Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

91.50 Per Tew.

CITY ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY.

Rensselaer Will Choose Officials For Next Four Years. A REAL CHANGE IS NEEDED la the Administration, and the Democrats Have Nominated a Ticket That Deserves the Support of All Citizens Who Have the Best Interests of the City at Heart.

On next Tuesday the voters of Rensselaer will choose a city administration to serve for four years from January 1, 1910. There is to be elected a Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, two Councilmen-at-large, and one Councilman from each of the three wards of the city. Below we give the ticket of each party: DEMOCRATIC TICKET. Mayor—William H. Beam. Clerk—N. Littlefield. Treasurer—Earl Duvall. Counrilmen-at-Large— Wm. Washburn 7 John C. Carmichael. Councilman First Ward—Thomas A. Crockett. Councilman Second Ward—D. M. Woriand. Councilman Third Ward—Henry Grow.

REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Mayor—Geo. I. Meyers. Clerk—Charles Morlan. Treasurer—Ray D. Thompson. Co uncllmen-at-Large—C. J. Dean and A. G. Catt. Councilman, First Ward—George Hopkins. •" Councilman, Second Ward—Elzie GrowCouncilman, Third Ward—Frank Krealer. The Ward lines are as follows: All the terretoryJying south of McCoy avenue, Washington and Cedar streets is in the First Ward, and the voting place for said Ward will be in the engine house of the city hall. AH the territory north of Washington street and McCoy avenue on a straight line west, and of Cullen and Forest streets, is in'the Second Ward, and the voting place for said Ward will be in the former Michael Eger shop, one door north of Worland’s furniture store, on Van Rensselaer street. . All the territory north of Washington and Cedar streets and east of Cullen and Forest (southeast corner at Makeever House) is in the Third Ward, and the voting place for said Ward will be in the Makeever House sample room. The polls will be open from 6 a. m., to 6 p. m., and any citizen over the age of 21 years who has resided six months* in the state, 60 days in the township and 30 days in the Ward is eligible to vote. If you have moved from one ward to another in the last 30 days, or since October 2, you have no right to vote. Remember this. Without any disrespect to the young men who compose nearly all the candidates on the republican ticket, yet the fact remains that they are a lot of Inexperienced boys, young in years and little or no experience in business affairs for themselves or acquainted with the needs and responsibilities of managing the affairs of a city. “Good fellows,” it is true', but some more qualifications than this ought to be required. Two of the candidates for councilman on the democratic ticket have had experience heretofore on the council and made good records there. Wm. Washburn, Tom Crockett and Dave Worland are as good careful business men as can be found Jp Jasper county, and that they/ will, if elected, make good councilrfnen is an assured fact. That our city needs a genuine business administration, practically all admit. For several years now almost every order issued in some of the funds have been protested as soon as- issued, because there Were no founds to pay them, and they at, once bfgun to draw interest at 6 per cent per annum. Whenever the city received a “draw” from the county treasurer for taxes the money hltd been spent before it was received, find practically all (in these overdrawn fuflds) went to pay protested city orders. This is poor business methods, and, notwithstanding the fact that the city had no money, the council has gpne right ahead spending money, boos{lng salaries, etc., Just as if they had dray logds of cash In the treasury. Now, arter milking the treasury dry, for campaign purposes, they are talking about econora/! The people no assurance that any economy wll be -practiced

as long as the old crowd is behind the gun, and only a complete turnover in the administration will give -the relief s 6 sadly needed. Come out to the polls Tuesday and vote for a change that will mean something.

A DISTINCTION AND A DIFFERENCE.

While the Democrat speaks critically of the young men on the republican ticket, it speaks with pride of the “young” men nominated on the democratic ticket, and uses the term "another young man” in reference to its own ticket as tWough that were the only virtue required. In one issue that paper runs down the republican ticket because of the “young” men on it. The democratic idea seems to be whatever they do is all right and whatever the other fellow does is all wrong.— Republican. The “young men” on the democratic ticket are not candidates for councilmen, where they would have full charge of the management and conduct of the city affairs, but in purely clerical positions—clerk and treasurer. The democrats recognized the younger element of their party by placing Mr- Littlefield and Mr. Duvall on the ticket for the above positions, and either one is as old or older than either of four of the five candidates for councilmanic honors on the republican ticket. The democratic ticket is not loaded down with boys, but men of mature years and experience make up the ticket where experience is a valuable asset. A comparison of the two tickets can not help but convince any fair minded citizen of the fact that the democratic ticket is a strong one.

PRIZE-WINNERS IN LAND DRAWING.

In the first day’s drawing of land allotments in the Standing Rock and Cheyenne Indian Reservations at Aberdeen, So- Dak., Simon Marquess of West Lafayette, formerly of Remington, was one of the lucky ones among the first 2,500 names drawn, to secure an allotment. “Mabel C. Besse of Rensselaer,” Is another name given among the Indianians who drew a quarter section in the first day’s drawing. Mis» Besse is a daughter of T. A. Besse, formerly of near Rensselaer, but who has been living near Britton, So. Dak., for the past few years. Thomas Shew and Frank Braner of Remington; George Brown and F. W. Baker of Knox; W. V. Goodes of Lowell; Isabel Kennard of Monon; Anthony Yeager of Winamac, are also named as having drawn allotments in Thursday’s drawing. There were but 10,000 allotments, and some 81,000 people filed on these, so each stood about one chance in eight of drawing a claim.

HORTICULTURAL DEMONSTRATION

Purdue Experiment Station to Aid Jasper County Fruit Growers. Through the efforts of some of Jasper county’s progressive fruit growers, arrangements have been made with the Department of Horticulture of Purdue University Experiment Station to hold one of their practical Demonstration Meetings in thiß locality. These meetings are being held in various parts of the state and are proving of great value to the fruit growers. Especial attention is given to the honte orchard, and general farmers who are interested in fruit growing will be given a valuable opportunity at the coming meeting to learn how to make the orchard pay. In this locality there is a great need for just the sort of practical, first-hand information here offered. The meeting will be held at Rensselaer on Thursday, Nov. 4. Mr. John E. Alter, chairman of the Jasper County Farmers’ Institute, is taking care of the local arrangements for the meeting, and has secured a conveniently located orchard. The program will begin at 10 o’clock a. m., sharp. There will be an adjournment for dinner with a second season in the afternoon beginning promptly at 2 o’clock. The Purdue men will Bhow how to prune the old trees to best advantage; they wjll point out and explain the various orchard troubles in the locality, and will give the best methods of treatment. Thpy will show how to make and apply thd sprays for the San Jose scale, the apple scab and the codling moth. The work will be in the nature of a practical demonstration and questions in regard* to orchard troubles will be gladly heard and fully discussed. If you have a tree disease you don’t know, bring a specimen to the meeting. Full particulars in regar* to the meetinr may be obtained from Mr. John E. Alter, Parr, or by writing C- G. Woodbury, Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind.

Don’t fail to get a 10c bottle of Tomato Catsup for 6c this week only. ROWLES ft PARKER.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1900.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. ■ mi i ml The county commissioners meet in regular session Monday. Arthur Morgan, the Newton county negro who has been in jail here for several months, was taken to Kentlaud Thursday to be tried yesterday on the charge of shooting up a C. & E- I. railroad conductor on the Momence-Brazil division with a razor more than a year ago, over a dispute in his fare. t —♦ ■ - New suits filed: No. 7520. Alfred E. McCoy vs. Maggie M. McCoy; action for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married in Jasper county, August 6, 1907, and separated Oct. 13 of the same year, when defendant abandoned plaintiff without cause. The parties both reside in Barkley tp. The defendant's maiden name was Maggie M. Stockwell. One of the largest real estate transfers of recent date in Jasper county was filed for record Tuesday. The conveyance is from Wm. D. Vance to the Concord Land and Improvement Co., of Elkhart county, Ind., and conveys 1,540 acres of land in sections 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, Township 33, Range 6, located in the north part of Wheatfield township, along the Kankakee river- The consideration named in the deed is SBI,OOO, which is about $52.50 per acre, from four to six times what it is likely worth. It is, in fact, a part of the old Nelson Morris lands, and is practically worthless in its present condition, being swamp land and usually covered with water more or less whenever the Kankakee is ont of its banks.

J\City Attorney Geo. A. Williams was in Delphi Thursday morning and had the old case of W. L. Nowels vs. the city off Rensselaer dismissed at plaintiff’s cost. This was one of two cases filed against the city some seven years ago for damages resulting from Mr. Nowels’ team\ becoming scared at a cow hitched in the street, and running away and throwing out both Mr. and Mrs. Nowels and injuring them considerably, especially the latter, whom it is alleged never recovered from her injuries. One of the cases was tried about five years ago and decided in the city’s favor. This one had been continued from term to term because of the condition of Mrs. Nowels’ health. She died a few months ago, and Mr. Williams went over at the present term of court and got the case dismissed. The costs are about $125. Atorneys Williams and Foltz were in Fowler Wednesday on an old case that grew cut of the failure of the McCoy *bank, wherein the firm of Baughman & Williams had collected some S6OO for one John C. Lowe of Monon, and deposited same in the McCoy bank. The Saturday before the bank closed he came over and made settlement with Baughman & Williams and they gave him a check on said bank fofr his money. He sat around and talked, however, until the bank closed for the day, And did not present the check for payment, but took it home with him and deposited it in a bank there to his credit. The McCoy bank never opened its doors again, and someone had to hold the sack. Loi£s filed suit against Baughman ft Williams for the amount and the case was tried at Kentland, where plaintiff was glypn judgment. Defendants asked for a new trial, which was denied, and an appeal was taken to the appellate court, where reversal was had, the higher court holding that a new trial should have been granted. The plaintiff then came in with an amended complaint making Mr. Williams the sole defendant and the case was sent to Benton county. The demurrer to the complaint was overruled by the court, Wednesday, and the case will go to the higher court on this ruling. The paid by the defunct bank, of about 48 per cent, have been collected by Baughman ft Williams, after Lowe had refused to collect them, and this with interest was offered Lowe, but he refused to accept it.

MORE ABOUT THAT NEW RAILROAD.

The sentiment in Rensselaer is unanimous, so far as we can learn, for a north and south railroad, but there has been so much talk on this proposition in the last dozen years, and so little done, that it is not wise to Jump at the conclusion that the latest proposition means such a road right away quick. So faT as we can learn the “Indiana Northwestern Traction Com-

pany” haß no one behind it of very much wealth, some Monticello people probably being the most well-to-do in the bunch. Eugene Purtelle, who seeme-to be the principal man behind the move, is referred to as a Chicago board of trade man, yet we -are unable to find that he has any sort of rating whatever in Dunn’s or Bradstreet’s reports. He is a very young man, probably under 30 years, and 1b understood to have some ten or twelve “board of trade” agencies—commonly called bucketshops—in different places in Indiana besides the bucket-shop here. He has such offices at Monticello and Delphi, we understand, and several other places. The fact that the recognized reports of financial ratings do not mention his name at all, indicates that he has little more than fresh air behind him.

Ths company has asked for franchises in other towns, and is about to ask for one in Hammond, and Wednesday’s Hammond Times makes, mention of the matter as follows: The Indiana Northwestern fraction company 1b the name of an interurban street railway to run from Chicago Heights to Hammond, via Dyer, and for which the promoters may soon ask a franchise ia-Ham-mond.

Eugene Purtelle, a Chicago board of trade man, is the man who has addressed himself to the Hammond Business Men’s association for the company, asking that body to arrange the preliminaries in order that it may be filed with the board of public works. One conference between Mr. Purtelle and members of the Hammond Business Men’s association and business men from Dyer has already been held, this having been done last week in the office of Attorney J. K. Stinson. The Hammond franchise, as the company has outlined it, now confines itself to the Hammond city limits and provides for an entrance at the south city limits on Calument avenue. The proposed route then lies on Calument avenue to State street and thence over the H. W. & E. C. railway tracks to the business district. At the meeting held last week the company’* representative expressed the hope of ultimately building out of Hammond again In a southwesterly direction, mentioning Logansport as a junction point for the road in the great Indiana network of lnterurbans. A~£ursory glance at the franchise shows that the company is hopeful oT getting right of way over street car lines now in Hammond, or such as may come, and there are also a number of features which will be materially altered before it will be acceptable. Principal among these are a request for a fifty year franchise. From the above it would seem that the plans only contemplate, for the present, a line from Hammond to Chicago Heights, but “ultimately” they expect to build on south, etc. It would also seem that objections will be made to granting a franchise for so long a time as 50 years, and yet the company ask Rensselaer for 25 years more, or 75 years^ The Democrat does /lot believe our city council should grant any such long time franchise here for any purpose, and 25 to 30 years ought to be ample. Thirty-five, or 40 years, should be the extreme limit, however. The company can present no reasonable argument why they should have 75 years in Rensselaer and only 50 years in Hammond—the latter figure being all that is asked for there.

The people here are perfectly willing anyone should build this road, but railroads are not built on wind alone. The proposed Lafayette-Chi-cago electric railroad company, for which subsidies of upwards of $50,000 have been voted in this county, have been trying for three years to interest capital in their project, but unsuccessfully thus far, and these people had something tangible to offer, too, and on the most logical route that cbuld be selected, with a complete survey and drawings of the proposed road. If the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co., or a dozen other companies want a reasonable time franchise to come into Rensselaer, conditlonel that they get to work on the line within say two years or forfeit their franchise, let them have it, so the city is to no expense whatever in granting same, but this thing of calling an election at great expense and voting subsidies for every railroad proposition that comes along ought to be stopped. There is no sense in putting the people to such needless expense, and, In fact, the subsidy proposition is altogether wrong in principle anyhow.

TELEPHONE DIRECTORS' MEETING.

The directors of the Home Telepohne Co., of Jasper, kewton, Pulaski and White Counties, Indiana, are requested to meet in Rensselaer on Saturday, October 50, 1900, at 2 o’clock p. m. A full attendance le desired. R. j. YEOMAN, Pres.

Just came in, style up to the min- j ute, ladies’ suits and cloaks at The G. E. Murray Co.

POWDER ‘TRUST' SECRETS BARED

How Indiana aud Michigan Competition Was Throttled. LESS RISK IN MANUFACTURE Buit of the Government Based on Alleged Violations of Sherman Law Brings Out Fact That Danger In the Mills Is Decreasing—DuPont Company Official Admits Control of 68 Per Cent of Country’s Trade.

New York, Oct. 29. —It was brought out in the suit of the government against the DuPont Powder company, charged with violating the Sherman law, that improvements had been made in the manufacture of powder and dynamite and that the manufacture of both explosives had been made safer. J. G. Reynolds of Marquette,‘Mich., superintendent of the Lake Superior Powder company, testified for the alleged trust. He said that the majority of the stock of the Lake Superior company been purchased by the 6uPonts In 1878. The sale was voluntary, he declared. Only 30,000 kegs of powder were manufactured at tha time. Later on, however, machines introduced by the DuPonts improved the manufacture of dynamite which had previously been made in a crude manner. The company, according to the testimony of the witness, is owned at the present time and the business is conducted by the E. I. DuPont company of New Jersey. The organization of the Great Northern Supply company was gone into. This company was formed, said Vice President Barksdale of the DuPont company, to meet the competition of middlemen in Indiana and to prevent the stockholders of the Indiana Powder company from supplying coal operators with their own powder. The Great Northern was liquidated in 1901 and made assignments in favor of the E. I. DuPont company and others. The present competitors of the DuPonts, Bardksdale said, put out 550,000 kegs of black powder a year and 28, 120,000 pounds of high explosives. Barksdale said his corporation and its subsidiaries controlled 68 per cent of the country’s powder business.

NEW GARY ELECTION SUIT

Crolius Democrats Claim the Right to Crowing Rooster Emblem. Gary, Ind., Oct. 29.—Gary Democrats are at sea. Both sides are claiming victory as a result of a decision in the mandamus proceedings brought by the Crolius Democrats. * The proceedings were started to compel Oliver Holmes, town clerk, to appoint John O’Donnell, the Crolius man. Instead of P. J. Finerty, the Knotts man, on the board of election commissioners. The decision was that the right to make this appointment Is discretionary with Oliver Holmes, the city clerk Holmes has already appointed Finerty. A mandatory injunction suit has been filed in which Crolius seeks to compel the election commissioners to place his name under the party emblem—the rooster.

LAWSHE TO SUCCEED CURRY

Expectation In Washington Is That Indianan Will Be Governor. Washington. Oct. 29.—The general expectation here is that A. L. Lawshe of Indiana, the third assistant postmaster general who is going to New Mexico on a long leave of absence on account of his health, will succeed George Curry as governor of the territory of New Mexico next March, unless congress shall, in the meantime, admit the territory to statehood. Governor Curry’s resignation has not yet respzhed the secretary of the interior, but according to dispatches from the territory it has been forwarded, and is to take effect the first of March.

MARSHALL IS COMMENDED

Approval of Governor’s Criticism of Churches Expressed by Writers. Indianapolis, Oct. 2S. Governor Marshall’s mail has brought him a number of letters congratulating him on his speech at Columbus In which he declared that the church was inclined to shift the burden of caring for the poor and needy of the state. The burden of the letters was that the governor’s criticism was Just the sort that the churches needed, that the writers believed he had made his criticism in the proper spirit, and that the churches should accept the criticism in the spirit in which it was intended.

BOARD WANTS MORE TIME

Postpones Decision on the Charge Plied Against Agent Smith. Indianapolis. Oct. 29.—Because members wished lo Inquire further into the

NEXT WEDNESDAY’S DEMOCRAT. The Democrat for next Wednesday will not be printed until Wednesday morning, instead of Tuesday afternoon, as usuaL The reason for this is to enable ns to give the elect! cm returns from the entire country of the elections held Tuesday. The paper will not reach some of the rural routes in the country n«Hi Thursday morning, as a result.

details of a charge filed against Mark A. Smith, a subagent of the board of state charities, the board has postponed final action until the regular meeting in November. Smith is charged with having cut the hair from the head of a fourteen-year-old girl whom he was taking from the Grant county orphans’ home to the Julia E. Work Industrial school at Plymouth. CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES. The Bubject of the Sunday morning sermon is “Our Heritage.” In the evening, “Shipwrecks.” All are welcome. 'i. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday School at 9;30; Morning worship, 10:45; subject of sermon, “The Authority of the Bible.” B. Y. P. U.^6:45; Evening service at 7:30; subject, “God’s Sacrificing Love for Man." O. E. MILLER, Pastor. TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH. The subjects for Sunday morning and evening are, “Launch Out,” and “Christ Crowded Out.” Sunday school 9:30 a. m.; Epworth League 6:30 p. m.; Prayer Meeting, Wednesday 7:30 p. m. You are welcomed to all of these services. CHAS. L. HARPER, Pastor.

v NOTICE. As Dr. Laws and Dr. Washburn are opening a new set of books, Drv Washburn requests all persons knowing themselves indebted to him for work done previous to Oct. 1, 1909, to call and settle by cash or by note.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Rensselaer, Ind., Oct. 28, 1909. We, the undersigned Physicians and Surgeons of Rensselaer, Ind., do hereby agree that from and after this date, that the charges for calls, will be advanced to $1.50 for day calls and to $2.00 for night calls, within the corporate limits of said city. The reasons for said advance is due to the fact that medicines, instruments and all commodities used by us, together with living expenses, have been advanced likewise. A. R. KRESLER, E. C. ENGLISH, I. M. WASHBURN, H. A. LAWS, W. W. MERRILL, M. D. GWIN, S. HERBERT MOORE, F. H- HEMPHILL, E. N. LOY. ty "'

OBITUARY. Mary Ellis, daughter of Edward apd Jane Ellis, was born in Cambridge, England, Nov. 16, 1838, and died at the home of her son, Albert E. Brand, on Oct. 26, 1909, at the age of 70 years, 11 months and 11 days. On July 22, 1865, she was married to Robert Brand, who died in April, 1900. To them were born three children, two sons and one daughter, the later dying in early childhood. Chas. W„ Brand lives at Remington, Ind., while Albert E. Brand, with whom his mother made her home, lives at Rensselaer. Mrs. Brand was reared in a Christian home and at an early age was confirmed in the Episcopal church, to which she lived true to the day of her death. She proved to be a faithful wife and a loving mother and will be greatly missed by her two sons, her two grandchildren and many friends and neighbors. The funeral was held from the residence Thursday forenoon, conducted by Rev. G. H. Clarke, pastor of the Christian church, and burial was made in Weston cemetery, beside her husband.

A 10c bottle of Tomato Catsup 5c this week only. ROWLES ft PARKER.

Potatoes Wanted—2oo bushels of small potatoes wanted for feeding to hogs; will pay 30 cents per bush‘RILEY TULLIS, Rensselaer, Ind., Phone 627-E.

We sell Kuppenheimer • Overcoats are acknowledged the world over as the best and cost no more than the poorer made goods. Como in and let us show you. We can fit and suit you and save you money and give you the most Btylish overcoat made. ROWLES ft PAKERR

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