Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 59c; Oats, 49c. Hsldrs. Alda Parklson was In Chicago Thursday. Simon Leopold was in Chicago on business Thursday. Ora Yeoman was in Monticello on business Thursday. ’ — ll ■ ■ ■ "■ Otto Brown was in Roselawn on business Wednesday. Ben Harris made a business trip to Chicago Thursday. Miss Mary Yates was in Chicago Thursday on business. <* t T. W. Nickerson of Francesvlile was in town on business Wednesday. Jasper Guy of Remington was'a business visitor in the city Wednesday. • Monticello Herald: Mr. L. B. Josserand is arranging to move to Oklahoma. • Mrs. Jesse McCarthy Chissom returned to her home in Englewood Thursday. Call'arid see The Democrat’s sam- i pies of engraved calling and business cards. John Kepner left for his old home in St. Joe, Mich., Wednesday for a short visit. Miss Martha Courts of near Francesville, went to Chicago Wednesday for a short visit. Miss Mary iselman went to Laporte Thursday to visit with herparents a few days. Ray L. Johnson and E. N. Hay-1 hens of Lowell were in town on business Wednesday. 'Tvjjfrs. Harve Moore went to Redidick, 111., Wednesday to visit with relatives a short time. J. K. Davis was in Monticello and Wolcott Wednesday and Thursday visiting with relatives. Lou Harmon, Walter Porter and B. J. Moc/re'attended a big horse sale in Lafayette Thursday. - - * Mrs. Sarah Wright of Mazon, Ill* came Thursday to visit with hel daughter, Mrs. A. L. Willis. Mrs. A. C. Catt returned Wednesday from Thayer, where she has been visiting with he% parents. Myra Galbraith Sheetz of near Fowler, came Thursday to visit relatives here for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears left Thursday for Watseka, 111., where they will make their future home. Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson and daughter, Mrs. J. J. Hunt, are visiting willh Mrs. A. E. Coen at Berwyn, 111. Mrs. A. C. Robinson and Miss Clara Mitchell went to Medaryville Wednesday to visit a few days with Mrs. Robinson’s parents. 4. Mieses Belle Laßue, Georgia Harlis, Grace Norris and Harriet Shedd of DePauw University are home to spend the spring vacation. Dr. A. P. Rainer of Remington was in Rensselaer a few hours Thursday. He has been at Brookst'on visiting with his brother. Mrs. John Moran, returned to her home In Bradley, 111., Thursday after a short visit with her daughter, Mrs v Joseph Dluzak of near Remington.

J. W.i Mauck came down from Chicago Tuesday for a few days visit and to attend to some business matters. John is still enjoying single blessedness. A nice warm rain fell Thursday night, and yesterday was the warmest and most spring-like day we have had since the first two days of the month. Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Corcoran -of Chicago dame Wednesday to visit with Attorney and Mrs. E. P. Honan. Mrs. C. and little daughter will remain for a week’s visit.

Eraest Cavinder was in Hammond yesterday on business. J. J. Noland of Lee was in town on business Thursday. ✓ Miss Katie Marlatt went to Chicago yesterday for a few days visit. James P. Karr of Monticello was in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Ed Oliver went to Springfield, 111., yesterday on a short business trip. H. Lawein of New York, was in Rensselaer a few hours on business Friday. Robert Wartena of Gary is visiting here a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Wartena. Mrs. Hale Warner went to Denver, Ind., Thursday to visit a few days with her sister, Mrs. W. C. Milliron. D. J. Graber of Milo, N. Dak., returned to his home Thursday. He has been visiting Ben B. Miller of near Mt. Ayr. t*Mrs. Dave Zeigler of near Ponic, 111., came Wednesday to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elizur Sage of Newton tp. Miss Iva Williams, who has been employed In Rensselaer as a domestic for some time past, returned to her home In Fair Oaks Thursday. 'v(..Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Laßue spent Thursday in Chicago visiting with nlrs. Laßue’s mother, Mrs. George Morgan, who is in the Presbyterian hospital. Mrs. Elizur Sage underwent an operation in a hospital in Joliet, 111., Wednesday for a trouble from which she had been suffering for a number of years.

Earl Clouse was in Knox on business Wednesday. He has traded | the trick horse he recently purj chased of Dr. J.-it. Hansson for 40 acres of land near Knox. J. W. Harris and Lex Fisher of Remington &rove over Thursday to attend the Brosnan sale near Surrey. John was looking for another horse to use on his farm this season. Andrew Gangloff who recently purchased a lot of Cooney Kellner on the Pleasant nidge road, has let the contract to Synder ft Son for a fine large modern residence, costing some $3,000. L. Nowels has sold his. farm in Jordan tp., to Ben and Lewis Welsh, whose land it adjoins, and has bought the Charlie Robinson property, on the Remington road, which he recently moved into. Born, Thursday night, March 16, to Mr. and Mrs. George W. Martin, of New Land, twin baby girls. They only lived a few hours and were burled Thursday in the Dunkard cemetery in Barkley tp.

Meyer, who has been managing the Lake Forest and Highland Park telephone systems, has received a promotion in the shape of managerial birth in the city of Gary, He will move his family at once to Gary. A post card from C. T. Otis, who is now sojourning in Cuba, postmarked Mantanzas, Cuba, March 12, shows the crude methods of the natives in farming there, with bullocks hitched to the wooden plows, “cultivating” the fields. George Wood and family and his father-in-law, L. Shigley and two sons, Earl and Cal, expect to leave in a few days for Mitchell, So. Dak., where George will work for R. B. Porter and the others expect to find employment near there.

Lawyers and professional men are invited to inspect Democrat’s line of samples of embossed stationery, the very swellest thing in the stationery line you ever saw. Coßts a" little more than printed stationery, but is “it” when it comes to the proper thing. £emington is to have two banks r all, C. Q. Beal, who for a iber of years was cashier in the Parker bank, has bought a lot a half-block south of the present State Bank on South Ohio street and will erect a building thereon in which be will open a new bank.

R. D. Rogers of Danville, Indi, was in town on business Thursday. Lon McConnell of Oxford spent Thursday with friends In Rensselaer. Warren Robinson and daughter, Luella went to lola, Kans., yesterday to visit with Frank Robinson. Elsie Augspurger left Wednesday for a two weeks visit with relatives In Chicago and Blue Island, 111. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Pittsburg, Pa., came yesterday for an extended visit with her cousin, Mrs. Slyvester Gray. Roy Daniels and Will Hendricks left yesterday for Devil’s Lake, No. Dak., where they will find employment. Oscar McClure has moved here from Hammond and occupies the Peacock property In the west part of town. Bryan Doyle of LaSalle, 111., returned to his home yesterday. He has been visiting with his sister, Mrs. A. J. Harmon.

—v ■ Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchum returned Thursday from Hot Springs, Ark., where they have been spending a part of the winter. J. W. Sage of near Foresman writes u« to discontinue his automobile ad, as he has sold the auto. Yes, it pays to advertise. John went to Chicago Friday to take treatment for his eyes, which have been giving him considerable trouble of late. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Remington, R-4; 2; Goooland, R-l, 1; Medaryville, R-l, 1; Rensselaer, R-4, 1; Knlman, 1. Mrs. M. E. Corlls received word Tuesday of the death of her sister’s husband, Dr. E. R. Williams, at Richfield, Idaho. The remains will probably be brought back to Kankakee, 111., for Interment. The Monon is to have one of the biggest turn-tables in its Lafayette round-house that there is in the country. It will be possible on this apparatus to turn the largest coaches that are now made.

Wm. Gagle, perverted murderer of the 12-year-old Lizzie Schrader of near Tolleston about a year ago, was found guilty of murder in the first degree in the Porter superior court Wednesday and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life. blew safes in the postopihe at Crown Point Wednesday night and escaped by stealing a horse and buggy with about $75 in money and stamps. Bloodhounds from Hammond were used and the rig was found near Valparaiso, but the thieves made good their escape. B. S. Fendig received word Wednesday of the death of Kaufmann Hexter of Chicago. Mr. Hexter some 40 years ago was a business partner of Nathan and thS late Ralph Fendig, but for the past 35 years he has made his home in Chicago, buying feathers. His age 72 years.

The Hon. Ananias Baker of Rochester, Ind., who gained much notoriety a few years ago in his exposure of an attempt to bribe him in connection with the anti-cigarette law which was then pending in the state legislature, of which he was a member, died in Albuquerque, N. M., Thursday of consumption. O. M. Garriott writes us from Mt. Vernon, So. Dak., to change the adress of his Democrat from Mt. Vernon to Plankington, R-l, and says by this jehange he gets his mail every day. He adds: "This is a fine country and we made no mistake in coming here. We have at present 85 head of cattle, among them 23 fresh cows. Everything else is proportion.” NrEd Greenwalt of Taylorville, 111., or me Wednesday to visit with George and Harry Wood and Mrs. Elmer Gwln, Mrs. Gwin being a sister an George and Harry Wood brothers of his wife. Mr. Greenwait was the unfortunate victim of an accident two years ago in which he lost both legs, and has been in Chicago to be fitted with a new pair of artificial limbs.

A letter from Prof. Lee Fisher, superintendent of the Stillwell, Ind., schools, in renewing his subscription for The Democrat, says that he has Succeeded in having the Stillwell school commissioned the present year, and the people there seem proud of the standing it has attained. Lee is making good in the educational line, and his many Jasper county friends are glad to note his success. Winamac Democrat-Journal: ' The Hardesty hotel entertained the youngest couple that ever called on Clerk Wittmer for a marriage license Monday. The fair bride, Grace Mabel Byers) of Medaryville, is only 14, while the groom, Thomas Smith, who is from Jasper county, gives his age at 20. Mr. and Mrs. Byers and Mrs, Smith, parents of the cou-

pie, came along to give their sanction to Dan Cupid’s engagement of thdir children. Near Death in Big Pond It was a thrilling experience to Mrs. Ida Soper to face death. “For years a severe lung trouble gave me intense suffering,” she writes, "and several times nearly caused my death. All remedies failed and doctors said I was incurable. Then Dr. King’s New Discovery brought quick relief and a cure so permanent that I have not been troubled In twelve years.’’ Mrs. Soper lives in Big Pond, Pa. It works wonders in Coughs and Colds, Sore Lungs, Hemorrhages, LaGrippe, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough and all Bronchial affections. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by A. F. Long. MAPLE SYRUP AND MAPLE SUGAR. Parties wanting pure maple syrup or sugar from the Empire State, leave orders at Knapp’s livery. Nothing in the way o{ a cough is quite so annoying as a tickling, teasing, wheezing bronchla-Cough. The quickest relief comes perhaps from a prescription known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy. And besides, it is so horoughly harmless that mothers give it with perfect safety even to the youngest babes. The tender leaves of a simple mountain' shrub, give to Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy its remarkable curative effect. A few days’ test will tell. Sold by all dealers ,

SHOE BARGAINS THIS WEEK. 200 pairs Children’s Shoes, sizes 9 to 2. Price 85c, were $1.25 to $2.00. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. STRAWBERRY PLANTS. N. S. Bates will have a limited number of plants for sale. The large dark berry, the best known berry for this part of the country. Orders can be placed now. First come, first served. The great closing out sale continues to July 5, ’O9. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE Incubator Oil, Incubator Thermometers, Incubator Lamps, and Sanitary Hen Coops and Nests— We have them. EGER BROS. Deering Disc Truck will fit on any disc. This is the only truck that has a hard oil cup. For sale by Maines & Hamilton. jt* . 1 For Sale —20 acres, joining the corporation, nice, dry, black land facing stone road, has large orchard of various kinds of choice fruit. Will sell in tracts to suit, from five acres up. G. F. MEYERS. , Maines & Hamilton have a very special proposition to make to all prospective purchasers of Manure Spreaders. They have sold over a carload in the past year. Incubator Oil, Incubator Thermometers, Incubator Lamps, and Sanitary Hen Coops and Nests— We have them. EGER BROS. The Democrat and tne Indianapolis Daily News, each a full year for only $3.50. Maines & Hamilton sell the famous Heider Eveners. The Five Horse Eveners will solve the heavy draft problem on gang plows. Another case of new standard calicoes at 5 cents a yard, worth 6 cents, i CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE

Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. • It Is the people who work in the dgrk that you need to look out for. Those in the limelight work only to themselves.

Don’t be surprised to find your place filled by somebody else if you don’t keep it permeated by your own corporosity. > ’'» ** ■' *_ * People who are going to the devil seldom have any use for a return ticket. The difference between being a schemer and a dreamer is practically all in favor of the former. Probably if we all did live to be a hundred years old nine-tenths of us would try our best to deny tt Joanna: Gold Medal Flour Is real economy. TbudsnCx.

NORTON IS AID OF MAC VEAGH

Chicago Man Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. PROMINENT IN RISK CIRCLES Also a Writer of Considerable NoteSecretary MacVeagh Acted on Hie Personal Initiative in Making the Selection and Not from Political Influence—Chauncey Dewey, Pr nlnent In Republican Politics, Is Offered the Postmaetershlp In Chicago. Chicago, March 18.—Friends of both Charles D. Norton, general agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, and Chauncey Dewey, Republican leader in the Second ward, admitted the truth of dispatches from Washington that Mr. Norton would be assistant secretary of the treasury and Mr. Dewey had been offered the Chicago postmastership. Mr. Norton waa in Washington a few days ago, where he saw President Taft and conferred with Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury. At his home in Lake Forest it was Bald he had returned from the capital, but had departed from Chicago again and would not return until late at night In selecting Mr. Norton, it Is said that Secretary MacVeagh acted on his personal initiative and not from political influence. Mr. MacVeagh has known the new appointee since he was graduated from Amherst college in 1893. Mr. Norton then took a position with the Northwestern Mutual company. He left the company for a short time to accept a position as writer for Scribner’s Magazine, but returned to the company.

Fast Passenger on Atlantic Coast Line Jumps Track. Charlotte, N. C., March 18.—A fast passenger train on the Atlantic Coast Line jumped the track at Pikeville, a flag station between Goldsboro and Wilmington, killing the engineer and fireman. Brakeman Offert, Conductor W. H. Newell and several passengers were seriously injured.

Springfield, 111., March 18. —The for* ty-slxth ballot of the senatorial dead* lock resulted: Hopkins, 76; Foss, 18 J 1 Mason, J; Shurtleff, 18; Lowden, 2f Sherman, 2; McKinley, 2; Calhoun, 1; Stringer, 33; Judge Rufus Potts (Dem.) 30; Bergen, (Dem.) 2.

THE WEATHER 1 Following is the official weather forecast: Illinois Threatening with rain, probably in north portion; colder. Indiana —Probably rain. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin—* Possibly rain or snow; colder. lowa—Partly cloudy and colder.

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, March 18. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.21%@1.24%; No. 3 red, $1.15%# 1.22%: No. 2 hard, [email protected]; No. 3 hard, [email protected]%. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.16%# 1.19%; No. 2 northern, $1.14%@ 1.18; No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Com by sample: No. 3, 64?i@65c; No. 3 white, 66%@66%c; No. 3 yellow, 65# 65%c; No. 4, 62%@64c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 55c; No. 3 white, 52%@53c; No. 4 white, 51%@52%c; standard, 54 %c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 28,0.00. Quotations ranged at $6.80#6.85 for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, $6.00 #6.70 choice light, [email protected] mixed packing, $6.60 @6.70 heavy packing, $5.50®6.25 good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 3,500. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime to fat steers, [email protected] good to choice Bteers, $4.35®5.50 good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] good to choice calves, $5.00# 5.30 selected feeders, $4.40® 4.75 good to choice stockera. Sheep—Receipts 14,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice lambs, $7.00® 7.50 fair to good lambs, [email protected] good to choice fat native ewes, [email protected] good to choice native wethers, [email protected] good to choice native yearlings. Live Poultry, Turkeyß, per lb, 17c; chickens and fowls, 15 %c; springs, 16 %c; roosters, 10c; gees 6, B@9c; ducks, 14%c. East Buffalo Live Btock. East Buffalo, N. Y., March 18. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 2 cars; market steady. Hogs—Receipts 15 cars; market steady; heavy, $7.20® 7.26; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $6.40. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 20 cars; market steady; best lambs, $8.00; year(ngs, $7.00®7.25; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, $5.50 @5.85. Calves—Best, $5.06 @9.25. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin March 18. Creamery, extras, 28 %c; prints, 31«! extra firsts, 27c; firsts, 25c; dairies, sxtra, 25c; firsts, 21eu packing stock, 17c. X,

It makes us mad if our friends pity us and madder still if we hear them say that they don’t ■m Don’t criticise. There are always plenty of other people to do it, and you can just O. K. somebody else’s criticism and so escape detection.

TWO DIE IN TRAIN WRECK

Hopkins Still Has 76 Votes.

THE MARKETS

CHALONER SLAYS A MAN

Compelled to Bhoot In Order to Protect His Victim's Wife. John Armstrong Chaloner. Mtmer husband of Amelle Rives, the author* ess, engaged in a scuffle for possession of his revolver with John Glllard, an Englishman, at his country hornet ’’Merry Mills,” near Cobham, Va., during which the revolver was discharged and Glllard was killed. He was fully exonerated of all blame by a coroner’s Jury. Glllard was threatening to kill Mrs. Glllard when Chaloner lnterferred. John Armstrong Chaloner has had a picturesque career in the past few years. He is the former husband of Amelie Rives, now Princess Troubotskoy. Chaloner was confined for some time in an asylum for the insane .In New York state and, leaving this Institution after a hard fight for his liberty, sought restoration of valuable property of which he claims he was illegally deprived during his incarceration.

POSSE FIGHTS BANDITS

Postoffice at Crown Point, Ind., Raided by Thieves. After blowing open the poetoffloe safe with nitroglycerin and securing S7OO three cracksmen fought a pistol battle with a posse of citizens at Crown Point, Ind. One of the fugitives is thought to have been fatally injured. His bloodstained hat, containing bullet holes, was found beside the road over which the battle was waged. For more than two miles the posse in charge of Sheriff Thomas Gray battled with the s&feblowers, who were riding in a buggy and were heavily armed. The daring raiders eluded their pursuers in spite of the bullets rained at them.

ENGINE PLUNGES INTO ROOM

8!x Persons Killed and Many Injured in Montreal. A locomotive, attached to a surburban train on Canadian Pacific coming into the Windsor station at Montreal. Can., plunged through the womens waiting room. Six persons were killed and many injured. The brakes, it is said, failed to work when the engineer tried to stop for the track-end. The heavy engine, carrying all before it, smashed through the platform space and tore through the depot walls. Bricks buried and injured many who were not in the path of the engine.

DEATH TAKES LAMPHEAR

"Man with the Golden Noee” Is Vlotlm of Pneumonia. Patrick Lamphear, a widely known Bourbon whisky man, died at Lexington, Ky. His skill In determining the quality of whisky and the large salary paid him gained for him the sobriquet of “The Man with the Golden Nose.* Mr. Lamphear, it is said, could tell by their odor the age and brand of different whiskies. He was born in Ireland sixty-five years ago. Pneumonia was the cause of his death.

JOB FOR WIRELESS EXPERT

Competitive Be Held on April 21. Uncle Sam needs an expert in wireless telegraphy and telephony. To fill the vacant job the civil service commission announces that a competitive examination will be held la all parts of the United States April 2L The successful aspirant's salary will be between $1,500 and SI,BOO. fie will be known as an assistant electrical engineer in the signal service.

P. J. KIERAN INDICTED

Financier Accused of Larceny In Connection With Note Transaction. At Pittsburg, Pa., P. J. Kieran, former president of the Fidelity Funding company, whose financial operations brought him Into wide repute recently, has been indicted on a charge of embezzlement and larceny. The charge is based on a note he la alleged to have made to Mother If. Vincent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

ANOTHER BAFFLING MYSTERY

Dayton Police Find Body of WellDressed Woman In Canal. Another baffling mystery confronts the police of Dayton, 0., in the diacovery of the body of a woman In n canal there. The woman was about thirty yearn old and well dressed. Six girls have been found slain fta Dayton recently. Four of the murders, have never been solved.

“BLACK HAND" FOE SLAIN

New York Police Lieutenant is Acaan sinated In Sicily. A special dispatch received in Near York form Palermo, Sicily, tells of tbn assassination there of Lieutenant Joseph Petroslno of the New York police. He was shot down near his hotel. His assassins are unknown. The killing of Petroslno ts believed to be the result of a “Black Hand* plot

Convicted on Graft Charge.

At Ashtabula, 0., George Aunger, temporarily president and the oldest member of the Ashtabula city council* was convicted on one count and acquitted on three counts of an indictment charging him with the solicitation of a bribe of $1,200 from F. W. Stone, manager of the Ashtabula Gas company. *