Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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CHALMERSDETROIT WINS

First In Auto Race, With R. Matson at the Wheel. TWO MACHINES BREAK DOWN But No Serious Accidents Reported —Marlon No. 6, Wins 2d, Locomobile No. 10,-Is 3d in Yesterday’s Races On Crown PointLowell Course—Crowds Not As Largee As Expected. The Indiana trophy race in the Lowell-Crown Point auto races of yesterday was won by a ChalmersDertolt car driven by A. Monson. The race at Lowell was seen by less than two thousand people and no serious accident occurred although Lewis Strang, driving a Buick going at_6s miles an hour, broke the rear axle of his machine on the cemetery turn, but both he and his machlnic escaped unhurt. Strang made the fastest time in the race, covering the course of 23.27 miles in 22 minutes but was disqualified by his accident. Driver Knlpper, in a ChalmersDetroit also suffered a minor break down near the Lowell grandstand. The race was finished in timd for the Rensselaer people to reach home on the 1:59 train. To-day they race for the Western Vanderbilt Cobe trophy.

PERJURY CHARGE TO BE DISMISSED.

f\The case against F. B. Ham, . perjury in the matter of taxes on the Wolcott light plant was charged, is to be dismissed. A prellmninary trial before a Monticello justice was held Tuesday and Mr. Ham was bound over to the circuit court, but the prosectulon later agreed to dismiss the case.

JUSTICE TACKS FINE OF $10 ON CHARLEY.

Charley Thompson took on too big a load of joy juice Tuesday night and as a result spent the evening in solitude in the county bastile, with a $lO fine and costs hanging over him. He was released Wednesday afternoon, staying his fine. Charley got his “skee” in company with tw'o or three other fellows, who kept quiet, but his desire to upset “Chief Jawhn’s" garbage cgns led him into trouble.

FACTORY PEOPLE HEARD FROM.

President Warren Robinson of the Commercial Club received a letter® from L. D. Price of the Chicago Industrial company, stating a proposition from the baking powder factory. They agree to employ 200 people within eight months to a year, pay out in wages $500,000 and erect a building, either brick or concrete, 80x200 feet and ask In return seven acres onground and $15,000, to be paid In four equal payments, covering the cost of the building. The commercial club Is taking the proposition up with the factory people direct and may decide to locate them.

MONON TRAIN KILLS BABY.

Infant Son of Daniel Chupp of Near Surrey Run Over Thursday Aft* ernoon. /\The 18-months-old eon of Mr. tanH Mrs. Daniel Chupp who reside near the railroad between Surrey and Parr, was run over and killed by- the 3:17 mail train Thursday afternoon. Unnoticed by his mother, the baby had strayed away just a few minutes before the train was due, and as the house stands only a few v yards from the track, the boy reached the crossing at almost the same time as the train and may have been caught in the cattle guards that protect the crossing, as one of its shoes was found therein. Engineer Cullen saw the child too late to stop, and the babe was ground to pieces beneath the wheels. The right arm was cut off between the elbow and wrist and the forehead from the left eye crushed. Otherwise tha. body was not'badly mutilat*dLd|F C-The mother had just started a search when the train came to a stop a few yards over the crossing and the train men alighted to pick up the remains. ' The accident Is

one of the most terrible that ever happened in the county. The funeral will be held to-day and inter-’ ment made in the Dunkard cemeJtery.

REV. V. O. FRITTS DEAD.

Rev. V. O. Fritts, at one time pastor the the Baptist church here, died at his home in Dunkirk Wednesday. He was the father of E. E. Fritts, formerly engaged in the fruit and confectionery business here, now of Delphi, and was himself located here about ten years ago. The funeral was held at Dunkirk yesterday.

FAIR OAKS TO CELEBRATE.

Fair Oaks is making preparations for another good celebration this 4 th, the event to take place on Saturday, July 3. The principal features are speaking and singing in the forenoon; ball game for a $25 purse; horse race, SSO purse; mule race, $lO purse; foot races and other games; a bowery dance, etc., in the afternoon. Fair Oaks has a fine grove in which to hold the celebration, and will no doubt draw a good crowd.

WOMEN HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE IN ACCIDENT.

by the noise of an aato and the hammering of the carpenters on the Horton-Roth Bros, building, a big blind horse driven by Mrs. John Rush of west of town, ran away Wednesday evening and struck a telephone pole in front of Ben O’Connor’s residence, breaking its right fore leg at the shoulder. s f'Mrs. Rush was accompanied by Miss Martha Yeoman and both remained in the buggy un|til the horse fell, when they alighted without injury. The shafts were snapped off and it was only by a miracle that the two women escaped unhurt. The horse was taken to the Rush farm in the hope of the broken leg healing.

MRS. JAMES ROBINSON DIES SUDDENLY.

p*Mrs. James Robinson died suddenly Thursday noon at her home north of the railroad, of peretonitis. She was seized with a fainting spell the afternoon of the day before which was the first indication of her sickness the family had noticed. S, She gradually grew worse ana died at 12:30 p. m., Thursday. The family had just moved here a short time ago from Monon, Mr. Robinson purchasing the Simpson restaurant near the depot. A husband and three sons survive here. The remains were shipped to their old home in Monon today on - the 2:01 train and the funeral held at the Presbyterian church. Deceased was only 28 years of age.

MUST BE DISAPPOINTING.

The 10,000 —more or less—people there were to have been here Thursday night failed to make their appearance, and as a result after appearance, and after we had made great preparations, too. Lyman Zea had a load of straw hauled into his barn and nicely covered with horse blankets, already to charge five shekels for a “flop.” 'Two well known citizens rented Coen & Brady's hay barn for an auto storage, and a syndicate entered into negotiations with William Leek for the rental of his hitch barn, offering him S6O for the two days. The rdbtaurants also made big preparations and will suffer some from the over estimation of the crowds.

At Lowell Thursday the crowd was rather thin, less than 2,000 people there, but Crown Point reported excellent crowds. - The fact that the farmers can work tn their corn fields ha? no doubt kept thousands of country people from attending the races. Between 30 and 40 autos passed through Rensselaer Thursday bound for the races, some few staying here over night, and the Makeever Hotel was full of guests. Parties, however, that had spoken for rooms therte Thursday night canceled same Thursday. About half of the Rensselaer autos drove up to Lowell and Crown Point yesterday, and about 100 people went to Lowell and Cedar Lake from here by rail.

THE CHURCH OF GOD SERVICES.

The repairs on the house will be sufficiently completed to have service there next Bunday. The subject of the morning discourse at 10:45 will be: “The Gathering of the Nations Before the Lord at His Coming and Kingdom, (Mat. 25:3132) by what means? and for what purpose?*’ Also, the many old time friends of Elder H. V. Reed of Chicago, will have the opportunity of hearing him oft the following Sunday, June 27, of whicn more specific announcement will be made in due time.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1909.

WHY NOT FINISH IROQUOIS DITCH?

Is Question Asked By Many of The Democrat’s Readers TIME LIMIT UP JAN. 1,1906, But Contractors Were given An Extension of One Year, Which Expired 114 Years Ago, and There Is Still Several Months’ Work To Do—Has All This Delay Been Necessary, They Ask? For some time and on different occasions, The Democrat has been requested to say something about the delay in completing the Iroquois ditch contract, entered into Sept. 29, 1905, and which was to have been completed by Jan. i, 1907; to publish when contract was made and time limit for completing the ditch.

In response to these requests The Democrat has examined the records in this ditch and finds that contract was let Sept. 29, 1905, and the entire ditch was to be completed by Jan. 1, 1907, as above stated. On Nov. 5, 1906, the county commissioners granted the contractors an extension of one year, which would carry it to Jan. 1, 1908. No extension has been granted since that time, so far as we observed, and about 1% years have gone by since this extension of time expired. There is still about 1,200 feet of rock to be taken out on the west end, much of which must yet be drilled and blasted. Thir rock is about two feet in depth. There are a few places through town here where a little more blasting and excavating must be done to cotfl’pTy with specifications. The work in town, we are told, will be done by hand, but there is too much of this rock at the west end to remove in that way, it would seem, and as the contractors have floated their dredge on down west some two miles to work on the lower end of the Howe ditch, and it took high water to get it on down there, the question naturally arises how are they to get it back to take out this rock until we have extreme high water again, which is not likely to occur until next spring? Also, as the contractors have removed their dredge to another contract, when do they expect to complete the original Iroquois ditch?

It will be remembered that several hundred feet of rock was encountered east of town, on the Gangloff farm, which was not shown in the specifications, and that it was the general opinion that the contractor could not be compelled to remove same. This ledge runs from nothing to some five feet in depth, and the matter of its removal was compromised by the county commissioners letting the Sternberg’s have contract March 2, 1909, to remove said rock at 95 cents per cubic yard, a total of about $5,000 for the entire work. Under the terms of this contract the work must be completed by Nov. 1, 1909, or about four months hence. Nothing has been done to it at all as yet.

The Democrat is unable to answer the questions as to the delay on the Iroquois ditch contract. The rock work through town was necessarily slow, especially the drilling and blasting, but the contractors knew the rock was there ?nd it was their business, to get it out. Supt. M. B. Price, who is the engineer in charge of the work and looking after the county’s Interests, !" for “ 8 us that the contractors tell him that they will get the entire work completed this fall, but the present outlook for such is not very bright. As to how they are going to remove the rock on the west end, he states that he does not know.

STILL ANOTHER ONE.

TilT. ’, nßanlty in one week T. o^, rta n 7 some” even for Jasper county, yet that was the “ P J° the hOUr of to press Friday afternoon. The third ™ that ° f Mary Wuerthner w H ±Z ton tp ” a s,Bter of Chrls of the same township, who was recently declared insane She J < * mflned a ‘ Longcliff. wm in , 35 years of a * e to ! e from Jan - 5. 1898 now a “ d the Proceedings .. are s, mply a re-commitment, which was filed Thursday. The

papers in the case state that sne does not sleep, is uncommunicative, wanders about aimlessly, neglects her children and worries a great deal about her brother Chris, who is in the asylum. She will be taken to Longcliff as soon as the necessary acceptance arrives.

NEWSPAPERS BEST.

The Fowler Commercial Club, which is an organization composed of the business men of that place, are back of the Fourth of July celebration over there on July 3rd and as men of experience they have recognized the advantages of newspaper advertising as compared to the poster and hand bills, and outside of a circular giving the details of the automobile events and prizes which will be mailed direct to machine owners, the publicity department will depend upon newspapers alone. The candid judgment of any business man who has given both methods a trial is that the same expenditure will give very much better returns spent in the newspapers than in any other way a man can seek publicity. We hope our business men who have the poster habit will go to Fowler and see what a little newspaper advertising will do.

STERRETT-MAY NUPTIALS.

At the home of Mr. and Mrs. James A. May, at ten o’clock Sunday, June 13, occurred the marriage of their daughter, Miss Nellie May to Mr. Morgan L. Sterrett, of Delphi. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Pattee of Wolcott, in the presence of a few Invited relatives. Miss Pearl Sterrett, sister of the groom, played the wedding march, Mr. Floyd Sterrett acted as groomsman and Miss Jessie Southard as bridesmaid. \f Immediately (Ifter the ceremony a bountiful dinner was served, after which the happy couple took the 2:30 train at Reynolds for Bloomington, where they expect to make their future home. Both young people have the very best wishes of their many friends

and relatives.

MAUCK-WHITAKER.

v j Mr. John Mauck, an old bachelor and Rensselaer boy, was married June 2 to Miss Ella. Whitaker of Chicago. Miss Whitaker is a graduate of the Chicago Music College and was a student at that school when Mr. Mauck became acquainted with her and straghtway decided to join the army of the benedicts. Miss Whitaker’s former home and birthplace was near Buckley, 111., and she has since lived in Kansas, but has lived in Chicago for the last three years. M When Mr. and Mrs. Frank Critser (Mr. Mauck’s sister) were married in Chicago two years ago, Miss Whitaker played their wedding march. Thus the began acquaintance. Mr. Mauck has resided aft his life, in Jasper county until the past few months, which he has spent in Chicago. His many friends in Newton tp., and Rensselaer extend congratulations. Mr. and Mrs. Mauck arrived in Rensselaer Thursday afternoon after a visit of two weeks' with Mrs. Mauck’s relatives in Gilman, 111. They will visit relatives here for a couple of weeks. They are undecided as yet where they will locate permanently.

NOTICE. I Rensselaer, Ind., June 18, 1909. | To Lot Purchasers, Rensselaer Com- | mercial Club Addition: Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, July 29, 1909, at 7:30< p. m., at the East Court Room in | Rensselaer, Indiana, there will bei a meeting of the Stockholders and ' Lot Purchasers of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, for the purpose of selecting your lot or lots by a drawing. A sufficient number of lots will be set aside for the drawing, that each purchaser who is not delinquent In any payments shall receive as many lots as he has purchased. No one is entitled to draw a lot who Is delinquent in his monthly payments, as provided in his contract. Should there be any such, bring or send In your payments to the Assistant Secretary, Ray D. Thompson, at his office in the Odd Fellows Building, as early In July as possible. RENSSELAER COMMERCIAL CLUB E. L. Hollingsworth, Secy. Warren Robinson, Pres. You can get a can of good peaches at the Home Grocery for 15c. The Home Grocery Is now receiving the Bates home-grown berries. Mr. H. 8. Hayner, the expert piano tuner and repairer, from Chicago, is in the city. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at P. w. Clarke's jewelry store.

AUTOS IN WHIRL AT CROWN POINT

Race For Indiana Trophy is Started on Time. THOUSANDS LINE COURSE Women, Children and Men Camp by the Roadside All Night and Are at the Grand Stand Early to See the Seventeen Engines Leave the Mark In the First Speed Battle of the ‘ Western Vanderbilt" Meeting. Crown Point, Ind., June 18. —As soon as Ihe signal was given shortly after i '.clock this morning a Corbin car, v 'rating and pulsating with fire and iiie. shot away from the mark on the Crown Point-Lowell parkway and the first big race of the “Western Vanderbilt’’ two days’ meeting was in full swing. A minute after the Corbin hurled itself oft, Charlie Burman in his Buick shot after Maisonville and his machine. Then came Stutz in a Marion and then, at regular intervals, the fourteen other contestants. There were cheers for all of the neck-risking pilots and cheers for the mechanics who were with them. Perhaps the most shouting was for Jimmy Florida and his Locomobile. Many Camped Out All Night. Florida was the first away from the mark in the last Vanderbilt cup race, and hundreds on hand to see this grind for the Indiana trophy had been among those present that rainy morning on Long Island when the same speed annihilator made blood tingle with the daring pace he set. George Robertson, who won that race, was away with the same confident smile he always wears. The thousands who lined the course and flocked in the pay-as-you-enter grand stands gasped as the racing engines blurred past them. The familiar shout, “Car coming!” meant a general reaching out of necks in one direction and then a sudden twist to the opposite side as a car appeared, whirled past, and disappeared again. Through a night made as comfortable as possible with blankets and camp fires and sandwiches and conversation, women and children and men had waited impatiently for the .battle of speed they now were witnessing. They forgot their eyes were a bit tired or that there might have been an ache in bones nnusued to resting outside of bed. The Caro and Their Drivers. Here is a complete list of the cars and drivers out to win the Indiana trophy: One —Corbin, A. J. Maisonville; 2 Buick, R. Burman; 3—Marion, H. E. Stutz; s—Chalmers-Detroit, W. Knip!per; 6 —Marion, A. Monsen; 7—Locomobile, J. Floridp; B—Buick. G. De ‘Witt; 9—Fal-Car, W. H. Pierce; 10Locomobile, G. Robertson; 11 —Moon, Phil Wells; 12 —Renault, Arthur W. Greiner; 14 —Buick, L. Strang; 15 — j Fal-Car, John Ruehl; 16—StoddardDayton, Wiseman; 17 —Chalmers-De-troit, Al Poole; 18—Stoddard-Dayton, Wright; 19 —Chalmers-Detroit, J. Matson. ’ No. 4. a Ford car, failed to reach the course in time. The circuit is 23.6 miles and the | distance of the race 232.74 miles, making ten laps. i Excursion trains from every direction keep adding to the throng that j was at the course overnight. This i town of 3,000 residents is fairly smothered under the avalanche of hui inanity, veiled, hooded, goggled and looking out sharply for a thriller in the shape of a wrecked racer.

A FRIEND.

BREAKS OLDFIELD'S RECORD

Ralph de Palma Sets New Mark For Twenty-Five Miles. Readville, Mass., June 18. The world's automobile record for twentyfive miles was broken here by Ralph de Palma. His time was 23 minutes, 35 seconds. Barney Oldfield’s record, 23 minutes, 38 3-5 seconds, was made at Fresno, Cal., Dec. 13, 1904.

BROKER A GOULD WITNESS

Testifies Former Actress Was Intoxicated Aboard .Husband’s Yacht. New York, June 18. —In the trial of Mrs. Howard Gould’s suit for separation, there was an apparent attempt on the part of the defense to prove that Mrs. Gould was not only so frequently under the influence of intoxicants as to fall within the rulings of Justice Dowling that she must be proved an habitual drunkard before her husband can oe justified tor leaving her, but to prove that, when she had been drinking, her character underwent a transformation for the worse. Only once was there a break in the procession of footmen, butlers, chauffeurs, maids, waiters and bellboys on whose testimony It is sought to prove Mrs. Gould an impossible wife, and that was when Nicol! called Melville

Vol. XII. No. 22.

THE WEATHER. Following is the official weather forecast: Illinois and Indiana—Fair today and tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Fair today and tomorrow. Wisconsin and lowa—Fair today and tomorrow.

E. Chapman, broker, who was a guest of the Goulds oir their yacht, the Niagara, during several cruises. He had several times seen Mrs. Gould undeniably drunk, he testified.

Colombia’s President Coming Here.

Bogota, Colombia, June 18.—President Reyes was a passenger on the Prinz Sigismund, which- sailed tor New York.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Judge Hanley was in Monticello on legal business yesterday. —o — Trustees Clark of Wheatfield and Kight of Union were in the city on business Thursday. —o— New suits filed: No. 7461. L. L. White vs. William M. Parr, et al; suit to quiet title. —o — But two marriage licenses have been issued this month, and the month two-thirds gone, too. The Nave ranch in Wheatfield tp., was visited by the Board of Review Wednesday, to look at the cattle there which the board thought were assessed too low. The painters who have the contract for painting the windows and doors.to the court house are now busy at work. Landy Magee of Rensselaer is assisting in the work. John Tigler, aged about 70 years, of Gillam tp., was declared insane Wednesday afternoon by a board of inquest composed of Squire Bussel of Hanging Grovee and Drs. Kelsey of Francesville, Loy and Washburn of Rensselaer, and was brought here and lodged in jail to await his reception at Longcliff. Mrs. Guss, who was declared insane Tuesday, mention of which was made in Wednesday’s Democrat, is also in jail yet, the papers not having been received from Longcliff for her. It is either a mighty easy thing to have people declared insane in Jasper county or there is something radically wrong with her residents. The number that are being found insane and are rushed off to the asylum is something alarming, and at this rate there is no telling where “lightning will strike” next

GYPSIES GET STUNG HARD.

Left About $230 In Monticello and Delphi As Result of Releiving a Yeoman Merchant of S4O. The gypsy gang that was chased through Monticello by a crowd of Carroll county farmers, brief mention of Which was made in Wednesday’s Democrat, was overhauled at Reynolds and taken back to White county’s capital, where a half dozen of them were fined and costed for fast driving to the extent of >SO, which they paid. While dirty, ragged and apparently being quite poverty-stricken, they had plenty of cash which they dug-iip and paid their fines. One man flashed a certificate of deposit on a Chicago bank, the Monticello papers state, for $7,000. The woman in the gang who is alleged to have stclen S4O from the pocket of J. B. Hurt, a Yeoman storekeeper, which started the trouble, was taken to Delphi 'and lodged in jail. She was tried in the circuit court Wednesday, found guilty and fined SIOO by the jury, who recommended that imprisonment be suspended. Later, on recommendation from nine of the jurors who did not understand that the verdict carried with it a heavy prison sentence, also the prosecutor, the court set aside the jury's verdict and fined her SIOO and sentenced her to 11 months in jail, suspending the jail sentence during good behavior. The fine and costs amounted to $145.74, which the gang paid, and hiked out. They also had attorney* to pay, and it is likely dropped $250 in good hard cash as a result of their fun. The Yeoman merchant, judging from the newspaper accounts of the affair, was an easy victim, and, while he got his S4O back, he deserved to lose It. It Is probable these roving pests will give Carroll county and Monticello a wide berth for some time to come. *