Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 48c; oats 38c. A number of oases of typhoid feveir are reported at Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haskell visited relatives in Mt. Ayr Sunday. Howard Myers of nerr Brook, was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday. d ■— About a dozen Lowell sports came Wednesday to see the ball game. The Battle Ground campmeeting this year will be held August Ist to 12th. Excursion to Chicago, Sunday, July 28. Only $1.25 for round trip from Rensselaer. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Goodland 1, Brook, 1. Charles Littlefield of Remington spent Sunday here with his brother, N. Littlefield. Mrs. C. A. Radcliff of Cincinnati, 0., is visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. 0 Jesse Nowels of Brook, was over Wednesday to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nowels. I Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Borchardt Jtjf Tampa, Fla., are here visiting the letters mother, Mrs. Ralph Fendig. Mr. and Mrs. George Macy of Columbus, 0., are visiting here this week with the latter’s mother, Mrs. John Makeever. ft . —. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Duvall and little daughter are visiting relatives of Mr. Duvall in Grand Rapids, Mich., this week. D. H. Yeoman went to Royal Center Wednesday to look after the dredge work that he and Mr. Farmer have near there. The ten-year-old son of Al Daugherty, southeast of town, fell from a horse last Friday evening and dislocated his left elbow. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Peer and little daughter of near Kniman spent Sunday with their son Volney M. Peer and wife at Brook. Miss Maude Irwin went to Chicago Saturday where she joined a party of friends and went to Green Bay, Wis., for a two weeks visit. Owing to the ball game Wednesday the band concert this week was changed to Wednesday night instead of Thursday night, as usual. 2 Farmers in Jasper county who have wheat this season are at work this week between showers in cutting it, and it is reported good indeed. Virgil S. Reiter of Hammond .has been appointed by Gov. Hanly as the judge of the Lake County Superior Court, created by the last legislature. ■ I The Lowell municepal eledtric light plant has been sold to private parties who will build a new power bouse and improve the plant considerably. Geo. A. Williams went to Ohio last Saturday to join his wife who has been visiting his parents for the past few weeks. They will return home some time next week. ""George Stemble, E. &W. Allen, John Greve, Bob Mannan and several other Wheatfielders came down Wednesday on business and to see the ball game, principally the latter. Mrs. Mary J. Stone, who went to Minnesota about a year ago r died at Long Siding July 8, aged about 56 years. She leaves nine children, several of whom reside in this county. Mr. Albert H. Brooks of DeMotte and Miss Elizabeth Neilsen of Hegewiscb, 111., were united in marriage here Tuesday by Rev. Father Meyer of St. Augustine’s Catholic church. , Mrs. W. H. Galbraith and baby of Chicago returned home Monday after a two weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis of Barkley tp., and other relatives and friends. The Monon will run another excursion to Chicago, Sunday, July 28. Schedule of train and fare from stations same as usual; $1.25 for round trip from Rensselaer, and time of train 8:48 a. m. All parties disposing of eggs for human food that have been put in an incubator or are known to be rotten are liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

Jacob French and family* of Goodland spent Saturday and Sunday here with Mrs. French’s mother, Mrs. Hester Hoyes. Advertised Letters: Lyman Zea, Walter Smith, Miss Jennie Rogers, Louis fieusch, Mrs. Lib McCord, James Mason, Marie King, Pauline Knouff, Mrs. Mary Holman, Frank Garrot, Roscoe Clawson, Will Collins. The Chicago Giants, a “coon” ball team, phyed the Wheatfield Regulars here Wednesday afternoon to a good sized crowd in Riverside Park. The game was a very good one. Score 4 to 3 in favor of the coons. Word came from Mr. and Mrs. J. O’Leary, of Victor, Colo., last week that a bouncing boy had been born to theft. Mrs. O’Leary was formerly Miss Anna Walter of Rensselaer and a typo in The Democrat office for a few years. The Democrat editor and wife and youngest son left Thursday for French Lick to attend the mid-summer meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, of which be is a member. They will return tomorrow or Monday. While G. D. Gregory expects to move to Wheatfield some time in October, he will continue to travel for the Dr. Baker Medicine Co., and makes the change of residence only to be located more in the center of his territory, Jasper and Starke counties. The 17 months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed of Chicago, formerly of Rensselaer, was buried here Tuesday.’ It’s death was caused from tubercular meningitis. Mrs. Susie Lister and daughter Bessie accompanied Mr, and Mrs. Short here from Chicago. The apple crop in Lake county is the nearest to a total failure ever known, and perhaps there are not more than a few dozen cherries in the county. The birds are astonished over the shortage," and squint about the trees with a downcast appearance.—Crown Point "Star; —-- Attorney E. P. Honan and The Democrat editor have been invited by Supt. Parker of Fountain Park to act on the reception committee to meet Hon. William J. Bryan at the train on “Bryan Day” at Fountain Park, August 14, and to take dinner with Mr. Bryan, a high honor indeed. We are glad to see that a number of property owners are following The Democrat’s suggestion of some time ago and cutting little channels the edge of the cement walks in front of their residences, which allows the water to run off the walk and greatly adds to the neat appearance of their property. It has been claimed that through an error of the late legislature every legal voter of the state regardless of age is subject to poll tax, but the attorney general has given it as his opinion that the 1907 act does not supercede the act of 1901 and 1905, exempting those over 50 years of age, and militiamen and militia officers. Therefore all may breathe easy once more. Francesville Tribune: There-' monstraece fight at Winamac is the absorbing topic at that place. The remonstrators claim they have enough signatures to win while the saloon men assert that they are still on easy street. Since the fight began the “lid” has been put on the Sunday business and Bass Lake is now taking care of the crowds from Winamac and _elsewhere that need refreshments. |Harry Murray, carrier on Route 4,’ is another Rensselaer man who is nursing a sore hand. While on his route Tuesday, at Mrs. Luers’, his left hand got caught in the mail box as he closed it and a heavy gold ring worn on the third finger caught in the cover as his team started and about all the flesh was stripped from the finger before he extricated it. The wound was a painful one, but Mr. Murray went ahead and finished his route before having it properly dressed by a doctor. AjChe rainy weather has not only Been pretty hard on corn plowing the past two weeks but it has also practically stopped all work on the stone roads in Marion tp., and l last week only two days were got in. At this writing (Thursday) no work at all has been done this week, This makes it very hard on the rock haulers, who are on heavy expense for feed, and “nothing doing.” At this time there is between eight and nine miles, or about one-fourth, of the MarionRensselaer contract completed. Subscribe for the Democrat.

James T. Davidson, wife and little daughter of Madison, Ind., have been visiting the Hills in Jordan tp., the past ten days. Mr. Davidson is foreman of the composing room of the Madison Courier. U. M. Baughman and Geo. Hersh man left Tuesday on their prospecting trip to Oklahoma. Owing to his having a few land deals on hand that were about ripe to close up, Neen Littlefield could not get awey to accompany them, as intended, but will go a few weeks later. Mrs. Baughman and little daughter accompanied Mr. Baughman and it is the intention of the three latter to go on to Denver, Colo., for a couple of weeks visit with relatives. Mr. Hershman does not intend to go farther than Oklahoma, where be will likely locate at once if he finds a suitable opening. D. H. Yeoman was in Rock Inland, 111., Marion and Logansport and Belfountaine, Ohio, last week investigating prices on dredges. Messrs. Yeoman and Farmer expect to put on another dredge in their contract near Royal Center. They have put in a bid on a contract for dredging sections of Mad river, near Urbana, Ohio, the estimate for which is $60,000/ The letting of this contract has been enjoined and the bids have not yet been opened, therefore they do not know whether they are the low bidders or not. It is thought the objectors will withdraw their opposition and the letting begone ahead with soon.

A NORTH CARPENTER “SPEIL.”

Tttbse c’Jizens who have been skeptical concerning the earnestness of the Jordan township farmers in their attempt to buy a company machine have had all their doubts set at rest by the appearance of the rig itself at Remington. It is indeed the largest thing of the kind ever unloaded in this part of the country. It requires a twenty horse power engine to move it. The blower is something magnificent, and now the proprietors are looking for a man who is big enough blow to run it. Considering the obstacles the company owners encountered both within their organization and without, they are to be congratulated upon seeing the deal through to a finish. Martin Cain kept up spirit enough to enable him to interview the machine agents until about four weeks ago. The parties he had piloted around to the various machine shops, and the general wear and tear on his nerves up to this time proved enough for him, so Mart went fishing for a couple of days. The experience of the previous six weeks, however, proved too much for him. Talk of the economy of compounds, advantages of doublesimples four inch cut offs, corkscrew exhausts, solid and main rods, etc., had so disarranged Martin’s nervous system that he came home with fisherman’s luck, while the rest of the fishing party bad fish for breakfast. The successful culimnation of the plans and talk of six months is perhaps in a large measure due to the determination of Chas. Dluzak, Burr Porter and James Blake, to have a machine of any kind at any price, so it seems. These gentlemen went down to Indianapolis shortly after Mr. Cain’s break-down and returning in twenty-four hours announced they had a machine. We hope they have. Perhaps twenty-four hours isen’t a very long time to consider the expenditures of a couple of thousand, but we trust that the mechanical intelligence and general judgment of the above parties presented any one from selling them a washing machine with a tin whistle for an engine, or a dry-goods box full of scrap iron for a separator. It is a fact not to be overlooked, nevertheless, tjiat all of the company went in to see what they had before they signed for it. Remington now being a dry town there is no doubt as to the safe unloading of the rig. Tom Porter is to run the engine and has an assistant. Tom has blown out his share of safety plugs and wasted his share of coal, and is now past the point when engineers allow bearings to run hot. With such a man as this at the throttle, or some where near it, there should always be plenty of power. The boiler will never run dry as Arthur Putt has been engaged as water boy.

HACKING OIL. A tine quality of machine and gasoline engine oil at the Rensselaer Garage. Try it. W. H. Timmons. For Sale—Five-room house, 75x300 foot lot, bearing fruit; situated on River street J. E. Bislosky.

THE FARM TELEPHONE.

An Efficient Time Saver and a Means - of Protection. Many persons who use the telephone have all manner of mistaken Ideas about central and her w-ork. They often say, for instance, that they know better when central tells them the line Is busy or that nobody answers. In fact, however, much the easiest thing for the operator to do is to give you the person called for If she can possibly get him. By the time she has found out that a line Is busy, or that a subscriber does not answer, central’s work is three-quarters done, and it is, simpler to finish the connection whenever she can than turn the switch on your line and report to you, remarks a writer in American Cultivator. When central tells you a person does not answer, it is only after she has made several unsuccessful attempts to get him. Sometimes people forget to ring off when they are through talking, and that might keep a line waiting as apparently busy when it was really not in use. Convenient In Many Ways. Many stories are told of the ways in which the telephone saves money for the farmer, from protecting his crops by giving him the government’s daily weather predictions to protecting his profits by keeping him posted on prices current. When some of the farm machinery breaks down, the damaged part can be replaced in dr day by telephoning a supply house. If there is an accident or sudden illness, a word from the doctor over the wire may save a life which could not wait unaided for him to take a long drive. If fire threatens, the whole countryside is summoned in a few moments. Tramps and marauders notoriously avoid places to which the telephone wires lead.

EARLY CELERY.

Good Method of Obtaining a Crisp and Tender Product. Perhaps the most satisfactory way of blanching early celery on a small scale is by means of ordinary farm draintiles of about four inches inside diameter, placed over the plants after they have become almost fully grown. To facilitate the work of placing the tiles over the plants some of the outside leaves should be pulled away’ and the main part of the plant loosely tied together by means of a soft string or, better, with what is known as paper twine, being a string made by twisting a strip of soft paper. This- string will

CELERY IN DBAINTILES.

lose its strength as soon as it becomes wet and will offer no resistance to the further growth of the plant. The presence of the tiles will cause the leaves to draw up above the top of the tiles, thereby forming a screen over the top to shut out the light from the interior. If the common unglazed tiles are used the evaporation from their surface has a tendency to keep the plant cool during the heat of the day, and a very crisp and tender product is the resuit This method of blanching is desirable also on account of its cleanliness, as celery treated in this way will need very little washing before marketing.— W. R. Beattie. , His Fault A newly married man in Norristown not long since accompanied bis- wife on a shopping expedition on condition that he should remain outside the shop. At one place she remained so long that he lost his patience. “What do you mean keeping me standing out here like a fool?” he demanded when she came out. “I can’t help the way you stand, dear!” was the wife’s sweet response.— Philadelphia Ledger.

Then She'd Say It.

“I assure you,” said the persistent suitor, “that I will not take ‘no’ for an answer.” “You needn’t," replied Miss Bright ‘Til say “yes’ upon one condition.” “Ah! Name the condition.” “Just ask me if I am determined not to marry you under any circumstances.”—Houston Post.

You can buy a nice light summer suit at Rowles & Parker’s now for $7.95, $9.95 and $11.95. These suits sell regularly from $lO to sls. Buy your parchment butter wrappers at The Democrat office. The Greening Nuisery Co., Monroe, Mich., one of the largest nursery concerns in the United States, write us that they want a good live agent in this section to solicit orders for their trees, shrubbery, etc. Experience not necessary. They offer good pay weekly, and furnish canvassing outfit free. We advise any man or woman in our community, who has some spare time to take orders to write them for particulars immediately. Mention this paper when writing. 4

THE PERKINS FAMILY

Why They Are Not Going to the Seashore This Summer. —T ! REASONS GALORE IN DIARY. Hubby Refers to It When Wifey Demands an Explanation—Calls Him Meanest Man In Europe, Asia, Africa or America. [Copyright, 1907, by M. M. Cunningham.] Mr. Perkins had taken a seat on the veranda after dinner to smoke a cigar and be reasonably thankful that he was alive, and he was just enjoying the reddest kind of a sunset when Mrs. Perkins joined him with a certain oiliness of countenance that put him on his guard at once. She was sly and suave and smooth as“she talked about bugs and mosquitoes and peach blos-

DREW FORTH THE INEVITABLE DIARY.

some, and when she thought he had put hfß foot in the trap she suddenly said: “Mr. Perkins, I will need about a hundred dollars next week if I am to get ready for the seashore.” “You think of going to the seashore, do yon?” he replied after a moment. “Certainly. That has been understood ever since last December.” “Um! Um!” “I can be all ready in about two weeks from now. Have you written to any of the places to see about board?” “No, not quite. That is, not exactly.” “But you will right away tomorrow? We can’t run the chances of the hotels being full.” “What is this idea you have got into your head, Mrs. Perkins?” he asked as he turned on her. “What! What! Do you w’ant to make out that our going to the seashore Is some new idea and that this is the first time you have beard of it?” /“Something might have been said two or three years ago, but I supposed It had been given up long ago.” “Last December is not two or three years ago, and you know it. One night last December you said we should go to the seashore this summer even if we bad to mortgage the household furniture. It was the night you had a touch of colic after getting to bed. You are not going to have the cheek to tell me you have forgotten ter His Inevitable Dairy. Mr. Perkins slowly and calmly carried his hand to his breast pocket and drew forth the inevitable diary and consulted it with puckered brow, carefully watched by Mrs. Perkins. “Yes, I find something about it here,” he said when he had found the right page. “Under date of Dec. 19 I find the following entry. “ ‘Raining, snowing and blowing. Durn such a climate! I’d like to get out of it for good. I have a sore throat, and Mrs. P. has a cough that may result in consumption. I have just promised her that we will go to the seashore next summer. O. T. A.’ ” “There, didn't I tell you!” exclaimed Mrs. Perkins. “You did, my love—you. did. Yes, on the night of the 19th of last December I promised you that we would go to the seashore this summer, but you observe the letters ‘C. T. A.’ after the promise. They stand for ’consult the authorities,’ and I have done so. In fact, I have been consulting the authorities for the last three months.” “Is—is this some scheme to wriggle out of your promise? Do you intend to dodge and twist and bring up what you call your philosophy? If you do, then let me tell you that I won’t stand it for a minute—not a minute. When you make a promise and write it down, that ought to lie enough for a man of honor.” “Mrs. Perkins,” he calmly continued, “when I met you I had been a widower Tor three long years. J had made my own bed, cooked my own meals and patched my own trousers. I hardly dared hope when I met you that you would fall In love with me and make me happy again, but you did. I appreciate the deed. I shall always appreciate it. If I should lose you, life would no longer be worth the living. There isn’t one chance in a thousand that I could marry No. 3.”. * “That’s it—bring in that. I’m your second wife. Don’t never miss a chance to do that. But what has that got to do with our going to the seashore?" Consulted Authorities. “Everything, my dear. That's why I put ‘C. T. A.’ after the memoranda. I have consulted the authorities In regard to you. You weigh 180 pounds, and you get away with a square meal.

( but what of that noble and tender heart of yours—what of your heart? You are an inland bird, and you have been flying from tree to tree and hopping from twig to twig, far from the ocean’s roar. How would it be if you were' suddenly rushed down to Atlantic City and to a> salt atmosphere? Would It benefit or harm you? Could that loving heart of yours stand the strain? This was one of the things I had to consult the authorities about,' and it was well that I did. I have also been saving newspaper clippings since the first of the year.” “That is, you have been trying to find some exebse to break your promise. Go ahead. I can see that you are going to twist out of it.” “My dear Mrs. Perklnfc, let me read you a record, and if you then desire to jeopardize your life I shall have nothing to say. “Dr. Barnes says that a sudden change of climate from fresh to salt is almost sure to produce death from heart ailment. “Dr. Smith says that he has known of 100 cases where fat women going to Atlantic City have died within twentyfour hours of heart trouble. “Dr. Hines says that salt air striking an inland person all of a sudden is as bad as a bullet. “Dr. Blissfield kept track of cases along the Atlantic coast last season and has a record of 440 fat women who died in their beds on the very first night after their arrival. They were not stricken dead by the high charges of the hotels, but their hearts went back ort them. "There is the Record, Mrs. Perkins, and what am I to do? Am I to rush you down to the seashore and have you dead on my hands, or am I to keep you inland and have your company and your love for many years to come?” "Those doctors are fools, and you know it!" snapped Mrs. Perkins in reply. “And there are other things,” continued Mr. Perkins without taking note of her‘exclamation. "As I said a few minutes ago, you weigh 180 pounds. You can no longer sit.on my lap without my knees giving way. You are still a sylph, but w*hat effect is the salty atmosphere going to have on you? Will it relegate you back to a skeleton, or will you Increase to 250 pounds and make it impossible for me to squeeze you through the door of an ordinary room? That’s a thing to be thought of. Would Change Her Disposition. “Again, changing climates changes dispositions. We are like cooing doves here. We may get down to the seashore to fairly hate each other. Seventeen different doctors say this may be the case. I do not wish to be guilty of your murder, my love, and I do not want to wake up and find that you have cut my windpipe. “Another thing. You hair is thin and faded. You are obliged to dye it. The facts are not against you In the slightest, as Marie Antoinette had to do thesame thing. But here is the kernel. Thirty different doctors certify that in such cases the woman who goes to the seashore comes home with straw colored hair and terrible headaches and while suffering from the latter are often driven to suicide. Suppose I were to come home from the office some day and find you hanging from our only peach tree! Could I ever eat peaches from it again? These are things for you to think of, my dear Mrs. Perkins, to sit up and think of in the most serious manner. When you have thought of them we wiM reopen the subject and see what conclusions we can arrive at.” “Never, sir!” said Mrs. Perkins as she rose up with red cheeks and flashing eyes. "You mean”— “I mean that you are the meanest husband in Europe, Asia, Africa or America!”. “Well,” said Mr. Perkins to himself after she had disappeared into the house. "I have done my part, and now if she wants to expire in the ryst terrible agonies she must assume all the risks. That is. we will go down the river for a day’s fishing if it won’t cost over 75 cents for bait and all.” M. QUAD.

A Cure For Obesity.

Landlady (to i»ew boarder, who is rather stout)—l am glad to hear that one of my former boarders recommended you to my house. Stout Boarder—Yes; be spoke very highly of it. After telling him that I had tried all kinds of antifat without success, he advised a short stay here.— Tatter.

Freda. Life doesn't seem the same to us Since Freda went away. We talk about it every’ night And also every day. The kitchen seems a cheerless place; We hate to turn the knob And look Into that lonesome waste Since Freda yoomped her yob. We miss our Freda dreadfully. In fact, for her we pine. Her English was distressing, but Her breakfast rolls were fine. And now we sit and think of her. And in our throats a sob Of sorrow rises at the thought That Freda yoomped her yob. She won’t come back. She’s married now. She thinks she’s better off. Perhaps she is. At any. rate. It does no good to scoff. But every time we think of her Our sad heart* give a throb. It makes a difference in our house Since Freda yoomped her yob. —Somerville Journal.