Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — Page 5

HE JISPER COUNT wm F.E.BiBCMt.EDITOBHDPOBLIBHt». 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 311. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, AUG. 26, 1911.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Today’s markets: Corn, 58c; Oats, 37c; Wheat, 80c. Dr. I. M. Washburn was a business visitor in Monticello Thursday. Miss Hazel McColly spent Thursday at Lafayette, taking in the Tippecanoe county fair. C. C. Randle and family went to Reynolds Wednesday morning to spend the day with relatives. Mrs. James Walter and daughter went to Chicago Wednesday to spend a few days with relatives. Vern Michaels returned Thursday from Mitchell, So. Dak., where he has been for several months. Mrs. C. B. Brunsden of East Chicago came Wednesday for a visit here with her father, W. R. Shcsler. Anti-Phymin cures Tuberculosis. Give it a trial and be convinced. Sold and recommended by A. F. Long. C. P. White, contracting agent for the Lackawanna railway, was in the city a short time Thursday on business. Miss Hazel McColly of Chicago Heights, 111., came Tuesday evening to visit with relatives here a few days. Mrs. Alfred Collins was called to Indianapolis Wednesday by the illness of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ray Collins. J. W. Loy of Columbus Grove, 0., a brother of Dr. E. N. Loy, returned home Thursday after a short visit here with the latter. Miss Orie Kimble of Huron, Ind., returned home Wednesday after a visit with relatives and friends here and at Remington. Because of the rainy weather the band boys who were to play at Fountain Park Thursday afternoon and evening, did not go over. *

Lloyd Hopkins of near Alt. Ayr took the train here yesterday for Kankakee, 111., where he will visit with relatives for a few days. Joseph Minch of Chalmers was in the city Thursday and purchased a forty acre tract of land of A. Leopold in White county. Mrs. W. H. Parkison and son Lynn returned home Thursday from Attica where they have been visiting a few days with relatives. Mrs. W. W. Reeve and daughMrs. Clara, returned home Thursday from Bass Lake where they have been spending a few days vacation. Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Hemphill left yesterday morning for" a visit with his mother at Wabash, whose health is quite poor. They, drove through in tne doctor’s auto. Wallace Murray, Jr., who has been visiting herq with Will Murray and family, for the past several months, left Thursday morning for his home at Crosbytown, Texas. Through an oversight no piano coupon was printed in Wednesdays Democrat, but two coupons are printed in this issue, so as to square the in Wednesday’s issue. Mrs. E. P. Honan expects to go to St. Cloud, Minn., next week where she will meet her son EJ ward and arrangements will be made for him to enter a Catholic educational institution there.

• W C. Babcock was in Chicago Thursday. » > J. J. Weast was in Monticello on business Wednesday. T. P. Longacre went to Chicago .qu business Thursday. E. L. Hollingsworth went to Chicago on business Thursday. Aug. 24 to Mr. and Mrs. August Fellenberger of Union tp., a son. Miss Eva Moore went to Indianapolis Thursday for a short visit. Alex Merica and wife were guests Tuesday of their son, Dean, and family. J. W. and Bert Amsler went to Lafayette-yesterday morning to take in the fair. Airs. John Mauck returned home yesterday from a visit with relatives at Gilman, 111. Mr. and Mrs. George Tudor left Wednesday for a visit with relatives at Portland, Ind. Granville Moody, Jr., and Kenton Parkison went to LafayeVe yesterday to take in the fair. Mrs. W. S. Day returned home yesterday from a visit with her '.on Omar and family at Laporte. Miss Opal Yeoman left Thursday for Newcastle, Wyo., where she will visit with relatives for some time. Jay Stockton and Joseph Putts went to Lafayette ,Thursday to take in the Tippecanoe County Fair.

Anti-Phymin, that strong expectorant, cleans out the lungs without injury to lining of stomach. For sale by A. F. Long. Mrs. David Mauck of near Mt. Ayr took the train here Thursday for Sheldon where she will visit with relatives until Sunday. Rev. C. L. Harper returned to Monticello Thursday morning to join the M. E. Boys’ Brotherhood at their camp on the Tippecanoe. Osa Ritchey, Jr., went to Chicago Thursday and from there will go to Oklahoma City, Okla., to visit a week or ten days with relatives. The Indiana trolley companies have advanced their passenger rates io two cents per mile, the same as that charged by the steam roads. ’ Miss Jane King left here Thursday afternoon for her home at Great Falls, Mont., after spending a few weeks with her parents near Mt. Ayr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Michaels and children of Marion, who have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Mat. Sullivan north of town, returned home W ednesday.

W. T. Elmore of Remington, accompanied, by Mr. and Mrs. John Farabee and daughter, drove over Wednesday in the former's fine new Richmond touring,, car. Misses Edna Randle and Gertrude McConahey came \\ ednesday evening from Pullman, Hl., to spend a few days here with W. H. Randle and wife of the northside. Roy Crissler of Madison, Wis., who has been working here for the past several weeks, returned to Madison. Wednesday, accompanied by Bert Brooks, who will visit with relatives there for some time. Only eight tickets were sold here Thursday for the Monon’s special train to Lafayette for the Tippecanoe County Fair. The bad weather, no doubt, discouraging many who otherwise would have gone. John Romine of near Mt. Ayr leaves today for Mentone, Marshall county, to visit old friends and attend a home-coming. Mentone is Mr. Romine’s old home, and he will visit there about three weeks.* The Fourth Annual Picnic of the Indiana State Soldiers’ Association will Be held at the soldiers’ home grounds, Lafayette, on Thursday, Sept. 7-. The Post outside Tippecanoe county bringing the largest percentage of members will be presented with a handsome flog.

Wj R. Lee was in Lafayette on business yesterday. W. H. Collins left Wednesday on a business-trip to Covington, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brenner spent yesterday on the Kankakee. J. E. Vanferson of Hoopeston, 111., was a business visitor here Thursday and yesterday. It is rumored that Joe Jackson has ordered a new buss and will start another buss line in Rensselaer. Several people from here attended the big picnic at Ed Parkisen’s farm near the Groom's bridge yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith left yesterday in their auto to attend the automobile road races at Elgin, 111. Charles came Thursday evening from Winchester to visit with his uncle, Harrison Wasson, and- family. Russell Randle left Tuesday afternoon for his home at Magnum, Okla., stopping in Chicago for a short visit with relatives. Mrs. L. B. Fenner left yesterday for her home at Berwell, Neb., after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Gerber. Mrs. Vernon Nowels and Miss Elizabeth Witham went to Forest, Clinton county, yesterday to spend a few days with Mrs. Albert Alter. Miss Loretta Putts went to Surrey Thursday afternoon to attend a party given that evening at the home of Joe Thomas in Newton tp. Stewart and 'Russell Warren went to Monticello yesterday morning to spend the day at the Boys’ Brotherhood camp on the 7 ippecanoe.

Miss Peters of Monroe. Wis., stopped off here yesterday to spend the day with Mrs. Frank Foltz. She is on her way home from Lafayette. Mrs. M. E. Davisson of near Aix returned home Wednesday from Burnettsville where she spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore. John Gleason returned to his home at Rockville yesterday aft'er a visit here with his sister, Mrs. Nora Worden, and his brother, T. J. Gleasom J. H. S. Ellis went to Chicago yesterday morning to see about contracting with some amusement people for Horse Show weeks, Sept. 13-16. Mrs. E. Hargarten, Mrs. A. Kirschel and Mrs. Peter Hinan returned to their home in Chicago Thursday afternoon . after a visit here with Mrs. A. Gangloff. Vincent Eisele returned home from Chicago Tuesday evening where Mrs. Eisele had undergone an operation in Wesley hospital a few . days previous. She is getting along now as well as could be expected. Leo Hordeman arrived home Thursday evening - from Woonsocket, So, Dak., where he has been the past year. He will probably spend the winter here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hordeman, and return to the great northwest in the spring.

& £=>*7 UNLESS 1 -Ta v WF? The Minimum of Pain or an entire absence of it, goes with our system of high class Dentistry. For young or old there is no fear, no matter what the- 1 process. We are exceedingly careful in every branch of our work and particularly with the extraction of teeth. You will go away happily after a visit to us. We will satisfy you that we are experts in Dentistry. J. W. HORTON Opp. Courthouse ; A. .*'

Mrs. Lucy Malone of Chicago came Thursday to visit with her mother, Airs. E. H. Shields. A. Leopold has broke ground for a modern nine room dwelling on South Van Rensselaer street. Miss Elizabeth Jaggers of Columbia City came Wednesday to visit with B. J. Moore and ilyC. L. Johnson left Thursday for his home at Dallas Texas, after a short visit here with his daughter Mrs. J. A. Dunlap. A. H. Reynolds, wife am daughter of Indianapolis are guests of Mt. and Mrs. C. P. Fate this week at the -Makeever House. A fine rain fell here Wednesday night, practically all night long, and most of the day Thursday. It will benefit pastures greatly. Mrs. R. E. Hellewig of Effner and Mrs. Jesse Hetrick of Pine Village returned home Thursday after visiting here with Mrs. June Henkle. Dr. and Mrs. Corcoran and daughter Kathleen of Chicago came down yesterday in their auto to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs E. P. Honan. Mrs. Fred Linback and little son left Wednesday for Portland, Ind., Celina and Greenville, 0., where they will visit relatives for two-or three weeks. Mrs. Clara Davis and Mrs. Amanda Smith, who have been visiting with Henry Smith and family at Foresman, returned to their homes at New Albany Wednesday. James Matheson was brought home Sunday from an Indianapolis hospital, where he recently underwent an operation for what proved to be cancer of the bladder. While he* was able to sit up a little Thursday, the imppJvement is but temporary, it is thought.

Mrs. H. A. Cripps, who has been living in Mrs. E. H. Shields’s property across the river, has moved into rooms over the Trust & Savings Bank, and Wallace Ward of Chalmers has rented the quarters vacated by Mrs. Cripps and will move here next week. J. L. Brady and wife wilf leave leave tomorrow for Indianapolis where they will visit with friends until Monday evening when they will leave for Niagara Palls • and the east, traveling through central Pennsylvania and other points of interest. They will possibly be gone for a couple of weeks. There is the largest apple crop in this section of the state perhaps ever known. Unfortunately most of them are fall apples and thousands of bushels are being made into cider, fed to the hogs or lie rotting on the ground. Everybody has apples this year, and there is absolutely no sale at all for them. E. J. Duvall and Lew Mustard went to Crown Point Thursday to witness the stake race in which John Duvall had entered Hattie Vest, the former Judge Hanley mare. It was not known Thursday whether the race would be held that day or not, because of the rain and the wet condition of the track, but it was announced that the race would go off Friday, if not on Thursday. A great many automobile tourists have passed through Rensselaer this season, and scarcely a night goes by that there is not from two to half a dozen tourist autos in the garage here, and as there are from two to seven people to the car, they leave quite a little money with the hotel-keeper. The latter, however, is about the only business to benefit, while the damage they do to our stone roads is considerable. . Miss Margaret Pritchett, daughter of Thomas Pritchett, a former resident of this county, was'married at Franklin the first of; the week to Professor Paul Van Riper, Supt. of the Franklin schools at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker and Mrs. Frank Parker and granddaughter Marian from here attended the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker returned home Wednesday evening, while Mrs. Frank Parker and Miss Marian remained for a longer visit.

25,000 HANDS MAY QUIT WORK

Great Tie -up of Harriman Roads Is Threatened. STRIKE ORDER IS DEMANDED Refusal to Recognize Federation of Mechanical Trades the Cause— No Conference with Officials Yet Arranged For.

MEMBERSHIP OF UNIONS INVOLVED.

Car men .....12,000 Machinists 7,000 Boilermakers 3,000 Blacksmiths 2,000 Sheet metal workers, 1,000 Total .■?. .25,000 RAILROADS AND MILEAGE. Read. Mileage. Union Pacific 3,473 Southern Pacific.... 7,591 Oregon Short Line. 1,594 Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company 1,883 San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake.... 1,075 Houston and Texas Central 789 Total 16,405

Chicago, Aug. 25.—-As a result of the refusal of the management of the Harriman lines to treat with the federation of mechanical trades, one of the greatest railroad strikes in the history of the country is imminent, involving all the lines of the system mentioned. Shop workers on these roads throughout the west are demanding that a general strike order be issued at once and it is feared that they may take the matter into their own hands and quit their posts without receiving the sanction of union officials The tie-up also would affect the Northwestern, Burlington and St. Paul roads on account of their connections with the Harriman lines. It was thought that the strike might be averted at $ conference in San Francisco early next week between Julius Kruttschnitt, vice president of the Union and Southern Pacific roads, and union leaders. Mr. Kruttschnitt left for the Pacific coast Thursday night. Prospects for a settlement, however, became fainier when President J. W. Kline of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers announced that pains for meeting Mr. Kruttschnitt on the Pacific coast practically had been abandoned. “This is not a demand for an increase of salary," declared Kline. “It is a matter of protection fpr union labor. It is all due to the failure of the railroads Involved to recognize our federation plan of organization “This federation plan, which links the unions now having grievances against the Harriman roads, was put into effect last June. Since then, I understand, those active in the movement have been discriminated against and many men have been discharged. The discontent has reached such a stage that the men will stand for it no longer.” More than 4,000 shop workers em-

The Trust & Savings Bank RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Statement of the Condition a the close of business on August 21, 1911. Resources. ! Liabilities. Loans and Discounts. . $128,600.64 Capital Stock $25,000.00 Bonds 10,6i>8.80 Surplus 10,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures. 2,000.00 Undivided profits 323.96 Interest paid 945.92 Interest, discount, exCurrent expense 4,165.69 change and fees earned 8,829.80 Cash in Banks & Trust Commercial Deposits ...118,120.42 Companies ... 48,866.92 Savings Deposits 7,536 8 i Cash on hand 6,251.43 Certificates of Deposit .. 31,857.22 Advances to estates.... 354.57 j Reserve for taxes . 336.22 Overdrafts 160.46 i 1 otai Resources ....$202,004.43 Total Liabilities ....$202,004.43 County of Jasper,) State of Indiana, )* ‘ I„ Judson J. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK of Rensselaer, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. JUDSON J. HUNT,. • Secretary-Treasurer. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d day of August, 1911. WOODHULL I. SPITLER, My commission expires October 28, 1914.

OFFICIAL COUPON The Jasper County Democrat’s Great Piano Contest One $350.00 Piano to be given away , Good for 5 votes for_ Street and No. Town ■ ' j One Banner Upright Grand Piano will be awarded to the person living in Jasper or adjacent counties receiving the greatest number of votes.

7) —~ ployed on the lines’ of the Illinois Central railroad have voted by an overwhelming majority to strike unless their federation plan of organization is recognized by tjie company A strike of stock yards teamsters probably will follow the refusal of the committee of packers to-open negotiations with officials of the teamsters’ union. The teamsters have asked for an increase in wages and have been refused. A meeting will be held Sunday to decide what action shall be taken.

FLEECED BY OLD GAME

Insinuating Stranger Takes SI,OOO Out of Walton Bank. Logansport, Ind., Aug. 25.—The police have been unable to get any trace of James Tilton, a stranger who, it la believed, fleeced the Bank of Walton out of SSOO by a game so old that it has been forgotten. Tilton appeared in Walton about a week ago, and deposited a check for SSOO on a Kokomo bank in the Bank of Walton. He said he Intended to buy a farm, and sett# there. The bank officials were a little skeptical and telephoned the Kokomo bank. They found that he had SSOO on deposit and tha check was good for that amount. Tuesday he appeared at the bank and deposited a chock for $1,74.0 on a bank in Lisbon, 0., making his total deposit $2,240. In the meantime he had worked his way into the good graces of the bank officials and when he wrote out a check for SI,OOO, stating that he wished the money to close a deal for a farm, the money was given him He departed and shortly afterward the cashier became worried and called up the Lisbon bank by telephone. *-The I.ibson bank cashier said that Tilton had no money on deposit there. Tilton has not been seen since.

ACTOR KILLED BY ACCIDENT

Franklin Man, Demonstrating Trick Prowess, Shoots Himself. Greenfield, Ind., Aug. 25— Clete B. Slack of Franklin, Ind., a sleight-of-hand performer, accidentally shot and killed himself at Shay's hotel, four miles west of, this city. Slack, with a number of friends were spending a week's vacation at the hotel. . He was on the front porch of the hotel, talking and joking with his friends and attempted to display his ability’. He pulled a revolver from his pocket, and, placing it at his head, pulled the trigger. The gun failed to explode. Slack again pulled the trigger. The ball struck him in the temple and he died almost instantly. Physicians were summoned from Greenfield, but Slack was dead long before they reached th« place. 1 _ f Hay Fever is positively cured by Anti-Phymin. For sale by A. F. Long. Mrs. Roy Cheesman left Thursday to spend several days with relatives at. Lafayette and West Point. Mrs. A. Openheinier and son came Wednesday evening from New York City where the latter had gone from New Orleans to meet his mother upon her return frorp a visit in Germany. Mrs. Openheinier will visit here with her * daughter, Mrs. B. S. Fendig, while the son left yesterday for his home at New Orleans.