Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

$1.50 Per Year.

RURAL CARRIERS SALARY BOOSTED.

Rural mail carriers with routes of 25 miles or more will receive a salary of SI,OOO per year, beginning with July 1. This will probably affect all the carriers in Jasper county. The old salary was S9OO.

BEATS BEING THE ICE MAN

Alf Peters of south of town is bewailing his luck in not hawing his whole farm planted to potatoes this year. He had out about 1-4 of ,an acre and has sold about 25 bushels from, the patch at $2 per bushel, besides what the family have ate and kept for their own use.

NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION.

Don’t forget the Niagara Falls excursion over the C. I. & S. Ry., on Wednesday, August 9. See ad elsewhere in The Democrat. Parties from Rensselaer and vicinity, desiring to take advantage of the low rate offered —sß for the round trip—can make good connections at Shelby by taking the 3:13 train from Rensselaer.

ATTEND STATE MEETING C. O. F.

E. P. Honan attended the meeting of the State Court of Foresters at Hammond Tuesday. ' Tuesday night the visitors were entertained ,by Hammond Foresters. The program for the evening consisted of an automobile ride through the Calumet region and ended with a fish supper at the Lake Front park.

THE WHEAT YIELD.

Wheat is turning out quite well about Rensselaer again this * season. Joe Nagel reports a yield ®f 25 bushels to the acre but fie thniks it was damaged five bushels to the acre by the fly. The average yield hereabouts its probably from 18 to 20 bushels, which is not at all bad. Joe had out 30 acres this year but expects to put in 50 acres next season.

LEAVE ON WESTERN TRIP

Mrs. Anna Tuteur and daughter Maurine and son Arthur and Mrs. Mary D. Eger left Thursday on their western trip, going to Tribune, Kan., Oakland, San Francisco, Cali.. Portland, Ore., St. Paul and several other places of interest in the west. They will be gone several weeks. C. Earl Duvall and family will occupy the Eger residence during Mrs. Eger’s absence, closing his own residence.

SAYS BUGS DID NOT HURT POTATOES.

Ed Oliver of Newland, who has out about 35 acres of late potatoes, tells us that the destructive long stripped bug that has been playing havoc with potato vines in many places, has not damaged any fields in his locality except one small field of one half acre, which they cleaned up. His potatoes, he states, are looking well and the rain Wednesday morning will help them out greatly. There are several hundred acres of late potatoes in the Gifford district and if the growers get a fair yield they will be wearing diamonds next winter.

NEARING THE END.

Uncle Simon Phillips’ Condition Gradually Growing Worse. z Mrs. Vanatta of Fowler is here at the bedside of her father, Simon Phillips, who is., probably on his death bed. Mrs. Barnes, also of Fowler, another daughter, was here Thursday with Mr. Phillips. Guss Phillips of New York City is likewise here at his father’s bedside, and, while his death may occur at almost any moment, the doctor states that he live a Week yet. His condition yesterday was practically unchanged; except he was perhaps a trifle weaker. He is in his 89th year, always a strong, robust man, and his, trouble now is a general breaking down of the body machinery. He has now been sick for a month and but little nourishment can be retained on his stomach.

MANY ENTRIES IN RACE FOR PIANO

Many Contestants art Striving for Beautiful Instrument ALL HAVE AN EQUAL CHANCE To Secure This Fine $350 Piano Absolutely Free—Free Certificates at Stores Makes Big Hit. That a great deal of interest in The Democrat’s big $350 free piano contest has been aroused is evidenced daily by the number of persons who are making inquiries and sending in candidates names and votes.

It is gratifying to The Democrat to- have so much interest shown at the start of the contest, and while the offer has only been in force since July 17, the great interest already shown in the race assures us that our big free offer is appreciated. Seldom before has The Demo-, crat attempted such a big proposition. To say that the contest is a success is putting it mildly as it already excels our expectations. ;

Now is the time to get started. If you don’t get the piano, some one else will. And the second highest candidate will receive the $35 “Free” Sewing Machine, while the third highest candidate gets the S2O silver set. Both the piano and sewing machine are on exhibition in D. M. Worland’s furniture store, while the silver set is on display at Jessen, the Jeweler’s. Get started today, don’t wait. Go to see your friends, and ask their help. If you have no friends, you’re In a bad way. We hope you have and if you hustle around you’ll be surprised how many people will help you. Everybody is willing to help a hustler.

Don’t forget to ask for the certificates with every cash purchase of a dollar’s worth or over. The following stores have these certificates:

Ask for them and get your neighbors and friends to save their certificates for you. Each dollar’s worth of these certificates counts 100 votes. They are free. All you have to do is ask for them.

You will never get an opportunity to secure a piano any cheaper—as it costs you nothing. Not one cent. A $350 instrument may be yours just by exercising a little ambition; a little of the spirit “I will.” Get busy now; right this minute. Run in to the next door neighbor’s and ask them to save their certificates for you. Once you are started it’ll be so easy to get folks to save certificates for you that you’ll wonder why you delayed at all. All coupons that have appeared in The Democrat can be voted up to August 10; after that they will be good for 10 days only.

For each new subscriber to The Democrat you get 3,000 votes; for each renewal you get 1,500 votes. Could we make it any easier?

A FINE LOT OF VIEWS

Of Interesting Places Secured by the “Kodak Fiends” of The Democrat Party. Misses Alice and Jennie Eib, who accompanied The Democrat party on its eastern trip a few weeks ago, are quite expert .with the kodak, and, of the 48 “shots” taken, 40 are good; many of them excellent.

Miss Nellie Eck of Carpenter tp., had also had experience with a kodak and no doubt secured many fine pictures. The Misses Daugherty were novices at taking shots and a smaller per cent of their negatives are good than the others, although .some of their pictures perhaps surpass any of the others in distinctness. These pictures will be cherished for a life-time as souvenirs of a most delightful trip, one

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1911.

never to be forgotten by any of the fourteen members of the party.

The views include several taken at Niagara Falls, the Bronk monument; the high bridge at Poughkeepsie; views along the Hudson ; battleships and sailing vessels; Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park; Grant’s Tomb; the national capitol; the congressional library at Washington; the White House; the old church at Norfolk which still has imbedded in its wall a cannon ball fired by the British more than a century ago; the famous Hotel Chamberlain at Old Point Comfort ; the Washington mansion at Mt. Vernon, and many others, making a most interesting collection.

FRANK FOLTZ RETIRES.

Well Known Rensselaer Attorney Succeeded By John A. Dunlap. Frank Foltz, who for more than a quarter of a century has been engaged in the practice of law in Rensselaer, and has acquired a comfortable competency, has leased his office and library to John A. Dunlap and will retire from active practice. Mr. Foltz has been a hard worker and needs the rest which he proposes to take after he finishes up the cases he now has on hand.

Mr. Dunlap, who succeeds him, is a very able lawyer and has met with great success during the little more than a year he has been located in Rensselaer in partnership with W. H. Parkinson, the firm having been doing a large and constantly growing business. The opportunity, however, to step into an old establislled business such as Mr. Foltz’s was too good to be turned down, and after talking the matter over with Mr. Parkinson he decided to take advantage of it. Mr. Dunlap is nor only a very able lawyer but is , clean and honorable and a worthy successor to Mr. Foltz.

Mr. Parkinson, who is conceded to be one of the best lawyers in- northwestern Indiana, will continue the business formerly conducted by Dunlap & Parkinson at their old office in the I. O. O. F. building.

Is the Factory Addition These Days—About 20 Men Now at Work. A good flow of water was struck Thursday forenoon at a depth of 63 feet in the new well being put down by Gwin & Watson in the factory addition, and the work of attaching pipe to carry it to the cement block making house was begun after testing the well and finding it sufficient. About 15 men were at work out there Thursday, besides those hauling gravel, of which there were six teams.

One power mixer and three block machines were busy turning out cement blocks at the rate of about 200 blocks for each machine per day. Another mixer and block machine was expected to arrive yesterday or today. Two sizes of blocks are being made, the largest ones being 8x10x24 inches, and the smaller size Bxßxl6 inches. It will take about 5,000 of the larger size and 18,000 to 20,000 of the smaller ones for the factory building proper and the warehouse.

The factory will be 168 feet and 8 inches long and 76 feet wide at its narrowest point and 136 feet at its widest, and about 37 feet high to the top of the ventilators. • Work on the trenches for the foundations for the factory building was commenced yesterday, and in a couple of weeks more quite a showing will be made. All but two or three of the men at present employed are local men, and the number will probably be considerably increased next week. ‘ r

All the requirements of the contract with the Commercial Club ■have thus far been complied with, and Thursday the latter turned over the money it had on. ha nd.

All the news in The Democrat

A BUSY PLACE

MOTORCYCLES COMING.

An endurance run under the auspices of the South Chicago Autocycle Club, from South Chicago to Rensselaer, with about thirty machines competing for the ■ honors, has been arraigned so that the machines will reach the’Maxwell garage here a little before next Sunday noon, where they will be checked by a man sen,t out ahead by the club for that purpose. Mr. Shafer, manager of the garage, is preparing to give them a royal reception on their arrival in this city.

MUST DECIDE TODAY

Or Guarantee Check Will Be Forfeited by Bidder Hiram Day. The school board at a meeting held Tuesday evening,, decided to give Hiram Day until today to , enter into a contract for the construction of the new addition to the school building, or forfeit his guarantee check of SI,OOO. Mr. Day was considerably under any of the other bidders, his bid being $11,600, which he claims was written out before securing figures on cost of all the work, and that he then wrote out another bid for $16,000, but through mistake submitted the lower bid. The architect and school board think the building can be put up easily at the low bid, and • should they go ahead and advertise for new bids it would so delay the matter that the project would have to be put off until next year. It is generally hoped the mati ter may be adjusted in some way that Mr. Day will go ahead and do the work.

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Clippings of Interest to Jasper County Readers. Monticello Herald: Mr. Robert Nicholas of Remington and Miss Faye Williams were married Tuesday noon at the home of the bride’s uncle, Henry J. Reid, in this city by Rev. C. J, Armentrout. Mr. Harvey Robinson and Mrs. Ella Lowe, widow of James Lowe, rather surprised those who were not in the .secret by going to the home of Elder J. A. Parker yesterday and being quietly married. They went to Rensselaer for a short visit with relatives of the groom. —Monticello Herald.

Monticello Journal: Mrs. F. L. Griffin and son Arion visited friends and attended the band concert at Remington last evening. . .Misses Maude and Fern Rawlings of Remington are guests at the homes of Messrs. S. W. Thompson and Frank Hodshire... Fred Griffin left last evening for St. Anne, 111., where he has been offered a position in the electric light plant of that place. Benton Review: The potato crop seems to be a failure all over the United States. Isaac Winehold reports them selling in Kansas at $3 per bushel and the local price is not much less. .. .Theodore Hoss tells the Review that his oasts will not make more than ten bushels per acre and are hard to get. *lf he were a renter he would not thresh them, but feed the straw and grain together.. .W. A. Phillips and wife are spending the week visiting in Remington upon the advice of his physician to take a Ittle more rest before going back to work, Mr. Kumberlin is acting as panitor at the court house during his absence... W. A. Phillips received a sample of oats from his son in South Dakota last week and the straw was about six inches long, and no grain. Some of his neighbors have driven their stock into North ’Dakota and others gave them away to keep them from starving to death.. .George. Yeoman starts Monday with his men for Lisbon, N. D,, to harvest his crop of wheat of 535 acres on the section he purchased in June. He states he called ’on Harvey Hoffman who went from Earl Park last spring and found them well satisfied and prospering.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. July 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Robinson, a

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Reynolds Journal: The temperance people of White county have retained Wm. Darroch of Kentland to represent them in the trial which was recently venued to that place. The report that the remonstrators had forfeited their rights by failing to file bond after the change of venue is without foundation. —o— Trustee Selmer was down from Gillam tp., Tuesday afternon. They have been having it pretty dry there, getting little or none of the rains we hau about Rensselaer. Wheat in Mr. Selmer’s neighborhood is a total failure and where it was not plowed up the farmers have turned their hogs into the fields to feed what little there was left from the ravages of the fly.

Our Wheatfield correspondent states that former township trustee S. D. Clark, who resigned his office last spring and went to Oklahoma with the intention 'of locating in that state, has returned with his family and again taken up his residence near Wheatfield. Mr. Clark has no doubt reached the conclusion that there are lots worse places than Jasper county. —<o Under an act of the last legislature every firm or corporation employing five or more persons, agriculture and domestic services excepted, must pay a license fee of one dollar annually to the State Bureau of Inspection, and failure so to do is punishable with a $25 fine. Persons concerned can obtain blanks and all necessary information from Elliott R. Hooton, Chief Inspector, Indianapolis, Ind.

—o — The three Gary cases remaining on the circuit court docket will never come to trial. This is the consensus of opinions expressed by local attorneys. After the dismal failures recorded in the other trials no judge could be secured to preside over any in which the state should be represented by pettifogging lawyers, and no self-respecting lawyer would permit himself to be inveigled into a prosecution which promises to result in as big a farce as the other attempts to strangle justice. Judge Hanley stood the travesty on justice as long as he could and then quit.—Valparaiso Messinger. _ . Oh— New suits filed: Mary Ellen Seibel vs. Edward Seibel; action for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married in Rensselaer on March 9, 1901, and separated in April, 1909; that two children were born to them, Florence Edna, aged 9, and Eva Lucinda, aged 7, whom plaintiff demands the care and custody of. Cruel treatment failure to provide,, drunkenness, etc., is charged. Defendant is alleged to be a resident of Chicago Heights, 111., and is employed in the car yards at that city. Plaintiff’s maiden name was Mary Ellen CallNo. 7746. Dickinson Trust Co. vs. William Grossman, et al.; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $1,700.

MAN KILLED AT THAYER.

Friday morning the body of a man was discovered on the station platform at Thayer. When found he was lying on his face, with his feet nearly touching the east rail of the track. Two lifts of the heels of each of his shoes, were found

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about ten rods north of where the body was found; showing that the train struck him was going north. Several bad gashes were found on the left Side of the face and the left side of hits head was badly crushed, which wc%ild indicate he was sitting facing the west. The true story of his death will probably never be known. He was 29 years old and unmarried. The coroner of Newton county rendered a verdict, we understand, of accidental death. The name of the man was Arthur Whiteside. Undertaker H. V. Weaver was called and prepared the body for burial. The body was shipped Friday night by the train that is due to pass this station at 10:27 p. m., to. his home at Hendersonville, North Carolina. The remains were accompanied by his brother, Solon Whiteside.—<Lowell Tribune.

AN ALL DAY MEETING.

There will be an all d'ay meeting Sunday, July 23, in John E, Alter’s grove just north of Rosebud church one-half mile. There will be preaching both morning and afternoon. Come everybody and bring a well filled basket and spend the day in the cool. —Rev. O. S. Rardin.

OUR EASTERN TRIP

As Seen by a Lay Member of the Party. The following account of The Democrat party’s recent eastern trip, the first installment, which appears in this issue, covering the first half of the journey, written by one, and the second installment, which appears in our next Saturday issue, covering the second half, is written by another of the young lady members of the party: The Democrat's party left Rensselaer, on its eastern trip, Sunday, July 2, and connected iat Hammond with the Michigan Central Limited and went through to Niagara Falls, N. Y., without change, arriving there, at 6:15 Monday morning. The trip from Detroit to the Falls was made through Canada. Several in the porty arose early-that they might see the country, which is mostly a level or gently rolling prairie-land covered with fields of waving grain. Eastern Canada did not look as prosperous as we had imagined it would. ' The fapm improvements were generally rather poor, many of the farm houses and nearly all the barns being unpainted. In fact we only saw two barns that were painted in our more than two hours of daylight ride in Canada. Apparently the drought had affected crops there also, and oats, grass an corn was very poor. Wheat looked best, but that was far from what we would call good. The quality of the stock on i£he farms was also inferior to that seen in our own country. As we approached Welland, Canada, We noticed a large number of posts with some sort of guide board or sign on them off to the south of the track, and wondered what they might be. Mr. Ott suggested that they marked the route of the Purtelle electric road, ’but we finally concluded they marked the streets of new additions to the town of Welland, which by reason of its location on the neiw Welland canal connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, is destined to become a £lty of considerable importance. We spent Monday at the Falls. A' visit was made to the Shredded Wheat Biscuit Co's, plant, which is located in a beautiful residence district, away from the factory region of the city. A guide conduct- ■' ed us through the building, explaining the various processes used in making, baking *and boxing the biscuits. This is all done by machinery. The guide explained how it was necessary to touch the biscuits but once with the hands in the entire process; that was when they were placed in boxes by young ladles dressed in white. We were impressed with the cleanliness in all parts of the factory and decided we would never be afraid to eat shredded wheat 'bisculte.

Several in the party who had not before visited Niagara could scarcely -contain themselves with a desire Jo see the Falls, so we walked to Goat Island, which separated the Canadian and American Falls. Goat Island is a reservation of the state of New York and is naturally a beautiful place, but it has been improved with beds of blooming flowers, shrubbery i and pretty walks. We went around the island following the old Angler’s Trail. • Bits of picturesque scenery delight ope all along the way. From the island a most excellent view of the Horseshoe Falls may be had, as they plunge over the rocky cliff in a foaming mass to strike the huge rocks 165 feet below. A side view of the American Falls greets one from the same fxoint. Looking down from Prospect Park

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