Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — Page 5

'xSntcnSy - 1 ®w \kJ I 11// i/A •/•' I Iff w/// /, I i ■ U ail r ■ 1 Bv ! J I V / / 8 i ft fl T Corn my Back so you can see how nicely this coat fits me in the back and how pretty it is. Sewed in the neck there is a label that reads “The Palmer Garment” • -• Mamma said that that label was sewed in the very best garments ever made, and that they were just as particular in making good garments for little girls as for grownups. This coat didn’t cost but $6.50. I like it. I think the cloth will wear fine. I like the red velvet that is piped on the straps, pockets and cuffs. Mamma thinks the braid on the red velvet collar sets it off nicely. Never mind my name —but if you want to see some nice garments for little girls, call on The G. E. Murray Company

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 57c; oats, 43 o. W. B. Willison of Knox was a visitor in this city Saturday. A Jessie G. Makeever has gone to Madison, Wis., to enter the state universityArthur Tuteur has returned to Ann Arbor, Mich.; to resume his law studies. North Judson will hold its Fifth Annual After Harvest Festival next week. Elmer Gwin is working in D. M.. Worland's second-hand store as repair man. Miss Lizzie Hemphill has entered a teachers* training school at Indianapolis. • Miss Katharine Luera and Miss «ose Sigo of Remington, visited at Fowler this week. Ladies, don’t miss the grand millinery opening at Miss Mary Meyer's, Oct. 3,4, 5. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith -of Chicago spent Sunday here with Mr, and Mrs. Van Grant. f Mrs. B. Forsythe returned Saturday from a visit with her sister at New Philadelphia, Ohio. Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Postill of Fowler visited Wednesday and Thursday with relatives here. Call on W. P. Michaels of Jordan tp. for fine home-made sorghum. For sale in any quantity desired,

Frank Kenton haagoneto Mitchell, So. Dak., for a visit with relatives. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield visited relatives here severs) days this week. L—J»-M. Bell of Frankfort is visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. L. Myers, a few days this week. New subscribers to the Demoocrat this week by postoffices: Chicago, 1; Rensselaer, 1. Mrs. John Long of Shelbyville? returned home Monday after a visit with her sister Mrs, D. M. Worland. Frank Borntrager has bought the old Thornton farm of 82 acres near Surrey, paying SBO per acre therefor. Jesse Nichols, who has been visiting Mrs. Alva Nichols at Mexico, Mo., returned home Saturday. Read the unsolicited letter on Eage three of this issue of The democrat regarding the productiveness of the Gifford district. Miss Lena Jackson went to Bloomington Monday to resume her studies at the State University. She will graduate this year. Martha Parkinson, Helen Lamson and Avaliue Kindig went to Chicago Monday to enter the Northwestern University at Evanston. * W. P, Michaels of Jordan tp., near Egypt schoolhouse, now has sorghum of his own make for sale in any quantity desirad, 1 gallon or 100 gallons. The subject of the Sunday morning sermon at the Christian church is “Potential Faith;” in the evening, “Christ’s Humility.” All are welcome. Archibald Burns, an old resident of Demotte, died at his home in that place Sept. 19, aged 82 years. Funeral was held Saturday and burial made at Demotte. Mrs. T. F. Clark of near Battle Ground attended the district convention of the W. R. C., here on Thursday and visited old friends a few days, returning home today. F. B. Shultz, who has been at Lamar, Colo., for the past couple of years, has moved back to Pulaski county, and directs us to change the address of his /paper back to Frances ville.

Word comes from Homer Dobbins who is starring with the Wabash College football team this season, that he got a broken rib in the opening scrimmage on the gridiron. Mr. and Mrs. Holdridge Clark left Monday for Rolla, Mo„ where they will visit several months with the latter’s niece. They will also visit relatives in Kansas before returning home. A four-months-old grand child) of Philip Kistner died here Sat-' urday of consumption. Its mother died of the same disease recently at Effingham 111., to which place the remains of the babe were taken for burial. Charles Parks of near Surrey, whQm it was thought had typhoid fever, it developed had only a severe case of stoppage of the kidneys, and is now about once more. His symptoms were identical with that of typhoid, it is said. Now is the time to plant your advertising for your fall and winter campaign. The Democrat is the medium that reaches the most people in Jasper county, and they are mostly in the farming districts, too. Just the people you want to tell x of the bargains you have to offer. k Mrs. George Daniels of Barkley tp., was operated on for the removal of gall-stones at a Chicago hospital last Thursday and some twenty gall-stones were found. The gall bladder was so badly affected that it was also removed. She is reported to have stood the operation well and is getting along nioeA. Harmon returned Sunday from his trip to Sonth Dakota to look after bis father’s farm near Mitchell. He ia much taken up with the country there and says they have a fine corn crop, all out of the way of the frost. His brother A. J. Harmon, who accompanied him west,‘did not return until Wednesday. J. M. Moore, the Iroquois ditch rock blasting contractor, has had a big heavy rope netting made in Chicago for use in blasting down through town. The net is, 16x36 tyet in size, made in sections of 4x16 feet, and is said to weigh 3,200 pounds. It is expected that thir net will prevent any rocks flying and that no damage to property will result from the blasts.

Mrs. C. D. Nowels and daughter Floy of Parsons, Kan., are visiting relativfjs4hd friends here. r JUy W. Williams is stilloonfined (e the house from sickness, but is reported considerably better. The Rensselaer high school will have no football team this season, but a team has been organized in the militik company in which several high school students are members. Lesli returned this week from a visit with hisfatner J. M. Lesh, near Menomonie, Wis. He was so well pleased with the country that he will locate there himself next spring, The district convention of the W. R. C., for the Tenth district was held here Thursday, There was a good attendance from all over the district and a most interesting meeting is reported. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Murray who have been spending the summer with their daughter, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, left Tuesday in company with their son Charlie for their home in Stokes, Okla. Geo. Striekfaden was up from Noblesville on business Thursday. He is not extra well pleased with his business there. Noblesville is having a reform wave of the radical sort and the liquor selling business is not what it might be. The remains of Daniel E. Powell were brought here Wednesday for interment in the Powell cemetery in Newton tp. Deceased was a former resident of Mt. Ayr, and died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harrison Warren, near Peru, of kidney trouble and paralysis. He was about 84 years of age. Mesdames. Pumphrey, Hagins and Powers served John A. Logan Corps, No. 191 of Lafayette and other ladies who were attending the district convention of the W. R. C„ with breakfast and supper at the home of Mrs. George Pumphrey. The house and dining room was beautifully decorated with the national colors and flowers.

The failure of the Democrat subscribers on the star route out of Rensselaer to get their paper last Saturday was the fault in the postoffice here. The papers were put in the office as usual Friday evening but were not distributed until after 8 o’clock the next morning. Complaint has been made of this negligence and we trust it will not occrtir again. Some fiend incarnate or insane devil is amusing himself by cutting the tongues out of the mouths of fine horses in Berrien county, Mich. In the past two years seven fine horses have been ruined and the people are up in arms about the outrages. Rewards have been offered and watches have been placed over many stables but the fiend has so far evaded capture. ’ Moses Sigo of near Remington was in the city on business Thursday. The frost did no damage in his neighborhood so farasnoticed Mr. Sigo is one of Jasper county’s most prominent and up-to-date farmers and grows some of the best corn in the county, it being much in demand for seed, His crop this year is mot all out of the way of frost and there are not many fields thereabouts that is.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The National Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents opened ita annual meeting at Richmond, Va. State’s Attorney Healy, at Chicago, may order an investigation of charges that Stuyvesant Fish misused the finances of the Illinois Central railroad. s Late returns Increase the magnitude of Mayor McClellan’s victory over Boss Murphy in the New York primaries. After a lively debate the Chicago board of education voted, 10 to 2, in admitting adults. Including all foreigners, to the high schools. Athelson Gaston, of Meadsgjlle, Pa., a wealthy retired lumber merchant, was shot accidentally and killed while hunting In Canada. The Canadian Valley Bank and Trust company of Muskogee, I. T.. closed Its doors. Charged with the larceny of $8,060 from the city of Boston by furnishing a poorer grade of coal than his contract called for, Maurice H. Klous, Boston agent of a New York coal company, was arrested in Providence, R. I. A rule prohibiting In all cases marriage of divorced persons by Episcopal clergymen will be proposed at the Episcopal convention in Richmond, Va.

Exploding Boiler Works Havoc.

Pleasant Hill, Mo., Sept 26.—A boiler exploded In the conservatories of George M. Kellogg, three miles from here, partially destroying the plant and causing damage estimated at $75,000. Over one-half of the plant was saved. The conservatories are among the largest in the west.

OUTLAWS REPULSED

Attempt to Whitecap a Man Re« suits Tragically for Ono of the Whitecaps. ASSAILXD MAH VBBS HIS GUN Kills One of His Assailants— New Industry at Muncie—Miscellaneous State Items. —J Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 20. A tragedy occurred from a suppose! whitecapping outrage In Indian Creek township, Monroe county, and as a suit Jesse Robinson, a well-known Quarryman, was shot at the home of Thomas Jaddis, about midnight. Jaddis admitted that he fired the shot, and says that Robinson was one of three men who, with fence rails In their hands, attempted to force an entrance to his home. He warned them, he says, through the opened door, but they did not heed and he opened Art with a shotgun. Dead Man Found Next Morning. He heard the men running, but did not know that one had been killed until Wednesday morning, when Mrs. Smith, who lives In the same house with him, found the dead man about twenty-five yards from the house. The ' alarm was then given for the first time. While at the time Jaddis asserted that robbery was the object of the attempt to enter his home, the fact that Robinson had a handkerchief over his face is taken as an indication that the men were bent on some other sort of outrage. This is the only theory that ban tie borne out as there was nothing of value in or about the place that would attract the men. Three Men in the Gang. In addition to this, the hats of two other men were found only a few feet from the house, which proves the story of Jaddis that there were three men in the party. Robinson had evidently died almost Instantly. The large hole in his body on the right side just below the shoulder, which bled profusely. showed how true had been the alm of Jaddis. Cause of the Attempt Not Known. Before attempting to force their way Th the assailants fired a shot through the window of the house. The cause of the fatal attempt at “whitecapping” can only be surmised, as there is no person to tell the story. Reports are to the effect that Jaddis w’as rather shiftless; in fact, he had not been working regularly. However, so far as known, no one knows anything against the family. VERY NEWEST INDUSTRY Moving Houses from One Town to Another by Rail—Whole Train Ixtad Moved. Muncie, Ind., Sept 26. Joseph LaDuron, a glassworker, has embarked in a novel industry here, that of bringing dwelling houses to Muncie from Alexandria. Last week a whole train load of houses came into Muncie on flatcars from Alexandria, and these are being placed on vacant lots and rebuilt. LaDuron at first bought the houses for himself, but having gone to the end of his finances in that way and having come into possession of a large number of dwellings that cost him little, he has begun talcing contracts to remove houses here for other persons. LaDuron buys abandoned houses in Alexandria at a nominal cost and obtains good prices for them delivered in Muucie, where houses for rental purposes are scarce and where building material is so high as to make it impossible to build new houses to let and receive even a fair percentage on the Investment. Found Dead in a Hog Lot. Francesville, Ind., Sept. 26.—Christian Gottler. 76 years old. was found dead in a hog lot five miles south of this place. During the absence of the family the aged man is supposed to have attempted to feed the hogs, and while stooping over the fence he was seized of apoplexy or paralysis, and fell into the lot. His corpse was badly mutilated by the hogs. ■ Father Riegel Explains. Elwood, Ind., Sept. 26.—-Relative to his remarks on the saloon question in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church Rev. Riegel, pastor, desires to say: “I did not use the word ‘excommunicate.’ I did say, however, that I would refuse the sacraments to saloonkeepers who would continue to given scandal by violating the laws of the state.” F. of L. to Eschew Politics. Muncie, Ind., Sept 26. definitely stated that the Indiana Federation of Labor will not, as an organization, enter the political field in any definite way this year and that no candidate for public oflice will either be supported or condemned by the present state convention, now In session here. Frost tn Some Localities. Indianapolis, Sept 26. Reports received at the weather bureau here show that there was frost Tuesday night at Columbus, Ind., with a minimum temperature of 39; at Farmland, with a minimum of 37; at Lafayette, with a minimum of 38, and at Marion, with a minimum of 36. Electric Bulb Causes a Fire. Thorntown, Ind., Sept 26. While storing hay In the loft of L. L. Graved livery barn it is supposed that an electric bulb was accidentally covered up and that this was responsible for a fire that destroyed the barn and contents. Loss, 112,000.

The Garden Spot of Indiana ■ —■■ , , , , 1 Buy a Farm There While f You Can Several thousand acres of land yet for sale in the “Gifford District’ 1 of Jasper county. Many of the farms are well improved with good buildings and the crops are there to show for themselves. ’Will sell on easy terms. Call on or write to me at once if you want to get a farm in this garden spot of the state before prices of land double. Also have other lands for sale in Indiana and other states. ED. OLIVER, Newland, - ■ , Indiana.

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Useful Mixture. This recipe will take grease out of carpets, will remove paint when oil has been used in the mixing, and will not injure the finest fabrics. It is sure deaths to bugs of all kinds if put in the crevices they inhabit. Aqua ammonia, two ounces; soft water, one..quart; saltpeter, one teaspoonful; ',' shaving soap, one ounce finely scraped. Mix well and let stand a few hours or days before using to dissolve the soap. Shake before using. When used pour on enough to cover any grease or oil that has been spilled, sponging and rubbing well, and applying again If necessary. Then wash off with clear cold water. Cosmetic Jelly. Cosmetic Jelly has been found an excellent remedy for eczema. Take thirty grains of gum tragacanth and soak for three days in seven ounces of rosewater. Force through muslin to make the preparation smooth and add one ounce of alcohoi, one ounce of glycerin and a suggestion of boric acid, say half a\ teaspoonful. The jelly is a preparation which has been found wonderfully fine for chapped face and hands. It is just the thing to use on the cuticle about the finger nails to keep it soft and in healthy condition. Soaking the finger tips in warm sweet oil is also an effective treatment Household Notes. To remove dried tea stains apply equal parts of yolk of eggs and glycerin to the stain and allow to dry. Rinse well in clean cold water. This will lie found excellent for an afternoon tea cloth which must not be boiled on account of its delicate coloring. To clean finger marks on doors rub with a piece of flannel dipped in kerosene oil. The marks will disappear like magic. Afterward wipe with a clean cloth wrung out of hot water to take away the smell. This is also excellent for cleaning varnished hall doors. Cookery Secrets. In boiling all kinds of food skimming is most important. As the scum rises it should be removed, or both flavor and appearance will be injured. Remember, nothing should remain in the water after it is sufficiently cooked. Fish and vegetables are specially injured by this. Also when making very delicate light cakes that are not rich with butter it is best to use water instead of milk, as milk is apt to toughen in baking, while water, being neutral, makes crumb and crust soft and delineate. x Improved Cooking Kettle. The busy housewife manages to burn or scald her hands so often that Jn time she becomes accustomed to it Nevertheless the majority of such injuries could l>e avoided if more up to

PROTEOTS THE HANDS.

date cooking utensils—like the one shown in the illustration—were used. The purpose of this cooking kettle will be apparent at a glance. It provides a utensil for cooking vegetables, etc., which after the cooking can be readily operated to drain off the boiling water without'fear of scalding the hands. Along the front edge of the cover are perforations for the discharge of the water. The cover is also provided with a movable lifting handle, which normally holds the cover In position. Close to the perforations is a guard, Whjeh. qjtgnds upwarp. This

guard - serves to effectively protect the hands from the steam Issuing from the boiling water. With the aid of the regular handle an<j the cover handle the kettle is easily removed from the fire and tilted to discharge the water.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Black Art. A funny trick, while not new, is very amusing if deftly performed. Two of the players must know the game. One sits in a chair and the other stands behind him. The company is asked to write a word or a quotation or question on a slip of paper previously given to each one. When this is done all the slips are collected by the player who stands behind the chair. Now, before the game begins, thia player has written and given to the one in the chair a quotation which the one in the chair holds hidden in his hand. The player behind the chair then takes a slip he has just collected and presses it against the forehead of player No. 2. After an apparent effort he calls off the quotation that player No. 1 had already given him and which he has hastily read. “Who wrote, that?” asked No. 2. And then No. 1, who In the sight of all pretended to write a paper at the time they all did, says, “I did,” and handed the paper pressed against the forehead to No. 2. But you will see the paper held against the forehead was really written by one of the circle, so No. 2 has one paper ahead each time which he reads and then asks, “Who wrote that?” If this is deftly done it puzzles ■ company for a long time. Game of Critical Review. Each player is provided with a pencil and a long piece of paper. He must be cautioned to use his paper carefully, as much space is often required if the players are bright and original. At the bead of the paper the players write the title of a book. It must be original and as funny as possible. It may also have a subtitle, as “The Merry Maids of Athens; or, A Tragedy of Ye Olden Times.” This is then turned down and passed on. The next is written a quotation, supposed to fit in with the title, though of course it never does. Then this is turned and passed on. Next is the author of the book, generally the name of one of the players; then a dedication. It should be dedicated to one of the players or to a well known person. Lastly is a half serious, half comic criticism of the book. As each player has had a chance at each paper the disconnected items are very funny when read aloud after the criticism is finished.— Washington Star. Little .Sambo's Essay on a Watermelon. De water million am de Sweetest fruit on earth, it Am Sweter dan Honey an twicet as jucy. It hasent no Laigs ner Hans ner feet, fer it is belly All ovW it. It is Butlful red inside an trimmed with little sbinin black buttons commlnly Kalled sea ds. if a Fellah gits lonesome all be Has 2 do is 2 fin’ a water million patch An Then be has the bes’ company in the Worl. Its satin and drinkin and sleepin an playfa All in One. Water Millions grow in patches at are hidd away Inside big corn Flels with fearce doags a watchin them. But a Cullud boy can suttenly fin a water million Patch anywhur without disturbin the doags eather. De only Trubble about water Millions is da t dey am 2 scarce an Small. But dey am Always wuth de time an danger spent A gittin em.— Washington Post. Questions About a Tree. Did you ever see a tree waik on its limbs? Are there interesting stories to be found between the tree’s leaves? Does a tree’s heart ever break? Did you ever hear the bark of a tree? Can a tree bow (bough) gracefully? Can a tree spin Its top? What does a tree put in its trunk? Do fishes ever swim in a tree’s branches? Should a tree get offended if you should call it nutty? Are trees sad when they sigh in the breeze? What is a tree after when it roots into the ground? See the “Palmer Garment” told of in another places. Then see the real garments at the G. E. Murray Co., for they are the acme es perfection.