Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — Page 9

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL / Brief Items of Interest to City *®d Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 50c; Oats, 35c. The Parr farmers’ institute is being held today. B. F. Fendig was in Chicago on business Wednesday. Mrs. Wm. E. Jacks ahd Mrs. Mary Lowe were in Chicago yesterday. ' Mr. and Mrs. Moses Chupp and daughter spent Wednesday in Chicago. James Clark and wife went to Chicago yesterday’ to spend a few days. yMrs. Nettie Hoover went to Monticello Wednesday to visit relatives for a few days. X) Henry Eiglesbach is suffering from Inflammation of the left hand, but it is some better now.

David Hilton returned Thursday from his three months visit with his daughter, Mrs. Sadie White, in Chicago. The ladies of the Christian church will hold their 10 cent social with Miss. Nathaniel Scott Wednesday, -Deci 15. Mrs. Lizzie Green of Chicago, who has been spending the past week here with relatives, returned home Wednesday. 'R Mrs. J. W. Hitchinga of Jordan K>., went to Hoopeston, 111., Wednesday to visit her father, Joseph Garrott, who is ill. \lw. H. Snedeker and wife of Barkley tp.,. returned Wednesday from their few weeks visit with relatives in Coshocton, Ohio. 'V Tom Huston was down from Roselawn Thursday on business. They are having good, solid winter up in the Kankakee regions. No occasion to go out of town to do your holiday shopping. Spend your money at home, where it is Hke casting bread upon the waters-

R. E. Osborne of Shouns, Tenn., who has been working near here on a farm for the past two years, left Thursday for his home to spend the. winter. Mrs. J. C- Frazee and daughter, Miss Lora, who had been here visiting friends for the past week, returned to their home in Peru Wednesday. Come to Rensselaer to do your holiday shopping. Our merchants and shop-keepers have well selected stocks and their prices are within the reach of all* John M. Howell of Remington expected to leave yesterday for an extended visit through Illinois, lowa and Oklahoma, to be gone until the middle of March.

The Democrat is issued to-day as a twelve page paper, to accommodate the large amount of holiday advertising and give the usual amourft of local news. The Democrat’s Lisbon, North Dakota, list of subscribers was swelled again Thursday by |1.50 from Earl Taylor, with an order that The Democrat be sent to him for the coming year.

" As we go to press more snow is falling, and the prospects for some excellent sleighing are very good. John Randle, who has been here visiting relatives for the past week, left yesterday for his home in Magnum, Okla. J\C. P. Wright & Son made a deal Tjhursday whereby Mrs. W. J. Imes sells her millinery store to some Indianapolis parties. Mrs. L. R. Florence of near Reynolds, returned home Thursday after a day’s visit here with her father, John English. Miss Flora Husband of Frankfort, returned home Thursday after a six weeks visit with the family of L. J. Lane of south of town.

Joseph Grube, formerly of Wheatfield, writes us from Momence, 111., with an enclosure of $1.50 to have his name placed on The Democrat's subscription list for a year’s Jasper oounty news. Owing to a small attendance, the annual meeting of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, called for’Wednesday evening, was not held. A later date will be selected, due notice of which will be given. A Mrs. J. C. Porter, who has been 'in poor health for some time, was operated on in Chicago Wednesday for the removal of a tumor. She is reported-to be getting along as well as could be expected. ;i Miss Georgia Metcalf of Garrard, 111., who has been visiting with Mrs. Firman Thompson for several days, took the train here yesterday accompanied by the latter as far as Chicago, on her way home. The premium lists for the Rensselaer Poultry Show, which were turned out by The Democrat’s job department, are now in the hands of the secretary for distribution and are being sent to poultry fanciers all over the country.

Miss Mary Geiger of Zanesville, 0., who returned a few weeks ago from a trip to the coast and at different points in California, stopped off here to visit with the fmily of John Shroer of Barkley tp-, took the train here Wednesday for home. Thomas Hayes writes us from Bangor, Mich., to have his name enrolled on The Democrat’s big family of readeis’ list. At time of writing he said they were having fine weather there and were shredding corn. Crops were good there this season, the apple crop especially good. Apples and grapes are the leading crops in that locality. Conrad Hildebrand, who has been living on the old McDonald farm at Pleasant Ridge, is preparing to go to Michigan, where he bought a 110 acre farm near New Buffalo last spring. He will be located 3% miles from New Buffalo, just over the Indiana line, 10 miles from Michigan City and 11 miles from Laporte. Fred Llneback of Barkley township will occupy the farm vacated by Mr. Hildebrand.

Miss Gertrude Goodrich of Ukiah, Call., who is spending the winter with her uncle, Frank Welsh and family of Jordan tp., returned Thursday from a two weeks visit with her two uncles, Jesse Welsh and Frank Goodrich in Chicago. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Belle Bullis of Jordan tp., and they were accompanied on the return trip by Frank Welsh, who had been attending the fat stock show at that place.

Come to the Democrat office for sale bills; The Squire Dingee Co., of Chicago have bought of the Illinois Pickle Co., the latter’s salting stations at Rensselaer, Parr and Gifford, and expect to push the pickle growing business among the farmers of these localities the coming season. ~pG. M. Wilcox & Sons have sold their Surrey store to G. L. Thornton, who also gets Mr. Wilcox’s 85 acres of land. Mr. Wilcox and sons expect to locate at Eugene, Oregon, a town of some 10,000 population Which Trevor Wilcox visited on his recent trip west and which he was much impressed with. Their Parr store will also be sold as soon as a buyer is found. We shall regret to see the Wilcox family leave Jasper county. They have been in business for a number of years and are well and favorably known.

ABOUT CONSUMPTION.

Consumption is a poor man’s disease., It is induced by too much breathing of bad air In tightly closed bedrooms and unventilated shops. Insufficient and poorly cooked food is also an inducing cause. The consumption microbe cannot get into the body until we have treated the body to bad air and bad food for a lonp time. About three poor persons die of consumption to one rich or well-to-do person. The poor can have as much pure air as the rich and they can learn, if they will, how to cook and properly prepare plain food. Consumption is curable in its early stages, but if the patient puts off looking after himself and tries to believe he hasn’t the disease when the doctor says he has, then the poor fellow must die. It costs on an average about $250 to cure an incipient consumptive or to care for an advanced case until death. If the two-hundred and fifty dollars are spent for cure, a life is saved and the state made richer and better. If spent for cure after it is too late to cure, the money is largely lost and the citizen too. A stitch in time save nine. Let us act with forethought and save our money and strength- Almost 5,000 people die annually in Indiana from consumption and it would be an easy matter to prevent 4,000 of these deaths. Let us prevent. t There is money, strength and happiness in it. How shall we prevent? you ask. Make open and strong protest against unventilated schoolhouses, unventilated bedrooms, unventilated store rooms, unventilated trolly and steam cars, unventilated churches, unventilr.ted courtrooms, unventilated printing-offices and rooms. Every person who has consumption or pneumonia has breathed too much foul air. If you do not acquire one of these diseases after much breathing of foul air, you have escaped, that is all. Such fact does not prove foul air to be wholesome.

You have not yet been killed by arsenic or a bullet, yet you favor doing what is sensible to restrict these agencies of death. Would it not be reasonable and good business to control other agencies of death? After you have attended to the pure air matter then eat only plain, wellcooked food, chewing it well. Fancy cooking and rich dishes and bolting of food with gulps of liquid, help to lower the disease resistance of the body. Disease don't get in until you lower your resistance by violating some of the laws of your well-being and happiness. Keep stimulants out of your body. They always do harm. Don't take drugs except under the advice of a physician. “He who doctors himself has a fool for a physician-” To live long and preserve all your faculties to the last, is a duty. A Japanese merchant traveling in the United States said “Why do you have so many doctors, so many drugstores, so much medicine, so many hospitals?” Do they not testify to the fact that you do not live according to the laws of health? Where is the man who does not believe in the old adage: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure*'? Yet, where is the man who puts this belief into constant practical effect? What is the use of knowledge if we don’t live by it? Let us all study the laws of health, the laws of our well-being and when the laws are learned, let us apply them practically to everyday life. Robert Louis Stevenson was dying of consumption, although warned against the disease in time. When near his death day he wrote: “Now take warning by me. I am set up by a beneficent Providence at the corner of the road to warn you to flee from the habitude to come. So remember to keep well; and remember—anything anything, than not to keep well; and I say again anything rathpr than not to keep remember—anything, anything, than well.”—J. N. Hurty, State Health Commissioner.

ARTISTIC PIANO TUNING. Guaranteed First-Class Work. Prices: Uprights 52.00 Baby Grands.. .$2.80 These prices are for the city only. ALPHONSE STAEGER 116 Water Street.

AWAITS OUTCOME OF BATTLE

Result of Clash With insurgents Wil! x Fix Rate of Zelaya. Washington, Dec. 10.—The state department denies reports from London that the United States has sent an ultimatum to President Zelaya demanding his resignation. No action, it is said, has been taken toward dealing with the Nicaraguan situation except such military measures as are necessary to protect American and foreign interests. The state department is awaiting the result of the Impending battle between the government troops and the insurgents forces before formulating its program of action. Officers of the department expect that this conflict will take place shortly near Rama where the revolutionists under General Estrada are occupying strong trenches. ,

DAVILLA FEARS AN ATTACK

Asks Washington to Keep In New Onleans Expedition of Bonilla. Washington, Dec. 10.—President Davilla of Honduras has appealed to the United States to prevent the sailing from New Orleans of a revolutionary expedition which has been organized there by ex-President Bonilla and Fausto Davilla. Bonilla was deposed by the present president of Honduras. President Cabrera of Guatemala, it is claimed is assist.ng Bonilla.

SOME DOUBT ABOUT LURTON

President Thought to Be Wavering In f Supreme Court Choice. Washington, Dec. 10.—Perhaps, after all, Judge Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee will not be named by President Taft to succeed the late Justice Peckham on the supreme bench. Senators Bankhead and Johnson of Alabama and Senator Taylor of Tennessee called to urge upon the president the appointment of Judge Lurton. Representatives Austin and Brownlow also were callers with the same mission. The presence in the White House as Taft’s guest of Judge John W. Warrington of Cincinnati is the base for leports that he may be named. Judge Warrington is not as old as Judge Lurton.

MRS.STUBBS AIDS NEIGHBORS

Wife of Kansas Governor Makes Residence a Cooking Camp. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 10.—Mrs. W. R. Stubbs, wife of the governor, has turned the executive residence into a cooking camp for the benefit of her neighbors, whose gas supply has vanished. The governor’s home uses no gas. It burns coal from the prison mine. After the gas became so low that people in that neighborhood could do no cooking, Mrs. Stubbs threw the executive residence open. As a result the kitchen ranges are working overtime. Mrs. Stubbs is overseeing the affair.

MADE FATHER’S BROTHER

Joseph Waldo Dux, Jr., Is Adopted by His Grandparents. Chicago, Dec. 10.—Joseph Waldo Dux, Jr., seven months old, legally became the brother of his father when Judge Petit signed the decree of adoption giving the custody of the child to its grandparents, Joseph Dux and his wife. “There is no limit to what the courts can do nowadays,” remarked Judge Petit. The boy’s father, who becomes bls son’s legal brother, lives with the old couple. The little fellows’ mother is dead.

MRS. NATION WANTS TERM IN WORKHOUSE

Tells Why She Wrecked Bar at Gateway of the Capital Washington, Dec. 10.—Mrs. Carrie Nation, who smashed $35 worth of fixtures at the union station barroom, came up in the police court charged with disorderly conduct and was granted a continuance until Monday. “I want to go to the workhouse,” said Mrs. Nation, when she came into the prisoner’s cage. “I am needed there where I can tell the poor boys who never had a mother to care for them what they should do to live rightly. Poor souls,” she said, turning to the other prisoners, many of whom were common drunkards, “you have a hell of a time on earth. I want to save you from a hell of a time when you die.” The three hatchets. Faith, Hope and Charity with which Mrs. Nation smashed the bar have been confiscated. She admitted that her descent on the tmion station was premeditated. She said she was tired of seeing a rum shop at the capital's gateway.

OPEN AIR SCHOOLS FAVORED

Social Workers Want Institutions for Tenement House Children. New York, Dec. 10.—Open-air schools for children In the tenement districts are recommended tn the annual report of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which is making a determined crusade for the prevention of tuberculosis. One Of the association’s experts urging the open-air school idea declares that 23 per cent of the tenement children examined by the association last rammer showed traces of tuberculosis

LET US CONVINCE YOU. Having re-opened the “Depot Butcher Shop,” we are now prepared to sell and deliver the choicest of meats at the lowest possible prices. Highest market prices paid for hides and tallow. JOHN L. NICHOLS. Phone 294. FOR SALE. , 120 acres good land, large new house, fair outbuildings, and lies close in. Price $75. Owner will take part in clear property. 90 acies, fine soil, tiled, large house, large barn and other outbuildings, wind mill, tanks, good Orchard and fencing. Not far out. Price SBS. 80 acres, not far out, Newton township, all black soil, in cultivation, thoroughly tiled, good buildings, stone road. Price S9O. Terms $1,500 down. 82 acres, Barkley township, all good land, in cultivation, 40 acres timber, 5 room house, cellar, good barn, tile, and a good fence. Price SSO. Terms $1,200 down. , 5 acres on stone road, near corporation limits, this city. Will sell at right price on easy payments. 5 acres at city limits, on stone road, with 7-room house, good barn, well, lots of fruit, fencing and equipped for poultry or hog raising, all good dry black land. Buildings and everything about the place in firstclass condition. Can sell on terms at $3,500. 40 acres on main, road, near school and station, with Methodist, Lutheran and Cathol’c churches. No improvements. Price $35. Will sell on small payments or will trade for stock or property. 80 acres, black soil, good improvements, large ditch and tile, on stone road, eight miles out. Price $65. Terms $1,200 down. Will take clear property as first payment. 20 acres inside the city corporation on College avenue, cement walks, good well and all smooth black land in grass. Will sell altogether or in five tracts or more. Is only four blocks from court house. Price right. 280 acres, well located, good level black land. Will sell at a bargain on easy payments or will accept live stock or city property as first payment. If too large will divide to suit. 56 acres, well located in Barkley township, all cultivated except a few acres in timber, has large tile through farm for outlet withother

_ vn Wn? __ Holliday Suggestions Just at this season of the year you are wondering “What to Give for Christmas.’’ The man can’t tell you and the woman won’t; but the chances are that Inside of a week after Christmas they will be coming in here to buy something that you could have given them for a present. Suggestions for Men and Boys. |j| Hart, Shaffner & Marx Suit of Clothes or Overcoat. We guarantee to fit them. Fine Shoes, Neckties, Gloves Suit Cases and Bags, Umbrellas, Mufflers, Handkerchiefs Hosiery, Sweater Coats. Suggestions for Ladies and Misses Man-Tailored Suits and Cloaks, at about half price. A nice Sweater Coats, Kid Gloves, Hos* - lery, Fine Neckwear, Hand-Painted China, Fancy Table Linens, and many other things in this store to show youu I * ’ 'SB G. E. MURRAY CO. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

smaller tile, five room house, out- ' buildings, well, orchard, near school and gravel road. Easy terms. Price SSO. 96 acres good land, all clay subsoil, considerable tile with fine outlet, has five room house, outbuildigs, well, orchard, lies near school and gravel road, has now 12 acres in wheat and 15 acres in clover, 10 acres in timothy. This farm lies in Barkley township, not far out, and can be bought at the low price of SSO per acre on very easy terms. GEO. F. MEYERS.

Sale billd printed while you wait, at The Democrat office. After exposure, and when you feel a cold coming on, take Foley’s Honey and Tar, the great throat and lung remedy. It stops the cough, relieves the congestion, and expels the cold from your system. Is mildly laxative, refuse substitutes. A. F. Long. FRUIT CAKE FOR CHRISTMAS. We have several orders now in for fruit cakes for Christmas, and request that all others desiring this kind of bakery goods leave their order a t an early date, as they should “season” some time before being used. LEAVEL’S BAKERY. Lost— Scotch Collie male dog, one toe gone on left hind foot and carries this foot up when he walks. Color yellow with white on neck. Two dollars reward for his return. HARRY DEWEY, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 29-C, Mt. Ayr exchange. Read The Democrat’s clubbing list on another page. Mother Gray’s Swee. Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children’s Home in New York. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 10,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.

Instruction in Plano, Violin, Organ and Vocal Culture by A. STAEGER, 116 River St One-Half Hour $ .50 Forty-Five Minutes 75 One Hour. 1.00