Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — Page 5

10 Per Cent Discount On my Regular Prices Until July 20th ONLY C. I. PETERS Optician

LOCAL AND PERSONAL,. Brief Items of Interest to City and ' Country Renders. On top—Home Grocery. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; oats, 45c; wheat, 70c. Enough rain fell here again Thursday night to lay the dust nicely. The Rensselaer ball team was d£ seated at Monticello Thursday by the team at that place, score 14 to 2. Mrs. Cornell of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting this week with her brother, C. W. Duvall, and sister, Mrs. W. H. Eger. Mr. and Mrs. Warner and little daughter of Sheldon, 111., came Wednesday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle. - E. V. Ransford and C. P. Wright Wednesday from a few days absence down in the gas belt on a trading expedition. A. P. Long and J. F. Hardman caught 19 goggle eyes and two channel cats at the Kankakee river in four hohrs. Thursday. The Louisville Courier-Journal is on sale at the News stand. It arrives at 3:26 p. m., and is democratic all over. Two cents daily, five cents The Presbyterian Sunday school and morning service will again be held in tie F. W. Baptist church. The subject of the morning sermon will be “Cross Bearing.” blackberries are coming to in goodly quantities, and they are not only of good quality but are cheap, 6% cents per quart, and this means much to most people this year. 'KLen Lefler of Crawfordsvllle has peen spending the week here, visiting relatives and friends. He is looking well and says his business at Crawfordsvllle Is coming on nicely, better than he had expected even. Michael Bernlcken of Wheatfield has sold his residence property at that place to Horace Marble, consideration SBOO. It is reported that Mr.' Bernecken, who is a former saloonist of Wheatfield, will move away. Mre. Willlß J. Imes left Wednesday morning for New York and Brooklyn where she will spend » month visiting her brother and sister, and will look after some business matters also during her absence. Ralph Jones of Chicago stopped off here Wednesday, and with his father Bill N. Jones, went on the afterhoon train to Columbus to spend a week with relatives. Bill N. was born and raised in Bartholomew county. • Mrs. D. A. Stoner of Wichita, Kan., and daughter, Mrs. Louie Windsor of Crawford, Kan., came Titeeday for a few weeks visit with the former’s mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle and other relatives and old friends in this vicinity. s L s Mi B s Mary Rhode of Vincennes Is here for a visit with Mrs. C. B. {Steward. She is a daughter of Rev. j. e. Rhode, a former pastor of the First Baptist church of Rensselaer, who is now located at Vincennes, where his congregation is now engaged in building a fine new church. And now comes an Illinois farmer with an invention for producing any kind of weather that one may desire, by means of electric currents projected into the atmosphere from a screen of wires at the top of a mast 150 feet high. And only think, the inventor is a native of Indiana, too. The Remington and Rensselaer K. of P’s. will cross bats here next Tuesday, and the local fans are practicing up for the occasion. Work in the second degree will be done Tuesday night and a number of. the Hebron K. of P’s. will be here to participate, after which refreshments will be served.

The Wheatfield ball team is scheduled to play here with the Rensselaer team next Wednesday. "kpstH cutting will be in full blast Jext week. A few fields of early oats have already been cut. The general report is that oats will only be a half a crop. Mrs. Charles Porter of Chicago is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams here for a few days while Charlie is away on a fishing trip up in Wisconsin. > s ßev. J. C. Parrett performed the Ceremony Wednesday afternoon which made one Mr. Edward A. DeKoker and Nancy E. Long, a young Hollander couple of Demotte. siMr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig of this city announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Belle Fendig, to Mr. Leopold Well of New Orleans. marriage will take place August 19. Mrs. A. G. Catt, who has been in £'Chicago hospital for the past few 'weeks, where she underwent an operation, was brought home yesterday on the 2 p. m., train. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kight, came down yesterday forenoon to be here on her arrival. On account of the rain last Sunday evening, the program of the union vesper service announced for that evehing was postponed until next Sunday. If it should be raining next Sunday this service will be held In the M. E. church at the same hour, six-thirty p. m. The Democrat stated Wednesday that Daddy White had gone to Converse to visit his grand-daughters, and it wasn’t our fault that our statement did not prove to be true. But he »found some work here he thought ought to be done so he staid to attend to it. But he is going to Converse. i Professor I. N. Warren was among e first, if not the first Rensselaer man to place new potatoes on the market this year. The professor has been getting a little healthy exercise since school closed, and these $1.25-a-bushel tubers are the result thereof. They are great big fellows, too, almost full grown. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pugh and daughter Annetta will leave Monday for a two weeks vacation. They will meet a party of relatives and friends from Bluffton, at Ft. Wayne and all will go to Lake George, Mich., to spend a couple of weeks. Mrs. Pugh and daughter will return via Bluffton and spend a week there before returning home. and Mesdames Geo. Hopkins, W. J. Wright and Bert Brenner went up to the Kankakee Tuesday afternoon to get a few bites, returning Wednesday evening. The fish bites and mosquito bites were about evenly divided, but they brought home a nice string of fish, about 90,- and they assure us that they were not purchased either. Wm. E. Moore went over to see his farm near Colburn, on the Wabash road southwest of Delphi, Wednesday. He reports crops as being about the same as here. Wheat Is the best raised in years, corn looks good, hay fine, and oats not quite bo good as here. This is no doubt owing to the fear harbored, by this crop that Bryan will be successful at the pollß in November.

John Stotts, a state bridge inspector, was in town two or three days this week. From a conversation with him one would conclude that his duties consist chiefly in spending his expense checks and looking wise. These worse than needless offices are one of the first things that will receive attention when Thomas R. Marshall is Inducted into the governor’s office and a genuine reform legislature commences business next January.

JsMrs. Malissa Bemenderfer of Chicsgb, a sister of Mrs. James T. Randle, visited the latter a day or two this week, going to Battle Ground Friday to visit relatives' there. Mrs. Bemenfender is the widow of Isaac Bemenfender, and recently brought her late husband’s body to Morocco for burial. He was one of the charter members, we believe, of the Odd Fellow’s lodge at Morocco, and resided in that town for many years, going to Chicago some 25 years ago. The Rensselaer Republican syndicate have In contemplation the leasing of the Monon News, and have been trying to make a deal with Lesley Miller, editor of the Mt. Ayr Pilot, to go over and take charge of the plant. It is the Intention, we understand, to do practically all of the mechanical work here and milk the Monon people to a finish. Mr. Miller, we are told, has about decided to remain with his own paper, although he was over to Monon Monday with one of the syndicate editors to look the field over.

Come in and get one of The Democrat’s Wall Charts before they are all gone. A whole library of useful Information for a very small sum. v Harry Kipllnger and Landy Magee spent three days at the Kankakee the first of the week, returning home loaded dogrn with 21 pickerel and 60 goggle-eyes and cat, 120 pounds altogether. , Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock expect to go to Indianapolis today to spend Sunday with their son George, who will graduate Monday from the Winona Technical Institute’s linotype department. Almost nine columns of country correspondence in this issue of The Democrat—items from all over the county. Moral: If you want all the news, subscribe for The Democrat. / , J. H. Conway, the local dealer in “tonica,” quit selling this drink immediately on learning of the decision of the Frankfort court, of which he was notified by the brewing company. Pending the decision of the supreme court the sale of tonica and similar beer imitations will be suspended all over the state. The fool killer would liave to work overtime if he got his job finished, but he never does. Several local victims are now ready to be operated on, a street fakir Thursday night getting a bunch of suckers on that old chestnut, the watchchain racket, by which he pocketed a neat sum. As a result there are’ several cheap brass watchchains in town for which the purchasers paid fifty cents each.

Jack Warner met with an accident while cutting sticks for his tomatoes at the beginning of the week, that has left him with a very black eye/ But what made Jack the hottest was the post card that some one sent him, that read “An argument that I couldn’t get around,” with a picture to fit the case. He contends that If he had been fishing, as he should have been, he would have had as good a looking eye as any one. L. H. Myers has been enjoying a family reunion with his children as his guests. Mrs. Flora Immel of Seattle, Wash., a daughter, and her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Jones of Chicago, and his sons, George M. Myers Washington, 111., Charles Myers of Forrest, 111., and Howard Myers of of Brook, have all spent two or three days under the parental roof tree and around the family board. The sons have all returned to their respective homes, and Madams Immel and Jones will go Tuesday. James D. Babcock of BulfTton stopped off Thursday evening on his way home from Chicago where he had been with a car load of cattle. He says that he is out at least 75 cents a hundred pounds on these cattle, as they have gone down that much in the last three weeks. Corn in Wells county is silking out and oats will average about 40 bushels to the acre. Mr. Babcock will visit with his daughter and family, Mrs. Sam Scott, until Monday. He is beginning to show his age, looking much older than he did when he .left this county a few years ago.

jsCarl Worden, youngest son of Jirs. Nora Worden, is suffering from an aggravated case of appendicitis, the trouble becoming acute Monday, and • Tuesday evening a specialist from Chicago came down and an operation was performed, which revealed the fact that the appendix had already ulcerated and discharged the puss into the abdominal cavity. This Is considered a very dangerous condition as the entire contents is liable to be poisoned, in which event there is no hope of saving his life. An effort is now being made to anticipate septic poison and so far it has been successful, but the boy is not out Of danger and will not be for several days yet. ■J. George Mustard, wife and son arrived Tuesday evening from Westphalia, Kan., where he has been most of the time since last November looking after his mother’s farm. He will visit his uncle and aunt George Mußtard and wife, and Mrs. Sylvester Gray for a week, and will make hts home in Indiana hereafter, or at least that Is his present lntention. Vv journey from Kansas was nfitte in the main In daylight, and a chance to see the crops over a large territory was excellent. Corn Is not reported as very promising, aB mnch of it is very small, and in Missouri and Kansas much of R was drowned out in the immense floods of a few weeks ago. Through *lUinois corn is very spotted, and mueh of it is small. Many fields of wheat and oats in Kansas and Missouri can not be cut because of the flods. Kansas, he says, will go for Bryan this fall.

Charles Penright and daughter of Mount Ayr were in town Wednesday for a few hours. Did you ever hear him play the violin? Well, when Charlie and his two daughters get down their violins and commence to tune them there is going to “be a hot time In the old town.” And when they are tuned and Charlie draws the bow from end to end, the ear is overwhelmed with a symphony of musical sounds. Then when he lays back in his chair, his fiddle tucked under his chin, his eyes fixed on the hairs from a horse’s tall, on coming in contact with twisted strips of entrails from a family cat, "go way gals," the New Jerusalem ain’t no where. The angels can probably sing some but they are sure not in It with Charlie. The very air you breathe Is surcharged with musical sounds. And when he has finished and the mellow cadances have become only a fond enchanting memory, you realize why ‘‘music hath charms that soothes the savage breast,” and that life is really worth living. Gasoline and oil—Home Grocery. Be sure and see those swell suits at our store for nearly half what they previously sold for. DUVALL ft LUNDY. For Sale Two-year-old high grade Jersey bull. C. L. PARKS. R-3. Rensselaer, Ind. All the fall and winter samples are now here for tailor made suits. The lines are perfect. Step in and we will show you. DUVALL ft LUNDY.

Don’t forget that V. G. Collins at the brick livery barn handles farm implements of all kinds. Give him a call. Half Price Clothing Sale, we mean just what we say; sls suits now $7.50; $12.50 suits now $6.25; SIO.OO suits now $5.00, all sizes. You can save $ $ $ by trading here. ROWLES & PARKER. Special Notice—-We now have a full line of samples for fall and winter of tailor made shirts, or shirts made to your measure. A perfect fit guaranteed or no sale. DUVALL & LUNDY.

MONON SPECIAL RATES. $3.33 round trip to Indianapolis, Ind., July 18th, 19th and 20th, final limit July 31. $6.75 round trip to Cincinnati, 0., July 26th and 27th. Cows For Sale: Five fresh cows and several more that will be fresh soon, at my residence 4 miles south of Wheatfield. H. C. MEYERS.

You ought to see the all wool Serge suits at our store for $7.50, well tailored and t up-to-date in every way. We will be glad to show you. DUVALL ft LUNDY. Remember the boys at the Home Grocery appreciate the little things thrown their way. The Ohio Farmers Insurance Company has been doing business 60 years, writing fire, lightning and cyclone insurance, on both city town and farm property, also on live stock, and hay in barn or in stack. It will be to your interest to see me before placing your insurance. J. C. PORTER, Agent. LOST A Conklin self-filling fountain pen. Finder please bring to this office. Liberal reward. « There is not a firm in the state that can give you the prices and quality that we do and we can back up everything we say. Call and see if we are not right. DUVALL ft LUNDY. • - REPRESENTATIVE WANTED. We want a representative to handle Ford automobiles in Rensselaer and vicinity. Live hustler can easily clear $2,000 in season. Write with reference at once. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Dept. H. Detrlot, Michigan. Twenty-five years or honest service, pumping water for multiplied thousands of cattle and other farm animals, is the STAR Wind Mill’s proud record in Jasper county, At prices that defy competitors; wood or Iron. wheels. Fairbanks-Morse Gas Engines set the pace! Keep these facts before you as you may need one at any time. WHITE ft HICKMAN. Bont Begins Making Trouble. Paris. July 17.—Count Bonl de Castellane has formally filed suit for such a revision of the decree of divorce obtained against him by his wife as to five him the custody of his three children. The hearing has been set for July 27. Dyeing, Pressing, Dry Cleaning and Repairing, both Ladles and Gentlemen’s garments. All work intrusted to me will receive prompt attention, and will be dime in n workmanlike manner. Give me • trial. JOHN WERNER, Merchant Tailor.

SCHOOLS MERGED

Flv« Winona Institutions Now Undor One Management With Jonathan Rigdon as New President. NEW NORMAL IS FOUNDED Will Specialize in Training Teachers > for Public School Service Btrong of About Thirty What They Will Teach and Where Degrees Were Obtained. The sohoolß at Winona Lake have been reorganized and merged under one management, and a new one has been founded, known as the Winona Normal School. The purpose of the reorganization is to avoid duplication in the teaching forces as far as possible, yet enable the different schools to maintain their old originality. The founding of the Normal is the result of the law passed by the last Indiana legislature, which requires that a school which trains teachers for public school service shall be in session at least thirty-six weeks in the year. The Winona Normal will be open fortyeight weeks. Its chief purpose will be to develop teachers for the public schools, and that they may enjoy its opportunities, the cost of living has been made uncommonly low, board and room being obtained for three dollars a week.

Dr. S. C. Dickey, who has been president of the Winona Lake schools, under the orgahlzatlon becomes chancellor, and the president is Jonathan Rigdon, for many years in active educational work and former president of the normal school at Danville, Indiana. J. C. Breckenridge, who was st the head of the Winona Agricultural Institute, is vice president of the merged schools. In the group of Institutions is the Agricultural Institute, the Winona Park School for Young Women, the Academy for Boys, and the Conservatory of Music. The Normal School has begun its work with a special term of twelve weeks, which continues until August 20, and the Normal begins its career with a larger enrollment of students than was expected. The teaching force numbers about thirty, who have received degrees from many leading colleges and universities. The faculty, what they will teach, their degrees and where obtained, follow: Jonathan Rigdon—Professor of Psychology, Philosophy and Grammar. ’ National Normal University; Central Normal College, B. S., A. B. and President; Clark University, Honorary Fellow, and Teacher of Philosophy and Ethics in collegiate department for two years; Boston University, A. B. and Ph. D.

W. C. Palmer —Professor of Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry and dean of the Agricultural Institute. Valparaiso University, A. B.; University of Minnesota, B. S. Agr.; United States Government soil expert P. C. Emmons —Professor of Latin and German and Principal of the Academy for Young Men. Central Normal College, B. S.; Indiana University, A. B.; Chicago University. Rose M. Clark —Professor of Literature and Principal of Winona Park School for Young Women. Ada Normal School, B. S.; Boston University, A. B.; University of Chicago. E. W. Coffin Professor of Education. Dalhouse University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, A. 8., with high honors in Classics; head master in Nap&rina College, Trinidad, West Indies; Clark University, Ph. D. Florence Fox —Professor of Primary Methods and Director of Observation Work Olivet College; Cook County Normal School; University of Chicago. Ed. B. and Ph. B. W. E. Lugenbeel —Professor of Mathematics and Methods. National Normal University, B. 8.; Austin College, Ph. D. Walter dcott Donat—Professor of Latin, Greek and Psychology. Western College, A. B.; Yale University, A. B. and A. M. Josephine McArthur —Professor of Literature, Expression and Public Speaking. Demille College; College School, Toronto; Curry’s Boston School of Expression; Graduate Work at the University of Chicago. Leah Vanßtarcum —Professor of Domestic Science and Director of the preparation and serving of all menus. Graduate of Lewis Institute, with post graduate course in Serving and Drafting. Frank Nelson Palmer —Professor of Bible. Wabash, A. B. and D. D. Oris P. Dellinger —Professor of Biology, Physics, nature study and Phy--slology. Indiana State Normal School; Indiana University, A. B.; Chicago University, A.‘ M.; Clark University, Ph. D.

Zack C. Sanderson —Professor of History, Civics, Sociology and International Law. Butler College; University of Michigan, A. B. Harry A. Millar—Professor pt English and Pedagogy. Indiana State Normal School; Indiana University; Franklin Collage, A. B. William A. Austin Professor of Mathematic* and Pedagogy. Indiana State Normal School; Indiana University, A. B. and A. M. O. C. Cunningham Professor of Dairying and Animal Husbandry B. 8. Helen M. Eddy—Protestor of Latin and German. Uni veracity of town, A.

Farm arid Garden

EVAPORATING FRUIT. Surplus Fruit Msy Thus B# Disposed of Readily and at a Profit. The demand for fruits In various forms is Increasing. Like the cereal fad, it may sometimes assume the proportions of a cult. There Is In every orchard much good fruit that Is lost because it cannot be kept for the market, bnt if carefully evaporated by one of the scientific processes It will keep for some time and then may be dinposed of at a profit The process most be a good one, however,. The Amerf* can Agriculturist tells how to put up

EVAPORATING PLANT.

a small plant for evaporating. It may contain hints even for those who do not wish to erect so elaborate a building. "A conveniently arranged one kiln evaporator and plan Is shown herewith,” says the magazine. “The space Is divided Into a furnace room 14 by 16 feet and a somewhat smaller workroom, in which the apples are pared. An upright bleacher, which also serves as an elevator for raising the fruit te the second floor, is placed in this room. "The second room is divided in a similar way. The kiln has the same dimensions as the furnace room, with a capacity of 75 to 100 bushels of unpared fruit at each filling. The workroom on this floor contains the sllcer and the upper portion of the bleacher. The dried fruit as it is taken from the kiln can also be held here temporarily if desired. Such a building may be so constructed that it will be useful for many other purposes during the course of the year than that for which it is primarily Intended. In constructing kilns the same general principles an followed, whether the evaporator is a smalt one with only a single kiln or an

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR.

extensive establishment having several kilns. The most satisfactory kiln, all things considered, is about twenty feet square. This is a convenient size to All, so far as the preparation of the fruit is concerned. The heat can be well regulated, made sufficiently Intense for the purpose desired and evenly distributed so that the fruit will dry uniformly, and for various minor reasons a kiln of this size is a desirable unit In the construction of evaporators of this type. “A kiln consists essentially of a floor made of slats and placed over a furnace room or over a system of steam pipes. The floor is usually built from ten to twelve feet above the floor of the furnace room. Provision should be made for regulating the heat by means of small openings at the base of the walls communicating with the outside. These can be opened or closed, as desired. The inflow of cold air can thus be regulated. Such control Is especially desirable in windy weather. “If the evaporator is a frame building, the walls of the furnace room may well be plastered or covered with

FLOOR OF KILN.

walls, at least the portion below the kiln door, are double, with an air space between the two sides, the Insulation will be more perfect than if they are solid or of only a single thickness, thus best conserving the beat and Increasing the efficiency of the plant The height of the wails of the kiln above the drying door should be sufficient to permit an attendant to work on the floor conveniently and with comfort. “Some means for the escape of the air laden with moisture from the fruit is necessary. This may be provided for by means of an opening in the roof, or a cupola-like ventilator may be buflt, the sides of which should consist of slate placed so they overlap one another as in an ordinary window blind. The kiln floor is constructed of strips especially designed for the purpose. Such floors are generally made of poplar or basswood strips threeeighths of an inch thick, one inch wide on the top surface and one-half Inch wide on the under side. In laying the floor these stripe are placed one-eighth to one-fourth inch apart on the upper surface. This makes the space between them wider on the under side than on tbs upper, as shown, thus allowing the/small particles of fruit which work down between than to drop through without clogging Am intervening spaces.”

as best us paper to lessen the danger of fire, which may otherwise be great because of the Intense heat generated. If the