Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1908 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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MORE STORM DAMAGE REPORTS

Belated reports of the damage done by the storm that passed over north Jordan and south Ms-tpn townships last Thursday night continue to come in. On the F. M. Welsh farm three trees were struck by lightning, and 14 large trees were literally twisted off a few feet above the ground, and a considerable portion of an 80 rod rail fence was blown down. On the farm of John Mitchell several trees were destroyed, and other damage done by the wind. On the Francis farm, occupied by Jesse Purden, the wind mill was blowp from the tower, and in falling broke several window lights out of the house. On the Welsh Bros, farm the wind did much damage to the timber, and on the farm of W. E. Jacks in south Marlon, the hail totally destroyed the garden, and did much damage to the^frult. When all is considered this was quite a destructive storm, but fortunately it did not cover a very wide area.

BIG TOWNSHIP COMMENCEMENT.

Marion, Newton and Union Will Join at Fair Oaks Jane 13. What will probably be the biggest township commencement held in Jasper county this year is scheduled for Fair Oaks on Saturday, June 13, commencing at 10 a. m., when Marion, Newton and Union will join in holding their commencement at ’that place. Marlon had but three graduates and Newton only one, not enough for either township to have much of a “blowout” over, or for both to join even. Union had 17 and the trustees of Marion and Newton arranged with Trustee Davisson of Union to hold their commencement with his class, thereby avoiding the expense and making a saving to each township. Following are the names of the graduates: Marion tp: Anna Reed, Willie Bond, Dorotha Brusnahan. Newton tp.: Ralph Chupp. Union tp.: Ettie Williams, Carrie Garriott, Ettie Piatt, Edna Babcock, Lawrence Halleck, Cordia Umfrees, Lois Meader, Ha%4 Helsel, Ocie Wood, Jocie Goldie Bundy, Katie Lena Schultz, Marie Comer, Matle McCoy, Isabel Longstreth, Mildred Gundy.

FALLS FROM ROOF AND BREAKS HIS LEG.

John Andrus met with a very serious accident while cleaning off the roof of a barn an the Eggleston ranch, south of Fair Oaks, Tuesday at about one o’clock. He had finished the roof and was in the act of taking the scaffold off when he stepped on a scantling held in place by a cross-grained shingle. The shingle, which seems to have become broken by the strain to which it had been subject, gave way and precipitated him to the ground 16 feet below, where he landed on some cement blocks, striking on his left hip and the lower portion of his hack, sustaining internal injuries, besides the left leg was broken just below the body and the broken bone twisted sidewise. With the assistance of some parties present be put the broken bone in place as best he could and sent for Dr. Washburn, who fixed him up, and he was brought to the home of his father Geo.. W. Andrus, just north of town, where he is resting as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Three years ago in December the elder Andrus, while hauling straw, fell ofT the loaded wagon as it was going down a steep Incline, and broke his left leg in two places, which came near proving fatal. He was laid up -more than a year, and still suffers intensely from the injury. On the north end of the same farm where the elder Andrus was injured, Lee E. Glazebrook, then his tenant, some four or five years ago, fell from a load of hay, dislocating his left, shoulder and breaking his right ankle, from the effects of which he was confined to the house several months. He too has never fully recovered from the effects of his injury.

Home grown strawberries at Ed §. Rhoades’ grocery every morning next week. Leave your order early to insure it being filled. Here it is again! We are always in the lead, naming the lowest prices, calicoes now only 5c per yard, other cotton goods reduced mim proportions at Rowles ft Parker’e.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Ex-County Commissioner John C. Martindale has just been paid $ 2,800 life insurance endowment, together with nearly another hundred accumulations. G. G. Garrison, general merchant of Remington, who has been financially embarrassed for several months and whose store has been closed for the past few weeks, made an assignment May 29 to William Guthrie of Monticello for the benefit of his creditors. New suits filed: No. 7322. Franklin MacVeagh & Co., vs. Gamaliel G. Garrison and Tirzah A. Garrison; suit on note. Demand $278.10. No. 7323. Horace E. James vs. E. J. Murray et al; action to recover on judgment rendered against defendants in Larimer county, Colo. Demand $242.74. The conuty commissioners finished the work of the June term Tuesday afternoon and adjourned. Following is a report of their proceedings not heretofore reported: All ditch causes continued. Notice ordered for letting of contract on first day July term for a new bridge in Milroy tp. Contracts for poor farm supplies for ensuing quarter let to Milton D. Roth for meats at sl9; to John Eger for groceries at $131.99, and to G. B. Porter for clothing, etc., at $29.90. Interest on county funds for the month of May as reported by the various depositories was as follows: First Nat. Bank, Remington $69.64 First Nat. Bank, Rensselaer 132.80 State Bank, Rensselaer. .. . 122.50 Jasper S. & T. Co., Renssel’r 123.89 Bank of Wheatfield 33.52 Total. . .$482.45 The case of B. J. Gilford vs. John Bingham, tried in the Jasper circuit court March 7, 1906, and decided in favor of defendant, was reversed by the Appellate court Thursday. Gifford had sued defendant for delayed possession of a farm belonging to plaintiff. Defendant claimed his wife was sick and it was impossible for him to get out. He was on the farm some 28 days after his lease expired. Plaintiff asked for judgment on the interrogatories notwithstanding the general verdict, which motion and a motion for a new trial were overruled. Plaintiff appealed to the appellate court with the above result the court holding: “(1). A lessee of a farm who admits having held over after his lease expired can not successfully defend against an action by the landlord, under Section 7106, Burns 1901, to recover possession and damages by showing that his wife and child were too ill to be removed from the residence on the farrr without endangering their lives, and that the landlord was so notified. (2). If a tenant has surrendered all of the leased premises, except that his sick wife continues to occupy so much of the residence as is made necessary by the fact that she is too ill to be removed without endangering, her life, it is a question for the jury whether or not leaving his sick wife in the house constitutes an unlawful holding over.”

FAIR OAKS WILL CELEBRATE.

The Bird of Freedom,To Be Turned Loose There July 4th. Fair Oaks is going to celebrate the birth of American Independence whether any other town in the country breaks loose or not, and arrangements are being perfected for a day of solid entertainment for the 4th of July visitor, consisting of a ball game, horse racing, foot races, dancing, etc., and concluding with a display of fireworks' at night. The celebration ta to be under the auspices of the Fair Oaks band, which will furnish music all day long. Small bills the celebration. are now out and 'the posters will follow in a few days. ‘ * *

You will save money by buying your furniture and rugs at Williams’, the leader in low prices. ' * Big drop in domestic prices, all 15c ginghams now 12% cents per yard, all 12% cent ginghams now 10 cents per yard. Calico, best standard prints now only 5 cents per yard at Rowles ft Parker’s.

THE TWICE - A - WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY* INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 19Q8.

ALL ABOARD FOR LAKE VILLAGE.

The Newton county republican convention will be held at Lake Village June 10. This little hamlet In the wilds of Newton county had become famous fifty years ago for the brand of whiskey kept there, a drink of which would cause a man to raise more kinds of hell In an hour than he could straighten out in a natural life time. However, don’t jump to the conclusion, dear readers, that our brethren, the enemy, have selected this hotelless, restaprantless, grubless home of two of the ihree saloons in Newton county because it is minus every convenience—where a moral sentiment wotjld be as ill at ease as a preacher at a horse race—necessary to holding a county convention, even to a room large enough to lay out a half dozen statesmen after they become too full for utterance. Such a conclusion would be a slander, a base, unmitigated slander, upon the face of it. Not for a moment would the Goodlanders, Kentlanders, and Brookites pass through Morocco,

the most’ central town in the county; not for a moment would the Mt. Ayraens desert Bro. Garrity for Bro. Kight’s beer, each and all of them loaded with two biscuits and a radish, bound for Lake Village, if some great principle, some momentous issue, was not impending —howling as it were to be met. The country must be saved, and these patriotic citizens having for the time being laid aside the bad water and hop ale of their respective towns and selected Lake Village, where there are two saloons, and where under the liberal management in this “deestrict” long benches and tables could be provided and thus give every man a chance to eat his bologna, drink his beer, and thoroughly enjoy himself, and bathed in smoke and foam, consider matters of State in a manner befitting the occasion. Then, when the convention assembles under the stately oaks. can consecrate themselves anew to the momentous work before them, declare for a revision of the tariff and —more beer. To see the scales evenly balanced, with victory on one side and a jug of Lake Village hair-pulling, fightproducing, tree-climbing, leg-tangl-ing, forty-rod whiskey on the other, is- one of the events of this life that several of the local politicians, who can locate a bottle of beer at the bottom of a well 1,000 feet deep and that had been filled up a hundred years, do not intend to miss, and bright and early they will leave town, loaded with a link of bologna in one pocket and a nickle’s worth of crackers in the other, hiking in a nortirwesterly direction for Lake Village. A large and enthusiastic audience is already assured, and it will be well for some of the brethren to take along two or three links of bologna and a half-dozen radishes to insure genuine comfort for the vast multitude.

REYNOLDS WILL BE DRY TOWN.

Anti-Saloon People File a Remonstrance That Closes All Saloons in Honey Creek Town^ip. The Anti-Saloon people of Reynolds and Honey Creek township filed a remonstrance Friday evening bearing 167 names. It required 155 names so the remonstrators have twelve majority. On Thursday evening thirteen withdrawals were filed but the remonstrators succeeded in getting back five of them on Friday. The fight has been a spirited one from the start and at times it looked as if the saloon forces might win out, but thorough organization and determination won the fight. There is no applicant for license at this session of Commissioners’ court and it remains to be seen later whether any fight will be made on the remonstrance, —Monticello Journal.

Presbyterian Church.

The sdhject for the Sunday morning sermon at the Presbyterian church will be “Blindness of Heart.” The evening subject, “Providence in Personality.” Everybody welcome to these services.

TENTS AND AWNINGS.

Our representative will be in Rensselaer Monday, June Bth, and will be glad to give you estimates on awnings for your house, porch, etc. Leave your name and address at the Jasper County Democrat office and he will call on you. HETTRICH BROS. CO., Toledo, O.

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UNTILJUNEJ3FORSIJDO The Democrat’s Special Subscription Offer Extended Two Weeks. Owing to the weather conditions for the past jnonth and the inability of many to get to town who desired to take advantage of our $i per year offer on The T.wice-a-Week Democrat, we have decided to extend the time for renewing subscriptions at the $i rate until June 13. Accordingly all new subscriptions received and on Saturday, June 13, will be taken for The Twtae-a-Week Democrat at $1 a year. This offer also includes renewals where subscriptions expire not later than July, 1908. This offer will positively close June 13, after which the price to all will be $1.50 per year.

POSTMASTERS SALARIES RAISED.

Readjustment Gives Many Indiana Postmasters a Little More of the Filthy Lucre. The annual readjustment of the salaries of postmasters based on the amount of business done by the respective offices during the past year, shows many increases in Indiana. Following are the increases in this section of the state: Boswell ...,SIOOO to SI4OO Brookston 1400 to 1500 Fowler *. . 1700 to 1800 Gary 1800 to 2000 Hobart 1300 to 1400 Knox 1600 to 1700 Michigan City .... 2600 to 2700 Otterbein ........ 1000 to 1200 Oxford 1200 to 1300 Rensselaer 1800 to 1900 Valparaiso 2700 to 2800 Winamac 1700 to 1800

Children’s Day at Christian Church.

Next Sunday will be Children’s Day at the Christian church. The day will begin with a Sunday school rally, at which the Superintendent hopes to have the entire enrollment. The services will be continuous so that all who are at Sunday school may remain for the church services. The pastor will give an illustrated sermon to children, subject “What can Children Do?” In the evening an exercise entitled "The Cross and Crown” will be given by the children. All are welcome.

IN GOOD OLD PIONEER DAYS.

Jerry Beaty after renewing acquaintances, and talking over old times until Friday morning, went to Wheatfleld, a town never thought of when he left this county, and Will spend three or four days there. Mr. Beaty is a great practical joker, and related one while here that will bear repeating. On one occasion, away back in the sixties, he had paid a visit to Lafayette, and while there purchased a suit of clothes, then slipping back to Rensselaer .he tied his horse to the limb of a tree down by the “creek,” as it would not stand hitched to the rack, and made for the only barber shop in town. Here he ordered the barber to shave off his beard, which heretofore he had worn full, long and flowing, after which he proceeded to visit every store and office in town. He was not recognized by anyone until he finally visited the office of Tom Spitler. Here he applied for a position as a law student. Tom talked as though he would give him a position, but after looking him over carefully, the fraud he was practicing was discovered, and Tom with a considerable number of remarks that would not look well in type, chased him out of the office. Tom’s tiff did not last long, as they were the' best of friends, and no doubt a little later the matter was fixed up satisfactorily to both parties at the 5-cent refreshment counter that existed at that time just east of the postoffice, where a concoction composed of race water and some other ingredients was sold at bargain prices, that would bring the answer quicker than anything ever handled in Rensselaer.

Buy your calico dress now, the best standard prints only 5c a yard at Rowles ft Parker’s. All other cotton goods reduced in prices. FOR RENT. A new, modern 9 room house, nicely located, all the modern conveniences. WILLIAM E. MOORE. We not only say that we can save you money by trading here but our prices talk —again we lead with reduced prices, on all cotton goods> dalico now 6c per yard. ROWLES ft PARKER.

GOLD STAR PUPILS.

The following is a list of the pupils of the Jasper County Schools who have perfect attendance records for five years and. thus five Rolls of Honor, also of those who have perfect attendance records for ten continuous years and tyn Rolls of Honor. Those who have the five rolls of honor are entitled to a gold star and those with the ten continuous rolls of honor to a gold medal. Should any person be entitled to either of these and not find their name in this list they will write to Supt. Lamson at once, giving the year, township and teacher of each Roll of Honor: BARKLEY, Bessie Moore Dicie Freeman Maggie Richmond llor Walker George Gratnor Celestia Wiles Elmer Shroyer Clara Hurley Bennie Miller Hazel Miller Florence Arnold Ethel Marlatt Tommy Eldridge, Medal Lucy Morgenegg, Medal Bertha Cooper, Medal Gustie McCleary, Medal Richard Shirer, Medql CARPENTER. M. Evalyn Dluzak Jessie Bokma Halda A. Christensen Edna A. Christensen N. Leila Lilves GILLAM Elma Rockwell Virgie Stevens Clifford Rayburn Anna Dunker Ivan Coppess Martha Stiller Gdos Poisel HANGING GROVE. Harvey Phillips Ola Drake Robert Cook. Medal JORDAN. Ada Huff Blanche Kessinger Florence AntclifT Gilbert Antcliff KANKAKEE. Verniee Albin Ella Albln Irene Stalbaum Gerald Malone j Sherman White Marguerite. Fitzgerald Grace Hilliard, Medal RENSSELAER Nellie O'Connor Elsie Smith Ethel Davis KEENER. Edith Gall Clyde Story Corniel Mak Etta Abring Harry Feldmann Dora Feldmann, Medal MARION. Neva Garriott Agnes Martin Frances Martin Gladys Peters Victor Hoover Willie Eisele Chloe Kenton NEWTON. Bessie Paulus, Medal UNION. Flossie Wiseman Katie Smith Flossie Smith Bernice Yeoman Ernest Florence Wanda Smith Lizzie Yeoman Cecil Keller Josie Dexter Charles Florence James Babcock Lucy Brusnahan Lonnie Davisson Edna Price Nettie Davisson Firnot Shultz Hattie McCurtain Gladys Garriott Kenneth McClanahan Ernest Comer, Medal Gusta Stibbe. Medal WALKER. Lee Myers Elsie Peer Jannie Goff Estol Myers Agnes Fritz Mabel Nelson Charlie Karch Hanna Ott Gladys Holle WHEATFIELD. Lee Hallier Lee Morehouse Raechel Antrim WHEATFIELD TOWN. Bessie Lockwood Howard Lockwood Charlie Tilton Lottie Keene Ura Mason Wesley Tilton Harry Stembel Jessie Richie Allen Fendig Ita Jensen Della Turner Grover Stembel, Medal

When you want any furniture call on Jay Williams. All cotton 'goods back to old prices at Rowles ft Parker’s. You can afford to buy them now if you buy here. Some nice patent and white canvas oxfords for women and children at the closing out shoe stock over the new grocery. Don’t forget that we are selling muslins, ginghams, sheetings and all cotton goods at greatly reduced prices. You can save many a 8 by trading here, best standard calicoes now only oc a yard. ROWLES ft PARKER. The largest stock of furniture ever Hi Jasper county at Williams’.

DENVER’S GREAT CONVENTION HALL

MONSTER BUILDING WILL BB THROWN OPEN JUNE 27. IT WILL SEAT OVER 12,000 Elaborate Preparation* for the Democratic National Gathering—How the. Delegatee and Preaa Will Be Accommodated. Denver, Col., June 5. —Costing $550,000, seating 12,500 people, containing probably the most perfect heating aad ventilating system of any public building In the world, Denver’s monster Auditorium will throw open Its doors June 27 to welcome the long list of conventions to be held in Denver this summer. The seating, decorations and other arrangements for the Democratic national convention which will convene in the Auditorium July 7 have been completed and accepted by the national committee. Tbe ball will accommodate more tban 12,000 people and the first floor alone will have 6,000 .regular seats. The auditorium is constructed so that the huge stage Is near the center of the building, la of Huge Dimensions. The building Is 266x200 feet In dimensions and is of the heights of a five-story building. Its seating capacity Is larger than Madison Square garden In New York, which holds 12,000 people; the great Coliseum In Chicago, where the Republican convention Is to be held in June, which holds 11,011 people, or the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake, which seats 10,000. There are 24 exits, including 240 linear feet of exit space, and the building can be emptied in two minutes. In preparation for the convention, the rostrum and platform will be erected at the west side of the auditorium with the seats for the delegates and alternates extending along the floor of the stage proper. Upon the platform will be 445 seats, which will be reserved for the members of tbe national committee and for tbe guests of honor. The number of seats on the rostrum will be 101. Directly In front of the chairman’s platform on the rostrum will be four seats and tables for the noiseless telegraph instruments of the news services. Additional room for these news services and for the telegraph companies is arranged in the basement. Good Seats for the Press. Desks and seats for the newspaper correspondents and special writers will be arranged in a half circle about the rostrum in such a manner as to give each writer an unobstructed view of the speaker and within easy hearing distance. There will be 303 seats in this section, each seat having a space of 24 inches wide. Seats for the delegates in front of the rostrum are arranged nearly Bor the center of the building. The exact number of seats is 1,005, and immediately behind this section are the seats of the alternates, also 1,005 in number.

Gorgas Heads the Physicians.

Chicago, June 5. —Col. William Crawford Gorgas, A. B„ M. D., Sc. D., member of the isthmian canal commission and chief sanitary officer of the canal zone, was elected president of the American Medical association Thursday at the final meeting of the house of delegates of that organization.

Orders Switchmen to Strike.

Atlanta, Ga., June s.—Val Fitx Patrick, vice-grand , master of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Thursday night sent orders to all the switchmen and brakemen on the Nashville, Chattanooga - & St. Louis railroad ordering them out on strike immediately.

Baby Go-Carts from $1.75 to $lO at Williams’. Reduced prices cm ladles’ suits and jackets to close out at the Chicago Bargain Store.

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