Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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ON TO WOLCOTT

The Gifford Railroad Will be Built Next Year. IS NOW NEARING CROWN POINT Ob the North and Expect to Reach the Pemuflvanla R. R. Before Snow Fllee. F—T. M. Callahan,\ B. J. Gifford’s (superintendent of farm lands in The Gifford district, was in the city on business Wednesday. He tells us that the work of building the Gifford railroad on the north is beiqg pushed and that it is expected to be complete to the Pennsylvania road soon. This will give the road an outlet oyer the latter both east and west. All prospects or intentions of selling the road seems to have been abondoned, and Gifford will now go ahead and complete It on his Own account, we understand, "yt It is his intention, Mr. Callahan states, to begin work next spring on the south end and extend it as far south as Wolcott next season. A “dry land dredge” will, be used to do the grading. Wolcott is an excellent grain point and it is expected that the road will handle considerable grain when it gets built that far south. The prospects are that all the farms Gifford district will be rented for next year, Mr. Callahan says. This year there were several that were unoccupiedX Four carloads of last year’s product from the krout factory at Newland have been shipped out already and there are some ten carloads yet to ship. Some of the big tanks -unp sj os ‘sjeino ustn mpq *dej( cult to say just how much yet remains that is good. Judging from those already opened, however, it is thought there will be about ten carloads. Some of the krout at top, bottom and sides of the tanks is no good of course, but aside from this it is att fight and is considered tohave kept well. It is being taken from the tanks and barreled ready for shipment.

IS THE GAME WORTH THE PRICE

A young man over at Goodland la slowly dying as the result of In-j juries received in a football game a few years ago,' and almost every paper one picks up tells of deaths, broken limbs or cracked skulls resulting from this deadly sport (?) Here are three clippings from one daily paper of Nov. 11 that is a fair sample of how football is building up (?) brawn and brain in our schools and colleges: Brookhaven, Miss., Nov. 11.- 1 Bowen Vardaman, 17, was probably fatally injured today in a football game, internal injuries being received. He was closely related to former Governor Vardaman of Mississippi. ' Danville, 111., Nov. 11— Howard Smith, fifteen years old, living at Yonkville, has lockjaw as a result of an injury received in g football game last Saturday, and the attending physician, has pronounced his case fatal. Smith when tackled during the game Was cutjm the kneecap. Tetanus followed. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 11—Owing to the death of Albert Daugherty, of this city, today, as a result of injuries received in a football game at Henderson, Ry., last Saturday, the local Y. M. C. A. football team will play no more football this season and has canceled all games. The local high school will also probably taboo the game.

REMOVAL OF AN OLD RESIDENT.

F. M. Hayes and wife of Barkley tp., expected to leave yesterday or today for Marion, where they have two children residing and where they will spend the winter. They .go there because, two of their children are attending school there, tint In the spring they expect to seek a new home in the southwest. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have resided In Jasper since 1871, having begun housekeeping here over on Carpenters Creek, where they resided three years and then moved to Barkley tp. They have ten children, most of whom are grown up and now doing for themselves. They are widely scattered, one living in Michigan, two in South Dakota and others at different pointe in Indiana, except two of the younger, who are at home. John and Leonard and one daughter 'are still in this county. Mr. Hayes served a little over three years in the war of the rebellion and now draws a medium pension. He sold his Barkley tp. farm to his son, W. F. Hayes of Mt Summit. Ind., a year or , more ago, who bought it simply to get his parents to quit farming, and will not move

upon -it himself. Mr. Hayes is now 65 years of age, and having raised up a big family of children, all of whom are a credit to their parents and most of whom he has given a good education, he with his good wife will spend the remainder of their days in a little less strenuous life than that Of farming, taking a well earned rest. The Democrat dislikes to see MA and Mrs. Hayes ‘leave Jasper county, but hopes their lot may be cast in pleasant places wherever they may decide to locate.

IT’S LANDLORD BRENNER AGAIN

T'A. J. Brenner is once more in lharge of the Makeever House, having taken posssslon Thursday. J. F. Brenner, the retiring landlord, moved into his own property in the northwest part of tpwn. Nf | Mr. Brenner, when (conducting this hotel before, was the most successful landlord the house ever had, and his return to the management will be hailed with delight by the traveling public. Besides, Rensselaer is glad to have “Jink” back .with us once more.

ABOUT 180 IN THEATRE PARTY.

There were about 180 Rensselaer people in the party that went to Lafayette Tuesday night to see Gus Phillips in “The Wolf.” They pronounce the play "alright” and say Gus did not dissapoint them in his acting as the leading man. At the. close of the second act, Geo. A. Williams of the “Rensselaer bunch” marched down the aisle and in a neat little speach presented Gus With a huge boquet of Chrisanthemums from his Rensselaer friend. The latter responded in a fitting manner and thanked his old home friends for the compliment they had paid him by coming in such great number to the play. The special train that brought the party back did not reach here until about 2 o’clock Wednesday morning. Gus came, home with the party and remapped here until the 2:04 p. m. train when he went to Frankfort, where his company played Wednesday evening. From there the company goes over into Illinois and thence to lowa. Dates are now booked up to Christmas.

TROUBLE WITH THE VOTING MACHINES.

That even voting machines are not the howling success many people would have us believe is evidenced by trouble with them in the late election in various parts of the state. In our neighboring county of Newton 77 votes were lost entirely—that is, 77 voters went into the polling rooms and either did not press the buttons properly to register their vote at all or else when they got In they became confused and would not admit their ignorance of knowing how to operate the machine and came out without attempting to vote. At any rate, the combined vote of all the candidates was less than the number of voters registered who entered the polling rooms. In Jackson township, in which Mt. Ayr si located, Cox? the democratic candidate for Secretary of State, received but 19 votes while the rest of the democratic state ticket received 109. The machine evidently afiled to register for his name, as it is not at all probable that any democrat would scratch Cox alone. Voting machines have no doubt come to stay, but they must be made to work more accurately and the voters must familiarise themselves more with them.

VOTING MACHINE MAY BE OPENED.

Ip taking the vote from the voting machine in the Fifth precinct in the city of Columbus at the recent election, it wasdiscovered that the counter for one of th candidates had failed to register properly. P. J* Kelleher, democratic candidate for state statistician, only received 113 votes tn that precinct, as shown by the machine, while the democratic candidate immediately before him and the one immediately after him received 259 and 356 votes respectively, which made Kelleher’s loss nearly 145 in* that one precinct. The republican candidate against Kelleher did not show any Increase over’ other republican candidates near him, which is self evL dent that the machine failed to register correctly. , > Now, that the race is so close in the state and that a contest seems almost certain, it is probable that the machine here will be reopened and examined. —Columbus Democrat i

BOX SOCIAL AT PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.

A Box Social will be held fa the hall in the parochial school building next Thursday evening. Ladles are requested to bring boxes and gentlemen the cash. The social is for the benefit of the Catholic orphan's home at Ft. Wayne.

Wanted To Rent:—Up-to-date cottage of four to six rooms, convenient to school preferred. Enquire at Democrat office.

THE TWICE - A - WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1908.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. ; New suits filed: No. 7377. Augustus w. Lox vs. Clyde iMOMH and A. M. Ebaugh; suit in ure. Demand >350. , ; —°~~~ The election seems to have a bad effect on the matrimonial bust-, ness at least, as but two marriage licenses have been issued in this county thus far during the months and none at all since Nov. 2, ; ° Sheriff O’Connor met the sheriff* of Newton, Starke and White counties at Monticello Wednesday and together the vote of the ipnr counties was canvassed, as provided by law. —e—- • The stone road contractors are finishing up the Rensselaer-Marion tp., stone road contract this week, and will probably complete the work today. Division and Main streets,- over which a controversy arose at the time that street -was--macadamized, had never been accepted by the county, and would not be accepted until more rock was put on in the center of the roadway. Consequently the -street has been “spiked up” and additional stone put on this week. * ’?J —— '

Another chapter in the Peacock vs. Peacock controversery came up Thursday when an affidavit was filed in the circuit court by ’ Florence L. Peacock, charging him with Indirect contempt of court in refusing {o pay her 3 7 per week for her support, which was ordered done by the court March 7, 1908. The court ordered, as a result of said affidavit, that the defendant appear in court at 2 p. m., Friday, Nov. 13, and show cause why he should not be punished for such contempt. Mr. Peacock was out of town, en his regular mail route—he is a mail elerk on the Monon —and at thia writing had not been served witN the court’s process.

RETURNING PROSPERITY.

[Chicago Record-Herald.] Allen’s Corner, Ind. Nov. 9.—Ebenezer Mopps u of this place, yesterday found a 15 bill which he lost at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. It was in a pair of trousers which his wife had stored in the attic. Mr. Mopps is sure that he would never have recovered the money if Bryan had been elected. Kittanning, Penn., Nov. 9.—Henry Hoffmeister, Kittanning’s leading tinsmith, yesterday hired Johnny Burchard, agreeing to pay him sll a month while he is learning to be a tinner. Mr. Hoffmeister, in an Interview last night, declared that he would not have possessed enough confidence to hire the boy if Bryan had pulled through. Napoleon, Ohio, Nov. 9.—Al Semple, who travels for a Cleveland hardware firm, arrived here on the day preceding the election day with only 16 in his pocket. After the ballots had been cast a poker game was arranged, Semple and three Napoleon men being the participants. Al left town this morning with a comfortable roll amounting to about |II9. He attributes his prosperity to the landslide which engulfed the Democratic party. Gladstone, Mich., Nov. 9.—Owing to the election of William Howard Taft every hen on Mrs. Sophie Bigelow’s chicken ranch has begun to lay an egg a day. During the period of uncertainty preceding the Republican landslide. Mrs. Bigelow's hens were very uncertain, only about one out of a dozen being disinclined to limit her output to one of two eggs a week..

“LIFE OF CHRIST.”

To-night, Saturday, Nov. 14, at Ellis' opera House, the new Passion Play; 1 mile of pictures, every man, woman and child should see it. The grandest sermon ever preached. The Holy City and Rock of Agee, illustrated. Parents, send your children and come yourselves. ~ ' A full two hours of pictures and songs. Not the old Passion Play, that can be given in % hour, but the latest, just from Paris, takes two hours for the entire pictures.

LONG'S CORN SHOW PREMIUMS.

The premiums at Long's corn show were awarded yesterday, too Date for us to five an extended account of the show, but the premiums were awarded as follows: Ist, Yellow corn, soore 73, Julius Huff, Jordan tp,, gold watch. y\lnd. Yellow corn, score 71.25, Wm. Havens, Newton, tp., % gal. kreso dip. . Ist, White corn, John Simonin, Jordan tp., gold watch. 2nd, White corn, Hugh Yeoman, Newton tp.. % gal. kreso dip.

HOW THE REPUBLICANS WILL “REVISE" THE TARIFF.

THE DEVIL WILL BE HERE TUESDAY.

The delightful three act play, from the pen of the eminent Hungarian writer, Franz Molnar, entitled “The Devil,” will be presented at the Ellis Theater, Tuesday, NovSt?, by an excellent company including Mr. E. Laurence Lee, a Character actor of note. “The Devil” has created the greatest sensation of any drama that has been offered in a decade. The playgoers In London, Paris, New York, Chicago, and all of the-large cities of the United States and Europe have fbeen entertained by this wonderful jplay and the verdict is, nothing like it has ever been offered before. A Imminent writer on a New York Taper says: “’The Devil” is a warning to women, because it teaches such a moral lesson as we all need in these days of mighty temptations and its teachings are for each and every one of us. Men should see it because it teaches how the evil thought that we *dally with, may become a demon that possesses us and drives us into doing wrong that we really abhor.”

A “TRAPPING” STORY.

One evening last week, armed with a writ of replevin, Constable Ropp and Sherman Erwin went down the Iroquois to a point near where Carpenter’s creek enters the river, and seized about a dozen muskrat traps that were "set?* along the river at that point. They were brought to town and turned over to Squire Irwin, who on Monday heard the ■ evidence as to the ownership of the aforesaid traps. It seems that both Mr. Erwin and Landy Magee are engaged in the strapping of "rats” as a side line, and the former had bought some 36 traps of John Richards. These traps were all marked with a private mark of Richards’, and when they came up missing from the place where Erwin had "set” them, and he found several traps bearing the same mark- "set” in another place, he concluded they were his traps, and proceeded to get possession of them via the writ method. Landy Mhgw clstasd. the traps and said he kaA- used the “mark” found on them for the past eighteen years, bnt Richards, the original owner of the trope Erwin had bought, testified as to the mark he bad placed on them and to some repairs he had personally made on a few of than. There were 10 traps replevined, and the court thought the identification of seven of the number was sufficient to give Erwin title to them, which was done. Mr. Erwin has located the balance of hie traps, he says, and has wanted the State of Indiana to get busy, but the latter is somewhat dilatory and nothing further has been dene at this writing. These traps are in possession of Lewis M. Stover, he states, who lives west of town on the Monnett land. Stover bought a lot of traps recently of Landy Magee, and these were among |he number. There is likely to be more to follow.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The subject of the morning serat the Presbyterian chureh will be "Perfect Love.” . In the evening the Ladies* Missionary Society have prepared for a program of praise. Everybody invited to these services. Give The Democrat a call when you want a neat and attractive job of printing at the same prices or lees than others charge for inferior work.

-From Pusk Copvright [?] Pormissic.

AND WHO OWNS THE REPUBLICAN?

The combined editors of the syndicate organ down the street have had a great deal to say about The Democrat’s financial affairs for several months past, beginning with the former’s exposure (?) of how The Democrat was falsifying jts assessment lists—of which it will hear more later. In that flatter The Democrat dearly proved by the tax records themselves that the Republican gang and not The Democrat were the tax dodgers. In every Instance this paper has downed the combined force behind the Republican, and now, (hat it refuses to be decent and attend to its own business, we propose to down it again.

It has had a great deal to say about The Democrat giving a mortgage to the First National Bank last spring, and of our owing for the new Linotype we put in then, as if other people do not sometimes borrow money and give mortgages when putting in new machinery or making improvements. This is none of the public’s business nor the Republican’s, but it has had the littleness to refer to it repeatedly. Last March we did borrow SSOO and gave a chattel mortgage on this office; $250 of this is due Jan. 1, 1909, and $250 Jan. 1, 1910. It will be paid when due, and that is all the interest the mortgagees have in The Democrat plant. They don’t “own” it any more than George Marshall’s wife owns the house in which the financial head of the Republican sleeps at night, although she was given a mortgage on the same for several thousand dollars. If the mortgagee is anyways uneasy for fear it will to take The Democrat plant, it has not manifested It to us. We might have borrowed thia money on personal security ? very easily—something that might bother the military editor to do—-but ho man is on our note for a dollar and we preferred giving the mortgage to asking any of our friends to go onr security.

This |SOO, together with some 1400 more was put into the first payment, or rental, of the $3,500 linotype added to* The Democrat's equipment last March, and(,the expense of installing the same. The Republican well knows that these linotypes are put out on what is called the rental plan—for Clarkey bought a Junior ($1,500) machine and at one time owed $1,250 on same. (That was the time he gave it in for assessment at SIOO and The Democrat man inadvertently informed the assessor that it had cost $1,500; and the assessor went back and made Clarkey change it to S3OO for assessment purposes.) In fact the Republican was figuring on buying one in precisely the same way and said that contract was already entered into at the time it and the Journal consolidated. Had it done so, according to its line of reasoning now, the Mergenthaler people would have "owned" the Republican office. The purchaser rents the machine for one year with the privilege of buying or continuing the rental at the end of that year. The Mergenthaler people own the machine in our office now—that is right—the same as any piece of property is owned that Is bought on the rental or payment plan, but if we should decide at the end of the first year that we don’t want the machine. it and it alone goes back to them, for they have no claim

on any other property whatever in this ofilce. But we expect to keep it and did so expect when we contracted for It, and as we have never had a line of correspondence with them since it was installed, nor no one has been sent out here to see if we were “still in town,” it would -seem that they are not nearly so much concerned about our intention or ability to pay for this machine as the Republican. Now, just a word regarding the Republican’s financial standing, or • backing—not because it is any of the public’s or our own business, but merely in self-defence. The military editor has always been a business failure, and when he had petered out at Brookston and Crumpacker got him a job down at Washington, pulling at the public teat, he was considerably worse off than nothing, t (We say this on authority of no less a personage than George E. Marshall, former owner of the Republican, who personaaly told us this, and said Healey was owing him also.) Then, after the failure of the U. S. government to recognize the "unsurpassed” ability (?) of this military genious, whose bump of self-esteem is most abnormally developed, and make him the “whole works” in the government print shop, he wanders back to Rensselaer and goes to work for his old employer Marshall.

After Marshall’s failure to drive The Democrat out of business, his turn-down for the postoffice, and the fact that he did not find things quite so roseate as they used to be when he was the Whole thing in the printing and publishing business in Rensselaer, the latter wanted to go hence. Healey’s assessment sheet for 1906—the first year after he returned from the nation’s capital —was but $45. The next year, after 365 days of unparallelled Roosevelt prosperity, his wealth had increased to $75, as shown by his assessment sheet on file in the auditor’s office. Marshall couldn't hardly sell all his holdings on such a payment as this—in fact the whole $75 was already invested in a piano and household goods according to his sworn statement—and a victim had to be found. This, it appears, was secured in the person of Dr. Washburn, who “wanted to enter politics.” Washburn was the Moses whe was to lead Healey out of the slough of financial despond and 3uip him with editorial honors, d he bought the entire Marshall holdings of newspaper plant and residence. Just what Healey had to put into it, unless it was a commission from Marshall for finding the victim and engineering the deal, is not apparent. But judging from his assessment sheet for that year, when all the property v ssessed on earth by either hi’ e'..< or family was valued at only $75, it is to be inferred that he nut nothing in. Washburn, also, it would appear put in little except wind—and right here we desire to state that w.e do not mention this through any unfriendly feeling toward Dr. Washburn, but that he has allowed and permitted a paper of which he is the financial head to wilfully and persistently, and with little or no excuse, attack The Democrat and employes of this office, makes him a party to our defense —for the mortgage -records show that he gave George E. Marshall and Lillie E. Marshall, his wife, three mortgages aggregating $7,500! They also show that he gave a $2,509 mortgage to the Jasper Savings and Trust Company on his >wn and the old Washburn property, in which he has an Interest—slo,ooo in all! Dr. Washburn has stated several times lately, we are told, that the d— rag-chewing of the Republican had to be stopped; that HE wouldn't have it. He has also stated that what he said bad to go down there, so we think The Democrat is fully justified in connecting him with that sheet. We guess The Democrat is about as well fortified financially as the syndicate organ down the street and when that organ's editors collectively or individually, turn their batteries on The Democrat they should hunt a soft spot ♦ - -all, for their guns usually hit the :'.rdest from the back end.

/ BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS XNov. 6. to Mr. and Mn, James fyarly, in tbwn, a son. JsSov. 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank iuyder of Parr, a daughter. j\Nov. 10, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. K. Iliff of Jordan tp„ a son. George Maines, north of town, a daughter. Poets rvr -A quantity of Catalpa fence poets for sale. Enquire at this office. The doctor always prescribes plenty of exercise 'to be sure of good health. That is what Bax Ball means.

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