Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1908 — Page 1

Tnd TWICE - A - WEEK

Jasper County Democrat.

•1.50 Per Year.

AND STILL MORE AUTOS.

Charles Chamberlain and Wm, Timmons of the Rensselaer Garage and W. D. Bringle of Jordan tp., and George Terwllllger of south of Rensselaer, went to Chicago Friday and returned that night with two new Bulck autos for the latter gentlemen. Mr. Bringle got a 22 horsepower runabout, trading in his old Bulck, and Mr. Terwllllger got a two-seated car of the same power and the same as the other twoseated Bulcks here, with top, etc. Saturday morning J. H. Gilbert and Geo. B. Fox of south of Remington and Blanchard Elmore of Remington drove in from Chicago with two new Ford runabouts. They left Chicago Friday afternoon and run down to Crown Point and staid all night there, coming on home Saturday ,morning. Their machines are nice lookers, painted a bright red and have a rumble seat In the rear. They cost $750 each, and are precisely the same as the machine recently bought by John Marlatt of north of Rensselaer. Mr. Gilbert fH>nght one of the cars and Elmore the other.

SOCIALISM PROSCRIBED.

( L. S. Meyers, who, has been staying at the Monnett Children’s Home for some time, looking after the management of the lands, etc., is a brother of the Dr. Meyers of Chicago who is at the head of the Chicago Training School, which institution was given the 1,000 acres of land lying adjacent to Rensselaer by Miss C. P. Monnett about one year ago and from which the Monnett homestead and grounds were given to the Deaconess Society for the establishment of the home above mentioned. payers is a socialist, and is alleged 'to have gotten the socialist speaker here who spoke on the street Friday iHght, Saturday and Sathfday night, and that the latter stall out to the Home with' Meyers wh|t'e here. Mne “friend” seems to have reported the matter to Dr. Meyers and put' up a great howl about the speaking, and the latter is said to have written his brother here that tbit “socialist talk mußt be cut out*’ The fear seems to be that a lew votes may be coaxed away frogn the g. o. p., as there is no disaffection among the democrats and the socialist idea does not appeal to them.

OBITUARY OF MRS. CLEVELAND.

Mary Cleveland, daughter of Laura Bliss Fraxee and Jonathan Frazee, 7 was born in Independence, Cayuhoga county, Ohio, February 18, 1838; was married to Albert W. Cleveland on March 25, 1859. They lived in Cayuhoga county, Ohio, until the fall of 1868, when they moved to Jasper county, Indiana, buying and • moving on a farm just north of the city of Rensselaer. Here they lived untU 1882, when they sold the satpe and moved to Rensselaer. They remained in Rensselaer until 1885, when they purchased and moved on a farm in Miliroy township, Jasper county. Iji 1894 they again moved to Rensselaer, where they resided until the time of her death, which occurred on Saturday, July 11. 1908, at 2:40 p. m. One child, a son, was born to this union, which died in infancy an 4 was buried in the family lot in the cemetery tn Bedford. Cayhugo county, Ohio, a suburb es Cleveland, Ohio, where the deceased w*» taken for burial. During the years they lived in Rensselaer they established and successfully conducted a greenhouse. Their present home, as well as every property on which they ever lived, shows the love and appreciation she held for flowers and skibbbery. An ardent lover of nature, she influenced the entire community in beautifying their homes and surroundings. Quiet and unpretentious, malty were her acts of kindness related by those with whom she came In contact. Generous and. gentle, she inclined toward the Universalist belief, and firmly believed in a Supreme Father in whom she placed her trust and care. Funeral services were conducted at the house Sunday afternoon at 4:80 by Revs. ‘Parrett and Kindig and the remains were taken back to her old home near Cleveland, Ohio, Monday afternoon for burial. Remember the boys at the Home Grocery appreciate the little things thrown their way. U6ST A Conklin self-filling fountain pen. Finder please bring to this office. Liberal reward.

JOHN WORTH KERN

Nominated for the VicePresidency, PROMINENT INDIANIAN HONORED. Is a Good Clean Man of Pronounced Ability and Has No “Bari” To Tap for Funds. The democratic national convention at Denver adjourned Friday afternoon after nominating by acclamation for the second place on the ticket the Hon. John W. Kern of Indianapolis, one of the most able men In the state and against whom naught can be said. He is

JOHN W. KERN.

Very prominent in the councils of his party and has always been a consistent Bryan man. As a lawyer and as a man he stands very high in Indianapolis and all over the state. It has been the custom with both parties generally to nominate tor the vice-presidency a very wealthy man, one who had a barrel of money to open up for the good of the cause. Mr. Kern is only in moderate circumstances and is as clean a man as there is in the country. While having been twice defeated for governor of Indiana he ran ahead of his ticket each time, and it is generally believed that his nomination for the vice-presidency will add considerable strength to the ticket in this state. With such standard bearers as William J. Bryan and John W. Kern, with Thomas R. Marshall at the head of the state ticket, Indiana democracy will enter the fight with the battle more than half won already.

ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE IN POLITICS.

A Grelvous Mistake Being Made By Its Espousal of Either Political Party. / The Democrat is sorry to note the decadence of the Indiana Anti-Sa-loon League by its espousal of the republican state ticket The success of this league heretofore has lain in its keeping out of politics, but now that its leaders have pome out and advocated the election of a certain political party’s ticket its days of usefulness are fast disappearing. In this iniquitous movement it pas enlisted the services of the churches, and right, here in Rensselaer the tracts urging alt the 1 friends of temperaned to vote for Republican candidates for the legislature have been freely circulated by some—and we do not know but all—of the protestant churches. The expressed theory for urging a support of the republican candi- j dates is that county unit local option, as declared for in the republican state platform, is better than the township and ward plan advocated in the democratic platform. On this proposition The Democrat takeg issue, and the brightest minds in the Prohibition party agree with us that the democratic plank means the riddance 'Ot more saloons than the republican plank. But, in any event, the Anti-Saloon league should have steered clear from aligning Itself with either political party, -and its action now is doing the temperance causer more harm than it can recover from in many yean. L. Everyone knows that the elimination of the saloon in the hundreds of smaller cities and towns In Indiana the past few years has been be-

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1008.

-mnare prohibitionists united in signing remonstrances. It was not a political question and no one stood back because a certain' political party was behind it. It is jnot likely that in a* solitary Instance could success have been attained without the assistance of democrats, and In numerous Instances the leaders in the temperance cause were democrats. The large majority of democrats are against the sale of intoxicating liquors, as evidenced by the curtailment in democratic states, and we have no doubt the remonstrating of saloons out of Indiana cities and towns a greater per cent of the names of democrats appear on these remonstrances than do republican names. Take Rensselaer and Jasper county, for example. Is there anyone wbo believes a solitary ward to Rensselaer, or that Remington, Wheatfleld, Demotte, Fair Oaks, Parr or any other town would have become *‘dry” without the aid of .democratic names to the remonstrance? In fact would the remonstrators have stood the ghost of a show without the active aid of democrats in circulating and advocating the remonstrance? The Democrat took the lead in Jasper county toward eliminating the saloon, and it was two or three years before the Rensselaer Republican, forced by public sentiment, fell in line and also took the remonstrance side. For several years the writer remained a resident of the only “saloon ward” in Rensselaer in order -that his name might help to wipe the saloons from that ward, and success finally was reached, and by the active aid of many other democrats, too. County local option might possi-bly—-we say possibly, not probably —have hastened the end of the saloon in Newton, Jasper and White counties, in this section of the state, and might make Benton county completely dry even now. But they are gradually reaching this point as It is, White county now being wholly covered by remonstrance and Newton and Jasper nearly so. The one wet township In this county we are assured by numerous residents thereof would vote dry under local option where it has been unable to remonstrata successfully. The same is said to be true of Jackson tp.. in Newton county. But does anyone suppose for a moment that Marion county, in which is the city of Indianapolis, Vigo county in which is Terre Haute, Allen county in which is Fort Wayne, St. Joseph county in which is South Bend, Lake county and many other counties, or even Tippecanoe county would vote dry? The class of foreigners and criminal in the cities in those counties would overbalance the vote of the country districts and make the entire county "wet." Is it not better to have the saloon confined to the larger cities than to have them in both city and country, which would result in the counties enumerated? Don’t get the idea that if the whole county votes wet you can then remonstrate by townships or wards. Either method may he used if the republican idea should prevail, hut If the brewers and saloon men see achance to win out in the whole county there is no question but what they would see to it that a county election was called. Is it not better to have one wet town or city in your county than have them all wet? This is the question the should consider andjthen govern himself accordingly? The Democrat sincerely believes the city ward or township unit plan advocated by the democratic state platform is far the better than the county unit, and tt regrets very much to see the action being taken by the Anti-Saloon League, democrats will certainly resent its interference and hundreds of them will refuse to sign remonstrances or to vote against the saloon if the League persists in its advocacy of the election of the republican state ticket, with the result that hundreds of towns and townships now free from the licensed sale of liquor will have saloons again as soon as I present remonstrances expire.

REPRESENTATIVE WANTED.

We want a representative to handle Ford automobiles in Rensselaer qnd vicinity. Live hustler can easily clear 22,000 in season. Write with reference at once. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Dent. H. Detrlot. Michigan.

Michigan Blue Berries this week, 12 ft cents a quart CHICAGO &A&GAIN STORE.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suitß filed: No. 7383. Joseph Jackson vs. Henry W. Kiplinger and Louis A. Harmon; suit on note. Demand S6OO. M. B. Price expected to leave Mudlavia yesterday, coming by way of Goodland, and will probably be home to-day. He is reported aB greatly improved, which his many friends will he glad to learn. Marriage licenses issued: July 11, Walter Daniels, son of George Daniels of Barkley tp., aged 22, occupation farmer, to Belva Frances Gilmore, daughter of Charles W. Gilmore, of Union tp., aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. “Bill’ Rinehart of Queen City, Mo., was hep 6 Monday on business. He said nothing about his father-in-law, old Alf McCoy, as to whether he would take the stump for Taft this fall or not. Perhaps Old Mack would miss his “sheepskin band” and “Sweet Singers of Israel,” who used to go about with him here when he was doing the banking act and boosting the g. o. p. Special Judge William Isham came over from Fowler Monday and the hearing in the injunction matter of the Hodge ditch was resumed. Other matters that have come up before the court at thlß adjourned term are as follows:

Petition for ditch by S. W. Howe et al; Supt. files petition for bonds to issue; prayer granted, bonds ordered. William. A. Beaver, as adm., of estate of Margaret Beaver, deceased, vs. Martha Anderson et al; dismissed by plaintiff.

A WORD MORE ABOUT AUTOMOBILE ASSESSMENTS.

The Democrat, in a recent issue stated that four or five Rensselaer automobiles seemed to have been omitted entirely from the assessment list this year, and gave the names of the owners of some of these machines that we were unable to find on the assessment books at the court house. Among these was the Jasper County Telephone Co’g. “Orient.” The county assessor could not find the machine listed either, at the time we secured our data, but it has since been found under the index letter “T” instead of “J”, it being wrongfully indexed no doubt because the list was signed by Delos Thompson, the president of the company. The machine was listed at SSO, but no office fixtures was listed either last year or this, and the board of review assessed the probably 22,000 worth of fixtures this year at |SO. This auto was new last year, we believe, and was built especially for the telephone company. It was stated at the time that its cost was 2750, therefore it was assessed at one-fifteenth its cost. The Republican prates about the rapid depreciation or autos, yet this Jasper County Telephone Co. auto, when practically new, appears to have been considered worth no more than it is now, as the assessment was but 260 in 1907. * Now the Republican also states that Delos Thompson owned .but one auto on March 1. Perhaps this is true, but the general impression has Men that he has had two or three machines all the time for the past few years, and has traded one oft about every year for a new one, and now has two. If he simply traded one of his two for another, it would seem that he must have owned either the one traded off or the new one traded for on March 1, 1908, as well as March 1, 1907, yet, we do not find that he is assessed with but one machine foi* 1907. It is the business of the person being assessed to list all his property rather than for the assessor to nose about and search the premises over to see if all has been listed. And he must place a fair cash value on It, too. Many Items can easily escape the assessor or be undervalued greatly and he be none the wlßer. The person assessed is supposed to make oath that he has made "a true, full and complete list of all property held or belonging to” him, so it will be seen that the burden is off the assessed rather th«, aflaewwr I, any ..report.

The assessments of autos for 1907 does not differ materially from the figures for the same machines In 1908, but one auto was given in by its owner in 1907 at a figure that we want to mention in particular: The pastor of one of the Rensselaer churches had an autobuggy last year, which was probably the lowest priced machine that ever came to Rensselaer. It cost less than S4OO, it was reported, but was not satisfactory and the manufacturers took It back. This machine was listed for taxation by the pastor at $300! This was nearly its full cost. And we believe this man is a democrat, too.

LEM HUSTON INJURED.

Lem Huston met with a very serious accident while assisting his men in getting some poles which were intended for bridge sill, for a bridge across the river at the coal oil well. He with three of four of his men had gone to Mrs. Tom Knox’s farm south of town Monday forenoon and had cut a pole which had lodged In another tree a little way from the ground and was not quite free from (he stump either. Lem, thinking that all was right, got the tape line and was going tip' the tree, presumably to get the length so It could he cut off at the top, and at the same time one of the men commenced to cut It loose at the stump. When the tree was freed from the stump it rolled over against Lem, knocking him to the ground and his left hand struck the blade of an ax that way laying there, cutting a gash to the bone that required ten stitches to close. He also thinks he will lose the use of his little finger on that hand. He was really fortunate as had this sharp ax struck him In the body or head he might have fared far differently. While he will not be able to do much work for some time, he may be in shape to take care of the stone crusher of which he has charge during the summer.

THE CITY COUNCIL.

The city council met in regular session Monday night, with Councilman Gerber absent. The water and lights will be furnished to the Monon railway for S3BO a year, with penalties for waste to be fixed hereafter. W. F. Smith ft Co’s, bid of 76 cents per lineal foot for stone street on Van Rensselaer street frdm Grace to Harrison, and from Cornelia to Susan was accepted, and a bid of 75 cents from Susan north to College Road was &Ibo accepted. The street committee was empowered to employ anyone they saw fit to superintend the street improvements.

A sidewalk was ordered on Cedar street on petition of Anna R. Mills. City employes will get a week’s vacation annually hereafter with pay. While it is not so stated, the presumption 1b that the taxpayers cgn help themselves to a week’s vacation also and with pay or not as they see fit. The superintendent of the light plant and the chairman of the street committee were ordered to investigate the dynamos and report their finds to the council. A loan of $1,200 was made from the light fund to the corporation fund at 4 per Cent., this being to take up outstanding orders that bear 6 per cent. Following claims were alloweO: CORPORATION FUND. E M Thomas, salary nt Watch $25.00 W 8 Parks, same, marshal. . 30.00 Babcock Fire Ex. Co., supplies 1.20 Healey ft Clark, printing.... 10.25 B F Fendig, supplies 3.25 G B Porter, 5ame.......... 2.12 H L Gamble, engineering... 31.00 Leo Colvert, ass’t. same..... .75' Sherman Parks, same 2.40 Mose Leopold, ex. lire C 0... .25 A J Harmon, insurance.... 39.00 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. C S Chamberlain, salary.... 50.00 Mel Abbott, same 30.00 Dave Haste, same... 30.00 Western Electric Co., supplies 88.38 Gen. Elec. Co., same 22.55 Shirley Hill Coal Co., c0a1..208.44 Sullivan Oil Co., 0i1........ 9.18 Roy Stephenson, work on line 2;80 G B Porter, mdse, light plant 1.24 B F Fendig, same 1.45 Mose Leopold, freight 73.90

ROAD FUND. C Zea. labor with city team.. 30.00 William Nowels, mowing sts. .14.00 Marion Smith, work on streets 29.75 C W Platt, work on sewer. . 11.25 O S Baker, mowing streets. . 2,60 Conrad Kellner, haul’g l’ber 12.00 Fred Stocksick, sup’t’g streets 14.50 WATER FUND. Ed Hopkinß, salary.. 30.00 C W Platt, work on main.. 5.50 80-16 quart Michigan fancy Huckleberries this week. Leave your order. Chicago Bargain Store.

Vol. XI. No. 22.

SHREWD SCOUNDREL

Plan He Fixed Up to Rob an Express Company of SIO,OOO Damages. BEATEN BY AN HOUR’S DELAY •t'' _ - • Climax ot the Deviltry Came Too Soon and Its Author la in Durance Vile.

Indianapolis, July 14. Originality marked the efforts of Eugene F. McDonald, a young man from Louisville. Ky., to defraud the Adams Express company out of SIO,OOO at the Indianapolis office of the company. He waived examination In the police court McDonald is charged with registering at the office a package containing phophorua w hich, when coming In contact with a dry substance, ignites. The police say they have a complete chain of indisputable evidence against McDonald and that they will send him to the penitentiary. •aid Package Was Worth SIO,OOO. McDonald was arrested In Louisville at the instigation of the Indianapolis police, and he was brought to Indianapolis. A week ago McDonald deposited. a package whieb he said was worth SIO,OOO at the Indianapolis office. The clerk in charge would not accept the package unless it was wrapped differently, and McDonald left with it to comply with the clerk's suggestions. He returned an hour later and gave the package to the clerk. f~ That Much Saved by Delay. The hour’s delay probably saved the company SIO,OOO If not a large amount of property endangered by fire. The package was receipted for, and with other valuable packages, many of them containing money, was set aside to be transferred to a train. An hour later and before the package that McDonald left began to smoke and finally burst into a flame. The employes of the office threw water on It, and soon had the fire out H. C. Rogers, the manager of the Indianapolis office, Mused the package to be unwrapped, and he could discover nothing but an old sponge and excelsior.

Working of the Scheme. An examination by a chemist showed that the phosphorus had been placed in n wet sponge. Phosphorus is very active chemically and must be preserved In water. As long as the sponge McDonald used was wet the phosphorus remained inactive. But when the water evaporated and the sponge became dry the phosphorus Ignited. It was the delay that saved the company 210,000.

MRS. KERN IS ENCOURAGED Because Men are Different from Women tn the Matter of Sincerity. Indianapolis, Ind., July 14.—Mrs. John W. Kern, wife of the vice presidential candidate of the Democratic party, is nearly convinced that her husband Is going to be elected. “You would be surprised,” said she “at the /people that have pledged us their support. Then I think men are more sincere than women and I count on what they tell me. “As I have found it, you can most generally depend on the word of a man, but as for a woman—well, I can’t say. I think it Is part of their social training to be a little insincere every now and then. Men generally mean what they say and consequently I feel much encouraged over the good news I have received.”

Lightning the Death of g^Karmer. Richmond. Ind, July Seeking refuge from a thunderstorm, John Mansfield, 3 farmer living northeast Of Richmond, ran into his barn. A moment after be had entered, the barn was struck by lightning and almost iustaniy was a mass of flames making it absolutely impossible for his wife, children, or neighbors to attempt his rescue. Tl»c lightning stroke may have instantly killed hiin and may have only rendered him unconscious, tout it was all one to him as the flames guarded the lightning’s work.

Some One Trying to Kill Him. Shoals. Ind., July 14. Delbert Evans, poisoned by some person placing stryebnlne in his water jug, is slowly convalescing. He was plowing eorn at the time tbe poison was Introduced into bis drinking water. He is a young man, unmarried and of good character. Recently he has been shot at twice. A mule with which he was working, belonging to another man, was poisoned. Canvasser Beats a 'Woman. Lafayette. Ind., July 14. Joseph Deutsch, of Indianapolis, a canvasser for a portrait enlargingcompany of that city, was arrested here on the complaint of a widow, Mrs. Emma Johnson. Deutsch called at her home and on learning that her husband was dead ‘“ ckM “* " om “