Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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A BIC SHOW IS ASSURED

Almost SI,OOO In Purses and Amusements for Horse Show PROGRAM IS BEING MADE OP And There Will Be Something Doing All the Time—Everything Is Free As Water, and the Entire County Is Invited to Come to Rensselaer Oct. 14, 15 and 16, Three Big Days. Everything is moving along nicely in the arrangements for the big Horse Show to be held here week after next. The finance committee, Messrs, D. M. Worland and Fred Phillips, have met with flattering success in raising funds and donations of prizes, and SBOO in purses and for amusements and $l3O in special prizes by individual stable horse owners is the result of their efforts. Arrangements have been completed, we understand, for a ballonist to make daily ascensions and parachute drops during the show, and a contract will nkely have been made by to-day for a good band of music to play each day. The committee is negotiating with the Wolband and one or two others, but at this writing it looks like the Wolcott band, one of the best in northern Indiana, would be secured. In the ball game events Oxford will play Thursday and Brook Friday. Saturday the high school football team will play a Lafayette' team. The qpmmlttee has prevailed upon , Mr. Leek to lease the north half of his hitch barn for use of the association for housing the horses on exhibition, and these quarters will be free to exhibitors, neither will any entry fee be charged. Everything is absolutely free and there is no limit as to distance or locality where horses are owned or bred. Mr. Leek consented to lease a part of his barn only that he might help the cause along, as he could, no doubt, easily fill the barn every day of the show with teams and make much more out of it. ■Everyone is showing the same spirit, sacrificing self-interest for the general good of the cause, and with good weather we may confidently look for a good time and a big crowd here during the show. The program is not complete at this writing, but we hope to be able to publish it in full in the next issue of The Democrat.

MARRIED AT ST. JOE.

\J_Samuel Hoshaw, aged 21, and Miss Daisy Rutherford, aged 16, were mrrled In St. Joe, Mich., last Sunday. The groom Is a son of H. C. Hoshaw and the bride a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Firman Rutherford, both of Rensselaer.

SOME PUMPKINS IN NEWTON.

George Long exhibited a pumpkin at the hofse show last week that weighed an even hundred pounds, and Mrs. Henry Miller was showing one at the bank that was but a trifle smaller. These are “some, pumpkins” for Jefferson township.— Newton Cpunty Enterprise.

WOODMEN TOO MUCH FOR ODD FELLOWS.

The M. W. A., apd I. O. O. F., ball game- Tuesday afternoon was won by the former in an easy score of 53 to 4. This is a score that no doubt takes first place in the ball annals of this season’s games in Indiana- The Woodmen have challenged the K. of P’s. to meet them-and settle the lodge championship in baseball, but at this writing no date has been fixed for the game.-

CHASED OUT OF TOWN.

Harry McAlpin, a Demotte Barber, Takes Liberties With FiveYear*Old Girl. There was considerable excitement up Demotte way the first of the week over the alleged attempt of Harry McAlpin, a Demotte barber, to assault the ( five-year-old daughter of Postmaster Wells of Demotte. McAlpin has been drinking considerably of late, it is said, and he enticed the little girl into his shop. The parents missed, the child and In looking about for her the father peeped In the window of the barber shop, where he saw her with McAlpin. It took him but a moment to kick in the. door and nearly pound the life out of the drunken barber, who was later arrested and held a day or two by a local court

up there, then turned loose and ordered to get out of town, which he lost tittle time in doing.

MRS. RALPH FENDIG VERY LOW.

Mrs. S. Borchardt and brother, B. F. Fendig, went to Chicago Thursday to visit with their mother, Mrs. R. Fendig, who is at the Hahnemann hospital in a serious condition, and little hope 'is entertained for her recovery. Yesterday morning Ben telegraphed his brother Sam to come up on the 9:55 train, and the other brother was to reach there yesterday morning, also, so that all are there waiting for the end.

OXFORD EXCURSION.

To accommodate those wanting to attend the base ball game at Oxford Sunday, Oct. 3, the Monon will run a round trip excursion via Lafayette, on the following schedule; Lv. Rensselaer 10:00 a. m.* Ar. Lafayette 11:30 a. m. Lv. Lafayette for Oxford. 1:00 p. m. Lv. Oxford 5:15 p.m. Lv. Lafayette 7:30 p.m. Ar. Rensselaer 9:00 p. m. Round trip fare, $1.50. W. H. BEAM, Agt.

WATCH FOR THE DEMOCRAT’S NEW SERIAL NEXT WEEK.

The opening chapters of “Paid In Full” will appear next week. This is a story of absorbing interest*from .start to finish, and we want our readers to begin with the opening chapters. The play from which this story is taken has- been a great success in New York and Chicago, and the story embraces all the cardinal features of the play. Read it and you will enjoy it. It not already a subscriber, we invite you to become one now and get all of this great story.

CELEBRATE 20TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

j>£)n Sunday Mr. and Mrs. M. J. |loltzman, of this place, and Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, of Rensselaer, will have been married 20 years, while Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth, of Chicago, will have passed the 20th year on Monday. It has been the custom of these friends to celebrate their anniversaries together, and this year they will meet here. We have been reliably informed that the dinner that will be served at the Holtzman home on this occasion will be fit for a king.—Brookston Reporter.

TIPPECANOE COUNTY MAY ABANDON FAIR.

Lafayette, Ind., September 27. — The fate of the annual Tippecanoe county fair hangs in the balance. At a meeting of the directors of the county agricultural association, Saturday afternoon, Secretary Charles W. Travis reported that the last fair held early this month was a financial failure, the deficit amounting to more than $1,500. One of the causes was a rainy day on Friday and the lack of interest on the part of city people. The fair has been an annual institution here for fortysix years. Some years the attendance has surpassed the 25,000 mark. Gradually the fair has become a oneday exhibition, Thursday being the only big day of the week. The directors decided that if the fair is to be continued a loan must be negotiated, the premiums reduced and the stake horse races eliminated.

A PLEASANT SURPRISE.

To say that Jasper Cover was not surprised Sunday when friends and relatives to the number of 75 were assembled at his home when he returned from a field where he had been showing his brother-in-law, Mr. Frame, his crop, would be entirely a mistake. But it was indeed a very pleasant and one to be long remembered by him and also all who were present. At the noon hour a most delightful dinner was spread and all partook of same with the thought that if they ate of all the good things they would 'be ready for a trip through the desert and live as the camel, without food for several days. Mrs. Kessler, the photographer, of Fair Oaks, was there with her camera and took the photograph of the table as it was spread and the people as they sat at same. Those present from out of the neighborhood were Mrs. Alta Sutton and little daughter of Lowell; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Frame and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jarvas and Ida Shreeves of Demotte; Mr. and Mrs. Omar Wilcox of Mitchell, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Korah Potts of Barkley tp.; Mr. and Mrs. William Wilcox and son, Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman and children of Alx; J. C. Smith of Parr. The wife and brothers and sisters of Mr. Cover presented him witha nice chair, and all left, wishing Jasper many more happy birthday anniversaries. * A GUEST.

Sale bills printed while you wait, at The Democrat office.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1909.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. —o— Attorneys Frank Foltz and G. A.Williams were in Monticello on court business Tuesday and Wednesday. New suits filed: No. 7509. Olive A. Barnette and Mary Frost vs. Max Weller; suit in partition of real estate. —o>— Only six marriage licenses were issued in Jasper county last month, against four for the preceding month and ten lor September, 1908. Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 30, John Flannigan, son of Thomas Flannigan, of Medaryville, aged 18, occupation farmer, to Hazel Glen Archer, daughter of Harvey Archer, of Jasper county, aged'l6, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. No arrests have been at this writing in the last indictment returned by the grand jury, and no more arrests have as yet been made on the first batch of indictments returned, the parties having left the country, it is understood. —o— Yesterday was the last day for filing objections in the Marble, or Kankakee river, ditch. Over fifty persons have remonstrated so far, and a large number w’ere expected to be filed yesterday. A big legal fight will likely result before this expensive drainage project gets over the rocks-

- o The petit jury was excused Wednesday after hearing the Poole cases, until yesterday when the Meyer vs. Holland case from Remington was to have came up. Several of the attorneys in the case, however, were engaged in the Benton Kelley road case from Newton tp., which has been grinding several days in White count/, and a continuance was asked for until the November term, and the case will go over until then. All members of the jury who could be reached were notified, therefore, not to come in until next Tuesday, but one or tw T o who could not be reached came in yesterday morning, only to learn that there was nothing doing.

Other court proceedings since last report follow: Grove? Smith ditch; Supt. files report showing charges of $10,046.59 and credits of $9,640.56; Supt. ordered to pay $406.03 to Co. treasurer. Supt. R. A. Mannan allowed $238.65, and A. Halleck $45. Melvin Mudge vs. Albert S. Hull; continued for term. Peter Brook vs. George Morin; defendant defaults, judgment for $927.42, of which $431.90 is secured by chattel mortgage which is ordered forclosed.

ACQUITTED OF SERIOUS CHARGE.

John Poole Goes Free on Attempt Charge, But is Fined SSO in Assault and Battery Count. The state cases against John Poole of near Swanington, Benton county, on indictments returned by the grand jury recently, were tried in the circuit court Tuesday and Wednesday. In the first, plain assault and battery was charged, and the evidence went to show that a little more than a year ago Poole had gone to the home of Geo. Fate of north of Rensselaer, and, finding that Mr. Fate was not about the house, had caught hold of Mrs. Fate by the arm and made some remarks not usually used by a stranger to a lady whom he had never met before- She broke away from him and he left. Before Mr. Fate met Poole, after his wife had told him of the latter’s actions, his anger had cooled off somewhat, as it was several weeks later, or there would undoubtedly have been something doing in that locality. The Jury in this case found defendant guilty as charged and he was fined SSO and costs, $69.55 in all, which he paid Wednesday afternoon and left for his home in Benton county. He had been in jail here all the time since his arrest'on Tuesday of last week until this time. On the second charge, assault and battery with intent to commit a rape, which was taken up Wednesday morning, the evidence of Mrs. Mary Haines, wife of the tenant on Poole s farm in Union tp., Jasper county, was that Poole had come to the house last December one time when the men folks were out in the field to wgrk and, when shaking hands with the witness, had pulled her to him and embraced and kissed her, much to her annoyance and fright. Mrs. Haines is some 50 years of age and a grand-mother- She

broke away from Poole and ran a mile to her son’s home where she told what had happened, later returning home with a boy who was there. she did not tell her husband until next morning, when it was shown Poole and Haines had a rather hot argument over some rent troubles and the matter was incidentally mentioned.'- In the culmination of this argument Poole gave tjaines an order for S4OO on some stock that had been shipped from the farm Poole had remained at the house the night of the alleged embracing of his tenant’s wife and had frequently staid there since. In fact it seems that the parties had patched up what trouble they had over the cattle deal, at least, and were on fairly good terms at the present time. While there was apparently no question about there having been an assault and battery committed, the intent charge w£s not very clear, and the jury promptly acquitted him. A peculiar feature of this latter case was the acceptance by the defense of the jury entire that had heard the former case in which a verdict of guilty was returned. This is something very unusual, and was perhaps the first time it ever occurred in this court. However, we guess Mr. Barce, who w-as defending Poole, knew his business and did a very wise thing in aJlowing the same jury to sit in the latter case also.

FROM NORTH DAKOTA. Emerado, N. D., Sept. 27. Dear Editor: Enclosed find $1.50 for The Democrat for another year, as we can’t get along very well without the Jasper county news. This leaves us all well and enjoying Dakota farming very much. Threshing isf all over now and everybody is busy plowing. Crops were pretty good around here, wheat made from 17 to 25 bushels; oats, 30 to 40; barley the same. Potato crop is fine; I will have over 600 bushels off of a patch of 3 acres, so you see we’ll not starve through the long winter. We all like it fine up here and it s not at the end of the world either—there’s plenty of land beyond us yet. We are having fine weather for fall Haven’t had any frosts yet to doany - iamI age. We wouldn’t trade our Dakota farm for one of your Jasper •'county farms to live on it, and hope j some more Hoosiers will make a move for Dakota in the spring. Well, I will close for this time, sending our best regards to all the home folks. Yours truly, HENRY SIMONIN.

CALL FOR DEMOCRATIC CITY CONVENTION.

Notice is hereby given to the democratic voters of the City of Rensselaer, and to all others who desire to affiliate with tho in the coming city election, to meet in the court house in said city at 7:30 o’clock on Friday, October 15, 1909, for the purpose of nominating a city ticket to be voted for in the city election to be held on Tuesday, November 2, 1909. The officers to be elected at said, election are: A City Mayor; City Clerk; City Treasurer; One City Councilman each from the First, Second and Third Wards; Two City Councilmen-at-Large. The Ward conventions will meet at the following places in the court house: First Ward, in the Sheriff’s office; Second Ward, in the County Assessor’s office; Third Ward, in the East court room. Immediately after the Ward conventions are over the City Convention for the nominating of candidates for Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer and two Councilmen-at-Large will be held in the East court room. J. a. McFarland, Chairman. N. LITTLEFIELD, Secretary.

BIRTH announcements. Sept. 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Camp, a son. OYSTERS AT FATE’S. Just received, Booth’s Guaranteed bulk oysters: Pints 25c; quart 40c. Full stew, 25c; half stew, 15c; 1 doz- raw, 25c; half doz raw. 15c. Great big N. Y. counts fried, 25c at Fate’s Model Restaurant, sole agent for Booth’s Guaranteed oysters. MILLINERY REDUCTION. Mrs. Treanor of Remington wishes to announce that owing to failing health since she bought her fall stock and her daughter being married, she will sell her ‘ entire stock at greatly reduced prices, as she wishes to retire from business. She has had An experienced trimmer for several weeks, and has a nice line of trimmed hats. MRS. TREANOR, Remington, Ind.

KNOX COUNTY TO RETAIN SALOONS

City of Vincennes Gives a Majority to the Wets. THIRTEENTH LOSS FOR DRYS Election Leaves the Balance Sheet Showing Sixty-Two Counties Against the Liquor Traffic by Option and Eight Without Cases by Operation of Remonstrance Law—Election fltill to Be Held In Nine—Women Aid the Cause of Prohibition. Vincennes, Ind., Oct. 1. —Knox county has voted wet in her local option election. The forty-three precincts of the county show a majority of 761 in favor of the saloons. Vincennes gave the wets a majority of 1,709. Knox is the thirte nth of the ninetytw’O counties in Indiana to vote wet. Sixty-two counties have voted dry and eight are dry through the operation of the remonstrance law. Nine counties remain in which no action has been taken. Slight disturbances occurred where the wets attempted to vote foreigners. The temperance workers produced certified court records giving the names of all foreigners naturalized here within the last five years. No further attempt was made to vote th® men. Women in carriages assisted in getting out the dry vote and served free lunch. Hourly prayer meetings were held in the churches and at the homes of temperance workers. The drys caused the sensation of the day by announcing that they would demand that precinct B, second ward, Vincennes, be thrown out because the polling place is not more than fifty feet from a saloon as the law requires. A measurement showed the voting place within the prescribed limit, thought it has been used for years as a polling place. This precinct has 310 votes and is heavily wet. The wets will contest (tid (Browing out of the precinct

SALOON PAYS $4,000 FEE

In Spite of High License Wets Have Close Call In Virginia. Roanoke, Va., Oct I.—Roanoke in a local option election has voted by a majority of sixty-nine to retain the licensed saloon. An option election in the Rocky Mount district of Franklin county resulted in a victory for the wets by a majority of three. There is but one saloon in the district. It is located at Rocky Mount and pays a license tax of $4,000.

LARGEST BALLOON IN LAND

Fisher and Bumbaugh Building New Aircraft In Indianapolis. * Indianapolis, Oct. 1. —It has been learned that Carl Fisher and G. L. Bumbaugh of this city, are constructing a dirigible ballon which, they declare, is to be the largest in the United States. The bag is to be 166 feet long and thirty-two feet in diameter. It will have a capacity for 1,000 pounds of ballast and three men will be required to operate it. Bumbaugh said that he intends to launch the balloon from the Indianapolis Motor speedway about Oct. 10 and after soaring about the Soldier's and Sailors monument in this city, to start for Dayton, O. Henry D. Pruden of Dayton, 0., made an ascension in the balloon Indiana, which he recently purchased. Columbus, Ind., Oct. 1. —A balloon believed to be the Indiana caused a suspension of service on the Indianapolis, Columbus and Southern traction line when an anchor rope became entangled in three high tension wires near Edinburg, Ind. When the balloon passed over Taylorville, it was so near the earth that the occupants shouted to persons in the streets.

INDIANAPOLIS IS SELECTED

Central States Waterworks. Association Elects Its Officers. Columbus, 0., Oct. I.—The convention of the Central States Waterworks association, closed after choosing Indianapolis for the next convention city and electing these officers: T. H. Vernon, president; A L. Holmes, .Grand Rapids, Mich., vice president; F. J. Brinkoetter, Quincy, Ill.; Thomas McNamee, Wabash, Ind.; Asa Williams, Owensboro, Ky.; W. A. Clark, Wyoming, O.; H. C. Lea, Sharps burg, Pa.; W. J. Scroggins, Wheeling, W. Va., and J. B. Russell, St Louis, state vice presidents; W. A Veach, secretary; i A W. Inman, treasurer.

A grand, cloak and suit opening, Friday and Saturday, Octobe? Ist and 2d. The Forsythe Store, opposite court house.

Vol. XU. No. 49.

The Weather. Following is the official weatheJ forecast: Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin Fair today and probably tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Fair today and tomorrow. lowa—Fair today; partly cloudy tomorrow.

WRIGHTS ASK FOR INJUNCTION

Want Court to Prohibit Aeroplane Flights by Glenn H. Curtiss. New York, Oct I.—The petition of the Wright brothers for a temporary restraining order to prevent Glenn H. Curtiss from making exhibition flights is sought by the Wrights for the purpose of hastening court action in their case against Curtiss. “I think this suit against Curtiss will be regarded as a test case,” Wilbur Wright said. “We want to get a decision in the matter as soon as possible—before too much damage has been done.” Two Passengers Carried In Aeroplane. Johannisthal, Germany, Oct. 1. —M. Rougier, with two passengers, flew 1.55 miles at a height of forty-five feet in an aeroplane. Orville Wright Up 700 Feet. Potsdam, Oct. 1. —Orville* Wright made a flight during which he estimates that he ascended about 700 feet.

PREDICTS ANGLO-TEUTON WAR

Persia's Representative In New York Declares Clash Is Inevitable. New York, Oct. I.—“ War between England and Germany is inevitable, and the sooner it comes the better for England, because if postponed long Germany will develop such strength that it will be impossible to defeat her.” This was the message given by H. H. Topakyan, Persian consul general here, in an address to the Albany Burgess corps.

Canada Gains 75,000 Yankee Families. Montreal, Oct. I.—J. Bruce Walker of the Canadian department of the interior says that 75,000 American families, each with an average capital of SI,OOO, have entered Canada from the United States this year to become homesteaders. Decatur Franchise For Sale. Decatur, 111., Oct. I.—Stockholders of the Decatur club of the Three Eyes ball league, have voted to sell the franchise and players to the city making the best offer. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. On Sabbath morning will be the regular Communion service at the Presbyterian church. Every member should be present if possible. In the evening the pastor will speak on “What Christianity is doing in China,” and will use the stereopticon to illustrate the sermon. Everyone most cordially invited to these services.

SERVICES AT BAPTIST CURCH. Sunday School at 9:30. Morning worship at 10:45. Subject “The Millenium.” Junior B. Y. P- N., at 2:30. Senior B. Y. P. N„ at 6:45. Evening evangelistic service. 7:30. Subject, “A Wise Man.” Corennnt and business meeting Wednesday evening, Oct. 6. Woman’s Mission Circle at home of Mrs- James Jordan, Friday afternoon, Oct. 8. A cordial welcome for all. CHRISTIAN CHURCH RALLY. On Sunday the Chritslan church will conduct a harvest-home rally. The Bible school hopes to see present its entire enrollment together with all the members of the church and their friends. There will be special songs and recitations, a surprise, and an exhibit of the season’s harvests. The subject of the morning sermon is, “What Will the Harvest Be?” In the evening “The Pre-Em-inent One.” All are welcome to these services. A new agent from one of the leading cloak and suit houses will be here at the opening, Friday and Saturday, October Ist and 2d, at the Forsythe Store. SEE MY STOCK OF BUGGIES While you are looking for one to buy. I have the quality, price and experience for your benefit. C. A. ROBERTS. Goods delivered and special low prices during the opening of cloaks and suits and big closing out sale of and remainder of the Chicago Bargain Store. Come to the Democrat office for sale bills. COAL. COAL. Don’t wait, but come and get a ton of Big Jack lump coal-—tho cleanest and best prepared. Tho cheapest coal on the market; tho great seller. Only $3.25 per ton, at JAMES* COAL YARD, Goodland, Indi