Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — Page 8

WT WT * A fff Items of Interest News Notes 01 Kt 7 JHL towns Tersely Told. Nearby Towns I penings in the Territory 1 y Adjacent to the Jasper As Furnished by Qur Regular Correspondents Q County Metropolis

j IROQUOIS VALLEY, | Grandma Lowry is some better at this writing. Wm. Whittaker is hauling corn to Rensselaer. Gertrude Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer Friday. Isaac Marlatt called on Geo. McElfresh Tuesday. Wm. Green . was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Bessie McElfresh was a Rensselaer goer Thursday. Christina Blair is working for J. W. Marlatt and family. Leo Kolhoff is the proud owner of a new horse and buggy. John Newcomb and wife were Rensselaer goers Wednesday, f Chas. Grant has been hauling corn for Mr. Foltz, this week. George McE'lfresh and family spent Tuesday evening with M. Tudor and family. Emmet Pullins and family spent Thursday evening with Barney Kolhoff and family. Christina Blair and Ethel Marlatt called Tuesday evening on Luella and Beck Green. James Gilmore was called to Kingman, Ind., Tuesday by the . sudden death of his father, who had been visiting his daughter at that place. Mrs. Mollie Vance, who has been working in Rensselaer, came home Wednesday for a visit with her father. Mrs; J. W. Marlatt was in Rensselaer Monday to see her sister, Mrs. Cooper, who is not expected to live. The boys of Iroquois Valley are having- quite a time hunting rabbits. Two of our boys went out and used about forty shots and brought in 8 rabbits. Lester Schriener bought tWo cows at the Hartsook sale Tuesday and took them to his father-in-law’s, Chris Morgenegg’s, until he moves to the farm near Pleasant Grove in the spring.

New Gristmill at Kniman. I wish to announce to the public that I have a complete grinding outfit installed at Kniman. I have both steel and stone burrs and can give the best of satisfaction in the grinding of buckwheat.—s-J>. W. HIELSCHER.

| LEE. | -I 1Charles Carlson Jias bought a •new triple bed wagon of Clark & Son. Wm. Large has bought the farm just north of here that formerly belonged to Eli Wood. J. H. Culp drove to Monon Wednesday and then went over to Rensselaer on business. The farmers surely have made good use of the frozen roads lately in hauling corn to market. Uncle David Culp continues poorly, and his sons and grandsons are still getting his wood for him. . Lizzie Redd, who lives .at Uncle David Culp’s, and who has been sick for several weeks, has about recovered. Elzie Webb, who lives dn Mr. Kimes’ farm southwest of here, shelled Ms landlord’s corn and' delivered seventy-two wagon loads here this week. Ray Holemah, who lives near Reynolds, came Monday and took Wm. Large’s stock home with him to put on his pasture. Ray is going to move here on the Large farm in the near future.

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—I 1— BANNER. | •. '"’I”' —' “*l— w Everybody busy about Banner. Chas. Jones went to Wolcott Monday. E. Marchand hauled hay Wednesday. , V • John Stockdale hauled wood Wedi nesday. ’ E. Webb shelled corn Monday and Tuesday. 1 G. Kime is visltng his farm in Blue Sea this week. Chas, and Fred Marchand worked for Mr. Kime Tuesday. Chas, and Fred Marchand were Monon callers Saturday. E. Botts of Brookston is visiting his sister, Mrs. Wm. Hintz, t Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Lilly visited Mrs. E. Webb Monday. Grandma Dowel is 'very low at present with little hopes of her recovery. J. Boone was called to Noblesville Saturday to see his father, who is quite sick. . Elza and Clayton Webb took supj>er with T. Knight and wife Thursday evening. Some people never succeed because they are afraid 1 of doing more than their share. Thos. Knight, Claude Blankenshio and Elzie Webb were Monon visitors Wednesday. Ernest Clark and sister Edythe

visited relatives near Palestine Saturday evening and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Tiros. Knight werd guests of Mr. and Mrs. James BlankenshJp Friday evening. The people of this vicinity are’ very busy at present shelling corn, cutting wood, shredding fodder and hunting rabbits. So the song, “Everyone works but father,” must be in the past.

n Foley i..tlney Pills always give satisfaction because they always do the work. J. T. Shelnut, Bremen, Ga., says: "I have used Foley Kidney Pils with great satisfaction and found more relief from their use than from any other kidney medicine, and I’ve tried almost all kinds. I can cheerfully recommend them to all sufferers for kidney and bladder trouble..” —A. F. LonjL

-I 1 -]~ | THE NORTHSIDE. I -i r I. F. Meader was in Parr Wednesday. R H. Eilts was a Parr" goer •Thursday. . , Nettie Davisson took cream to Parr Wednesday. Mary Reeder visited her cousin, Patience Florence, Sunday. Marie Comer has returned home after spending a week at Purdue. ’ Daniel Wolfe attended the sale on the John Swartz farm Tuesday. Miss Faye Bradford has been on the slick list a few days the past week. Mrs. Louis Todd and Mrs. Arthur Millspaugh were shopping in Rensselaer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Comer visited the latter's parents, James Lilves’, near Remington, Sunday. Mrs. Jack Reeder of Virgie spent over Sunday with her son Waitman Reeder, on the Sparling farm, near Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. John Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Millspaugh and little daughter called on Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Todd- Sunday. These will 'be a literary at Virgie Ja|i. 27. The principal feature will be a debate, the question to be debated upon is: Resolved, “That Education is Better Than Money.” Everybody come. Mrs. B. D. Cpmer left for Wabash Tuesday to see her sister, Mrs. recently suffered a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Rowley and husband are here from North Dakota visiting relatives.

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' PINE GROVE. —i I •1~ lEstel George took dinner with John Torbet Sunday. 'NJr. and Mrs. James Britt were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Chloae Torbet spent Thursday with her sister, Mrs. Harry Beck, There was no Sunday school last Sabbath on account of bad weather. Clint Beck and family took dinner Sunday with J. M. Torbet and family. Bernice Walker called on Bessie and Hattie McCurtain Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Gusta Torbet spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Sarah McCleary. Mr. and Mrs.' James Britt spent Sunday afternoon with Henry SnoW and family of Blackford. Harry Beck <and family spent Sunday with the latt°r’s parents, J. M. Torbet and family. laving Peregrine spent Saturday and| Sunday with L. H. Hamilton and family of Rensselaer. Chas. Walker and family spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Jane Hurley, of Blackfoi-d. The burial of Adam Flesher’s week old babe was made in the Prater cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 1 & clock. We have been having * some very cold weather. It was 23 below zero Saturday, but it has moderated down and was about 33 above Wed. nesday morning.

Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a reliable family medicine. Give it to your children, and take it yourself when you feel a cold coming on. It checks and cures coughs and colds and croup and prevents bronchitis and pneumonia.-—A. F. Long.

i FAIR OAKS. I -I Health is generally very good in our town nowadays. Dora Cottingham went to Danville the first of the week to see this son Will and wife and little granddaughter. Will Warren has recently had his house equipped with a $l5O

lighting system. It is by carbolite lamps which are fine. Can Manderville, the jeweler, has a very nice display of jewelry watches and clocks in his windows nowadays, in which are good bargains. Bert Abbott was up from Rensselaer the latter pant of the week and put the elevator in repair, and the unloading of wagons with the scoop is - ended agajn. Mirs. Maggie Reller, who has been cooking the past year in the west on one of Sternberg’s dredges, came home a few days ago, and she her son Harry are keeping house. Chas. Swanke,. who lives on the Vannatta farm east of town, was over here Sunday and reported he had been catching some very fine fish through the ice in tlhe dredge ditch near him. Buck Clifton,’ who has been in Arkansas for some time as telegraph operator, got sick and called for help and came home the latter part of the week. He is improving and will soon be alright again. Earl Leech sold his team and wagon to Neen Littlefield last week ; ahd his household goods to second--hand furniture dealer fit —Rensselaer, and with his family 1 went to Rensselaer to stay a few days. From there they emigrated to Oklahoma. Mrs. John Kight, who lives in Indianapolis and has been in poor health for some time, came up Monday and will stay with relatives. She * will be nearer her physician who lives in Chicago, She has been making very satisfactory gains the past month.

Miss Hannah Culp, who has been confined to her bed the past five weeks on account of the injury she received thorn a fall, was moved i to Will Warren’s residence Monday' where someone can be with her all the time, as it is thought necessary.. She is slowly recovering. The weather took a change Wednesday, the mercury rising to about freezing and Wednesday night it rained about all night and the snow wept away very fast. Thursday it tunned colder again and at this writing the ground is covered with ice, which makes a harvest for the blacksmiths.

Rev. Downy came down Sunday to fill hds regular appointment in •the M. E. church. He brought with him Rev. JMorrow of the Baptist church at Morocco and he turned his congregation over to him. He gave a good talk of about 30 minutes. He went from here on th€ 5:37 p. m., train to Parr to hold services.

; It is rumored about town that we are to have a new town or dance hall as soon as the weather opens up so the carpenter can work. It will be located between the postoffice building and Will Gundy’s restaurant, and will be about 20x60 or 70 feet and is to be floored with 1% oak flooring and equipped up-to-date.

Do not allow your kidney and bladder trouble to develop beyond the reach of medicine. Take Foley Kidney Pills. They give quick results and stop irregularities with surprising promptness.—A. F. Long. NOTICE OF FURTHER COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IROQUOIS DITCH, CAUSE NO. 402 OF THE COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. To all »wnm of lands and easements originally assessed for the construction of the Iroquois Ditch:

You, and each of you, are hereby notified that the Board of Commissioners of the County of Jasper have, by their oirder duly entered of record in Order Book No. 7, at Page 550, directed the further collection of one and one-half per cent of the benefits, originally assessed and confirmed in the judgment establishing the Iroquois Ditch. That pursuant to said direction a supplemental assessment sheet has been prepared by me, approved by the said Board, and is now on file in my office for collection. That the amounts shown by said assessment sheet against the several tracts of land described therein are now due and payable at my office,, in the Court House, in the City of Rensselaer, and > may be paid on or before March 1, 1912. MYRT B. PRICE, Commissioner of Construction. Ready for delivery off our 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. A nice carrying space on these irs, too. Step in let us show yor how to save money.—Maxwell.

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office

Remington Poultry Show Postponed Owing to the extreme cold ■ .S’ ' ■ . weather the Remington Poultry Association which was to hold its annual show this week, has postponed same until J a n u a r y 23 to 27 inclusive Remember the dates and make it a point to attend.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HAMMOND The murder of five starving little children by their crazed mother, Mrs. • Andrew Szymanski, of Whiting, was prevented by the visit of a relative who found the mother, armed with a butcher knife, about to stab her six-months-old baby. A desperate encounter followed, in which the woman was finally disarmed. The family has had neither fuel, clothing nor food for three days. Szymanski, the husband, was found in a saloon. Doctors examined the mother and declared she had gone mad from starvation. She is at St. Margaret’s hospital. The husband is under ari rest. In a partially- sane moment Mrs. Szymanski said she intended to kill all her starving children to end their suffering. 1 ■ I GOSPORT— WhiIe making an attempt to get off a passenger train while it was still in motion, A. L. Martin, a farmer living near herb; slipped and fell between the baggage and smoking cars. When the train was stopped his body was wound around the can axle, crushed and bleeding, but the man was still conscious To extricate him It was necessary to jack up the car, take off the brakes and many of the connecting rods on the front trpeks. For three hours, conscious, Martin lay under the car, while the trainmen worked to get him out. He died an hour after he was released. The train was delayed three hours and a half by the accident.

SOUTH BEND Because, she alleges, the 1 conductor of a Southern Michigan railway car refused a worn half dollar she tendered for her fare, stopped the car and put her off in the snow, compelling her to walk a mile and a quarter through drifts against heavy, cold winds while the thermometer registered below zero, Mrs. Mamie Kintre filed suit in the circuit court against the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana railway for $2,000 damag s.

ANDERSON— SamueI Osborne, who lost both of his feet in an interurban collision in North Anderson a month ago, placed a value of $1,500 on each foot, according to the compromise made of his $25,000 damage suit with the Indiana Union Traction company. Osborne received a cash consideration of $3,000. It was at first thought by doctors that Osborn'e’s feet could be saved, but later surgeons decided on amputation. The company paid the hospital bills in addition to the $3,000. i M ■ TERRE HAUTE While he was walking along the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad tracks in Ellsworth, David W. Humphreys, postmaster at Edwards, Ind., was instantly to death when the rear car on a passing freight train toppled over on him and pinned him beneath. The fatal accident occurred between 9:30 and 10 o’clock, but Humphrey's body was not discovered until relatives Started a search for him at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

SPENCER John W. Cooper, seventy years of age, a native of Owen county, died of pneumonia. He was a printer of fifty years’ experience and had been employed on the Owen County Democrat for the last three years. Before coming here he was editor of the Plainfield Progress for several years. He had also worked on the Indianapolis News and was at Martinsville a number of years.

SOUTH BEND Judge George G. Seldman, fifty years of age, dropped dead while he was leaving his office. The cause of his death has not been announced, but is supposed to have resulted from disease of the kidneys. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for judge of the St. Joseph circuit court. He served eight years as judge of the city court, v .

BLOOMINGTON This city is almost on the verge of a coal famine and unless relief comes within the next few days several families will be entirely out of fuel. The city school will not be affected In the least by the famine as they have a supply that will tide them through the winter. It ; is probable that Indiana university also will not be affected.

ELMWOOD With two other women clinging to the opposite ends of a bolt of silk which, in the mad rush of a bargain sale at the Leeson store, had become wrapped once about her neck, Mrs. H. E. Lyston was choked into insensibility before she could b« freed, and she is still in a critical con dition.

WASHINGTON Robert Simmons, fifty years old, a farmer, was shot' and probably fatally wounded by a young son while the latter was playing with a target'rifle. The lad shot at a mark on the barn, not' knowing the father was within. The ball penetrated the right lung.

VINCENNES Charles Lancaster, of Carlisle, Ind., who was paroled to Indianapolis as a barber Dec. 19, “froze out” and surrendered to the police. “I want to go back to Michigan City," said Lancaster. The prison authorities wired to hold Lancaster.

MITCHELL While he was playing with a revolver, Opal Carter accidentally shot Miss Blanche Shepherd, sixteen, through the head. Carter is just out of the United States army. Surgeons say the accident will Drove

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON—A plan—fer—a--big - celebration of the 100th anniversary of the treaty of Ghent is pending before the senate committee on foreign relations in the shape of a bill appropriating $,7,500,000 for that purpose. Senator Burton of Ohio fromed the measure. It proposes that a commission of seven members, all citizens of the United States, and one of whom shall be a retired engineer, shall be appointed by the president, to be, known as the peace centenary celebra-' tlon commission, The menmers of this commission, it Is provided, shall serve for not more than four years without compensation. Their expenses however, will be paid out of the appropriation.

WEST POINT, N. Y.— The semiannual examination at West Point proved disastrous to thirty-one members of the largest fourth-class ever gathered in the military institution. This class was regarded as the best prepared collection of cadets over matriculated, as the members not only passed In the competitive examinations, by which the majority of the appointees are selected, but also passed the regular academic examination with flying colors. The first six months, however, under the military discipline and class training proved too much for the thirty-one and they have been ordered to their homes.

NEW YORK.— Miss Violet Buehler, the sixteen year old girl who disappeared from the Meyers hotel, 602 South State street, Chicago, Nov. 26, and in whose search practically the entire police force of the city engaged, was found working in a kitchen in New York by a private detective agency. She was giving her services for $3 a week and board. She declared that she was well and happy and only feared that her foster mother, Mrs. Herman Buehler, proprietor of the hotel would find some way of compelling her to return to Chicago.

NEW YORK — The national Democratic leaders who have recently been in conference here are agreed that the presidential nomination will, in all probability go to a "dark horse.” “There is little chance for the various leaders to get together on any candidate,” said a member, “and when the convention is called to order June 25 everyone of the fourteen or more men mentioned for the honor will have a group of militant delegates behind him ready to fight to a finish. This means that it is likely to be a ‘dark horse’ year.”

NEW YORK— When Cardinal Farley, the newly crowned prince of the Catholic church, walked down the gangplank from the steamer Berlin, he received a greeting that in its elaborateness has been eclipsed only twice In the history of, the nation —once when cheering multitudes acclaimed the return of Admiral Dewey and again when the safe home-coming of Theodore Roosevelt brought out hundreds of 'thousands of his fellow-citizens.

NEW YORK—The large seven story warehouse of the Terminal Storage company, occupying a full city square near the North river water front, between Twenty-Seventh and Twentyeighth streets, and containing merchandise valued at more than $10,000,000, was swept by fire. The fire was discovered a few minutes after midnight. It was not under control until 6:45 o'clock, when the loss was estimated at $1,250,000.

PASADENA, CAL. —A fire of an unknown origin destroyed the Pasadena hotel, a favorite winter hoffie of many wealthy easterners. The loss will reach $250,000. At 1 a. m. the entire main structure of the hotel had been destroyed and the flames finished their work on the big north wing newly opened this season. No liyes were lost.

JETMORE, KAN.-—A railway branch line train bearing the first shipment of provisions that has reached snowbound Jetmore since Dec. 26 arrived here' in charge of a committee of a hundred Jetmore citizens, led by Mayor Harry Breeze. An ample supply of food and fuel was placed at the disposal of a group of ranchers.

CHICAGO twelve-year-old heir to a fortune, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay. “Vahdab” in Ottoman Zar Adusht Hanish’s Mazdaznan Tpmple in Lake Park avenue, again failed to appear before Judge Pinckney in the juvenile court when the contest over the boy’s custody was resumed.

WASHINGTON— How the millions of peopljkof the United States may have saved them millions of dollars annually ill the Operation of their governmental machinery was outlined by President Taft in a special message to congress on "Economy and Efficiency in the Government Service.”

NEWPORT BEACH, CAL.— Two bur glars blew open a safe of the State Bank of Newport Beach and obtained several thousand dollars. They also blew open the safe in the postoffice. The robbers escaped after a running revolver fight with a few esldents

WASHINGTON-—The constitutionality of the employers’ liability law, which was passdd 15 y congress in 19,8, was upheld by the supreme court of the United States in all the cases before it. The court also decided that state courts may enforce the act when local laws are appropriate.

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Lecture Course Dates. Jan. 24—John Eberly Co. (Concert.) Feb. 5—H. V. Adams (Lecture). Feb. 26—Lgndon (Impersonsator). March 22—Beulah Buck Co. (Ladies Quartet). Fatality in Hammond Fire. Hammond, Ind., Jan. 19.—Fire destroyed the homestead of Charles Rothwell, a short distance south of here, and is believed to have caused the death of Hugh Stone of Elkhart,, one of the occupants of the building. Guilty of Polluting Steam. Greenwood, Ind., Jan 19.—After a four days’ jury trial in Johnson circuit court the J. T. Polk company was found guilty of polluting the stream known as Pleasant Run and fined SSO and costs. $52,000 Suit Compromised. Sullivan, Ind., Jan. 19.—The suit of Thomas Edward,, former county treasurer, against William H. Crowder, to collect $52,000, alleged omitted taxes,, has been compromised in the circuit court for $6,000. All Is Quiet at Lawrence, Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 19. —No dison ders developed in the strike of 15,00€ textile workfp. Troops guarded the entire mill district, but they had little to do. During the parade of 10,000 strikers the temper of the marchersseemed good and cheering was frequent. THEN THEY HAD IT. PE&I A ’ Mrs. Henpeck—Mr. Highflier never takes his wife out in his automobile. Mr. Henpeck—l guess he doesn’t care to have two unmanageable thingson his hand at one time. , The Diagnosis. He went in front of a motor car; Next minute he was reeling. The doctor said he was suffering from That awfuD rjin-down feeling. All the news in The Democrat..