Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Page 8
News Notes of Nearby Towns 7® peningi in the Territory * y Adjacent to the Jar per ffAr Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents I I I County Metropolis
IROQUOIS VALLEY. | —| ; 1— M. Burns was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Wm. Daugherty was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Wm: Nuss and family spent this week with Wm. Green. Mrs, Bertha Lewis is picking apples at Alfred Randle’s. Barney Kolhoff called on James Newcomb Tuesday evening. “tethel Marlatt and Bessie Styles were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.W. N. Henkle attended the Flesher sale this week. Mrs.' M,_, Tudor-Jcalled on Mrs. Isaac ■Walker Wednesday evening. John Newcomb bought some hogs at Adam Flesher’s sale Wednesday. W. N. Jenkins is spending da vs at his brother, Ed Jenkin’s.X Mr. Pickett of Indianapolis is visiting With Emmet Pullins a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant Spent Tuesday with Garland Grant and father. Wm. Whittaker is about the first in our vicinity to begin husking corn to crib. Clarence Green and family called on his father, Wm. Green and family, Wednesday. Ethel Marlatt and Bessie Styles called on K. Zllhart and family Sunday evening. Mrs. J. W. Hurley, who has been very sick, is not much better at this writing. Heferline Bros, are having their engine repaired at the K. Zillhart shop, , getting ready to shred corn. Eib’s. Arnold's and Gallagher’s ha.» been hauling their apples to different stations to be shipped the past week. Will Durant has closed his cane mill after having made several hundred gallons of molasses and now has a fat pocketbook.
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—| .j WHEATFIELD. I —| j James Spry went to Lowell Tuesday. John Bowie visited his daughter at Rattle Creek, Mich., over Sunday. Mrs. Fred Priest of Chicago attended the funeral of her neice here Wednesday. Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Fyfe and children went to Chicago Wednesday for a few days. Mrs. Fritz and children of Chicago spent Sunday with her brother, John Greve, and family.,Miss June Jessup spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jessup, of Hanna. C. D. Gregory finished up his Starke county canvassing last week and is now home for a few days. Mrs. Lew Spaulding and sister-in-law of Goodland, came Friday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Nate Keen. Mr. and Mrs. Will Greve, who have been in Florida the past year, are visiting his father, John Greve, and wife. Mary and Harry Stembel went to South Bend Friday evening for a two days visit with their aunt, Mrs. Jacoo Melscr. Mrs. O. M. Jumper and daughter Oiine of Lacross visited over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gird Hendrickson. Mrs. Mina Dahncke was ca.led to the home of her son Henry at Monon Tuesday by the accidental death of his little daughter.
The funeral services of little Minnie Dahncke of Monon were conducted by Rev. Mcßrayer at the M. E. church Wednesday at 1 p. m. Mrs. John W. Tilton and children of Rensselaer returned home Wednesday from a few days visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Greve. C. J. Hobbs bf Kersey, who has been confined to his bed at the home of Joseph Hilliard as a result , of the motoj- car accident two weeks ago, was able to return home with his wife Thursday.
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—1 1— LEE. | —? ]_ David Culp and son J. H. made a business trip to Rensselaer Tuesday. Clyde Clark and wife of Morocco visited relatives here the latter part of the week. Several from here attended the horse Show at Monticello Friday and Saturday of this week. Charles and Clayton Mellender of near Francesville visited relatives here Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. Ray Holeman and son Kenneth of near Reynolds came to her mother's, Mrs Gilmore’s, on Thursday of last -week to be with the sewing circle. 'James Anderson, who makes his
home here with his brother Cal and whose health has been poorly for .several years, was not so well again this week. On Thursday of last week the Ladies’ Aid did all day sewing and quilting and knotting comforts for Mrs. Gilmore. Twenty-five ladies ate dinner and all had a very nice time. Oct. 21, Orval Holeman and Myrtle Lewis, two esteemed young people of our neighborhood, were married at Monticello. Their many friends wish them a very successful journey trhough life.
Foley’s Kidney Remedies vs. a Hopeless Case. Hon, Ark. J. E. Freeman says: “I had a severe case of kidney trouble and could not work and trouble and could not work and my case seemed hopeless. One large bottle of Foley’s Kidney Remedy cured me and I have never been bothered since, I always rcemmend it.”- —A. F. Long.
FAIR OAKS. | —■ ■— Abe Bringle and wife were Chicago goers Tuesday. News is very scarce in one neck of the woods tfijs week. George Casey of near Aix was a business caller here Wednesday. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Miss ‘ Hannah Culp's Wednesday evening. ■ George Marshall went to Davenport. lowa, last week to visit relatives a few days. Rev. Downey, the new M. E. pastor, preached his frst sermon here Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Lou Moffitt, who went down about Kentland a week ago to husk corn, returned home Tuesday. Sol Norman and wife of Parr, who have been out in Washington and Idaho visiting friends and relatives the past month, returned Tuesday evening. Sam Crawford is making preparations to go to Montana in the near future for the benefit of his, health. He will fix up a. light rig and drive through. We have ”%een having fine weather so far this week. Had a very heavy frost Monday night and there was considerable ice frozen on standing water. Mrs. J. W. Noland, who has been living With her son at‘Zion City since ner husband died last spring, came back to Fair Oaks Monday, expecting to spend the winter here. Mr. Abel moved into the Dodge property Tuesday and Bert Warren, who lived in Sam Potts' house in the west part of town, moved into the house vacated by Abel. G. R. Will, who formerly worked for J. J. Lawler will move into the house vacated by Warren.
| THE NORTHSIDE. .—.—•— Bob Nickelson called on Peter Wolf Tuesday. Mrs. I. F. Meader was a Parr goer Wednesday. Mrs. Dexter called on Mrs. John Alter Wednesday. Jack Reeder was in Rensselaer on business Saturday. Wm. Florence and family called on B. D. Comer Sunday. Jack Reeder was out selling beef near Kniman Tuesday. Roscoe Reeder has resigned his position with the Sparling Bros. Louis Schreeg bought a fat cow of A. R. Schultz one day last week. Fern McColly of Virgie is reported slowly improving from her serious illness. . There will be a literary at Center school. Union tp., Nov. 2. Everybody invited. Edward Casey of Lowell came Wednesday to visit his parents, returning Thursday. Charles Swanke took a load of potatoes to Rensselaer Wednesday. Mr. Swanke had a large crop of very fine spuds. The Faylor brothers will run a corn shredder this fall. They are equipped to do satisfactory work, even to the blowing of the whistlek
OBITUARY. Cynthia A. Blakly was born in Rush county, Ind., July 19. 1831, died Oct. 22, 1911, aged 80 years, 3 months and 3 days. She was united in marriage to Isaac Parks of Plymouth, Ind., April 27, 1848. To this union five children were born, George O. of Carroll county, and Clayburn L. of Surrey, Ind., still living. An infant child, James W. and Mrs. Ladora Peters of Sidney. 111., preceded her to the better world. In 1882 she was again united in marriage to Hiram Samson of Minnesota. No children were bom to this union. On account of failing health she came and made her Mme for the past three years with her son, C. L. Parks, near Surrey, where she spent her last days. Interment was made in Mt. Hope cemetery at Sidney, 111., where her other relatives had been laid to rest. She did not belong to any earthly church at death, but in the last days often spoke of the safety she felt, as being with the Blood Washed throng traveling to the better land. CARD OF THANKS. C. L. Parks and family wish to express their thanks to their friends and neighbors for the kindness shown during the sickness and death of their mother and grandmother Genuine Quaker Parchment butter wrappers, either blank or printed; in any quantity desired at The Democrat office.
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
INDIANAPOLIS—Indictments were returned by the grand jury charging two officers and two employes of the Browji-Ketchham Iron works, one of the largest structural iron and steel concerns in the middle west, with em-,= bezzlement. W. H. Brown, J. L. Ketcham, secretary and treasurer; F. J. Vinson, auditor, and H. Holliday, paymaster, are the men indicted. Vinson and Halliday had been arrested on affidavits. Brown and Ketcham were indicted after the receiver for the corporation had made a report that its funds had been depleted to the extent of $50,000 through overdrafts by some of its officials. INDIANAPOLIS The epidemic of diphtheria in the state has spread to virtually every county, according to J. P. Simonds, head of the pathological laboratory of the state board of health. All the test tubes the laboratory had on hand have been made use of, and ? additional help has been procured to aid in the handing of the cultures. The state board authorities are bending every effort to handle the cultures, as they believe early action in this respect is responsible for the small death rate that has characterized the epidemic thus far.
SOUTH BEND—The limit in holdups of ’ the many that have been reported to the police during the epidemic of crime that has been rampant in South Bend during the last four weeks took place when a masked man entered the office of the Staples, Hildebrand, Mason company, and, pointing a revolver at Miss Grace Bowerman, cashier, forced her to turn over to him S3O. A few minutes before an official of the concern had taken the day’s receipts to a bank. The man escaped. HAMMOND—Robert Burnett, aged nine years, is in a critical condition as a result of attempting a flight from the roof of a barn in an aeroplane, which he had made for himself. Robert made a flying machine of pieces of board walk, his mother’s clothes line and sheets. The steering wheel was part of his mother’s washing machine. In his mother’s absence he got the apparatus on top of a barn, seated himself in it arid pushed off. He was found unconscious in the debris. LOGANSPORT—A wire which was stretched across a road on the property of the Gasparis Stone company broke the glass wind shield of a machine driven by O. H. Binns, general manager, caught him in the mouth and lifted him out of the automobile. His teeth were loosened, his mouth split at the corners and he was badly bruised and shocked.
PORTLAND The Rev. James W. Kerr, pastor of the Methodist Salamonia circuit, is missing from his home in Salamonia. He disappeared the first of last week. The Rev. Kerr has been a resident of Salamonia since last April. He was formerly stationed at Forest, Ind. His family consists of his wife and one son about fourteen years old. NEWCASTLE Jacob Cole, twen-ty-one years old, the son of Andrew Cole of this city, was killed while working with a haybaler on the John Harlan farm, northwest of here. A piece of heavy iron broke loose and struck him in the breast, crushing him and causing instant death He was unmarried. WABASH William Wallace a dealer in automobiles, was fined SBO, including costs, in the circuit court on a charge of having assaulted Prosecuting Attorney Walter Bent. The assault was made after Bent had thrice prosecuted Wallace for exceeding the speed limit while driving. EVANSVILLE William C. Hogan, a lineman in the employ of the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company, while working on top of a telephone pole here, lost his footing and fell to the sidewalk, a distance of forty feet He was instantly killed. The deceased was single.
MONON While she was crossing a street on her way to school, Minnie Dahnke, seven years old, daughter of a merchant, was run down by an automobile, sustaining injuries which resulted in her death. The machine was driven by Olney Goble, owner of a local garage. EVANSVILLE—After having been out two days the jury trying John W. Blauth for embezzling J43,000 from the Evansville Trust company reported its inability to agree The jurors stood 7 to 5 for acquittal. The case will not be up for retrial until next year. INDIANAPOLIS Judge Markey of the criminal. court sentenced John H. H. Demar, colored, to life imprisonment after a jury had found him guilty of murder in the first degree. Demar shot and killed his wire, Lizzie Demar, March 9. BLOOMFIELD While he was working in the Eph Cassidy sawmill, William Arthur, aged twenty, fell across a ripsaw and was instantly killed, his body being cut almost in two. i LAFAYETTE Gilbert McGuire aged four years, son of George McGuire, fell into a boiler full of boiling water and was so badly scalded that b« died three hours later.
For the Children
Good Joke at the Children's Party.
Photo by American Press Association.
At a summer resort in the Catskill mountains there was given not long hgo a masquerade party for the little folks. The photograph shows two of the participants who took the characters of bride and groom. The bride was very mucb admired by all who saw them and complimented on her sweet and demure demeanor. And here is where the joke comes in. for there was much laughter when the truth was made known. It turned out that the beautiful bride who had been so much admired was a little boy dressed in bridal array, while the proud groom proved to be a girl in boy’s clothing. They were the big hit of the masquerade.
How to Make a Compass. A magnetic needle is very easily made where a magnet may be had. This, as you know, is used to ascertain the presence of iron. A bit of fine steel wire, or a long thin stocking needle which has had a quarter of an inch cut off at the point is to be heated in the center until it is capable of being slightly bent; then, while hot. a piece ®f sealing wax is attached to the center, and the point which was cut off. being made hot at the thick end. is to be fixed in the wax, so that the sharp end may serve as a pivot, descending about one-eighth of an inch below the center, taking care that both ends of the needle fall enqugh below the pivot to keep it from overturning. It is now ready to be magnetized. This may be done by sliding an end of the magnet half a dozen times or so' from the center to one end of the needle, and treating the other end in the same manner. A small brass thimble is best for the support the point of the pivot being placed in one of the indentations near the center of the top. when, if well balanced, it will turn until it points due north and south. If one side tends to preponderate. it should be nipped until balance be restored.
Conundrums. When is a chicken’s neck like a bell? When It is rung for dinner. Why does Sweden not have to send abroad for cattle? Because she keeps her Stock-holm. . What Is the difference between a clock and a partnership? When a clock is wound up it goes: when a firm is wound up it stops. When do the teeth usurp the tongue’s rights? Wbgri they are chattering. What should you do if you split your sides with laughter? Run till you ggt a stitch in them. Why is Sunday the strongest day In the week? Because the rest are week (weak) days. Why is a plowed field like feathered game? Because it’s part-ridges. Why is a crow the bravest bird in the world? Because it never shows the white feather.
Oldest Newspaper. The Tslng Pao, or Peking News, Is the oldest newspaper in the world, having been issued regularly for nearly 1,400 years. Its circulation is about 10.000. The extreme care necessary In publishing this paper Is shown by the fact that until recent years the punishment for an error in printing was instant death. Another Chinese newspaper. the Kin Pan. is a thousand years old.—Grit. One Busy Potato. Did you know that if there were but one good potato in the world and that was placed under the care of a first class gardener it would probably produce 10.000.000 other tubers in ten years’ time’; Marjorie's Feast. “Oh. won’t you have a piece of nice minpe pie? And here’s a bit of lobster salad, dear. These oysters, fried, you'll surely like to try. And do you take your coffee strong and clear?" Much more I heard behind the maple tree About ice cream and caramels and cake. I thought. “What careless mothers there must be When children these forbidden dainties take!” [ passed the open gate and entered there. The Land of Make-Believe—enchanted land! And Marjorie, with hospitable air. Gave me a generous dish of clean, whits sand. —Chicago News.
GENERAL NEWS.
KANSAS CITY, MO.—Dr. Benjamin Clarke Hyde was placed on trial fora second time, charged with murdering Colonel Thomas H Swope with poison. The verdict of the first jury, which May 16, 1910, found Dr. Hyde guilty and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment, was reversed and the case was remanded for retrial by the Missouri supreme court April 11 last A special effort is being made by all attorneys concerned in this trial to make speed. A force of deputy marshals worked se/ving the last of the 200 special veniremen from whom the jury will be selected. It was thought the jury would be filled by the end of this week. The entire trial will last not more than three weeks, it .is believed. MILAN, ITALY—Both the British and German ambassadors had a long interview with the minister of foreign affairs, with the view of concluding the conflict between Italy and Turkey. It is said in official quarters that Turkey must abandon the idea of even a threatening demonstration with her squadron, as that would oblige the Italian fleet tc keep it under observation. If Turkey desires peace she must definitely renounce what she already lost. If that be done now Italy is prepaied, considering Turkey’s position. to give indemnity. Later Italy would not only refuse to pay indemnity, but would demand it herself.
CINCINNATI, OHIO--The Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank of Vandalia, 111., has filed its appeal in the circuit court of appeals against the verdict given against it in the federal court of Michigan. It brought suit in that court against former Sheriff Harrison W. Mains of Port Huron, seeking to recover $11,431 from him as damages. It was the bank’s claim that the sheriff, in making an execution levy for the bank, had failed through negligence to attach enough property when he might have done so, with the result that the bank was loser to the amount sued for. The Michigan court and jury decided in favor of Mains. NEW YORK—The federal navy yard shops and commissary department of the army in New York city are to be the subject of an examination by .the congressional committee which is ingovernment properties in this section of the country. The committee, which is composed of Congressmen Redfield of Brooklyn, W. B. Wilson of Pennsylvania and John Q. Tilson of New Haven, began its investigation of the Taylor and other systems of scientific management as applied to government shops in Boston last week.
WASHINGTON—A tribute to the government employe Is written in the annual report of Charles H. Whipple, paymaster general of the army, in a plea for an increase of salary and a system of retirement when the employe reaches the age of incapacity. Referring to the “50 per cent increase in the cost of living during the last fifteen years,” without a corresponding advance in pay, General Whipple says the additional pay is asked not as a reward for services, “but as a necessity.” r NEWBERG, N. Y.—Governor John A. Dix paid an unostentatious visit to Matteawan state hospital for the criminal insane, where Harry Thaw is confined. His visit was without knowledge of anyone at the hospital, it being his request that formalities be abandoned. He was taken through several of the wards and had Harry Thaw pointed out to him in one of the corridors. The governor paused and looked at Thaw for several minutes, and then passed on without making any comment.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The health officers of this city confessed that they could not say when the diphtheria epidemic is to be crushed out. Cultures taken from the throats of teachers and children in the public and parochial schools show that the disease is far from abating and the health authorities ordered parents to keep at home children unedr sixteen. Orders have been issued for the closing of all theaters, picture shows and other places of amusement to children. PEORIA, ILL. —About two thousand school teachers from nineteen counties, composing the Military Tract Educational association, attended the fourth annual convention of the association. The principal addresses were given by J’. N. Hurty, M. D., secretary of the state board of health or Indiana, and William H. Allen, director of the bureau of municipal research, of New York city. . LAFAYETTE, IND. Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, has accepted an invitation to speak at the centennial of the battle of Tippecanoe and has been selected to preside at the evening meeting the night of Nov. 7. ROME—An official army bulletin reports that the Turks lost 400 killed and more than 800 wounded at Bengazi. It is farther reported that the Turkish troops, which retired in disorder inland, are trying to rally. MEXICO CITY, MEX.—Official notices from the state of Tabasco minimize the danger from the revolution tvhich started there when 200 armed hen proclaimed Reyes as president md cantured two small towns in the naintains.
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT
Captain Howe, Yale Star Back Field Man.
Photo by American Press Association.
Although Yale has practically lost her entire back field since last season, Eli coaches are optimistic and declarethat the Blue will have a formidableaggregation behind the line before the big games with Princeton and Harvard. The 'coaches have some splendid material from the 1910 eleven. Captain Howe and Kistler are the only ones left. Yale’s greatest fortune is the possession of Howe as quarterback. This is his third year on the team. He held down the position on Captain Coy’swell nigh perfect eleven in 1909, and last year he was aliout all that stood between the team and utter rout.
Women Take Up Rowing on Coast. According to a report from Berkeley. Cal., a varsity intercollegiate boat racebet ween women crews from the University of California and Stanford isthe latest innovation in college athletic activities, and if the present plans of the California women do not miscarry the Pacific coast college public will witness the spectacle of two women’s crews struggling for victory over a regulation racing course equipped with a regulation shell. Rowing as a purely local short been carried on in the University of California for some time, and interclass races between women crews of the two classes have been held every year on Lake Merritt as one of the features of the women's day celebration. __ Moriarty Boosts Clark Griffith. George Moriarty, the injured thirdsacker and captain of the Detroit Tigers, is still one of the stanchest admirers of Clark Griffith. Moriarty recently was shown a newspaper story in’which Ira Thomas said some ninethings about the former Highlander leader, and George echoed Ira’s sentiments. “ ‘Griff’ is the finest in thebusiness.” said Moriarty, “and this talk about results don’t go with me. He knows everything that is to be known about baseball, but is the unluckiest man in the game. 1 almost believe if the magnates let Griffith have Cobb. Crawford, Eddie Collins, Chase. Lajoie and Mathewson, the whole bunch would immediately be caught in a railroad wreck.” a Tennis Players Have Their Foibles. The tennis players, like all otherclasses of sportsmen, have their foibles, their strong and weak spots and some individual characteristics. Oneman may have a terrific service, while ’another may be endowed with a fearfully strong backhand, and still another with a terrible forehand, and on the other points there may be a string good at passing, court covering., volleying, baseline, driving and overhand smashes. Nearly every player in the front rank today shows some methods peculiarly his owm. Beer Goes Into Sewer. Greenfield, Ind., Oct. 27.—Two and a half barrels of beer and more than 390 pints of bottled beer confiscated by the police in the raid on blind tigers at Shirley were emptied in the sewer in front of the mayor’s office in thiscity. Purdue Man Made Wiley Aid. Washington, Oct. 27. —Professor A. W. Bitting of Purdue university was appointed food Technologist to assist Dr. Harvey Wiley in the enforcement, of the pure / food laws Cunning. ' Maud —It’s singular Ethel is so coy. Jack—Not at all; her object is to decoy.—Boston Transcript.