Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Try The Democrat want ads for results. Today's markets .Corn, 70c: Oats, 52c. ■ . >»-■ ■ Miss Jennie Harris spent Monday In Chicago. I Mrs. Ora T. Ross* and Miss Edna Hauter spent Tuesday in Chicago. Following is a report of the proceedings o: court since our last issue: ( M’iss Anna Jasperscn of Tefft is spending a few days as the guest of her sit-iter, Mrs. Lawson Bruce, of south of town. The Eylsian Club will give a dance at the Armory Friday evening, April 26. Music will be furnished by Burch’s orchestra of Fairbury, , 111. Mrs. John Sayers of Kentland was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Michael of Jordan tp., a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Gray, who accompanied the body of her aunt, Miss Mary Frost to Carmichael, Penn., for burial, returned home Wednesday. Mrs, W. H. Par bison went to Attica Thursday to spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Line, and to attend their fortieth wedding anniversary celebration. A. J. Brenner, proprietor of a Winch alter hotel, and formerly proprietor of the Makeever hotel here, was in town Wednesday to attend the funeral of Harrison Wasson.

A. M. Munden ard wife of Charlottsville left Wednesday for a visit With their son John at Momence, 111., after a few days visit here with her brother, J. C. Gwin and family.

■Mata. Jos. Xagel, who accompanied her husband to St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Latayette a week ago, returned home Thursday. She reports bum feeling some better, but still very weak. Mrs 8 . Xagel brought her little r.ieice to Rensselaer to make iher home with her for the future.

The Harpole electric lighting company of Kent land is to supply Morocco and Sheldon with “juice” and is frying to buy the Goodland municipal plant and furnish that town witih light and power also. i

The work of remodeling the Rensselaer Garage was begun Wednesday wiled the heating pipes were removed to permut the construction of an up-to-date office in the northeast corner of the present building. ' - - i Mi 93 G-race Morris, Who has been principal of the Fulton, Ind., schools this year, has returned home to spend the summer vacation. She is not decided as to where she will teach next year, but will not return ■to Fulton, and expects to secure a better position. , Firman Thompson will move into H. R. Kurrie’s residence on Weston street when Mr. Kurrle moves to the old S. P. Thompson homestead, ■Which'' he is having overhauled. It is understood that next spring Firman will move to tlhe Bedford famn of 40 acres, just east of town, which he purchased a few days agh for $9,000 and Which he gets possession of next spring. L

Mrs. J. W. Horton spent Thnrsda; in Lafayette. W. J. Wright was in Chicago on business Thursday. J. W. Tilton was in Wheat field on business Thursday. Samuel Fen dig was a Chicago business goer Wednesday. Mi'.i. Frank Malay and a daughter of Lowell visited relatives here this week. Dr. S. H. Moore left Wednesday for Hamilton, No. Dak., to look after his farm. The receipts from the band concert at the M. E. church Thursday night were $19.70. Albert Fester, John and J. W. Hack of Lowell were in the city on business Wednesday. Mrs. J. C. Parrett returned home Tuesday from Chalmers after a visit with her father, John Stewart. O.! H. McKay wrenched his back severely in a fall Monday at his laundry on East Washington street.

Mrs. Rebecca Hemphill remains in a very critical condition and relatives expect a report of her death at any moment. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dodge and the latter’s mother. Mrs. Emma Gc s, and James W. Lock were over from Remington yesterday.’ BozeK’s Minstrels, Who held forth at Ellis theater last evening, gave a splendid hand concert at 12:30 yesterday afternoon. The company carries a fine band and gives a firstclass show. 11 Mrs. Robert Johnson and son Leonard and Mrs. J. $2. Carson and two children of Lafayette, Mrs. J. E. Mead of Hammond are spending a few days here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark. Crown Point Star: The Cedar La’kers don’t expect any Sunday excursions this summer, which makes trying timeta for the business places and passenger boats, but the week da} - crowds and dancing will go on as usual. They existed last summer without Sunday trains and hope to this year. Marriage licenses' i’-tsued: April 18, William Strawbridgie of Chicago, aged 69, retired, to Estella M. DWiggins, of Lincoln, X’eb.‘, aged f>6, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first wife of male having died Jan. 2, 1908, and first husband of female' died in December, 190”.

j k. B. Elmore was over from I Remington Thursday and brought over a Hupp roadster for John I Eger. John has never fully mastered Ms big Buick, but thinks per- , hajts he can, handle a light car. llf it gets to bucking be can throw iit over the fence and walk home, ; but it s different with a big touring car. Howhver, the Hupp doesn’t often go wrong. The Standard Bearers will have , charge of the evening service at the Meftbodltet church. There will he speciai. music, instrumental and vocal. Miss Lizzie E. Martin of Otterbein will speak. Miss Martin is a returned missionary from China and will give am instructive and interesting talk. A cordial invitation is extended to all. At the Methodist church Sunday evening, April 21, at 7t30.

The fine spring weather we had been enjoying for about two weeks took a change Wednesday to cooler, and Wednesday and Thursday we got a cotd rain and overcoats were in order. Thursday night the mercury got down to the freezimg point and ice formed on the water puddles, while a heavy white frost covered the ground. Yesterday was dear and pleasant, however, and warmer and 'fair weather was predicted for today. Twine Output is Sold E. J. Fogarty, warden of tihe state prison at Michigan City, reported, to the office of the governor last week that orders had been received from farmers in Indiana and other states for the full capacity output of the binder twine plant at the prison for this year of some 3,000.000 pounds.' Warden Fogarty said he would represent to the next general assembly that the capacity of the plant should lie doubled. He believes, he said, he would be able to self all the double capacity could produce. Warden Fogarty said lie would not attempt to put into execution this year '"a farm in connection with the prison. The season is too late, he believes, to make it a success. This Is a Good One. » . What’s my name? lie said, Well, that’s a good One. Why, boy, you’ve knowed my name ever since you was a suckling babe. It aitit so darned peculiar that anyone’s likely to fergit if he wants to buy a 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 'un at that name, you don’t want to fergit that you’re funnying with about twp men out of every three in this vicinity. Yours truly, C. A. ROBERTS. 100,000 Acres Farm Lands for Sale In Mpnominee County. The garden spot of Michigan. Farmers, dairymen, stockmen, investors, marketf-gardners and poultrymen homes for thousands. Now is the time to buy land. Prices SB, $lO, sl2 to sls per acre, why pay rent all your life? Special discount allowed on cash sales. Free railroad fare to purchasers of land. Seven hours ride from Chicago. Call today for free booklet showing views of roads, schools, churches, orchards and farms and telling all about farm lands in Menominee County, Michigan.—GEOßGE W. CASEY, Rensselaer, Indiana, R-2, Local Agent. FARM BARGAINS. 60 acres—Near station and school, at heai't of dredge dltcQ, all level, productive land, in cultivation except five acres in timber. Improvements are a good two-story fourroom house, gobd small barn and good well. Price $45. Terms, S7OO down. i.. 80 acres—All black land in cultivation, 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 barm, for ten horses, steel tower windmill, with good well and 25 bearing fruit trees, j Only $45. Terms, SI,OOO down. 21 acres—-Four blocks from the court house. 165 acj;es—Highly improved, half mile of the eorporation of this city. Will sell in small tracts from ten to 80 acres at right prices. 599 acre ranch—Good improvements. Will trade or sell on easy payments. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $6,000 mortgage and other property to trade ror mud or property. Will put irii cash or assume. GEO. F. MEYERS.

Bicycle and Motorcycle Repairing. I have opened up a bicycle and motorcycle repair shop in the old Goddard building three doors south of the Rensselaer Garage, on Front street, and solicit your patronage. Wifll keep tires and other supplies on hand.—JAMES C. CLARK. ts Kanne Bus Notice. Hereafter our bus headquarters be at Tone Kanne’s residence, phone 214. Calls may also be made for us at Leek’s hitch barn, phone 342 or at the Rensselaer Garage, phone 3 65. We make all trains, answer all calls for city tiade and solicit a . sthare of your patronage. Respectfully, KANXTS BROS. The Watsoni Plumbing Co. hang eave troughs.—Phone 204. ts Too Late to Classify. Found-— A bunCh a keys”—Enquircat DEMOCRAT Office. Ijost —W ednesdiay, on street, a ladies brooch. Finlder please leave at DEMOCRAT Office. Barred Rock Eggs —For hatching purposes, for sale by M, I, ADAMS, Phone 533-L. ml Tile Ditchers Wanted —Several I hundred rods; a good big .contract, of from 4 to 10 inch.—D. H. YEOI MAN.L, '. fc a 25

ALLEGED BIGAMIST ESCAPES PRISON

Saw and Acid Aids Man in Finding Freedom. OTHERS REFUSE TO FLEE Robert P. Smith, Twenty-Six Years Old, Held In Jail at Shelbyville on Bigamy Charge, Takes French Leave. Shelbyville.—Robert P. Smith, twen-ty-six years old, who was to have been tried in the 'circuit court on a charge Qf bigamy, escaped from the jail. He found freedom by sawihg away two heavy iron bars and then using acid to cut a hole 14 inches square in an Iron plate three-eighths of an inch thick that covered the window. His departure was discovered by Deputy Sheriff Henry Terry, who has charge ol the jail. Three other prisoners refused to take advantage of the chance to escape. They were Jack ltunshe, held for intoxication; Samuel Wiley of Anderson, and Maynard Williams of Terre Haute. . ~ * ag Historical Meeting Called. Bloomington.—The annual meeting 01 the 'Mississippi Valley Historical association will be held here under the auspices of Indiana university May 23, *4 and 25. The last meeting was held at Chicago under the auspices of Northwestern university. 3 he membership of the association is about seven hundred, and is composed of members from the Mississippi valley slates, including the territory between the Alleghenies and the Rockies. Judge Howe of Indianapolis will preside at one of the meetings and will read a paper. Representatives will be here from the universities of lowa. North Dakota, Illinois and Cincinnati and Oberiin, *'Earlham and Franklin colleges. Horse Saves Man’s Life. Fort Wayne.—William F. Borgman, agofc- forty-seven, president of a local trucking company, and former chief of police, died in a hospital as the result of injuries sustained in an auto accident four hours earlier. A delivery wagon, in which Mr. Borgman and R B. Clear were riding, was struck by an auto driven by John Bovie, and both Borgman and Clear were hurled from the car to the pavement with terrific force. Ijorgman’s skull was fractured, but Clear fell on his horse and the force of his fall was broken. He escaped with painful bruises. Bovie was arrested and furnished bond in the sum of $1,500 to await the outcome of the coroner’s investigation. Produce Trust Probe Begun. Indianapolis. Attorney General Honan has begun an investigation to ascertain whether there is a butter and egg trust in Indiana. It. has been charged tfiat some of the largest buyers and shippers of butter and eggs in Indiana have a combination through which they control prices and drive out competition, and that they are thus enabled to control the supply. It l s said that- this is largely responsible for the exorbitant prices of a few months ago. The charge is that these shippers buy up the butter and eggs in Indiana and ship them to the east, where they hold the goods until they force a high price. Aged Banker Is Dead. Lafayette.—Thomas G. Rainey, aged eighty-three, one of the oldest bankers in Indiana, died in this city after a long illness. He had the remarkable record of having been employed in local banks for sixty-one years without Interruption. Police Rescue One Man. South Bend. —Herbert Clemmens, eighteen years old, was drowned, and Don Southard,, twenty years old, rescued from the St. Joseph river by the police, who, throwing ropes from the Jefferson street bridge, pulled him from the river about two hundred Jeet above the big dam of the South Bend Power company. The young men were In a canoe near Howard park when Clemmens lost his hat. Attempting to regain it, the canoe was upset and the men thrown into the water. But for the timely arrival of the police Southard Would have been carried over the dam to certain death. Clemmens, unable to swim, had no chance to escape. ♦ Honan Addresses Convention. Montlcello. —Attorney General E. P. Honan addressed the White county Democratic convention. The following nominations were made: A. G. Fisher, auditor; Otto Middlestadt, treasurer; Paul Ward, surveyor; Thomas F. Downey, sheriff. Four “Frats” Are Expelled. Hartford City—Joseph Campbell, James Hughes, Clarence Patterson and Clarence Sprak, high school pupils, were expelled from school for frequenting ’ the fraternity rooms in violation of the sdbool rules. Some time ago fraternity members were given one month in which to give up their fraternities, and all agreed, making written statements to that effect. However, the fraternity rooms have been maintained and frequented by the members In defiance of the rules. • 1 . j

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Brazil.—A verdict of guilty was returned by a jury In the Olay circuit court against Charles Daniels, charged with contributing to the delinquency of Dana Chambers. He was sentenced to serve twenty one years in the Btate penitentiary by Judge McGregor. The case will be ippealed. Indianapolis!—A section of the roof o? the new four-story concert building of the Cole Motor company at Market and Davison street caved in and William Johnson, a carpenter, was killed. The building had been under construction since last winter. Some of the forms on the fourth floor were being removed. The section of the roof fell through to the third floor. Gary.—Three men were Injured In a riot among striking linemen employed by the steel trust’s lighting department. O. E. Nolte and G L. Wright and an* unidentified lineman were taken to the United States Steel Corporation hospital following the fight. Newcastle.—Orville Lee, desk scr geant of the local police force, and Miss Effie A. Redding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Redding, were married at the bride’s home, near Carthage. On his arrival here with his bride, the police force gave Lee la proper send-off, handcuffing him to the seat of a dilapidated old spring wagon and having a number of howling boys haul him about the city. Portland.—Ridgeville Congregatlonallsts celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the church in that town. A number of visiting churchmen assisted in the ceremonies, which ended with an address at the opera house by Rev. D. R. Fulkerson of Fort Wayne. More than a score of members of the church who were charter members still retain their connection with the congregation. Laporte.—Mrs. Peter Sierra, with her four-year-old child In her arms, jumped from the second story of the county asylum and made her escape. The authorities fear that she has killed herself and the infant, as she was despondent. Richmond.—Rev. Walter J. Cronin of Rushville haß been appointed

RENSSELAER HOUSE Formerly, the Nowles House. Refurnished and renovated throughout* Now in first-class condition.' . ' , ■ - ' V MRS. W. H. COOK & SON, Props, Rates $2.00 Per Day £ALL us up on telephone No. 157 and reserve a table for our elaborate Sunday Chicken Dinner with all the trimmings. Prompt and courteous service guaranteed. Special attention to parties and the traveling public. • i The billiard hall in connection with the hotel will be formally opened on Saturday evening, April 20. A first-class chef has charge of the kitchen.

rector of the St. Mary’s Catholic church In this city to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rev. J. F. Mattingly. Rev. Father Cronlng will come to this city some time next week to thke charge of the parish. Rev. Father Manning, assistant rector, will continue to hold th* same place under the new priest. Rev. Father Cronin will have the Batne .rectorship as Ilev. Father Mattingly, the priesthood of SL Mary’s church lng an irremovable office.

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A Log oh the Truck of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if not removed, so does loss of appetite. It maans mck of vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite tails, take Electric Bitters quickly to overcome N the cause by toning up the stomach and curing the indigestion. Michael Hes.-heimer of Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over three years, but six bottles of Electric Bitters put him right, on his feet again. They have helped thousands. They give pure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at A. F. Long. Notice to Heirs, Creditors and Legatees. In tin- matter of the estate of Henry K u pkie, deceased. In tlu- Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1912. Notice Is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Henry Kupkle, deceased, and all persons interested In said estate, to appear In the Jasper Circuit Court-, on Monday, the 9th day of September, 1912, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Charles Saltwell, administrator of said decedent, and show cause If any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others Intended, are also hereby notified to appear In said court, on said day and make proof of their heirship., or claim to any part of said estate. CHARLES SALTWELL, I Administrator, Ray D. Thompson, Atty. for estate.