Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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M. W. A. SERVICES.

The members of the the local Camp of Modern Woodmen of America, are requested to meet at'the lodge room at 10 :30 a. m., Sunday, June 5, and march in a body to the Christian church. A hundred members anyway should be present on this Sunday to, listen to a specially prepared sermon by Rev. G. H. Clarke. Don’t forget the sate, Sunday, June 5. ♦

BROTHERHOOD LECTURE.

Hon. Wm. R. Payne of Chicago will address the Brotherhood of the Presbyterian church on Sunday evening, May 29, at 7:3Q p. m. The subject will be a patriotic lecture appropriate to Memorial day services, illustrated with 50 stereoptican slides of scenes of the rebellion. Mr. Payne is a native Indianan and a very entertaining speaker. The. public is cordially invited to come out and hear this lecture.

ACCIDENT AT FAIR OAKS.

Glen Oberly of Rensselaer, While working at Fair Oaks Thursday unloading ties from a tie-train, was struck on the left side of the forehead by a falling tie. The tie did not knock down but struck him a glancing blow and cutting a long gash. He was brought to Rensselaer on the afternoon local freight, and a doctor was called to the depot where the wound was dressed, several stitches being taken to draw the parts together. It is said ’he thought the unloading was completed and was walking along at the side of the train when the tie hit him.

CHEAP RATE TO CHICAGO.

Monon’s First Sunday Excursion Only 75 Cents for Round Trip From Rensselaer. / ' In the item on another page regarding the Monon’s excursion to Chicago, Sunday, June 5, an error was made in the rate from Rensselaer, which will be 75 cents for the round trip. This excursion is run over the Louisville division, and Rensselaer is the only stop made north of Monon. The time of train here is 9:15 a. m. Returning train leaves Chicago at 1J :30 p. m. This is the first Sunday excursion of the season and will likely be largely patronized.

RETURNS TO RENSSELAER

W. Ch Milliron Will Once More Engage In Restaurant Business Here. C. Milliron, wlio for several jlears was engaged in the restaurant business in Rensselaer, finally selling out and locating at Knqx, has leased the room lately occupied by Van Grant as a restaurant, and will once more engage in the restaurant business here. S/ ' The/ rbom is now being fitted up for him arid we understand that he will be ready to open up for business some time next week. Mr. Milliron has been located in the restaurant business at Fayetteville, Ark., for the past year, but recently sold out there slick and clean, and is putting in a complete new outfit here.

NEWTON CO. "DEMOCRATS

Nominated a Strong Ticket, at Their Convention Tuesday. The democratic county convention in Newton was held at Kentland Tuesday and was very largely attended. Two brass bands furnished music for the occasion. • The following ticket was nominated, which is said to be a very strong one: For Clerk, Howard McCurry of Goodland; Treasurer, Albert J. Schuh of Kentland; Sheriff, Moses C. Sawyer of Brook; Recorder, Henry DeFries of Roselawn; Assessor, Jesse Hunter of Morocco; Commissioner first district, Will Martin of Kentland; and Councilmen, Henry Carson, Thomas L. Davis, Press Roberts, D. K. Frye.tS. R. Sizelove, John Moran and A.. E. Purkey.

A complete new stock of Oxand pumps at manufacturer’s prices to close out. —The Chicago Bargain Store. r

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.' White county republicans will hold their county , convention June 23. 4 It is repeated that an effort has been made to subsidize the newspapers of neighboring counties -on the bridge graft matter in this county, asking the editors to at least remain neutral if they did not feel like defending the alleged grafters'. New suits filed: No. 7608. E. C. Kresler vs. Seth B. Moffitt and Clayton Moffitt; action to foreclose mechanic’s lein. Demand sl4l. No. 7609. Matilda Algreen, adm. of estate of Algreen, deceased, vs. Edward W. Lakin; action to foreclose chattel mortgage. Demand SIOO. No. 7610. Joseph H. Martin vs. W. H. Pullin and George McElfresh; suit on note. Demand $420. N The late Judge Thompson left no will and an inventory of the estate has not yet been filed. The value of his personal estate is about $30,000. While he Jiad deeded to his children quite a good deal of land he still owned several thousand acres/located in .Union, Newton, Milroy and Walker townships. —o — Deputy Game Warden Martin had Andrew DeHaan and Les Kline of Keener tp., up before Squire Irwin Wednesday for selling quail to old man Yeagley, who was recently arrested and heavily fined t for buying and shipping quail at Demotte. Yeagley stated that he had bought quail oi DeHaan and Kline, and the latten entered a plea .of guilty to selling one quail each and were given the minimum fine and costs, $36.50 each, which they ■phid. — o — Strickler, the young man from Newton county, who ■has been in jail here charged z with having forged a small check in that county, entered a plea of guilty Tuesday' and the court Witheld sentence during good behavior. The case against Walter Doty, also from Newton, who has likewise been in jail here charged with having been implicated with Baumgartner in beating up and attempting to rob an old man near Lake Village last fall, was taken up at Kentland Thursday. • The editor of the Thirty Cent Rensselaer Republican must be in a hard row of stumps in his defense of bridge grafters when he addresses letters to neighboring newspapers to help him out in his fight, or at least remain neutral. Dear, dear, how Thirty Cents does take, this little thing to heart. He must be afraid he will lose his county printing job, or the commissioners' “friendship.” It is the duty of every newspaper to fight graft, no matter where it is found, and this defense of graft by newspapers because there is some little work held out as sop is responsible for much of it. It is the duty of the paper to hit graft in every shape, but this is not the way with Thirty Cents. —Brook Reporter.

MEMORIAL SUNDAY.

Program of Services at M. EJ Church, 10:45 A. M. . Recessional. America. Prayer. » Gloria Patria. Scripture Reading, P’s 46. God Bless Our Native Land. Announcements. Offertory. “The Boys Who Wear the Blue Are Turning Gray.” Solo and Quartette. Sermon: “The Character and Value of the Union Soldier.” Battle Hymn .of the Republic. Benediction. ’ f The Quartette of Singers: J. D 4 Allman, J. P. Hammond, Mrs. E. C. English, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. J. P. Hammond, Ruth Harper, Carl Duvall and Dr. Gwin.

THE T\VICE=A=WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. SATURDAY, MAY 38, 1910.

BIG BARBECUE AT PARR.

Will Be Given Next Saturday, June 4, In Honorof the New / Creamery Opening. /XThe little town of Parr is preparing to celebrate its new creamery opening with a big barbecue and oxToast next Saturday, June 4. Jack Reeder has been secured as chef, and S. A. Brusnahan, W. H. Myers and L. L. McCurtain, the committee on arrangements, have got everything in shape to show all the visitors a good time. K Dinner of roast ox will be served at noon and supper at 4:30. Prof. Sparling of Rensselaer will deliver an address at 1:30, followed by remarks from’ B. D. Comer, Amos Alter W. L. Wood and Thos. Netland. John E. Alter will render a solo, “The Old Brindle Cow,” and the Parr Band will discourse music during the day. Mrs. Iva Pullins will also render an appropriate solo. Prizes of $1 cash will be given for the handsomest girl baby under one year old, and the same for the prettiest boy baby under one year, contestants to be parents who are creamery patrons. A cash prize of SI.OO each will also be. given to the party’hauling the greatest number of poufids of cream to the creamery on that day testing 30 per cent or better, also to the party hauling t’he longest distance. ,

.• There will be a baseball game between tihe Modern Woodmen team of Rensselaer and the Parr team. The creamery stockholders have prepared a good program and ask the people of the surrounding country to come and a day in the town that pays one cenf above Elgin prices for cream 1 , and where tests are made and checks given the same day the cream is brought in.

LONGWELL AFTER GRAF TERS.

. The people of Benton county are watching with interest the effort being made, by prosecuting attorney Fred Longwell to clean up the moral ■atmosphere of Jasper county from the influence of grafters big and little. Mr. Longwell is a Fowler boy and has many friends who are interested in his welfare and are pleased to note his efforts in behalf of good government. We are informed that fully ninety-five per cent of the people of Jasper county approve of the course he is taking and are fully convinced that there is something going wrong in the matter of letting contracts and they want to see him sift the matter to the bottom. The investigation cannot .harm any honest man and the guilty will probably be caught in the dragnet which is being thrown around them. Mr. Longwell is being bitterly assailed by the Rensselaer Republican but this fact is not detering him from proceeding with the investigation. It is a peculiar sight to see a newspaper step to the front and exert every effort to prevent an investigation Of alleged wrong doing and it does not seem possible that the Republican is voicing the sentiment of the people of- Jasper county in pursuing such a course. As instancing the confidence which is reposed in Mr. Longwell it is said that the democratic judicial convention will endorse his candidacy, eliminating all party lines and rewarding an honest official who is doing his duty ip the face of. strong opposition which would deter a weaker man.—Benton Review.

I. O. O. F. NOTICE. - All Odd Fellows are requested to meet at the lodge room at 1:30 p.. m., on May 30th, to participate in the Memorial day exercise?. FRED McCOLLY, S. C. IRWIN, Secy. N. G.

NOTICE TO READERS. Owing to an extra amount of advertising in this issue, a change in make-up was necessary. Personals will be found on both third and last pages. The regular chapter of "The Fourth Estate” and ’’Domestic Science” is omitted from this issue and will be published in next Wednesday’s paper.

JASPER COUNTY, BANKS.

Who the Stockholders Are and the Dividends r Paid Last Year. Following is a list of the stockholders in ‘t’he Rensselaer banks, and the shares held by each; the capital stock of eacl] bank, deposits on hand Mardi 1, amount of undivided profits, surplus, and dividends ’paid last-year, as shown by the township assessors’ returns. We are unable to give the stockholders in the Remington bank or anything at all about the Bank of Wheatfield, as the assessment sheet of the former does not show, who the stockholders are, and the latter sheet Tye did not find at all: FIRST NATIONAL BANK. John M. Wasson,. .....100 James T. Rand1e........ 20 Geo. E. Murray.............. 2b E. I’. Honan. ...... ... .. . .. . 10 D. S. Makeever 10 Ed J. Randle 10 J. N. Leatherman 30 A. F. K. Parkinson... 40 H. R> Kurrie. 30 Bessy N. M00dy..... 20 John J. Lawler, Chicago * 60 E. L. Hollingsworth *..2.70 Par value per share, *100; amount captial stock, $60,000; surplus March 1, 1910, $11,000; undivided profits, $2,377.90; dividends paid during past year, 10 per cent; deposits March 1, $319,786. • ■ TRUST & SAVINGS BANK. C. G. Spitler. 10 J. N. Leatherman 10 J. J. Hunt, ......: . .52% J. M. Wasson. . . .. 15 C. C. Warner ; 10 E. L. Hollingsworth.. 65 E. P. Honan 10 L. H. Hamilton 10 G. E. Murray. 5 E. C. English 5 J. W. Tilton 5 Henry Grow. 5 Ed Randle 5 W. L. Meyer.... 5 D. S. Makeever i> Reed McCoy, iMcCoysburg 5 Helen Wasson Hunt 5 C. H. Mills.... 4 . 22% Capital stock $25,000; par value per share, $100; true cash value per share, $120; surplus March 1, $2,500; undivided profits, $2,083.28; other items belonging to bank, $1,506.31; dividends paid during past year, 8 per cent; deposits March I, $127,591.65.

STATE BANK, RENSSELAER. John Eger 67 J. H. Chapman..... 67 Delos Thompson 67 Granville Moody. 12 Lucius Strong 11 J. J. Lawler, Chicago 12 A. K. Yjoman 2 S. P. Thompson 12 J. E. Wilson, Washington, D. C.. t> Wm. Washburn. 6 B. F. Fendig 12 C. C. Warner........ • • <, * e 5. D. Rhoades... 4 C. W. Hanley -. . 6 T. H. Robinson, Medaryville. ... 4 C. G. Spitler 6 Capital stock $30,000; par value of stock, per share, $100; surplus March 1, $9,000; undivided profits, $4,139,94; dividends paid last year, 8 per cent; deposits March 1, $209,006.48. 1 /■ STATE BANK, REMINGTON. ' Names of stockholders not given. Capital stock, $25,000; surplus March 1, $1,000; undivided profits, $1,709.08; dividends paid past year, 6 per cent; deposits March 1, $228, 095-62.

OIL WELL WASN’T SHOT

At Thayer Thursday, as Intended—Shooter Didn’t Show Up— With the Do-good. Owing to the failure of the oil shooter to arrive with the explosives the oil well at Thayer was riot “shot” Thursday, as intended. C. G. Spitler, who was up there to see the “go-devil” sent down the 906, foot hole, said it was expected when he left the well would be shot either yester--day or to-day. / Mr. Spitler says they already have considerable gas in the well and its rumblings can be heard very plainly even though its flowis shut off. Some oil has also been struck and it is thought a paying oil well will be developed by the shooting. The well is down 906 feet. The drill went through a bed of marl 20 feet and is down in the Trenton rock ’about twice as far as they usually go. „ (

Don’t forget our big oxford sale now in progress.—The Cash Store. G. B. Porter,

HOW IT'S DONE IN NEWTON CO.

Prosecuting Attorney Longwell After Grafters There IN RAILROAD TAX SWINDLE According to An Article By W. H. Blodgett In the Indianapolis News—Same Scheme May Be In Operation In Many Other Counties In the State.

Prosecuting Attorney Longwell is gaining laurels through the public press in his efforts to stop graft in his bailiwick and bring the grafters to justice. His course is being commended by the public and local newspapers generally, and four articles have lately appeared in the Indianapolis News, —which sent its staff correspondent, W. H. Blodgett, here to write up the bridge graft —highly complimentary to Mr. Longwell for the service he is doing for the public good. . Mr. Blodgett made two trips here, the last time going from Rensselaer over into Mr. Longwell’s home county, Newton. Monday evening’s News contained an article from Blodgett’s"pen relative to swindles that are alleged to have been worked in Newton county in working out road tax of railroads. The article is quite interesting, and we publish it in full: Kentland, Ind., May 23.—The authorities of Newton county believe they have discovered a scheme to swindle the taxpayers, and from the evidence they have at hand they think the swindle is being worked all over Indiana. If it is, the different townships of the state are losers by thousands of dollars every year in the collection of road tax. The steal is made possible under the law that permits railroad corporations to work out their road tax Instead of paying it in cash or working it out in person, as the ordinary property owner has to do. 411 that is necessary is a crooked contractor and a dishonest supevisory and you have a combination that gfves the pebple the worst of it, not only in dollars and cents, but in poorly constructed roads. J Asked for an Immunity Bath. Such a combination has been dis. covered in McClellan township, Newton county, and the supervisor has told his to Prosecuting Attorney Longwell, in hopes that the prosecutor will allow him to take an Immunity bath. Mr. Longwell, however, has made it plain to the supervisor and his lawyer that as far as the prosecutor’s office is concerned there is no bath annex, but if Judge Hanley sees fit to suspend sentence, the prosecutor will not protest. Under the law railroads are taxed a certan amount for keeping up the roads. The company may pay this

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FROM THE OTHER SIDE.

“Comrad” Fox Desires to Be Heard On Mail Carrying Proposition. Regarding the “starvation' price” for carrying the mail'between the Rensselaer postoffice and the Monon station, “Comrad” Fox asks The Democrat tu say.'that the present low price for this work -4 is due to the efforts to beat him out of the job. He admits that this work should pay SSO per month, but he has had the contract for several years, taking it at the beginning when the price was away down to sls per month. He succeeded in getting it up to $25 per month, where it remained for some years until parties here, about four years ago, wrote the postoffice department rthat it ought to be carried for less money, and the department accordingly proposed to re-let the* contract. Another party who was after Comrad’s job put in a bid of $240 per year, S6O less than it was then paying. In orde r to hold the job Comrad made a cut of SIOO, putting jn a bid of $199.50, at which price it has since remained, and he hired the party who bid against hiip to carry it for

sls pe r in< hit h, or about one-third what it is really worth. The fact that the job is paying so little, he claims, he is in no way to blame for. as he was gradually getting the price up towards a fair rate when efforts were made to take it away from him altogether. He simply went his opposition one better and retained the contract. That is all.

WAS FORMER RESIDENT OF JASPER.

Kentland Enterprise: Mrs. Abigail Jordan died Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. White S. Harbison, after a long illness. Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon and burial was made at Fairlawn. S. F. Iliff,* a brother of the deceased, accompanied by his daughter and two sons of near Rensselaer, and A. D. Babcock and family and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Babcock of Goodland were present at the funeral.

COLLEGEVILLE.

Father A. Schuette left on Tuesday morning for a t'hree months trip in Europe. Naples, Rome, Paris, Berlin and London will be numbered among th«, places visited.

Father Seifert Is absent from the college this .week, a short, but well-deserved trip through the south. The. baseball game, scheduled for Saturday with St. Stanislaus college, Chicago, was cancelled yesterday by the “Windy City” team. The Varsity will journey to Brook on Decoration day, and will try to give the down river aggregation a return beating. The C. L, S. held their final meeting Sunday morning and closed their business accounts for the year. The last official act was .the voting of $25 for the Milroy monument. L. J. Lambert, the banker of Beaverville, 111., was over to See his son Leon on Wednesday. Leon was the victim of the most freakish baseball accident that ever happened on the college diamond. While, in the act of pitching a ball, he broke his throwing arm midway between the shoulder and the elbow. The injury is not further serious, only Leon will miss baseball while carrying his arm in the splints. A goodly number of visitors were at the college over Sunday: Mjrs. Margaret Kaiser, , Cedar -Grove, Ind.; Miss May and J. M. Voors, Ft. Wayne; J. M. Grathwohl, Niles, Mich.; Leo Thomann, Wheaton, <111.; Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Murphy and sonsNorbert and Richard, Mathew S. Quin and son Daniel, Chicago; Mrs. Joseph Reif, Delphos, Ohio. On Sunday afternoon the Hammond Foresters invaded the Varsity’s territory, but never even had a look at the fourth corner of the lot. Humpher and Hasser were the two rings in the Circus, for half of the batters went quickly down Strikeout lane. Hasser captured 17, and his opponent 10. The very far scattered hits numbered eight all told, the locals snatching six to the visitors’ two. Camp’s errors on third made the college scores possible. He bungled two dasy grounders that in each case •would have been the third outs. Carmody followed his first fall with a hit that sent Minster, who had pilfered second to the rubber. In the seventh round Grathwbhl; and Berghoff neatly repeated the same stunt. Batteries: Hasser and Grathwohl, Humpher and Beltz. Umpire, McLaLin. ■*

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