Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — Page 3

LQCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Mrs. John Gwin was a Chicago goer Saturday. B. J. Moore was a Monon busik ness goer Monday. Today’s markets: Corn, 63c; Oats, 42c; Wheat, 85c. Engraved calling cards to order at The Democrat office. Mr. and Mrs. Park Overton of Hammond visited relatives here over Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Worden returned home Friday, evening from a short visit in Chicago. Several members of the local I. 0.0.. F .•attended lodge meeting at Monon Saturday evening.

Hurley Beam was down from Chicago to s/end Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam. Our line of Cooper union suits for men, in cotton and wool, are sure to please you.— Rowles & Parker. George Robinson, who has been visiting here several days, returned to his home at Connersville Saturday. ~ H. R. Kurrie and family me icred to Fowler Sunday to spend the day with friends from Sheldon, 111., who met them there. Anti-Phymin kills the germs of Tuberculosis, Asthma, Catarrh and Hay Fever. One day’s trial and you are convinced. For sale by A. F. Long. Mrs. John Sharp and little babe of Chicago Heights came Thursday to spend, a few.days” with Joseph Sharp and family, and other relatives and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Len Lefler motored here from Lafayette Saturday evening to spend Sunday at their farm and with relatives, returning home Sunday evening. Mrs. Eli Arnold and daughter of Barkley tp., left Saturday for Wisconsin where they will visit Dan Lesli. They were accompanied as far as Chicago by Mi. Arnold. Mrs. James Kennedy of New Brunswick, Ind., came Saturcay io visit a short time with and Mrs. G. F. Meyers, going to Roselawn that evening to spend Sunday. . The marriage of Mr. Howard Mills and Miss Martha Parkison will take place Saturday at 9 a. m., at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Parkison. Everett Halstead of Newton ip., who attended the Farmers’ National Congress at Columbus, 0., has The Democrat’s thanks for copies of the Columbus papers containing reports of the meeting.

Abouty twenty-five from here went to Parr on the milk train Saturday to attend the annua! Fall Festival, and a larger number. no doubt, would have gone had the weather not been so threatening. Sheriff Hoover. X. Littlefie’d. Joe Davisson and Frank Kresler have each purchased new mode! T Ford touring cars, and drove them in Sunday. Mr. Davisson purchased all the cars and sold to the other parties. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nagel and son and daughter returned home from Lafayete Saturday evening where they were called last week to attend the funeral of a relative. Joe, Jr., and Miss Loretta returned home Sunday afternoon. John R. W alsh, the Chicago banker indicted on 189 counts for breaking the national laws and sentenced to five years in the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan., has been paroled i after serving about a year and a half of his sentence. I / E. C. Williams of Medaryville was here today starting the preliminary work as construction commissioner on the Ketman o." Monon ditch. He has “some task” anead of him. all right, but he has both the energy- and the ability to handle it, assiyß'-d as he will be by the guiding hand, of Judge Steis.—Pulaski County Democrat,

W. R. Shesler w r as a Mown business visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Abbott spent Monday in Chicago. Hay Fever is positively cured by the use of Anti-Phymin. Sold t>y A. F. Long.. Gideon Coffman went to Indianapolis Monday on a few days business trip. Mrs. Nuthall, the new music teacher in the city schools, spent Sunday in Chicago. Scot Chestnut returned home Sunday from a few days .visit with Chicago friends. E. B. McColly of Chicago Heights was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Don't buy a sweater coat until you have seen' our Bradley V line.—Rowles & Parker. Miss Agnes Platt went to Parr Saturday to spend a few days there visiting friends. Mrs. J. F. Walker tp. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Gaylord Michael, a south of town. Sylvester Criswell, who is employed here, went to his home near Brookston to spend Sunday. Lvman Zea left Monday on a week’s business trip to Chalmers, Battle Ground, Brookston and Lafayette. Walter Lutz, Clarence Smith and Fay Clarke spent Sunday here with home folks, returning to Purdue Monday.

John Medicus, who is employed at Chicago Heights, returned there Monday after a short visit here with his family. Dr. E. N. Loy, B. F. Fendig, Dr. I. Al. Washburn and Mose Leopold went to Chicago Monday to see a ball game. Mrs. J. J. Baumbaugh returned to her home near Delphi Monday after a visit here with her brother-in-law, J. H. Perkins and family. Lawrence Hawkins of Indianapolis came up Saturday tl> spend a short time here visiting his sister, Airs. J. D. Allman, and family. Anti-Phymin puts a stop to night sweats, day chills and fever, that take the strength of Tuberculosis patients. For sale by A. F. Long. Airs. C. G. Spitler left Alonday for a short visit with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth, at Oxford, Ohio,. who is attending school there this year. Herbert eZa has gone to Gary where he has been promised a good steady job for the coming winter, but is undecided as to whether or not he would remain there.

The Carroll County' Citizen says that President Shafer of the new paper railroad to run from Indianapolis to Chicago, is a former principal of the Delphi high school. The rain Friday night and Saturday morning caused the Parr Fall Festival to be almost a failure. More rain came in the afternoon, which also kep* many away. Lewis Nichols. who has bad charge of £he Aix store for several months, has decided to move back to town and take a position in the Home Grocery. He will move in this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, son George, and Miss Nell Moody left Sunday- morning via auto for Oxford, Ohio, to visit Miss Martha Long, who is attending school there. They will return the latter part of the week. There was a litle fistic set-to as Parr Saturday 7 between John [.akin and S. A. BrUsnahan, and as a result the former was placed under a peace bond of S2OO. The ’rouble grew out of an argument over some stock of one of the parties getting into the other’?corn. James Clark, who is employed by the Smith & Thompson road contracting company on its contract at' Wanatah, returned there Monday after a short visit here with his wife. Several of the Other men from here who are employed on the road also'spent Sunday at home.

Ollie Rhoads spent yesterday in Chicago. Willis Lutz was a Chicago business visitor Monday. H. J. Hornaday was a Lafayette bihc«rcss visitor Mrs. Stockton, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Charles Porter spent yesterday in Chicago. Mrs. Mary E. Drake is having a heating plant installed in her residence south of town. Miss Alice Daniels has been confined to the house for the past week with tonsilitis. Oscar Leech spent Sunday with his jfister, Mrs. O. A. Garriott, and family at Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wallace returned Monday evening from a day’s visit with relatives in Chicago. Mrs. John A. Williams of Wheatfield returned home Saturday after a week’s visit with relatives and friends here. \ . ■ The Pythian Sisters will hold their regular monthly social at the home of Mrs. C. W. Duvall tomorrow afternoon.

Mrs. Mary Rutledge of Kirksville, Mo., is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. E. Brown, and neice, Mrs. A. K. Yeoman. Bert Sparling returned home Saturday from a prospecting trip in the west. He purchasel a 160 acre farm near Windfall, Kan. Mrs. Alary E. Lowe underwent a slight surgical operation Friday afternoon, the operation being performed by a Chicago specialist. C. P, Fate, proprietor of the Alakeever House, has invested if. a “Flanders 20” touring car which he purchased of the local agents, Drs. Catt and Meyers. Ray Wood went to Chicago Sunday to see hfs wife who is recuperating in a hospital from the effects of a recent operation. She will be brought home in a few days. Air. and Airs. Frank Rushmore of North Yakima, Wash., stopped off here a few days ago for. a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amsler, while on their way east to visit with relatives. Russell Sage, who went to Gary a short time ago with the expectation of secyring a position driving an auto truck, returned home Alouday evening, having failed to secure same. Because they were unable to longer pay his salary, the members of the Baptist church Sunday morning asked for the resignation of their pastor, Rev. J. P. Green, which was made, at once. Harve Robinson went to Francesville yesterday for a short visit. He will soon take :ip Ernest Clark’s position here as linotype operator, having given up his traveling salesman job. * A special train carrying several high moguls of th.e Al mon and several of the section foremen passed through here about noon Alonday. They were looking over the road with the intention of offering suggestions for the improvement of conditions along the route.

A card received from Christie Vick, Centralia, Wash., says they- are all as well as can be expected in these days of republican rule of combines and trusts, with prices of foodstuff sky high. Eggs are 42 cents per dozen there and potatoes 1% cents per pound, he says. Omar Elder went to Franklin Sunday' to see his brother Leonard who was reported in the Sunday papers as being badly hurt in a football game at Bloomington Saturday afternoon. He found that his brother’s injuries had been exaggerated. and that he was ifot seriously hurt. James Hallagan returned home Saturday from Bedford, lowa, where he is trying to have a set aside, that was made by ex-county commissioner Sim Dowell, (the cattle dealer) to his wife, in order that he might collect a judgment sor 1 SI,BOO ■against Sim, for the driving off a lot of cattle belonging to the Hallagans, secured, in the White circuit court several years ago.

George Kepner, who is employed at Keokuk, la., spent a few days, visiting relatives here this week and the latter part'd! last, returning to Keokuk Monday evening. Airs. Sarah A.' Pruett returned from Greencastle Saturday after a visit of several weeks with relatives and. old friends. While there she met a lady she had not seen for 61 years, with whom she had gone to school many years before. Airs. Abel Grant, who has been spending several months in the w«st, visiting at Denver, Colorado Springs. Salt Lake, San Francisco and several other places of interest, returned home Saturday \froni Spokane, where she has been visiting relatives for a few weeks. Ray Thompson has sold his Maxwell runabout to a resident of Newland. The deal is reported to have been made with the assistance of Ed Oliver, who is an enthusiastic motorist of that town. The consideration was about S3OO. Ray is as yet undecided about buying another car.

Airs. John Chamberlain and daughter, Aliss May, who have benn visiting with her brother-in-law at Chalmers for the past few days, returned here Alonday evening, and left yesterday for their home in Benton Harbor, Alich. Next week they will leave for Tombstone, Ariz., where Alay is employed as assistant court reporter to John Walker, who was formerly employed in that capacity in this city. Rev. Lewis S. Smith of Greencastle, assistant endowment secretary of DePau w University, came Alonday and will remain here a few days in order to interest some of our people in the $500,000 endowment fund for DePauw, over $400,000 of which has already been subscribed. January 1 is the limit for raising the balance. Or, in other words, they must raise $400,000 by that time in order to secure SIOO,OOO from the Rockefeller fund. The doors for the Monon’s* new station, the arrival of which have so delayed the work of finishing the depot, are udw here and are bei ng~lt is expected the new depot will be the stopping place for trains not later than next Sunday or Alonday. All of the inside woodwork has been stained, and only a litle finishing, now remains to be done. The final touches and acceptance by the railroad company after which the station headquarters will be moved with all haste. The furniture, except some of the sears for the waiting room, has already arrived and is being installed. Morocco Young Couple Elope. Charlotte Sayers, fifteen year old daughter of Air. and Airs. Wm. Sayers, and Jesse Hickman, a young man said to be of age or nearly so, left Sunday for Michigan wherte they were marriel. The groom’s brother went with them to testify to their ages. They returned Tuesday to the Duffy ranch where" the groom’s brother lives, and later to the groom’s parents’ home north of town. The bride’s parents, it is stated, were -much displeased and threatened to arrest the young man for kidnapping. —Alorocco Courier.

BROUGHT HERE TO BURY. ' ' -'ll Son of Mrs. Nellie Manahan o? Wellington, 111., Dies of Appendicitis. Ross Manahan, the 17-year-old son of Mrs. Nellie Manahan; of Wellington, 111., died at 5 a. I m., Monday in a Lafayette hospital, where he was taken just a week ago before to be treated for appendicitis. Mrs. Manahan is a teacher in the Welington school and Ross was the school house janitor. He was taken sick Sunday, Oct. 8, and was taken to Lafayete the next day. He was operated on last Friday 1 night, but died Monday. The remains were brought i here and the funeral will be helu! this morning at 9:30 a. m., from the Presbyterian church, con-I ducted by Rev. Arthur H. Smith of W ellington. Hl.,- assisted by i Rev. C. L. Harper of Trinity M. E. church, and interment made in Weston cemetery. Mrs.. Manahan is a siste- of Wesley', George, Lem and Temple Hamerten. and Mrs. Cripps an-.! M : ss Eva Ha npireton ofRensselaer.

Public Sales. The , Democrat- s has printed bills for the following public sales: Thursday, Oct. 19, T. F. Murphy, % mile east and % mile north of Surrey. General sale of horses, cattle, farm tools, etc Monday, Oct. 23, the John Knopinski farm, 60 acres, 8 miles east and 1 mile north of Rensselaer. Sale begins at 11 a. in. Wednesday, Oct. 25, Adam Flesher, 1 mile west and 1-4 mile south of Newland. Big stock sale, 3 horses, 35 head of cattle, 20 head of sheep, 60 head of hogs.

Have Not Bought Newspaper.

The Democrat is in receipt oi a card from Mrs. H. J. Bartco, who ’’s visiting in Remington, stating that the report that Mr. Bartoo had purchased a paper in Wabash county was incorrect She says: "The Bartoq-AHen Printing Co. is still a very prosperous concern in Tacoma, and we trust always will oe. It is true we expect to remain in Indiana this winter, owing to Mr. Bartoo’s desire to be near his mother, and we are expecting to lease a paper at North Man Chester. We are not buying nor have never had- any desire to buy anywhere as our home and interests are in Tacoma, and out length of stay in Indiana is only temporary.”

Reflections on the Purtelle Case.

To a person not initiated into the intricacies of our laws it is incomprehensible why it should be possible in this land of the free and the brave that an adventurer of the Purtelle type could go about pestering lawabiding citizens, contracting debts and paying them with worthless checks, and so on. If a stranger had come to this community and had stolen large amounts of money, some thirty dollars from Roy Cheseman, an equal amount from Frank Moore, and had robbed poor foreigners of a few hundred dollars, he would be sent to the penitentiary. What is the difference from a practical standpoint, whether money in a person’s possession is taken away from him, or money which in justice belongs to him, is kept from him. To a lay mind it would appear that when Eugene Purtelle gave Roy Cheseman, Frank, Moore, and the foreigners worthless checks, the wrong done to them was practically just as great as if the money had been stolen from them. It would futhermore appear that these victims should find protection in the law of the land and in the courts of justice and that the author of such worthless checks should not go unpunished. In our anomalous situation, however, we behold the contrary: Eugene Purtelle goes scot free and the poor victims are not only out of their money, but in addition to this loss must pay a fine. It was no violation of justice on their part to present a check for payment when such check was given them for value received. Why should they be held liable for the cost of protesting Purtelle’s paper while he who is tne direct cause of this expense remains unmolested? Do these conditions, when judged in the light of reason, not lead to the conclusion that in such matters our laws, far from being a protection to the members of society, have become a delusion and a snare? If Eugene Purtelle' sincerely desires to accomplish his avowed purpose, there is Qnly one way open to him. This has been pointed out repeatedly by the Rensselaer papers. Let him gain the confidence of the public. Let him pay his honest debts. Let him cast off his methods of cunning and scheming and be governed by sound

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principles. Let him produce evidence of his ability and good wii! to build the interurban road so eagerly desired by the vast majority of our citizens and he will find financial and moral support. The people are anxious to see the enterprise brought to a successful issue. If, however, Eugene Purtelle chooses to persist in following his tactics of file past, let the citizens take proper steps to rid the community of this nuisance. —A Subscriber.

If You Ever Aviate. - If you’re married to 4, lady, 1 But have left the lady’s side Without leaving Information As to where you will abide; If you hope to never meet the Person formerly your mate. Then I'd urgently advise you , Never, never aviate. If you owe a party money 5 And would rather owe it still, 1 • Keeping a respectful distance From the person with the bill; If. tn brief, you’d rather never ; , Dig the coin and liquidate. Then, whatever you may turn to, ' ' Never, never aviate. If you’ve robbed a bank or burgled i In a residential way. If a party most repugnant ** Formerly you chanced to slay; If. in short, your circumstances All suggest a quiet state, • *. Then this little tip remember— Never, never aviate. You may be a "gifted author” * • And the public's eye avoid. You may be a rising statesman. By Its notice unannoyed; In the seat vice presidential You may live retired, elate. But you’re doomed to advertisement If you ever aviate. With the eyes of thousands on you As you skim above the crowd It’s a dollar to a doughnut Some one will exclaim aloud: “Well, I never! That’s my husband. Debtor, burglar, silre as fate!” Oh. you’re sure to be discovered If you go and aviate! —Chicago Inter Ocean.

Rough on the Joker.

They were two subeditors and, meeting in Fleet street, began to talk of their mutual friends. “What’s this 1 hear about old Jox, the humorist?” asked one. “They say he's gone to a hospital or home.” "Yes,” said the other sub sadly. "He’s worked himself into a terrible state of nervous prostration. Afraid It’s incurable.” _ “Hard lines! But how did he come to do lt?’ “Well, you see,” said the sympathetic sub, “six weeks ago he got a fine answer to a riddle—‘one’s a chauffeur and the other’s a fur show’—and he’s never been able to sleep since, trying to find the conundrum it would make a good answer to.’’—London Express.

Experienced Mabel.

"John,” said the sweet young thing about to get married. “I hope you won’t be like all the other married men." “What do you mean, my dear?’ “Mabel says they’re all alike. She was over this afternoon giving me the benefit of her experience. You know she knows all about men.” “She does? And when was Mabel married?’ "Last June.”—Detroit Free Press.

The Unexpected.

A Michigan man gave his wife S3OO to put in some safe place, and she hid it in the oven of an old stove—the inevitable old stove. Of course you know the result. Somebody started a fire. And only a few charred fragments of the little fortune remained? Not this time. It was all in silver dollars.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Her Only Way.

"Can you tell me bow to be beautiful?” J “Certainly." “Then tell me.” “The same way a man succeeds In entering the kingdom of heaven.” “1 don’t quite remember”— “Except a man be born again be cannot—ouch! Leggo my hair!"—Houston Post

Quick Action.

“They tell me you took a flier in Wall street” “Yes.” replied Mr. Lambkin. "For a little while 1 was considerably ahead.” “How much?” “Can’t say. Before I had time to figure it.up the market dropped and wiped me out”—Washington Star.

Got the Name Wrong.

“I don’t like your heart action.” the doctor said, applying the stethoscope again. “‘You have bad some trouble with angina pectoris.” •■’You’re partly right doctor.” said the young man sheepishly, “only that' ain’t her name.”—lndianapolis Medical Journal.