Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — Page 8

News Notes of rs Nearby Towns I penings in the Territory yj;.. Adjacent to the Jasper As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents A County Metropolis

| SCHULTZ SETTLEMENT. Harvesting wheat is the order of the day. Hurrah for July 4th, birthday of our nation. A bunch from our settlement went huckleberry picking Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Stibie attended church at Kniman Sunday. Adolf and Paul L. Schultz and Fred Krueger were in Rensselaer Saturday. Miss Hattie Schultz and mother took dinner with Mr. and Mrs, ■Emil Schultz Sunday. A little baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueger one day this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Town and little son took dinner with William Schultz and family Sunday. Aug. Krueger’s daughter and her three children of Chicago are here' visiting relatives a shott time. Mrs. Aug. Krueger, Antona Schultz and Michael Schultz called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueger Wednesday.

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1 SOUTH NEWTON. | Lime Raymond and family visited Sunday with Harve Pierson’s. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Weiss visited George Werner’s folks Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ross Reed spent Tuesday with home folks and helped put up cherries. Mr. Koons on the Henry Harris farm bought a new Deering binder this week. Carr Bros, are cutting logs and hauling them to the sawmill to have lumber made. Those that have wheat are busy cutting now. It looks as if it will make a good yield. (Miss Katherine Watson of Rensselaer js spending a few days this week with Miss Helen Lamson. •Mrs. Charles Waling and daughter Carrie of Brook took Sunday dinner wish Arthur Mayhew and •family. Adele Grimes, who has been at Danville, 111., for some time came home Monday. She brought her two little neices home with her for a visit.

Percy Koons of Brook and Cora Jenkinson of this vicinity were married<at Mt. Ayr Tuesday evning by the minister of the church at that ■place. . This locality was missed almost entirely by the late rains which passed around us on all sides. Corn is doing fine but pastures are dying up like fall time. Minor Bentley came Friday for a visit wjth his sister, Mrs. Fflillip Paulus, whom he had not seen for 15 years. He now lives in Chicago and works in the street car barns there. Clarence Pruett and wife attended Sabbath school at Zion in Jordan tp. Sunday and then went to Goodland and took dinner with Mrs. Pruett’s parents, Joseph Sommers and family. The ice cream social held at No. 6 school house was a complete success in every way. Fine evening, large crowd, and everything sold out. The proceeds were something near sl3, so we understand.

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EAST JORDAN. j —I H The crops are needing rain. Will Iliff called on Jack Wells Sunday evening. Miss Ida Bartoo called on Miss Mary Bice Sunday evening. Miss Mary Bice is ill at her home south of town with pneumonia. Mrs. David Shumaker called on Mrs. Frank Hill Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Peters were Rensselaer goers Saturday afternoon. Miss Letta and Opal Lanham spefit Saturday afternoon in Rensselaer. We are having a better Sunday school this summer. Glad to see the old folks attend. George Wenrick and Miss Opal Waymire attended the dance at Charles Hall’s Saturday night. Noah Wenrick and daughter Edith spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mark Reed and family. Miss Hazel Blake is assisting her aunt, Mrs. Marion Bice with her work during her daughter's Hlness.

Mr. Henry and John Tobin and George Wenrick spent Sunday evening with Marion Bice and family. Dale Hufford of Rossville and Miss Hazel Shumaker attended the children’s exercises at Ockley Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Shaffer and little daughters Opal and Leona spent Sunday, with Mr, and Mrs. Charles Harris. Misses Nellie and Irene* Bartoo, Grace and Opal Sigman, Opai and Olive _ Waymire and Edith Wenrick spent Friday afternon with Hazel Shumaker. Miss Edith Wenrick and Hazel Shumacker are spending the week picking berries at the former’s grandfather’s, John Wenrick’s, Of near Wheatfield. Harry and Hazel Shumaker, Dale, Amos and Ruth Hufford and Ellis Farmer and Pearl Mickum of Rossville attended the stock show at Mulberry, Ind., this week. The- children of Lawnsdale Sunday school are busy preparing the program for Children’s day exercises, to be held Sqnday. July 2 all day. A basket dinner will b§ served. All come.

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i \ I ~ PINE GROVE. \ 11 —! — Everybody is busy cutting this week. Mrs. Sarah MlcCleary spent Sunday with Mrs. Lizzie Cooper. Mrs. Sarah McCleary and daughter Gusta were Rensselaer goers Monday. Miss Anna Radamacker of Chicago is spending a few days with Bessie Bessie Ropp and Anna Radamacker called on Cloae Torbet Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and son Charles spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels and son Ira. Harry Beck and family, Celine Cragun, Creola and John Torbet and Opal Russell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clint Beck and sons. Several of the young folks from around here attended the -birthday dinner on Miss Bertha Cooper Sunday, it her 19th birthday anniversary.

KIDNEY DISEASES ARE CURABLE under certain conditions. The right medicine must be taken before the disease has progressed too far. Mr. Perry A. Pitman, Dale, Tex., says: “I was down in bed for four months with kidney and bladder trouble and gall stones. One bottle of Foley’s Kidney Remedy cured me well and sound.” Ask for it. —A. F. Long.

PARR. 1 -i ‘ I The band has been busy practicing for the 4th. The creamery will be closed at 11 a. m., July 4th. Miss Dora Hurley visited with Mrs. OT Shaefer Sunday. Mrs. J. Lornergan of Surrey called on Mri?. L. Schreeg Thursday. Frank McCurtain called on Otto and Olga Schreeg Tues'day evening. Miss Mattie Fay spent Wednesday evening with Miss Anna Marion. Emma Zacher and Josephine Thomas called on Olga Schreeg Monday to take music lessons. Miss Ocie Wood was operated on for appendicitis laV- Sunday. She is getting along nicely. A large number of friends visit her daily. It is thought she will be able to sit up in a chair t-he 4th and at least enjoy some of the celebration.

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FOUR CORNERS. j *" J " r 1 • Wheat cutting is now the order of the day. E. Wesner is delivering corn at Tefft this week. The Marble boat dredge will begin work the Ist of July. Lee Fisher visited over Sunday with his brother Homer near LoweH. G. O. Stembel is one of the busiest men in these parts—the boycott notwithstanding. v

A large acreage of buckwheat will be sown this year in Kankakee and Wheatfield townships. Wm. Asher, who has been in Montana for the past two years, returned home Monday. He reports times close there and many men out of employment. ' 7 J. A. Hixsoif was the first farmer in these parts to start the wheat harvest. He expects to thresh same in a few days. The grain is nice and plump and he expects a fair yield. JS “ An agent for a Chicago brewery was drowned near Burrows’ Camp Saturday. He was married and about 30 years of age. The accident occurred while in bathing and in an effort to swim across the river. - The eagle will scream and the stars and stripes will wave over the grounds and many jolly and happy people at Dunn’s bridge July 4th. If you miss this day and place you miss more than half yr»nr life. The games and races wii; be on the morality side of the bridge. Come. Land buyers are now on the move, and almost every train brings in moneyed men who claim that north Jasper has better .crops than any locality they have passed through, A little more drainage and a few degrees more of energy and this section will be second to At*ne, ; . The residence of Rev. Downey was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon and was badly damaged Mrs. Downey was knocked to the floor and her head came in contact with some object and her head and face was painfully injured. The children did not seem to be affected by the shock. A close but not fatal call.

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THE FOURTH OF PARR. Good Program Prepared for Celebration This Year. Parr, the biggest little town in Jasper county, will hold the only Fourth of July, celebration this year in the county, and the foldlowing program which they have prepared insures a day of amusements for everybodv. That they will have a big crowd is assured. Following is the program for the day: 9 a. m.—Novelty Parade, led by Parr Band. 9:3o—Vocal Music, by Parr Glee Club. 9:4o—lnvocation, by Rev. Shafer. 9:50-—Vocal Music, by Parr Glee Club. 10:00—Reading Declaration of Independence, by George Casey, Jr. 10:20—Recitations, by J. E. Alter an J others. 11:00—Oration, by Hon. E. P. Honan. « 12 m.—Basket Dinner. 2:20 p. m.—Slow Mule Race. Purse SI.OO. H 2:45 —Biscuit Eating Contest. IJurse 75c. 2:ss—Climbing Greased Pole. Purse SI.OO. Three-legged Race. Purse SI.OO. Hit. the Ham-What-Am. Purse $1.50. 3:00 —Ladies’ Nail-Driving Contest. Purse 75c. 3:lo—Pinning Tail on Donkey Contest. (For 5 litle girls.) Purse 75c. 3:15 —Potato Race, for little boys. Purse 75c. 3:25 —Race for Boys, 13 years and under. Purse 75c. 3:30 —Race for Girls, 12 years and under. Purse 75c. 3:3s—Hundred-Yard Dash, open to all. Purse $2.50. 3:40 —Hundred-Yard Dash, 50 years or over. Purse $1.50. 3:45—-Tug of War, Newton vs. Union. Purse SI.OO. 3:55-—Barrel Race, free for all, Purse SI.OO. 4:00—Pillow Fight. Purse SI.OO Fat Man’s Race. Purse SI.OO. 4 Base ball games—Newland vs. Parr, 1.00 p. jg., purse $12.00; kid game, Rensselaer vs. Parr, 8:30 a. m., purse $3.00. • A grand Bowery dance afternoon and evening. Old men’s 100-yard foot race. We challenge the county in this evnt. MUSIC BY THE PARR BAND. Come to the town that carries out the Program as advertised? You are invited and assured a good time, so come. \ Fireworks at 8 p. m. Officers:—Charles Rowen, President; C. D. Lakin, Secretary; S. A. Brusnahan, Treasurer; Committee on Privileges, C. G. Garriott, W. H. Myers, Chas. Greenlee.

Stolen Stamps Found.

Vernon, Ind., June 30.—Stamps, cards and change amounting to about $l5O were stolen from the Vernon postoffice. Part of the stamps were found in front of Will Harper’s home, where shooting was heard after the robbers had left the postoffice.

Remorseful; Takes Poison.

Hammond, Ind., June 30.—1 n a fit of remorse after viciously attacking his wife and badly wounding her, Van H. Sherman, a Crownpoint business man, and son of a prominent family of Indiana pioneers, committed suicide by drinking Lcilebore.

Divorce Suit Is Withdrawn.

Indianapolis, June 30. After sensational testimony, given by his wife, former Judge Thomas Whallon, whose wife is a singer in one of the prominent churches here, went into court •nd withdrew his suit for livorce.

GENERAL NEWS

Heirs to the thrones of Europe, the princes and princesses, and special ambassadors who have been royal guests during the coronation festivities, have said farewell to King George and Queen Mary, and the greater number have already left London. Throughout the day special trains bound for the coasts rojiowed one another. The Duke of Connaught attended each departure on behalf of the king, while the regular embassies were present to/sajH good-by to the envoys of their respective nations. Th grat coronateeion fleet at Spithead also dispersed, the foreign warships saluting the flags of Great Britain and the commander in chief as they passed out. The census committee, of which LaFollette is chairman, considered the bill authorizing a reapportionment of the country for representatives in congress on the basis of population shown by the last census The committee voted seven to three to report the bill favorably in the form it came from the house, which provided for a house of representatives to consist of 433 members and which would reduce the representation of none of the states of the Union. Senator LaFollette asked for a week in which to file a minority report. Senators DuPont and McLean voted with LaFollette against reporting the bill favorably. It is said at the White House the Anglo-American arbitration treaty has been agreed upon in every important provision, there now remaining only a few minor details for settlement between the state department and the British foreign office. Ambassador Bryce called upon President Taft and the announcement was made following a conference between the two. The final negotiations in the work of smoothing out the unimportant points of difference between the state department and the British foreign office will be begun at once and it is hoped that the treaty will be ready for submission to the senate at this session.

Captain Williamson, Inventor of the Williamson submarine tube caisson, has been awarded a contract to recover the treasures sunk with the steamer Merida of the New York and Cuba Steamship company, which went down in collision with the steamer Admiral Farragut recently east of Cape Charles. The Merida carried besides the valuables % of 300 passengers, half a million dollars in silver bars. She also carried a valuable cargo of general merchandise. She was sunk in 200 feet of we ter, and marine men claim she cannot be reached by divers. At New York Tuesday Aietana Saglinbe, twenty and comely, met Anthony Fiverone, an admirer, in the street at night and upbraided him for not telling her that he was married. A crowd gathered as him and by mutterings of approval urged her to greater agitation. She whipped out from the folds of her dress a revolver and fired three times. Each bullet struck a different man and aJI three will probably die. Fiverone is one of the wounded. Justice Daniel T. Wright of the District supreme court, at Washington Monday issued a rule against Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, labor leaders, requiring them to show cause July 17 why they should not be judged guilty of contempt of court. This action followed filing of the report of the special committee of attorneys appointed by Justice Wright to inquire into the contempt proceedings in the Bucks Stove and Range boycott case. When the senate met Senator Penrose came forward with a proposed agreement for a vote on Canadian reciprocity on July 24 to be followed within a few days by a vote on the farmers’ free list-bill and the wool bill on definite dates. There was considerable disci ssion, but finally Senator LaFollett objected to the cate for the Canadian bill and Senator Smoot objected to fixing a day for a vote on the farmers’ free list bill and the wool bill.

The saengerfest held in Milwaukee of the North American Saengerbund closed with a picnic, at which an election of officers was held and Louisville was chosen as the city to entertain the next convention in 1914. For the first time in the history of the organization there is a deficit in prospect of nearly SB,OOO, due partly to the excessive heat during the concert days. Charles G. Schmidt of Cincinnati was re-elected president. The Chinese famine is ended. Re ports from the consular officers in various sections of the affected district, forwarded to the state department by Minister Calhoun, bring the news that the crops are now being harvested and there is no longer need of assistance from the United States. Students representing 225 colleges and including sixty Chinese gathered at Linwood park, just west of Cleveland, 0., to take part in the annual student conference under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. John H. King of Bridgeport, Conn., seventeen years old, is dead as a result of being hit on the temple by a pitched ball during a game in which he was taking part . H. H. Kobisaat of Chicago told the investigating committee in Washington that Lorimerism means a cohesion of Republicans and Democrats for party and private pelf. Bruno Oscar Klein, who was one of the best known musicians in New York, is dead at his home. He had been in this country for more than tihrty years.

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INCOME TAX IN WISCONSIN NEAR

Measure Passes Legislature and Is up to Governor. WHAT INCOMES WILL BE TAXED Salary of SBOO a Year for Unmarried and $1,200 for Married Persons to te Exempt— Other Exemptions. Madison, Wis., June 30. —Wisconsin will undoubtedly soon have an income tax. The senate refused to reconsider the vote by which it concurred in the income tax bill. The vote was 14 to 11 against reconsideration. This eliminates the possibility of the measure being sent to the people for final action and finally puts the income tax question up to the governor. Prior to taking the vote there was a short discussion in which the chief feature was the reading of a protest from Kenosha manufacturers against the bill and the statement of Senator Bishop that the workers were against Ihe proposed law. The assembly bill v.as concurred in by the senate Wednesday night after a long and acrimonious discussion by a viote of 15 to 14 and this later vote finally ends the fight which began Jan. 1. Here are the chief provisions of the bill. If an income is over SSOO the recipient must make a return to the assessor. - If one is unmarried the income will be taxed when it passed the SBOO mark. The tax is graduated on incomes starting at 1 per cent on incomes of SI,OOO or any part of it and increasing efie-quarter percent'on each added sl,000 until $12,000 is reached, when the tax is 5% per cent. Over the $12,000 the tax is 6 per cent. Corporations will be allowed exemptions on sums paid for salaries and wages if such corporations return to the assessor the amounts of such salaries and the names of those receiving them. In computing the tax and exemptions the income of husband, wife and each child under eighteen years is added, when all live together. United States officials are exempt so far as their salaries are concerned, as are pensions from the United States, salaries of members of'the legislature, and taxes paid upon the business from which the income is derived.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

•••••••••••••••••••••••••a INDIANAPOLIS Two flashilydressed men entered the Mantel jewelry store in the heart of the city at noon and knocked the clerk down with loaded rubber hose, but, failing to silence hintrand fearing his calls for help would bring the officers, they fled from ,the_ building. A crowd was soon in pursuit with the two thugs running through business houses and restaurants and finally boarding an interurban car, which they left at the next corner and made their escape. Two hundred men and boys joined in the pursuit and many tried to stop the thugs, but were induced to step aside when revolvers were aimed at them. The men evidently had planned the route they would take, for they ran through two business houses and one restaurant and by thus coming out on othei streets threw their pursuers off the track until they got goor leads. KOKOMO Bert Thomas, who has been arrested on a charge of “bootlegging,” gave the most novel explanation for the presence of liquor in his room that has ever been offered to the local police department The police found a five-gallon jug of whisky in Thomas’s trunk. When Thomas was asked what he was doing with it he said he' used it to bathe his feet in. He stuck to this story, asserting that the warm weather has the effect of making his feet extremely tender and only by bathing them every night in whisky could he keep thenr in condition that would permit him to

walk and go about his work. The police were suspicious of this defense and slated him for "bootlegging.” SHELBYVILLE Charles Moores a carpenter, living in Hendricks township, committed suicide at the home of Jesse McKee by hanging himself, Moore had been at the place a few months remodeling the house, and he was the only carpenter there. He was separated from his wife, and on several occasions had attempted tc settle their differences, but had not been successful. After reading a let ter he had received from Mrs. Moore he remarked That he had nothing tc live for. McKee left for a time and on his return found his body hanging to a rafter with a window cord about his neck. Moore’s mother was over come and it is feared she will die. PETERSBURG —Alber tJ. Ven neman of Evansville, speaker of the late house of representatives, announces that he is done with politics and that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for re-election. He told his friends here that: “The game is all right for the rich, but the poor must work; I will spend the next few years attending to my profession and trying to lay up something form? family.” COLUMBUS Barney McEvenues aged fifty-seven, a well known saloon keeper at Taylorsville, Bartholomew county, is dead of poisoning from drinking lemonade that had stood for thirty-six hours. He leaves a widow and one daughter. McEvenue had been in the saloon business thirty years and was active in local politics FORT WAYNE The body of a man who was probably fifty-five years old, weight 165 pounds, height 5 feet 10 inches, was found near here a bullet in his breast and a revolver with on< chamber empty. A railroad ticket dated June 20, at Chicago for New York, was also found. The hat bort a Chicago firm’s mark. GARY Daring burglars in vaded the heart of Gary’s business district and robbed three places within one block of the police station. The places robbed are the Gary Liquoi company's office, the Michigan Central depot and the Lightning Repair shop. At the latter place the thieves stole the cash register. SOUTH BEND—The election com missioners of St. Joseph county postponed the opening of bids on fifty voting machines because of lack of competition. The commissioners de cided to prepare new specifications a*id receive new proposals, which wil be opened on Aug. 8. FOWLER To forever set a> rest rumors and dissatisfaction of many people concerning the death oi Peter Larsen, who was found dead ir a cistern in the rear of his home here last Friday, the grand jury of Bentor county was called to meet and invest! gate I arsen’s death. ANDERSON The huge bones of a mastodon are being unearthed ir a big ditch on a farm eight miles northwest of here. The jaw bone containing four teeth, has been taker out The teeth measured four inches across, while the jaw bone is almost three feet long. SHELBYVILLE Harry Wertz nine years old, son of William Wertz of Flatrock, was drowned ir Flatrock river. His only companies was Morris Evans, twelve years old who sounded the alarm. The body was recovered within twenty minutes TERRE HAUTE—An unidentifiec man was instantly killed by a street car on Marksville grade, between Terre Haute and West Terre Haute According to the traction officials the man deliberately stood on the,, track as the car approached. GREENFIELD Another splendid gas well has been drilled ir by Charles Townsend near this city, making three wells, said by expert* to be as strong as some that weri pronounced gushers in the gas boom days GREENCASTLE Carl Levy, a Big Four railway brakeman, was killed here by being struck by a pas senger train. The trip on which he was killed was his first one over the road.

LOOK HERE, MR. FARMER! For McCormick mower and binder repairs, call on C. A. Roberts, just across the street from Frank King’s blacksmith shop, Renssdaer, Ind. j 22