Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — Page 1

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Jasper County Democrat.

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THE WAY IT WORKS

We have all heard a great deal about the boodle the brewers were going to spend in this campaign to help carry Indiana for the democratic state ticket. At least republican orators and newspapers have been having great spasms of pain over it. As an example of what they are doing in this line we note that the Sintly Rensselaer Republican is rrylng a brewery ad for the Indianapolis Brewing Co., advertising “Tonica,” which beverage has been “out-lawed” in several communities iq Indiana. The brewers will spend their money and cast their Influence —privately—where they have for the past many years, with the republicans, and we shall not be surprised to hear Healey, Clarkey, et al, all shouting for the Albert LieberCrawford Fairbanks crowd before the campaign gets much further along.

WEIL-FENDIG WEDDING.

Whe wedding of Miss Belle Fenof thia city to Mr. Leopold Weil of New Orleans took place Wednesday at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig on Division stseet. All the relatives residing in the city were present and in addition her aunt, Mrs. Oppenheimer, of New Orleans, her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Jacobs of Tampa, Fla., and her couffins, Mrs. Hirsh and Mrs. Mass of New Orleans, and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield .-J The homqVas decorated in green and yellow. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Heller, of New Orleans, after w’hich refreshments yere served consisting of ices, cakes and bon-bons. The newly wedded couple left on the 6:32 p. m. train for Chicago and after a two weeks honeymoon spent in Chicago, Cleveland and other points they will return to New Orleans, which will be their permanent home.

BRIDGE BEING REPLACED.

Breakdowns continue to occur on the dredge and detained the bridge men, who were very anxious to replace the Washington street bridge. They are, now going ahead as fast as they can and by Monday it will probably be back in place. There were two points that were not quite dredged down to specifications, one some eight feet long and about seven inches high near where the water main crossed, and one above the bridge about the same size. But as the drills and all the drilling paraphernalia were out west of town and it would occasion considerable delay and much expense to blow out these high places now, it was decided to. go ahead with the dredge and take these little high places out later by band. The big dredge is now just in the rear of Glazebrook’s blacksmith shop, and as the excavation keeps getting more and more shallow as it goes west, it should make good headway to the end of the rock ledge here —some 150 to 200 feet west of the creamery bridge—if all is blasted deep enough and there are no serious breakdowns. •

BOB WARTENA BADLY BURNED.

Steam Hose Breaks With Drilling (Jang and Frightfully Burns the Young Man. The first serious accident that has occurred since the work on the river commenced took place Thursday forenoon about nine o’clock on Contractor Moore’s drill boat, now working at the Stott Grant ledge west of town. Robert Wartena has been running a drill, boring holes for blasting purposes, and was at work at the time he was almost fatally burned by escaping steam. The drills are furnished steam from a boiler on the boat through a rubber hose, and 100 pounds pressure must be kept all the time to provide enough power for the drills. On the drill where Bob was working the hose became disconnected from the drill and with the heavy pressure of steam began to writhe like a wounded snake, and before he could get away the live end Of the hose had got ’ inside of hie pantaloons and the superheated, steam was burning the life out of him. In trying to escape he fell into the water at the side of the boat and no doubt this saved him from a terrible death. As it is he is badly burned from above his hips to his knees, scarcely a bit of the skin on this part of his body but is burned. When his clothing was removed after he had been pulled out of the water much of the skin came off with them, and this caused intense pain, but it is thought that he will recover if no complications set in. This was Indeed a fortunate accident, when the circumstances surrounding it are taken into consideration. i..." He was not so well yesterday, was suffering much pain but did not seem to be otherwise in worte condition than could be expected 'under the circumstances.

DEMOCRATIC DAY

At Fountain Park Assembly Next Thursday. KERN, MARSHALL AND OTHERS Will Be There—Jackson Club of Lafayette to Come With Band On Special Train. Democratic day at Fountain Park next Thursday promises to be the “big day” of the Assembly. Hon. John W. Kern, of Indianapolis, candidate for vice-president, Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, of Columbia City, candidate for governor, Hon. M. B. Lairy, of Logansport, candidate for Supreme Judge, and other prominent democrats will be in atand speak to the assemblage. The Jackson Club of Lafayette will, we understand, come in a body by special train and bring a fine band-Of music with them. As the farmer’s work is now’ well out of the way they should all turn out next Thursday to this meeting, as it may be their only opportunity of seeing and hearing Mr. Kern and Mr. Marshall during the campaign. The former has been before the public longer than the latter, and many of our readers have met him, but Mr. Marshall is practically unknown except by reputation to the people of this section of the state: • The Democrat wants its readers to see and hear him. He is a man who impresses you at once with his honesty, and you can not help but remark after seeing and hearing him, “here is a man we can depend upon; he la not a professional politician, and the confidence and esteem in which he is held by those who know him best is not misplaced.” Judge Lairy is afso a good speaker and a fine man. You will not regret having gone to hear him. Hon. Stokes Jackson, state chairman, District Chairman Risk and other prominent democrats from all over the state will be at Fountain Park next Thursday, and we want you to be there, too. The distinguished honor that has come to Mr. Kern of being the Choice of 7,000,000 voters for the second place on our national ticket, makes his presence even more interesting than before, and his reputation as a speaker is such that those who go to hear him will not be disappointed. Lay aside your work next Thursday and go to Fountain Park and shake hands with Kern, Marshall and" Lairy, and hear them, too.

WOODMEN CAMP BOOMING.

The local camp of Modern Woodmen is enjoying a strong grow’th nowadays, and from a membership of about 40 it has grown in the past couple of months to 68, and about a dozen applications were in for action of the Camp at the regular meeting last night. This is one of the very best fraternal orders in existence and should have a membership of 200 to '3OO in Rensselaer. All death claims are paid promptly and in full, without litigation, and a man in good condition of health can carry $2,000 insurance at the age of 25 to 30 for about $lO per year. No man in moderate circumstances should be without some good life insurance, and at the low rates in the Modern 1 Woodmen no one can afford to be without it. The Rensselaer Camp now holds its regular meetings on Friday evenings of each week, and visiting members of the order in the city will be cordially welcomed.

THOUGHT IT WAS THE MISSING EUGENE DILLY.

City Marshal Parks was notified by 'phone yesterday morning that a strange man had been located out near Sidney Holmes’ in New* ton tp., whom they thought was the missing Eugene Dllly of Trafalgar, Ind. In company with Nat Scott the marshal drove out and found the man, who had built a fire along a ditch by the new iron bridge over Curtis Creek, and had washed out some of his clothes and hung them up to dry. It ‘did not take long for them to see that it was not Mr. Dilly, both Parks and Scott being personally acquainted with the latter. The man said he was simply traveling through the country, going south, and had been in Kansas and other western states and spoke of the floods in Kansas having buried the corn under water. Corn was also poor in Illinois, he told them, but looked here like we were going to have some corn. He was a z middle-aged man, tall but rather slim, hair nearly gray and wore a dark moustache. He said his name was Mack, and that he had merely stopped to wash out his underclothes, as he thought it a good palce to do so; said he wu

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going on as soon as his clothes got dry. He was left to go his way and Parks and Scott came back to town. Some of the people out there who had noted the man’s actions and resemblance to Mr. Dilly, had watched him unobserved while waiting for the officers, that he might not get away. H Not a word has been heard of Dilly since hq_ was last seen at Yeoman, Carroll county, July 25, and was going from there to Chicago on a business deal, and his family is nearly crazed over his disappearance. The Indianapolis News published his picture and description Thursday evening, and other papers have also publshed a description of the missing man, so that it is likely that he will be located ere long if he has not met with foul play, which is hardly likely. He has evidently become slightly deranged again and has wandered away.

REFORM SCHOOL BOYS ATTEMPT ESCAPE.

Benton Review: The Fountain Park Assembly had a boy chorus from the Plainfield reform school last Sunday. There were 16 of them but the chance for liberty was too strong a temptation for two of them and they got away. One was captured at Wadena and one got as far as Barce Monday morning before they were recaptured. The guard and a “trusty” went with them from here back to the institution Monday, with the two boys handcuffed together. We suppose they were punished when they got back, but in our estimation the guard who had them on exhibition ought to get the punishment and let the boys a10ne..... George Weppler attended the exercises at Fountain Park last Monday and returned home in a single buggy with his brother and a neighbor. His companions noticed his silence, but supposed he had simply fallen asleep until reached home and found him dead. Coroner Comley was called to investigate,' and decided that the young man had died of heart failure. His remains were sent to his former home in Illinois, where his parents reside. He was 26 years old and highly respected by everyone who knew him.

OBITUARY.

Margaret Kennedy Harris was born on a farm in Virginia, July 30, 1838. She was the fourth child of a family of eight, but two of whom, Joseph and John Kennedy of Morocco, survive her. Her parents, David and Susan Kennedy, came from Virginia a short time after her birth, and settled on a farm east of Crawfordsville. When she was 13 years old the family ftioved to the Kennedy homestead west of Mount Ayr, which is still owned by the decedents of these sturdy pioneers. Here she grew to womanhood, having all the comforts that were to be had in those early days, and enduring the hardships incident thereto. In December, 1858, she was married to Henry Oliver Harris, and to this union there were born four children, Elbert T„ Joseph C. (deceased), Virginia and Jessie. After her marriage she and her husband went to live on the farm still owned by him just east of Mount Ayr, and there the children were born and grew to man and womanhood. In 1888 the family moved to Rensselaer and lived for a short time in the old Hammond property east of town, but Mr. Harris soon purchased the palatial home at the foot of Washington street, which the family have occupied since. Her fatal sickness dates back about a year, and Mrs. Harris had ben under the care of the best physicians obtainable, but the family had been conscious of the fact for some time that the mother could not be with them but little longer, and the only thing that could be done was to make her last days as comfortable as it was possible to do. This was done. She went to the Baptist Hospital at Chicago and was treated for some time, after which she came home, but later went to Chicago to the Michael Reece Hospital. Here the noise was too much for one whose nerves were so sensitive, and she was taken to the Rest Cure Hospital, where the quiet so much needed was secured, but disease had done its deadly work, and on Saturday, August 15th, at 1:45 p. m„ she died. The remains were brought here Sunday evening and the funeral was held at the home Tuesday at 2 p. m., and was conducted by Rev. J. C. Rhodes, of Vincennes, assisted by Rev. D. J. Huston of Goodland, Baptist ministers, of which church Mrs. Harris had long been a member. She was laid to rest in the beautiful mausoleum recently built on the family lot in Weston ceifietery.

After a five year test with 58 different varieties of wheat, Purdue University highly recommends a variety called Rudy. I have it free from rye and cheat at SI.OO per bu. while it lasts. W. H. PULLEN. Delicate full crsam cheese. Something extra—Home Grocery.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. The annual estimates of county expenditures for the calendar year 1909, appear on the second page of todays Democrat. The total amount asked for is $55,383.55, or about $4,000; less than last year. —o•— Marriage licenses issued: August 19, Leopold Well of New Orleans, La., aged 37, occupation merchant, to Belle Fendig of Rensselaer, daughter of Nathan Fendig, aged 29, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. There is little doing about the county offices these days except routine work. Only three marriage licenses have been issued so far this month, few new suits have been filed and not many real estate transfers are being recorded. Next month • court will convene and things will be a little more lively, as there will be quite a respectable sized docket, although there are no cases of great general importance. ——OK— In the case of the State vs. C. E. Lakin, who was arrested in the round-up wherein he and Sherman Renicker participated, Mr. Lakin appeared before "Judge” Irwin last Friday and plead not guilty, and raised the point that the “Judge” had no jurisdiction of his case, but after the evidence had been heard the “Judge” thought differently, and fined him $1 and costs, amounting to An appeal to the circuit court may result. —o — New suits filed: No. 7351. Ruth C. Thompson vs. Jay P. Thompson; Action for divorce.

The complaint alleges that the parties were married at Hebron, Porter county, Dec. 28, 1901, and separated May 17, 1908. Cruel and inhuman treatment, drunkenness, failure to provide and attempts to murder plaintiff, once in 1903, threatened to kill her with a pair of scissors, and again in July, 1904, tried to kill her with a razor. Two children, Mildred Mae, 6 years, and Harold H, 2 years, are the fruits of the uhion, which plaintiff asks the custody of. The parties reside in Wheatfield, we understand. O►— A few weeks ago F. W. Fisher, a prominent farmer and widower of Kankakee tp., was in Rensselaer and took a pair of marriage license application blanks home with him, telling the clerk he “wanted them for another party.” Since that time the clerk has been spending that two dollar license fee—in anticipation. Now- it develops that Frank took those blanks for his own private use, and, after having filled them out w-ent over in Carroll county recently with the bride-to-be, who was a Miss Grace Noland of White county, got his license and was married, and Clerk Warner don’t get a penny out of it! It will be well for Frank to steer clear of the clerk’s office next time he comes to Rensselaer. Such misrepresentation and exceedingly unpatriotic conduct as this cannot be permitted any more, and the next man that comes in with a sheepish look on tils face and wants some application blanks for "another party” will have to plank down two daddy dollars before he gets even a pleasant look from the clerk. Of course, if Frank will spend the price of the license that the clerk didn’t sell, for cigars, the matter may be fixed up satisfactorily to all concerned. —o—• The last quarterly report of the county poor farm superintendent, for quarter ending May 31, showed 17 inmates at the poor asylum, the largest number shown for a long time. The above report was overlooked at the time in our “court house” news, and we herewith publish same by request: The receipts for the quarter were $1,043.08, and expenses $857.40, leaving a surplus of $205.08. The receipts were from the following sources: Benj. Harris, 3 steers/-. .. .$136.66 Babcock & Hopkins, 1147 bu. oats 550.65 B S Fendig. cow hide. ..... 2.08 S R Nichols, 10 hogs at sc. . 144.50 Cream sold during quarter. . 42.77 Mr. Hunter, one horse 45.00 Total $1,043.08 The expenses were: Bessie Doll, labor $42.00 Estle Markin, same 69.00 J E Cooper, same 50.00 W A Richmond, tiling * 39.00 J F Irwin, tile 46.32 Edgar Grant, labor 1.00 Ohio Paint & Varnish Co.. . disinfectant 13.00 Alfred Collins, paper sacks. . 1.25 Charles Osborn, painting; .. . 4.00 H F King, blacksmithing.... 10.00 John Eger, grocery contract 117.18 Perry Marlatt, 6bu seed corn 6.00 A J Biggs, 6 bu. same. ..... 6.00 G B Porter, boot and shoe contract, etc 67.47

Maines & Hamilton, corn planter and fertilizer 140.00 Wortley & Fenwick, horse service 15.00 J A Larsh, drugs, paints.... 9.15 W J Wright, undertaking. . . 25.00 Rothoßros., meat contract. . . 10.25 D M Worland, springs, mattresses, etc 20.80 Jesse Nichols, Supt. salary.. 175.00 Total $857.40

A PROSPERITY “SPIEL.”

The Hon. Richard Foulks of Milroy township was in town last week and relieved his system of an accumulation of knowledge that was simply astounding, when the fact is considered that he has to work every day and many times on Sunday. He did this through the Rensselaer Republican, according to that sheet, so that it would reach as many of the people as possible. He is quoted as saying he has “not observed the farmers falling over themselves to contribute” to Bryan’s campaign fund, “and don’t expect to see any of them either.” From the Hon. Dick’s throne on the dredge he has much better facilities of observing the frogs, mudturtles and catfish falling over themselves than he has to observe the farmers, and this fact accounts for his failure to have observed the condition of tire farmer's mind on this subject. But he ventures to suggest one reason why they are not falling over each other and that is because the price of corn has been boosted from 15 cents to 65 cents since 1895, and then, according to the Republican, he launches into a defense of the present high prices as follows:

“And now they are raising a frightful fuss because flour and beef and pork and other living expenses are high. But he can’t for the life of him figure out how wheat is going to be high and flour and bread low, nor how the farmer is going to feed his cattle 50 cent corn and the butcher sell beef for the price it sold for when corn was 15 cents.” The Hon. Dick wouldn’t have said that if he had not been shut up on that dredge so long that in a way he is out of touch with the civilized world. There are people in this world, many of whom vote the republican ticket all the time, that have gotten the fool notion into their heads that the price of beef should be based on the cost of the animal slaughtered, and not on the price of corn that was fed to them. They have memories elastic enough to recall that in 1895 butcher stuff was costing within SI.OO a hundred pounds as much as it does now, and meat was much cheaper—the Hon. Dick intimating that it only cost half as much. , And then the Hon. Dick spits on his hands, takes a flrm hold on the caudal appendage of his subject and delivers himself of this beautiful literary gem. “And he can’t see what kick the fellow has got who bought everything he ate and wore in 1895 for half what he pays now, if he didn’t have a job then.” Suppose the same fellow was out of a job now, with everything he eats and wears costing him as much again as they did in 1895, would he have any kick coming? If reports can be given and credence there are a few- hundred thousand “fellows” out of jobs now. Another thing we should like to remind “Dick” of, as well as the Republican and the citizens of Rensselaer and vicinity, is the fact that the greatest prosperity Rensselaer ever saw—the only thing like a boom that the town ever experienced, was during those same “hard times” of 1893-6. Then every mechanic in the city was employed, scores of new houses were going up all over town. And still there were not houses enough to accommodate the people ■ w-ho wanted to come here, and dozens of families were campedfojht on the commons, in tents, becffhse there was not an empty house in Rensselaer! Dick knows this, too, but he and the Republican editors like to talk just to hear their heads roar. Today our mechanics are seeking work everyplace, and the Republican says two carpenters went to Hammond Monday, having heard there was work there. A Hammond gentleman in a position to know, told us only a short time ago that there were more men out of employment there than had ever been .known before: that the conditions were simply fierce, to use a slang phrase, and that the • removal of the G. H. Hammond packing house from there was not a circumstance to the hard hit it was now experiencing. But we digress. Then this piece of information follows: “It was the Dingley tariff bill that put smoke in the chimneys and filled up the dinner pail, and it will be hard work to induce the farmer to believe that he should contribute to the democratic campaign fund when they can give him no promise save the closing of the factories and the,, withdrawal of the demand that has made corn and bats and wheat and potatoes and every article that is grown or fed on the farm bring the highest price in history.” ;

Whose “bill” took the smoke out of the chimneys? Whose “bill” emptied the dinner nail? Whose tariff ‘‘bill” closed the factories? Whose “bill” keeps them closed? Whose ‘ bill’ caused the soup houses last winter, and still keeps them in operation? Whose "bill” caused the banks to go "democratic” last fall? Whose "bill” caused the panic? Whose "bill” caused the banks in this and every other town in this vicinity to refuse to pay you your money that you had on deposit subject to check? Whose “bill” put more than a million men out of a job? Whose "bill” is keeping most of them out of a job now, and with an election not three months off too? These questions are submitted to the Hon. Richard Foulks and the the Republican for their consideration.

AWAY UP IN MANITOBIA.

Fred Jessen of Morocco returned from Manitobia, Canada, last Sunday, after having spent several days in visiting his brother George who has been farming in that faraway land since the early spring of 1904, owning 240 acres 22 miles west of Winnipeg, the largest and finest city in Western Canada. The difference in that and this country is so vast, in almost everything that a short resume of farming conditions and the laws under which they live will make good reading. Mr. Jessen rode a binder a half day while there. His brother had just commenced cutting his oats, of which he has a considerable acreage sown. He had commenced while they were somewhat green so as to get his 340 acres of oats, wheat and barley cut, as this must be done in his case with a six and eight foot binder. These oats were so thick on the ground and so high that it was impossible to cut a full swath with the eight foot binder. They will make a very large yield. The wheat is also good, but the barley is very poor in both yield and quality. All the land in that country is bought in 240 acre tracts, as originally it was allotted to the Indians in that sized allotments, and farms are made up of multiples of 240 acres. The richest man in that country has only 720 acres, and thereto hangs a tale. Some years ago, we have not been advised how many, this province revised its system of taxation, and at this time, in the country at least, all taxes are levied on land, and you don't have to be worried about notes or money in bank, as the same amount is assessed on every piece regardless of what improvements it has, or whether it has any at all. Personal property is not assessed. Wild land that does not belong to the government is assessed to the owner at the same price as though he had fine buildings thereon, and other improvements in proportion. And the result is that land is worth from sls for wild land, and about half of the land is still covered with wild grass, up to $35 for improved land, or enough difference to cover the improvements. And very few tenants! Think of that. The poor speculator don’t have any show at all. He can’t afford to hold the land for a raise in price for the tax has to be paid, he can’t get out of that, and the wild grass that is cut off of it will not pay them, making the land a dead loss as long as it is not worked. Land being so cheap tenants are not profitable for the same reason. The same wild grass and the same wild flowers that grew in this country before the plowshare turned them under grow in that country. Blue stem, sagegrass, wild oats, which we used to pick and throw like darts, and the Sweet Wiliams and nigger-head, are all found in that country 250 miles north of the 49th parallel. Then they have the Canada and Sow thistle, both of them the worst weeds that ever grow. These grow from the seed which fill the air on windy days and from the least little root that is left In the ground and so fast that the fields must be left cropless once in four years, and plowed continuously to keep these pests down, and last year the government took a hand and have appointed men to Took after the farmer that does not take care of these noxious weeds. Mr. Jessen is now negotiating for a farm up there and thinks he will get it. although his brother George declares he will sometime come back to the States, and although a republican he also thinks that we could get some excellent pointers from our Canadian neighbor.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. The democrats of Kankakee township will meet at the Dunnville school house Saturday, August 2», 1908, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to be voted for at the November election and for the transaction of any other business that may coma before the convention. T. F. MALONEY, Chm. BERT VANDERCAR, Sec.

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