Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1907 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

SI.OO Per Year.

“INCH STONE?"

Is It All Rock Or Rock and Dust nixed? t . MATTER MAY BE SETTLED IN COURT Replies Received From Stone nen By County Auditor Indicates the tatter Interpretation.

Auditor Leatherman has recieved a few replies from stone dealers relative to the meaning of . “inch stone” as specified ~in the specifications for the RemingtonCarpenter st&ne roads, over which there is a controversy and where work has stopped until the matter is settled. Somfe are rather noncommittal, but the inference drawn from them is that perhaps the parties may have been spoken to, and that inch rock means anything that will pass through an inch soreen—clay, dirt or anything else. Edward Hely of Monon is rather more specific in-his reply and says that if the specifications bad called for “binder stone” the dust would be exoluded, but calling for “inoh rock” everything that would pass through an inch screen. Now, as a matter of fact, we are { informed that “inch rock” has been specified in the orders to the Casparis stone people in all orders sent them from Remington in the gist dozen years for repairs on the ange Line road, and this is what ' the viewers had in mind and 'what they-, looked -at in determining what size stone should be used for the top in making the roads now under way. It is also stated that the Casparis people shipped a few years ago a load of the same material that they sent for the top dressing of the present improvement and that Mr. Clowry, superintendent of the Range Line road, refused to accept same. A representative of the stone company came out from Logan sport and looked at the rejected stone and remarked that the shipping of this particular quality of stone to Remington was a mistake; that it was not inch stone, the kind ordered, and he had it shipped back to Kenneth —where the quarries are located—and sent another car of the right material —inch stone — in its place. If this is correct, and our information comes from a responsible party, it would seem that there could be no question in the minds of the Casparis people—who are furnishing the stone that has just been rejected by Supt. Basse —as to what is meant by the term “inch stone.” It is the general opinion of the Remington and Carpenter township people whom The Democrat has talked to in this matter that inoh rock of the kind used in re- • pairing the Range Line road, - winch is meant ih the specifications, will be insisted upon, and if not supplied or the contractors do not get Jto work soon the matter will be settled in court, as they will insist on the county beginning action on the bond for failure in the performance of contract. In fact it is a question if the terms of the contract have not been violated in the delay already occasioned. This bond is signed by Delos Thompson and John Eger of Renofelaer and is perfectly good. But W. F. Smith, who is the contractor, as shown by reoord, states that his contract with the stone company is for stone in accordance with the specifications and to the acceptance of the engineer and superintendent, and that it maketi no difference to him about the present controversy; he is ready to go ahead when the matter is settled. However,-the parties at interest there have nothing whatever to do with the stone oompany; the specifications call for a certain kind of stone for the top—costing, it is said 80 cents per yard at the quarries, while the dust and stone mixed, in which the former pre- , dominates, it is claimed, costs but 40 or 45 cents per yard, They want the rook they are paying for and which they are entitled to, and will insist on their rights in the matter. ■■■■■- %

Buy the pre-shrunk suits,fwhich are guaranteed not to shrink nor lose their Bhape. , You will fiqd them at our store. Duvall &|Lundy.

DEADLOCK STILL ON IN NEWTON.

There is no break in the Newton eonnty school snperintendonoy deadlock. The democratic trustees met Wednesday in response to the call of the county auditor, but the republicans were conspicuous fyy their absence and finally an adjournment was taken until July 10.

NEW LAW FIRM.

* Ex-county superintendent L. H, Hamilton has formed a partnership with W. H. Parkison for the practice of law, and the firm will be known as Parkison & Hamilton. They will retain the office rooms now occupied by Mr. Parkison, over the Chicago Bargain Store. This should make a strong combination, and The Democrat wishes the new firm lots of success.

PREMATURE FOURTH OF JULY EXPLOSION.

“Squire Thornton, Jr.,” the five-year-old son of Squire J. H. Thornton, oonld not contain his pent np patriotism until the 4th, and as a result is nursing some burns received Thursday afternoon from fire-crackers. It seems he was down near the Makeever hotel shooting off fire-crackers, a bunch of' which he had in his breeches pocket. The fire-crack-ers got afire in some way in his pocket and begun cracking quite lively, and the boy let out some yells that would put a Rensselaer football player to shame. When the rescuers bad gathered up the remains and a doctor was called it was found that aside from a ruined shirt and pair of pants and a skin burn a few inches square in the groin, the boy was all right A few years ago a boy in Lafayette died from injuries received hi about the same manner.

NOWELS HOUSE CHANGES OWNERS AGAIN.

The owner of the Nowels House, who resides in Illinois, has traded the property for a tract of land in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, and the new owner, J. F. Lachenmyer of Champaign, IH , was here this week looking over the property. There is some prospeot that he will' thoroughly remodel the hotel, and move the office down stairs to the room now oocupied by R. P. Benjamin’s piano and sewing machine business, although he made a proposition to Mrs. August Rosenbadm to lease the entire building to her —with the exceptions of the room occupied by the barber shop—in it’s present shape. Tne is a great scarcity of hotel room here at present, and this would oertainly be an ideal opening for Mrs. Rosenbaum, it would appear. The entire lower room could be used as a restaurant and the upper rooms—of which there could be about 30 fixed up with little expense—used for sleeping rooms. It is really hoped that sometthing will be done to re-open the place soon, as it is greatly needed to accomodate the transient and boarding public with sleeping quarters at least.

BROTHER OF MISS EVA BROWN DROWNED.

-.Walter Brown, the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brown and a nephew of Mrs. Geo. Goff of Rensselaer, was drowned at the fair grounds lake at Crown Point Saturday afternoon while in bathing with several companions. He was a good swimmer and was perfectly at home in the water. The boys had been out to a raft in the lake and after a time started to swim back. Young Brown finally gasped that he was about exhausted, saying “I am about all in fellows," and one of the party tamed back to assist him. Before he oonld reaoh him he went down and did not again come to the surfaoe. The water was forty feet deep where the drowning occurred and it was over three hours before the body was recovered. He is supposed to have been taken with cramps. The boy was a nephew of Mrs. Geo. Goff of Rensselaer, and his sister, Miss Eva Brown, was here visiting Miss Fannie Porter at the time of the accident. Mrs. Goff, Mrs. Bert Goff and Miss Porter attended the funeral, which was held at Crown Point Tuesday. The unfortunate lad was very popular in high school and athletic oirclee at Crown Point, and the whole community there deeply sympathize with his grief-strioken parents.

Rensselaer, Jasper County. Indiana, Saturday, June 22, 1907.

“THE GREEN BUG.”

Oats Are Covered With the Little Insect. IS HE THE 6ENUINE DESTROYER? \ Professor at Purdue Says tha Bug la Harmless and No Fears Need Be Had of It By Farmers.

While the farmers of near Kentlandand other parts of Newton county complained three or four weeks ago .of the “green bag” making its appearance in their oat fields, it was only the first of. the present week that anything haß been heard of it about Rensselaer. Now neaidy or quite all the farmers who have examined their oats find the bug in profusion on the blades. Some have thought this is the same bug that has done so much damage in southwest to growing crops, but samples were sent from about Kentland to the “bag mandat Purdue and he stated that no fears need be entertained; that the bug was harmless and had been here for ten years or more, although it has not been generally noticed until now. The reports of the ravages of the bug in the southwest are said to have been greatly exaggerated also and were possibly sent out to influence the markets.

While the report of the Purdue bugologist apparently sets to rest the question of its need to be feared, yet a few of the alarming reports regarding it may not be uninteresting: In sections of Oklahoma it is aaifl the bug has ruined almost the entire wheat and oats crop. They are very small in size bat great on the damage wrought, it is said, working most in cool, damp weather and disappearing when warm, sunshiny weather comes. It is they suck every partiole of the vitality from the blade aha stalk and it soon withers and dies. A dispatch to an Indianapolis paper from Petersburg, Ind., under date of June 18, says of the pest:

Warm weather has killed nearly all the army worms in this vicinity, but the depredations of preen bugs and cut worms make the damage done by the army worm insignificent. Not hundreds, but thousands of acres of oats in this county have fallen a prey to the little green bug, and the pest is spreading. Not an oats field in this vicinity has escaped, and it is feared now that the crop, although of nearly twice the acreage of last year, will fall far behind in yield Damaged fields can not be plowed under and planted in com because it is too late to prepare the ground. Cut worms are attacking the corn Jin great numbers. Brown rust bas appeared in the wheat fields, but as muckrof the crop is almost matured the damage will be only slight. Nearly one-fourth of the corn crop is yet to be plauted in this county.

The same Indianapolis paper states: A sample of oats brought to the office of A. W. Thomson, an Indianapolis grain broker, from the western part of Marion county, showed the grain to be mil of “green bugs.” They were not any ordinaryl little bug, but were the grain aphis which has caused so much damage in the fields of the Southwest. After thoroughly examining; the sample of oats, Mr. Thompson said: “Farmers are complaining that their oats have suffered from too much rain. They say the oats are turning brown apd rusting. That is not the fact. The damage is being caused by the same green bug that did so much damage in Oklahoma, Texa and other Southwestern grain states, and if many fields are like the sample that was brought here, there will be extensive damages done to Indiana oats by that same Tittle pest.

FORMER MONTICELLO MAN IN TROUBLE.

Fred Gillespie, formerly a clerk in the Big Store here,. bat lately proprietor of a music store at Connorsville, is missing, and his wife, formerly Anna Schilt, is prostrated with grief. He left many creditors and is aooosed of embezzling funds belonging to the Adams Sohaaf Company, for whom he sold pianos. He has since been located at Galveston, Tex., where he had been helped through a sick spell by the Elks, and started homeward.—Monticello Herald.

OROUNO PRIVILEGES For Fair Oaks' 4th of July celebration now on sale by F. R. Erwin, Fair Oaks, Ind.; 3,OCX) to 5,000 attendance. W anted —To buy live sexes; highest prices paid. B. W. Price, Lafayette, Ind.

FUNERAL OF MRS. FLYNN.

The funeral of Mrs. James Flynn was held from the M, E. church Sunday at 2:30 p. m., conducted by Rev. H. L. Kindigf Interment was made in Weston cemetery, the burial services being in charge of the Ladies of the G. A. R., of which deceased was a member. The funeral was largely attended. Deoeased was a native of Ohio and was bom Bept. 14,1849. Bhe was married to James Flynn in 1869, Six children were bom to them, three of whom, Mrs. Hattie Weaver and Mrs. Lona Nichols of Lowell, and Hallie A. Flynn of Chesterton, Ind., with her husband snrvlve her. The disease from which she died was pronounced Bright’s disease, and she had been in falling health for the past few years, her decline having been quite rapid daring the past few months. She had lived in Rensselaer about twent-five years and was a highly respected Christian woman. The three surviving chiland one brother from Shelbyville were present at the funeral.

REMINISCENCES.

While thq McCoy sheepskin bank went under three years ago last April, the estate is not yet fully settled and probably will not be for some time to come, judging the future by the past. Occasionally something is beard pertaining to the matters connected therewith and some ruling is made. One of the latest is in the matter of the claim filed by the First National Bank for money loaned the McCoys on collateral, Referee Bowers having just decided that for the sum of $5,700 the bank must share with the other creditors, and in the note of $4,000 held by the Western Trust Go., of Chicago, he ruled that $2,000 of said amount was not oovered by collateral, and stands as an unsecured claim. The appeal of the trustee in the A. T. Bowen matter to the U. S. supreme court will come up before that tribunal on its reconvening in October The Rensaelaer Stock Farm claim of some $30,000 is still pending in the Lake Circuit court, going over from the last term to September. This case will be heard by Judge McMahan of that court and the evidence will be submitted in briefs. The defendant’s brief is to be in by July 1, and the plaintiff's reply thereto by August 1. If this claim is collected in full there will be at least another dividend of 12 per cent declared, making 50 per cent in all.

U. M. BAUGHMAN TO MOVE AWAY

Mr. U. M. Baughman, senior member of the firm of Baughman & Williams, attorneys, has decided to leave Rensselaer, beoause of the condition of his wife’s health, and will seek a location somewhere in the southwest, possibly in Oklahoma City, Okla. He will retire from the firm of Baughman & Williams August 1, and the business will be continued by Mr. Williams. It is* with considerable reluctance Mr. Baughman has finally decided on this move, but his wife has been in very poor health for several years and it is thought a change of climate may be beneficial to her. He will dispose of his property interests in Rensselaer and this vicinity and expocts to move his family to whatever location be decides upon some time the coming fall. The firm of Baughman & Williams was established here aifew years ago when it was thdught Rensselaer was already oven-sup-plied with attorneys, but through close application to business and a genial personality a very lucreative business has been worked up, for which Mr. Baughman is at least equally responsible with Mr. Williams, and to leave it at this time is a financial sacrifice on his part. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Baugh man'and little daughter 'Miss Iris, will be sorry to learn of their proposed removal from Rensselaer, yet knowing the reason that prompts them to do so they hope that they may find health and prosperity in equally congenial surroundings in some other city.

FOR RENT. Rooms in centrally located house, also house with four rooms, with garden. Austin & Hopkjns.

f 'v.yy.--Boom! Boom!! Boom!!!

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Booming may be done in many ways. A board of trade can dq it. A commercial club or business men’s club can do it. You can do it individually. If you don’t believe in thia town, why do you live hero? If you do believe in It, why don’t you boom ItT Every now family maana money In your pocket if you are in buainosa here or own property hero. If you make your living by working hero, every Increase of population tondo to increase your wagoo, ovary now industry brought to town tends to enlarge your opportunity for making a good living. Batteries in a battle boom together. If only one gun booms now and then it helps some, but when they all boom together something big is going to happen right off. It’s just the same with town booming. When we all boom together, the things we desire to have happen will begin happening. Now, suppose you who read thia suggest through the columns of this paper some method of massing our boom batteries and making a noise that will bring people running into this town to go into business, start a factory, develop some of our natural resources.

N. B.—BOOM! BOOM!! BOOM!!!

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. D. H. Yeoman and A. V. Farmer have bought of M. B. Spencer of Monticello, the latter’s contract for completing the Gault ditch in White and Cass counties. There is some 290,000 yards yet to excavate. The second marriage license for June was issued Saturday, the names -of the parties appearing elsewhere in this oolumn. Squire Irwin tied the nuptial knot ana the young couple—for they were young, 18 and N l9—will reside at Chicago Heights. , j —o — New suits filed: No/ 7174. Charles G, Spitler vs. Mary Ferrel et al; action to quiet title. No. 7175. Warren 8. -Goodell vs. William T. Beahler et al; action on notes and mortgage. Demand $3,600. -—o — The drillers are still at work on deepening the blasting on that part of the rock work on the Iroquois ditch where the dredge has already thrown out the top, but no blasting has yet been done. The big dredge is standing idle until the blasting is done. / Trustee Stalbaum was down from Kankakee tp., Thursday getting his “June draw’’ from the county treasurer. Mr. Stalbaum states that crops in bis locality are looking very well indeed considering the backward season. Corn is all planted thereabouts, but he saw while on his way here a few farmers planting between Demotte and Shelby. . ■ ' ■ Marriage licensee issued: June

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That’s the way Grant’s guns thundered at Vicksburg and Lee’s guns thundered at Fredericksburg. Each of them thundered a little louder than the other fellow at each place and won the battle. The war is over long ago, but booming still wins. Make this town and the country around it your battleground, and then boom! If you boom loud enough, people will come from afar off to find out what’s up. Then a little more booiring will take them prisoners and add them to the population. Then they will begin booming, and other willing captives will come in. This is the inside history of every town on earth that amounts to anything more than a hill of beans.

15, Willard Van Meater Snow, of Jasper county, aged 19, occupation steam pipe-fitting, to Orpha Jane Krider of Chicago Heights, 111., aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Jane 17, James L.Swain of Aix, aged 22, occupation farmer, to Laura L. Switzer, also of aged 17, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. June 17, James Edward White of Demotte, aged 22, occupation lineman, to Ola Hanaway, also of Demotte, aged 16, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

BARKLEY TP., COMMENCEMENT.

The annual commencement of the Barkley tp., public schools will be held to-night at the Barkley M. E. church. An interesting program will be rendered. There are 16 graduates, 19 gold star pu{>ils and 1 gold medal pupil, as ollow8: ’ • /*. GRADUATES. Vila. Price Van A. Norman Gifford Hayes John Daniels -* i Leatba Olive Rees Simon D.Coopsr '•* Clifford Payne John A. Trullay Russel Randle Chester L. Arnold BexOtt Charles W. Britt Lucy Mortenearc Floyd L. Tanner Ray Renlcker Rosabel Daugherty - GOLD STAB PUPILS. Myrtle Parker May Dahncke Kenneth Groom Kenneth Blsworth 1 Louisa Trullay Joe Moore Clara Arnold William Kaupke Mary Cooper , Allen Hall Orpha Parker Floyd Gratner Dera Hurley Wlnford Hurley Aaaa Hopkins Blanche Ott Pearl Hayes Ray Haniford Ella Cooper Gold medal pupil, Ruble Gratner. ** *

You will have to hustle and get your pick of the summer suits; they are going fast at $lO and sls. Duvall & Lundy. PULPIT ANNOUNCEMENTS. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Ths subject of the Sunday morning sermon is “Civio Pride;” in ths evening, “A Great Investment.” Ail ere welcome.