Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

91*50 Per Year.

SOME LATE THRESHING.

Silas Toombs' threshing machine was at work all last week up in the Gifford district, threshing out wheat and oats, and finished up the work Monday 'at Julius Schultz’s. They were unable to get a machine up in that vicinity until late, but Mr. Toombs says the grain not injured at all by its laying -in the shock so long. This is probably the latest threshing done in Jasper county for several years.

A PLEASANT TRIP.

C. C. Warner, wife and daughter Helen, Miss Edith Shedd-and Sam Sparling auto.ed to Lafayette Friday in the latter’s automobile, and were joined Saturday by Bert Hopkins and wife and R. D. Thompson, wife and son Thomas, in Bert’s machine. Together they went down into Montgomery county to “The Shades.” They spent Saturday night at Veedersburg, and returned home Sunday. All reported having viewed the prettiest scenery to be found in Indiana, in Montgomery county, and enjoyed the trip very much.

MRS. SYLVESTER O’MEARA DEAD.

jvMrs. Sylvester O’Meara, aged $2 years, died at home on Weston street,at midnight Friday night, after a few weeks sickness. She leaves five children, three daughters and two sons, Mrs. Mary E. Travis, Mrs. Fred Dalson, Mrs. Anna Maloy, T. J. and Frank O’Meara. Her husband died several years ago. All the children were present at the funeral except Frank, who is thought to be in the west, Nr The funeral was held at the Catholic church Monday morning at 9 a. m., and interment made in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town.

JAMES SPRIGGS DEAD.

OJames Spriggs of Barkley tp., son of Joel F. Spriggs, died at 12 o’clock Friday night after a two weeks sickness, aged 43 years and one month. He eaves a wife and three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Spriggs was operated on about a year ago for gall stones and appendicitis, and apparently had fully recovered. He 'had quite a severe time of it then, kidney trouble being complicated with his other ailmentsy Only a few days before he was taken down with his last sickness he was in town and looked as strong and well as ever he had. He was taken sick on Thursday, Sept. 29, and gradually grew worse until death ensued. Kidney and bladder trouble was the cause of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lee of Kansas, the latter a sister of Mr. Spriggs, came Sunday at 2 p. m., and the funeral was held at 2:30 p. m., Sunday from the Christian church, .Rev. Clarke conducting the services, and interinent made in Weston cemetery. The burial services were in charge of the K. of P's. of wihich order deceased was an esteemed member.

James M. Spriggs, ‘son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel F. Spriggs, was born in Gillam tp.. Sept. 18. 1867, > and departed from this life Oct. 18, 1910. being 43 years and one month old. He was married to Martha Elliott, Dec. 22. 1889. To this union six children were born, three dy- . ingin infancy. Those living are Otha aged 17, z Valma aged 15, Lloyd aged 11. -J Mr. Spriggs had been in poor ’ health for a number of years. One year ago he submitted to an operation for appendicitis. His death was caused by the presence of gill stopes. Mr. Spriggs was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge of Wheatfield. In his death the home has lost a loving father and the community an industrious and honorable citizen. He leaves , to mourn his departure a wife, three children, a fatherand mother, three sisters and two brothers, os well as many friends. _—— If you- don’t want to pay exhorbitant prices for your Fall Suit or Overcoat, step into opr clothing section and get oui prices on men’s and boy’s Clothing.— Rowles & Parker.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. .L J :>■ .'J • ’>' ' A - ’ Roy Blue, of Laporte, expects to move here soon and enter into the practice of law in partnership with Ged. R. Williams. ,He had been practicing at that place the past year. —o— Ben Page, a Parr blacksmith was arrested last Friday for intoxication and was fined and costed $8.20 in all by Squire Irwin. He was unable to pay the fine and is now a guest of Sheriff Shirer for a few days. Marriage licenses issued: Oct.. 15, John Edjvard Webb of Rensselaer, aged 30. occupation fireman at Babcock & Hopkins' elevator, to Lillian Dora Sayler, also of Rensselaer, aged 24, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for male, second marriage for female, she having been divorced in September, 1910. —OI—It is reported {hat a voting couple of near Rensselaer, who were married recently under somewhat romantic circumstances, have had some sort of a falling out and the young bride has returned to her mother’s home in Rensselaer, bringing with her all her belongings, and no doubt the divorce courts will be invoked to dissolve the marriage which has finally become distasteful. Too bad. > —o — Monon News: Surveyor Fewel of Lafayette informed us Monday that he had quit business for the proposed Northwestern Indiana electric line, witji the company owing him and the field notes of the survey in his possession. The proposed election .in Jasper county is in statue quo for want of a SIO,OOO bond from the promoter and the whole affair has the appearance of a bubble that -has burst. New suits filed: No. 7661.'Eva Greenlee vs. Edna I. Powell; action in replevin to recover possession of one promisory note dated Sept. 22, 1910, of the value of SSOO and one note of SOSO, executed same date and due Jan. 10, 1911. and value of $425. Defend'ant is alleged to have wrongfully and unlawfully obtained possession of said notes. The notes yvere given, we understand, for the purchase of the defendant’s hotel business in Rensselaer, the Nowels House and which deal plaintiff later wanted recinded.

MISSED HIS TRAIN.

And Made a 100 Mile Auto Trip to Fill His Speaking Engagement. Hon. John B. Peterson had to make the trip from Chicago via auto Monday’ evening in order to fill his speaking engagement in Rensselaer Monday’ night. He was in Laporte Monday and took the train there for Chicago, expecting to catch the milk train there to come to Rensselaer. His train was late, however, and when he reached Chicago the milk train had left. He at once hired an auto to take him to Crown Point, his home, where he ordered out his machine and with a chauffeur hurried to Rensselaer, reaching here at 8 o’clock. It was feared that he would be unable to reach here in time to fill his engagement, as the meeting was called for 7:30 arid several who had edme up town to hear the speaking went home only a" few moments before he reached tow n. He was at once hurried to the opera house and soon . began his speech. The attendance at the speaking was very good indeed, although the crowd would perhaps have been one-fourth larger the impression not gone out that he would not arrive in time to speak. The speech was excellent, one of the best ever heard in Rensselaer, and Mr. Peterson was listened to with rapt attention by the audience. He spoke clearly and drove home his points with good solid argument that was nn- - disputable. The fallacies of the tariff theory of the opposition w as exposed in all its grptesqueness? The position of Congressman ■9 •

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1910.

Crumpacker on the Payne-Ald-rich tariff law aiid his negative votes on the important amendments thereto which would have been for t'he benefit of the public in general rather than the trust barons, was read from the Congressional Record, the official journal of Congress. The speaker replied to most of the attacks of Mr. Crumpacker and the Republican press and showed their utter falsity. On the charge that he was a corporation, lawyer he said that he had never for one moment been in the employ’ of any corporation whatever as a salaried attorney, but like other attorneys he had tried a few corporation cases and had tried to do his duty by’ them the same as any’ other client. “A corporation lawyer,” he said, “was one employed regularly’ at a salary to look after the corporation’s business." He had never been employed only in individual cases the same as Judge himself and other lawyers. But he showed conclusively by printed briefs prepared by Mr. Crumpacker to the higher courts, that the latter six and eight years after he was elected to Congress and wlhile drawing a salary from the government, had been employed in cases for the Standard Oil Co., as its attorney ; by the Columbian Athletic Club of Chicago, the gambling and prizefighting orgariization which was driven from Indiana by the state militia; by a Chicago bucket shop company’ in its efforts to force the Chicago Board of Trade to furnish it with market quotations, and that only a few months ago Crumpacker tried a case in Porter county for the Western Rawhide Co., a corporation which took four weeks to try, and which in a former trial a judgment of $60,000 was In the Standard Oil Co., case Crumpacker was attorney for the. Standard Oil Co., bear in mind : in the Columbia Athletic Club case he appeared for the club and against the state of Indiana, it being a state case; and in the bucket shop case he appeared fcr the bucket shoppers. Mr. .Peterson had the printed briefs in these cases, showing Mr. Crumpacker’s name printed therein as att>rnev as above set forth, so the ev - derive was conclusive. His position on all public questions was clearly defined and he said that if elected to congress he would consider that his ser-j vices belonged to the people, and. unlike Mr. Crumpacker, he would take no cases from corporations or any’one else while serving as congressman. ,Mr. Peterson made a very favorable impression here and all who heard him speak were convinced that his home reputation as an honest and sincere gentleman is well based.

PARR FALL FESTIVAL.

Closed Saturday With a Good Exhibition of Stock and 1 Produce. The Parr Fall Festival was fairly well attended Saturday, considering the counter attraction of the dog and pony show at Rensselaer which failed to put in an appearance. They’ had a,very nice time and the exhibits w’ere very good indeed. In the produce display there were 41 entries. Prof. Thompson Purdue made a very’ nice talk to the farmers. In the two bail games the Rensselaer Juniors w r on over a boys’ team of Parr by a Score of 12 to 10, an the adult -game between Parr and a pick-up team was won by the former. Score 14 to 3. In the horse and mule show’ Charles Pullins w’on first and John Jones second on draft marcs. Draft Colts —Charles Pul 1 ins, Ist; James Lane 2d. Roadster colts—Emmet Pullins Ist: Charlie Brusnahan 2d. Mule colts —James Sw’aim Ist; Peter Hordeman 2nd. Single drivers—John R. Lewis. Ist; Rdss Reed, 2d. . - Two-year-olds—James Whited Ist. \ • High cost of living should not keep anybody from buying Hart. Schaffner & Marx clothes. Thev cost less, in the end, because they’ give more satisfaction. The G. E. Murray Co. sqlls them.

MORE ABOUT THE BURK BRIDGE.

I'he Republican editors as usual, use the “argument" used by most editors when they' have no other way of denying facts by calling The Democrat editor all sorts of liars in our article in Saturday's Democrat regarding the Burk bridge "improvement.” Of course the people from all sections of the county are not able to have ocular evidence of who has lied, but those who have seen the work know that the Democrat told the absolute truth. As an example of the Republican s “ duplicity on matters concerning the interests of tire taxpayers in this instance we quote its own words from its write-up and commendatory article of the work in its issue of Sept. 27, and again since The Democrat’s article of Saturday : Sept. 27—“ That Mr. McColly gave careful attention to the specifications of the contract that there cap be no doubt. The writer visited it a few days since and inspected it thoroughly. Mr. McColly has done more than he was bound to do ♦ * * the result is a solid grade that will be a big improvement over the old frame ram-shackle.” Oct. 18—“ The engineer found it advisable to authorize one or two minor changes) in the specifications with the belief that it was for the best results. The changes did not cheapen the work nor favor the contractor. ♦ * ♦ the road is open and has hever been closed except.for a short time when gravel was being hauled. Babcock’s article is published for political purposes and is false with the expectation of deceiving the people and creating distrust of the commissioners.”

Now this sounds familiar, doesn’t it? The quotation from Oct. 18, especially. You remember the Republican used the same argument to excuse the steal of over S4OO in the Milroy tp., bridge matter. It said the county hadn’t lost a penny by reason of the change in specifications in that the bridge and it was worth every’ cent it had cost. But here is an admission that there was some changes in the ■specifications in the Burk bridge improvement, which the same authority said Sept. 27 had been given careful attention. But the changes didn’t cheapen the work nor favor the contractor!” The specifications called for this piling to be cut off 8 inches below’- the ground and the plates placed back on the top of the piling, then the stringers put on and the planking placed on the stringers. bringing the planking on a level with the earth so that botl the piling and the earth and the planking would each have a porportion of the weight of the grade and help to hold it up. The piling, instead, was cut off above the ground, and when the plates, stringers and planking were replaced it left a hollow place underneath and o' course the whole thing gave way when the dirt and gravel was put on. We do not th : nk.there is person so ignorant in Jasper county as to say that it did not cheapen the work or favor the contractor to cut these pilings off above the ground instead of 8 inches below. We think all will agree that it would make quite a difference whether they must excavate about each of the piling to cut them off below the surface of the ground or shriply saw them off above the ground. J Mr. McColly sub-let the Contract for cutting off this piling to Emmet Pullins and Philip Durant for S3OO. They worked five, days themselyes and paid out $29 for other labor,' and figure that they made clear above their own labor $245. It certainly made a difference to them as to this “slight change in specifications” whether it did to the original contractor or not. We are not blaming them, however, for following the superintendent’s instructions or making a good thing out of the contract. We are blaming the contractor for not following the specifications as adopted by the commissioners and which he bid on; the superintendent for authorizing or permitting any such change, and the commissioners for allowing the claim of $1,785 to the contractor without personally going out and inspecting the work. The Democrat was wrong 'in one particular, however, in its report of this work. We said that is was currently reported that the contractor cleared SI,OOO

Hon. Jno. W. Kern Democratic Candidate for United States Senator Will Speak at THE ELLIS OPERA HOUSE Rensselaer, Friday, Oct. 21, 2:00 p. m.

on his contract. We since have it from a most reliable, source that the amount cleared was $1,250, But had he complied with the specifications it would have been perfectly legitimate had he cleared $1,700. The commissioners knew, however, that this work should have been done for about half the amount of McColly’s bid, and as but the one bid was filed and that at such outrageous figure, they should have rejected it and re-advertised the work. Now we have just a few questions to ask the Republican about the last previous improvement to the Burk bridge, made five years ago: 1. Was the extension built 140 feet long, as required, or did the taxpayers pay for 140 feet and only get 110 feet? 2. While the Pan American Bridge Co. appear of record, as the contractors for said extension, was it, S. E. Luce, or one of the county’ officials the real contractor?

3. Who it that contracted for the piling and planking furnished, and did the “contractors” really drive the 532 feet of extra piling for wihich they were paid 60c per foot? 4. The contractors were to be paid (-'c per foot so piling driven beyond a depth of 35 feet, we understand, and if the piling was none of it really driven more than 9 feet, why wete they allowed $319 for “extra piling?” (The Democrat is informed by a map who was on the job all the time that none of the piling was driven over 9 feet.) 5. Who really received the sl,479 wihich this “140 foot” extension cost the taxpayers of Jasper county? 1 6. As it is an easy matter to determine whether the county got the 140 foot extension paid for, instead of but 110 feet, as alleged, will the Republican editors not go out to the bridge and measure the extension and then tell their readers the true length of same? 7. If the county paid for 140 feet extension and got but 110 feet, did the reduction benefit the contractor or the county, and did it cheapen or enhance the real cost the work to the contractor? The taxpayers of Jasper county regardless of political affiliation would like to have the Republican answer these questions fully and honestly. Will it do so?

FARMERS ARE EXEMPT.

Miles Would Not Require Them to Have Fishing Licenses. George W. Miles,, state fish and game commissioner, has decided on the following details, to be included in a measure he proposes to introduce at the next session of the general assembly, concerning the licensing of fishermen: - 7 ATI jvomen and all persons under twenty-one years old are not dp be reqtrired to take out such licenses ; all farmers will be entitled to fish without licenses; all pefsons may fish in the lakes and streams of the counties in which they live without being required to take, out licenses ; all money derived from the issuance of such licenses shall be used for the propagation of fish in the lakes and streams. “The proposed measure,” said Mr. Miles, “is to protect the farmer and landowner against the fishermen who go out from the cities and towns to places distant from their'homes and fish without contributing in any. way to the care of the lakes and streams, Thousands of people living in the cities and towns flock to the northern lakes and streams, where they spend weeks in fishing. The farmers give their time and money to protect the streams,

but the professional vacationist gives nothing in return for what he gets. “Futhermore, the hunters of the state who pay for hunter’s licenses have a right to ask that the money thus collected be used in propagating the game of the state, and they object when any of it is spent in protecting the fish. I believe that if the law is enacted with the provisions I have mentioned, no one can justly object to it, and that we will have a proper means of increasing the number of fish. “I would not collect any fees from the farmer and the landowner, because tihdy are doing much to prevent the destruction of the fish of the state.”—'lndianapolis News.

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, Oct. 19, J. C. Borntragcr, 1% miles south and 2 miles west of Rensselaer. Big general sale, horses cattle, hogs, ‘■beep and farm implements. Thursday, Oct. 27, E. K. Koons and others, 2J4 west and 1 mile north of Surrey, on the Thompson ranch. Principally a stock sale, horses cattle and numerous other articles.

MARION TP. CONVENTION. Notice is hereby given to the democratic voters of Marion Township, Jasper county, to meet in'the east court room of the court house op Saturday, October 22, 1910, at 2 p. in., for the purpose of placing in the field candidates for members of the Township Advisory Board and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. COMMITTEE.

CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. Notice is hereby given to the democratic voters of Carpenter Township, Jasper county, to meet at Town Hall in Remington on Friday, October 21, 1910, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of placing in the field candidates for members of z the ‘"Township Advisory Board, justices of the peace, constables, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. COMMITTEE.

WALKER TOWNSHIP. Notice is hereby given to the democratic voters of Walker democratic voters of Union Township, Jasper county, to meet at Center school house on Saturday, October 22, 1910, at 2 p. hi., for the purpose of placing in the field candidates for members of the Township Advisory Board and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. 1 COMMITTEE.

M. E. RUMMAGE SALE. The ladies of the M. E. church will hold their annual Rummage Sale in the form,er Scott Bros, room second door north of Rowles & Parker’s store, on Friday and Satqrday, Oct. 21 and 22. Many articles* of clothing will be among the articles on sale.

PRESBYTERIAN RUMMAGE SALE. The Presbyterian ladies will hold their annual rumamge sale on Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29, in the room first door north of B. K. Zimmerman’s - tailor shop, formerly occupied by Scott Bros. / Hundreds of articles of household use and wearing apparel will be on sale at almost your own price. The ladies also * solicit articles for this sale, and those having anything they wish to donate can phone Mrs. John Eger. XN . ” / ..h

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