Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — Page 5

25,000 ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE. Buy a farm and be Independent. Come out and let us show you some of the best land in the state, in Jasper county, Ind. Will sell on your own terms, , either cash or on payments. OLIVER & CALLAHAN Newland, Ind.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL* Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. | Corn, 48c; oats (old) 40c. i/f Miss Selma Leopold visited in this week. Mr. end Mrs. A. F. Long were in Chicago Tuesday. And Rensselaer is to have a big circus this year after all. Miss Edith Strickfaden is visiting relatives in Champaign, 111. Read the Racket Store’s enameled ware sale ad, on third page; Robert Wartena of Hammond is visiting relatives here this week. Miss Edith Shedd went to Paw Paw, Ill* Tuesday to visit relatives. Mrs. Fern Guss and little daughter are visiting relatives in Lafayette. Miss Stella Huffman Sunday from a visit in Indianapolis. Miss Harriet Yeoman is visiting Miss Donne Harmon at Pontiac, 111.

K Arthur Tuteur expects to reShter Ann Arbor this year to finish ins law course. The Christian Sunday school picknicked at Nagle’s grove, west of town, Thursday. G. E. Derby of Elbow Lake, Minn., was here on business Tues* day and Wednesday. George Colvin, of Brookston, will move here next week. Mr. Calvin is a painter. Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Grant are visiting relatives of the latter in Hammond this week. Mrs. E. Peacock is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Oscar McClure of Hammond, this week. Rev. A. G. Work of South Chicago is spending his vacation with Rensselaer friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Tedford of Vincennes are visiting., their daughter, Mrs. Geo. Hopkins. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Newland. 1; Quarton, Tex:, 1. ... II , .. Mrs. Len Lefler left Sunday for a visit with friends at Hammond, Ind., and Joliet and Morris, 111. Uncle Joseph Osborne of Remington is visiting his daughter Mrs. W. S. Parks, here this week. Miss Tillie Ramp returned, home from a visit with her sister Mrs. N. Krull, at Kentland.

Mies Anna Stont of Trafalgar, Johnson county, is visiting her consin, Mrs. Geo. Healy, here this week. Misses True George and Juno Kannal" leave Monday for Williamsport, Pa., for a three weeks’ vacation. Joseph Sharp went to Kentland Thursday tp visit old friends. He was a resident of Kentland many years ago. Mrs. D. H. Yeoman returned Saturday from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Edwin. Mauck, at Anderson. £ A. Leopold accompanied his son Ike to Chicago Monday to assist him in getting settled in the Windy City. Mrs. R. P. Benjamin returned Thursday from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Cain, at Lake Village. Gifford and Pleasant Ridge ball teams crossed bats at the* latter place Sunday. Result, 6to 4 in favor of Gifford. Cyril Steele of Barkley tp., left Thursday for a visit with his brothers at Poplar, Mont., and to do a little prospecting.

Miss Estella Cain of Goodland has been visiting her cousin, Miss Katherine Michael, northeast of town, the past ten days. Spencer Vick of New York City came last Friday for a two weeks’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Vick. \ Misses Lora Rhoades and Nora B\ideeman left Wednesday for Pireblo, Colo., for an extended visit with Miss Anna Sample. J A ten-year-old son of Nelson ffcCoy of Jordan tp., fell from a haymow last Sunday and broke both bones of the left arm above the wrist. The Morocco Courier states that EdScbanlaub has sold his interest in the Morocco Sentinel to Milton E. Graves and Orange Boawer, republicans. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe was at Valparaiso the first of the week to attend the University summer commencement, she having friends among the graduates. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the U. B. church at Brushwood will give an ice-cream social on Saturday evening, August 10. The E’ ”,c is cordially invited. arlie Chamberlain and J. J. gomery have sold the Mitchell auto, which they bought in Illinois several months ago, to Albert Jones, of Wolcott, for $1,200.

Misses Estella Cain of Goodland and Katharine Michael of Marion tp., are visiting their cousin, Miss Ora Yeoman, and Mr. and Mrs. John Reed at Virgie this week. Mrs. A. E. Bolser was called to Greencastle Wednesday by the .serious sickness of her sister, Mrs. Ray Hufford, who has typhoid fever. Mrs. 8. B. Fisher and little daughter who have been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle, returned to their home in Marion Wednesday. I K kAJ. Harmon has bought the Continental insurance business from John Barce, and the latter will engage in some other business, it is reported. Mrs. I. A. Glazebrook went to Battle Ground Wednesday to attend the meeting of the Methodist Home Missionary Society, as a delegate from Rensselaer John Swisher of the north part of the county brought in six fox scalps Wednesday for the bounty of $2.50 each, if over six months old, which he claims these were.

A heavy rain fell Thursday afternoon in the northeast part of the county, and at about four and six o’clock in about Remington. Only a few drops fell here, however. Ike Leopold, who ha s been located at Wolcott for the past dozen yeara, has moved to Chicago where he has secured a position as manager of a merchant tailoring business. A. J. Bellows was over to his farm in Carpenter tp., Wednesday and reports that about the heaviest rain of the season fell there tnat day. Here it was just a medium shower. Joe Reynolds, who has been working on the Delphi Journal for the past seven or eight years, has bought an interest in the Frankfort Evening News and Weekly Banner. Miss Rebecca Smith, an aged maiden lady of Barkley tp„. was taken to Chicago Tuesday for an operation for congestion of the bowels. She is reported as recovering nicely from the operation. It is reported on very good authority that , another of Rensselaer’s old bachelors will join the ever increasing ranks of benedicts this month. The bride-to-be is a popular young lady of Rensselaer.

Mr. R. B. Haligus, agent for the J. R. Watkins Medical Co., has moved his headquarters to the Knapp livery office, wh ere those desiring suppliers can be accommodated, 3t Fred, the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas, got his foot cut so badly on an old bottle or tin can Thursday, while fishing for minows in the river, as to require the services of a doctor to dress the wound. Mrs. C. F. Wren of Monon and son Ernest of Medaria, Cali, were guests of N. 8. Bates and family Thursday. Her husband was a former Monon agent here. Emmet is now in the railway mail service in California. Mrs. F. E. Babcock and Miss Ethel Sharp expect to take in the Wabash railroad’s excursion to Niagara Falls next Wednesday, starting from Lafayette. They will visit points in Canada and elsewhere before returning. Gaylord McFarland, who has a position as time-keeper for the Dodge Mfg., Co., of Mishawaka, was home to spend Sunday with his parents. He will continue with the Dodge company instead of teaching school again this year.

J. R. Gray and Ray Adams left Monday, the former for Forsyth, Mont., to work with a railroad construction gang, several of whom are from Rensselaer, and the latter to join his brother-in-law, Bert Goff, at Belle Fourche, So. Dak. T. M. Callahan, mayor of Newland, purchased another general store Monday, making four genera] stores | that he now owns. His latest purchase is the Harry Gifford stjore at Gifford, and His brother Oyven will manage it for him. ' Seventy-two tickets were sold here Sunday for the Chicago excursion. Quite a number of Rensselaer people also spent Sunday at Cedar Lake and Water Valley. The Monon’s total receipts for tickets sold at this station Sunday was 1236. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wolf of Hammond who have been visiting relatives in Europe, are expected home next week. They sailed for New York Thursday. Mrs. Wolf was formerly Mrs. Ray Mossier of Rensselaer, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold. Splendid weather—except for a shower about noon Wednesday that put a stop to farm work for a few hours—has been the record for the past week. The days have been pleasant and rather cool, while the nights have been delightfully cool and agreeable.

Miss Manda Hoyes, formerly of Rensselaer, who has held a position as cashier in a Monticello department store for several years, has resigned her position there to take a situation as book-keeper and office manager with the King Lumber Co., of Logansport, Frank Brinley, a former resident of Rensselaer, died Sunday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brinley, near Bristol, Ind., of tubercular trouble with which he has been afflicted for a year or more. He was aged 28 years and until recently was employed as a telephone lineman at Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Duvall returned Saturday evening from their visit to Grand Rapids, Mich. Earl’s brother John who has been working at tailoring in Grand Rapids for the past few years, will be down next month for a visit with his parents and will likely then take a position with a Chicago merchant tailoring concern. F. B. Meyer, who had contemplated building a store at Gary V>d moving his Kentland drug stock there, has given up the idea. He could not buy the site for the store and could bnly lease it for four months at a tiipe, and therefore decided that he did not care to erect a building on ground that he was sure of only for so short a .time. ■ The Monticello Journal states that Mrs. E. E. Malone (formerly Mrs. Lucy Malohow of Rensselaer) returned home last Thursday from an Indianapolis hospital where she had undergone an operation for appendicitis only two weeks before, and that she stood the teip nicely and did not have to lie down even until her regular bedtime. Sam Guy, who has been partially paralyzed for a year or more, was taken to the poor asylum Tuesday. He has been living with hie mother in the east part of town who has supported him since his affliction, and who is now worn out physically in caring for him and is not financially able to take care of him longer. They came here from Remington.

W. S, Parker of Two Harbors, Minn., who has numerous relatives here, is reported near death from Bright’s disease. His mother, Mrs. Isabel Parker, and his brother James, both of Frankfort, are at his bedside. Uncle James Welsh of south of town, who has been suffering with cancer in the ear for a year or more and who has been confined to his bed for the past six weeks, was reported slightly improved apparently, yesterday morning, and had been eating better the past few days. The cancer continues to spread slowly, it is said, and will eventually cause bis death. Mr. and Mrs. John Francis of Ogden, 111., and Jesse Francis of Fithian, 111, were called here Tuesday evening by the death of the one-year-old child of their brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vest of ninb miles north of Rensselaer, which occurred at 10 p. m, Monday. The child had been ailing for some time. The funeral was held Wednesday at 10 a. m., from the house, and interment made in Weston cemetery. Bissenden Bros, and Geo. Green have just finished making 1,200 cement blocks for the new hospital which is to be erected at St. Joseph’s college. Lee Jessup has the contract of superintending the construction of the building, which will be 35x70 Let in size, two stories and basement. The foundation is now in and the basement being put up. The corner stone will probably be laid to-day withoutparticular ceremony except the depositing of documents therein. Miss Kate Rogers, the Monon notary public who was taken to a sanitarium in Cincinnati, 0., recently for treatment for mental trouble, writes a Monticello paper under date of July 30, as follows: “To my circle of genuine friends in Pulaski, Jasper and White counties, State of Indiana: I leave the sanitarium today in restoration t® better health than I have enjoyed in many years. Cordially yours.” Miss Rogers formerly resided in Rensselaer and taught in the city schools here.

Mr. John Francis of Ogden, 111., who was called here Tuesday by the death of the little child of his brother-in-law, stated to the writer that crops in his locality lodked about the same as here. The wet weather kept many of the farmers from plowing their corn but once; oats will not make more than half a crop, and altogether it has .been one of the worst seasons ever experienced there. Farm land there is selling at from $l5O to S2OO per acre, and Mr. Francis has refused $175 per acre for his farm, Mr. Ball, a retired merchant of Muncie,'was here Thursday looking for a house to rent. He owns 900 acres of land near Thayer in Newton county, and will move here and look after hie real estate. He has been engaged in the mere hantile business for about thirty years, entering it when quite young. He has a wife and three daughters and one son, we understand, two of the daughters being grown. At this writing he has not found any house that was large enough or modern enough, that he could rent, to suit him. But if he can not find what he wants he will a smaller house, for the present, as he intends to locate here and will be a most desirable citizen.

An Old Oak Jail.

The Brown county (Ind.) jail was built In 1837. The walls are three feet thick and built of white oak timber. The outside and inside walls are built the same as any log house, the logs being hewed one foot square. The inside timbers are put up and down on end, one foot square, making a total thickness of three feet. No prisoner, no matter how serious the crime, has ever dug through these three foot walls. The building is two stories high. The floors are made of square timbers twelve inches thick with lumber nailed to timbers.

Hanged Bound to a Chair.

The agitation against capital punishment which was active in South Africa some time ago has been revived by details, published recently, of a scene at the recent execution of a Kaffir at Pretoria. When the executioner went to the condemned man’s cell the prisoner made fierce resistance and struggled violently all the way to the Scaffold. At the scafford the executioner and his assistants cleverly forced the man into a chair, where he was bound so that he could not move. The man and the Chair were then hanged together.

Quite a Frisky Old Lady.

Terre Haute. Ind.. July 31. Mrs Frances Lee, aged 82, pleaded guilty to assault and battery on her neighbor. Mrs. Bailey, and paid a fine. Ths aged woman bad given the other woman a severe beating.

Only five more of those large mounted maps of Jasper county left. If you want one for 11.50, call quick. The Democrat.

| The Ancient Art 41 | Of Helping Yourself. V | SEver go to a Sunday school picnic when you were a boy? ® Course you did. ® Remember how all the women folks used to spread the tablecloths end to end on the grass, then dump' ’em thick X X with the best ever ate ? My! Fried chicken ’bout X S every two foot, with, roll X jelly cake in between. S X I Well, yes! W'jl Recollect how the Su- X © perintendent would stick @ his handkerchief under his X gj, collar and say cheerfully: @ ■ “Now all help your- jgt @ I sel£! ” S ® gi JpTyj Then everybody fell to \ H and helped himself. If @ @ . vou were a timid boy and @ @ held back till all the chick- ® en was gobbled up, you re- ® gretted it—you regret it & S still. You didn’t help ® ® > yourself, and nobody else ® // helped you. ® Z 7 A Remember that picnic ® when the gang of fellows ® & from the city happened @ @ A** along and lit into the fried ® © /<■ z sS fowl? City chaps are al- ® ® Hwv / fyiEr ways hungry. They help- ® ® *'o uuv ed themselves, and there @ m wasn’t anything left for ® © the town boys but the ® © bones. @ Life is a picnic. Not a @ ® Sunday school picnic—not ® ® exactly. But it’s a picnic dinner all the same. The feast is © ® spread for you. Everybody help himself now! ® SUPPOSE YOU’RE A MERCHANT IN THIS @ TOWN. THERE’S FRIED z CHICKEN AND ROLL ® X JELLY CAKE ALL AROUND YOU, BUT YOU LET X THE CITY CROWD COME IN AND SNATCH IT $ RIGHT FROM UNDER YOUR NOSE. ALL YOU X ® GET IS THE BONEB AND SCRAPS. ® ® - The city fellows are helping themselves. They reach out @ long fingers—the mail order monthly and the price catalogue @ —and pick up the choice bits. Why don’t you try a few fingers ® © of advertising in your local paper, dive in ahead of the gang ® @ from outside, get there first and help yourself to the chicken? @ © “Now all help vourself!” ® g @ ® MORAL: OUR ADVERTISING RATES FUR- § | NISHED ON APPLICATION. g @ A j, g ©®©®©©®©@©®®@©©@@®@@©&©®@©@@@©®©

Brevities

THE HALL OF FAME. After being six minutes under water Amadee Martel, a schoolboy of Northboro, Mass., was recovered and resuscitated. William A. Breene, a laborer of Washington, Pa., was so overcome by the news that he had inherited SIOO,000 that he died of the shock. President Roosevelt has written to Dr. Jackson, secretary of the American committee which is erecting a monument to Calvin in Geneva. Switzerland, accepting the presidency of the committee. George W. McKenney, who has been for seven years postmaster of North Sebago, is, it is said, the oldest postmaster in Maine. Although he is eighty-two years old. he manages the office In a satisfactory manner. Joseph Knight, since 1883 editor of Notes and Queries and dramatic critic of the Globe, Athenaeum and other periodicals, died In London at the age of seventy-eight years. He was the author of many theatrical works. J. W. Beers of West View, Pa., has one of the most valuable libraries of shorthand works in the world: He has books and pamphlets on the subject by the thousands, and they include practically all the systems invented since the year 1700. Alonzo Smith of Skowhegan, Me., has an old gun which was used in the battle of Bunker Hill. 131 years ago, by his great-grandfather. The gun is In working order, barring the loss of the flint, and could be easily equipped for actual use. Duke Ulrich of Wurttenjberg deals in cakes and oatmeal, and, in conjunction with Prince Christian Hohenlohe, he manufactures corsets, sold under the name of “Hohenlohe corsets,” which have a vast sale among south German ladles on account of their princely trademark. Since his retirement from public life Hon. William S. Forman, who used to be In congress from the East St. Louis (III.) district and who afterward was commissioner of Internal revenue, has built up a large and lucrative law practice In East St. Louis, of which he has been for many years a leading citizen. Asa G- Candler of Atlanta has subscribed $75,000 to the Wesley memorial enterprise, launched by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Candler is one of the wealthiest men in the south. Thirty-two years ago he tramped to Atlanta from his country home tn the state, bis only asset being theclotheshewore.

The degree of doctor of medicine has been conferred upon Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, C. M. G., by the University of Oxford,, causa honoris, in recognition of the work he has achieved in Improving the social condition of the Labrador fisher folk. The honor bestowed upon him by his old university Is all the more marked by reason of Its being the first honorary M. D. degree conferred by Oxford.

PITH AND POINT.

A pretty girl yawning is a terrible sight. It is very easy to jar the table where a nervous person is writing. If the day goes slow to you, take a pill every hour and see how fast time will appear to fly. You can tell when a man begins to get old by the way he will say he is just in the priine of life. A sane man knows he doesn’t know it all. It’s the crazy man who knows everything and knows he knows it. If you run into a stone wall, go round it. Don’t back off and butt it and keep at it as long as you can stand. You think an orphan child Is a sad sight. What do you think of parents who have outlived all their children? Isn’t that a sight with more grief in it?—Atchison Globe.

Editorial Flings.

Russia is always ready to talk about peace. It is another instance of human nature’s tendency to discuss those things of which it knows very little.— Washington Star. -A well known physicfan points out the beneficial effects sure to result from walking to work, but no doubt the majority will continue to look forward to the pleasure of walking the other way.—Washington Post. If the baseball that is said to be making rapid progress in Great Britain is of the variety that some of the clubs are providing in this country it should never again be complained that Englishmen cannot appreciate a joke.—" Providence Tribune.

Animal Curios.

Storks devour kittens. Fish never chew their food. The horse has no eyebrows. Turtles and tortoises have no teeth. The sheep’s upper jaw is toothless. All cud chewing animals have cloven hoofs. A well grown kangaroo can leap sixty feet. Hares and snakes sleep with their eyes open. The frog can only breathe with its mouth closed. The mother condor must keep her young a year in the nest before they •re able to fly.—Los Angeles TJpjes.