Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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CHASE DAY MARRIED.

Chase Day. who has been working down about Spencer some this summer; arrived in Rensselaer Saturday with a young lady whom he introduced as his wife. She was formerly Miss Hazel Sims of SpenCer, and the marriage took place there. Chase’s friends are extending congratulations.

MRS. FRANK FOLTZ WORSE

The condition of Mrs. Frank Foltz was much worse last Friday, a complication of heart trouble setting in. She improved some from this but Monday was very low. Yesterday she was seemingly considerably improved again, but her friends are greatly alarmed over her condition and it is scarcely likely that she will ever recover.

SOLDIERS REUNION HERE.

Annual Reunion of 87th Indiana Will Be Held In Rensselaer, Sept. 22-23. Col. E. P. Hammond of Lafayette will be here Saturday afternoon and wants to meet the surviving members of the 87th Reg. Ind. Vol. Inf., to arrange for the annual reunion of said regiment, w r hich will be held in Rensselaer on Sept. 22 and 23. A good turnout of veterans is desired.

FATAL AUTO WRECK.

A story comes from Goodland that a two-year-old child was burned to death Saturday night in an automobile accident. A young man named Egan was talcing a woman, Mrs. Thos. Frey, and her two small children to Sheldon, when the auto ran into the ditch and upset catching fire and burning entirely up, a two-year-old girl of the Fry woman being burned up with it. The other occupants escaped with severe burns. The accident happened near Kentland.

RUNAWAY AT FUNERAL.

While out at the Crocketl cemetery Sunday afternoon to the burial of Miss Hayes Gwin, a Mjt. Ayr livery team driven by Wm. Haskell of that place, took fright and ran away as he was untying them from the rack, one of the reins getting caught in a ring of the harness and pulling them around. They ran for a miles or more, we are told, and used the carriage up pretty badly, tearing the bodly completely from the running gears. The carriage belonged to Ed Duvall, of Rensselaer. Fortunately tihfere was no one in the rig at the time.

ALFALFA GROWN IN JASPER COUNTY.

Charlie Pullins of Bar'kley tp., was in Saturday and left on exhibition at The Democrat office a small bundle of his second cutting of alfalfa, which is a new crop for Jasper county. Uncle Gharley having the only field we know of, and not many people in this county ever saw any of it. His second cutting is yielding two tons to the acre, while the first cutting went a little better than three ons. He has four acres of alfalfa. Mr. Pullins’ TurkeyRed Wheat tested out 60% lbs. to the bushel this Near, and yielded 30 bushels to the acre. His Rudy wheat also made 30 bushels per acre, and Rested 62% pounds, to the bushel. He “had about 25 acres of both varieties. His oats, he stated, .made 40 bushels to the acre. • 1

OUR’S ISN’T A FIVE CENT COW.

The Republican, for nothing better to say in defense of the local barbers’ trust, charges The Democrat man with selling the surplus milk from our full blood Jersey cow at 6 1-4 cents per quart, when the owners of common chalk-water cows sell for 5 cents.

Sure, and it's worth it, too. Just the richest kipd of milk you ever saw, and 1-4 pint of thick rich cream from every quart. Good feed all the time, both grain and pasture. Now if we owned one of those big, liimbering cows that it requires ten quarts of milk (?) to yield one pint of cream, and had a stand-in with the city marshal so we could with impunity vio-!

late the city ordinance by pasturing her on the rag-weed along the Streets, like a certain Republican editor that we could name; if we had a cow and a stand-in like that, we might, were we in the milk business, sell milk at 3 cents per quart —but we would feel ashamed to look a milk customer in the face because of taking his money and giving so little in return. But as there arfe, so the Republican states, 5-cent cows in the city, no one is compelled to pay 6 1-4 cents unless he wants to —we’ve formed no combination w r ith the owners of the 5-cent cows to boost the price to 6 1-4 cents. Neither is ours the only 6 1-4 cent cow in the city, by any means. 4’-

REV. D. M. WOOD DEAD.

Former Presiding Elder of the M. E.Church Died at Battle Ground Monday. Rev. Delos M. Wood, former presiding elder of the M. E. church, died at Battle Ground at 11 a. m., Monday. He had been ill with pneumonia for the past eleven months, and came to .Battle Ground to die in his cottage there. The services will be held to-day at the tabernacle, and the remains shipped to Indianapolis for burial.

“ELI AND JANE” COMING.

“Eli and Jane” has the prettiest story ever told and the plot of the play is so easily understood. It’s not one of those silly things that no one can understand ana after it’s out you find yourself asking what it was all about. “Eli and Jane” is a story of honesty, virtue, love and friendship. There are moments when you want to cry and some do. Then again there’s times when you will yell your head off at the good clean comedy. It’s not one of those, blood and thunder plays. Oh no. *lt’s devoid of horse play and yellow back novel heroes. There is no shooting of pistols, not one shot fired to jar the nerves of the timid. But it’s a good clean show- that was built for ladies, gentlemen and children. Ellis Theater, Saturday, August 13.

STILL DOING GOOD SERVICE.

Probably the oldest auto in point of service in Rensselaer if not in Jasper county, is that now used by the Jasper County Telephone Co., for its linemen, agd is still doing good work. This machine is the one-cyclinder Cadillac formerly owned by Joseph A. Fagot of Remington, and- which caused Mr. Fagot’s death at the slough bridge south of Rensselaer some five or six years ago, by running off the grade and burying him in the mud of the bayou on. the east side of "the road, one night when Joe and his two little sons w-ere driving Jrom Rensselaer to his home in Remington. The machine came into the possession ot a Wolcott man some time later, who used it for several years,and several months ago the telephone company traded one of their old Orient Bucktyoards for same.-:' ■ ■ ’ ■ ’

BOYD PORTER SELLS OUT.

Frank Kresler Again Becomes Owner of “The Cash Store.” T A deal was made a few weeks (ago but Which has been kept from the public in general in order that Mr. Porter might reduce his stock before final transfer. is that of the Boyd Porter dry goods and shoe store on Washington street > to, Frank Kresler, Mr. Kresler will take possession in a few days and the store .jyill then be closed for perhaps a Week to invoice the remaining stock and get the new goods on the shelves. Mr. Porter takes in the deal the residence property now occupied by Mr. Kresler on the. corner of Cornelia and Division streets, the former f Dr. Horton property, but the latter will continue to occupy same for the present. / Messrs. Porter and Kresler were formerly partners in conducting this store, Kresler selling out to Port* a few years I ago. .. . ■

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 19l»».

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. o Warren T. Elmore has been appointed administrator of the estate of his father, the late Alpheus Elmore of Remington. who died intestate. Trustee Eight of Fair Oaks was in the city on business Monday. He is preparing to build a new school house at the Moffitt school. See advertisement in another column. Did you ever hear of a democrat paying anything back into the treasthat he had once extracted.— Republican. Well, we don't remember any democrats having been asked to pay anything back. But we have heard of a few republicans being heard something about a few republicans being asked to '‘cough.’’

-o - The will of the late George Stalbaum of Kankakee tp., was filed for probate a few days ago. The original instrument was made Oct. 2. 1900, and a codicil was added August 24, 1909. All the real and personal property is left to the widow during her life time, and at her death it is to be equally divided between the surviving children. Charles and Frederick Stalbaum were named in the' will as executors, but the latter declined to accept, and only Charles qualified. Last Thursday’s Pulaski County Democrat says of the Monon or Ketman ditch hearing, which is of interest to a number of Jasper county people - residing near the Pulaski county line : A session of circuit court is to be held at 8 p. m. tonight, when more remonstrances on the Monon will probably be set for trial. Judge Steis and the attorneys expect to finish to-day the w r ork of inspecting the lands mentioned in the remonstrances that en-

tered into the agreement under which the lands are being pet sonally visited. If agreeable to, the attorneys more remonstrances will be put into the same plan to-night. No findings have yet been handed down by the judge.”

B. J. GIFFORD ARRESTED.

Bank Swindler Giving That Name In Limbo at Muskegan, Mich. Milwaukee. Wis.. Aug. 7.—A capture has been made of a bank swindler, who Jias been sought all over the country, according to word received to-day at the office of the State Bankers' Association.

A few weeks ago, a man giving the name of B. J. Gifford, visited W atertown, deposited a draft of 814,000 upon a St. Louis bank, but the bank failed to accept checks against his account tor several- thousand dollars, and it was found that he was probably a man who had victimized banks in St. Louis to the extent of nearly SII,OOO, and that he was also badly wanted in Ohio for the same style of operation. He has been caught at Muskegan, Mich., just across the lake from here. Names of the banks

which he swindled are not given out here, but will be announced when Gifford is taken back io Ohio, where the most definite charges are pending him.

W. B. AUSTIN A BUSY MAN.

Former Rensselaer Citizen Now Prominent In Chicago Business Affairs. The Chicago Examiner- bf last Sunday contained m its writeup of "Men of Affairs” of the Windy City, a picture of our former townsman. William B. Austin. with the following mention of his business success: "One of the many men of large affairs in Chicago who is enthusiastic over the conclave and believes that it will have a farreaching and beneficial effect in advertising the city in every section of the country is Mr. William B. Austin; dealer in bonds and mortgages, with offices at 167 Dearborn street. Mr. Austin is a I • - ..... ‘ • -

large holder of Chicago and Indiana real estate and is one of the busiest men in Chicago. He is president of the Marquette dub. vice president of the Hamilton Club, vise president of the Indiana Society of Chicago, member of the University and Union League clubs, member of the Chicago Association of Commerce and of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, managing director of the Knox Hat Manufacturing Company of New York, and treasurer-manager and has a controlling interest in the ‘hat and fur business of John T. Shayne & Co. of Chicago. He is married and lives at 25 Scott street.

Mr. Austin was born in Indiana forty-nine years ago, and graduated from Wabash College in 1881. For eighteen years he was a lawyer and banker in Indiana, He believes with George Ade that all smart meu in Chicago came front Indiana, and the smarter they are the sooner they came. He cante in the fall of 1900.

OILED STREETS A SUCCESS IN CROWN POINT.

Hon. John B. Peterson, the Democratic candidate for Congress. was in Montirello a short time last Mlondav looking after the political situation and getting acquainted with a few of the voters. He- expects to visit us several times during the Campaign when he can stay longer and meet more of the people. Noting the experiments that were being made in oiling the streets of MontieellA Mr. Peterson stated that last summer a number of streets in Crown Point were oiled, and the treatmeht proved so satisfactory that almost the entire city was oiled this season. Their streets are macadam, the same as our principal streets, and the oiling, besides being cheaper than water sprinkling, not only keeps down the dust but preserves the street surface. —White County Democrat.

CHRISTIAN BIBLE SCHOOL PICNIC.

The Christian Sunday School and church will hold its annual picnic at Nagle’s grove., three miles southwest of town, on Thursday, August 11. Wagons will be provided for the boys and girls of the school, and carriages for the older persons and parents who have no conveyances of their own. The procession will leave the church as SOon after nine o'clock as possible.

Committees are busy getting everything in readiness for the greatest outing the school has ever taken.

“Aunt Sallie.”. the great funmaker. is expected to be present. There will l>e swings, horseshoes, ball games by the juniors and seniors, the old time game of “Socker" (with soft ball) will be resurrected. Besides these prizes will be offered to the successful contestants in the following games: Crab race. Wheel barrow raceHop and roll race and three legged race, for boys. Nail driving contest. Relay race and potato race for girls and women. Affinity race and 60 yard dashes for . girls and boys. It isiioped that every member of the school, together with their parents and all members of the church, will gather at the church at nine o’clock with well filled baskets and spedd the day in the grove.

ICE-CREAM SOCIAL.

An ice cream social will be given at Rosebud church On Saturday evening, August 13. The 1 publiC is cordially invited.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL AT EGYPT.

There will be an fee cream social at the Egypt school house in Jordan tp.. Saturday evening, August 13. AH are invited Jo be present. -

TO COUPON HOLDERS. All parties having coupons redeemable at the G. E. Murray Co. must, present same before Sept. Ist for redemption. Xo coupons will he given out after August 12, 1910.—The G. E. Murray Co.

STILL DODGING.

The Peculiar Line of Reasoning of the Republican Is Amus- ■ ■ ing. ■ ■ . ) ... - ; The Republican is so glad The Democrat mentioned the fact that the present city administration, elected on a reform platform. had not turned the excess; salaries back into the county treasury, that is, the excess over the amounts provided in their platform. They patterned after the democratic congressman in the 13th district, who did not turn back into thie national treasury the salary voucher sent him by the government for salary accruing between the death of Congressman Brick and the time Mr. Barnhart took his seat as his Miccessor, says the Republican. Oh, bosh! What a weak excuse. This democratic congressman never agreed to take the office for less than the salary provided. When the men elected on this “reform’’ city platform accepted the nomination, knowing what

the platform pledged, did they not bind themselves, morally, at least, ; to take the salaries provided in their platform? If. as the Republican would •htave it,“Congressman Barnhart did wrong in accepting any salary at all until after he had actually taken his seat in congress, notwithstanding the fact that the salary of a congressman is so much per annum, and not for the tftne tWat congress is in session, does that excuse the repudiation of the republican city platform in Rensselaer? In other words, do two wrongs make one right, as the Republican’s line of reasoning would have you infer?

COMING.

Manager Ellis of the local play house after a great deal of corresponding, figuring on railroads and changing of dates, is able to announce the appearance of W. F. Mann's newest success, “The Fighting Parson,” from the pen of John A. Preston. A bright pastorial comedy drama in four acts with a superb cast of metropolitan players. It comes with the stamp of approval .from all the eastern cities w'here clergy and theatrical critics pronounced its success, as a clean play void of vulgarity and horse play. It’s lines are bright and natural. It has a real plot with an air of refinement that appeals to all, old and young alike, or as one eastern critic says: “A voting lady can go with her sweetheart to see the 'Fighting Parson’ without being embarrassed.” It makes its bow to a Rensselaer audience on Monday night, at the Ellis Theater. August 15. Seats on sale at Jessen’s.

THE CITY COUNCIL.

A Few Sidewalks Ordered and Many Bills Allowed at Mon,r day Night’s Meeting. The Common Council met in regular session Monday night with all meml>ers present. The petition »of Alien Swaim, et ah for a sidewalk oh Elm street, on west side, from Franklin to Webster, was granted, and specifications and resolution ordered prepared. City atorney was instructed.to prepare resolution for cement walk on west side of Cullen street, along lots of Mrs. C. L. LougSlridge. The water rate for the' Monon railroad was fixed at S6OO per year dating payable monthly.

Fire committee was authorized to purchase fly nets for city team and repair .roof of shed in rear of city hall. The street committee was authorized to put road grader in good repair. The following claims were al-l lowed: .. ' j CORPORATION FUND. J K. Davis, marsihal $30.00 Frarfk Critser. night watch. . 25.00 Cbas. Morlan, c1erk......... 25,00 W 6 Burford. order b00k... 9.50 W S Parks, extra police. .. . 4:00. Elmer Gwin, same. ......... 3.00 Geo. Mustard, same. ....... 3.00 R D Thompson, express... l . .45 WATER FUND. / T E Malone,* salary. ....... 30.00 John Hordeumn, wk on mains 15.90 National Lead Co, lead pdpe. 23.50 k D Thompson, express..... 2.39

LIGHT FUND. C S Chamberlain, salary. . . 59.00 Mel Abbott, same. ......... 30,00 Dave Has*e. same, ... 30.00 J B Clow Co, supplies...... 01.08 Terence Thompson, wk, line 9K OO Standard Oil Co, oil. . . .. . . 28.71 Roht. Waitena, wk on line. . 9.00 111. Electric Co, supplies. .. . 34.83 Shirley Hill Coal Co. coal. . . 80.10 Ehruman Coal Coal Co, same. 69.81 Warner Bros, mdse. ~.: ... 15.70 Bal. Boiler Insurance C 0.... 40.50 R D Thompson, express.... .95 ROAD FUND. Bert Campbell, teamster. .. . 25.00 Rensselaer Lumber Co, lumb 60.35 J W S|*»lm. wk on bridge. . .50 Ernest Cockerel, mow weeds .70 Same, shoveling. .. . ......, 3.50 Dan Tanner, mowing weeds. .50 J C Clark, engineer steam roH 19.25 W F Smith & Co, use of roller 69.75 Warner Bros, md5e........ 1.00 Ray Parks, hauling rock.... 12.60 John Bearing, same 8.40 W R Shesler, same. 8.40 John Murray, 5ame........ 3.15 Hiram Blanchett. 5ame...... 3.50 Livingston R©>», shovel rock 1.75 Dan Tanner, mowing weeds. 1.60 Sherman Parks, shovel rock. 4.20 Mon on Crushed Rock Co, 5 cars crushed rock . ..... 98.81 R D Thonipeoti| frt on same. 56.53

PRIVATE CAR TO NORTH DAKOTA.

Vern J. Crisler of Jamestown, North Dakota, who has been in Rensselaer for sometime organizing a crowd of land buyers, has just returned from Chicago where he made arrangements for a private car to be run to Jamestown, North Dakota, carrying land buyers to that point. The car is a tourist sleeper, purely sanitary, and Mr. Cristler’s customers will be given ac-* commodations of the berths free of charge. The car is equipped with tables which mav be used by anyone desiring, ;to iui.A. in the car. A porter will be in attendance and everything possible will be provided to insure the comfort of tih e traveler, making the trip a fine outing. The car will be* set off at Jamestown a few da>’ s . affording an opportunity to examine the land in that vicinity. sDuring this time the berths may be' iJs€d, thus saving the expense of hotef. A number of sections of the car have already Been engaged by farmers who are to take their wives, as they can in. this way make the trip comfortably and at the minimum of expense. Not only are the jieople to be given tfie sleeping car priveleges free of charge but the ticket rate by this arrangement will be reduced about $9 less than any excursion rate offered the railroads.

The car will leave the evening of September 6th and anyone desiring to make the trip will see Mr. Crisler at tthe office of John A. Dunlap in the I. O. Q. F. bilUding and make reservation. It will be well to make these arrangements as early as possible as those first applying are given the choice of berths.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice- for the week ending August 8, 1910: Mr. nd Mrs. R. M. Ball, William Day, J. M. McGinnis, Master Walter Paul, Joe Berresford. Jacob r. Schuenk. F. Peacock, John T. Shreg. J. B. Rulenhouse (2),. Wm Gnat, J. Furguson, Mrs. Martha McGinnis, Mrs. Barlow, Miss Merle Watson (2). Mrs. Albert Brown, Miss Doris Dolan, Mrs. Noris, Grace E. Lornlive. These letters will be sent to the dead letter office -Atig. 22, if not delivered before that date. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of list. G. E. MURRAY, P. M.

We are still selling old wheat flour, White Star $1.40 and Acme 51.50. Every sack guaranteed to please or your money refunded. —Rowles & Parker.

Wild Hay —Have about 100 tons -of marsh hay to put up; want someone to put it up on shares,—D. H. YEOMAN, Rensselaer. Ind.

Janies Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, says of “Eli” in , ‘Eli anti Jane:" “He is a man with a woman’s heart and a warrior’s soul, who never turned his back on friend or foe.” The work is touched with the light of 'humor, grace and innate charm which will please the entire audience. The part pf Eli is richly endowed with all the good things that go to make up a clean moral show, Ellis Theater, Saturday* August .13.

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