Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — Page 4

THE JISPER COUNTY 9EMOCIRT F.f.BUBCOGK.EDITORAIIDPQBIIXHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. S' Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 18 <9. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. SATURDAY, DEC. 9, 1911.

TURNS BACK $3,000.

Hoke Smith Refuses to Accept Pay as Governor and Senator. Washington, Dec. 5.—-The federal treasury will be $3,000 richer because Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia decided today that he could, riot accept pay for being a United States senator and a governor at the same time. Senator Smith was elected on July 12, and his salary from the government started at that date. He chose the state of Georgia’s money, however, and. today 1 turned back about 53,000 accrued salary to which he was entitled as senator.

THREATENS THIRD PARTY

Hanly Defies Indiana G. O. Pl Unless it “Gets Right” on Liquor Issue. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. o.— I Hurling defiance at the republi-1 can state organization and at his; critics, predicting overwhelming defeat for the party in 1912 un-| less it "gets right" on the liquor question, and boldly announcing the intention to form a separate partv which shall propcVly reflect .the views of dry republicans, in event that the republican leaders shall evade the liquor issue, for-j mer Governor J. Frank Hanlyi closed the Tomlinson Hall "<nnnipcirtisan" temperance gather-' ing/ tonight with a fervent oration of the type for which he is' noted. j The general position taken by, Hanly was dhat the democratic • organization had surrendered' bodily to the brewery and saloon forces, and that nothing could be expected from that party in advancing the Cause of temperance. Several hundred delegates attended the “omnipartisan” convention. All parties were represented. but there was an absence of democratic ami republican leaders. ’Die convention was called by Superintendent Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon League to outline the, plans of the temperance forces in the next campaign. but it was regarded as a method of bringing the republican party to time so that it will not dare to go back of the county unit platform. Former Lieutenant Governor Hugh Th. Miller of Columbus was the presiding officer. Miler is a candidate for the republican normnatipn for governor. Among the afternoon speakers, were Senator Tilden, Greencastle, and W. A. Pierson. New Albany. democrats; Warren R. Voorhis, Kokomo, James Bingham. Indianapolis, republicans ; Colonel Eli Ritter. Indianapolis, prohibitionist, and Mrs. Cullia Vayhinger, state president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Sale bills printed ~ while yot> wait at The Democrat office

Eiden & Mannerns Co. t Cement Foundation t Sidewalk and t Carpenter Contractors * Orders promptly attended to. AU mail answered at once 4’ P. 0. Box 36, Kniman, Indiana |

OFFICIAL COUPON > The Jasper County Democrat’s Great Piano Contest One $350.00 Piano to be given away I Good for 5 votes for ■ * ... ' - .■ -■ -i \ > Street and No._ T own One Banner Upright Grand Piano will be awarded to the person living in 'Jasper or adjacent counties receiving the greatest number of votes.

Mrs. Rose Klaus Granted a Divorce.

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about her husband, when the witness quickly replied: “I have no husband, thank fortune. and don’t want one.” She admitted to Judge Hanley after the trial was over, however. that she might change her mind almost any time, and the Judge gallantly promised to perform a ceremony that , would stick free gratis. Mr. Klaus had besides 'Mr. Coover. Frank Howard, Mrs. Wm. Hotalling and Mrs. Glosser as witnesses, and their testimony was very favorable to him. ' .

Klaus himself made a splendid witness on direct examination, and when he closed by saying that he was ready at all times to provide a separate home for his wife and children and live with them, even at that moment, he made a distinct impression in his favor. On cross-examination, however, by Mr. Darroch he was impudent in his replies and upset much of the favorable impression he had made. The court asked each of the parties a number of questions and felt that a reconciliation was impossible, and therefore granted the decree.

Both the parties are Catholics, and it is said their pastor had tried in vain to get them together again. Divorces are fri'wned upon—as they should be by all denominations —by the Catholics, and it is something very unusual in our court to have a divorce case of this kind, 'rite girl was married too young. The husband, who has but one hand, having lost all the fingers of his right hand except the thumb, by . coming in contact with a buzz saw. cannot perform all kinds of labor and is handicapped somewhat thereby. The staving with her folks didn't help matters nor tend to bring out the best that was in him. He probably grew indolent to some extent because. of this. Remington people generally speak very well of him and had they gollen away from horne influences and set up an establishment for themselves they wdui i no doubt be living happily together todav. ■ 1 ' ' •

River Queen Mills.

W e have up and are ready to do air kinds of work, except grinding wheat. Custom work our specialty. Bring your buckwheat, rye. corn and feed grinding. W e will do it right Bure buck wheat flour and meal an<l feed for sale. —Fynn & Thomas. „ -

Lecture Course Dates.

Jan. 23—John Eberly Co: (Concert). Feb. 5—H. V. Adams (Lecture). Feb. 26—Landon flmpersonsator). March 22—Beulah Buck Co. (Ladies Quartet).

Presbyterian Ladies’ Bazaar.

The bazaar to be held by the 'adies of the Presbyterian church' vill be opened to the public Dec ' 14. 15 and 16,, Thursday and Friday afternoons and all day Saturday. A market will be held irit connection Saturday. Many useful and beautiful, articles, the handiwork of the ladies, will b< offered for sale and people will do well to visit the bazaar ’ for Christmas presents. j

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

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WILL FAIL OF EFFECT

PROTEST OF STEEL CORPORATION IS ABSURD. Workmen Have Not Been Benefited, but the Reverse, by the Operation? of the Giant [Company— Figures ProVe IL Mr. Gary, of the Unfted States Steel corporation, is a wonderful business executive, as also is Mr. Carnegie, but at times both make some exceedingly trite utterances. Subsequent to the suit against the corporation Mr. Gary was quoted: "If any harm results, it will fall upon the stockholders and employes, aggregating a very large number, and any loss to them must be deplored.” Neither was it especially original In Mr. Carnegie to express solicitation for the stockholders when the even tenor of >2B rails and 90 per cent, of the steel trade generally was disturbed. Professed Consideration for stockholder and employe has long been a clause in the trust’s decalogue. Hence the criticism of these gentle-

men’s comments as trite. Somehow or other this worry over what will happen to the employe vaguely reminds us of the familiar shibboleth. "Let us alone," which was last expressed by Mr. Morgans man, Perkins, in his Big Business speech at Detroit. But to return to Mr. Gary. In the one sentence quoted may be found the kernel of the nation’s protests against the trusts and the tariff from which they have sprung. Shifting the blame, shifting the burden, shifting the loss —are familiar enough to require no comment. Each time the tariff has been threatened or an effort made to enforce the Sherman law, the placard—"remember the workingman”—has been held up in warning. It is of close kin to the Standard Oil fines of several years ago, when retail prices were raised in keeping with the court’s sentence. It ranks with the American Tobacco company's solution of the SpanishAmerican war tax—a reduction in the size of the packages, which size has never been restored. And the tariff, surely, by this same reasoning; is for the benefit of the workingmen—for the trusts’ employes especially; that is why the trusts have clung so tenaciously to the good old standpat schedules. That the trusts themselves prospered was. of course, merely incidental. Now comes the employe as the great sufferer by trust dissolution. The United

States Steel corporation points to its system of profit sharing and pensioning, to its beneficent treatment of the thousands on its pay roll. Yet in this connection we recall the findings of the so-cal?ed Pittsburg Survey, published last May by the Russell Sage foundation. This report showed that from the time of the corporation’s inception the cause of labor, organized and open, bad been losing; that working hours had been lengthened and that the wage increase boasted of had fallen belaw the increase in the cost of living The steel trust was not organized for the benefit of its employes. Mr. Gary notwithstanding—lndianapolis News.

A Washington dispatch refers to the wishes of the “southern Republicans" —meaning, of course, the little handi ful of federal office holders in the south.

Defenders of Tariff of 1909.

The tariff act of 1909 has been investigated by several competent and disinterested persons. The results of their investigations may be found in Miss Tarbell’s "Tariff in Our Own Times,” in Professor Taussig’s “Tariff History of the United States.” in Professor Coman’s "Industrial History of the United States," and in various magazine article of importance, including Prof. Willis’ articles in the Journal qj Political Economy, and an exceptionally thorough study in the Review of Reviews,./ All of these investigators agree that the revision was farcical. The only defenses of the act have come from such" sources as members of the ways and means committee and the wool trust, which prints an elaborate puff of schedule K in the current issue of the Outlook—as an advertisement „

Competition

The eleventh-hour resolution of the Steel Trust to divest itself of Tt part of its ore holdings w as a confession of guilt. The Steel Trust dominates the markets for billets and otlifer basic steel products, rails, steel plates, tinplate, wire, and structural iron as completely as the Oil Trust dominates the market for petroleum and its various derivatives. Petroleum, prices are fixed by a few- men. who ineet occasionally in a tall building on low^j - Broadway; steel prices’ are discussed and arranged at Gary dinners. Competition has absolutely nothing to do with the matter; it is completely eliminated. —Philadelphia Record.

Kindred Glooms.

Says the Chinese emperor in an imperial edict: 77 ‘‘l have reigned threjg years, and have always acted conscientiously in the Interests of the people. But I have not employed men properly, as 1 am without political skill. I have employed too many nobles in official pc sitions. The people . are grumbling, yet I do not know. Disasters loom ahead/ but I do not see.” Of what other distinguished head of a government do these utterances remind you? -

s 5 Cb min q ud mu ' HL y i BwgWw $ ■ ’T BFWKM ’ asSo 1 ,-fA Andwillarrive in Rensselaer,Saturday the 9th SANTA CLAUS will come to Rensselaer on the 10 a. m. train. He would like to have all the children meet him at the depot and go with him to his headquarters. | He has a letter for every little boy and girl, and he would like to hear fropi every one of them, too. Santa will give a nice autographed photo of himself and J something more to every child who meets him at the depot. Be sure to get one.

TWO WEEKS UNTIL FINISH

Of The Democrat’s Great $350 Piano Contest ENTHUSIASM IS STUPENDOUS Contestants and Their Friends Are on Qie Vive as Time Draws Near for Awarding the Beautiful Premiums. . ■ ■ ■ There are but two weeks more before the finish of the greatest piano contest ever held in this section of the country. The Democrat is being congratulated on all sides on ac-i Cfiint of the intense enthusiasm and wide-spread interest shown in the race. The knowledge that all contestants are treated alike, that each has an equal chance and that, even at this late day. the winners of the beautiful premiums are unknown, has made this a contest such as Jasper countv has never before witnessed. The value of the premiums are such that each candidate is putting fdrth her best efforts to win. feeling assured that she will have as much opportunity as any other contestant. The standing of the contestants in order today is as follows:

Ida Harley, Parr Loretta Nagel, Rensselaer Mari bell Kays, Rensselaer Lizzie Wiseman, Virgie Ethel M Fisher. Rensselaer Alice Daniels, Rensselaer Bessie McElfresh, Rensselaer R-1 Victoria Marsh. Rensselaer R-3 Fairy Pollard, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Mcrgenegg, Rensselaer R-l Stella Platt, Rensselaer Arkana Ritchey, Remington R-3 Mildred Rush, Rensselaer R-3 Wilda Green. Remington Mary Bice, Rensselaer, R-4 Myrtle Leavel, Rensselaer Bull, Rensselaer S Mary Halsema. Rensselaer Lena Trulley, Rensselaer, R-l Elsie Smith, Rensselaer May Shools, Kniman Ruth Wiltshire. Rensselaer Bernice Yeoman, Rensselaer R-2 Hazel Shumaker, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Fulks, Remington R-4 Lois Spencer, Wolcott Martha Critser, Rensselaer, R-3 Edna Ward, Rensselaer R-4 Anna Marion, Parr Mary Gaunt. Remington R-3 Marie Moore, Rensselaer Star Route

The free voting certificates given with purchases at the stores also- count up quite fast, and candidates should urge their friends to be sure to ask for them with each cash purchase at these stores. The following stores give certificates, -one-vote for a cent, with each cash purchase. Cut the list out, and carry it with you every time you go shopping. And ask everybody you see to do the same, reminding them, bf course, to save their coupons for YOU. The list is : D. M; Worland, Furniture and Rugs Cleve Eger, Hardware -

C. Earl Duvall, Clothing and Gents Furnishings 15. F. Fendig, Drug Store Sam Fendig, Dry Goods ■ Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy, Millinery Scott Bros., Harness Home Grocery, Groceries Jessen, the Jeweler Depot Grocery, Groceries B. N. Fendig, Exclusive Shoe Dealer C. A. Roberts, Buggies, Wagons and Storm Buggies and Fronts. Spencer’s Jewelry Store, Remington. Peck’s Drug Store, Remington. “ Worden’s Harness Shop, Remington. Surrey Store, General Merchandise. Surrey W, L. Wood, General Merchandise, Parr * Aix Store, General Merchandise, Aix Reed’s General Store, Virgie A fine $350 mahogany piano is something everyone would to possess, while the splendid $35 Free sewing machine or the elegant S2O silver, set —6 each of ..knives, forks, table and teaspoons- —are articles of both ornament and service, and the winners of either may well feel proud of them. The cash prizes for those finishing 4th, sth, 6th and 7th —$8, $4, $2 and $1 — should induce every contestant to make the best possible showing in the wind-tip,-r-Remember there are but 15 more week days of the contest. It closes promptly, at 8 p. m., on Saturday, Dec. 23, and the names of the various candidates with the votes cast for each will appear in the Wednesday issue following. Urge your friends to help you with subscriptions and renewals and to be sure and ask for the trading certificates at the stores handling them and with their holiday purchases at these stores, and to save them for you. A new subscription, remember, counts 3,000 votes for each year. If for five years. 15,000 votes; a renewal counts 1,500 votes for each vear renewed.

FELINE KILLS 250 BATS.

After former Commissioner of Montgomery County J). K. Graber and Alexander C. Yorke had nearly burned down Yorke’s house in an attempt to kill with sulphur several hundred bats which infested the dwelling, a wandering feline has, during the past two months, exterminated the vampires, says the Pennsburg correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. 7 Since May 1 this ownerless cat has spent hour after hour each evening on the porch at a place midway between a tree and the corner of the house, through which open avenue the bats were wont to fly. Scores of spectators have watched the Cat put up her paw and bring down a bat as the latter flew by. From two to five have been killed every evening. The cat ate her quarry, and more than 250 bats were killed by the feline.

An armful of old papers tor a nickel at the Democrat office.

Notice of Letting Contract for County Supplies. - Notice is hereby given the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will, until 12 o’clock noon, .of December 19th, 1911, receive _jealed bifls for furnishing blanks, stationery and other supplies for the county, its several county officers, and the courts thereof, for the year 1912.. All bids to be filed acording to law. The Board _ reserves the right to reject any and all bids. ’ By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper -CinfntyJAMES N. LEATHERMAN.. ! Auditor Jasper County.

WomeO, For». Rfiniflt. [Under this head notices w.il be published for 1-cent-a-word for the Snrl Insertion, %-cent per word for each additional Insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.) For Sale —A nice fresh cow.— MARION I. ADAMS, phone 533-L. For Sale —-Mammoth pure bred Bronze turkeys, .also pure bred Barred Plymouth Rock‘ chickens.— MCDONALD SISTERS, McCoysburg, Ind., R-l. J 25 For Sale—-At the Rosebud Farm, 2 miles southeast of Parr, pure bred O. I. C. and Duroc-Jersey swine, either sex. Extra good boars of spring farrow/ either red or white, with right prices.—A MOS H. ALTER & SON, Parr, Ind., R-l, or phone 507-B for particulars. Wanted—Good men to sell the Rawleigh Remedies in Indiana territory. Some good first-class territory available. See or write me at once—O. N. HILE, The Rawleigh Man, Rensselaer, Ind. f 4 For Safe—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. 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’CONNOR, Ex-sherift Jasper county, Kniman, Ind. 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 SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. 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 I Hnt Bin Wfthout Dela ? I nil Illi Commission I Uvl lllv Without Charges for H] Making or Recording Instruments. . W. H. PARKINSON. jNOTICEiI t | Having secured the ser- •; ± vices of Geo. Wade, a :: 4 first-class Barber, lam” J prepared to give you bett ter work and quicker t service than before. Your K f patronage solicited. •• | Calvin H.Cainii I I 1 I ! i t