Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1909 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 50c; Oats, 35c. i C. E. Prior Is In Chicago on a few days business trip. z- V F. W. Tobias was in Chicago on business yesterday. Dr. Loy was Chicago on professional business Monday. « J. D. Carson of Monon was in town on business Monday. W. H. Morrison and wife will spend Thanksgiving in Chicago. Miss Lottie O’Connor of Knlman spent Sadirday here with friends. Ernest Rover of southeast of town was in Monon business Saturday. G. A. Jacks returned Monday from a short visit with his children in Lafayette. Dr. W. W. Merrill returned home Monday from a two days business trip to Chicago. W. V. Zirkle and Mrs. L. J. Patterson of Mathews, were here on business Monday. Mrs. O. H. McKay and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kennal at Lafayette. Advertised letters: H. E. Bannum, James Woods, Mrs. Bell Kain, Mrs. Fannie Long, Miss Lucy Mock. Charles Simpson returned Saturday from attending the I. O. O. F. grand lodge meeting at Indianapolis. Mrs. Henry Amsler went to Michigan City yesterday to visit her daughter, Mrs. I. L. Jones, for a few days. psJVhen you call for granulated sugar, always ask for cane sugar, and get the best; 18 lbs. for SI.OO at John Eger’s. W. F. Rayher left yesterday for Mitchell, S. D., where her will spend a couple of weeks prospecting, and visiting with his son Glen. You can save $$ on your fall clothing, shoes, rubbers, overs, dress goods, underwear, cloaks, etc. Clearing out the Forsythe Store. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Griswold of Washburn, 111., are visiting the latter’s brothers Joseph and Marion Adams and Mrs- Wm. Hoover. E. G- Sternberg left yesterday for Council Bluffs, lowa, to spend the next two weeks looking after the two dredges they have located near there. Rev. O. E. Miller went to Lebanon Monday to assist Rev. A. E. Clem in the special meeting of the Baptist church, which is being held there this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. McCord returned to their home in Mt. Ayr yesterday after spending a few days here with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Crockett. .

W. A. Davenport went to Indianapolis Saturday and accompanied home his sister-in-law, Miss Ida Jacobson of Louisville, Ky., who will spend several weelts with them. Goodland Herald: Mrs. Ott Clark of Mitchell, S, D., who has been visiting Mrs. Garrigus and Mrs. Lovett, went to Chicago Saturday to visit relatives before returning home. J. F. Spriggs was down frbm Walker tp., on business Saturday. He said it was altogether too wet in Walker;' the people up there had voted “dry” but still it was wet. Mrs. Carrie Brenner went to Chicago Saturday where she will spend a few days, and from there will go to Rosenburg, Tex., to spend the z winter with her sister, Mrs. M. L. Barnes. 'll Mrs. W. J. Wright, Miss Alice Bates, Firman Thompson and wife, Rex Warner, J. H. Ellis, J. D. Allman and four children, and Don Beam witnessed “Ben-Hur” at Chicago Saturday. V J- J. Montgomery went to Rockford, 111., Saturday to spend a few cays with his wife, who has been there visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wemple, /or the past seven weeks. They will return home together. Miss Ella Ritchie of Anderson, who has just returned from a visit in Colorado, went to Hammond yesterday morning to visit before returning home. She had been spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Kate ,Watson and family. - 1 - - . • Morocco Courier: It is reported that Noble Peacock, who formerly lived here and who at one time was employed on the Courier, deserted the army at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming some time last spring. The report comes from a soldier hoy In the same regiment.

For the best Cook Stove Coals', call up Phone No. 7. M- A. Gray and S. T. Hackley of Remington were business visitors in the city’ yesterday. Uncle Norman Warner is recovering from his recent sickness, and will be out in a few days. Miss Georgia Harris came Monday to eat Thanksgiving dinner with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Harris. Every misses’ and child’s new fall and winter coat at wholesale prices, at the closing out of the Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Chas. Roberts and daughter, Miss Marceline and the former’s sister, Miss Junnie Harris, spent yesterday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. McConnehay of Idaville are here to spend Thanksgiving with their son Dave and family. After a few days visit here they will go to Monon to visit another son. Mrs. J. H. Cox, who has been in Chicago for several weeks recovering from an operation for a cataract, came home yesterday afternoon, er eyesight is said to be practically recovered by the operation. Miss Buela Blackman, who had been making her home with Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Moore of Pleasant Grove for some time, left yesterday for Harper, Jias., where she will make her homq with her sister, Miss Margaret Blackman. With another heavy all night’s rain Sunday night, just when the fields and dirt roads had become dry enough to get into and to travel, corn husking is given another setback and the dirt roads are again made almost impassible. The rain continued most of the day Monday also. Julius Glildenzoph of north of Mt. Ayr was in town Saturday getting some sale bills printed at The Democrat office, and in two hours after leaving his order he was on his way home with the bills. Mr. Glildenzoph has bought a farm near Wall, So. Dak., and expects to migrate to that state. Mrs. James Smith of Chicago, who had been here visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hagins, and also in Wolcott, returned home Saturday. The confederate regiment of which Mr. Smith was a member, captured Capt. Hagins at the battle of Stone River, in the wgr of the rebllion, and placed him in Libby prison. Twenty-one men were rescued alive from the coal mine at Cherry, 111., Saturday afternoon, and it is thought by many that there are others still alive in some of thO back passages. The work of rescue is being pushed as rapidly as possible but the work is being hampered by obs-tructions in the passage-ways.

Schanlaub informs us that Ibis son. County Supt. W. O. Schan*laub of Newton county, is still in Chicago taking treatment for his ulcerated eye, and that he doesn’t know how much longer it will be necessary for him to remain there. The eye is Improving slowly, he states- He hopes to come down and eat Thanksgiving dinner under the parental roof. Abe Martin: “Will somebuddy please write a recipe that don’t call for a cup o’ butter an’ a lot o’ eggs. In his lecture, ‘Th’ Tendency o’ Athletics t’ Depopulate,” at Melodeon hall, last night, Professor Tansey read th’ followin’ list o’ fatalities fer th’ year endin’ t-day: Goff, 6; boxin’ 7; baseball, 9; lawn tennis, 2%; football, 199; croquet, 0.” Miss Clara Patrick, who for the past several months taught in the high school here, has resigned her position on account of failing health, and accompanied by her father, John Patrick, and her brother-in-law, Louis Zoercher, left Saturday for their home in Tell City, where she will remain for the present. Miss Louise Kiefer of Greencastle came Monday to take Miss Patrick’s placeMrs. Homer Timmons, who resides east of town, last Monday received a telegram informing her of the death of her father, John McCullough of Bluffton, Ind. This is the third time in a little more than two years that Mrs. Timmons has been called upon to mourn the loss of a loved one. In March "1907, her seventeen year old brother was accidently shot by his companion while out hunting, and for five weeks suffered untold agonies before he was released by death. In March of this year her mother died after a week’s Illness with pneumonia, and on the Bth day of November her father died of dlabetis—Wolcott EnterREVIVALS AT MT. HOPE. There will be a series of revival meetings held at the Mt. Hope church in Jordan tp., to begin Sunday evening, Nov. 28. Rev* G. W. Brown of Tippecanoe will be present and assist in tnese meetings. Everybody cordially, invited to attend and hear this great revivalist. REV. O. S. RARDIN, Pastor. Our Hard Coal is the leader. J. L. BRADY.

MORE ABOUT THAT AUTOMOBILE MYSTERY.

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after the little farm in Jasper county. At this place he learned that exactly four weeks ago yesterday a lone man in an automobile stated that his machlhe had broken down. He asked permission to take it apart on her farm. Mrs. Jostedt granted the privilege. She says that he refused to work on the machine during the day time, but came back to the farm for three nights in succession and worked away dismembering the machine. She says that she was of the opinion that he had taken the parts of the machine with him, but an investigation revealed the fact that the body of the car was stored in the gralnery, where it was covered with grain. The radiator and engine were buried in the farm yard. The wood portions of the car were in Jostedt’s wood box and were being burned as fuel. Sheriff Grant is of the opinion that Mrs. Jostedt knows more than she is willing to tell l . In fact, she maintained an attitude of reticence about the whole affair. The sheriff did not tell her who he was, but secured valuable information regarding the whereabouts of the Chicago people, who were believed to have been involved in the work of destroying the car.—Lake County Times.

Sunday W. C. Babcock, Bert Hopkins and Art Lingenfelter, the latter of the Rensselaer garage, were up at Water Valley and paid a visit to the Justedt place, south of Demotte. The sheriff of Lake county? ( ( ( Sunday W. C. Babcock, Bert Hopkins and Art Lingenfelter, the latter of the Rensselaer garage, were up to Water Valley and made a visit to the Justedt place south of Demotte.. The Lake county sheriff and his deputies were the/e searching the premises, and on Mr. Lingenfelter making himself known to the sheriff, the latter gladly accepted his services in the search, and together they hunted about for pieces of the wrecked auto. In the grainery they found a few pieces, and in a shed buried down about two feet In the sand they found by prodding about, the engine and connecting rods complete. Monday Sheriff Shirer, Mose Leopold, Mike Kuboski and Mr. Lingenfelter went up from Rensselaer to the scene, and a few more parts of the machine were found, including the number tag, which is an Illinois tag, but they do not want the number made public at this time. This tag and some minor parts were brought to Rensselaer with them, and Sheriff Shirer went up yesterday morning again. All the parts of the wrecked auto tgrat were found were loaded into a wogan and brought to Rensselaer yesterday afternoon. This includes practically all the engine, radiator, 4 individual cushions, 2 side lamps, oiler, fan, two sides of seat, 4 pieces of upholstering, 1 simplex coil, rear axle, aluminum steering wheel, starting lever, 4 rub frames, etc. The theory of parties here seems to be that some of the county young men who were enamored of Mrs. Justedt’s. daughter, did not approve of the Chicago visitors, and that they wrecked the machine, and when the parties who drove it there saw that it had been partially wrecked so they could not drive it back, they finished the job and tried to hide all traces of it- „ Mrs. Justedt is a French woman, and has quite an attractive daughter, it is said. The house stands back from the road some 100 yards, on a sand hill. Conflicting stories were told by the family, and it is thought ail the truth has not been brought out. That anyone was murdered in connection with the mystery is not generally believed by scarcely anyone now.

KETMAN DITCH HEARING ON

In the Pulaski Circuit Court—Ditch Affects Many Landowners In Jasper County. The hearing in the big Ketman or Monon ditcU started at Winamac Monday before Judge Nelson of Logansport. This ditch has been hanging fire for several years, and the case has been in the supreme court a time or two. It is one of the largest drainage propositions ever tackled in this section of the state, and many landowners in the northeast part of Jasper county will be assessed for its construction. The Pulaski County Democrat says of the present hearing: Judge Nelson was here from Logansport last Friday and took action oh some more motions, and the decks were cleared for action on the remonstrance filed by about 100 owners of land affected alleging that the drain as proposed is not practical—that “The location of the proposed ditch and the proposed method is not such as will secure the best results,” quoting words of the document- One attorney has informed the Democrat that if the remonstrators win this sijjit the ditch will, be knocked out, while another claims that in that event it will, simply be referred back to the drainage commissioners. But If the remonstrators lose this suit, then will come the trial of Individual remonstrances. It is expected that the trial beginning next Monday will require a week.

I ffl NOW OPEIT JW A BRANCH OF THE 99 CENT WI Racket Store I Holiday Goods Galore I You can find everything in the Toy line on ■ display. Hundreds and Thousands of beautiful I Toys to fill the wants of the little ones can be ■ found on exhibition at our Branch Store. Do not I wait until the last minute to buy your Holiday I Goods; start right now. You can buy them and I leave them in building until wanted by paying a I small amount down and balance when you get I goods. Anything else in Holiday line that you I are looking for and do not find at the Branch Store I can be found at our main store in Makeever Rank I Building. Our Toy Store is in the Old Postoffice ■ Building on Washington street, Rensselaer, Ind. I E. V. RANSFORD, Proprietor.

TO THE PUBLIC.

Having bought Mr. C. W. Coen’s interest in the grain and coal firm of Coen & Brady, we embark in the same business as their successor. Perhaps a word of introduction as a new firm and a forward look as to the new firm’s policy is not amiss in these columns. First of all, we wish to thank all our old friends for the liberal patronage they have given us in the past and hope to so conduct the business in the future so as to merit the patronage of all our old, together with many new customers. We shall continue to pay the highest market price for your grain, and shall treat all our patrons as liberally and courteously as possible. Our facilities for handling your grain of every kind are ample. You will find our stock of coal is most complete and the best we can buy. For the past four years we have handled, almost exclusively, a brand of hard coal which has given universal satisfaction, and which is the best coal on the market, in the opinion of Mr. Coen, who, by the way, has been in the business longer has handled more coal, and tried more kinds than any other dealer Rensselaer ever had. This coal we shall handle exclusively in the future. We keep in stock four of the best varieties of cook stove coal we can find- Our stock contains also all the favorite heating stove and furnace coals from the best Indiana to genuine West Virginia Smokeless. Hence our policy shall be to enlarge our grain and coal business by keeping abreast of the times in our line and furnishing a maximum of service and accomodation to all our patrons. We again thank you for the business you have already given us and also for that w’e know you will give us in the future. J. L. BRADY.

LECTURE COURSE NUMBERS-

Dec. 10—“ Ram’s Horn” Brown, editor of “Ram’s Horn,” lecturer. Jan. 14—Byron King, Shakesperian lecturer. Feb. 15—The Columbia Concert Co. March 25—George P. Bible, lecturer.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to express our heart--felt thanks to our neighbors for their kindness, assistance and sympathy showh us during our late bereavement in the death of our husband and father.—Mrs. Henrietta Zabel, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Zabel.

We will close Thanksgiving day. RENSSELAER CREAMERY.

GRAVEL ROAD LAW INVALID.

Supreme Court Holds It- Local and Special Act— All Work Stops and Bondholders May Lose. The supreme court has decided that the law for building gravel roads by taxation is unconstitutional. The decision is not limited to declaring the invalidity of the “threemile law,” but applies to all provisions of the amended highway act of 1905, which authorize free gravel roads to be paid for by taxation levied on all the property in the township, instead of assesments on the lands benefited. The court decides that this part of the law is invalid because it only authorizes gravel roads to be constructed by taxation on “a petition signed by fifty or more freeholders and voters of any township • • ♦ which includes any incorporated city or town * ♦ ♦ having a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants.” This provision is held to make the law a local and special act. Judge Jordan said; “<These requirements of the law manifestly exclude, first, every township which does not have an incorporated town or city with a population of fewer than thirty thousand; second, every and all townships which have no incorporated town or city whatever. * * * Can it, with any color of reason, be claimed that townships, wherein there is an incorporated city of less than thirty thousand inhabitants, are in a class by themselves, so as to afford a reasonable basis for making a law applicable to improving highways applicable alone to them? * * * “Certainly such a classification is not a natural or reasonable one. It can not be said to inhere in the subject matter of laying out, establishing and improving public highways. • * •

“We conclude and so hold that Section 63 of the act in question (Section 7712, Burns, 1908) is unconstitutional and therefore void. Excepting Section 81, it may be said that all of the sections of the act which appear and follow under the caption, ‘Gravel roads by taxation,’ from Section 62 to 82 (Sections 7711-7733, Burns, 1909), inclusive, depend upon said Section 63 and are mutually connected and associated therewith that each and all must go down together.” On the foregoing opinion the supreme court reversed a judgment by which the board of commissioners of Hamilton county from letting contracts for the construction of more than 140,000 of gravel road improvements under that law, and to issue bonds in payment, which should, in turn, be paid by taxation.

RENSSELAER’S POULTRY SHOW.

The Rensselaer Poultry Show, which is to be held Jan. 11-15, 1909, promises to be by far the largest and best show lever held in Rensselaer. The success the association had last year enabled them to buy a lot of new coops and to offer better premiums for this year’s show. Remember you don’t nave to be a biff breeder to exhibit at this show. If you raise any poultry at all pick out a few of the best ones and bring them in. If you only have one bird that you think is good enough, it will be acceptable. AIT you have to do is to bring them in, the association will coop them and feed them free during the show. If you don’t receive a copy of the premium list through the mail, ask the secretary, B. L. Brenner, for a. copy. Yourswfor better poultry and more of it THE RENSSELAER POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

EXCURSION RATES TO CHICAGO.

$2.25 for round trip, Rensselaer to Chicago, Nov. 20 and 24, account I nited States Land and Immigration Exposition. Also Nov. 28, 29, 30, Dec. 1, 5 and 6, account International Live Stock Exposition. BEAM. Agt.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. At any and all seasons yon will find us doing our best to deserve your patronage. We know of no better way of deserving it than by running the best sort of a grocery that we know how. That means never relaxing our watchfulness of this, that and the other thing. It means being satisfied with modest profits. It means many things too-—but chiefly it means GROCERY GOODNESS. To-day is a good time to put us to the test, and the article may be whatever you happen to need. McFarland & Son Reliable Grocers. ] .4 - 1