Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — Page 5

MAN’S NEGLIGENCE CAUSES SEVERE LOSSES. A VERY COMMON ONE IS THE LOSS OF HIS teeth. Nature doesn’t supply the second set—l do. One reason It’s easy to become accustomed to teeth—-I fit — most people don’t return after a day or two with popular complaints. “Didn’t know it could be done so easy,” is what they say. „ Any reason why you shouldn’t make a similar remark if I fit your second set of teeth? PR. J- W- HORTON

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. To-day’s corn, 70c; oats, 46c;rye 66c. Anna and Isabelle Luers are visiting in Fowler this week. J. H. Karr went to Mitchell, So. Dak., Tuesday to look at the country. I Mrs. W H. Beam and Mrs. L. H. Hamilton were shopping in Chicago Thursday. Miss Pearl Daniels is visiting relatives at Logansport and Marlon this week. Washington Lowman is very sick with typhoid fever at his home east Of town. Mrs. C. A. Albertson of Raleigh, No. Dak., is visiting her son, John Albertson of this city. SsGeorge Long will attend Wabash dollege' this year, and will take a special course in chemistry. John King will occupy the W. A. Cleveland residence, and his son Fred will run the green house. John Renicker was in Miami county last week looking for a farm, but did not find any that suited him. Chas. Greenlee and Samuel Holmes have gone to Mt. Pleasant, Teniv., to visit for a few w r eeks with relatives. NjPrank Hardman will attend Chicago University this year, and left Thursday for Chicago for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for doing so.

and William Scott have rented the Chas. Moody farm in Barkley tp., and will go in' the spring to commence operations. They will make a good team and will *pull together all the time. J. W. IliTl of Walker tp., mention of whose public sale appears elsewhere in this paper expects to move to Angola, Ind., as sobn as the sale is over. His son, who has been farming with him, will remain in Walker. Typhoid fever is here again, not in town, although in this vicinity, and it would not be amiss to examine the water tank and see whether it is in a sanitary condition. Am ounce of prevention is worth several pounds of cure. Miss Mabel Young who has been employed as teacher in a school in Jasper county was unable to commence work yesterday on account of tonsilitls. She hopes to be able to open school next Monday.—Monticello Journal. Benjamin Smith, the contractor, is unable to get out of his house on account of an old ailment in the form of an ulcer on one of his limbs. With the assistance of a riend he was able to attend the oecial election Thursday. The Brook public schools will open next Monday/ Miss Mary Goetz, of Newton tp., who has been teaching at Wheatfleld for several j years, will teach the first grade, and Katie Shields of Rensselaer will again teach the thiriLgrade. E. R. Osborn, who came here from Goodland last spring, has found work so scarce that he has moved to Chenoa, 111., the family having gone there Monday. We regret to lose Mr. Osborn as he is a good citizen and a good democrat. s 'K s J’rank Haskell soon got tired of latching, and in consequence went to Valparaiso Sunday, where Mrs. Haskell and baby had been visiting for several days. They returned Tues--day, so Prank is getting the same kind of grub “mother used to cook,” and is happy again, Chris Sack, who suffered a sunstroke some two months ago, was able to walk down town for the first time Monday morning._ He was down town last Saturday, but rode down with a friend. It is almost needless to say that he came down town Thursday to vote for Mr. Law. x At the Presbyterian church Sunday morning Miss Edna M. Banning, an evangelist, will occupy the pulpit. In the evening the choir will render a program of songs of the late Ira D. Sankey, after which the Pastor will give a short account of his life and work. Everybody invited. 'MjMrs. Laura Michael left for Burlington, Wyoming, Tuesday to visit her sop John, and on the same train Miss Edna Ritchey started to Manderson, Wyoming, to visit her mother, and may conclude to remain there. W. H. Ritchey and • Bert Welsh accompanied them "as far as Chicago, both of them returning the same day.

Don’t forget the excursion to Chicago next Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Conway visited in Roselawn this week. Mrs. Iva Smith moved to Mt. Ayr this week, her former home, where she will reside in the future. , Richard Beck left yesterday for Lebanon where he will work for "Billy” Merica in his bakery. Geo. Heuson and William Elkins are looking at the country in the neighborhood of Yukon, Okla., with a view of buying, this week. XJJames R. Sigler and family of bn>Ayr came overland by the James Dunlap route and took a train for Chicago, yesterday w’here they will visit until Monday. The mother of Dr. Zeuch of Wheatfleld died at his home Wednesday night of cancer, and will be taken to Chicago for burial, where one of her daughters reside. ' s *Rev. Chas. Pitzer, who puts in time running a meat market at Thayer, was in town Thursday. With his law business, his horse doctoring and his charge over in Milroy township, where he preaches regularly, he is a very busy man. G. D. Gregory, who sells Dr. Baker's remedies in the county, went to Wheatfleld Wednesday afternoon to cast his vote in the special election. In doing this he lost one day’s work and his expenses, but saved the day in Wheatfleld township. The report was current—in fact letters were received here —stating that Governor Hanly had called off the 1 special election for state senator in Starke coiiuty, but on receiving the Starke county papers we are informed that they were preparing to hold the election just the same, and they did Ijold it. G. M. Wilcox, who is the whole thing at Surrey, has been treating himself to a little outing, arriving home Tuesday night. He visited Sandusky, Springfield, Dayton, and Put-in-Bay, Ohio. At Springfield he visited his son Louie, who ’is jn business there. He had what fie denominated “a bully good time” while gone. George W. Sharp brought his two lehiaining children here Thursday dnd found a home for the boy with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rishling, and the girl with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Parks. These homes may not be permanent, but puts the children in good hands for the present. Mr. Sharp Yeturbed to Indianapolis Thursday afternoon. J. C. Frazee, who went to Miami county some years ago, wns in town Monday and Tuesday, looking after his farms in Barkl#y township. He says it is drier in Miami county than it is here, and he has been feeding his stock for two weeks, with a prospect of feeding until spring. The corn in that county is in worse shape than it is here, and the oats were about the same as here. Moral: Old Jasper is not so bad- after all.

Thomas Driver writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Lewiston, Mich., to Atlanta. Mich., '.and says he likes his new home real well. All grain there is good, he states, except corn, oats making 40 to 60 bushels to the acre. The climate is real healthy and he has not had a cold since he went there. His old catarrh trouble has entirely disappeared, he says, and he is in better health than for years. \R. B. Harris and wife and Hale Warner and wife started on a pleas-. \we trip last Friday, visiting Chtca- ?*>, Waukegan, Racine and Milwaukee. They got home Tuesday. The smoke from the forest and peat marsh fires that are now raging la northern Wisconsin was something awful at both Racine and Milwaukee. We have several experiences of the same kind heres but the smell as well as the smoke is somewhat diluted after passing over so much space, but the peat smoke is easily detected even here. , —— Miss Gretrude Ames of Madison, a grand-daughter of John L. Ames of this city, came Wednesday for a viait with her grand-parents and other relatives here. Miss Ames reports that everything is burning up in southern Indiana, and that the Ohio river is so low that it can be waded at Madison. Mr. Ames, who Is the gardner at the Hill ranch, on the old Mark Reed farm, says he has a cabbage that measures 18 inches in diameter the long way, and it is doubtful if the equal of this nan be found in this county. He is an old steamboat builder but it is evident that he knows how r to tend_a garden also.

attempting to start hia ajuto yesterday afternoon, Dr; Washburn had an explosion that blew the jacket entirely off the muffler of his machine with a report like a gun. Little other damage was done. The fall meeting of the Logansport. Presbytery will be held at the Presbyterian church here next Monday and 'Tuesday. The first session will be held Monday evening, at which time there will be a sermon' by the moderator, Rev. H. B. Hosteter. Tuesday forenoon will be given to business, and at noon dinner will be served at the church, followed by a number of after-din-ner Speeches on • various topics The Presbytery will close Tuesday evening with two addresses —one by Rev. A. B. Smith of Rochester on the C. E. movement, and one on the "Church of Today” by Rev. J. B. Donaldson of Laporte.—Montlcello Herald. A minister’s wife, a doctor’s wife and a traveling man’s wife met one day recently and were talking about the forgetfulness of their husbands. The minister’s wife thought her husband was the most forgetful man living because he would go to church and forget his notes and no one could make out what he was trying to preach about. The doctor’s wife thought her husband was more forgetful still, for he would often start out to see a patient and forget his medicine case and travel nine miles for nothing. “Well,” said the traveling man’s wife, “my husband beats that. He came home the other day and patted me on the cheek and said, ‘Hello, girlie, I believe I’ve seen you before; what is >your name?’ ” —Ex. The Lake County Times, which paper recently came out strong for Taft, says that Attorney Harlan Bixby, the leading Socialist of Hammond has also come out strong for Taft, and that Mr. Bixby will be followed by other Hammond socialists in to the republican party. The same editorial says the Col. Thomas Higginson of Boston, a leading socialist of the east, has declared for Taft. This is as it should be, the socialist was created by republican ] policies, and it is only just that they should serve their creator. And! then no socialist would feel at home in the democrat party anyway. What will be the effect of this news on some local republicans who ,have not been able to find words abusive enough to express themselves against the socialists? They will now have some reason for “cussing.”

HARVEST FESTIVAL. There will be a harvest festival at John Reed’s mile" north of Virgie, on what is known as the Sears’ place, on Tuesday, September 29. Everybody cordially invited. Program as follows: Prise of SI.OO for the best ten ears of corn. For second hest ten ears, 50c. Tug-of-war, prize. 50c. Fat Man’s 'race; first, $1.00; second, 50c. Potato race, first, $1.00; second. 50c. Wheel-barrow race, first, 'SO; second, 25c. Young Ladies’ race, first, 50c; second, 25c. A free for all race, first, SI.OO. There will be lunch and refreshments on the ground and a dance at night. Everybody invited. Fruit jars at less than wholesale prices at the Chicago Bargain Store. The new Gem flour at $1.38 discounts them all. Try it once and you will have no other. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Extra fine Michigan peaches about $1.25 to $2.00 per bushel, sale days, Wednesday and Thursday, September £3rd and 24th, at the Chicago Bargain Store. The best canned goods that we can buy—Home Grocery. _ Notice—Anyone holding accounts against the late J. L. Smith or knowing themselves indebted to same, will please notify R. JB. Smith, Rensselaer, Ind. 45 An arm load of old papers for a nickel at the Democrat ofllce.

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MURDEREDHISSISTER

That’s the Way It Looks Now and the Accused Is in the City Lockup. TELLS A BUNCH OF STORIES All of Them Lies, but the Truth Seems To Be Plain Murder —Story of a Cat. Indianapolis, Sept. 18.—Murder la the formal charge placed against nine-teen-year-old Charles Gelsendorf at police headquarters. The boy shot his sister Margaret, aged sixteen, at their home, 1035 West Michigan street, and three hours later the girl died at tiie City hospital. Charles said the shooting was accidental, as he did not know the -weapon was loaded. His conflicting statements, however, got him into trouble, and he is now held without bond until the police make a thorough Investigation. Begins By Telling Two Lies. Blcyclemen Wilson and Golnisch hurried to the Gelsendorf home when they heard of tiie shooting. At first Charles told the police his sister had accidentally shot herself, but after being questioned he admitted shooting the girl. He said he took the weapon from a drawer and playfully snapped it at hi< sister and the bullet struck her near the eye. She Chased Him with an Iron. Margaret was a feeble-minded girl, and after Investigating the bicyclen.en were of the opinion that there had been trouble between Charles and Margaret. Charles had a scratch on his face,, and a flatiron was found on the floor. The boy, was questioned until he admitted that his sister was ehus ing him with the iron, and that he shot ftt her from an adjoining room. The powder burns on the girl’s face show ed that the weapon had been held close to her head. Charles said she fell In another room adjoining the one in which the police found a pool of blood.

Loaded the Weapon Himself. The boy at first said fie did not know Pte;revolver was loaded, but when questioned said he loaded the weapon a short time before he fired. The mother of the boy and girl was in the house with a visitor, Mrs. Elizabeth Overman, when the shot was fired. Charles told so many conflicting stories that the bicyolemen decided to lock him up in spite of the protests of the mother.

THIS STORY IS OF A CAT But It Everlastingly Discredits the Feline as an Enemy of the Rodent. Columbus, Iml.. IS.—John Carr, of this city, has a eat that !:as failed to make good. Everybody in Columbus knows John Carr and everybody knows that his word as good as his bond, so when lie tells the story tiie-v. is no one in this place, at least, that will doubt it. Carr's eat was sit ing near a hole in an alley fence gazing complacently at the view through the hole, when a full grown rat came In view in the alley. The cat did not move, and peop'e who were watching expected the rat to scamper away. But instead of making a hurried getaway, the rat came closer to the cat and finally, to the astonishment of those who were witnesses, put its paws on the oats head, and some sort of goo-goo ronversation took place between the eat and the rat. Then the rat crawled through the hole, joined the cat and they walked away together.

HEWS FACTS IN OULTINE Thrde hundred and five eases and 115 deaths from the Asiatic cholera were reported at St Petersburg for the twenty-four hours ended at noon yesterday. Rlshops of the African M. E. church have complained to the Interstate commerce CQpimissiori of the “Jim Crow" car matter in the south, and demand “no discrimination" against I’nlted States eiti/.eus traveling in the I'nited States ' ■

In his speech to tjie convention of the Interparliamentary Union at Berlin Prince von Buelow declared that Germany wanted nothing so much as universal jpeace. ',The president since July 1 has passed upon ninety-six applications for par don, and granted forty-six. Thetotal immigration Into this country during August was 27,783, while during August, 1907, the Immigrants numbered 98'825. For the first time in the history of the eastern Wisconsin Methodist conference there are no applicants for positions as pastors in the various churches of the district. Count Leo Tolstoy has been elected to honorary membership in the faculty of the University of St. Petersburg. The plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company at Creighton, Pa.,closed since June, will resume work next Mionday. The board of directors of the Westinghouse Airbrake company has declared a quarterly dividend of 2% per cent. A six and one-half-inch rainfall Inside of teti hours caused the streets In the business section of Galveston, Tex., to be flooded.

DWARF APPLES.

They Will Be Grown on Account of Their Convenience. G. T. Powell of Columbia county, N. Y., has been conducting some Interesting experiments on the value of dwarf apple trees in business orchards. It is the Idea of Mr. Powell that trees of a low' habit of growth will be required more aud more because of the need of convenience for spraying and harvesting. The scale insects make It almost impossible to thoroughly treat large trees, and the cost of labor makes a saving at harvesting time of great importance. Two styles of dwarf trees are under trial. The so called Paradise is very dwarl’ aud is short lived. The Doucln stock is half dwarf, making trees sixteen to eighteen feet high, and promises good results iu commercial orcharding. The trees are planted two or three Inches below the union of stock aud top. Iu Mr. Powell’s orchard the trees of Paradise stock are set as fillers between those of the larger dwarf kind. The rows iu the orchard are twenty feet apart and the trees ten in a row. The wide spaces between the rows allow plenty of room for cultivation by horsepower, while the trees in the rows will be thinned out as soon as they become crowded. The dwarf trees give fruit iu a few’ years from planting, and the amount gradually increases. The small dwarf kind lasts six to eight years and the semidwarfs for about twenty years. For dw;arf t rees the Spitzenberg, Jonathan and Mclntosh are found successful. They produce fruit of very flue appearance aud quality, suitable for packing in boxes for the choicest trade. For the half dwarfs the Northern Spy, Iloxbury Russet, Twenty Ounce, Astrakhan. Baldwin and Greening are satisfactory. The dwarf trees must receive good culture, with plenty of plant food and earojTv:! cultivation. The soil is plowed and harrowed in f: > spring and is kept iu a cover crop of clover during the summer. Scale and other insects are easily treated in the dwarf orchards. The idea appears so premising to Mr. Powell that he Is pruning his larger trees on the dwarf plan, cutting back the tops of the standard trees in order to cause them to spread out and to remove the high parts of the tree, which make so much difficulty in spraying old trees.

Designing Next Year’s Planting. As your shrubs, perennials and annuals blossom, planting plans for next year may best be devised. When the flowers are in bloom their effect may be noted, and the change to be wrought by new plants may be accurately calculated. That is the time to get out notebook and catalogue, figure out what your flower lieds and shrubbery borders lack and decide what may best supply that lack. If a pink flowering shrub is needed at a certain point, make a note of it in your book; better still, stick up a little stake in the exact spot where the shrub would look best, marking on the stake the specifications, whether the plant should be tall or low growing, the season of flowering, etc. Then when you order your shrubbery for fall planting

Dofl&is/ for Meiv, Womeiv^^A FEN DIGS FAIR Rensselaer, Ind.

your nurseryman can fill your specific cations, and when the plant comes you will know the exact place to plant It. In grouping your plants take pains to make them fit in with the neighboring architecture. The texture of the foliage, the color of the flowers, season of bloom and the rapidity of growth should all be considered carefully. Do not plant shrubs so close together when they are young that when they attain a few years’ grdwth they will be crowded.

The Louise Bonne Pear.

A good midseasou pear, the Louise Bonne, is one of the best known market varieties and has always been popular In various localities because of its great productiveness and general good qualities. The tree is hardy everywhere that pears succeed, and it does

LOUISE BONNE PEAR.

well either on natural pear stock or on the quince. It is a vigorous upright grower and very productive, especially if grown in deep rich loam, which Is its favorite soil.

The fruit is large and yellowish green in color, with a slight tinge of brownish red. The flesh is white, fine grained and juicy, with pleasant aro matic flavor. It is a good dessert pear and also suitable for market or distant shipment It ripens in September aud early October, just before the Sheldon. Bartlett, Louise and Sheldon make a succession of high grade market pears. It Is a pear of French origin, but is highly recommended on the official list of the department of agriculture as suitable for the New England and middle states.

Inherits Half a Million. Terre Haute. Ind., Sept; 15.—Mrs. B. V. Marshall, wife of a prominent citizen, has inherited $500,000 from her uncle, Jacob Shinebergar. of Dillon, Mont. He left an estate of $2,000,000. The Poultr House. Now Is a good time to thoroughly renovate the poultry house. Clean out all the old nests. Burn the old nest material. Clean the building and thoroughly whitewash. Beekeepers ln> the United States. There are 800.000 beekeepers iu the United States, and the annual production of honey has a value of $15,000,000.

A shoe stock double any other in town, high grade goods at low grade prices, at the Chicago Bargain Store,