Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Page 2

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THE JiSPER COURT! DEMOCiRT f. E.BIBCBCLfDIIOUIDPBBLISBEB. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8. 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday issue 4 Pages; Saturday issue 8 Pages. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 341. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23, 1911.

WILL MOVE BACK TO JASPER.

W. F. Hayes came up from Mt. Summit, Ind., Sunday afternoon to spend a few days at his farm in} Barkley tp. He states that it is much dryer down in his section than here, and the grass -is completely dried up. The rains we got here last week and the week before did not reach them at all. and crops here are much better than there. Hay is selling at $lB for mixed ahd S2O for timothy, while corn is 70 to 75 cents in the local market. Wheat went from 18 to 20 bushels per acre and corn will make half an average crop there, Mr. Hayes thinks. Land is much higher there than here, and Mr. Hayes has decided to move back to Jasper county after another year, onto his 120 acres farm in Barkley. His lease on the farm he is occupying expires in the fall of 1912—the usual time for changes there being Sept. 1. on account of wheat sowing—but he can stay on the place where he is until December. The price of land there ranges from SIOO to S2OO per acre, the SIOO land being quite poor, but there is little that can be bought, hence his decision to return to Jasper. He could' sell his farm here for considerably more than he paid, but doesn’t care to dispose of it.

NAUGHTY OLD THING.

Editor of Fowler Republican Wants to See the Ladies’ Tootsies. Editor John Carr of the Fowler Republican is advocating that women go barefoot, and be is worse than 60 years old, too He attended the opening day at Fountain Park, and thus comments on his barefoot theory: “Of the large number of ladies in Fountain Park Saturday in the rain, there was but one mother of Zion who preferred a be-draggle<l skirt td lifting her dresses above the top of her shoes. That so many kept their clothing above the wet grass is worthy of commendation. Hail the day when all go barefooted on such a day. There is nothing better for the nerves than to walk in the warm wet grass. If events move as they have it will come about within the next half a century.” Can we infer that Editor Carr went to Fountain Park in the rain for the purpose of seeing how high thd “Mothers of Zion” would hold their skirts? Perish the thought. Yet he says many kept their clothing above the wet grass but he doesn’t say how high the grass was. Oh. Horrors! And at Fountain Park, too. He ought to know, though. He was there.

PURDUE FIRE LOSS $4,000.

Lafayette, Ind., August 21. The large stock barn on the Purdue farm, was burned to the ground late Saturday afternoon. The cause of the fire is not known. Twenty-five bushels each of clover seed and oats were consumed. The stock had been taken from the barn. The-

principal loss, amounting to $4,000 is on the building. • Owing to the low water pressure at the Purdue farm, it was thought for a time that several of the adjacent buildings would burn. The. entire fire department at Lafayette was called.

SHIRT FACTORY TO LEAVE CROWN POINT.

Lake County Star: Mr. Auerbach, proprietor of the shirt factory, has advertised the place for sale in this issue. The strike of the Garment Workers’ Union which has been on at this factory for the past three months is no nearer a solution than at the time it started, and the proprietor will dispose of the plant if possible. The local union is receiving outside help from other unions over the country and there seems no Chance of the factory ever starting up again. Both sides seem determined.

CROCKETT CEMETERY NOTICE.

The trustees of the Crockett cemetery, southeast of town, wish to clean up the grounds jhereof, which have been neglected for the past few years, and desire all parties who have friends buried there to assist financially in this work. Contributions may be paid to either Thos. A. Crockett or Harvey W ood, trustees; and it is urged that the money be paijd in at once so the work can be done immediately.

ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending August 21, 1911: Mrs. S. A. Potts, Frank Stump, John Pave. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office Sept. 4, 1911. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of list.—G. E. Murray, P. M THE DEMOCRAT’S CLUBBING RATES. Remember that The Democrat always has clubbing rates with many of the leading daily and weekly papers and can furnish you almost any newspaper or periodical you may want at a reduction over the regular rates. Here are a few of the more prominent ones, and the price given include! The Democrat: Indianapolis News (daily). . . ,$4.00 Chicago Examiner (daily).... 4.00 Chicago Record-Herald (daily) 4.25 Chicago Journal (dai1y)...... 3.50 Cincinnati Enquirer (weekly) .-. 2.00 St. Louis Republic (2-a-week) 2.00 Bryan’s Commoner (weekly).. 2.00 National Monthly (monthly) . . 2.25 Why don’t you get envelopes printed with your name and address in one corner? None of your letters can then get lost. Looks business-like and makes a, good impression on those you write tori You can get 100 for 50 cents at this office.

A young man by the name of Barnes, who works in the country, accidently shot himself ' Sunday with a revolver. The bullet passed through the left hand, fracturing the fifth metacorpal bone, and struck the knee-cap, inflicting a slight wound. Dr. S. H. Moore dressed the young man’s wounds. Ready for delivery off our floor, two of those staunch, reliable runabouts that have made the Maxwells “the great economy cars.” A car which can run on Jasper county roads at a total cost of 1 3-10 cents per mile. A nice carrying space on these cars, too. Step in and let us show you flow to save rnoney.—Maxwell.

TO HAVE POSTAL SAVINGS BANK

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tificate issued, which the depositor wild be required to sign and which the postmaster will retain as his record. 12. No account may be opened for less than sl, nor will fractions of a dollar be accepted. 13, No person is permitted to deposit more than SIOO in ajiy one calendar month nor to have A,Jotal balance to his credit at one time of more than ssoo exclusive of accumulated interest. Savings certificates can not be transferred or negotiated and will be payable only to the person to whom issued. 15. On opening an account a depositor is supplied with an envelope in which he may neep his savings certificates. On this envelope is printed information for his guidance, and also a blank ledger record on which to keep an account of his deposits amT withdrawals.

16. In case a savings certificate is lost or destroyed the depositor should notify the postmaster. If deemed proper, a new certificate will be issued Upon compliance by the depositor with the necessary requirements. 17. Postmasters are not allowed to receive saving certificates for safe-keeping. 18. Saving Cards and Stamps: Amounts less than $1 may be saved for deposit by the purchase of 10cent postal-saving cards and adhesive 10-cent postal-saving stamps. Each postal-saving card contains blank spaces to which savings stamps may be affixed from time to time as purchased, and a postal savings card with nine 10-cent savings stamps affixed will be accepted as a deposit of $1 either in opening an account or adding to an existing account. 19. Savings card's and stamps will be redeemed only by the issue of savings certificates and are not valid for postage nor will postage stamps be accepted in exchange for postal savings cards or stamps.

WAS GREAT REVELATION

To Benton County Editor Who Visits Jasper County. The editor of the Oxford Gazette recently viisted relatives in Jasper county and thus speaks of what he saw up in the “muskrat district” Tn the last issue of his paper: We visited in Jasper county four days the past week, north of Rensselaer in a country we had an idea was slough and scrub oak sand ridges, with but few other than web-feet natives living there besides bullfrogs. We saw No bullfrogs. Many names and farms belonging to Germans. As good corn as we have seen in Benton this year. Good wheat. Good oats, though both were hurt by dry weather. Poor potatoes. Meadows only fair. Pasture better. 5 As good houses and barns. More silos. Ten to one milch cows. As good horses as here.

There is one particular thing about the land. Some farms had the corn we speak of while maybe the very next farm will be “bogus” land on which the corn will be altogether inferior. No satisfactory reason is given for the bad land. Nearly every farmer keeps a herd o.f milch cows and sells either milk •or cream. I. F. Meader, with whom we had a delightful visit, milks seven cows and his receipts from cream averages about $36 per month. He sold last year near $750 worth of hogs beside poultry, eggs and other farm products. The great dredge ditches tell the story. Some land we thought’ no goo£ is very productive when properly cultivated. We saw some land now worth SIOO per acre that ten years ago was unsalable at $35. We saw John Poole’s farm. Djd not stop to dig for dead men. saw the great Kankakee marshes on the south side of the river. For more than two miles a high dyke road had been thrown up by’ a big dredge and people are cutting hay this summer, but it will be' several

I years before corn and oats are culi tivated there. Some of the farmers got all then , frame timber and floor lumber from I the trees on their own farms. The oak, jack and white, is good, . The country was an agreeable I surprise. There are school houses ■ every two miles and churches at | convenient places. We had a delightful visit. The C. & E. I. takes a traveler ' 40 miles in about 7 hours and the ' train men seem to think that is going some. We spent three hours in Goodi land and are ahead a good pocket • knife and a Filipino penny which we picked up in the park. We met a lot of old in that town, but missed Phil Poutre. We got lost going up tffid when going north it appeared west. Mr. Meader went to 'that country ten or eleven years ago when a boat was needed during the rainy season if one got over the farm. He saw the real hardships tnat come to a pioneer in a wet land with a limited capital and it invested in Scrub oak ridges and low swales almost on a level with the great river ten miles away. He has seen the canals dug through the low places and some of the hillp until the water level has been lowered 8 to 10 feet, and intelligent farming has been I followed by abundant crops. They j live on the direct route between I Rensselaer and -Chicago, and the honk, honk, of auto and chug, chug, of motorists is heard almost constantly, some days as many as 200 pass. Rock and gravel roads and the dredge ditch are making this a desirable country in which to live. Not far hence the land will become the garden spot for Chicago and Gary, already many acres of : cabbage and cucumbers are grown I and the yield is as high as SIOO ; net per acre.

FARMS FOR SALE. 65 acres, six miles »out, corn land, good buildings. $75. Terms, $1,500 down. 160 acres, 140 tillable, fair improvements. $45. Terms, $1,500 down. 600 acres good land, good buildings. Will trade. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, and a $5,000 mortgage note; will trade together or separate and pay cash difference. 21 acre's, four blocks from court house. 25 acres improved; terms easy. » GEO. F. MEYERS. IF YOU WANT LIGHTNING PROTECTION. I can furnish you protection and’ give you an assurance to that effect. If interested see me or address me at Rensselaer, Ind. —F. A. Bicknell, Box 77. ts Souvenir Envelopes—We have a very few of those handsome souvenir envelopes of half-tone views of Rensselaer, St. Joseph’s College, etc., just the thing to use in writing to absent friends or on business, as they advertise your city. Only 10c per bunch of 25, or 75c per 100 withfc return card printed in corner; $2 for 500; $3.50 per 1,000. NOTICE TO FARMERS. The farmer who has a McCormick Corn Harvester can get repairs at C. A. Robetrs’ and also repairs for McCormick Shredders. If you want to purchase new either of these machines, please call on me. For this kind of machine, you can not buy a better one of anyone. —C. A. Roberts, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind.

Loss of Time means Loss of Pay Kidney trouble and 'the ills it breeds means lost time and lost pay to many a working man. Mr. Balent, 1214 Little Penna. St., Streator, 111., was so bad from kidney and bladder trouble - that he could not work, but he says: “I took Foley Kidney Pills for only a short time and got entirely well and was soon able to go back to work, and am feeling well and healthier than before.” Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in action, quick in results—a good friend to the working man or woman who suffers kidney ills.—A. F. Long.

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Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. J)ID you ever notice that when a man says he is tired of fads it is always the other fellow’s fads he has in mind? A beauty contest will wreck a town as thoroughly as a cyclone. What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business, but there are always plenty of people to mind it. We like to see the other man get what is coming to him, but our own troubles are always undeserved. It is noticeable that the married man who talks most about the blessedness of his bachelor days marries soonest after his wife’s death. What is the use of striking for shorter hours when your wife always has the lawn mower or the baby cab waiting for you when you get home? Let not the son go down before your wrath. He will be big enough to wallop you some day. It is an . optimistic young couple who hope to furnish a home by the cigar band and soap wrapper method. Did you ever hear of a man who had stolen a hundred thousand or so feeling moved to contribute to the conscience fund?

Moderation. A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men. But don’t to the idea clutch That they will relish very much. For man is far too dignified To throw the throttle open wide And take as he might take the air Straight nonsense for his daily fam. He wants it as a little spice. A fresh confection kept on ice, And then it will not be declined If he has nothing on hia mind. But when he feels the weight and care Of business in the very air He wants the finest, choicest branß Of common sense you have on hand. Man takes himself, as you may not* As serious as some wise goat. And it will almost make him choke In- business hours to scent a joke. When in the stern and solemn chase For dollars he must hold his face As rigid as a piece of steel Or he might miss some two cent deal So when you find that you are broke Do not approach him with a joke. Be dignified and cool as time. And you may touch him for a dime.

ELLIS THEATRE J. H. S. ELLIS, MANAGER ONE NIGHT ONLY EVERYBODY LIKES ME Sis Perkins The Famous Comedy Roamnce of Life in Posey County, Indiana SINGING AND DANCING SPECIALTIES Our Own Scenery Do Not Miss Seeing Your Old Friend “SIS” I Popular Prices 25c, 35c, 50c Seats on Sale at Jessen’s

Md W tai fie. [Under thte head notices win be pubHsbed for 1-cent-a-word for the Srat P€r word tor ■AlM*®*! Inaertion. To save book-keep-tag cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate win be published two or s?** “ the caae “y be for » cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charred for .orwardlng such replies to the adverUser, j /. For Sak> —Four good Holstein heifers and six short-horn bulls. CHESTER HALSTEAD, Rensselaer Ind 3sp Wanted— To rent a farm from 80 to 120 acres; have good equipment. References furnished, grain rent desired. Address THE DEMOCRAT. —- ■ For Sale— Several head of work horses and fresh milch cows (1 Jersey); also two male O. I. C Spring hogs.—JOSEPH TRUELLy’ two miles west of Rensselaer, R-3 phone 519-H. sept 4 To Trade— Fine residence lots, Indiana city, 35,000 population, for improved or unimproved Jasper or adjoining county land. Owners and real estate dealers what have you? —621, care Democrat. Seed Wheat— Turkey Red seed whsat for saIe.—JOSEPH I. ADAMS. Rensselaer, R-4, phone 529 ~C sp2 Estray Taken Up— Came to my farm in Jordan tp., a sow weighing about 175 pounds. Owner can have same by proving ownership and paying charges.—D. A. AUGSPIRGER, Goodland, R-l. Seed Wheat— Turkey Red, for sale by M. I. Adams, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 533-L. Timber For Sale— ln acre tracts at right price, 10 miles north of Rensselaer v on gravel road; till April 1 to get it.—Write or call. J- DAVISSON, Kniman, Ind. For Rent— Farm of 560 acres, two sets oT improvements and can be used either as one farm or two; all in cultivation except about 40 acres, lots of fruit of all kinds/ 9-room house, cellar, barns, etc. Ten ijiles north and two miles west of Rensselaer on gravel road and rural mail delivery. A splendid stock and grain farm. The closest investigation invited. Will rent for one or more years.—F. M. LAKIN Parr, Ind., R-R-l. ts For Trade— 9-room modern residence and two-story brick business building at Williamsport, Ind., for farm. This property rents for S4O per month.—J. J. WEAST, Rensselaer, Ind. _ For Rent— Six rooms in my residence on McCoy avenue.—MßS E. H. SHIELDS. t s Guernseys For Sale— l Registered Guernsey bull, coming 2 years old; 1 grade bull calf, and two heifer calves, 1 grade cow. For particulars write—JOHN V. KEH’ER, Plymouth, Ind., R F D 5 Box 98. ‘ ’

Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O’OONNcA Ex-sheritt Jasper county, Knimai » Ind. j Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 6 per cent-interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts 3 Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO.POO.—E. p. HONAN. 100 Envelopes—Printed with your return card in corner—something every rural mail route patron should not be without— for 50 cents at The Democrat office. I UH IIIP I HUI 11lu < Without Charges for UlttirV Making or Recording mlMl I Instr nnients. ITIMIILI W. H. PARKINSON. All the news in The Democrat