Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Says He Will Quit Advertising in The Democrat.

Arnold Luers called us up Thursday evening and told us to take out his ad of timothy hay for sale, which appeared in Wednesday’s Democrat, and also said he had had eo many calls since the ad appeared that he didn’t think he would ever advertise in The Democrat again. He had got nearly fifty calls then about the hay, which he sold all right soon after he let people know he had it, and regretted that he hadn’t a few dozen more stacks to sell. And the ad only cost him 25 cents, too. The moral is plain —if you want to reach the public, advertise in The Democrat.

Citizens Meeting.

Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock there will be a meeting of the citizens of Rensselaer, in the east court room in the court house. All citizens Mio are interested in, good government, clean morals and positive promotion of better social conditions are urged to be present. ‘‘The building up a community is a combined ethical purpose; is a consolidation . of moral design, which can only become prosperous if it is propitious; if its purpose is towards the, greatest happiness of its greatest number.” There »is a dissatisfaction among the people here as to moral conditions of some of the issues which are prominent in the minds of the good citizen. If you want to know about these conditions, come out Sunday afternoon and hear what is to be said. Prominent citizens and city officials will “lift the lid” and let you take a look. This meeting is for men only. xx

Jasper County Man In England.

A friend sends us a copy of the Todmorden (England) Advertiser of Feb. 23, containing the following mention of F. E. Lewis and A. W. Law, who have been in England looking up an estate due their family, under the head of “American Visitors.” Mr. Lewis is a resident of Jasper county, residing at Kersey. He left England March 2 and is expected to reach home Monday next:

“Two visitors from America and Canada respectively have spent nearly a fortnight in Tormorden looking up their family history. Both Mr. Abin. W. Law of Toronto, and Mr. Frank E. Lewis of Indiana, U. S. A., the gentlemen mentioned, have great-grandparents buried in the neighbourhood, but it is in both cases a first visit to England. They have been staying at the Queen Hotel, and have made the most of their time looking round the various places of interest in the neighborhood. Mr. Law is a contractor for public highway work in the Dominion, and Mr. Lewis is the superintendent of a new railroad just building in Indiana. He is a Freemason, ■ and attended the of St. John at Harmony Lodge last week. After a visit to London and the continent, our two visitors are booked by Mr. John Speak, the local shipping agent, to return on Saturday week by the “Mauretania” of the Cunard Line,”

THOMAS CHESTNUT DEAD.

Old-time Business Man Dies Thursday Morning at Age of 79 Years. Thomas O. Chestnut, aged 79 yearn and 7 days, died at 12:45 a. m., Thursday at his home in th northeast part of the city, from the effects of a paryletic stroke tendays kgo. He suffered a first stroke about a year ago and has keen quite feeble for some time. He leaves a wife and four sons, Charles M., of Philadelphia, Pa.; Hallie 0., of Baltimore, Md.; Scott of Rensselaer, and Earl of Lansing, Mich. The two first named sons came a few days ago and were with him when the end came. Mr. Chestnut was a verteran of the Civil War and settled in Rensselaer at the close of the war, where he built and operated a planing mill about where the Hemphill blacksmith shop is now- located. Later he was associated with Dr. E. T. Harding in the drug business here. He moved to Columbia City, Ind., in 1874, and resided there until 1891, when he again returned to Rensselaer and has since resided in this county. He was an uncle of Mesdames A. P. Burton and H. L. Brown. The funeral will be held at 2 P- m., today from the Presbyterian church, Rev. J. C. Parrett conducting the services. Burial under direction -of the Masonic lodge in Weston cemetery.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments

OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Down at Lafayette the plan of working jail prisoners on the streets was recently adopted, and Thursday the jail was without an occupant, for the first time in thirty years. Old offenders who had been in the habit of spending their winters id jail on charges of intoxication and other trivial offenses are not inclined to acept jail sentences now.

— o—l While the county commissioners this week granted the application of Mrs. Vern Hopkins for admission to the state tuberculosis hospital, she will not be taken there, as the disease is too far advanced for the treatment to help her. She has been failing rapidly of late and her local physician received notice from the hospital that they received no patients in advanced stages of the disease. —o— A broken coupling on the 8-inch s'eam pipe main leading to the court house broke Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, and business in the court house was practically suspended until a new piece was secured from Lafayette on the 10:05 a. m., train, when Fred Cissle and Eph Hickman soon connected up the break and steam was turned on once more, making the building comfortably warm in the afternoon. —o— Marriage licenses issued: March 5, Peter Wesley Merritt of Remington, aged 21, occupation baker, to Myrtle Jane Bartee, daughter of George Bartee, also of Remington, aged 20. First marriage for each. March 6, Davis Winslow of Fair Oaks, aged 61, occupation retired, to Margaret Ann Dodge of Pontiac, 111., aged 62, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first wife of male having died May 13, 1908, and first husband of female died Feb. 4, 1907. . —o— ■ The jury in the case of the State vs. Roy Koepkey, son of section foreman Chris Kbepkey, alleging delinquency, for flourishing a revolver several weeks ago in Remley’s restaurant which was tried before Judge Hanley Wednesday, failed to agree and they were discharged by the judge after being out all night. It is said that the jury was equally divided, standing 6 for conviction and 6 for acquittal. It is not known whether the case will be pushed further or not. —o— ‘. v Robert VanAtta, formerly of Rensselaer, who is now judge of the superior court at Muncie, established the broad principle that merely because a husband and wife can not agree as to whether they should go visiting or stay at home nights, is not sufficient ground for divorce, in his decision in the case of Alma Powell, a girl of seventeen, against John W. Powell. The girlwife ' told the court that she and • her husband, who is nineteen, “can not agree on going about at nights J Sometimes he wants to go when I ■ want to stay at home, and some- i times I want to go when he wants to stay at home,” she pouted. “Better kiss and make up, arid go on with your playing, children,” said the court in dismissing the suit. An inquest was held at Remington Saturday before Squire A. H. Dickinson, and B. W. Hammonds, aged 78 years, who resides on the Range Line road about two miles north of Remington, was found to be insane and will be taken to the asylum at Longcliff. One of his hallucinations is that his house is on fire and he wants to throw the furniture outside. He also imagines that he is a prise fighter and wants to fight his wife. Some-

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1912.

times he thinks he has by mistake got into the wrong house and that the owner wants to give him the property. Mr. Hammonds is a very large man, being six feet in height and weighing 240 pounds. His son “Bud” Hammonds, resides near Lisbon, No. Dak. —o—. The county commissioners completed the business of the March term Tuesday afternoon. Following is a report of the second day’s proceedings: Notice ordered for letting contract for repair of bridge in Carpenter tp., and for four new bridges in Kankakee and two in Walker tp. H. W. Barkley petition for highway; Richard Grow, Wm. Washbum and J. F. Irwin appointed viewers, to meet March 18. v George Naninga, petition for gravel road; C. J. Hobbs appointed engineer and John O’Connor and John Greve viewers, to meet March 12. ■ , , C. E. Kersey petition for highway improvement; same order.' Joseph Kosta, petition for vacation of highway; R. B. Harris, Ben Welsh and Warren Robinson appointed viewers, to meet March 22. Application of John J. Groom for scholarship at Purdue granted. Treasurer’s annual settlement with commissioners examined and approved * and ordered published in Rensselaer, Republican and Jasper County Democrat. —o —• Circuit court proceedings: No. 1459. ’ State vs. Robert Brock; defendant arrested and brougth into court and bond fixed at S3OO, cause set for trial March 7, at 10 a. m.

No. 99. Joseph Nessius, et al ditch; petition of uramage commissioners for cancelation of levy of 12 per cent in excess of 1 1-5 i>er cent. Rebates as stated in report allowed and ordered paid. Collection ordered. No. 107. Cecil Clyde Randle ditch; Supt. W. V. Porter reports sale to John Hack & Co. Allowances made: W. V. Porter, $94, Omar Osborne, $3; W. F. Osborne, $24; A. Halleck, $25. No. 109. Wm. H. Berry ditch; Supt. W. V. Porter files report showing Tyler lateral completed and main ditch completed from stake 124 to 169 Allowances made: Healey & Clark, $5; Mrs. Halleck, sl2; W. V. Porter, SSB; M. B. Price, sl6; F. Osborne, $4. No. 7605. Erhardt Wuerthner, Jr., et al. vs. Mary C. Weurthner, et al.; sale of real estate reported, w% sw>4 27-29-7, to Augustus Yeoman for $4,080. Deed ordered, presented, approved and cause dropped. Allowances- J. M. Sauser, bond, S4O; J. M. Sauser, commissioner, $120; G. A. Williams, attorney, $l5O. Commissioner directed to assign note and mortgage of S3OO from Frank King as part of 'distribution of Mary C. Weurthner. No. 7607. Aetna Life Ins. Co. vs. Iva C. Moffitt, et al. and Emmet L. Hollingsworth, cross-plaintiff, vs. Aetna Life Ins. Co.; Hollingsworth files motion for new trial. No. 7777. Z. A. Cox vs. Lida G. Monnett; evidence ’heard and cause taken under advisement. Meh. 6, on motion of plaintiff cause is dismissed at plaintiff’s cost. * No. 7788. Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., vs. St. Joseph’s College; commissioners’ report filed Oct. 30' 1911. Judgment on appraisement for SB4O. No. 7789. Same vs., same; judgment on appraisement for $75. No. 7806. Mary J. Low, adm. vs. Mathias Zimmer, et al.; court finds for defendant Mathias Zimmer; Christopher Zimmer defaults. No. 7815. Irving Shuman vs. Robert E. Van Gundy, et al.; plaintiff’s motion to re-tax costs sustained and defendants’ costs taxed at $8.50, paia ano cause dismissed.

No. 7820. Susan M. Denny vs. Edward L. Denny; plaintiff granted divorce and care and custody of child, Roger Denny, 6 years old, until further order of court. No. 7829. David Blitstein vs. Charles Walters; submitted to jury,, evidence heard; defendant moves for premptory instructions directing verdict for defendant. Plaintiff dismisses cause of action, judgment vs. plaintiff for costs. 1 '

Notice to Stock Breeders. The Democrat job department is well prepared with stock cuts of all kinds for printing bills for the coming breeding season, and our prices are very reasonable for this class of work. Advertising rates in The Democrat for the season known on application. "Everybody reads The Democrat,” and advertising in its columns has a wide circulation.

Save Electricity. Use Hylo lamps in bath rooms and for all night lamps. Use 15-watt Tungsten lamps .for halls and bedrooms. Use the Dimolight attachment for turning down any kind of light; fits any socket and can be used on any. globe. For sale by Ray Delmar, phone 151.

Public Sales. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Saturday, March 9, at 2 p. m., Albert Duggins at the Leek Hitch barn, Rensselaer, sale of horses, cattle, hogs and household goods. Tuesday, March 12, S. L. Seass, on the Van Gundy farm in Milroy tp., 8 miles southeast of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. ... Friday, March 15, E. W. Stahl, 3 miles north of Mt. Ayr. General sale of horses, cattle-, chickens, farm tools, household goods, etc.

Please Remember.

In ordering the address of yotir Democrat changed, be sure to always give the old address as well as the address to which you want the paper changed. In 2,500 names there are many of precisely the same, and when “John Smith” merely writes us to “change the address of my paper to W’heatfleld,” for example, how are we to know which of the dozen or more John Smiths on our list is the right one? Do not neglect to give the old - address, as it is 'most important.

Diploma Examinations.

Arrangements have been made to hold the diploma examinations for the Bth grade pupils of the rural schools in the different townships as follows:

Barkley, Center school house. Carpenter, Remington school house. Gillam, Center school house. Jordan, Egypt school house. Kankakee, Tefft school house. Keener, Demotte school house. Marion and Newton, Rensselaer school house. Union, Parr school house. Walker, Cenetr school house. Wheatfield, Wheatfield school house.

Examinations will be held on March 16 and April 20. failing on the first examination will' take over all subjects in which they make a grAde of less than 80 pet cent. To pass on the examination they must make an average of 75 per cent in all subjects and not fall below 65 per cent on any one subject.

Will Ask Purtelle’s Bondsmen to Liquidate.

At a meeting of the county commissioners this week the county auditor was directed to notify the bonding companies in the Purteile forfeited bonds that a settlement p. d. q. would be appreciated. The forfeited -bonds,, it will be remembered, were given in the Purteile subsidy railroad elections in Marion and Carpenter townships. In the former the bond was for $5,000 and it guaranteed that the Purteile company would commence active work on the line in Marion tp., within 30 days after the election in 1910 if the subsidy carried. In the case of Carpenter tp., the bond was for SIOO, and guaranteed to pay the expenses of the election held there if the subsidy did not carry.

While there is some doubt regarding the $5,000 bond—the instrument itself failing to state just where the “Banker’s Surety Co.” Is located, and is otherwise weak, The Democrat has learned that there is a bonding company of that name in Cleveland, Ohio, and it is likely that it is the company that purports to have signed the bond with Purteile. The Carpenter tp. bond is no doubt good, and the company will very likely liquidate when demand is made upon them. Purteile gave a personal bond—or, rather, pledged his hot air company, of which he holds the empty honor of president—to pay the expenses of the election in Newton tp. —should the subsidy not carry. But, Hke Purtelle’s checks, this promise is n. g. and. it would be useless to waste a 2-cent stamp in reminding ’Gene of his promise to pay this election expense.

Residence For Sale.

My residence on River street. Rebuilt last summer. Large cemented basement and cold storage, 8 rooms and bath, closets and pantry; 75 bH. cistern; garage attached to house; all new hot water heating plant in every room, electric lights, new paper and newly painted. Lot 75x170. Chicken park and houses; plenty fine fruit. Price less than it cost me. Terms. Not for rent. —DR. H. L. BROWN.

Genuine Quaker Parchment butter wrappers, either blank or printed, in any quantity desired

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. How Protection Protects. Who says the republican ipolicy of protection , doesn’t protect the American laborer? Down in rockribed, tariff-protected Pennsylvania a town called Roseto has just been incorporated and will soon hold its first town or borough election. The town has a population of 2,000 people and every mother’s son of them are Italians and all the candidates for the borough offices are Italians. In fact the town is exclusively Italian, and ought to convince the most skeptical American laborer that he Is protected by the republican tariff wall from the “Dago” laborer several thousand miles away—the Dago comes across the ocean .in spite of the republican tears that are shed each campaign for the American laborer, and competes with the latter on his own dunghill!

WILLIAM SPRINGER’S LUCK.

New-Made Millioniare Expounds His xJVj Philosophy as an Heir. The folowing dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., is of interest to Jasper county readers of The Democrat because of the large landed interests of the late Warren Springer, of Chicago, near Kniman, in this county, and the fact that Warren Springer was quite well known to many readers of this paper here: Willlapi Springer, jack of all trades, \o whom his father’s second wife voluntarily surrendered a million dollars, onq-half of the estate of his father, Warren Springer, who died recently In Chicago, is most philosophical over ihis sudden jump into affluence. For the first time since fortune smiled upon him the one time roving accountant and itinerant sign painter told parts of his early history and explained how he became estranged from his father, who was a prominent real estate operator in Chicago. '

The newly made millioniare, who is forty-five years old, is married and has been living at 1507 Rock street.

“Forty-five years is a splendid age at which to inherit money,” he said. “You are still young enough to enjoy ft, and it is certain you won’t live long enough to spend it all.”

Mr. Springer—be was plain Bill Springer, the painter, until a week ago to everybody in Little Rock—came here five years ago from Atlanta, Ga. For some time he has been employed by the Capital City Advertising Company, and when the telegram came breaking the news from his father's second wife that he was to share in t>he estate of tHis father, ihe was busy with his pots and brushes. *

“I can hardly realize* it,” said Mr. Springer, “but it will not make I any difference with me. The thing that surprises ine most is that fath- ! er left me anything. I. certalnly| never expected him to. When we separated it was under very unfriendly circumstances, and I never looked for a penny of his money. “While I have always made a good living and have seen much of! the world in my .travels, it doesn’t seem real to know now that I’m surely" a millioniare. My trouble with father, as is generally the case in all family differences, was not 1 so serious, after all. We probably j just imagined it was. To begin at the beginning, I was born in Plano, 1 Mich., in 1867. When I was ten 1 months old my father and mother! separated. I remained with my mother, who still lives in- Plano. l! attended the public schools of my home town and was graduated from the University of Michigan when I was twenty-two years old. “In the meantime my father went

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to Chicago and engaged in the machine shop business on a small scale. He was successful In his affairs and shortly after I left the university hd persuaded me to join him in Chicago. My mother did not want me to go, telling me I could not get along with my, father, but I went anyway. I was with my father only a short time. I soon saw. that we could not get along, and after a hot argument one day I. parted with him. “The trouble was that father—at least; I thought so then—was too strict. It appeared to me that he wanted to have all the fun, while 1 Should tread the straight and narrow path. Possibly now I would look differently at those things, but then I was sure I was getting the worst of the deal.

“That was about all there was to it. 1 simiily decided we could not get along and went out In the world for myself. While I had a good education, I found a few years later that if I intended to travel all the time 1 would have to have some sort of occupation where I could catch on,’ as the saying is, anywhere. From accounting I took up sign painting.” ,

Methodist Church.

Rev. H. C. Shiny of Ft. vVayne will preach in Trinity M. E. church at the morning hour. Union meeting of the churches of Rensselaer at night service, addressed by Rev. Shiny. > Services at the court house for men at 2:30 p. m.

Birth Announcements.

March 4, to John McClanahan and wife, a son. March 5, to Daniel S. Chupp and wife of Surrey, a son. Marell 5, to Ralph Lowman and wife, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. „ A. B. Lowman, of Barkley tp„ a daughter. March 5, to Otto Adams of Barkley tp., a daughter.

Return Property and Save Trouble.

The party who took the brasses from the Sternberg dredge west of town, is known, and unless they are returned within five days an affidavit will be filed against him and he must suffer the consequences. I hope this notice will be sufficient.—JAMES L. SMITH, Custodian.

High School Notes.

Instructive to all. The junior Geometry class finished, the first book of solid Geometry last week. Miss Stewart, who has been the guest of Miss Naomi Gregg, visited the high school Wednesday. Ihe members of the American History class spent the time Tuesday and Wednesday, giving offhand speeches. On account of the basket ball game wdth o St. Joseph’s College Wednesday afternoon the literary meeting was postponed until next Wednesday. The Rev. R. H. Hume of Springfield, Ohio, who was here visiting M«r. arid Mrs. Ross Dean, addressed the high school Tuesday morning. His talk was highly pleasing and The attendance this month has been much better than ft was last. The following is the report for February: 9th class—Agg. att., 1076.5; absence, 75.5; daily att., 53.825; per cent, .934; times tardy, 4; min., 35. 10th class—Agg. ate., 724; absence, 65.5; dally attend., 36.2; per cent., .917; times tardy, 0. 11th class —Agg. att., 522; absence, 56.5; daily attend., 26.1; per cent.,. .902; times tardy, 11; min., 163. 12th class—Agg. att., 492; absence, 40.5; daily attend., 24.1; per Cent., .924; times tardy, 1; min., 15. Begin, month Close month 9th 59 55 lOtih 40 ‘i 38 11th 29 28 12th 27 26 fa ' 1 1 ■ I . ' Total 155 147

i Bicycle and Motorcycle Repairing. ’ I have opened up a bicycle and I motorcycle repair shop in the old 1 Goddard building three doors south ] of the Rensselaer Garage,, on Front ( street, and solicit your patronage. ( Will keep tires and other supplies on hand.—JAMES C. CLARK. ts

For Rent—7-room house, fruit, garden, well, etc., centrally located. —Enquire of C. B. STEWARD, Rensselaer, Ind. ml 4