Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — Page 8

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i LEE, | 4 Harold LaMar is on the sick list. The ladies cleaned the church here W ednesday. Charles Jones shredded corn Tuesday for Isaac Parcels. Creighton Clark, who has beep working on a dredge in lowa, is home again. Charles Jacks and family visited his wife’s parents, John' Ward and wife, of Milroy last Sunday. Orvai Holeman and wife visited Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Prank Webb, Jr. of north of Monon. ~ Jacks Bros, are very busy now buying turkeys and so much corn is coming in for them to weigh and handle. Orvai Holeman and wife moved to Rensselaer this week and commenced housekeeping. He has secured a job. Some of Mr. and Mrs. LaMar s neighbors tendered them a surprise Saturday night before they left for their new home in FrancesYille. Estle Osborne and family of near Rensselaer attended church here Sunday and then visited with his parents, John Osborne and family. Mrs. Kate Holeman visited several days the latter part of last week with her brother,* John Mellender, and family of east of Francesville. G. A. Jacks and wife and his brother, S: M. Jacks and their sister, Mrs. Etta Lefler, visited their uncle, Edward Culp, and family of Remington Sunday. Miss Bowman, a deaconess of the Watts De Peyster Home for girls at Rensselaer, gave a talk about the Home here Sunday evening at the church to a full house.

Saved Many From Death. W. I. Mod: of Mock, Ark., believes he has saved many lives in tis 25 years of experience in the drug business. "What I always like to do,” he writes, “is to recommend Dr. King’s New Discovery for weak, sore lungs, hard colds, horseness, obstinate coughs, la grippe, croup, asthma or other bronchial affection, for I feel sure that a r.umber of my neighbors are alive and well today because they took my advice to use it. I honestly believe its the best throat and lung medicine that’s made.” Easy to prove he’s right. Get a trial bottle free, or regular 50c or SI.OO bottle. Guaranteed by A. F. Long.

IROQUOIS VALLEY. | Eli Arnold sold some cattle last ■week. Chas. Fish is husking corn for Joe Pullins. Jennie Marlatt spent Monday with Jennie McElfresh. Flora Pullins spent one day this week with her mother. Mrs. Chas. Grant was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. James German of Rensselaer was in our vicinity Tuesday. Mrs. Lucy Green called on Luella and Beck Green Wednesday. Frank Schroer and father called on K. Zillhart Sunday morning. Wm. Daugherty and daughter Rosabelle were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Quite a number from our vicinity went to Rensselaer Wednesday evening to see the female wrestling match. Mrs. Mottle Vance and Franie Nuss and daughter Alma spent Wednesday with Mrs. George McElfresh. Monday and Tuesday were visiting days >. for the Smith school. They expect to move the school to the new building next Monday.

Balked at Cold Steel. “I wouldn’t let a doctor cut my foot off.” said H. D. Ely, Bantam, Ohio, “although a horrible ulcer had been the plague of my life for four years. Instead I used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and my foot was soon completely cured.” Heals „. Burns, Boils, Sores, Bruises, Eczema, Pimples, Corns. Surest Pile cure. 25c at A. F. Long’s.

PINE GROVE. —r James Torbet was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Charles Britt and John Daniels called on John Torbet Sunday afternoon. Ed Height of Tefft was down to his farm Sunday, returning home Monday. Bessie McCurtain spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McCurtain. Irving Peregrine spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. Robinsor, of Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet. Bessie McCurtain and Chloae Torbet visited Independence school '■ Saturday evening. Estle George of Blackford is Shocking corn for his unclei, Chas. Sbroyer, this week. Harry and Clint Beck were called Sunday to Lebanon to attend the funeral of their uncle, Bud Beck, returning home Wednesday. Mrs. Chas. Shroyer attended the funeral of her cousin, June HJinkle,

Monday, ’ and spdht Monday night with her sister, Margie George, and family. Those that took dinner with J. M. Torbet and family Sunday were Mrs. Wm. Jordan, daughter Day and sons Homer and Will, Mrs. Harry Beck and children and Mrs. Clint Beck and sons.

A Mail Carrier’s Load. Seems heavier when he has a weak back and kidney trouble. Fred Duehren. Mail Carrier at Atchison, Kan., says: *‘l have been bothered with kidney and bladder trouble and had a severe pain across my back. Whenever I carried a “heavy load of mail, my kidney trouble increased. Some time ago, I started taking Foiev Kidney Pills and since taking them I have gotten entirely rid of all my kidney trouble and am as sound now as ever."— A. F. Long.

j SOUTH NEWTON. | —: iMrs. Ernest Mayhew went to: Brook Tuesday to visit relatives. Arthur Powell was called to Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Randolph Wright assisted Earl Leek with his fence work one day this week. Victoria'" Marsh stayed all night with Mrs. Arthur Mayhew Wednesday night. Another big rain Monday, but at this writing weather is behaving nicely. Olarehce Pruett and wife Went to Goodland Thursday to spend the day with relatives. Silas Potts of near Brook took dinner Thursday with his daughter, Mrs. Fred Waling. Earl Leek is putting up some woven wire fence which he had Shipped to him from Goodland. Everybody too busy to do anything but husk com. except on Sunday. then everybody goes visitng. Clarence Pruett and wife took Sunday dinner , down at Ade with the formers parents, Willard Pruett’s. Philip Paulus and family spent Sunday with Mr. Paulus’ nephew, Charles Leavitt and wife, who live on the George Ade country home near Brook. Clarence Pruett is the first to finish husking corn in this locality so far as we have heard, and Philip Paulus will be the next if it does not rain, as he will finish by Saturday. Harvey Pierson and George Werner have both lost one or two fine steers apiece within the last week. It is thought they were shot by hunters in the woods as no other cause of their death could be found.

| NEW CENTER. —i ! Mrs. Vannatta spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. Will Harris. Mrs. Will Jacks spent one day last week visiting friends at Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. Walter. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lewis spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Vannatta.

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defect in title, in fact he was so anxious to buy the farm that he never shed an eyelash over such a small matter. He took the title question into court and got it quieted for $25, and he told us that he had recently refused Sl5O per acre for the farm of 240 acres. In fact, he said, it was not for sale at all. He has been getting from $1,200 to $1,500 per year off it right along, and this year his share of the crops will be about sl,800. 'We also passed by the first farm Mr. Rich ever owned, just east of Geo. Ade’s home place. Jake was then teaching school over in Carpenter tp., and had a few dollars saved up which he paid on this place when he bought it and put up a bluff for the balance, along about 1892 or '93. He got the farm for $25 per acre and seven months later sold it for SSO per acre. This gave hint a start that he has kept and added to many times* and now he owns an interest in five elevators, a fine home in Brook and some of the finest farm lands in Indiana, etc. We remembered the Brook of the old days, when there was nothing there but a country' store and postoffice, and the mud was about 18 inches deep nine months otit of the year. That was 25 y ears ago. Today it is -one of theTTJbst little towns in the state, with a population of 1,000 to 1,200 people and-still growing. The mud roads of ous early recollection have given way to splendid stone streets and roads connecting the outside towns, and the proximity of

George Ade’s home, “Hazelden,” only a mile west of the town,together with the splendid farm lands lying all about that section, has sure placed Brook on the map. During our short stay in the town w 5 oaled on Bro. Stonehill of the Reporter, who owns a nice brick office and operates his presses with electricity, the town having had a day current for | some time. We also met attorney Frank Davis who was shaking his fat sides over the result of the elections, especially in Kentucky, where democracy has again come into its own. “Jake” Pefley, formerly of Remington, who is also located in Brook in the tailoring business, was another old acquaintence whom we had not seen for many years. Howard Myers, formerly of near Rensselaer, is as big and hearty as ever, and operates the big livery barn at that place. To us, Who used to travel all through that territory *» ouarter of a century ago and knew nearly ever}' man. the trip was a thoroughly enjoyable one and the improvement in the appearance of the country is indeed wonderful, more so to us, of course, because one remembers things as he last saw them, and we had not seen much of that section for twenty years. In our time almost everyone there would have been glad to sell out for S2O to $25 per acre, but there wCre no buyers. The land was not ditched nor tiled and roads were something awful. Crops were not what they are now by any means, because of wet seasons, and dollars in those days looked as big as cartwheels, so scarce were thev at that time.

For Sale— Rhode Island Red roosters, for breeding purposes. Inquire of ISAAC GLAZFBROOK. Front street, Rensselaer. n!2 Overcoats — Russian Pony fur overcoats, one-piece coat, no seam in back or side, light, not heavy to carry. Call in and examine these coats before buying elsewhere. Worden’s Harness Shop. y Box Social. There will be a box social and reading contest at the Rosebud school in Union tp., on Saturday evening, Nov. 11. Come. Prizes will be given. —G. H. Hammerton, Teacher.

Order Calling Cards at The Democrat Office.

An engraved calling card is the par-excellence of the printing art —nothing finer is gotten out anywhere. The Democrat takes orders for engraved cards —IOO cards, linen finish, with copper plate, in choice of several styles of script, only $1.25. Call and see samples and styles of engraving. We also print cards, with choice of type desired, arrd our prices are very low consistent with first-class work. No extra charge for mail orders. Send us $1.25 and cards and plate will be mailed direct to you.

Ready fpr delivery off our floor, two of those staunch, reliable runabouts that have made the Maxwells “the great econo my cars.” A car which can run on Jasper county roads at a total cost of 1 3-10 cents per mile. A nice carrying space on these '"'vs too. 1 Step in and let us show yor how to save money.— Maxwell.

Reduced Rate to Indianapolis.

On account of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of Indiana, at Indianapolis, the Monon Route will sell tickets at one and onehalf fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale Nov. 20' and 21, and will be good to return until Nov. 24, 1911. For. further information call on Monon ticket agent.

Job printing of the better class type, ink and typography in harmony—The Democrat office. Engraved calling cards to order at The Democrat office. Glasses flitted- By DR. A. G. CATT - . Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office over Long’s Drug Store. Phone No. 232.

DICKENS’ OWN PEN PICTURE

Great English Novelist Wrote Humorously of the Details of His Daily Life. For fourteen years Dickens made Broadstairs his principal summer home in England. London alone held a superior place in his affections. He felt hi? powers at their amplest when he was at the little channel coast town. Dickens has given the best picture of himself at his summer . routine in Broadstairs: “In a bay window in a one-pair sits, from 9 o’clock to 1, a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins, as if he thought he were very funny Indeed. At 1 he disappears, presently emerges from a bathing machine, and may be seen, a kind of salmon colored porpoise, splashing about in the ocean. “After that he may be viewed in another bay window on the ground floor, eating a strong lunch; and after that, walking a dozen miles or so, or lying on his back in the sand reading a book. Nobody bothers him unless they know he is disposed to be talked to; and I am told he is very comfortable, indeed. He’s as brown as a berry, and they do say is a small fortune to the innkeeper who sells beer and cold punch. But this is mere rumor. “Sometimes he goes up to London, (eighty miles or so away), and then, I’m told, there Is a sound in Lincoln’s Inn Fields at night as of men laughing, together with a clinking of knives and forks and wine glasses.”

FOR AN AFTERNOON AT PLAY

Mrs. Oldway Made Up Both as to Mind and Costume to Enjoy Little Driveroion. It was on one, of those rare occasions when Mrs. Oldway tore herself away from her domestic duties to seek amusement in the neighboring town, and, dressed in her best, she stood on the" roadside, waiting for a trolley car to take her to the moving -picture show. “Are you going alone, Mrs. Oldway?” some one asked. “I presume I am,” she replied with the additional elegance and condescension of manner which she always put on with her best gown. “My daughter Eleanor has the supper dishes to wash, and it is hardly impossible that she can complete her task in time to take the car with me. But I never repine at loneliness, and these moving picture shows get one’s mind so excited that one can’t hardly help thinking of anything else. Last time I attended one there was quite a crowd, for it was bargain day at Rockville, and the country people had come to town to advantage themselves of the opportunity to purchase cheaply. I had to stand through the entire performance. But I never minded. I find these little driversions greatly relieve the monopoly ” Here the trolley car arrived and whisked Mrs., Oldway ofT to her “little driversion.”

Circus vs. Funeral.

Aunt Barker, a prominent resident of a Virginia town, like many of her race, “jes’ dotes on funerals.’’ On one occasion a circus had come to the next town, and Aunt Mary, who had never seen an elephant, had been telling for some weeks how she longed to go to the show. Her son agreed to drive her over on the eventful day. “Well, now,” exclaimed Aunt Mary, with unexpected hesitation, “I don’t know much ’hout <lat. I wants to see dat show awful bad, but, yo* see, Deacon Botts’ funeral comes off today, and I don’t know jest which I’d enjoy de most. There’ll be a lot o’ folks dere, and besides I mought live till de circus comes again, but dis is de only funeral Deacon Botts will ever have. I guess I’ll have a better time at de funeral.” —Illustrated Sunday Magazine.

Hooked Up.

The young politician was as obliging as possible, but there was a limit to his possibilities. When the reporter asked him what his wife would wear at the mayor’s reception, he assumed a confidential air. “I’ll tell you just as much as I know myself,” he said. “Last night she told me she would wear white; this morning at breakfast she said she’d decided on her rose-colored gown, and when I said good-by to her she had spread a grey one beside the rose-colored on one chair, and her black lace beside the white on another, and was taking something else out of the wardrobe. If her hair hadn't caught on a book as she turned round, I might have been ablq to tell you more.”

Her Course Outlined.

A young newspaperwoman, disturbed in her dreams«rt future happiness, decided to consmt a palmist, and spent an afternoon recently to visit one in West Philadelphia. She heard what the fortune-teller had to say, but was not satisfied with the results. “Well, well,” she asked, impatiently, “and what sort of man will my husband be and when will I meet him?" “O-00-oh! ” half whistled the palmist. “There Is no husband in sight; you will remain single all the days of your life.” “I’m glad to know it,” retorted the young woman. “Now I'll show ’em who I am —I demand that women shall be free and shall no longer be the slaves of a system which deprives them of their rights."

CAUGHT BY A DECOY

Would-Be Extortionist Arrested by the PoliceIndianapolis Department Store Clerk Planned to Get S6OO from a Rich Indiana Miller. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 10. —William A. Gant, who says he is a department store clerk, and who is said to have threatened the 'lives of the family of H. S. Adams, a well to do mill owner of Fortville, Ind., was arrested when be was trapped by a decoy package. Later he is said to have confessed his intention to extort S6OO from Adams, according to the police. A letter received by Adams sen days ago threatened the lives of Adams, a son at Puraue university, a daughter at DePauw university and the destruction of the Adams mill and a summer cottage at Tippecanoe lake. Postoffice Inspector Ela of this city made the investigation. Gant was captured a moment after he had picked up a decoy package which he had ordered Adams to leave on the counter of a restaurant. The 1 police say that he admitted that he was the author of the threatening leters, but denied that he had an accomplice

SEARCH FOR CUSHING ENDS

Lcgansport Sheriff Goes to Cincinnati with Requisition. Logansport, Ind., Nov. 10 Sheriff Butler and Deputy Sheriff Stanley left for Cincinnati with a requisition for James B. Cushing, held in jail there under charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The search for Cushing has been going on for the last three months and was pushed by Joseph McKenzie, a local real estate qealer, whose son was induced to indorse Cushing’s check for S7O on a local hank. Cushing is also charged with having defrauded the Rev. Dr. Grandetaff, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, out of more than S7OO.

KILL CROWS BY HUNDREDS

Greensburg Men Spend Two Hours with Guns at Roost Greensburg, Ind., Nov. 10. —Twentythree men, armed with shotguns, gathe: ed on the farms of Will Jackson ind John Wildman near this city and for two hours engaged l in a crow hunt After the smoke had cleared away the men picked up 924 dead crows. It is said that almost an many more were killed that were not found. Crows have roosts on these farms, and they have been assembling there by the thousands during the night time.

CHILD IS BURNED TO DEATH

Mother Hears of Accident Too Late to Save Baby. Marion, Ind., Nov. 10. —Irene Harrel, three years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Jesse Harrel, was burned to death in the home of her parents in the presence of three playmates. The child was throwing pieces of paper into a stove when her dress caught. The other children left the house and summoned the girl’s mother, who was away from pie house The mother found her child literally baked, and death quickly ensued.

JURY INDICTS M’GALLIARD

Slayer of Sweetheart and His Attorneys Refuse to Talk. Muncie, Ind.. Nov. 10. —The grand jury returned an indictment against Charles MrGalliard, Jr., the young painter who. Halloween night, killed his sweetheart, Alta E. Hayworth, at a masquerade dance, charging him, it is understood, with first degree murder. The indictment was not made public. McGalliard and his attorneys refuse to talk about the case

Takes Life in Sanitarium.

Martinsville, Ind., Nov. 10. —William C’aser, fifty years old, committed suicide in his room at the National sanitarium cutting his throat with a pocket knife,, and hanging himself. He came from Cincinnati, his home, Sunday, and had talked in a rambling way about enemies that were after him.

Lafayette Man Is Killed.

Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 10.—William A. Worman, who left Lafayette a short time ago, was shot and 1 killed at Portland, Ore., by Bert Hicks, a manufacti rer and employing machinist. Worr.an was a striking machinist and the shooting followed insults and blows between the men.

Injuries Will Cause Death.

Shelhyville, Ind., Nov. 10,—Injuries received when he was struck by an Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction car at Fairland will probably cause the death of Michell Hall, seventy-one years old, a prominent Civil War veteran.

Scolded Boys Wreck Church.

Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 10. —Resenting a remark of Rev. J. H. Mavity because they stalked out of church during services, unknown young men wrecked the interior of the church. A court of inquiry is being held.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

EVANSVILLE Mysterious features in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Henry Connors, fifty-five year* old, at the breakfast table caused the polio© to hold Henry Cononrs, her husbandand Alvey Brooks, a boarder. William Brooks, seven years of grandson of the dead woman, told themost coherent story, saying she had been' shot accidentally by the discharge of a revolver placed on the kitchen table, but later the boy admitted, the police say, that he told that story because his uncle, Alvey Brooks, coached him to do so. Alvey Brooks said he didn’t see the revoL ver when it was discharged, but that Connors had been fingering it a minute before the shooting. Connors says his back was turned when the shot, was fired. Mm. Connors was shot through the eye. the bullet coursing through the brain. She did not regain consciousness and died within an. hour.

LOGANSPORT Samuel Fredshman. sixty years of age, bolted thedoor of his room and turned on the gas in ap effort to commit suicide. The odor of escaping gas attracted the landlady’s attention and she called the police and a physician who broke down, the door in time to rescue Freishmanin an unconscious condition. Freishman was hurriedly taken to a hospital, where he is pronounced out of danger. In his clothing were found letters revealing his identity, a card showing that he belongs to the Red Men, and a letter from J. M. Shire of South Bend, written last July. Frieshman came to this city a few days agoand nothing is known of him ELWOOD Charged with using a gun in the effort to frighten a lower grade student, who, on account of his delicate nature, has been * made the butt of a series of jokes for several months, Meyrl Terwilliger, a. high school senior, was charged with pointing a deadly weapon. Gussie Hunt, thirteen years old, is the plaintiff. Practically every student in the junior and senior classesof the school has been summoned as witnesses, and the school authorities have threatened to expel all guilty of~ any connection with the affair The incident threatens to arouse the most serious student trouble in the history of the El w ood schools.

HAMMOND —When the two sons,, other relatives and friends went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Aubrey, expecting to, participate in celebrating the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the couple, they found theaged man and woman dead in their bed. They had been asphyxiated by gas. J. Aubrey, in the railroad business in New York city, was taken seriously ill after the discovery of tbetragedy. Another son of the couple is Edward Aubrey, controller of the town of Hammond. The arriving relatives were forced to break down the front door of the Aubrey home, after rapping half an hour and receiving no response.

BEDFORD James Mitchell was found lying unconscious in the road by Dr. H. M. Heckman and Elmer Peed, who were on their way to the Peed home to attend Peed’s mother. The body was not discovered in time to avoid striking it with the doctor’s auto. Mitchell died a short time later. He was in the city all day drinking and had been paid S7O by a local lumber man for trees. When found but 7 cents was on his person. Mie Younger, who had been with Mitchell during the day, and four members of a gypsy camp, two men. and two women, are in jail pending further investigation. OAKLAND A breed of hogs known as the “mulefoot” hog is being introduced in this (Gibson) county. The hog has a hoof resembling that of a mule and bears the distinction of being immune from cholera. The hog was brought here as a result of the recent cholera scourge, which has depleted several large droves. So far the “mulefoot**' hog has.proven its worth as a safeguard against the disease. MUNCIE All public dances havebeen strictly forbidden in the city of Muncie, as a direct result of the murder of Alta E. Hayworth, thfr telephone operator, who was shot and instantly killed by Charles McGalliard Jr., a young painter, at a masquerade public dance at Franklin Hall, Holloween night. The orders of the po lice commissioners are to take effect at once. SOUTH BEND Joseph Johnson of South Bend, a grandson of the late Clement Studebaker, millionsire wagonmaker, was killed when he fell from a tree with a pigeon coop built in the tree tops at Interlaken school, where he was a pupil. The boys had been warned to stay out of the tree. ’ PRINCETON The rescuers who found the bodies of Walker McDaniels and Commodore McClure, the shotfirers killed in Port Branch mine,, say that both men had crawled more than 200 feet toward the main shaft in an effort to save themselves from the black damp. FORT WAYNE James Nolan has been given a life sentence IT, Michigan City prison on his plea of guilty to the murder of his wife. She took in washing and paid for their home and h piece of adjoining property. , |