Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — Page 3

THE NEW--North Side Meat Market IS NOW AND READY FOR BUSINESS. We handle everything in the meat line. 1 ~~~ I will also handle tallow, hides, and pay the best price for fancy veal and fat beef stock. phone ,51. JOSEPH PUTTS

PRICE vs. QUALITY And perfect fitting. Mere spectacles fitted in a haphazard way are apt to be an injury to the eyes. This is a matter in which you cannot afford to take chances. To preserve vision means to help the eyes do their work; to help the eyes means to wear glasses—not any glasses, but scientifically fitted glasses. We are fully qualified in this line and would appreciate your patronage. Our glasses are reasonable in price—your sight is priceless. DR. ROSE M. REMMEK Second Floor of Harris Bankßuilding. 'Phone 403.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. \Ask Van Grant for Hazelden Cigars. W. NoLand of Lee was In town on business Saturday. Miss Nellie Gray spent Sunday in Remington with relatives. Mrs. A. J. Miller left Monday for a short visit in Lafayette. Dr. Rose Remmek made a - business trip to Chicago Monday. John Mullaley of Otterbein, was in town on business Saturday. Charles Bonner of Marshall, Ind., was in town on business Saturday. E. R. Street of Lafayette visited Sunday with friends in Rensselaer. Ebenezer Mabb attended the Lincoln Memorial services in Chicago Friday. C. D. Harring of Francesville visited in Rensselaer with relatives Saturday. Miss Pauline Knouff went to Seafield Saturday for a short visit with relatives. Miss Aveline Kindig returned to Northwestern University in Chicago Monday. Miss Ethel Witham went .to Monticello Saturday to visit with her grandparents. Ulm returned Monday to South Bend, where he is employed /on a dredge. »■ Lillo Hauter of Purdue University spent Sunday with his parents southeast of town. John Brown of Monon, the Jas-per-White joint-representative, was in town Sunday. C6l. Fred Phillips, on special invitation, attended the auto show in Friday. ' C. P. Wright returned Saturday from a business trip to the southern part of the state. Mrs. J. Q. Alter went to Delphi Saturday to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Fritts. James Brenner returned Friday from Indianapolis where he has been for several days. Miss Alice Shedd of Otterbein came home Saturday to visit a short time with her parents. Mrs. Roy M. Shayne returned to Chicago Saturday after a few days visit with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Porter and son Bruce spent Sunday with relatives in Rossville, Ind. Miss Edna Thompson returned Saturday from Chicago where she has been visiting with relatives. James Matheny left Saturday for Cherokee, la., where he will have employment on a cattle ranch. Chas. Harmon returned to Chicago Monday after a Sunday’s visit with his wife and parents here. Miss Hazel Warner entertained the T." H. D. Club with a Valentine dinner party Sunday afternoon. John Ellis of Rush Medical College, Chicago, Is spending a few days with his father, J. y. S. Ellis. Joseph Glrshpecker, who has been assisting in the lot sale, has finished his work and left for Chicago Sunday. * • Lee Kepner, who has since their opening been employed at the Little Gem Bakery, resigned his position. Miss Mae Henry of Roselawn returned home Saturday after a three weeks visit with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hardy.

Hezelden Cigars at Larsh’s drug store. John Hordeman spent Sunday in Chicago with relatives. Dr. I. M. Washburn was in Chica-" go on business Tuesday. Frank Hanim went to Kankakee, 111., Monday on business. JSjohn Nichols left Tuesday morning for Bonestell, South Dakota, where he has a farm. and Mrs. J. J. Hunt and Mas|er John spent Suhday with Mr. Hunt’s mother and brother Frankin Low'ell. Mrs. Francis Hopkins and daughter Gertrude returned Saturday from a short visit with relatives in Monticello. Miss Lena Jackson, who is teaching school in Kniman, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson. jPerry Marlatt and daughter, Mrs. Roth, went to Hoopeston, 111., Saturday to visit a few days with Mrs. Joe Jackson. ’’4 George Long, who is attending school' at Crawfordsville, is home for a few days visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long. Mrs. L. N. Wells of Demotte was called to Rensselaer Monday on account of the serious sickness of her sister, Mrs. A. Halleck. The young, lady teachers of the town schools ’ were entertained at a dinner party Saturday night at the home of Miss Clara Parker. Viola, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Wolfe of Barkley township, is seriously sick with an attack of tonsilltis. XThe fifteen months old baby of ijr. and Mrs. Marton Reed of Fair Oaks, died Saturday night from a complication of infant troubles. Misses True George and Alice Bates entertained several young ladies at a dinner party at the home of the latter Saturday evening. Will and Louis Genres, two young Greeks from Chicago Heights, 111., have opened a fruit and confectionery store in the old Rosey hotel room. Arthur Shedd of Chicago and [brother Harry Shedd of New York, , silent Sunday with their parents, I Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shedd, east of town. • Walter Hershey and Howard Sucher of near Champaign, 111., returned home Monday after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hatfter. Misses Lizzie and Lena Ahlers were 1 called to Earl Park, Saturday on account of the serious sickness df their sister, who lives there. Mrs. P. ty. Clarke, accompanied her daughter, Miss Ethel, to Chicago Monday to consult an ocoulist and also' to take treatment for the latter’s eyes. Y Delos Thompson and J. J. Montgomery went to Chicago Monday morning to arrange for new wires and poles to replace those destroyed by the storm. Mr., and Mrs. R. J. Cheesman returned to their home in West Point, Ind., Saturday. They have been visiting with Mrs. Cheesman’s brother, Frank Moore. Wm. Bowers writes us from Rockville, Mo., to send him one of those wall charts, and says: “Wte are having blustery weather. Old Missouri can get cold when she tries.” 1 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilson and little son left Saturday for their new home near Mitchell, s. Dak. They expect to stop over at Fair Oaks and Chicago Heights, 111.,' to visit with relatives.

To-day’s markets: Corn, 57c; Oats, 47c. 1 / J Fred Kilgoss and family left Tuesday for Union Hill, 111., where he will live on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Quarlle of Chicago came Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holden. climbing out a buggy Sati urday, Gus. Zacher of near Surrey, fell and fractured the small bone of his left leg.’ Rensselaer’s board of trade shop has rented a private Western tlnion wire, and Leland Jessen has been engaged as operator. Rev. Thomas Meyer was called to Otis Tuesday on account of the death, of the priest in charge of the parish at that place. Mrs. Lucy J. Burris, who has been living on one of the Halligan farms near McCoysburg, moved Tuesday to Sheridan where she has relatives. Ivan EBsworth, as a Texas land agent, accompanied Earl Saidla to Chicago yesterday, and from there they may go to Texas and invest In land. Max Kepner, who is fireman on one of the Sternberg dredges near Seafield, came Saturday to visit for some time with his mother, ' Mrs. Luke Turner.

Miss Margaret Scott, who is teach-’ ing school in Chicago, returned Monday after a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Scott of south of town. ■pMrs. F. A. Ross and son Livingston banqueted the members of the Beta Phi Sigma fraternity and their “best girls” at the home of the former Monday night. The aji in last Wednesday’s Democrat for a farm hand brought a host of replies, and would indicate that there are several married men hunting a job on a farm. and Mrs. Harry Jacobs, who wlere ma.ried here Friday, went to Monticello Saturday where they will spend a few’ days. They expect to make Rensselaer their permanent home. All the rural route carriers made their rounds Monday except John Q. Alter on Route 3. He started out but encountered so many brokun poles lying across the road, he said, that he turned back. Advertised letters: Wm. Eaton, Gazette & Sun, J. L- Hewett, W. F. Michaels, M. C. Van Hall, C. F. Kinsey, W. T. Knight, Mrs. Jos. Starn, Mrs. Loma Hasent, Miss Mabel Karch, Mrs. Frances Godding. Moore, who fires the boiler at the Babcock & Hopkins elevator, is the third person in this vicinity to suffer from a mild parayletic stroke, his entire left side being affected. His shock came last Thursday. J. B. Sayler, who was called here last week on account of the death of his father, Lew’is Sayler of Kniman, returned to his home in Braddock, North Dakota, Tuesday. Mrs. Sayler will remain at Kniman with relatives for a short time. 'Apr. A. R. Kresler accompanied N|rs. John Marlatt to Chicago Tuesday morning for examination by a hospital surgeon for a trouble of long standing. It is possible that she may decide to remain and take treatment in the hospital. Tom Huston of Roselawn was in town on business Saturday. We are indebted to Tom for the report of the little girl burning to death in Roselawn Friday afternoon. The family formerly lived in one of Tom’s tenant houses there. The residence and household goods of # J. Francis, three miles south of Wheatfield, were totally destroyed by fire one night last week. Mr. Francis appraises his loss at $1,500, with $1,300 insurance in the Ohio Farmers’ Co. Charles Penwright of Mt. Ayr and three brothers from Oklahoma left Tuesday morning for the former’s home in Mt. Ayr where they will visit for a short time before returning to their home. J They were called here to attend the funeral of their mother, Mrs. Lois Penwright. Don’t kick because you have to button your wife’s waist. Be glad your wife has a waist and doubly glad you have a wife to button a waist for. Some men’s wives waists have no buttons on td button. Some men’s wives who have waists with buttons on to button, don’t cate a continental whether they are buttoned or not. Some men don’t have any wives with waists with buttons on to button, so cheer up.—Ex. L Mrs. J. H. Perkins, who has been sick as a result of an attack of grip, which settled in the bowels, is in a critical condition at this writing. Three experts in this trouble have been called in consultation with local physicians. Dr. Walter Rhodes, an osteopath of Terre Haute, Dr. J. C. M. Chafee, professor of materia medica in the Western University, and Dr. Byron Robinson of the Mary Thompson hospital in Chicago. Saturday she showed some improvement, but Monday she suffered a relapse and the result is at Vest very doubtful.

Forg Moore of Hammond spent Sunday with relatives in Rensselaer. The telephone lines running to the depot and the grain elevators were also out of commission yet yesterday. /The big sleet storm seems to have f>een general all through the Ohio valley, and in some places worse than here. The Rensselaer basket balj team lost to the Monticello high school team Friday night and won from the Brookston Athletic Club Saturday night. Score 21 to 23 in the former and 21 to 16 in the latter. fell to the depth of two or tpree inches Monday night and it Was still falling yesterday forenoon, having reached a depth of five or six inches by noon. The indications are that it will be some time before the telephone lines are gotten ni good shape again. .» A five line local ad in The Democrat costs but 25 cents for one time and is read by nearly 10,000 people, on the usual estimate of five readers to each paper. Moral: If you have anything to sell, lease or trade, want to buy, rent or hire, it will pay you to insert an ad in this paper and have people come to you instead of wasting your time in trying to let them know about your wants in the feeble and old fashioned word-of-mouth way. f ■ Ji.. ———————_ S»Mrs. A. Halleck, who has been furiously sick since the birth of a child last week, was in a precarious co'ndition Saturday and Sunday. Telephone and telegraph communication was shut off to Indianapolis and the word of Mrs. Halleck’s serious condition did not reach Mr. Halleck until Sunday evening. He came home Monday morning and expects to stay until her condition shows a decided improvement. Her condition yesterday remained about the same, with the temperature hovering close to 104. A specialist was called in Tuesday and improvement is hoped for. Maines & Hamilton have the exclusive sale in Jasper county of the famous J. I. Case Corn Planter and Corn Planter Fertilizer attachment.

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The Democrat Will Give Away Wall Charts to Paid-in-Advance Subscribers. The Democrat has a few left of those handspme 6 page Wall Charts, each page 28x36, containing large maps of Indiana, the United States, the world, etc., etc., portraits of all the Governors of Indiana, Presidents of the United States, names of all the postoffices and populations of all towns in Indiana, and a whole encyclopaedia of information which we have not the space here to mention, which we wish to close out to make room, and in order to get rid of them quickly we will give one' free to every person calling at this office and paying one year in advance for The Democrat. This offer applies to old or new subscribers, and if you want one you had better call -n at once and get it before the few we have left are gone. If to be sent by mail, 10 cents will be charged for mailng tube and postage. Call in and see one of these eharts, if you have not already seen one.

If you would have a safe yet certain Cough Remedy in the home, try Dr. Shoop’s—at least once. It is thoroughly unlike any other Cough preparation. Its taste will be Entirely new to you—unless, it is already your favorite Cough Remedy. No opium, chloroform, or any other stupifying ingredients are used. The tender leaves of a harmless, lung-healing mountainous shrub, give to Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy its wonderful curative properties. It is truly a most certain and trustworthy prescription. Sold by All Dealers. Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts

GOOD COFFEE For Breakfast ’ Nothing better to fit one ; for a good day’s work than a cup of coffee at breakfast ! time. But get good coffee. • < ■ Poor coffee is little better, from a health standpoint, than roasted snowflakes. There is nothing there which your ; system demands or palate relishes. Say—try our Ferndell Cos- , fee. That’s all. ; McFarland & Son Reliable Qreeere

MEET TODAY TO TALK ON TARIFF

National Convention Opened In Indianapolis. ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED Gathering Is Nonpartisan, its Purpose Being Not the Discussion of Rates, but the Appointment of a Commission to Study the Tariff Question. Prominent Men Among the Speakers—President Roosevelt Interested. Indianapolis, Feb. 16. —The selection and appointment of a tariff commission, not to fix rates, but to ascertain facts as a basis for the fixing of rates by congress, is the purpose of the national tariff convention which began In this city today. The convention

CONGRESSMAN FOWLER.

will be in session three days, during which all phases of the tariff question will receive thorough discussion. There are more than 2,000 delegates to the convention, which was called by the National Association of Manufacturers and other large commercial bodies. According to James W. Van Cleave, the president of the association, it is “the first national gathering ever held for the express purpose of promoting the movement for comprehensive, scientific tariff revision.” Convention Is Nonpartisan. The convention is nonpartisan, and among the delegates are men of all shades of political belief. The committee in charge has declared that its purpose is not the discussion of protection, free trade or tariff revision. Its object is declared to be “the urging of reform in the methods pursued in determining schedules, and the discussion of schedules themselves is foreign to its purpose. The committee stands for the tariff commission plan and believes it is one of the greatest reforms in which the country can at this time interest itself.” Beveridge Among Speaker*. Among the speakers who will address the convention are Representative Charles N. Fowler of New Jersey, Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska, Senator Owen of Oklahoma, Senator Beveridge of Indiana, Director John Barrett of the bureau of American republics, Charles P. Neill, federal labor commissioner; Aaron Jones, master of the national grange; former Governor Guild of Massachusetts, and Representative Ransdell of Louisiana. Fowler will take a leading part in the discussions of the convention. His principal address will be on “Tariff Changes by Evolution Instead of Revolution.” In declining an Invitation to attend the convention President Roosevelt declared that he did fiot intend to interfere in a question which would be settled by his successor. Probability of friction on the floor of the convention was lessened by the announcement that the reservation of quarters in a hotel engaged by Secretary W. F. Wakeman of the American Protection Tariff league had been canceled.

CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS

All Blds Opened Are Within Allotment of $6,000 Each. Indianapolis, Feb. 16. —A Washington dispatch says that twenty-one bids for the erection of two marble monuments over the graves of Confederate soldiers in the cemeteries at Indianapolis and at Alton, 111., were opened at the war department, which had allotted $6,000 for each monument. All the bids were within the allotment Teh blds were for the monument at Alton and eleven at Indianapolis. ‘The awards will be made In a few days.

AD. MEN’S CONVENTION

Publicity Promoters' Meeting In In* dianapolis Today. Indianapolis. Feb. IS.—With the pur. pose of getting together the publicity men of the middle states the central division of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America began a two days* convention here today. The association intends to organise advertising men in the leading cities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois. Indiana and Ohio and affiliate the clubs thus formed with the national organisation of advertising men.

SMELTER HEAD DYING

Special Speeds For Sea Level to Save Guggenheim’s Life. Aguas Calientes, Mexico, Feb. 16. Daniel Guggenheim, head of the American Smelting and Refining company. Is being rushed east' aboard a special train in order that his > life may be

saved. Guggenheim visited Mexico, City a few days ago and the altitude so affected his heart that he became dangerously ill. The physician who was called decided that the millionaire’s life depended on his getting to sea level at the earliest possible ’moment. The special was accordingly made up and is now hurrying to the border. /

FIRE BLOCKS HILUS ROAD

Flames In Montana Tunnel Unchecked Because Water Is Scarce. Great Falls, Mont., Feb. 16. —A fire is raging in the Great Northern tunnel at Teton station, fifty miles east of here and the structure will be burned out. Men are trying to check the flames, but as little watpr is available they cannot accomplish much. It is 'expected that the road will be blocked several days.

HENEY SAYS NO SHOT FROM BEHIND AGAIN

Tells Witness He Is an American Before a Prosecutor. San Francisco, Feb. 16. —In the trial of Patrick Calhoun, the street railway magnate accused of bribery, Samuel Leake, formerly a newspaper manager, was on the stdnd. He was summoned on account of a charge that he had attempted to buy out a business conducted by a brother of one of the jurors. . Leake was being questioned concerning his visits to a certain resort when he said: “I think it improper for you to refer to these things, Mr. Heney. I could tell of places I saw you— ’’ “I want you to stop right now,” Interrupted Prosecutor Francis J. Heney. “I don’t propose that you shall make any more threats. You are there to answer questions.” “There is one conversation you don’t dare to refer to,” retorted the witness. “There was one when you went up the back way into the Call office—” “That’s all there will be of that,” said Heney. “I took this sort of thing from Henry Ach for months, until it led to an attempt at assassination and after this I want it understood that I won’t take It from any man living. If I am going to be shot again I’ll be shot in front, not from behind, nor from the side. Before lam a district attorney I am an American citizen and in that capacity I want to say right here and now I draw the line over which no living man may step. For months I took all the vinification that could be heaped on me merely because I dared to do my duty, but I am through with It now, and I want this thoroughly understood.”

GETS $7,000 FOR HER SEVEN HOURS IN JAIL

San Francisco Milliner Wins Sult Against Chicagoan. I San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 16. —A thousand dollars an hour for seven hours spent in jail was the compensation awarded Annettfe Hartzell, a local milliner, by the jury which has heard the evidence in the $25,000 damage suit she brought against John D. Murphy, representative of a Chicago wholesale establishment. Mrs. Hartzell was arrested on a complaint by Murphy charging her with obtaining goods under false representation. The complaint was dismissed. The jury awarded her $7,000.

WRIGHT'S SISTER IN AIR

Aeropianist Also Takes Countess Lambert Out For a Ride. Pau, France, Feb. 16. Wilbur Wright had his sister as a passenger in his aeroplane. This was her first flight and they remained in the air for eight minutes. Prior to this Wright had made a five minute flight with Countess Lambert as a passenger, and gave a twenty minute lesson to Count Lambert. It is announced that King Alfonso of Spain will arrive here on Thursday.

BIG CRACK IN LIBERTY BELL

New Fracture Extends Seventeen tncTws »vyonci vfw Philadelphia, Feb. 16.—The discovery that the crack in the Liberty Beu has extended seventeen inches hwyniwi Its original length, caused the starting •f another movement to prevent the proposed trip of the Old relic to the Pacific coast. The second crack, which io scarcely perceptible, extends almost to the tap of the bell, and any sudden jolt may cause the bell to split In half, -'•2 ■/