Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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But They’ll Go This Week.

One of our exchanges last week said: “Very few from fthis section attended the state fair this year. For some reason it seems to have lost attraction.” As the fair was not until this week it is not strange that no one from that vicinity went last week.

Vietim of Infantile Paralysis.

The year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moyer died of infantile paralysis Monday morning, after an illness of about four days. Owing to the danger of contagion the funeral was held in private and only a few friends and relatives were permitted to be present, and was heldas soon as necessary arrangements could be made on Monday.—Benton Review.

Wanted—A Postmaster.

Uncle Sam wants a postmaster again at Surrey, and to this end an examination will be held at Rensselaer, Saturday Sept. 30, to fill the vacancy. The compensation of the office the last fiscal year was S7B. Applicants must be over 21 years (if a woman, over 18) and reside within the territory supplied. Application forms and full information can be secured from' the postmaster at Surrey or the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.

Gets In Another Shipment of Fords.

John M. Knapp, the local Ford agent, got in three more cars Saturday, two Model T touring cars and one torpedo roadster. It is claimed that every fifth car sold in this country is a Ford, arid for the past few months Mr. Knap'p has been unable to get any shipment of cars because the Ford people were so far behind with orders. He has sold ten Ford cars this season and could have sold more if he could have got them. These three cars are not sold as yet, but they are likely to be very soon.

Getting Back to God’s Country.

Mrs. Charles Robinson came Friday afternoon from Horse Butte, So. Dak., and stopped off here for a day’s visit with relatives, going to Battle Ground Saturday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark. The drought in that section ot the country was such that practically no crops were raised again this season, and nearly everyone is moving out, some twe.nty-five or thirty families leaving from their immediate vicinity. Mr. Robinson, who is postmaster there and- runs a small general store, has sent in his resignation to the postoffice department and is only waiting for its acceptance, when he, too, will return to Jasper county.

New Law Will Have Good Effect.

Under the new registration law of this gtate the practice of bringing men back to Tippecanoe county is given a hard rap. Heretofore this practice has been general and voters were brought home even two or three hundred miles away. The registration law requires all voters in the state to register and on election day no man can vote who has not properly registered as provided by law. It is not at all probable that the parties will have voters that are away from home come to register and also to vote, as the expense would be too great unless ihe slush fund is very large. However the supposition is that both parties will be equally affected so the leaders may make no effort to bring the wanderers home. and very beneficial effect will be to stop the voting of non residents temporarily studying at Purdue university. These men will be required to vote where they really live and not where they have no personal interest. —Tippecanoe County Democrat.

Store For Sale. Owing to the press of other business, I will sell my Aix store. Will sell stock and. rent buildings or sell both. Stock and buildings very cheap. See me at once.—W. R. Lee, Rensselaer, Ind.

WOW! LOOK WHO’S HERE!

Now Leader in the Piano Race —lda Hurley of Parr IS IN THE PREMIER POSITION First Time JMaribel Kays Has Not Been Leader—Four Weeks Ago New Leader Was Twen-ty-first. For the first time since the piano contest started Maribel Kays has been headed in the race. Ida Hurley of Parr now occupies the leader’s position and her pres'ent position is but a verification of what The Democrat has said weekly, that “hustling will win.” Four weeks' ago (Aug. 5), the present leader was twenty-first in the race, but by sticking to it, with a determination not to quit, and conscientious hustling has gone into first place. What the present leader has accomplished is possible for any candidate. There is no secret to success—work and determination to win, are essentials, that’s all. It is up to the oandidates individually whether they succeed or not. While everybody is willing to help a hustler, few are going to exert themselves to help a candidate who lacks courage and confidence. If the present leader can jump from twenty-first to lead in four weeks, all the other candidates can do as well by the same amount of endeavor. It is merely a question of how anxious each individual is to win. Half-hearted efforts won’t win in any race, and the winner of this contest is going to have to hustle for the simple reason that all of the candidates are anxious,, to win and will put forth their best efforts, now that they can see what someone else has done. The standing today is:

Ida Hurley, Parr Maribell Kays, Rensselaer Lizzie Wiseman, Virgie Ethel M Fisher, Rensselaer Loretta Nagel, Rensselaer Alice Daniels, Rensselaer Bessie McElfresh, Rensselaer R-l Fairy Pollard, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Morgenegg, Rensselaer R-l Victoria Marsh, Rensselaer R-3 Mildred Rush, Rensselaer R-3 Mary Bice, Rensselaer, R-4 Arkana Ritchey, Remington R-3 SteMa Platt, Rensselaer Ruth Wiltshire, Rensselaer Bernice Yeoman, Rensselaer R-2 Elsie Smith, Rensselaer Lena Trulley, Rensselaer, R-l Wilda Green, Remington May Shook, Kniman Ruth E Bull, Rensselaer Mary Halsema, Rensselaer Myrtle Leavel, Rensselaer Lucy Falks, Remington R-4 Anna Marion, Parr Mary Gaunt. Remington R-3 Edna Ward, Rensselaer R-4 Lois Spencer, Wolcott Hazel Shumaker, Rensselaer R-4 Martha Critser, Rensselaer, R-3 Marie Moore, Rensselaer Star Route Helen Horsewood, R-4 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 Cl eve Eger, Hardware 0. Earl Duvall, Clothing and Gents Furnishings B. F. Fendig, Drug Store Sam Fendig, Dry Goods Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy, Millinery Scott Bros., Harness Home Grocery, Groceries Jessen, the Jeweler Depot Grocery, Groceries B. N. Fendig, Exclusive Shoe Dealer O. 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 t Whited’s General Store, Wheatfield i

■ -v • v- ,• ; » . .. THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1911.

ELECTION OCTOBER 14

In Remington and Carpenter Tp. to Vote Subsidy to Purtelle Road. The county comrtfissioners yesterday set the date for hold-! ing a subsidy election in Carpenter tp., and the town of Remington to vote a V/a per cent tax to the proposed Purtelle electric road. The election will be held on Saturday, Oct. 14. Purtelle put up a SIOO surety bond about six weeks ago to partly cover the cost of the election, should the subsidy fail to carry, but the commissioners took no action whatever at the August term. The bond to cover the cost of the election in Newton tp., had not been filed up to yesterday noon, and the petition for an election there will likely be continued until next term. Purtelle was in the city yesterday.

HELP YOUR FAVORITE

Piano Certificates Given With Orders for Job Printing. Piano certificates will be given with all orders for job printing received at The Democrat office after this date, on the same basis as given at the stores handling these certificates —one vote for each cent of the order. You can assist your favorite candidate several hundred votes by leaving your job printing and sale bill work at this office. Remember there is no advance in the price of work by reason of these certificates and the same high class workmanship that characterizes The Democrat’s job department will be maintained as heretofore. Candidates can help themseives in the race for the $350.00 piano to be given away Dec. 23 by The Democrat, and the other prizes given away at the same time by getting their friends to bring their orders for job printing and sale bills to The Democrat office.

SOCIABILITY RUN.

E-M-F and Flanders Cars Galore

Pass Through Rensselaer Sunday.

The pathfinder or route-njark-ing car of the E-M-F and Fjanders sociability run from Indianapolis to Chicago arrived in Rensselaer about 10:30 a. m. Sunday. The cars, about fifty in number, left the Studebaker Bros, salesroom on Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis, about 6 o’clock Sunday morning, bedecked with pennants and car numbers, distributed there. Other owners of Flanders and F-M-F cars along the route joined the delegation on the run to Chicago. They were met at Hammond by an escort from the Studebaker branch at Chicago, and the Hoosiers were piloted to the Lexington hotel where they were royally entertained. Monday the tourists spent in and about Chicago, a feature being a trip on the lake. On Tuesday morning they left Chicago for the return trip over a different route, and lunch was taken at Brook.

SEPTEMBER TERM

Of Jasper Circuit Court Will Convene Next Monday. The September term of court will convene Monday. Following are the names and addresses of the jurors drawn for the term. The graad jury will not be called, but the petit jury is called for the third Monday, Sept. 25: GRAND JURORS. Chet Dexter .*. .Carpenter Rowley H. Moorhouse. . .Wheatfleld Wm.» »Baker Keener W. J. Fell Carpenter James Clark Wheatfleld Aug. R. Schultz .Union PETIT JURORS. J. B. DeArmond. . . . . .Kankakee Ed J. Rand1e............ Barkley Jacob Hell Wheatfleld Alf Donnelly Marlon Joseph Htftler Carpenter RoberJ J. Yeoman ~- .Newton W. D. Meyers Walker Peter T. Hordeman . Union James Lane ....Newton A. D. Courtright . . .... Carpenter John W. Humes Union Robert Mannan ........ Wheatfleld John L. Osborne.... Hanging Grove B. W. Ellsworth..: Barkley Julius Huff ...... 1, Jordan Wm. Long Gillam

A NEW SERIAL COMING

Watch for the Opening Chapters of “The Man Higher Up.” The very interesting serial story, “The Knight of the Silver Star,” closed in Saturday’s issue of The Democrat, and a new serial will begin at an early date. It is entitled “The Man Higher Up,” and we believe our readers will like the story very much.

A Gulf-to-the-Lakes Route.

An automobile scout trip that promises to be of more than usual significance is being_ arranged by Col. Frank L. Mayes, editor of The Pensacola Journal, and Dr. S. R. Mallory Kennedy, of Pensacola, Florida. It is proposed to scout out an ’automobile highway freyn Pensacola to Chicago to be known as the Gulf-to-the-Lakes Route, connecting the land of the mocking bird with the metropolis of the north and organizing a good roads movement along the way. The scouts started Sept. 3 and .expect to make the run easily in ten days. Dr. Kennedy, who will drive his own car and who is an automobile enthusiast, is a grandson of S. R. Mallory, U. S. Senator before the war and later secretary of the Confederate Navy. Col. Mayes is a staff officer in the National Guard, editor of The Pensacola Journal, and part owner of The Meridari, Miss., Dispatch. He has for years, through his newspapers and otherwise, been engaged in developing good roads sentiment. Both gentlemen are delegates to the National Good Roads convention in Chicago and will participate in that gathering.

Dancing School Announcement. To the People of Rensselaer: — On Saturday evening, Sept. 30, 1911, Professor E. M. Summers of Chicago, will open a select school of dancing at the armory. Instruction class will be held from 7:30 to 9:00 every Saturday evening, followed by an assembly from 9:00 to 11:30. The first regular term, comprising 12 lessons and assemblies will begin Sept. 30th and conclude Saturday, Dec. 16.* Additional wardrobe space and seating arrangements have been arranged for, and Mrs. C. W. Rhoades has agreed to chaperon the young ladies. A special feature of the assemblies will be a serial prize waltz, in which two couples will be selected each evening during five vconsecutive assemblies and at the sixth assembly, the ten couples so chosen will waltz for the final awardment of the prizes. All those desiring to enroll in the instruction class for the first term may sign up and procure season tickets at the following places: Nowels’ restaurant C. Earl Duvall Larsh & Hopkins Little Indian Cigar Store Sam Duvall, Jr. Price per term ticket, including admission to all assemblies, $4.50. Admission at the door, to those not holding term tickets, 75c per couple. For further information see Sam Duvall, Jr.

Special Invitation

To farmers and others out of town to visit our store. During horse show week make our store your headquarters and invite your Jriends to meet you here. We have plenty of good water in our store and a telephone at your service. Bring your lunch baskets, suitcase, wrap or any other parcel you may want cared for, and we will check and take care of them for you, free of charge. So come and make yourself at home with the assurance - that you are welcome. Whether you are a customer of Ouis or not, it makes no difference. Come anyway. We are at your service and will help you have a good titne. Again we invite you to come. Yours very truly, E. VanArsdel & Co.

See Vance Collins

for Buckley Grain Drills and Miller Monroe Spreader—West side public square, Rensselaer. Subscribe for The Democrat.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

loteresting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Judge Marvin came over from Monticello Monday and again took up the Marble ditch matter. Yesterday he was out over the ditch. —o*- *—* New suits filed: No. 7767. Sarah C. Jarvis, et al. vs. Joseph A. Akers; suit on note Demand $460. No. 7768. Thomas J. Mallatt vs. Alfred Moore, et al.; suit on note. Demand $175. The petition for the proposed improvement of Fprest, Cullen and Washington streets and College Road to St. Joseph’s College, was not presented to the board of commissioners and will not be presented at least until next month, we are told. A remonstrance is ready to file whenever the petition is presented, but we do not know the number of signatures to either. Sheriff Hoover arrested , John Platt Monday morning on an old grand jury indictment, charging him with having sold intoxicating liquor without a license, towit: On April 30, 1910, one quart of whiskey to Fred Irwin. The indictment was returned by the April, 1910, grand jury, but John has been away since that time until very recently. He gave bond for his appearance in court Sept. 11, with Hiram Day as surety.

Benjamin R. Faris, a former resident of 'Gillam tp., a*nd one of the county commissioners when the new court house was built here, died at his home in Medaryville Sunday morning, aged 70 years. He leaves two daughters and six sons. Since the death of his wife some two years ago, one of the daughters has kept house for him. The funeral was held at Medaryville yesterday and burial made in the Independence cemetery in Gillam tp. Mr. Faris had been in poor health for several years y but his death was rather sudden. County Commissioner-elect William Hershman was down from Walker tp., on business Monday, making the trip in his auto Mr. Hershman, as is generally known, is not only an excellent farmer but is quite a noted poultry fancier as well. He has had excellent luck with his poultry crop this year and will have some nice birds to enter in the shows next winter. He does not share in the seemingly general belief that Jasper county will harvest a bumper corn crop this year. He says when the farmers come to husk out their crop they will find it'has been damaged a great deal by the hot dry weather, which came a£ a time when the; corn was too far advanced. Had corn been at the stage it usually is at the beginning of July the yield would have been better, but it has been a few weeks in advance of the season all summer.

There was quite a crowd of bidders on hand Saturday to try for the Dexter ditch contract, and a dozen of therm put up certified checks to back up the bids they might make, but before the bidding proceeded Attorney W. H. Parkinson, for Thompson & McAdams, Lafayette attorneys who have been retained by -MfSv-C. M. Williams, appeared and served notice that their client would resist payment of her assessments on the ground/ that the court had no jurisdiction in the case ordering the improve-

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merit, etc;, and would enjoin the construction of the ditch. It had been thought the ditch would sell at 7 to 1% cents per yard, but none of the bidders would : come below 10 cents, and the county surveyor rejected the bids and returned the checks to tlie bidders. Later in the afternoon B. D. Comer of Union tp., offer-* ed to take the contract at cents, and it was awarded to him. Mrs. Williams and the John Makeever estate is heavily assessed for this proposed ditch, and has fought the proceedings from the first, alleging that the schema, is illegal and unjust. An appeal taTen to the supreme court was decided adversely to the remonstrators, but the principal grounds on which a 'reversal is now hoped for, as we understand, is that the original ditch, which this takes in, was a commissioners’ court ditch and the courts have held that proceedings for cleaning, enlarging or extensions must be brought in the same court as that in which the original ditch was constructed. The case will be contested to a finish, we are told. Sheriff Hoover has another star boarder, in the person of John Webb, a former fireman at the Babcock & Hopkins elevator, who was fined $lO and trimmings, $15.10 in all, by Squire Irwin _Saturday and bound over to the circuit court in default of S3OO surety of the peace bonds. Webb married Mrs. Lillian Row-en-Sayler about a year ago, but they had practically parted, he going to Chicago and she remaining here with her mother. Friday night he came down from the Windy City on the 11:05 and went to Mrs. Rowen’s house and demanded to stay all night. He had been partaking of too much lake water ajid was qujte imperative in his demands, flourishing a gun to lend emphasis to his remarks. While his wife made her escape with her two children to her brother’s Arlie Rowen's, Webb went to bed and the officers were called and put him in jail, taking charge of his revolver and some “lake water’’ that he had _not yet gotten outside of. Saturday he was arraigned with the above result. He told the* sheriff yesterday that he could get money to pay his fine, and if the surety of the peace -proceedings were dismissed he would pay up and vamoose ; that he couldn’t give no S3OO bounds to cover that charge. It is probable the matter will be fixed up by dismissal of the latter proceedings and his wife will get a divorce.

Proccedings in comnissiioners’ court: Contract awarded to John Eger for groceries for poor far-m for ensuing year at $177.92; Roth Bros. 200 pounds roast beef at $26; E. VanArsdel, dry goods, $65.15. Interest reported on county funds for month of August as follows: First Nat. Bank, Rensselaer. $69.78 Trust & 8. Bank, Rensselaer 26.03 State Bank, Rensselaer j ... . 32.56 State Bank, Remington.'.... 24.49 Bank of Wheatfleld 6.63 The bond of Jesse Nichols, who was re-appointed Supt. of poor farm on June 6, for a period of two years, commencing Sept.. 1, 1911, in the sum of SI,OOO, with H. G. Daniels, Stephen T. Comer and Isaac D. Walker, as sureties, was approved. Fees collected by the various county officers for the quarter ending Aug. 31 were reported as follows: Auditor, $37; clerk $143.50; recorder, $453; sheriff, $492.03. A petition for a railroad election in Newton tp., to vote a 1 % per cent subsidy to tne Purtelle railroad, signed by O. C. Halstead and 27 others, was filed Monday. Attached to the petition is an undated letter from Purtelle agreeing to put up a sufficient bond to cover the cost of the election in case the subsidy fails to carry; and a request from O. C. Halstead and B. M. Makeever that the commissioners do not call t'he election until said bond has been filed. The proposed route of the proposed railroad as set out in the petition, is along the north line of sections 19, 20, 21, 22 and w% of 23, in said towntownship. The assessed valuation of the township, is about $730,000, so the proposed . subsidy would amount to about SII,OOO. ~ ' ' i 1 ■■ 1 • • Why don’t you get envelopes printed with your' name and address in one corner f None of your letters can then get lost. Looks business-like and makes a good impression on those, you write to. You can get 100 for 50 cents at this office.