Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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STRIKE A TARTAR.

Monticello Telephone Co’s. Attempt to Boost Rates MET WITH STA66ERIN6 PROPOSAL. y* Of Tippecanoe Electric aiuK Power Company to Install a Much Mo/e Modern System Than They Pro* pose and At Same Old Bates, If the Company Wishes To Go Out of Business.

That there was concerted action taken at a recent meeting of telephone men at Monticello to use the late sleet storm damage as an excuse to boost up the rates to their patrons, Is becoming more and apparent, and at the meeting of the ' Monticello town council Tuesday night the Monticello Telephone Company asked for a change in their present franchise to permit them to raise rates from sl2 to s2l per year for residence phones, and $24 to $33 for business houses. Representatives of the company had gone among the patrons with the plea that they could not furnish service at the present rates withoutlosing money, and many were induced to sign their petition to the council to grant them the franchise asked for. In this franchise the company agreed to put in the metallic system and automatic call, same as our own telephone company propose, and also would erect a building of its own. The matter was presented very pathetically by the company’s attorney, who made a clever talk about a “patched up system” such as must result if the company was compiled to go ahead at present rates and repair its lines, “nothing was too good for the Monticello people” (if they paid for it) and they had outgrown the obsolete system now in operation. After the attorney got through Mr. Postel, of the Tippecanoe Electric and Power Co., of Monticello — which is now supplying that city with electric service-got up and proposed that if the present Company wished to go out of business rather than continue at present rates, the Electric and Power Co., would be glad to have a franchise at the present rates, and would agree to put in an automatic dial system dispensing not only with the crank but the “hello girl,” and guaranteeing absolute privacy in phone communications. Mr. Postel said he agreed with the telephone company’s attorney as to a "patched up system” and that was just what the town would avoid if his proposition was accepted. The council took the matter under advisement. , The people composing the Tippecanoe Electric and Power Co.,- are experienced business men, and if they did not believe there was good money in the telephone business there at present ratfes they would never have made the proposition they did. Now the above statement of what can be done in Monticello for telephone patrons and at the prevailing rates, shows what can be done in Rensselaer, and our council will do well to reject the propostlon made by the Jasper County Telephone Co,, for a new franchise at 50 per cent higher rates than we are now paying.

SEARCHING FOR LOST PASTOR.

Chas. V. Moon, a police officer of Warsaw, was here this morning in quest of Rev. A. C. Rand, formerly a Presbyterian minister and for the past four years a resident of Warsay. Rand mysteriously disappeared on March 4th, he notified his wife that he was going to Wabash on business. No postive trace has been found of him since that time, although the officer that was here is positive that be traced him to Mononi, where W. D. Handley, the druggist,, is certain he saw hijn a week ago last Sunday. Rand was a Presbyterian minister for several years during his residence in Illinois and was a great student. s He married a wealthy young lady and moved to Warsaw, buying a farm of 400 acrqp near there and a fine residence, Which is said to be one of the best furnished in Warsaw. He had a large library and when he was not looking after his farm interests he was studying. Last summer he had a sun stroke and this is evidently the cause of a temporary abberation of the mind. When he left Warsaw he did not wear his best clothes .and he took only S2O in money with him. He is 88 years of age, 6 feet 8 inches in height, and weighs 145 pounds. He has jet black hair, blue eyes, long slender hands, a narrow No. 7 foot, and

h%B a scar between the thumb and finger of the left hand. Information concerning him should be sent to Rev. E. H. Montgomery, of Warsaw. —Wednesday’s Monticello Journal. Mr. Moon was here Monday looking after the missing preacher.

FLETCHER MON NETT MARRIED.

Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune:— Mrs. Lida Libby, 58 years old, and Fletcher Monnett, 70 years old, both of Evanston, were married yesterday by the Rev. T. P. Frost, pastor of the First Methodist churcn of Evanston. Mrs. Libby recently nursed Mr. Monnett through a period of illness. Miss Ruth Libby, 18 years of age, who was adopted in her infancy by the present Mrs. Monnett, learned through St. Louis relates last June that she was heiress to considerable property. Her St. Louis relatives desired her to go there and live but she chose to remain with her foster mother. Mr. Monnett is the owner of the Monnett hotel at Evanston. The couple will make a honeymoon trip through- Indiana.

MIKE LAWLER DEAD.

Chicagoan Well Known In Rensselaer Died Wednesday of Pneumonia. T‘Mike Lawler, one of the commission firm of Lawler Bros, of Chicago and well known in Rensselaer and Jasper county where they have done considerable business and .own several hundred acres of land, died at, his home 3619 Indiana Ave., Chicago-, at' 1 p. m., Wednesday after only two or three days sickness from pneumonia. His age was 37 years, and he was unamrried^g^ The funeral was held yAterday forenoon in Chicago. Delos Thompson, who for a number of years has been connected with the Lawler Bros, in a business way, went to Chicago on the early train yesterday to attend the funeral.

COUNTY OPTION MEETING.

There will be a meeting of the temperance workers of the county in the court room of the court house to-day, at 1 o’clock p. m., to perfect arrangements for a county option election to be held in April. Representative delegates are expected from every precinct in the county. This call comes at this time in response to an appeal that is made from Demotte in Keener tp., where an application for a license has been made. It is desired that this meeting shall be Largely* attended by friends of temperance from all over tte county. It is the intention to get the petitions ready to file at the April meeting of the county commissioners. It takes 20 per cent of the voting strength of the county, which, on the vote last fall, means about 725 names must be secured to the petition.

MR. AND MRS. HONAN ENTERTAIN.

Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan entertained nearly two hundred of their friends in their handsome new home on Front street St. Patrick's day, Mrs. Honan having the ladies there in the afternoon at progressive euchre, and Mr. Honan an excldreive stag party in the evening. Mrs. Honan is not of the “auld sod,” but Ed has enough Irish blood for both of them, and both the afternoon and evening’s entertaining was in honor of Ireland’s patron saint. The decorations were green and white, and very tasty and appropriate, the shamrock being much.in evidence both in the decorations and in the afternoon’s refreshments. Ed had his stags busy at “Black Maria,” hnd Howard Mills carried off the honors and a handsome deck of cards, while Frank Hill captured the booby prize, a head of cabbage. Ed’s refreshments consisted of a “Dutch lunch” with the cool, ambercolored liquid omitted, hot coffee taking its place, which was an excellent substitute and more generally appreciated than would have been the former. Mrs. W. F. Smith carried off the honors at the afternoon entertainment, a handsome green silk flag bearing a picture, of a harp and the emblem, “Erin-go-bragh,” which translated means ‘ Ireland Forever,” and Mrs. Dr. Corcoran the guest’s prize, a hand-painted china plate. There were about 60 ladies present in the afternoon, and some 80 gentlemen in the evening, and those who know the Honan’s reputation for entertaining need not be told that every one had an excellent time.

Fresh new lace curtains 25 cents per pair up. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE Don’t forget we press and clean your suit or overcoat free of charge for a year, when you buy it here. Just think what that saves you. EARL DUVALL.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1009. „

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. $ ______ The marriage license business still continues very dull, only two having been issued this month. ~—o New suits filed: No. 7425. Margaret Howell vs. Eva Beasey et al; suit to foreclose mortgage on lots 4, 5 and 6, block seven, Chamber’s & Morgan’s add to Remington. Demand $760. No. 7426. The S. D. Confer Co., vs. Orange Brewer, et al; suit on account. Demand SSOO. J. D. Cooper of Kankakee tp., was down on business Thursday. John is not worrying any about the closing of the saloon at Telit, for the Porter county joint is just across the river from him at Dunn's bridge, and were he so inclined he cofild run across the line any old time and “wet his whistle.” Another thing, the republican officer in Porter is reported from other sources to be an agent for a brewery company, so there is little risk run by the keeper of the joint or his patrons, and Sunday is always the big day there.

MIAMI COUNTY NOW DRY.

Forty Three More Saloons Are Put Ont of Business. Miami county joined the “dry” list at an election held there Tuesday, giving a net majority of 1,066. Peru, the county seat, went “wet” by 666. The total vote polled was 7,338, only 1,000 less than at the general election last fall. There are 43 saloons in the county, all of which must go out of business by expiration of licenses before Oct. 1. This makes a total of 32 counties voting dry out of 33 that have held elections thus far, Wayne being the one wet county in the lot. In the counties voting dry 1,843 saloons have been or will be closed as a result. Other counties voting this month are: Greene County, March 23; Benton County, March 23; Montgomery County, March 23; Ohio County, March 24; Elknart County, March 25; Jennings County, March 30; Bartholomew Couny, March 30; Vermillion County, March 30; Henry County, March 31.

KILL A WHITE COUNTY PUPIL

By Suspending Him Head Downward From a Sapling. J. K. Davis returned Thursday from Wolcott and Monticello, and brought the report of the death of a pupil of the White Post schooT, south of Wolcott, by hazing. It seems that the school has been under the rule of a gang of bullies and until a short time ago they had driven the teachers sent there by the trustee from the school house. However, a few days ago, they struck a snag and the whole bunch was badly drubbed by a new teacher hired for the express purpose of breaking up the gang. They blamed one of the younger pupils for their misfortune and proceeded to haze him by tying him by the ankles arfd suspending him head downward from the top of a sapling growning near the school house. He was left until a passerby some two hours later cut him down. He was in an unconscious condition and died a few hours later. Prosecution will probably follow. We were unable to learn the name of the boy.

Gregson’s Calf Meal sold by Malnes ft Hamilton. Phone 273. Lost—A gold scarf-pin with an oblong rough pearl setting. Finder return to this office. *«* 85 cents shoes your boy or girl any day this week at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, if they wear any size from 9 to 2. These shoes were from $1.25 to $2.00 per pair. Be sure and take a look at the windows of my store, as you will find the finest line of tailoring samples that has ever been shown in this city. We take your measurement and a perfect fit is guaranteed or no sale. EARL DUVALL. SAY! Why don’t you turn your colts and cattle on some GOOD blue grass pasture this summer? I’ll tell you whose got some, Jay W. Stockton. You ought to speak for a place before it’s too late. It’s only 3% miles west of Rensselaer. R. F. D. No. 3, or photfe 627-B. t .... Your first opportunity of a lifetime to buy new fresh spring goods at greatly reduced prices to close out. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The subject of the morning sermon at the Presbyterian church tomorrow will be, “Self-deifal;” the evening subject, “Thou Shalt Not Covet.*' All are welcome.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES.

The subject of the Sunday morning sermon at the Christian church is, “The Lord’s Supper;” in the evening, “Prepare to Meet Thy God.” All are welcome.

TO CREAMERY PATRONS.

W. H. Morrison is still at the same old stand and paying the highest market prices for cream. The same courteous treatment extended to all, as in the past. RENSELAER CREAMERY.

EASTER MARKET.

The ladies of the Christian church will hold their regular Easter market, Saturday, March 30, and also in connection with same will have an apron sale. The place of holding the market will be announced later.

NEW HITCH BARN MANAGEMENT

Having purchased an interest in the former Kresler hitch barn on Cullen street, I Invite my old friends and the public in general to call and see me, assuring them fair treatment at all times. HUGH LEAVEL.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

The new Coffee and Tea Store in the Nowels block, under the management of C. C. Starr & Co., is now open ready for business. We roast our own coffees and can insure the public a fine line of teas. Deliveries made to any part of the city.

MR. FARMER.

If.you are a renter, write to me andK I will tell you how easy you can own your own farm, in a healthy country, where you can grow any grain, fruit or berry. Country settling fast with Ohio, Indiana and Illinois people. ROY GAFFIELD, Millerton, Mich.

MRS. SAMUEL DEMARCUS DEAD.

Mrs. Samuel Demarcus, daughter of the late George Kessinger, and a sister of Mrs. Mark Reed, died at Ordway, Colo., Tuesday evening of tuberculosis. Mr. and Mrs. Demarcus formerly lived on the Harry Kurrie fam, north of town and moved to Ordway two years ago on account of Mrs. Demarcus’ health, but for the past year she has been rapidly declining. The remains were brought to Rensselaer yesterday morning and the funeral was held at 1 p. m., at the M. E. church. Interment was made in the Egypt cemetery.

TO FRIENDS OF THE DEMOCRAT.

Instruct your attorneys to bring all legal notices in which you are Interested or have the paying for, to The Democrat, and thereby save money and do us a favor that will be appreciated. All notices of appointment—administrator, executor or guardian—survey, road or ditch notice, notice of sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc., the clients themselves control, and attorneys will take them to the paper you desire, if you mention the matter to them; otherwise they will take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish.

Oliver Chilled Plow goods are sold by Maines ft Hamilton. The thing to do is to always trade at an exclusive clothing and furnishing goods store, as you can always find goods more up-to-date and always find what you want. Be sure and see my spring line of suits add cravenettes. EARL DUVALL. The 1909 J. I. Case Corn Planter has the power drop. Call at Maines ft Hamilton’s and let them show you this latest improvement. »i Notice the Kahn tailoring line of 1% yard lengths in my west window. They are simply swell, and when we take your measurement we know how, and we never turn out any miss-fits. EARL DUVALL. ■*' A GOOD THING FOR HEALTH. - All parties wishing to have any scavenger work done, in cleaning water closets, please drop me a I>ostal card and work will be attended to at once, at 50c per barrel and disinfected. GEO. B. HfiLFRICH, Rensselaer, Ind. Have you steen the nobby Kingsbury Hats at my store? If you haven’t you ought to step in the store and let me show you one. Coat $3.00, and I will guarantee them as good as any $5.00 Stetson, or a new hat. EARL DUVALL.

NO ADMENDMENT TO TARIFF BILL

Measure Reported Back to House by Committee. BROUSSARD WITH REPUBLICANS All Other Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee Voted Against Reporting the Bill—Minority Given Until Tuesday to Prepare Its Report— Charles M. creased Iron and Steel Duties Will Reduce Wages. Washington, March 18.—The house commitete on ways and means agreed after the first meeting of the full committee to report the Payne tariff bill back to the house without mendment. The Democrats were given until next Tuesday to prepare a minority report. Representative Broussard, of Louisiana, voted to report the bill without amendment, but .all the other Democrats of the committee voted against it. The vote was 13 to 6. Payne offered a resolution proving for the printing of 30,000 copies outhe bill, 25,000 of which shall be in document form and embodying the views of the minority. After a good deal of discussion the resolution was adopted. It is not doubted that the tariff question will occupy the attention of the house to the exclusion of almost any other business from now on. Mr. Crumpacker, chairman of the census, was, however, very hopef&l of obtaining action on the census bill, and he was exerting himself to have it taken up by unanimous consent with some prospect of success. SCHWAB ON NEW TARIFF Thinks Iron and Steel Schedules Should Not Be Changed. Detroit, Mich., March 18. —"The Payne tariff bill Is too drastic. The iron and steel schedules should not have been altered," declared Charles M. Schwab in an interview here. "Labor will find Itself adjusted to the changed schedules,” he continued. “The only cost that enters into manufacture is the cost of labor. Remove the protection from steel and you reduce the status of the laborer." FILIPINOS ARE DISPLEASED Do Not Favor Limitations Placed on Tobacco and Sugar. Manila, March 18. —The proposals embodied In the Payne bill for the revision of the tariff have been unfavorably received here because of the limitations placed on sugar and tobacco. It is generally felt if there is to be an unrestricted admission of American products to the Philippines, it is only fair to admit freely Filipino produSts to America.

ANGRY WOMEN RIOT AT CHICAGO OFFICE

Cause Arrest of Man Whom They Had Given Money. Chicago, March 18. —Fifty angry women stormed the offices of Charles F. Gottschaul, in the Hartford building, and demanded the return of money they declared they had given him for lessons in hand painting. Several asserted they had invested money in his business. They became sb demonstrative the attack became an incipient riot and a call was sent to the Central station. Detectives Magner and Heed were the first policemen to reach the building and they arrested Gottschaul. Miss Barnes and Miss Dickinson and others, the police charge, declare they never received lessons paid for. Gottschaul, who conducts the Imperial studio, denies the charges and says he will prove that he did not misrep resent his business.

CAPT. CHAS. NELSON DEAD

Possessed Many Letters Written by the Hero of Trafalgar. Boston, March 18.—Captain Charles H. Nelson, said to be a descendant of Admiral Horatio Nelson, died at the Home for Aged Couples In Roxbury, aged sexenty-nine years. Captain Nelson was the possessor of many valuable letters and documents written by the hero of Trafalgar.

NEVADA TOWN MENACED

Flames Rage at Millere—Five Men Seriously Burned. Tonopah, March 18l—A big fire

Vol. XL No. 82.

is raging at Milers, a mining town ■twelve miles west of Tonopah. Th« Lindsay Hotel and adjoining buildings are in flames. A high wind prevails. Five men have been seriously burned and injured. Three physicians lwft here to care for the injured.

Deport Thirty-Six Chinese.

Los Angeles, Cal., March 18. —Thir-ty-six Chinese aro being taken to San Francisco-to be deported.

CHARGES MADE BY HASKELL

Motion to Quash Indictments Against the Governor. Sensational allegations are contained in motions made at Muskogee, Okla., to quash the indictments against Governor Charles N. Haskell an other prominent Oklahoma men, charged by the government with conspiracy in connection with Muskogee town site scheduling. The motions to quash charge misconduct on the part of Special Assistant Attorney General Sylvester Rash, of Omaha, who conducted the grand Jury examinations. It is alleged that government secret service operatives gave hearsay testimony before the grand jury, that important testimony was suppresed, that the government denied the Jury's request for certain testimony, that witnesses were coerced and held in subjection and that Rush told the jury Indictments should be returned because the government wanted it done.

SOLDIERS NEAR FRONTIER

Nicaragua Protests Military Activity Is for Defense Only. Nicaragua, through her minister at Washington, Senor Espinoza, has protested to Secretary Knox that the military and naval activity now In progress in that country is destined entirely for defensive purposes. Notwithstanding the minister’s assertion, the administration has decided to augment the naval force in Central American waters to a total of six vessels. The most significant news that reached the state department was that about six thousand Nicaraguan troops are near the Honduran frontier, the chief scene of activity being in the neighborhood of Corinto, where are also concentrated four gunboats and other auxiliary craft.

NO WAGE CUT, SAYS GARY

Bteel Corporation Chairman Denies Decision Is Reached. Reports are again current that the United States Steel Corporation Is contemplating a cut of from 15 to 20 per cent' in tW wages of its 240,000 employes, to take effect April 15. The decision to reduce wages, it was stated, was reached at a conference held last Saturday. E. H. Gary said that the question ot wage reduction had not been disoussed by the board of directors, and that no cut in wages had been decided on. He added that he did not mean to say that a reduction would not be made ultimately. • —•>

WIFE SLAYER SENTENCED

Weeps Tears of Joy When Given Life Term in Penitentiary. John Glascoe, of Muncie Ind., who shot and wounded his wife arid then beat her to death, waived trial and pleaded guilry to a charge of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Glascoe wept with joy when sentence was pronounced. A pathetic figure in the courtroom was the murderer’s son Mark, an electrician in the United States navy, just home from the cruise around the world with the battleship fleet, and who had heard nothing of the family tragedy until he arrived in Muncie.

PANAMA LIBEL CASE

Newspaper Men, Through Attorneys Plead Not Guilty. At New York, Monday, The Presa, Publishing company, publishers of the New York World, through its counsel, Delancey Nicoll, pleaded not guilty before Judge Holt in the federal court to the charge of criminal libel at West Point and at the New York postoffice in the Panama canal case. Counsel for Caleb Van Hamm, aneditor of the World, entered a plea of not guilty to a similar charge on behalf of MI. Van Hamm. Counsel was granted one week to prepare a special pleading as to the jurisdiction of the court.

BOSTON HITS AT BOXING

Kid Beebe Arrested on Charge of Assault and Battery. A move against boxing was made in Boston, in the arrest of Kid Beebe, of Philadelphia, who was taken into custody by the South Boston police. Beebe is charged with assault and battery on Willie Riley, of South Boston in the course of a ten round exhibition boxing match at the Faneuil Hall Athletic association.

A full line of nobby children’s suits in all the very latest shades and cuts* all at reasohable prices, from 3 yrs to Id years. Call and look at this line. EARL DUVALL. > ■ WE