Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — Page 2

JISPU MI DMII. 1 1. MBWCI, film Ml MlllNfl Official Democratic Paper of Jaeper County. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. * Entered as Second-Class Matter June >, 1908, at the poet office at Rensselaer. Ind., under the Act of March 8. 1879. Office on Van Rensaelaer Street. Eons Distance Telephones: Office 316. Residence 811. Advertising rates made known on ap- / plication. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17,1000

The local “organ” seems to have overlooked the death of the county and township dredge bill. In fact, did the organ ever tell its readers anything at all about the bill? The “organ” can. be very reticent when it chooses.

Adam E. Weise, democrat, was elected representative by Marshall county, at the special election held there last Thursday, by a majority of 604, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Sarber. This was an increase over Sarber's majority of over 400.

Wayne county, which recently voted wet by some 800 majority, is a strong republican county, which no doubt accounts for its having gone that way, the republicans being so earnest (?) in their advocacy of the county option measure. We have not the vote of the late general election at hand, but four years ago that county gave a republican plurality of 4,276 or more than 1,100 more than the total democratic vote in the entire county.

At the beginning of 1909 the Democrats have 22 governors of the 46 states and the Republicans have 24. This is a larger proportion of democratic Governors than the country has seen since Cleveland’s days in the Presidency. In the beginning of 1894, in the first year of Cleveland’s second term, when there were 44 states, the Republlcas had 16 Governors, the Democrats had 25 and the Populists had three. At the beginning of 1896, after Utah had increased the number of states to 45, the Republicans had 26 Governors, the Democrats had 17 and the Populists had two. For the past 13 years the Republicans have been in the ascendency in the number of State

Executives, but their preponderance now is smaller than it was at any time in all this period. In 1908 the Republicans chose Governors in

Missouri and one .or two other states hitherto controlled by the Democrats, but the Democrats captured Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Nebraska and a few other states and thus have brought the' number of their Governors up close to the Republican mark. A net gain of one more Governor, ii it should take place would bring the parties to a tie. Some of the Democratic Governors of Republican states— Harmon of Ohio, Marshall of Indiana, Johnson of Minnesota, and Chamberlain of Oregon—-are mentioned as Presidential nomination possibilities for 1912.—Leslie’s Weekly.

ACCUSES MME. STEINHEIL

Assailant of Dreyfus Says She Knows of Faure’s Death. Paris, Feb. 16.-—Louis Anthehue'Gregor!, the French military writer who made an attempt upon the life of Major Alfred Dreyfus at the canonization of Emile Zola last June, filed a complaint against Mme. Adolphe Stelnhell, the woman charged with the sensational murder of her husband, in connection with the death of Felix Faure, •who was president of France when he • died in 1899. o The anti-Dreyfusards always have insisted that M. Faure was assassinated at the instigation of the Dreyfusards. Magistrate Albanel dismissed the complaint.

ADMITS KILLING SERVANT

Diplomat Bsckert Declares He Slew Man In Self Defense. Santiago, Chile, Feb. 16.—Herr Beck ert, chancellor of the German legation here, has confessed to the killing of his servant. He declares that ho killed the man in self defense.

Flyer Kills Two Men.

Grand Forks, N. D„ Feb. 16.—Andrew Kruchar, a mail carrier, and Frank Suta, a farmer, were killed by a Northern Pacific flyer.

GOUGE BILLS GET THE AXE

House Majority Watching Peoples’ Interests. KEEPING PARTY PLEDGES Campaign Promises Looking to Reign of Economy In the Administering of State Affairs Being Fulfilled by the House Majority, Whose Efforts In Behalf of the Taxpayer Are Ham> pered by the Republican Senate, Which Will Not Acknowledge Years of Wasteful Methods.

Indianapolis, Feb. 16. —In one respect, at least, the present session of the general assembly has broken the records established by most of its predecessors, and that is in the number of bills passed. Perhaps it would be better to say in the number of bills not passed, because up to the present time fewer measures have received the sanction of both houses and gone to the governor than at a similar period in any session for many years. Generally speaking, this does not indicate that the legislators have been slothful, nor that, in the main, they are not doing good work. After all is said, it is not quantity that counts. At the beginning of the session Governor Marshall suggested that the character of enactments was of more importance than the mere number, and that suggestion has had Influence. But it cannot be denied that some material matters could have been disposed of that have not been and that much time has beep frittered away on things that are entirely Inconsequential. This, however, is one of the things that has never yet been prevented and probably never will be. Each house has pushed forward some of its pet measures and sent them over to the other, and there most of them have stuck. As the Republicans control the senate, they are not inclined to hurry along any bill that the Democratic majority of the house is anxious to have passed. For illustration, there is the pure elections bill that the Democratic house passed weeks ago. It ought to have reached the governor for his approval long ago, but instead it is still pigeon-holded in the senate. And so with other measures. It will readily be seen that a divided legislature has its drawbacks. * 4

More than two weeks ago the Democrats in the house adopted a concurrent resoluticn providing for a committee composed of two representatives and two senators to investigate the state offices and report as to their condition and as to what would be necessary "to put the state’s affairs on a business basis.’’ When the senate committee to which this resolution was referred brought it out the other day the Republican members “amended” it by striking out that part relating to putting "the state’s affairs on a business basis.” This was done over the protest of the Democratic members. Senator Kistler, speaking for the Democrats, declared that the Republicans were undertaking to strike out the purpose fcr which the resolution was intended. “Placing the state’s affairs on a business basis is exactly what we want,” he said. “There is no reason to strike out that portion of the resolution. Is it tramping on the toes of someone to ask that the state’s affairs be placed on a business basis? Do you gentlemen on the other side of the house want to be understood to be in favor of the state’s affairs not being on a business basis?” But the protest did not avail. The Republicans contended that the state’s affairs were already on a business basis.” There Is no likelihood that the investigating committee, with its two Democrats and two Republicaris, will do anything else than submit a divided report. It is very evident that the Republicans in the legislature are not going to admit that they have been extravagant and wasteful, even in the face of overwhelming

proof to the contrary. • To save themselves from utter condemnation they may concede some slight reductions in the appropriations to be made for the state offices, but they will do it grudgingly. It will be merely something to point to in the next campaign. • • • During the earlier days of the session it seemed that the Republican politicians in the senate were proceeding on the theory that the Democratic members in both houses were a lot of easy marks who would stand for any plausible gouge that was presented. Moth-eaten schemes, decrepit claims and other legislative flotsam and jetsam were dusted and brushed and gingered up and then brought out to attract the Democratic eye. For a time it appeared that a few of the Demo crats were going to be caught in this trap. Some of them went so far as to nibble innocently at the bait despite the almost frantic endeavors of party leaders within and without the legislature to arouse them to the danger. But such as these have been jarred awake. During the last laps of the session there will be some tall sailing toward a safe political anchorage. All gouge and graft bills are being hunted down and killed. No appropriations will be made except for strictly necessary purposes. Salaries are to be cut and needless offices abolished. All

moth-eaten claims will be tossed into the ash barrel. Every project for scraping the bottom of the treasury for its last few dimes will be hit with a maul on the point of its jaw. Even the Muncie normal school, with its buildings and grounds, which was put forward as a “nice little gift”-to the state, will be i? turned down. It has been turned down so often that it is used to it, but at first blush it looked good to some of the legislators who had never heard of it before, and they gave it a friendly pat on the back. With a fuller knowledge of the proposition these same men stand ready to swat it on its solar plexus. As a matter of fact that nice little gift carried with it, as the bjll provides, a special tax levy of about 1130,000 a year and the certainty of numerous special appropriations besides. The measure is opposed on the ground that the state is not in a financial condition to indulge in this luxury ai this time. No one has anything against Muncie, and in time another state normal school may be a good thing, but the taxpayers have rights which even legislators are bound to respect. The Democratic members have mapped cut a definite line of action which they will follow to the end of the session. Party pledges are to be redeemed as far as it lies in their power. Some mistakes have been made through misunderstandings, but nothing of the kind will be done again if'the leaders can prevent it. The Democrats, whatever else may be said, have not attempted to play any petty politics.

The present session of the legislature has been prolific of proposals of different sorts relating to the public schools. In the first place, a bill with a common origin was introduced by a leading Republican in the senates and by a leading Democrat in the house. It appeared in both houses early in the session, and its object is to do away with the uniformity of schoolboAks by taking the adoption of the standard away from the state board of education and turning it over to a board of adoption in each county to be composed of five educators of the county. This bill is opposed by Pro. Robert J. Aley, the newly elected superintendent of public Instruction. It Is also opposed by many others. But it is said that it is favored by forty or fifty lobbyists of the school book trust. At all events, there are forty or fifty agents of school book concerns here on the ground, and some of them have been here since the legislature opened. They are not paying hotel bills for the mere pleasure of listening to the legislative debates cn “rat tail” bounty bills and similar ingenuous proposals. One of these able agents told me that under the present system the people are “getting the worst of it.” It seems probable, therefore, that the schoolbook trust has sent its represen-

tatlves here to Indianapolis to lobby In the interest of the people. That is a way trusts have. As a matter of fact, the people are “getting the worst of It” under the present “system,” but It is because that system has been beaten and hammered until it is no system, but only a skeleton of a system, neatly wired and articulated, but scant on real ’flesh. Through, its polished bones the parents of the state who have children In the schools see the costly supplementary things, the books and supplies, the odds and ends. In the price and change of which the present law gives no protection. Few persons believe, however, that any good can be accomplished by going back to the old method of local adoption. That was a glorious period for the schoolbook and supply combination, and the smell of it has not yet been forgotten. Aside from the schoolbook bill, there are several other measures pending which affect the public schools. An effort is being made to reopen the local schoolhouses closed by the consolidation act passed two years ago, and to limit the distance that children may be hauled to school in township wagons. And then there is a bill to secure the sanitation of school buildings and premises. There has been much discussion of these various measures and many references to the "eld log schoolhouse,” with its slab benches, the "little red schoolhouse” at,the end of the lane, “moss-covered buckets” and gourd dippers, “bubbling springs on the hillside,” “babbling brooks” and bare-legged children and other fond recollections of long-gone childhood. It was the old cry for the touch of a

vanished hand, for the sound of a voice that is still, for the tender grace of a day that is dead and lost in the sweep of new things and changed conditions. We will never get back. Dr. Hurty is here with his microbes as big as battleships and twice as dangerous. And they will get us if we don’t watch out So runs the world away, good brothers and sisters, and it’s no use to kick. On the theory that public business could be better managed and much money saved by a uniform system of public accounts, a few simple-minded persons got up a bill along that line and had it introduced in the legislature. Under this bill as prepared the governor of the state would appoint the chief executive officer of the new system and otherwise be something more than a bump on a log. But the Republicans of the senate have amended the bill so M to partisanize it by placing the establishing of the scheme in the hands of a board composed of the secretary and auditor of state and i the governor. The secretary and audi-! tor are Republicans and under the Re-' publican plan they would run things to suit themselves and their party. Of course the Democrats will not agree to this change in the bill and the whole thing will peter out unless the Republicans recede from their position. MILLARD F. COX.

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Feb. 15. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.16%@1.18%; No. 3 red, 11.14% @ 1.17%; No. 2 hard, |1.12%@1.15%; No. 3 hard, |[email protected]. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, |1.16@ 1.17; No. 2 northern, [email protected]; No. 3 spring, |[email protected]. Corn by sample: No. 3, 63@63%c; No. 3 white, 64%c; No. 3 yellow, 63@63%c; No 1 . 4, 62%@ 63c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 64c; Nd. 3 white, 52%@54c; No. 4 white, 51%@5294,c; standard, 54c. Chicago Live Stock.

Hogs—Receipts 42,000. Sales ranged at $6.00 @6.65 for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, $6.50@ 6.55 choice light, [email protected] mixed packing, [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 22,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime fat steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, [email protected] good to choice cows, [email protected] good to choice calves, $4.75 @5.40 selected feeders, [email protected] medium to good stockers. Sheep—Receipts 18,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, [email protected] fair to choice lambs, [email protected] choice ewes, [email protected] fair to good ewes, $6.25@ 7.00 western fed yearlings.

Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb, 17c; chickens and fowls, 13%c; springs, 15c; roosters, 9c; geese, 8@10c; ducks, 14 %c. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, Feb. 15. Creamery, extras, 30c; prints, 32c; extra firsts, 28%c; firsts, 25c; dairies, extra, 25c; firsts, 21c; packing stoc':< 19%c.

Wanted:—A load of nice clover hay. Enquire at Democrat office. DR. J. H. HANSSON VETERNARY SURGEON—Now at Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office in Harris Bank Building. Phone 443.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Edwin G. Warren to John Rush, Dec. 5. und. %. Its 1,2, 3,4, bl 32, Weston’s add. Rensselaer, SI,OOO. Alfred D. Stephenson, adm. to Ann Eliza Stephenson, Dec. 1, pt n*4 nw, 27-30-7, Union, $5,000. Greenlp I. Thomas to Charles L. Hensler, Dec. 5, n% sw, 5-30-6, e% ne, 6-30-6, ne se, 6-30-6, Union, SI,OOO. Henry Rosenthal to Mandeville E. Stogsdell, Nov. 30, e% ne, 20-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, $4,800. William B. Austin to James M. Dickey, Dec. 4, e% sw, 6-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, $1,600. Chas. T* Dye to Jasper County Lumber Co., Oct. 31, pt Its 3,6, bl 1, *Searight’s add., Remington, $7,000. Sarah M. Yeoman, et al to Isabelle Parker, Oct. 21, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, SIOO. Mallna Klanska to Franklin Conghenour, Oct. 14, pt se, 25-32-6, Wheatfield, SBOO. Benjamin J. Gifford to Hiram Crawford. Nov. 10, pt se, 17-32-6, 100 acres acres, Wheatfield, $4,000. Emellne Record to Elma A. Gifford, Oct. 8, Its 4,5, 6, 13, 14, 15, bl 1, A. L. McDonald's add, Demotte, S3OO. Augusta Jacks to Louis B. Elmore, Dec. 9, Its 1,2, bl 16, Remington, SBSO. Llnnie A. Gant to William L, Wood, Dec. 15, pt outlots 27, 28, 29, 30, Parr, SI,OOO. Moses A. Mitchell to Adam H. East, Oct. 30, nH se. 13-31-6, 80 acres, Walker. $6,800. George F. Meyers to Claud A. Brown, et ux, Dec. 17. pt Its 12, 13, bl 62, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, $1,500. George F Smith to Prior Smith, Dec. 7, se ne, 25-30-5, Hanging Grove, SI,OOO. q c d. Frank Eck to William C. Cain, Dec. 17, sw se, 32-28-6, 40 acres, Jordan, $3,600. Edwin G. Warren to Whitsei Lewis. Dec. 18, Its 5,6, bl 5. Austin & Paxton’s 2d add, Rensselaer, $l5O. August Rosenbaum to Edward V. Hansford. Dec. 8, Its 5,6, bl 28, Weston’s 2d add. Rensselaer, S4OO. Lee D. Mauck to George F. Meyers, Dec. 17, pt n% nw, 3-29-7, 57.47, acres, Newton, $3,450. William L. Wood to Taylor F. Wood, et ux, Dec. 19, pt outlots 27, 28, 29, 30, Parr, $1,500. Taylor F. Wood, et ux to William L. Wood, Dec. 19, nw sw, 31-31-6, e% ne se, 36-31-7, 60 acres, Union, $3,000. Jesse M. Dickey to Cicero Lane and Albert Miller, Dec. 5, e% sw, 6-31-6, Walker, $4,000. William H. Murray, et ux to Robert A. Parklson, Nov. 6, nw sw, 29-29-6, 24 Marion, $3,500. Omer F. Hedges to Marion E. McKinley, Dec. 21, pt nw ne, 19-28-5, Mll-

roy, $2,600. James O. B. McDougle to Fenwick, Dec. 7, Its 12, 13, bl 5, Chamber & Morgan’s add, Remington, $l3O. | John F. Bruner to Harrison Warren, • Dec. 23, its 2, bl 1, sub bl 3, Thompson’s add, Rensselaer, $2,250. I Morris Lewin to Freida Marsdel, Nov. 14, pt ne, 3-31-6, pt nw, 3-31-6, Walker, $7,800. I Lafayette Loan & Trust Co. to Benjamin J. Gifford, Dec. 1, sw, 4-30-5, s% nw, 4-30-5, sw, 29-31-5, nw se, 29-31-5, se nw, 29-31-5, sMi ne, 32-31-5, pt nw ne. 32-31-5, sft sw, 28-31-5, 673 ‘acres. Walker, sl. | Benjamin J. Gifford to American Lubricating & Refining Co., sw 4-30-5, se nw, 29-31-5, stj, ne, 32-31-5, pt se nw, 32-31-5, pt nw ne, 32-31-5, s% sw, 28-31-5, 673 acres, Walker, sl. i Hielo J. Rust to Erie W. Thompson, sH sw, 16-28-6, 80 acres, Marion, SB,OOO. Erie W. Thompson to Thomas H. Lackland, s% sw, 16-28-6, 80 acres, Marion, sl. Eva B. Seeley to Martin Nickerson, : Dec. 19, e% ne, 28-32-7, 80 acres, Keener, $4,800. I Harvey Davisson to George W. Davts'son, Dec. 26, eH nw, 8-30-6, 80 acres, 'Barkley, $2,800. William B. Austin ,to Ray D. Thompson, Dec. 24, pt nw nw, 1-32-6, 8 acres, Wheatfield, SSO. Pauline E. Roberts to Louisa Roberts, Dec. 1, nw sw, 31-29-7, 40 acres, Newton. $2,000. Andrew Potts to Della R. Renicker, Dec. 14, pt It 4, bl 1, Parr, SI,OOO.

' George K. Hollingsworth to Ablgal Jordan, Dec. 88, Its 18, 14, bl 1, Riverside Park, Rensselaer, 8900. Mary Lowman to Edward Tanner, May 27, pt s% nw, 15-29-6, 1.5 acres, Marlon, .885. Benjamin J. Gifford to Eugene W. Long, Nov. 10, e% se, 18-32-0, nw. se, 17-32-6, 120 acres, Wheatfield, 84,900. Rosa Koppelman to Emma J. Warren, Dec. 29, Its 9, 10, bl 7, A. L. McDonald’s add, Demotte, 81.000, Mattle Jj. Porter to Artemus L. Mathews, Dec; 5, e% sw, 33-29-5, w% sw, 34-29-5, 160 acres, Hanging Grove, 812,000.

George R. Masters to John W. Zimmerman, Dec. 19, e% s*4 sw nw, 9-30-0, 10 acres, Marion, 8240. Nancy E. Gasper to Thomas N. Logan, jDec. 31. ne nw. 34-30-5, 40 acres, Gillam, 8400. John D. Scott to Joseph Brenneman, Nov. 19, w% se, 24-32-5, 80 acres, Kankakee, 85,000. Laura R. Michaels to Marion T. Adams, et ux, Aug. 3. pt sw sw, 29-29-6, 11 acres, Marion, 82,900. Austin J. Rathfon to F. William Fischer, Dec. 31, und 1-3, est ne, 23-30-5, Gillam, 81,800. Rial B. Harris to William K. Parkison, et al, pec. 21, nw, 3-29-5, 125 acres, Gillam, 87,500. William C. Schwler to Henry Ward Marble, Jan. 2, Its 8,9, bl 3, Bentley’s add. WhSatfleld, SIOO. George F. Meyers to Oscar E. Brown, et ux, Jan. 4, pt sw, 25-29-7, 13 acres, Marion, SI,BOO. Nancy M. Davis to Jo'seph L. Beesley, Aug. 25, w% ne, 34-29-5, e% nw, 34-29-5, Hanging Grove, 85,600. Albert M. McClintic to Herod W. O’Neal. Dec. 10, se, 17-30-7, e% e% sw, 17-30-7, 200 acres, Union, $19,000. John Morrow to Henry Ward Marble, Jan. 5, pt w% sw, 28-33-6, 50 acres, Wheatfield, S6OO. Levi S. Renlcker to Jasper N. Gunyon, Oct. 22, e% se, 22-30-7, 80 acres, Union, $6,000. William H. Rinker to J. J. Norgors, April 24, It 8, bl 1, Austin & Hopkin’s add. Rensselaer, SSO. William J. Rees to Benjamin J. Gifford. Jan. 9, se, 15-30-6, 160 acres, Barley, sl. q c d. Alice P. Williams, et al to James E. Low, Dec. 31, 1904, pt ne sw, pt se nw, 12-30-5, Union, $l5O, q c d. Simpson E. Low, et al to James E. Low, Jan. 28, 1904, pt ne ne, 2-30-5, pt se nw, 12-30-5, 30 acres. Union, sl, ■ q c d. Willert Jenkins to Tallmadge & Buntin Co, Jan. 12, ne nw, 3-28-7, 63.42 acres, sw nw. 3-28-7, 40 acres, pt nw nw, 3-28-7, 20.97 acres, Jordan, $5,000. Tellamdge & Buntin Co, to Olin Lewis. Jan. 14. ne nw, 8-28-7/ 63.42 acres, sw nw, 3-28-7, 40 acres, pt nw nw, 3-28-7, 20.97 acres. Jordan, $5,000. John K. Smith to Herman Schultz, ban. 14, s% nw, 31-31-6, 80 acres, Union, $3,200. George W. Spitler to Benjamin J. Gifford, Dec. 5, s% w%, 4-30-6, Barkley, sl, q c d. H E Randle to John Clingan, et ux, Jan. 15, Its 16, 17, bl 30, Weston’s 2d add. Rensselaer, $1,500. Samuel Remley to Sarah E. Steele, et al, Dec. 10, It 6, bl 1, pt It 5, bl 1. pt It 7, bl 1, Bentley’s add, Wheatfield, ne se, 25-32-6, Wheatfield, sl.

Johp Hudson to Sarah E. Patrick, Dec. 5, ne ne, 34-28-7, Jordan, $1,480. Ray D. Thompson, et al to John H. Dexter, et ux, Dec. 22, s% el-3, 1-31-5, ne, 12-31-5, 400 acres. Walker, $8,200. EJia L Fisher to Charles Q. Spitler, Jan. 16, Its 2,3, 18, 19, 20, 21, bl 16. Weston's add, Rensselaer, SI,OOO. Alda F. K. Parklson to Granville Moody. Jan. 8, pt e% ne, 1-29-6, Barkley, $990. George M. Show to Charles H. Baldwin, April 1. w% se, se se, 28-32-5, 120 acres, Kankakee, $6,000.. Charles H. Baldwin to John Green, et ux. Dec. 11. w% se, se se, 28-32-5, 120 acres, Kankakee, $4,800. George R. Hanna, et ux to Kenwood Land Co., Jan. 12, eH sw, 5-31-6, sw sw, 5-31-6, 120 acres, Walker, sl. Joseph L. Beesley to Henry B. Butler, Dec. 31, w% ne, e% nw, 34-29-5, Hanging Grove. $12,000. Fred Granger to Lottie Halleck, Oct. 17, It 18, bl 2, McDonald’s add, Demotte, $l5O. Rosie D. Steinhllber to Samuel A. Lowe, et al, Dec. 29, pt ne, 24-32-6, Wheatfield, $1,200. Lucina C. Stewart to Samuel A. Lowe, et al. Dec. pt ne, 24-32-6, Wheatfield, $1,200. Catherine Carmody to Catherine I Carmody, Nov 23, It 1, bl j, bl 4, Weston's add, Remington, $250 Jasper County Lumber Co, to Charles B. Johnson, et al. Jan. 19, fits 1. 2,3, 4,5, 6. bl 6, 1. 2,3, bl 7, pt Its 6,3, bl 1, Searight's add. Remington, $23,-

000. James C. Cox, et al io Anna Zellers, et al, Nov. 18, Its 1,2, 3, bl 3, Fair Oaks, S2OO. Charles F. Grow to Alexander Hurley, Dec. 21, ne nw nw, 32-30-6, W|4 wV4 ne nw, 32-30-6, 20 acres, Barkley, sl,050. Charles J. Peterson, trustee, to Frances L. Larson, Jan. 21, wt 4 nw nw, 6-30-7, 23 acres. Union, sl, q c d. James T. Fait to Watson M. Murdock, Oct. 21, n% sw, 19-28-6, -57.72 acres, pt n% se, 24-28-7, 77 acres, Milroy, sl. v. Columbia Improvement Co, to Emily J. Reynolds. Jan. 19, Its 1,2, bl 4, Columbia add .Rensselaer, SIBO. Thomas Biggs to Peter Nomlnson, Nov. 2, ne ne, 36-30-5, 40 acres, Gillam, $4,400. Peter Nomlnson to John Greiser, Jan. 20, ne ne, 36-30-5, 40 acres, Gillam, $4,400. John Greiser to Peter Nomlnson, Jan. 19, sw, 2-29-5, 160 acres, Gillam, $16,000. Alonzo Cook to Emma Digman, Sept. 16, pt w% se, 24-28-6, 70 acres, Milroy, $2,500. Indiana Refining Co. to Eva L. Caster, Dec. 28, pt sw ne, 32-31-5, 59 acres. Walker, $2,000. John Rush to Robert J. Yeoman, Jan. 29, Its 1,2, 3,4, bl 32, Weston’s add, pt It 3, bl 2, Thompson's add, Rensselaer, $5,300. Charles A. Neier, et al to Harrison E. Neier, Deb. 10, pt sl-3 sw, 31-32-5, 54 acres, Kankakee, . $2,000. Winfred McColly, adm. to George W. Tullis, Feb. 20, pt It 12, bl 11, Weston’s 2d add, Rensselaer, $285.70. Albert B. Kessler to Mathias Burger, July 27, nw se, 10-31-5, 40 acres, Walker, S6OO. Lorinda McGllnn to Mattie Hoile, Feb. 4, It 2, bl 3, Hogan, S4OO.

ilujhlHp. in .f.■ 5..» * Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Loulavllle and French Lick Springe. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect Juno 14, 1908. „ . . SOUTH BOUND. No. s—Louisville Mall (dally) 10:55 a. m No.33—lnd polls Mail (daily).. 2:01p.m. No.39—Milk accomm. (dally) 5:40 p. m. N°-«—Louisville Hx. (dally) 11 ;05 p. m. No.3l—Fast Mall 4:49a.m. _ . NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mall (daily) 4:30 a.m. No.4o—Milk accomm. (daily) 7:31 a. m. N0.32—-Fast Mail (daily) 9:55 a.m. No. 6—Mall and Ex. (dally).. 8:26 p. m. •No.3o—Cln. to Chi. Ves. Mail 6:86 p. m. No.3B—Cln. to Chi. (Sun.only) 2:57 p. m. ♦Daily except Sunday. No. 8 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowen, Hammond and Chicago. No. 33 makes direct connection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen’l Mgr., CHAS. H. ROCKWELL*, Traffic Mgr., Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshall W. S. Parks Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer.... * Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery Councilmen. Ist Ward.. .... H. L. Htown 2nd Ward J. F. Irwin 3rd Ward Eli Gerber At Large..C. G. Spitler, Geo. F. Meyers. JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge... Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred Long-well Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. C1erk..................Char1es C. Warner Sheriff Louis P. Shirer Auditor James N. Leatherman Treasurer J. D. Allman Recorder.• • ............J. W. Tilton Surveyor.. ..W. F. Osborne Coroner W. J. Wright Supt. Public Schools Ernest Latnson. County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health 0fficer.............. M. D. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. Ist District.. John Pettet 2nd District Frederick ‘Waymire 3rd District,. Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. F01gar....................... Barkley Charles May. .Carpenter J. W. Selmer Gillam George Parker.... Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley. Jordan Tunis 5nip.....................,. .Keener John Shirer Kankakee Edward Parkison Marion George L. Parks Milroy E. J 7 Lane........................Newt0n Isaac Kight Union S. D. Clark Wheatfield Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield Truant Officer. .C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARDS. ‘jordan township. The undersigned trustee of Jordan township attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address. Rensselaer, Ind.. ,R-R-4. Telephone 529-F. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union township attends to official ' business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address. FaW Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT. /

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