Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

«1.50 Per Year.

THE MUTUAL IDEA IS TAKING WELL

Telephone System Owned By The Patrons Is In Prospect GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY IS HERE And Only Thing Necessary Is to Start the Ball Rolling-—Scores of Farmers and Business Men Are Ready to Put Their Shoulder to the Wheel In a Financial Way—Pro" ject Should Include the Entire County. The Democrat's advocacy of a move being made to organize a mutual telephone company in Rensselaer and Jasper county is bearing furit, and a large number of business men and farmers from all parts of the county have either called at this office or written since Saturday’s issue of The Democrat, in which the matter of organizing such a company was urged, and expressed themselves as heartily in favor of the plan and stated that they would do everything they could to further the cause along. All are of the opinion that now is the accepted time to launch a mutual company, and say that all that is needed to bring It to a successful conclusion is for someone to start the ball to rolling and proceed to organize a company. The rest will be easy. The Democrat believes a company should be organized that has for its object the taking in of every nook and corner of Jasper county as fast as the lines can be constructed, and if a thorough canvass is made for membership the number who will go into the scheme will embrace practically every progressive farmer in the county and scores of business men who want better service for less money—or a county service at a lower rate toll rate. Scores of towns in Indiana now have mutual telephone exchanges, and the universal report from their patrons is that they get better service and at- lower rates than from the companies organized solely ot make big money out of the business, and the mutuals are also making some money right along for their stockholders. At Lebanon, Bluffton and other larger cities than Rensselaer, the telephone systems are owned and operated by mutual companies. Chalmers, in White county, also has a •mutual company which owns the Chalmers exchange and is extending its lines out in all directions. In our own county there is a mutual company operating in Newton tp., through the Mt. Ayr exchange, which is a success in every way, and we are told that this line would be glad to unite with a Larger mutual system. Farmers, on this Newton tp., line get Mt. Ayr and Rensselaer service, we understand, for only $6 per year! We shall try to get a statement from this mutual line for publication next week, and also some suggestions for organizing a mutual company to be county wide In its scope. In the meantime, farmer 4 friends, talk up mutual telephone to your neighbor. Get him Interested and, if you have any Ideas on organizing, write them out and mail to The Demcorat. We want to see a mutual company organized in this county, not only from a personal motive—so that if we want to call up Wheatfield, for instance, to get an item of news we will not be held up for 25 cents, or 20 cents to Remington, etc.—but also want the farmers and business men to be benefitted, as they surely will be if a good strong mutual company is organized in Jasper county that has for its territory the entire county.

CONCERT WAS A MUSICAL GEM.

Through the courtesy of Lou Hammond, who formerly made his home here, the people of Rensselaer and surrounding country were given a rare musical treat by the Wolcott band, under the directorship of Prof. Wolf, Wednesday evening. Each musician was an artist on his particular Instrument, playing In exquisite harmony and expression, and the eighteen instruments in perfect accord rivaled the best concert bands of the country. The most difficult overtures were rendered with easy smoothness, and popular music In real rag-time. The solos, duets and quartets speak for conscientious practice and excellent leadership.

Characteristic selections where the slightest break in time would have made discordant "the entire "piece,” were done without the slightest hitch. Wolcott is a town not nearly as large as Rensselaer, but supporting a band that would be a credit to a city much larger, aird with the number of musicians we have in town we should be able to organize a band which with practice could become as efficient as the musicians that were here Wednesday evening. Let the old band boys get together and show our White ratmty neighbor what we can do in the musical line when we get started.

FOUNTAIN PARK ASSEMBLY.

Popular Remington Chautauqua Will Be Held August 14 To 20. The 1909 program proper of Fountain Park Assembly is now in the hands of the printer. No pains will be spared to make this year’s assembly the equal of any ever held. Already cottages and rooms are being secured and the property being put in first class condition. The management has secured Dr. Calhoun for a return to us as Bible lecturer and platform manager. A strong list of popular lecturers and entertainers will be present. C. H, Peck, secretary, will be glad to furnish programs or information as to rooms, tent rates and priviliges.

A HANDSOME CASH REGISTER.

The Home Grocery’s new cash register, which is a marvel of utility and beauty in this age of progressiveness, is now set up and in operation. It stands on its six drawer base five feet and two inches The cabinet is made from the natural oak and tlj,e register proper is pure nickel. Fitted with charge, approved in and out keys, paid on account, etc., it does with unerring accuracy the work of a high priced book-keeper. It keeps a correct account of the sales made by . each clerk and totals the amounts of all purchases, and at the day’s end the merchant has a total of the business done by the men by the turning of a key. It delivers a check with your purchase which the Home Grocery boys purpose to redeem one day a month at their face value, and besides give at other times valuable premiums. The machine can be seen and a demonstration had at any time the clerks are not too busy.

NEARLY BLEEDS TO DEATH.

Cancer Sufferer Frank Osborne Almost “Crosses Over” Thursday Evening. Frank Osborne, who is in a critical condition from a cancer on the side of his mouth, called a "pipe cancer,” it was thought Thursday night would not live until morning. About 5:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon he was found to be bleeding badly from the cancer, and before discovered his bed had become soaked with blood and a considerable quantity had run out on the floor of his tent. He was very weak from the loss of so much blood and it was not thought he could live until morning, but he rallied and early yesterday morning seemed much brighter, and could call his night nurse, Harry Wiltshire, by name, when he wanted him, where before he could only motion to him. The dread disease had evidently eaten into some vein and had it not been discovered when it was he would undoubtedly have bled to death in a short time. As it is he is gradually failing and can live but a short time longer.

WANT ANOTHER SUBSIDY ELECTION

Petition Being Circulated In Carpenter Township for Electric Line. Interest in the old propoeed electric railroad project from Lafayette to Chicago, via Remington and Rensselaer, is being revived a little by the circulation of a petition In Carpenter township for another subsidy election. An election was held there Nov. 12, 1907, and the majority returned against the proposition to vote aid was 26. Marlon township and Rensselaer had previously given a majority of 205 for a subsidy. It is claimed that the proposition is looking little brighter at for capitalists to take an interest in the proposed road, and if Carpenter will vote several thousand dollars subsidy it will look all the better to the capitalists. The petition will likely be presented to the commissioners at their meeting next week and an election ordered at an early date. Unless work is begun on the line prior to September 10, the subsidy voted here will lapee. However, it is no trouble to vote subsidies in Rensselaer, and it would only be necessary to call another election to revive the subsidy for two more years.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

June 29, to Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Lewis of Barkley tp., a boy.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1900.

Roll Call After The Fourth.

“Johnny Horton!” the captain read. “Here!” was the answer, loud and clear. Johnny Horton had lost an ear, But stood in the line with bandaged head. “Paul Worland!”—then a silence fell; Many an eye had watched him sail, Clinging fast to a rocket’s tail. Had he alighted? None could tell. There they stood, in the morning sun, Lads who answered the call by turns, Marked with poultices, scars and burns; Another Glorious Fourth was done. A cottage and barn were blackened coals; The shreds of crackers was everywhere; An odor of brimstone filled the air, And coats and trousers were full of holes. “Casey Hemphill!” a voice said low, “Casey” Hemphill was standing near When the cannon burst: and the doctors fear He won’t be up for a month or so.” “Bill” Eiglesbach and -hb brother, Carl, Found their places with halting tread. Fred Rhoades was home in bed, Badly scorched by a sudden bomb. Floyd Roweu lacked a thumb— A pistol had taken him by surprise. Sparks from a pinwheel had scared the eyes Of “Pood” Hickman—he could not come. Look at the record; * Year by year Powder and Folly take their toll, Adding names to a mournful roll—’Tis a Glorious Fourth, but it costs us dear!

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene in regular session Monday. Trustee Karch of Walker township was in the city on business Wednesday. June is not a favorite month for marriages in Jasper county, it seems, and only 5 licenses were granted last month, the same number precisely as were granted in June, 1908. Ten licenses were granted during the j month of May. Grandmother Hughes who has been an inmate of the poor asylum since the failure of the McCoy bank, in which her small savings were lost, left Wednesday with her son, E. X. Hughes for Frankfort, So. Dak., to make her home. Notices are being sent out by referee Bowers to the effect that the trustee of the estate of A. McCoy & Co., the bankrupt Rensselaer bankers, has filled his report stating that the remaining assets have been converted into money in the sum of $17,690.4-3, and that final dividends will be declared July 17. John Mohler spent Wednesday with his wife, who is an Inmate of the asylum at Longcliff. He reports that her condition shows a marked Improvement but the asylum physicians declare that it Will be at the least estimate, a year before she will be in condition to leave the institution. XMarrlage licenses issued: June 2B> Harry Warren Gilbert, son of James H. Gilbert of Remington, aged 20, occupation farmer, to Honbn Mara Fell .daughter cf Wesley J. Fell of Goodland,, aged 20, tion housekeeper. First marriage for each. ——©- County Superintendents Lamson and Schanlaub returned Wednesday evening from Indianapolis where they had been attending the state meeting of county superintendents. Thej made the trip In Supt. Lamson’s auto, and had no mishaps whatever, making the run to Zionsville Tuesday evening and putting up for the night and going into the city neat morning. On their re-

(With Apologies To Life.)

turn trip they came by way of Crawfordsvilie, and found the roads very bad between there and Indianapolis, two bridges washed out and great gulleys washed out in the roadways from the recent heavy rains. They made the run home from Lafayette after nightfall, but it was such a delightful moolight night that this was one of the pleasantest parts of their trip.

TRUSTEE DISPUTES BURGER CLAIM

For $28,000 Alleged to Have Been On Deposit In the Parker Bank At Time of Its Failure. Referee in Bankruptcy John O. Bowers of Hammond was here Thursday hearing the evidence in the disputed claim of John Burger of Huntington, a brother-in-law of former banker Robt. Parker of Remington, who held certificates of deposit in said bank for $28,000 when the Parker bank failed, in December, 1907. Trustee W. H. Cheadle of Remington and his attorney, Judge Darroch of Kentland, and the latter’s stenographer, Miss Ada Bush, Mr. Burger and his attorney, Elam Lesh of Huntington, and Fred Burger of Remington were in attendance. The hearing was held in the commissioners’ court room. Bro. McCullough of the Remington Press was also present to take down a few notes. Greenip I. Thomas, also of Remington, was the only witness outside the parties directly concerned. As partial security on his deposits Mr. Burger held $20,000 common stock in the Western Motor Co., of Loganßport, which Mr. Parker had largely financed, and which were placed by Parker in Burger’s box at the bank a few months before the failure. This stock was of little value and, with securities given out by Parker to others, was surrendered later to the trustee. The trustee testified that he had finally sold the stock for 20 cents on the dollar and had the money on deposit with other cash assets of the bank. The certificates of deposits seem to have borne a different date in the figures perforated therein than settlement of the Burger account as shown by the bank books, and the latter show the entire Burger account was cleaned off the books several months before Mr. Burger claims the settlement was made on the old certificates and the new ones issued in October, 1907. The trustee awore, however, that Mr. Parker, had told him that he moved the machine back, which made the perperforatlons at variance with the entries on the books, but gave no reason for so doing in this case. G. L Thomas testified that he was requested by Mrs. Zea of that place

to get from Mr. Parker a note which she had at the Parker bank at the time of the failure, and that he went to the Parker homo one evening some two weeks after the failure and was met at the door by a member of the household and admitted; that both Mr. and Mrs. Burger were there, and that Parker led him into a room in which sat Mr. Burger. A table in this-room was strewn with papers, notes, etc. He stated his errand and Parker told him to sign a receipt for the note in a book and he would give it to him. This he did. he stated, and after looking over a couple of the piles of notes on the table the one wanted was found by Parker and given to him, and he left the house. This statement was denied in toto by Mr, Burger, who swore that he never saw Thomas at the Parker home at any time nor that there was any notes or other securities in the house while he was there that he saw or knew anything about, and that he did not even talk with Parker while staying there for several days after the failure anything about the bank affairs. The trustee admits that the bank books have been found at fault in numerous instances, but takes the position that they show the Burger account was fully settled and wiped out several months before the failure. Mr. Burger’s attorney asked that decision of the referee on the disputed points be reserved until Mrs. Burger’s deposition could be obtained and her bank book and canceled checks, if to be round, were presented to the referee. Mr. Burger has not participated in the distribution of the dividend declared and will not until a decision is rendered in this matter.

MONTICELLO TO HAVE SUMMER RESORT.

The Riverview Park Association, Monticello; capital stock, $10,000; to equip and conduct a summer resort; Directors, A. B. Cray, C. W. Davis, W. S. Rhyan, S. Johnsonbaugh, B. F. Carr, W. M. Reynolds and J. W. Sinks, Sled incorporation papers with the secretary of state a few days ago.

SCHATZLEY WINS AGAIN.

The lower court’s decision in the case of McCauley vs. Schatzley, growing out of the contract between plaintiff, a resident of Chicago, and Charles Schatzley, a well known farmer and large land-owner of Wheatfield township, this county, for the exchange of property in Chicago, and Charles Schatzley’s lands in this county, was affirmed by the appellate court Thursday. Defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s complaint was sustained by Judge Hanley, which threw the case out of court. Plaintiff appealed, and loses out again. The court held:

Two or more written instruments executed at the same time relating to the same transaction or subject matter must be construed together in determing what was the contract that the parties entered into. (2) here an indefinite written contract for the exchange of lands executed by both parties and at the same time each party signed and acknowledged a deed of conveyance and one party signed a note and mortgage securing part of the agreed purchase price and such deeds, mortgage, note and Contract were all deposited in escrow “until such time that the parties shall... agree for the bank to turn over” the same, as provided in the written contract, such ex parte deeds, mortgage and notes can not aid the mutual contract in a suit thereon for specific performance. (3) The allegation that said instruments as a whole constitute the written contract entered into states a mere conclusion. (4) A contract for the exchange of lands, providing that either party shall "have time to cure defects” in his title without limiting such time, and that the contract and papers shall be kept in escrow until the parties agree for the bank to turn over” the same, and that one party shall execute “a mortgage securing $3,000 without stating for how long or what interest shall be paid, or the land on which the mortgage is to be given, can not be specifically enforced by suit.

EXCURSION RATES JULY 4th.

The Monon will sell round trip tickets to all local points on July 3,4, 5, good to return up to and including July 6, at lft fare; no special fare less than sl. These rates will also apply to all other lines in the Central Passenger Association territory.

EXCURSION TO CHICAGO SUNDAY, JULY 11.

The Louisville division of the Monon will run an excursion to Chicago Sunday, July 11, and the rate from Rensselaer will be fl for the round trip. Excursions on the Louisville division do not usually stop at stations north of Monon, but this train will stop at Rensselaer and Lowell at those two stations only.

Look at G. B. Porter’s low prices on oxfords, at the Cash Store.

\ 01. XII. • Xo. 25.

REED JUDGMENT IS SUSTAINED.

Appellate Court Affirms $5,000 Verdict us White G. C. CASE STARTED HERE IN 1903, , -- r* And Grew Out Of the Killing of John Reed, An Aged Citizen of Remington, In 1002 By a Pan-Handle Freight Train—Has Been In Appelate Court Twice—The Casey Girls, Grand-daughters of Decedent, Will Now Get tlie Amount. The decision of the White Circuit Court in the case of W. J. Reed, administrator, vs. the Panhandle railroad, for damages in the killing of John .Reed at Remington about 1902, was affirmed by the Appellate court Thursday, and Nora and Ella Casey, the two grand-daughters of the decedent, will get the $5,000 awarded them, less their court costs, etc. This case grew cut of the killing of John Reed, an aged resident of Remington, at the Ohio street crossing of defendant's railroad, from the alleged negligent construction of the planking in , said crossing, by which Mr. Reed is alleged to have caught his foot in walking over same, and before, he could get out of the way a freight car struck and killed him. The two Casey girls lived with the old gentleman, who provided a home for them, their lather and mother both being dead, and the killing of their grandfather threw them out of home. The girls later lived in Rensselaer for a few years, and one of them recently went insane while attending a nurse’s school in Chicago, from whict( she would have soon graduated, and she is now in an asylum, hopelessly insane, it is said. Suit was brought by Wm. J. Reed, administrator of his father’s estate and guardian of the girls, to recover damages, and in October, 1903, a judgment for $2,500 was given plaintiff by a jury in the Jasper Circuit Court. Defendant asked for new trial, which was denied, and it was then appealed to the appellate court and the case was sent back for a new trial on some technical error. Defendant took a change of venue then and the case was sent to the White circuit court where a judgment for $5,000, double the amount given here, was returned against the railroad. An appeal was again taken, with the above result. In affirming the decision the court held; (1) Where the victim of the negligence of a railroad had four sons, grown, married and with independent means, to whom he had conveyed land subject to his life estate, and three orphan daughters of his deceased daughter, who lived with and w-,ere supported and. educated by their said grandfather, the three girls were "next of kin” on whose behalf an administrator could recover damages for his death, although it was admitted that the sons sustained actual pecuniary loss by their grandfather's death. (2) Where the negligent violation by defendant of a legal duty causing an injury to plaintiff is shown by the facts alleged it is not essential that the complaint shall expressly characterize defendant’s acts as negligently done. (3) The violation of the statutory duty of a railroad to grade and plank its track at a highway crossing so as to make it reasonably safe for persons to cross without danger of getting their feet fast between the rails is negligence

PATRIOTIC VESPER SERVICE.

Since the Fourth of July falls on Sunday this year, it has been deemed appropriate to make the union vesper service on the court house lawn at 6:30 a patriotic one. Members of the band have volunteered their services to assist in furnishing the music. The general subject to be discussed by the ministers is, “The Meaning of Christian liberty.” “Civil Liberty. .Rev. H. L. Kindig “Religious Liberty”. .Rev. J. C Parrett. “Personal Liberty”.. Rev. O. E Miller. “Liberty of the Other Fellow”.. Rev. G. H. Clarke. As Rensselaer is not celebrating this year It 1b hoped the citizens will turn out and make this a notable Christian patriotic celebration. If weather is unfavorable the meeting will be held at 7:30 at the Chritslan church. Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for •ale at The Democrat office In any quantity deaired.