Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Buy your Binder Twine at Eger Bros. William McCord went to Chicago yesterday. E. S. Rhoads was a Chicago visitor Thursday. W. R. Lee was a Chicago goer Wednesday. To-day’s markets : Wheat, 97c; Corn, 56c; Oats, 34c. Geo. Colvert is visiting relatives in Oxford this week. Wilson Shaffer was in Moniicello on business Wednesday. Mrs. Orlan Grant is visiting relatives in Hammond this week. James Randle Is visiting his father, Nelson Randle, here this week. Mrs. Jack George of Chicago is visiting relatives near Rensselaer. Misses Anna and Mabel Stocksick are spending a couple of weeks with friends in Chicago. Miss Mildred Harris went to South Bend Wednesday to visit Mrs. C. W. Coen a few weeks.

Mrs, Ruth Stephenson and daughter of Erie, Pa,, is visiting Charles Stephenson and family. Barefoot sandals for men, women and children at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block. Miss Xellie Meyers entertained some thirty young people at her home on Division street Tuesday evening. Miss Edna Babcock of Parr returned home Thursday after a few days visit here with Miss Ruth Parkison. X Alexander Leach was still alive at the hour of going to press. but is likely to die at almost any moment. 200 pairs childrens’ shoes, sizes S to 1, were $1.50, now 95 cents. —Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block. Dr. Chas. Vick has cataract so badly in both his eyes that he cannot scarcely recognize his best friends on the street, he says. According to the school ceijsus of 1910 Chicago now has a population of 2,100,000 people, a gain of 178,000 in the last two years. Miss Carrie Pierce will sing a solo, “The Great White Trone,” at the Vesper Services on the court house lawn to-morrow evening.

Mr. George C. My res and Miss Lucy Clager, a popular young Wheatfield couple, were married by Squire Irwin Wednesday afternoon, at his office. The young ladies of the Catholic church took in SB7 at tfheir lawn social Wednesday night, and will clear about S6O, which goes to the new parsonage fund. We are curing many aching feet and will cure yours if you give us t(he opportunity. —Fensig’s Exclusive Shoe Stored Opera House Block. Mrs. J. L. Mcßride and little daughter of Chicago are visiting her parents, Mr. ' and Mrs. Ed Barkley, of Barkley tp., and otflrer relatives here for a few days. Ed Mauck and wife of Muncie, who had been visiting his sister, Mrs. Frank Critser, and other relatives here the past two weeks, returned home Wednesday.

CIRCULARS jF q stands (or cfeadftft. cW % 1 J for cheof M % |«or tbe Lmn h> (oodt Jf Y* yom will selL == Mail Vi yoar Ordtr Today ■ : •. . . -j ' ; ■ ■

Mrs. E. L. Clark is confined to her home with pleurisy. Frank Ham made a business trip to Bloomington, 111., .Thiirsday. \ - ■ b' Miss Rose Sigo of Remington went to Chicago Thursday to visit: friends. —— . ■ —r~ H. V. Childers of Delphi came yesterday for a few 7 days vis’t with relatives here. A. F. Long and wife . were in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday on business. Misses Gladys Coen and Bertha Daniels went to Chicago Heights Thursday to visit relatives for a week. Mrs. W. H; Parkison and children of Indianapolis are visiting relatives here for a few weeks.

Some little wheat threshing was begun in this locality yesterday, and next week it will be in full blast. % Miss Lucile Pitts of Lafayette returned home Thursday from a two weeks visit here with Miss Ethel Davis. George Iliff's little daughter of south of town, had tflie misfortune to fall out of a wagon Tuesday and break an arm. Preaching at the Good Hope Christian dhurch on Sunday at 3 p. by the pastor. G. 11. Clarke. All are welcome. J Frank Alter, of the tile firm dP Alter Bros, has bought a 5jxassenger Overland auto of Dr. Hansson, the local agent. Mrs. Howard Thomas of Lafayette returned home Thursday evening after a few' days visit with her aunt, Mrs. J. L. Smith. Mrs. Solomon Jacobs and baby of Tampa. Fla., is here for a few 7 months visit with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Nathan Fendig. "~j'Mr. and Mrs. J. M. feell of IVankfort returned home Thursday after a few days visit here with themMauglhter, Mrs. V'. L. Meyer. •V ■- Rev. J. C. Parrett will fill Rev. Clarke’s appointment at Curtis Creek sdhool house in Newton tp., to-morrow. Preaching at 3 p. m. The police still assert that President Rawn of the Monon. committed suicide to avoid graft exposure in the- Illinois' Centra! stealings. I Cooney Kellner is having <]uite aVserious time with a carbuncle o* 'his right wrist and phlegmaria in his left hand and arm, the result of a bruise.

MTs. Katherine Kessinger, who has beeiKvjsiting with her children. Mrs. Reed and family and Ghas. Kessinger, returned to her home in Wabash yesterday. ~ Mell Haas accompanied his| two small neices, Metta and Monta Oglesby of Knox, to their home yesterday after a few weeks visit here. Mjell will make a sfliort visit there. This has been a splendid week for haying and 'harvesting. Not a drop of rain, but bright, sun--s-hiny weather and not too hot to make it uncomfortable to work in the fields. J. M. Jackson and wife of Lebanon returned home \\ ednesday after a few days visit with Mrs; J. H. Jessen andfamily arid Mrs. A. A. Hoover. The two ladies are sisters of Mr. Jackson. Josephine and Mildred Jones of Michigan City, who had been visiting their grandmother, Mrs. Henry Amsler, (here the past two weeks, returned home Thursday. The latter acompanied them as far as Monon.

Sam Pullins and family accompanied as far as Chicago with Mrs. Pulins’ mother, Mrs. Addie Crosscup, left Thursday morning for their future home near Townsend, Mont., where Mr. Pullins owns a farm. \/\lex Hurley of Barkley tp., wafc the first to deliver new wheat to the elevators here. He threshed out Thursday, a nice qualitv of grain but we were unable to learn the yield per acre. Joq Putts, of south of town, threshing vesterday. ° ' i

All oxfords at greatly reduced prices at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block. / The 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hornbeck of four miles northeast of Brookston, djed Saturday evening from taking carbolic acid by mistake ior olive oil. it is said. j ■ r\ F. B. Meyer was down from Gary Thursday and shipped to Tolleston, Lake county, the drug store fixtures and stock which he has had in storage here for the past two or three years. He will open a drug store at Tolleston. .

Mrs. Arthur Ashby of Mt. Ayr was in the city yesterday to meet her son William Goodspeed, w'ho came from Chicago for a few days visit. Mrs. Ashby’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Cornish, also came for a short visit with her, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dunn and children of Mt. Vernon, 0., went to Wolcott Wednesday after a ten days visit with the former's sister, Mrs. George Spangle. WhThT here Mr. Dunn helped Mr. Spangle in the harvest field. John Werner, who has been ocupying rooms over the Trust & Savings bank, moved Thursday back into his own property on McCoy avenue. Wm. Lewis, who occupied John’s property, has moved into the Reeve tenant house on South street. Charles Elder went to Bloomington yesterday 7 where he will work at the carpenter trade the next six w'eeks. He will go from there to Mitchell, So. Dak., where he will join his brothers Omar and Leonard, who are working at the carpenter trade there.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilson and children of Washington, D. C., are expected here to-day for a visit with Mrs. Wilson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. They 7 have visited a week at Columbia City and a week at Winona, coming from t*he latter place here. John Sharp returned to Chicago Heigfhts Wednesday w'hexe he is employed in a steel factory, and will spend a few' days there straightening up his books, after which he will return here for a visit, and may decide to move back to Rensselaer and locate here permanently. ‘'xFred Arnott accompanied his and sister-in-law, Mrs. Arthur Arnott of Spokane, Wash., w*ho had been visiting here the past few months, as far as Hammond on their w r ay to Crown Point where the two ladies will visit relatives. They will return here in a few days.

Thursday Hammond Times: Mrs. Paxton and daughter. Miss Florence Paxton of Longmont, Colo., will conclude their visit in Hammond, tOdday and return home. They have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Paxton at t*heir home in Rimbach avenue while in Hammond and have al so visited friends and relatives in South Bend and Rensselaer. Ind. - . vßev. J. C. Parrett and Prof. Inman will leave on the earlv train Monday morning with a company of Rensselaer boys, mostly members of the K. O. E. A. club, for a two weeks outinsr at Winona Lake. At this writing it is not known just how many boys there will be in the party' Cope Hanley, eldest son of Judge Hanley of Rensselaer is an active candidate for mayor of Boys’ City.

Chicken thieves are said to be A getting in tlheir work in Rensselaer quite freely, and as most o* tire owners of chickens have loaded up their shotguns with buckshot in preparation for a visit the coroner will likely have a job ere long. A dhicken thief is about as low down in the depths of degredation as it is possible for one to get, and beside him the horsethief or holdup man is a gentlemen. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Snyder were called to Medaryville Wednesday to attend the funeral of Emery Low, a brother-in-law of the latter, who died Saturday nigfht after an extended illness. Mr. Low was engaged in the implement and undertaking business and had acquired large real estate interests in that vicinity. He was one of Medaryville’s pioneer business men. He was the father of fifteen children, eleven, with the wife, surviving him. His age was 57 years. *

HOG BUYER SUICIDES.

Slump In Prices Prompts Stock Buyer to Hang Himself. Crawfordsville, Ind., July 21. J. E, Wyatt, age forty-five, a stock buyer and trader living at Portland Mills, near Waveland, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself with the trip rope used in operating the hay rack in the gable of his barn. Constant worry over prospective financial* losses brought on .by the decline in the price of bogs, a large number of which he had contracted to buy at $9 a hundred pounds for July delivery, caused him to become mentally imbalanced. His body was found by his son, Walter Wyatt. He leaves a widow and six children.

USES KEROSENE INSTEAD OF GASOLINE.

Laporte, Ind., Juv 21.—Telegrams received from Winnipeg, Canada, indicate that all past known records for breaking ground with power plows were smashed at the Winipeg exposition and fair by two plows from the M. Rumely plant, of this city. In a test of steam traction engines pulling a gang of plows, the Rumely machine broke 25 acres of ground in seven hours. A Rumely traction engine, using kerosene, pulling a gang of plows broke twelve acres in six hour?. The engines, instead of burning gasoline, at a cost of 12 or 15 cents a —gallon, use kerosene, costing about 6 cents a gallon. The kerosene is exploded in the same way as gasoline. Dr. E. A Runtiey believes that it will not be long before kerosene will be used in automobiles instead of gasoline, because of the difference in cost.

LARGE LIGHT MERGER

Capital Stock of New Company Stated as $30,000,000. Announcement is made that the Laport, Ind., Gas Light company was included in a merger with the Cedar Rapids, la.. Gas Light company. Ft. Dodge. la., Light company, Muscatine, la., Light and Traction company, Cadillac, Mich., Gas Light company, Mattoon, 111., Gas Light company and Chattanooga, Tenn., Gas company under the name of the United Light and Railways company, with a capital stock of $30,000,000. The merger company will act as a holding company for the (’hilds-Hule-wit syndicate of Grand Rapids, Mich., which owns a controlling interest in the public service corporations included In thelmerger. Other properties will be acquired from time to time. The earnings of the eight properties ia $861,600 a year.

Crippens Arrest Disputed.

London, July 20. —Scotland Yard denies the report that Crippen and the Le Neve woman have teen arrested In Wales. The officers say there have been no new developments in the caae.

The Alexandrian Library.

The library at Alexandria suffered plunderings ou various occasions, but it remained practically intact until A. D. 650, when it was destroyed by the Saracens under orders of the Caliph Omar. Thus disappeared a noble collection that had endured some 930 years.

The Adirondack Plateau.

The average height of the Adirondack plateau is about 2.000 feet, although there are many |»eaks that are over a mile high.

A Costly Prayer Book.

Queen Elizabeth used to carry about With her suspended by a chain of pure gold a book called “The Golden Manual of Prayer,” a dainty volume of 300 pages bound# in “hammered virgin gold.” One side of this costly volume gave a representation of the judgment of Solomon, the other the brazen serpent on the cross in the desert.

Galileo’s Telescope.

Galileo's telescope, by which he discovered the satellites of Jupiter in Jan uary, 1610. is carefully preserved in the Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence. Galileo's was tbe first practical telescope made.

WEATHER EVERYWHERE Latest observations of the United States weather bureau taken at Washington: > Temp. Weather, New York. .... 73 Clear Albany 72 Rain Atlantic City.. 68 Clear Boston 70 Cloudy Buffalo 72 Rain Chicago ...... 84 Part Cloudy New Orleans. . 82 Clear St. Louis 82 Clear Washington .. 76 Clear Philadelphia .. 72 Clear Weather Forecast Illinois and Indiana —Cloudy and warm today and tomorrow, light southwest winds.

BELLE ELMORE.

American Actress Who "Was Found Murdered in London.

POLICE AFTER CRIPPEN

Want American Doctor for Murdering Wife in London.

Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, the American physician who is sought by the Scotland Yard authorities In connection with the murder of his wife. Belle Elmore, is believed to be on a steamer bound for the United States. He is a native of Coldwater. Mich , and was educated in Indiana. Dr. Crippen, who is said to be fifty years of age. made his home for some time at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, North London. Some time ago his wife, Belie Elmore, a vaudeville actress and treasurer of the Music Hall Artists’ Guild, disappeared, and subsequently a notice of her death appeared In print. The fact of her demise was generally credited, but there was more or less gossip among the women intimates and this finally reached the ears of the police A search of the Crippen house was made and the battered body of a woman was found buried in the cellar. It had been placed in quick lime and waa burned beyond recognition, but the finding of the body, together with other discoveries, has left no doubt In the minds of the authorities that the murdered woman was Mrs. Crippen. Dr. Crippen, after attending schools in Indiana and Los Angeles, completed his medical studies in Michigan, New York and Cleveland. He practiced In Detroit, San Diego, Cal., Salt Lake City, St. Louis and Brooklyn as an eye aad ear specialist.

ARREST LOUIS A. CELLA

Rich St. Louis Man Accused of Running Bucket Shop. Louis A. Celia, wealthy St. Louis man, accused of operating a bucketshop in Washington, was arrested in New York on a charge of perjury. At the hearing of the charges against Celia, his brother Angelo and Samuel W. Adler, whose removal to Washington for trial is sought. Henry Altemua of Georgetown, 0., once employed by the Celias, and named in the Washington indictment with the brothers and Adler; turned state’s evidence In testifying he connected the Celias and Adler with the Standard Stock and Grain Dealers' concern, which bad wire connections with the alleged bucket-shop in Washington. He swore that Louis Celia sent messages daily over the wire to Angelo; he revealed the cipher code. Louis Celia was arrested afterward. It was said that he had testified that he was never interested in the Standard Stock and Grain Dealers' concern. He gave $5,000 bail and was released.

STRIKE ON GRAND TRUNK

Conductors and Trainmen on Entire System'Quit Work. A strike of all the conductors and trainmen on the Grand Trunk system has gone into effect. This great strike is the result of the failure to arrive at an amicable settlement. The committee demanded the adoption of the standard territorial wage, but President Mays refused to agree to this demand A strike vote was taken last week all over the system and the men were practically unanimous for a strike. The ultimatum of the men were made known to President Hays at a final conference, but he absolutely refused to grant the demand. Over 4,000 men are involved. All the regular passenger trains of the road left Chicago on schedule time and a number of freight trains were also started out. All of these were in charge of nonunion men, members of the union having refused to report for duty. Passenger trains continued to run on schedule time, being operated by nonunion men, most , of whom have been hired since the strike began. “We are having to employ a good many new men,” said General Passenger Agent -Elliot, “but that is all right We have no difficulty in finding competent men who are glad to take the places of the strikers. As far as the passenger department is concerned one would not know that a strike is In progress.” No effort is being made to move freight trains at present and fear that the passenger trains may become involved in the tie-up was expressed by express company officials, who have directed that express be routed over Knee other than the Grand Trunk.

Do You Want To Save Money On Clothing ??? I do not want to give you any lengthy “Hogus-Bog-us” talk, about selling you $25 suits for $5 —it can’t be tlone; I want to sensible talk. My Boss is a Clothing Specialist and an honest man ;he has made Clothing a life’s study : he is operating a great number of stores, keeps large enough assortments so you can find what you want and buys in such a manner that lie can save you some money. He guarantees everything 'he sells to be as represented. Take a tip front little Jimmy, it will pay you to investigate. That’s all. WWW JIMMY, THE BOOSTER, With Gus Reiss & Go. Better Clothes (or Less Money Knox, Ind. North;Judson, ln d

Tte M<#3 99 f a 5] / *•*.>. . | You’re coming, too, aren’t you, to see us about ordering those CIRCULARS and BUSINESS CARDS> Step iii and talk it over.

Soothing.

“But those extremely violent lunatics—how do you manage t them so quiet?’’ 1 “That’s an idea of the new superintendent’s.” “Yes?” “Yes. He had the straitjackets made up in the peekaboo style.”—Puck.

Poker.

A woman calls and leaves her best regards. And when she calls She also leaves her cards. But when man calls formality he skips; He doesn't leave hts cards—he leaves hla chips. —New York Times.

Tragedy In Dry Town.

"Yes. sir. the fish was so big it pulled him in the river." "And he was drowned?" “No. but he might's well have been, fer he lost bis grip on his gallon jug and it floated down stream, and he lives, iu a dry county "’—Atlanta Constitutions

That Strange Feeling.

He didn't know he was in love. We really must confess He thought the feeling Upon him stealing Was merely biliousness. —Kansas City Journal,

Wanted—Latest Ailment.

“Well, here I ain.’ v announced thefashionable physician in bis breezy way. "And now what do you think is the matter with you?” “Doctor. I hardly know.” murmured the fashionable patient. “What is new ?"—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Womanlike.

Lot’s wife looked back, but why should she Have suffered as she did? Alas, She probably looked back to see If Lot had turned off all the gas! —Chicago Record-Herald.

She Was So Particular.

Ella was seen one day before the mirror on a chair scrutinizing her face in the glass. With a deep sigh she remarked: . v' “I don’t see how God could have given me such a nose when he knows how particular 1 am.”—Harper’s Weekly.

Reading Them.

Though the world may have a lover. How we snort i When they paw his letters over • In a court! —Pittsburg Post,