Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Dr. H. L. Brown visited Chicago Tuesday. Don’t forget C. Blankenbaker’s sale neat Mt. Ayr Feb. 6. \V. H. Morrison and family were in Chicago Wednesday Mel Haas and John Braddock were in Chicago Wednesday. N. C. Shafer transacted business in Chicago W ednesday. Gwin & Watson have on hand four “Stay-Down” Tank Heaters. C. C. Warner went to Indianapolis Wednesday on business. J. Delehanty of Wheatfield was in the city on business Wednesday. Mrs. W. W. Merill is visiting her daughter in Englewood for a few days. Go to C. Blankenbaker’s sale near Mt. Ayr Feb. 6, for good brood mares. — Bert Brenner and wife went to Goodland Wednesday to visit relatives a few days. A team of dandy driving mares at C. Blankenbaker’s sale near Mt. Ayr Monday, Feb. 6. This paper and The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer —$2 for one year’s subscription to both. Lowell schools are closed because of a high school girl having been taken down with scarlet fever. Don’t forget the big sale of A. B. Lowman’s Feb. 13 on the Goepp farm. TOO head of good live stock. Take advantage of our specially low rate of $2 for this paper and The W r eekly Inter Ocean and Farmer for one year. The reason so many Jasper county farmers can afford automobiles, they have been using Bowker’s fertilizer. — J. J. Weast, Agent. Mrs. G. R. Clayton and Miss Maude Adams of Monon retu~ned home Wednesday after a lew days visit here with Mrs. Firman Thompson and family." Mrs. Allen Gray of Manson, la., w'ho accompanied the remains of her husband here sot burial a few weeks ago, went to Remington Wednesday for a tew days visit before returning home. "Just as good ——” We do not our cars are “just as We do say that the materials—take the cylinders tor instance —are of as fine material and fitted as closely with the pistons as in any car made, whatever the name or price. We say not “just as good,” but the very same thing, and the price—how it pleases. Demonstration by the' “Maxwell” man, Rensselaer, Ind.l

To-day’s markets; Corn, 38c; Wheat, 87c ; Oats, 28c. Mrs. John Eiglesbach returned Thursday from a visit in Monticello. The Ladies’ Literary Club . met yesterday with Mrs. E. P. Honan. Mrs. J. H. Wood of Lafayette is the guest of Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson since Thursday. Well, the ground hog saw his shadow, alright. Now watch if there’s any truth in the old adage. Don’t forget the big sale of A. B. Lowman’s Feb. 13 on the Goepp farm. 100 'head of good live stock. ■Shrank Critser is again “Johnny on the Spot” as nightwatch, after a few weeks lay off on account i of sickness. i and Mrs. J. H. Hansson Were among the Rensselaer visitors to the automobile show in | Chicago this week. i '.Robert Lefler and family of j Jsiet, 111., came Wednesday eve- ! ning to take up their residence lon his brother Len’s farm near i Kniman. Dr. I. M. Washburn returned Wednesday from his trip to Louisiana. Harry Parker, who accompanied him, went on to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Grass. John M. Knapp, the local agent for the Ford automobile, has arranged for a demonstration of this machine all next week, to which prospective buyers and the public in general is cordially invited. N i ‘ ______ 'xThe mild weather all week has brought out the small boy and his marbles by the score, and groups of them could be seen on the street corners every day, when not in school, in earnest effort to win the other boy’s supply. Colder weather is promised, and the boy and his marbles, like the ground hog, will take another nap. Some people seem to carry the idea that an election can be held under the new option law any old time, and a petition is being circulated to call an election in Rensselaer. Jasper county voted “dry” Mtay 1, 1909, and will remain dry in all part? of the county until the expiration of two years. Neither can an election be held unLl the two years arc up, as we understand it. JVjoseph Osborne, aged 89 years, Ahe father of Mrs. W. S. Parks of Rensselaer, was buried at Remington Monday.' The old gentleman was found dead in bed at his son Daniel's home in Fowler, with whom he was staying this winter. He leaves six children, Alexander of Lafayette, Mrs. Brown of Monticello, Mjs. i McCabe of Kankakee, 111., Mrs. ! Parks of Rensellaer, Daniel of I Fowler, and Scott Osborne of ( Remington. Mr. Osborne was an ardent spiritualist for many I years. .a- -

J. H. Hoover was in Logansport on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Chapman were in Chicago Thursday. ‘ ‘ * r Mrs. Charles Sands! went to Mon on for a few days visit with her mother. Guy Ropp returned Thursday fr m Valparaiso where he took a load of horses. ■ ■ »- - ■ f ' •] Everett Huffman returned to his home in Kankakee, . 111. Thursday after a short visit with his parents here. Mrs. , Marie Hopkins returned Friday from a several weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hardy, in Arkansas. \/a. Arnold of Portland, Ind., who had been spending the past two or three months with Fred Finback of near Rensselaer, went to Greenville, Ohio, Thursday to his father, C. W. Arnold. Mrs. Minnie Williams of Downs, 111., and Mrs. Annie Hutton and son Gerald and daughter Gertrude of Crawfordsville, came Thursday for a visit with their sister, Mrs. J. M. Torbet of Barkley tp. VBenj. Welsh, who went to Abmleen, Wash, a short time to accompany his sister Ella, who is sick to this place, returned Thursday. Miss Welsh expects to stay here for an indefinite time in order to recuperate. Abe Martin says: “Th’ feller that throws his tools down at th’ first toot o’ tip whistle will f alius be found workin’ fer somebuddy else. Th’ groundhog didri’ see his shadder t’day, but we’ll have four more weeks o’ th’ legislature jist th’ some. Jud Hunt’s injury to his knee and limb from his being pushed through a window of the Maxwell salesroom by his auto, is still keeping him in bed, and while no bones were broken, apparently, the injury was much more severe than first supposed. He has been in bed now as a result for almost two weeks. While there was plenty of horses in Wednesday for the regular monthly horsre sale, the foreign buyers failed to show up. A confusion of dates was no doubt responsible for this. Monticello’s horse sale is - the first Tuesday and ours the first Wednesday of each, month, and the buyers have been coming from the Monticello sale to Rensselaer’s. This month coming in on Wednesday threw" our sale almost a week ahead of Monticello’s, instead of one day later, as usual, and the buyers seem to have failed to note this.

ELLIS THEATRE Hoskyn’s Great Filipino War Drama Under the Stars and Stripes Benefit of Co. M, 3rd Regt., I. N. G. 9 - WEDNESDAY,FEB.B ■ .. . .. . /. ' . •••'. ■ ; • . „ >; ; • Reserved Seat Sale at , Jessen’s Jewelry Store 25c, 35c, 50c

John Gorman was in Lafayette on business yesterday. A. J. Harmon went to Lafayette on business yesterday. A. L. Padgett went <o Lafayette on business Thursday. W. J. Holmes made a business trip to Lafayette yesterday. Mrs. H*. E. Folk is spending this week with her husband at Kentland. A. G. Heinden went to Marrison, Tenn., Thursday for a few weeks visit with his parents. L. -A. Hockenbury of Muncie came Tuesday for a short visit with his nephew, Clyde Burris. Mrs". L. P: Shirer and son Richard are making a visit with relatives in Wheatfield a few days this week. D, B. Comer and George Casey returned Thursday from a two or three days business trip *o Connersville. A. J. Bellows went to Remington yesterday for a few days visit with his sister, Mrs. B. I. Jones, who is qiute sick. The Democrat editor went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend the mid-winter meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. John W. Pull ins of Geddes, So. Dak., who hfetd been visiting with his mother, Mrs. Mary Pullins, the past two weeks, left Tuesday for home. W. D. Bond of Pleasant Ridge has bought a 280 acre farm near New Buffalo; ' Mich., just across the road from Conrad Hildebrand’s, paying therefore $40.25 per acre. It has a 10-room house and a 5-room cottage thereon, a barn 90x60, grainary 60 foot long and other buildings in keeping. Joan Bislosky will o cupy the Bond farm here, now owned by C. G. Spitler, and Ed Randle of Rensselaer will move on the Joe Larsh farm, now occupied by Mr. Bislosky.

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. fPHERE is 11 heap of satisfaction In the thought that you are the only one who can run your job, and you don’t thank any man who tries to disabuse your mind of it either. No man can serve two masters, but there are those who can take graft from a dozen. Plenty of women would be happy if they could spare the time from worry for happiness. Some of us are naturally even tempered and some because our bread and butter depend upou our being so. The man who keeps on the soft side of his landlady Is the man who gets the best of the beefsteak. When a woman exhibits unusual economy you may often look for the answer in the unusual extravagance of her husband. It doesn’t matter how often a woman has been told she is pretty, she always acts as if she is bearing a delightful piece of news every time It happens. We waste a lot of sympathy on the underdog, but the one that comes out on top gets the bone. The man who is given to self pity seems to do such a good job of it that nobody else ever thinks of offering any pity. - 1 ' Never allow’ your mind to wander. Remember what a difficult thing coming back Is. -

Proof of the Pudding. “Might is right.” “All right. Give me (biff) your purse” (biff). Biff! Biff! “You ought to be sure of one thing before you do that” (biff). “What’s that?” “That might is mighty enough to be right.”

Why Not? “I should like to have a lqt of friends.” “Should you?” “I think so.' “Then why don’t you?” “But how?” “Just inherit a fortune.”

JjVANCHON married New Year’s day. Begun to keep house right away, Bought a cook book of proper print Then stocked her larder without stint. *J*HE way, as everybody knows, To man’s heart, thru his stomach goes, She held her lord from theffirst hour By baking bread of “FANCHON FLOUR.” ... ** 6 $1.50 a Sack, at THE G. E. MURRAY CO.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

RICHMOND—The Earl ham Press, a college newspaper, publishes an account of an attack, by a Prussian nobleman on John Wesley Perkins, of the class of 1909, who received an appointment last fall from the Carnegie Foundation s to teach in the English department of the gymnasium royal at Potsdam, Germany. Perkins was returning to his rooms through a park when attacked by an intoxicated man with a drawn sword. Mr. Perkins, in defending himself, obtained possession of the sword and wounded his assailant. The Potsdam papers next day appeared with a story that a certain Prussian nobleman had been set on by robbers and that the only clew to their identity waß that one used some English exclamations. On the advice of his landlady, who pointed out the seriousness with which the authorities view an encounter with a nobleman in Germany, Mr. Perkins left Germany and is now at his home in Rising Sun, Ind. HAMMOND—That present conditions in the Crown Point jail were unsanitary, the prisoners poorly fed, and that as a result Philip Beliff, the emaciated murderer of Simon Nestorovich, of Gary, was in the throes of tuberculosis was the result of a prison investigation made by Dr. A. W. King, of the Indiana state board of health, a few weeks ago. King’s diagnosis of Beliff’s condition was a state scandal. Amos Butler, late commissioner of charities, was sent to Crown Point to make a secret investigation. Butler took several of the prisoners into his confidence, and they admitted that they ate soap to make themselves look emaciated and secure the sympathy of jurors when their capes were tried. The practice gave them every appearance of being in the last stages of con sump tii n. The diet of soap was stopped and Beliff gafned ten Pounds in one week. HAMMOND Four serious accidents on railways in this vicinity make up one day’s record. John King, while en route from Maryland to Chicago on the Nickel Plate road, fell from a freight train in the yard and was instantly killed. Charles Graham, in getting out OX the way of a fast freight train, was instantly killed by a passenger train- near Athens. -Frank Topolski, 35 years old, was in Chicago, was struck by a South Shore traction train at Dunne Park and received internal injuries which will prove fatal. W. Ridenauer, 28 years old, a Pennsylvania fireman, fell from a train into a cinderpit at the Wavalot coal docks and was probably fatally hurt. 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 v : s building a fire in the kitcher; 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 turned about the face and hands. INDIANAPOLIS—The leading Republicans of this city have written President Taft that they are not in symptahy with interviews given out at Washington by former Congress-

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man and Whip, James E. Watson, attacking reciprocity with Canada. The writers say that they believe the Republicans .of Indiana favor the proposed treaty and that Watson does not voice the sentiment of Republicans when he says the provisions of the treaty destroy the principal of protection. ; ■ - ». TERRE HAUTE —Health Commissioner Frank W. Sbaley has issued a formal notice, declaring that smallpox is prevalent in this city. The health authorities request ail citizens to be vaccinated without delay. Though the health officers- believe they have the disease under control, they are using the greatest precaution in treating all cases All of the school buildings of the city have been thoroughly' fumigated. Three new cases were repprted. MARION—CIark Mills, who was the former sheriff of Grant county, was named as chairman of the organization of citizens that will conduct a campaign to prevent a return of saloons to the city of Marion under the new Proctor bill Oren Kem, a business man, was named as secretary The petitions asking for an election will he filed at once. PORTLAND —A band of robbera who entered the postoffice at Geneva, twelve miles north of this city, were discovered by Night Policeman Baker before the safe could be blown and fle.d without securing any booty leaving their tools behind. The knob of the safe door was knocked off and a charge of nitroglycerin placed, but hot discharged COLUMBUS—AIready the grade stakes are being set for an Interurban line from Nashville, Brown county, to Frultdale, a point on the Indianapolis Southern railroad, eight miles from Nashville, and construction work Is to be commenced at once. The road is principally financed by Indianapolis capital BLOOMINGTON— Judge Henry C. Duncan, sixty-six years old, vice president of the First National bank, a graduate of fndlnaa university and one of the oldest members of the Monroe county bar. died suddenly of apoplexy In the l ath room of his home.

PIANOS FOR SALE AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.

Since the opening of my piano Btore 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 these 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 latent 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.

Residence Phone 418 Gwin & Watson Plumbers Steamfitters and Well Drillers Dealers in Starr and Butler Wind Mills, Gasoline Engines, Galvanized Tanks, Tank Heat- , ers, Pumps, Cylinders, Pipe and Fittings, Plumbing and Heating Goods. We also Repair Pumps, Gasoline and Steam Engines, Patch and Test Steam Boilers, and Drill Wells any size and from 1 to 1,000 feet in Depth. Rensselaer, Indiana

PERRY W. HORTON.