Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1910 — Page 3

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. C.. 8. Steward spent Thursday, in Millet and Hungarian seed at Eger Bros. . '- .' Special oxford sale at th.e Cash Store. G. B. Porter. Mrs. Henry Christensen of Roselawn was in town Wednesday. Mrs. M. O. Callahan went .to Wheatfield Wednesday •to visit relatives. Oxford sale at The Cash Store. We want to show you.— G. B. Porter. G. E. Murray attended the state postmasters’ convention at Gary Wednesday. W. J. Wright and family went to Indianapolis Wednesday on a short business trip. Mrs. Clyde Ulrey of Broo returned home Thursday after a short visit with her sister, Mrs. George Maines. Miss Clara Brusnahan of Parr, who has been attending school at Valparaiso, returned home Thursday evening. Mrs. George Blyestone of Frankfort came V ednesday to visit 'her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Wright, of south of town. *Wrs. A. L. Padgett and Mrs. A; J. Biggs went to Terre Haute Wednesday to attend the G. A. R. and W. R. C. encampments. There were 900 pounds of butter dhurned at the Parr creamery Monday. This is the first, churning, and sounds very good for all concerned. AL Mrs. J. M. Hopkins returned home Tuesday from Superior, Neb., and Rogers, Ark., where she had been visiting for the past six months with relatives. Ed Hornickel and Miss Maggie Torbet, who were married Wednesday night, left ' Thursday morning for Roberts, 111., where they will make their home. The groom is a . farmer. Mrs. Frank Johnston and son Francis of Miami county, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. George Werner and Porter Litka and Mrs. Ed Bruce took dinner with Mrs. Mary E. Lowe Tuesday. Leo Lambert, a student at St. Joseph’s college, received a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder Tuesday in a baseball game. He was taken to his 'home at Beaverville, Ind., W ednesday. Misses Edith and Alice Shedd accompanied their brother Harry of New York city as far as Chicago Wednesday on his return trip home. He spent Tuesday night here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shedd. ‘ Chris Morgenegg accompanied his daughter as f£r as Chicago Wednesday where she was met by the former’s son-in-law, Lester Schreiner, of Sheridan, 111., at which place Miss Morgenegg will spend the summer. The Ipcal lodge of _K- of T’s-. will give a banquet Tuesday evening for. its members. All members ‘ in good standing are requested to be present. Speeches will be made by various knights, and a good time is assured all present. . .

Millet and Hungarian seed at Eger Bros. Don't forget the Horse Sale next Wednesday. Get good oxfords cheap while they last. —The Cash Store. G. B. Porter. John Poole was a business visitor in Brookston a few hours Wednesday. I C. G. Spitler went to Thayer Thursday to witness the shooting of the oil well. ■si Miss Clara Brusnafhan of Parr, who has been attending school at Valparaiso, returned home Thursday evening. Wm. E. Culp of Lee, came up Thursday morning and took the train here for Monticello, Where he spent the day on business. Wednesday’s Delphi Herald: Mrs. Charles Thomson and guest Mrs. Bert Hopkins of Rensselaer, were in Lafayette this morning. Miss Ivy Irwin of Chicago came Wednesday to visit Mrs. Van Grant. We suppose the jewelry business will continue just the same. Monticello’s high school graduating class numbered 34 this year, 16 boys and 18 girls,; The commencement exercises were held Tuesday evening. Harry Beck and family of Thorntown returned home Thursday after a few days spent with Mrs. Beck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet, of north of town. pFloyd Meyers came up from IJranklin where he is attending college, to be present at the Commencement exercises, his sister, Miss Nellie, being one of the graduates. I Fred Gilman was over from Goodland on business Wednesday. He is still engaged in the real estate business, handling North Dakota lands, at which he was very successful last year. W. H. Hess, .of Warsaw, this state, who spent two months in this county in Sunday-sdhool work earlier in the season and was called home, has returned to Jasper county to complete some unfinished work.

[Grocery Satisfaction : If your grocer pleases you < in every particular, ‘you i |l|( have ncx cause for changing. ] ]i Even WE can do no j <! more than that. q i 1 ]i But if you think some of ; making a shift, we would ; be glad to give you the .best ' service of which we are I capable. Often and often we have ! turned now-and-again cus- ! tomers into steady patrons. ; • And we lose a surprising few of the really particular grocery buyers, who once become our customers. ■ Try tts on anything yon I [ like. MCFARLAND SON ; RELIABLE grocers.

Millet and Hungarian seed at Eger Bros. John . Reed was down from Virgie on business Thursday. A. D. Babcock of Goodland was a Reqsselaer visitor Wednesday. ' - ■ ■ : Dr. Turfter went to Springfield, Il ITuesday on professional business. 1 John Stively went to Canton, Ohio, Thursday to visit relatives for a few weeks. - George Stembel and Malcom Clark of Wheatfield, were in town Thursday. * - Get your new oxfords while the prices are low at the Cash Stor£. G. B. Porter. Miss Fannie McCarthy went to Danville, 111., Thursday to visit friends for a few days. Services in all the churches will be resumed to-morrow, including t'he Sunday scl|pols.

Ray Miller, who had been visiting Miss Grace' Peyton for a few days, returned to his home at Windfall, Ind., Thursday. Miss Edit'h Adams returned Thursday from Belle Fourche, So. Dak., where she had been for the past five weeks with her sister, Mrs. Bert Goff and family. Wm. M. Gray, wife and daughter Vernice, Mrs. Chas. Lowe and daughters, Bertha and Francis, were over from Monon Thursday to attend the Commencement. The Monon will run an excursion between Greencastle and Chicago, Sunday, June 5, arriving at Rensselaer at 8:48 a. m. Special train will leave Chicago on the return trip at 11:30 p. m., and will stop at all points the same as last season. The fare for the round trip fromi Rensselaer will be the same as last season or sl. \lFred Phillips has been improving his theater considerably while having been forced to close on account of scarlet fever. He has painted the front of the building and installed an aluminum curtain for the stage, thus making any fire that might get started on te stageh unable to do any harm to -the other part of the room. He opened up again last night.

HOW IT’S DONE IN NEWTON CO.

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in cash or it may work the tax out on the country road. Of course, the railroad corporation can not take a pick and shovel or a team and work out its road tax, so it lets out the contract to do the work. The contractor represents the railroad and is paid for his services by the railroad. After the contractor has performed his job a receipt is given him by the township trustee, who gets it from the supervisor of the district in which the work is done and this receipt the contractor turns over to the railroad company and gets his money, while the railroad company hands the receipt in at the treasurer’s office and receives credit for so much tax paid. How the New Graft Was Discovered. Prosecutor Longwell is the fearless state’s attorney’’ for* the circuit composed of Jasper and Newton county, who is exposing the bridge grafts and punishing the grafters. And it was while looking into the bridge graft that he came across the graft in working out the. road tax. In examining a lot of receipts in the offltee of the treasurer of Newton county he found this one: ROAD TAX RECBIPT. McClellan Township, Newton County, Indiana, September 2, 1909. This certifies that the C. & I. S. Railroad Company has worked out its road tax to the amount of $333.20 (three hundred and thirty-three 20-100), for the, year 1909, in road district No. 2. WILLIAM FENTERS, Supervisor Roard District No. 2. . Now, Mr. Longwell is hot only a good lawyer, but he is a shrewd business man, and farmer-born, he knows something about fbads, and it struck him that if $333.20 worth of work had been done on the roads in McCleHan-toWnship by one individual; and that individual the Chicago & Indiana Southern railroad, there ought to be more than just a tax receipt in, the county treasurer’s office to for it, so» certainly the roads did 1 not offer any evidence of work done. And so he sent for

Fenters, the supervisor of toad district No. 2, and asked him about the work. . f Admitted Work Was Not Dorie. Mr. Fenters at first stood pat and declared that the work had been performed, but finally, under a most searching questioning.—an inquisition that would be called "the third degree”? in a police chief’s office— Mr. Fenters weakened and admitted that the work on-the road had not been performed. ' “Then why did you give the contractor this paper?” sternly asked Mr. Longwell, suddenly flashing the receipt filed in the treasurer’s office by the Chicago & Indiana Southern railroad. Mr. Fenter hesitated a moment and the replied that the contractor was a personal Zrierid of his, n£eec|ed monej’ badly and tfie receipt had been given that he might get money from the railroad company. “And what did you get out of it?” asked the prosecutor again. Supervisor Fenter stood pat again. He declared emphatically that he had not received one cent in money, no favors, or anything of value in return for issueing the receipt. He had issued it purely as a matter of friendship for a financially embarrassed friend. He would not admit receiving a bribe, *in other words. But the prosecutor is not satisfied that Supervisor Fenter gave the contractor that receipt out of pure friendship, and when the Newton county grand jury meets the matter will be more thoroughly in. vestigated. Other Graft Cases to Be Probed. But this is not the only case the prosecutor will look into. He has in his possession a number of receipts for supposed work done in Newton county that he is satisfied has never been performed. He has evidence, that certain contractors have attempted to bribe supervisors, and there is no doubt, Mr. LongweW says, that the Newton county grand jury will return indictments against a prominent Republican politician living in northern Indiana for attempted bribery and for perpetrating a fraud in the working out of road taxes for railroads. An attorney has already approached Mr. Longwell with a proposition that immunity be given a certain supervisor in return for revealing a scheme that has bjfijn worked in Newton county. The prosecutor, however, declined to accept the proposition. He said he had evidence enough to sendsome one to the penitentiary for frauds in the road tax matter or tot purjury. The result of the prosecutor’s firm stand is that he has received a lot of pointers and direct evid’ence against both contractors and supervisors and in one instance a .ownship trustee is supposed to be involved. It should be'stated that, as far as has been discovered, the Chicago & Indiana Southern (which is a part of the Big Four system) is not involved in the McCleUlan township deal. IThe officers of the road acceped the'Teceipt from the contractor at its face and turned it in to the county treasurer in good faith. An Easy Grafting Scheme. The possibilities of graft in the working out of the road tax can easily be seen. All that the contractor needs is a pliant supervisor. There, is no one to inspect the work after it is done, and the contractor and supervisor have the whole thing in their hands, unless the trustee gets suspicious, and there trustees whose only suspicion would come from the fact that the supervisor is “holding out.” The remedy, of course, is a change in the law, so that railroads must pay their road tax in cash. Several times bills to make such a change in the law have been introduced, but t’hey were always smothered in committee or defeated on the floor. The railroads and the contractors who worked out the. road tax always- did the asphyxiating or the beheading. One of the stock arguments they used was that to compel the payment of the road tax in cash worked a hardship on the farmers, but no one ever saw any real farmers about the general assembly lobbying against the bill. Prosecutor Longwell is satisfied that though the majority of contractors and supervisors are honest there are enough crooked ones amonp them to cause the state to lose many thousand dollars every year in the item of road tax alone. And, so far as Newton county is concerned, he says it will stop.

HOME CURE FOR ECZEMA

Does it not seem strange that so many people suffer year in and year out with eczema? ' z A 25-cent bottle of a simple wash stops the itch and will surely convince any patient. This wash is composed of mild and soothing oil of Wintergreen mixed with thymoil and glycerine, etc., and known as D. D. D. Prescription. We do not know how lonyrthe 17. "D. D. Laboratories will continue the 25<Loffer, as the remedy is regularly sold only in SI.OO bottles and has never before been put on the market on any special offers. If you want relief to-night try a bottle at 25c on our personal recommendation. ‘ B. F. Fendig, druggist, Rensselaer, Ind.

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SPECIAL ' Our Big Sale on OXFORDS Still Continues ( ;; The greatest amount of bargains we ever offered at one time on Men’s ” Women’s and Children's Oxfords •• E Every Low Shoe in the house H included in this Big Sacrifice Sale ■ • Oxfords for the whole family ;• going at a big reduction E Saving you all the way from 10 to H 33 1-3 per cent. These cannot •• be duplicated in the city H for the price. Call and see them. •• * • • We want to show you. The Cash Store G. B. PORTER.

Reliable Gasoline Stoves ■ % Are reliable in every way, and will make cooking and baking a pleasure. The Star Refrigerators Are not a luxury but an economical necessity. Low in price and low cost of operating. Screen Doors Screen .Wire Cream Separators Great Western Are the best. Cream Cans that are strong and durable. Washing Machines Hand and Water Motor. Lawn Mowers Garden Plows Garden Hose, Grass Shears, and Garden Tools. John Deere Cultivators Avery Cultivators# Tower Gophers Rope and Binder Twine Roofing Material Pumps' H Warner Bros. Rensselaer, Ind.

MICHIGAN FARM LANDS.

If you want good land at the right prices; you can get it in the SWIGART TRACT of clover and fruit lands —the best in Michigan—but you must act no-fr. One of the best opportunitie& remaining to-day to buy good land; at the right prices within the reach of the man of moderate means is the SWIGART TRACT, where some of the finest clover and fruit land in, the State of Michigan can be bought for a limited time, for $lO, sl2, sls and $lB per acre on terms as low as $lO to $25 down and $5 to $lO per month on 40 acres. It is a fair 2 liberal proposition, that gives the working man a chance to get a home. CaR or write “ for infoonation about the advantages to buyers now, —CHAS. J. DEAN, local representative for these lands, Rensselaer, Ind.

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