for spending money with a lavish hand. It reached the ears of the police that Hoen had squandered about SBO,OOO of his sister’s fortune in a few years besides stealing the SOO,OOO just recently. Mrs. Christina Nold, the sister, who is 70 years old. denied that Hoen had spent so much money. Spent More Than $50,000.

She admitted, however, that he had spent more than $50,000 of her cash during the last fourteen years. The defense of Hoen will lie that he is Insane. Before Justice of the Peace Stout insanity proceedings were held to determine whether Hoen is insane. Monday Mrs. Nold Informed Captain Bray that her aged brother had caused her so much trouble that she was willing to see him punished. Now she is clearly of a mind to shield Hoen from a criminal sentence. Not Mentally Responsible. When she was asked about Hoen’s reckless extravagance and told of the stories afloat that he had spent SBO,-, 000 within a few years, she said they were not true. “But you told the detectives that you had squandered more than $50,000 on Hoen. Wks that untrue?” she was asked. "No, It wksn’t,” the elder woman replied, spirtedly. "He did squander more than $50,000 of my money, but he was not mentally responsible." Brother Had a Sunstroke. Mrs. Nold said that her brother suffered a sunstroke fourteen years agoi, and that since that time he has acted strangely at times. She said it caused a separation from his family, and that it was necessary for him to come and live with her.

THOUGHT 18 WAS A BUNION Proved, However, To Be a Piece of Glass That Was Imbedded ' in His Toe. Hartford City, Ind., June 6.—Samuel Jarvis, of tills city, is the chief preceptor of the cutters and flatteners in’ the American Window Glass fsc-

tory (No. 3) here. For a number of years he had been suffering with what he thought was a bunion on his left foot, at the Joint of the great toe. For some time it yvas exceedingly painful and while returning from the factory to his home It became so painful that he was compelled to remove his shoe. Further examination after reaching home developed the presence of a foreign substance, and finally he succeeded In removing a core of flesh, Imbedded In which was a piece of glass a quarter of an Inch in length. It has been there for a number of years, but how it came there Is a mystery. Since the removal of the glass the bunion has not bothered Jarvis. New Species of Fox Squirrel. Zionsville, Ind., June 6. Three years ago Henry W. Nichols noticed near his home a fox squirrel of peculiar color and appearance. It established its nest In a large sycamore tree, not far from his home. This spring there was a litter of young squirrels, much whiter in color than the parent. One of the little fellows was trapped, and is now a household pet. It is caged with two young fox squirrels. It Is healthy and active. ltd tail Is white as chalk, and its body and limbs with the exception of the fore legs, are milk-white in color, while the neck and head are olive gray.

Hurt in * Peculiar Manner. Shelbyville, Ind., June B. Frank. McClellan, conductor on the Greensburg division of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction line, was seriously hurt. While coming into the city at noon he attempted to take a sign from the side of the car. One end of th* sign struck a pole and the other end struck McClellan In the stomach. Ha is unmarried and lives at Danville, Ind.

Bribery Charges at Shoals. Shoals, Ind., June 6.—Judge Houghton has instructed the grand Jury to investigate the accusations of alleged bribery and offers to bribe county officials, recently made public. The court also called attention to the fact that burglars had been unusually busy In this city, and he instructed the grand jury to give this matter attention. Mules Kick Is Fatal. Princeton, Ind., June 6. Harvey McCarty, 22 years old, faymer, negr this city, was fatally kicked by a mule. He was first struck in the forehead, and wblle attempting to get up he was caught In the back of hla head, crushing the skull. Green and Gaytxa* Aiu.i Serve. New Orleans, La., June 4. ihe sentence of the Savannah couit la tee famous Green and Gaynor case involving over half a million dollars fraud in government contract work in the Savannah harbor, was affirmed in an opinion handed down by'the United States circuit court of appeals. The sentence is four years imprisonment each and a fine aggregating $575,000.

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