Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL Brief Items of Interest to Qty and Country Readers. Tomorrow Is Easter. To-day’s markets: Corn, 60 s: Oats, 50c. L. A. Bostwick went to Shelby Wednesday on business. A. Arrick of Wolcott was in town Thursday on business. Elza Grow made a business trip to Alton, 111., Thursday. Marlon Pierson made a business trip to Chicago WednesdayJohn Bislosky made a business trip to Chicago Wednesday. Ben Wasser of Monon was in town yesterday on business. C. W. Coen went to Chicago to spend the day with his son. Miss Francis Irwin went to Chicago Thursday to spend a few days. Mayor Ellis spent Thursday in Chicago with his son, John Ellis. Mrs. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield, visited with relatives here Friday. L. D. Bruenting of Indianapolis was in town Wednesday on business. Mesdames C. B. Stewart and Sarah Pruett spent Thursday in Mondfi. Mrs. James Anderson went tv Kersey Friday to visit several days. Mrs. Ira Sigler went to Crown Point Thursday to visit with relatives. -

Mr. J. H. Downey of Monticello was the guest of Miss Ethel Sharp over Sunday. Mrs. C. M. Sands went to Monon yesterday to spend Easter with her parents. Mrs. D. H. Yeoman and daughter, Mrs. Bert Hopkins, spent Wednesday in Chicago. * Mrs. Sylvester Gray went to Goodland Wednesday for a short visit with relatives. Perry Gwin returned home Tuesday from Texas where he has been attending school. ' Rev. Rutter of Monticello filled the pulpit at the M. E. Church here Wednesday night. Dr. and Mrs. I. M. Washburn went to Longmont, Colo., Thursday on a prospecting trip. Ed Duvall and Perry Marlatt went to Lafayette Thursday to undergo treatment for their eyes. Frank Bartoo and J. M. Wood of East Carpenter were in Rensselaer on business Thursday. J. R. Phillips and W. O. McDonald of McCoysburg were in town Thursday to take a train for Indianapolis. Ray* Hopkins returned to Wabash College Wednesday, after spending a few days vacation with his father. Rev. G. H. Clarke went to Brook Thursday to attend the district meeting of the ministers of the Christian church. Wood Spitler returned home Thursday from the University of Wisconsin to spend a few days with his parents.

Miss Julia Meehan returned to her home in Remington Wednesday after a visit with her aiater, Mrs. Mat Worden. Mrs. P. M. Hann returned to her home In Englewood Thursday after t two weeks visit with her father, W. 8. Scott. —__ Miss , Zelma Rayher went to Bloomington Wednesday to enter the State University for the coming summer term. Miss Mabel Ward, who has been teaching school in Hanging Grove tp., returned to her home in Union City Thursday.

Lou McConel of Oxford, was in town Friday on business. Dr. L. W. Meyer of the Chicago Training School was in town yesterday on business. Mat Jackson of Lebanon, came Tuesday for a few days visit'with his sisters, Mrs. A. A. Hoover and Mrs. John Jessen. Mose Tuteur went to Francesville Wednesday to spend a few days. From there he will go to Peoria. 111., and visit with relatives. The Cuppy tile factory at Chalmers was destroyed by fire Monday night. The loss is estimated at |5,000 with |1,850 insurance. Miss Josie Miller went to Indianapolis Wednesday where she expects to remain until fall. She was undecided what she will do there. A. A. Wittaker returned to his home in Francesville Wednesday after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. T. F; Dunlap of near Surrey. J. G. Perry, a former well known Goodland hardware dealer, but for some years a resident of Chicago, was in the city on business Wednesday. Mrs. E. C. Fontaine of Goodland, came Thursday to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Rice'•Porter. Both went to Chicago yesterday to spend the day. John Shlde of Lawrence, Kas., returned to his home yesterday. He has been here for several weeks assisting in the care of his father, who is seriously sick.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cochran, of Wabash, Ind., Sunday, April 4th, a boy. Mrs. Cochran is the daughter of W. R. Nowels of this city. Miss Francis Petty of Virgie went to Chicago Thursday to spend a few days visiting with relatives. Miss Petty has been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman since Tuesday. Mrs. W. A. Parkinson and daughter Ardis Jane, returned to their home In Brook Wednesday after spending a few days’ visit with her parents In Hanging Grove township, and relatives here. Joe Jackson has sold his restaurant business in Hoopston, lti., and will move to Los Vegas, N. M., where his wife has gone on account of her health. ~ . Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Osborne returned from Lafayette Thursday where they attended the commencement exercises at the School of Nurses in the state soldiers home. Tdtelr daughter. Miss Fern, was one of the class. Goodland Herald: On Thursday of last week six pieces of skin were grafted on Mrs. Geo. Bales’ wound and Wednesday wnen the wound was examined It was found that five ot the six adhered and that it was healing nicely. Lake County Times: Mr. and and ■ Mrs. Charles Kaeson are entertaining Mrs. Kasson’s sister, Mrs. Eliza Philllpl of Remington and daughter, Mrs. Orlan Grant, of Rensselaer, at their home In Bellview place for a few days. The Democrat editor went to Indianapolis \ yesterday to attend a meeting ot the executive committee of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, of which he is the Tenth district member, to arrange for the mid-summer meet at Bloomington.

Wolcott now has two saloons, Charles Wright having been granted a license by the White county commissioners this week. They will get to ran tour months anyhow, as they can operate 90 days after the election in White, even though the county goes dry. I Judge Thompson writes The Democrat from Los Angeles, Call., where with Mrs. Thompson he, has been spending the winter, that they will start for home next Monday, via the Northern Pacific railroad, and to change the address of his | Democrat back to Rensselaer.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lamson> who were called to Hutchinson, Kans., on account of the death of Mrs. Lamaon’s brother-in-law, Felix French, returned home Thursday. George Sharp of Indianapolis came yesterday to visit his children for a few days. He is preparing for a long trip through thq south, painting signs for the Thomas Cusack Co. Governor Marshall has appointed. Mrs. John W. Kern, wife of the recent candidate for vice-president, as a member of the board of the Indiana Girl’s school to succeed Isabel Bell of Kokomo. Mrs. J. W. Hitchings of Jordan tp., returned Thursday froip Brookston, where she was called on account of the serious sickness (not death, as stated in the last issue of The Democrat) of her father, Joseph Carrot. She left him considerably improved.

Cards are out for the forthcoming marriage of Mr. Zern Wright, Junior member of the real estate firm of C. P. Wright & Son, and Miss Nellie Gray, a popular young school teacher of Jasper county. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gray, in Rensselaer, on Wednesday evening, April 21. Henry Hayes, formerly of Barkley township, this county, writes us from Burke, South Dakota, and directs us to hold up his Democrat until he notifies us where to send it. He is moving via wagon to his claim in North Dakota, he states, some 300 miles, and doesn’t know what his postofflce address will be until he gets to his new location. “Winter is still lingering in the lap of Spring.” Scarcely had we got our overcoats hung on the peg for the summer, after the introduction of spring given us Monday and. Tuesday? ere we had to take them down again and don them with the collars upturned. Thursday was very raw and the air was full of snowflakes. In the meantime garden-making has suffered a severe backset. John Clouse received a combination attachment from Babson Bros., Chicago this week and has his phonograph equipped with the 1909 model, making it an up-to-date Parlor Grand Phonograh. This attachment plays the standard and Amberoil .four minute records and makes the phohcgraph as good again as it was before. Anyone having the Standard. The Home or The Triumph can get them equipped. Elkhart druggists are signing an agreement not to sell intoxicating liquor at all, in fact, pledging themselves not to take out a government license and to use alcohol or whiskey only in prescriptions prepared by driiggists themselves. The agreement forbids sellidg to doctors for use in prescriptions. One drug firm advertised Friday, a determination to observe fully the law governing the sale of intoxicants since the county voted “dry.”

E. W. Maxwell in renewing his subscription to The Democrat writes: Oklahoma weather is fine. Wheat is In fine condition, nearly high enough to hide a rabbit. Oats all sowed and above ground, lots of corn has been planted with prospects for a fine crop. The peaches are nearly all killed but there are excellent prospects for a banner apple crop. Old corn Is now worth 61 cents per bushel and wheat is strong at $1.07. Land values are soaring high in this, the best state in the union. I would like to come to Indiana and see the old “comrades” wading In the mud. If some of them will come out here they can get out of the mud and make two dollars to one back there and not freeze to death in the winter, either.

Once upon a time a man who was top economical to take the weekly home paper sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a |4 stand of bees and In ten minutes looked like a watery summer squash. His cries reached his father who ran to his assistance and fail-. Ing to see a barbed wire fence ran into .it cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy and ruining a 14 pair of pants. The cow took advantage of the gap in the fence, got into the corn field and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, his wife ran upsetting a four gallon churn full of cream into a basket of kittens drowning the whole flock. In her hufry she dropped a |7 set of teeth. The baby left alone, crawled upon the spilled cream, then into the parlor and ruineda I'2o carpet. > During the excitement the oldest girl ran away with the hired man, the calves got out and the dog broke up eleven setting hens. Moral—oubscri be fog the Democrat. Exchange. The new coffee, tea and grocery store is now ready for business. Fresh toasted coffoe and a fine line of teas, groceries and canned goods. Stock all new and fresh. We roast all our own coffee and guarantee It strictly fresh. Our phone number Is 226; we solicit a share of your orders for groceries, oil and gasoline, ■h C. C. STARR & CO. Subscribe tor The Democrat

The State Board of Tax Commissioners is hearing the representatives of the telephqne companies doing business in Indiana. Most of the companies show an in earnings last year, but almost without exception they are making strong appeals for reduction in taxation. Elbert G. Drew, Assistant Auditor of the Chicago Telephone Company, appearing for it to-day, asked the board to assess it on the Illinois basis, which is one fifth of the actual value. The Indiana Board informed him that the basis will not go in this state. Just received, one car, 550 bushels, fancy Northern Michigan Potatoes, only 90c per bushel. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

HAL CHASE ILL WITH SMALLPOX

Malady May Halt Opening of League Season. CAUGHT IN MACON HOTEL Teammates Are Vaccinated and Informed That Disease Was tn Undeveloped Stage When They Were Exposed to It—Others Who Are Afflicted Are Members of Minor League Teams—Star's 111 Luck Makes Willie Keeler Witty. Augusta, Ga., April 9.—Hal Chase, first baseman of the New York Americans, is at the detention hospital here undergoing treatment for smallpox. His physicians have so diagnosed his illness. / The doctor informed Stallings that the smallpox had not, at that time, reached the contagious stage and that there was absolutely no danger to the other men. However, every.man was stripped and vaccinated and every article of clothing and everything in the hotel was fumigated. Willie Keeler says: "I always knew Hal was a wonder. He reaches out, down or to the left or right and never misses the nastiest sort of throw. But I did not think he would mistake the smallpox for a baseball. It's his nature, though, just to catch everything. He misses nothing.”

MAY QUARANTINE TEAM

Government Surgeon to Report on Condition of Highlanders. Washington, April 9.—Surgeon General Walter Wyman of the United States public health and marine hospital service, after a conference with District Health Officer Woodward, designated Assistant Surgeon Sternberg of the navy to go to Richmond, Va., today to make a thorough examination of the players of the New York American team who may have been exposed to smallpox through Hal Chase. Upon Dr. Sternberg’s report will depend whether the New York team will be permitted to open the baseball season here next Monday.

CAUGHT IN MACON HOTEL

Bell Boya Who Waited on Chase As fileted With Disease. Macon, Ga., April 9.—Hal Chase is believed to have contracted smallpox here by coming In contact with twe bellboys at the hotel where the New York team was stopping here. These boys are now in the contagion hospital. Catcher Eddie Barrett of New York and Pitcher William Brunner of Gulfport, Miss., members of the Macon club of the South Atlantic league, have been sent to the hospital suffering with clearly defined cases of the smallpox. Brunner is very ill.

SYMPTOMIC OF PROSPERITY

Wages of Between 4,000 and 5,000 Glass Blowers Increased. Pittsburg, April 9.—Following a three days’ conference between representatives of the glassware manufact urers and the American Flint Glass Workers’ union, an agreement has been reached whereby, it is said, threefourths of the chimney glass blowers in the United States and Canada will receive a per cent increase in wages starting today. After the usual summer shutdown, which starts June 30, a further increase to make up a 25 per cent decrease which the men submitted to three years ago will be granted. Between four and five thousand glass workers are affected in this vicinity..

STRIKERS ENJOINED

Hatters Declare They Will Carry In* Junction to Highest Court. Newark, N. J., April 9.—An order granting a preliminary injunction against the striking hatters of Orange, N. J., was Issued here by Vice Chancellor Howell. It was granted on the application of D. Berg & Co., hat manufacturers, at Orange, who complained that Intimidation was being used to prevent the firm from conducting its business. The rule of the court, however, is directed against individuals who are. named and not against the local union. Jive of those named are, however, officers of the Unit »d Hatters. Members of the union said they would carry the fight to the highest court.

MINERS MODIFY DEMANDS

Ask That They Ba Recognized as Organized Anthracite Workers. Philadelphia, April 9.—At the conclusion of a two hours’ conference between the operators and a committee representing the anthracite coal miners, both sides seem as far as ever from *n ultimate solution of the working conditions governing the hard coal fields. The miners* representatives presented a modified proposition. In this new proposal the miners agree to the renewal of the recently expired wage agreement with a few changes. They insist upon recognition of their organization, but only as anthracite workers. v

ELEPHANT KILLS KEEPER

Forty Bullets Fired Into Pachyderm to Subdue Frenzied Beast. Des Moines, la., April 9.—“ Tom,” an elephant in the winter quarters of a circus here, suddenly ran amuck, and seizing his keeper, Charles Bellew, hurled him high into the air and then trampled him to death. The Infuriated beast then ran through the animal park, uprooted small trees, destroyed three circus wagons and demolished a bridge across a lagoon. Forty bullets were fired into the beast before it was subdued.

EMMA GOLDMAN LOSES

Her Rights of Citizenship Canceled by Federal Court Buffalo, N.»Y., April 9.—Judge Hazel in the United States circuit court granted an order canceling the citizenship papers of Jacob A. Kersner. Through this order all rights of citizenship also are taken from Kenner's wife, who is Emma Goldmah, the anarchist leader.

MOUNTAIN IS MOVING

Large Mass Detached by Excavations Travels 70 Yards an Hour. Nice, April 9. —A mountain has begun to move bodily as a result of railroad excavations in the Verdon valley. A large mass has become detached and is moving at the rate of sixty or seventy yards an hour.

HE HAS “KATA TONIA”

Guardians Appointed For the Son of Cyrus H. McCormick. Santa Barbara, Cal., April 9.—The hearing on the application of Mrs. Stanley McCormick for the appointment of a guardian for her husband, a son of the late inventor, Cyrus H. McCormick, was held in the superior court here. The petitioner filed the written consent of all members of the McCormick family to the appointment of Dr. Henry B. Favill and Cyrus Bentley as guardians. Dr. G. V. Hamilton testified that McCormick was suffering from an illness known as “kata tonla," which involves a state of apathy and indifference to events of every day life, lack of initiative in caring for his own physical wants and susceptibility to nervous excitement. The court adjudged McCormick to be a person incompetent to care for himself.

ROBERT M. LOCKHART DEAD

Ex-Legislator and Ex-Member of State Board of Agriculture. Waterloo, Ind., April 9.—Robert M. Lockhart, seventy-nine years old, well known throughout Indiana, is dead at his home here. He came to Dekalb county in 1852, and soon afterward engaged in the lumber business, which he conducted until 1887. He was married in 1857, and celebrated his golden wedding anniversary on Nov. 24, 1907. Soon after the war he was elected a member of the Indiana legislature and later was elected a member of the state board of agriculture, which position he filled for twenty years.

Mark Twain Enlarges Farm.

Redding, Conn., April 9.—Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) had purchased 150 acres of land adjoining his recently acquired property. The “farm,” as the author calls bis estate, now comprises 350 acres.

Some people find not worrying so very trying to their dispositions that their families find it hard to live with them

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READY TO VOTE ON TARIFF BILL

Minority Leader Catches Republicans Napping. SILK SUSPENDERS UPHELD Indications Point to a Contest In the Senate Over the Sugar Schedule. Proposed Free Admission of 300,000 Tons Annually Ikrom Philippines One of the Causes —Burrows, Smoot and Flint the Solons Who Are to Report on the Subject. Washington, April 9.—Because of the numerous committee amendments to the Payne tariff bill the house of representatives was compelled to sit until late in the evening in order to insure action on the various paragraphs coming within the scope of the special rule adopted last Monday before the final vote is taken this afternoon. At one time the Republicans were caught napping and an amendment by Minority Leader Clark was adopted, fixing the rate of duty on iron ore at three-quarters of a cent per pound, but this was thrown out later. Fearing that he might not meet with such success again, Chairman Payne took his Republican colleagues to task for absenting themselves from the chamber and appealed to them to remain in their seats. This was done, result that in all the committee amendments he was sustained. Argues For Silk Suspenders. Because of an inadvertence in consolidating the paragraphs covering laces and articles of silk and India rubber, the duty on bindings, garters and suspenders was increased. Representative Fitzgerald, claiming that he acted in the interest of all the American people, whom he wished to see wear silk suspenders and garters, offered an amendment reducing the duties 30 per cent ad valorem on suspenders and garters and 40 per cent in the paragraph for laces. Upon a division vote this amendment was lost and the committee amendment, retaining the Dingley bill schedule, agreed to. Trouble Over Sugar Schedule. Indications point to a contest in the senate over the sugar schedule, not only because of the proposed free admission of 300,000 tons annually from the Philippines, but because certain Democratic senators plan to open up the whole subject by introducing an amendment to remove the duty entirely from refined sugar. So far as the report of the finance committee is concerned the beet sugar producers have little to fear as the whole sugar schedule has been referred to a sub-committee of Senators Burrows, Smoot and Flint, representing the sugar producing states of Michigan, Utah and California.

Blood Poisoning Kills Surgeon.

Ndw York, Feb. 12.-—Dr. Adolph voa Bronx is dead. While handling a keenedged instrument during an operation, he cut one of his fingers and blood poison developed. To Keep Up Fertility. Unless the farmer is prepared to buy commercial fertilizers be must make manure on his farm and must therefore keep some kind of live stock bearing some fair relation in number to the size of his farm. i— Remedy For Mange In Pigs. Wash the pigs thoroughly with a 3 per cent solution of creolln or other coal tar product and repeat every other day for three or four times.

Special great closing out Easter Sale this week. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Superior low-down Seeders with grass seeder attachments for $23.00. MAINES & HAMILTON. The finest seed and eating potatoes in the market. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.