Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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TO HAVE POSTAL SAVINGS BANK

In Rensselaer—Will Open tor Business Sept. 19 i IS FIRST IN JASPER COUNTY Establishment of Postal Savings Bank Should Bring Out Much Hoarded Money in This Vicinity—lnformation Regarding Opening An Account. Rensselaer is to have a Postal Savings Bank, according to a Washington dispatch, to open for-business on Tuesday, Sept. 19. This will be the first and probably the only institution of the kind in Jasper county. This should tend to bring out much of the savings that are now supposed to be kept in old wash boilers, hidden in bed ticks and stored in that old box in the attic. Since the McCoy bank failure here, the Parker bank failure at Remington and the two bank failures at Goodland, it is believed that much money is hoarded in this vicinity now that would come out of hiding with a postal bank opened here. As the money deposited in the postal banks is in turn deposited by the government in the regular banks —or such as are designated as postal depositories —this hoarded money should enter the channels of trade and help business of all kinds, although it is doubtful if “Get-the-Money” Purtelle .will be able to build much of his air-line route with any of the extra money thus put nto circulation. Two, per cent interest is paid on savings deposits and the government gets 2% per cent from the banks. The following is self-explana-tory and is of interest to all whether contemplating Opening an account with the new bank or not, as it clearly defines the purpose for which these banks are established as well as the method of operation:

1. Object: The Postal Savings System is established for the purpise of providing facilities for depositing savings at interest with the security of the United States Government for repayment. 2. Safety: The faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment of deposits made in postal saving depository offices with accrued interest as provided by the postal-savings act. 3. Who May Deposit: Accounts may be< opened and deposits .made by any person of the age 10 years or over in his or her own name and by a married woman in her own name and free from interference or control by her husband. No person can have more than one account at any one time. i 4. No person may open a postal savings account at any post office who is not a patron of that office. 5. All accounts must be opened in person by the depositor or his authorized representative. After opening an account a depositor may forward subsequent deposits to the post office by mail. 6. Deposits will be accepted only from individuals and no account will be opened in the name of any corporation, association and partnership, or in the names of two or more persons jointly. 7. No account will be opened in the name of one person in trust for or on behalf of another person or persons. 9. Privacy of Accounts: No person connected with the Post Office Department or the postal service is permitted to disclose the name of any depositor or give information concerning an accffunt except to the depositor himself, unless directed to do so by the Postmaster General. 10. How to Open an Account: When a person applies to open an account he must furnish the necessary information for the postmaster or his representative to fill out an application, .which he will they be required to sign. If the applicant signs by mark his signature must be witnessed by a disinterested person. 11. Deposits: Deposits are evidenced by postal savings certificates issued in fixed denominations of sl, $2, $5, $lO, S2O, SSO, and SIOO, each bearing the naipe of the depositor, the number of his account, the date of issue, the name of the depository office, and the date on which interest on same begins. The postmaster or his representative will nake out a duplicate of each cer-

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LEE FISHER MARRIED.

Mr. Lee Fisher, superintendent of the Otterbein schools, and Miss Harriet Sophia Thurston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Thurston of Grand Rapids, Mich., were married at the home of the bride's parents August 15, and will be “at home,” Otterbein, Ind., after Sept. 4. Mr. Fisher is a soq of Frank W. Fisher of Kankakee tp., and one of the finest young men ever raised in Jasper county. The Democrat joins his host of friends in wishing the young couple bon voyage.

EVERYBODY WAS AT THE PARK.

Sunday was an ideal day, and everybody in Rensselaer and vicinity who had an auto or other conveyance, or could hire one, went to Fountain- Park. The attendance there that day was almost a record-breaker, and there were nearly 300 automobiles on the grounds. This season promises to be one of the most prosperous the Assembly has ever had, and the management has already contracted with many of their lecturers and attractions for next year.

RETURNS TO RENSSELAER

Ruth Gilmore-Possin, the young girl who created quite a sensation by deserting her husband of a day at Chicago Heights recently and going to Kirklin with Gossie Brown, an old admirer, returned to Rensselaer Saturday and again took up her old position as servant in the family of E. P. Honan. The girl regrets her hasty marriage to Possin very much and declares she will never go back tonim. Young Brown, she says, who accompanied her to Kirklin to his brother’s, did not remain with her there.

SPECIAL TRAIN TO LAFAYETTE FAIR.

The Monon will run a special train to Lafayette tomorrow on account of the Tippecanoe County Fair. The train will start from Rensselaer at 7 :45 a. m., and stop at all stations. The time of train and round trip fare follows: Lv. Rensselaer ....7:45a.m. $1.90 Lv. Pleasant Ridge.7:s6 a.m. 1.70 Lv. MbCoysburg ..8:04a.m. 1.60 Lv. Lee .........8:11a.m. 1.50 Lv. Monon .......8:25 a.m. 1.30 Lv. Lv. Chalmers 8:52.a.m. .70 Lv. Brookston ....9:01a.m. .60 Lv. Ash Grove ....9:10a.m. .40 Lv. Battle Ground 9:15 a.m. .30 Ar. Lafayette .... .9:29 a.m.

BRICKLAYERS MUST HAVE “SUDS.”

Owing to the fact that Rensselaer is a “dry” town, the contractor who. is building the Monon’s' new. depot here is experiencing some little trouble in getting enough brick-masons to work for him. A man w T as .sent to Chicago Saturday from to bring down several masons. This he was unable to do, the first question a mason would ask him was whether or not the job was in a wet town, and, when answered in the negative, they would hear no more about the job, preferring to live in a wet town without an abundance of work than to work in a dry place.

STRIKES VEIN OF COAL

While Boring Well Just West of Newton County Line. Frank Phillips came down from Momence Monday and from here went to Monon to see about buying some well drilling tools. He is engaged in , the well drilling business at Momence and states that while putting down a well on the old Clark ranch southeast of Momence and about 20 rods west of the Newton county line, he struck a 15-foot vein of coal at a depth of 45 feet which has occasioned considerable of a flurry in that locality, i ‘ ' 1 r 1 The vein is inlaid with fire clay, he says, and the state mining department is investigating it. Mr. Phillips thinks the vein is even thicker over in Newton county than where he struck it, and if it is found to be all that is anticipated it will mean'a big thing for that section.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY. AUG. 23, 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. _ Judge Darroch was over from Kentland on legal business Monday and yesterday. The'- annual estimates of county expenditures for the calendar year 1912, appears elsewhere in The DemocratOH— John Walker, a former court reporter here, but who is now located at Tucson, Ariz., passed through here Saturday enroute to Chicago.

Squire Spriggs, F. M. Hershman and Robert ~Zick, all of Walker tp., came down Monday to view the proposed R. J. Yeoman gravel road in Newton tp. —-o Marriage licenses issued: Aug. 19, George Bowman Marion, son of George W. Marion of Parr, aged 24, occupation mechanic, to Mattie Fay, daughter of James Fay, deceased, also of Parr, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Squire Irwin. —o•—• New suits filed: No. 7759. Ella Jackson vs. James Jackson; action for divorce. Plaintiff alleges in her complaint that she resides in Rensselaer and her occupation is that of housekeeper and domestic servant; that she was married to defendant April 26, 1910, and they separated Feb. 10, 1911. Cruel and inhuman treatment, in that defendant without provocation beat and struck plaintiff cursed and abused her and on everal occasions threatened to kill her, is charged. Restoration of maiden name of Ella Evans is asked by plaintiff, who is a colored woman.

Special Judge Marvin of Monticello, who is hearing the remonstrances in the Marble ditch, adjourned court Friday until yesterday. There are a few scattering remonstrances to be heard before the Lake county remonstrances are taken up. The biggest fight will be put up on the latter, the Browns of Crown Point who own several thousand acres north of Shelby being the leading remonstrators. They have drained their lands by private ditches and a dyke to keep the Kankakee from overflowing them, and object very strenuously to what they consider the heavy assessments made on them for the improvement.

FINED $25 AND COSTS.

Assault and Battery Case Against Young Zeigler Tried Saturday. The state case against Roscoe Zeigler of north of town, for the recent assault and battery with a tile spade on the person of Russell Harmon, a young man of about the same age as Zeigler, was tried before Squire Irwin Saturday arid resulted in a verdict of guilty as charged and a fine of $25 and costs being assessed. The costs alnicst equalled the fine, there being several state witnesses in the case, and the; total of fine and costs was $48.35. The civil case instituted by young Harmon against for $2,000 damages for injuries received • by reason of the assault, has also been settled, Zeigler paying bim SIOO. It was an unfortunate affair all around, and is no doubt best for all parties concerned to reach a settlement and be done with it.

All the news in The Democrat

MONON’S NEW TRAIN.

Will Pass Through Rensselaer Today, Ehroute to > Agent Beam' is in receipt of the following letter from General Passenger Agent Reed of the Monon, regarding the fine new train to be put on Sunday, when a new time card goes into effect; "Our new "Hoosier Limited" will arrive at Rensselaer at 12:10 noon, Wednesday, August 23, en route from the factory to Chicago, where, after remaining on exhibition for a day or two, it will be placed in permanent service between Chicago and Indanapolis Sunday, August 27. "This is one of the very finest trains ever built, and no doubt some of our friends at Rensselaer would like to take a look at it. Please, therefore, give the matter as much publicity as possible, having it announced in the newspapers if there is time. If you think there will be any considerable number of people on hand to see the train, please wire me and we will arrange to hold it at Rensselaer a short time. Yours truly, FRANK J. REED, G. P. A.”

SHIED AT “CHUG-CHUG”

Machine and As a Result the Fried Chicken Dinner Was Ate at Home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz and Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Barber met with a little mishap while starting out for Fountain Park Sunday morning that caused them to remain at home. Mr. Foltz was driving one of his horses to a double buggy, and when in front of the W. S. Parks’ residence the horse became frightened at a motorcyclist who came sprinting along on the cement sidewalk at the west side of the road, close to the dirt roadway in which Mr. Foltz was driving, and in an instant turned around in the road, breaking the crosspiece to the shafts, but fortunately not overturning the carriage. No extra pair of shafts was to be had near by, and the party de cidgd to abandon the trip, and, while Mr. Foltz led the horse, the ladies and Mr. Barber bore the baskets of fried chicken and other good 5 things “to eat back to town, and they they spent the day at home. Mr. Foltz says the horse never scared at one of these “chugchags” before, and he thinks it was because of the motorcycle running so close to it that frightened it this time. It is reported that Mr. Foltz has had quite a severe case of the auto fever for some time, and he can no doubt even up scores a little by buying a machine and scaring someone else’s horse..

PURTELLE’S PLAINT.

Says Rensselaer People “Put Him In Bad” With His Backers (?) Eugene Purtelle wrote Dr. Merry of Mt. Ayr last week and among other things said: I am sorry to hear the Newton Township people did not file their petition. Haye been having a good’ many troubles, but everything is coming out all right. Rensselaer people put me in very bad light, with own people, and has held me up for money, but have things arranged pretty well now. “Work on the road has not stopped for a moment, and I am more than confident we will have cars running to Mt. Ayr this winter. Will have a big force of men and teams on the work this week and hope to run down to Mt. Ayr to see you in a few days.” It looks to us as if Purtelle put himself “in bad” here, instead of the people doing it, and in view of what light we have been able to gather “his people” is himself, as it has never developed that anyone else was connected in any way, financially or otherwise, with him in the project. Also, if he is “getting things arranged”—money matters —he has thus far failed to take up any of the numerous checks; that he gave here for labor, etc. It will be noticed that his “big force of men” is always going to be put to work tomorrow or next day, ahd that is as far as it gets. If unlimited gall and bogus checks would build the road we have no, doubt Purtelle would build it all right, hut unfortunately for the success of the project there is a point beyond which that sort of thing doesn’t g°- -

An armful of old papers for a nickel at the Democrat office. t

CANDIDATES IN RACE FOR KEEPS

All Waul the Piano—Who Is Yow Choice? YOU GAN HELP YOUR FAVORITE Outsiders Can Help the Candidate They Want 'to See Win by Asking for Certificates at the Stores.—Don’t Fail to Call for Them. It should be remembered by the general public that they can materially aid the candidate they want to see win The Democrat’s piano by asking for certificates at the stores with each cash purchase, then save the certificates for the candidate, or vote them personally at this office. There are numerous changes in the line-up this time, and while Maribel! Kays is still in the lead, a position she has held ' since the contest first started, she, by no means, has an easy i task in holding her place, as several of those just below her are within easy distance, and you never can tell what is going to happen, when all the contestants are hustling. The line-up today is*. Mari bell Kays, Rensselaer Lizzie Wiseman, Virgie Loretta Nagel, Rensselaer Ethel M Fisher, Rensselaer Bessie McElfresb, Rensselaer R-l Alice Daniels, Rensselaer Mildred Rush, Rensselaer R-3 Lucy Morgenegg, Rensselaer R-l Ida Hurley, Parr Victoria Marsh, Rensselaer R-3 Arkana Ritchey, Remington R-3 Fairy Pollard, Rensselaer R-4 Mary Bice, Rensselaer, R-4 Stella Platt, Rensselaer Ruth E Bull, Rensselaer Lena Trolley, Rensselaer, R-l Bernice Yeoman, Rensselaer R-2 Myrtle Leavel, Rensselaer May Shook, KnJman Mary Potts, Rensselaer Mary Gaunt, Remington R-3 Ruth Wiltshire, Rensselaer Anna Marion, Parr Wilda Green, Remington Lucy Fulks, Remington R-4 Elsie Smith, Rensselaer Edna Ward, Rensselaer R-4 Hazel Shumaker, Rensselaer R-4 Martha Critser, Rensselaer, R-3 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 Genta Furnishings R. F. Fendlg, Drug Store Sam Fendig, Drjr Goods Mrs. Mary Meyei*Hea!y, 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 Whited’s General Store, Wheatfield -

One feature of the contest that is particularly noticeable is the spirit of “stay-with-it” exhibited by all the contestants. Each candidate realizes she has as much chance as any other, and each is convinced' that no matter what her standing may be now, that she will ultimately buckle down to work and win the piano. Usually in a contest of this character there are one or two, sometimes more, who are faint-hearted and unlesi they make a fine showing right at the start, get discouraged and want to quit, but not in this contest. Each individual candidate wants to win and is going to try. And if each one works her best, many changes will be made in the line-up before the winner is announced.

Vol. XIV. No. 35.

A SIDE SWIPE SMASH-UP.

Young Simon Thompson, driving his brother Firman's- Hudson auto Saturday noon, ran into Ed Duvall s Buick at the corner by Fendig’s poultry hpuse, with disastrous results to the latter. Simon was coming across the Washington street bridge at a speed of eight miles an hour, at least, when Ed came down Front street from the south on his way home to dinner, with his father. S. O. Duvall, and son William in the machine.

W illiam was driving the Buick, and he made a wide turn to the north for Simon to pass, but the latter, thinking Will was going to turn in at the garage, also pulled over to the north and his machine was going too fast" to stop when he saw his mistake. The result was that the Hudson car struck the Buick’s front wheel one the south a side swipe that forced it into the curb, bent in one side of the radiator. bent the front axle badly and broke the head lamps and fender, doing perhaps SIOO to $l5O damage. The Hudson, aside from one broken lamp, a slightly bent starting crank, and the springing of the steering gear was but slightly damaged, and was running in the afternoon. But the Buick will have to have some new parts before it can leave the hospital. ■Jt is a/wonder that an accident 7)F this kind has not happen-, ed before, considering the number of machines, in and about Rensselaer.

JAMES A. YEOMAN DEAD.

Former Jasper County Man Dies at Kingman, Kan. A. K. Yeoman returned Sunday from Kingman, Kan., where he was called by the death of his brother, James A. Yeoman, a former resident of this county. The following obituary is taken from the Kingman (Kan.) Leader-Courier: James A. -Yeoman was born on the 2d day. .of February, 1855, in the state of Ohio. A year later the family moved to Jasper county, Indiana, where the boyhood and young manhood of tho deceased was spent in his father’s family. On the 16th day of May, 1880, he was joined in marriage with Miss Amy Isreal. Six years later, or in 1886, the deceased and family moved to Kansas, settling in Kiowa county, where the remained until the year 1891, when they came to Kingman county and have since made this the family home. Six children writer born to Mr. and Mrs. Yeoman, four dying in infancy and two sons remain to mourn the loss of an indulgent father and to comfort their greif stricken mother, they being Don and Joe, two of the well respected young men of this community. Besides these near relatives deceased had five brothers, they being A. O. Mark Yeoman of Kingman county; Frank, of Kaw City, Okla.; A. K. and R. H. of Rensselaer, Ind., and all of the whom were present at the funeral except the brother R. H., who was prevented on account of sickness. Mr. Yeoman was sick but a short time, having gone about his daily vocations up until last Wednesday, enjoying his usual good health. On that day he was taken suddenly ill with some sort of bowel trouble, pronounced “Impaction of the bowels” by his physician. Friday it was decided that a surgical operation was the only possible hope for saving his life, and it was accordingly performed, when it was found that acute appendicitis was also present and that the patient was already past human aid. He lingered a few hours, passing away Saturday morning, or in less than four days from the time when he was first taken ill; consequently his death was a great shock to family and friends. Before he became unconscious he announced that "all was well” and that he was prepared for the great change, and he sank to rest, strong In the Christian faith, which he >ad followed and practiced in life, and which gave him hope and consolation when it came time to enter the dark waters of death. Deceased was an active member of the Christian church, was an Odd Fellojv and also a member of the A. 0. U. W. lodge.

When it occasions sorrow to chronicle the death of a friend, that sorrow fs tempered with the knowledge that in the case of James Yeoman he was a good man. an honor to the community in which, he. resided, and that, though dead, his acts and examples while here among men had an influence for good that will live after him, making his life a blessing and his peaceful end a benediction.

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