Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LAND APPRAISED AT $200 AN 22222222222222222222 ACRE.

Newman, 111., Mar. 26.—The real estate, consisting of 370 acres of farm land, owned by the late John Skinner, was appraised at S2OO an acre. This is the highest court appraisement ever made in the county. The land has no improvements except fencing.

NOTICE TO PARR R. R. SUBSCRIBERS.

The new rural mail route out of Parr will start tomorrow. Those of The Democrat subscribers who will hereafter get their paper over this new route will confer a favor by so notifying us or having the carrier to do so. They will then receive their favorite county paper promptly the day of issue.

“COMRADE" MAY LEAVE US.

The only and original Comrade , Fox, the octupus of maildom, not satisfied with having a corner on several widows, the town and Pleasant Grove mail routes, is looking for new worlds to conquer, and armed with a white collar and recommendations as long «aa his coat, went to Delphi Saturday to bid on carrying the train mail to the postoffice at that place. If successful he will pack his checkerboard and change of sockß and hike for his new den on Deer Creek.

E. S. TILLMAN OFFERED GOOD POSITION.

Prof. Ernest Tillman, who for the past three years has been instructor in Biology at the high Bchool, has been offered a similar position in the high school at Anderson, Ind., at an increase in salary, which he will, accept if he Is successful in his efforts to find a teacher to fill his unexplred term here. Mr. Tillman has had unusual success with his classe in the local high school, and if given an opportunity at Anderson will no doubt fill the position In a manner that will reflect credit on himself and the school.

VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY,

Valparaiso, Indiana, will open its mid-spring term April 6th, its summer term May 18th and its mid-sum-mer term June 15th. Students may enter at any of these dates and continue their work twelve weeks, or for any time desired. The school is “accredited” for preparing teachers for all of the, classes—A, B and C. This institution is in an unusually prosperous condition. It is erecting new buildings, strengthening its course of study, and yet not increasing the expense to the student It has representatives from every county in this % State, from every State and Territory in the Union, and many from foreign countries. It is well worthy its liberal patronage.

OPTION ELECTION WILL COST $700

County Council to Meet April 6 to Appropriate Funds. The county council has been called to meet in special session on Tuesday, April 6, to appropriate funds for holding the county option •election. It will probably cost S6OO to S7OO to pay the expense of this election. Many people are complaining about the needless expense, as they call It. They say “the county is now dry and can be kept dry by the same inexpensive means that made it dry.” This may be, and perhaps may not he. If the remonstrance filed In Keener.tp., last October should be no good, and it is very doubtful if it is, the probability of getting enougn remonstrators there to keep saloons out, based on the vote of the November election, is said to be extremely doubtful. Then, too, it has been impossible to remonstrate the saloon out of Tefft, heretofore, and the last applicant was defeated for “cause.” The proposed election will come at a time when the farmers will likely be very busy with their spring work, and the probability is that hot more than naif a full vote will be gotten out. If, aB the An-ti-Saloon League claims, their greatest strength lies in the farming community, under the conditions that are likely to prevail at the time the election will be held, the result is not a foregone conclusion, by any means. Tbe farmer who will leave his field the latter part of April to go to town to vote on a proposition which he is usually very inactive about, Is not thought to be very numerous. However, time will demonstrate the truth or falsity of the claims made by both sides of the proposi- . tlon.

Look at the suits and suitings in my windows, they are simply fine, you need a new spring suit and now Is your chance. EARL DUVALL. 16 cents for your eggs at the Home Grocery.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. County Commissioner A. D. Washburn of Kentland was in the city on business yesterday. Emma M. York has been appointed administratrix of the estate of her husband, the late Noble J. York, v —o— Be Bure to have your mortgage exemption blanks made out and filed with the county auditor before May 1, to be entitled to the exemption from taxes as provide by statute. Gov. Marshall has appointed Courtland C. Matson of Greencastle as member of the State Tax Board, to succeed Parks ..x, Martin, who has been a member of the board since 1901.

Remember that the first installment of the 1908 taxes must be paid on or before the first Monday in May to avoid the entire tax going delinquent and having penalty added. The allotment of copies of the Acts of the late General Assembly for Jasper county were received by the Clerk yesterday and are now being given out to those entitled by law to copies of same. licenses issued: March f!9, William Henry Gray of Rensselaer, aged 36, occupation laborer, to Olive Jane Beezy, also of Rensselaer, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —--Q John Sullivan, the court stenographer has about completed the task of making a transcript of the proceedings in the Hawkins will case. There are over 1,500 pages of type written manuscript recording nearly five hundred thousand words and the work will bring him about SSOO. —Fowler Republican.

The qounty council at their meeting here last Saturday set aside a fund of SIO,OOO to be used for the purchase of thirteen voting machines for use In Pulaski county. The machines will be built to order and must be delivered on or before October 15, 1910, while no payment is to be made on them until December 1, 1910. The machines will probably be of 50-key type, and cost about S7OO each.—Winamac Journal. New suits filed: No. 7432. Matt Bos winkle vs. William Adams; change of venue from Newton county. No. 7433. John Sommers vs. B. C. Ward et al; suit on note. Demand $l5O. / No. 7434. David D. Lehman vs. Seth B. Moffitt; suit on contact. No. 7435. B. J. Gifford William Marion; action in ejectmefrt.'" No. 7436. Same, vs. George Beedy; same kind of action.

MONON STONE CRUSHER SOLD.

Edward Healy, of Gerrard, Mo., has sold his stone crusher at Monon to H. H. Evans, of Lafayette, who will, operate it. Prior to selling this plant, Mr. Healy purchased of W. J. Hinkle the farm of 120 acres lying east of the Monon track, the consideration being $9,000. This farm has been transferred to Mr. Evans, who will move the crusher machinery to it where the supply of stone Is abundant.-—Monticeilo Journal.

FORSYTHE STORE RENTED.

Mr. Forsythe of the Chicago Bargain Store informs ns that he has leased his store building and contract has been signed up. He will give possession about the middle of July. For private reasons the lessee does not wish his name made public at present, not before June, and therefore Mr. Forsythe is not disclosing who the party or parties are. A local firm was endeavoring to rent the store, we understand, but the party to whom it has been rented is not a local firm, Mr. Forsythe says.

THE BIG CHASSIS RACES.

Numerous Chicago automobiles were here on Sunday and the Commercial Hotel was filled with city patrons, from dinner. Their errand was on account of the races to come off here the 18th and 19th of June, and henceforth many of them will come from day to. day In. making preparations for the events. It is expected that work will soon commence on the track, as $15,000 or more will be used in making the 22 miles of road like a billiard table. By April Ist the race arrangements will be on tap, and from that time until the ending

THE? TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1009.

in June it is expected that considerable woirk will be going on here and at other points on the line. While here Sunday one ordinary road car made the 22 miles in 29 minutes.—-Lake County Star.

UNUSUAL HONOR CONFRRED

On Dr. James H. Honan By the German Government. Attorney E. P. Honan has got a letter from his brother, Dr. James H. Honan, who is a surgeon located at Beilin, Germany, in which he states: “Through the minister of Education, his majesty’s Imeprial government has handed me a certificate of honor for scientific attainments which comes with it special privileges. “This is perhaps the first time in the history of Germany such a courtesy has ever been extended to an most unusual honor. I have Just received from the U. S. Ambassador Dr. David Jayne Hill, a very warm letter of congratulation, part of which runs: ‘I hasten to offer to you my congratulations upon this news and especially upon the just recognition of your eminent attainments.’ ”

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

Quite a number of friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burns, near Aix, Sunday, March il, it being their fortieth wedding anniversary. They had a fine spring day for the occasion. There was an elegant dinner served and everybody had a fine time. Mr. Burns was a soldier of the rebellion and when war was at hand he and his two„ brothers bid their aged mother farewell and fought for the freedom of their country. When the war was over he and one brother returned to their old homestead in Michigan, the other brother havjing been killed. A kind mother and • three sisters were waiting them, their father having passed way many years before. Since the war Mr. Burns has been a cripple, having been injured during the war. He then went to Whitley county where he united in marriage to Nancy Emily Keener, in the year of 1868. Mrs. Burns was a school teacher. The young couple at once took their departure for what they called the wild West, and have ever since remained here. When they came here there was such a dense forest that*there was not even room enough on his farm for a house, till he made way with the ax, which he quickly did and built a little hut for himself and wife to live in. And that little hut has turned to be a large farmhouse. They have cleared up their farm on which now there are not many trees to be seen. To their union was born thirteen children, namely: Della Belle, James Gurney, who died in infancy, Nina Loullen, Dora Grace, William Albert, Ora May, who also died at the age of four years, Leota Myrtle, ■UtHe Charles—who with the little outspoken of above met death and entered pearly gates of heaven at same hour and whose Rv& were taken by fire, which accident has greived the aged couple very much and Is now telling on their years—Raymond Guy, Lilly Fern, Flossie Marie, Wesley Glenn and Mary Irene, their baby girl who Is now ten years of age. Their children all live close to their old home, where they were born and raised except three—Mrs. Della Belcher, now of South Bend; Mrs. Grace Sherrell of Tangier, Ind.; and William Burns of Chicago. They were all present to the anniversary except the last two named, whose occupations kept them away and It was impossible for them to there. They have twelve living grandchildren. There were forty-four present at the anniversary, and everybody showed their love by coming with well filled baskets. Besides the relatives there were Mr. and Mrs. Charley Harrington and daughter Grace,, Mr. and Mrs. George Casey, only sister of Mrs. Burns, Mrl and Mrs. Frank Lakin, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilcox and son, Mr. Mrs. Walter Harrington and daughter Flossie, Mr. and Mrs. John McClanahan and daughter, Stephen Comer, Mrs. Isabelle Price, Mr. and Mrs. James McClanahan and son, Albert Keener, also a brother of Mrs. Burns, and Roy Weston. The presents they received were not so numerous, but were verynice. They received a gold watch, an all linen table cloth and twelve napkins, an elegant berry set, silk handkerchief, silk muffler, silver cake basket and a large fine china bread and cake plate, but best of all, Mr. Burns presented to bis wife a wedding ring after bo many long years of happiness. r lt’s to be hoped we will all get to go back and celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. ONE OF THE GUESTS. Clara Treanor has again opened her milliner? store across from the .depot at Remington.

GANDERBONES FORECATS

FOR APRIL. (Copyright 1909, by C. H. Rleth.) The beasts of Uganda were beating retreat, and the slower were trying to stay with the fleet, when a lion came flying aside from the rear with his face mutilated and one shredded ear. “We thought,” said the beasts As they saw him arrive, “You stayed back to face him And eat him alive!” But the man-eater only Ran faster and whined, And now and then ventured A survey behind. “Well,” said the hippo, who' ran as he could, “did you pat him alive, as you boasted you would?” But the lion limped onward with never a word—at least anything that the rest of them hear. “I’ll bet,” said the rhino, “He bit off his head And left them to find him All bloody and dead!” Whereat they all laughed, And the great lion cried And licked at the gashes All over his hide. “I tfse how it happened,” the elephant said; “our brother was up in a tree overhead, and when he pounced on him, a stranger to fear, the cruel thorns tore him and shredded ear!” They all laughed again, And the lion, all red With blood, only shuddered And limped on ahead. “O, come,” they exclaimed As they followed with haste, “We know that you ate him, But how did he taste?”

The lion turned round at the top of a rise, and his whiskers were matted with tears from his eyes. “Don t taunt me,” he begged, “and i’ll tell you my woes.” And blood trickled off at the end of his nose. “We’ll do it!” they answered, And husky with grief And fear, he proceeded: “My story is brief. I did lay for Teddy, Intending my worst. And I jumped as I promised— But he bit me first.” The first day of April will be All Fool’s Day, and it will be celebrated much more elaborately this year than it has been In a long time. There are more fools than there used to be. They may be divided into three classes, viz: Common, or those who think the cost of living will ever go down again. Preferred, or those who thought prosperity wQuld return right after the presidential election. Dam, or those who thought Mr. Rockefeller would have to pay that $29,500,000 fine.

The rain will patter on the roof, and the colt will buck and dance, the tickled calf will shake his hoof and jubilantly prance, the robin will arise at morn and chase the festive worm, the schoolboy* will wish chickenpox would spread and end the term, the old fleas will breed other fleas upon the itching pup, and the dirt will fly with radishes and lettuce coming up. A fresh and sweeter oxygen will glorify the days, the sun will tempt the flowers with Its soft and vernal rays, the farmer will put in his corn, the ducks will lay again, the meadowlark will wake the morn with ravishing refrain, the native will moult all his wool and don his summer jeanß, and man will pasteurize his blood with sassafras and greens.

Cheer up, cheer up, it’s summertime, Or will be pretty soon. And yonder are the roses that Shall burgeon into Jane. The proud peacock will strut around And sprout another tall. The quail will tune his tuba up And whistle from a rail, And we shall scour our livers off With curly dock and kale. The revision of the tariff will continue without any of the excitement which attended the sessions of Congress when Mr. Roosevelt was President. Art, which was proven by the last crop of valentines to have accomplished nothing under protection, will be put upon the free list. A limited quantity of sugar and coffee will be admitted from the Philiplnes without duty. The idea is that extending this privielge to the people over there who are first to get tk«4r crops harvested we may be able to induce the lazy inhabitants of the archipelago to get a move on themselves. Our maxim is to be, “First come, first served, and the duty take the hindmost.” Easter will come on the 11th. It is too early to predict just what tbe

new hats will be like. From a few young ones we have seen the merry widow seems to have married a derby. The issue resembles neither parent. The milliners were determined to make something that would keep anyone from trimming h«r old hat over, and they did it. Primp, sisters, primp with care, Use your own and other hair, A white stuffed rat for a light fluffed hat, A well-draped rat for a bell-shaped hat, A small, lean rat for a tall green hat. Primp, sisters, primp with care, Primp for the coming Easter fair. April will be under the influence of Aries the Ram, which will restore the horn of plenty. Children born under Arles usually have rich parents, and get dogs, goldfish, parrots and Bill ’Possums for little brothers and sisters. And {hen T. R. will hit the east of Africa to hunt, and all the world will turn its gaze upon that valiant stunt. The lion will get in his lair, the elephant will pray, the hippopotamus will stow the little hips away, the rhino will betake himself to distant parts and hide, and the gnus and antelopes will crowd upon the other side. The mighty hunter will walk down the gangplank or his ship, and when he sets his foot ashore the continent will tip. The natives will kowtow and rub their bellies on the ground, the monkeys will despair and groan in all the jungle round, the guns and luggage will come off, the shells and patent tents, the beasts will fill tne forests with their moanings and laments, the tall girafe will watch afar and sound his shrill alarms, and the stork and Theodore will fall in one another’s arms. The promised fun will start at last, The packers will defile, The train will stretch across the plain Toward the distant Nile. The shouting and the tumult rise, The heavy rifles roar, And smoke will Overcast the sky And rivers run with gore. And then the month of May will come, and all the earth will doff its caps toward the throbbing East, where hell is popping off.

SORGHUM FOR FEEDING PURPOSSES.

Those who have raised sorghum for feeding to horses, dairy cows or hogs have been highly pleased with the results. It may be sown or planted, from June 1 to 20, and will be ready for feeding in August and September when pastures are badly burned out. On good land it makes a tremendous yield of forage that is greedily eaten hy stock, and is the principal stock feed throughout the arid southwest. The plant will yield as much seed as corn and which makes fine feed for poultry.

IDENTIFIES SKELETON.

Woman Thinks Man Who Died in Marsh was Edward Young. Mrs. George Young, of Kouts, Ind., has• identified the clothing on the skeleton found in the Kankakee marsh. She believes the body is that of Edward Young, who disappeared from Kouts last June. The disappearance had been a mystery. Mrs. Young feels sure of the identification because of articles found in the clothing. Coroner Wells will reopen 'his inquest and make a further investigation. Now is your chance to get fit out with your Easter suit, shirt, hat and neckwear, as I am making special efforts to please you all in these lines. Before buying step into my store and I would be pleased to show you through. EARL DUVALL.

BIG FLOUR OFFER.

Get Your Flour Off the Car This Week. We bought before the advance in prices. We have a car of the now famous Royal Flour in transit, which will arrive the latter part of this week. On account of shortage or storage space we will sell you any amount off the car at exactly cost. This offer is good for not to exceed one half of the car. We are booking many orders and you shoqld get your order in at once. Write or phone us without delay. HOME GROCERY.

GEESE AND DUCK EGGS.

We want 10 cases of geese and duck eggs for Easter. Must be in by April 5 or 6. We pay the best price for cream and eggs the market will afford. FANCY PRODUCE MARKET. Phone 39. I also carry a full line of 1% yard lengths of the nobbiest woolens you ever saw from the Kahn Tailoring Co., of Indianapolis. I take your measure and guarantee a perfect fit or no sale. Give me a call. EARL DUVALL.

* THE WEATHER. A * • • Following is the . official • • weather forecast: • • For Indiana and Illinois, • • partly cloudy. • • Ohio, partly cloudy, with • • showers or snow flurrieß near * • the lakes. • • Lower Michigan, fair Wed- • • nesday. •

AN INTERESTING IDAHO LETTER

Henry Fanner Writes of the Twin Falls Country. Twin Falls, Idaho, Mar. 21. Editor Jasper Co. Democrat. Dear Sir:—Please find enclosed check for a year’s subscription to your paper. The satisfaction it brings is like reading a letter from home, and I do not wish to miss a copy. Never an issue but has an account of the doings of some oldtime friend or an extremely Interesting batch of news from your many correspondents. I am often reminded of Prov. 27-10, and it has been my lot to prove to my entire satisfaction the wisdom and truth of the verße. Those that are inclined to be friendly always toave friends wherever they may be, but it is* never wise to forget or forsake “our ovrn and our father’s iriend,” and hopeless indeed is the craven whom selfishness has caused to forget. Hence the intense interest to me of your valuable columns. Although that country is not without its advantages nor this without its disadvantages, I never tire of trying to induce my friends there and especially the younger ones to come west. There the success of one is often by the misfortune of another; here there is room for all. Here in the course of a few months or years, at most, the energetic young man can acquire for himself a comfortable home and do it without infringing on the rights of any. Such examples there are becoming these days. Sucl\a thing as congestion in this country is an impossibility for many years to come, and the travelers who pass through here and Bay the good things are all taken up is a blind man or a liar. The prodigious success of the small tracts that are Improved here is only an eye-opener to the man of foresight. Millions upon millions of- acres of what is now sage-brush desert will in a very few years be planted in "beautiful orchards and alfalfa meadows. Dairying and fruit-growing are a pleasure and a profit to any true agriculturist, and are destined to be the great wealth-producing industries of this grand Northwest. It is the history of all new countries that some hardships must be endured, l but American invention and ingenuity have quite diminished if not entirely eliminated this condition in the great northwest. In many places electric power is made so cheap by natural resources that the most modern improvements are brought in within a few months of the settler. The progressive spirit of the settlers in this country is very admir- < able, and I believe that twenty from now will see Idaho, Was’hk* ton and Oregon one of the wealth-producing empires in world. No other country can | pass it in natural facilities. ItsHHH accumulation of moisture in winter months on the make it possible to till the milllHHfl of acres in the fertile valleys a high state of cultivation the summer. Irrigation is the doolH to the wealth of this vast the immensity of which .can only ts realized by extended travel and closl observation. The millions in gold and silver and other metals that have been and still will be taken from the mountains will dwindle into insignificance when placed beside the products of her fertile valleys. Here as elsewhere the men who will reap the highest rewards will be those who adhere to the most scientific methods of agriculture, as it is being taught by the skillful men of our state institutions, and the tireless efforts of our government department. Alas, too few avail themselves of these splendid opportunities to acquire a perfect working knowledge of the most scientific agricultural methods that the government has thus accorded them. Everywhere there is a class—and I am sorry to say, a large class—that know too much to trifle away time at a farmers’ institute or agricultural meeting of any sort. These are the men whose farms are for sale cheap, and as long as they own them they will continue to be pheap farms as far as their producing is concerned. The men who are getting results here are those that have learned j how little the wisest can know, but a are trying to make good use of I the best scientific metnods that have m been demonstrated. No ordinary M man can afford to conduct an agri-jfl cultural experiment station of htaMi own. yet many are continually trytzflMf easy methods and original schemeß of farming which tend only J® shorten their bank accounts crease the size of the mortgage^! Hoping to continue as your nil for many years, I am, Sl||||| Y oura^respectfully^^^^^^g The Home Grocery sells Mian anybodl "Hiv iv.],, u-. oi. th<dr ord<|e‘S'.jVvJp.? so fine.

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