Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. 1 Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. C. B. Steward was a Hammond goer yesterday. "T 7~ ~ 77 James Willis and wife were in Chicago Monday. L. _L. Lefler of Lafayette was a Rensselaer visitor Monday. To-day’s markets : Corn, 46c ; Wheat, 88c; Rye, 60c; Oats, 29c. B. J. Gifford of Kankakee, 111., was in the city Monday on business. E. L. Hollinsworth spent Sunday with his wife at Kalamazoo, Mich. S. C. Hammond went to Demotte Monday to visit relatives a few days. Mrs. John Dunlap went to Watseka, 111., Monday to visit relatives a few days. Eighty-eight tickets were sold from this station to Chicago for the excursion Sunday. j'Mrs. L. H, Hamilton and daughter Marie spent Saturday with relatives in Reynolds. Mrs. L. McGlinn went to Foresman Monday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Brown. If you want something really nice in fruits and vegetables, get it at The Home Grocery. Send in your subscription renewal to The Democrat and get the National Monthly a full year free gratis. The ball game schedule for the horse show is Wadena on Thursday; Francesville, Friday; and Boswell, Saturday. Miss Lula Carter of Claypool, who had been visiting Benj. Harris and family the past few days, returned home Monday. F. Stackhouse and wife, Mrs. /E. Isreal and Edna Spain, went to Deedsville, Ind., Saturday to visit a few days with Carey Huston and family.Chase* Day passed through Rensselaer Saturday on his way from Gary; where he has a position, to Spencer to spend Sunday with his wife. ~>>Mrs. R. B. Harris, Mrs. Evaline Randle and Mrs. Rebecca Porter went to South Bend Saturday to make a visit with their sister, Mrs. C. W. Coen. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan and Mr. and Mrs. Geqrge Ketchum spent Sunday with relatives of Mr. Honan in Delphi, going over in Mr. Ketchum’s auto. Misses Mary and Hazel Jacks of southeast of town went to Royal Center Saturday to attend the wedding of Miss Faye Brown to a young man of that locality. Clifford Payne of north of town, who had been attending business college at Marion, returned to that place Saturday after a week's sickness at his home. Mrs. E. B. Vondersmith and sister. Miss K. Sightsinger, of Iventland, returned home Saturday after a few days visit with the forme _v daughter, Mrs.'C. P. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van Cleave of Frankfort come Friday to make a short visit with the latter’s sister, Mrs" E. O. Gunyon, of east of town, returning home Monday, i - ' ~

The first cranberries, Home Grocery; Delos Thompson spent yesterday in Chicago. ; ; Rev. C. L. Harper went to Laporte yesterday to attend the M. E. conference. Miss Selma Leopold expects to leave in a few days for Ann Arbor, Mich., to enter college. A. G. W. Farmer of the east part of town will preach at the M. E. Church Sunday morning. All are cordially invited to attend. The all day’s Friday,' rain extended over into half of Saturday, and even then it didn’t finish up, for we got a little more Monday. ... J. Jerry Healy, after helping to Jribve the B. Forsythe stock from Brook to Oxford, sprained his back, and came home to spend a few days vvdiile the sprain is healing. -/.Miss Carrie Welsh and mother, svvfio 'had been making an extended visit with the latter’s son Bert and family near Larimcre, N. Dak., arrived home Monday. Mrs. Welsh is quite poorly. KMr. and Mrs. J. W. Mauck lc ame Thursday evening from Kankakee, 111., and have taken up their residence in the Mrs. Wishard property in the east part of town, which Mr. Mauck recently purchased. \jf. M. Snedeker returned home Sphday evening from Chicago, where he had been to see his wife, who underwent an operation Thursday in a Chicago hospital. He reports her as recovering nicely from the operation. Remember the next monthly horse sale in Rensselaer will be on Wednesday, Oct. 5. A large number of buyers have promised to be here, and all parties having horses for sale are urgently requested to bring them in on that day. Mrs. L. B. Fenner of Burdwell, Neb., come Saturday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Gerber. The latter’s son, Guy, who has charge of the Logansport Business College, was also here to spend Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Domback of Des Moines, la., who had been visiting here with the latter’s, brother, J. J. Montgomery,Tor a short time, left Saturday for Oneida, 111., to visit her sister, Mrs. Clara M. Armstrong, before returning home. |4iorat io Ropp, after four year’s Residence in town, has decided to again return to “the grange,’’ and has rented the Wm. Day farm upon “Wall street” in Barkley township, where the farmers all own autos, to wfliich place he will move about March 1. He says Wall street is good enough for him. Miss Mary Miles of Milroy tp., went to Decatur, 111., Wednesday to undergo an operation for appendicitis which was successfully performed Friday. As soon as she recovers from this she will be operated on for goiter. Miss Miles is a school teacher and has taught several terms in White county. Last year she taught in Los Angeles, Cali.

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If you want a new Coat, Suit or j hat, why, then, don’t fail to attend our Opening. Same date as the Horse Fair. —Rowles & Parker. H. J. Bartoo, in writing from Tacoma, Wash., to renew his subscription to The Democrat, sends his regards to all old friends in this vicinity. siMann Spitler was down from ifhayer on business over Saturday. He ownes a big farm in Alabama which he bought about a year ago, and expects to go down there and spend the winter. Mrs. Jesse Eldridge 6f Geddes, S. Dakl, arrived a few days ago to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Eldridge has been broken in health lately and thinks probably the climate here will help restore her. The first gun of the campaign in Rensselaer is to be fired tonight, when Senator Clapp of Minnesota, an “insurgent,’ will tell our friends, the enemy, what they must do to be saved. The speaking will be in the opera house. Mr. an Mrs. Will Timmons of Longmont. Colo., have been the guests of her mother, .Mrs. Mary Parker. (>n Saturday, accompanied by Miss Blanche Parker, they went to Peru for a visit before returning to their western home.—Francesville Tribune. Charles Spriggs of Oklahoma City stopped off in Rensselaer Friday evening for a few days visit with relatives and friends. He was on his way home from a visit with his folks in Michigan. All the Jasper county contingent in Oklahoma City are prospering, he says. During the heavy electrical storm on Monday night of last week thirteen sheep belonging to T. L. Smith and grazing in his pasture in Gillam township, were struck and killed by lightning. The animals were insured in one of Ed A. Hite’s companies and the loss was adjusted Monday. B. Forsythe writes the Democrat from Oxford and says he had a big sale there Saturday afternoon and evening. It rained in the forenoon. Twelve clerks could not wait on all the people. The ordinance requiring pay for transient stores or closing out sales was a dead letter, he says. « Announcements were received by Rensselaer friends of the coming marriage of Fred King, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King, of the north part of town, on Oct. 4 to Miss Nell Denzle, of Warsaw, at which place the wedding will take place. Fred is employed in the furniture business at that place. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis of Westville, Laporte county, visited last week a few days with their son Frank north of town. Mr. McGinnis was a member'of the “87th” and attended the reunion while here. Their daughter Mrs. Morris, of Chandler, Okla., who was also visiting here, accompanied them home Saturday. Fred Phillips, was agreeably surprised Saturday {it being near his 44th birthday anniversary) when about fifty invited gentlemen friends gathered at his home at the dinner hour. He was presented with a beautiful chair as a remembrance of the occasion. All departed soon after dinner in their autos, and reported an elegant time. In renewing his subscription for another year T. F. Clark of Battle Ground says, “Enclosed find $1.50 on subscription to your much valued paper; we can’t get along without it, as it is like a letter from home. Mrs. Clark always gets it first. If she can she will gp to the office after it so to get it first. Yours for a good honest paper.—T. F. Clark.” Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nelson and two children, of Colrain, Minn., and Mrs. Nelson’s sister, Mrs. McCondel, of West Duluth, . Mtinn., visited last week with the family of John Guss of near Virgie. They returned home Sunday, being accompanied as far as Chicago by Mr. and Mrs. Guss. Mr. Nelson is car foreman of the D. Sc. M. Northern R. R. at Coltain. They were much taken up with this section of the country. The bakers use the Home Grocery’s celebrated A. & K. flour, which is surely a strong recommend. Every sack fully guaranteed, at only $1.50 a sack. Subscribe for The Democrat.

VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY

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whatever, and the state called its first witness, Auditor Leatherman: Mr. Leatherman is shown the bid oi> which the alleged change in figures was made, and identifies tlhe paper. The state offers to introduce the bid in evidence, hut Mr. Sellers objected, and gave a long list” of reasons why it should not be introduced, attacking the sufficiency of the affidavit, etc. . The objection was sustained, because the preparatory evidence leading up to the bid had not been introduced. The state then had Mr. Leatherman bring up the road record from his office containing order of the commissioners for the letting. Mr. Sellers objected to every question asked and moved to , strike out the answers after they were answered, but was overruled by the court in almost every instance. , The record was introduced as evidence and read; the notices as published of the letting and the "proof of publication as filed by the publishers of the newspapers in which the notices were printed. The letting was to be on Monday, March 1, 1909, Sellers moved to strike out everything, and gave a long'list of reasons for bis objections at each and; every stage, being prompted occasionally by Judge Steis. His objections were still overruled. One of the many objections to the road record notice was that no evidence had been introduced to show that the commissioners had the power to order tlhe letting, etc., etc. The state again offered the bid in evidence, to which Sellers excepted and was again overruled. State reads bid from the road record, being strenuously opposed by the defense’s attorneys. The court comes down off of bench and reads entry in road record, then overrules motion to strike out. Judge Steis also raises his voice in objection and the section of statute under which the prosecution was brought was looked into by the court, and objection overruled. Prosecutor Longwell then reads all the record pertaining to this letting as shown by Road Record 7, page 29, showing the various bids filed as they appear on record. Objections are again made by the defense and Sellers moves to strike out. The state again offers bid, and Sellers gets up with his stereotyped objections. The court doesn’t even rule, but says: .“Proceed, Mr. Prosecutor,” and the bid was read. Steis also objects to questions asked the auditor about when lie received the bid, and Sellers and* Steis were sustained three times to tlhe manner the question was put, but finally the prosecutor got his question in the proper technical form and was allowed' to proceed. The auditor stated that the bid came to him sealed, and perhaps 25 minutes after it was opened he saw the paper. The bid was then, after all this sparring, ready to be. presented to the jury, when Mr. Sellers again interposed a string of objections as long as the moral law ; the court asked to see the bid. then examined the affidavit and sustained the objection, the trouble seeming to be at this stage in that the affidavit named “C. L. Bader” while the bid was signed “C. L. 8.—,” a peculiar way Mr. Bader has in signing his name so that the latter part of it, after the P> is a scrawl that might mean almost anything. This was where it appeared the state was about to get out of court, and the Prosecutor asked for .five minutes recess, which was granted,, the jury retired and the court was shown authorities by both sides. The court also re-examined the affidavit and the. bid. Finally the jury was called back, at about 5:15 o’clock and the court excused the jurors until 9 o’clock yesterday morning, court also adjourning until that hour. ♦ - Tuesday Morning. On the of court , Tuesday morning Mr. Leatherman resumed the witness stand, (he, court over-ruled objections I of the defense to the introduction jof the bid alleged to have been

changed, and said that it could be read to the jury. Sellers ob : jected again long and vigorously, and a few more questions were asked) of witness by the state and he was cross-questioned by the defense as to his possession of bid beforedt was finally read, the court over-ruling objections. The auditor testified that it was the same bid he had seen and recorded after it was opened by the commissioners, but was somewhat more worn and ruffled than when he first saw it. The figures were a little more plain then than now. (More objections from Mr. Sellers.) Witness examined bid last July, under glass the surface of the paper about the figures appeared, broken somewhat. The bid was again attempted to be offered in testimony and a huge bunch of objections were again interposed by Mr. Sellers and Mr. Sties. Objections overruled; At last, after several hours efforts the bid was allowed to be read to the jury. ; Sellers moved to strike out paper and objected to its being handed to the jury for examination. The latter objection was sustained and the jury did not get to see it at all. j; Mr. Leatherman was then excused and Wallace Marshall of the Lafayette Engineering Co., was called. Marshall testified that he was present at this particular letting; heard the bids read off of the different companies bidding, He did not see the bid in question and on objection of the defense was not permitted to testify to the amount read off. This ruling and the ruling against allowing the bid to be examined by the jury ended the case. The rulings were proper, it is said, and no blame can attach to the court. Prosecutor Longwell asked for a five minute recess to look up authority, and not being able to find any way around this stumbling block, the court, on motion of the defense, instructed the jury to return a verdict of not quilty, and the trial was over. Wallace Marshal and other representatives of bridge companies who were present at this par-

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ticuar letting were here and would have testified, it is sailjl, that the bid was read $1240,.but under the affidavit filed evidence could not be gotten in. As, the matter now stands the tax payers of Jasper county are as much in the dark as ever as to whether the figures in the bid were actually tampered with or not. iT The above case has nothing whatever to do with the six indictments pending against Bader individually for bridge graft, but they will not be tried at this time and are not likely to be tried until the supreme court rules on th * similar case pending there.

MILLINERY ANNOUNCEMENT.

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