Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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SAYS THE BALDWINS ARE ALL RIGHT.

We notice in tfie Rensselaer Democrat that the 'Flying Baldwins,” one of, the attractions at our last Harvest Festival, will be there and give a free exhibition qn the Fourth. There is nothing better than these people in their line., and the aerial show that they put up cannot be beat in the world, and they were one of the most popular attractions Brook ever had; —-Brook Reporter. ■ £

MORE ON THE WAY.

Babcock & Hopkins Are Expecting Three New Autos. Babcock & Hopkins are looking three new autos almost any day now. two “E. M. F.” touring cars and one --“Flanders.” One of the former is for Frank Donnelly and the other they will keep for themselves. The Flanders is for uncle John Daugherty, the rural mail carrier on Route No. 1, who will substitute an auto for “bosses’* in flying over his route.

WALLACE SHEDD DEAD.

I S. S. Shedd received notice Monday that his brother, J. W. Shedd, had. died suddenly last Friday at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. G. Graves, at Los Angeles, Cali. Deceased went to California last fall for the benefit of his health and had lately written that he expected to soon return to Rensselaer. He was 69 years of age and was a native of New Hampshire. He was The remains will be brought to the old home of deceased, Fairbury, Ill.* for burial, and Mr. Shedd and family will go there to attend the funeral.

THE POLE STILL STANDS.

The steering gear of F. M. Parker’s big new auto failing to work properly Sunday forenoon caused him to run into a telephone pole near the corner by J. T. Randle’s residence, bending the guard in front of the machine, also bending the fronts spring. Fortunately he was running slow or the damage would have been considerable.. The steering gear caught in some way and would not respond, and the brake did not work, hence the necessity- of having something substantial near at hand like a telephone pole to run into.

WONDERFUL GROWTH

Made By the Com Crop In Last Two Weeks. A nice little gentle rain fell Sunday evening, every drop of which was absorbed by the thirst-hungry earth, and another nice shower.fell Monday afternoon. While neither were heavy enough to wet the .ground very deep they did an immense amount of good to growing crops. The fine weather of the past two weeks has brought the corn out wonderfully, and while at that time it was barely peeping through the ground in most cases, to-day it is nearly all knee high and growing a few inches each day. With continued warm weather com will average up very well with its condition in other years at July 4th. notwithstanding its very late start, and it is all clean, of good color and has a very-promising appearance.

AND STILL ANOTHER

Engine Ditched On the Monon But No One Seriously Hurt. The Chicago-Cincinnati fast train on the Monon was ditched at train on the onon was ditched at Shelby at about 4 a. m., Saturday, caused, it is said, by the night operator opening the block for the train, and then closing it. for a Three-I train to pass when’ the Monbn train was too near the de-rail to stop. Therefore the train rushed through and tfie engine, mail and baggage cars were ditched by thei de-rail. The engineer and fireman saved themselves by jumping, and no one was seriously hurt. It is reported here that the operator has not been seen since the accident. We understand the damage to the engine and coaches will not be great, although the train was running at a fast clip and it is a miracle that many people were not killed. ' v U

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7618. Emil Besser vs. Hiram Druliner. et al; action to quiet title. j .. —o—r\J. H. Allman has resigned as Assessor of Carpenter tp., because of poor health, and George H. May has been appointed to fill out his unexpired term. Court Reporter Harry E. Folk has just completed the transcript in the Harvey J. Dexter ditch, appealej to the supreme court by Cordelia M. Williams, one of the remonstrators. The transcript contains 511 pages and cost 8153. ' --O' ’ According to a W inamac paper, C. L. Bader, superintendent and general manager of {he Winamac Bridge Co., who was re cently convicted of bridge graft in Jasper county and still has several other indictments for the same offense hanging over him, has bought all the stock of his partners, George and John Frain and M. M. Hathaway in said concern, and is now the “whole works.” r *

Fowler Leader: The suit of P, J. Kennedy and the Cook Brothers to compel the county commissioners to make the last payment on the Cook gravel road promises to be’ the big trial of this term of court. Thirty* witnesses have been chased down by the sheriff and subpoenaed to testify. The trial will be tried Wednesday morning before a jury. It is thought that it will take several days to finish the case. Y^I arr iage licenses issued: June 25, . Joseph Arthur Stump of Wheatfield, son of Asa Stump, aged 22. occttpaiitfti telegraph operator, to Emma Lillian Rayher, daughter of Wm. Rayher of Rensselaer, aged 19, Occupation teacher* First marriage for each, k June 27, Morton Ura Wells of V ard county, North Dakota, son of Charles B. Wells of Jasper county, Ind., aged 22, occupation fanning, to Ethel Alice Walker, daughter of David p. Walker of Barkley tp., aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

Fifteen and one-half marriage licenses had been issued this month up to yesterday nOon, against only five for each of the months of June in the last two preceding years. We say 15% because half a license was granted last Friday and the other half has not as yet been issued. Hairy E. Frame, aged 16, son of Luther H. Frame of Demotte, was issued a license on consent of his father to marry Edna . and the application for the female was taken away to be filled, out and returned Saturday, they thought, but so far it has not been filed, nor license issued, of course. And this is alleged to be one of those p. d. q. cases, too.

BAND UNIFORMS HERE.

The handsome new uniforms for the Rensselaer Boys’ Band arrived Monday and are very neat and dressy. They are of the military style and consist of cap and coat of dark blue cloth trimmed with gold braid, and w'hite duck trousers? There are no.w 21 pieces in the band and it will undoubtedly make a fine showing.

PROMOTER PURTELLE

Says That Construction Work on Electric Road Will Begin . This Week. r\J£ugene Purtelle, the promoter k>f the Indiana Northwestern Traction company, was in Hammond to-day to go over the territory for the new line. Mr. Pur* telle told The Tinj.es that his company expected to begin on the construction work on Fayette street in Hammond next week and that the material was ordered and ready to be put down. The company will file its cash forfeit .money and bond next, week, 'NL The Surveyors for the line are at work i.owand are surveying the line near Munster now. Mr.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1910.

Purtelle is in hopes that the road can be built as far as Cedar Lake by the close of the year. The Hammond-Dyer end is to be rushed at once.—‘Friday’s Hammond Times.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Not Much Done at Regular Session Monday Evening. The Common Council of the city of Rensselaer met in regular session Monday evening with all members present. The street committee was authorized to purchase a carload of crushed rock for repair of streets, and what brick are necessary for crossings. The street committee were also authorized to purchase a mowing machine for use on streets at cost of not more than ss—they having a second-hand machine in view which had been offered them at this price. The superintendent of light plant was authorized to sell all brick from the old boiler furnace to best advantage and report to council.

The city attorney was instructed to prepare an ordinance regarding the flushing of private sewers, and_report to council. The following claims were allowed : CORPORATION FUND J K Davis, marshal |30.00 Frank Critser, nightwatch... 25.00 C B Steward, fire warden. ... 12.50 Conrad Kellner, hauling hose wagon from Lafayette. 9.70 B. F. Fendig, mdse, fire dept . 2.45 H F King, repairs fire com*'. 6.25 ROAD FUND Bert Campbell, salary team. . 25.00 LIGHT FUND C S,Chamberlain, salary. . . . 50.00 Mel Abbott, same 30.00 Dave Haste, same 30.00 Jim "Elliott, work on boiler. . 25.20 Scott Chestnut, same.. 15.70 Al Timmons, same , . . 24.00 “Guy Ropp, same. . 4.40 Robt Wartena, work on line. 23.25 Shirley Hill Coal Co., coal.. 88.80 Jesse Gates, hauling coal. .... 17.81$ Ray Parks, hauling gravel. . 14.00 Frank Turner, laying brick, new boiler 29.25 Ray Thompson, freight. . . . . . 35.10 WATER FUND T E alone, salary. , .... . ... 30.00

HEAT KILLED BANKER.

Lafayette, Ind., June 26.—Oliver. C. Goldsmith, 76, a leading banker, was stricken to-day while sitting on the porch of his home and died in a few minutes. The Coroner said that death was caused by heart trouble, superinduced by the intense heat. Goldsmith built the Lake Erie and Western and other railroads.

A PLEASANT BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.

A very pleasant surprise and birthday party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Leffler. former residents of Jasper countv. now of Wisconsin. June 77

The occasion was in honor of Mr. Lefler’s 58th birthday anniversary. Friends to the number of twenty were present. A fine lunch, consisting of. lemonade and five different kinds of cake was served, and the evening spent in conversation. A .nice willow chair was left as a token of their esteem. All left at a late hour, after spending a most enjoyable evening and wishing Mr. Lefler many more happy birthdays. xx

CORN FOOLED FARMERS.

Wager Revealed How Fast Healthy Stalk Will Grow f Overnight. Washington C. H.„ Ohio,. June 26.—A wager was made between two Fayette county farmers as to how much a stalk of corn will grow in a single day. One of them said that a certain healthy stalk of corn, about waist high, would grow one inch, while the other wagered that it would grow two inches. Accordingly a stake was driven in the ground so that its top came even with the top of the highest blade on the stalk. At the same hour the following day an examination was made, and it was discovered that the stalk of corn had grown just four inches. ■. -' ‘

We are not retiring from business but we always Jiaye bargains in footwear for you.—Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.

GANDERBONE'S FORECAST

FOR JULY. (Copyright 1910, by C. H. Reith.) When the Ballinger trial is ended. And the jury has said what it thinks; When the case has been made and defended . With the wonted political winks— We shall smile—and gads, we shall need to That feel it as well had been dropped, And the Guggenheim crowd will proceed to Resume where it was when it stopped. The signs shall come down in the timber, And the patents shall tie up the coal. The law will get flabby and limber, And the trusts will do well on the whole. f It always turns out in that manner, Although we may blush to confess It, And we do not regard it a banner 3 Achievement, exactly, to guess it.

1 July is a tribute to Caesar. One day, with some other insurgents, he talked by the Pillar of Pompey on things of political urgence. He was just on the point of explaining the key to some government riddle when a party of regulars jumped him and cut him in two in the middle. There were Decius Brutus, the speaker, and Cassius, boss of the Senate, together with others insistent upon some political tenet. “The party forever!” they shouted, and what with that terrible slasher Servilius Casca great Caesar as well had been run through a hasher. At any rate, Antony found him cut up into fodder for fishes, and begged this request Of the Romans, who granted the least of his wishes. And thus it has happened and shall be so long as the Tiber runs by the Pillar of Pompey that Caesar shall live in the name of July.

The Fourth shall return td discover Us waiting in battle array. And what with one thing and an- _ other Regretting we won, anyway. The cannon shall boom, and the scramble For things on the medicine shelves Shall warn inexperienced countries Aspiring to freedom themselves. The dynamite cap and the rocket shall remind us of tyranny thwarted, and the valiant forefather shall turn in his coffin to see what ’he started. The eagle shall mount on his pinions and circle the North and the South, and the rapid-fire orator stand on the platform and shoot off his mouth. This latter, hgwever, is harmless in a strict pathological way. but remains nothwithstanding an evil we must in due season allay. Alas, how deficient is nature that might lay this pest bn the shelf with ruling that shooting his mouth off he gave the lockjaw to himself!

This tetanus, we are quite certain. has good and defehsib’e I uses, and all of its manifestations thus far have been only abuses. The idea, as we regard it, is not > that it should be the cause of any j more serious matter than locking' the orators jaws. < \ou know that we never hear; of. it except on the Fourth ofi July, and whenever some innocent gets it we forever are wondering why. Well, is the fact of the matter, and by Jove, we are willing to bet it turn's out in the long run that no one but a ’ lot of old wind-jammers get it. j ‘' I However, be that as it rtiay be. And get whom the tetanus Will, The jubliant youth of the nation Will resume with its shooting to 1 kill. The safe and the sane celebration Will suit us who are not so skit- . tish. ’ \ But the youngsters have got to do something To show what we, did to the British.

These never was anything safe

You’ll be Glad You Come to - * - mmm ■■ ||a *SSSS3SaSiSSSESSSS3SSS3EE&ESSSSSi3BSBSSSS£!SSSSSSa RENSSELAER JULY 4th Biggest and Best Celebration Rensselaer has ever known; you’ll be better taken care of, entertained ancf amused than any place you could go. Besides Rensselaer is a beautiful little city and has fine stone • roads extending out in every direction, making it an ideal place to visit either with team or auto. Come see the Milroy Monument Dedication; the Flying Baldwins; the Balloon Ascension; the Daylight Fireworks; hear the Boys’ Band; see the Big Decorated Auto Parade; be in the Flag Prize Winning Delegations. All trains will stop at and all roads will lead to Rensselaer July 4.

in the way the forefathers attacked them, and as for the saner attainments, the old fellows seem to have lacked them. They simply cast fear to the bowwows and waded into the affray, and a boy does not think himself worthy if he can’t shoot himself, anyway. At any rate, Jeffries and Johnson will growl like a couple of poodles and observe independence with beating the hair off their mutual noodles. They’ll alternate making the other leviathan howl for his mother, and if the country at random is lucky they’ll manage to kill one another. . It’s only , a plan to make money, deserving the strictest of strictures, for what they will have is a race war, dividing what’s made on the pictures. We’ye been pretty mad in this country for dollars, and power, and places, but this is the first 1 time we’ye trafficked upon the abyss between races. 4' ■ The fat occupant of the White House Will lie on his back in the grass Beneath the green Beverly maplesObserving the aeroplanes pass? 1 The chauffeurs will keep right on chaffing, ' . I With seeing it’s no one but Bill, And they'll sigh just to think what had happened Had they flown over Sagamore I Hill But not every man can be Caeser. as someone has stated. I alas! and in the, due course of | the matter somebody must lie in i the grass. It’s hard on a strenuous nhtion. afflicting us all in a I way, but we’ll look on the brighter side of it. and conclude it is I good for the hay. I . ■’. However, Time flies is a proverb, And one day. his toot on his gong And his epgine back-bedaiing, August ■ Will come aeroplaning along.

Semi-Annual Clearance Sale, from now until July 4, of all trimmed hats. Big reductions.—?

Mrs. Purcupile.

NOTICE TO PROHIBITIONISTS. I hereby notify all Prohibitionists of Jasper county to meet me at the Christian church in Rensselaer, on Wednesday evening, June 29th, at 7:30.—W. W. Reeve, County Chairman. UNCLAIMED LETTERS. The following letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending June 27, 1910: John Edgar, George Thare, Zoberaska. T. F. Dunlap, Frank Borenda, Joe Borenda, Mrs. Anna Rice, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. These letters will be sent to the dead letter office July 11, if not delivered before that date. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of list. G. E. MURRAY, P. M. Elk skin shoes will relieve » those tired, aching feet, which are so common when a man is doing a hard days work. Try a pair of these.—Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. 7 Machine Extras—For McCormick machine extras, call on C. A. Roberts, “The Buggy' Man.” VV e want every woman to ask those of her friends who have purchased Richardson Seamless shoes what they think of them. Theycure those tired, aching feet. Sold and warranted at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Souvenir envelopes of Rensselaer on sale at The Democrat office at 10 cents per package of 25. By the single hundred, with return card printed in the corner, 75c. A proportionate reduction in larger lots. What a mistake you make by not getting J. W. Ward, the old reliable well driller of Jasper county, to drill your well. See him before contracting with anyone else. ts Subscribe for The Democrat.

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