Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — Page 8

News Notes of if Nearby Towns 1® penings in the Territory \f i Adjacent to the Jasper Ai Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents f County Metropolis

—: IROQUOIS VALLEY. | Lu el la Green is on the, sick list. Joe Grooms spent Monday with Ike Walker. James Hopkins is working for Chas. Arnold. Flora Pullins was a "Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Leo Kolhoff helped Mr. Eib shred corn Wednesday. Emmet’Pullins went to Ft. Wayne Tuesday on business. John Marlatt and brother Isaac were at his farm Thursday. Chas. Grant and Henry Shipman called on Garland Grant Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Newcomb were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Dr. Hansson and Winifred Pullins were in our vicinity Thursday. Clarence Green and Clyde Burris husked corn for Wm. Green Wednesday. - Gladys Grooms spent Monday night with Jennie and Bessie McE 1 fresh. ' - •» Vilas Price and Newt Jenkins returned to Ed Jenkins" Monday to husk corn. Mr. Warren or Rensselaer is hauling corn for Mr. Foltz from his farm in this vicinity. Geo. McElfresh and daughter Bessie attended the funeral of Mrs. Kennedy at Rensselaer Wednesday. Miss Kathryn Mpfgenegg, v. ho spent Thanksgiving at Mr. jordan's near Gifford, returned home Monday. Mrs. Mollie Vance, who is much improved in health since her opeir ation. has taken up work in Barnes' restaurant at Rensselaer. - , j State of Ohio. City of Toledo, ) S 3. Lucas County. ) Frank J. Cheney makes oath, that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and' every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the..JJse of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. (Seal.) A. W. GLEASON, Notary. Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free., F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75 c. Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.

•— LEE. | !— Miss Lural Anderson was at home for Thanksgiving. The creamery is only open on Thursday’s now during the winter. Elmer Gilmore and Glenn Culp made a trip to Rensselaer Monday. J. H. Culp and family ate dinner Sunday with Charles McCashen and family. Mr. Miller and family, who lived in L. M. Jacks’ house, moved down near Monon Monday. Walter Gilmore returned home Sunday from a business trip and. visiting relatives in the west. Mr. Reid, the counity superintendent, and Mr. Middlestadt, the trustee, visited our school Wednesday. Tone Overton is visiting his brother Frank and family this week, and helping Mr. Moore with the stone road.

S. W, Noland and family attended the fat stock show at Chicago a few days this week, and also visited relatives. Wm. Jacks and family of near Rensselaer came Sunday to see his brother Sam's Wife, whose health continues very poorly. Orlando Van Diver so Indianapolis, Miss Cassie Holeman of Monticello and Mr. and Mrs. Orval Holeman of Rensselaer visited their relatives, Mrs. Holeman. John Osborne, J. H. Culp and Frank Overton’s a few days this week.’

Ab Alarm At Night That strikes terror to the entire household is the loud, hoarse and metallic cough of croup. No mistaking it and fortunate then the lucky parents who keep Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound on hand. H. W. Casselman, Canton, N. Y., says: .“It is worth its weight in gold. Our little children are troubled with croup and hoarseness, and all we give them is Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound. I always have a bottle of it in the house.”—A. F. Long.

| PINE GROVE. •! ! John Torbet spent Sunday with

\ <1 We are paying for > Butter fat this week 37c WILLIAM H. DEXTER KeaMclaer, Indiana

Jerry Tullis of Blackford. . Roy Tofbet helped his brothers, Bluford and John, shuck corn Wednesday. Chas. "Walker helped his father, Isaac Walker, butcher hogs Tuesday. Miss Creola Torbet took dinner with Bernice and Lucy Walker Sunday. ■ , There was n°t a very large crowd at Independence Sunday because of bad weather. Mrs. Harry Gifford returned home Tuesday after a week’s visit with relatives in Illinois. James Torbet and son Charles spent Sunday with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Harry Beck and family. Irving Peregrine spent Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peregrine of Valparaiso, returning home Sunday.

Obituary of Mrs. Sarah M. Pettet Sarah M.. daughter of I’onathan and Martha Sheets, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, March 2, 1838, and died at the home of her son, John F. Pettet. in Walker tp.. Jasper county. Indiana, Dec. 3, 1911, at the age of 73 years. 9 months and 1 day* She was united in marriage to Jacob Pettet Nov. 29, 1859. To this union were born five children. namely: John F. Pettet of Walker tp.; Mrs. Joseph Salrin ”f Tefft; Charles Pettet of Ker--ey. and Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan of Parr ; < She united with the M. E. church in the year 1875. She leaves to ’mourn their loss four children-, thirty-three grandchildren, a great-grandson, a sister and a host of friends. Her memory will be impressed on her many friends and she will be greatly missed in the neighborhood where she has spent so many years. The funeral services were held at the home Tuesday, conducted by Rev. C. E. Downey of, Roselawn. Interment at Hershman cemetery. xx

Notice to Watkins Patrons. I understand that reports have been circulated that I am to quit traveling for the Watkins Medical Coi, and I take this means of informing nly many patrons in Jasper county that there is no truth in the report. Soliciting your continued patronage, I remain. Respectfully, V. M.*Peer.

THE POOLE TRIAL

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Poole had a mania and was not right in the mind. The witness also testified that when he was paid what Poole owed him it was Mrs. Poole who gave him the check for the amount. It is the theory of the defense that Mrs. Poole did all the business on the farm because Poole was not able mentally to transact business properly. The state is planning to put on the witness stand a number of experts who will testify regarding different kinds of insanity and is seeking to show that in recurrent mania such as Poole is said to have had the victim frequently recovers. The officers of the state insane hospital at Indianapolis probably will be brought here to testify that Poole recovered his reason before he was discharged from that .institution in 1898. The state will, by hypothetical questions, endeavor to convince the jury that Poole was sane and that the wav in which he , con- *■ > ' cealed the body and destroyed its was evidence of a carefully planned homicide. The last witness for the defense was Dr. Frank B. Thompson, who testified as an expert in favor of the defendant. He said the defendant was undoubtedly insane. In cross-examina-tion the state changed the hypothesis to suit the state’s theory. Dr. Thompson sometimes answered the way the state wished him to and at other times he clung to his statements that Poole was insane. Grace Poole, the defendant’s daughter, was called back to the stand long enough to be cross-examined about testimony she gave at the eoronePs —inquest amt Site admitted the accuracy of the stenographic report of her testimbny. Lafayette. Ind., December z.— Through business men at Fowler and Swanington, farmersUand •personal acquaintances of

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fendant for a .period of many years, the state in the John W. Poole murder trial is putting before the jury some important tesmony touching on Poole’s menial condition. All of the state’s witnesses have related instances of Poole’s craftiness and all were positive in their declarations that Poole is of sound mind and that he was in full possession of all his faculties when he killed Joe Kemper, cut up the body and buried it in the corn fi£ld, where it remained for sixteen months before it was exhumed and Poole was arrested. William Baismore, a young farmer who worked for Poole several times and who was a frequent caller at the Poole home, said he never saw Poole exhibit the slightest symptom of hallucination. He said Poole was sane and shrewd. Baismore was at the Poole home the day Kemper was killed. The witness told about helping Poole thrash and butcher, and he never obr served any incoherency in Poole’s speech or conversation. He never heard him talking to himself or gesticulating. Poole, he said, directed the work on the farm, and when they butchered Poole cut up the meat. Attorney Barce, in his cross-examina-tion. asked the witness but one question. “You are a companion an 4 partner of Emory Poole are you not?” the attorney asked ‘’Yes. sir.” replied Baismore. “That’s all.” retorted the attorney. M. C. Garvin, a neighbor of Poole’s, who also testified in the case 4n s chief, said he talked to Poole occasionally about crops, and Poole always talked sensibly. He observed him about the farm.l and never saw anything peculiar in his actions. He said after j Poole’s first arrest in March he saw him in Swanington with a box of old clothing, and asked Poole what he was going to do with the box, Poole, he said, replied that he thought he would ship it away. “Why don’t you bury it?” askcct ‘the Mritness, according to his. testimony, and Poole hung his head and laughed. Garvin said he did not notice anything unusual about the way the Poole farm was kept, but in cross-ex-amination attorney Barce introduced photographs shoeing the

1 lilapidated condition of trie | sheds, barn and fences and the| dirty condition of the entire premises. - j Dr. I’. J. Watters of the Central Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis. was questioned about Poole's hospital record in 1893 and 1897. He said Poole was first admitted in August, 1893. and released on furlough in September of the same year, when his wife was made responsible for him. In February, 1894. he was formally discharged from the insane hospital, but was returned._ to that institution in February, 1897, when he escaped and returned to his home. Poole . was brought back to the institution in February, 1898, bv the sheriff of Benton county on orders from the insane hospital. In April he was released on furlough again and in May he was formally discharged. Mr. Barce sought to question Dr. Watters about Poole’s condition while he vVas at the state hospital, but the state's objection on the ground that it was not cross-ex-amination was sustained. Frank Cones, formerly a merchant at Fowler; Michael Duffy, of Benton county: G. L. Guthridge of Swanington; Dempsey Barker of Fowler, and Charles Stuart of Barce, related business deals with Poole, and all said they believed him sane. John Quigley of Oxford told the jury of the experience his father had with John Poole, Jan. 1 23. 1897, when Poole attacked him with a revolver and shot’ him through the cheek, the injured man recovering after a long illness. Quiglev said he worked for ! Poole in 1886 and 1888, and Poole' never paid him the money he owed him. Quigley was then a minor and his father later,' brought suit against Poole andi got judgment for 548.96. Poole gave the elder Quigley a check for that amount and on Jan. 23, 1897. Quigley and his son, the witness, drove to Fowler, cashed the eheck and started for home again. . . . Quigley said Poole waylaid them, shot his father in the cheek j and forced him to give up the: ’money. Poole was tried and sent- to the insane hospital after having Been acquitted on a plea of insanity. "“7

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Adam Ness, who lives three miles from the Poole farm, declared there was not a saner man in Benton county than John! Poole. William Day of Benton! county testified that he workedj for Poole and that he asked him one time between his first and second arrest if a body had been found on the farm. Poole told him none haxl been found. and remarked that he supposed! people were satisfied. Bert Evans of Benton county said that he worked with Poole several times and that Poole directed the work on his farm. William Harkryaer of Benton county related a conversation about land in Jasper county and Benton county. Poole predicted that Benton county land would be worth S2OO an acre in two years from that time. The witness said Poole’s prediction had been partially realized. Judge Charles W. Hanley of Jasper county told of Poole being. brought before him in the circuit court at Rensselaer on a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit criminal assault. He said he thought Poole to be a man of sound mind at that time. George S. Edenbarter, superintendent of the Insane Hospital at Indianapolis, testified as to the diagnosis of Poole’s mental condition at the hospital, and showed that at one time he was suffering with recurrent mania. „ The state moved to strike out all parts of the hospital record except the dates of " admission and release and the official diagnosis. The court reserved ruling. William Snyder, Frank Carson, Lon Rummel and George Pfleeger all testified Of having had business transactions with Poole, and said they regarded him a person of sound mind.

Glasses flitted by DR. A. G. CATT Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office nver Long’s Drug Store. ’ Phone No. 332. ’7

AUCTION ROBINSON 340 ACRE FARM

' f December 20, at 2 P. M., : t , . on the premises, 7 miles southeast of Rensselaer, 10 miles northwest of Wolcott. Farm being sold to settle estate of C. C. Robinson (de- : ceased.) Here is the finest grain and stock farm in the country, well located and in prosperous community. Improvements are all new and consist of handily arranged 9-room house, large horse barn, big cattle barn, combination cattle and hog barn, large wagon and buggy shed with basement. chicken house, 4.000-bushel corn crib and other granaries and buildings. Farm produced this year 40 acres of oats, 40 acres of clover. 40 acres of meadow and 120 acres of corn that is now being gathered and is making better than 55 bushels per acre. Balance of farm is in good pasture land with 30 acres of white oak timber, 40 acres now in wheat. Exceedingly well fenced with hog tight fields and lots. No better land and improvements in the country. An ideal home and a money maker. For information see or address W right & Son, auctioneers. Lafayette, Ind. Here is a farm you must not overlook as it sells at auction to settle an estate and someone is going to get a bargain. Terms—S2.ooo required on day of sale to show bona fide evidence of deal. The estate will carry a SIO,OOO mortgage for 5 years at 6 per cent. Balance cash within 20 days from day of sale. Wright & Son, Auctioneers, Lafayette, Ind.

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