Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 470; oats 380. Celebrate the 4tb at Rensselaer. The Big Sale down at Murray’s lasts a week. “And next Thursday is the day ' we celebrate.”' Miss Clara Parker visited in Medaryville tbjs week. , was in Indianapolis on business Monday. Great saving in money on clothing at the week’s sale at The G. E. Murray Co. ' 1/ MiBS Mabel Strickfaden return/ed Monday from a few days visit in Lafayette. Fifty tickets were sold from Rensselaer Sunday for the'Chicago excursion. Miss Ora Knight spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs John Adams of Monticello. Walter English is visiting the family of his uncle, L. F. Hopkins. in Chicago-. > Mrs. Frank lines of Chicago visited Mr. and Mrs. W. J. lmes here a few days this week.,-., '“'Miss Josie Porter returned Saturday from Franklin where she has been attending college. Nellie McCarthy has gone to New York City where she will nurse in Belleview hospital. Mrs. M. E Clover who has been visiting here for some time, returned to Valparaiso Monday. Senior Hopkins will enter the Culver Military Academy at the opening of the summer term next week. With this issue of The Democrat begins its tenth year under its present ownership and management. The Rensselaer Maroons played bai t with Brook-at the latter place Sunday. Score Btol in favor of Brook. -Ar Mrs. F. B. Alter of Frankfort is visiting her sons Frank and Lewis, the tile manufacturers, north of town. Mrs. Ed. Pugh and little daughter spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Collins of Monticello. Postmaster Paulsen and family of Wheatfield spent Sunday here with the family of his brother-in-law, J. W. Tilton. The Wheatfield ball team defeated the Maple Leaves of South Bend at Wheatfield Saturday by a Score of 6 to 5. Mrs. Frank Kannal returned to her home in Lafayette Saturday after a week’s visit here with he r eister Mrs. Cooney Kellner. \G. K. Hollingsworth and family nd Mrs. Matie Hopkins and son Seniof ar6 here from Chioago to remain for some weeks.

Messers. N. S. Bates and John Hayes have the thanks of The Democrat man for some boxes of excellent strawberries this week. Misses Ella and Lottie O’Connor graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy at Chlllioothe, Mo., last week and returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bigler, of Hot Springs, Ark., visited Mr. and Mrs. George Goff this week, the former being a brother of Mrs. Goff. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Malobow spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Julias Swartz of near Brook - ston, returning home Monday eve--ning. Greatest Assembly Talent at Fountain Bark, Remington, Ind , Aug. 10th to 25th inclusive. Hon. Wm. J. Bryan day, Ang. 14th; Hon. James E. Watson day, Ang. 17th. Miss Alioe Sbedd, east of town, has three Northwestern University college friends visiting her. «They are Misses Graos Loureline and Sarah Yonnt of Evanston, 111., and Mabel Hazelton of Champaign, Hi. » Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Imes will go to Montioello Tuesday to attend the wedding of a niece, Miss Jennie Failing to Mr. Nelson Henderson of Omaha, Neb., which will take place at high noon. * Editor Marshall of the Republican returned Monday from a several weeks absence in Oregon. His daughter, Miss Luoile Marshall, who has' been attending school at Pomona, Cali., retained with him. ' M

Meet your friends at the G. E. Murray Store on the 4t^. Mrs. A. J. Miller is visiting her parents near Rushville this week. Mrs. Frank Ross returned Monday evening from her southern rip. - ' Mies Etfiel Perkins expects to leave July sth for ad extended visit with relatives at Lake George, N. Y. ; Miss Anna Hermanson of Gillam tp , left last week for an expended visit with relatives in New York oity. Jay W. Williams attended a meeting of the Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association at Indianapolis this week. , „ Quite a number of Rensselaer young people spent Sunday at Cedar Lake and “tripped the light fantastic.” A big excursion was out from Chioago. Frank Kresler, Ed. Pugh and Will Zatd spent Sunday at Water Valley and brought home a nice string of fish among which was a 5-pound channel cat. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Yeoman of Newton tp , celebrated their 20th weddinc anniversary Sundav, June 15, about forty relatives and friends of the neighborhood being present.

N. Littlefield has traded some town properly which he owned in Matthews, I nd., last week for 660 acres of cut over lands in Clare county, Mich. He also got in the deah a fine new Cable-Nelson piano. A few oases of mumps are still heard of in town, although it would seem that almost everyone has bad them by this time. Horatio Ropp is one of the latest Bevere cases, having had about a four weeks’ Beige with them. The Deßaugh Twentieth Century Band of Chicago, which is to be the leading musical attraction here the 4th, will reach Rensselaer on the 4:41 a. m., train the morning of the 4th, and will not return to the city until the morning of the sth. U Mr. and Mrs. Alva Potts and children left Monday for Hutchinson, Kan., where they will visit their brother-in*law, Bert Blue and family indefinitely, and if Mr. Potts’ health is benefitted, will likely move their household goods and looate thqre permanently. Joe O’Connor, who has been working for several weeks with a Railroad construction gang near Forsyth, Mont., returned home Monday. None of the others of the Rensselaer party returned with him. Joe says it is quite a wild, woplyajgf desolate country where tljjijiiilTliworking. Remonstrances against the sale of intoxicating liquors in Winamac have been circulated the past week and it is expected to secure enough signers to pot Pulaski county’s capital city on the water wagon. One thousannd dollars has been raised by the anti-saloon people for the purpose. Hon. and Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson and two ohildren of Washington, D. C., are expected here to-mor-row. Mrs. Wilson and children will remain for a couple of months’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson, but Mr. Wilson will return in a few days to his duties as assistant Secretary of the Interior. “The Rensselaer Jockey Club” have issued bills for racing at the Rensselaer Stock Farm track, just least of town, for the 4th. 1 These races will be entirely independent of the celebration given In town and have no connection whatever. An admission of 25 cents will be charged to see the races, which promise to be good. If patrons of rural routes where a number of boxes are looated at one place would prooure a wagon wheel and arrange it so that it could be turned, with the mail boxes on top, it would be a great convenience to the carriers. At one point ip Fulton county, where are a half dozen or more boxes, a wheel from an old hay rake is used, so when the carrier stops he oan deliver the mail in all the boxes without changing the location of his wagon.—Ex. Wolcott Enterprise: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grow came over from Cincinnati Saturday to visit the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mro. W. V. Spencer, and their nuboerous other relatives. A reunion of the Spencer family was held, all of the ohildren and grandchildren being present but Miss Lida Spencer who is employed as stenographer with a large business firm in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Grow were ealled to Rensselaer by the serious illness of the former’s mother.

Leiut. Bates Tucker of the regular army, is visiting friends here. Gail Michels, who has been out west for ’the past year, is home again.' Mrs. John Paxton and daughter Florenoe of Longmont, Colo., are visiting relatives here. If yonVre looking for reliable shoes and clothing at lowest prices go to the Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs.. Chas. Jouvenat of Chicago is visiting her sister Mrs. George here for awhile. Mr. Jouvenat was also down over Sunday. Mrs. Joe Nagle and two children, Mildred and Regina, left yesterday for a few weeks visit with relatives at Lafayette and Peru.

U. M. Baughman, N. Littlefield and Geo. E. Hershman expebt to leave the third Tuesday in July on a prospecting trip through Oklahoma. Come to Rensselaer the 4th and hear the celebrated Deßaugh Twentieth Century Band of Chicago, one of the many free attractions here on that day. Mrs. John Danford, a young married woman of Wolcott, attempted suicide Wednesday evening by taking carbolic acid. Her life was saved by prompt medical attention. A fine rain fell here Sunday night and Monday forenoon, which was needed and did a great amount of good: The rain seems to have been quite general in this seotion of the state. Mr. Frank Critser of Rensselaer and Miss Kate Mauck of Newton tp., Were married in Chioago Monday. The Democrat joins their many friends in extending congratulations. Barney Kolhoff has sold his 80 acre farm in Union tp., to Omar Morlan and son Ernest, and expects to move to North Dakota. The price was $65 per aore. Poss ession March 1. Wm. Heusoo, a former resident of Jasper county, near Sharon, was married last week in Chicago to Mrs. Annie Sbolve of Englewood. Mr. Henson has been living at Chicago Heights, 111., for the past year, and they will reside in that city.

Starke County Democrat: The Laporte Argus-Bnlletin states that B. L. Thurber and Charles Rook of that city, canght a pickerell in the Kankakee Thursday that weighed sixteen pounds and was more than three feet in length. No description is given of the bait used. Peter O’Connor of Qninoy, 111., visited his brother Sheriff O’Connor, a few days this week. He served in the navy as sailing master for several years, and Wednesday, in company with his brother John, he went to Indianapolis to oall on his old captain; Admiral Brown, of that oity. The chief of the fire department in the White City, fire show, who is also the champion hose-eonnec-tor of the world, oame down from Chioago Thursday to give the local fire department some instructions in the fire show they are to give here tht> 4th, returning to Chicago yesterday morning. Mr. and MSrs. “Billy” Fry of Chicago are visiting hers this week, while the former is recuperating from injuries received from falling from a wagon whioh he drives for Mandel Bros. A jolt of the wagon threw him out and the wheels passed over him, and though considerably braised, no bones were broken.

E. J. Wilcox of Dayton, Ky., was here Monday and Tuesday, returning Tuesday night with Mrs. Wiloox, who had been visiting here for a oouple of weeks. Elmer is a sort of a silent partner now in a transfer and moving van business in Oinoinnati, which is proving a good thing and growing better all the time. They now have two vans and the receipts sometimes reaoh $l5O per week. He may decide to give up his mail clerkship some of these days and devote his entire attention to this new business. Correspondents are requested to send in their items a little earlier than usual next week, so that The Democrat force oan celebrate. And, by the way, we would like to hear from more of our correspondents eaoh week. Don’t get tired just because summer is here, but remember that hundreds of readers watch for your items in the Demoorat each week, some of them now thousands of miles away, to learn what old neighbors and friends are doing baok in Jasper county, and try npt to disappoint them hereafter.

NOT NUISANCES PERSE

Supreme Court Sits Down on the New Style Ruling as to Booze Shops. LOWER TRIBUNAL 18 REVERBED Law la What Make* Or Unmakes a Nuisance—Bridegroom Outwits His Strenuoua \Friende. Indianapolis, June 26.—The supreme court has reversed the "Sopber case,” in which Judge Ira Christian, of Noblcsviile, held that all the liquor license laws of Indiana were unconstitutional and that a saloon was a nuisance per se. After reciting the charge that Sopher kept a place for the sale of Intoxicating liquors at retail Without stating that it was disorderly or otherwise Improperly conducted, and that the court excluded all evidence tending to show that Sopber’s saloon was operated under a county license, Judge Jordan said, in part, In deciding the case: - No Charge of Unlawful Act. "In fact, this prosecution may be said to proceed on the theory that the sale alone of intoxicating liquors at retail in a room or place kept lor that purpose, such liquors to be drank as a beverage on the premises where sold, constitutes a public nuisance per se under and withilFthe contemplation of section 534 of an act of the legislature concerning public offenses, approved March 19, 1905. • • * It will be observed that there is no charge or allegation In the affidavit in this case to show that the sale of the liquors In question by appellant was unlawful or that the room or place wherein they were sold and drunk was disorderly or that such place or room was In any manner conducted and maintained In violation of law. Must Be Unlawful To Be a Nuisance. “If it is true, as argued by coun-' sel for the state, that the acts charge! in the affidavit constitute a fiublic nuisance per se, then it must be becaus4 such aetsnreunlnwful. * * * Consequently that which is lawful cannot be regarded in a legal sense as a public nuisance. Therefore, if the legislature of the state, by a statute which it is competent for that body to pass, authorizes an act or acts to he done, which, In tiie absence of such a statute, would otherwise constitute a public nuisance, such act or acts are thereby made lawful and cannot be considered or regarded in a legal sense as a nuisance so far as the public is concerned.” HE CARKIED HER TO THE CAR Bridegroom Waylaid by His Friends at the Last Moment Proves a Man of Resources. Martinsville, Ind., June 26. Miss Katherine Pottorff, daughter of Mrs. Mary Pottorff, and .Tames Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Kelly, were married at the M. E. parsonage by Rev. R. H. Moore. They are prominent among the young society people of this city. It was their aim to be quietly married and slip off before any of their friends found It out After they were married they entered a cab and in a roundabout way reached the Martinsville sanatorium, from where they started to board the 9:41 train when It palled in. But their friends discovered them and as soon as they made their appearance they were greeted with a shower of rice and the usual accompaniments. Some of the bridegroom’s friends crowded about him, and, suspecting that they would try to detain his bride, he forced his way through the crowd, carrying her to the car. They have gone oil a wedding trip to French Lick Springs.

Storm Is Fatal and Damaging. Jasper, Ind.. June 26.—A hard electric storm passed over this section of the state, doing considerable damage. The storm was especially severe in Pike and Orange counties. Lightning struck the home of James Howard, near here, and Howard, his wife and six children were rendered unconscious, and two of the children are in a serious condition. Lightning frightened the team of Seth W. Cummins, a wellknown farmer, and Cummins was Wiled. Message of an Unloving Wife. Jasper, Ind., June 26. When James Morgan, of .this city, returned tp bis borne for supper, after finishing a day’s work, he found on the kitchen table a note, reading: “Dear Jim Good-bye. Don’t cry after me, for I am gone. Give me a divorce as soon as possible. Your supper is In the kitchen cabinet, and there’s 5 cents In the drawer. I don’t love youj, anyway.” This note was signed by his wife. Dag Up an Old Resident. Alexandria, Ind., June 26. Gravel pit workers at the Ancll Winslow farm, ten miles north of this city, uncovered the remains of a mastodon, one tooth weighed fourteen pounds. The parts were badly decayed, and not enough has been uncovered as yet from which to reconstruct a skeleton. Walker's Trial Postponed. Evansville, Ind., June 26.—The second trial of John P. Walker, former treasurer ofVanderburg county. Indicted for misappropriating $66,000 of county funds, set for Monday, has been continued because Walker is 111.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. June 20, to Mr. and Mrsi Cbas. Parker, twin boys. Jnne2s, to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Richards of the north part of town, •girl. June 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Swain of near Aix, a daughter. PULPIT ANNOUNCEMENTS. » PRESBYTERIAN CHUBCH. The morning service at the Presbyterian churoh next Sabbath will be the. regular communion service. The subject of the sermon, “The Price Paid.” Wanted—To hire man with binder to out 100 acres of oats. C. M. Aroher, ’phone 527-H, Rensselaer, Ind, Top overooats at rednoed prices sl2 and $5 coats at $8.50; only a few sizes left. Duvall & Lundy. 150,000,000 bottles of Coca-Cola sold in 1906. On sale at Vick’s 4 States. The big money saving sale at the G. E, Murray Co. begins Saturday, Jane 29. One week. Don’t miss it. For Sale:—Lots of good celery plants. Charles Ramp, ’Phone 14. Rensselaer, Ind. We have the finest and best assortment in summer underwear in unions from $1 to $3; in two piece from 25 cents a garment to $2, in all sizes. Duvall & Lundy. Do not forget the big trunk and suit case Bale, 10 per cent off now until July stb. Chicago Bargain Store. We can show you the finest line of trousers in the city in peg tops of all descriptions and regulars in in all sizes from 30 waist in men’s to 50 waist. Take a look at them. Duvall & Lundy. Summer Coats and trousers at bargain prioes, was sls now $lO, was $lO and sl2, now $7 and $7.50; was $8.50, now $6, Come early before they are all gone. Duvall & Lundy. Wanted—To buy live faxes; highest prices paid. B. W. Price, Lafayette, Ind. For Sale: — 13 head one-year-old full blood Shropehire ewes. Hall V. Zimmerman, Route 3. Remington. Ind. Now is the time to buy you a spring and summer snit oheap. Take advantage of it at once and get your pick. Duvall & Lundy. FOR RENT. Rooms in centrally located honse, also house with four rooms, with garden. Austin & Hopkins. MERRY-GO-ROUND FOR SALE OR TRADE. I have a good oovered merry-go-round, seating capacity of 40, with organ that I will sell cheap or trade for anything I oan use on a a farm. J. J. Weast, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. Six miles south and 1 mile east of Rensselaer.

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THE UNKNOWN.

A) young gentleman of Massachusetts would Uke to correspond with a young! lady of the west. Address K. a.. Watertown, Mass. Grace Sing straightened herself up. read the lines again, laughed, blnahed and said softly: “If I only dared; it would be such fun. But,” with a little frown, “mother wouldn’t like lt\ “I can stop whenever I like,” abe continued. “Besides, I shall never see him, and I really mast break this terrible monotony. So,” with a half ashamed glance toward the little notice. “I believe I’ll do it” Half an hour later dainty little missive bearing the address “K. G., Watertown, Mass.,” was sent on its Journey. As pretty Miss Grace laid her head on her pillow that night It would have been hard to analyze the half guilty, half pleasant excitement thkt pervaded her mind. She was visiting her aunt In that lady’s rustic home in Oregon, recuperating after a long illness. Health returned but slowly In her own mountainous home, so the reluctant young lady sought this mild, secluded valley in the depth of “nowhere,” as she herself expressed It, destined to no company except a gentle old lady, who let her have her own way and abandoned her to her own resources. But this mode of life suited the sociable, fun loving Grace not at all. Yet she knew that health was returning and that stay she must A week, rendered quite enjoyable by anticipation, passed. There came a letter from mother bringing news of Brother Frank’s return home after his graduation from Harvard university. She was six years his junior and was only a child when he went east. i "I suppose we’ll hardly recognize each other," she remarked to her aunt, and the old lady nodded pleasantly, as she always did. When-she recovered from the excitement of her mother’s letter, she began to await impatiently that other missive. At last It came, and after a careful thought of “what mother wonld say” and a half formed decision to tear It up she broke the seal. “What queer writing!” was her first thought as the compact backhand script appeared. But soon all else was forgotten in her reading. “Why, what a beautiful description!” she cried at last. “Oh, how nice he must be! I’m so glad I wrote! If only mother doesn’t find me out! That was a happy thought —to become ‘Miss Bertha FrazerT ” The ice once broken, it was easier to write. Grace answered promptly and waited eagerly for the replies. The young “unknown” wrote so fascinatingly, yet through all his letters ran a certain vein of fun and amusement which puzzled Grace not a little. But one day when nearly three months had passed rather a startling letter from her “unknown” came. He was coming west Immediately. In fact, his home was there, and he would call on her when he arrived in her locality. Grace turned quite pale at the thought. Why, what should she do? Should she allow him to come? Even Aunt Jane might object to her receiving a strange gentleman. “Oh, dear!” For the first time she repented her little romance, and a wild desire seized her to ran away from home. And yet she wonld —yes, she would like to meet him. Perhaps she had better stay and make the best of It. Then she would go. “Bat I do hope,” she thought, “that he gets here before Frank.” That boy would surely find it all out. She found herself In a fever of excitement, waiting, but still he did not come. Days lengthened Into weeks, and at last she decided that she might safely return home. There was some mistake. (

It was on the eve of Grace’s departure. Aunt Jane bad gone to a neighboring town and left her niece packing her trunk. Suddenly a footstep sounded on the stair, and Hannah, the cook, burst in upon her. “Oh, Miss Grace!” the old woman cried, “who do you suppose? Your brother Frank and”— But Grace waited for no more. She brushed past Hanuah, and was down the stairs Into the sitting room and In her brother’s arias in a second. “Oh. Frank,” she cried, “I am so glad to see you! When did yon come? And have you been home yet? But of course you have, and”— “Ah, but I haven’t,” Interrupted the young man, his eyes twinkling merrily. "I stopped off here to call on Miss Bertha Frazer.” Grace looked up in amazement. How did he know? Then sha cried penitently: “Oh, dear! I only did It for fun. I was so lonesome. But did yon meet him? Who is he?” Frank’s stern face relaxed, and* laughing merrily, he bowed low and answered, “Your humble servant.’’ j “It wasn’t you, Frank?” / __"Haven’t I said so?” "But how did you know it was IT’ "Ah, little sister, your writing betrayed you from the first. I was more cautious, yok know,” he replied. “It’s too bad,” she pouted. “Ot course you’ll tell mother.” "Will youT’ Grace laughed. She began to see both sides of the case. Certainly she was not the only culprit “Let’s not” she said, with a merry glance. And so it was agreed.—Margaret Kennedy In Boston Post

Where the Time Went.

Tom, aged twelve, bad a teacher who was very wise, but also very slovenly. The boy was later than usual for breakfast one morning, and the master thought It proper to administer s reproof. “Why are you so late Y* he asked. “I took rather longer to dress this morning.” "But how Is It that I always manage to drees In tlmeT’ "Dunno, sir, but I wash,” the boy replied.—London Tatler. te ’ . . ."