Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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COMMISSIONERS ANNOUNCE LIMIT

For Number of Saloon Licenses In Jasper County. ONE TO EACH 1,000 PEOPLE. r ■ » * Under the New Prdctor Liquor Regulation Law, But Not Likely Many Will Get In at That— Remonstrances Filed In First Ward of Rensselaer and Keener Tp.

The county commissioners met in regular session Monday and were still grinding yesterday, but finished up in the forenoon. Among the matters taken up at Monday’s session and discussed to some length was that of fixing the limitation of saloon licenses in the townships and municipalties in Jasper county. The new Irquor regulation law as amended before final passage provides that the county commissioners at their first session after the taking effect of the law —the bill was signed by the governor Saturday and at once became a law—shall fix the limit of licenses as applies to population, not more than one for each 500, but may make the limit one for each 1,000. In most counties that have already acted the limit has been put at 1,000, and the board here seemed a unit at that limit, which was adopted. A remonstrance was filed against the liquor traffic in the first ward, Rensselaer, Friday last, containing the.names of 112 voters and in Keener tp., with 84 names. Both were held sufficient by the board. Other matters of importance at the first day’s session were: Contracts awarded for poor farm supplies for the next quarter as follows: John Eger, groceries, $156.20; Roth Bros., meats, 75 lbs. steak at 16c; 75 lbs. boiling meat at 12%c; VanArsdel & Co., dry goods and shoes, $62. Assignment of bridge contract to Attica Bridge Co approved and time for completing work extended to May 1.

June 20 designated as‘ time limit in which assessments on Berry ditch may he paid. Same on R. E. Davis ditch. Matter of bridge repair in Carpenter tp., referred to Chas. V. May, trustee, to have bridge repaired and file bill with auditor. Bond of W. J. Wright as coroner, with The American Surety Co., as surety, approved. Fees collected for quarter were reported as follows: Auditor, $122.10; clerk, $327.25. Interest on public funds for the quarter was reported as follows: State Bank, Remington $22.97 State Bank, Rensselaer 36.28 Trust & Sav. Bk., Rensselaer 26.24 First Nat. Bank, Rensselae r . 68.33 Bank of Wheatfield .-12.62 Report of Jesse Nichols, supt. of poor farm for quarter ending Feb. 28, shows receipts of $539.29, and expenses of $640.81, including the $175 quarterly salary of the superintendent. There were 18 inmates, 15 males and. 3 females.

KEENE IS APPOINTED

Trustee of Wheatfield Tp., and / Filed Bond Yesterday. / Auditor Leatherman made antry for a trustee in Wheatfield tp., and named Albert Keene, a former trustee of that township, and Albert has stood pat and filed his bond yesterday morning D. Clark, the retiring trustee, expects to leave about the middle of March for Oklahoma to visit relatives and seek a location in that state.

’NOTHER MATCH MADE

Nichols and Battleday Have a Match Clinched for This Week. Nichols, the Parr school teacher, who made such a good appearance in the prelim last Saturday night and Art Battleday have been matched for the main event Saturday night at the opera house. i Both men have appeared in prelims and each has a bunch of supporters. As usual a prelim will be arranged for before the main event.

“RASSLE” WAS A FROST.

Rensselaer Sports Are Trimmed and Garnished and Neatly Served. (By the Athletic Critic.) * SOME “CLEAN” SPORT * * ■ ■■■ ■ -in, * The Foot Race—When the * *-“Dinge” Got ALL the Kale * * * * Prize Fight—When “Rosy” * * and His Gat Saved the Day * * . y- U... - y . ♦ * Fiasco 3—-When the Greek * * Failed to Throw Stewart * ************** ■ There is a saying that “you can’t kill a sucker.” This was exemplified and amplified to the fullest Saturday night, and should be dilated on to the fourth stanza. Polos, the Lafayette Greek, and “Billy” Stewart, the Jasper county champion, met Saturday night in a handicap match. Polos had agreed to throw. Stewart twice in forty minutes or lose. He lost. So did a huge bunch of the local talent. The wal the Parr delegation separated the Rensselaer sports from their money was a sin and a crying shame. It was like robbing the plate at the Home for the blind and aged. The Greek threw Stewart in just two minutes for the first fall. In fact, it was so quick that those of the visiting delegation who were not iron-nerved almost had heart failure. But after that Polos worked on the defensive. So did Stewart. With both men almost entirely on the defensive they would be wrestling yet if time hadn’t been called. After the first fall when-the Greek had thrown Stewart so easily, one visitor, with a bale of kale like-John W. GateS/. Offered to bet $25 to S2O that Polos wouldn’t throw Stewart again. He was right. Polos didn’t. The referee and the timekeeper both declare that it had all the appearances of a frame-up and one thing is as certain as the courthouse clock—the Greek stalled. And he was coarse in his stalling. The only lame point is the fact that the referee didn’t have authority, or having authority did not exercise it, to make both men work or refund t.he gate. If he had threatened the Greek with a total loss of coin things might have been different.

It was announced from the stage that the match was on the square, and the management is to be severely criticized for permitting such a frost. Many of Rensselaer’s best business and professional men were present, and while they don’t roar they naturally feel that the.party or parties in eßarge of the affair were?€to blame almost as much as the principals. Nichols and Ropp in the prelim were good. Nichols is fast and a willing worker, but no amount of the praise for the prelim would take away the darkbrown taste left by the final travesty.

This merely goes to prove that Rensselaer needs a good athletic organization run on a businesslike basis, and for members let’s have doctors, lawyers, business men in general—they all attend. If run like a business house, on a business-like basis, it would do away with this “frame-up” thing. And now a return match is suggested for next Saturday. For the love of Mike! Why? Were there a few dollars that got by? If the match was on the square, why was the money cut in two, instead of 75 and 25 as it was before ? This Greek must imagine Rensselaer is the one best bet; fall for a match like Saturday’s and then want a, come-back. If another match is arranged and anybody bets a peso on if there is enough solid ivory above his shoulders to make an even dozen billiard balls. . Here’s the Chi way: “Should any of the contestants ‘stall’ in order to gain time there will be a prompt disqualification, and the man or men offending will receive nd mopey.”—Chicago American, March 6. The attendance warrants good performances and the money paid for amateurs would induce some clever mat artists to come here if the management would try to get them.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA., WEDNESDAY’, MARCH 8, 1911.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol Representative Brown’s bill providing for a bounty on crows and hawks was signed by Governor Marshall Saturday and will become a law as soon as the acts of the general assesmbly are published. • —o— In some manner we missed reporting one marriage licence from Remington, or Carpenter tp., rather, issued last week, which appears in this issue. Tlijs error makes no change in the total number issued for February (six) but gives Remington precisely half of this number issuetl for the entire county. —°~ Guss Grant went to Indianapolis Saturday and was present in police court when the bonds were returnable in the cases against Arthur M. Robbins of Chicago and his chauffeur, Geo. Miller, charged with running into a buggy near Aix, this county, ton Sunday, Feb. 26, and dumping it and the occupants, MesdamOs Joe Lucas and Jack Reeder, in the ditch. The parties were turned over to Guss and they put up a cash bond of SIOO each for their appearance here ip court tomorrow, and were allowed their liberty until that time. * | —o —■ licenses issued: Feb. 2s, Eli F. Zehr of Carpenter tp., aged 22, occupation, farmer, tp Josephine Jessie Kuboski, also df Carpenter, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage feir each. Ceremony by Judge Hartley in the clerk’s office. 1 'LMarch 3, Francis James Rowqi of Rensselaer, aged 40, occupation merchant, to Carrie Della Hasty, also of Rensselaer, aged 30, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first wife having died last April; first marriage for female. Mlarch 4, Eston Pitzer of Brook, aged 24, occupation farmer, to Hazel Dell Mason of Wheatfield, daughter of George Mason, deceased, aged 17, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Joel F. Spriggs, grandfather of female giving consent to issuance of license. ''LMarch 4, Hugh Hurley of Rensselaer, aged 25, occupation laborer, to Ella Platt of Renssel aer, daughter of Robert Platt, deceased, aged 20, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

NOT HANGED NOR JAILED.

B. Forsythe Wins Out in Criminal Case at Winamac. It seems that a change of venue was not granted in the state case against B. Forsythe of Rensselaer, who was recently indicted by a Pulaski county grand jury on the charge of conducting a transient store at Winamac, and the case came up in the Pulaski circuit court Friday as scheduled, and ended in Mr. Forsythe’s acquittal. In a card to the Democrat, Mr. Forsythe says: “The big criminal case ended at 3 p. m. today by my acquittal, not hung or jailed.” Perhaps the Winamac merchants will now be good, and will finally get it through their noggins that they have been the means of advertising Mr. Forsythe’s business better than he copld have done it himself.

“RELIEF” BILLS VETOED.

Governor Marshall has vetoed, with other similar measures, the bills for the relief of former trustee A. A. Fell of Carpenter tp., and former treasurer Frank Padgett of Benton county for funds lost in the Parker bank failure at Remington, and also that for the relief of Charles M. Blue, former trustee of Marioh tp., for funds lost in the McCoy bank failure at Rensselaer. The S. R. Nichols relief bill, also for funds lost jn the McCoy bank failure, passed the senate Monday but will likely meet the same fate. v Some similar relief measures have been signed, and The Democrat believes that if one public

officer is entitled to be relieved for such losses then .all should be. Just what reasons are advanced by the governor for vetoing the bunch 1 of relief bills Monday we are unable at this time to state.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Rev. J. H. Miller preached Monday night at the Presbyterian church to a good audience, Tuesday evening he preached on the subject, “The Beauty of the Wayside Ministry.” Everyone invited to these services, every evening this week and next at 7:15.

BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER MEETINGS.

Cottage prayer-meetings, will be held this week as follows: Tuesday night in the home of Mrs. Ramey, Thursdaiy night in the home of Mr. Jordan, Friday sight in the home of Mrs. Elder, but on Wednesday night the meeting will be in the church.— J. P. Green, Pastor.

“ BAND BOYS’ COLORED MINSTREL.

The band boys are going to give a colored minstrel at Ellis Theatre Wednesday, March 15. All the jokes and songs are new and up-to-date; if you want a good laugh come and see it. The boys are practicing hard to please you. The tickets are for sale by the boys. Now if they don’t ask you, why you ask them. The prices are 25c, 35c and 50c. Remember the date, Wednesday, March 15, .

THE DEATH ANGEL

Invades Home of Supt. Warren and Takes Away His Tattle Son. j- Little Carroll Warren,, operated <t>n last Wednesday night for an aggravated case of appendicitis, died at 4p. m., Friday. It was thought from* the first that there was not much chance for his recovery, but the friends hoped for the best until a few hours before the end.-? The boy was in school the Monday previous to the operation and apparently in his usual healths ’Carroll was the next to the youngest of the four sons of Supt. and Mrs. I. N. Warren, and was born August 5, 1903, when the farrmly resided at Ft. Dodge, lowa.YHe was a bright little fellow and was in the second grade in school. His parents have the sympathy of the entire community in their loss. Brief funeral services were held from the house at 2:30 Sunday afternoon and burial made in Weston cemetery.

THE CIRCUIT COURT..

The continued illness of juror C. F. Tillett of Gillam tp,, who went home with an attack of the grip Friday, caused further delay in the Powell vs. Greenlee case, which was partially heard Thursday, and the case was continued Monday until this Friday, when it is likely to be continued for the term unless juror Tillett—who is reported to be seriously sick, and juror Faris, also of Gillam, whose family is sick and was unable to return Monday—is able to be here, which is unlikely. The big Condon will case from Newton county was taken up yesterday and will likely last two or three days at least. A large number of witnesses have been summoned in this case from Goodland and vicinity, where Mrs. Condon, whose will is sought to be broken, resided, and there is a strong array of legal talent employed. This is the last week of the term and it i§ scarcely likely that any other cases of importance can be heard. Following is a report of other proceedings in court since our last issue: , Petition of Robert F. Irwin for leave to execute certain deeds: sale of Ins interest in certain rear estate in Rensselaer to Francis A. Turfler and Charles Porter. Deed presented and approved. William P. Baker vs. Frank Osborne, commissioner in charge of construction of Prouty ditch; affidavit for continuance by defendant overruled and evidence heard. Taken under advisement by court.

Be sure and see our line of spring suits as they are dandys and all at very reasonable prices —C. Earl Duvall. '

State and General News

MORGAN DRYS WIN EASILY Carry Jackson Township, Morgan Co., By a Majority of 48. Martinsville, Ind., March 4. The local option election in JackSon township, Morgan county, resulted in a “dry” victory, by a majority of forty-nine. The total vote cast was 449. The 20 per cent, on the petitions was based on the vote at the last election—496, and the result shows that nearly all the voters expressed their preference in the matter.

RAIDS BLIND TIGER

“Hank” Granger’s Celebrated Establishment on the Kankakee Visited by U. S. Marshal. Thayer, Ind., March 4.—-Hen-ry Granger, more familiarly known as “Hank” Granger, who operates a “soft drink” joint at Thayer, but it is alleged was running a blind pig, wide open, received a shock yesterday that took a great deal of the nerve out of him. A deputy U. S. marshal, armed with a search warrant suddenly appeared in his joint and got busy looking for secreted “booze.” So did “Hank’s” friends get busy and got all the wet goods possible out of sight. The officer however got a sufficient quantity to enable a state’s warrant being sworn out against Granger. Granger has been very bold in his operations and the law abidding element got tired of it. When fairly caught “Hank” begged the officer to spare him, but to no avail. The “soft” drink operators at Shelby are now on the anxious seat as a result of the crusade and the action taken against Granger.

“NEWLY WEDS” BANQUET

St. Magdalene and Wijlard Courts Hold Joint Reception. The members of the Willard Court, No. 418, and St. Magdalene Court held a joint (reception in honor of their Chief Ranger, Joseph Trulley and wife who were married a few days ago and Ex-Recording Secretary, J. M. Healy and wife, who just returned from their honey-moon trip in Texas. Mr. Healy has served Willard Court as Recording Secretary for the past eight years. Mrs. Healy served St. Magdalene Court as Chief Ranger for a number of years and both were very active members. Each party was presented with a handsome rocker. The Women Foresters furnished the eatables for the banquet which was enjoyed by about one hundred members. A special table was placed in the center of the hall beautifully decorated for the "Newly Weds.” Lon Healy furnished the music and several songs were rendered by the young people and everyone enjoyed a fine time.

GRAFT INDICTMENTS.

East Chicago Mayor and Others Under Charges of Vice Protection. The Lake Superior court grand jury returned 30 indictments Friday, after an investigation lasting four weeks into the charges of graft and corruption in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. • Among the bills are ones against Mayor A. G. Schlieker, of East Chicago; Albert Lewis, his chief of police; Walter Spencer, city clerk of East Chicago, and Julius Friedman, alleged graft collector, who is said to have stood at the head of the combine -which issued protective vice tariff. The indictments are the sensation of the hour in Lake county. It is charged that $25,000 a year has been levied on resorts and gamblers for immunity from arrest.Mayor Schleiker and Geo. F. Meyers of Rensselaer are the only republican mayors in the Tenth district. . - '

RECALLS TRAGEDY Sale of Farm Will Close Up Estate of Murdered Banker. Danville, 111., March 4. —The

last chapter in the’ celebrated Sayler-Miller tragedy at Crescent City, 111., will be closed next week when the Sayler farm will be offered for sale in ord,er that the estate of the murdered banker may be closed up. is believed the farm will-fie bought in by one of tlTr'djrothers of the dead banker. Much of the estate has been spent in prosecuting Dr. W. E. Miller,, who killed John B. Sayler, and Mrs. Lucy Sayler, wife of. the banker, who was indicted as an accessory. Both are now in Joliet penitentiary. John Byron Sayler, who was one of the wealthiest bankers and farmers at Crescent City, was shot and killed in the parlor of his home, nearly two years ago, by Dr. W. E. Miller, the leading physician of the town. The tragedy was due to the intimacy of the two. At one time there was strong talk of lynching them.

GOOD EYE SIGHT.

In fitting glasses there must be no guess work I It is as exact a science as mathematics. There is a certain error of refraction—there is a certain lens to correct this, and not the slightest variation can be allowed. For careful examination and proper glasses call on Dr. Rose M. Remmek, I larris block, phone 403.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The fallowing letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending March 6th, 1911: Frances Parsons, W. O. Duvall (5) Adohm Clayton, H. H. Rick, Sylvester Nichols, Riggle Best, Harry Hood, Charles Templeton, Sam • Wilson. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office Mar. 20, 1911. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of list.— G. E. Murray, P. M.

CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank our friends and neighbors who kindly assisted us in the hour of pur deep sorrow by the loss of our father. We will ever remember your kindnest.— Mrs. Kight, Anna Spry, W. B. Spry.

NOTICE. Owing to some recent changes the business of Alford & VanAsdel will hereafter be known as Van Arsdel- & Co. Mr. VanArsdel will continue the management as before and will endeavor to please their many customers d solicits your further patronage.—VanArsdel & Co. Get busy and buy a nobby spring suit in blue serges, tans, grays, and all the prevailing styles and colors, all sizes at reasonable prices.—C. Earl Duvall. Dennis Marque of Jordan tp., increased his corn crop 40 bushels per acre last year with Bowker’s fertilizer.—J. J. Weast. Be sure and see our new spring suits, top coats, cravenettes, auto rain coats as we can save you money on all.— C. Earl Duvall. Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting at the Free Will Baptist church in Parr, Ind., on Monday evening, March 20, for the purpose of electing a trustee. By order of the church. —Mrs. Lillie Gant, Clerk. . A big sale on 25c men’s hose at 20c pair or 2 pair for 35c. All colors and sizes.—C, Earl Duvall. Don’t fait to read the Land & •Lockwood stock sale ad on another page in this issue. No progressive family shoultl overlook the special arrangement with the Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer, whereby $2.00 pays for one year’s subscription to it and this paper. I 1,1 11 a - - L ‘ When we advertise we mean what we say and do what we say. We want to say that we can save you several dollars bn your spring suit, hat, hose, shirts, underwear.— C. Earl Duvall. x

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