Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — Page 5

10 Per Cent Discount Will be continued on all work and orders taken during the month of July. Call and get prices. C. A. PETERS Optician

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. X... Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. On top—Home Grocery. To-day’s markets: 55c; oats, 40c; wheat, 80c. Another nice shower of rain fell here Thursday night. Harley Parks was over from Mt. Ayr to see the ball game Wednesday. j\Carl Worden is reported as reLovering nicely from the recent operation for appendicitis. i Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Church and Miss Twonnette Parker were over from Remington yesterday. Mrs. Anna Healy entertained the sewing club Thursday afternoon in the Hordeman Grove, west of town. Miss Ethel Sharp, who has been in California for the past two months, returned home Wednesday evening. The ball game here Wednesday between the Wheatfield and Rensselaer teams was won by the former. Score 4to 1: James Dunlap of Mount Ayr Ivisited her brother Frank Haskell, and other relatives here a few days this week, returning home Thursday. Editor H. A. Barnhart of the Rochester Sentinel was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Thirteenth district Thursday at Plymouth. "Roastin’ ears” have been in the local market in rather limited supply for the past week, and at this writing are retailing at 15 cents per dozen. Bert Hopkins and Miss Theeyer were visiting the families a former’s, brothers, James and D. M. Yeoman, at Ambia for a few days this week. Clark of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. Krum of North Manchester, Came Wednesday evening for a few weeks visit with their sister, Mrs. D. E. Hollister. W. N. Jenkins of north of town was kicked by a cow Tuesday, inflicting a long wound on the right wrist which will keep him from work for a time. Mrs. J. Oppenheimer and son of New Orleans who have been visiting the family of B. S. Fendig, left Thursday for a visit with her parents in Toronto, Canada. Charley Liston and family have moved here from Mt. Ayr and occupy a part Of Mrs. E, H. Shields’ residence on the west side. He will work on the stone roads. Willows ruin ditches, roads and crops, and do no good to the farmer. If cut or peeled before September 1 they will die. Every landowner should at once proceed to destroy them. * Mrs. Zemri Dwigglns left Thursday for her home in Lincoln, Neb., after an extended visit with relatives here. > Her daughter, Miss Linda Dwigglns will remain here for a while longer. The big dredge will be hung up until the Washington street bridge is removed, and the contract for removal will not be let until August 3. It is now jam up against the bridge, reaching same yesterday. S NSimon Fendig came down from \yheatfleld Wednesday with the Wheatfield team, and in all probability Simon’s hollering contributed to the rout of the Rensselaer team, the score being 4 to 1 in favor of Wheatfield. "'KGeorge Mustard, whose return frohi Kansas was noted a couple of weks ago, has gone to Monon and Seafield to visit until the first of the month when hewill go to Wabash to take his old position with the Bantus Horse Stocks Co., which he left to go to Kansas some two years ago. Mrs. Mustard and son I accompanied him.

White & Hickman put up a couple of windmills near Monon Wednesday and Thursday. . Deacon McCabe and George Light came over from Brook Wednesday. Mr. McCabe had bought some cattle from Benjamin Harris and had come to receive them and put them on the piarket. Mr. Light returned to Brook Wednesday evening. beacon McCabe, of the stock buying firm of J. J. McCabe & Son, of Brook, stopped over on his way home form Chicago where he had been marketing some cattle, Friday. His cattle were on Thursday’s market, which was not a good one by any means. i V. O. Worland and daughter Miss Uina, of Saint Paul, Kansas, came ast evening to visit his son D. M. Worland and family of this city. This is the first time Mr. Worland has stepped his foot on Indiana territory since he’ left for Kansas twenty years ago. He went from Shelby county, this state, to Kansas. Mrs. S. A. Hemphill has let the contract to M. V. Brown for the erection of a fine large cement block house on the site .of the old dwelling lately torn d6wn on Front street. It is to cost about $4,000 to $4,500 complete and will be modern in every way. Mrs. Hemphill and Mr. and’ Mrs. Honan will occupy it when completed. Live stock shippers/ have been having a rocky road so travel the last couple of weeks, and some of them have been losing as much as SI.OO per hundred on cattle marketed ak Chicago. The market has been so erratic that it is impossible to forecast it even a day ahead. Several loads from this point have lost the shippers considerable money. ’ / Judson E. Maines did not attend the congressional convention at Monticello Wednesday. He was a delegate and fully Intended to go, but his brother, who lives on the farm north of town, got into an argument with some bumblebees, and they put some unanswerable propositions up to him. So unanswerable were they that George could not work Wednesday. M At the home of Mr. Judson H. Pel-kins Wednesday, occurred the marriage of his brother Reuben E. Perkins of Mishaw-dka, Ind., and Mrs. Cecelia Perkins of Morris, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins will make their home in Mishawaka where the groom is a well known retired farmer. The ceremony was performed by Rev. O. E. Miller of the First Baptist church of this city. . —I x sWilllam H. Dougherty of Montic silo, a brother of John and George Daugherty of this city, is in a very serious condition, and is not expected to recoyer. He is afflicted with something resembling dropsy, which has lately affected the heart to such an extent that he almost smothers at time. W. H. Ritchey called to see him while at the congressional convention Wednesday, and found him scarcely able to talk, and gasping for breath. S. H. Hopkins of Barkley tp., returned Monday evening from a few days visit in Carroll and Clinton counties. He states that he was greatly surprised at the appearance of the corn there. Most fields are extremely poor, lots of it being but a few inches in height. The wet spring, followed by a drought baked the ground when it did become dry and the corn did not grow as it should. Wheat is extra good there and oats are turning out fairly well although the straw is short. C. D. Hanger, a traveling salesman living at Morocco, was a delegate from Newton county to Monticello? where the next congressman for the 10th congressional district was nominated Wednesday. Mr. Hanger stopped off "at Rensselaer on his way back. He says that Thomas R. Marshall doesn’t look very formidable, but when he gets unlimbered, Oh Lordy! how he makes the fur fly. Jim Watson will know that he has been to a horse race when the November election is over. The ball game here Tuesday between the Remington and Rensselaer K. of P. amatuers drew a good crowd, but Remington easily won out by a score of 27 to 9/ Dennis O’Reilly of the visiting team, used to be a crack player, and he showed that he had not forgotten everything about the game even now. Gus Merritt, who did th? pitching for the Remingtonians was also good. Some 41 members of the Hebron lodge came over In seven big automobiles and witnessed a part of the game. They staid and assisted the local lodge In degree work at night. A ; ver/ pleasant time was had. Refreshments were served after the degree work was over. When you want any furniture cell on Jay Williams.

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

With the hope of reaching the bedside of Colonel William F. Vilas, at Madison, Wis., Mrs. Charles Sullivan, bls nelce, Is traveling by train from Mobile, Ala. Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, has been offered tbe treasursbip of the natibpal Democratic committee, and will probably accept. The report that there are 1,500 typhoid fever caseebgt Mankato, Minn., is denied, there being only 187 cases there. That there is a gradual, steady Increase In progress in all lines of business was the opinion expressed by the presidents of the various subsidiary companies of the United States Steel corporation at a meeting at New York. The first international congress of dancing masters Is In session at Berlin. The monetary commission held a session of two hours at Narragansett Pier, R. 1., and questioned Secretary Cortelyou. Major James F. Mellne, for sixteen years past the assistant treasurer of the United States, is dead at Washington; aged sixty-seven. - Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent Interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts

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 & LUNDY.

Special pants sale at Rowles & Parker’s. We can fit you and save you money at our big discount clothing sale. Suits 50 cents on the dollar. Go-carts and baby carriages at Williams’. *

ICE CREAM SOCIAL AT PARR.

The Ladies Aid of Parr will give an ice cream social in the park at that place on the evening of Saturday, July 25. Come.

Be sure and see those swell suits at our store for nearly half what they previously sold for. DUVALL & LUNDY.

Homeseekers For Information about the dairy, tobacco, sugar beet and clover seed producing 'hardwood timber area of northern Wisconsin, ample rainfall, free from floods and cyclones, near towns, schools and churches, write >■ STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION, Room 401, Capitol Bldg. , Madison, Wis.

We have purchased this year for the harvest season a special grade of machine oil which we can absolutely guarantee. EGER BROS.

Twenty-five years or honest service, pumping water for multiplied thousands of cattle and other farm animals, is the STAR Wind Mill** 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 & HICKMAN.

TYPE CASES, RACKS, ETC., FOR SALE. % The Democrat has disposed of all its old dress of body type and a part of Its type case racks and typ& cases, but still has about a dozen Italic job cases, two double case racks and on£ No. 7 Yarger Staple Binder for sale. Five dollars takes the staple binder with 5,0Q0 staples thrown in; $2 each for the racks and 50 cents each for the cases. Cases and racks almost good as new. Machine oil for harvesting at Eger Bros. LINOTYPE COMPOSITION. The Democrat has a fine new Model 5 Standard Linotype and in addition to doing all Its own work is prepared to handle considerable outside composition. At present have six and eight point mats only, light and bold face, and can set matter most any measure desired up to 30 eras long and on 6, 8, 9 or 10 poimt slug. All work handled carefully and promptly and at reasonable prices. We also cast 6-point border slugs 30 ems long, for sale at 5c per slug, 12 slugs for 50 cents. They the cheapest and best border printers can buy for ads and job work. Rugs from $1.25 to S3O at Williams’. We will give you a $20.00 suit at $12.00 now, an SIB.OO suit for sll, a sls suit for $9 and $8.50. We have all sizes and some very nobby ones. Call and see them. DUVALL & LUNDY.

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FIRST LOAD OF ORE

Reaches the IDocks at tlary, the New Steel Factory Town on Lake Michigan. EVENT IS DULY CELEBRATED John W. Kern the Chief Orator—Steel - Works to Employ 15,000 Men —State News Notes. Gary, Ind., July 24.— With flags flying and convoyed by the United States warship Wolverine, the United States revenue cutter Tuscarora, the Illinois naval reserve ship Dorothea and the United States lighthouse tender Sumac, the E. H. Gary, loaded with 12,000 tons of iron ore from the Lake Superior deposits and a cargo of Industrial and political celebrities, appeared off the new Michigan harbor of Gary, Ind., and" in a short time ent—sit the new deep water Indiana hortoar on the great lakes —the first boat to enter. Saluted as She Entered. As she entered the harbor she was saluted with twenty-one guns fired by each of convoys and when she came toyuock alongside the great unloading bridges of the billion dollar trust's new steel plant she was welcomed in behalf of Indiana by John W. Korn, the Democratic nominee for vice president. The deck of the E. 11. Gary was the scene of a round of Informal “jollies” between Indianians and the political and industrial luminaries, the Indianians congratulating the steel trust representatives on the opening of the new deep water port and its plant on Lake Michigan, and the steel and industrial officials and the Illinois politicians returning the congratulations.

First Ore is Unloaded.

Then the decks were cleared, the hatches were hoisted and the great unloading bridges were put to work. They dipped down into the hold, grab bed up tons of the ore, swung it 100 feet in the air and carried It 000 feet to the furnaces. The tons were whisked through the <ir as though\he big loads, instead of being among the heaviest of ores, were only of feathers.

Will Cover Five Square Miles.

The guests of the day were taken on a hurried inspection of the plant completed up to date. It is only a part of the plant that when completed in two or three years will employ more than 15,000 men and will cover about five square miles. A parade was next organized and proceeded from the steel plant entrance south through Broadway to the Michigan Central tracks, apd then counter marching returned to Sixth avenue, where the speakers were beard. John W. Kern was the principal speaker.

CATCHES A BIG RATTLER Snake Nearly Six Feet Long, Carries Twenty - Seven Buttons and Twenty-One Inch Girth. Nashville, Ind., July 24.—A rattlesanke almost six feet in length, with twenty-six rattles and a button and measuring twenty-one inches around the thickest part of its spotted body, is being exhibited here by Frank Samuels, the ginseng and snake hunter, or Brown county. It is the largest rattler ever captured In Brown county, and according to the rattles, it has entered upon the tweutyseventh year of its life- 'l’he snake was captured near Weed Patch hill. Samuels in his excursions invariably carries a stout forked stick, in the use of which he is an adept, and he found the rattler napping and pinned it down with the forked stick before it had apportunity for resistance.

Unpleasant Reunion Incident. Mount Vernon, Ind., July 24.—At the unveiling of the soldiers' and sailors’ monument here the veterans of the Civil war refused to march in the parade behind the veterans of the Spanish-American war, and formed a parade of their own. Captain Wins ton Menzies, of Mount Vernon, chief marshal of the day—a captain in the Spanish-American war—had in arranging the parade placed the SpanishAmerican war veterans in front of the veterans of the Civil war.

Farmer Killed in a Runaway.

Greencastle, Ind., July 24.—5. C. Allen, farmer, near Cloverdale, this county, was killed in a runaway. He was hauling hay and had three of his children on the wagon with him. The horses became frightened, and in the effort to stop them Allen was run over and almost instantly killed. The children were badly bruised and one had an arm broken.

Sends Chickens to Bryan. Martinsville, Ind., July 24. —Edgar Swain, of this city, shipped a pair of fine Buff Cochin birds to William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate for the presidency, sending them by express to Mr. Bryan’s home at Fairview, hear Lincoln, Neb. The cockerel s named ’‘Hoosier” and the pullet “Nebraska.” Old Man with a Bad Temper. Hartford, City, Ind., July 24.—Henry Bolner attacked his twelve-year-old" grandson, Thomas Kegerrels, with a pitchfork, and he might have killed him had not the boy’s father struck Boltier across the arm, knocking the weapon from his hand. Bolner is seventy years old, but is notecsfor a violent temper.

THE UP TO DATE FARMER.

How He Makes Agriculture a Paying Business. The up to date farmer knows the value of being up to date. He know* that new discoveries in the variens alienees related to agriculture reveal near relations and suggest better meth**. He knows that many of the theories held and many of the methods practiced years ago, and some even now, are worthless. He knows that one farmer cannot make as many experiments as can a thousand men. He reads books on farming and does not scoff at the book farmer, nor does he refuse to listen to the college professors, for, while he has great respect for the students of agriculture, yet he knows that the time has not come and never can come when agriculture shall be reduced to a rigid science, which shall be governed by a code of rules and laws, as are such sciences as chemistry, physics and the like. The up to date farmer has the latest improved farming Implements and to save horsepower and to do most efficient work always keeps them In perfect order.He does not Use a plow that will not scour nor one that Is dull nor one whose adjustment Is such that three horses must wo?k hard to do the work which two could easily~dd~with a plow properly adjusted. He understands the application of force to all his farm machinery so that the greatest amount of work Is accomplished with the least expenditure of power. When his farm implements are not in use he keeps them well housed if It is profitable to do so. A hundred dollar wagon shed into which a twenty-five dollar farm wagon Is backed by hand every time the team Is unhitched Is not profitable. The up to date farmer pays his debts. Not the least Important of these is the one he owes to the soil. He knows that each crop which the soil yields takes from it something of Its fertility and that unless this fertility Is returned to the soil it can soon yield only a diminished crop. So he is very careful year by year to pay back to his land that fertility which the crop has taken from It He knows many ways of doing this, and the one which he will adopt will depend upon the neighborhood. He knows that he can run a dairy, and when he sells a ton of butter, worth perhaps SSOO, it will Impoverish his farm no more than to sell five or six hundred pounds of straw worth about a dollar. He will keep his hired help all the year, and year after year, for the longer they are in his employ tbe more valuable they are to him and the more he can afford to pay them. He will buy more food than he sells, will raise all the feed he can for his stock and will not hesitate to buy more when needed. If he is wise in the management of the fertilizers from his barns and feed lots and wise in their distribution upon his meadows and pastures and wise in sowing clovers for his corn land and among the grasses of his farm he will in time greatly Increase its fertility.—Farm and Fireside.

An Unappreciated Plant. Chives is a vegetable not widely known in this country. It is native along the northern of the United States as well as in some parts of Europe, where it is popular. The plant belongs to the onion family, and its leaves are used for seasoning in soups, salads, etc., and are preferred to onions by many persons because they are much milder and more tender. Europeans use chives for seasoning scrambled eggs and similar dishes. The culture of chives is simple. The plant will grow in any ordinary garden soil. It is usually propagated by division of the roots, because It does not seed readily. The roots or clumps of roots may be purchased at moderate prices. The clumps should be planted in beds about nine inches apart In rows which are two feet apart. The planting may be done in either spring or autumn. The chives may also be planted In the border of the vegetable garden and makes an excellent permanent border. As a border plant the clumps should be planted about six Inches apart. The leaves will grow thickly and form a dense green mat

Ths Cankerworm Again. The worm which devastated elm trees and apple trees in Connecticut is the cankerworm, tbe same pest that visited trees ten years ago. The worm does Its work very rapidly, but, unlike the elm tree beetle,"does not have a long life and consequently the trees can put forth -new foliage, though at some sacrifice of vitality. On the apple trees it can be destroyed by arsenical spraying, but the trees must be treated when the worm Is very young if the work is to be effective. The banding of tbe trunks of the trees with vermicides Is the most effective method of prevention. The reports from the state received at tbe Connecticut agricultural experiment station indicate a very great variation In the number of pests, some towns suffering very seriously and others being quite free from tbe visitation z

Farming Notes. Remember the importance of the kitchen garden. When mustard is a serious pest the fields are sprayed with a solution that kills the weed, but does not harm Um crop. Preaching economy doesn’t amount to much. You must practice it. >ut there is such a thing as being too economical. In Holland they rotate the fertilisers as well as the crops. Each crop has its particular coaxer. Perhaps that’s why they farm successfully on land worth 11,000 per acre. Read what people who know from experience say about incubators.

LAKE CONVENTIONS

The Season For Many Kinds st Gatherings Has Opened Early at Winona WINONA BIBLE CONFERENCE \ Several State Governors Will Discuss Temperance Questions —Indiana Association of Photographers, Indiana Epworth League, Civic Reformers and Others Will Hold Mld-Summer Meetings. The season for conventions and conferences Is under way at Winona Lake, opening uncommonly early this year, and It will be October before the last one Is held. Because of its hotel facilities, its outdoor life, and the opportunities for blending social diversions with the work of the organizations, Winona Lake grows In favor as a place for conventions. The Knights Templar of Indiana has held its annual conclave at the lake, with a large attendance. It will be followed by a conference of temperance workers, which opens on July 12 for a week, and it will bring together many of the most active workers in the anti-saloon cause of the middle West. The conference will be under the direction of Rev. George R. Stuart of Cleveland, Tenn., one of the noted workers of the South. Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of Missippl; George W. Bain, of Kentucky; Seaborn Wright, of Rome, Ga.; R. B. Glenn, governor of North Carolina; Governor J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana; Miss Belle Kearney, of Mississippi; J. A. Tate, chancellor of the American University, Harriman. Tenn.; Governor E. W. Hoch, of Kansas; Dr. John Kilgp, president of Trinity College, Durham, N. C., and United States Senator Carmack of Tennessee will be among the speakers. The Indiana Association of Photographers, which has a pretentious summer home of its own at Winona Lake, begins its annual convention on July 20. During the convention a practical training school is held, there is an extensive exhibit of photographs, and a contest for prises, and many social affairs are given. The Indiana agents of the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance company meets every summer for a day or two at Winona Lake, not only for a pleasant outing, but to promote the work of their organization. A national civic revival, a conference of the promoters of clean State and municipal government, begins at Winona Lake on July 22, under the direction of the International Reform Bureau, of which Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washington is a leader. Questions of how the citizens of a State or a community may advance legislation, how governors of a commonwealth and legislatures may develop good citizenship among the people, and similar topics will be taken up by many speakers.

Rev. Chesteen Smith, of Anderson, president of the Epworth League In Indiana, is organizing a rally of the League, which will meet at Winona Lake on July 24 and 25. Some of the prominent workers in the League will be the speakers, and a large attendance of Methodist young people is expected on the two days. The general conference of the Friends Church in the United States and Canada will be held at Winona August 27 to September 3. The general conference of the Brethren Church will be In session from September 5 to 10, and the United Brethren conference October 27 to 29.

A National Purity Conference, led by B. S. Steadwell, LaCrosse, Wis., will be held July 24 and 25. The chief conference held at Winona year after year is the Bible conference, which this year begins on Aug. 16 for ten days. It will be under the direction of its founder, Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. Seven ”or eight religious services will be held every day, and the program has been arranged for men, women and children. The conference is interdenominational and all of the Protestant churches of the country are represented, both by speakers and visitors. All sorts of church questions are taken, including mission and temperance work, and a number of special conferences will be held. One of the notable speakers will be Dr. Ira D. Landrith, last moderator of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Dr. W. J. Dawson, formerly of London; Dr. W. L. Watkinson, another eminent British preacher; Dr. C. H. Woolston, of Philadelphia; Dr. C. F. Aked, of New York; Rev. Charles Stelzle, who is endeavoring to bring the churches and union workingmen together; Dr. John H. Brown, of Providence, R. I.; Dr. W. G. Moorehead, of Xenia, O.; Rev. J. Tolefree Parr and "Gypsy” Smith, both of London; Bishop J. C. Hartsell, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Rev. George Soltau, of Chicago, are among the many pulpit orators who will be heard. Throughout the Winona season Dr. Chapman will speak on Wednesday evening, and will lead the hillside service, a sundown feature of the Winona Sabbath. The music will be emphasised at these Wednesday and Sunday meetings, being under the direction of K. O. Excell, famous as a composer and slpger of hymns, and E. A. Allen, well known as a Presbyterian enangaHnttc singer.