Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

11.50 Per Tear.

BETTER LONG DISTANCE SERVICE.

With the completion of the work the-Central Union Telephone Company is doing here patrons of onr local lines will be offered directconnection with Indianapolis, Chicago,' Logansport and Sheldon, 111. Thirty linemen are stringing 106 mile* of copper wire and setting 600 poles. The cost of labor and material in Rensselaer and vicinity will reach over $12,00, It is said.

E. L. MORLAN TAKES SHREEVES GIRL TO RAISE.

Mr. and Mrs; Ernest Morlan have agreed to make a home for Ida Shreeves, who has been in trouble over the theft of a few dollars taken from various people here, and she went to their farm west of town Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Morlan are both good Christian people and a home with them will have its advantages over a reform school.

RAIN WORTH $500.

While the heavy rainfall and the consequent increased volume, of water in the Iroquois river has been a thorn in the side of the farmers, C. H. Sternberg ft Sons are SSOO richer. Without any preparations except building a fire in the boilers, the big dredge in the river here was floated within three-quarters of a /nile of Carpenter's creek where the work on the Howe ditch begins.

A BAKING POWDER FACTORY.

Deam, of the Chicago Industrial Association, who had charge of the sale of lots in the facftory addition, came Thursday with W. H. Reynolds, president of the Home Supply Company, manufacturing baking powders and washing solutions in southwest Chicago. The concern now employs 100 men, boys and women, and claim to make superior articles In their line. The Commercial Club will consider a written propostlon from Mr. Reynolds and If satisfactory arrangements can be made will locate them here. The company asks for a building of 20,000 feet floor siiace.

WELL BECOME A BENEDICT.

Morgan L. Sterrett, Former Teacher In Rensselaer Schools Will »ie > i Married Tomorrow. and Mrs. James A. May of fast of Remington, have issued Invitations for the marriage of their daughter Nellie to Mr. Morgan Lee Sterrett, of Delphi, to take place Sunday forenoon, June 13. Mr. Sterrett was formerly a teacher in the Rensselaer schools, and is well known here.« He has been attending the State University for the past few years, and graduates from that institution this spring. v Mr. rfnd Mrs. Sterrett will come to Rensselaer and take the 2 o’clock train tomorrow for Bloomington, where they will be for a short time at least. We are unadvised as to the future plans of the young couple, but their many friends will Join us in '“extending hearty congratulations.

OVER 7,000 HORSES IN JASPER CO.

As Shown By the Returns of the Various Township Assessors. The Democrat expects to publish considerable Interesting information regarding assessments of personal property in Jasper county during the next few weeks. The figures given will be taken from the official assessment lists for 1909, and will he of a nature that will prove interesting to almost every reader. In another column we publish the names of the stockholders of the various hanks in the county, together with the amount of the stock held by each, etc., and herewith' we publish by townships the number of horses owned March 1 and the average assessment as made by the township assessors. It will be noted that the lowest average is in Carpenter tp., and we are informed that the Board of Review will likely raise the levy there: Rensselaer, 312 horses. $59.42 Remington, 105 55.14 Wheatfleld, (town) 58 46.03 Gillam, 486 58.33 Walker, 357 51.70 Kankakee, 249 64.23 Wheatfleld, 261 53.64 Keener, 866.. 43.26 Union, 692 / 54.58 Barkley, 982..... 58.25 Marion, 967 62.62 Newton, 679. 62 80 Jordan, \702 58.48 Carpenter, 1110 48.06 Milroy, 195... 51.33 Hangiilg Grove, 428........ 65. 80 Don’t fail tc/read our Big Removal, Sale ad. The prices we are naming represent a big saving to you. Cdtae to this sale and bring your friends. ROWLEB A PARKER. Do two men’s work With the TwoRow Cultivator. They are a success. Sold by Haines A Hamilton.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Sheriff and Mrs. L. P. Shirer spent Wednesday in Chicago. Trustee Shirer of Kankakee tp., was in th§ city on business yesterday. Only one June bride thus far this month. The marriage license businesses strictly on the bum. —®— McCoy will be released from penitentiary next Friday, having completed his maximum of sentence of three years for wrecking the McCoy bank here. The clerk received a acceptance from Longcliff Thursday for Aug. Woolbrant of Walker tp., who was recently declared insane, and he will probably be taken to the asylum today or Monday. .F. B. Ham was arrested here Tuesday by the marshal from Monticello on a charge of perjury in connection with the sale of the Wolcott electric light plant, which he formerly owned. The charge grew out of an affidavit which Mr. Ham Is alleged to have made that all taxes against the property were paid when he disposed of it, while as a matter of fact they were not. It is said that a similar affidavit was made to Mr. Ham when he came into possession of the property, apd he supposed the taxes were paid. He gave bond for his appearance in court when wanted and It is thought will have no difficulty in convincing the court that he had no intention of misrepresenting the matter.

The county commissioners finished up the work of the June term Wednesday and adjourned. Following is a report of the proceedings not published in Wednesday s Democrat: County officers reported fees collected for quarter as iollows: Sheriff, $167.93; Clerk, $224.35; Recorder, $780.35; Auditor, $95.55. W. B. Waterman, ditch; bond approved. Frank E. Rupert ditch; W, V. Porter appointed third drainage commissioner; ordered to June 14. John W. Humes petition for ditch; final report approved and Supt. discharged. Contract for painting doors and windows to court house awarded to E. E. Elliott and F. Oaks of Indianapolis for $449. Geo. W. Davisson petition for ditch; cause docketed and continued for objections. Application of James- D. Jordan, Cora Dexter and Vaughn Woodworth for scholarship to Purdue; Auditor directed to correspond with faculty and find out as to scholarships Jasper county is entitled to. Report of canvassing board in county option election filed, showing 1,438 “dry” votes to 848 “wet.” Contracts for supplies for poor farm awarded as follows; Groceries, John Eger, $142.67; clothing, dry goods and shoes, G. E. Murray Co., $32.02; meats, Roth Bros, s2l - 50. Contract awarded to Attica Bridge Co., for bridge in Walker tp., &d notice ordered for letting, contract for another bridge in same tp„ first day next term. Assessments in the Grover Smith, Rengeisen and Heilscher ditches mnst be paid before Sept. 15 or bonds will be Issued.

COLLEGEVILLE HAPPENINGS.

The Action and Plot In Richelieu, St. Joseph’s Commencement Play. A few abitious conspirators, a fool king, a sweet and lovely maiden, an energetic, Intrepid, statesmanlike prime minister are the abundant materials out of which BulwerLytton constructed his classic drama, Richelieu, so full pf action, life and interest. The play rests on an historical foundation, the last and the boldest of four conspiracies (1642) directed by deluded and disappointed noblemen against the Car-dinal-minister of state who had made France the first nation of the world. The scene is the capitol. The play opens with the laying of the plot of the conspiracy by Baradas and the Duke of Orleans. Richelieu, the minister is’ to be assassinated, king Louis XIII dethroned by the aid of Spanish arms under Bouillon. Richelieu in good season learns of the treacherous plot through his faithful detectives that he has stationed throughout the realm and even in foreign courts, and he prepares to repeal the insidious treason. De Mauprat goes to the Cardinal’s mansion on a secret mission for the conspirators. While there he falls under the Cardinal’s Influence, forsakes the con-

THE TWIQE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1900.

- spirators and receives in marriage Richelieu's ward, Julie, far-famed for her beauty and loveliness, with whom the king and the chief conspirator are also in love. De Manprat leaves the castle won to Ihe cause of Richelieu. . In the second act the plot thickens. Baradas learns of De Miuprat’s change of colors and the marriage of Julie. He now forges a letter from the king to the effect that his royal highness would divorce them and take to himself the youthful beauty. De Mauprat falls into the vile snare and takes it upon himself to end thftrCardinal’s °*' reer. In the mmmjpMe the Cardinal has obtafnejUgrritten evidence of the conspiraqpagainst minister and king. By some misfortune it is wrested from him but he regains it later to save the. day to himself. , In the third act the murderous attempt is made upon the Cardinal’s life. De Mauprat’s courage faijs him at the critical moment. He .cannot strike the deadly blow when his eyes meet those of the man who more than once had saved the would-be assassin’s head from the block. Instead the murderer he becomes the rescuer and protector of the agcxl Cardinal. ; The fourth act assumes the death of the prime minister and prepares for the new order of things. f In the last act the Cardinal appears as one risen from the dead, the papers of the conspirators are produced, the king sees by whom he has been duped, the Cardinal is re-instated, the traitors are sentenced to the scaffold or life imprisonment. France is saved and that nation again knbws that “there is One abpve who sways the harmonious mysiery of the world, even better than prime ministers.”

GEORGE WICKIZER GOES FREE.

George Wickizer, who was arrested last week on the charge of assisting in the stealing of Henry Hathaway’s horse, had his preliminary hearing before Judge Harry Nicholson at Crown Paint Tuesday. There was no evidence whatever to connect him with the crime so thfe Judge could do nothing but set him free. It was shown by witnesses that he spent the night the horse was Btolen at McCoysburg, in Jaßper county, with his aunt and accompanied by his aunt came back to Rehsselaer next morning and took train No. 5, which does not stop at McCoysburg, for Lafayette to visit another aunt. It was on the story of the Smith boy that he was arrested. Many people are beginning to believe that the Smith boy knows little or nothing about the theft.— Lowell Tribune.

LAGRANGE “DRY,” CLARKE “WET”

Option Elections This Week a StandOff—Youngstown, Ohio, Votes Wet. Two more Indiana counties voted on the county option proposition this week, Lagrange, already dry by remonstrance for the last three years, voting Tuesday, and Clark, with 61 saloons, voting Wednesday. In Lagrange the drys won out by only 240, and a very little more work by the wets would have carried it. The election there was a great surprise to both sides, as it was felt sure the county would give a big dry majority. Clark county, in which the city of Jeffersonville is located,- gave a wet majority of 1,004, the wets carrying three townships and the drys nine. Jeffersonville gave a wet majority of 946. Clark is the 12th county to vote wet thus far. Mahoning county, Ohio, in which is the city of Youngstown, voted Wednesday also on the county option proposition and returned a wet majority of 2,000.

EXCURSION TO CHICAGO.

Monon Will Open Season Next Sunday—Round Trip From Rensselaer SI.OO. The Monon will open the Sunday excursion Beason on Sunday, June 13, with an excursion to Chicago. Among the attractions in the Windy City that day, is a ball game between the Chicago Cubr and Boston. Following Is th» special train schedule and round trip fare from Monon north: D®* 8:80 “ 1.00 McCoysburg ...8:35 ” I.QO Pleasant Ridge .8;40 •• 100 Rensselaer ....8:48 “ 100 Surrey 8:67 “ .90 Parr 9:02 " .90 Fair Oaks .... .9:09 ” .85 Roselawn 9:20 *• ’75 Thayer 9 :25 '•* ’75 Shelby 9:28 “ Lowell 9:42 " .75 Chicago 11:30 The excursion train will stop at Cedar Lake both going and returning. Return train will leave Chicago at 11:30 p. m., Sunday, Jane 13. We will stye you money on your Shoe bill at the G. E. Murray Co.

INTERESTING FINANCIAL NEWS.

List of Stockholders In Banks of Jasper My. FROM 1909 ASSESSMENT Lists As Sworn to By the Various Banks Officers, Giving Number of Shares Held By Each Stockholder On March 1, Also Dividends Declared Last Year and Amount of Deposits On Hand. "\’ .< - > . * Here is a little interesting information 'about the various banks of Jasper county, gleaned from the assessment sheets for 1909, showing who holds the stock and the amount owned by each stockholder. The capital stock of each is given, if same appears on sheet, together with the dividends declared last year and the amount of deposits held by each March 1, 1909. The par value of the stock in each Ib SIOO per share. The assessment on the stock has not been fixed as yet:

State Bank of Rensselaer—Capital $30,000. John Eger, Rensselaer .67 James H. Chapman, same 67 Delos Thompson, same. 67 Granville Moody, same Lucius Strong, same jffSlll B. F. Fendig, same .12 C. W. Hanley, same 6 A. K. Yeoman, same 2 Wm. Washburn, same 6 C. C. Warner, same. 6 Ed. D. Rhoades, same 4 S. P. Thompson, same .12 Granville Moody, Jr., same 1 C. G. Spitler, same 6 J. E. Wilson, Washington, D. C.. 6 J. J. Lawler, Chicago.. 12 T. H. Robinson, Medaryville 4 Paid dividends last year of 46 per cent —6 jper cent June 1 and 40 per cent Nov. 1. Stock sold to shareholders a.t $125 per share; par value SIOO. Surplus March 1, 1909 $5,250. Undivided profits March l! 1909 $4,808.19. Deposits March 1, $196,379.68. [Note—The 46 per cent dividends for last year were caused from a division of the profits and increasing capital stock from $25,000 to S3O - 000, and selling such increase at $125 per share. Ed.]

First National Bank of Rensselaer $60,000 Capital.

John M. Wasson, Rensselaer. ... 100 James T. Randle, same 20 George E. Murray, same 10 E. P. H<pnan, same ;... 10 D. S. Makeever, same 10 Ed. J. Randle, same 10 Jesse L. Brady, same 10 J. N. Leatherman, same 10 H. R. Kurrie, 5ame...... 30 A. F. K. Parkinson, same 40 Bessie Moody, same 20 E. L. Hollingsworth, same 260 John J. Lawler, Chicago 60 Dividend paid last year 10 per cent. Surplus on hand March 1, 1909, $8,000; undivided profits March 1, $1,710. Deposits March 1, $311,983.66. Jasper Savings & Trust Co., Bens- ■' selaer—-$25,000 Capital. C. G. Spitler, Rensselaer 10 J. J. Hunt, Bame . . 52% John M. Wasson, same . .15 E. L. - Hollingsworth, same.... 30 i. N. Leatherman, same ..10 L. H. Hamilton, same 10 E. P. Honan, same 10 Geo. E. Murray, same. 5 E. C. English, same 5 I. M. Washburn, same 5 Abraham Halleck, same 5 Charles C. Warner, same 10 John W. TH ton > same : 6 Henry Grow, same 6 H. L. Brown, same 5 W. L. Meyer, same 5 D. 8. Makeever; same 5 Harry R. Kurrie, same 6 Charles H. Mills, same. 22% T. M. Callahan, Gifford....... 2 John R. Phillips, McCoysburg..' 5 Reed McCoy, same 6 Ed. J. Randle, Pleasant Grove. 5 Horace Marble, Wheatfleld. ... 13 Dividends paid last year 6 per cent. Burplua Match 1, $2,600. Undivided profits March 1, $493.95. Deposits March 1, $107,876.78. Par value of stock per share $100; true cash value sll2. State Bank of Remington—s2s,ooo • Capital. James H. Gilbert, Remington... .20 J. H, Biddle, same. 15 S. Q. Hand, same 10 Dr. E. Beseer, same .16 Elias Julian, same 20 Wi. H. Janssen, same.. 5 Christian Hensler, same 20 W. L. Gumm. same 5 Chas. May, same 10 Frank Fisher, same 5 John L. Wilson, same.. 6 C. H. Klnsell, same ...10

D. W. Biddle, same 15 Peter Geib, same 20 Philip Knockel, same 5 Charles Hensler, same. 5 W. I. McCullough, F0w1er....... 5 James Hogan, same.. 10 Wm. Hogan, same. 10 I. N. Atkinson, same 10 Lemuel Shipman, same ...10 James Sheedy, same. 5 Frank Babcock, Goodland 5 Jas. L. Sheets, Lafayette. 10 But $15,750 of the capital stock was paid up on March 1, 1909. Undivided profits March 1, $59.83. Deposits March 1, $174,338.15. Bank of Wheatfleld—sl3,ooo Capital. H. Marble, Wheatfleld........ T. 53 H. W. Marble, same. 16 John Pinter, same io E. L. Hollingsworth, Rensselaer.. 5 John M. Wasson, same 10 James T. Randle, same 10 D. S. Makeever, same 10 Ed. J. Randle, same 12 L. A. Salisbury, Crown Point.... 5 # Par value of stock per share $100; true cash value $126. • Dividend paid last year 15 per cent. Deposits March 1, $69,350.

MUST SUPPORT COURTS

stenographer Entitled to Pay In Bpite of No Appropriation. Indianapolis, June 11.—The county council, or any other official body, has no right to interfere with the process of the courts by failure to appropriate sufficient funds to carry on the courts or in any other manner, according to the decision of Judge Vinson Carter of the superior court in the suit brought by Mrs. Mary L. Spencer against the county commissioners for $125 in .payment for work as a stenographer which she did in 1907 and 1908 by order of the judge of probate court. Mrs. Spencer’s claim was presented to the commissioners, but the county council refused to appropriate the $125 on the ground that when the work was done there was no appropriation to cover the expense, although the judge of the court had certified to the allowance.

GET CAUGHT IN WHIRLPOOL

Three Indianapolis Men. Have Narrow Escape In St. Joseph River. South Bend, Ind., June 11. —Three Indianapolis men had narrow escapes from drowning, and the canoe which they occupied is still missing. The men are W. M. Gallagher, Gordon Coldwell and Sydney Davis, telephone company employes. Strangers to the river, they attempted to make the passage without the guidance of any pilot light. A whirlpool caught the canoe and flung it broadside against a pile, capsizing it Coldwell floated 400 yards down stream before he managed to grasp an overhanging limb of a tree. Gallagher was thrown against a pile and clung there with one hand. Davis was held between some piles and the canoe. Notre' Dame students rescued the men.

LUTHERAN SYNOD ADJOURNS

Final Day Is Marked by a Declaration For Tolerant Spirit. Richmond. Ind., June 11. —The session of the general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church in the United States has closed. The final day was marked by a determination to stand firm in the faith but at the same time to show a tolerant spirit toward other denominations. The synod adjourned to meet In two years at the Memorial church, Washington.

GET MARRIED ON A DARE

Editor’s Daughter Becomes Bride of a Chicago Chauffeur. South Bend, Ind., June 11. —Frank Stinson and Mary Taylor Murray, daughter of an editor at Nap&nee, Ind., were married here, following a dare by a girl friend. Stinson is chauffeur for a member of the Chicago board of trade.

NOTICE TO MODERN WODDMEN. There will be special business before the local M. W. A. Camp next Wednesday night, and all members are requested to be present. CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES. Sunday will be Children’s Day at the Christian church. The pastor will give an object leßson sermon for children at the morning service. In the evening an exercise entitled “The Centennial Call” will be given by the Children of the Sunday school. All are welcome. 34c for overalls and 33c for Racine workshirts at Rowl«i ft Parker’s Big Removal Sale.

•••*»»*«••»« 1 THE WEATHER. 4 Following is the official * weather forecast: « Illinois and Michigan—Fair 4 today and tomorrow. * Lower Michigan—Fair to- 4 day and tomorrow. < Wisconsin and lowa—Fair to- < day and tomorrow. V <

Vol. XII. No. 20,

DR. E. E. HALE'S FUNERAL SUNDAY

Famoas Preacher Dies at His Roxbary Home. WAS CHAPLAIN OF SENATE Hl« Demise Came as a Bhoek to His Numerous Friends, but Few Having Any Knowledge That He Waa 111 Born in Boston In 1822—Preached from One Pulpit for Nearly Fifty Years—Author of Works of Especial Note.

HALE'S “LEND A HAND” MOTTO

“Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a hand.”

Boston, June 11.—It was announced today that the funeral of Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale will be held at the South Congregational church on Sunday at 2 p. m. The officiating clergyman will be Rev. Edward Cummings, who succeeded Dr. Hale as pastor of the church, and Rev. James de Normandie, pastor of the First Christ of Roxbury. The burial will be In Foreßt Hills cemetery. The venerable chaplain of the United States senate died at his home in Roxbury. News of the death of Dr. Hale shocked Boston to an unusual degree because comparatively few knew that he was ill. A week ago he was present at a celebration in honor of the ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, his contemporary in many of the reform movements with which both had been identified for more than forty years. Born in Boston in 1822. To his family it had been apparent for some time that Dr. Hale’s health was failing. A few days ago heart weakness was noticed, and his condition became alarming. His great age, eighty-seven yeare, militated against him. Grouped about Dr. Hale’s bedside when he died were Mrs. Hale, hia wife; Philip L. Hale, his son; Ellen, his daughter, and the family physician. • Dr. Hale had been chaplain of the United States senate since 1893. His selection at that time to fill a vacancy was generally regarded as a high tribute to his accomplishments and intellectual ability.

Dr. Hale was born in Boston, April 3, 1822, of a lineage famous for its good deeds. His father, Nathan Hale, was the editor and proprietor of the Boston Advertiser, the first daily newspaper in New England, and was a member of the club that established the North American Review. Bome of Dr. Hale’s Works. Dr. Hale’s first charge was at Worcester, where he preached ten years, his second was the South Congregational church of Boston, which despite its name is the principal Unitarian house of worship in the city. For nearly fifty years Dr. Hale preached from this pulpit. Among the literary achievements 01 Dr. Hale are the novel, “A man Without a Country,” “The Sunday School Gazette," “Ten Times One Are Ten” and "In His >Jsme." In 1886 he became editor of the magazine, Lend, a Hand, and three years later was coeditor with Edwin D. Mead of the New England Magazine. In 1898 he undertook to rejuvenate the old Boston Commonwealth. In 1852 Dr. Hale married Miss Emily Baldwin Perkins, of Hartford, Conn.

BUCK HANDERS SCATTERING

Clean-Up In Eastern Cities Drives Extortionists to New Fields. New York, June II. —The theorj that the various blackmailing crimes unearthed from time to time in every part? of the country have been committed by members of a national mafia or Black Hand society, is not taken seriously by members of the New York detective bureau who have devoted their attention to this particular species of lawbreaking. The recent clean-up of eastern cities following the killing of Detective Petrosino in Italy is believed by them to have forced the Black Handers Inland, where their activity is only now becoming felt.

Men’s Racine workshirts, the best made—33c at Rowles ft Parker’s Big Removai Sale.

CUT OUT THIS COUPON. < If presented el my boggy 4 store any time before July I, 4 1009, this coupon will be sc- 4 cepted at value of $2.00 on the 4 purchase of any new buggy or 4 carriage In my store. " Don’t show this coupon tin 4 you buy your buggy. 4 C. A. ROBERTS. 4 ftnwAaaaa a