Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7483. The State Bank of Rensselaer vs. Henry C. Dahncke, et al; suit on note. Demand S4OO. licenses issued: Aug. y, Alfred D. Stephenson of Parr, aged 28, occupation farmer, to Ruth Irene Adaline Bundy, daughter of Rev. G. W. Bundy ctf Parr, aged 22, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Trustee May of Carpenter tp., and Editor McCullough, J. M. Ott, A. A. Fell and J. j. Porter were over from Remington Thursday on railroad election business. The election will be held there to-day, and the outco'me is problematical. Opponents of granting the subsidy think it will be defeated, while those favoring it say otherwise. “Sandy” Morgan, the negro razor wlelder who cut up Conductor Worthington of the C- & E. I. Ry., a little over a year ago and who was just caught last week in Momence, 111., and placed in Jail here, had his preliminary before Squire Don of Morocco Tuesday and was bound over to the Newton circuit cour under $2,000 bonds, in default of which he was brought back here and again lodged in Jail. HsJ'he late John Bislosky left a will Jvhich was made June 30, 1894, and was witnessed by Marion L. Spitler and David J. Thompson, both now deceased. Simon P. Thompson drew the will and witnessed Mr. Bislosky’s mark. Frank Foltz is appointed executor in the will, and the property is left equally to the surviving children. The value of the estate is about $3,000, we understand. Wm. M. Becker, the Milroy tp., insane man brought here and put in jail Sunday, grew voilent Thursday afternoon. His brothers came in to see him about, noon, and when they left he was bound to go with them. When restrained he grew voilent and kept yelling at the top of his voice all afternoon. Yesterday morning he had quieted down. The unfortunate man is 35 years of age and was never married.

“ELI AND JANE” COMING.

“Eli and Jane,” that clever comedy that played here last summer, will be the attraction at the opera House this year. Opening date has been announced to be Aug. 19th. Ell and Jane is a tuneful tonic for young and old, and as this Is the second engagement of the company in Rensselaer Inside of a year, it Is sufficient proof that they have delivered the goods, for when they played here last year the opera house was crowded to it’s capacity and Manager Ellis certainly would not play them a return date unless the show made good. And it did. and will be back again Aug. 19. Seats on sale five days previous to the opening.

BAD FIRE NEAR KENTLAND.

Large Barn, Eleven Head of Horses and Threshing Outfit Destroyed. A large barn that had just been filled with hay and grain was destroyed on the J. K. Morrison farm occupied by George Long, west of Kentland Monday night at 9 o’clock. Eleven head of horses, a threshing outfit, all the wagons, tools, etc., were destroyed. There was but sl,000 insurance on the barn and contents, but a subscription paper circulated among the charitable of the neighborhood to assist the owner of the threshing outfit to purchase a new machine, raised over SSOO. The fire was discovered too late to save the contents and it was a struggle for the volunteer fire fighters to save the house. The origin of the fire is unknown.

A STRENUOUS AUTO TRIP.

Auto Liveryman Eph Hickman and Undertaker Wright had a fierce ride in the storm Thursday, night. The latter was called to embalm the year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Faylor of Union tp., who had died at about 10 o’clock that night of summer complaint, and the body of Brockus, an old soldier, who died suddenly from Bright’s disease at Thayer at 6:30 Thursday evening. They left Rehsselaer at 11:10 p, m., and went first to Mr. Faylor’s and did the work there and then hurried on to Thayer, they were out in all of the heaviest part of the storm and the rain fell in torrents and the lightning flashed all about them. Mr. Wright finished embalming the body at Thayer and

they started back home about 5 a. m., reaching here at 6:30. The funeral of Mr. Brockus will be held tomorrow at 11 a. the remains taken to Fair Oahs for burial. The funeral of the Faylor child will also be held to-morrow and burial be made in Brushwood cemetery, but we were unable to learn the hour.

AUTO FACTORY IN PROSPECT.

If Brook Can Make Autos We Can Manufacture the Tops. j The Commercial Club has opened negotiations with a company in Wisconsin manufacturing auto tops and boat awnings. They ask for a $15,000 bonus, partly in a building and some cash. They would employ 150 men from the start they say. Their proposition is being investigated and it is possible they may be secured.

A HEAVY RAIN AND ELECTRIC STORM.

A heavy rain fell here Wednesday evening, and again at about 12:30 a. m-, yesterday a fierce electric storm broke loose and the rain fell in torrents, keeping it up more or less until 7 o’clock in the morning. The lightning was the worst we have had this season, and no doubt considerable damage has been done to stock and farm buildings throughout the county. The storm was accompanied by some wind which laid the corn flat in places. During the two rains nearly five inches of rain fell, according to the government barometer at the College, 2.17 inches Wednesday evening and 2.01 Thursday night, and threshing will be done for for several days. A few telephone poles were struck by lightning in town and country in yesterday morning’s storm and a few transformers on the electric Hght poles were burned out. At the time of going to press we did not learn of any damage in particular from the lightning, in the way of stock killed or buildings struck.

RETURNS FROM AN EXTENDED TRIP.

|sN- S. Schmitter, who left in comliany with Isaac Glazebrook for an overland trip to Texas in Ike’s buggy, returned Saturday evening after a two weeks wandering. They drove only as far as Indianola, 111., where they learned there would be no racing in Texas. Ike’s racing mare was put on pasture near Indianola and they took the train for St. Louis, and from that place to Fort Worth, Brownsville, Huston, Corpus Christi, Point Isabella, Tex., and Matomores, Mex. V Nickffeave up looking for a location with a bakery after a single attempt in Brownsville, where for S6O per month he could have rented a room 9x40. At Fort Worth Ike went to work as a carpenter, getting $3.60 per day for 8 hours work. The unskilled labor in Texas Is chiefly Mexican, and they receive the munificient sum of cents per day for their work The climate, especially at Huston, is swelteringly hot, it being no unusual thing for the mercury to reach 105 degrees early in the day. On the coast the climate is delightful, always a cool breeze from the ocean that keeps the air temperate. Good land is worth from sftO to $l5O per acre near Ft. Worth, and is hard to buy at that price.

ABOUT LOCAL PUBLICITY.

Merchant Who Will Not Advertise Doesn’t Deserve Support, Says a Farmer. In an audience composed mostly of the members of the Farmers’ union one of the speakers recently expressed the mutual friendship between the farm and newspaper'Nn the following: “As a rule, the farmer has no firmer friend than that of the country press. The home paper is distinctly the farmers’ own paper, supported directly and Indirectly by the farmers, who compose the backbone of the subscription list of the printer and largely for what the enterprising merchant advertises. Now, bsother, lot us not forget our friends. Let us see that subscription is paid a year in advance. We can do

“The man or the paper that fights my battleß shall have my support. Another thing, the merchants advertising are the ones that make It possible for us to get a good local paper. The man or local firm that is too penurious to advertise anfl help support the local press has no right to the farmer’s patronage. “I promise hereafter to go to the live advertiser and the man who does his share in supporting the local press, thus contributing to my support, rather than buy of a man who proposes to take all and give nothing back. If farmers as a class would support their friends, the other fellow would soon go out of business.”—-Florence (Ala.) Times.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1009.

Another Telephone Meeting Today--2 P. M. At the Mutual Telephone meeting held at the court house in Rensselaer last Saturday, a committee was appointed to draft articles of incorporation for said company and have same ready to report at an adjourned meeting to be held at same place on SATURDAY, AUGUST 14., 2 P. M. It was requested that all of the blanks now out for securing subscriptions for stock be sent or brought in for this meeting, so that their names can be enrolled on the articles of incorporation which will be sent to the Secretary of State to procure a charter-. All parties having blanks will please govern themselves accordingly and see that their blanks are handed in.

RANDOLPH SPRIGGS DEAD.

Motonnan of Wrecked Hammond Street Car Died Wednesday Night —Son of Joel F. Spriggs of Walker Tp. J Randolph. Spriggs, the motorman. pf the street car wrecked last Thursday evening at 6:22, died at the South Chicago Hospital Wednesday night. He was a son of Squire Joel F. Spriggs of Walker tp., Jasper county, and was apparently not critically injured in the wreck, a bad cut on one leg and near the knee, some minor bruises on the limbs and a few scratches on his face where he was thrown into a barb-wire fence. X While the Occident happened Thursday evening, his folks h«jre were not notified until Saturday morning, when they received a telegram stating that he was in the wreck and was injured, but was getting along nicely. The telegram indicated that the accident had just occurred that day, although it may have been delayed in delivery. Some of his relatives went up to see him and he was apparently feeling well said that he was not injured much and would be back on his car in a few days- His death came as a shock to his parents and friends. The remains were brought to Rensselaer Wednesday night and taken to Wright’s undertaking rooms where they were embalmed. The funeral was held here yesterday at the Christian church at 2 p. m., and was attended by a number of brother union men from Hammond, and the K. of P. members here. Burial was made in Weston cemetery. Deceased leaves a father and mother. three brothers and three sisters, Simon T., of Medaryville; James M., and David H. of Barkley tp-, Mrs. Zilla Lee of near Mitchell, So. Dak., Mrs. Marie Folger of Barkley, and Mrs. Bertie Holser of Remington. He was next to the youngest child of a family of ten children, three, of whom preceded him to the better land. t He was a member of the Rensselaer K. of P. lodge and was highly esteemed by his brother Knights. A few years ago he worked for some time for Supt. Nichols at the county farm, and was known a 9 an industrious young man and of good habits- He had saved up several hundred dollars from his wages since going to Hammond, a little more than three years ago, and was soon to have been married to Miss Lizzie Bujack, a young lady of that city. Hi 9 age was 27 years.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

The morning services, Aug. 15. at usual time. Subject of sermon, "Buying an Opportunity.” Since the vesper services have been discontinued we will resume our regular evangelistic services at 7:30. Subject of sermon, “The Call of Zacchaeus.” All are welcome to this church.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF FIRM. I have purchased all the business, books, papers and correspondence of the firm of Ferguson & Ferguson. Parties having business with this firm can conclude the same with me- I have also placed in my office an abstract and farm department and am prepared to make abstracts of title and farm loans on short notice. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, Attorney.

FOURTAIN PARK OPENS TO-DAY.

Fifteenth Annual Session of Remington Chautauqua—Grand Army and Sunday School Day. The fifteenth annual session of Fountain Park Assembly opens at Remington to-day, which is “Grand Army and Sunday School Day.” The management has provided a good program again for this year and hundreds of Rensselaer people will visit the Park during the meetings. Fountain Park is a delightful place to spend a day and mingle with old friends and former neighbors, scores of whom make it a point to get 'back home” to attend the “Park Meetings,” no matter where their fortunes may now t>e cast. 'hursday, August 19, is Old Settlers’ Day, and Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the House of Represent tatives, will be the principal speaker. Good talent has been secured for the entire course, and there will be plenty of good music Interspersed. The Remingon Band will furnish the band music during the assembly.

A WORD TO BOTH.

Farmers and others should bear in mind that autos and motorcycles have rights on the highways as well as other wheeled vehicles, and it is their duty to give them one-half the road when meeting them- They should also remember that the law says they must turn out and allow an auto or motorcycle to pass them when the latter comes up behind them and signal that they wish to pass. No one on the highway has any right to hold back another person who wishes to drive faster than they do, and they are liable to arrest and fine when they attempt it. On the other hand, the farmer and other drivers of animal power vehicles have rights on the highways which the auto driver and motorcycle rider must respect. The law fixes the rate of speed they are allowed to run and the code of signals for their guidance—which was recently published in The Democrat —and they should make some semblance of obeying it. Most of our home auto drivers are careful when meeting teams, even though several of them apparently have never read the speed limit, and the most careless drivers we have to contend with are the tourists, of which there are scores pass through Rensselaer almost every day, attracted, by our fine roads. They appear to think they will never pass this way again, and the way some of them hit the high places out in the country is a caution. The speed limit in Rensselaer seems to be all the way from ten to* forty miles an hour, any old thing goes—or has gone, rather. Some of these days there will be some one badly hurt or killed, and then perhaps we will hear something about the law being observed to some extent.

Bargains a-plenty in the 99c Racket Store’s full page ad in next Saturday’s Democrat. Watch for it and bring in the coupon and you will receive a beautiful cut glass tumbler free, worth 25c.

COAL. COAL. Don’t wait, but come and get a ton of Big Jack lump coal—the cleanest and best prepared. The cheapest coal on the market; the great seller. Only $3.25 per ton. at JAMES’ COAL TARD, Goodland, Ind.

TELEPHONE MOVEMENT CONSTANTLY GROWING.

The mutual telephone movement Is gaining force throughout the county every day. Those who heard the talk of President Sage of the Brook mutual last Saturday could not help but know that it is a good thing, both for the Improvement of the service and as an Investment.

IN FAVOR OF THE CARPENTER TP. SUBSIDY ELECTION.

And in favor of the election carrying for the Interurban. In answer to Carpenter Tp. Citizen in the Jasper County Democrat of August 11th, wish to say that the whole of the 1 per cent tax will not be collectable until the cars are running on the road, and In a very few years the two roads will pay back to the township more In taxes than the 1 per cent will amount too, not mentioning the other benefits derived from having two roads running through the township.' Carpenter Tp. Citizen asks what benefit two roads have been to Reynolds, Goodland and Kentland? In answer to that question will say that Carpenter Tp. Citizen is in ignorance of the facts or thinks that all the rest of the voters are. Voters, I leave that to you to decide. All any one has to do v to find out what benefit the two roads have been to Goodland is to think back a short time and they will remember how difficult It is to get cars to deliver their grain here at Remington and also at Wolcott, and how easily it is to get plenty of cars at Goodland. Another thing I have noticed is that when the people of Goodland want to ship a car load of horses to Chicago, they don’t have to lead or ride them to Remington, to load them Now, as to the growth of Goodland compared to Remington before the road was built north through Goodland, Remington was by far the largest town, not so to-day. And as to Kentland: Let any of you voters go to Kentland to-day and you will see a town that is outgrowing any town In Jasper county and just since thg road was built, too. Carpenter Tp. Citizen asks us to satisfy ourselves as to who is going to get this money. Now as far as I am concerned, I don’t care if they throw it in the Pacific Ocean, if we get the road by their using the money that way. Voters, ask any one that lives in a section of the country traversed by electric cars and note what they say in regard to the benefits. Again, farmers, express your produce, poultry or anything you like to Chicago from Goodland and then try the same from Remington and see if you ’don’t save quite a little money by expressing from a town with two roads. Now, then, voters, I, too, am willing for you to consider the proposition and vote as you like, hut don’t let any bosh like Carpenter Tp. Citizen's article influence you in voting. And I don’t think it will. All you need to do is to do your own thinking. Kentland is not far away, ask the farmers along that line if they are sorry their road was built? Ask them if they would do without the road for a 1 per cent tax? I want to see our people have as good as anybody else, and if we could get the road without the tax I would be glad of it. But some other people want the road and they want it bad enough to vote a tax if we fail to get it, and thereby do us more harm than the 1 per cent tax will harm us, for as soon as the road is built and the tax paid, our expense stops. Not so with the stone roadsThink this matter over and remember that it is not best for this road to go east of us and leave this good section of* country without a road north and south. Respectfully,

Ripe olives 20c a can—Home Grocery.

INDIANIAN HEADS VETERANS

Colonel Jewett Commander of Society of Army of Philippines. Pittsburg. Aug. 13.—The third day’# sessions of the convention of the Army of the Philippines were marked by the speech delivered by Major General Frederick D. Grant, commander of the department of the lakes Officers of the organization were chosen by acclamation, ns follows: Commander Colonel C. L Jewett. New Albany. Ind.; junior vice commanders. Major W. H. Anderson, Manila. P. 1.: Captain F. W. Latimer. Galesburg. Ill.; Major Charles A. Howard. South Dakota; F. E krembs, St. Paul, Minn.: Nicholas W. Muller. New York; paymaster. W. B. Brown. Chi£pgo; judge advocate general. Captain W. H. Keating. Iowa; chaplain, Samuel J. Smith, Nineteenth United States infantry.

Dry mealy sweet potatoes—Home Grocery.

A TAXPAYER.

MATTEAWAN FOR THAW ONCE MORE

Justice Mills Decides Wile's Slayer Still Crazy. OUTWARDLY CALM AT NEWS Opinion of Judge Is That Young Pittsburg Man Has Not Recovered From Insanity and That Public Peace and Safety Would Be Endangered by Setting Him at Large—Good Grounds For Evelyn’s Divorce. White Plains, N. Y„ Aug. 13.—Harry K. Thaw’s latest attempt to gain his liberty met with complete and disheartening defeat when Supreme Court Justice Mills the writ of habeas corpus and decided that “the release of the petitioner would be dangerous to the public peace and safety.” All the contentions of Thaw’s adversary, District Attorney Jerome, are supported, and it is declared that Thaw Is still Insane, still suffering from persistent delusions, and still as much a paranoiac as on the day he shot Stanford White. Family Stunned at Decision. Thaw received the news with an outward calmness. The members of his family and his attorney seemed stunned by the thoroughness of their defeat. Thaw declined to give out any extended statement, contenting himself with the assertion that he was not disheartened and would at once continue his fight for liberty. Justice Mills In his opinion reaches three formal conclusions: That Thaw was Insane when he killed White; that he has not yet recovered, and that public peace and safety would be endangered by setting him at large. He upholds District Attorney Jerome’s contentions that Thaw still cherishes delusions regarding the practices of Stanford White and his associates. He characterizes Evelyn Thaw’s tale of the Madison Square tower room, and similar stories about White told at the sanity hearing, as “wild and grossly Improbable, evidently to any normal mind grossly exaggerated.” He asserts his belief In the testimony of Susan Merrill regarding Thaw’s alleged pervert practices, and points out the contrast between Thaw’s chivalrous attitude as a protector of young American womanhood, and his private life. Grounds For Evelyn’s Divorce. ' 1 Not the least significant sentence fn Justice Mills’ decision In the opinion of lawyers here is one which declares that Thaw’s “delusions had become fixed and established prior to the time of his marriage.” It Is pointed out that this sentence, may, if desired, prove grounds for proceedings by Mrs. Evelyn Thaw for the annulment of her marriage. Mrs. Thaw, after talking over the situtation with her son, wrote out the following statement: "Let no one imagine for a moment on reading this opinion of Judge Mills that It means a victory for the district attorney of the county of New York.” Thaw’s next legal move will be to the court of appeals for a jury trial.

VIRGINIA TOWN IS VERY DRY

Bristol, on Tennessee Border, In Throes of Local Option Fight. Bristol, Va„ Aug. 13.—Judge Kelly heard the first application for license to sell liquor Thursday, the city having voted wet at a recent local option election. Counsel for the drys objected to granting licenses until the court has disposed of the local option contest now pending. Judge Kelly took the matter under advisement and no licenses are now likely to be granted before September.

WATERWAYS MEET CHANGED

Lakes to Gulf Convention Will Be Held Late In October. New Orleans, Aug. 13.- —.Again the dates for the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways convention have been changed. It has now been decided that the convention will take place Oct. 28. 29 and 30. President Taft’s steamboat, the Mississippi, is slated to dock at New Orleans at 8 o’clock on the morning of Oct. 30 and the president will address the delegates to the convention.

LIBRARIAN OF SENATE DEAD

Was Once General Counsel For Chicago and Alton Railroad. Newark, Aug. 13 —Alonzo L. Church, former librarian of the United State? senate, died at the home of his sol here. He was eighty-one years old. Church was a graduate of tho University of Georgia and was for many years general connsel for the Chicago and Alton railroad.. The Democrat and the Indianapolis Dally News, each a full year for only $3.60.

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