Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — Page 5

AHHfIUHCEMENT J have bought the Home ZZI Grocery and this space to to tell you from week to week of the good things I shall have for you. I will do my best to serve you and will appreciate any favors whenever thrown my way. Truly, JOHN H. RAMP New Proprietor HOME GROCERY

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. W< J. Wright was in Chicago on business Wednesday. Today’s markets: Corn, 57c; Oats, 4 8c; Wheat, 92c. Reduced prices on rubber boots at The G. E. Murray Co. I John Zehr of Carpenter tp., was a business visitor in the city Thursday. Abe Martin says: ’ “Most any loafer kin tell 1 you when th’ wild duck season opeps.” The Presbyterian Industrial Society met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. John Eger. Mrs. Remmek of Indianapolis is visiting her daughtfer, Dr. Rose M. Remmek, the optician. i , ' v ' A Leopold is in a Chicago hospital to undergo another operation for his old bladder trouble. * 1 Mrs. Homer Slaughter was operated on in a Chicago hospital Tuesday for tuberculosis of the hip. Sarah E. Daniels of Rensselaer, widow of the late Wan. Daniels, has been granted a pension of sl2 per month. Butler windmills are guaranteed to pump more water than any i windmill manufactured. For sale by GWIN & WATSON. m2O A premature born babe born to Mrs. Thena Meyer-Thompson of Gary was brought here for burial In Weston cemetery Thursday. There were twelve marriage licenses issued last month, against sixteen for the month previous, and seven for the corresponding month last year. ! ■" . -> v The Domestic Science Club will meet today at the auditorium at 2:30 p. m. An excellent program has been arranged. Everybody invited to attend. Beginning Saturday March 2d we will sell $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00 shoes at $1.98 a pair, shoes shown in our window, THE G. E. MURRAY CO. (- , _ It is reported that John Michaels of near Kniman lost 42 pigs in the blizzftrd last week, the snow penetrating their quarters and causing them to die from the exposure. Eph Hickman, who has been living in the Ray Collins house at the w r est side of town the past year, ha 9 bought of Hiram Day the house occupied by Dr. Kirk on the east side. Rev. W. R. Mikels, a former pastor of this M. E. Conference, died at the home of his daughter in Chicago Saturday, aged 77 years. The funeral was held at Grawfordsville Tuesday. Dr. Washburn completed the removal of his household goods Tuesday from the former Geo, Marshall property to the Maines property on north Weston street, which he recently purchased. The Clifford Automobile Co., of Monticello, dealers; capital stock, $15,000; T. W. O’Connor, Michael Clifford and E. J. Sexton, directors, has filed articles of, Incorporation with the secretary of state.

Burgess Dillion was a little better j'esterday morning. He recently suffered a severe attack of gallstones. p W. R. Lee expects to go to Arizona next week to bring home the fifty head of horses which he recently traded for. Slaughter prices on men’s shoes at G. E. Murray, beginning Saturday, March 2. See the shoes displayed in our window. Herman Tuteur returned Wed-nesday-Irom a business trip to Chicago and Peoria, 111. While gone he purchased the necessary machinery for his dry cleaning outfit, which will be operated by an electric motor. A fair sized crowd turned out Tuesday evening to hear the Band Boys’ concert. An excellent program was rendered and met with the entire approval of all present. The boys certainly have progressed rapidly. Miss Elizabeth Luers of south of town has bought the Wallace Sayler cement block house on south Division street, through C. P. Wright & Co’s, agency, consideration sl,700. Miss Luers and her mother, it is understood, will ocupy the property. John Culp, reports a cracker.rjack °f ® sale at Matt Zimmer’s in Gillam tp., Wednesday, which he cried. One pair of mares brought SSOB, and the seven head of horses averaged $223 each. All the property sold well, and the sale totaled atxftit $3,500. We are certainly having enough winter to satisfy almost anyone. It is not unfrequently that we hear of Jasper county farmers sowing oats thelast of February and early March, and here it is March 2 and the ground is still frozen from two to four feet deep. Lester N. Speaks and Miss Viola Rayher were united in the holy bonds of wedlock Saturday at the home mt her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Rayher at Forest, and came here the first of the week to spend a short honeymoon before going' to reside upon a farm near Mt. Ayr.

ELECTRIC •WIRING All kinds of electrical supplies, electric flat irons, electric curling ir o n s , and other heating divi ce a. First class wiring at reasonable prices. Ray Delmar Phone 151

Feb. 16, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Collins, a daughter. The two little children of Earl Ellis are suffering with tonsilitis. ¥ f . i Nat Scott has been suffering considerably this week with stomach trouble. ~ . —— - Mrs. Kenneth Rhoades has returned to Morocco after a several days visit here. About 15 new r members w r ill be baptized at the M. E. church at the morning service. Sunday. Rev. A. S. Cross will, preach at the Baptist church morning and evening Sunday, All are invited. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Timmons of near Gifford, is sick w'ith an attack of bronchitis. Len Overly, step-son of Douglas Smith, living near the depot, is quite sick this week with pneumonia. Mrs. Chas. Stultz of McCoysburg continues to improve steadily and it is now thought she will fully recover. • Mrs. E. D. Rhoades has returned from a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Rad cl iff, at Louisville, Ky Peter VapLear is still receiving treatment for a complication of stomach and liver disorders at a Chicago hospital. ■ Tomorrow, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Tobjn will'celebrate the 25th anniversary of their wedding, at their home in Jordan tp. C. W Rhoades and family returned from Goodland Tuesday where they attended the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Wm. Townsend. Mrs. Ida Newels of Pueblo, Colo., has been visitng here a few days, the guest of rMs. John Nowels and Mrs. Joe Luers and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. ■ John Donnelly came last wefek from Colorado and will reside on a part of his father’s, Alf Donnelly’s, farm north of town.

George Scott, who was recently operated on for gallstones, is getting along nicely now and improving from the effects of the operation. Mrs. Harley Shields, who has been confined to her home with sickness, is now greatly improved and will start for Canada next week to join her husband. Harry Grady of Detroit, Mich , who has been visiting relatives here for the past two months, left this week for Knox where he will begin work as traveling salesman. George Ketchum was brought home from Chicago Tuesday, where he has ben taking treatment in a hospital. He is said to be somewhat improved, but is still under the care of a trained nurse. Fearing an epidemic of mad dogs, Gary police have orders to 'kill every unmuzzled dog in the city, and more than two hundred canines have bit the dust as a result. Two dogs afflicted with rabeis had bitten about twenty other dogs, hence the police order. . __ Tho six-month-old daughter of Mr and Mis. T. M. Callahan, who had been suffering from tubercular meningitis, died jj,t 11:30 Tuesday night. The funeral Was held Thursday at the Catholic church and interment made in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town. Benjamin Day, a wealthy farmer of near Akron, Fulton county, committed suicide Wednesday night by hanging, his daughter finding his frody. Despondency over ill health is given as the cause. Ray bay, who a few years ago clerked in the dry goods department of the Chicago Bargain Store, was a son of Mr. Day. The new Red Men lodge is coming on fine. They' started out with some 51 members and now have 17 applications for membership on hand. ■ , They h 4 ave ordered about $250 worth of regalia and paraphernalia, and at their last meeting a band of 14 pieces was organized fiom among the members, nearly all of— whom are old players. Charles C. Spencer left this morning for Chicago, where he becomes one of a party of sixteen who have chartered a Pullman car for a trip through the western states. They will go south over the Santa Fe, up through California, Oregon and and home by the North,e:n Pacific. Mr. Spencer has been planning, this trip for fully, sixteen years.—-Monticello Journal.

William Fitzgerald of Kankakee tp., was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Frank Kelley, who has charge of the match factory, went to Elkhart on business yesterday. An improvement is noted in the condition of Mrs. Robert Yeoman, who has been suffering with a case of shingles, an old-fashioned eruptive disease, which, when the eruptions encircle the body, is supposed to result fatally. . . - .. The chicken-pie supper given at the Christian church Wednesday evening by Mesdames P. W. Clarke and W. G. Winn’s classes, was a great success, about $45 being cleared. The money will be used to make a payment on a new carpet for the church. ■, We are still having some cool weather, and every night since Sunday night the mercury has got down to within 10 to 15 degrees of zero, and it dbesn’t warm up much during the day. March came in bright and sunshiny yesterday, and i L |g4 oe sn’t play its usual pranks the frost may get Out of the ground by April 1. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall, returned Wednesday from Grand Rapids, Mich., where they were called a few days ago by the death of his sister, Mrs, W. H. Cornell, who died very suddenly Saturday morning from neuralgia of the heart.. Mrs. Cornell has a large number of friends her who will remember her as Miss Jennie. Duvall. She leaves a husband and two children. The funeral was held in Grand Rapids Monday.

The -Chicago Record-Herald of Wednesday contained a picture of the headquarters of the big Nelson Morris ranch near Sierra Blanca, Mex., together with a picture of Winifred Pfence, and some cowboys, who beat off a crowd of Mexican bandits, who had made demands on the foreman for supplies and were refused. Mr. Pence is well known in Jasper county where he used to reside and had charge of the Nelson Morris ranch near Demotte. Word has been received here of the death of a former resident of Jasper county, Rev. Peter Hines, at Little Rock, Ark., on Feb. 13 from pneumonia. Rev. Hines used to reside in Milroy tp., this county, coming from Shelby county here and buying the former Cleveland farm, which he later sold and moved to Jennings county, later going to Kansas. He leaves a wife and one grown son. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. James Jordan of this city. * At the regular annual election of officers of the D. A. R., held at the residence of Mrs. HowaTd Mills Monday, the following officers were chosen: Regent, Mrs. J. L. Brady; V. Regent, Mrs. H. J. Kannal; Recording Secretary, Miss Maude Daugherty; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Edith Shedd; Treas., Mrs. G. E. Murray; Registrar, Mrs. Howard Mills; Historian, Mrs. Ed Parkison; Program Committee, rMs. H. L. Mills, Mts. S. S. Shedd and Mrs. A. R. Hopkins ~ :gl

A half-dozen Roosevelt boomers, including Nelson J. Bozarth, of Valparaiso; R. K. Bedgood, C. A. Murk-; hoff, W. A. Roberts and Charles Henderson of F. J. Doudican of Indianapolis, and E. O. Fifer of Elkhart, landed in town Wednesday to attend a big meeting for the cowboy candidate, they stated, but no one here had heard anything of the meeting ahd,jione was held. There, are severat Roosevelt admirers here, including County Recorder Tilton, W. H. Parkison and others. The county convention of the Royal Neighbor? will, be held in Rensselaer in Woodman Hall, Wednesday afternoon, Mared! 6, and alio in the evening. Mr. Volz, state organizer for the M. W. A., and his wife, Supreme Auditor of the Royal Neighbors of , Indianapolis, wili be present both afternoon and evening. The evening session will be phbllc to anyone wishing to attend. Woodmen and their . wive? are especially invited, and a large attendance is desired. John F. McHugh, a prominent Lafayette attorney and one of the two democrats who ever represented Tippecanoe county in the legislature, died at his home in Lafayette Wednesday evening of gangreneous blood poisoning, aged 55 years. While visitng in his old home in Ohio during the holidays he became sick and after he. came home gangrene developed in one of his fee*. Three of his tees were amputated in an effort to save his life, but without avail. He leaves a widow, 'a, * hir second wife, to whom he was married six years ago.

Isaac Tobin of Jordan tp., who recently fractured a rib in a fall when he struck a 2x6 crosspiece near the door of his corn crib, was in town yesterday to have the wound dressed by his physician. He moved here about a month ago from Melvin, 111., Notice. All persons holding sales slips dated Feb. 13, are requested to bring them in by March 10 and receive the amount of their purchase. 46 persons share in this date's distribution, ranging from 5c to .7 5. Be sure and save your March slips. —E. VAXARSDEL & CO.

Presbyterian Church. The services for Sabbath, March 3:' Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Morning worship at 10:45 a. in., subject, “Salvation.” Evening worship at 7 p. nr., subject, "What We Can All Give.” Everyone welcome to these services. Methodist Church. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Sunday will be Membership Day. Baptisms and receptions at the morning hour. Epworth League at 6:30 p. m. Evening service subject: "Separate from Sinners.” \ou are welcome to these services.

Notice to Kankakee Tp. Democrats. - ".:- V ; | On account of being unable to get the school house on the date set for the democratic primaries to select delegates to the county conven- 1 tion, the democrats of Kankakee tp., will hold their mass convention | on Saturday, March 9. Let all democrats and other voters who desire to affiliate with us in the coming campaign tako notice. T F| MALONEY, Chm.

BASIS OF ASSESSMENT. Shedule Adopted for Assessment of Personal Property in Jas}>cr County for 1912. 1. All good notes at 75 per cent of value. , , ' 2. All stocks of goods and merchandise at 7,5 per cent of invoice value. - 3. All horses at 75 per cent of cash value.' Mules same as horses. 4. All cattle at 75 per cent of cash value. 5. Hogs at $4 per hundred. 6. Sheep at $3.50 per head. 7. Wood, per cord .$1 to $3.00, Wheat, per bushel.... .60 Cork, per bushel ... .40 0 Oats, per bushel . .... .30 Potatoes, per bushel .75 Rye, per bushel..... .40 Timothy seed,' per bu.‘ 6.00 Clover seed, per bushel 10.00[ Buckwheat, per bushel .401 Onions, per bushel.., 1.00 8. Hay. Timothy, per ton $12.00j Wild hay, per ton in stack.. 4.00 Higher or lower at the discretion of Assessor. 9. Meats, Etc. Pork, per cwt .... $6.00 Lard, per cwt. ~ . .... . ..... 6.00 1 Wool, per pound..... to' Sorghum molasses, per gal... .25 Ice, per ton. .. ... ~.. .. . ... .75 'lO. Lumber, 7.5 per cent of cash ! value. 11. Poultry and Bees. r Chickens, per dozen 3.50 Turkeys, each . ,1* LOO Geese, per dbzein 4.00 Bees, per stand. 1.00 12. Automobiles, 75 per cent o> value. v | 12. Additional Improvements at 75 per cent of value.

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GENERAL NEWS.

NEW YORK—'Hie famous Maiden Lane jewelry district Is In alarm ovec the ar nouncement of another diamond robbery which occurred soma time during the day In the heart of the supposedly burglarproof section of the city, pespite the watchfulness of the police and numerous private detectives who arp constantly on guard there, the robbers entrance to the vaults of the building at 49 Maiden Lane and walked away with a handful of gems valued at $14,000, from the safe otJEmanuel S. Rose, wholesale jeweler.

WASHINGTON Senator Gardner, of Maine, has introduced a bill under which the would take over the properties of express com* panics and operate them as part of the postal service, extending the service to tlie rural delivery. The measure indicates the probable cost of taking over the express properties as follows: Real property, $14,35%,169; equipment, $7,381,405; , materials and Buys plies, $138,210; advance payment on contracts, $5,836,666; and franchises, good will, etc., $10,877,369, a total of. $39,165,819.

FORT SMITH, ARK.—About three hundred striking students of the I n-• versity of Arkansas paraded tl:e streets of Fayetteville and attended a dance in defiance of rules to signify their displeasure at the faculty’s action in suspending thirty-six students, held responsible for an anonymou.t publication charging the faculty with discrimination in favor of rich students. ' The strikers said they would not return to the institution until the it fellow-students were reinstated

INDIANAPOLIS, IND—Thirty Indiana county fair mangers representing associations which are members < I the County Fair Managers’ association and directors from the different counties, held their first annual banquet here and discussedmethods and plana for the bettering of their The offhers of the body are: Ir. tl« dent, John Irenborger of North Manchester, secretary, Charles W. Ili<to man of Lafayette, and tre-suier* Charles Anthony, Muncle.

CHICAGO —Some sensational testli mony, regarded by government atton neys: as strongly supporting tha charges against, the packers on trial before Judge Carpenter in the United States court was given by Archie E. Hayes, 5037 Evans avenue, a forme* employe in the office of Edwafd Tilden, president of the National Paoto Ing company. Mr. Hayes testified that he had often seen nine of the ten indicted/ packers go into secret confer* ences In XBden’s office.

DETROIT, MICH.— The federal p c.v* ernment caused a sensation in rta criminal suit against the so-called bathtub trust when, after announced that the prosecution’s case was clo: rd, Edwin P. Grosvenor, special assist ntto Attorney General Wickershcm, moved that the case against five ol the defendants be nolle proseed on account of lack of evidence. Tfc« court granted the motion.

Farmer’s Neck Broken.

Warsaw, Tnd., March 1. William ISapington, aged fifty-five, a farmer, was instantly killed while hauling a load of corn fodder. His wagon waa overturned andi his neck was broken in the fall. •

Removes Banker’s Appendix.

Fort Wayne, Ind., March I.—Theodore Wentz, vice president of the Ger* man-American bank, was operated on for appendicitis. His recovery 7 is e* Sheeted.