Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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GIVE US SOMETHING NEW

\The Monon officials will build a 520,000 depot' at Rensselaer next year.—Francesville Tribune. Yes, we’ve heard this regularly along about this season for the last ten years. The old depot is still here,

THE LECTURE COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT.

L. B. Wickersham will appear Friday evening, Dec. 9, at the M. E. Church, as the third number of the Lecture Course.* Mr. Wickersham, though new to this community, is a widely known lecturer, having filled over sixteen hundred engagements in lowa, his native state, and also many others in the principal cities in the United States. Besides being the most expensive ntimber on the course, the committee believes that in Mr. Wickersham, they have secured a lecturer, who will please the people. Judging from the patronage at the Miles lecture, Oct. 25, and the Schubert concert and entertainment, Nov. 30, people have been well pleased so far, arid a large audience will greet Mr Wickersham on Friday evening.

TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT

Of State Board of Health Is Located in the Williams Building. The Indiana State Board of Health tuberculosis and pure food exhibit is on display in the Williams room opposite the court house in charge of Dr. W. F. King, Assistant State Health Commissioner and F. W. Tucker, Pure Food Inspector. The exhibit will be open each day and evening i until Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock An illustrated lecture will be given in the Presbyterian church, Thursday evening at 7:30. Lectures and talks in explanation of the exhibit and the work of the State Board of Health will be given continuously at the exhibit room by those in charge. The exhibit and all meetings are free to the public and every one is urged to attend as often and whenever convenient.

BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES.

The annual business meeting of the church will he held on Wednesday evening, at 7:00 o’clock. All the members are earnestly requested to attend. The Women’s Missionary meeting will be held with Mrs, Harkrider, on Friday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Sunday morning the pastor will preach a Missionary sermon on the Missionary work of our publication society. The missionary offerings of this quarter go to this work, and we are now in the last month of the quarter. Sunday evening the theme will be, Church Unity, and will be a reply io or review of a sermon preached last Sunday by Cardinal Gibbons, and published in the Inter Ocean. Monday. Junior B. Y. P. U. will hold its meeting Sunday afternoon, and the Seniors, Sunday evening before the preaching service.—J. P. Green, Pastor.

VETERAN KILLS HIMSELF.

John L. Johnson Takes Own Life Because of 11l Health. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 5. —Battle Ground, a village seven miles north of here, was stirred, Saturday night, by the suicide of John L. Johnson, a well-known resident, who ended his life by blowing off the top of his head with a shotgun. He was seven-ty-five years old and a veteran of the civil war. He had lived in the town over half a century. His son Chester, with whom he lived, returned frqm a hunting trip and placed the shotgun in the bathroom. After eating supper the father left the dining room, went into the bathroom, slipped a shell in the gun, placed the barrel of the weapon in 'his mouth and pulled the trigger. 11l health is supposed to have been the cause. A few years ago he tried to kill himself by pouring gasoline on his clothes and setting fire to it. He was prominent in G. A. R. circles and had a gallant army record. He leaves a widow and four children.

’ If you will buy your rubber footwear at Murray’s, you will get guaranteed first quality goods.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. .On account of the township trustees’ annual meeting at Indianapolis this week on the 6,7, 8, the board of education meeting in Jasper county has been postponed from Wednesday until Friday, Dec. 9. tMarrigae licenses issued:. Dec. John S. Akers of Gillam tp.„ to Cora Magdaline Blake of Fair Oaks, aged, 17, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each, father of female giving consent to marriage. SsJDec. 5, Silas Alva Potts of Rensselaer, aged 28, occupation farmer, to Mary Ann Myers of Parr, aged 28, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for fe male, she having been divoiced Feb. 17, 1907; first marriage for male. The legislature of 1909 changed the public depository law to some extent and made it unnecessary to advertise for bids (see Acts 1909, page 437, Sec. 1) and within 20 days before the meeting of the several boards of finance notice must be sent by registered mail to bank or trust companies in the township or communities inviting proposals. This notice should be mailed out by the secretaries this week, as the boards of finance meet the first Monday in January to designate the depositories.

Among the instruments filed for record this week was a mechanic’s lein of $897.25 by E. D. Rhoades & Son on the former Tom McCoy property, now owned by A. Earl Reynolds. This makes about $2,000 in leins filed against this property recently for labor and material furnished in repairing and remodeling the house which was blown up in 1904, as follows: J. C. Gwin & Co. , $ 30.00 Rensselaer Lumber Co. . . 800.00 Delphi Lumber Co. ...... 260.00 E. D. Rhoades & Son .... 897.25 Total 1,987.25 Reynolds paid but SSOO down when he bought the property at $2,300 last winter.

—° —' The county commissioners met in regular session Monday and were still in Session yesterday. Following is the report of Monday’s proceedings: Petition of G. L. Morgan for appointment as fireman at heating plant; petition dismissed. Contracts awarded for poor farm supplies as follows: Groceries, John Eger, $173.72; meats, Roth Bros., sl4; dry goods, F.'G. Kresler, $74.62: Fees-collected for the quarter ending Nov, 30, were reported as follows: Clerk,-$296.50; Auditor, $138,75; Recorder, $600.95. Interest on county funds for the month of November: Bank of Wheatfield $ 22.90 State Bank, Remington .... 41.68 Trust & S. Bk, Rensselaer.. 48.11 State Bk., Rensselaer 60.66 First Nat. Bk. Rensselaer . . 103.11 —o —• Circuit court proceedings since our last report: Pancoast ditch; drainage commissioners granted permission to amend report, on petition of petitioners; Court goes out over route of ditch and further hearing of case continued to Dec. TO. Ella R. Sanford vs. Edward Sanford, et al.; sale reported to Lewis S. Alter for $l,lOO, full value of appraisement. Deed approved and sale confirmed.

Emma M. York, adm. vs. Emma M. York; sale of lots in Oakdale, White county, reported to Kate Miller of Jasper county for S2OO cash. Sale confirmed and deed approved. Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs. Edward J. Steinke, et al,; receiver reports charges of $34.50 and credits the same amount. ; Joseph H. Martin vs. George McElfresh, jury trial, 11 men, by agreement. The case was still on yesterday morning. Wm. Martin vs. Mary Joerg, et a.l; judgment for $1,962.36. R. D. Thompson appointed receiver. Defendants granted appeal to appellate court after motion for new trial had been overruled. John W. Nowels and John F. Zimmer vs. George W.—-and Margaret Tudor; judgment for defendants, costs equally divided between plaintiffs and defendants. Christian L. Heusler vs. Fountain Park Co.; defendants file cross-com-plaint. ~’• ' / , - .... James W. Johnson vs. Patrick; Hallagan; cause continued at plaintiff’s cost. • c ’ • '

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

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

Henry Secor ~vs. Charley Meyers; receiver directed to file inventory of all property and accounts.

PUBLIC SALES.

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Thursday Dec. 8. J. Frank Osborne, two miles south of Rensselaer, on the Range Line road. General: sale of horses, cattle, chickens, far mtools, etc. Thursday, Dec. 15. A. D. Stephenson, at Parr. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. 7 Monday, Dec. 19, Jule Daughty and John J. Borntrager at the residerice of the former, 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farm tools, etc.

FAKE CONSISTENCY.

A big whiskey advertisement that would have been easy money and for which the liquor company would have willingly paid S2O was refused by The Republican this week. It appears in the columns of The Jasper County Democrat. The Republican has advocated the cause of temperance and supported measures to limit or exclude the sale of intoxicating liquors because it believed in the cause of temperance.—Republican. The Democrat is probably as good a temperance paper editorially as the Republican, but in its ad room it doesn’t always let sentiment run away with its business sense. The Indianapolis News is editorially one of the strongest temperance newspapers in the country, barring the straight-out prohibition press, but the News carries several liquor advertisements in every sue. So far as the Republican turning down S2O for this ad is concerned, that is mere buncombe. It might have got $8 possibly for the ad. That is all. The advertisers are not paying any such price for advertising in a paper of the circulation of the Republican. The Democrat will not knowingly advertise any fradulent scheme or carry advertising for fake concerns, but reputable concerns—and the United States government recognizes the manufacture and sale of liquors as reputable—can have space in our advertising .columns at regular rates.

By the'Way, readers of the Republican will no doubt remember the fits of indignation the Republican had some two years ago over The Democrat’s carrying a big ad for a specialist doctor, and how it boasted about turning down the same ad because it thought it would be taking money from the home doctors in carrying the ad and boosting “quacks,” as it termed the visitor. Well, the very same , doctor is to be here again, next Saturday, and the Republican is looking pleasant and carrying his ad, and we’ll wager at no advance over its regular rates, too. The tainted money of this great specialist did not look good to the fake moralists of the Republican two years ago, but it is good now. And it is the same money, too! We shall expect soon to see the Republican also turn tail on whiskey advertising, like it has on most every other proposition it ever took up, and grasp at every ad of this kind that it gets a chance at. O, thou fake jewel —at least a fake in the sanctum of the Republican.

PLAYHOUSE CATCHES ON FIRE.

Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 4.—Fire last night did $5,000 damage to thp Family Theater, the leading vaudeville house of the city, breaking out an hour after the last performance. It is believed to have been of incendiary origin.

ENGINE BLEW UP.

A freight engine ori the 3-1 railroad exploded a short distance west of the station at San Pierre Wednesday morning i\ about 10 o’clock. The engineer, brakeman and fireman were badly, scalded and were compelled to stay in the depot and wait more than an hour for medical assistance. The San Pierre doctor was out of town. The injured men were taken to a hospital at South Bend. —Francesville; Ttribune.

Better stuff, at lower prices.— Home Grocery.

PLATFORM PLEDGES

Should be Carried Out Regardless of Any Petitions. While personally The Democrat would rather see the county option, law retained at least for a couple of years longer, to give it a more thorough test, we believe that platforms of political parties should be kept; that they should mean something more than “getting in on,” and we want to see the pledge of the democratic party in Indiana, to enact a township and city local option law. carried out by the coming legislature. The Anti-(Saloon League is having petitions circulated asking the coming legislature to repudiate this plank of the democratic platform, and in this we think the League is doing wrong. Whether the liquor question cut much figure in the results of the last election in this state or not we do not know, but the township and city option plank was in the democratic platform and a majority of the people voted that ticket knowing that this plank was a part of the platform principles of our party. Hence, in our opinion, it is wrong to ask the party, through its legislative members, to repudiate the promises made at the state convention—to be false to its pledges. We do not gee how anyone who voted the democratic ticket can consistently sign the petition, and we do not believe very many such people will do so. The democrats do not owe the AntiSaloon League anything. It has fought us tooth and nail and been in open alliance with the republican state organization. The democratic party, we believe, owes more to the people who voted its ticket than it does to tfyose who worked and connived to defeat it. > "The verdict of the people of the sfate as expressed at the polls vdas one of confidence that the plrty would do what it had promised to do in its platform. We want to see it make good, and so far as our county or legislative district is concerned, the change from county to township and city option would probably cut no figure whatever. The district is “dry” now —in theory, at least, — and will doubtless remain so after the change in unit is made, for it is not the intention nor never was to repeal the remonstrance law as it now stands.

■We do not believe these petitions will have very much weight with the coming legislature, and they should not, except where a legislator made his campaign against the repeal or modification of the county i option law. In such cases the lawmaker should, of course, stand by the open pledges he made to his people regardless. of the platform of his party or of party caucuses. The thing is, be true to your promises, and if you are a democrat, Mr. • Legislator, and openly promised your constituency that you would vote against any change in the option law, stand by your guns no matter what influence may be brought to bear upon you. But if you made your campaign on the democratic state plat-form you are in duty bound to vote according to the pledges of that platform, regardless of petitions asking you to do the contrary..

BENEFIT ENTERTAINMENT

Miss. Anna M. Elsner, elocution and physical jculture teacher in the Chicago Training School, will give an entertainment in Rensselaer at the M.’ E. church Ori Thursday evening Det. 15, for the benefit of the Mohriett Academy. A miscellaneous program of pathos, tragedy, comedy, dialect, monolpgue, posing and pantomimes, intersperced with music, will be given. The admission will be 35. cents for, adults; 20 cents for children.

TWO OF A KIND.

Pillsbury and Gold Mtdal. These two brands of flour are more widely distributed than any other dozen brands. Do you know why? Buy a sack of either, at McFarland’s and the question is answered. We now have an arrangement whereby we can get' the car rate, therefore can sell as cheaply as any other for the sarrie grade. '

DEMOCRAT’S BIG TOUR CUNTEST ENDED WITH SOME SURPRISES

Especially in the Second District Where It Was a-Neck and Neck Race—Outcome Unknown Until Final Count

CONTEST VERY SUCCESSFUL And Brought In Many New Subscribers Which Was The Democrat’s Object In Giving It—Contest Created Great' Interest All Over the County— Names of The Winners and the Vote Each Received.

TO NEW YORK

Fern Casey. . .. . 123,500 Rosabel Daugherty 82,950 Nellie Eek .159,700 TO CHICAGO Nellie Osborn 108,050 Ruth Yeoman .... 66,375 Estella Taylor.... 86,150 $5 IN GOLD Hazel D. Mason.... 23,550 Ethel McCarthy... J 59.350 Verona Bill 52,475

The big eastern tour contest conducted by The Democrat for the past four weeks ended Saturday night, and when the “polls closed” at 10 p. m., the ballot box. was pretty well filled with votes and coupons of the favorite candidates from each district, and to those who worked hardest throughout the contest the victory came. Some candidates, owing to their geographical location, were at some disadvantage over those more centrally located, but in the second district where the active candidate list was largest the vote was necessarilly the smallest for both first and second place, and Democrat readers who had picked the winners in this district were considerably eff in their reckoning. The vote was canvassed by exmayor J. IL S. Ellis and A. J. Harmon, the well known auctioneer, and the standing of the various candidates was found to be as stated in another part of this article. The thanks of The Dem-, ocrat are hereby extended to Messrs. Ellis and Harmon, who declined to accept any pay for their services. .

Brought -Many New Subscribers The object, of course, in conducting contests of this kind is to increase newspaper —to get new subscribers-yand ia the contest just ended,. together w th the personal canvass of the county made for The Democrat last summer by Mr. A. Ohman/ this paper now has a circulation of nearly or quite double that of any other paper published in Jasper county and more than all the other papers combined. There are mighty few people -in the county whoycto not read The regularly, a fact which advertisers will do well to bear in mind. Twice as many people can ba reached by advertising in The Democrat than by any other medium in Jasper county, and it goes into the best homes in the county, too. The total expense of this contest will probably reach SSOO, , but wc expect. the outlay to turn a net profit in. the end, otherwise we could not have afforded to go into it. The New York Trip. That the successful candidates in the Xew r York City Trip may be assumed that the expenses of the trip are provided for, we have deposited $225 in The Savings and Trust Bank of Rensselaer for this purpose, as shown by the appenfled statement of Judson J Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of said bank : ' Rensselaer, Ind., Dec. 5, 1910. This Is to certify that Frank E. Babcock has deposited the sum of Two hundred twenty-five dollars, in this bank for the purpose as stated by him of defraying the ex-

peases of the three successful contestants in the trip to New York contest;— The Trust & Savings Bank, by Judson J. Hunt, Secretary Treas. 4 his fund will remain intact in bank until the date of the trip, and more information thereon will be published later. The winners of the second prize, a two days trip to Chicago, are requested to be in Rensselaer on I uesday, Dec. 27, in time to take the 10:05 a. m. train for Chicago. 4 he party will be properly chaperoned and all expenses of the trip both to and from Rensselaer will be borne by The Democrat. Some good play at one of the leading theatres will be taken in Tuesday night and various points of interest in the big city will be visited during the two days, the party returning home Wednesday night. No pains nor expense will be spared to make the trip a pleasant one and a good time, one that will long be remembered, is assured. Fifteen Dollars in Gold. Winners of the third prize—a five dollar gold piece?—will receive same by registered mail perhaps before this issue of The Democrat reaches them, as they are being sent out at once, and while not so valuable as the other prizes, they will partly compensate those receiving them for the time and energy expended in trying to win the more valuable prizes. There were some candidates nominated at the beginning of the contest, -by their friends, who did not have the time or the inclination to go into it to win. Some of these were dropped on our being notified to this effect, while the others were carried through to the end and appear in the above list. The votes secured by the candidates shows that each have hosts of friends who wanted to see thepi wiiij and those who put forth any effort at all in the contest can feel gratified oyer the votes received whether they won or not. ~ The standing of all the candidates at the end of the contest was as follows:

DISTRICT NO. 1.

Keener, Wheatfield, Kankakee; Walker Gillam and Union Townships. Fern Casey 123,500 Nellie Osborne .... -... 108,050 Hazel D. Mason 23,550 Edna Williams i.. .. 12,875 Nellie Stalbaum 9,400 Eva McGinnis 3,075 DISTRICT NO. 2. Newton, Marion, Barkley and Hanging Grove Townships. Rosabel! Daugherty ... 82,950 Ruth Yeoman 66,375 Ethel McCarthy 59,350 Charlotte Kanne 50,200 Lizzie Reiddle 38,750 Mary Johnson 38,700 Edna Lefler ... 31,825 Eva Moore ... :;f.. ... 12,800 Alice Coen .... ..... 7,285 Opal Waymire 4,125 Ruth Ames 3,125 DISTRICT NO. 3. Milroy arid Carpenter Townships. Ktellie Eck 159,700 Estella Taylor 86,150 Verona Bill . 52,525 Belle Southard 11,925 Lena Williamson 4,150 Mrs. W. D. Bringle ... 4,075 Laura Peck 3,025 Mrs. Clara Balcom .... 3,000 Florence Eck 3,000 - - - - - 4 - ■

Who The Winners Are. Of the successful Miss Fern Casey, who won first in the first district, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Casey of Union tp., and the vote received in her home township attests her popularity. She is both nice looking and nice appearing and U i —>—i——

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