Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets : Corn, 45c; Oats, 27c; Wheat, 87c; Rye, 60c. Miss Georgia Harris is visiting friends at Greencastle this week. Mrs, Harve Robinson went to Hammond yesterday to visit rela- . lives, ~ ■ Mrs. Chris Kopkey went to Francesville Wednesday to visit relatives. Come out next Monday night and hear Hon. L. Ert Slack, at Ellis opera house. Don't forget the big auction sale of general merchandise at Gifford next Friday. Mrs. G, H. Clark and baby went to Richmon d Wednesday to visit relatives and friends. Read the page ad of the auction sale of $4,000 stock of general merchandise at Gifford next Friday. ■ Sidney Holmes of New Haven, Mich., came Wednesday to visit his neice, Mrs. A. J. Brenner, and family. Dr. I. M. Washburn and Fred Phillips were in Indianapolis Thursday, returning home yesterday morning. Mrs. A. E. Haun of Logansport returned home Wednesday after a few days visit here with Mrs. A. P. Burton. A. J. Bellows and wife went to Berwyn, 111., Thursday to visit their daughter, Mrs. Chas. Murphy a few days. F. W. Fisher of Kankakee tp., was in the city for a few hours Wednesday enroute to his farm in Hanging Grove tp. Miss Ina Shesler returned fionle Wednesday afternoon from a visit with her grandfather, John Body at Watseka, 111. Mr. and Mrs. John-A. Thomas of Chicago returned home Thursday after a short visit here with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holden. 1 Mrs. Jennie Wishard expects to leave in a week or two for St. Paul. Minn., to visit with her son, Glenn, a few weeks.« Mrs. Robert Richards of Logansport returned home Thursday after a week's visit here with Henry Grow and family. Mrs. James Walter and Miss Susan Aloneghan went to Chicago Wednesday afternoon to visit the former's mother. Airs. Martha Donnelly, Airs. Merita Doughty and two daughters, formerly of west of town, left Thursday for their new home near Scottsburg where Air. Doughty has a farm. Airs. Anna O'Leary and little son and her. sister, Airs. Alary Corcoran, went to Peru vesterday for a few days visit with relatives there and Kokomo. Leave your order at John Eger’s for fancy canning pears. If the fruit is not as represented you do not have to take them. A sik hundred bushel car to*be unloaded next week. —John Eger. Airs, Elzie Aliller of Wolcott took the train from, here Thursday for Chicago to meet her husband, who had been prospecting in the Dakotas and. Minnesd- - ta the past several daKs.

George Fate was in Indianapolis a few days this week on business. — .. - f Alesdames Grant W arner and C. W. Hanley were Chicago visitors yesterday. Joseph Grube of near Alomence, 111., was down , yesterday looking after some business matters. J. J. Eiglesbach has added a fine' new show-case and counter to his meat market to display his wares. ' - - " ■ ■ .■ ■■ . ■ » ■■■ s■■ -■ •- <s Train No. 32 on the Monon killed a horse near Lee yesterday morning and narrowly missed getting a boy who was leading the animal. Babcock & Hopkins had another Alodel 17, 40-horse power Buick drove through from Chicago Thursday night, but who gets it we were unable to learn. Airs. Tames Parks and Mrs. Ed Sutherland of Remington came over via auto yesterday morning and tooE the train here for Valpariso to visit the former’s son, Peter and family. Airs. Alary Harmon of Garrison. lowa, who had been visiting her sister, Airs. Victor Pierson, of east of town, accompanied by the latter, went to Indianapolis Wednesday to visit their brother, W. C. AlcCord and family.

T. F. Brusnahan and family of near Parr left yesterday for their new home near Hamilton, 'X. Dak., their car having gone Thursday. A host of Jasper county friends wish them lots of happiness and success in their new home. Mrs. W. H. Galbrith of Chicago, who had been called here by the death of her father, the late James Lewis of Barkley tp. returned home Thursday accompanied by Ruby and Ethel Gratner who will visit in the Windy City for a week. Peyton Davisson of Francesville, who was called to lowa by the death of his son-in-law, Mr. Markin, returned the first of the week and after a short visit here with his brother, Lewis Davisson, went to Fair Oaks Wednesday to visit relatives before returning home. . Kentlaiid Enterprise: AI. C. Coover has resigned as weigher in the McCray, Morrison & Co. grain office and will move to Remington where he has accepted a similar position with the Farmers' Elevator Amos Alorris has succeeded him at Mc : Cray, Morrison & Co's. As an indication that many men in and about Rensselaer are doing their own shaving since .the local barbers organized a trust and boosted the price of shaves to 15 cents, we mention the fact that the colored street fakir who operated here last week said that he sold over 125 razors in the three days he was here. No killing frost yet in this immediate vicinity, although the north part of the county and the muck lands reported to have had a heavy frost Thursday night. Practically every stalk of corn is out of the wav of the frost, however. and no damage is likely to have been done. Take the entire county over and it is likely Jasper county has the best corn crop in its history.

Miss Nellie Harris and Air. Lossen E. Ponsler of Alt. Ayr were married at the Presbyterian Manse Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Billman. leaving on the evening train for Chicago. This young couple is numbered among the most prominent of Jackson township. The bride is a daughter of Air. and Airs. Edwin Harris, and the groom a son of Air. and Mrs. Walter Ponsler, formerly of this county, and pesident of the Alt. Ayr bank. — Kentland Enterprise. John G. Brown, the Alonon real estate dealer and stock buyer. was in the city Wednesday night to hear Judge Crumpacker speak, but of course didn’t hear him as the Judge failed to connect. Mr. Brown is the present* joint-representative from this district and is a candidate for reelection. While Air. Brown enjoys using the phrase that he is “just a plain farmer” in his canvass over the district for votes, he is more of an “agriculturist." we are told, and though he owns a farm or two he doesn’t get out in the field and perspire very much! In fpet he gives most of his attention to the real

estate business and stock buying-. ' ' Erastus Peacock of this city was made Grand Vice-Chancellor at the regular anntial meeting of the Grand Lodge K. of P. at Indianapolis this week to fill out the vacancy caused by the death of John Converse of Richmond. This honor makes Air. Peacock having filled all the grand lodge offices frOni outer guard up to Grand Chancellor. Robert L. .Brown of Franklin was elected grand inner guard; Charles F. Remy of Columbus, grand outer guard. The other officers were advanced two pointsr . .. — ; ——v-

COLLEGEVILLE ITEMS

Three more students were enrolled during the last week. Rev. Aug. Seifert, C. PP. S., attended Father Zumbolte’s funeral at Hanover Center last Monday, , Last eWdnesday was city day for the students, and as usual the turn-out was complete. The cue artists have effected a new organization of which W. Reineck and C. Grathwohl are the directors. . - Rev. P. A. Kannev and T. F. Kramer represented the college at the church dedication at Gas City last Sunday. Father Kanney officiated as master of ceremonies at the dedicatory services. The students from Gas City were home for the celebration.

Father Weyman is at present an inmate of St. Anthony's hospital, Chicago, at which place he underwent a surgical operation. He is fast recovering and will occupy his class rooms again in two or three weeks. The labors of the football aspirants are progressing nicely but the arms in slings, the plastered faces* stiff knees and lame ankles have not been eliminated by the complicated revision of the rules. No games have as yet been arranged for. Hospitality was extended to the following visitors during the last week: Dr. and Mrs. J. Malcnny, Crawfordsville, Ind. ; Luke and M. J. Nolan, Lebanon, Ind.; Airs. Clara W01f,... Indianapolis ; Samuel, Ernest and Miss Mabel Serios, and Lester end Misses Grace and Nellie Davis, Shelby, Ind.; C. St. Julien, Mr. and Airs. J. At. Alurphy, Air. and Mrs. Matthew Quinn, Chicago; Rev. C. Hummer, C. PP. S. Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Rev. Flavian Labbes, O. F. AI., Cincinnati ; Rev. J. Schmidtz, Remington. At their last regular meeting the C. L. S. decided in favor of the following officers for the first term: Pres. C. Leary, V, Pres. J. Trench, Sec. L. Dufrane, Treas. J. Meyers, Critic, G. Pax, Alarsh. R. Kunz, Directors A. Gerhardstein, J. Goetz. A. Berghoff. Alany spirited nomination and acceptance speeches were reeled off, and great enthusiasm and interest was evidenced by all the members. E. P. Honan attended the meeting, an 1 he will again deliver a series of parliamentary law lectures during the year. A notable addition to the library was also voted, and the members are busily searching hook reviews for the best and the most useful volumes on the market. The C. L. S. are in charge of the Columbus Day entertainment.

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BIDDLE DENIES MURDER.

Alleged Peppertown Murderer In Jail at Lafayette Tells Story to Police. Lafayette, Ind., October 4. Charles Biddle, accused of murdering his wife, Anna Biddle, at Peppertown, near Brookville, early Sunday morning, and setting fire to the body after saturating it with‘coal oil' is a prisoner in the county jail here, after being captured last evening at Brookston, twelve miles north of Lafayette, by William C. Holcralt. town marshal, and Frank Ellis, deputy marshal. Although the evidence against hirh is practically conclusive, Biddle insists that he did not kill his wife. Biddle owes his* capture to the fact that he was recognized on a train which was taking him from Lafayette to Brookston, James Shigley, a white county farmer, who kin)\vs-hi-m—well, seeing Biddle on the train and notifying the authorities upon his arrival in Brookston. Biddle was on his way to the home of his father, Alilton Biddle, a farmer, living near Chalmers, north of Brookston. At the police station here Biddle told the following story: “Two weeks ago my wife and 1 came from Chalmers to Lafayette, and she went on to Connersville to visit her step-mother. I went from here to Danville, 111., Peoria and other cities and late last week I decided to go to Anna. 1 went to Connersville and found her step-mother, who told me Anna had gone to Peppertown to visit her uncle. I was surprised not to find her in Connersville. I bought a ticket to Aletamora Saturday afternoon and reached there about 4 o’clock. ‘T had to walk six miles to the home of Louis Koehler, the girl’s uncle. It was evening w*hen I got there. I saw her uncle first and then my wife. After we had been together for awhile the uncle went out to sleep in the barn. When my wife and I were alone I asked her to come back to Chalmers with me. She said she did not want to go. I told her she ought to stick by me, as I was sick and needed somebody to care for me. Still she refused, and I said; ‘All right. You needn’t come if you don’t want to.’ “Then my wife and I sat talking and had no trouble of any kind. It was late when we retired. The house where her uncle lives and she was staying has only tw r o rooms and two doors. We were sleeping in the kitchen. We fell asleep almost immediately, for I was tired. Some time early in the morning I was awakened by a disturbance. I heard two shots fired and it frightened me. I saw a man in the room, but don’t know whether he had a shotgun or a pistol. I only saw him indistinctly and didn’t recognize him. I jumped out of bed in my stocking feet and ran out of the door. The man ran out ahead of me. I don’t know why I ran except that I didn’t want to be around where there was any shooting. After running about fifteen rods from the house I put on my clothes which I had gathered up in my arms as I jumped over the foot of the bed. I hen I kept on going without going back to the house.

“All day Sunday I kept tramping through the woods. I crossed several roads, but did not take any of them. Late in the afternoon I reached a town on the Big Four railroad. I thought I had been going northward, but I found I had been going southward. I slept in a box car at that town. I think the town was Xewpoint. At 8:20 o’clock *. in the morning I got on a train' and paid 51.20 fare to Indianapolis. It was about 11 o’clock when I reached Indianapolis and a little before noon I got on an interurban car for Lafayette. I was dressed just as I was when I left my uncle’s home. In Indianapolis I got a paper and read about my wife being killed. It was the nrst I knew about her being dead. I reached Lafayette in the middle of the afternoon and walked out to the Monon shups, where I got on the north-bound Alonon train for Brookston. After, I got oft the train I started for my father’s house near Chalmers. When I heard somebody coining after me I ran. I thought they were trying to arrest me for not supporting my first wife’s children, as I had got into - trouble before on that account. I didn’t know they were trying to arrest me for killing my wife.” 1 When interviewed at the county jail last night, after the police had questioned him arid turned him over to the sheriff, Biddle stilFinsisted that he did not. commit the crime. He admitted that

he had never married the woman who was- murdered. “I picked her out of the gutter in Lafayeete a year ago,” he said. “She didn't amount to anything. I guess I was born for trouble," continued Biddle. “I was arrested once befor deserting my first wife, but I got out of that." Biddle worked at the Shadeland stock farm near here, for Charles Scherer a year ago, where he was arrested oil a charge of wife desertion preferred bv his first wife, and was taken to Rensselaer for trial .The case was compromised arid he was released, liis wife obtained a divorce soon after. Anna Lockard, the real name of the victim of the crime, came here front Connersville. She was a hard working girl, but poor and uneducated. Her maiden name was M’iderman. She was married to John Lockard and they separated two years ago.

“LYNCH HIM!”

Cried Crowd When Biddle Alleged Wife Slayer, Was Jailed. Brookville, Ind., Oct. s.—Amid cries of “Hang him!” and "Get a rope!” Charles Biddle, accused of slaying his common-law wife, Anna Lockhart at Pepperville, was hustled through the crowds and locked up safely in the Franklin County jail. On the train from Pepperville Biddle expressed fear that he would be lynched, and asked Sheriff Baker to shoot him if the mob got the upper hand. : The authorities say that Bidd'e confessed to throwing away the gun with which the slaying was done on a hillside near Pepperville.

TRANSFER OF BANK INDORSED.

The transfer of the assets and liabilities of the Farmers Bank of Alorocco to the Farmers State Bank of Alorocco has been indorsed by the auditor of state. The transfer came as a result of a reorganization to make the former bank, ‘which was a private affair, a state bank. The capital stock is $25,000, with Ira L. Biesecker as president and Pierce Archibald cashier.

MILLINERY ANNOUNCEMENT.

Mrs. Purcupile is now ready for business, showing a full line of trimmed and untrimmed hats for fall and winter, at reasonable prices; a hat for every head, and trimmings both novel and beautiful. Our Opening will be Oct. 6,7, 8. Our productions are from the latest Paris fashions, reproduced by the Cage designers, beautiful in style and rich in texture. Come and look them over, you are cordially invited.

NOTICE. We will close at 6 o’clock unless by appointment. We wish to handle your strictly fresh and clean eggs, poultry and veal and honey. Eggs 23 cents per dozen. Will always pay you thj? highest market price for fancy articles. — Fancy Produce Market. Phone 39.

FOOTBALL.

. Football is now being practiced as well as preached wherever educational facilities are provided for the youth of our land. Owing to the cruel selfishness of man in refusing to grant equal rights to woman the fair coeds may not share the terrors of the griddled field as she has a perfect right to. She may only stand on the side lines and squeal. Football is made milder every year. However, a fractured tibia or a broken femur or a busted rib is just the same, though it may be achieved mildly, as it is if produced by exploding dynamite. • . The great charm of football, let us say, is the sponge which is kept in the water bucket,.. W hen one -of the -heroes is injured this sponge is squeezed over his face and rubbed upon his brow. When another hero is thirsty he takes the sponge and chews it. While the authorities are eliminating mayhem and malicious assault and battery with intent to kill from the game, they are overlooking that sponge. , Also they might do something to set the brakes'on the football stories that must appeal to the November magazines. True, nobody has to'read them, but some pobr devil must write them. — Chicago Post. ■

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STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

Wishes to Bring Its Tuberculosis Exhibit to Rensselaer This Winter. Editor Democrat," . Kennselaer. Ind. Dear Sir:—Sometime this winter, the State Board of Health wishes to bring its tuberculosis exhibit to Rensselaer and to have its officer in charge carry on a propoganda of public health work tor one week. The exhibit referred to covers five or six hundred square feet of surface. It consists oB drawn pictures, statistical charts illustrating the diiferent phases of tuberculosis, what it is, where it comes from, how it may be prevented, and how it may be cured. As tuberculosis, a preventable disease, costs the people of Indiana $lO,000,000 annually, it is an economic matter. But far above this is the fact that prevention of tuberculosis is a hunianitarium and civilized matter to be considered. We are certainly foolish to spend $10,000,000 st year just to have a disease which can be prevented for one tenth of that amount. The figure given above has been duly considered and thoroughly confirmed by bankerT and business men. During Health W eek in Rensselaer, we desire the co-operation of all the people, for this is a cause in which every person, young and old, high and low, rich and poor are interested. The State Board of Health desires an opportunity for its representative in charge of the exhibit to speak before the high school students upon the important subject of the health of school children, and to speak before the teachers upon the subject of sfchool hygiene, and public health, and to present the subject of the general public health before the trustees of the township, also before the business men's association if there be one". The object of this whole matter is to call attention of the people to the fact that taxes may be lowered, and that more money may be saved to the people and more happiness gained through the conservation of the public health than by any other means. The people of Indiana are now annually spending fully 820,000,000 jti*t having sickness that can be prevented, and more than this, the prevention would only cost one tenth of this amount. We all subscribe to the old saw," “An ounce of prevention. is worth a pound of cure,” hut when it comes to the practical application. we all hold back and commence to talk high taxes preventing us from doing anything, and this in the face of the fact that prevention would not cost one-tenth the amount it costs to have the sickness. . Very truly yours, J. X. HURTY, Secretary State Board of Health,

Box Social. There will be an ice-cream and box social at the No. 6 Powell school, 6 miles southwest of Rensselaer, in Newton Tp., Friday evening. Oct. 14. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. The are requested to bring boxes. —Margaret Yeager, Teacher. •: - -v ■■ PEAR SALE. A car-load of fancy canning pears, 75c, SI.OO and $1.25 a bushel, next week.—John Eger. Read The Democrat for