Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

11.50 Per Yea r .

The Democrat In New Quarters.

The Democrat moved Saturday into its new quarters, all except its'news press and folder, which must be left in the old place a few days longer on account of delay in shipping the motors for them. The office is now w located in our new building on West Washington street, opposite Warner Bros, hardware, where those having business with The Democrat should call. Phone number remains the same, 315. We are getting settled in our new quarters as possible, but it will be perhaps a couple of weeks yet before everything is put in place and we, feel at home.

Moving Back to North Dakota.

J. J. Wheelen, who moved here from Hamilton, No. Dak., about a year and a half ago, recently sold his farm of 115 acres near Parr, the former T. F. Brusnahan farm, to John Phares of northwest of Remington, for SIOO per acre cash, and moves Hamilton this week. He will retire 'from farming and live in town. He likes Jasper county first-rate, but their children are married and living near Hamilton, hence their return there.

Spring Breezes Now Here.

The mercury Saturday ■morning stood at 8 to 16 degrees above zero, according to thermometers about town. And the 16th of March, too. Sunday was much warmer and Monday still more so, therefore little snow is left on the ground at this writing. B. K. Zimmerman told us that Friday’s blizzard was the last snow of the season, and we sure hopq he is right. Everybody has got tired of Old Winter this time, and if he has any respect for his former adherents he will sneak off out of sight for the next eight months. Yesterday was the most springlike day we have had yet, and we have hopes that spring is really close at hand.

Power Electric Current Is Proving Popular.

The day electric current recently established in Rensselaer is going to prove quite popular, evidently. Several parties either now have motors in operation or have ordered them. Among this number are: J. L. Brady, grain elevator, two motors; J. J. Eiglesbadh, sausage grinder, 1; Roth Bros, sausage grinder, 1; W. J. Wright, passenger and freight elevator, 1; Jasper County Democrat, printing office, 4; Rensselaer Republican, printing office, 3; Dr. W. L. Myer, dentist, 1; E. D. Rhoades & Son, plumbing, 1; H. B. Tuteur, dry cleaning, 1. Several" others who require power expect to order motors soon, and it will not be long until the day current will be yielding quite a revenue.

REPUBLICANS NAME TICKET.

County Convention Held Monday k and Some Promises Broken. At the republican county convention Monday afternoon, A. L. Padgett was nominated for sheriff; George Scott for recorder; A. A. Fell for treasurer; W. F. Osborne i for surveyor; W. J. Wright for coroner; (the three last named being the present incumbents and were nominated by acclamation); D. S. Makeever and Charles A. Welch for commissioners from the Second and Third districts, respectively. The only cor tests were for sheriff, recorder and commissioner for the Third district. The nomination for sheriff took three ballots. The ballot box having been stuffed on the first and second ballots, there being five more votes * cast than there were delegates on the first and one vote more on second ballot, vote was thrown out and on third ballot the vote was as follows: A. L. Padgett, Rensselaer. ..... 86 Charles Morlan, Rensselaer 66 C. J. Dean, Rensselaer. 1 F. E. Lewis, Kersey 1 Neither Dean or Lewis were candidates for sheriff, but some overzealous delegates evidently were voting for them first, last and all the time. •Padgett was declared the nominee of the convention. In the two ballots that were not counted because of excess ot votes,

Padgett received 86 and 90, and Morlan 66 and 69, respectively. Three ballots were taken also for recorder. On the first two the vote was F. E. Lewis, 57 and 74. Geo. Scott, 70 and 67, C. J. Dean, 26 and 12, respectively. Before the , third ballot Dean withdrew and the f nomination went to Scott, he receiving 77 votes to 75 for Lewis. For commissioner for the second ’ district there was but one candidate, Swaney Makeever of Newton tp., who was nominated by acclamation. In the third district Fred Berger ; and Chas. Welch, both of Carpenter, were candidates. Welch was nominated by 84 to Berger’s 55 votes. . The ticket as made up gives Rensselaer the sheriff, recorder, surveyor and coroner, and it already has the auditor and clerk. The thirteen townships have but two county officers outside of county commissioner, which could not very ■well be gobbled up. by the Rensselaer patriots, that of treasurer and county assessor. It is reliably reported that Mr. Lewis was promised the nomination for recorder long ago, and it remains to be seen how his friends in the north end of the county will take his turn-down. As for the candidate for commissioner fromthe third district, Mr. Welch is a son of George Welch of west Carpenter tp. He has resided practically all his life on the county line 1% miles east of Goodland, which has always been their trading point and the town in which he is more interested in than any place in Jasper county, and while Remington is his voting place, outside ,of going there perhaps every two years to cast his vote, he has probably never visited Remington a half-dozen times in his life.

“On the Road to Casa Grande.”

Some one has said that the favorite American play must be situated in the west, tnust have plenty of heart interest, lots of comedy, the real western atmosphere, and above all it must possess thrills and sensation but not the noise and wholesale murders with which the west has been maligned by pflaywriters of recent years. The west is a real country made up of real men and women, and real life. A few years ago people said, “It is a man’s country,” only two years ago a writer called it a “country of men and women,” this year it is admitted that it’s future lies in the hands of its women. Why not? The mothers of a race should be the moulders of a race. Then a western -play to be a true picture of the west must be a play for women as well as men. It must be true, it must be fair, it must be full of life and love, pure and clean and wholesome. All this you will find in “On the Road to Casa Grande.” It tells a simple story so perfectly that it is like leaning back in a comfortable chair after a hard day’s work and having some one read to you from the works of a favorite author. After all one goes Mb the theater to see a picture of something that might happen to one’s self under the same conditions. A tear occasionally, a hearty laugh quite often, some situations that will make one sit up and grasp the chair, a good healthy feeling of satisfaction when all is over;-?—and the play is a success. Such a story is “On the Road to Casa Grande.” ■ Like a spring that bubbles from the mountain side and flows through meadows, hills and rugged mountains, which is calm and peaceful here, madly tumbling, scrambling there; which passes, rippling, two lovers, hand in hand, while around the bend it whlls and tumbles like two men locked in deadly combat; then on till its life is lived and it buries its secrets in the bosom of the heaving sea. At Ellis Theater Friday night, March 22. Seats on sale at Jessens, price 25c, 35c and 50c. Miss Bennett has charge of our Millinery Department again this season. Come in now and leave the order for your new spring hat. ROWLES & PARKER.

Kanne Bus Notice.

Hereafter our bus headquarters < will be at Tone Kanne's residence, , ■ phone 214. Calls may also- be < ' made for us «t Leek's hitch barn, ! ■ phone 342 or at the Rensselaer Garage, phone 365. We make all ! trains, answer aH calls for city i trade and solicit a Share of your ■ patronage. Respectfully, 1 kanne bros. ,

THE TWiCE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA WEDNESDAY, MCH. 20, 1912.

CO. CONVENTION MONDAY, APRIL I

Primaries for Selection ot Delegates To Be Held March 30 DATES DECIDED ON SATURDAY At Democratic County Convention * Held for Selecting Delegates to the State and Various District Conventions. The democratic county convention Saturday to select delegates to the state and various district conventions was well attended, except from the north end of the- county, where it has befen so uncertain for people coming here on Saturday getting home the same day on account of the trains having been late so frequently on the Monon. This makes them miss connections at Shelby and lays them out if here, over Sunday. It was a mistake to hold the convention on Saturday for this reason. W. R. Nowels was made chairman of the convention and J. J. Hunt secretary. It was decided to hold the county convention on Monday, April 1, and the precinct primaries for selecting delegates on the Saturday previous, Miarch 30. Delegates to the state convention were - instructed to vote for Boehne for governor, but My. Boehne came out Saturday in a letter withdrawing from the race, and unless some dark horse springs up the nomination will go to S. M. Ralston of Lebanon without any fight. No alternates were named, each delegate being allowed to select his own alternate in the event he cannot go himself. Following are the delegates selected:

State Convention. N. Littlefield, Rensselaer. J. J. Hunt, Rensselaer. J. A. McFarland, Rensselaer. F. W. Fisher, Kankakee tp. Geo. O. Stembel, Wheatfield. F. R. Erwin, Fair Oaks. F. .M. Welsh, Jordan tp. John McCullough, Remington. Congressional Delegates. Simon Fendig, Wheatfield. J. B. Irwin, Demotte. Joseph Nagel, Rensselaer. O. K. Rainier, Rensselaer. Arthur Tuteur, Rensselaer. Frank Alter, Rensselaer. Charles E. Sage, Jordan tp. W. D. Sringle, Jordan tp. Senatorial Delegates. Henry Misch, Wheatfield tp. William Hershman, Walker tp. Dolph Day, Rensselaer. W. H. Barkley, Rensselaer. Arnold Luers, Marion tp. James Washburn, Remington. Jacob Waymire, Carpenter tp. Frank Garriott, Parr. Representative Delegates. T. F. Maloney, Kankakee tp. S. D. Clark, Wheatfield tp. Frank Shroyer, Barkley tp. Joseph Hallagan, . Rensselaer. Dennis O’Reilly, Remington. A. H. Dickihson, Carpenter tp. Frank Fenwick, Jordan tp. E. P. Lane, Newton tp. Judicial Delegates. H. E. Remley, Wheatfield. J. F. Spriggs, Walker tp. * George W. Casey, Union tp. Eli Gerber, Rensselaer. T. A. Crockett, Rensselaer. N. S. Bates, Rensselaer. * Daniel O’Connor, 'Remington. Chas. W. Littlefield, Remington. The state convention will be' held in Tomlinson v Hall, Indianapolis, tomorrow. Dates for the other conventions will be published in The Democrat when called.

Match Factory Proposition a Fizzle.

The Democrat has it on pretty good authority that the Rensselaer match factory is very likely to prove the complete fizzle that a number of people have thought for some time it would. The Ohio concern which it was hoped by some to induce to consolidate with the factory here, providing $25,000 stock could be subscribed in Rensselaer, has been taken over by a new company backed by St. Louis capital, as shown by the following dispatch in Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer: Toledo, Ohio, March 16.—Stockholders of the Pan-American Match Cbmpany, which was incorporated recently with a capitalization of SIOO,OOO, met here and organized with the election of the following officers: President, M. B. Wallace, St. Louis, Mo.; Vice President and General Manager, Jas. P. Klotz, Toledo; Secretary, Harold Maxwell, St. Louis. ■ The new company takes over the old match manufacturing plant at

North Baltimore, heretofore operated by Mr. Klotz under a co-part-nership including himself, Samuel Cunningham of Wadsworth, Ohio, and Mrs. C. H. Wideman of Seville. All of the former partners retain stock in the new company. President Wallace and Secretary Maxwell are identified with the Samuel Cuppies Woodenware Company of St. Louis. The factory promotors seem to have stung Rensselaer good <and hard. They have got the SIO,OOO in cash, all the 70 acres of ground that was unplatted— -except the five acres where the factory building Is located— and all the unsold lots. In return we have got a"'big building that will require an expenditure of $3,000 to complete so that it can be used for any purpose, we are told, which could not have cost more than SB,OOO to SIO,OOO, and against which there is upwards of $4,000 in mechanic’s Hens now on file. The match factory company of which Mr. Sterling is the president, owed a local bank here some $5,200 it was reported, in addition to this, but this sum, it was also reported, had recently been jaid. In fact it is alleged to have been paid about the time the banker made a trip to Elkhart, and report comes from there that it was “paid” by giving a mortgage on property owned by Mrs. Sterling in that city. Whether or not the bond put up with the Commercial Club is sufficient in its requirements to pay off all liens and turn the completed building over to the Club, because of failure of the promotors to carry out their part of the contract, remains to be seen. But according to ,a party who is in a position to know, it will take about $7,000 to pay off the Hens and complete the building, which, if done, will possibly be an inducement to some other manufacturing concern to locate here. From the best information, however, that The Democrat can secure, there is little hope of anything more coming out of the match factory. In fact it is not likely it will ever be started up as such.

Letter From W. H. Pullins.

Prairieville, Ala., Meh. 15. Mr. F. E. Babcock, Dear Sir: Enclosed you will find some evidence of springtime which is thirty-two days behind last year; It has been colder than usual this winter, ice and frozen ground several times ana one night a few pellets of snow. Fourteen above zero the coldest. A few years ago at a Farmers’ Institute in Rensselaer a speaker sarcastically asked, can the South raise corn? The writer could not help but speak up In the affirmative. Now the report of 5 Secretary Wilson states that 1-3 of the crop was raised in the south. We predict that in five years more than 50 per cent, will be produced in the south. When a lad of 16 raises 227 bushels per acre as did Bennie Benson of Mississippi this last season—and dozens of other boys beat the 100 mark—its the best answer to the question. There is hardly a day passes that there is not to be found In our town of Demopolis some northern land buyer. Two gentlemen from lowa came to see Bermuda Hill Farm today, but it’s not for salet Say, I saw a “nigger” today that was in a hurry, the first one I ever saw that really had i a hustle on him.' I was riding and he overtook me. He had come three miles and was yet on a dog trot. ’Rastus Jones was not at home and Ned had snuck over to talk and dip snuff a little with Mallnfia. But when he got home Rastus had been to his house and had run off with two of his wives. Now Ned is the parson at Jaw Bone Chapel, and says he can’t see for the world why they wanted to quit him. That he hadn’t beat either of them to amount to anything since night fore last and he hopes by the help of de God and his wade’n butcher razor to get both of them home again. Something doing in Alabame, sir. Respectfully, W. H. PULLIN.

Baptist Church. Services will be held in the Baptist church next Sunday as follows: jSunday school, 9:30 a. m. Preaching 10:45 a. m. and 7 p. m. Subject for morning service, “Success Out of Failure"; evening, “Sifted but Safe." A. 8. Cross of Cnicago University. win occupy the pulpit.

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. With the 350 Rensselaer republicans only taking the auditor, clerk, recorder, sheriff, surveyor and coroner, why should the 1,800 republicans in the thirteen townships of the county kick when they get the treasurer, assessor and two commissioner? What do 'hey wan;, pray? 1 Marriage licenses issued: Meh. 18, Morris Roy Walker of Rensselaer, aged 17, son of Edwin occupation laborer, to Ruby Fay Huffman, daughter of Wm. Huffman, also of Rensselaer, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Father of male consents to issuance of license. —o—• It is said that one of the recent “wolf” scalps from up north, the pelt of which was sold to B. 8. Fendig for $3 after the county had paid $lO bounty on the scalp, was sent to a Chicago fur dealer who pronounced it a yellow dog hide, and only offered Ben 25 cento for it. Another Chicago dealer corroborated the first dealer's diagnosis of the pelt. New suits filed: No. 7843. Daniel W. Waymire vs. Bank of Wheatfield; this is a re-filing of a former case (No. .7810, filed Dec. 20, 1911) wherein the t above named bank and A. C. Robinson of Rensselaer were both made defendants, and grows out of a check given by Robinson for Waymire's interest in the hay business conducted by Robinson & Waymire in the north; part of the county, for the alleged;

' sum, as agreed upon in a written contract, of S3OO, but, the, complaint alleges,, while Robinson put the figures S3OO in the check, the written amount read "Three - dollars.” The bank refused to pay the check, because of this omission, it is alleged, and plaintiff has never received any part of same. According to figures made public by the board of state charities, Tippecanoe and Ohio counties, of all the counties of the state, present the extremes in the ratio of inmates of public institutions to the ten thousand population. Tippecanoe is highest and Ohio the lowest. The former has 16.7 in penal and correctional institutions; 19.9 in hospitals for the insane; 5.2 feeble minded and epileptic; .5 in tuberculosis hospital; 29.7 in soldiers and sailors’ orphan asylums; 2.5 In deaf and blind schools; 3.0 In jails and infirmaries; 19.2 in dependent I children; 10.0 in state and county institutions. Ohio has 2.3 per cent In penal and correctional; 9.3 in insane hospitals; none in feeble minded and epileptic, tuberculosis hospital, deaf and blind, jails and infirmaries or state and county institutions; 4.6 in soldiers and sailors’ orphan homes; 6.9 in dependent children. The total fbr Tippecanoe is 105.8, and that of Ohio Is 23.1. __ ' 1 The per eent in hospitals for the insane, in the state, is 17.6, and a comparison of Jasper and neighbor- ' Ing counties is interesting: Our ' per cent in sane hospitals is 19.5; county is 11.0; Newton x ' Porter 21.4; Pulaski, 12.8; S' r.. 18.0; White 16.5. ?

Judge Burson Gets Patent On Automobile Tire.

According to the Pulaski County Democrat, Judge Burson of Winamac has broken into the ranks Of the inventors and has just been , granted a' patent on an automobile tire. The Democrat says his , design will not do away with tires , as now made and used, but is merely to strengthen and protec* . them and make them last about I’steen times as long as heretofore

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and now. The device is simply a circular nest of springs to go inside the outer casing—and there you are. Men who hive examined Into the matter pronounce the plan all right and a winner. It is understood that arrangements are to be made froon as possible for the manufacture of the appliance.

Aged Madisonian Dead.

Madison. Ind., March 18—James E. Stewart, age eighty, the last of tthe old generation of Scotch in Madison< died last midnight.

Man Shoots Another for Alleged Abuse of Housekeeper.

Franklin, Ind., March 18.—Walter A. Chandler, a guest at the home Of Mrs. Joseph Allen, last night, is alleged to have shot John Allen while the latter was abusing the housekeeper. One bullet pierced Alien’s body, entering in front at the waist line. Chandler and Mrs. Allen were arrested released on bonds of $250. Allen was taken to his boarding house, where he shows some improvement since last evening. Chandler has signified his willingness to surrender should the wound prove more dangerous.

Judge Upholds State Law in Regard to Schoolhouse.

Huntington, Ind., March 16. Samuel Morris of Ft. Wayne, sitting as special judge in the Huntington circuit court, has held valid the state law requiring that no school building shall be erected within five hundred feet of a railroad. The decision was in the case of Charles Heiney against the town of Andrews, and the trustee and advisory board of Dallas township, Huntington county. The case was started to get a ruling of court In the matter, it wM| now be necessary for the town and township to purchase a new site for a building or wait until the legislature can change the law. >

The Allens and Marton Placed in Jail at Roanoke, Va.

Roanoke, Va., March 18.—Floyd Allen, his son Victor and Byrd Marion have been brought here from Pulaski and put in jail. The authorities thought feeling Against the courthouse assassins was running too high at Pulaski -for their safety. Allen was brought on a cot, with one broken leg in a cast. He is wounded in the other. The prisoners were widely separated in the jail and all outsiders were kept away. This order even extended to the religious workers and there were no services in the jail ybster- < day. Young Allen and Marlon, both under indictment for murder, protested to their guards that they took no part in the shooting.

Close on Trail of Men Who Killed Nebraska Prison Officers.

LouisviMe, Neb., March 18.—The three convicts who last week murdered three officers in the state penitentiary at Lincoln, are being pursued north of here by posses from Omaha. Lincoln and Plattsmouth. Their death or capture is expected momentarily. They were being driven this afternoon toward Springfield, in a sleigh by Roy Blunt, a farmer, who lives three miles north of town. The convicts were lying down in me body of a vehicle, forcing the farmer to expose himseW to the tmlleta df the posse as soon as they get within firing distance. The three convicts entered the BCunt home shortly before noon and ordered Blunt to take them in his sleigh to Springfield. He refused at first, but they threatened to kill him and he acceded. The pursuing posses were only a few hundred yards behind die sleigh.

This Is a Good One.

What’s my name? foe said. Well, that’s a good one. Why, boy, jou ve knowed my name ever since you was a suckling babe. It aint so darned peculiar that anyone’s likely to fergit if he wants to buy % buggy to take his best girl out.’ I tell you, boys. Roberts aas the buggies that has the stile, quality and finish, and the price is right, with the reputation behind them. Now, boy, if your game is to poke dun at that name, you don’t want to fergit that you’re funnytng with about two men out of every three in this vicinity. Yours truly. C A. ROBERTS. ... .. • ■—- AU the news in The Ormncyat ' . •