Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — Page 1

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PUBLIC SALES.

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Monday, Jan. 2, Josiah Davisson, at Kniman. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Thursday, Jan. 12, J. A.'lsselstein, Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, etc. Monday, Jan. 16, Vincent Eisle, 3 miles south of Rensselaer- General sale, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, Jan. 18, J. U. Iliff, 6 miles south and 2 miles west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, etc.

JASPER COUNTY AIR SHIPS.

Tefft Has An Inventor Working On Air Craft Plans. Tefft has hn inventor at work on airship drawings and which he has lately finished. Ed Morris from Detroit, Mich., is at work on an aeroplane which he has planned and worked on for several years. Mr. Morris will build a machine which he calls a two surface, doubledeck aeroplane. It is built of two arched cloth surfaces placed one above the other. Spruce will be used for the frame, and perhaps Mr. Morris will win great fame if his invention proves a success.

LICENSING OF TEACHERS.

Some changes have recently been made by the State Board of Education in regard to the licensing of teachers. Hereaftr high-school teachers must take an examination in Science of Education in addition to those subjects that they teach. A license may also he issued for on£, two or three years, according to the grades made, though they take only one subject. Heretofore a license was not issued for more than one year on fewer than five subjects. Hereafter it will not be considered that the examination for a sixty months license is taken in two divisions, but any one securing a thirtysix months State license wiß be elligible to take the examination in the high school subjects necessary to entitle him to a sixty months license, provided both examinations are taken in the same -calander year.

WEEK OF PRAYER PROGRAM.

During the week of prayer, beginning Monday, Jan. 2nd, union services will be held as follows: Monday evening'the services will be held in the Baptist church, conducted by Rev. C. L. Harper. Theme, “The People’s Approach to God.” Tuesday evening, in the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. J. P. Green. Theme, “Missions.” Wednesday evening each church will hold its own prayer meeting. Thursday cvcirHrg-, iii -the Prcchy—terian church conducted by Rev. G. H. Clark. Theme, “The home and the school.” Friday evening, in the Christian church, conducted by Rev. J.-C. Parrett. Theme, “Government and Politics.” * An earnest invitation is extended to all, whether Christians or not, to attend .these meetings. Rev. C. H. Clark, President, and Rev. J. P. Green, Sec. of the Minister’s Association.

TO ALL SURVIVORS OF INDIAN WARS.

We desire to obtain the addresses of all those who served on the Frontier against hostile Indians in the United States and Volunteer service from the close of the Civil war until 1883, in order that their names may be placed on the books of the N. I. W. V. Association so that they may benefit by the Act pending before Congress, as soon as it becomes a. law. Will send copy on application. The National Indian War Veterans, organized for the purpose of procuring pensions for its members, have sent two of the order, the National Comminder, Henry Hegwer, and the National Secretary, C. R. Hauser, to Washington, D. C., there to inaugurate a vigorous campaign for the purpose of accomplishing this object. Those brave and noble soldiers who so valiantly defended and protected the Western Frontier in the early days, making it possible for this generation to develop its unlimited resources and to live in peace and prosperity, are surely entitled . to the same recognition that this Government so justly accords to survivors’ of other wars. HENRY•HEGMER, National Commander L W. V. P. O. Box 484, Washington, D. C. t

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol The various township trustees will make their annual settlement with their advisory boards next .Tuesday.^ The county -commissioners will meet in regular session Monday, but the county board of education will not meet until Monday, Jan. 9. —o—Roselawn and Lincoln tp. r Newton county, will vote to-day on the proposition of a subsidy for Purtelle’s electric railroad scheme. New suits filed: No. 7685, John T. Biggs vs. George W. Fleming, et al.; action to quiet title. . No. 7686. Anna vs. Wm. H. Larabee, et al.; action to quiet title. £—.Marriage licenses issued: Dec. 27, VJohn P. Wals-tra, of Roselawn, aged 22, occupation farmer, to Anna Peterson, of Fair Oaks, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. - Dec. 27, Edward Fawley, of Knox, aged 41, occupation laborer, to Mary Louisa Stowers, of Fair Oaks, aged 48, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first marriage of male having been dissolved bsr divorce Feb. 8, 1898, and that of female by death Nov. 9, 1910. With the beginning of the new year Jasper county will have three democratic officers, sheriff, one commissioner and one county councilman, the first time in many years at least that we have had three democratic county officers at the same time. The democrats have, ip yearS past and gone, occasionally got in one man on their ticket, but the four elected in November last, W. I. Hoover for sheriff and C. F. Stackhouse and Wm. Hershman for commissioners and A. G. Moore for councilman, wdre Jft twelye years.

Mr. Hershman does not take his office until Jan. 1, 1912, after which we will have four democratic county officers.

The democrats have had three democratic auditors, all years ago— Henry Barkley, Ira W. Yeoman and Ezra Nowels. Wm. M. Hoover, father of the sheriff-elect, also served one term as treasurer, being defeated for re-election in 1886 by the late I. D. Washburn. In 1892 J. J. Hunt was elected recorder, and served four years, from Nov. 21, 1892, to Nov. 23, 1896. His name appeared on both the democratic and People’s Party'tickets, and as a result of this endorsement by the People’s Party, the republicans were given a cioseTa'ce~~aTT down the line. In the clerk’s office Charles H. Price, now deceased, brother of former county surveyor M. B. Price, was' elected clerk by the democrats back in. the seventies and served two terms, going out of office in 1882. . John F. Major was elected clerk by the democrats in 1898 and served one term, declining to be a candidate for re-election. A little more effort at that time would have elected almost the entire democratic ticket, there being a large number of stay-at-homes that year. Until the recent election no other democrats were got in, and MrHoover will enjoy the distinction of being the first democratic sheriff Jasper county has ever had.

OBJECT TO NEW DEPOT PLANS.

Residents Of Near Present Location Protest Against Removal' Two Blocks West. —- : -- The citizens of Rensselaer of the northeast part of the city are protesting against the alleged proposed plan of the Monon to build its new depot—when it is built—two blocks west of the present location, or near the Brady elevator crossing. They say that if the company is to move the location to secure room room, that to move it to the Franklin x street crossing, one block east of the present' location, Is the more preferable, and, they contend, the Franklin, street location is slightly nearer to the center of the Makeever hotel crossing than the Brady crossing location. In proof of this contention they had the county surveyor measure the distances Thursday, and it was found to be 2,802 feet from the Franklin street crossing down Division to the Forsythe residence corner and up Washington street to the center of the Washlng-

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, SATURDAY, DEC. 31, 1910.

ton and Cullen street intersection, and 2,803 feet to the. same point by nearest route’ from the Brady crossing.

The vacant ground on the south of the tracks at the Brady crossing, where it is talked the 'new depot will be erected, was owned by the Alfred and S. P. Thompson estates, and in the recent division of the latter’s estate the undivided onehalf was set off to S. P. Thompson’s widow, May F. Thompson. This plat of ground has 145 feet frontage on Forest street and ie 250 feet east and west, containing 96-100 of an acre. It has always been contended that the curve just west of this crossing made it an undesirable location for a depot, but H. R. Kurrie, who is now attorney for the Monon and to influence more than anything else will be due the credit of Rensselaer’s getting a new depot—if we do. get one—-is a son-in-law of Mrs. May Thompson, and would, therefore, naturally be Interested in having the depot located at this point.

LONZO HEALL’S NEW SONG IS A SUCCESS.

Lodz* Heal}' can now be classed among the popular music writers of the day. His song, entitled “I’d Like to Be a Friend of All the Girls,” was very favorably received at the Princess theater Wednesday night, and quite a numbed of copies of the song were sold, he having it made up in sheet form by a Chicago music house. The song was sung by J. L. Haberkorn, baritone, and was applauded at each show. This is one of the several songs Mr. Healey has composed, and it is probable he will have some of the others published'in a few weeks.

A. M. CLARK PROSPERING IN KANSAS.

A. M. Clark, who used to clerk in Rensselaer in the grocery department of the Chicago Bargain Store and also the G. E. Murray store, sends renewal of his subscription for The Democrat from his present home at Gardner, Kasc, which places him on May 1, 1912, and says: “This is a great country here; doing fine and have good health. We had a good crop this year. Weather is fine; it hasn’t been near down to zero yet and no rain or snow. Roads are dry and dusty. This is a great republican county, but the democrats elected all but three of their ticket last time. ”

RAILROAD PROMOTOR TAYLOR

Files Suit In Xewtqn Court Asking for $22,000 for “Services.” . -• . • ■ ' j A suit of seemingly large'magnitude but presumable of little merit has been filed in the circuit court against the Chicago. 'lndiana and Southern Railroad Co., Warren T. McCray and Carroll C. Kent. Bayard Taylor, who will be remembered as a railroad promotor familiar in these parts a few years ago, is the plaintiff, and is asking for the modest sum of $22,000.00, alleging such sum to be due him for services performed in promoting the C. I. & S. railroad. Mr. Taylor’s complaint is of great length, and reviews the steps taken in the preliminary work which, ultimately developed in the C. I. & S. railroad. Mr. Taylor had a railroad on paper running from somewhere to somewhere, and was out prospecting. ' Mr. McCray and Mr- Kent being desirous of securing a north and south railroad for Newton county, entered into a contract with Mr. Taylor to make certain surveys, and we are informed, paid him for his services. In the course of the transactions, that followed, a number of contracts were made between them and Mr. Taylor, • and between them and several railroad companies. Subsidies we«e voted in a number of townships through which the proposed -road was to run, and right.of way was secured. But the subsidies were never collected, and when the road was financed and constructed by the New York Central that company paid for all right of way not voluntarily donated. The terms and agreements between the parties at suit are not a matter of public knowledge or concern, but it is well known that Mr. McCray and Mr.. Kent gave liberally of time and money to the project, and secured for . Newton county one of the best railroads in the central west- We are. informed that .Mr. Taylor was settled with for the services he performed, and if he has not been, he has been -a long time in presenting the claim. — Newton County. Enterprise. ■

SAME OLD SERVICE ON M. C. DIVISION.

Francesville Tribune: The Monon ’s mnch talked about new time card went into effeet last Sunday morning. Several changes have been made among the main line passenger trains, but they do not Have anything to do with the connections on the Michigan City division. The accommodation train known as the “blue bird” has been put on this livision again. It leaves Monon on the arrival of the Lafayette and Indianapolis trains, arriving here at 10:10 a. m. Returning from Michigan City it arrives here at 4:55 in the evening making connections at Monon with the Chicago train and the milk train south bound for Lafayette. .

GENERAL CLEAN UP IN GARY.

Gambling and Disorderly Houses Closed and Inmates Ordered to Leare Town. Every gambling house keeper, every inmate end keeper of disorderly houses in this city were notified by the jpoliee authorities last night that they must leave Gary by 2 o’clock this afternoon and never return as long as the present administration is in power. At a meeting of the board of public safety held at the city hall at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon it was decided to clean up the city in A wav it hasn’t been cleaned up in its history. Chief Martin was given instructions to notify all gamblers and scarlet women in the city that they must leave Gary and do eb before 2 o’clock his afternoon. Members of the board of public safety will give no reason for this action other than the action was taken with the view of ridding the city of many undesirable citizens.— Gary Post, Dec. 29.

NOT PART OF REGULAR DUTIES

Thursday’s Monticello Journal: Judge Vinton was over from Lafayette to sit in the case of the county commissioners vs. Jasper L. Ackerman, in which the county sought to to recover monies paid Mr. Ackerman as auditor of county for making out the assessor’s books for the various townships to the amount of $750.00, or at the rate of $150.00 per year. The contention was made that in years when the land was not to be assessed that the law prescribed it to be one of the duties of the auditor to make these books without extra compensation. There was no question but what he should make them without extra compensation when the year came for the re-ap-praisement and assessment of lands. When the case was called the attorney for the county filed a second paragraph to the complaint, alleging that it was the duty of the township assessors to prepare such books. To the complaint thus amended the defendant Ackerman answered, alleging that it 'was not the prescribed duty of either auditor or assessors to prepare such books. The plaintiff then filed demurrer to this answer and the demurrer was overruled by Judge Vinton, who delivered quite an opinion in relation to the question. The plaintiff refusing to plead further, judgment was entered up in favor of the defendant, Mr. Ackerman, the court holding that it was not the duty of either auditor or assessors to prepare the books in question unless they received extra compensation for such work.

POSTPONED MEETING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB.

There will be a special postponed meeting of the stockholders and lot contract holders of the Commercial Club, on Wednesday evening, Jan. 4, 1911, at which time matters of vital interest to all will come up. Each stock and contract holder is requested to be present. Election of directors will be held at the same time. At the Club rooms, over Roth Bros., Jan. 4, 1911, at 7:30 p. mD. M. WORLAXD, President.

PURE FOOD DEMONSTRATION ALL NEXT WEEK

For the week of Jan. 2-7 we have secured the services of an expert demonstrator from McNeil A Higgins Co., Chicago, to demonstrate the merits of the famous None Such Coffee, None Snch Preservesand None Such i Raking Powder. All ladies who are interested in serving absolutely pure foods on their tables are requested to call at. our stove next week and sample these goods, FREE t>F CHARGE. All next week. ' THE G. E. MURRAY CO.

State and General News

ELECTRICAL WORKERS TAKEN

Lake County Grand Jury Returns Indictments in Factional Fight. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 30.—Warrants following grand jury indictments promise to unfold the inner workings of an electrical workers’ combination in Lake county, which bad contractors and builders at its mercy for years. ■’

The arrests followed a controversy In Gary between the Collins-McNulty and the Reid-Murphy factions, in which one man was killed and several others wounded The warrants were served on James Ffnneran, Martin Carmody, Robert O’Cornor, Y. Abbott and Fred Jurgens, members of the Collins-McNulty faction of electrical workers.

LIVES WITH BULLET IN BRAIN

Evansville Colored Youth Puzzles Physicians With Vitality. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 30.—Semiconscious and with a bullet Imbedded three inches deep in bis brain, Leroy Hackner. 12 years old, colored, is furnishing a remarkable example of vitality and reversal of accepted rules The boy was s hot by his cousin, Herbert Hackner, who accidentally discharged a flobert rifle, a Christmas gift, last Sunday. Dr Thomaß Maeer says he has an even chance for recovery. One side of his bbdy is partly paralyzed.

FACTORY MEN RECEIVE FINES

State Inspector Asserts They Did Not Have Plants Examined. Anderson, Ind., Dec. 30. Ferry Jones, proprietor of a saw mill, and Charles Liggett, manager of a fence factory, both of Frankton, were fined $25 leach by a justice of the peace after having been convicted of violating the statute requiring manufacturers to have their steam boilers inspected once every six months. The affidavits on which tbe men were arrested were filed by Deputy State Factory Inspector Thomas Williamson.

ATHLETE WINS BRIDE

Bloomington Wedding Follows Romance of Washington High Bchool. it Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 30. —Harry L. Lelch, a business man of this city, former student of Indiana university, member of Kappa Sigmi Fraternity and holder of an Indiana “I” on account of his brilliant track record, was married to Miss Josefte L. Walker, in New York city. The bride is a college graduate and arist The couple met tyhile each was attending the Washington, Ind., high school

ENTOMBED TWELVE HOURS

One Man Rescued Alive at Smelter * Plant at El Paso, Tex. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 30.—Joaquin Chaparro was taken alive from tunnel No. 1 of the smelter plant, where an explosion killing a number of men occurred, after twelve hours’ imprisonment. Rescuers were within speaking distance of another workman partiaily buried in the debris. Two hundred cans of powder, still in the tunnels, lend an element of danger to the rescue work

PLANS WHITE PLAGUE FIGHT

Fort Wayne Health Officer Calls Mass Meeting for Organization. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 30. —Owing to the great interest shown here in the anti-tuberculosis movement, as evidenced by an enormous sale of Red Cross stamps during the holidays, Dr Eric Crull, secretary of the city health board, believes that the time is ripe for the organization of a society to fight the disease. Accordingly he called a meeting for next Tuesday morning for organization purposes

RUNAWAY GIRLS RETURNED

Inmates of Plymouth Home Sent Back to Institution. South Bend, Ind., Dec. 30. Helen Davis and Isa Mays, each 16 years old, who ran away from the Industrial School at Plymouth several days ago and who Were taken into custody at Wyatt, Ind., and turned oyer to the Sooth Bend authorities, have been re* turned to tbe Plymouth home. The girls were tramping through the country when captured. At first they said they were from Indianapolis. The dates for the .Rensselaer poultry and corn show are January, 3,4, 5,6, 7. The show will be held in the Armory. i

VoL XIII. No. 75.

M. P. TRAIN ROBBED

Lone Bandit Holds Up Passengers and Makes Good His Escape. , A Missouri Pacific train from St. Joseph, was robbed just before entering Kansas City. Kan., by a lone masked man, who boarded the train at Leavenworth Jurction. The bandit began at the rear of the train and held up the passengers with a revolver while he searched them, taking watches a ndtmoEey Twenty persons were robbed, ending with the conductor, S. C. -May, of Kansas City. The robber jumped !rcm the train at a dark spot inside the Kansas City, Kan., limits and escaped.

FIRE VICTIMS BURIED

Nearly Every Section in Chicago Sees Funeral Corteges. Funerals of the victims of the stock yards fire was begun in Chicago and continued until Tuesday, when the bodies of the last of the twenty-four men killed by the- falling wall were laid awAy, Three of the funerals. Including that of Assistant CL ! ef Burroughs, passed through crowds making ready for Christmas. Nine more were held Sunday. Eleven of the heroes, including Chief Horan, 1 were carried to their graves Monday. While al] Chicago felt its bereavement as soon as the results of the fire were heralded, its true meaning came home to thousands of citizens who watched the slow processions of the first funerals, marked by long rows of uniforms and of carriages filled with men known in public life. Almost every section of the city ssw at least one cortege of s similar nature. Mayor Busse formally appointed Assistant Chief Charles Seyferlich to succeed James Horan as fire marshal of Chicago.

PACKERS PROMISE FIGHT

Object to Dismissal of Suit in Equity by Judge Kohlsaat. * Indicted "beef trust” members rill resort to every technical means within their knowledge and experience to stay the criminal proceedings begun against them by the government. This was made clear before Judge Kohlsaat in tbe United States circuit court at Chickgo. Attorney George T. Buckingham, one of the attorneys for the packers, obtained a delay to Friday morning to file objections to the dismissal of the suit in equity to enjoin the National Packing company from violating the Sherman anti-trust act

MOUNT ETNA ACTIVE

Villagers Living Near Are Keeping a Close Watch on the Volcano. There have been no earth tremors, however. 4 but red hot material has been erupted, making a striking con trast with the snow capped volcano. The villagers living near the crater are keeping a close watch ca the volcano in fear of being overwhelmed.

ENGINE TRUCKS LEAVE RAILS

Wreck Delays Traffic, but None of Passengers Is Injured.

Muncie, Jnd , Dec. 34). —Passer gers on Big Four passenger train No. 46, east bound, due in Mancie at 8:52 a m.. were given a scare when the rear trucks of the engine left the track just west of town when the train was traveling between forty and. fifty miles an hour. No serious damage was done, but traffic- on the road was delayed several hours.

Severe Earthquake in Greece.

Athens, Greece. Dec. JO.—There was a violent earthquake in the province of Elis, causing heavy damage to buildings. The government has dispatched help '

English Spies Sentenced.

At Leipsiz, Germany, Lieutenant Brandon and Capt. Trench, the English military officers who confessed tc making sketches of the German fortifications at Borkrum, were sentenced to four years each as spies. They will be imprisoned in a German fortress.

Normal Student Takes Life.

At Jacksonville, lIL. Herbert Calloway, sen of Mr. ard Mrs. H. L. Calloway of Chapin, committed suicide with strychnine. He was attending the state normal school at Normal. Farmer Crowfoot—By gum. * Zeke says he seen an incubator at the county fair that could “cluck** Eke a hen. ' Fanner Ha rdapple— That's nothing. I saw one that could chase a hawk and bring the. cbe kens out of the pond when they followed the ducklings.—Philadelphia Press. An armload of old papers for a nickel at Tire Democrat office.