Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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MRS. H. C. HOSHAW DIES.

Mrs. Henry C. Hoshaw died Sunday afternoon at her home in tne northwest part of the city after a long illness from diabetis She leaves a husband and four children, Wilbur A., Edward C., Samuel C., and Mrs. Frank Burns. The funeral was held yesterday at 2 p. m., from the M. E. church, and interment made in Weston cemetery.

IS BUILDING FINE NEW FARM HOUSE.

. Mrs. Ida Pierce is having a fine new house built on her farm south of town, on the west side of thfe Range Line road It is to be a square house 32x32, two story and cellar. Ben Smith has the foundation and basement contract and Lew Muster the carpenter work. It is to be completed some time in March. Mrs, Pierce will possibly move out to the farm then. ■

SCIENCE DIDN'T COUNT.

Ben Harris gave a “stag /fumy” Monday night in honor of Ben’s 57th birthday anniversary, There were thirty “stags” present and six-handed seven-up was the feature of the evening’s amusement. Amzi Laßue, a novice, and Floyd Robinson tied, ten games each, and in the “saw-off” “bullhead luck” was still with Amzi, and he carried off the honors.

CELEBRATE SIXTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rapp, aged German residents of Washington, 111., celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary last week. Mr. Rapp is past 85 years of age and his wife is 83. * They have resided in Washington for nearly 66 years. Mr. Rapp is known to many people in Rensselaer, as he has frequently came here to look after the former Wm. Holey farm, south of Rensselaer, which he has owned for the past five or six years.

“ ’TWAS A GOOD SHOW.”

So Said All Who Saw ‘‘Under Arizona Skies” Last Friday Night. The first of the series of plays to be given on this circuit by the Jordan Stock Co., last Friday night, was well patronized and a very pleasing entertainment was given. The company is composed of very able people and the high-class plays they give will be a rare treat to the play-goers of the towns in their circuit. Their next appearance here is on Friday night, Feb. 3, when they will produce “A Man of Mystery.” •If you want to see. something good, come out,

A GOOD WINTER FOR STOCK.

Crown Point Star: John Brown claims this is the best winter .for feeding stock they have ever experienced. They figured at the ranch last fall that they had about hay enough to feed their horses, 100 head of steers and 4,000 sheep, but thus far the cattle and sheep have done well in the stalk fields, and for quite a time they have been pressing and shipping hay to the stock yards in Chicago. The frozen ground, with no snow, and no extreme cold has put their stock through the winter thus far in fine shape at a very little expense, and this following the great crop raised last year makes them feel they are being fairly dealt with. The general verdict in Lake county is that this has been as good a winter as we ever experienced.

FOILED IN THE ATTEMPT.

This afternoon Frank Strump of near Watseka, 111., and Miss Lilly Heneley of Rensselaer came to town with the intention of getting married. The bride-to-be was blushing and retiring and preferred to consult the clerk in the darkened precincts of the hall, and Clerk Norquest being of a gallant nature moved his office out to her, 'until alas, she announced that her home was in Rensselaer, and then it was all off. Hard-heartedly he refused to go further, because it is against the law for a clerk to issue a license to parties where the bride resides outside the county, and Clarence has a lively sense of the danger that someone else might want his cosy seat if he got too gallant in these little things. The groom was persistent and indicated that he thought that a measly little dollar and a half was too little for a clerk to get for issuing a license and all that, but the last 1 seep of the couple; Miss Henely was leading the procession out of the court house, and scornfully asking her admirer, “Why don’t you come on?”—Benton Review. t

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol The drainage commissioners are working on their report on the extension of the Iroquois ditch, and expect to have same ready to file for the coming term of court. Prosecutor Longwell was over from Brook on business Monday. It is understood that a grand jury will be called here week of the February term of court, which convenes one week from Monday. Treasurer-elect A. A. Fell of Remington will file a petition with the legislature, asking to be relieved of the amount he lost in the Parker bank failure, some $1,425, while trustee of Carpenter tp., which the field examiners reported as due the township from him. The original grants of land by congress for public school purposes in the state aggregated 650,317 acres. Of this, all has been sold except 719.6 acres. The residue is distributed as follows: Jasper county, 240 acres; Newton county, 160 acres; Warren county, 11 acres; Vanderburg county, 308.6 acres. Officials of Vigo county have sent to William A. Dehority, chief of the state board of accounts, a memorial indorsing the work of the public accounting law and the board which has charge of its enforcement. All the officials of the county signed the document, which has been turned over to the Governor. o Monticello Journal: Omer Jackson, Deputy Attorney General, has been here yesterday and today, looking after unclaimed fees and other items that revert to the school fund. There were nearly S4OO in the Clerk’s office alone, some of which had been on the docket since 1879. State Tax Commissioner Matson was here Friday and talked to the township assessors. Ho made quite an interestifig talk and among other things said that as this was the year for re-assessing lands that they should be assessed at a higher figure than heretofore, when the average was sl9 per acre while in Jasper county some of our farms would now sell at SIOO to $l5O per acre. Trustee Kareh was down from Walker yesterday. He had been running a school wagon in the Zick and Norway districts, but the at-torney-general notified him that when a school had been abandoned a man moving into an abandoned school district (both of these had fbeen abandoned, the Zick school for seven years, and the other this year) he was not entitled to free transportation for his children. Mr. Karch, on receiving this ruling, stopped the wagon that was transporting the pupils.

HASKINS-LEWIN CASE

Is Compromised In the Porter Circuit Court. The Haskins-Lewin attachment case was compromised at Valparaiso Friday while the jury was out wrestling over a decision; and the thirteen horses and other property held here for the past few weeks by Sheriff Hoover will be turned over, it was expeeted, yesterday. The costs in the case alone are considerable, the feed bill amounting Sunday noon to $202. Mr. Norgor, who has kept the horses, charged 60 cents per day per horse, or 20c a feed. When the parties came down Sunday after the property there was a dispute over this bill, they offering to pay $169, or 50e per day. Norgor refused to accept this, but i£ was expected the deputy sheriff would come down yesterday from Porter county and the feed bill matter be compromised. All the property, under compromise agreed upon between the Lewins and Mrs. Haskins, is to be taken back to Porter county and sold at public auction and the claim of Mrs. Haskins paid from the proceeds. Later—The matter was adjusted yesterday by Norgor receiving 50c per day per hose', and 50c per day for looking after the other property, and all was tuned over on order of court. ’. 7 V - • -V: 7 • -V:.‘ V *'• '

THE TWIOE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1911.

CLOSE CALL FOR AN EDITOR.

Revolver Shots And Rock Throwing At Remington Press Man. After returning home from the K. of P. banquet at Remington Thursday night, J. R. McCullough, editor of the Remington Press, was startled by a couple of revolver shots close by his house. He was sitting by the fire at the time, but arose to investigate, and Just then a rock as big as one’s fist came crashing through the window. No further demonstration was made, but the attack, if such it was, naturally caused Mr. McCullough and wife considerable uneasiness. Friday bloodhounds were brought to Remington from Indianapolis, but they did not reach there until afternoon and the rain had obliterated all scent for. the dogs to follow. So far as known Mr. McCullough has no enemies, and it is probable the disturbance was caused by some half-drunken fellows who may have been quarreling, and the rock was thrown at one of them and missed its target, landing in the Press editor’s window.

PIANOS FOR SALE AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.

Since the opening of my piano store Jan. Ist, I have sold two of these high grade pianos and have quite a number practically sold. I have also tuned upwards of a dozen. I have this day received another shipment consisting of four Krell French standard make and they are beauties. These pianos are offered for a price surprisingly low on small monthly payments, as I am not figuring so much on the profits as in getting pianos .placed in some of the homes in this section. To anyone buying a piano of me I will give a scientific course in music for three months, and keep the piano in perfect tune for one year from date of sale, providing the pupil is a beginner and will call at my residence for instructions. As I carry a good line in all the latest in sheet music which I sell at lowest prices, my sales in this line have, been reasonably extensive. I will be pleased to show and demonstrate these high class pianos •to anyone at any time.

PERRY W. HORTON.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Jan. 27, to Mr. and Mrs.’ Carter Gafriott of near Aix, a sen. Jan. 27, to Mr. and Mts. Roy B. Smith of Hebron, a daughter Jan. 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Sands of just northeast of town, a girl Jan. 29, to Mr. and Mrs. George Babcock, on the Wm. Washburn farm in Jordan tp., a son.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL. *****

On and after Feb. Ist I will have removed my office across the street over Duvall’s clothing store, to rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Washburn. DR. W. W. MERRILL.

COAL AND WOOD.

Try us for your coal and wood. Jackson Hill and Lehigh coal for ranges. Pittsburg Splint, smokeless, for heating. All sizes of bard coal. —RENSSELAER LUMBER CO., Phone 4.

RIVER QUEEN MILLS.

We are ready to do all kinds of grinding of grain, except wheat Custom work our specialty. Ou: retail prices: Buckwheat flour 3%f Rye flour .2%c feolted meal . . 2c Unbolted meal. ......... $1.25 cw/ Cracked Corn . ... $1.25 cw» Corn and oats ch0p...... $1.35 cwt 2 per cent discount sos cash. FLYNN & HUSTON.

NOTICE TO LOT CONTRACT HOLDERS IN FACTORY ADDITION. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Directors of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, held at the rooms of said. Club on January 11, 1911, the following resolution was passed: “That all contracts for lots on which the contractors have not paid, a sum equal to SIOO be declared forfeited, if such payments have not been made on or before the first day of April, 1911. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Secretary-Treasurer. Get a sack of pur. White Star flour, only $1.40 a sack. We guarantee it equal to any $1.50 flour sold anywhere. Every sack guaranteed. ROWILES <t PARKER. , . .i. . % Sale bills piloted while you wait at The Democrat office. \ ...

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Thursday, Jan. 26, Joseph Sheurich, l % miles east of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools etc. Saturday, Jan. 28, A. M. Sands, Just northeast of town, on the Amsler farm. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, Feb. 1, Geo. E. Heuson, 3 miles west of Rensselaer, on the old Saylor farm. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, household goods, etc. Wednesday, Feb. 8, Nelson Hough 6 miles southwest of Rensselaer, on the old Strong farm. General sale of horse, cattle, farm tools, etc. Thursday, Feb. 16, Charles Pullins, 4T4 miles north and % east of Rensselaer, on the Iroquois Farm. General sale, 14 head horses, 9 cows, 22 sheep, chickens, farm tools, etc. See our big display window fit Womens Fine Tailor-made Suits at 50c on the dollar. You will say they are the biggest bargains you ever bought. ROWLES & PARKER. Franklin said “Don’t pay tdo much for the whistle.” We say “Don’t pay too much for the fertilizer.” We quote just one price here. Special 10 per cent Potash Manure (1-5-10) at $25 per ton. MAINES & HAMILTON. 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 & PARKER. Take any vital point about a car —we insist, and can show, that the cylinders and pistons are made of just as fine and expensive material, and fitted just as carefully, as a Packard, or Columbia, or any other car made, either here or abroad. Not “just as good,” but the same thing. MAXWELL. Fifty-two weeks of contract with air the news of home, town, county, state, country and all the world, for $2.00 which pays for The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer and this paper one year. J

TWO OF A KIND.

Pillsbury and Gold Medal. These two brands of flour are more widely distributed than any other dozen brands. Do you know v/hy? 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 house for the same grade.

THE GOLDEN AGE AT HAND.

Scriptural Evidences That Are Astonishing—No One Can Afford to Be Without the Knowledge. We do our friends a valuable service when we call their attention to the valuable book entitled, "THE TIME IS AT HAND.” in which are given many Scriptural evidences to prove where we are on the stream of time. “Men’s hearts are failing them for fear” and many of the leading thinkers are proposing remedies to better conditions. The Scriptures assure us ‘.that man’s extremity will be God’s opportunity, and this book holds out an anchor to those who fear the wave of unrest now spreading over the world. The honest heart confesses that it is at a loss for an explanation of transpiring events. While we refer to this as the BRAIN AGE and the Age of ENLIGHTENMENT, nevertheless many realize that we are fast approaching a crisis which is wrapped in darkness owing to the present worldwide social, religious and political unrest. As though by instinct the whole creation, while it groans and travails in pain together, waits for, longs for and hopes for the DAY, calling it the “GOLDEN AGE"; yet men grope blindly because not aware of the great Jehovah's gracious purposes. And tp his Wondering creatures, looking at the length and breadth, the height and depth of the love of Gckl, surpassing all expectation. He explains; “My thoughts are not jtqui thoughts, 'neither are j bur ways my wavs, suith the Lord; for as the heavehs are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways, and mjr thoughts than your, thoughts.” Isa. 55:$t 9. Send 85 cents at once for the book. EfiWe and Tract Society, il7 Hicks street, Brooklyn, N. Y',l __

THE DEMOCRATS KEEP PLEDGES

Indiana Legislature Rapidly Fulfilling Party Promises. THE LOCAL OPTION MEASURE

With the Enactment of a Law Consistent With the People's Wishes In This Important Direction, and Rapid Progress That Is Being With Other Platform Measures, e Majority Has Proven Its Good Faith.

Indianapolis special: The Indiana Democrats In the general assembly have crossed the county option Rubicon, and whether it spellß defeat or victory for the party in 1912, they are prepared to stand by the decision. When speaking for publication or when making addresses on the floor of the bouse or senate, the Republican members in the general assembly predicted that the doing away with the oounty as the option unit would mean disaster for the party now in power; but secretly they believe that it has added an element of strength, and while they secretly rejoice that the “iniquitous llanly measure,” as It has been termed. Is about to be wiped from the statute books, they are fearful of the effect on Republican, chances two years hence. Carried Out Platform Pledge. In doing away with the county as the option unit, the Democrats carried out the pledge made In the state platform, adopted last April. They ihade their fight with the distinct understanding that if they controlled the general assembly the county option law would be changed. They not only obtained control of the general assembly, but elected every man on the state ticket, twelve out of thirteen congressmen, and made heavy inroads on tha Republicans In com ty races. Representative Wider of Elkhart, a Republican, who voted with the Democrats to change the option unit, made what has been termed the best liquor speech since the county option came up when the fight was on on the floor of the house . last week. Wider reviewed the county option movement In the state, and declared that It had been a failure from the standpoint of the regulation of the liquor traffic, and that the way the people of the state voted last November showed conclusively that they were tired of it and that they favored the party which had promised them that If elected it would relieve them of the unsatisfactory conditions which have resulted from the operation of the law. In Wider’s own candidacy, the county option was made an issue. The Anti-Saloon League and the ministerial association, controlled by the league, made an open fight against him, and he won by an overwhelming majority, after having made It clear to Jiis constituents that If elect-' ed he would help change the unit, If he deemed it practicable. Party Has Strengthened Itself. The real Democratic leaders who have studied the option situation carefully believe that the party has strengthened itself by substituting the smaller for the larger unit. The sensible Republican leaders, who understand the real condition and -who are not moved by tbe “sentimental twaddle of the Anti-Saloon League leaders,” as their arguments have come to be called about the * legislative chambers, will tell you that the chances are that the Democrats have bettered their outlook by changing the law. Temperance radicals have been busy spreading the information that the Democratic party has placed the saloon back in communities where it was not wanted, but the conservative newspapers of the state, whose editors are neither temperance sentimentalists nor creatures of the liquor force J, have made it clear to their readers that the legislature did not provide that a saloon should be set down anywhere the people themselves did not want it. The incorporation of the Moore township and ward remonstrance law in the amending measure, it has been clearly shown, was for the very purpose of preserving to the people the right to prevent the establishment of saloons where they were not wanted.

Adequate Liquor Regulation. Both the Democrats and the Republicans acknowledge, however; that thp effect of the change in the option unit on the Elemodratio outlook will be affected very largely by what the gens ernl assembly does about providing an adequate liquor regulation measure. One IS new under why, drawn by Senator Procter of Elkhart, which Is designed to place the regulation of loons In the state on ai higher plane than even before in the state- This, bill IS scheduled to oosie before' the senate this week for amendment ana

passage, and it is now honestly believed that when the bill Is complete it will satisfy ail the temperance forces except the radicals who have not yet expressed satisfaction with any attempt made by the legislators to clean up the liquor situation. Governor Marshall has his finger on the regulation measure, and the majorities in the two houses are inclined to listen to him. The governor’s program, n understood by the leaders, is to put through a regulation measure that, if lived up to, will take the saloon out of l>olitic« for as long as the law remains on the statute books. A number of Republicans have agreed to help pass the measure If it Is drawn so as to be truly regulative. The Proctor bill as it now stands provides for the restriction of the number of saloons, according to popular tlon, for Increased- license, and for revocation made mandatory for cause. All the leaders in both houses are agreed that if the hill becomes a law it will at once put out of business more saloons than the county option law did in its two and a half years of existence, with Its expensive machinery of county option elections. The Child Labor Question. All the enorgles t of the Democratic majority in the house are being turned at this time toward preventing a serious split over the child labor question. A child labor bill hns been Introduced which places the minimum for the employment of children at eighteen years. The minimum is distasteful to a considerable number of the members, but the union labor forces, headed by Representative Keegan of this city, are standing out for the hill. The committee on labor was unable to reach an agreement, and the majority, In caucus, was unable to come together. It will be thrown out on the flood this week for the members to light It out, and while It Is not expected that the bill will pass In Its present form. It is expected that a good child labor bill will be evolved, but at the expense of the support of the out-and-out union labor men In both the houso and senate Many ftf the leaders are taking the stahd that the union labor forces are unreasonable In their legislative demands on this score, and are roundly assailing Keegan because he will not retreat from the eighteen-year clause. An inclination exists among many of the members to tell Keegan to do his worst* while they refuse to support his measure, although giving to the unlion labor forces a child labor bill that will greatly better conditions in the state. Keegan haß refused to listen to any overtures for a compromise on the question, although the overtures are said to have come from the governpr himself. Compromise Talk In the Air. Just what effect the turning down of the Keegan measure would have on the party in 1912 Is conjectural. The leaders declare that they are ready and willing to carry out the platform pledges on the child labor question, but that they are unwilling to work an actual hardship on Invested capital by adopting a measure with an age limit of eighteen years. The labor unions were much disaffected after the adjournment of the general assembly In 1909, because a number of their demands were not granted, and some of the Influential labor leaders fought the party ticket consistently during the recent campaign. A number of tbe Democrats fear the effects of hostile labor unions in 1912, but are not inclined to purchase their good will, they say, through the enactment of a law which would. In their estimation, drive a number of employers of labor from the state, while throwing out of employment many boys of sixteen and seventeen years of age, now the only support of families, and, many men now depending on these employers for their livelihood. Compromise talk Is In the air, and It Is expected that out of the row’which will come over the Keegan bill there Is expected to come a compromise measure which can be supported by the majority and give actual relief to the child labor conditions in the state.

The Movement For Economy. Party pledges are being redeemed rapidly by the Democratic ma|orlties. The movement for economy In public office is controlling In the legislative expense Itself. Pages, doorkeepers and darks are receiving less money than they ever received before, while printing bills a_ - e falling far short of former sessions. The house committee on ' ays and means and the senate committee on finance have their appropriation bills virtually ready for introduction, and the total appropriations recommended are -some $3,000,000 lower than two years ago for the ensuing two years. Boards of trustees and heads of state institutions have virtually completed their hearings before the committees and have acquiesced in the lesser recommendations made. These institutions are not lobbying as usual, and the bills will go through without the disgraceful conditions which .formerly accompanied the passage.of such bills. Some thirty Mils to increase salaries have been offered, chiefly at the request of officeholders, but It is now a foregone eonolusion that none of them, with possibly a few pressing exceptions, will get through. -

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