Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — Page 4

MINERS ELECT LEADER TODAY

Lewis and Walker Are the Two Candidates. RACE A VERY CLOSE ONE Vote Will Be Canvassed In Indianapolie and Announced at the International Convention Which Will Be Called to Order In the Bame City on the Nineteenth of January—States and Canada Represented. Indianapolis, Dec. 8. —The union coal miners of the United Stateß and Canaila vote for their International officers today. Indications are that the race for John Mitchell's place, which has been filled during the last year by T. L. Lewis, is going to be close. The two candidates are T. L. Lewis of Ohio, who seeks re-election, and John M. Walker, president of the Illinois miners. The vote will be canvassed in Indianapolis and announced at the International convention, which will meet here Jan. 19.

INQUIRY CLEARS WOLFORD

Still Trying to Bolve Mystery of Missing Kowenskl. La Porte, Ind., Dec. B.—Following an Investigation of the mysterious disappearance of John Kowenskl, a farm hand employed by Henry Wolford of 000 l Springs township, this county, Prosecutor Smith announced that the charges made by neighbors that Kowenski and Wolford had gone hunting and that Ko wenski did not return, and that later human bones, badly burned, had been found in a stump of a tree on the Wolford place where the two had been hunting, were without foundation. It was established by the testimony that both Kowenskl and Wolford returned from the hunting trip, and that early the next morning Kowenskl arose and left the house, since which time he has not been seen. The authorities are still trying to solve the mystery of Kowenski’s disappearance.

POISONING SUSPECTED

30 ' Coroner at Lafayette Investigating Rich Farmer's Death. Lafayette, Ind.,Dec. B.—Coroner Guy P. Levering Is making rigid inquiry into the death of Etham Meharry, a wealthy retired farmer, who died very suddenly with symptoms of strychnine poisoning. Meharry ate a hearty dinner and worked about the hpuse. Later in the day he went for a bucket of coal, and after carrying it into the house he threw himself on the kitchen floor, saying he was very sick. Before the physician summoned arrived the man died in convulsions. Meharry was a thirty-second degree Mason and owned much valuable land la this county. He was married twice, the second wife surviving.

SOCIETY OF EQUITY

Representatives Are Holding Meeting In Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Dec. B.—Representatives of the different state branches of the American Society of Equity are meeting in Indianapolis to pass Anally on the action of the organization’s national convention. Immediately after the completion of this work- today, the new board of directors will “check up” the organization and take office. The new board will formulate this week its policy which will include a vigorous*campaign for membership. The organization now has about 28,000 members, and has a good footing in twenty states. November Health Record. Fairmount, Ind., Dec. 8. —Falrmount probably holds the health record for November, not only in the state, but in the whole country. With a population of 4,000, there was not one death within the corporate limits during the month and only one. that of an aged woman, in the township. Postmaster’s Wife Scares Robbers. Sullivan, ind., Dec. B.—An attempt was made to rob the postoffice at tJrayvllle. The office is in the residence of T. K, Cushman the postmaster. Two men crawled to the porch roof. Mrs. Cushman and daughter heard them and their screams frightened the robbers. "Prof.” Hansen In a Cell. La Porte, Ind., Dec. 8. —“Professor” Charles W, Hansen whose leaving of his wife and family last summer in Chicago and his subsequent attempt to found a unique business college in La Porte attracted much attention, was arrested on a charge of wife abandonment and placed in a cell. Date for Bpecia! Election. Indanapolis, Dec. B.—Governor Hanly has set Dec. 29 as the day for the Special election in Vanderburg county to elect a successor to Senator Walter Itegeman. . Gary Skating Rink Burned. Gary, Ind., Dec. B.—The skating rink of the Gary Casino company waa burned in what is thought to have been an Incendiary fire. The loss Is 516.006.

COLONEL COOPER ??? COURT

Called.to Answer vr. the Charge of Shooting Sei.c’ r «. r :.k. Nashville/ De . u. ,ol wncan B. Cooper, fuiher o la.L.n Cooper, who was with the I ■ v. ua he shat and killed ex-Sen. t.r . i.vard W. Cafrmack on the street . eve on Nov. 9, was brought into coi r today for trial on the charge of m..ul'r. At the same time John D. former sheriff of this county, was also placed on trial. The men are charged with complicity In the shooting. Robin Cooper, who fired the shots which kii.ed Carmack, was wounded and is still under treatment. He will be placed on trial later. The shooting

COLONEL DUNCAN B. COOPER. was the result of attacks made on Colonel Cooper by Carmack in the latter’s newspaper, the Tennessean.

DEMOCRATS MEET IN WASHINGTON

National Glut) League Begins Three Days' Sessions Today, Washington, Dec. B.—The turning of Democratic eyes toward the next presidential campaign is indicated by the meeting here today of all the Democratic organizations throughout the country, including the Bryan clubs which took part in the recent contest. The meeting, wMch will continue in session three days, was called by Colonel William C. Liller, chairman of the National League of Democratic Clubs. Speaking of the purpose of the meeting, Colonel Liller declared that, while the Democratic party was naturally deeply disappointed by the result of the election, there was much hope of organizing between the present* time and the next national campaign an effective opposition to the party in power. Train Kills Temperance Advocate. Newark, 0., Dec. 8. —Crossing tracks on her way to the polls to work for the “drys” at the local option election, Mrs. J. D. Miller was struck by a train and killed. The Weather. Following is the official weather forecast: Illinois and Indiana Fair and threatening in northern portion. Wisconsin and lowa —Warmer with Bnow flurries in north parts. Lower Michigan—Snow flurries.

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Winter wheat by sample; No. 2 red, $1.06%@1-07%; No. 3 red, $1.04%@ 1.06%; No. 2 hard, $1.05%@1.07%; No. 3 hard, $1.03 @1.06. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.09@ 1.10; No. 2 northern, [email protected]; No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Corn by sample: No. 3, 60@60% ; No. 3 white, 60@ 60%c; No. 3 yellow, 60@60%c; No. 4, 59@69%c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 52%c; No. 3 white, 50%@51c; No. 4 white, 48Vfc@50c; standardfi 52c. Chicago Live Btock. Chicago, Dec. 7. * Hogs—Receipts 78,000. Sales ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, $5.60@ 5.75 mixed packing, [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 33,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime fat steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, $3.85 @5.25 good to choice cows, $6.00® 9.75 good to choice calves, $4.26@4;86 selected feeders, [email protected] fair to good Stockers. Sheep—Receipts 45,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, [email protected] good to choice yearlings, [email protected] choice ewes, [email protected] fair to choice spring lambs. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, 111., Dec. 7. Butter Creamery, extra, 30c; prints, 32c; extra firsts, 27@27%c; firsts, 25; dairies, extras, 25c; firsts, 82c; packing stock, 21c. East Buffalo, Live Btock. East Buffalo, N r Y„ Dec. 7. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 60 cars; market 15@25c higher. Hogs Receipts 60 cars; market strong; heavy, $8.05; Yorkers, $5.75® $.90; pigs, $5.26. Sheep and Lambs — Receipts 50 cars; market strong; best lambs, $7.75; yearlings, $6.00; wethers, $5.00© 5.25.

LAND POISONING.

Something Needed to Destroy Toxio Secretion of Roots. No one knows so well as the practical farmer how rapidly a naturally fertile soil may be exhausted by Cultivation. In this country the tobacco lands of Virginia afford an example of this rapid decline In fertility. The abandoned New England farms, too, help to illustrate the effects produced by the constant cultivation of the same fields. Lund that once yielded crops as if by magic now requires an artificial preparation before it will reward the farmer for his strenuous labor In the field. Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent English scientist, is reported to ljare expressed his belief in the theory of the poisoning of the cultivated lands of the world. The advocates of this theory believe that the systematic rotation of crops Is needless. They believe that It Is Impossible to exhaust the ground by a crop, as the food supplies In the soil are too great to admit of such a result. Other causes, therefore, must underlie the failure of a crop in Wliat was once fertile soli, and, according to the believers In the theory, this failure is due to root poisoning. According to the poisoning theory, a crop does not do so well when it Immediately succeeds another of the same aort because it excretes an active poison which is destructive of its own germs. Artificial manures are recommended not so much as a food for the plant as a remedy against these root poisons. Very thorough. investigations have, however, recently been carried ont at Rothamsted. perhaps the most efficient scientific farm In the world, which tend to show that adherents of the poisoning theory have not yet succeeded in fully proving their case. If this theory be true manures In the true sense will no longer be necessary, but something to destroy the poisons excreted by the plants will serve a more useful purpose. As the root poi son Is admitted to exist in small quantities only, the treatment of land by any new process looking to this end should be much cheaper than under the present system of fertilization. A Serviceable Cement Bilo. The accompanying illustration shows a picture of a cement silo 18 by 40 feet, eight feet in the ground, which brings the bottom on a level with the

A CEMENT BLOCK SILO

cow barn floor. This is probably the best and handsomest silo in Missouri. Re-enforcement was put in, iu the form of barb wire in the mortar joilit between each course. Blocks were 8 by 8 by 24 inches and made on face down machine, which made it possible to use 1 to 1 mixture for the face one-half inch thick. Belt courses arc made by mixing red mineral paint in this facing mixture. A silo thirty feet high and twelve feet lu diameter will hold about eighty tons of silage and wyi feed twentyone head of cattle 180 days, and it will take about eight acres of average corn to fill It. If the diametpr increases to sixteen feet it will hold 120 tons to feed thirty-two cattle and hold twelve acres of corn. A silo thirty feet high and twenty feet In diameter will hold 185 tons, feed fifty head of cattle and require eighteen acres of average corn to fill it. A silo thirty-six feet high and twenty feet in diameter will hold 235 tons, feed sixty-four head of cat-! tie 180 days and will require about 1 twenty-four acres of average corn. It Is better not to build more than twenty feet In diameter, and it Is better not to build less than thirty feet in height. You need the height to get the pressure to condense the silage into as small a space as possible. Twenty feet in diameter is handler to fill and handier to empty than a larger silo. Saving Corn. The annual slump in bogs has come earlier than usual this, year because corn matured early and the hogs are being finished up with as little of it as possible. The light average weight of the hogs marketed Indicates this, and so does their quality, which is inferior. Everywhere there seems to be a disposition to save corn. This is all right as far as It relates to the economical use of it, but there may be false economy in corn as in everything else. The man who rushes bis pigs to market to save corn Is in all probability practicing false economy. He Is likely to find that he could have marketed both pigs and corn In one car later on to better advantage. This early slump may Induce those who have not marketed their hogs to keep them back, make them good and In the end do better with them than if they shipped now. Unless something checks this false economy of corn that grain Is going to come to market In too liberal quantities for the good of prices.

PROGRAM OF FARMERS’ INSTITUTE AT PARR, IND. DEC. 12, ’OB 9:00 A. M. Song, Invocation Rev. Bundy. 9:05 A. M. Miscellany 9:15 A. M. Music by the Parr Orchestra. 9:25 A. M. The Winter Feeding and Care of Breeding Ewes • t Prof. Smith of Purdue University. 10:00 A. M. Declamation by a School Oirl. 10:05 A. M. Pickle Culture Wm. Smith of Union. 10:25 A. M. The Shipping of Stock Geo. W. Casey. 10:46 A. M. Raising Turkeys, Mrs. Wm. Wilcox. 11:05 A. M. Pasture, W. L. Wood. 12:00 M. Noon InterifiißSlon. 1:00 P. M. Music. 1:05 P. M. Miscellany. 1:16 P. M. Music by the Parr Orchestra. 1:25 P. M. The Feeding and management of the Dairy Herd, Prof. Smith. 2:00 P.- M. Power on the Farm, Amos H. Alter. 2:25 P. M. 'Farm Management Stephen Brusnahan. 2:45 P. M. Woman’s Work on the Farm,... Mrs. Chas. Lakln. 3:05 P. M. Feeding Pigs For Market .Prof. Smith. 3:35 P. M. Report of Committees. Adjournment. Respecfully Submitted by the Committee on Program.

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Automobile LinJery Cars for hire at all hours of day or night. Reliable cars and competent drivers. We will make a pecialty of carrying to and from parties and dances. Give m* a call. Rates reasonable. '’Rensselaer Garage. ■ • The Anvil Chorus “Order is Heaven’s first law,” DeArmond’s work’s without flaw; “Instinct builds a nest that’s true,” DeArmond shapes the horseshoe. W. S. DeARMOND, Teffft,

MONEY TO LOAN. A small amount of private money to loan on first mortgage on real estate in Rensselaer, if taken at once. ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. FARM LOANS. Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. B. P. HONAN. Jasper Guy or Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission ,but office charges. Write him. ts

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DR. 9. H. HANSSON VETERNARY BUROEQN—Now a* Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office in Harris Bank Building. - Phone 448. Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law. Abstracts, Real Be tats, Will practice In all the courts, office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Arthur H. Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farm and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city (Ire Insurance. Attorneys for AMERICAN BUILDING, LOAN AND BAVINGS ASSOCIATION! Office over ChUMtgo Department Store. RBNBSEuAER. IND. J. 7. Irwin. 8. C. Irwin. Irwin &. Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance. 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office In Odd Fellows’ Block. RKNBBBLAER. IND. Frank Folts C. O. Spltler. Foltz & Spltler (Successors to Thompson A tiro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstraot Books In the County. RENSSELAER. IND. Chas. M. Sands LAWYER Law, Collections and Abstracts. Office: Room 1, L O. O. F. Building. Office Phone No. 140. RENSSELAER, - IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstair* in Durand Block. B. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over lines’ Millinery store. Rensselaer,- Indiana. Office Phone 177. Residence Phone, 118. M. D. Gwin, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. Office opposite Postofflce, In Murray's new building. PHONE 205. day or night. W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Dr, E. N. Loy HOMEOPATHIST Office in rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Hartsell. Office phone 88, resldenoe ISO. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store.

Ch j£*Bo to Northwest, Indianapolis, ZXh K* n . d . *° uth * Louisville «nd French Lick Bprlngs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLK. In Effect Juno 14, 1908. „ . , SOUTH BOUND. No. 6—Louisville u.n (dally) 10-5 S a m NolaZSrnlP 011 * I<aU (*dly).. 3:01 p. ml No.B9—Milk accomro. (daily) 6:40 p. m No. 4-M.„ N0 ,2?„. B0 . U . N “-. Milk accomm. (dally) 7:81 a! m". No.32 — Fast H&U (dully) l*5S a. m No. 9—Mall and h£ (Suy)" jittSim tNo.SO-Cin. to ChL Ves. kail 6:36 p! m *Da*?y~ < except > Su h ndat Un *° nly> 2:67 P ®* No. 4wlU Stop at Rensselaer to let "° m P° lnU aouth Of Hammond* and* t C^cS|o l ** r * Monon *LafayeU^*° t coaa * cUon “ SAW CHAS. H. ROCKWELL,** Tnafflo mS” Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. wlffiSn cook HaffiS^ro M. W. Coppess. ....rrT”* mig,™ Grand Davisson Barktev cftsss e ■‘ i iS; k . h ° u * e -Mss L Parks .?Mllroy H«m«7 Feldman ...Keener £*£**2* Stalbaum Kankakee A mst nnan Wheatfleld i rn c t James H. Green .Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer..C. M. Banda Rensselaer JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge ..Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney......R. *o. Graves Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICER* Clerk.. Charles C. Warner J ' N. Leatherman treasurer...... d. Allman Recorder .J. w. Tilton ?£l™Z2 r V-Myrt B. Price Sag ffisr;;:::.v.v2ft %. Commissioners. Ist District.. John Petto* 2"? District FrederickWaymlre 3rd District Charles T. DeWm of SSS’TSSS?’ court - Flr * t