Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — Page 3

UNION TOWNSHIP. Tie Trustee “if Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana, proposes for the next yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its -annual meeting to be held at the school house at Pair Oaks, September 5, 1911, at- 10 - o’clock A. M., the folliwing and amounts ior the said year: 1. Township expenditures sl,865.38, and Township tax, 20 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local Tuition expenditures, $3,264.41, and Local Tuition tax 35 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special School expenditures, $4,663.45, and Special School tax 50 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Road expenditures, $2,793.07, and Road tax 30 cents on the hundred dollars, to be worked out on the highways. 5. Additional Road expenditures $923.69 and Road tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars, to be paid as taxes. 6. Poor expenditures for preceding year $466.34, and Poor tax 5 cents on the hundred dollars. The total expenditures recommended $13,990.3.9, and total tax levy $1.50 on the hundred dollars. Total taxables of the Township, $932,694; total polls 198. ISAAC RIGHT, Trustee. August Ist, 1911.

NOTICE OF HEARING OF DITCH PETITION. To Eva L. Anell, John Herr and Benjamin J. Gifford: Notice is hereby given that the Commissioners of Drainage have filed their report on the petition of Frank M. Reed for a ditch in Milroy Township, from which it appears that certain lands owned by each of you will be benefitted by said proposed ditch. You are further notified that on the sth day of September, 1911, said report and petition will be heard by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor. Schuyler C. Irwin, Atty. for Petitioner. Al 2-19

NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of John L. Town, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, No. 869, September Term, 1911. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs, legatees and devisees of said John L. Town, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 11th day of September, 1911, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Earnest Town, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. EARNEST TOWN, Administrator. Frank Foltz, Attorney for estate.

NOTICE OF DITCH LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, on August 26, 1911, at two o’clock P. M., at the office of the County Surveyor, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, let the contract for the construction of the Robert E. VanGundy Ditch, being Cause Number 1554 of the Commissioners’ Court of Jasper County, Indiana, to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders. Oral bids will be received at the time of letting. Said ditch to be constructed of tile. The plans and specifications for said work may be examined at the office of the Auditor, at Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. A certified check in the sum of $50.00 must be deposited with the Commissioner before bids will be accepted. The successful bidder will be required to enter into contract and give bond as required by law. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. W. FRANK OSBORNE, Commissioner of Construction. Al 2-19

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IN THE DAYS OF WITCHCRAFT

How Anne Holliwell Was. Saved From the Stake.

Did you never bear of Anne Holliweil. the witch of SalemV So"! It’s an odd story. My grandfather gave it to my father, and my father gave it to me. Anne Holliwell when she was eighteen years old was accused of witchcraft Mark Spooner, a big. strong fel-. low, wanted to marry her. but he was a wicked one—they said he had secret meetings with Satan at midnight In the wood—and Anne would have nothing to do with him. Moreover, she loved Joel Hallitt son of Deacon Hallitt. who jvent off with tbe Roger Williams people. Joel was the reverse of Spooner, being a small, pale looking young man. but with a very intellectual countenance. * He was not in favor with the congregation, however, because he openly denied the right of the church to burn out a woman’s tongue with a redhot iron. Indeed, so great was the indignation against his heretical protest that Joel came near paying the penalty of his rashness with his life.

Now. 4 am not going to vouch for what 1 intend to tell you. I’ll give it as 1 got it from others and their interpretation of it If you choose to take different views concerning it l shall have no objection. Anne Holliwell was accused, as I have said, of witchcraft. My grandfather used to say that Mark Spooner was at the bottom of the accusation with a view to getting Anne into his power, but this was not current at the time. However this be. Anne was tried and sentenced to" be burned When the fagots were prepared and Anne was being bound to the stake a tall man stepped out of a wood nearby and advanced to the party. He wore a purple doublet, bordered with red. and red hose, while on his head was a conical hat with a single feather in it There was something so singular In bis appearance that the people turned from Anne Holliwell. tbe stake and tbe fagots to look at him. “What do you with tbe wench V asked the stranger. “We’re going to burn her. She’s a witch."

“A witch?’’ The speaker threw back his head and, displaying white, pointed teeth, gave a laugh. At first it was a simple ironical ha. ha! Then it had the ring of a trumpet in it Then came back an echo, though there was no eminence or cliff to send it

“Who are you?' asked one of the pillars of the church who were conducting the execution. “You strangely ' resemble Mark Spooner, but you are not Mark Spooner, for Mark is but twenty-five, while you—you may be young or you may be old." “No matter who 1 am. 1 have come for the wench.” “Stand off!" cried several of the most pious men present who had no mind that the Lord’s will should be interfered with, but tbe stranger, drawing his sword, stepped up to Anne Holliwell and. cutting the cords, led her away toward the wood. Some said that sparks were seen to fly from the point of the sword, some that his face suddenly from being quite handsome became so demoniacal that every man

gave way instinctively before him. As for Anne, from the first she shrank away from him, but he took her by the wrist and. though he seemed to make no exertion, he dragged her away from the fagots, after which she walked beside him passively, as though under a spell. In this way he took her to the edge of the wood, where the two disappeared. An hour later Anne Holliwell. accompanied by Joel Hailitt came back into the town. She was not further molested by the people. It was not generally known why. though the master of ceremonies who was to have presided at her execution after a long interview with her gave out that she could not have been a witch because the devil had tried to rescue her and had failed. My grandfather claimed to have got the story of what happened after she disappeared with the stranger from one of her children. Joel Hailitt on the night before the expected execution. Instead of giving way to his grief, spent the hours on his knees praying that the people might be absolved from the superstitions of witchcraft and persecution. When the hour of the execution came he was seized with an impulse to go and save the girl. Seeing a sword standing in the comer whose hilt was shaped like a cross, be seized it and sallied forth. His course lay through the wood, and after entering it he met the stranger, leading Anne. Approaching them, he asked whither they were going. Anne gave her lover an appealing look, and the man glared at him with such a demoniacal countenance that Joel instinctively held up the sword in his band between himself and the stranger. Whether it was the cross on the hilt or an angelic expression that Anne afterward declared appeared on Joel’s countenance, the stranger drew back and. crouching, slowly shrunk away. Joel, now believing that power had been given him in answer to bis prayer to save Anne, still bolding up the-sword, drove the stranger to the thickest part of the wood, where he disappeared. My father always said that my grandfather believed that Mark Spooner arranged with the devil to get Anne Holliwell for him in return for hi* own souL

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Jack Mcinnes, Athletics’ Crack Young First Sacker.

Photo by American Press Association.

When Connie Mack in an effort to stop bis team’s slump and to check the series of disasters at Detroit pulled Jack Mcinnes out of the lineup something was shown that seldom,, possibly never, had been done before.. To better the general effectiveness of his club he benched a man who had bit .361 in sixty-two games and who is neither a bonebead nor a bad ball player.

He had not secured a wonder to replace him, for be merely turned back to Harry Davis, who was never the hitter that Mcinnes has been this season and whose baseball days are numbered. The change incidentally lasted only two days, Mcinnes being placed back at the position. Taking .361 bitters out of the lineup to gain strength is something entirely new in the national pastime, especially when these hitters have been in nearly all of the games of their clubs. In five of the ten seasons no batter hit as well as Mcinnes has done. In but one of the years has any man play? ing the same position, first base, reached his mark.

How Corhan Broke Into Baseball. Roy Corhan. the little shortstop on the Chicago White Sox. who is playing like a fixture Just now. was discovered by the late Frank Selee some ‘ years ago when Selee was in charge of the Pueblo clnb of the Western league. Selee went down to Albuquerque, N. M.. where they have a big baseball tournament every fall, and In looking over various players his eye fell upon Corhan and a young third baseman named Casey. Selee took Corhan and Casey to Pueblo, and the former made good from the jump. Selee always contended that Casey was jnst as good a natural player, but the youngster -never got to going good in league company and finally disappeared. Corhan was his particular pride, and he always contended that with a full opportunity he would make good anywhere. Corhan is a very fast fielder, but until recently was regarded as a light hitter. He has commenced to pick up In that line, and it looks like he will stick at the short field the balance of the season.

New Record For Running to First. John “Rabbit” Burke, center fielder of the Columbia South Atlantic league team, broke the world’s record recently, it is claimed, for bunt and run to first base, three times getting to the bag in three seconds flat, according to two stop watches. The world’s record, made by Thoney, now of Boston, at Cincinnati in 1907. stood at 3 1-5 seconds. Burke’s record was made at the field day benefit for the Columbia and Albany players held at Columbia. New Ball Much Faster. Speaking of the cork center ball, Neal Ball says: “It comes off the ground like a billiard ball taking English off the rail. 1 don’t exaggerate when 1 tejl you I’ve had the ball come at me so fast that 1 didn’t have time to get down to it. Don’t you see the troubles even the outfielders are having with bounding balls?” Coach Rice Signs Long Contract. As a result of the excellent showling of the Colombia crews in the re cent big regatta at Poughkeepsie. ( Co lnmbia university has signed Coach Jim Rice for ten years -and. besides, has raised his salary SSOO a year. The sum now paid Rice is said to be the largest of any paid rowing coach in the country. Jennings Likes College Players. Hnghie Jennings has suddenly taken a great liking to college ball players. He bad one of his scouts scouring the eastern schools recently. He canght six possibilities in bis dragnet They will be tried out for nse next season providing they are needed. S ; - V 1

BE WISE; STICK TO FARM.

It Stand* For Everything Attractive, Wholesome ahd Profitable. For the restless bo.v or girl whof wants to go away from the farm ant? get out intu-the big world something. no better bit of earnest reading can be found than this extract .from the New York Independent. “The new farm children." it says, “live a third dispensation. The sciences began to take held of the land at leas, fifty years ago. but there was an off clearing necessary. The transition period was protracted, mainly because the land was already in possession of u race of farmers that must die off.

“The agricultural college applied the sciences to tillage and to crops and to animal life on the farm tweuty-tive years ago. It was slow work, not only to awaken the farmer, but to investigate, discover, and then to apply. The age is now rapidly falling into the hands of men who are alive to the great fact that production has never yet approached its maximum. The orchard has all this while, thanks to moths and caterpillars, become more and more an entomological laboratory. Gradually it has came about that not a thing can be grown on the land without a fight. This has not by any means been a permanent loss, but has wakened a spirit of scientific examination and determination to master conditions. The microscope and the crucible are as necessary today as the plow and the hoe. The farm boy is not without stimulus, nor is he without interesting conditions; rather it will now take the brighter boys to do the farming. “The development of farm machinery and the application of new forces on the land have gone on at the same time. In every department of the home, in the house as well as in the barn, machinery takes the plaee of men. and the help problem Is now driving us to a still more complete age of mechanism. “There is no lot on earth so enviable today as that of an American farm boy or girl. They have room, fresh air, beautiful surroundings, While the arts and sciences are involved in their work, and isolation is absolutely abolished.

“Nothing can be gained any longer by quitting the farm. It stands for everything that is attractive, wholesome and profitable; but at the same time it stands for the new and the stimulating. Country life cannot be made dull, unless it wilfully severs itself from advantages that are freely offered.”

WILD MUSTARD GREAT PEST. Not Useful Like Its Eatable Cousins, but an Indefatigable Menace. About as troublesome a weed as the farmer the world over has to deal with is the charlock or wild mustard. It is prolific in the extreme 'fffid, unlike Its black and white cousins, is not only worthless, but harmful. About the only way to control it is to use a spray

SPRAYER TO DESTROY WEEDS.

made up of either a 2 per cent solution of copper sulphate or a 15 per cent solution of iron sulphate. The quantity needed is from fifteen to twenty gallons to the acre, and American grain growers go after it with a sort of watering cart. It is particularly obnoxious in wheatfields, not only choking growth, but making the harvesting of the crop a matter of great difficulty. Creek an Ideal Farm Hand. A wideawake farmer noticed that his creek, if dammed at a certain place, would produce a six foot waterfall. He built a dam and put in a water wheel—a S3OO turbine that yielded twenty-five horsepower. Over the water wheel he built a powerhouse in which he placed a dynamo for the water wheel to run:"' The electricity was wired 1,700 feet to the farm buildings. Then he put his electricity to work In every possible place about the premises. He heated and lighted the house, did the cooking and the washing and ironing, did the sweeping and dusting, beat eggs—and at three different speeds too—turned the ice cream freezer and in summer ventilated the house with fans. Now with a vacuum milking machine he milks twenty cows, two at a time; drives the cream separator, churns, pumps water into every room in the house and into the of each horse and cow, drives lathesland drills in a workshop, drives a circular saw to cut cordwood and drives an ensilage cutter. It pays to be up to date.

THE MONEY MAKING MULE.

The mule is a slave animal. At two years he is ready to do con- < siderable work and will from that age on make a profit over and above his feed ar.d expense bill in the value of his labor and at the same time be growing more valuable until four or five years old, at which age he will [ command the top «rs the market in his age class.

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