Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — Page 5

I LOCAL AND PERSONAL. H Brief Items of Interest to City and ■ Country Readers. B > ; Corn, 48c; oats 38c. H v Sam Fendig was a Chicago visI itor Thursday ; H < Jack'Montgomery was in Chi- ■ cago on business Monday. ■ z Miss Gail Daugherty of Wor- ■ land, Wyo., is visiting relatives B here. B Mrs. Lona Nichols of Lowell ■ visited her father James Flynn ■ Sunday. ■ Carl Duvall has gone to Cinfl| cinnati, Ohio, to clerk in a clothfl ing store. U Merl Benjamin left Monday for fl San Diego, Cal., for the benefit of I . his health. U -V Howard Mills left Saturday for ■ \two weeks visit with relatives at fl DkPlata, Mo. ■ Mrs. Kelly of Valparaiso spent ■ a few days this week with Mrs. U. fl M. Baughman. ■ . Leon Lewis of Chicago was visitfl ing his father, County Assessor I Lewis, here this week. fl White County Democrat: Miss fl Ruth Harris of Rensselaer, is the fl guest of Miss Maude Atkins. fl Uncle Simon Phillips is visitfl ing his daughters, Mesdames fl Barnes and Vannata at Fowler. fl - Miss Clara Peters attended the P state examination for opticians at ■ Indianapolis the first of the week, i David Hikon has sold his resifl dence property on Elm street to K Capt. G. W. Payne of Monticello. I Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Crowell of fl Monticello, spent Sunday here fl with their son, Dick Crowell and I wife. - ~ . I New subscribers to The Demofl- crat this week by postoffices: fl Hammond, 1; Rosalie, Wash., 1: I Renselaer, 1. I A part of the roof on E. P. Ho- | nan’s barn in Barkley tp., was I blown off during the storm Tues- | day forenoon. I Haying is ready to go at, but I not many of the farmers have fl their corn ready to leave to begin I hay-making as yet. I Dr. Dick Fiddler, now an interne I in St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwau- | kee, is visiting relatives and I friends here this week. I Co. M., the local militia company, will leave next Wednesday I morning for Indianapolis to attend the annual encampment. If D. M. Worland is having the . roof of his house raised, making I it 1| stories in height and adding I new rooms in the second story. I Mrs L. Strong went to Ambia I Saturday, with her little granddaughter, Clara Yeoman, who has I been visiting her for some time. | C. B. Herold of Rosalia, Wash., I visited J. E. Bislosky a few days b last week, while on his way home from a visit in Cleveland, Ohio. r Joseph Claspel, who had been I - visiting his brother, A. B. Claspel, I' here for a couple of weeks, left I Sunday for his home in Alabama. I Advertised letters: Dolly WatL eon, Miss Francis Porter, Chas. I' Guttrich, Arthur Cawes (2), Jno. Bell, Guy Beason, Willie AlexanI der. 4 Misses Lena,and Mary Johnson I \ of Linden, returned home Saturj day after a few days visit with the | family of Noah Zetgler, north of i town. Miss Jennie Hausen went to Winona Lake Saturday to be gone six weeks or two months, assisting the Misses Miller in their boarding house. Geo. F. Meyers has sold the balance of the Dr. Allen land in Walker tp, which he bought last December, 720 acres, to a Benton county man. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Todd of Dunkirk, visited the family of his t brother-in-law, James H. Keister of Jordan tp., a few this week. Mr. Todd conducts a theatre at Dunkirk. R. C. Yeoman, one of the Yeoman boys who recently graduated from Purdue, has a position for ** the summer in the draughting rooms of a bridge company at Inx dianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe went to Chicago Thursday to meet a party of visitors who will remain a their guests for a few days—- - Judge Liggett and daughter of Fairfield, lowa, and Miss Cora . Mease of Dixon, 111.

Misses Nellie and Mildred Biggs went to West Lebanon Thursday io visit relatives. Mrs. M. E. Thompson left Tuesday for an extended visit* in Pennsylvania, New York and Massa chusetts. Mrs. Peter Rusk and two daughters visited the former’s son-in-law, Charles Randle, in Barkley tp., several days this week. The board of review in Newton county raised the assessments an average of about 20 per cent, says the Newton County Enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Duncan of Goodrich,No. Dak., returned home Thursday after a few days’ visit with the family of Sam Williams of Union tp. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Burton of Helena, Ark., formerly of Remington, are’visiting the family of the latter’s brother, Jerome Harmon of Hanging Grove tp., this week. Miss Margaret Pritchard of Trafalgar, Johnson county, spent Sunday with the family of F. M. Parker, going from here to Lake Geneva, Wis., to visit relatives there. Mr. and Mrs. George Dart of Omaha, Neb., left here last Friday to visit the latter’s sister in Michigan, after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan of Rensselaer. Two more autos are now owned in Rensselaer, Dr. Parkison hav. ing purchased a new Wayne runabout and Dr. Kannal a secondhand machine owned by a Mr. Baker of Fowler. Now that the 4th is over would not it be a good idea to have those old LaMont Bros, show banners removed from the telephone and light poles? As ornaments they certainly have served their day. G. D. Gregory, who travels for the Dr. Baker medicine company, has bought a residence property and several lots in Wheatfield and willmovetlierethißfall. Weregret to see Mr. and Mrs. Gregory leave Rensselaer. The subject of ifie Sunday morning sermon is, “The Secret of Immortal Youth.” A special invitation is extended to elderly people, in whose interest this service is largely planned. A chorus of girls and boys will assist 4n the music. There will be an ice cream social at the Rose Bud church in Union tp., next Thursday night. Everett Halstead will be there with his graphopbone and a special musical program will be given. All come. Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Imes left Sunday on their eastern trip. Mr. Imes expects to be gone abont two weeks, taking in the K. T. conclave at Saratoga Springs and going thence to New York City. Mrs. Imes will probably remain a mouth. Rev. Rial Benjamin of the Puget Sound M. E. Conference, visited Saturday and Sunday here with his nephew, R. P. Benjamin. He is not preaching at present but is devoting his attention to mining interests in Alaska and British Columbia. Hon. Jesse E. Wilson and family arrived Tuesday evening from Washington, D. C., for a visit with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. Jesse will return to Washington next week but his wife and children will remain for a several weeks visit. F. E. Babeock and son George were in Chicago Sunday and Monday and the latter had his o ther eye operated upon, both eyes having been slightly crossed since birth. It is thought both eyes will be perfectly straight now and the vision greatly improved. Fowler Leader: ( John Umboltz and William Boutin, both of Richland township, have both twelve foot Deering binders. They are the only binders of so great a width in the county. They are pushers. Six horses are hitched side by side in the rear of the sickle. Eli Heidelberger of Chicago visited A. Leopold Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Heidelberger used to be a partner of Mr. Leopold’s here in the general merchandise business from 1864 to 1884, their store being on the corner where Duvall & Lundy are now located. He is now 82 years of age. The poorest oats and corn crop will be raised in this locality this year that we have had for many years. Corn is generally looking mighty poor; is small or very uneven and very weedy as a general thing, and the continued rains since the 4th have made fields too wet to cultivate.

Waited— To hire man with binder to cut 100 acres of oats. C. M. Archer, ’phone 527-H, Rensselaer, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Wemple of Rockford, 111., came Monday afternoon for a visit with their daughter, Mrs. J. J. Montgomery. Mps. N. J. Langly of Minnesota, who has been visiting the family of H. W. Jackson, northeast of town, returned home Thursday. During the storm Monday afternoon a boy out driving cattle near Remington was killed by lightning and the horse he was riding was also killed, Mrs. Frank Sutton left Thursday for Hamilton, «N. J., where her husband is now employed, after a few weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. J. A. Ramey. Mrs. George Hammerton and two children ancLMiss Hazel Hammerton returned to their home near East Lynn, 111., Thursday after a few days visit With relatives here. The Rensselaer Lumber Co. is building on the site of its old office to be used as an office and storeroom for doors, sash and other finished products, a large new building. Mrs. H. Day’s residence in the northeast part of town was struck by lightning Monday morning and the corner of the house splintered up some, but no great damage was done. Benton Review: The high rate of taxation in Fowler will keep many desirable people from coming here to live. The banks pay 4 per cent interest on money; the tax rate is now 13.08. Mrs. A. Harmon and Misses Esther and- Irene O’Mally returned to their homes in Pontiac, 111., Thursday after a week’s visit with the families of the former’s sons, A. J., Louis and Charlie Harmon. Taylor Boicourt came over from Wolcott Sunday to spend the day with his wife’s relatives here. Mrs. Boicourt and children who have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Baker, returhed home with him. A A saloon license was granted to a Reynolds applicant last week, therefore Reynolds will continue for a year at least as an oasis in the “dry” desert on that line of railroad between Logansport and a point ’way over in Illinois. A. F. Long, the druggist, will move into his new store room on the opposite side of the street next week. The building he now occupies will at once be put in shape for the Jasper Savings & Trust Co., bank, as heretofore stated. Some gasoline in a bucket of water became ignited at Ed Kays’ residence, north of the railroad Thursday forenoon and caused a run for the fire company. The flames were put out without damage before the fire men arrived on the ecenp. Wm. Rayher, John Eger’s sprightly “delivery boy,” was taken suddenly sick last Thursday with what is supposed to have been gall stones. He is now better and is resting up for awhile before resuming work and is visiting in Frankfort with relatives. — L_ Tuesday morning the Hotel Forbis changed hands, Mr. J. Lewis Epple having sold the furniture and business to Mr. Ed H. Kent and Mr. W. E. H. Marsh, formerly of Cincinnati. Both of the new proprietors have had extended experience in the hotel business.— White County Democrat. \\ery large hail fell Mondayover in the Buffalo and Sitka neighborhood in White county, doing much damage to crops and killing hundreds of chickens. In the Christian church at Monticello several art windows were broken and many windows in residences in Monticello were also broken by the bail. J The 5-year-old son of James Niritt, ten miles north of town, had his right eye seriously injured last Friday morning from a piece of a cannon fire-cracker left over from the 4th striking him in the eye. He was brought to town and on advice of the physician was taken to an eye specialist at Lafayette, who thinks the sight can be saved. Mrs. E, E. Malone of Monticello (formerly Mrs. Lucy Malchow of Rensselaer) was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital at Indianapolis Tuesday to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. E. H. Shields,her mother, got word from her yesterday morning stating that she was operated on Thursday at 4 p. m., and had recovered nicely from the operation and was getting.on all right it was thought.

Dick Crowell, who has been working in the Kiplinger & Harmon cigar factory lor the past two years, has bought of Geo. Goff the former Merchants’ Cigar Co., outfit and will engage in business for himself. 7 Miss Edith Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Adams, has been awarded a scholarship in Hillsdale, Mich., college, and Miss Avaline Kindig, daughter of Rev. and Mrs, H. L. Kindig of Rensselaer, a scholarship in Northwestern University. These sonolarships are presented to the Rensselaer high school and are awarded by the faculty to graduates whose record and standing justify, and who it is thought will use thorn. Bud Hammond of Lisbon, No. Dak., is here for a couple of weeks visit with relatives and friends. He is looking prosperous and says he is making money fast in farming there. All the Jasper county contingent, he says, are doing well and the crop prospects this season are excellent. He expects to start back on Saturday of next week, and it is probable he will be accompanied by a few harvest hands and land-seekers from this vicinity. Still others here visiting over the 4th whose names we did not get last week, were: Mrs. N. Krull and two children of Kentland; Mr. and Mrs. George Davisson, Mr. and Mrs Clyde Davisson and Amiel Shultz of Havana, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Barcus of Wabash; Mr. and Mrs. John Coey of Francesville; Dr. Jay Saylerof Lamar, Colo.; Miss Mabel and Glenn Huston of Perrysburg; Lebert Thomas and family and Mrs. Anna Epps of Templeton; Elmore Barce and family of Fowler; Timothy Karsner of Waukegon, 111. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Jessen of Redlands, Cali., visited the family of his cousin, John H. Jessen over Sunday and a few days the first of the week. Mr. Jessen has been at Redlands for about seventeen years, going there from near Morocco. He is acquainted with J. E. Hollett, Dr. Morris, Wm. Shepherd and others from Remington who are now living at Redlauds, and meets them frequently. “Shep,” he says, lives on a fruit ranch of three acres —everything is a ranch there regardless of size —some three miles out from Redlands, but comes to the city every morning via trolley, he having a position as foreman of the Redlands Fruit Association’s packing house at a good- Ba'iar'y. All are enjoying good health and like the country very much. The past few years the fruit crop has been good there and the growers have got good prices, consequently everything is booming. Mr. and Mrs. Jessen are here for a two months’ visit, and will leave next month for Canada to visit his brother George Jessen, near Winnipeg 2 Seed Buckwheat, Silver Gray, for sale at Rensselaer Feed Store. A. L. Branch. Only five more of those large mounted maps of Jasper county left. If you want one for $1.50, call quick. The Democrat. FOR RENT. Rooms in centrally located house, also house with four rooms, with garden. Austin & Hopkins. NOTICE. The firm of Flynn & Collins will be dissolved the first of August : the business will be continued by Alfred Collins. The indebtedness to the firm must be settled at once. FARM BARGAIN. 160 acres, half mile of station that has stores, two room school house, three churches. It lies on main road along large ditch which gives it fine outlet for drainage, 140 acres in cultivation, 20 acres timber, nearly all black land, has good house, good barn, granary, some fruit, good well, lies in good neighborhood surrounded with well improved farms. Will offer this farm for the low price of S3O per acre on very easy payments. I will be pleased to show you this farm any time. G. F. Meyers, Rensselaer, Ind. Three papers a week for only $1.50 per year.—The Democrat every Saturday, with all the county news, and the Twice-a-Week St. Louis Republic, Mondays and Thursdays with all the general news of the world. Come in and see sample copies of both papers or ask for them and we will mail you sample copies. Well Known Hymn Writer Dead. Warren, 0., July 10.—Professor James McGanahan, the well known hymn writer, formerly connected with Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, Is dead at his home In Kinsman, 0., of diabetes. He was 67 yean old.

BOWSER AS GARDENER

Things He Planted Havg a Hard Time of It. WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. There Are No Flowers or Vegetables, but a Good Crop of Almost Everything Else—Poor Man Is Heartbroken Over the Affair. [Copyright, 1907, by Homer Sprague.] The first robin had scarcely made Its appearance in the last days of March when Mr. Bowser returned home from the office one evening bringing a package under his arm. When questioned as to its contents he replied: “I have been Investing In garden seeds. Last spring I waited too long before planting anything, but I am not to be caught that way again.” “But our back yard does not get sun enough,” protested Mrs. Bowser, “and you know the soil is full of brickbats and mortar. I don’t believe you will ever make anything grow there.” “But I will show you to the contrary. I met a gardener today who gave me a few valuable tips- I’ll have a garden this year to deMght the heart. I not only need the exercise, but I have tired of buying wilted vegetables at the grocery. I want my fresh radishes, lettuce and tomatoes with the dew on them. I want things to look homelike around me. We are penned up here like a~lot of savages, with no sentiment to appeal to us, and sometimes I feel I

TOLD THAT IF SHE AS MUCH AS PUT HER FOOT ON ONE OF THOSE BEDS HEB DOOM WAS BUBE. am returning to barbarism. I want flowers and vegetablls. I want to seem a part of them. I want my tenderness ans goodness to come back.” Did Not Discourage Him. Mrs. Bowser didn’t encourage or discourage. She knew that Mr. Bowser would be opposed by cats and boys and tramps and thunderstorms and late frosts, but at the same time she hoped that Providence might be on his side. As soon as the frost was out of the ground Mr. Bowser bought a spade and began work. He struck brickbats. He struck cobblestones. He struck clothespins and clothes props. He struck wire clotheslines that bad mysteriously disappeared years ago and had never been heard of since. Boys cheered him from back windows and threw old boots at him. Cats walked the fence on all sides of the yard and made stenographic notes of the Tramps came along the alley and stopped at the gate to ask him if he had murdered his wife and was preparing a grave. And it snowed, and it hailed, and it rained, and there were thunderstorms. He got wet. and he was covered with mud, and he blistered his hands, but he hung to bis job. He had set out to make a garden, and nothing could daunt him. On twenty different occasions while he was making the flower and vegetable beds Mrs. Bowser besought him to give up the work, but he Invariably struck his left palm with his right fist and replied: “Give up nothing! Mrs. Bowser, you don’t know me yet. lam a determined man. I- said I would make a garden, and a garden I will make though the heavens fall.” Mr. Bowser bought a shovel, a rake and a hoe. He bought a load of rich soil from n farmer to mingle with his brickbats. He bought guano from th! He bought compost from the livery stable. There were two hours’ work for him every evening after dinner. Before the month of April bad ended his back began to hump and his Shoulders to lop, and he grew hollow eyed, and his voice was hoarse, but when Mrs. Bowser begged him to give It up and go fishing he replied: 4 v No fishing for fish. I have set out to Accomplish something, and I’ll accomplish it or die in my tracks.” He sowed lettuce and radish seeds. HO sowed onion seed and bought tomato sprouts. He provided for pumpkins and hollyhocks. He planted watermelon and cantaloupe seeds, and he arranged for summer squashes. The clotheslines were boosted up, and the Cook was told that If she as much as put her foot on one of those beds her doom was sure. Last of all, he went about the yard planting sunflower seed wherever there was a vacant spot. The sunflower particularly appealed to him. It was an emblem of Innocence. It had no guile about It. It was ingenuous and frank. It turned its honest face to the sub every morning and was not afraid of an Investigation. Mr. Bowser would have

COO of them In his garden, and as be walked among them at eventide with his hands behind his back he would be at peace with all inankind. . < Refused to Buy. Dating the month of spading, shoveling, hoeing, raking and sowing and planting Mr. Bowser was called on by men who wanted to sell him new milk cows and who had hogs and hens to dispose of, but be turned them away. Parties wanted to sell him automobilea and balloons, but he shook his head and planted more sunflower seeds. He was offered stock In oil wells and copper mines at ridiculously low figures, but he waved them Members of the Gay Old Boys* club called to ask him to deliver an address, but the address he delivered made their hair stand up. It was only when the month pf May was ten days old that Mr. Bowser finished his work and waited for results. He had done his share, and now nature must do the rest. There came frosts and thunder showers. Boys Invaded the yard and galloped over the beds. Dogs got in and dug for bones, and cats scratched up the soil in search of treasure, but he was not discouraged. It was when he began to call out in his sleep nightly and talk about flowers and vegetables that Mrs. Bowser felt that she ought to call the doctor In. He was sent for. He declared that Mr. Bowser had lost fifty pounds of flesh in six weeks and that if he did not cease working he would not be long for this world. He found one shoulder lopped down four Inches and one leg contracted six, and he estimated that the spine was six inches out of plumb, lie said all this and much more, and Mr. Bowser listened in grim silence and then answered: Doctor. I’ll have a garden if I have to walk around in it after I’m dead.” Green Shoots Appear. One evening in the latter days of May there were some green shoots to be observed on one of the beds. Mrs. Bowser and the cook were brought out to view them, and Mr. Bowser turned his head away to conceal his tears. The garden was coming on. Nature was reaching out her hand for a shake. That night he got out of bed five different times to go to the back window and see that the green shoots were all right, and in his sleep he called out that he would murder the human hyena who dared to rob him of them, Alas, when morning came those green shoots were no more! Two or three dogs in search of prime beef bones had entered the yard between times and dug and scratched and pawed until “nothing r_ Wleft Mrs. Bowser looked for an outbreak, but none followed. Mr. Bowser’s face simply took on a new grimness, and he made and replanted the beds. A week later there were other green things showing up all over the garden. A warm rain had popped everything out of the ground* like rapid transit. That evening Mr. Bowser smiled and laughed for the first time in many days. He had fought the fight and felt that he had won. He could even identify the hollyhocks from the sunflowers. He went to bed like a man who has done a good deed and sees his reward in view, and the cook made up her mind that if he was a paranoiac he was not dangerous. Garden Was Ruined. That night came a thundershower, but Mr. Bowser slept and recked not The thunderbolts spared his garden, but still when he arose in the morning he looked upon a scene of devastation. A prowling dog had discovered a cat in the alley at midnight and run her into the Bowser garden and across and around it. Other cats had come to her assistance; other dogs had mixed In. Amid the flashes and the reverberations a great battle bad been fought. No matter which side won, all had escaped with their lives. It was the garden that had been ground between two millstones. Not a green thing remained. Sunflowers, hollyhocks, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers—all had been squashed to squash and trampled into the mud to be seen never again. Mr. Bowser looked from a back window and turned away. Mrs. Bowser patted him softly on the back, and he lay down on the lounge and closed his eyes. He was a walloped man.

To Be Sure.

Old Lady—Are you traveling for the good of your health? \ Defaulting Bankrupt—Rather!—lllustrated Bits. ,

Crossing the Herring Pond.

The liner was rolling frightfully. “Jack,” moaned the pale green but still lovely bride, “promise me you will send my remains to the old home for burial.” He promised. The motion grew gradually worse. “Jack,” she moaned again. “Well, dear?” . “You needn't bother about my remains. There won't bo any."— New York Press.

M. QUAD.