Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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JASPER COUNTY PLUTOCRATS

Who the Holders of Bank Stocks in the Comity Are STOCK ASSESSEDAT7OCENTS Par Value That Earns 15 Per Cent Dividends and Commands a Premium of Nearly 50 Per Cent. The stock of the various banks of Jasper county is all assessed at 70 per cent of its face or par value, which is said to be on an equality with other counties in the state, and we presume it is. But according to the sworn statements of the bankers its earning capacity and the premium at which the stock is held justifies a higher assessment. All property in Indiana is supposed to be assessed for taxation at its true cash value, but it isn’t by any means, except money on hand or on deposit in bank. First mortgage notes are assessed at about 90 per cent; live stock at about half value, etc., and real estate (in our own county) at 40 per cent. It is not right for the man who has a thousand dollars ifi bank to be assessed at 100 cents on the dollar, when his neighbor who has a like sum of money invests it in land before March first and gets off at almost twothirds less. While actual money is better in an emergency than real estate, bank stock or anybody’s promise to pay, yet there ought not to be such a vast difference in their assessed value. The intent of our tax law seems all right, but its application is all wrong. A few years ago the bank stock of the Jasper county banks was fixed at about 95 per cent cent by the board of review, but an appeal was taken to the state board and it was there cut down to 70 per cent. Since then the board has been fixing it at 70 per cent. The following information concerning Jasper county banks is taken from the assessment sheets in the auditor’s office, and is of general interest:

STATE BANK. Capital $30,000. Surplus March 1, $15,000, undivided profits March 1, $3,051.35; dividends paid past year 8 per cent; deposits March 1, $177,782.67. Stock par value SIOO per share, is held by the following persons, all of Rensselaer unless otherwise noted: Shares Delos Thompson 67 James H. Chapman 67 John Eger 67 B. F. Fendig 12 S. P. Thompson heirs 12 Granville Moody . 11 Granville Moody, Jr 1 Lucius Strong . . . . .11 C. W. Hanley 6 Wm. Washburn 6 Charles G. Spitler 6 C. C. Warner • • • 6 C. M. Sands 2 E. D. Rhoades 4 John J. Lawler, Chicago 12 Jesse E. Wilson, Hammond .... 6 T. H. Robinson, Medaryville .... 4 . Total ................ 300 TRUST & SAVINGS BANK. Capital $25,000; surplus March I,’ $10,000; undivided profits March 1, $323.96; ’par value of shares SIOO, actual cash value $l4O. Dividends paid past year 8 per cent; deposits March 1,- $123,428.85. Stock is held by the following persons of Rensselaer unless otherwise noted: Charles G. Spitler 10 Judson J. Hunt 52% James N. Leatherman 10 John M. Wasson 15 E. L. Hollingsworth 65 L. H. Hamilton ...10 Edward P. Honan 10 George E. Murray 5 Edward C. English 5 Charles C. * Warner ...... ~ 10 John W. Tilton 5 Henry Grow 5 Ed J. Randle ... . 5 W. Leroy Meyer 5 Daniel S. Makeever ......,.. •>' . 5 Helen Wasson Hunt 5 Charles H. Mills ......V* z ... .22% Reed McCoy, McCoysburg 5 Total 250 FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Capital $60,000; surplus March 1, $15,000; undivided profits March 1, $4,801.13; dividends paid past

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MRS. McCORD ASKS FOR DIVORCE.

Suit was filed in the Newton circuit court some days ago by Mrs. Caroline McCord of .Mt. Ayr, asking for a divorce from her husband, William O. McCord. Both the parties were formerly of Rensselaer but have lived in Mt. Ayr for the past half dozen years, where Mrs. McCord still resides. Mr. McCord has been in Chicago for some time, we understand. The parties were married June 28, 1893, and lived together until February, 1911, according to the complaint. Abandonment and adultery is charged. The plaintiff asks for the restoration of her maiden name, Caroline Crockett, and that all the household effects be set off to her. They have no children.

PLEADINGS AND THREATS

Alike Fail to Induce Young Wife to Return to Her MiddleAged Spouse. Paul Possin, the Chicago Heights man whose troubles with his new girl wife was told in Wednesday’s Democrat, returned to Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon after another unsuccessful trip to Kirklin in an effort to get his wife to return to him. He was accompanied on this trip by the girl’s father, James Gilmore of Demotte, but neither the threats nor entreaties of the two were sufficient to induce the girl to return. Tuesday evening Mrs. Brown, mother of Lester Brown, where the girl was staying, and Goss ; e Brown, with whom the girl left here, went to Kirklin, declaring that she would do something; that the girl should not remain under her son’s roof. But her visit didn’t accomplish any more than that of the others.

The girl declares she will will never live with Possin; that she regrets her ■ hasty action in marrying him; that she loves her Gossie and can’t be happy with anyone else. She says she will not return to Rensselaer~~because of the notoriety she has occasioned, but would go to her father’s home. Just what has become of Gossie in the shuffle nobody seems to know, but he is not in evidence, it is said at his brother’s and the latter declares he has not been there for several days.

A WISE ORDINANCE.

Rensselaer City Council Would Do Well to Pattern After Monticello. The city council of Monticello has just passed some rules regulating motor vehicles that Rensselaer would do well to adopt. The ordinance provides that mufflers must be kept closed while operating on all streets and alleys of the city; that in the heart of the business district machines must keep to the right and not cross a street in the limits prescribed except at the street intersections; and that no power propelled vehicle be permitted in street or alley of the city from 7:30 p. m., to 6 a. m., unless a light is conspicuously displayed thereon. This thing of going through the streets with the machine “barking” like a battery of artillery is wholly useless, and should not. be permitted. Some drivers seem to think no one will see them unless they make all the noise they possibly can. Another bad fault along this line that might be remedied to a great extent at least is that of permitting autos to go along the street throwing a huge stream of foul smelling smoke. In some cities this is not permitted, as it can be remedied, it is Said, by using a little more care in handling the machine.

CHURCH OF GOD SERVICES.

«!V Sunday, 10:45 a. m., sermon, “Law and Faith;” 3 p. m., Bible lesson, “More Faith;” Vesper services at Court House, subject, “The Signs of the Times.” Elder Joseph Williams of Franwfort will conduct all these services. Everybody invited.

Peaches For Sale—Several bushels of nice budded peaches, also some plums.—Mrs. S. Chilcote, Rensselaer, R-4.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTV, INDIANA. SATURDAY, AUG. 19, 1911.

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. New suits filed: No. 7758. Thomas & Hensler vs. Reason M. Dunn; suit on note. Demand $l5O. —oh—• Grant Culp of Carpenter tp., has bought of Mrs. Anna Guttrich the 80 acre farm in northeast Carpenter, the consideration stated in the deed being $4,800.

Roscoe Zeigler, the young man who struck Russel Harmon across the face with a shovel a few weeks ago during a quarrel while working with a threshing gang north of town, came in a few days ago and surrended himself to the officers, and was released under SIOO bonds to appear for trial Saturday at 10 a. m. It is understood that evidence , in mitigation of the offense will be introduced at the trial, which is before Squire Irwin. - '

OH— The will of the late Patrick Hallagan was filed for probate this week. The instrument was executed Dec. 14, 1908. Two sons of decedent, James and Joseph Hallagan, are appointed executors, to act without bond. After all just debts are paid and a monument riot to exdeed in cost S3OO is erected to decedent and wife, the will bequeaths SSOO each to the two married daughters, Mrs. Mary Deleoust of Ocalla, Fla., and Mrs. Katie Quinlan of New Albany, Ind.; $1,500 to the sons Patrick Hallagan of Hebron, Ind., and Richard M. Hallagan of Ottowa, Ill.; S3OO to another son, John Hallagan and heirs of Six Falls, So. Dak.; and all the remainder of both real and personal estate equally between James M., Joseph and Margaret J. Hallagan, the two sons and daughter here.

SUES FOR $2,000 DAMAGES.

Victim of Spade Wielder Alleges That He Has Been Disfigured for Life. Through his attorney John A. Dunlap, Russell Harmon, the young man north of town who was struck by a tile spade in the hands of Roscoe Zeigler a few weeks ago, following a quarrel, filed suit- in the circuit ♦court Thursday against young Zeigler for $2,000 damages. The complaint alleges that by reason of said assault plaintiff became sick and sore, that the bridge of his nose was broken and the muscles and cartilages were ruptured, bruised and torn loose; that one of his teeth was knocked out, two other teeth so badly loosened they will have to be removed; also that several other teeth were badly broken and damaged; that plaintiff was sick and disabled for two weeks, and is disfigured for life.

AN AUTO MISHAP.

Tourists Break Rear Axle to Machine Near Remington. An E-M-F touring ear, traveling along at a rapid rate of speed, had the misfortune to break the rear axle, letting the machine slide along at a dangerous angle for - perhaps five rods on the road about a mile north of Remington Wednesday evening. The left wheel on the rear axle crossed the road, went through a ditch and pushed its way through a dense hedge fence, and came to a standstill in the orchard of Charles Sigo. The driver' of the car escaped miraculously from almost certain death considering the high rate of speed that the machine

was going and the dangerous angle the car assumed after the loss of the rear wheel. A car from here towed the machine into the yard at the Sigo home and it was left there awaiting the repairs necessary to put the machine in condition. The car was frofh Nashville, Tenn., and was on the way to Chicago. The driver said he had come from Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, a distance of about 265 miles. The men in the machines werfe Sidney Tompkins and John J. Vertrees, Jr., in the roadster, and Joseph McHenry and H. A. Henderson in the, ill-fated touring car. The car was repaired Thursday afternoon and left for Chicago that evening.

A ! little excitement was caused here Wednesday evening when it was reported that an automobile with the back end in the ditch and the front end across the ( road was standing near the bridge, loaded with luggage and apparently in the best of condition, with every appearance of having been deserted hasiily by the occupants without taking their baggage with them, leaving several ladies’ hats, a ladies’ purse and other articles of wearing apparel. A machine from here went to the scene, hunted around to ascertain if any of the occupants of the car could be found, but met with no success. On arrival at town it was learned that Dr. Catt had brought in the occupants of the car, which had a broken transmission housing and was unable to get to town.

“PROMOTOR” PURTELLE

May Be Arrested When He Appears In Rensselaer, It Is State. A few days before the August meeting of the county commissioners in Jasper county, Eugene Pqrtelle, the dead-beat railroad p’imotor and check-worker, telegraphed Dr. Merry at Mt. Ayr to have Makeever (Swaney) file the petition for a subsidy election in Newton tp., saying that everything was coming on swimmingly and he had a large force of men at work near Roselawn. But evidently Swaney was not impressed, as the petition was not filed and has not been to da/te.

A bond, though, to partly cover the expense of a subsidy election in Carpenter tp., in the sum of SIOO with the U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co., of Baltimore, Md., as surety, was filed a few days before the commissioners met, but no one felt that there was any use in holding an election in view of the status of Purtelle’s scheme at the time, and no action whatever was taken on the petition filed some time ago. As a matter of fact the election would probably cost all told over SSO to the precinc*, and therefore the bond is only about two-thirds what it should be.

The county attorney, who was instructed several months ago to investigate the $5,000 “bond” Furtelle put up here almost a year ago, before the election was held in Marion tp., and see what the chances were for recovering on same, has never reported as yet. This “bond” was to be forfieted if Purtelle failed to commence active work on the line in Marion tp., in 30 days after the election, provided the election carried, and was foreited last January. The matter should be looked into and if the bond is any good an effort should be made to collect it. Let’s hear from the county attorney.

In the meantime the holders of Purtelle’s checks here and elsewhere are still holding them and there is no prospect of their getting their money apparently, and it seems strange that Purtelle can keep out of jail. A gentleman informed us yesterday that very likely as soon as Purtelle set foot in Rensselaer again he would be arrested, so it seems some one here does not propose to be swindled by the fellow without making an effort to put him where he will be good for awhile, at least.

Anti-Phymin, that strong expectorant, cleans out the lungs without injury to lining of stomach. For sale by A. F. Long.

DONT OVERLOOK THE MEN FOLKS

Candidates Now Working Their Friends’ Friends ARE PLAYING NO FAVORITES Little Folks, Big Folks, Rich and Poor Alike Are Induced to Save Piano Certificates by the Hustlers.—Don’t Fail to Ask for Them With Your Cash Purchases. It is no longer a question of “How old is Ann?” The allimportant theme of the day is: “Who gets The Democrat’s piano?” This statement needs no verification. Half the population of the county is daily asked to assist some candidate. Naturally this enthusiasm is contagious, and has spread to the friends of this or that contestant. The race is just in full swing now. It is quite a while until the finish. Those who are at the bottom have as good an opportunity as those at the top, if they will work. The principal thing to be borne in mind, is to keep after your friends, neighbors, acquaintances and “home folks,” to ask at the stores toi certificates with each cash purchase.

The standing of the candidates today is: Maribel! Kays, Rensselaer Lizzie Wiseman, Virgie Ethel M Fisher, Rensselaer Loretta Nagel, Rensselaer ■ Alice Daniels, Rensselaer - Arkana Ritchey, Remington R-8 Mildred Rush, Rensselaer R-8 Bessie McElfresh, Rensselaer R-l Ida Hurley, Parr Lucy Morgenegg, Rensselaer R-l Fairy Pollard, Rensselaer R-4 Stella Platt, Rensselaer Victoria Marsh, Rensselaer R-8 Bernice Yeoman, Rensselaer R-2 Mary Bice, Rensselaer, R-4 May Shook, KnJman Mary Potts, Rensselaer Lena Trolley, Rensselaer, R-l Ruth E Bull, Rensselaer Mary Gaunt, Remington R-3 Myrtle Leavel, Rensselaer Anna Marion, Parr Lucy Fulks, Remington R-4 Ruth Wiltshire, Rensselaer Elsie Smith, Rensselaer Hazel Shumaker, Rensselaer R-4 Edna Ward, Rensselaer R-4 Martha Critser, Rensselaer, R-8 Wllda Green, Remington Marie Moore, Rensselaer Star Route Lois Spencer, Wolcott

The following stores give certificates, one vote for a cent, with each cash purchase. Cut the list out, and carry it with you every time you go shopping. And ask everybody you see to do the same, reminding them, of course, to save their coupons for YOU. The list is: D. M. Worland, Furniture and Rugs Cleve Eger, Hardware C. Earl Duvall, Clothing and Gents Furnishings B. F. Fendig, Drag Store Sam Fendig, Dry Goods Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy, Millinery Store Scott Bros., Harness Home Grocery, Groceries Jessen, the Jeweler Depot Grocery, Groceries B. N. Fendig, Exclusive Shoe Dealer C. A. Roberts, Buggies, Wagons and Corn Harvesters. Spencer’s Jewelry Store, Remington. Peck’s Drug Store, Remington. Worden's Harness Shop, Remington. • Surrey Store, General Merchandise, Surrey W. L. Wood, General Merchandise, Parr Aix Store, General Merchandise, Aix

Don’t overlook the men folks. They buy merchandise and can be persuaded to save certificates as well as the feminine side of the house. While talking to the men, if they take The Democrat get a renewal; if they are not subscribers it is well to remember that new subscriptions count 3,000 votes, and it*s your fault if you don’t get 3,000 votes right there. Don’t take promises, they never get anyone anything and won’t you. Get a subscription. Once you have tried this plan and find how easy it is, you’ll wish the days were longer so you could get more new subscribers daily. v -j. '

Vol. XIV. No. 34.

REBUILDING ELEVATOR.

Babcock & Hopkins have received three carloads of lumber from Chicago so far this week, to be used in the construction of a new elevator to take the place of the one that was burned a few months ago. The new elevator, however, will not be built* as high as the former one, but will occupy the same foundation and the height increased as the business demands. Construction on the building will begin the first of next month, it is reported.

LAKE COUNTY FAIR NEXT WEEK.

The Lake County Fair, at Crown Point, begins next Tuesday, August 22, and continues until Friday night. This fair has a reputation of delivering the goods to its patrons and the show this year will far exceed any previous ones by long odds. The great feature this year will be the racing and the two S6OO stake races will go with at least 15 starters in each race. Horses are arriving at Crown Point from every point of the compass and they are coming so fast that it is necessary to build new stables this week. At least a hundred horses will be entered. The night show or carnival will also be a feature. The amusements consist of a great fireworks display nightjy, band concerts, free acts by a dozen of the best artists in the country, and midway attractions. A great crowd from this, vicinity is preparing to go. The stake races are scheduled for Thursday and Friday. John Duvall of this city has Hattie Vest entered in the 2:24 stake trot for Thursday, August 24.

KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

August and Willie Smith, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, residing one mile west of Winamac, were institadv killed by lightning electrical storm whiun passed over tiys section of the country, near the hour of 2 a’clock Sunday morning. The boys together with a younger sister, Martha, aged 9 years, were spending the night op the new hay in the barn on account of the excessive heat, and it was here that they met their sad and untimely death. They were sleeping soundly through the storm an 1 possibly never knew what struck them. Their age Was 17 and 10, respectively. The little girl was completely paralyzed by the death-dealing bolt and it was not until Afonday evening that she could sit up and take a little nourishment. It is believed now, however, that she will completely recover from her terrible shock. The father of the family, who is a pipeline walker, was away . from home at the time. His family was a large one, consisting of either nine or ten children.—Starke County Democrat.

LOOKS LIKE A WINNER.

Tippecanoe county is anticipating the greatest fair in the history of the Association on August 21-25. The new management has added new life in every department. The entries to date have exceeded all previous years, in every department. The farmers are taking advantage of the new classifications, which promise exhibits such as never have been seen before. Stall and pen room will be at a premium. A unique entry is the six horse/mule team, by J. Crouch and Son, Tippecanoe county’s to be the first fair to ever have such an entry. The Morocco horse, the biggest horse in the world, is also to be at the fair. The Crescent Amusement Company has just contracted to furnish an exceptional line of shows, merry-go-rounds and other entertainments, including balloon ascension- and parachute leap every day. The race entries are unusually heavy this year, assuring a fast and interesting program. Music will be furnished by the Rossville band on Thursday, the Otterbein band Wednesday and the Citizens Concert band on Thursday and Friday. There will be special rates and trains on all railroads. Admission to ground? will be at the same old rate of twenty-five cents.