Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — Page 5

HAS NO SUBSTITUTE POWDER Absolutely Pure The only baking powdor mada from Royal Grapo Cream of Tartar NO ALUM,NO LIME PHOSPHATE

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Fine dried fruits. —Home Grocery. Mrs. G. F. Meyers spent Wednesday in Chicago. To-day’s markets: Wheat, 88c; Corn, 38c; Oats, 29c. Try the new French peas at the Home Grocery. Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins is visiting Monticello relatives. D. M. Worland and W. J. Wright were Chicago goers Wednesday. Emma Reed and Edith Winters of south of town went to Lagro Thursday to visit relatives. 1 i Nicholas Schmitter went to Delphi Wednesday for a short visit With relatives and friends, .■ -'J- ■■ ■ / Our big discount price still continues on Men’s Overcoats and Suits. ROWLES & PARKER. Mrs. J. H. Long and Miss Clara Mitchell went to Medaryville Thursday for a few days visit with relatives. The annual convention of the Indiana Brotherhood of Threshermen will joe held Feb. 1 and 2 at Indianapolis. I Mrs. Mary Deere and sister, Mrs. Price, spent Wednesday in Logansport visiting with their sister, Mrs. Rebecca Hurley. Get our prices on woven wire fencing. They will interest you if you contemplate doing any fencing this year. ROWLES & PARKER. \jGeorge Stemble of Wheatfield was called to Urbana, Ohio, Wednesday by the death of his aged mother, who was-83 years of age. This has been a warm, cloudy and rainy week, and the dirt roads are becoming quite soft. A drizzling rain fell all day yesterday. Mrs. Rosa Nasers of Sibley, la., who had been here to attend the funeral of her father, the late Peter May, left Wednesday for home All sizes woven wire fencing at special prices, Rowles & Parker’s Big Pre-Inventory Sale. It will pay you to buy your spring fencing now. You’ll need rubber footwear for these rainy days and we can save you 10 to 20 per cent on all kinds of rubbers. 1 ROWLES & PARKER. Nj“Bob” Lefler, who has been living ihJoliet, 111., for several years, will move back to Jasper county this spring and occupy his brother Len’s farm near Kniinan. Get a sack of our White Star flour, only $1.40 a sack. We guarantee it equal to any $1.50 flour sold anywhere. Every sack guaranteed. ROWLES & PARKER. Ray D. Thompson has received notice from the Home Insurance Co. that his agency stands sixth in the amount of business done in Indiana last year. There are 46 agencies in the state. Win. Bowers, who is working as craneman on a big dredge near Beardstown, 111., came over Thursday for a visit with relatives and friends until she ground thaws out so they cap resume Work. J. D. Allman, C. C. Warner, B. J. Moore, George McClain, W. A. Davenport, Dr. W. L. Meyer, W. F. Osborne and J. P. Hammond were over to Remington Thursday night to attend work in the second degree of the K. of P. lodge. A fine time was had, they, report.

Horse Sale next Wednesday. C. B. Steward was, in Monon on business Wednesday. J - . ;i m - - Bring in your horses next Wednesday if you have any for sale. Remember next Wednesday is regular Horse Sale day in Rensselaer. J. N. Smith and son Paul went to Indianapolis on business Wednesday. jVlacob Moore, Don Wright and Edwin Robinson went to Lafayette Thursday to spend a few days. Fancy Sand Grown Michigan Potatoes only 45c bushel. Rowles & Parker’s Grocery Dept. Phone 95. Joseph Thomas of Delphi, who has been visiting with friends here for the past few days, returned hbme Wednesday. Genevieve Mead of Hammond, who had been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Will Porter, of this place a few days, returned home Thursday. You can buy fancy Michigan potatoes, Clearance Sale price 45c bushel. Grocery Dept. ROWLES & PARKER. Barney Dewitt of Surrey got a fall on the ice Monday while chopping wood and broke his right leg below tjje knee. Mrs. Charles Vondersmith of Murdo, So. Dak., came Wednesday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. N. Littlefield, and other relatives and friends here. See our big display window of Womens Fine Tailor-made Suits at 50c on the dollar. You will say they are the biggest bargains you ever bought. ROWLES & PARKER. The Democrat’s reference to the tin-horn sports seems to have aroused the menagerie into spasms of indignation, and it may be that a certain member of the brigade will commit hara-kari, so angry is he. V. Joint-Representaaive Brown and Speaker Venneman each have our thanks for a season ticket of admission to the lower house of the Indiana legislature, though we are at a loss to know how we’re going to use two tickets. “I wonder what sort of a shell game the Republican will next try to unload on Rensselaer?” asked a prominent citizen yesterday. “It would be a blessing to the community if the ‘military editor’ could be placed on the retired list,” he added. The Democrat has a nice bunch of its from Oklahoma City on its first correspondence page (No. 3) concerning former Rensselaer and Jasper county citizens, that readers of this paper will enjoy reading. We hope the correspondent will frequently favor our readers will such news from there. Price on all kinds of fencing are sure to be higher as raw materials have already advanced, but our PreInventory sale prices are by far the lowest ever made on fencing, and it will be to your interest to buy now as we are giving big discounts on our already low prices. ROWLES & f’ARKER. < INE. V. Ransford and wife returned Wednesday night from an extended prospecting trip in the west, visiting Seattle, Spokane, Oreville, and Riverside, Wash. Thence, after looking after some claim title for his nephew at Seattle, to San Francisco, Cali., and back by-way of Los Angeles and Garden City, Kan, They were gone about four weeks. f Trhough the agency of the firm of C. P. Wright & Son one the largest land deals ever made in this county was closed a few days ago when the 1,520 acres ranch of F. A. Nave in Wheatfield township was sold, so the deed states, for $114,000 to C. H. Robertson of Chicago. The' latter expects to move onto the ranch in the near future. Jackson township and Mt. Ayr will vote Feb. 9 on the proposition of a subsidy of $14,000 to Purtelle's electric road. There is nothing to prevent people making d — fools of themselves if they want to, but Mt. Ayr stands no show whatever of ever getting the road. Paste this in your hat and see if The Democrat is not right, as usual, a vote of 29 to 21 the county option amendment, providing for city 1 and township, as the unit, passed the upper house of the Indiana legislature Tuesday afternoon. Two democrats voted against the amendment and one republican for. Thursday by a vote of 60 to 39 the bill was passed in the House and will likely” be signed by Governor Marshall to-day. *

All ladies appreciate suggestions for recipes, patterns and formulas by other ladies, because the ideas are practical. The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer prints seven columns of such in formation each week. This paper is SI.OO a year, but by subscribing through The Democrat the two papers will cost only $2.00. j Jasper county, visitors at the Jackson Club banquet at Lafayette Wednesday night had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Lee Fisher of our county, who with Co. Supt. Dodson of Benton county were attending the banquet. Lee is Supt. of schools at Otterbein this year and likes his work there very much. He sent regards to all Jasper county friends. The warm weather has started the biddies to laying and the price of eggs have dropped in the local market to 20 cents per dozen, with a prospect of much lower prices soon, owing to the dumping of large quantities of cold storage eggs on the markets in the city. The food trusts have lost huge sums of money, it is said, this season by reason of the mild winter. Kentland Enterprise: A. J. Bullis and Harry Warr, president and secretary of the Newton County Farmers’ Institute and Corn Club, were in Kentland Saturday arranging for the spring meeting to be held at the court house on Friday and Saturday, February 10th and 1 lth. The speakers, aside from local talent will be R. A. Ogg of Greencastle, F. G. King of Purdue experiment station, and J. B. Abbot. The band boys went in “the hole” about sls on the “indoor circus and carnival” held in the armory last week for their benefit. The carnival company was about the most God-forsaken bunch that ever struck Rensselaer. A part of the outfit leased mattresses and slept on the floor in the armory, boarding themselves. One member of the company told us that he with three others, one man and two colored women, had existed all week on 60 cents per day for the four of them. Mr. and Mrs. Powell, who have been living in the F. B. Meyer property on River street, have moved in with Mts. Mary Hopkins, next door, until March 1, when they will occupy the W. S. Parks property on the corner of McCoy avenue and College road. The Meyer property will soon be occupied by F. E. Babcock, who recently purchased same, an<T who will make considerable improvements to the property, including the raising of the foundation about sixteen inches, adding a large new porch, putting in some new doors and windows and making some changes on the interior. Some excitement was; (caused in front of the postoffice Thursday evening when a Rensselaer lady who had left her baby and go-cart outside while she went in after her mail, accused a citizen who was standing near by of having stolen her purse from a hand bag which she had left lying in the go-cart. The accused protested his innocence and asked immediately that he be searched. The lady was very positive in her belief that the man had stolen her purse, but she was finally prevailed upon to see if it had not been left at home. And she soon found was all safe and intact right where she had left it, at home.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Jan. 23, to Mr. and Mrs Leslie Miller of Barkley tp., a daughter. Jan. 24, to Mr. and Mrs. M. Tudor of Barkley tp., a son. Jan. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kresler, a son, their third child, making two daughters and one son for them.

FROM MITCHELL, SO. DAK.

Samuel Parker Writes of a Surprise On Mason Kenton. Mitchell, S. I)., Jan. 22. F. E. Babcock —We have had a fine winter here, as nice as any one could ask for, good roads all the time, but it was 28 degrees below' zero one day hepe. There was a big surprise on Mason Kenton to-day. He was 50 years old Jan. 22. Mason went to Sam Parker’s in the morning to make a little visit with Fritz Zard, and the two talked with him and kept him till all the brothers and Mike Nagel and neighbors gathered in, and when he went home the house was filled. Mason did not feel like he was 50 years old, nor did he act like it. There were about forty-five there and they all chipped in and got him a writing desk, and If any one wants a letter now Just write to Mason and I will guarantee they will get an answer. ,

SAMUEL PARKER.

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Overcoats |C. Earl Duval I | suits at ess than;; Exclusive Clothier :: at less than wholesale ;: Furnisher Hatter :: wholesale !"**• i; FM 22££;.E?“ r !; Prices A Big Sale on Suits and Overcoats WE are now having a big sale on Overcoats, Suits, Hats, Caps, Underwear, Wool Shirts, Dress Shirts, and everything for the men and boys to wear, all at less than wholesale cost to manufacture and we defy any merchant to duplicate same. We do this in order to make room for our spring goods as we never want to carry anything over. Now is your time to get busy, as you can save several dollars on a Suit or Overcoat. We give below a list of a few Suits and Overcoats: $12.00 Overcoats for $7.50 SIO.OO Suits for $7.00 $15.00 Overcoats for SIO.OO $ 12.00 Suits for SB.OO $16.50 Overcoats for sll4lO $ 15.00 Suits for SIO.OO SIB.OO Overcoats for $12.00 /jffrt, s 16.50 Suits for $ll.OO $20.00 Overcoats for $13.50 $ 18.00 Suits for $12.00 $22.50 Overcoats for $16.00 J&tt j j* $20.00 Suits for $13.50 $25.00 Overcoats for SIB.OO j ; $22.50 Suits for $16.00 $30.00 Overcoats for $20.00 $25.00 Suits for SIB.OO We are also giving 11 f1!1 fl We are also giving the same reductions |gTfJ*f(| same reductions on Boys', Children’s lil ;_J on Boys’, Youths’ and Youths’ Suits & Children’s Suits and Overcoats M and Overcoats C. EARL DUVALL, Rensselaer, Ind.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

SPENCER— The explosion of a large can of gasoline at the home of Charles Corns resulted in the death of Jesse Corns, 16 years old, and the father, Charles Corns, was so badly burned that his life is despaired of.The boy was building a fire in the kitchen stove and got the gasoline can by mistake for kerosene. When the can exploded he was completely enveloped in the flames and ran screaming from the house, his clothes dropping from him as he ran. The father overtook him. and in trying to extinguish the flames was himself badly burned about the face and bands. The explosion wrecked the kitchen, shattered the stove and ignited bed clothing in an adjoining room. ii*DIANAPGi_(S Gov. Marshall has caused a bill to be introduced in the legislature to head off Illinois and Kentucky gamblers who have been op erating pool rooms at Dearborn park, Lear Chicago and Jeffersonville, just across the river from Louisville The bill was drawn under the governor’s direction and makes the operation of a pcol room a felony with pun ishment from ore to eight years’ confinement in the penitentiary. The law will also apply to “any person who shall record or register bets or wagers or sells pools on the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed, or power of endurance of man or beast.” INDIANAPOLIS —Preparations are being made for the annual banquet of the Indiana Republican Editorial association to be given the night of Jan 26 in the Claypool hotel. The meeting will continue through the following day Many prominent men have been invited to be present and a number of the invitations have > been accepted One of those who will make an address is Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States. He will speak on bis Impressions of newspapers abroad A num her of questions of interest to Republican editors will be discussed. SOUTH BEND —The second mysterious donation to I>e made to the First Presbyterian church of Mishawaka within one month has been received by the pastor, the Rev. A. C. Ormonde, in the shape of a bank note for SI,OOO. The gift was sent the pastor inclosed in a plain ~ envelope The first gift, which was for $lO,000, was made last Christmas, when a check for that amount was dropped Into the collection plate at the morning services. The name of the bene factor is kbown to only two persons and -will not be given the public, according to present plans. RICHMOND As a result of the refusal of the state legislature to appropriate money for the purchases

of additional ground and for the erection of more buildings at the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, a number of counties in eastern Indl- j ana will have to make provision for caring for their Insane while awaiting j admission to the hospital. According! to commissioners, Wayne county will take the matter up and it is probable . the matter wi]|,fce solved here by the • erection of an insane building at the , county infirmary SHELBYVILLE— The members of the Shelby County Fair association wiil make an effort soon to have the board of directors of the State Fair as sociation to change its week from Sept. 4to Sept The first Tuesday in September is the one that has been selected by the local association ever since tfce association was formed, ihir- ■ j seven yeais ago. and the State Fair i.v.arr lock place the week following t t is jeer the siate beard has se- « , <’ a .■* me week v'ATriNf TON Clifford Baum. >. : t- 1 In the county jail on a }.!< vine cut of an attempt to » h s v ! e. end wno attempted to i * ait - yry by eating powdered glass, ‘•s r’e • r ' *?i effort, this time choos;s*e ?s? hjris Jrn to put an end to his life A v\ l • a fur pel out of a sheet of paper he fastened It to the gas jet and putti* g tt Into his mquth turned on the gas Other prisoners saw the act and prevented a successful conclusion GARY—The strike situation, which has so far been ccr.fned to five uni'ns. took on a serious asrett when carpenters declared a strike cn thtee buildings Heretofore the carpenters with other unions involved have remained neutral More walkouts are expected Employes may cease work entirely and Gary faces a general strike of all unions. DANVILLE The fifth annual exhibit of the Hendricks County •Poultry and Pet Stock association opened here with more than 1,200 en tries, many of them coming from out side the state It is believed before the entries close that there will be close to 2,000 entries, making the show second only in importance to the state exhibition.

The more unsuccessful a man is in his business affairs the less be cares to have his wife take an interest in them. One of a man’s harmless delusions is that every woman of his acquaintance envies his wire When a girl insists upon marrying a twelve dollar clerk her mother should give her sl2 and have her do the marketing a week with the same : There are many chuck boles in the highroad to success. «♦ ' ’ The cooking school graduate feels Independent of the kitchen maid until she tries washing the dishes.

HUMOROUS QUIPS

Heaven Bless ’Em. Wh«n the horses slip and tumble In tho wind swept „lcy streets, When the ”L” ruud patrons shiver, huddled In theMPchilly seats; When thick frost Is on the windows and the lawns are white with snow, When the clinkers clog the furnace so you cannot make It. go. What a Joy It Is to listen to the people who declare That there’s health In wintry weather and. no germs In winter air! , When the man with untrlmmed whisker* carries round a lot of Ice Dangling downward from his featured. when eggs reach their highest price. When the days are brief and gloomy* when the trains are always late. When the sidewalk's either muddy or * thing on which to skate. Is It not a rare, sweet pleasure while yam shiver to be told That we never have to battle with diseases when It’s cold? When your children have the measles or are lal(J up with the mumps. When the farmers lh the mornings harm to thaw their frozen pumps. When pneumonia, scarlet fever and m score of other Ills Keep the doctors hustling dally and Increase the monthly bills. When the quinine you have taken plagues . you so you cannot hear, Oh, how sweet It is to hear, to meet them —those whom winter serves to cheert —Chicago liecord-Herald. The Bait. ■■ ■ ''L “See here,” said the quick lunch customer to the waiter, ./‘why Is it that you are always out- of the ’specialty’ you advertise? Today it Is ‘small steak with mushrooms, 15 qents.’ And you 6ay you are all Out. Confound it, you are always out!” “Yes, sir," replied the waiter, with a gentle smile, “we make a specialty of being out, sir.” Cleveland Plain. Dealer. , Found His Vocation. Mrs. Simper—Have you picked out a profession for little Willy yet? Mrs. Snarler —Oh, yes. We are going to make a doctor of him. “And why a doctor?” “Oh, he always seems ao pleased when anybody sticks out his tongue.” —Spokane Spokesman-Review. Timely Discovery. Scrlberton (with newspaper)—And now they’re using large electro-mag-nets for raising sunken metal. | Dobberton—l wonder If I could borrow a small one somewheres. Scribberfon—You? What for? ; Dobberton—My watch is in soak.— Illustrated Sunday Magazine. Never Enough. ; . “What would - you do if you had enough money?” „ f , '-"4 “I don’t know.” “Why don’t jou know?” , “How should I? Nobody ever bad enough money.” > -•-vgß