Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — Page 8

News Notes of if Nearby Towns l I F >cnln ? s “ die Territory * y Adjacent to tbejasper A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents L County Metropolis

MILROY. | T ' ' ‘‘ Branson Clark is on the list sick. Mrs. Geo. Wood went to Lee Monday. Mrs. Bert Hughes is on the sick list Thos. Johnson went to Monon Tuesday. Elmer Johnson sold his turkeys Monday. W. I. Bivans was in Wolcott Tuesday. Ernest and Everett Clark were in Lee Monday. T. A- Spencer shipped his sheep to Chicago Thursday. Mrs. Jas. Blankenship was a Reynolds visitor Monday. G. L. Parks attended the John Miller sale near Remington Wednesday. Mrs. G. L. Parks spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Ravenscroft.

Mr. Harwell and son Charles ate dinner Sunday with G. L. Parks and family. D. Z. Clark ate dinner Wednesday with his daughter, Mrs. G. Foulks. * Mrs. Miles and daughter, Mrs. Jas. May and children spent Tuesday •with Mrs. Frank May. Vern Culp is again working for Frank May after spending a few days with his parents. Earl Fc'jlks assisted his uncle, Richard Foulks, in moving to Wheatfield Tuesday and Wednesday. Vance Spencer of Oklahoma came Wednesday for a visit with his parents, T. A. Spencer and family. Mrs. Frank May and daughter Ruth spent Thursday and Friday of last week with Mrs. Mary McCashen and daughter. W. I. Bivans and family attended a birthday anniversary dinner Saturday in honor of their daughter, Mrs. Bullington.

Our teachers attended institute at McCoysburg Saturday aqd yesterday and today attended the association meeting at Rensselaer. Saved Many From Death. W. I. Moci: of Mock, Ark., believes he has saved many lives in his 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 wepk, sore lungs, hard colds, horseness, obstinate coughs, la grippe, croup, asthma or other bronchial affection, for I feel sure that a number 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.

SCHULTZ SETTLEMENT. | Hello! Back again, with bracing cold weather. Tirnot Schultz is working for Mr. Downs these days. Wm. Layton is doing some inside painting in the Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Steinke took dinner in our settlement Sunday. Paul Schultz went to Rensselaer Monday to get fifty gallons of kerosene. « Mr. and Mrs. Schreeg helped A. R. Schultz dress geese one day last week. Wm. Schultz and family spent Sunday evening with Grandga Schultz. Paul Lersh and Will Teska spent Sunday evening with Paul Schultz and family. Pa# Lersh spent over Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Rinehold Teska and family. Rinehold Schultz spent over Sunday with home folks returning to work Monday.

Fred Schultz has quite a number of boys dressing turkeys for him these days. The boys of our settlement are busy trapping, hunting and husking corn betwen blizzards. Lena and &mzi Schultz went to Fair Oaks Saturday where Amzi entered the orotorical contest. Paul L. Schultz and Fred Krueger are busy these days buying and. dressing poultry. Save all the feathers, boys. .1 It warms a fellow up to run after his horse these days when the foolish horse has taken it into his head to give the driver a chase.

A Mail Carrier’s Load. Seems heavier when he has a weak back and kidney trouble. Fred Duehren, Mail Carrier at Atchison, Kan., says: “I 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 Foley 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.

• ' ' | IROQUOIS VALLEY, { 1 Mrs. Chas. Grant was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Sarah Smith spent Sunday with Geo. Dgvisson and family. Mrs. Flora Puliins assisted Mrs.

Joe Pullins cook for shredders Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Johu Schroer spent Sunday with their Son Frank and family. 1 The rain Wednesday night put a stop to shredding for the rest of the week.

Little Dorothy Schreiner spent last week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morgenegg. fhl iss Ethel Schreiner.of Rensselaer is spending the week with her aunt, Mrs. Geo. McEJfresh and family.

Curtis Steel, Ethel .Marlatt and Louis Zillbart spent Sunday evening with Geo. McElfresh and family. Geo. McElfresh and family and John R. Lewis and family spent Sunday Vith B. Lewis ana t/.muy. The Hopkins boys have all returned from North Dakota and will spend the winter with friends and relatives here.

J K. Zillhart is working on his shop which was torn down by the wind. He will soon be ready to take up his trade again. Mrs. Chas. Grant, Mrs. Lizzie Marlatt and children and Clarence Green and family spent Sunday with Wm. Green and family. A Father’s Vengeance would have fallen on any one who, attacked the son of Peter Bondy of South Rockwood, Mich., hut he was powerless before attacks of Kidney trouble. “Doctors could not help him,” he wrote, “so at last we gave him Electric Bitters and he improved wonderfully from taking six bottles. Its the best Kidney medicine I ever saw.” Backache, Tired feeling, Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, warn of Kidney trouble that may end in dropsy, diabetes or Bright’s disease. Beware: Take Electric Bitters and be safe. Every bottle guaranteed. 50c at A. F. Long’s.

| LEE. j —I ! Mrs. Creel is visiting at Mrs. Ann Rishling’s now. Miss Lural Anderson visited friends in Monon Saturday. J, H. Culp’s horse which was sick with lung fever/ is better now. The teacher and pupils are arranging for a program for Thanksgiving., John Clark is pressing hay out of the barn at Carl Westphal’s this week. • John Clark and family went from church Sunday to Alvin Clark's for dinner. Miss Rose and Vera Carrotjiers of Monticello attended cnurch nere Sunday. There was a traveling photographer here Tuesday and took a picture of the teacher and pupils at school. Rev. Briggs, the district superintendent, was here and held quarterly meeting Saturday night and Sunday. S. M. Jacks has been sick during the past week and his wife also has been having an attack of grip with her other trouble—rheumatism.

J. .E. Parker, 2021 No. 10th 3t„ Ft. Smith, Ark , says that he had taken many kinds of kidney medicine, but did not get better until he took Foley Kidney Pills. No matter how long you have had kidney trouble, you will find quick and permanent benefit by the use of Foley Kidney Pills. Start taking them now.—A. F. Long.

| MT. AYR. | —J J—- , (From the Pilot.) Harry Goff visited over Sunday with Kentland people. George Corbin and family spent Saturday night and Sunday witn home folks at Kentland. John Sigler and wife arrived Monday to attend the sale of their farm, also the invoice of the store. George Lynch and father drove to Goodland last Sunday to see the former’s sister who is not expected to live.

R. Elijah returned from his visit in the western states Monday. He reports fine weather and a climate just suiting him. Owing to the fine weather, permitting corn shuckers to be in the fields, the sale of W. A. Lyons was poorly attended and most things sold at a bargain. , ( - Marion Corbin and family of Sherwood, Mich., visited the first of the week with his brother George and family. He reports the crops good and all former Hoosiere doing fine.

The High Warming Closet on the Faultless Malleable Range is provided with Gravity Drop Door Handles ancT the Door need not be lifted up to close it as on other Malleable Ranges.—Sold by C. W. Eger.

• • We arc paying for j :: Butter fat this week i " I 34c I :: WILLIAM H. DEXTER I Rensselaer, Indiana

Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving day is coming Soon And bow we will rejoice, To be back in the dear old home And hear our mother’s voice. v The others will be there to greet us, ■Such a happy, little crowd; With their bright and smiling faces, It will make us feel quite pro.ud. Father, mother, uncles, adnts, Grandpas and grandmas, old and gray. Gay young cousins, large and small, Will come to spend Thanksgiving day. The dinner will be splendid, Mother is the finest cook, Her recipes are not taken From the pages of a book. We will sit around the table, As we sat in days of yore, And be just as gay and happy As we’ve always been before. We will thank Him for the blessings On this glad Thanksgiving day. We are sure that He will listen To our prayers without delay. —Alice Dewey.

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CHURCH NOTICES. Wheat field M. E. Church - Sunday school at 10 a. m. Epworth 'league at 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting at 7:30 p. m., Thursday. Choir practice at 7:30 p. m., Friday. There will be no preaching here Sunday. A Demo® M. E. Church Sunday school at 10 a. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p. m. Revival services at 7:30 p. m. Tefft M. E. Church Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.

THE POOLE TRIAL

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to the discovery of human teeth, toes and finger nails, hair and parts of a human body in the hole from which the mutilated corpse was taken. That shot was found in the skull was another new point. The state produced a sealed box containing ghastly relics of the skull, thigh bones and other parts of what the state alleged was the body of Joe Kemper.. The admissibility of the letter which Poole wrote to his son Emory again came up today. Attorney Barce for the defense contended that the letter was a part of a letter addressed to Mrs. Poole and, therefore, a confidential communication and not competent evidence. He said the defense did not know how Emory Poole or the state obtained possession of the letter. “I am reliably informed,” said Attorney Barce, “that the son literally wrung the letter from his mother.” He also said he wanted to question young Poole about the letter. The court then deferred ruling until the evidence could be heard. •

Charles Ferguson of Fowler testified he was on the Poole farm the day the body was exhumed, He said that sixteen shot were found in the skull over the left eye. Budke Walker, deputy prosecutor of Benton county. testified about the screening of the dirt found at the Poole farm and the discoverv j ■ of three human teeth, eighteen pieces of human skull, toe and finger nails and a quantity of brown hair- He also found remains .of hogs and other objects. On cross-examination he said he looked in the grave for shot and found some.

Ben Thurston, sexton of the Fowler cemetery, testified that he saw flattened shot taken from the inside the skull above the left eye. John Knickerbocker, undertaker at testified that v the jaw bone of the skull was broken on both sides. Mrs. Josie Lewis, who worked at the Poole home in Ma_v, 1910, testified that she observed a dark spot on the dining room floor. It looked black, but when she scrubbed the flopr it turned red like blood. Homer Mills of Tfoswell said he worked on the Poole farm lour years ago. He said that in }9lO he asked Poole what became of ‘‘the Dutchman.” Poole told him that Kemper wa* in Michigan working in the timber region. Dr. R. B. Wetherill of Lafayette qualified as ar expert witness. Prosecutor Kimmel opened the sealed box on a table in front of the jury and Dr. Wetherill took out the skull; 'He said the skull had met with a very Severe irtJufy and that the injury could havE been done by a shotgun. He could not tell whether the

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skull was that of a male or female, but that the rest of the bones were heavy and looked like those of a male.. Dr. Wetherill will be cross-examined by the defense tomorrow. John Bowman, marshal of Fowler, was shown the gun with which Kemper is alleged to have been killed and testified that he and Sheriff Shackleton tested the shotgun two weeks ago, and a paper target was exhibited showing the effect of shot at different ranges. Those fired from a distance showed the shot to have scattered over a wide area.' Dr. Wetherill testified that in his opinion the injury to the skull was by a shotgun fired at close range- ' '■

Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 23. —In spite of all the defense could do in the Poole murder trial today in a rigid cross-examination of Dr. R. B. Wetherill, expert witness for the state, the witness could not be swerved from his positive opinion that the shotgun inflicted the injury on the skull supposed to be that of Joe Kemper was held close to the back of the head when it was discharged. Dr. Wetherill was subjected to exhaustive questioning and authoritative works on medical jurisprudence were introduced by the counsel for the defense in an effort to make the witness modi* fy his testimony. Dr. Wetherill went into detail in his description of the injuries found on the skull and his reasons for deciding just how the injury was inflicted.

The defense asked the doctor a hypothetical question indicated that Poole’s attorneys will endeavor to convince' the jury that Poole killed Kemper accidently in the barnyard at the Poole farm.

Attorney Barce asked the witness if such an injury as was found in the skull could not have been inflicted by a shotgun accidently discharged while on the arm of a man climbing over a fence 3 feet 9 inches high, the victim being a few feet ahead. Dr. Wetherill said that this would be possible if the victim’s hea'd was tipped back, as the, direction the charge took in coursing through the skull was parallef with the top of the skull, there being no indication of the shot taking an upward course through the head. Attorney Barce said he would call Dr. Wetherill again. Regarding the blood stains on the wall, the curtains and the desjc in the Poole dining room, which Emory Poole described as round spots, Dr. Wetherill said if. the spots were round, they would have struck it perpendicular to the wall. The witness was asked if water mixed with coagulated blood would not spread the blood around much the same as fresh blood would be spread and would give the appearance of a blood stain. The witness answered in the affirmative.

Dr. Arthur Lesage, coroner of Benton county, told of wiring the pieces of the skull together and of the discovery of shot in the skull. Taking up the skull he showed where the shot were found. Dr. Lesage is an expert witness, but the state contended he had not qualified as an expert witness and that Attorney Barce, when he sought to interrogate Dr. Lesage, wap not crossexamining. The defense was allowed to ask the witness as to how he identified the body as that of’a white person. A medical authority was cited to show that the color of the hair sometimes changes after death. . Dr. Clarke Cook of Fowler tes-

tified about his observations of th** corpse. He said he believed the skull to have been shattered by a shotgun, which was close to the body when fired. Judging from the teeth, which show no sign of wear, he judged the skuli to be that of a person about 23 or 30 years old. His evidence nearly confirmed that given by Drs. Lesage and Wetherill. Louis Lewis of Benton county testified that Poole accused him of saying that he (Poole) was Wearing Kemper’s clothes. He said he denied this story to Poole, but Poole wrote him a letter about the matter. The letter was not admitted by the court. Will Baismore of Fulton county was the last witness today. He testified that he was at the Poole home the night of Dec. 12, 1909, and helped Poole butcher the next day. He said he helped carry the meat into the house and there was no blood on it

WHAT YOU CAN HUNT.

Synopsis of Indiana Game Laws —Get a License If Leaving Your Farm. Many hunting licenses are nowbeing issued, as the season opened for most game November 10. The following .is going the rounds as a synopsis of the game laws that may be useful for reference, and is reproduced in this paper at the request of many Democrat readers : You may hunt quail with dog and gun, between the tenth day of November and the following January. You may hunt, destroy or possess ruffed grouse between the tenth day of November and the first day of the following January. You may not hunt, kill or possess more than fifteen quails in any one day of the open season. You may hunt wild geese, wild ducks, brant or other water fowl from the first day of September until the fifteenth day of the following April.

You may shoot, kill or possess fifteen wild geese, wild ducks, brant or other water fowl in any one day of the open season.

You may not hunt or pursue wild ducks, wild geese, brant or other water fowl in any kind of a boat.

You may not kill, trap, possess, sell or offer to sell any wild birds, except game birds, English sparrows, crows, hawks and other birds of prey.

You may not destroy the nests or eggs of any wild bird. You may hunt woodchocks from the first day of July until the first day of October, and from the tenth day of November until the first day of the following January. You may shoot rabbits from the tenth day of November until the first day of the following October. You may not shoot wild deer, buck or doe or fawn, wild turkey or any pheasant of any kind bred in this state: or any prairie chicken, except that owners or controllers of private parks may shoot deer reared therein. You may npt shoot any species of game with any kind of firearm on Sunday. You may not hunt with dog or ferret on any land without first securing the consent of the owner or tenant therof. You may hunt upon land owned or controlled by yourself without a resident license—elsewhere requires a residence license. You may not hunt any kind of game except . wild duck and other water fowl between the first day of October and the tenth day of the following November. You may not hunt upon any game preserve organized and stocked by the commissioner of fisheries and game, except it be upon your own land, and then you are only allowed to kill rabbits and squirrels in open seasons.

Notice to Hunters. Owing to damage done by hunters on my lands about McCoysburg, I am forced to notify all persons that no hunting will be allowed on these lands in the future; and those trespassing despite this warning will be prosecuted.— 'John Herr.

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MOVE FOR DELAY LOST BY PACKERS

Chief Justice Refers Attorneys to Full Bench. REFUSES TO HALT THE TRIAL Suggests Appeal to Entire Court When It Meets Dec. 4.—Effort to Be Made to Secure Postponement in Chicago. Washington, Nov. 24. A stay he the trial of the Chicago beef packers was refused by Chief Justice White. He referred the attorneys making the application to the entire bench, with the statement that the matter was of too much importance for.him to pass on individually. Attorney John S. Miller announced that such an application to the entirecourt would be made at the first sitting, Dec. 4. Attorneys for the packers indicated that efforts will be made to have Judge Carpenter of the United States district court at Chicago, before whom the indicted packers have been summoned for trial on Monday, grant a further postponement until the supreme court passes on the matter. The application for the stay in the trial was presented to Chief JusticeWhite at his residence by Attorneys Miller and Levy Mayer. The ground for the application was gone over with some detail before the chief justiceannounced his decision to refer the--matter to the full court. The applieation before the court on Dec. 4 will be for a "supersedeas,” the technical term for a stay of proceedings in the lower court.

TRY GIRLS WHO SHOT STOKES

Court Calls Jury to Pass on Fate of Millionaire’s Assailants. New York, Nov. 24. —Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, the show girls, who shot W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire sportsman, last June, were brought to trial on indictments charging them with having attempted to take hislife. Two other counts charge assault. Both young women were in the courtroom. stylishly attired. Supreme Court Justice Mcrcns of Buffalo, presides at the triat Indications are that considerable time will! be spent in selecting a jury.

BONES AND SKULL IN COURT

Ghastly Evidence in the John PooleMurder Trial. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 24.—Bones and' a broken skull pieced together with wire, the ghastly relics of a body be: lieved to have been that of Joseph Kemper, a farm hand, were introduced as evidence in the trial of John Poole, charged with murdering Kemper. An undertaker and his assistants told the jurv where shot had been found in the; side of the skull. Pock is alleged to have killed Kemper because the farm hand demanded his wages.

WEATHER FORECAST

Indiana —Fair, colder in extreme eastern portion today; fair, with rising temperature tomorrow; moderate northwesterly winds. Illinois —Fair today; fair and warmer tomorrow; moderate northwesterly winds becoming variable. Wisconsin —Fair, wanner in eastern portion tsday; fair and warmer tomorrow; moderate northwesterly winds.

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Nov. 23. Hogs—Receipts 28,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice heavy, $6.3006.45 choice light, $6.3006.50 heavy packing, and $4,506.00 good to choice pigp. Cattle —Receipts 7,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] prime steers. $3.80 @4.50 good to choice fed bteef cows, $4-50® 5.65 good to choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders, $3.60' @4.40 fair to good stockers, [email protected] good to choice veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 18,000. Quotations, ranged at $5.3505.50 choice to primenative lambs, $4.25 04.50 good to choloe fed yearlings, [email protected] choice to< prime fed wethers, $3.0003.25 good to choice handy ewes. Butter. Creamery, per lb.. 33c; print, 35%c; extra firsts, 31%c; firsts. 28%c; dairies, extra, 29c; firsts, 26c; packingstock, 21c. Potatoes. Wisconsin, 85@90c per bn.; Michigan, 92095 c. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 16c; chickens, fowls, 8c; roosters, 7c; springs, B%c; ducks, 12c; geese, 10c. East Buffalo Live Stock. Donning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, Blast Buffalo, N. Y.„ quote as follows; Cattle—Receipts 20 cars; market slow. Hogs—Receipts--60 cars; market slow; heavy, $6,400 6-50; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $5.96. Sheep—Receipts 50 cars,'market steady; top lambs, $5.2505.35: yearlings. 3.504.00; wethers, ewes, $3.00. Calves, $4,600' 9$