Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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BRYAN WILL BE HERE TUESDAY

Will Make Twenty Minute Speech in Rensselaer SCHEDULE IS 8:40 TO 9 O’CLOCK Leaves Chicago On Special Train at •:30 a. m., Stopping at Lowell, Rensselaer, and Monon. William J. Bryan will go from Chicago to Louisville next Tuesday and will make fifteen speeches in Hoosierdom. He will leave Chicago at 6:30 a. m., and will make stops at these places in Indiana: Lowell, 7:50, fifteen minutes. sMlensselaer. 8:40, twenty minutes. Ifonon, 9:20, twenty minutes. Brookston, 10:05, twenty-five min-, utes. Lafayette. 10:50, thirty minutes. Crawfordsville, 11:50, twenty minutes. Roachdale, 12:28, fifteen minutes. Greencastle, 1:01, twenty minutes. Gosport, 1:56, twenty minutes. Bloomington, 2:40; thirty minutes. Bedford, 3:50, thirty minutes. Mitchell, 4:33, twenty minutes. Orleans, 5:00, fifteen minutes. Salem. 5:45, thirty minutes. New Albany, 7:10, thirty minutes. The address here, of course, will be from the car platform or a temporary platform erected near the Monon tracks. This will be the only opportunity our people will have to hear Mr. Bryan in this campaign, and a good turnout should result. Bryan will arrive at Louisville at 8 o’clock and will address a big night meeting in that city. The trip across Indiana will be made on a special train, the entire trip being on the Monon railroad. Harry Alexander, of the Monon passenger department, said that the train will consist of an engine, baggagecar, coach and Bryan’s private car.

GEORGE GOFF IS HOME.

George W. Goff returned from Belle Fouche, So. Dak., Thursday morning after a two months absence in the wild and wooly west. He was out to visit his son Bert and family who live on a big cattle ranch, and no plowing corn or stacking oats goes in that country—it’s just drive steers and drive steers some more. Mr. Goff says he did not see any dew from the time he left here until he returned, and only one cloudy "day, and that day it rained very .hard. He said they would start out in the morning and drive 60 or 80 miles, camp over night, or several nights for that matter, and when the work was done return home again as if out of town for an hour or two. Bert and family were left in excellent health and Mr. Goff has added 75 or 80 years to his mortal existance as a result of this outing. Possibly eating sage hen and seeing so many elk had something* to do with it. too, but he looks fine, there is no mistaking that. M ,

EX-CONGRESSMAN WOOD DEAD.

Thomas J. Wood, former Congresswan, age sixty-five years, is dead at his home in Crownpoint. He was a member of the Forty-eighth Congress. Mr. Wood was born in Athens county, Ohio, and went to Vigo county, Indiana, in 1852. He was reared on a farm. After receiving a lieral education he studied law and was graduated at the Michigan University in 1868 at the head of his class. He practiced law at Crown Point, Ind., for many years. He was State’s attorney four years. State Senator four years and member Sf the Forty-eighth Congress two years. Mr. Wood was known as a safe and conservative man, and always urged the business men of the country to support the Democratic party.

RETURN FROM LAND DRAWING.

Emmet L. Fidler, who with N. A. Hendrix and A. F. Shesler went ta Presho, So. Dak., to register in the Rosebud Indian Reservation land-drawing, returned Thursday at 2:04 p. m., well satisfied with his trip; and in hopes that he drew a price in the way of a quarter section of land. All three registered while there and Mr. Shesler looked for a place to rent over in the ' neighborhood of Larimore. From Presho the trio drove to. Larimore across country last Saturday some 65 miles, covering the distance' in one day.

Although it was very Mr. Hendrix stood the trip in fine shape, much better than he would have done in this climate, Mr. Fidler thinks. The country in this part of Dakota is rolling, with the hills very abrupt, so much so that Mr. Fidler thinks if a steer was to lose his footing he would be a goner—would roll to the bottom and be killed in the tumble. O® soil is very deep in the low land and very rich, the hills however are not so good, being covered with the blue stem grass so common in this country. The fact that the Indians have first choice in the lands, and select that near water, and the further fact that each male or female over 21 gets a half section and each child a quarter section, and the further fact that there are many “kids'* in Indian families, there is not so much good land left for white men. And there is a great many white men for what land there is. Many white men lease Indian lands. Mr. Fidler tells of one who had leased eight quarters and had raised a good crop of wheat and some corn although he was 40 miles from a railroad and the nearest threshing machine was 15 miles from him.

BADLY HURT IN RUNAWAY.

John Franckovlak, of east Carpenter, mention of whose ruaway accident was briefly told in our East Jordan items in Wednesday's Democrat? seems to have been quite badly hurt, His left collar bone was broken where one of the wheels struck him and his right shoulder blade was also broken. The accident occurred on the gravel road south of town, near M. A. Dewey’s last Friday about noon. Mr. Franckoviak, was on his way to town after a load of lumber. Her only had the running gears to his wagon and was sitting on a board in the center. An automobile from Rensselaer with three or four men in it came out at a pretty swift gait, met and passed him all right, his team not generally being afraid of these machines. The auto ran on south a ways and then turned and came back, still "at a fast clip. Mr. Franckoviak knew nothing of the machine behind him and was just turning from the dirt up onto the grade to cross a culvert, the end of which was broken, when the auto rushed up beside his horses and turned on the exhaust when immediately beside them. This naturally scared them badly and they started to run, throwing the old gentleman off —he is about 68 years of age—and they ran neck and neck with the auto, it is reported for sixty or eighty rods, finally breaking the front wheels to the wagon, breaking the tongue and whiffletrees and tearing the harness all to pieces. The people in the auto never stopped, we are told, to see whether anyone was killed or not, and Mr. Frankoviak thought for awhile that he was not hurt much. The next morning, however, he was so sore he could scarcely move, and his shoulder hurt him so much that a doctor was called from Remington and has been in daily attendance on him since. It is intimated that the driver of the auto will be asked to settle the damages.

LEG BROKEN IN RUNAWAY.

Henry C. Hoshaw got a broken (leg Wednesday evening as the result of an accidental overturning of Ed S. Rhoads’ delivery wagon near the former’s residence in Rabbit town. The break was in the small bone- justi above the left ankle. Charles Rhoads had gone with Mr. Hoshaw to his home to get some cabbage, taking the new horse and the new red wagon, and when they arrived at the house, but before they had alighted from the wagon, the horse got his tail over the rein and shut down on it tight. We presume Charley pulled on the line to get it out from under. This made the rein very tight and the horse very naturally thought he was wanted to back, and he backed and kept backing for* nearly a. block. Then the wagon upset and both men went out on the ground, Charley got his back hurt, the wagon got the shafts broke out, the horse the scare of his life, and Mr. Hoshaw got the rest. We didn’t learn whether Ed got the cabbage or not, but think he did.

DEATH OF HARRIET PARKINSON

Harriet M. Parklson, eldest daughter of James R. and Mrs. Parkinson of Newton tp., died Tuesday afternoon at their home, after an illness extending over several years. Two trips had been made to California in the hope that she would regain her health hut to no avail. She returned to this county last spring and has grown steadily worse since. She was about 21 years of age at the time of her death. The funeral was held at the M. E. church in this city Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and interment made in Barkley cemetery. Consumption was the cause of her heath. . •

THE TWICE - A - WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1908.

* DEMOCRATIC SPEAKING. ♦ ♦ HON. ZACK SCIFRES, of • * Salem, at Fair Oaks school • • house, Saturday, Oct. 17, at • * 7:30 p. m. *■ • ♦ LEE E. GLAZEBROOK and J. * * A. McFARLAND, at Parr, Tues- • ♦' day evening, Oct. 20, 7:30 p. m. • • HON. THOB. R. MARSHALL, • • Democratic Candidate toy Gov- • • ernor. U Hills Opera House, •’ • Rensselaer, Wednesday, Oct. 21,.* • 7:30 p. m. •

ANOTHER BILIOUS ATTACK.

The military editor of the syndicate organ down the street had another colicy attack Thursday, and broke out in a new place. This time it was The Democrat’s mention of the vain attempts of several of the soldiers camped here last Friday night to get liquor that aroused his ire, and he spews wonderfully. Regarding that matter The Democrat has only this to say: No charge of any of the soldiers being drunk while here was made; simply that they tried to get booze and failed, and that charge is admitted even by this tin sword "veteran” of the Republican. As to what doctor issued prescriptions we do not know, but every drug store in town, .according to their story, turned down applications for whiskey on these prescriptions, one a half dozen or more, we are informed. As a druggist can only sell in quantities as small as a quart, the number of drunks that the gallons of whiskey these prescriptione in the aggregate would have created can better be imagined than described. And had the applicants been successful in getting all this booze, the peace officers might have had a different story to tell. All soldiers are not boozers, nor are all boozers soldiers, but the make-up of the regular army of today is not the army of ’6l-65 — men who left the farm, the workshop and the counter to go in defense of their flag—and there is no comparison between them. Many now join the army who are the riff-raff of the country, a fact which is well known to all.

Only two or three years ago, when a detachment of soldiers were camped here over night, Strickfaden’s saloon which was then in operation, was thronged with these soldiers and one soldier, whom it was alleged insulted while drunk a woman near Milroy Park, that night, was beaten almost to death, it was alleged by one of his officers, and was taken next morning under guard back to Ft. Sheridan, with a broken shoulder and other injuries resulting from said beating. These facts are still fresh in the minds of the people, and all the ranting of this military editor will not change them in the least. Several of these soldiers that were here Friday night did try to get liquor, gallons of It in the aggregate, according to what we are willing to believe is trustworthy evidence. Now, according to this military editor's logic about The Democrat’s

WHERE HE STANDS.

remarks, he himself is guiltly of treason in supporting Judge Taft for the presidency, a man who assailed the memory of Gen. U. S. Grant at the tomb of the latter in his last Decoration day address, and where the son of the dead general and president was a listener. If we remember correctly So distinguished a gentleman as W. H., Taft, the republican candidate for the presidency, in an address a Tew months ago in his Decoration speech at Grant’s tomb in New York City rudely tore aside the mantle of charity that is generally supposed to protect the memory of the dead and referred to the greatest general of the civil war, Gen. U. S. Grant, as a boozer, as plain 20th century slang would call it. During the war, so the story goes, when complaint was made to President Lincoln of Gen. Grant’s indulgence in liquors, he remarked that if he knew the brand of whiskey Gen. Grant used he would send a demijohn of it to every Union general. And yet Mr. Taft’s remarks brought forth no criticism from this patriotic syndicate sheeet, the Rensselaer Republican, nor did it call him a traitor. The people of this community are very familiar with the heroism of the military editor of this sheet. They have not forgotten how he declined to go down and whip the Spaniards unless he could go as a commissioned officer, and the enlisted men did not want him, and he staid at home. They remember how a few years ago he went into a restaurant here, where M. H. Tyler, a quiet, peaceable citizen who never had a word of trouble with anyone, was sitting at a counter partaking of a lunch, and the big, brave tin soldier brutally assaulted him —for no cause whatever so far as was ever disclosed —and later plead guilty to assault and was fined and costed in the Jasper circuit court. They have not forgotten his later assault on a young man passing the office of his—the military editor's —employer, or his bloody fight on a train returning from a football game one Sunday evening a year or two ago, etc., etc. Heroes are as heroes do, and we never knew of a common bruiser who ever gained the plaudits of any except those of his own class. The facts are the syudicate organ hoped to create a little prejudice against The Democrat by this attack—a feature of its opposition that it has very persistently resorted to with little or no provocation whatever—in the vain hope of adding a vote or two to the g. o. p. but as \ usual it does nothing but further’’ discloses the asslnity of its editors.

Good fresh eggs 22 cents per doz. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. -4The Jasper County Sunday School Association wi|l meeet in Rensselaer, Thursday, Oct. 22. All Sunday school workers should attend. L. H. HAMILTON, Pres. MISS URA GWIN, Sec. Fqncy Michigan potatoes are here; 75 cents per bushel off car or 80 cents delivered. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

POSTOFFICE TO MOVE NEXT WEEK

New Location Will Boom Business Property In That Part of Town. The new postoffice furniture will be shipped today from Indianapolis and will be installed as soon as received, in the K. of P. building. There will be 231 call boxes, 225 small keyless lock boxes, 50 medium, intended for business firms, and 20 large boxes. These are all combination lock boxes. The prices will be, per quarter, call boxes, 25 cents; small locks, 45; medium locks, 60; large locks, 75, same as now. The office will be more accessible on Sundays than it has ever been heretofore and persons having lock boxes can get their mail any time in the forenoon after the distribution of the mail takes place. The stamp, money order, general delivery and call box windows will be in the front and the rear will be used for the rural delivery carriers. The mail will also be delivered to the office from the west side of the building, where a new door will be cut in. There will be much more convenience to the public in this new arrangement. The room will be heated by steam. It is expected to get the new furniture installed and everything in shape to move in about the middle of next week. As there will be no furniture to move from the old building, except the safe, the moving will be a short job. The moving the posoffice into the K. of P. building, where it is likely to remain for ten years at least, is a great boom for the business property in that end of town, and already all the rooms in this building have been rented, both upstairs and down, except the business room surrounding the postoffice part on the east and north, a very desirable business room which a half dozen different parties are now after.

“BOB" WASN’T LOOKING FOR THEM.

Robert Zick of Walker tp., a bachelor brother of Mrs. B. E. White of this city and Mrs. W. W. Warren of Demotte, got a surprise Monday night that he has not got over yet. It was his 50th birthday anniversary, and Mrs. Warren and his brother Louie concluded to give him a surprise such as he had never had in his fifty years of bachelordom, and they did. They took several friends and neighbors into their confidence, and together they went to the elder Zick’s home where Robert lives and took the place by storm. Robert had his old working clothes on and thought his time had come, probably thought they were going to force him to marry somebody, anyway he was so excited that he got his clothes changed with much difficulty. Finally he began to cool off and then they served some excellent refreshments that had been prepared by the “surprise™” for this occasion. Everybody had a splendid good time, and we rather think “Bob” would be pleased to be surprised again and have the guests bring a preacher with them with a marriage license in his inside pocket for immediate use. *

Ths Democrat, |I.SQ per year.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up Adout the County Capitol. M. C. Ulrey of Brook, who furnished the furniture for Newton county’s new court house, has at last got his pay. There was some irregularity over the letting of the contract and the matter has been in the courts for the past two years or more. jkClerk Warner and wife went to Chicago Thursday. The former expected to return yesterday, but Mrs. Warner will remain over Sunday. Mrs. A. F. Long and Mrs. Bert Brenner and son accompanied them to the city. _ Marriage licenses issued: Oct. jrl,' James Nathan Keen of Wheatfield, aged 34, occupation harnessmaker, to Edna Dee Jessup, of Hanna, Laporte county, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. And now it is said the new acts of the late special session of the legislature will not be ready for distribution for three weeks yet, and if this is true the local option law cannot go into effect for over a month. It is being staved off so nothing can be done until after the general election. . —o — Hon. Frank Davis of Brook addressed a good audience at the east court room Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Preceedlng the speech the Marshall glee club rendered three selections that received generous applause. Mr. Davis did not attempt to put any frills on his speech, coming here to talk to the voters as a plain man talking to plain men and women. He expounded the democratic tenets of tariff reform downward and not upward, as advocated by candidate Taft, of guaranteed bank deposits, making every depositor safe, and forestalling forever another A. McCoy & Co., or “Bob” Parker bank robbery in this community. The speech was well received by the listeners.

The Hearst Independence Party has filed a petition signed by 208 alleged voters, .mostly of Gary, to have the name of Everett G. Ballard of Gary, Lake county, placed on the county ticket here as a candidate of said party for the office of congressman. The scales of justice is the emblem adopted by said party, which will occupy the extreme right hand column on the county ballot. If there is an adherent of this party in Jasper county we do not know it. Our county ballot will be in four columns, each headed by the candidate for congress, followed by senator, representative, judge, prosecuting attorney, county treasurer, etc. The Democratic ticket will occupy the first column, Republican ticket the second column, Prohibition ticket the third column, and Independence ticket the fourth coluipn.

TO TEST LOCAL OPTION LAWS.

Counsel for Saloon Man will Contend the New Act Nullifies the Moore Amendment. Greenfield, Ind., Oct. 13.—John Daily has given notice that he will apply for a liquor license at the November term of commissioners’ court, the business to be conducted in the First ward. This is presumed to be a test of the new county local option law, as it is said the attorneys for the applicant will contend that this law does away with the remonstrance. Thia is the last saloon license in this ward to expire since the blanket remonstrance was filed last March. The sufficiency of the remonstrance has never been contested here and all the saloons in the ward closed as their licenses expired.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Any person having an unsettled account with Wm. A. Churchill, deceased, will please call within thirty days and settle the same with Wm. H. or Fenton O. Churchill, at one block north of the depot, in Rensselaer, Ind. WM. H. CHURCHILL AND SONS. October 13th, 1808. The highest market price Tor youjr eggs and butter. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE, f f You will save money and get the Michigan stock by buying your potatoes of the G. E. Hurray Co. We will deliver fancy Michigan potatoes at 80c per bushel for a short time only. ’ CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE, j. We will have 3 cars of, Fancy Ripe Michigan Potatoes oa and after Oct. 16, 5 usbels lots and over out of car 73c a bushel; 75c a bushel delivered. JOHN EGER.

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