Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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REHEARING DENIED.

Convicted Bridge Grafter Must Serve His Sentence. The supreme court Thursday denied a rehearing in the Bader bridge graft case from Jasper county, and unless the pardon board interfers Bader will have to serve outjftis minimum sentence of two years. He has been in the penitentiary now for about a month.

MATCH FACTORY DONIGS.

A new’ contract with twro or three minor changes has been substituted for the original contract between the Commercial Club and the match factory peojle. The latter wanted the contract to read that in case the factory should be destroyed by fire before the company acquired title to the land that the insurance would be divided; also, that in case of a strike, they be credited for such time lost in that part of the contract whereby they agree to pay , out SIOO,OOO in wages in five years time.

TO BE MARRIED JULY 12.

Dr. and Mr. R. H. Hume of Springfield, -Ohio, have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Mr. Ross Dean of Rensselaer, on Wednesday, July 12. at the First Presbyterian church of Springfield. They will be “at home,” Rensselaer, Ind., after August 16. ‘Mr. Dean and Miss Hume have both taught in the Rensselaer schools for the past few years and are well and favorablv known here. In fact the former, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Dean, was bom and raised here.

GO TO WARSAW ON SAD ERRAND.

Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long and son George and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hardman left at about 4:00 a. m., yesterday in Mr. Long’s auto for Warsaw, to attend the funeral of Mr.. Hardman’s aged mother, which was held at Warsaw’ yesterday at 11 dX) a. m. The party went via Winamac and Rochester and expect to return via Lake Maxinkuckee. Mrs. Hardman died a few days ago at the home of her daughter in Denver, Colo., with she made her home. Warsaw’ is the old 'home of the Hardmans and the remains were brought back there for burial.

THE NEW DEPOT.

The Monon’s new depot, if the complete plans and specifications received here yesterday are carried out, will be a very handsome structure. The building will be constructed of brick and stone with a projecting tile roof. A basement will be built under the agent’s office, while on one side of the office will be a large freight depot. On the other will be a general waiting room. A good brick platform and many other conveniences and modern appliances will be installer to make it one of the best equipped depots on the road. The building will be handsomely finished inside and all new furniture installed. 'Work on the structure is expected to be started the first of the week.

BENTON GRAND JURY

Is Investigating Death of Peter Larsen, Who Was Found Dead in Cistern. Mrs. Rasmussen of Chicago, a sister of Peter Larson, the Fowler man found dead in the cistern at that place a few days ago, was not satisfied with the coroner’s verdict of suicide, and a •pecial grand jury is now investigating the case. Suspicion was first directed to Mrs. - Larsen, a woman of unknown antecedents, whom Larsen married after a few days acquaintance. It has since developed that. Mrs. Larsen was married at least twice before she was married to Larsen and the latter union seems to have been a most unsatisfactory one, so far as Larsen is concerned, at least.

Ripe gooseberries for sale in any ouantitv desired; phone in your order to No. 109.— N. S. BstcSb

CLASHES WITH COLLEGE PEOPLE

Who Want to be Shown Before TearingUp Thei r Grounds HEARTILY IN FAVOR OF ROAD J • •’ ' ■ • '• And Will Gladly Donate Right-of-Way, But Do Not Want Trees Cut and An Unsightly Grade Built Unless There’s Some Assurance of Project Going Through in a Reasonable Time.

There was a little clash out at St. Joseph’s college Wednesday between Father Seifert and Purtelle’s railroad workers, and a warrant w r as sworn out for malicious trespass but when matters w’ere finally explained and promises made to desist in the* work of cutting down timber along the alleged right-of-way, the warrant was not served. The College people are heartily in favor of an electric road along their property, as it would mean a saving of many hundreds of dollars to them annually, and when a committee was out so 1 citing right-of-way, they told them to come ahead with the road and they would gladly be granted free right-of-way, but no contract was signed. It was not supposed, however, that they would want to tear up ground and cut down timber until something real tangible was in sight, but for some reason Purtelle’s work is being done where it will make the greatest show, and instead of putting tearihs to work and making a grade and leaving the timber until the workers get up to it, when it could be removed in a day, he is cutting and slashing right and left on the only timber along the proposed road, and when his men begun cutting the timber Wednesday on the east side of the road from the college, Father Seifert went out amVasked them to desist. \ This they refused to do, §ven when threatened with arrest, and they were finally told that unless they got off the ground they would be forcibly ejected. They then left and went down by Henn’ Luers’ where they cut several of Henry’s fine trees near the barn, and one large one in his yard, but finally agreed to leave the other trees for the present. Henry has a beautiful place, fine large shade trees in. front of his Mouse and a fine orchard immediately north of the house, which the road, if built, will pass through. His actual damage will be greater than any other party between Rensselaer and Remington, but he favors a road and signed up a contract for the right-of-way. Like the college people, however, he does not want the trees cut down in his yard and a grade built up in front of his house that might remain there several years before any track is laid or cars running. There Jiave been many cases of building grades to hold the right-of-w’ay and nothing further being done, and Purtelle himself has done this up between Dver and Chicago Heights where considerable grade was built last season and abuttments put in for bridges, since which not a stroke of work has been done. Up near Rochester a grade was built and ties piled up along the proposed line, all of which laid there for years without anything further being done. It may still be in that condition, so far as we know. Other like instances might be cited. r Purtelle has complained that people were knocking his road. This is not so. Everyone wants to See a road built, but they want to know that the activity being displayed is for something more than influencing subsidy elections anl holding down right-of-ways that may not be utilized for actual running of cars for years to come, to the great inconvenience

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1911.

and damage of those who will g’adly give the ground when it is actually needed. Railroads cannot be built on smooth talk and nerve alone, and in signing contracts for right-of-way The Democrat’s advice is to be a little careful abcur getting tied up so that the use of valuable land is lost for an indefinite time and much inconvenience suffered, without any benefits whatever on the other side of the ledger.

PURTELLE OPERATING IN WHITE CO.

Eugene Purtelle was in town last week looking after matters pertaining to his proposed traction line. He hopes to have petitions for subsidy elections in Honey Creek and Princeton townships ready to file at the July session of the Board of Commissioners, and if these townships vote aid petitions will be filed from other townships, meaning probably Big Creek and Prairie. Union having voted down a subsidy for this line once, will not likely be called upon again, and It is altogether likely that Mr. Purtelle has cut Monticello entirely off the proposed route. —(Monticello Herald.

BUILDING PROSPECTS.

In Rensselaer the Best This Season for Several Years. With the new gymnasium and assembly hall for the city schools —notice for bids for which appears elsewhere in The Demo crat —to cost about $12,000; the Monon’s new depot, costing about $18,000; the new M. E. church costing about $15,000, and the match factory buildings and tenant houses the factory people propose to erect, there should be no lack of employment for mechanics 'in Rensselaer this season. In fact the building of the structures mentioned will have a tendency to stimulate improvements by individuals, and the season promises to be the most prosperous Rensselaer has seen in the last decade.

LAND CASE REVERSED.

A. C. Robinson Wins Out in Appellate Court in Case Involving Over SIO,OOO. The appellate court Wednesday reversed the decision of the Tippecanoe circuit court in the case of Alfred C. Robinson of Rensselaer, vs. Cornelius M. Horner of Monon, in which appellant Robinson claims some $7,000 with interest from Sept. 1, 1899, the court holding: <1) An agreement of partnership to continue for ninety days and if land was not sold during that time, the partner advancing SSOO to forfieit that amount and the other partner to retain the farm as Isole owner, could be changed by parole, making the contract of partnership continue indefinitely until the land could be sold for $25 per acre. (2) A contract of partnership for dealing in land is not a contract for the sale of land or interest and need not be in writing. (3) This being a suit in equity for an accounting between partners for an investment theretofore made and not a suit to enforce the transfer by purchase of real estate, the statute of frauds does not apply. It seems that several years ago Al learned of quite a tract of land for stHe up in Kankakee tp., which he thought there was some money in, and, having but little of is own mqney, he put in what he had, some SSOO and got C. M. Horner of Mionon to furnish the balance to J>uy it, and they entered into an agreement that if sold in a certain time the profits were to be divided. It was not sold’in the time specified and the agreement was continued, verbably, we believe. Quite a long time thereafter it was sold at a big profit and Robinson and Horner could not agree on a settlement, the latter keeping all or nearly all the profits. Robinson sued for the share he claimed due him on the deal, and the case has been hammered around from pillar to post In several different circuit courts and by a number of different attorneys, finally being tried at Lafayette where Hornet won out. Robinson appealed with the above result. Pollard & Pollard of Delphi are Robinson’s attorneys.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraplis from the Various Departments Of JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. The July meeting of the county commissioners will convene Monday. z —o —• In the land commission case of James T. Morton vs. William P. Gaffield, appealed from tl.i* county, motion of appellee to dismiss appeal was overruled. . Co. Supt. Lamson returned Wednesday afternoon from Indianapolis where he attended the meeting Tuesday and Wednesday of the State Superintendents’ Association. —o —• John W. Clouse has traded his 80 acre farm in Barkley Joseph A. Norman’s 12 acre farm north of town. Mr. Clouse’s farm was put in at $6,000 and the Norman property at $4,300. - —o—• The .appellate court Tuesday denied a rehearing in the case of C. & E. I. Ry. Co. vs. Percy Coon of Brook, appealed from the Newton circuit court and affirmed. Coon secured a verdict of $1,500 damages for injuries received at a crossing of said railroad company, and an appeal was taken by the railroad company. W. H. Parkison of Rensselaer was one of Coon’s attorneys in this case. "

—o— Judge Hanley, who is hearing the Gary election conspiracy cases at Valparaiso, adjourned court Wednesday evening until yesterday, one of the jurors being a little indisposed, and went down to to hear a ditch case' but as all the parties were not ready the matter was continued until July 31. It was thought the defense would close its evidence in the Gary cases, and a verdict may be retuwied today. —-O . » Marriage licenses issued: June 28, James Elemaul Hopkins, son of Wm. A. Hopkins of Parr, aged 20/ occupation farmer, to Gertrude Rardin, daughter of Rev. O. S. Rardin, alsi of Parr, aged 15, occupation housekeeper. Parents of both parties consent to marriage. Married by Rev. C. L. Harper at the M. E. parsonage. June 28, Charles F. Stafford of Bluffton, aged 32, occupation grain dealer, to Bessie Pearl Davis, daughter /of James K. Davis of Rensselaer, aged 26, occupation music teacher. First marriage for each. June 29, Vaughn Woodworth, son of Ancil Woodworth, of Rensselaer, aged 24, occupation locomotive fireman, to Fannie Parkison Porter, daughter of Walter V. Porter of Rensselaer, aged 25, no occupation First marriage for each.

CUPID’S BUSY WEEK,

Four Weddings Occur During Week—Pink and White Predominates. Miss Bessie Pearl Davis of Rensselaer, and Mr. Charles Frank Stafford, of Bluffton, were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Davis. Wednesday, June 28, at 4 o’clock p. m., in /the presence of about 75 friends, by Rev. C. L. Harper. z The color scheme was pink and white, with smilax used' as floral decorations, the bride carrying a bridal boquet a white r.ses. ri Following the ceremony refreshments in pink and white were served. ' Mr. and Mrs. Stafford left on

the 5:58 train for Chicago and will spend a short honeymoon in Wisconsin before returning to Bluffton where the groom is engaged in the grain business.

Miss Fannie Porter of Rensselaer, and Mr. Vaughn Woodworth, now of Norfolk, Neb., were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Porter, on Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in the presence of the immediate families and a few friends. The ceremoney was performed bv Rev. J. C. Parrett. Refreshments were served in pink and white, the color scheme prevailing; and the bride carried a boquet of pink roses. Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth left on the 3:58 p. m., train for Omaha where they will-spend a short honeymoon, afterward going to Norfolk, Neb., where they will make their future home.

The marriage of Miss Othena Elizabeth Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Meyer, of Gary, to Mr. Robert Earle Thompson, an attorney of Gary, took place at the home of the bride’s parents. 708 Broadway. Gary, at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning, June 27. The ceremony was performed by Rev. F. E. Watson, of the First Presbyterian church. The usual colors —pink and white—were used in the decorations. pink and white roses being used for that purpose, and the bride carried a boquet of brid’s roses. Miss Meyer is a graduate of Rensselaer high school and has been teaching school in Gary for the past two years. She is a daughter of former postmaster Frank B. Meyer, now of Gary. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer left for a honeymoon trip on the lakes and expect to be home at Gary, where they will make their home about August 1. Several Rensselaer relatives and friends of the bride attended the wedding

The marriage of Miss Ina Shesler to Mr. Curtis Brunsdon took place Thursday evening at eight o’clock at the’home of the bride’s father, W. R. Shesler, at _319 West Jackson street. As Miss Rosabell Daugherty rendered Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, the couple took their places accompanied by Miss Bertha Brunsdon, sister of the groom, and Mr. Jesse Stevens. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles L. Harper, using the beautiful ring ceremony, after which the minister introduced them, when their friends surrounded them and showered them with congratulations. Immediately after the ceremony dainty refreshments were served. The bride was dressed in beautiful white lingerie, and carried a shower boquet of white carnations. She wore a necklace worn by her mother at her wedding twenty-five years ago. The bridesmaid was dressed in white. The groom and groomsman in the conventional black. The decorations were ferns and sweet peas. The bride is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school, and is well known in local and church circles. The groom is connected with the New York Central lines at East Chicago, Ind. Many valuable and useful presents were received by the young couple. The bride and groom unexpectedly made their departure ably assisted by G. H. McClain and his auto, for New York, Boston an other eastern points. The out of town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brunsdon, Miss Bertha Brunsdon, Mrs. J. P. Lewis, Edmund Esping and Henry Perteison, of East Chicago; Mr, and Mrs. John Body. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Body, and Miss Minnie Warren, of Watseka, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Lenna Body of Woodland, Ill.; T. W. Shesler of Richmond, Ind., and Miss Ethel Collier, of Brazil, Ind. The occasion was also added to by i|s- being the 81st birthday anniversary of Mrs. Christiana

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Vol. XIV. No. 21.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SNORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. SNATCHED FROM bEATH. Chicago Iron Worker, Falling From 20th Story, Grabbed at 19th. Chicago, June 28.—Patrick Eustice, an iron worker, tumbled from the twentieth story of the new Heisen building yesterday. John Murray, working on the nineteenth floor, saw him fall. Murray was near the edge. Reaching far out he grabbed Eustice’s blouse. The clutch failed, but the course of the body was turned inward and Elustice fell on the cross beams of the eighteen floor. He was only bruised. Murray looked down, saw that all was well and resumed riveting.

HAS TEN GRANDPARENTS.

Noblesville Baby Is in Great Danger of Being Spoiled. Noblesville, Ind., June 28. Lovin Grubbs, the week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Grubbs, of this city, would be justified in boasting of his grandparents if it were possible for him to do so just now. He has ten and all of them are living. They are Mr. and Mrs. William Barker, living near here; Mr. and Mrs. John Grubbs, parents of Mr. Grubbs; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sturdevant, great-grandparents on the mother’s side, and Mr. and Mrs. John Coy, and Mr. and Mrs.' George Groves, greatgrandparents on the father’s side. The entire family is rejoicing over the visit of the stork at the Grubbs home.

TO BE FREE IN JULY.

Logansport Man’s Sentence for Übero Swindle Nearly Served, Logansport, Ind., June 28. A letter was received here yesterday from Fred Berges, formerly of Logansport, saying he expects to be released from the Massachusetts state' prison in July. Berges was convicted of complicity in the Übero plantation swindle in Boston a number of years ago and was to state prison. As a result of good behavior a year has been cut off his sentence. His wife, daughter of Andy Wirwahm, of Logansport, obtained a divorce in the Cass circuit court. She has been employed as a milliner in Indianapolis for several years.

FORM ASSOCIATION

For Mutual Improvement of the Employes and Officers of the Monon. Lafayette, Ind., June 28.—Officers and employes of the Monon met here today for conference and the conference resulted in the organization of a new mutual improvement association, the first of its kind in the history of the road. The object was to bring about closer relations between the company and its men and thus improve the service of the road and the conditions Of its employes. There were fifteen men at the meeting representing the different departments of the road, both in the shops •here, and over the system. General Manager A. H.. Westfall presided, and different officers of the company made short talks. It was decided to appoint a committee of forty-five, composed of officers of the company and representatives of the various classes of workmen to meet once a month and discuss prob-

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