Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — Page 1

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Jasper County Democrat.

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TO INVESTIGATE

County Records, Council Appropriates $2,000. OFFICES OF TREAS. AND AUDITOR To Be Investigated At Least, and Possibly All the Offices May Be Examined.

Among the important appropriations made by the County Council at its meeting Monday and yesterday, was $2,000 for an investigation of the county records. It is the indention, we understand, to have an expert examination made of the treasurer’s and auditor’s offices, to settle the question of the shortage of ex-treasurer Nichols, who thinks there were mistakes in the latter office that made the shortage which the commissioners order ed paid at their meeting last month. Mr. Leatherman thinks his accounts are correct and says that he welcomes an investigation. Now that an investigation of these two offices has been ordered, the taxpayers of Jasper county who have the expense to pay, are interested in its being an honest and non-partisan investigation. They don’t want any white-washing, and the investigation should go back at least 15 years, covering all of the period during which the new court house was being considered and built. In order that it may be an investigation in which the people may have confidence,- The Democrat suggests that the republican and democratic county chairmen each select one accountant and the county commissioners select the third, as provided in the petition for an investigation asked for by more than 1.000 representative taxpayers of the county some nine or ten years ago. It is scarcely likely that $2,000 will be sufficient to make a thorough examination of all the offices, that is, covering a period which the investigation should cover, but the auditor’s and treasurer’s offices are the principal county offices and if a fair and honest investigation is made of them it will probably satisfy the people, though it ought not cost very much to check up the others also. The commissioners have made no contract with anyone to conduct the investigation as yet, and so far as we can learn have no one in mind. The council was still in session yesterday morning and the appropriations asked for and which they likely to grant, amounted to $lO,847,74, mostly re-appropriations, which lapsed January 1, and $14,640.15 new appropriations, making a grand total of $25,487.89. Aside from the $2,000 for an examination of the county records, most of the new appropriations are for bridges.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ MEETING.

The township trustees met Monday in regular monthly session. All were present except Trustee Kight of Fair Oaks, who was absent on account of sickness. Several trustees reported on seed corn for the boys cdrn club, but none was found entirely satisfactory and it was decided to investigate the propositions of several big seed concerns. They also decided to continue the corn and bread clubs for another year and fixed the minnimum and maximum ages at 7 and 19 years. The question of prizes was left to a later meeting. The trustees expect to make a canvass of the business men for donations which will go as prizes in the contests. A girl’s sewing club was also organized which purposes to encourage plain rather than fancy sewing. The question of examination manuscripts was also raised and discussed at length. Their next meeting will be held March 6th.

THE YODERS ACQUITTED.

The state case against Noah Yoder and wife of Jackson tp., Newton county, indicted by the grand jury on the charge of keeping a house, of ill fame, was tried in the Newton circuit court last week, occupying two days, and resulted in tm acquittal. Mrs. Ellen Rodgers, mother of the Yoder woman, who was arrested for shooting at Clarence Blankenship of Mt. Ayr while he was driving past the Yoder farmhouse, was also tried before the court and Judge Hanley held that the woman was guilty; that she was a degenerate, without property or a home, and the proper peifeon to he confined in the poor asylum, and sent her there.

SIX WEEKS, MORE WINTER.

Yesterday was a beautiful day for the ground hog to get out and see his shadow, bright sunshine all day. The murcury also rose consid'erably and the snow was fast disappearing in exposed places when we "Went to press.

PARR GETS RURAL MAIL ROUTE.

The postofflce department has granted the application for a rural mall route out of Parr, Jasper county on the lines heretofore published in The Democrat. The route is 24 miles in length and the number of people served is 116. The service will begin April 1.

NEW UNIFORMS FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The city hak supplied the officers of 'the fire department with brand few uniforms, and Chief Montgomery, assistant Chief Charles Rhoades and Captain Orlai/ Grant now appear in the regulation blue and gold of city departments. The privates have all been furnished with new badges also. Some time in the near future the company will appear on dress parade.

TWO MORE COUNTIES GO DRY.

Noble and Randolph Counties Vote Against Saloons. Noble and Randolph counties voted last Friday on the county option proposition and both went dry by large majorities, Noble by 692 and Randolph by 2470. There are but two saloons now in Randolph county, at Union City, but in Noble county there are twenty. This makes nine counties now that have voted under the county option law, all having gone dry. Huntington, Parke and Switzerland counties voted on the proposition yesterday.

REAL WINTER AGAIN.

The mercury took a sudden drop Friday afternoon and a few inches of snow fell, while the wind blew almost a hurricane all night long and Saturday. Friday night was about as wild a night as is often seen here, and Saturday morning it w'as freezing cold and the snow blew’ in gusts and was piled up in places making it difficult for teams to get through. All the four rural mail carriers started out of Rensselaer in the morning and hll made their rounds except H. B. Murray on Route 4, who only got as far as Albert Beavers's. There were not many farmers in town Saturday, nobody venturing out much unless it was a matter of necessity. The mercury Sunday morning was almost down to zero, but rose considerably during the day.

MISS NORA CASEY GOES INSANE.

Rensselaer Girl Xow In the Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, Illinois. The sight of a bloody corpse in the dissecting room of the great St. Mary's hospital in Chicago, drove Miss Nora Casey, a graduate of the Rensselaer High School and a senior in the school of nurses at St. Mary’s, violently insane last Friday and she is now confined in the violent ward of the Illinois hospital for the insane at Kankakee, 111. Miss Casey had been studying very hard in the hospital from early in the morning until late at night to take her degree in the nurse’s school in April. This coupled! with a serious sickness while a student in the high school here had weakened her to the point of a nervous breakdown, and the hospital authorities had urged a rest, but Miss Casey was obdurate and insisted on continuing the work that was soon to make her a raving maniac. Last Friday she had classes in the dissecting room and while bending over a dead body at her work, she fell over In a faint. When she was restored to consciousness she became violently insane and was unable to recognize any of the people or scenes about her.

Her uncles, John Casey and Thomas Reed of Carpenter township, were at once notified and Mr. Casey went to Chicago the following day. The hospital physicians thought a long rest might restore her faculties, but the outcome is at the best uncertain. She was taken to the asylum at Kankakee a few days later but her condition has shown but little improvement. Miss Casey made her home in Rensselaer with Mr. i and Mrs. John Duvall and has visited' with them several times since beginning her work in Chicago.

BOX SOCIAL.

There will be a box social at the Lane school house in Newton tp., Friday, Feb. 12. Everybody invited. GRACE WORLAND, Teacher.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1909

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. N. Littlefield has been appointed as the democratic member of the jury commissioners, to succeed Moses Tuteur, who resigned when he went to Indianapolis recently. —o— The county commissioners were in regular session Monday and yesterday. Little was done Monday except allow claims. A complete report of their proceedings will be given in Saturday’s Democrat. All members of the county council were present at the special session Monday and Tuesday except Michael Delehanty of Wheatfleld, who has just been appointed in place of Sheriff L. P. Shirer, coun-cilman-at-large, who resigned when he became sheriff. —o— New suits filed: No. 7400. Frank Krempel, vs. Horace Marble; suit to quiet title. No. 7401. Grace Boswinkle, vs. Matt and Margaret Boswinkle; suit in repleven brought here from Newton county on change of venue.

COURT CONVENES NEXT MONDAY

PetlJ .Jury Called for Second Tues-day-Grand Jury Will Not Be Called. The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene next Monday, Feb. 8. The grand Jury will not be called, but the petiti jury is 'called for the second Tuesday. Following are the names and places of residence of both the grand, and petit jurors: GRAND JURY. J. W. Amsler ...Marion B. W . Sigler Keener Smith Newell Barkley John U. Rush Barkley Wm. Dittman. Wheatfleld C has. R. Weiss .New’ton PETIT JURY. Jacob Heil Wheatfleld E. J. Randle . .Barkley E. F. Pullins. Barkley C. W. Anderson Carpenter Albert A. Dodge, ....., .Carpenter - Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Wm. B. Bennett Marion I. D. Miller. Barkley James E. Watson Marion George B. Crockett Marion James Lane. -. Newton Henry Bosnia Keener G. P. Snedeker Barkley Geo. A. Cover Union Robert Zick... Walker

LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.

The state legislature is now getting down to business a little and a few bills have been passed in both branches. Among those of general importance passed by the senate are the following: Increasing the amount of mortgage exemption from S7OO to SI2OO. Providing that jury commissioners shall fill all vacancies arising on any jury panel by drawing names from the regular jury box, thus putting the professional juror out of business. When the names in the box have all been drawn, and it is necessary for the commissioners to obtain a new list of men eligible for jury service, thereby delaying the trial, the court would be empowered to select jurymen to fill vacancies. Men selected in this manner, however, can not serve longer than the time necessary to try the case in hearing. At the completion of the case in hearing the jury commissioners must fill the vacancies, those selected serving the remainder of the court term. The following Mils of general interest have been passed by the house: Providing for the re-establish-ment of abandoned country schools when attendance warrants. Increasing the per capita appropriation for the Lafayette Soldiers’ Home from $12.50 to $16.00 per month. Providing that the costs follow the case in an appeal from a justice of the peace to the Circuit Court. Up to Saturday night about 250 bills had been introduced in each branch. About 100 of these in each house were for the repeal of present laws, most of which were passed by the legislature of two years ago.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH WILL ENTERTAIN.

On Wednesday evening, Feb. 3, the Christian church will givfe a reception, to those who became members during the revival meetings. An invitation is herewith extended to all members, hoth new and old,

to be present.

Try our 1-40-1 coal for your range, it is the cleanest and best coal for; ranges on the market. Try it and you' will be convinced. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO. ’Phone 4.

G. H. CLARKE,

Pastor.

FRANCESVILLE HAS $8,000 FIRE.

The O. T. Higgins Company’s hardware and furniture store was destroyed by fire Sunday night at Francesville. Loss, SB,OOO, mostly covered by insurance. The loss on the building is $3,500, with SI,OOO insurance. A switch engine from Monon brought fire apparatus, and helped save the entire business block.

TWENTY-FOUR MORE LOTS ARE SOLD.

The lot sale in the factory addition is still crawling up in number and a few more are being sold each day. Since our last report, up to yesterday morning, 24 more had beet! making some 156 altogether.’. > . . hollowing are the names of the recent purchasers; who take one lot each:

Wm. Murray, Mrs. B. Forsythe, F ’ Smith, Dr. Gwin, F. E Joi rn putf‘ J t M °° re ’ Matt Worden- • utts, James Jordan, Lowman & Markin, W. A. Platt, Eli Gerber, ,Geo. Terwilliger, I. N. Hemphill, H. J. Hordeman, Elza Grow, C. S Chamberlain, V. M. Peer, H. W. Wood, Peter May, Lee Jessup, Arnett & Simpson.

HENRY W. MARSHALL ON TRIAL.

Former Republican Chairman of Tenth District Being Tried at Indianapolis. Henry W. Marshall of Lafayette, former republican chairman of the Tenth district, is being trifed at Indianapolis on the charge of presenting a false and fraudulent claim to the city of Indianapolis for asphalt street repairs. The trial is the result of grand jury indictments, and he is being defended by some of the ablest attorneys in the state. The case was taken up Monday morning, and it was expected that all of two days would be required to secure a jury, and the case will likely occupy ten days of two weeks in trying.

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: February 4, Marion I. Adams, 3% miles south and % mile east of Rensselaer. General sale, horses, tattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Tuesday, Feb. 5, John T. Culp & Son, 11 % miles northeast of Rensselaer, in Barkley tp. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, etc, Tuesday, Feb. 9, Geo. O. Pumphrey & Son, 1 % miles northeast of Rensselaer. Duroc Jersey Brood Sow Sale. Sale begins at 12:30 p. m. ■ " Thursday, Feb.“ 11, Judson E. and Mrs. Susan A. Maines, 1 mile north and % mile west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Monday, Feb. 15, Max Weller and M. O. Foster, 3 miles north and 3% miles w'est of Remington. Big combination sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, etc. Tuesday, Feb. 16, A. A. Beaver, 2% miles southeast of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, February 17, J. A. Williams, 3 miles south and 3 miles west of Rensselaer, in Jordan township, on the former McCoy farm. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm implements, etc. Thursday, Feb. 18, L. M. Miller, on the John Bislosky farm, 4 miles west and % mile south of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, faj-m tools, etc. Thursday, Feb. 18, Henry Huffman, 3 miles east and 2% miles north of Goodland, 4 miles west and 2% miles north of Remington, 9% miles south and 4 miles west of Rensselaer, general Bale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc.

FELLOWS IN MISFORTUNE.

"Well,” growled the first man at the 5 o’clock tea, "If it were not for my wife I wouldn’t be here.” “No, hang it! and neither would I if it were not for my wife. I’m the hostess’ husband.”—Philadelphia Press.

A fine truck wagon $29.00 at Ma'ines & Hamilton’s.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Jan. 29, to Recorder and Mrs. J. H. Tilton, a daughter. Jan. 31. to Mr. and Mrs. Delos Pass of Hanging Grove tp., a daughter. The babe only lived a short time, and was buried Monday. Marion I. Adams’ sale, Feb. 4, (Thursday) for a good horse or a good cow. , A good wagon bed, $16.50, at Maines A Hamilton’s. .Thursday, Feb. 4, at M. I. Adams’, a good U. S. Cream Separator and a nice line of farm implements. The Democrat for Job work.

GANDERBONE'S FORECAST

FOR FEBRUARY. (Copyright 1909, by C. H. Reith.) February will be a very eventful month. In fact, it will be the last of the eventful months, for Mr. Roosevelt will leave the White House Mai eh 4, and after that we shall only occasionally hear from him, along with earthquakes, war ip the Balkans. Raisuli, the old and new husbands of the Gould money, and other cable news.

However, be that as it will. The groundhog will obey The impulse of prophetic gift Upon the second day. He’ll feel the vibrant sti¥ of spring Run up" and down his spine, Roll over like a hired man, Sit up and yawn and whine, Rub his knuckles in his eyes, Wind up his winter snooze, Put on his go-to-meetin’ clothes, And patent leather shoes, Ascend the stairway of his lair, Observe the sky'a while, And join the Ananias Club In fine and dandy style. And then the date of Lincoln’s birth will timorously dawn, and the wets and drys will show us whose line-up he stood upon. The drys will say he never drank, the wets will claim he did, they’ll show him standing 40 ways for Sunday on the lid, the women will parade and pray for H2O for men, and the breweries will sadly sigh for the good old times again. St. Valentine's Day will, come on the 14th. This will be the biggest day of the month, inasmuch as it will give the people who believe in protecting American art an opportunity to show us just what the tariff is doinfe for it. There will, of course, be a few of the hideous caricatures which everybody got when our native artists were compelled to compete with the cheap labor of Europe, but in the main the valentines will be a great improvement upon anything we have seen. After looking them over we shall be able to determine pretty well whether art, like the steel industry, is now quite able to take care of itself, or if it is still an infant and needs all the baby food that Uncle Joe Cannon can give it.

But while the symbol of a love That dieth hot nor fails And other kinds of valentines Are going through the mails, And almost everybody is On edge to take a shot At the coward who addressed to him The cruel one he got— While all of this is going on In lighter humor, still, You bet you bottom dollar that The Secret Service will Be on the job for Roosevelt And watchful to a man To see no ugly ones are sent At present to Japan On the second Wednesday in February the vote of the electoral college will be formally opened at the joint session of Congress, and it will be found that 321 votes were cast for Taft and Sherman and 162 for Bryan and Kern. Mr. Carnegie says figures prove nothing, but the recurrence of these will nevertheless prove a little embarrassing. Between St. Valentine's Day and Washington’s birthday there will be a lull enlivened from time to time by Carrie Nation in London Tower, newspaper editors sentenced to hard labor on the Panama Canal for gossiping about the Government, and the Duke of Abruzzi giving up all for Miss Elkins. The fleet will continue on its homeward way, making Spain, where there will be a tremendous ovation tendered it on Feb. 31. And then the day of days will come When everyone will try To honor most the name of him Who never told a lie— Who never wrote a nature fake, Or lied about a deal In timber lands, or called the sale In Panama a steal, Or represented Standard Oil Behind the country’s back, But always made a very stffcight And unsuspicious track. Widow waltz, the suave infernal liar will be welcomed for his faults, the artful liar will consign the truth to utter Hades, and the droll d — liar T. R. will take a cherry tree and drag it through the aisles of Congress till the country whoops and even Congress smiles; and having surfeited himself with amusing skit, he’ll center Tillman out and run him up and down a bit. At night the Ananals Club will burgeon with a ball and all the liars will disport and frolic in the hall. The cheerful liar will consort and mingle with the plain, the unpremeditated type will trip to the refrain, the wilful liar will essay the Merry

will delight the none too spueamiah ladies. The season for sifting the ashes ends on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 24. The supposition is that we can make ends meet in some other way during Lent, which immediately fallows. February was named for Februs an old Etruscan god with a,bad liver. Information of him is meager, but history calls him a holy terror, and he appears to have been a providential preparation of the earth for the subsequent occurrence of President Castro. The password for the month will be “possum.” Prosperity will return on the 28th. And then the ideas of March will come, Which long ago played hob And the fattest man we ever chose Will go upon his job.

OBITUARY.

William Faris, son of John and Sarah Truitt Faris, was born in Marion county within the present 1834, departed this life on Jan. 23, 1834, departed this life on an.- 23, 1909, aged 74 years, 6 months and 28 days. In the early forties his father moved to Beaver Prairie and settled near Parish’s Grove; from there they moved to the north and settled near Morrow, Ind., where his father died. The mother, now with a large family moved to mear Rensselaer where they lived bn a farm for several years. Rensselaer was then a very small place where Mr. Faris worked in a flouring mill for some time and where he and his brothers engaged in the brick business. In about 1853 he and his brothers James and George, bought what is now the Rathfon farm, in Gillam tp., where he and his brother George lived together with their mother. A In 186 5 he was married to Mary A. Robinson and soon afterward bought and located on what is now the Fred Smith farm in Gillam tp. He subsequently moved to and lived* in LaPorte and Pulaski counties, returning to Gillam tp., in the fall of 1871, and where he has lived ever- since. He united with the M. E. church soon after his marriage and ever held sacred the principles of a godly life. He was a man of strict integrity, honesty and uprightness j with strong convictions as to his duty toward God and his fellow™an - He was especially interested in the great temperance reform and believed in the motto "no compromise” with the rum traffic. His last sickness w’as of short duration, acute pneumonia, and his departure was a great surprise to his many friends. He had been in usual good health until the Sunday before he died. On Friday evening before taking sick on Sunday, he was unusually cheerful and happy, referring to old-time revivals and songs they used to sing when Methodism was aglow with zeal and great supiritual power. He loved to sing especially in his younger days, and on this occasion he sang several verses of the old-time hymn of Jacob’s ladder which describes the old patriarch’s vision of the heavenly country. He has gone to be with his companion and two children who preceded him to the spirit world. He leaves two children, one brother, one son-in-law. (at whose home he died) ten grandchildren and one great grand son to mourn their loss. The funeral took place last Monday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, from the Independence church in Gillam tp., Rev. Lynn Bates, officiating. The large audience present testified to the love and respect the deceased enjoyed among his neighbors and friends. The remains were laid to rest in the Independence cemetery. The children, Mrs. Lizzie and Rev! Chas. W. Faris, and other relatives have our heartfelt sympathy in this their bereavement.—Medaryville Advertiser.

WOOD AND COAL.

We carry the largest stock of wood and coal in the city. We carry 1-40-1, Eatser Gem, and Jackson Hill for ranges, Splint, Pittsburg and anthracite for heaters. Our wood is good and dry either in 4 foot, 16 inch t block or split wood. J W hen in need of wood or coal give us a trial. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO . Phone 4.

Remember the date, Feb. 4 at Marion I. Adams’ some good seed corn, the kind that has been win- * ning prizes.

MR. FARMER, OR ANY OTHER MAN

In need of a farm wagon had better buy before spring, as the price is bound to advance. No guess. These are facts. I have the proof and the agency for the Studebaker, the wagon that has the reputation be- 1 j* nd 14 is a Studebaker It is built right.” C. A. ROBERTS.

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. Farmers:—Maines ft Hamilton want to sell you your Machinery, Fertilizer, Coal and Feed.

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