Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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REPUBLICAN CORRECTS A MISTAKE

When the Offended Party Writes aid Demands a Retraction. A UTILE DILATORY, HOWEVER, As Their Attention Was Called To the Error Three Days After It Appeared, But Correction Was Not Made. Until Fourteen Days Later.—The Sort of “Dope” Sent Out By the Republican Press Bureau. The Rensselaer Republican in its issue of August 12 published the following false statement regarding Mayor Lawrence Becker of Hammond: Mayor Laurence Becker, of Hammond, one of Senator Shively’s staunch boosters has been disbarred by thfe highest Indiana court, and is planning a migration to Seattle.

The Democrat is reliably informed that the attention of one of the editors of the Republican was called to the falsehood only three days after its appearance, or on August 15, but no attempt was made to correct the item until .the issue of August 26, and then only after Mayor Becker had had his attention called to the article by friends from different parts of this section of the state and had written to the Republican and demanded a retraction p. d. q. Then a retraction was published away back on the rear page of the Republican. On August 24 one of the editors of the Republican wrote Mr. Becker, jn reply to his demand for a retraction, and apologized for the libel, saying:

Hon. Lawrence Becker, Hammond, Ind. Dear Sir: “I wish to reply to your letter of Aug. 23d and to make personal apology lor the very shameful article that appeared in this paper as quoted in your letter. It seems that one day when copy was short and I was not in the office some one grabbed up a sheet of copy sent out by the republican state committee and cut out a number of the paragraphs and put them in type. I did not notice the article either in the proof or the paper and regret that I did nbt do so, as I keep personally weir enough acquainted with the politics and the people of this section of Indiana to have known the statement altogether false and consequently to have kept it out of the paper. . . “I shall be pleased to make the correction and trust that it will correct; any harm dong by the ■. false publication. I shall give especial care in the future to matters supplied by the state committee.” GEORGE H. HEALEY.

Now we recognize that mistakes of* this nature might easily occur in any newspaper office, but when they do the editor is usually only too glad to publish a correction as soon as his attention has been called to it, and in this case attention was called to the falsity of the article within three days after it appeared, yet apparently the writer of the letter to Mr. Becker who was so closely in touch with the politic cal affairs of this state and district as to know at once when his attention was called to it that the statement was absolutely untrue, was willing to let the matter go uncorrected and let it injure Mayor Becker and the democrats generally ..all it could, until Mr. Betker demanded a retraction.. He knew it was false at once his attention was called to it, according to his letter to Becker, yet he was apparently willing to 'tier it go.” He says.the item was clipped from a press sheet sent out by the (republican state committee for use of republican editors. If so, is this a fair criterion of the reliability of the “dope” sent out to bamboozle the voters of Indiana by the republicans? If the state committee bureau deliberately lied about Mayor Becker—and t its editors are unfit to be in charge of such a bureau if they are so little ac-

quainted with the politics of the state to not know that the statement was wholly false and was purposely sent out to injure both Mayor Becker and Senator Shivley—has it not lied about many other prominent democrats solely for political effect as well? Republican “news,” like, republican platforms—as also admitted by the Rensselaer Kenublican—seems to be thoroughly unreliable and .is gotten up for the sole purpose of fooling the voters and allow the politicians of that party to ride into power on. Beware of both.

REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION TOMORROW

The democratic representative convention for the counties of Jasper and White will meet in Rensselaer tomorrow in the East court room at 11 a. m. ’ ‘ The delegates selected from this county are: Sam Scott, John P. Ryan, Grant Davisson, S. D. Clark. Carey L. Carr, Frank \\ elsh, John McCullough, Wm. E. Culp.

OPERATION PERFORMED

On Mrs. B. Forsythe and Two 1 Tumors Removed. 'Dr. Loy was in Chicago Monay to be present at the operation on Mrs, B. Forsythe at the Hahnemann hospital. The operation took place at 8 a. m., and two tumors were removed, one a cystic .tumor weighing about sixteen pounds, and the other a small fiberous tumor. She* was quite weak after the operation when Dr. Loy came home. "''L Reports from the hospital' received here yesterday noon stated that she was doing nicely.

SOMETHING OF A PEACH.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donnelly and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Donnelly autoed over to Plymouth Saturday and spent Sunday with John Keiper and fam,ily. John has a peach orchard on his farm but the crop is almost a failure this season. However, he has a few bushels this year and the visitors brought some . samples back with them, which were very fine. John sent one peach to The Democrat, probably not r the smallest one he could find, but yet a fair sample. It weighed 8% ounces ■ and measured 10 inches in circumference and was the finest and. most perfect peach we ever saw.

IS MOVING TO SPENCER.

Mrs. C. B. Harold came down from Chicago Friday for a few weeks visit with her sisters, Mes dames Marion I. Adams and Clint Brown. Mr. Harold came down Saturday evening and remained until Monday evening. He has been employed in a job printing establishment in Chicago for several years, but is preparing to-move back to his old home in Spencer. Ind., next month, where he will take a position as foreman of the composing rooms of the Agricultural Epito mist, a farm paper published at Spencer. Mrs. Harold’s health has not been very good for some time, and it is chiefly for this reason that they are leaving the cry-

REPORTS ON SHORTAGES.

Board of Accounts Prepares for Action to Recover. Approximately two hundred reports bn the affairs' of township, county and city and town officials in which shortages from one cause or another have been reported by field examiners are being prepared to file with the Governor for transmission to the attornev-general for action to recover. Many of the reports concern shortages which run less than SSO, and it is understood that an effort will be made to adjust these out of court. The reports will be ready to |urn over in less than two weeks, James Bingham, attorney-gen-eral, is now engaged in preparing complaints in approximately fiftysimilar suits certified to him in July. He expects to meme suits by the middle of the month.—lndianapolis News.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1910.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About w the County Capitol. Prosecuting Attorney Taylor of the Carroll-White circuit was in the city a few hours Monday looking after some ditch matters. —o — There will be a temperance meeting at the court house next Monday evening. Everyone in vited to attend. — W. W. Reeve, Co. Chairman. —o • It i§ said the Granger establishment which has flourished on Jerry’s Island for a long time, has been moved across the river to Thayer.—Crown Point Star.

'■ : —o— Sheriff Shirer, son Richard, and Mrs. Ed Duvall accompanied Mrs. Tony Kiser of the west part of town to Longcliff Saturday where she was placed in the asylum. —o— ; ■ . Squire Irwin and a medical board held an inquest yesterdav afternoon to determine the condition of Mrs. Rebecca Kennedy, the aged mother of George and James Kennedy of Jordan tp., who has become such a burden to .look after that it is thought best to confine her in the asylum. She is 76 years of age and manifests a wandering, suicidal tendency. —o — F. W. Mulkahy, the .operator at the Swashbuckler “board of trade” shop, wts found in an almost helpless state of intoxication at the Western Union office Sunday afternoon, and was bundled into a buss and hastened to Sheriff Shirer’s hotel on the south

side of the square. Monday he was brought before Squire Irwin and given the usual amount, $4.80, including trimmings. The Sternberg dredge which has been at work for the past few weeks on the rock work of the Iroquois ditch near the old Stott Grant. farm west of town, finished up last Friday and the Iroquois contract js now completed. it is said. The dredge will be left where the work was finished up for the present, to await the outcome of the extension petition, now pending in the Jasper circuit court, but which is progressing ven,- slowly because of the engineer putting in about all his time on the proposed Kankakee River ditch. The contract on the original ditch was let in 1906. four years ago. ’

New suits filed: No. 7640. James Hal’agan vs. May F. Thompson: action to have guardian appointed, defendant, who is the widow of the late Simon P. Thompson, being of unsound mind and is now confined in the asylum at Longcliff. She owns considerable real estate in this county, <it is alleged, and is incapable of managing her estate. No. 7641. Frank F. Butzow vs. Charles Dan ford, et al; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $2,277.87. No. 7642. Alfred Collins vs. Robert Randle, Henry B. Murray and Joseph F. Iliff; action on an old judgment of $92.40, together with interest. etc. Demand $375. ; — o — will open over the county as follows: Barkley, Carpenter, Giliam, Hanging Grove. Jordan, Kankalee. Keener, Marion Milroy anc .Wheatfield town, on Sept. 12. Walker and Wheatfield townships on Sept. 19. Union township on Sept. 26.

The Remington building is undergoing repairs and we are unable to cbtain information as to when they will begin. The preliminary- township institutes in the different townships will be held as follows and at the following places: Keener and Kankakee townships at Demotte, Sept. 8. Barkley, Hanging Grove, Jordan. Marion. Milroy and Newton townships at east court room, Rensselaer, Sept. 9.

Gillam, at Medaryville. Sent 10. V Wheatfield and Walker, at Wheatfield, Sept. 17. r Union township- at Fair Oak* Sept. 24. , - Following are the proceedings of commissioners’ court, first day September term, except claims allowed: Contract was awarded to Joe Putts for repair of bridge in Jordan tp., for $2Q7.50. Contracts for poor farm supplies v.ere awarded as follows: Trevor Eger, groceries, $164.93; Frank G. Kresler, dry goods and shoes, $56 - 61; Roth Bros, meats, steak 17c pound, boiling meats 11c. County officers reported fees collected for the quarter as follows: Sheriff, $385.63; clerk, $165.85;,’ auditor,- $37.70; recorder, $358.50. The report of the poor farm superintendent for the quarter shows receipts of $983.14 and expenses of $712.88. There were fifteen inmates at end of quarter. Interest on county funds in the various county depositories for the month of August was reported as follows: Trust & S. Bk, Rensselaer. .<36.44 State Bank, Rensselaer...... 35.95 First Nat. Bank, Rensselaer. 80.10 State Bank, Remington 11.11 Bank of Wheatfield 16.33

The September term of the Jasper circuit court will convene next Monday. As usual, both a grand jury and petit jury have been drawn by the jury commissioners, but the grand jury has not been called. The petit jury is called for the Second Monday of the term. The bridge graft cases will come up, of course, at this term, but whether they will be tried, continued or a change of venue taken from the court or county is not known at this time. Following are the names of the grand and petit jurors and the town or township which they are from: GRAND JURY. S? L. Matheny rs. Marion George Logan Gillam Wm. M. Long. ........... .Gillam W. E. Boyle. .Union Frank G. Kresler. ..... .Rensselaer Korah Daniels. .. . ..... .. .Marion

PETIT JURY. George Gilman . . . Carpenter Eart Barkley.... .Barkley William Hallier Wheatfield John Bill. .. ... ... . ■ ....... Jordan J. W. Hitchings. ....... .. . Jordan Alfred J. Tilton Wheatfield Raflph J. Donnelly Rensselaer George W. Casey. . . ... .... .Union Nicholas Biernua. ... . . . .Keener Grant Davisson... ... . . .". . Barkley John Farabee. ......... .Carpenter Dudlej- Tyler .......Carpenter William H. Murray........ Marion William Fitzgerald. ;. . . .Kankakee John W. Nowels... ...... .Newton Charles J. Dean. . . . . . . .Rensselaer

A BLIND TIGER—MAYBE.

“Chuck” Bowers Alleged to Be the Keeper of Same. The city marshal and nightwatch Critser arrested Charles Bowers of Rensselaer and Harry McNeil of Milrov tp., Saturday afternoon, the former on the charge of conducting a “blind tiger” and the latter for intoxication. ®

McNeil and Alva Hood of Milroy were in town and the former is alleged to have been quite badly under the influence of liquor. The marshal told him that he had better skidoo, and he got his team and started oir. It is said that the marshal had a suspicion that liquor was being gotten from a bam in the alley in the rear of J. W. McEwan’s place, in which Bowers keeps some horses, and securing the nightwatch, he went in from the Cullen street side to the barn. McNeil and Hood had gone up the alley to the barn. Just as the two officers reached the scene Bowers was opening a quart bottle of beer. He was surprised of course to see them, and hastened to assure them that his having the beer was all right, i denying that there was any more about. He sat the bottle down and took the officers aside to explain. As they returned Hodff was getting outside the contents

of the bottle as rapidly as it could gurgle down his throat. The officers then started a search, whefn Chuck admitted that there was a little more beer about, and 25 full quarts were found, also a couple of empty cases, or cases of*emptv bottles

rather. A bucket of ice was also found. Bowers alleged the beer was for his own private use and that McNeil had driven to the barn to swap horses. The beer was turned over to the sheriff and the two men arrested. McNeil plead guilty to intoxication and was given the usual “dollar and” $4.80 in all, by Squire Irwin. Bowers was given a hearing Monday morning and the evidence was about as set forth above, Hood testifying that he had picked up the bottle of beer after Chuck sat it down. The American Express agent testified to having delivered a few cases of beer at the barn, but only one at a time and the deliveries were not frequent nough to indicate that any large busi ness was being done in the way of blind tigering, if at all. There was no evidence of a sale haw'ng been made. The court thought the evidence sufficient to warrant the binding of defendant over to the circuit court, and bond was fixed at SIOO, which he gave.

FIRMAN WILL STICK TO THE FARM.

Finnan Thompson, who recently purchased the Mrs. J. F. W arren property on South Cullen street, will build a new porch on the front, change the stairway and make some other repairs to the property, and move into same next, month. He is at present occupying the old home place on the south side, but says there is too much work there for a farmer, as he intends to work his farm near Parr next season again, but will reside' in town, making the trip to the farm daily via auto. Just what will be done with the big Thompson residence has not been decided upon at this time. The price paid for the Warren property was $1,400.

CITY SCHOOLS OPEN

With An Enrollment of 493, a Gain of 14 Over Last Year. The Rensselaer schools opened Monday with a total enrollment of 493, which is a gain of 14 over the first day last year. The high school, however, shows a lojjs, of 13, being 140 against 153 for .ast year. Of course the total enrollment will probably be increased considerably later on, some pupiis not being ready from one cause or another to start in on the first day. Following is the enrollment by grades: Ist grade, Miss Bruce 33 Ist and 2d grades, Miss Adams. 31 2d grade, Miss Parkison 40 3d grade. Miss Hempbill. 44 4th grade, Miss Ma1ch0w......45 sth grade. Miss Sharp., 51 6th grade, Miss Parker 41 7th grade, Miss Smith. ...... .36 Bth grade, Mr. Dean.......... 32 9th grade .47 10th grade .................. 28 11th grade .................. 33 12th grade ... 2a Total .486

RESOLUTIONS

Adopted by the Jasper County Teachers’ Institute. ♦ The following resolutions were adopted by the Jasper county teachers at their last week over the deceased members of the association who have been called up higher during the past year: ' . ' ‘ Whereas God in his wisdom, has seen fit to take from us, Beatrice Marsden, Lucy Beasley and Hayes Gwin, three of our brightest and best teachers, Be it resolved: 1. That we feel that citizens of Jasper county together with the teachers, have suffered a great loss. 2. That we extend to the families of these, the departed, our tenderest sympathy and oommend them to the Great Teacher whom these so faithfully followed, and 3. That these resolutions be spread upon the records of this Institute;' and 4. That copies be furnished the county press for publication, and 5. That copies be sent to the families of the deceased. MRS. URA GWIN, Supt. I. N. WARREN. ■ f. MISS LORA BRUCE, > MISS GRACE DAUGHERTY; MISS ETHEL GREENE, 1 ’ j .Committee.

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WARDEN REID DEAD.

Expires Suddenly During Excitement of Fire at Michigan < City Prison. Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 3. During a small fire at the Indiana State Prison here to-night. Warden James D. Reid dropped dead of heart trouble. The fire started in a storeroom among some rags, presumably, from spontaneous combustion, and the Warden and other prison officials collected there to assist in getting it under control, with the aid of the city Fire- Department and a fire brigade at the prison. The fire was suppressed before much damage had been done, but the Warden after considerable agitation, suddenly dropped to the floor and expired in a few seconds. Warden Reid was one of the most noted prison men in the country. He became head of the prison on November 1, 1901, coming from South Bend, He was 52 years old. The funeral will be held from the warden’s residence Tuesday afternoon. Warden Reid’s successor will not be named until after the funeral.

OBITUARY OF MRS. E. J. RANDLE.

Lura M. Yeoman, eldest daughter of A. K. and Elizabeth Yeoman, was born in Jasper county, Ind., Feb. 22, 1878, and departed this life August 31, 1910, at the age of 32 years, 6 months and 9 days. She was united in marriage to Edward J* Randle Sept. 4, 1895. To this union two children were born, Mary E. and Walter R., the former having preceded the mother to a better world at the age of 18 months. She early united with the M. E. church and lived a true Christian life. She will be remembered in the church for her untiring efforts, her generous gifts, and

the interest she always manifested in every branch of the work. She loved the Sunday schdol and taught a class of young ladies at the Barkley church until her failing health prevented her further attendance. She has been on the decline since May/suffering from slight attacks of malaria and complications. Tuesday, Aug. 30, she submitted to an operation in the hopes that her natural good health would be rertored. She passed through the operation successfully, but her physical condition was such that she lapsed into unconsciousness and passed peacefully away. She leaves to mourn their loss a husband and one son, ten years of age, for whomitwas her constant thought and effort to direct in the paths of a Christian life. Besides the immediate family she, the last of three daughters, leaves a father and mother, four brothers and a host of sincere friends to mourn her'departure. xx

OBITUARY OF MRS. FOLTZ.

Mrs. Eva Foltz, eldest daughter and child of Dr. Jonathan and Mary- Elizabeth Kolk, was born on March 3, 1860, eight miles southwest of Battle Ground, Tippecanoe countv. Indiana. From this place her parents moved to Milford, 111., in 1862. From there thev moved to Oxford, Ind., in 1863.

Mrs. Foltz’s early education was received in Oxford Academy. She also attended college aj Valparaiso in 1881,-2. In 1883 she studied music in Chicago. She began teaching school at the age of fifteen. Her first work was in the Oxford Academy. Her chosen profession was successfully followed until she was married to Frank Foltz on October 29, 1886. After marriage they came to Rensselaer where they lived happily together until the time of her death. Mrs. Foltz was a consistent and exemplar member of the Christian church. At the age of twelve she confessed her faith in Christ and was baptized by William D. Owen and united with .the Christian church at Oxford. After coming to Rensselaer she was among the number who organized the Christian church here, thus becoming one of its charter members. Her reputation

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