Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1910 — Page 2

THE JISPEfi COUNTY DEMOCRAT. f. LBIBCKI.fWOBIWWBUIMI. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. « Residence 811. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. t Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1910.

THE COLD STORAGE AC COUNT.

With the rise in the price of eggs and the announcement that they are to be higher than last year, although shipments have been heavier than during the san e months l.a ef year, comes the statement that there are now 509,480,000 eggs in cold storage in tie country. The government’s official statement is that the stock in storage in six principal cities is 62,000,000 more cases than at this time last year, and yet the prices are higher. Perhaps here is where some of the “alchemy”is applied by which, although producers labor more and furnish greater supplies, yet the consumer pays more. The New York Evening Mail sayS4iThe nation already has jurisdiction over the packing houses of the country, through the pure food and drugs act. It should take jurisdiction over the storage houses, through which so much of the packing house product passes; Congress should enact a bill providing for this and do it at the coming short session. The flaw in the argument as well as in the analogy is that although the nation has jurisdicion over the packing houses thts n no wise controls prices. S’mi'ar jurisdicton over cold storage houses would amount to nothing. We do not so much want assurances as to "rots and spots’' as we want to know whether storage houses are used as “combinations in restraint of trade." Of cousre, the whole question of storage houses goes further than eggs. It is reckoned for example that the 636 storage plants in this country, last April, when a bib looking to their regulation was introduced in Congress, had with all sorts of meats, dairy products, fruits, poultry, eggs, vegetables and liquors a total oh stores amounting in value to $2,500,000.000. The bill alluded to proposed Jo limit all storage of stuff for interstate commerce to one year. Nothing came of the bill. It was part of Mr. Lodge's inquiry into the cost of high living and was pigeonholed. But it is a living question and one that the people of this country will have, to deal with sooner of later. Rightly'used cold storage belongs with all the wonderful improvements in transportation and business that add to the betterment of living. Wrongly used it becomes, a terrible engine of oppression. If men may buy without limit they can keep the price- at the time abnormally high and in times of scarcity dole out supplies at extortionate rates. . It is a device as old as Joseph’s granaries in Egypt. The difference is merely in extension and variety that whereas he prudently laid in a supply of grain against the lean years, this modern method works always and keeps abnormal • prices against which fat years of full industries

avail nothing. Here we are con- ' fronted with another condition and one that bears very directly on that mysterious something bv which in a land of plenty, with industries well occupied, labor well paid, yet month after month almost, it takes just a little more of earnings or incomes to live—merely to live. The problem of

BIG MILLINERY JflF" SALE REDUCED PRICES Come and see us; " L We will save you money from Nov. 17 to 30 MARY MEYER

living grows harder continually irt a land under conditions where nothing is visible to account for It.-—lndianapolis News.

ALLEGED UNPAID TAXES

Attorney for Baldwin Estate at . . Logansport Tries to Have Amount Wiped off Tax Duplicate. Logansport Ind., Nov. 19. A. G. Jenkins, attorney for. the estate of the late Judge Daniel P. Baldwin, yesterday appeared before the county commissioners and asked for an order directing Harry G. Warrick, county assessor, to take from the tax duplicate about $36,000 in alleged unpaid taxes “found” by George W. McCaslin, a tax. ferret, and placed on the duplicate. W. T.

Wilson, executor of the Baldwin estate, recently testified, in court that he was unable to find any property other than that regularly listed. He said lie went to McCaslin and asked him for information regarding the property, said to be omitted, and was told that he would tell where and what it was at the proper time. The Arkansas timber land deal that caused the failure of three private banks owned by Baldwin and W. 11. Dague, is supposed to figure in the taxes controversy. Action to collect the $36,000 of alleged unpaid taxes is pending in the Cass circuit court, and just whatcould be gained by getting an order from the county commissioners directing the county assessors to drop the taxes from the duplicate is not plain. Assessor Warrick says the county commissioners have no jurisdiction. and that no matter what they decide, he will insist that rhe merits of the case be fought out in court. McCaslin, who, under his tax ferret contract with the county, will get $12,600 of the full amount of back taxes if proved and paid, says that he also will insist that the case be tried.

ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR ADDITIONAL VOTES

bills, theatre tickets, etc., will all be paid by The Democrat. This will make a delightful trip and worth your best efforts to stand at least second in the list of contestant* at the close of the contest on Dec. 3.

Fifteen- Dollars in Gold.

The five dollars in gold will Tie sent to each of the contestants who stand third in the list and if by any chance you do not score thg first or second prizes you can by a little effort win out on this third prize. Get busy anA ask your friends to help you out by subscribing for The Democrat a year. Remember also that renewals: count the same, as new subscribers, 1.000 votes for each year besides the special bonus of 300.000 votes for each S3O turned in between now and next Wednesdav. j

Through fortunate circumstances we have secured another car of those fancy Michigan potatoes at much less than market value, and as price-makers, 45c a bushel off the. car unloading day. Telephone or call and leave your order.—Rowles & Parker.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending November 21. 1910: E. 8., (letter returned to writer,) Miss Lola Hoover, Mrs. Anny Watson, Mrs. Philo Marshall, Miss Rose Lambert. John L. Bartow, J. W. Phares. These letters will be sent to the dead letted office Dec. 5, if not delivered before that date. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of list. G. E. MURRAY, P. M.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS, , Fanchon. Fanchon for quality. Fanchon at the G. E. Murray C 0... ./ . ■ • ■ . __ . • ■ ■.X Charles Schatzley and wife of near Wheatfield were in Rensselaer Saturday. Victor Yeoman went- up in Michigan Monday to attend a sale of pure bred hogs. Buy a “Stay Down” tank heater of Gwin & .Watson, and have goojl warm water for your stock. Use White Star or Acme Flour and you will have good bread. Grocery department. Rowles & Parker. Big Corner Dept. Store.

Mrs. Robert Shook writes The Democrat from Artesian, S. Dak., under date of Nov. 18, in renewing her subscription, and says: “We are having a beautiful fall. Our first snow, about an inch, fell' last Sunday but was gone in a few days. Most farmers are th r ough husking corn or will be soon, and some are plowing and harrowing.”

Mr. Lewis Robinson of Rens_Selaer and Miss Dina Hermansen, daughter of C. P. Hermansen of Gillam tp., were married in St. Joseph, Mich., last Saturday morning and returned to Rensselaer the same evening and are now receiving the congratulations ,of« their many , friends. They will reside on the Robinson farm east of Town.

W. B. Van Horne, representa-tive-elpct from Lake and Newton counties, says he will propose a registration bill which will make it necessary for every voter to register. Van Horne believes Indiana should follow the lead of Illinois and other states m this great reform measure. Van Horne- is of the opinion that the vote on an amendment to the Constitution should be put on a separate ballot.

The funeral of George Colvert was held* Sunday afternoon and burial made in Weston cemetery; Deceased was born ift ' Fountain county and had resided in Rensselaer, soy nearly twenty years. For several years he was employed in the L W. Williams furniture store and since Mr. Williams’ death has' been employed in a like capacity in the W..J. Wright furniture store, A widow and two sons, Clinton and Leo. survive him.

George W. Snodgrass, an oldtime citizen of Jasper county who moved to Kansas in 1880, dropped dead at his home in Uttie River. Kan.. Nov. 13. aged 67 years. Mr. Snodgrass was a prominent citizen of Little River and was serving his second term as mayor of that city at the lime of his death. He leaves a wife—formerly Miss Elizabeth Timmons of Jasper county td whom .he was married Sept. 29, 1864—and two sons and one daughter. '

U. M. Baughman of Oklahoma City has our thanks for copies of the Oklahoma City Examiner and the Oklahoma Daily Pointer, two papers printed in that city and distributed free, the publishers depending on the advertising alone , for their income. In the Examiner we notice an account of the trying out of a new style of street car, and among the thir-ty-five officials and guests who occupied the car on its. initial trip we notice the names of J. F. Warren. M. L. Spitler and Boyd Porter, all former Rensselaer citizens, the latter only going to Oklahoma City last week. V ——■ The Democrat reporter took a seventy mile auto ride Saturday in company with N. C. Shafer, the local Maxwell automobile agent,* to Chalmers and back, going down in the large 5-pas-senger touring car and, returning in a 30-hOrse power Maxwell roadster, which will .develop about 50 horse power. The trip was made in very good time both going arid coming, especially the return trip which was made in about an hour, not including stops. This car was demonstrated here Sunday. This makes a very servicable car for anyone who is a hurry, but is a little too fast for the ordinary man' The. car was taken back to Chalmers Sunday night. ’ ' '

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. Nov. 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller, a* daughter. The Democrat office is well equipped to do the better grades '->f fnh nrintjng. ' ’

Sj. FREE Concert I ; ; The Armory Friday, Nov. 25,8 p. m. Everybody Come Popular Music.. Instrumental and Vocal 1 ' ■■■■'■ 1 ■■■—■■ ■ . I. - .... 1 . clean fun Songs in Character Costume Genuine Enjoyment -r—— Given by .. / ■ . The Great Kreil Piano House Publicly showing their beautiful Pianos now ~n Rensselaer by W. Cheney Beckwith, Factory Rep.

The Seven Wonders of the World.

1. Womarf ,11. Woman. 111. Woman. IV. Woman. V. Woman. VI. Woman. VII. Woman. —Puck.

Blasted Hopes.

He married a girl who couldn’t cook, And thus his hopes ran high. But, alas, she bought a recipe book And just began to try! Poor chap! She just began to try ! —Baltimore American.

A Narrow Escape.

. Miss DePlayne—ls it true that you said my face was enough to make a man climb a fence?

Mr. Dodge—Well, I—er—meant, of course, if the man was on the other side of the fence.—Chicago News. *

Bum Steer.

The preacher he preached from a text How Samson was barbered and vexed. And he told it so true That-sa man in a pew Got rattled and hollered out, “Next!” —Cleveland Leader.

In Distress.

“londer yacht is flying a flag of distress.” “What does she signal?” “Wants to know if we have a corkscrew aboard.” —Pittsburg Post.

Mercy!

Unto a medium 1 went Some message from the dead to hear. Although 1 told her my Intent. She out of spirits did appear. . —Lippincott’s.

Fashion’s Whirl.

“How long do we stay at Jupiter Junction, John?”

“Twenty minutes, my dear. You won’t need over two gowns.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Special Privilege.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite. ’Tis their predestined function. ‘ They send “defis,” and no one tries To stop them by injunction. —Washington Star.

Defined.

“Pop, do men mean by circumstances over which they have no control?” “Wives, my son.”—New York Times.

The Modern Ferryman.

He stood beside Lord Ullin And called across the heather. "You can’t prevent the marriage, For the air is full of weather!” Q —Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Top Liner.

Friend—ls your play up to date? Author—Up to date? Why, the souBrette in It uses a vacuum cleaner.— Boston Transcript

The Democrat office 1 is well equipped to do the better grades of job printing.

Don’t forget us when you are ready to buy your rubber footwear. We have all kinds for men, women and children.—Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block. You Gan See for Yourself « 1111 j II that our care of your teeth improve your good looks. Teeth must be properly attended to keep sound and look well. We are dentists of large and long experience, and our treatment of patrons has built up a reputation for our establishment that is second to none in the Dental business. And our chargee are confessedly moderate. DR. J. W. HORTON. Opp. Court House, Rensselaer.

Big Public Sale The undersigned will offer at public sale at the farm of Perry Marlatt, 2 miles north of Rensselaer, commencing at 10:00 o’clock a. m. on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1910, Nine Head of Horses consisting of Sorrel Mare, registered, 15 years old; Roan Gelding, 1 year old; Bay Mare, 1 year, both out of Sage horse; Bay Gelding, 2 years old; Roan Gelding, 2 years old; Bay Trotting Gelding, 2 years old; Brown Gelding, 3 years old; Roan Mare, 8 years old; Gray Mare, 10 years old,- Weight 1400. , Two Good Milch Cows. Nine Bead of Hogs consisting of 2 shoats, 6 O. I. C. Brood Sows, 1 O. I. C, Boar. f' Implements, Wagons, Etc. Consisting of 1 Deering mower, 1 12 ft_> hay rake, 3 breaking plows, 1 cul-

tivator, 1 1-horse drill, 2 hay slides, 1 weeder, 1 disk, 1 scoop board, 2 harrows, 1 bob sled, 1 buggy po t, 1 heavyi iron kettle, 1 wood sto\ e, 1 set double harness, 1 set single harness, 1 platform scale, 1 spring scale, household goods, etc. A credit of 12 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent, off for cash. H. H. CHURCHILL, PERRY MARLATT. A. J. Harmon, Auctioneer. C. J. Spitler, Clerk. Lunch on the grounds. . Big Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at public auction at his residence 10% miles north of Rensselaer, "4 miles north of Aix, 1 mile west and 3 miles south of Kniman, on what is known at the old Gant farm, commencing at 10:00 a. m., on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1910 4 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 Black Mare, s^years old, wt. 1,300, 1 Bay Mare, 3 years old, wt. 1,200, 1 Gray Horse, wt. 1,350, 1 Black Yearling Colt. 4 doz. Chickens 30 Head of Cattle, consisting of 11 head of milch cows, 7 of which are now giving. milk, 4 will be fresh in

early winter, and .balance in early spring. 19 head of spring calves, consisting of 9 heifers, 10 steers. Terms: Ten dollars and under, cash in hand; on sums over SJO a credit of 12 months will be given; 6 per cent, off Tor cash. G. H. COMER. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer C. G. Spitler, Clerk Hot lunch on the ground. NOTICE TO HEIRS, CDEDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of James Rodgers, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, November term, 1910. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of James Rodgers, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Friday, the 9th day of December, 1910, being the day fixed for the final settlement account of Thomas C. Cain, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent * and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on,said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. THOMAS C. CAIN, Administrator. Frank Foltz, Attorney for estate.