Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1908 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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WANT $30,000

And Five Acres of Ground For Factory. WILL EMPLOY 300 MEN TO START And Expect to Increase to 500 Men In A Short Time—Committee Favorably Impressed With Chicago Concern. President Robinson of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, and A. Leopold returned from Chicago Wednesday night from, investigating the metal furniture factory proposition, C. G. Spitler, who accompanied them, not returning until Thursday evening. They went through the Chicago factory of the concern and were well pleased with what they saw and were told .of the company. The plant is now employing about 100 men and most of the time works a night shift to keep up orders. Its pay roll is about $2,000 per week at present, and the quarters occupied are crowded. Metal school furniture, chairs, stands, etc., is the product manufactured, and j they have been doing a steadily in-j creasing business for several years, i They want more elbow room and offer to locate here for a bonus of $30,000 cash and five acres of ground; provided, after they come here and look over the situation they are suited with location. On this five acre tract, we understand, the company will erect a factory with 50,000 feet of floor space and agrqp to employ 300 hands from the start; title of land not to pass to them until they have paid out $600,000 here for labor.

The committee sent up to investigate were to report favorably to a meeting of the Commercial Club directors held at Foltz & Spitler’s office at 7 o’clock last evening, and if the directors were also favorably impressed, then the company is to be notified and they will send down representatives to look over the ground and submit their proposition in full ta the Club at a meeting which will be called for that purpose. If the Club totes to accept it then a contract 'will be duly entered into. Messrs. Robinson, Leopold and. Spltler were most favorably impressed and it is likely their report will be favorably acted on by the directors and we may look for representatives of the company here next . week to look over our town and decide whether they want to locate here or not. This is certainly a big concern and if it can be landed on these termß the matter should not be delayed.

OBITUARY.

Nancy Ann Walker was born in Johnson Co., Indiana, March 6, 1837, and departed this life Nov. 25, 1908. On Feb. 19, 1852, she was married to Joseph Coons. To this union were born eight children of which four daughters, Mrs. Ida A. Pierce of Rensselaer, Ind., Mrs. Rose A. Fishback of Mt. Hope, Kan., Mrs. Eva B. Bryan of Greensburg, Kan., and Mrs, Carrie C. Ellis of Bucklin, Kan., survive her. She leaves. a sister, Mrs. F. M. Parker of Rensselaer, Ind., and a brother, Isaac D. Walker of Barkley tp., Jasper county, Ind. Her husband died April 20, 1904. She united with the Church of Christ in early life and was always a faithful member. The funeral service- was held at the Methodist church, being conducted by Rev. Kennedy, Christion minister from Minneola. - The remains were interred in the Bucklin cemetery.— Bucklin (Kan.) Banner.

LEAVES A GOOD RECORD.

nrSheriff O’Connor expects to get all moved back to his little farm at Knlman before Christmas, although he will be the legal sheriff until Jan. 1. His successor, L. P. Shlrer, will move into the sheriff’s residence about the 25th probably. Mr. O’Connor has made an excellent official and leaves the office with the good will of both democrats and republicans. He has heed a credit to the office he has occupied, a great improvement over his predecessors, and The Democrat but voices ‘the general sentiment in saying this. Officers who have given such universal satisfaction as Mr. O’Connor are a rare thing in Jasper county, and The Democrat joins the people of the entire county in wishing him and bis excellent family well in their retirement to private life.Kj Hisfsuccessor, Mr. Shirer, we believe will also prove a popular officer, and one who will try to treat those of opposite political faith with equal fairness sad courtesy. The officer who stores to do his duty fairly and honestly, treating everyone as he would like to be treated himself regardless of the

behests of his party machine, is sure to receive the approbation of all the people whose good opinion is wovt« having, and to leave an office with such approbation is certainly to be preferred to the opposite, the petty peanut politician vho is a mere tool of the ’ most dishonorable and unpopular element In his party. The choice of doing right and retiring from ofiUe with the good opinion of Us fellowmen, like Mr. O’Connor, or to retire like some others have in this county whom we might name, who are now seldom heard of, is open to every officer. The decision as to which he prefers lies with him, and it ought not be a difficult problem for any right thinking man to make the cbpice.

JACKSON CLUB BANQUET.

Will Be Meld at Hotel Lahr, Lafayette, January 7th. The thirteenth annual banquet of the Jackßon Club of Lafayette will be held in that city on the evening of Jan. 7, at the Hotel Lahr. Hon. John W. Kern of Indianapolis, will be the principal speaker. State Chairman Stokes Jackson, Hon. L. E. Slack, Hon. B. F. Shively, Hon. John E. Lamb, Hon. G. V. Menzes, Hon. Edward G. Hoffman and Hon. Claude Bowers will each make a fifteen-minute talk. | Many members of the State. Legislature, the newly elected members of congress, the State Committee, the candidates on the State ticket, and prominent democrats from all over the state will be present. Banquet tickets SI.OO each, with coupon attached showing No. of table and seat, will be on sale Dec. 15, Requisitions will be honored in the order of receiving. The Rensselaer and Jasper county democrats who wish to attend this banquet can either send direct to J. W. Schooler, Sec., Lafayette, Ind., or leave their dollar at The Democrat office not later than Dec. 18 and we will secure the tickets for them. A good crowd should go down from here. Those who have attended these popular banquets in the past know what an excellent time is had, and the trains run so that little time from one's business need be lost.

“THE RIVER RANGERS"

New Order Organised In Rensselaer and Club House Already Built On River Bank. has a new fraternal carder and it is starting out under very favorable auspices, in fact a club house has already been erected and furnished and a stringent set of rules adoptedT. The order calls itself “The River Rangers,” and Masters John Horton and Fred Rhoades are the high moguls, with a retinue of minor officers.N/ The club house is located foil the river bank near Ike Glazcmrook’s garden patch, and while not as pretentious nor commodious as some of the club houses of the swell millioniare clubs of the large cities, it is considered a “peach” by the Rangers. It (s constructed out of drygoods boxes, lumber and. strips of boards, and the members have to get down on their hands and knees to enter the doorway. This may perhaps be an act of homage to the chief officers or a necessary undertaking, as one chooses to consider it A wood stove furnished the necessary heat, but it has not worked very well with the coal the boys have tried burning in it, and it was perhaps a good thing for them that the house had been provided with plenty of ventilation. The rules adopted provide for expulsion of members violating same, and “Fatty” Moore was expelled at the first opportunity, Vbecause,” as one of the officers stated, “he was guilty of an infraction of the rules, and we didn’t have room for him anyway.” Thursday riifjht the Rangers tried burning cobs in their stove, thinking they would work better than coal. Just what the results were we did not learn, but yesterday morning they had the stove setting outside, on the bank, and it may be that a new heating system is to' be installed.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES.

On Sunday morning the Ladles’ Missionary Society will observe C. W. B. M. Day. An interesting program has been prepared and will take the place of the morning sermon. In the evening the subject of the sermon is *'A Change of Heart.” AH are welcome.

Special discount on Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s coats. ROWLES ft PARKER. FARM TO RENT: —96 acres, with Improvements. Enquire of S. Kohley, Rensselaer, Ind. Some small sixes in boys two piece suits at 60c on the f; remember we always do just as we advertise. These prices are cut in two in the middle. ROWLES ft PARKER.

THE TWIQE - A - WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1008.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. ' 4 Attorney Dan Fraser of Fowler was a business visitor in the citp l Tuesday. >£. —o New suits filed: No. 7380. Ca»sius B. Wesner vs. John Foltz' et al; action to Juit title. No. 7381. Ed Oliver et al ve. George W. Hoover; action in replevin. • Charles H. Porter has been appointed administrator of Die estate of the late Jay W. Williams. It was the Intention to settle the estate out of court, but in order to collect a life insurance policy of $1,009 that Mr. Williams had carried for the post forty years, it was necessary to have an administrator. It is not likely there will be much stone road building abou( Rensselaer next season. Aside from the repairs to the gravel and stone roads already built there is not likely to be much rock crushed here next year. There is still a large quantity of rock piled up along the river that was thrown out by the dredge. The large quantity of booze seized in the raid on the Rosenbaum hotel almost a year ago and which has since been in charge of the sheriff pending the result of the prosecution, was turned over to Mr. Rosenbaum last week, the case having been dismissed at the November term of court because of absence of the prosecuting witness.

Newton County Enterprise: The Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Benton county court in the case of Emery Perkins of Raub vs. the C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co, Perkins was a freight brakemen in the employ of the Big Four and was seriously injured in making a running switch in the railroad yards at Fowler. He sued the com-, pany and was given a judgment for $30,000 damages. County Superintendent of Schools John H. Reddick of Pulaski county, died at his home in Winamac Saturday night, from paralysis. He was fifty-five years old and had held the office of superintendent for the last twenty-four years, having been elected In 1884. He leaves a widow and two sons. Mr. Reddick was widely known in educational circles in the northern part of the State, and has addressed institutes, etc., in all neighboring counties. He was ill about two weeks. —o— Marriage licenses issued: Dec. 8, George Wininger of Knox, aged 73, occupation farmer, to M.allna Klanska of Wheatfield, aged 57, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, his first wife having died Oct. 29, 1898; first marriage for female. Dec. 8, Lewis M. Raymond of St. Ann, 111., aged 37, occupation jeweler, to Emma Floy Beal of Remington, aged 31, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Albert EUIb of Wolcott has given notice that he will apply for a liquor license at Wolcott, at the January meeting of the commissioners of White county. Wolcott has been dry for some two years, but dwlng to the resentment of both republicans and democrats toward the so-called Anti-Saloon League—the former because they did not deliver the vote of the temperance democrats to them in the recent elecion, and the latter because of their attempt to do so—it is doubtful if it remains dry.

It is now stated that Frank McCully of White county, who was assaulted by Truant Officer T. M. Irelan of Monticello last Friday, an account of which was published in Wednesday's Democrat, copied from a Monticello paper, was not so seriously hurt as first reported. He is able to be about and was in Monticello Saturday and Monday. The state case filed against Irelan has been continued until the February term. It is claimed he will be able to show more cause for the assaulUtfckn that given in the first Btory of the trouble •The J. B. ! Workman mentioned elsewhere in a dispatch * from Wabash regarding recovery of county funds illegally paid out, is the same party who conducted the alleged taxferret investigation in this county some eight years ago. As we understand this decision, no appropriation was. made by the county council to pay Workman at the time the contract with him was made, and the county council m^st

at the time the contract is made and the services performed, and the supreme court has several times so decided. Several hundred dollars at least has been paid out illegally in Jasper county where there was no appropriation existing Iht the time the alleged services were rendered, and every dollar of jnoney ought to be recovered back, if suit should be instituted. Some •of this amount never ought to have been paid out under any circumstances, the alleged claims having no real merit, and this particular money ought to be recovered back. The Iroquois ditch extension matter, known as the Carr ditch, is still grinding before Judge Hanley, he having taken the matter up at the adjourned term of court convening Wednesday. Geo. A. Williams is appearing for the petitioners and Judge Darroch of Kentland and Foltz & Spitler and ' A. llalleck for the remonstrators. j *The attorneys are going over the list of names in the report of; the drainage commissioners andi copying same. This would probably be completed by last evening, It was thought—there are about 1,800 names in this report. When this is completed they will then' compare this list with the names on the remonstrance, of which there are about 1,200, and compared with same to decide how many of the latter are legal remonstrators. It takes two-thirds of the number appearing in the report to defeat the ditch. Both sides claim they will win out, but only tfie count of noses, which will take probably the greater part of next week, will decide the matter.

The county commissioners finished the work of the term Tuesday evening and adjourned. Following is a report of their proceedings: Final estimate of engineer and superintendent of Gillam gravel road, showing completion of same, filed and road accepted; balance of $1,089 on contract ordered paid. Final estimate of engineer and Sipt. also filed In Marion-Rensselaer one road, and balance due contractors ordered paid except SI,OOO jk’hich is held back to such time as Board can view said roads. There was allowed $3,834.72 to contractors on the Remington-Car-pentdr stone roads.

Final report on lateral No. 2 Iroquois ditch, filed and balance due contractors on same ordered paid less 5 per cent, which is held back until ditch is completed. Final report filed in Geo. F. Ketchmark ditch, and supt. is discharged. Samuel E. Sparling petition for ditch; drainage com. file final report. Henry Eiglesbach remonstrates against report being accepted. Simon P. Thompson petition for ditch; cause set for hearing second day January term. Thomas Davis ditch; former setting trial set aside and cause continued to January term for record of circuit court and supreme court on appeal. Contract for poor farm supplies let to G. B. Porter for clothing and shoes at $54.90, and to John Eger for groceries at $129.56. Warner Bros, were allowed sl,673.78 on contract for the heating system at poor farm, balance to be paid when job is completed. Interest on public funds of Jasper county in the various depositories for the month of November was reported as follows: First Nat. Bank, Rensselaer. $96.22 First Nat. Bank, Remington. 66.97 Jasper S. & T. C.» Rensselaer 85.12 State Bank of Rensselaer.... 85.61 Bank of Wheatfield 21.24 County officers reported fees collected for the quarter as follows: Auditor, $29.90; Recorder, $388.70; Clerk, $269.55; Sheriff, $136.20.

The newly elected sheriff and surveyor, who will take their offices Jan. 1, filed their bonds, the former giving bond by the National Surety Co., of New York in the sum of $5,000, and the latter in the sum of SI,OOO as county surveyor and $5,000 as drainage commissioner. The SI,OOO bond is signed by Harvey W. Wood, Benjamin R. Faris and James C. Thrawls as sureties, and the $5,000 by Thomas H. Robinson, Jacob A. Hensler, J. L. S. Gray, Charles W. Platt, Charles B. Steward, Jesße Nichols and .Jas. C. Thrawls. Bonds approved.

NURSES WANTED.

Englewood Hospital of Chicago offers a course of training to young women wishing to take up the profession of Nursing. For further information, address Englewood Hospital, 6001 Green St., Chicago.

We are showing a beautiful line of ties, handkerchiefs, hose, shirts, suspenders and umbrellas, that make beautiful and appropriate gifts for men. ROWLES ft PARKER.

NEWTON TP.

Carried Off Boys’ Corn and Bread Show Honors. WINNERS A6ED 10 AND 15 YEARS In the County Sweepstakes—Former Will Take The “Purdue Short Course” Instead of Cash. The Boys’ Corn Contest held in connection with the Farmers Institute Tuesday, resulted in a Newton tp., boy, Albert Augspurger the 16-year-old son of Wm. Augspurger, carrying off the county honors in the sweepstakes. Frank Babcock of. Carpenter tp., aged 10 years, was second, and Marquis Arnold of Barkley, aged 10, third. The county prize-winner is a bright and intelligent lad, and knows more about farming than many of the older men of the county who follow that occupation. He attended the Purdue short course in farming last year and proposes to take the week’s course again this year, the expenses of which, not exceeding $lO, is offered as an option instead of the cash prize. The other boys are also deserving of much credit for ihey were also prize winners in their township and came out second and third in competition with all the other township winners and they were also quite young farmers to win in contests of this kind. The girls who competed in the bread contest, which was also held in connection with the Institute, displayed a deftness in the breadmaking 4 art—for it is an art to be able to make good bread—that, unfortunately, few girls of the present day can boast. The bread was scored by Miss Berry, one of the institute instructors. In this contest Miss Grace Kelley of Newton tp., aged 10 years, won first; Anna Baier of Carpenter, aged 14, second; and Helen Worland of Rensselaer, aged 13, third. The total entries on corn was 86, and bread 44. Prizes, townships, $5, $3, $2 each on corn and bread. County prize, $6 or expenses of a week’s course at Purdue, Ist on corn; $4 and $2 cash, second and third. Bread, county prizes, $6, $4, $2, and girl having highest average who is 15 years or older, expenses paid at week’s course at Purdue. This will probably be Ruth Bull of Barkley, although the list has not been carefully gone over at this writing. Corn sold at auction brought in about sls which will be applied toward paying prizes and other expenses. The bread was dis-’ tributed to the needy poor of the city. Following are the names of the township winners Ist, 2d, and 3d, as their names appear; Corn Contest Barkley— Marquis Arnold, Fred Daniels, Arnold Kolhoff. Carpenter—Frank Babcock, Victor Babcock. Gillam—Harold Pullins, Ronald Pullins, Edward Ryan. Hanging Grove—Willie Montz, Sam Cook, Chester Miller. Jordan—Melvin Tanner, Ray Huff, George Williams. Kankakee—Willie Lyons, Clarence Stalbaum, Martin Lyons. Keener—Harry E. Frame. Marion—Mark Hoyes, Lee Adams, James Hoyes. Milroy—Russell Parks, James Wood, Orland Beaver. Newton—Albert Augspurger, Leonard Rajal, Stanley Lane. Union—Clarence Bouchard, Otto Casey, Verne Davisson. Walker—Cecil R. Search, John R. Search, Perry Salrin. Wheatfleld—Harry Werfner. County Prizes—Albert Augspurger, Newton tp.; Frank Babcock, Carpenter; Marquis Arnold, Barkley.

Bread Contest Barkley—Florence Arnold, 88.4; Ethel Marlatt, 84.6; Ruth E. Bull, 84.1. Carpenter—Anna Baler, 91. Gillam—-Florence Ryan, 73.4; Lizzie Ryan, 67; Esther V. Pulll ins, 64.5. Hanging Grove—Harriet Harmon, 86.8; Amanda Jenkins, 80.4; Verdie M. Lewis, 75.5. Jordan—Ada Huff, 78.4; Laura Hurley, 73.8. Kankakee—No entry. Keener—No entry. Marion—Helen Worland, 88.6; Pearl Eisele, 87.1; Mabel Worland, 82.6. Milroy—No entry. Newton—Grace O. Kellev. 94.7; Nell Parker, 90; Anna *Zimmer, 87.6. Unlon—dEllen Reed, 79; Netti* Davisson, 78; Bertha Reed, 73.8. Walker—Katherine L. Karch, 83 - 9; Mabel Karch, 79.8; Lucile Byerly, 76.8. Wheatfleld—No entry. County Prise—Grace O. Kelly, Newton tp., 94.7; Anna Baler, Carpenter tp., 91; Helen Worland, Marion tp., 88.6.

birth announcements. Dec. 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arnott, a 10 pouted boy. Dec. 9, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Warren, a daughter.

HOLIDAY ADVERTISING.

Owing to tlie large amount of space taken up with holiday advertisements, a change in arrangement of the reading matter was necessary with this issue of The Democrat, and our telegraphic news had to be omitted entirely. Local and personal items will be found on last page, and country correspondence on third page.

LONG SEIGE OF DIPHTHERIA.

The Board of Health assisted in disinfecting and purifying the home of James Burke, northwest of Mo-’ non yesterday. It has been the scene of the most serious diphtheria scourge ever known in the county. The entire family of seventeen has had the disease in the past sixteen weeks, in more or less serious form, and five have died. Even one man who assisted in the work but wai not in the house or near it only once and lived in the barn, was afflicted.—Monticello Journal.

WILL OPEN THE BOOKS.

The County Council was in BpeciaT session this week to make some necessary appropriations. Among these was one to cover the expense of a complete auditing of the books and accounts of the county by expert accountants. There wai much talk during the recent paign about “opening the books,” and the action of the county council all of whom but one are republicans, shows that republicans are ready .for the fullest investigation. Of the appropriation S3OO was made available this year and $2,000 next year.—Monticello Herald.

TAKE NOTICE. A series of meetings will be held at the Church of God by Elder 8. J. Lindsey of Oregon, 111., commencing Monday night, December 14th. The public is earnestly invited to attend, young and old. You will be well repaid thereby, not in the sensational, dramatic or mirthful anecdotes, interesting only for the moment, but in that which is far more interesting and of enduring enjoyment; In having the Word of life presented in such plain, simple manner, as to be easy of comprehension, inciting to selfappropriation, producing “hungering and thirsting after Righteousness,” thereby not only giving the greatest amount of pleasure now, but also enduring its nature. Such is the universal reputation given to Mr. Lindsey’s ministra. tion of the Word wherever he goes. His calls are many and pressing. Come at the commencement. Don’t miss the opportunity of hearing him —a teacher in very deed. xx

WHITECAPS ACQUITTED.

Parties Alleged to Have Whipped John Tribby Go Free. Rushville, Ind.. Dec. 9. : —Acquit* tal was the verdict returned tonight in the John B. Tribby whitecapping cases against Mrs. Leona Tribby, Charles and Harry McFatridge. Perry Collins. Rural Kennedy and Lafayette Goldman. The jury was out two hours and five minutes. The crime with which the six were charged was the whipping of Jonh B. Tribby early of the morning of August 5 last, when Tribby was taken from his bed by masked men, bound to a tree, beaten with a spiked board and then covered with tar and feather*. The case went to the jury* - at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon. Five ballots were taken by the jury, the first standing eight to four for acquittal. The second stood nine to three, and the third ten to two. After the third ballot at 5:30 o’clock the jury went to supper at the Windsor Hotel. At 6 o’clock the jury returned to the jury room and resumed the balloting. The fourth ballot also stood ten to two. The jurors then spent twenty minutes discussing the case, and at 6:20 o’clock unanimous verdict was reached on the fifth ballot.

You can save money by buying your groceries at Murray’s. TRUCK FARM FOR RENT. One of the finest truck farma in Indiana;/everything needed h* on the place. Call no or address Alfred Donnelly, I*4 miles north of Reusselaer. The G. E. Murray Co. are selling flour at $1.85 per sack. Yonr money back if it is not the best in town. Black Langghans Exclusively—L--000 birds to select from; prices right, circulars free. Come to the show at Rensselaer Jan. 18 to 23 and see some of my birds. WM. HERSH MAN, R-R-l. Medaryville, Ind. Yon take no chance when you buy flour of the & E. Murray Go. Every sack warranted.

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