Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — Page 5

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TIE MB COUNTY DEMIT f. e.bubcogk.editoi) Ammmnssnr. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made Known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office, 315. . Residence 311. „ . . l_ • Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1912.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City 1 and Country Readers. The Monticello Poultry Show will be held next week. Today’s markets: Corn, 57c; Oats, 4 6c; Wheat, 90c. A postal savings bank is to be established at Morocco ,on February .19. Francesville and Wolcott will •each have postal savings banks Feb. 20. George Buch of Goodland was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. 'V _______ Harvey Davisson went to Rossville and Leßoy, Ilil., on business Wednesday, Remington has certainly had splendllid weather this week for her poultry show. Frank Dakin is steadily failing and his death may occur at almost any moment. 'Mrs. Dean Merica went to Medaryville Thursday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Alex Merica. A postal savings bnak is to be established at Boswell, Benton county, Feb. 23.

A daughter was barn Wednesday morning to Mr. and Mrs. John Williams of Barkley tp.. Firman Thompson has bought two houses and 20 acres of land in the town of Gifford. Mrs. Geo. Stoudt and daughter, Miss Ruth, of Remington visited Thursday with Mrs. F. E. Babcock. Mrs. Rice Porter is at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. E. C. Fountain/ who is critically ill at her home in Goodland. Miss Ida Koster of Francesville returned home yesterday after a few days visit here with her sister, Mirs. George Wade. I)t 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. Harvey Davisson has bought for speculation 4-he southeast quarter of section 4, Walkeir tp., lying right at Zadoc, on the Gifford railroad, of Geo, F. Meyers. • ' > Cal Cain has rented the Charles Robinson, property on the. Remington road, recently ' vacated by Mrs. Bruce Hardy, and expects to move into same in a few days.

Mrs. Frank Wolfe of Michigan City, who is visiting Mrs. George Stoudt and other old friends at Remington, came over Thursday and spent the day with Mrs. E. P. Honan. Miss Vivian' Rush of Monon, who! was a resident of Rensselaer a few! years ago, when her parents lived here, was married at Monticello Monday to Otis Maxwell, a Monon veterinary surgeon. Monticello journal:. Capt, William Guthrie and Mrs. Ada Bopker Key were married recently and arrived home Mqnday evening. They are now at home at his residence in southeast Monticello.

Roy Stevenson came Thursday ‘from Dallas, So. Dak.; to visit his mother,-Mrs. —G- E. —Stephenson. —— G. E. Hosmer went to Winamac Wednesday to look after his real estate interests near that place. Uncle W. E. Moore is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Joe Paxton and family in South Bend this week. Dr. Turfler was over at Champaign, 111., Thursday and made an address at a meeting of osteopaths held there. y , My. and Mrs. T. P. Moore of Indianapolis have been visiting here this week with his brother, B. J. Moore and family. Mr. and Mrs. T. Z. McMurray of Jennings county returned home Wednesday after a few weeks visit with relatives here. The .John Eberly Concert party gave a very pleasing entertainment at the M. E. church Wednesday evening, it being the second number o ' of, the lecture course. There were but five Remington Knights over Tuesday night to the K. of P. lodge work, but a nice time was had. A luncheon was served after the degree work.

Wm. Cooper, who has been at the home of her sister, Mrs. James Snedekey, suffering from a brain tumor for some time, is in a very critical condition and her death is apt to occur at any moment. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner are in Indianapolis this week where their daughter, Mrs. Virgil Hamilton, underwent on operation.# for appendicitis and bowel obstruction Tuesday. She is reported as recovering nicely from the operation. E. C. Maxwell has sold his little farm just northwest of the corporation of 914 acres, to Charles Reed, who now lives on the old Charles Malchow farm, the consideration, it is reported, being $3,-, 000. Mr. Reed will run a dairy and peddle milk in Rensselaer, we understand. That the health of the people of Rensselaer and immediate vicinity as a rule, has been extra good during the zero weatiher prevailing this month is evidenced by the fact that there has not been a btirial in Weston cemetery during the month of January, Which is something very remarkable. V■ J ; Frank Melrose of Milroy tp., who lives on th«j Dr. Besser farm near Sharon, hds bought the Col. Griffith five acre farm at the north side of Remington, and. will move onto same soon. He is quitting farming because of failing eyesight. Charles Goodrich will move on the farm vacated by Melrose. - Joe Nagle’s family heard yesterday from Mr. Nagle, who was taken to' St. Elizabeth’s hospital, Lafayette, last Friday. He is now able to sit up and takes a little nourishment. The trouble seems to be in hii throat and stomach. His host of friends hope that he will soon iecovfer his former good health.

the right ticket—and invariably the winning one, for it wins the confidence of all, is my receipt for your goods when I take charge of them. They look different—oh, so different!—when they go .back -to you. The swellest dressers in town send their wardrobes here to be cleaned and pressed, whenever any garments need overhauling. Very reasonable prices charged. , - . JOHN WERNER, Tailor Rensselaer, Ind.

' ' Twelve fine dairy cows be sold at the J. E. Bislosky sale, "Wednesday, Jan. 31. Also some Shropshire sheep, 2-4 -head of hogs, a lot of good farm tools, household furniture, etq, 'Mis. Mabel Thacker oif Noblesville came Wednesday for a visit with Miss Opal Sharp and other friends. She will be remembered hera as Miss Mabel Strickfaden. She will visit here until Monday.

The mercury has been down below freezing point for the past few days, and still colder was predicted for last night, .Roads are* in fine condition; smooth as a floor, and Jots Of corn is being hauled to -market—these-days. 1 ; . ; — : —,—_ -■ , The big Hillis, Tolin.fe Tatten sale southwest of Fair Oaks Tuesday drew out a big crowd, due to the extensive advertising placed through The Democrat, and property brought good prices, the total exceeding by considerable what the owners had expected and, of course, they were well pleased with the results.

The Geo. L. Maitt.es sale north of town Wednesday was well attended accf property sold wed. Firman Thompson bought the best span of mules, paying $425 for them. The nine head of horses and mules brought $ 1,500. George expects to leave for his new home in Missouri about the 4th or sth of j^ebruary. Joel Zinzer, a prominent farmer of Carpenter tp., died Wednesday afternoon after only a few days illness from pneumonia. The funeral was held yesterday, the Modern Woodmen lodge of Remington having charge of the services. Deceased was aged about 53 years and leaves a wife and four children, one son and two daguhters. *- . Dr. Martin, the Kentland doctor who was hurt ten weeks ago when his auto was struck by a C. i. & S. train at one of the railroad crossings in Kentland, died in Chicago, where he had been taken for treatment, last Friday night and was buried at Sheldon, 111., Sunday. His age was 39 years, A wife and two small children are left. Ralph W. Streeter, son of Rev. George Streeter a former M. E. pastor \ 0|... Goodland, Monon and Other tlfwns in this conference district, died at Terre Haute last week from typhoid fever. Mr. Streeter was at one time proprietor of the Monon News and at the time of 'his death was a lintoype operator on one of the Terre Haute papers. He is survived by a wife.

J. F. M’HUGH SERIOUSLY ILL.

Former Legislator Must Undergo Second Operation for Gangrene. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 25. —John F. McHugh, former member of the legislature and counsel for the Monon irailroad, who several days ago submitted to an operation for the removal of a toe on foot on account of blood poisoning, is in a critical condition at St. Elizabeth hospital, with little chance of recovery. Gangrene has developed, and anotiher operation will be necessary.

Contracts for the Sale of Real Estate The Democrat now keeps in stock to. its legal blank department contracts for the sale of real estate, just what real estate men have oeen wanting for a long time. Saves much time and labor and are in the best legal form. In quantities of 100 or more, one cent each; 25c per dozen; two for ‘sc! "

The Drover's Journal With The *—J Democrat. has just completed Wubbing arrangements with The Drover's Journal, Chicago, whereby we can offer _ that excellent stock paper daily, with The Democrat, for $'4.50 per ( year; twice-a-week (Monday and Thursday) $2.75; once-a-week (Thursday) $2.25. Understand this applies to full yearly subscriptions. If you are a stocky man you know what the Drover’s Journal is, and by subscribing through The Democrat you get both the Democrat and Journal for almost the brice of the Journal alone.

Try the New Auto Bus—Prices Just the Same. Iry 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.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

&HELBYVILLE t)ra Bennett, by a decision of Judge Blair r has lost in his fight to gain a one-third interest in property left by Mrs. Elizabeth Strahl Bennett, who was burned to death last May by the explosion of a coal Oil lamp, and who left an estato valued in the neighborhood of $4,000. bar been her husband, but shefyhad obtained a divorce from him two years before her death. He learned that the court decree had never been entered in the order boo*, by the court clerk and at once brought suit against the woman’s four children for one-third of the estates An investigation revealed that the decree had - been left out of the order book inadvertently by the clerk and Judge Blair made an order for a nunc pro tunc entry to show that Bennett was divorced April 17, 1909.

GARY life of his wife, Dr. Theodore B. Ternplin of Gary gave up more than a quart of blood in a transfusion operation that nearly cost him his own life. Mrs. Templin suffered a hemorrhage following the birth of a baby boy several days ago. She lost almost every drop of her blood. Her husband, although warned that the operation might mean his own death;, demanded the transfusion of 1 his blood into his wife’s veins. The blood flowed slowly from orie to the other for three-quar-ters of an hour/ when Dr. TgaVplin became too faint for further risk. As neither is yet thirty-five years old and both have been strong until recently, the physicians are confident the operation will not end in the death of either.

KOKOMO While admitting the theft of tools from the planing mills of the Pinnell-Kemper' Lumber ' company, which was practically destroyed by fire, Fred Wholymouth, accused of arson -in firing the structure, refused to admit or deny his guilt. “I may have lit a match in hunting for the tools and I may not have. I won’t say,” lie told the officers examining him. The loss to the plant is about $2,000 with insurance of SSOO. Directly across the street a short time ago the Kokomo Cash Lumber company’s yard, burned, with a loss of s44,ooo.'Wholymouth was a discharged employe and in straitened'^ircumstances.

PORTLAND Charged with robbing James W. Daniels of Fort Wayne of SIOO in money and a certificate of deposit for S3OO, John Farber of this city is under arrest. Detective Sergeant Ward Hall of the Fort Wayne police came here after him. The crime is alleged to have been committed Ncv. 21, when Farber, one night when his wife was away from home, persuaded Daniels to spend the hours with him there. When Daniels, who was intoxicated, awakened, he found his certificate and roll both gone. Later the Certificate was found under Farber’s bed.

FORT WAYNE ■— Because his rival for the hand of the girl h 6 loved added $6.95 to the nickel he gave for the purchase of a 10-cent doll to present to his girl as a joke on Christmas day, and purchased instead of the doll a $7 set of furs for her, George VonLeiken shot and wounded Frederick Stellbrenck in this city, according to the police who have been investigating the attempted murder. VonLeiken has disappeared. His victim will recover. Stffibrenck, who framed the deal, permitted VonLeiken to present the supposed doll to the girl.

MARION —Two. hundred and twen-ty-five persons were thrown out of employment and damage to the extent of about $6,000 was incurred when a tank at the plant of the Standard Co-Operative Glass company, in this city, collapsed. No one was* injured when the sixty tons of moltert glass let go and the factory was not set on fire. The managers let the contract for the building of a new tank and for general repairs at the factory to be completed by March 1. The company was swamped with Orders when the accident occurred.

SOUTH BEND because, she alleges,' the 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 damages.

PRINCETON— LesIie Hunter, thirtytwo years old, a well known businessman and former flchool teacher, committed suicide by swallowing, a quantity of strychnine at his home in Owensville. The suicide folio ved disclosures brought to light recently in Hunter is alleged to have forged the name of his brother-in-law, Harry Pollard, a wealthy Montgomery .township farmer, to notes for $2,500 and $1,200.

LOGANSPORT Samuel Watkins and Edith Schroeder were instantly killed by electricity when wires .became crossed, and their bodies were burned almost beyond recognition at Watkins’ broom factory. Fred Bueksman, who pulled the bodies from the burning building, received severe burns and may die. Assistant fc"ii'e Chief Jacob Westerwelier wqb shocked by a live wire.

EHis Theatre, Sat Jan. 27 The Return of the Favorite Company F. S. Gordon Presents The Stock Company in riarie Corelli’s Great Romantic Comedy Drama “THELMA”

Beautiful Scenic Production Special Light Effects

•y, ' 11 ■ ■■ Prices— 25, 35 and 50c

Seats on sale at Jessen’s Thursday The guaranteed attraction

GENERAL NEWS.

MADRID, SPAlN—Premier CanaleJas’ cabinet virtually has resigned. Itjs understood that the contemplated retirement of the ministry is due to the coolness of the king in his audience with. Premier Cahalejas in regard to the commutation of the sentence of death pronounced by a council of war on the revolutionists involved ip the murder of a judge and the wounding bf several court officials at Cullera, in thb province of Valencia. The reprieve of the revolutionists angered the conservative party and exPremier Maura went to Kl«g Alfonso and told him that his act constituted a condemnation of the conservative policies of rigorous; repression at Ba/ celona and of the 'Execution of Ferrer, and that such a proceeding was dangerous to the future of Spain.

EAST WALPOLE. MASS. Robert Perkins Bass, governor of New Hampshire, was married to Miss Edith Harlan Bird, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Bird, at ‘‘Endean,’’ the residence of the Bird family Eight years ago, when Miks Edith Bird was a girl of fifteen years, she was at Hot Springs with her parents. Among the guests there was Robert Perkins Bass of Peterboro, N. H.. Harvard graduate, lawyer, rich, and brilliant. , You,ng Mr. Bass was introduced to the girl from East Walpole. The girl and the young man found Interests in common.

BALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—When the loss is due to the negligence of the railroad, is was said, the company cannot avoid payment of actual value for lost baggage because the railway ticket signed by the owner carries a clause limiting the valuation to SIOO. Such was the decision in the, district court here in the case of Mrs. Thomas Homer vs. the Oregon Short Line. Mts. Horter got judgment for S4OO. A trunk thief, the evidence showed, transposed checks at the Bhort Line station in this city and obtained Mrs. Homer’s baggage.

TRINADAD, COLO.—A Yery carefully pknned attempt to hold up Colora do Southern passenger train No. 2 at Garcia, sixteen miles south of here, was only frustrated by the fact that a freight was flagged by the bandits by mistake. The passenger train, which also carries the Denver and Fort Worth mails, was an hour late in leaving Trinidad A freight train left on the passenger train’s > regular time and near Garcia it was flagged. The trainmen saw eight armed men run away a moment after the train hadi slopped. ‘

NEW YORK— The will of late Battalion Chief WilJ'am Walsh, who ..was killed in the Equitable building lire on Jan. 9, as filed for proba’e here, provides for the disposal of an estate valued at SSOO, To each of his six children the testator leaves $5 “as a tokien of fatherly love. The remainder of the property goes to the widow. The family will be amply provided for out of subscription fiinds collected by friends of the dead chief. More than SIO,OOO has already been subscribed for this purpose.

MAY’S LANDING, N. J. Louis Kuehnle, Republican leader of Atlantic City and a millionaire, who was recently convicted of unlawfully Participating in the awarding of a con.ra ;t to a company in which he was interested while he was a member of the Atlantic City Water commission, was sentenced to one year imprisonment at hard labor and to pay a fine of $1,0(10. Kuehnle was released on bail pending an appeal for a new trial. .A-

BALTIMORE, MD. —Urging a boycott of butter, and eggs as the mcst

effective moans of forcing a decreased price of these necessities, Dr. Guy L, fcunner, in a letter to the public, declares his belief that the skyrocketing 6! prices has been due to manipulation by concerns which are holding vast quantities of butter and eggs in oold storage.

WASHINGTON Great reduction! of 30 to 50 per cent on all items in tha iron and steel tarifT and the placing on the tariff free list of iron ore, sewing machines, printing machinery, cash registers, nails, and many other articles against which a tariff is now levled, are proposed in the Democratic steel revision tariff bill, just made public.

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago Cash Grain Quotations. - Chicago, Jan. 25. Wheat—No. 2 red, 58@99c; No, 3 red, 96@98L4c; No. 2 hard winter, 99c@$ 1-04 Vi; No. 3 hard winter, #51.00%; No. 1 northern spring, sl.lO @i.ll%c; No. 2 northern spring, SI.OO @1.09V4; No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Corn —No. 3, 63L4@64 1 /4c; No. 3 white, 64 J 4@6sc; No. 3 yellow, 64@64%c. . Oats —No. 2 white, 51@52c; No. 3 white, standard, 50%@ 61%c. , Chicago Live Btock. j Hogs—Receipts 33,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected]% choice heavy, [email protected] choice light, [email protected] heavy packing, and [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 9,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] prime steers, $5.20@6 00 choice to prime fed beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders, $3.74 @4.25 fair to good stackers, sß.oo@ 8.50 good to choice veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 18,000. Quotations ranged at choice to prime native lambs, [email protected] good to choice yearlings, [email protected] good to choice wethers,-$3.75@4.’5 fair to good ewes, i butter. Creamery, per lb., 36c; prints, 39V4e; extra firsts, 34c; firsts, ,32c; dairies, extra, 33c; firsts, 30c; packing stock, 23c. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb„ 13c; chickens, fowls, llVfcc; roosters, &%c; springs, IH/fcc; ducks, 15c; geese, 10c. Potatoes. Wisconsin, [email protected] per bu.; Michigan, 35c@ SI.OO. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 25. Dunning & StCVens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 5 cars; market slow. Hogs—Receipts 20 cars; market'steady; heavy, $6.50@ 6.60; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $5.60 @5.75. Sheep-r-Receipts 30 cars cars; market strong; lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, s4.o»@ 4.40; ewes, [email protected]. Calves, $5.60 @10.50.

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office

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