Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1911 — Page 2

IDE JASPER COUNTY WIRT F. I.BIBGOGI . EDITOR IID POBllffltl. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF > JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8. 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 811. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22, 1911.

THE POOLE TRIAL

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was told by Poole that Joe Kemper had gone away from the Benton county farm, takitig with him some of Poole’s clothes, some money belonging to Poole and some money belonging to Emory Poole. According to the witness Poole said: “If Kemper ever comes back I’ll kill him.” “You wouldn’t do that would you?” asked Haines. “Yes, I would,” replied Poole, the witness said, “and if got in trouble over it I would -tell them I once had a sunstroke and was crazy and I would get out of it that way. 1 ” .

On cross-examination Haines admitted that he and his father and mother had all had trouble with Poole. His mothe r once filed an affidavit against Poole, but Poole was acquitted.

Lafayette, Ind.,( Nov. 20. Sitting directly in front of his father, John Emory Poole, 19 years old, told on the witness stand today of his work as an amateur detective that ended in the accusation before the coroner of Benton county that ibis parent, John W. Poole, was guilty of the murder of Joe Kenipcr, a farm hand, whose body was later found on the

Poole farm. The youth told with evident eagerness of his observations concerning the mysterious fate of Joe Kemper, and of remarks that made him think his 'father was guilty of crime. He was subjected to two hours of grueling cross-examination, but did not alter his direct testimony, except in one two immartial instances. /

The inception of his detective work, he said, came when Kemper, after a brief absence, returned and asked for money he ( Kemper) said was due him. The elder Poole did not pay him. The son testified that Kemper left the house, walking toward Swanington, then asked the witness and his mother to help him care for some hogs. As they left the house, thie witness testified, he heard his father exclaim ;

“That fellow is going to Swanington to make me some trouble; if he does. I’ll get him.” Kemper returned that night, however, and nothing was done, he said.

The young man testified that he went armed for months following the disappearance of Kemper, and prior to his father's arrest, fearing that his parent would kill him. He said his father had threatened to “put him where Kemper was.” The attorney for the defense made the lad admit that he tried to persuade his mother and sis-' ter from engaging counsel for his father, but he denied the charge made by Attorney Barce of the defense that he told his aunt he would take the law into his own

IT IS A MOMENTOUS QUESTION this about the care of the teeth. So many people neglect them until it is too late, then they are full of futile regrets. I trust you are not of that class. It is so easy to have one’s teeth occasionally examined so as to avoid decay and loss. I am adept in all branches of Dentistry- and employ the mo§t , up-to-date methods. J. W. HORTON DR, LEON H. SMITH Opposite Court House 1

hands if ,his father did not pay t ! be penalty for his crirrie. The courtroom was* crowded to suffocation today while the boy was telling his remarkable story. _ .... The junior Poole testified to finding blood spots in the house and to having seen his father haul a load of fertilizer out to the cornfield to the spot where the body of Kemper was exhumed seventeen months later with fertilizer piled on top of it. The witness testified that he lived at home until he was 15 years old. He said the first time he ever saw Kemper was in May. 1909. The witness says his father told him he was paying Kemper $22 a month. After telling of seeing blood soots in the dining room he said that on a sofa he /observed an object that looked like a portion of a brain. Out in the horse barn he found more blood.- Hanging over the fence in the back yard was a rug that had been washed. The witness said there was a small spot on the kitchen wall paper, where it had been washed. The blood spots, he said, were all about four feet from the floor. One chair, he observed, had been broken.

Emory said he did not talk to his father about Kemper. He noticed Kemper’s overcoat in the house, and later saw other wearing apparel that belonged to Kemper. The next morning they butchered four hogs. The witnesS told of locating the spot where the body was e*xhumed. He said he happened to find the. place by observing loose clay on top of the soil where a straw stack had stood. The boy told about digging up the body in the cornfield. Poole will go on the witness stand for further cross-examina-tion by the defense tomorrow morning. The only other witness today was Henry Julian of Kramer, Tnd. He became acquainted with John W. Poole, he said, in April, 1911, and worked six days for him at Swanington. He went with Emory Poole to the spot where later the body was-exhumed. Julian testified he saw the body of Kemper recovered.

Concerning the shooting of Kemper the Benton Review says: It is rumored that the mooted question in regard to finding shot in the skull of Kemper will reveal a point favorable to the defendant and in a measure corroborate the story that Kemper was shot. Sheriff Shackleton and Marshal Bowmin conducted a test with the shot gun which Poole alleges killed Kemper and some rather interesting facts-were developed. The gun which is without a Trigger guard is what might be termed a hair trigger gun, in that it pulls very easily. At a distance of three feet the load of No. 6 shot, which correspond in size to those found in the skull' of Kemper, made a hole about the Size of a twenty-five cent piece in a pine board. At a distance of six feet the hole was about the size of k fifty cent piece and at ten or twelve feet the hole was about the size or a dollar.

As a rumor the story comes to the Review that .the broken skull of Kemper has been submitted to a Lafayette physician for examination and he expressed the opinion that it was entirely possible for the skull to have been broken up in the manner it is as a result of gun shot... How much truth there is in the rumor will probably be developed during the trial and we print the story simply as it is being" circulated on the street. So far as we are aware the name of the physician is lacking to make the rumor credible.

Postmasters In Trouble. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 18.— Arthur A. Finney, postmaster.at Valparaiso, has been indicted by the Federal grand jury' on the charge of embezzling postoffice money. The shortage, it is charged, .is about $l,lOO. Crawfordsville, - Ind., Nov. 18. —-Ed - Dennis, v 4eputy postmaster at Crawfordsville. lias been arrested, the Federal grand jury having returned an indictment against him charging him with embezzlement of $817.52.

This Is Rank Heresy.

Andrew Carnegie has given another twenty-five million dollar donation to the cause of education. It is very nice. Andrew was a telegraph operator during the war, and later entered the steel business. The selling of armour plate to mesmerized congress' never looked good. We think that the line should be drawn at two thousand per cent profit. A God fearing Scot, like Atidy, should have beep satisfied with-that amount. While he has our thanks and all -of that, there are some things we wish we could forget.—Fowler Republican. -

Who Pays

IE habit of borrowing is something to be frowned upon, chiefly because borrowers rarely have good memories. In large cities one escapes the borrowing neighbor because there is little or no acquaintanceship between families which are no farther apart than the thickness of a wall or floor and ceiling, but in small communities there is a temptation to remedy the shortcomings of one’s household or wardrobe by the loan of articles belonging to neighbors and relatives. Borrowers have few scruples concerning the value of anything they may desire.

There is no doubt that there are times when the temporary use of articles saves trouble and discomfort. In the neighborhoods where card parties are frequent and everybody borrows extra tables because it is understood that nobody cares to own more than one or two at the most. But invariably articles are promptly returned and the borrowers stand ready to take their turn at lending. That is simply an arrangement where everybody shares alike, and not a bit like borrowing eggs and butter and sugar, postage stamps and small sums of money, and forgetting to repay them.

Fine-minded women are rarely content to rest under an obligation of any description. They accept favors graciously, even ask for them, but in some way or other each is repaid. To pay in kind is the preferred manner, but that is not always possible, save in borrowing. It is strange that women will be so punctilious in the matter of car fare and forget to repay postage stamps —we meet cases of that kind frequently. Two women will argue for more than two minutes over the payment of car fare when it might be easily adjusted by a simple little scheme which is having some vogue among some women. Take a pair who are going to a matinee—before boarding a car one will ask: “Odd or even?”

Lower Wage Earner’s Standard of Living

By LORA BELL

There is no reason why a workingman should be forced to eat food that is distasteful to him simply because it is cheap, while the more fortunate members of society can live on the choicest the workers produce. Why shouldn’t the workingmen have yarpets on their floors? Who is better entitled to them? Would any of us have carpets, or Axminster or Persian rugs, either, or floors of any kind to lay them on, if these workingmen did not produce them? And as to their filling their rooms with flimsy gimyraeks it surely is better for them io satisfy their craving for beauty in this way than to stifle it entirely. Let us remember that society has not s«pplied the toiler with an education to appreciate Mona Lisas or cloisonne vases, or the purses to indulge such tastes.

But it is surely a more hopeful sign that he wishes to beautify his home in some way than if he were.satisfied with bare walls and bare floors. What we need is not ways to lower the wage earner’s standard of living but ways to distribute more equitably the wealth he produces so that he can develop and gratify higher tastes. The producer of wealth is entitled to the best there is and it is time we found some way to keep that best from going to the idlers.

Many Modern Social and Family Changes

By A. WANGEMAN Chicago

better thoughts of the times. Parents should realize that the young cannot think of life as the experienced'older ones do. The young must go through practically the same cycle of personal experiences as the old did when they in turn were young and struck out for themselves. •.V _ • • And, again, many a mother’s heart, strong in her maternal instincts, has been broken because not all mothers have the worldly wisdom to change into “comrades” of their grown offspring. It is the natural course that parents should resign themselves, but how hard that is! Those who look deeper into these things realize, furthermore, that we live in an age of deep social changes in all human relations, which, of course, change the conditions of the family life most profoundly. This is. however, not the place to talk “economics” as the key of understanding. .There is no “balm of Gilead” in economics for a mother whose heart cries out in anguish for the children she has borne and brought up in years of never ceasing care and love* children whd then turn away in disdain too often—the young fools! v'- . f •. f '

By JOHN L. GEHRING

The answer settles the question of payment, for tbe the loser pays for both. The expense of lunches and teas is shflred nowadays because the opportunity for payment does not always materialize. Of course, this plan is only used by women who are in the habit of going about together, when payment by either one all of the time would be manifestly unfair. When spending money is limited, what is known as “Dutch treat” is common. It is a custom with college boys as well as girls and finds favor with wage earners. It allows one to shoulder no more than personal expenses in any kind of recreation.

Isn’t it about time that we stopped demanding of American labor that it lower its’standard of living to that of the foreign iaboref? If bean soup and rye bread is a better diet than meat and white all means argue for bean soup and rye bread, but recommend them as foods for all classes and not simply for the workingman so that he can live more cheaply. Start the reform where people have got farthest away from the simple food idea—in the high priced clubs and hotels and the millionaires’ homes. That is where it is most needed.

As to complaints regarding ungrateful and disobedient children, the fault lies, it seems to me, neither with the average' parents nor with the callous, superficial persons. It is not an individual trouble of individual families, in the main, but rather a result of the present money mad, sensation chasing general public spirit, with its cynical and heartless lack of morality. Nothing else but such tragedies of family life can be reasonably expected when as in Chicago the young folks are forced to fight for jobs without living wages, tempted on all sides and out of touch with the

Habit of Borrowing Is to Be Frowned On

HAS NEW AUTO ENGINE.

Elwood Man Refuses $300,000 for the Right on Compressed Air Patent. Elwood, Ind., Nov. 20. —Wayne Leeson, an Elwood merchant, who financed the invention of a young genius at Webster Lake, is said to have been offered 5300,000 for the patent rigfet. and the full control of same. The offer was refused, and the device, which is a compressed air engine for use on automobiles, will be tried out here, an engine now being fitted to one of Leeson’s autos. It is said to operate with greater force, has no ‘‘mass fires,” never balks and is destined to revolutionize the automobile engine business. If the engine proves all it 1s claimed, a large factory will be erected here for its manufacture.

TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

Of Jasper County Will Be Held at Christian Church Friday and Saturday. The Jasper County Teachers Association will be held in Rensselaer on Friday and Saturday of this week at the Christian cht|rch. Following is. the program of the meeting: Friday Afternoon. 1:00 o’clock—Reading Contest. 2:30 o’clock—Dramatic Reading by Miss Ida Faye Smith. Friday Evening. 7:00 o’clock—Dramatic Reading —“Kenilworth,” by Miss Ida Faye Smith. Saturday Morning. 9:00 o’clock—School Gardens, Mrs. John Gwin. Domestic Science, Cora Dexter. Sewing, Alice E. Thompson. Shop Work, Harrison Large. Opening Exercises, J. C. Dickerson. Music, Dollie Hershman. Retarded Children, Pansy Ingle. Literary Exercises, M. L. Sterrett.

Obituary.

James V. Rice, one of the pioneers of this community, passed to his reward at the home of his son. Dr. C. M. Rice, at Roselawn last Friday. The body was brought to Hebron where the funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the United Presbyterian church, of which the deceased was a member.

. Mr. Rice was born in Ohio and came to Porter county about fifty years ago, making this county his home ever since that time. He was almost 79 years of age at the time of his death. Mr. Rice lost his wife about two years ago, and since that time has been staying alone at his home in Hebron and at the home of his son at Roselawn. He leaves to mourn his death two daughters and one son. Interment made in the Hebron cemetery. —Hebron News,

MONOGRAM STATIONERY,

.Or Engraved Calling Card& Make An Elegant Christmas Present. Steel die monogram stationery or copper plate engraved calling cards make an elegant Christmas present and one that will long be remembered by the friend to whom given.

The Democrat can furnish again this year monogram stationery, either one or two initials, 24 sheets of high quality linen finished paper and 24 envelopes to match, put up in an attractive box containing a beautiful steel die embossed Christmas Gift Card, all for 50 cents per box, providng the boxes are taken direct from this office. It to be sent by mail, add 12 cents for postage. To insure delivery before Christmas all orders for stationery must be in by Dec. 10.

\Ye can also furnish handsome linen-finish calling cards in the correct sizes, printed from engraved copper plate, in choice of several styles of script, (1 line' for 51.25 per 100, all put up in a handsome box and neatly tied \vith ribbon. The plate is included in the price given above, and if one wants more cards at any time we can furnish them from the same plate at a lesser price, of course. All orders for engraved calling cards must be in by Dec. 15, to insure delivery before Christmas. Calling cards will be mailed to any address with the cppper plate at price given. Get your orders in early and ve guarantee delivery on time. Don’t delay the matter until too late. Call in and see samples.— The Democrat.

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Lost—Scotch Collie dog near Newland, tan color, medium size, light breastl ring around neck. Reward $5. —ED OLIVER, Newland, Ind.

Corn Huskers Wanted—Men that have teams and wagons wanted to husk corn; will pay 8 cents per bushel; and they can find place to board. Will commence at once. Write or call and see me—JOHN O’OONNOR, Kniman, Ind.

Wanted—Good men to sell the Rawleigh Remedies in Indiana ter-' ritory. Some -good first-class territory available. See or write me at once.—O. N. HILE, The Rawleigh Man, Rensselaer, Ind. f 4

Cabbage For Sale—2 miles west of Demotte, 2 % miles north of the Holland church. —C. GREVENSTTJK, Thayer, Ind. 1 n 26

For Sale —Three room cottage and two lots, one a corner lot, located one block south of cement tile factory, bearing fruit. Will sell or trade on 40 acre tract of land and pay difference. —MARIAN COOPER, Rensselaer, Ina.

For Sale—The Remington House, Remington, Ind. All furnished, electric lights, bath, hot and cold water. Will exchange for small farm or other property, a good business, or will rent to good business. Address J. A. TETER, Remington, Ind. ts

Wanted Salesmen—We want a good live representative in every county in the United States. To this man we will guarantee an Income no less than $150.00 per month and expenses.—HUßEßT MNFG. CO., 400 Monticello Ave., Chicago, 111.

Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to 510,000.—E. P. HONAN.

100 Envelopes—Printed with your return card in corner—something every rural mail route patron should not be without—for 50 cents at The Democrat office.

Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal. —JOHN O’OONNOR, Ex-sherifl Jasper county, Kniman, Ind.

Legal Blanks—Warranty and quit claim deeds, real estate and chattel mortgages, cash and grain rent farm leases, city property leases, releases of mortgage and several other blanks can be purchased in any quantity desired at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. Road tax receipt and order books are also kept in stock. ts

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