Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1907 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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KENTLAND CONTINUES “DRY.”

The effort of the liquor dealers to break down the remonstrance at Kentland failed ignominously in the circuit court there this week. The remonstrance had something like 86 majority on the face or their remonstrators, and the saloon men managed to get some 28 off, leaving Hhe remonstrators still 6 to the good. Now let the good people of Newton county’s capital Fend their aid in wiping out of existence the infernal dens in the north psrt of their county and they will be doing another Christian apt.

DEATH COMES FROM TREMENS.

L. P. Gore, a Merchant of Thayer, Dies at the Makeever, Hotel. Lewis P. Gore, a Thayer, Newton county merchant, died at 8. a. m., Tuesday at the Makeever House in this city from delirium tremens. He had been on a protracted spree for five weeks, it is reported and had taken these Esriodical sprees for many years. ast Friday his wife, who seems to have been the business end of the firm when her husband was on his sprees and in whose name the business run, attempted to take a bottle of whisky from him, when he struck her and knocked her down. The long suffering woman had him arrested and he was bound over to the Newton circuit court under SSOO bonds by the justice up there. Being unable to give bond he was here Sunday to be placed in jail, but the papers being defective Sheriff O’Connor refused to accept him and he was taken to the Makeever House where a bad case of delirium tremens developed. After h<- had been brought here the wife relented rfhd decided to sign his bond, her brother, Ed Tanner of Barkley tp., intending to join her, but the man was soon to answer to a higher court, and this action was unnecessary. He was somewhat better Monday morning but in the afternoon grew steadily worse, seeing all sorts of ferocious animals in his delirium, and though two or three doctors worked with him all of Monday night, his spirit took its flight before another sun had risen. It took seven or eight men to hold him on the bed, and those who saw him in his ravings say that they were beyond comprebbneon. The wife oame down from Thayer Monday morning intending to take him back with her after fixing up the bond. She was very much grieved because it had been necessary for her to have him arrested at all, but she could get no one to take care of him and it seemed the only thing to do. She is his second wife, and they have one child, a boy some five years old. Gore’s first wife died a number of years ago, and a son by the former wife was at Concordia, Kan., when news of Bis father’s death reached'him. He at once started for Rensselaer and the funeral which had formerly been set for Wednesday was postponed until Thursday to await his arrival. The funeral was held here Thursday afternoon and interment made in Weston cemetery. The unfortunate man was about 60 years of age, and when sober is said to have been a good citizen and a fine business man. He had resided at Thayer for a number of years and had traveled for a wholesale candy house. When brought here Sunday he sent for W. H., Parkison, the attorney, who had done business for him heretofore, and wanted him to keep him ont of jail; said that he was 60 years old and had never been in jail; said he was going to die this time and he did not want to die in prison. This idea that he was going to die, clung to him. He had reached that point where he had absolutely no control over his appetite for liquor, realized that he was a burden and disgrace to his family and friends and seemed to want to die. He passed into unconsciousness before the end finally came and when the spirit fled he was lying peaceful upon his bed. It is said that the liquor dealers up about Thayer, knowing Gore’s unquerable appetite for intoxicants, continued to sell him booze right along. It would indeed seem that the good people of northern Newton would rise in their might and wipe the infernal hell-holes that infest that locality out of existence.

STREET MAUER

C*mes Before the County Commissioners. OBJECTIONS TO ITS ACCEPTANCE By the County Is Made -By Taxpayers—Other flatters Before the Commissioners. The county commissioners completed the work of the November term Tuesday afternoon and adjourned. Following is a report of the proceedings: Several taxpayers protested against the acceptance of the township part of the Division and Main street stone road, claiming that it was not up to the specifications, in that the specifications called for 6| inches of coarse rock while only 3 inches was put on. The contractors claim, we understand, that this was to have been a “capped” roadway, and that it was a mistake in the specifications in not so stating, and wanted the commissioners to make their record so show, but they declined to do so. While perhaps it was originally intended to make this a capped roadway the specifications do not include it in those that were to be capped and the specifications were before the contractors when they bid off the contract, and the engineer had no authority to make any change therein. This street probably has more heavy hauling over it than any street in town, and it should have all the fbok on it that the specifications oall for to withstand the wear to which it will be subjected. The commissioners decided that as they had not been asked to accept the street they could take no action in the matter at thia time. In the meantime the street is closed by the contractors and no telling when it will be opened unless a kick is make for it to be opened to traffic. Contractors allowed 1441.66 on Hanging Grove stone road; on Marion-Rensselaer stone roads, $1,278.44; Carpenter stone roads, $2,121.09; Kankakee stone road, $1,934; Iroquois ditch $8,234.46. Estimate of $781.56 on Gillam gravel roads was continued.

M. B. Price resigned as superintendent Marion-Rensselaer stone roads and W. A. Churchill was appointed in his stead. Petition of Geo. F. Meyers for highway in Walker tp. r was continued, and petition of F. Guy Barnard for highway in same township was dismissed. John W. Humes et al ditch; S, D. Comer files objections and appeals to circuit court. John J. Borntrager ditch; no objections, assessments confirmed and the ditch ordered tstablished. D W. Way mire appointed eupt. Foltz & Spitler allowed S4O attorney fee. Frank Fenzil ditch; drainage commissioners given to Dec. term to make final report. R. W. Burris ditch: Grant Dayiason, John Rusk, M. B. Rusk, Martha' Rusk et al remonstrate. Cause continued. Warren W. Sage established and Warren W. Sage appointed supt. Remonstrance in First Ward of Rensselaer signed by 104 voters of eaid ward was filed and came was found sufficient, being a majority of the voters of said ward. Jerry Shea petition for' ditch; cause docketed and continued for objections. Chae. Stalbaum, trustee of Kankakee tp., was granted permission to extend additional poor relief to Henry Prior notto exceed sls per quarter. Requisition for supplies for poor farm approved and notice ordered given for letting contract on first day Dec. term. <- W, E. Jacks, petition for highwav; viewers report against public utility thereof and cause is dismissed.

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Rensselaer, Jasper County. Indiana, Saturday, November 9, 1907.

LONG’S CORN SHOW.

Long’s corn show is attracting much attention these days. A large number, of entries of mighty nice corn is on display. The entries were to close today, but an effort is being made to get an expert judge from Purdue University to score it, and if this is done it will be extended a week. At the time of going to press this matter had not been decided upon.

THE DEMOCRAT’S NEW WALL CHART.

We were going to tell our readers something more about I The Democrat’s new Home Library Wall Chart this week, but the cut for the ad did not arrive in time to do so with this issue. We expect to be able to show the first sheet of the chart in our ad next week, and in the meantime we invite you to call in and see it for yourself. The price of the chart with a year’s subscription to The Democrat is $1 35; chart alone 75 cents.

WOULD STOP FOOTBALL IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS.

Chicago, November 6.—President Otto Schneider of the Board of Education says that if he bad bis way football would be forever abolished in Chicago high schools. He is certain that he thinks the game is the most brutal of all games in the world. "If I had my say,” he declared, “I would put a stop to< the game as one officially sanctioned by the school authorities.” Henpe, athletic organizations of pupils fear for the worst, although President Schneider has not threatened to take any steps toward stopping the game. Two of bis sons have been hurt playing football.

STILL ON A GREENBACK BASIS.

The banks of the country, with few exceptions, are still on a greenback basis, except that in the present case instead of the government being behind the greenback (certificate) it is the banks that “promise to pay.” The present condition of affairs has only made the old Greenbackers stronger in the beleif in their theory that the government should issue all money in sufficient quantities to carry on the business of the country, and make it a legal tender for all debts public and private, and take the issuing of it out of the hands of the bankers altogether. This is a mighty good panacea for the financial ills of the country, but it won’t be done, of course.

JACKSON CLUB BANQUET.

Probably a score or more Rensselaer democrats are preparing to attend the Jackson Club banquet at Lafayette Monday evening, Nov. 18. They will leave here on the 2:04 p. m., train that day, arriving in Lafayette at about 3 p. m., and parties from the north part of the county who desire to join the crowd from here can come down on the 10:55 a. m., 'train to Rensselaer and then join the delegation here. Remington and Goodland people can go east on the Panhandle to Reynolds, on the noon train, and take the same Monon train there. This meeting promisee to be the largest attended and most enthusiastic of any of the banquets ever held by the Jackson Club and several prominent democrats besides Mr. Bryan will be present froiri all over the country.

BRO. CARR WANTS AN IMMUNE.

Harry Marshall and four others were indicted by the Marion county grand jury for working the city of Indianapolis. That is, stealing with the difference that a city is wronged instead of an individual. We are looking around for an immune. The first district chairman of the glorious republican party selected by Mr. Orumpaoker was the unfortunate Tom McCoy, now residing in Michigan City and wearing clothes donated by the generous state of Indiana. The second one selected by the Judge was Kit Sills of Monon. During his administration he had an attack of female trouble that mention of it was made in bis home paper. Now Harry Marshall has been indicted. Does anyone know of an immune? The salvation of the republican party depends on getting an immune for the Judge to appoint.—Fowler Leader Leader (Rep).

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THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the Capitol. • e Eleven marriage licenses were issued last month, against 9 for the month previous, and 9 for October, 1906. —o■— Next Tuesday is the date for bolding the electric railroad subsidy election in Carpenter tp. People from different parts of the township with whom we have talked say that what the result will be is hard to determine. — s Monday being the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes and also the regular * meeting day for the board of commission-ers-and the county board of education, brought quite a good many people in from the out townships. —<o— The Jasper Savings and Trust Co., has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late James Yeoman, deceased. The estate consists of the 480 acre home place in Newtan tp., 80 acres in Hanging Grove tp., the town property, and live stock on the home farm worth $6,000 or $7,000.

Sheriff O’Connor and Dr. Washburn took Simon McCurtain of near Parr to Longcliff insane asylum Thursday. The application for his being taken there has been pending for several months but has been held up for lack of room. Judging from the large number of insane patients sent to Longoliff from this county it would be the proper thing to build another addition thereto and name it the "Jasper County Annex.” Mr. O’Connor says 13 inmates were taken in Wednesday. Walter Maines of Rensselaer, who was declared insane a few weeks ago, was placed in the jail Monday night so that he might do himself or no one else any harm. The young man has been ill a great deal of the time for the past two or three years, and has lately become so much worse that his folks very reluctantly are compelled to send him to the asylum. The application has been pending for some time, owing to lack of room at Longoliff. He will be taken to the asylum at Longcliff to-day, however.

The remonstrance filed last Friday in the First ward of Rensselaer contained 104 names, against 91 on the old remonstrance. This is a great showing for the antisaloon sentiment in that ward, when it is considered that there are fewer voters therein than when the former remonstrance was circulated and that a thorough canvas was made at that time while now scarcely no effort was made to get the 104 signers. Had as thorough a canvas been made this time as was made two years ago it is thought ten or a dozen more names could have been added. —o — The Supreme Court a few days ago decided that fees for giving election notices are a part of the fees which county sheriffs must pay into the county treasury as the property of the county upon drawing their salaries. The court puts such fees in the same class with “in and out fees” for receiving and discharging prisoners, which are also held to be the property of the county and not of the sheriff. A judgment against Oliver P. Smith, a former sheriff of Kosciusko county, requiring him to pay back to the county all of the “in and out fees” and fees for serving election notices which he had retained during his term of office, was affirmed. Marriage licenses issued: Nov. 1, Simon Groett of Demotte, aged 23, occupation farmer, to Tena Gretchen Ploegsema, also of Demotte, aged 23, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. 'Nov. 4, Henry Pierce Branning of West Palm Beach, Fla., aged 30, occupation attorney, to Edith Beatrice Hand of Remington, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Nov. 6, David Laughlin Boyd of Streator, 111., aged 27, occupa-

tion miner, to Daisy May Metcalf, also of Streator, 111., aged 30, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for female, second for male, he having been divorced Oct. 21, 1907, from bis first wife. Nov. 6, William H. Barkley of Rensselaer, aged 25, occupation jeweler, to Floss Edrie Starr, also of Rensselaer, aged 21, occupation telephone operator. First marriage for each. The November term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday. The docket is a light one, consisting of 67 minor civil cases, 2 state, 30 guardian, 10 administration, 12 ditch causes. Both a grand and petit jury has been drawn, but the grand jury will not be called. The petit jury is called for the third Monday of the term and is composed of the following named gentlemen: Sbelby Comer Union tp. David M. Peer ..Walker Stephen DeHown Keener James W. Amsler....Marion Henry Toomire...Gillam William HershmanWalker Roberts. Drake... .Hanging Grove B. W. Ellsworthßarkley Jerry Eldridge. Union Win. C, Iliff;lordan E. L. Case Jordan T. J. Harrington Carpenter Wm. R. Bullßarkley tohn L. Smith.... Marion r rank PullinsGillam

BARKLEY-STARR.

Mr. William Barkley and Miss Floss Starr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Starr, were united |in marriage at 6 p. m. Wednesday by Rev. Parrett of the Presbyterian church. Only the near relatives and friends of the contracting parties and the girls in the telephone office, where the bride has been employed for sode time, were present at the ceremony. Both are well known and popular young people of Rensselaer and have a host of friends who wish them much happiness. Immediately after the ceremony they took the 6:35 train for Chicago and after a few days there will return and set up housekeeping in Dr. Washburn’s brick cottage near the creamery bridge.

TEACHERS’ VISITING WEEK.

The teachers in the Rensselaer schools vesited city schools Thursday and Friday and the schools here, of course, were closed. The schools visited were Chicago, Logansport and Indianapolis schools: Prof. Warren, Mr. Tillman, Miss Hume and Miss Newton visited the Indianapolis schools; Misses Ethel Sharp, Clara Parker and Queen Perry, Logansport; Principal Gray and Misses Tinkbam, Hemphill, Bruce, Knox, Lebo, Malohow, Work and Shedd, Chicago; Ross Dean, Lafayette and Delphi, We were unable to learn where Mr. Sandifer went.

THB ADMINISTRATION REBUKED.

Juet where our republican friends can get any consolation out of Tuesday’s elections is hard to see, as the reports elsewhere in this paper show that the administration lost out in New York and Cleveland, also Salt Lake City, where Roosevelt’s Mormon friend, Reed Smoot was repudiated. They did elect a governor in Kentucky, to be sure, but the democrats there deserved to be beaten for alligning themselves with the liquor interests and pledging a change in the local option laws. There is a growing sentiment all over the country that the people are better off without the licensed saloon, and Tuesday’s elections were a great victory for the anti-ealoon people everywhere. The old reliable democratic states—even Kentucky—are fast "drying up,” which shows that democrats as individuals at least are not in favor of the salooon, and there is no use of allowing the liquor intereste to dominate the will of the people who do the voting, as was done in the campaign ending with last Tuesday’s election. -

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Vol. X. No. 32

BREAD MAKING.

Prizes To Be Given for the 1 Best Loafs. ONLY JASPER CO. GIRLS ELIGIBLE. A Township and County Contest In Culinary Skill That Will Be Watched With Interest. ✓ At the meeting of the township trustees Monday it was decided to have a bread-baking contest in connection with the boys’ corn club. This contest will be open to all school girls between the ages of 6 and 18, and will be held in connection with the County Farmere’ Institute. Each contestant will present a loaf of bread of her own baking which will be scored by an expert. Prizes will be offered for the first, second and third best in each township, and those successful in the township contest will enter a county contest where prizes will be offered for the three best loaves. In the corn contest it was decided to offer a county prize for the best single ear of corn and also a first, second and third prize for the best ten ears. The corn and bread will be sold to the highest bidder to help pay the expenses of the county contest. All bread and corn should be entered by Wednesday morning, Dec. 4. The bread will be scored on Wednesday and the corn on Thursday. All school children who have exibits entered will be excused from school on the day on which their exhibit is scored. This will be but one of the many things that will make the Jasper County Farmers’ Institute worth while for the farmers of the surrounding country to attend, December 4 and 5.

OBITUARY.

Friday, Nov. 1, at the home of her daughter Mrs. Flora B. Lauer of Radnor, Ohio, occurred the death of Mrs. Andrew J. Smith, formerly a resident of Milroy township this county. Sarah Ann Redding was born in Delaware Co., Ohio, June 2* 1843, therefore aged at death 64' years and 5 months. Deceased was married March 10. 1863, to Andrew J. Smith of Union Co., Ohio. To this union nine children were born, namely: Wm. T., Benjamin F., Frederick W., and Mrs. Minnie 0. Smith all of Monroe Co, Mo. t Mrs. Lillie Deeter (deceased), Mrs. Zella Deeter, Dixon, 111., Andrew J , Remington, Ind., Lewis S. and Mrs. Flora B. Lauer of Radnor, Ohio. Therefore 8 children and 23 grandchildren are left to mourn the loss of a loving mother and grandmother.

The family moved from Ohio to Jasper Co., Ind., in March 1887 and resided there until Feb. 1904. when they moved to Monroe Co., Mo., where the hqaband died. Last August deceased went to the home of her daughter near Radnor, 0., and there remained until the Death Angel claimed her. Early in life she united with the Christian church and has since lived a Christian life. Funeral services took place at the home of her daughter and the high esteem in which she was held was manifested by the presence of a large number of friends. The remains were latd to rest by the side of her father and mother in the Buckhorn cemetery near Marysville, Ohio.

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