Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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CULP REUNION.

The annual reonion oi the Colp family will be held at th* home of John T. Colp in Berkley township, Thursday, September 5, Bring yonr baskets and come. A speoial invitation is extended to everyone. ' *

INDIANA GOING “DRY."

More than two-thirds of the townships of the state have no saloons, according to figures complied jointly by Miss Mary A. Stubbs, chief of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics, and the Anti-’ Saloon League. Of the total of 1,016 townships, only 296 Save saloons, according to the figures, and 720 have none. The total number of saloons granted licenses during 1906 was 5253, ae opposed to 5.277 in 1905, showing a degrease of twenty-four. Three entire counties were “dry” in 1906, according to Miss Stubbs —Brown, Lagrange and Pike.

GETTING AWAY FROM THE ESSENTIALS.

That the Indiana sohool system is being made top-heavy with fads all must admit who have given the subject much thought. The common schools of the state are for the purpose of making boys fit to be men and girls fit to be women. The colleges and universities, so plentiful over the state, are for the purpose of adding accomplishments that parents might wish their children to acquire. The common sohools are for the purpose of making practical men and practical women. With all the isms advocated by the learned men the practical is getting farther and farther afray. Fads run their course and eventually we will be back to the point where we left the right path to follow after strange ideals.— Oxford Tribune. ;

EVERYBODY WAS THERE SUNDAY.

A large number of Rensselaer people visited Fountain Park Sunday. Every available rig in the town there and more people wonld have gone had there been more conveyances. It was not so mnob Congressman Watson that drew them as it was to have some place to go and sit in the shade and onpack the basket of fried chicken and other good things to eat that were taken along, and then after dinner roam about the grounds and greet old friends and acquaintances. The farmers had laid aside threshing, of coarse, and were all there with their families, swelling the crowd to 4,000 or 5,000. The weather was perfect and the drive home in the cool of the evening with the moon shining brightly ~ overhead was delightful. One coaid pot help bnt feel better and be better morally and spiritually, for mingling with each a crowd of good people on so perfect a day. The Assembly closes to-morrow.

FOUND DEAD IN BED.

Mrs. Margaret Shea, who lived alone in the east part of town, was found dead in' bed Saturday morning, having evidently passed away peacefully the night before while Bhe slept. Neighbors, seeing no one about the house in the morning as usual and getting no response to repeated raps at the ‘door, notified the officers, and Christie Vick and E. *M. Thomas, the nightwatch, entered the bouse and found her dead in bed. Deceased had complained of feeling badly the night before and it is supposed her death was from natural oaus&fj} therefore no inqueet was deemed necessary. The funeral was held Tuesday at 10 a. m., from St. Atigustine’s Catholic church and intermeift made ig Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of town. Mrs. Shea tfas a native of Ire* land. Her husband, Michael Shea, died about 20 years ago. Six children, three sons and three daughters, survive her, namely: Jerry, of Gillam tp.; Miohael, of St. Louis, Mo.; Cornelius, of Nevada; Mrs. George Worden, of Bemington; Mrs. Nora Greenhull, of Idaho, and Miss Josie Shea, of Oklahoma. She was about 70 ( years of age. Of the children living away, Miohael of St. Louis, was the only one here to the faneral.

Fob Sale:— B. O. Brown Loghorn hens at 50 oenta each by Sept. 1; also 8 shoals, wt. about 46 ponnda each. ’Phone 529-F. Wii. H. WobTley.

RIG WAS STOLEN.

But Thief Soon Comes to Greif In Rensselaer. \ * —————— HAD SOLD THE OUTFIT FOR (S4B To T. J. Mallat of Fair Oaks Who Recovered HU Money After Thief a Arrest.—Taken to Illinois for Trial.

Tom Mallatt of Fair Oaks, bought a fine horse and buggy Wednesday of a strange man jyho said he had grown tired of driving and wonld sell at a sacrifice." Bdt he will beware of strangers and cheap rigs in the future. He bargained to pay this fellow for his horse and stanhope, when be stopped at Fair Oaks and wanted to sell the outfit. But not having that amount of ready cash with him, the two drove the rig on to Rensselaer where Tom got the money snd paid it over to the stranger, who told a plausible tale of why be'wanted to sell. And, iu the meantime — Sheriff O’Connor reoeived word from the sheriff of Kankakee county, 111., to be on the watch for a stolen rig that was headed this way. A search of the livery and feed barns disclosed a rig at the Kresler hitch barn answering the description of the stolen outfit, which was the one Mr. Mallatt had purchased of the stranger. Further inquiry revealed that the stranger was still about town, and at Goff’s restaurant a man was pointed out by Mr. Maliatt as the party he had bought the horse from. He proved to be a Mr. Hinkie, traveling representative of the Driefus Packing Co., of Lafayette, and who was soon identified by parties here who knew him, and released. Further search resulted in finding the right man at Wood & Kresler’s barber shop, where he was getting a shave. He admitted having sold the rig but claimed it was his own, and that be had owned it for four years. He gave the name of Harry E. Gordon and said the rig was bought in Pontiac, Mich., that his home was in Ohio, and denied having ever being in Kapkakee. On demand being made for Mr. Mallatt’ss4B he turned it over without protest and accompanied the Kankakee officers, —who reached town via auto from Kentland .about 7 p. m., —back to Illinois without requisition, and was taken back Thursday morning. Gordon is about 37 years of age and weighs aboat 280 pounds. He still maintained his innocenße when he left with the officers, bnt William and Myron McGruder, the Kankakee liverymen, who allege they own the rig and who with Monroe Baker, also of Kankakee, arrived here soon after the arrest in an automobile, having been on the trail of the rig, identi fied it as their property and stated that Gordon had hired it at their barn Tuesday afternoon for a short drive in the country. Failing to return at nignt and finding he bad not been at the place be stated he was going, search was began with the above results. Gordon carried a suit case and stated that ke was on his way to his home in Ohio, having come from Pontiac, Mioh.

ANOTHER DROWNING AT CEDAR LAKE.

The fourth drowning at Cedar Lake this season occurred Saturday, when Gustave Johnson, aged 29, of Chicago, was drowned while in bathing near the Armour ice houses. He was out boating with bis little son and another boy when he decided to go bathing, and, having on his bathing suit, dived out of the boat after testing the depth of the water with an oar. He came op with his mouth full of water and said something the boys could not understand, then went down again and did not come up. It is supposed he either misjudged the water’s depth or beoame entangled in the weeds.

' Estray Taken Up: Came to my farm in Barkley tp., Angaat 17, a black sow, wt. about 250 Eonnda. Owner may have same y paying s ehargee and proving ownerabip. Eorah Daniels.

Rensselaer, Jasper County. Indiana, Saturday, August 24, 1907.

EDITOR WEEKS DEAD.

George T. Weeks, editor of the' Garrett Herald and owner of the Monon News, died Saturday at Pern of typhoid fever. He waa taken ill the next day after bis marriage to Miss Mary Eikenberry of Columbia City, and died after two weeks’ sickness.

DEATH OF FORMER RESIDENT.

Mrs Etta A. Hopkins, wife of Charles P. Hopkins of the MeEwan, (Tenu.,) New Era, died of internal cancer at her home in that plaoe August 6. She leaves a husband and four ohildren, three sons and* one Clyde, Roy and Leon, and Mrs. T. H. Knight, all of Tennessee. The family lived at one time in Ronsselaer and later in Remington, where Mr. Hopkins oonducted the Remington News, now the Remington Press, for several years, disposing of same to Hon. George Major in 1890 and moving to Tennessee.

FENDIG-WATSON.

Mr. Benjamin F. Fendig, one of Rensselaer’s popular and well known’ dcuggists, and Miss Ella Watson, a popular young lady of this city, were united in marriage at 8 a. m., Wednesday at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Kate R. Watson. , The ceremony was performed by Revs. A. G, Work of South Chicago, and Baqch of Delphi, former pastors of the Presbyterian church here. Only the immediate relatives were present at the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Fendig left the same afternoon for a visit in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul and J)nInth, at which latter place they expect to take a boat and come aronnd the lakes to Chicago, arriving home some time next week. The Democrat joins their friends in extending congratulations. ,

WHO WAS HE?

A good joke is told of a prominent young lady of Rensselaer. At Fountain Park last Sunday she saw a young man that she was sure she used to know, and she walked np to him and called him by name and introduced herself. They then walked about the grounds together and she introduced the y. m. to her friends as Mr. A of Watseka—the gentleman she supposed he was. Other Rensselaer people knew the young man from Watseka whom the young lady supposed she was with, and saw and talked with the real Watseka young man’s mother, who waa on the grounds, and she told them that her son was in Seattle, Wash., and had been there for several months. The Rensselaer - young lady—who really thoughjt she knew the “real one”—now wonders who the fellow was she had in tow, and who played the part of the hadn’t-seen-her-for-a-long- time friend, really was?

ON THE BIG DITCH.

We are indebted to W. L. Bringle of Newton tp., for oopies of the Claypool (Ind.) Journalsent him by his daughter, Mrs. Frank Yeoman—containing interesting letters from Panama by Charles Yeoman, a brother of Frank’s, who has a position as engineer at $2lO per month on the big canal that the government is trying to dig there. We have not the space to go into the details of these letters, but they are very interesting we regret that we cannot reproduce them in full. He says in one of the letters, among other things: "The canal I think will be finished sometime perhaps in 15 or 18 years. I visited the Culibra out, which is the deepest of all. It is 950 feet deep or will be when finished and about J mile wide at the top. It is no wonder the French had to give it up for the machinery they had is no earthly good for the class of work which bad to be done. Our Government is using a few of the old French locomotives,' but the other machines have been pushed off into the jungle or rolled down into deep ravines. Yesterday I counted 75 locomotives that have been thrown away and about 150 steam shovels. That’s just what I saw here and they are scattered all along the 47 miles of the canal.”

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THE COURT HOUSE

Items Ricked Up About the County Capitol. County Institute next week. —o — Judge and Mrs. Clark Price of Ashland, Kan., are visiting County Surveyor Price and sister Nbttie here, and brother Corey in Carpenter tp. « The Jpper Savings & Trust Co., has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late Rodney H. Dodge of Fair Oaks; Marrimon Tudor, executor of the estate of the late Rebecca J. Smith of Barkley tp.; and George Worden of Remington, administrator of the estate of the late Margaret Shea of Rensselaer, Marriage licenses issued: August 17, Edward Snider, of Newland, aged 21, occupation laborer, to Viola E, Hancock also of Ne wlaud, aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. August 20, Benjamin F. Fendig of Rensselaer, aged 39, occupation druggist, to Ella Watson, also of Rensselaer, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

Our yonng people can do. no better than to attend Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana. This school has the respect of educators everywhere. Its credits are accepted in all the best institutions of learning. Its thirty-fifth year will open September 3rd. Several of the township schools will be discontinued the coming school year, where the attendance was 12 pupils or less last-year, as provided by the new law. We have been unable to secure a complete list of the schools to be abandoned, but the number will be 15 or 20. In Union tp., the Fuller, W ild Lily and Otis schools will be abandoned and the pupils hauled to other schools under contract, as the law provides. In Barkley, Snowflake, Kennedy and Randle schools will be discontinued, we understand. In Newton, South Meadow (No. 8), Powell (No. 6) and Saylerville (No. 1) will be discontinued. —o — County Assessor Lewis was up in the north end of the county last Friday on business. A little property at Kersey and a saloon building and drug store at Wheatfield was missed by the assessor in making his this spring’s assessment. He says that he found everything prosperous in the north end except the saloon at Kersey, and that was as dry as cotton—having been closed by th» remonstrance. At Kersey, Frank Lewis, superintendent of the Gifford railroad, has 15 acres of cabbage which he has contracted to sell and whioh he thinks will net him SSO per acre. Albert Keene at Wheatfield has a fine field of onions which, at prices uiready received for some sold, will bring him $1,500.

New suits filed: No. 7185. Warren T. McCray vs. Alton L. Padgitt; suit on notes. No. 7196. United Jewelers Manufacturing Co. vs. Hicks Bros. & Co.; suit on aocount. Demand 1450. No. 7197. Benjamin J. Clifford vs. _ Charles Snider; appeal (by plaintiff) from Squire Spriggs’ J. P. court, Walker tp. No. 7199. Emma Citizen vs. Frank F. Citizen; action for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married Jane 11, 1904, and SeparatedPNov. 2, 1906; that on the 12th of October, 1906, and at divers times thereafter the defendant qpmmitted adultry with one Anna Schnltz; that for two years prior to their separation he wholly failed and refused to make reasonable provisions for the support of plaintiff, although fully able to do so. Plaintiff alleges that for more than two years past she has resided iq Wheatfield tp., and that her occupation is that of housekeeper. , No. 7200. Lewis S. Alter vs. Arthur N. Bailey and Flora V. Bailey; suit on notes. Demand *73. ,

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TOM McCOY BREAKS A LEO.

Starke County Demoorat: Tom McCoy, the Renaaelaer bank wrecker who is serving a term at Michigan City and was paroled ten days ago to attend bis mother’s funeral, fell off a wagon he was driving Saturday and broke his leg. A rumor is current that McCoy is to be permanently paroled soon, his application being still under consideration.

OUT ON THE BOUNDLESS DESERT

Gaylord McFarland will leave Monday for Lemay, Utah, to take a job at S7O per month in the yards of the Southern Pacific railroad at that plaoe. This is where Lloyd Jessen and Rue Parcels are looated, the former as telegraph operator and the latter as foreman of the railroad yards. Lemay is 85 miles from Odgen and not far from the U. P. coal mines. The loaded coal cars are brought to Lemay and there made np into trains and sent out. A letter reoeived a few days ago by Rne’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcels, oontained pictures of the railroad and their home—a box car. The boyß are batching, and as there is nothing to tempt their money from their pockets they are laying np a nice sum each month. It is a barren desert where they are, and Ogden is the nearest town frbm them. Rue says he is getting stout and rugged and has not been sick a day since he went there. The “mountain fever” sometimes gets hold of the men there, and Lloyd Jessen was in the hospital two months with the disease, bat is now back at work.

PURDUE EXPERIMENT STATION

Will Exhibit at the Indiana State Fair September 9-13,1907. The Purdue building recently remodeled by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture is now completed. In this building the Experiment Station will conduct a working cfcaijy and will make exhibits from the Soil, Crop, Animal Husbandry, and Horticultural departments. To snppliment this work snd exhibit, lectures will be given in the auditorium adjoining the exhibit rooms, on all popular phases of agriculture and domestic science. The lectures which will occupy about twenty minutes each, will be illustrated with stereoptioon views. These will be given every day of the fair according to the following schedale: 9:30 a. m. Treatment of soils for wheat and corn. 10:30. Methods of eradicating the San Jose scale. 11:30. Selection of feeders, 12:30. Harvesting and storing seed corn. £- 1:30 p. m. Improvement of dairy herds. 2:30. Domestic science demonstrations. Those interested in any phase of agriculture or domestic science work should plan to visit the Pardue building during State Fair week, inspect the model dairy and agricultural exhibits, hear the leo* tares and receive the printed bulletins. It will be an interesting and profitable visit for both young and old. -

OWH LAND WHERE IT PAYS.

The Evergreen State is where you want to go. Land will never b§ bought at a lower figure in the Big Bend country, Washington, than it will be this fall. The crops are good and the price is good. Just think of S3O land yielding s2l per acre. Cheap rates now,September is the time to' go. You can make a good living and double your money in two years. Come and see our list and get tjhe date we go. \

B. F. FERGUSON,

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Rensselaer, Ind.

Vol X. NO. 21

BULLET FROM A HUE

Penetrates a Boy’s Abdomen and the Wound le Thought To Be Fatah JUST A LOOSE 32 CARTRIDGE Heated by a Little Blase In a Back Yard—Boy Dlea of a Burst Stomach—State News. Indianapolis, Aug. 22.—James Sullivan. the 8-year-old son of Daniel Sullivan, 652 Birch avenue, was the,victim of a shooting accident that at first promised to be a mystery for the police to solve. While tije little fellow was playing In the back yard of his home he was struck in the abdomeu by a bullet. He uttered a cry and fell. His small sister, who had been playing with him and who was poking a fire which bad been started in the back yard, ran to him and began crying for help when she saw blood pouring from the wound. Policemen Sent to Investigate. The child was carried Into the house and Drs. Alexander and De Bauer were summoned. They found a bullet wound In the child’s abdomen ana discovered that it had ranged slightly upward. The police were notified, and Detectives Hauser, Dugan, Gerber and Larsh, and Blcyclemen Schlangen and Rademacher were sent to investigate. Before the arrival of the officers, several neighbors bad begun an Investigation of their own. They extinguished the fire around which th© children had been playing and began searching among the embers. Neighbors Find the Cartridge. There they found the exploded shell of a 32-caliber cartridge, which told the story of the accident, althongb the victim’s sister declared that the shot came from the alley. Mrs Wallace, who lives next door and heard the shot, says that she looked Into the alley immediately after the accident aSd saw no one there. Other neighbors hanging out washing say no persons were in the alley at the time. Family Has Been Unlucky. The wounded child was taken to the city hospital and an effort will be made to remove the ballet Chances for recovery are slight, as the shock Is telling on the little sufferer. The Snllfvnn family has been unfortunate. A short time ago another son. John. 20 years old. was killed by a train on the Felt railroad. PECULIAR CAUSE FOR DEATH Fermentation of Frnltin a Boy’s Stomach Causes That Organ to Burst Elwood, Ind., Aug. 22. Harry L. Kanter, 14 years old, went to the country with his father to gather fruit for the market, the latter buying fruit on the tree. Among the lot was a peach tree bearing several bushels. Tbe.boy ate a large number and was remonstrated with by bis parent. The lad remarked: “I’ll eat these or die,” holding up several line ones. He ate them, and before he reached Elwood was in great agony. On his arrival home a physician was was summoned, who found the boy had eaten so much fruit that it had swollen in fermentation and burst his stomach. He lived only a few hours. It Is the first case of the kind that has, comp to the notice of the local medical fraternity.

Forgot He Was Under Bond, Terre Haute, I nek, Aug. 22. Rev. Charles Keene, the London evangelist who was denounced by Mayor Loyns as a ‘‘lair, scoundrel and grafter who makes a living slandering cities,” left town some time during the night ignoring the fact that he was under slttO bond to appear as witness in cases against saloonkeepers whom he had charged with violating the law. A group of ministers and Y. M. C. A. workers who bad Indorsed Rev. Keene were humiliated In court when they learned that he had forfeited ids bond. One Killed. Fourteen Injured. Hagerstown, Ind., Aug. 22. One man was killed and fourteen Injured on the Pennsylvania railroad near here when'a local freight crashed into a wreck train. Roesoe Frebern. of Richmond. Ind.. was instantly killed, and John McGlff, Joseph Myer and Joseph Gorman were probably fatally hurt. William Owens and Royal Showalter were seriously hurt the others being only slightly Injured. Latest of the Rbodins Case. Indianapolis, Aug. 22. Suit In the name of James M. BerryhiH, guardian of George Rhodins. has been brought In the probate court of Marion conntv. to immc the marriage of George Rhodlus and Elma Dare. The suit la on*' upon the determination of which will finally rest the disposition of the Rhodlua fortune, estimated to be more than $(00,000.