Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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“COONEY” HAS THE FEVER.

C. Kellner returned home Sunday from his week’s trip to Jamestown, N. D., where he was prospecting in lands. While he made no deal as yet, he is on a trade for a 459 acre tract twelve miles southwest of Jamestown, putting in hiß property here on the deal. Cooney was very favorably Impressed with the country thereabouts. He said that It was quite cold about Jamestown, but no snow at the time he was there. At Fargo there was some snow.

NEW SISTERS’ RESIDENCE.

Congregation of St. Augustine’s Churth Decides to Build This J Year. Rev. Father Daniels, the new pastor of St. Augustine’s Catholic chruch, has conferred with the church trustees, and it has been decided tq build a fine new sisters’ residence on the southwest corner of the church plot, facing Weston and Angelica streets. The present residence will be occupied by the The new residence will be modern eyery respect and will cost between $3,000 and $4,000.

PLAYED PIANO THIRTY-SEVEN AND ONE-HALF HOURS.

pJ’erry Horton finished his piano playing endurance stunt ‘Saturday night at 10:30 o’clock, after 37% hours at the instrument. It had been his intention to quit some earlier, after breaking a record that some fellow made a year or so ago of 36 hours and 36 minutes, but Saturday night’s Indianapolis News contained an item that the same fellow had just finished a continuous 37 hours and 22 minutes at Hamilton, Ohio, which was shown Perry, and he concluded to beat this 8 minutes. He waß not so greatly fatigued by his long thumping at the piano, and could have continued longer. He was out on the street Sunday as usual.

VISITING HERE FROM COLORADO

Mr. and Mrs. A. L- Moorehead and two children of Limon, Colo., came Sunday for a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nevil. Mr. Moorehea'd expects to stay only two or three weeks, but Mrs. Moorehead will likely remain three or four months with the children, and her husband will come for them when they get ready to return home, and he will visit here for a few weeks then also, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Moorehead, In Jennings county. Albert Is now employed as fireman on the Rocfltsland railroad and runs between Limon and Pueblo. He makes from SBO to $l3O per month, depending on the number of miles run during the month, the pay being based on the mileage covered.

WILL MOVE TO NORTH DAKOTA.

Thomas Callaghan was down from Walker township Monday getting a set of sale bills printed by The Democrat. He is going to move about March 1, to near Minot, No. Dak-, where he has rented a 160acre farm for the next year. This is right in the vicinity of where Geo. J. Nichols and Albert Bouk, two former Walkerites, are located. Tom was out there awhile the past summer and is much taken up with the country. Everyone is doing fine there. George Nichols owns 480 acres of land now, and this year he raised 4,000 bushels of wheat, 1,700 bushels of oats and 26 acres of flax. He wrote Tom recently that he had 285 acres plowed for wheat next year. Albert Bouk has a splendidly improved farm, fine house and barn, and is doing well. He raised 3,700 bushels of wueat and 1,200 bushels of oats, doing all the work himself, this season.

GARAGE WILL MOVE TO-DAY.

The Rensselaer Garage, which has been purchased by the new corporation that has leased the John Marlatt building on the corner of Washington and Front streets, will be moved to its new location to-day. The building y is not fully completed as yet, but is far enough along to get into. The elevator is here but has not been put In place as yet, and the Bteam heat has not been installed. The new garage has been especially fitted up tor the business for which it will be used, and is one of the most complete and up-to-date garages in Indiana outside the larger cities. Mr. LiagenfelteiV the mechantcan employed In the old garage, will continue with the new firm. Mr. Kuboski, the proprietor of the old garage, who sold to the new company, has two of the twenty shares of stock in the new concern and will continue with them for the present at least. <

We will unload a car of fancy Michigan Sand-Grown potatoes this week. 6 bushel tots and up from car, She. ‘ fdttN Boifeß.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Only one bid was received Saturday on the Culp ditch in Carpenter, tp., and it was higher than the estimate. Therefore the Supt., Grant Culp, is re-advertising it for sale on Tuesday, Dec. 21.' See advertisement in another column of to-day’s Democrat. C. C. Matson, a democratic member of the state tax board, was here last Friday afternoon a few hours on official business, and in company with County Assessor Lewis paid The Democrat a call. He complimeted Mr. Lewis on hig work as county assessor and pronounced him a very conscientious and capable official. O— k New suits filed: No. 7536. Bert DeVries vs. Andrew J. McKay, et al; action to quiet titlp. No. 7537. Bessire & Co., vs. Ray Collins and F. W. Bedford; suit on account. Demand $21.92. Appeal from Squire Irwin’s court. No. 7538. Fred Lyons vs. Leonard W. Raymond, et al; action to quiet title. '4-Marriage licenses issued: Nov. 27, James W. Campbell of Barkley tp., aged 22, occupation farmer, to Stella Nuss, also of Barkley, aged 21, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Jf John Kupke of Gillam township, aged 21, occupation farmer, to Zella Bowen, daughter of John Bowen of Jasper county, aged 23, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

The jury came in Friday and the Parks vs. Halstead, et al. case was taken up. It soon developed that the plaintiff had not subpoenaed B. B. Miller of Mt. Ayr, one of their principal witnesses, and that he was at the present time visiting in Texas. As they could not go to trial without him, by agreement the case was continued on plaintiff paying all the costs down to date. The jury was then excused until yesterday, when the Brown vs. Sage and Moore vs. Butler cases were set for trial. To-day the Meyer vs. Holland case from Remington is set for trial. This is the case where the nightwatch, W. E. Holland, locked up Guss Meyer, of that place, several months ago for alleged intoxication. He was kept in the lock-up all night and at his trial before a justice of that place was acquitted- He sued the nightwatch for $2,000 damages for false imprisonment. Other court proceedings since our last?issue follow:

Preston M. Querry, et al. vs. George Johnson, et al; cause dismissed. costs paid. Nessius ditch; court finds that open- ditch is completed according to contraat, and that tile drain known as Nessius lateral is not completed, being one foot above grade. J. C. Borntrager ditch; motion to set aside docketing overruled. Petitioners file motion to refer petition to new drainage commissioners as some of the ditch commissioners are disqualified and unable to serve. Objections to appointment of special ditch commissioner of Jasper county, which objection is overruled. The court being unable to find a competent ditchcommlssioner at this time does now continue the appointment until next Friday, Dec. 3. Benjamin Fogli vs. C. I. & L. Ry.; affidavit for continuance filed. Howard C. Park, et al. vs. Everett Halstead, et al; cause continued for term at costs of plaintiff to date. A. R. Jones vs. Ed Oliver and Henry Gross; judgment for $226.15. Court finds that Oliver is surety and that no execution issue as to Oliver until Feb. 15, 1910. Crabbs, Reynolds, Taylor Co., vs. Frank Cochran;' defendant defaulted, judgment for $112.60. Z. A. Cox vs. John W. Horton, et al; defendant moves to require plaintiff to make complaint more specific, which motion .is sustained. Defendant moves to require all . contracts and papers pertaining to' case be produced in court. Motion sustained and papers ordered produced Dec. 1.

FORMER MT. AYR MAN A BIGAMIST

Julian M. Hopkins Arrested In Lafayette On Charge of Having Too Many Wives. Julian M. Hopkins, 26 years of age, formerly of Mt. Ayr, is lying in jail at Lafayette charged- with bigamy. According to the Lafayette papers Hopkins was married seven years ago to a Rise Sweeney of Lafayette, who secured a divorce soon after marriage, and some two years ago he was married to Miss Myrtle Simmons of Indianapolis. Since his marriage to her they had lived on

THE TWIOE-A-WBEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1909.

her brother’s farm in the southern part of the state, near Scottsburg. Last June he'left his wife and child and started out in search of work, promising to send for them when he got located. He secured employment as solicitor with a picture enlarging firm at Lafayette and in his travels met Miss Ruth Williams of Clark’s Hill, to whom he«w*& married Nov. 11. The first wife, who still resides in Lafayette, sent a clipping of the marriage notice in the newspapers to the second wife’s brother, John Simipons of Indianapolis, who came to Lafayette and caused Hopkins’ arrest. Mrs. Hopkins No. 2 waited at Scottsburg for her husband to send for her. but waited in vain, it Ik said, and recently moved to Arkansas. Her brother says he will bring her back to -prosecute her errant spouse. Hopkins’ alleges that he was told by a -friend that No. 2 had secured a divorce from him, and believing this he coupled with No. 3. The latter refused to believe that her husband had been wantonly guilty of marrying her while wedded to another, and was overcome with grief when she found that he must go to jajl in default of SSOO bonds. Hopkins is a son of Carey Hopkins of Mt. Ayr, it is said-

MISS GLADYS WARREN MARRIED

Miss Gladys WarreD, daughter of Ed Warren, who with her parents removed to Lawton, Okla., several months ago, - has written a young la’dy friend here that she was married on Wednesday evening of last week to a Mr. Walter Wolverton of Lawton. No further particulars have been received here' as yet.

FROM NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.

W. H. Wyncoop, a former resident of Walker tp., writes to have The Democrat sent to him for a year at Caribou, Minn., where he is now located. He says: “I have settled on a claimA in Northwestern Minnesota. I like the country here. We raise wheat, oats, barley and flax, and the country can’t be beat for potatoes. There is some game here yet. We got one deer and there ar lots of chickens. We are having winter hera~j»qw a &now 8 inches deep and the river*7rozen over.- We are 20 miles from a railroad. I have been breaking up sod on th#- place until it froze up. There is plenty of timber here for building and fuel, and it is a ,good place to raise cattle. We have an ox team we plow with.”

PETITIONERS WIN FIRST BLOOD.

Pulaski County Democrat: The petitioners on the Ketman. or Monon ditch have won the first battle of any consequence, Judge Nelson ruling yesterday noon that the route as described in the viewers’ report is practicable. Two days and a half were spent in hearing evidence on this point, there being testimoy by the viewers, engineers, drainage experts and landowners. The question was raised by a remonstrance filed by a number of landowners, their objection being that the proposed plan will not secure the beet results. But the ruling was against them. This puts the question down to individual remonstrances, and the work of hearing them will begin a week from next Monday, Dec. 6.

ALLEY RESOLUTION DISMISSED.

Legality of Proceedings Questioned, and Council Dismisses Resolution. At the special meeting of the city council Monday evening to hear objections to assessments on* the alley ordered in Block 16, original plat of the city, running north and south in the block in which the Makeever House Is located, John Makeever represented through his attorney that the proceedings were void; that he had a private alley and the proposed alley would be of no benefit to his property, yet he was assessed S4O benefits and sls damages; that the ground taken fronting Washington street was worth $600; that a building and tree would have to be removed by him at a cost of S4O, and that he would be damaged S7OO. The proceedings ordering the alley were first made in June, 1908, but for some reason the matter was never completed by the council until recently. C. W. Duvall, who is also affected by the alley, has cut off a portion of hisi barn that stood in the proposed alley, moved fences, etc. The council decided that the safest way, Jp view of the delay In adopting the resolution, was t® dismiss the proceedings and let the property owners take matter up In the way of 1 a new petition. . * ,

We are unloading another car of flour. "Arbtos,” the beat flour made. $1.60 per tack, “Oem of the Valley,” $1.46, “Golden Glow,” sl,40. Every aack guaranteed or money re unded. JOHN EGER.

GANDERBONE'S FORECAST

FOR DECEMBER. jrhe shades of night were falling fast As Paul Revere went dashing past“T. Roosevelt k» dead!” he vowed. But everybody laughed aloud, And as he pushed upon the reins, They cried, “Go tell it to the Danes!” Whereat the herald winked his eye And said, “I’ll have to change the cry. Prosperity’s returned!” he bawled, The next town site he overhauled; But this town, too, for all his pains Just smiled and said, “Go tell the Danes!” Wherefore Revere, still raising welts Upon his mount, planned something else. *Cook has confessed!” was his halloo The next township he galloped through; But these were also knowing swains, And yelled, “Go tell it to the Danes!” At which rebuff he frowned a frown And said: “I’ll try just one more town.” And, on the solemn truth resolved, Cried, “Standard Oil has been dissolved!” But this towm said, and shook its noggin, "Keep right on,’Paul, to Copenhagen.’

December was anciently the tenth month, and its name is from the Latin decern (ten). It has always been the last month In every calendar Like ourselves, the ancients were not quite sure whether they could afford ’it or not, and it was therefore always placed where It could be dropped with the least disturbance of the calendar year. Alexafader the Great always attacked his enemies immediately after Christmas, when they didn’t have a cent, and Julius Caesar, who could see farther than Jim Hill, warned Rome against the Qoths and Vandals, who, like the trusts, gave each other no Christmas presents.

.a»The cast, for the annual Christmas cantata will be as follows: Santa Claus, Mr. Taft. Sled, Mr. Carnegie. Reindeer, Mr. Kuhn, Mr. Loeb, Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Payne- Bells, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Sage. Whip, Mr. Lawson. Snow, Chancellor Day. Moon, Mr. Archbold. Roof, Mr. Ryan. Chimney, Mr- Hill. Pack, Mr. Sherman. Tree, Mr. Rockefeller. Sleeping child, Mr. Morgan. The performance will be given on the night of the 24th. Mr. Morgan is said to be in the awakening scene the most delighted child in the history of the play. The natural phenomena of the month will be encouraging. On the 12th there will be a partial eclipse of the sun, visible in the region around the South Pole. During the eclipse 16 ounces of sugar will weigh a pound at the New York custom house and ga9 meters will run backwards. On the 21st the Coal Trust will kick the sun across the Tropic of Capricorn for a field goal, and the winter solstice will begin with the ball in the possession of the trusts on our five-yard line. This will be the shortest day of the year, and Mr. Peary will be the favorite in the North Pole dispute.

The dawn of winter will disclose John Rockefeller with his toes Wigwagging with an upward thrust, And pieces of the Sugar Trust Disseminated here and there, While Uncle Samuel with his hair Awry in angry little puffs Is looking for his coat and cuffs.

The breath of Boreas will blow, and la, the soft and flakey snow will lay its mantle on the hill and look for cubby holes to fill. The furry colt will feel the fine on-come of Winter down his spine, the which, will make him buck and squeal and snap the cracker on his keel. The chilly dog will sniff the air and don his suit of heavy hair, and In his Igloo made of snow the blubbereating Eskimo will twinge with rheumatic and gout and wonder how the fight came out. The lusty calf will bawl and bah and burrow in the stack of%traw, and Winter, with its biting wind, will urge him inward from behind. The rabbit hunter hunter, red of face, will prosecute the thrilling chase, and the flying robbit, frightened daft, will run»llke Roosevelt were aft. The cost of living, plump and stout, Will dare the Christmas shopper out, And chase him headlong through the door And here and there around {he store; And every time he shall espy A present he would like to buy The swift pursuer, fell and gilm, Will knock his i>ins from under him And slap him smartly on the gills With seven pounds of household bills. At which the drums will sadly

beat and all the dollies fair and sweet will weap in concert, and the toys will make a thunder of a noiseThe melancholy horns will toot, and the little soldier in his suit will wave his trusty haversack and stab the tyrant in the back. We must have Christmas in these parts, no matter who it is that smarts or what the blooming tariff is, or any man desires for his. We’ve got to fill those empty socks no matter if the planet rocks, or if the plutocrats we rile go round barefooted for a while. We don’t mind being made the goat and wearing our old overcoat year in and out, and being spent, and sifting ashes for the rent; but when the holidays advace and Fatty Morgan hangs his pants upon the mantle, with the cuffs tied up with strings and stuffs, and tells the rest of us to git, by thunder, we won’t stand for it.

There will also be something doing in social and political phenomena. Congress will assemble at Washington on the sth, and an emergency session of the Standard Oil legal staff will begin at Cleveland on the Bth. Mr. Taft’s ultimate conclusions as to golf and other great issues will be read on the 6th, and Mr. Rockefeller’s annual message will he made public on the 9th. The insurgents will bivouac across the Potomac from the Capital, with Mr. La Follette in command, Mr. Cummins as scout and Mr. Beveridge as lookout. On the 21st we shall pass under the influence of the zodiacal sign of Capricornus the Goat. This will cause Mr. Taft, who is going for Rip Van* Winkle’s record, to turn over, and the consumer will be the goat. And then the new year will arrive To swell the sum of years; And the man from Elba will return To set us by the ears.

THE THANKSGIVING ENTERTAINMENT AT COLEGEVILLE.

“The People’s Money,” by Harold Hale, is the title of the captivating melodramatic comedy that was pr-t----sented by the C. L. S. in the college auditorium on Thanksgiving evening. It is a tale of dishonest banking operations, shpyying the unstaple financial methods that are not unfrequently made use of by the smaller institutions, when the fever of speculation and gambling takes hold of the bank officials. A love story is delightfully Interwoven with the over-heated scramble for a large bank account. In the end the saviour of the First National wins the president’s daughter, and the successful wooer’s rivals, who were the ones who had duped the president to follow unsafe schemes, are judiciously cared for. Dramatis personae: James R. Roers, Pres. First National Bank J- Nageleisen William‘Arnold, Cashier. .J. Rogers Henry Sears, Director... George Pax Alfred Edward Jones, Director. . . . Byron Hayes Charles Parker, Assistant Cashier, Louis Reif Benjamin Black, Stockholder. .Otto Peters Frank Kennedy, same Bernard Voors C. F. Watson, Mgr. of Eldorado Insurance Company. .. .A. Berghoff Samuel Emery, Detective.. .Charles Leary Conney DufTey, Private Watchman. . Roland Carmody The acting was far superior to all ordinary amateur accomplishments* and considering the many difficult situations and the rapid progress of events, the efforts of the players are very commendable. J. Rogers presented effectively the self-confi-dent dudish spendthrift to whom the acquisition of cash, rightly or wrongly, is the first consideration, the second, how to spend It with the greatest pleasure to himself. He was the rogue till, in the melee, a blow with a chair by Jones ended all his foul scheming. C. Leary, as detective, and R. Carmody, as watchman, were natural, and a great success. The full attention of the house was always accorded them. The actors may confidently rest on their new-won laurels, for even the critics have for them mostly only words of highest praise. The College Orchestra, under the direction of Rev. J. Joujas, rendered the musical selections. The Cantata “To the Woods,” by Becker, was received with repeated rounds of applause. As encore "Mary Had a Little Lamb” was pleasantly sung without accompaniment. Equally delightful, though perhaps not so attractive, were Danql&’s Symphony, Ist and 2nd violins and piano, and the operatic selection, "The Beggar Student," by the full orchestra. A public exhibition of military drills was also given. The exercises were fully up to the usual high standard, and an lnflant army peered forth from the short ranks at every turn. It was Company D, the knlckr erbocker lads, that attracted the attention of the spectators.

TO TRAIN GUNS ON PHONE TRUST

Independents Will Attack Mll-lion-Dollar Bell Merger. FI6HT INVOLVES $400,000,000 Government to Be Asked to Put Btop to Monster Move Which Threatens Existence of System Serving a Population of 20,000,000 —Battle to Be Opened In Chicago on Dec. 7 Missouri Seeks Ouster Against Giant Combine. Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 30.—Attorney General Major today filed an application before Judge Valliant, justice of the Missouri supreme court, asking for the appointment of an examiner to inquire into the legality of the proposed merger of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, the Bell Telephone company and the Missouri and Kansas Telephone company. New York, Nov. 30. —Declaring that the courts will be invoked to check the monopoly of communication that is threatened by the billlon-dollar combine recently announced by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, representatives of the independent telephone interests throughout the country are planning in this city a national fight for the principle of open competition. With $400,000,000 invested in the independent telepohne plants, leaders In this movement assert the interests of the public demand that the government take immediate action against the merger. At a convention of the Independent Telephone association that has been called In Chicago for Dec. 7, a formal protest to Washington against <£e restraint of trade that they declare will be effected by the absorption of the telegraph interests by the Bell system will be made. Suits to prevent the acquisition by the Bell compqpy of important systems In 'Ohio, Tnßfdha, Missouri, fowtr and Michigan, have already been instituted in St. Louis and Cleveland. The independent forces also are preparing to build a trunk wire system from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri river. “We feel that we owe a moral as well as a business obligation to the men who have placed $400,000,000 of their earnings in the home telephone plants,” said E. H. Moulton, president of the Independent Telephone association. “We shall exert ourselves In every possible way to show the government that it, too, has an obligation to protect these investors as well as the 20,000,000 consumers In Independent telephone systems."

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Thursday, Ok. 2, W. S. Newberry and A. H. at the latter’s 1 mile southeast of Virgie and 3 Vfc miles southeast of Knimdn. General sale of horses, 35 head of cattle, hogs, farm tools and household goods. Wednesday, Dec. 8, F- L. Markley, on the Fred Waymire farm in Barkley tp., 4Vi miles north and 2Vi miles east of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, household goods, etc. Thursday, December 9, Thomas Callaghan, 7Vi miles southeast of Wheatfleld, on the old George Stalbaum farm. General sale of horses, cattle, farm implements, household goods, etc. Tuesday, Dec. 14, Julius V. Giildenzoph, 3 miles north of Mt. Ayr and 4 miles west of Surrey. General sale of horses, milch cows, sheep, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, Dec. 22, Fred Renicker, six miles due north of Rensselaer. General sale of horses- cattle, hogs, farm tools, household goodß, etc.

DIRECTORS’ MEETING, A meeting of the Directors of the Home Telephone Company is hereby called for Wednesday, Dec, 1, at 11 a. m., sharp, at Rensselaer, Ind. Matters of particular importance will be discussed at this meeting and a full atendance of the directors is earnestly desired. R. J. YEOMAN, Pres. F. E. Babcock, Sec.

All grades of soft and hard coal for sale ft Hamilton. Butterfat 32 cents at the Rensselaer Creamery.—W, H. MORRISON. Proprietor. We sell Buckeye, Columbus ifd Weber Wagons. Maines ft Hamilton. , Subscribe for The Democrat.

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