Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — Page 5

Clara A. Peters Optician 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT , On all work, orders, < , chains, cases, etc., during .< , August. SPECIAL : 20 Per Cent Discount I have in stock a few*?, ' SPECIAL BARGAINS in Gold and Gold Filled , goods including different > styles of Spectacles and • , Eye Glasses, also Eye ' ► Glass Chains. August Only.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Thomas Burns of DeMotte was in town Thursday. The wind blew down the Ellis circus tent 'Wednesday night. James Nelson left Wednesday for a visit with a sister in Minnesota. The Rensselaer and Mt. Ayr ball teams will play ball at the latter .place tomorrow. jT""®- F. Fendig and wife were in Chicago Wednesday, returning Thursday evening. John Jordan, a well known retired farmer of Remington, was in the city on business Thursday. p*Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Grant are spending the week with relatives and friends in Hammond and Chicago. ——- .. 1— Eli and Jane Company are now rehearsing in the city and will open their, regular season here August 20th. Mrs. Mattie Grant is preparing to move into W. E. Moore’s new tenant house on North Van Rensselaer street. ''L Miss Mary Meyer went to Chicago Tuesday to meet her sister and two children, Mrs. Will Donnelly of Ravena, Neb.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hazelton of Jamestown, N. Y., came Wednesday for a few days visit with the latter’s sister Mrs. J. M. Knapp. Miss Ethel Knox returned to her home in Columbus, 0., Wednesday after a few weeks visit with the family of her uncle, Thomas Knox, south of town. Miss Bessie Burk of Lamar, Colo., i| visiting Miss Clara Parker and other friends here for a time. Miss Burk came here from Logansport, where she has been visiting. White & Hickman have bought the old Leek automobile, and will convert it into a machine that can be used in their business of repairing and renewing all kinds of well and water apparatus. Mrs. Len Lefler returned to her home in Crawfordsville Thursday after a two weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G .A. Jacks, and other relatives ahd friends here and at Lee. . ( • Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Howell of Remington and Mr. and Mrs. Davis Garrlott of Chillicothe, Ohio, who are visiting the former for a week or ten days, were Rensselaer visitors Wednesday. A high wind accompanied the rain Wednesday evening, and the corn is reported badly blown down In places in the vicinity of this city. However, this will not Injure it greatly, as in most cases it will straighten up in a few days. John Churchill has been on the sick list for a week, having been scarcely able to crawl around, in fact he should have been in bed. An affection of the liver, with which he has been troubled for years, is at the bottom of all the trouble. \wm. Holderness and wife of Chicago are visiting Anson Cox' and family for three or four days. Mrs. Cox is a sister of the former. Mr. Holderness taught school in this county for several years, but returned to Chicago, his home, six or seven years ago. Mrs. Jerry Miller of Lacrosse came over Monday evening for a short visit with her sister, Mrs. Alva Potts, and Mrs. E. A. Aidrich and Mrs. Harry Swartzell, returning home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are running a hotel .now at Lacrosse. f

To-day’s markets: Wheat, 85c; rye, 65c; corn, 60c; oats, 44c. Miss Mary Kline of Demotte visited Miss Mary Meyer this week. W&nesday afternoon's rain appears to have been quite general all over the state. . . 7\A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Festus Chupp near Surrey yesterday morning. W. Harner, James Green and George Besse of Remington were Rensselaer visitors yesterday: ■ i Misses Katharyn and Rose Luers are visiting Misses Alice and Nellie Ryan of Medaryville this week. J District Chairman James K. Risk of Lafayette and Judge Darroch of Kentland were in the city yesterday. Y Mrs. Graham and baby of Lovebale, Tenm, is visiting the family of her ’brother, Dr. I. M. Washburn. \Mrs. Eva Morgan and daughter Ijfrs. Grace Shotts of Chicago are visiting friends and relatives here for a couple of weeks. '■l Mrs. Sylvester Gray was called foXGoodland Tuesday to the funeral of Mrs. William Toyne, an old friend and former neighbor. John Hordeman was compelled to qujt his work on the Thompson farm'at Parr for a few days on account of the big rain Wednesday. John Hayes of Valma was in town Friday. There was not nearly so much wind accompanied the rain there as in this neighborhood Wednesday evening. Mrs. J. E. Alter and daughter, Mrs. A. W. McAuly of Newton tp., left Tuesday for a visit with the former’s son J. Cecil Alter at Salt Lake City, Utah. Watermelons are watermelons this year. The kind we used to buy for five cents are costing twenty this year, and the ten cent melon is twenty-five and thirty cents. £\Mr. and tyrs. U. M. Baughman, f 11) East Sixth street, are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jeffries, old friends and residents of their former home, Rensselaer, Ind. They will remain a week longer.—Oklahoma City Times, Aug.lo.

Monticello Journal: Misses Ethel and Elizabeth and Master Ralph Witham returned home Tuesday from a visit at Rensselaer With their father, Charles Witham and their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels. f\Lewis, commonly called Duke, slchols is in town, having arrived Wednesday from Knox. Mr. Nichols will assist W. C. Miliron with his stand at the various county fairs this fall. They will be here to the Home Coming in September. The K. of P. ball game at Remington Thursday was another defeat for the Rensselaer “players.” Our players are a little reluctant about mentioning the matter at all, but we understand the score was some 30 to 9 fn favor of Remington. The automobile doesn’t seem to be worrying over the question of what shall be done with our millionaires. One can not pick up a daily paper nowadays without reading of from two to three who have been put away for keeps by the deadly auto. Joseph Sharp is still confined to the house with the ailment to one of his feet, caused from a bone bunion. He cannot bear any weight on the foot at all yet, although it is thought It is growing better slowly. He has now been laid up about two months with this trouble. A rick and stack of hay about 9 tons altogether, owned by W. E. Jacks, was burned {on the Crabb farm southeast of town, at about 2 p| m., Wednesday. The rick was struck by lightning and set on Are and the flames spread to the stack. There was no Insurance. .A. L. Branch of Stockton, Call., was at IndtanaiJnis a few days visiting relatives, returning here Tuesday.' Mr. Branch has been visiting his little daughters add Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox, grandparents of his children. He will be here several days before returning to California.

\ James Lefler x)f Hanging Grove toVnship says the wind Wednesday evening’ did considerable damage to the corn in that vicinity. Much of it la broken at the ground and can not straighten up for that reason. As reports come in there will /probably be more of this condition develop. Frank Heratb of Mount Ayr, a brother of the candidate for trustee of Marion township, was in town Thursday. From their personal appearance it would be impossible to determine thdfr kinship, but both of them are experts In their chosen profession, both being excellent farmers.

•v Farm leases, cash or grain rent, for sale at The Democrat office, -4 V A. H. Dickinson and son Earl of (Chrpenter tp., left Wednesday for Lisbon, No. Dak., on a prospecting trip. They may be gone two months or more, but Mr. Dickinson said he would be back in time to put in a vote for Bryan. Lightning struck a tall oak tree in the door-yard at Walter Harrington’s in Union tp., Wednesday afternoon and splintered it up somewhat. The tree stood only some twenty feet from the house, and the flash came into the house enough to startle the inmates considerably. Mr. Splelberger has .jjust arrived in town in the interest of a new survey which is believed will be of great benefit to the community at large. He has been in consultation with a number of the prominent business men and will call on all the voters of Marion, Newton and Barkley townships. ____________________ M '■' Miss Leathe Wright, who has been teaching in Raton, New Mexico, is being treated in the Mary Thompson hospital in Chicago. She was to have been operated on next Tuesday, but yesterday we were informed by a relative here that it was now thought an operation would not have to be resorted to. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Shesler expect to leave Tuesday for Randall, Minn., where they will remairp indefinitely. They go for the benefit of Mr. Shesler’s health, he being troubled greatly with asthma, and if the climate there proves beneficial to him it is likely they will locate there permanently.

pGeorge Michaels, son of Mrs. liaura Michaels, will start for Pasadenia, Cali., Monday morning. He is goidg there with the intention of making that his future home, already having a brother, W. P. Michaels, there. Mrs. Michaels will go in about a month to spend the winter there, and possibly reside there in the future. ’ Marion I. Adams has purchased the residence and 11% acres of land of Mrs. Laura Michaels just east of the old fair ground, now occupied by William Murray as tenant. The consideration is reported to be $2,7005 Mr. Adams will move on to the place and his son Ray will occupy the* home place another year, is Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman and Miss Marjorie Loughridge left Wednesday morning for an extended western trip, during which they will visit the family of John H. Brown at Lisbon, No. Dak., Harve Robinson at Sentinel Butte, No. Dak., John Paxton at Longmont, Colo.; Livingstone, Mont.; Salt Lake City; Yellowstone Park and other points. They expect to be gone three or four weeks. Jake Hensler of Remington was in town on business connected with the Carpenter township gravel road now building, of which he has charge. Mr. Hensler says he has a piece of corn that was planted on the 15th of June and Is now shooting. The rain will make a fine crop of corn of this late planting, is the opinion of Mr. Hensler, and he comes about as near knowing what he is talking about as the next one. “E. W. F.” of Indianapolis, in the "People’s Column” of the Indianapolis News puts the matter about right. He says: In order to avert the attention of the people from the real Issues, graft and extravagance, the Republicans have Injected the temperance question as the last resort, as a'Tfrowning man grabs at a straw. With a candidate for Governor nominated by the saloon elemept, and a candidate for President who openly opposes prohibition they expect to win.

iThe slx-year-old son of Joseph Uson near Egypt school house in rdan tp., died Tuesday at about 9 p. m., after a few days sickness from quinsy. The boy was first taken sick Sunday and later two doctors were in attendance in an endeavor to save his' life', but without avail. The funeral was held Thursday at 10 a. m., from Egypt school house. Rev. Speck of Jordan conducting the services, and interment made in the Welsh cemetery near by. The Indianapolis Star, the Muncie Star and the, Terre Haute Star, three of the leading republican papers erf . Indiana, ■ and- all in the hands of receivers, continue to preach *the glories of republican prosperity. ' According to the receiver’s report these papers lost more money last year than ever before in their history. Commenting on these reverses and the course they are pursuing, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette appropriately remarks: "Preaching prosperity from the bankruptcy courts is like preaching honesty and uprightness from behind the prison bars/’—Albion Democrat.

George Platt was doing his best to down the rum evil—or rum, rathfir—Wednesday, and was producing a fcreat deal of noise about it when the night-watch arrested him on a plain drunk charge. "Judge” Irwin, t at a hearing Thursday morning, caused him to pay $8.55 as the price of his hilarity. “Shorty” Adams also had on a pretty good skate Thursday afternoon, but for some reason did not run against the officers. xJacob Schanlaub, a brother of |ohn Schanlaub of this city, returned to North Manchester Wednesday after a ten days visit with his brothers in this and Newton counties. He says that Charley Carter, who went from north of Mount Ayr to Silver Lake, four or five years ago, a little north of him, has 30 acres of wheat that made 980 bushels, and that wheat and oats were both good, but corn is looking about as it does here.

Monday’s Laporte Argus-Bulle-tin: Mr. Thaddeus Stephens, of Rensselaer and Miss Bessie Woodcox, of Chicago,, were married at noon today at the Methodist parsonage by Dr. E. A. Schell. The groom is a printer employed in one of the Rensselaer offices, and the bride is a charming young woman from one of the exclusive west side social circles in Chicago. After a brief wedding trip they will settle down at Rensselaer. An exchange says that if the old brindle cow should get out, many a man would walk the streets half the night looking for her, but let a twelve year old son fail to show up and the parents retire for the night without an anxious thought. We dare not be hopeful over the future of the human race as long as the fathers and mothers think more of rounding up a S3O cow or a $4 shoat than they do of corraling their sons and daughters at a seasonable hour in the evening. Forty years ago Wm. Washburn got his first job as a farm hand. In 1867 he began work for Peter Smith on a farm near Galien, Mich. The Smiths have lived on that farm ever since, Peter Smith having died two or three years ago, but his widow still resides there. Grandma Smith, her daughter, Mrs. Horace Morley, and husband and Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, another daughter from near Painsville, Ohio, came Tuesday to visit Mr. Washburn and family. The meeting was a very enjoyable one. They will all return to their respective homes today.

“What if high water comes while they are moving the bridge and washes their blocks away?” remarked a by-stander as the bridge movers were working Wednesday—and it cate, but the bridge men were too smart for the high water. About three o’clock a. m., Thursday morning the “boss man” was awakened out of his sleep and informed that the river was rising. He summoned his men and they began work at once. All the loose blocks were removed from the channel and everything that was liable to float away was carried to safety. The water had risen more than 38 inches above the low water mark Thursday morning at 7 a. m., this increase in water having taken place in about five hours. Nothing was lost by the bridge men, but the temporary bridges were out of- commission and the creamery bridge was the only crossing place, unless by ferry, Thursday. Don’t forget that V. G. Collins at the brick livery barn handles farm implements of all kinds. Give Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for sale at Tbe Democrat Office In any quantity desired. Notice—Anyone holding accounts against the late J. L. Smith or knowing themselves indebted to same, will please notify R. B. Smith, Rensselaer, Ind. 45

Foley’s Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more. A. F. LONG. PUBLIC SALE OF HORSES AND MULES. T. H. Robertson informs us that he will arrive in Wolcott about August 25 th with a consignment of horses and mules which he will sell at - public auction at the Wolcott Sale and Exchange Stable In Wolcott, Ind., on Saturday, August 29th, 1908. Tom says this is the best lot of high grade draft horses he ever offered for sale in Wolcott and will be sold under a guarantee to be as represented or money refunded to the purchaser. He ~ has sold a great many horses in Wolcott and his motto has always been “Good horses easy terms your own price.” Such business methods certainly merit the patronage of all.

FARM FOR SALE. 109 acres» 4% miles of Remington, school house on corner, near stone road, R. F. D. and telephone, fair buildings, good well of water, black loam soil, fairly well tiled, good orchard. Price S7O per acre. FRANK BARTOO, R - R- 4- Remington, Ind. Twenty-five years of 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 & HICKMAN. Dr. Rose M. Remmek, registered optician, who has made regular visits to Clarke's jewelry store for five years, is now permanently located there. Dr. Remmek is fully qualified to accurately measure errors of refraction. This knowledge of the eye and rays of light enable us to determine the kind of glasses to prescribe. Our glasses are reasonable in price—your sight is priceless and we want your patronage.

WHEN A RIVER CAUGHT FIRE

Six Men Badly Injured and Eight Families Homeless the Result of a Peculiar Blaze. Pittsburg. Aug. 14.—Six men were painfully injured by being burned or cut and bruised while fighting the flames, and a warehouse and five dwellings destroyed, rendering eight famlies homeless, by a pecular fire at Glenfield, a small station along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad just west of this city. While ■workmen were connecting pipes of the Standard Oil company between the Sewickley valley and the refinery, at Coraopolis, one of the pipes sprung a leak and a large quantity of oil flowed Into a small stream running through the town. The oil on the water was ignited, presumably by a locomotive, and almost Instantly a stream of flames was flowing through the town. The buildings burned were near the stream and for a time it was feared that most of the town would be burned, as the only water with which to fight the fire was in the creek under seething flames.

NOT DANIEL BOONE’S BODY.

Wrong Corpse Dug Up In Missouri and Sent to Be Buried In Kentucky. Montgomery. Mo., Aug. 14.—‘Rev. R. R. McQuie. a Baptist minister residing in this city, gave the following statement to a local paper: “In company with some of the old settlers of that community, I visited the Bryan graveyard near Marthasville, Warren county, Mo., the burying place of Daniel Boone, aud after gathering all the information possible relative to the remains of this old pioneer. the company decided unanimously that it was evident that the body of Daniel Boone was never removed to Kentucky, but that the men sent out from Kentucky to remove the remains, being strangers and there being no tombstone to mark the graves of those who slept in the old cemetery, made a mistake and took up the remains of a stranger who was buried near the grave of Mrs. Boone.”

AH SIN IS VERY SCHLIMM

Incident in Which Neckties Are Made to Do Duty as Identifiers of Kinship. Ogdensburg. N. Y.. Aug. 14.—When ten China men were arraigned before United States Commissioner Kellogg, charged with having entered this country unlawfully from Canada by way of Rouses’ point, last January, an attempt was made by the defense to Aow that all of the Celestials had relatives here. The Chinamen arranged themselves in groups of two, and ft was observed that each pair wore neckties of identically the same pattern and color. Five other Chinamen In the room immediately identified each group of prisoners and ‘laimed relationship to them. But the authorities came to the conclusion that the neckties were identification marks. Commissioner Kellogg ordered the Chinamen deported.

Four Chicagoans Drowned.

Kilbourn, Wis.. Aug. 14.—8 y the capsizing of a pleasure launch on the Wisconsin river four Chicago people were drowned as follows: Miss Mabel Ward. Mrs. W. G. Heath, and E. G. Pfeiffer and his son Ralph. The launch containing nine persons was returning from a trip through the Dells. When near the dock the boat got into the waves of a passing steamer and capsized, throwing all the occupants into the water.

Thugs' Victim Likely to Die.

New York, Aug. 14.—Phillip Tully, twenty-four years old, entered the Bellevue hospital and by motions Indicated that bis jaws were locked. Writing on paper he explained that be was attacked by two thugs and badly bruised. A germ of tetanus bad developed In the wounds. Death is expected. \

Jasper Guy or Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts

STATE FAIR MATTERS

Premiums Are Larger in the Total This Year Than Ever Before Offered. x 80ME DETAILS FROM THE LIST Silver Cups Cut a Figure as Prizes so» Live Stock Too Much Ice # Water Is Bad. Indianapolis, Aug. 14 —The premium list of the Indiana state fair shows that the prize awards have been increased in all departments and for the coming exposition, to be held the week of Sept. 7, the total amount is $58,6G3. The largest showing is for the trotting and pacing races, the sum being $21,900. The horse shows in the live stock pavilion will have a total of $10,538 in prizes, $2,107 going to draft horses, $720 to coach horses, $320 to mules and $7,391 to light harness horses and saddlers. In the cattle departments the premiums amount to $14,251, the beef cattle premiums making a total of $10,876 and $3,375 going to dairy cattle.., .. Encouragement for Dairymen. For the dairy and creamery exhibits the prizes amount to $2lO. In the sheep show $2,665 is offered and $2,060 will be distributed in the swine department. In the poultry show the awards offered amount to $2,499. For farm products the premiums reach $1,189, and on fruit $696. The prizes on plants and flowers amount to $830: bees and honey, $248; table luxuries, $209, and on fine arts, $1,370. In the cattle aud horse shows the increases tn premiums have beeiw especially large. Quite a Few Silver Cops. The giving of silver cups will be wore extensively followed at the com ing fair than at any Indiana exiposr tion in fifty years. About SSOO worth of these trophies will be awarded as special prizes. The American Per cheron society offers a SIOO cup for the best stallion and four mares shown at the fair. The American Breeders association offers a SSO cup in the mui« classes. A trophy for whicb many ar# expected to compete Is the SIOO cup offered by the American Saddle Horst Breeders’ association for the best stallion or mare in the horse show. Three of Them for Cattle. # Three cups will be awarded In the cattle shows. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Cambridge City, who is well known as a raiser of Shorthorns, offers a silver cup for the best Shorthorn heifer bred in Indiana. The Meredith cup was won by Gen. Solomon Meredith at the fourth Indiana fair, held in 1855, and the award was made to him on Shorthorn cattle. The cups are all for live stock of one sort or another. WARNING TO WATER TOPERS Man Loses His Speech Tempo -ily Because of Too Much Aqua Pura on Ice. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Aug. 14, —Much drinking of ice water owing to hot weather is believed to have been re sponsible for the loss of speech ot Thomas Moses, fifty-one years old, of Indianapolis, who conducts a restau rant In the Indiana fair circuits, known as “47% Broadway.” In one day he drank twenty-five large ttncupfuls. Tuesday evening he drank four cupfuls of water in succession, and tn a few minutes he complained of a peculiar feeling in his throat, \ Soon afetr his neck felt as if be numbed, and he found that he was unable to talk. He made known his condition by means of paper and pencil, and he was to the office of Dr. George F. Smith. Moss was unable to speak for several hours, after which be made himself understood by whispering. His ailment Is said to be rare, but he is expected to recover in a few days. Found Deadl Neck Broken. Morgantown, Ind., Aug. 14.—John Lewis Sickey. fifty years old, a substantial farmer prominent in politics, was found dead near his home with* broken neck. He bad been riding’s horse with a baiter and the animal came borne alone, causing a search to be made for Sickey. A widow and four children survive. He la the fourth member of the family to meet with violent death. Colt That Had Two Hearts. Anderson, Ind., Aug. 14.—David Moore, farmer, near this city, lost a four-months-old colt by death and as the animal appeared to be healthy and vigorous up till death a post mortem was held. It disclosed the presence of two hearts One heart was in correct position, but abnormally large. The jxtra heart was of normal slae, bat located back of the fiver. Rain Refreshes the Earth. Indianapolis, Aug. 14.—Rain in generous quantities was general throughout Indiana Wednesday night, and according to grain men the corn was much benefited, though it is too early to say as yet just bow much. The corn on the clay ground was especially in need of rain. Last Words Were “Let Me Alone.” Fort Wayne. Ind., Aug. 14.—Thomas Shaughnessy, fifty-seven years old. a ••ne-er-do-well,” fell down the river embankment and broke his. neck, only living long enough to remark, “Let mo atone.”