Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Page 3

Fifteenth Annual Report

Of the "Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association of Benton, Jasper and White Counties, Indiana, for the Year Ending December 31, 1911. s Insurance jn force January 1, 1912, $2,325,000.00. Net gain for year $100,000.00», Receipts. Balance in Bank January 1, 1911.$ IQOrSo Assessment No. 13. 5074.42 Premium vV./. 232.95 Borrowed to pay loss of sl9ll. .4500.00 Total receipts 9908.02 Expenditures. Loss of Mil ..$5794.11 Expenses 1911 283.17 Notes and interest of 1910..... .3605.17 Money returned to members by cash ....... 52.91 Balance in Bank Jan. 1, 1912.... 172.66 Total 9908.02 Losses Paid 1911. Feb. 20, Chas. Lods, house and content's by fire Jan. 3, 1911.51300.00 May 3, Perry Roberts, colt' killed by ''lightning ......... ... 75.00 May 24, Carrie Turvey, bouse and contents by fire 1400.00 Jufie 2, T. V. Bartoo, horse killed by lightning 120,00 July 5, Qtis E. Dart, damage to house by fire..'. .10,00. July 15, W. D. . Meyers, loss of barn by fire...... 1 428.50 July 17, Claude Gorman, 2 horses killed by lightning.... 200.00 July 17, C. W. Baker, damage to house by fire................ 10.00 July 17, Perr>; Roberts, barn and contents by lightning........ 397.50 July 29, Jennie Gish, damage' to barn by lightning 46.50 July 27, H. J. Schuyler, damage to crib by lightning:,...... ' 10.00 July 27, L. 11. Tyler, damage to house by fire 20.00 July 27, John Brost, loss of barn . and contents by lightning... .1389.75 Aug. 29, Finglemire, damdge, to barn by lightning 5.00 Aug. 29, John Zimmer, steer - killed by lightning 37.50 Aug. 29, Bryce Fufigeson, damage to house by fire 8.25 Sept. 25, O. K. Ritchey, horse killed , by lightning 56,25 Sept. 25, McCormick, loss of property by fire 115.11 Sept. 25, Peter Geib, cow killed 8 by ‘ lightning .. 33.75 Sept. 25, J. Finglemire, damage to house by fire 5.00 Nov. 4,„ Bernard Steine, steer killed lightning 22.50 Nov. 29, Joseph E. Gretter, damage to house by lightning.... 20.00 Dec. 18, Abner F. Griswold, damage to barn by fire 70.00 Dec. 30, H. L. Charais, heifer killed by lightning 13.50 Total amount paid. 5794.11 Administration, salaries, office supplies, adjusting losses, publicity and other expenses, $283.17,. Note I—Anyl—Any member having a loss, notify the President, or Secretary at once. Note 2—The 1911 assessment is 25 cents per SIOO on amt. insured. w.'i. McCullough, Pres. 1 Fowler, Ind. R-l. FRANK E. FISHER, Sec. Remington, Ind., R-l.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. ■■ : ■- \ Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Thos. Jensen was in Wheatfield on business Monday. - Today’s markets: Corn, 56c; Oats, 45c; Wheat, 88c. ». -o ■*» iWim. Fitzgerald was down from Kankakee tp., on business Friday. Smith Newell went to Amboy, Ind., Monday to visit his brother a few days. Dried peaches, big fine Muirs, special at 12y 2 c a pound, at the Home Grocery. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Reeve and children of Remington spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. ( V Starke County Democrat: Mrs. H. ‘W. Porter of Rensselaer spent Friday in this City as the guest of her brother, George H. Brown, and wife. John Warne, who has been laid up for a few weeks with an attack of pneumonia, is able to ,be out a little now, but doesn’t look much his former robust self. V The plumbers had a Sunday jobof repairing the siteam heating system at the Makeever House, where several of the lead pipes had frozen up and burst^d. Mrs. Bruch Hardy and children hpre gone to Mit. Ayr, where she will live with' her parents. Her husband is employed by Crouch Bros., the Lafayette horse dealers. Why is it the River Queen Mill is getting the business? Because Flynn is making the best Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Meal and Feed. Get your Bran of us. —RIVER QUEEN MILL. ts S' .. . Monday the mercury stood above 40 degrees and the snow and ice melted quite a little. Yesterday the mercury stood a few degrees lower. The weather report was for little change today.

J. J. Hunt was in Lafayette on business Moroday. ' 7 Plenty *of good solid cabbage at the Home Grocery. The Democrat printed four sets of sale bills Saturday. ~ W. R. Lee was in Bringhurst, Carroll county, on business yestefday, . ■ . ■ ■’<: W. Hurley Beam of Chicago spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Airs. W. H. Beam.. „ Mrs. A. A. FelJ went to Hebron Saturday, ■where she will conduct a Methodist revival for a few weeks. Charles J. Daugherty has been appointed postmaster at Crown Point to succeed Postmaster Farley.

William Blue and daughter of Darlow, Kan., former residents of this county, are visitng relatives here and in White county. Mrs. Hiram Day, who was taken to Chicago last week, it was found, would have to undergo an operation, and she is now a patient in the Englewood hospital. The basket ball game here Friday evening between the 'North Judson and Rensselaer high school teams, resulted in a score of 38 to 6 in favor of the latter. Frank Lakin, who is suffering from cancer of the stomach, continues to grow weaker each day. His doctors state that' he may live two- weeks yet or may die at any moment. ’ Joseph Nagle, who has been suffering with some sort of a throat affection for several weeks, was taken to Lafayette Friday and entered S>t. Elizabeth’s hospital for treatment.

Twelve fine dairy cows will be sold at the J. E. Bislosky sale, Wednesday, Jan. 31. Also some Shropshire sheep, 24 head of hogs,' a lot of good farm tools, household furniture, etc. George Reed, who was struck by the milk train at the Dave McConnehay. crossing last Wednesday night and his right leg badly broken, is getting along as nicely as can be expectedi Flank Hardy, formerly of Remington, who is now engaged in business in Rodgers, "Ark., came down from Chicago Saturday night and spent Sunday with relatives here. He had come to Chicago on busines. In the public sale of the Jqsephine Kupke 40-acre farm in Gillam tp., last Thursday, Charles Odom of Gillam was the purchaser at s6l per acre. Mrs. Kupke will go to Portland, Oregon, soon to reside with her daughter. J. A. Isselstein, who used to live south of Rensselaer, writes from Doanville, Ohio, to send him The Democrat. He is now engaged in the generaL merchandise business at Doanville and is also postmaster there. He writes that he is doing fine.

There was a large attendance at the M. E. church Friday evening to hear Mrs. A. A. .Fell, a former evangelist and wife of County Treasurer Fell, who occupied the pulpit, that evening. She‘is a forceful speaker and held the close attention of her audience throughout the meeting. Monticello Journal: Harry Arrick was permitted to sit up yesterday for the first time since- he was shot three weeks ago Saturday night. His enforced fast rendered him very weak, so much so that he was unable to raise his head. He is now on solid diet and is beginning to ( gain in strength. Mrs. Elizabeth Johns, aged 69 years, Widow of the later Jacob Johns, died Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Mitchell, in Milroy tp. funeral was held at 11 a. m„ Sunday at the Milroy Baptist church, Rev. Morrow conducting the services. Interment in the Benson cemetery in Milroy.

<1 We are paying for Butter fat this week 38c •' ■ WILLIAM H. DEXTER A ■ ' Rensselaer, Indiana .

Mrs. Elizabeth Sohrock ed Monday from £n extended visit in Ft. Wayne. ,j. Mrs. John Webber went to Kankakee, 111., Monday to visit her' brother, Grant Morris. W. J. Wright commenced the work of remodeling his ''furniture store and putting in an electric elevator, etc., Monday. A number of Remiington K. . of P’s. were expected over last night to witness second degree work by the Rensselaer lodge. It is now hard to get fresh fruits and vegetables. Why not use some good canned goods? The Home Grocery is making attractive prices on all this line. A dispatch from Laporte says: A movement has been started to make W. C. McCray of Kentland republican candidate for Governor. He is a banker, a member of the board of control of the Northern' Indiana Hospital for the Insane and has been prominent in republican politics for forty years.

Ick Yates (.returned Sunday night from Chicago where he had been for several days at the bedside of ... •"• '■ . . .o- •' • • • his wife, who .... had undergone a serious operation in a hospital there. For several days she was in a very critical condition and it was feared she would not survive. Friday night a change for the better took place and at last reports she was doing very well. People from Cedar Lake claim the big companies will harvest there another month if the ice lasts, and one Wednesday it was strong 17 inches thick. Occasionally a flock of wild ducks appear and drop down in the open channels and take a drink. Now that all the streams and lakes are frozen they have a hard time in wetting their whistles, but they go into Cedar Lake regardless of the many people on the ice. Point Star.

Obituary. The deceased, Elizabeth Redd, was born in Ringing Grove tp., Jasper county, Ind., Jan. 10, 1859. Her father, John B. Redd, and only sister,. Mary M. Rishling, preceeded her in the sleep of death. She leaves a mother, Mrs. Hannah Culp, a step-father, one nephew, two uncles and numerous other relatives to mourn her loss. She died Jan. 19, 1912,’ aged 53 years and 9 days. xx

Chairman Lee Quits Race. Edwin M. Lee of Lawrencehurg, republican state chairman,, has retired from the race for re-election. Lee’s <rece«nt public utterance that Taft couldn’t carry Indiana, for which he has been roundly scored by the g. o. p. office-holders and standpatters generally, is the cause of his retirement. In his letter to the members of the state committee announcing his retirement, he says: “It is apparent that, through the use of patronage, the Taft administration will he .able to prevent my re-election as chairman of the republican sitate committee, for I have no patronage or pther resources at my command except the good will of the rank and file. I, therefore, withdraw as a candidate for chairman. This in no way changes ray opinion that Mr. Taft can not carry this state. My’ statement to that effect was made solely for the good of the party, and the evidence that has come t-o me from every county in the state, before an-d since, convinces me beyond all question that I was and am absolutely right.”

The Democrat office is well equipped to do the better grades of job printing. All the news in The Democrat FARM BARGAINS. 60 acres—Near station and school, at heart of dredge ditch, all level, productive land, in cultivation ex& cept five acres in timber. Improvements are a good two-story fourroom house; good small barn and good well. Price $45. Terms, S7OO down. I . 80 acres—All black land in cultivattoh, near school and churches, touches large ditch, a fine outlet for drainage and is all in cultivation. Improvements are a good two-story six-room house, good barn for ten hoTses, steel tower windmill, with gpod well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only $45. Terms, SI,OOO down. 21 acres —Four blocks from the court house. 165 acres—Highly Improved, half mile of the corporation of this city. Will sell in small tracts from ten to 80 acres at rig'ht prices. . .A. 599 acre ranch—Good improvements. Will trade, or sell on easy payments. - 160' acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $5,000 mortgage and other property to trade ror ianu or property. Will put in <sash or assume. GEO. F. MEYERS.

Just What They Needed. “I knew a boy and a girl,” Arthur Aull, “who had Just got married, and moved to the city. The boy had been out of employment for a week and all they had left between them and starvation was one loaf of bread. The boy husband went down town to see what he could do to relieve the situation. About noon he walked into the flat, his eyes shining with the light of victory. ‘I bet you can't* guess what I’ve got out here, Mary,’ he exploded joyously as he bounded Into their stuffy apartments. Mary couldn’t guess, so she went out to see what it was. She looked around, seeing nothing, and John looked much disappointed. ‘Don’t yog see him, Mary?’ he asked, reproachfully. Mary hadn’t noticed it before,! it stood, wagging its stumps tail. It was a hungry-looking bull pup. ‘I thought he’d make us a good watch dog,’ John explained.”—Kansas City Star.

"You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But—-''-The bartender grasped the man next to the stove by the shoulder and shook him until he was awake. “Here, Zeph," he told him, "you’d better go out and get some fresh air. It’ll do you good.” . • Zeph merely grunted, drunkenly, and huddled back in his chair. The bartender tried it again with like result. “You won’t get out, won’t you?” he roared angrily. Seizing the unfortunate Zeph by the collar and the seat of the trousers, he escorted him forcibly to the alley. “Get out there in. the air and brace up,” was his parting advice. ”Y’ kin put me out if y’ like, but,” —Zeph straightened up with drunken dignity—“ye can’t make me take no air, durn ye!”—Everybody’s Magazine.

Ldtture* Course Dates. Jan. 24—John Eberly Co. (Concert.) - Feb. 5—H. V. Adams (Lecture Jr* 6 ' ’ Feb. 26—Landon (Impersonsator). •. March 22—Beulah Buck Co. (Ladies Quartet).

Home-Made Candies. We have commenced making candies again for the winter season and you can get the purest and best candies in the city at our store. — Leavel’s Bakery.

Try the New Auto Bus—Prices Just the Same. Try our new auto bus; prices are unchanged; any place in the city for 15 cents, round trip for a quarter. 25 cents one way to the college. Best of service guaranteed. Will attend to all calls outside train time for dances, parties, etc. Leave orders at Rensselaer Garage, phone 365; Leek’s hitch barn, phone 342; Barnes restaurant, 432, or Tone Kanne’s residence, phone 214. Kanne Bros.

NOTICE OB FURTHER COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IROQUOIS DITCH, CAUSE NO. 402 OF THE COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. To all owners 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 order 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 Ditcji. 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 dife 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. Notice of Administration. No. 873. . 1 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge or the Circuit Court, of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator, with the will annexed, of the. estate of Sarah E. Lane, late of Jasper County,’deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.—The Trust & Savings Rank of Rensselaer, Ind., Administrator. Jail. 15, 1912.

CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. ; Tht Kind Yon Han Always Bought S.gTamr^f | 1 Book on Patents —. I* ... SentonTequest FawWS Send sketch for * « » Free Search RICHARDSON 6k WOODWORTH Jenifer Building Wasbingdm, D. C.

Ellis Theatre, Sat., Jan. 11 f TJie Return of theFav crite Company F. 5. Gordon •* Presents The Sto ck Co m pany in flarie Corelli’s Great Romantic Comedy Drama “THELMA" —- ■ 1 - ■ ' ■ Beautiful Scenic Production Special Light Effects __ : ■ iu a- -v • — r 1 11 - ' ■ ■ Prices _ Seats on sale at Jessen’s Thursday The guaranteed attraction

Big Public Sale. As I have rented my farm, I will offer at Public Sale at my resi j dence in Carpenter tp., 4 miles north and. 3 miles east of Goodland, 4 miles north and 4miles west of Remington, 8 miles south and 4 % miles west of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 a: m.,'on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912, 7 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 Bay mare 9 years old, wt. 1500; 1 Bay horse 11 years old, wt. 1400; 1 Black mare 10 years old, wt. 1200; 1 Bay horse 9 years old, single driver, wt. 1100; 1 Gray horse 13 years old, wt. 1350; I Gray horse 15 years old, wt. 1050; 1 Bay colt coming 3 years old. 20 Head of Cattle —Consisting "of 1 Roan cow, fresh; 1 Red cow, fresh by middle of April; 1 Red •cow, fresh May 1; 1 Roan cow, fresh in June; 1 Red cow; 1 Black Jersey cow; 1 Jersey cow; 1 3-year-old Heifer; 5 Heifers, coming two-years old, fresh in. spring; 7 Steer Calves. O Head of SJ»eep—Consisting of 6 Ewes, good ones, bred. 39 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 30 Hogs, weighing 80 to 150 lbs. each; and 9 small Pigs. Farm Tools and MachineryConsisting of 1 Wagon, narrow tire, triple bed; 1 John Deere Spader, 8 foot; 1 Defiance Gang Plow, 14 inch; 1 Sulky Plow, nearly new, 16 Inch: 1 Avery Cultivator; 1 Peacock Cultivator, with gopher attachment; 1 Tower gopher; 1 Harrow, 4 -section; 1 Harrow, 5 section; 1 Champion Mower; 1 Carraige, nearly new; 1 Klondyke Buggy; 1 Cutting Disc; I Avery Planter with fertilizer attachment and 100 rods of wire; 1 1-horse Weeder; 2 sets of work Harness, 1 set brass mounted; 1 Seeder, with grass seeder attachment. 'A credit of •11 months wlil be given on. sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off fur cash. FRANK ECK. Col. Tip Kenyon, Auctioneer. I Geo. A. Chappell, Clerk. Hot Lunch on ground.

Big Public Sale. As I have decided to quit farming and move to Missouri, I will sell at publlfi sale at my residence, 1 mile north* and i 1 mile west of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 a. m„ on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1912, 9 Head of Mules and Horses—Consisting of 1 span Black Mules coming 4 and 6 years old, wt. 2550, extra good ones; 1 span Bay Mules

. t&i ~WSIor fpqp * ■RBSBrfTf? J%cS9&S*SS6R!&wSSESg V r ' A.RTY >y Js Second Number ol Lecture Course M. E. Church, Wednesday evening, January 4 / j Admission, 35 cents

coming 4 and 6 years old, wt. 2500; 1 span of Brown Mules 4 years old, wt. 2000; 1 Brown Mule coming 2 years old; 1 Gray Mule coming 2 years old; 1 road Mare 3 years old, broke to work, and in foal. 34 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 10 Milch Cows, ages 3 to 9 years, 3 now fresh; 1 red cow 3 years old with calf by side; others will be fresh in February, March and April, some giving milk; 4 - coming 2-year-old Heifers, 1 fresh in February and others In May; 2 yearling heifers; 2 yearling steers; 10 spring Calves, 3 steers, 7 1 registered Hereford Bull, 2 years old. Most of the above stock is Hereford. 15 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 15 head of Duroc-Jeraey Sows, bred to full-blood Duroc-Jersey boar, will farrow in March and April. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 1 Deerlng Corn Picker; 1 Deerlng Corn Binder; 1 6-ft. McCormick Binder; 1 John Deere Planter; 1 8-foot Disc; 1 16-lnch Walking Plow.; 1 Rock Island two-row Cultivator, used one seasona l Avery Walking Cultivator; 1 Cook Stove; 1 set Dining Room Chairs, Stand; Washing Machine; Lard Press; 1, 22-caliber Rifle, and other articles of minor importance. A credit of 11 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for Cash. GkrtJ. L. MAINES. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Grounds.

Sheriffs Sale. By virtue of a certified copy of a Decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause, wherein Emmet L. Hollingsworth is Plaintiff, and Wm. Ellsworth Shearer, et al. are Defendants, requiring’ me to make the sum of Two Hundred Ninety-four Dollars and fifty-two Cents, with Interest on said Decree and costs, I will expose at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on Thursday, the 15th day of February, A. D., 1912, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. of said day, at the door of the. Court House In Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, the- rents and profits for .a term not exceeding seven years! of the real estate, to-wit: The Northwest quarter of the Southwest .quarter of section seventeen (17), township twenty-eight (28) North, range five (5) West, In Jasper County, Indiana, containing forty' acres more or less. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said Decree, Interest and costs, I will at the .same time and place expose to Public Sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so rpeel l thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said Decree, Interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement ’ laws. " ■ , WILLIAM I. HOOVER, * ’ Sheriff Jasper County. George A. Williams, Atty. for Plaintiffs January 15, A. D., 1912. Jl7-24-31.