Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — Page 7

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Walter C Hooker to W C McClimans, et al, Meh 10, nw se, 17-28-5, 40 acres, Milroy, $2,504). Lida G Monnett to Ida Jane Burton, et al, May 10, und % nw, und % pt w%, 18-29-6, Marion, pt Its 4,5, bl 3, pt Its 11, j. 2, bl 3, Rensselaer, pt ne, 34-29-7, 1 acre, Newton, sl. Waltef R Lee to Greeleaf L. Thornton, et al, June 23, Its 5,6, bl 10, Newton or Clark’s add, Rensselaer, $2,000. John W Clouse, et ux to Joseph A Norman, June 24, s% se, 8-30-6, 80 acres, Barkley, $6,000. Joseph A Norman to Elda M Clouse, June 24, pt It 17, e% nw, 19-29-6, Owen’s subdiv, Rensselaer, SB6O. Joseph A Norman to John W Clouse, June 24, pt It 17, e% nw, 19-29-6, Owen’s subdiv, Rensselaer, $3,440, • Louise Millei) to Frederick William Kraft, et al, June 27, w% s% ne, 26-31-6, Walker, sl. Ellen D ■prown, et »al to Elda M Clouse, June 23, pt w% se, 18-29-6, 4 acres, Marion, S6OO. Ellen D Brown, et al to John W Clouse, June 23, pt w 1 se, 18-29-6, 9.33 acres, Marion, $1,400. George F Meyers to Nelson Shafer, June 24, It 2, bl 1, Riverside Park add, Rensselaer, S4OO. Ella B Osborn to Josiah Davisson, June 29, Its 5,6, bl 5, Schmidt’s add, Kniman, SSOO. John W Phares to Earl Park Tile & Brick Go, May 1, sw, sw nw, 34-28-7, 200 acres, Jordan, $21,0.00. Earl Park Tile & Brick Co, to Ida Harp, June, 1911, sw, sw nw, 34-28-7, 200 acres, Jordan, $20,000. Ida Harp to Jerry Dugan, et al, June 28, sw, sw nw, 34-28-7, 200 acres, Jordan, $20,000. Benj. J Gifford to Charles S Chamberlain, et al, June 22, se se, 32-31-6, sw, sw nw, n% se, 33-31-6, 320 acres, Walker, $5,760. Benj. J Gifford to Carl Remm, June 16, pt 20-30-5, pt 21-30-5, 232.16 acres, Gillam, $8,415.80. Benj. J Gifford to John Clanssen, May 30, pt 20-30-5, .126.68 acres, Barkley, $3,800.40. Benj. J Gifford to Albert Duggins, June 13, pt w% 20-30-5, pt se ne, 19-30-5, $3,516.90. John L Nichols to Ella I Cooper, July 1, e% se se; 23-30-6, 20 acres, Barkley, $1,250. Charles S Chamberlain, et al to Eva Greenlee, June 30, sw, 33-31-6, se se, 32-31-6, 200 acres, Walker, SIO,OOO. Frank P Smith, et al to William L Canary, June 24, Its 9, 10, 11, 12, bl 16, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, $1,600. Andrew Wilson to William J Davis, Jr, July 1, se se, 2-32-7, 40 acres, Keener, sl. Nehemiah Littlefield to Rachel R Rainier, July 8, pt Its 10, 11, bl 17, original plat, Rensselaer, $4,000. Albert Konovsky to Lewis N Wells, July 8, outlot 4, pt nw, 26-32-7, Keener, $450. Douglas Clark to George H. Marr, et ux, Meh 10, nw ne, 15-32-6, Wheatfield, SI,OOO. John Greve to Philenus Williams, July 10, It 17, bl 1, McDonald’s add, Demotte, SSOO. Marion Albin to Frank Shephard, June 27, w% sw nw, 36-32-5, 20 acres, Kankakee, $1,200. Emmet L Hollingsworth to James Henry Platt, et al, June 16, It 3, bl - 11, Leopold’s add, Rensselaer, $l5O. Lula A Luce to James H True, July 14,. bl 18, Bruner’s add, Demotte, S4OO. Joseph H Smiley to George E Murray, July 14, s% n%, n% s%, 2-30-7, 240 acres, Union, $6,900. James F Hemphill to Edward P Honan, July 1, pt outlot 84, Rensselaer, $2,500. John B Hemphill to Edward P Honan, June 19, pt outlots 84, 85, pt Its 1,2, 3, bl 4, Rensselaer, sl. q c d. J Albert Miller to Cicero Lane, Jan 5, und % e% sw, 6-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, $2,400. I ______ An armful of pld papers for a nickel at the Democrat office.

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 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. NOTICE. The Parr Creamery Co. has changed it’s dates of receiving cream. Instead of every day as heretofore, receiving days will be Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The thange will je in effect on and after Monday, July 31. The reason lor the change being the desire to reduce operating expenses.—By Order of the Board of Directors.

THE DEMOCRAT’S CLU£- " BING 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 dr periodical you may want at a reduction over the regular rates. Here are a few of the more prominent ones, and the price given includes The Democrat: Indianapolis News (daily). .. . $4.00 Chicago Examiner (daily).... 4.00 Chicago Record-Herald (daily) 4.25 Chicago Journal (daily) 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 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 acres, four blocks from court house. 25 acres improved; terms easy. GEO. F. MEYERS.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and qualified in the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, executors of the last will of Patrick Haltagan, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. JAMES M. HALL AG AN, JOSEPH HALLAGAN, y Executors. Aug. K 5, 1911. Glasses fiitted by DR. A. G, CATT Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office over Long’s Drug Store. Phone No. 232. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair tailing. 60c,and SI.OO at Druggists

Accumulated Work

.A Story For Labor Day ' ■, • ’ *

By CLARISSA MACKIE

“It’s rightly named,” growled Mr. Shafter as he drank his morning coffee. “Every holiday ought to be called ‘Labor day’ so far as I am concerned. Do you know what I’ve got to do tomorrow, Helen?” He put the question aggressively, and his maiden aunt looked pityingly at Mrs. Shafter. “No, dear; what have you to do tomorrow?” asked Helen serenely. “Do!” sputtered her husband, passing the toast to Aunt Electa xtrith a savage lunge to emphasize his remark. “To begin with there’s the lawn to mow, the chicken pen to clean out, the cellar to whitewash—if you wouldn’t begin housecleaning so early, Helen, a fellow might have a show once in awhile —oversee that the six tons of winter coal gets in all right and clean up after the coal man.” Later in the day, after. Mr. Shafter had sunk into his Sunday afternoon nap in the hammock, Aunt Electa called Helen into the summer house on the lawn and talked long and earnestly to that young woman. “Certainly, dear Aunt Electa,” agreed Helen sweetly. “James always retires early on Sunday, and we can have our own way about everything.” “For a married woman that will be an unusual treat.” And Aunt Electa’s eyes twinkled merrily. “Then let me hasten its coming,” cried Helen blithely. “J shall have an early supper and hustle James off to bed.” When James Shafter awoke the next morning he heard the unmusical clatter of a lawn mower and*sniffed the fragrance of freshly cut grass. “Good Lord, it does seem as though Finley might let a beggar rest a little in the morning. It can’t be more than 6 o’clock.” He craned his neck to look at the timepiece and noted with satis-

“WHO THE DICKENS CUT THE LAWN?”

faction that his guess was correct to a minute. Still his opposite neighbor's busy lawn mower was an unpleasant reminder that his own grass needed shaving that morning and after that was accomplished stretched the tasks he had enumerated the day before — chicken house, cellar and coal man. “It’s an imposition!” growled Mr. Shafter and turned ovqr in bed. The sun shining through a chink in the closed blinds awakened him at last, and another glance at the clock assured him that three hours had melted away. It was now 9. He bounced out of bed and into his morning bath, while his mind calculated how he could divide the remainder of the short end holiday into working shifts and squeeze out time enough to read his newspaper. He found a delicious breakfast awaiting him in the cool and shaded dining-room, and as he ate he complained bitterly of the noise Finley had made that morning with the detested lawn mower. “Woke me up ahead of time, Helen, and I dropped off to sleep and never awoke again until half an hour ago. It’s going to be a scorcher too." “It is hot already,” agreed Helen cheerfully. Shafter kissed her pink cheek and murmured appreciation of the breakfast and so went out on the front piazza to survey the ragged lawn he had left the night before. “I suppose I may as well pitch in now as any time,” he muttered, and then stopped short. ’ Instead of the untidy lawn he had worried over there stretched a smooth expanse of velvety turf, neatly trimmed about thd flower beds and newly wet with the revolving sprinkler. “Great Jove!” muttered Shafter, and sought his wife, noting that his opposite neighbor’s grass was , untouched as yet. “Helen, who the dickens cut the lawn?” he demanded, puzzled. “I did," she returned. “It’s great sport. Such a time as 1 had! I was afraid you would wake up.” Armed with hoe and shovel, he entered the chicken yard and prepared to make the abode of these industrious tenants quite trim and tidy, but some magic hand had forestalled him here also, for the chicken house had been

more thoroughly cleaned than it ever had been under his" practiced hand, and in addition a fresh coat of whitewash dazzled his eyes. Several busy hens poked impatient heads at him from nest boxes filled with fresh hay. “Humph!” muttered Mr. Shafter, and carried the tools into the shed. Once more he sought bis wife.. "Helen, you didn’t clean that, efrieken house?” he demanded authoritatively. “No, I didn’t,” returned Mrs. Shafter, shelling peas on the side piazza. “Aunt Electa is responsible for that.” “Aunt'Electa!” shouted the horrified husband. "Why—why—that’s no sort of work for an elderly lady”— “Who calls me an ‘elderly lady?”’ demanded Aunt- Electa from the doorway. “But, Aunt Electa, that cUcken house is not the sort of work”— “Go to, James,” interrupted the good lady smiling; “stop arguing and enjoy your holiday.” “Holiday!” snofted James from force of habit, and then, with sudden recollection of how bis work was dwindling, he reddened and sought the cellar to vent his discomfiture in slapping whitewash on its stone .walls. But once more was he failed— again he was dazzled, for the work was done. He opened the door and peered into the eoal bin in the desperate hope that the coal man had neglected to come, and he almost -whooped with joy when he saw that his hope was fulfilled. He was clattering in the seclusion of that blackened, stone walled room when he heard the shriek of the speaking tube in the outer cellar. He answered it. “James,” said his wife’s voice, and there was a tremor in its evenness—he wondered if she was laughing—- “ James, dear, just to make sure 1 telephoned the coal office and as it is a holiday they will not deliver until tomorrow. 1 can see about it when it comes. Now, do clean yourself up and try and enjoy your holiday, that’s a dear!” The “dear” choked helplessly.. “Did Aunt Electa do the cellar?” he asked weakly. “Both of us—we did it last night after you went to bed. It was fun for us. You know we get tired of our monotonous tasks. Please, James, aren’t you going to come upstairs. It will soon be dinner time.” The newspaper lasted until dinner time and after dinner was a hiatus to be filled in some manner. James Shafter was a man of activity. He must be doing something every moment and however he might fume and sputter over bis self imposed tasks, he took a certain enjoyment in them. Now. his occupation gone, he wandered aimlessly around the house and grounds, sat awhile with his wife and aunt on the piazza and then strolled down the road for a solitary walk. A wooded lane led him in a new direction, and presently he found himself leaning over an old picket fence, surveying a weed grown vegetable garden with disapproving eyes. A voice startled him, and he had glanced over the shabby little old fashioned house before he saw the open window in which sat a man of his own age with a gaunt, haggard face and sunken, patient eyes. “I said it was a pretty day,” repeated the man in the window. “Yes,” returned Shafter cordially; “it’s hot, but mighty pleasant You’ve got a nice little place here.” “It was nice before I got cut up in the railroad wreck. I planted that garden, sir, and now I can’t keep the weeds out of it. My daughter’s got the ambition to do it, but she’s young and frail, and there’s plenty for her to do waiting on a sick man and taking in work from the mill to support me.” He spoke bitterly, and it was plain to be seen that he resented his inability to work. “It’s Labor day, sir, and it seems as if I would give most anything to get in line with the boys and march, but not for me!" He held up the stump of an arm, and in response to Shafter’s inquiry said he had lost a foot also. He was too poor to employ a lawyer to take his case against the railroad. “Where’s your garden tools?” demanded Shafter, entering the gate. And five minutes later he was stripped of coat and vest and working in the garden with hoe and rake. The sick man talked to him from the window, and his gratitude to the stranger was pitiful. When the garden stood forth weedless, with straight brown earth ridges crowned with green and the corn rustled in the breeze that came up from the south, James Shafter straightened his bent back and mopped his dripping face. “God bless you, sir!” muttered the man awkwardly as his benefactor prepared to go. “it isn’t every gentleman would do what you’ve done, and”— “I’ye got two hands and two feet, and I guess that’s what they’re for," returned Shafter quite as awkwardly. “I have a friend who is a lawyer, and If you like I’ll bring him around tomorrow and go over your claim. You ought to pull a lot of money out of that accident.” “I don’t know how to thank you, sir,” and tears stood in the man’s eyes. Shafter’s face, sunburned, sweaty and very dirty, grinned up at him with a smile that chased the discontent from It forever. “It lsn’< me. There’s two women up at my hwise who are responsible for my meeting you. and, say. you know you’ve done me more good than I can ever do you. I've always done lots of work and liked it. but somehow I never tasted the sweetness of doing It before, I’ve got to get along and tell those dear women," “It’s always the women folks that’s back of everything. God blees ’etiH" said the man In the window, and the words were echoed In Shafter’s heart.

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The car that lasts longest—and costs least while it lasts 7 . : 4 cyl., 22% h. p., £ 7 5 passenger touring car, ICO in. wheel base, S7BO, includes magneto, top, wind-shield, gas lamps, generator, speedometer. 3 oil lamps, horn, and kit of tools. Ford repairs always on hard. Ford Auto Agency Jno. M. Knapp, Local Agt., Phone 186, ensselaer, Ind.

Notice of Filing Estimates for 1912 Notice is hereby given that the Estimates of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, and the various County and Township Offices for the year 1912 are now on file in the Auditor’s Office of Jasper County, Indiana. The amounts of said estimates being as follows: . Total estimates of the County Commissioners for the various expenditures of the County $14,477.00 Payment of Interest Court House Bonds . Gravel Road Repair. 11,500.00 Expense Jasper Circuit Court... 6,990.00 Expense Juvenile Court. .. . . ■•■.• •• ■ ■ •. .. .• • 175.00 Insanity Inquests :. 525.00 Epilepsy Inquests . . ... .. . ... .. .. . ... . .. . . .., 206.00 Salary County Clerk and Office Expenses 2,405.00 Salary County Auditor and Office Expenses 2,765.80 Salary County Treasurer and Office Expenses . . 2,638.00 Salary County Recorder add Office Expenses 2,169.25 Salary County Sheriff and Office Expenses . 1,935.00 Salary County Assessor and Office Expenses 618.00 Per Diem County Surveyor and Office Expenses 1,975.95 Per Diem County Superintendent and Office Expenses .... 2,003.50 Per Diem County .Coroner and Office Expenses 315.00 Per Diem Township Assesors and Deputies 2,136.00 Per Diem Truant Officer and Office Expenses 200.00 Salary and Expenses Secretary Board of Health .' 728.32 Supplies Township Assessors . .. .. . 102.75 Expense County Poor Asylum and Farm 3,436.00 Total '.563,048.27 JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

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 ! <r ’ . ' Town One Banner Upright Grand Piano will be awarded to the person living in Jasper or adjacent counties receiving the greatest number of votes.