Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

Per Year.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

ißtorestinf Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— ITogether with Other Notes Gathwed from the Several County Offices. Commissioners’ court will convene next Monday. ' It is now Clerk Perkins, Mr. Warner closing his second term yesterday. Monday is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes to avoid delinquency and penalty. Saturday was a big day in the county treasurer’s office, more than SIO,OOO in taxes being taken in. H. E. Remley was down from Wheatfield Monday getting his supplies for the registration of Thursday, May 9. He is the inspector for Wheatfield tp. ' This is the last week of the regular April term of court, but there will be an adjourned term, it is expected, when Special Judge Hanan will take up the Borntrager ditch remonstrances. New suits filed: No. 7868. The Trust & Savings Bank, adm. vs. Pearl L. Wasson, et al.; petition to sell real estate. No. 7869. Aetna Life Insurance Co. vs. Wm. A. Gray, et al.; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $5,500. White county republicans nominated the following ticket at their county convention Saturday: Auditor, Homer Dresbach; treasurer, U. G. Browneller; sheriff, John Hoch; surveyor, Wm. May; coroner, Dr. Cray; commissioners, Ed Ferguson and Showalter. The case of Taylor vs. Kent, et al. from Newton county, wherein the plaintiff is seeking to recover several thousand dollars bonus for locating the C. I. & S. road through Kentland, was on trial in the circuit court yesterday, and is likely to occupy two or three days. Quite an array of legal talent is represented in the trial. Marriage licenses issued: Rompke Sipkema of Fair Oaks, aged 45, occupation farmer, to Katie Kavinger, also of Fair Oaks, aged 32, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, third marriage for female, wife of male having died Dec. 26, 1907, and both former husbands of female are dead, but dates are not given. Both the contracting parties are natives of Holland. April 29 Ralph Daniel O’Riley, son of Dennis O’Riley of Remington, aged 21, occupation baker, to Carrie Louise Detrick, daughter of David Detrick, deceased, also of Remington,, aged 20. First marriage for each.

Court proceedings: Xo. 111. R. E. Davis ditch; superintendent files report as to expense account. Engineer Hobbs allowed $32. Xo. 7796. Bayard Taylor vs. Carrol C. Kent, et al.; motion of plaintiff to produce all papers, letters, maps and documents as set out is granted, to be used ih trial of cause. ' Xo. 7867. L. H. Recber vs. Charles B, Wells; dismissed, costs paid. Xo. 7868. The Trust & Savings Bank, adm. of estate of Harrison Wasson, deceased, vs. Pearl L. Wasson, et al., petition to sell real estate; prayer granted and sale ordered at private sale. E. D. Rhoades and M. P. Roth appointed appraisers; appraisement S9OO. Bond of $2,000 filed and approved.

Roosevelt Handed Seat In the Ananias Club.

President Taft has handed Roosevelt a seat in the Ananias Club, He denies emphatically the latter’s charge that the International Harvester Co. suite were discussed by

the Roosevelt cabinet, of which Taft was a member, and is backed up in his denial by Root, Wilson and official records, which prove that he was abroad when Roosevelt held up the prosecution of the Harvester Trust suits.

Rev. Baech In Critical Condition.

Mrs. B. F. Fendig, who iha.3 been assisting her mother in caring for Rev. Baech at Delphi, returned home Friday. Mr. Baech is suffering from cancer of the stomach and is now in a very critical condition and has taken no nourishment of any kind for a couple of Greeks, and death is expected at almost any moment. During the past few months he has -undergone several operations, none of wihich seemingly have improved his condition, other than to. relieve the physical pain caused by the cancer.

Return From Sad Duty.

Mr. and Nat Heuson and two sons, George and Philip, returned Monday from Chicago Heights, where they were called by the death and burial of Mr. Heuson’s aged mother, Mrs. Mary A. Heuson, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Williams, with whom she made her home. Mrs. Heuson was 88 years and 3 months of age, and leaves seven children, two sons and five daughters. Her husband died three years ago. Her grandsons were the pallbearers. Burial was made in the cemetery at Sceger, 111., where her husband and one daughter are buried.

Whole Fleet Sunk.

W. H. Bowers, who is employed on a dredge over in Illinois, writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Valley City to Rockport, 111., and says: “As we are steamboating around the Mississippi and my next Location will be at Rockport. We are having a glorious time; the waves are bobbing our boat four' feet high in places.” Further on in the letter he says: “Well, things have taken on a different aspect. We -have sunk our v.hole fleet, four barges, two launches and a cabin boat, but not quite as bad as the Titanic, as no lives J are lost, so change address to Rockport, Ill.”

Confesses to Robbery of Pulaski Co. Treasury 46 Years Ago.

The mystery concerning the robbery of the Pulaski county treasury at Winamac forty-years ago, when SB,OOO in cash w r as taken, and which created * a big sensation at the time, has been cleared up by the confession of Andrew McCay, who has just died in the poor house at Omaha, Neb. According to McCay the robbery of -the Pulaski treasury was one of nine county treasuries robbed by himself and a pal in this locality. Dye Perry was Co. treasurer at the time of the burglary, and he was accused o>f the crime and arrested and placed in jail at Logansport, but was acquitted. Capt. John Farley, a former treasurer, waai also accused but likewise acquitted.

Song Recital Tomorrow Night.

At the song recital, May 2, Master John McGahey, will play the beautiful De Beriot Concerto. The boy prodigy is a masterful player. Referring to a recital given by him last year at his home town, Marion, Ind., tfhe papers bestowed this praise: “The young violinist, who i; lut twelve years old, covered himself with glory. His entire program was played from memory and the large audience applauded enthusiastically. He was assisted at the recital by Mr. Arthur Curran." Master McGahey is bound to please the audience, for besides possessing good technique and perfect bowing, being especially strong in double stops, he shows exceptional musical talent and feeling. He renders even the most difficult passages not only with ease and fluency, but at the same time with a wonderful modulation and 'fullness and roundness of tone. He may well be the envy of violinists of twice his age. He will be heard at Rensselaer on the evening of May 2.

Notice to Sheep Raisers. Tfhe Rensselaer Producing Company will be in the market for your wools this season, and with the increased facilities we will be able to handle it better than we have ever been before: Please call on us for prices before selling.—Rensselaer Producing Company. jl All the news in The Democrat

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, MAY i, 1912.

Twenty Saloons Closed at Kokomo by Supreme Court.

By a decision of the supreme court, reversing the Howard circuit court in the Kokomo saloon license cases, the twenty saloons are closed in that city. The controversy came about by the local option election returns showing a “dry” majority, but it was shown to the election board that error in some of the returns had been made, and that the "wets” really had a small majority, and the board so held. The county commissioners refused to grant licenses but on appeal to the circuit court the applicants got license. The supreme court held that the election commissioners had no right to go behind the face of the returns, which shewed a “dry” majority, and the circuit court was reversed.

T. A. Crockett Razes Ancient Log House.

T. A. Crockett has torn out the old house on his farm that he built 42 years ago of logs, hewing the logs as er the house was up, and some years later weather-boarding it. When Tom built the house he cut the logs from the large, heavy timber surrounding it. Since then the timber has all been cut off and the stumps grubbed out. The land is a part of that entered by Mr. Crockett's father when he came from Kokomo to Jasper county in 1852. Mr. Crockett, Sr. died in 1854, Then all the country south until one reached the May farm near Remington was wild and open prairie. What is now called the Wakarusa ditch, then called the “state ditch,” was being constructed by the late Charlie Platt, who was contractor for the ditch and was camped just south of where Mr. Crockett’s house is now located.

Miss Schnee will 1 e Lear J in a Song Recital at the Christian Church, Thursday evening. May 2.

T. R. FAVORS THE “RECALL”

Miss ILDA SCHNEE

The work of digging the ditch, ws»ch was to be 30 feet wide at the top. was done by spade and wheelbarrow, and Charlie had a gang of about fifty Irishmen on the job and kept about four or five barrels of hiskey on hand to make the spades work easy and keep the Irishmen good natured. There was but two places to cross to the south before this ditch was built, on knobs, one east of Mr. Crockett's about two miles where Lecklider's water power saw-mill was located, and the other two miles west at what was known as Daugherty s Ford. The land in along this ditch was then practically valueless-. but Sir. Crockett has seen the country drained and developed until Itfod there has sold for $lO5 per acre, and none of it can now be bought for less than about $75 per ■acre.:- ''-‘r On the site of this old lo| house in which Mr. Crockett raised his family, he is going to- erect a new sjx-rootn frame house and is now haring the foundation put \n for same. Mr. Crockett's son George new- lives on the farm, the former living in lawn.

Prominent White County Farmer Killed.

R. D. Roberts, one of White county's leading farmers and stock growers, died Saturday night from injuries received last Wednesday from a large stone which he was hauling off the field and piling up, fell back cn him as he was raising k. to the loose wall where he was piling them. The rock fell on his abdomen, injuring him so badly that he took to his bed at once on reaching the house and his condition grew steadily worse until death resulted.

Many Bodies of Victims of Titanic Recovered.

The Mackay-Bennet steamship with 109 bodies of the Titanic victims picked up ai the scene of the disaster during the last few days, reached Halifax, N. S„ yesterday. Nearly all the bodies have been identified. Among them are the bodies of Isadora Straus. John Jacob Astor and C. M. Hays, prominent millioniares who went down with the ill-fated boat.

Harve Robinson to Be Married Soon.

Mr. Harve Robinson will be married to Miss Lottie Robinson of Morocco. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hamilton at 8 p. m., Friday, May 10. Miss Robinson came here from Morocco several months ago and had been employed by Dr. M. D. Gwin as office giTl until recently. Harve has rented the Leopold house on Front street, lately vacated by H. E. Jacobs and wife, and will reside there. The many friends of the young couple extend advance congratulations.

How the Commercial Club's $10,000 Has Grown.

The Democrat is in receipt of a marked copy of an Elkhart paper containing the following, which shows how the SIO,OOO put up by Rensselaer for the uncompleted match factory building has grown —on paper—in the hands of shrewd financiers: “The capital stock of the United States Match Co., whose home office is in this city and factory in Rensselaer, has been increased from $165,000 to $250,000, the stock being taken by investors from Chicago and Kansas City. The only local stockholders are W. W. Sterling ana P. T. Longacre. The company was incorporated April 4, 1910.”

Friday's Wind Done Considerable Damage.

roof of a large barn owned by C. U. Garriott at Parr was blown almost entirely away by a heavy wind that swept over this section again Friday. The damage will probably reach SIOO. During the heavy wind of Friday a large poplar tree in front of the stock farm residence was blown across the wires -of the Jasper Co. Telephone lines and broke eighteen wires and several cross-arms, also pulled several poles out of line, causing considerable inconvenience umtil it could be repaired. In the storm a week ago Sunday evening, both the Bruner and the Jasper Co. companies suffered considerably.

Alfalfa a Revelation to Eastern Dairymen.

Mr. A. G. W. Farmer requests us to publish the following clipping from the Twin Falls (Idaho) Chronicle, which explains why he was unable to ge,t a few carloads of alfalfa hay here this spring as he had contemplated:

H. P. Farmer, one of our most enf»‘i prising hay buyers, says that the past winter has demonstrated to the dairymen in the east and elsewhere that a Haifa hay is the best feed they can buy for dairy cows, and he believes it will, to a large extent, displace other feeds. One of his customers who in former seasons has been feeding timothy hay and shorts found that by feeding alfalfa he could dispense with the shorts. Hereafter this man will sell his timothy in horse-feeding markets and buy Twin Palls alfalfa for his dairy herd, and will make money on the transactions. ' The dairymen of Idaho have demonstrated that butter fat can be produced from alfal a feed at a cost of about 2 centsi a pound, while in dairy states of the Mississippi valley it costs twice as much.

Mrfl. Farmer states that in the east a prejudice against alfalfa has obtained, most of the Stockmen believing the claims made for it were principally hot air, but being forced, by the shortage of other hay, to resort to it. its great value as a balanced ration has been a revelation, and they aiW goirig to demand it in increasing quantities. As theyj cannot raise it they have to comet west for it. The experience of the 5 past winter will therefore prove of immeasurable value to the .Twin l Falls tracts in creating a demand forj our mammoth hay crop ail over the Lnited States, for the buyers havel been sending hay to practically every: state in .the Lnion. hundreds of cars * going to the Atlantic seaboard. A great drawback to the hay business has been lack of care in putting up and baling. Many consignments have been turned down at destination because they arrived in tad condition. This has been due to loading damp hay. , While a good market for surplus hay is of advantage to the Idaho farmer, he is not going to get rich in raising it to sell. It is only when he keeps stock to eat his hay crop that prosperity will abide with him.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby titles and Towns—Matters ot Minor Mention from Many Places/ Teaches Hoys to Grow Corn. Winamac. Ind., April 26—H. L. Rogers, county superintendent or schools in Pulaski county, has half of the boys in the county enthusiastic about com and how to raise it on scientific principles. A corn club which was recently organized by Mr. Rogers, now has a membership of more than two hundred boys, and he has offered prizes for the best acre of corn raised. The first prize is SSO in cash, and the winner of prizes In each tbwnship is entitled tp a free trip to Purdue /university. Mr. Rogers ha« been so successful in his line of work that the attention of other universities haa been attracted to his frork. Recently an offer was received by Mr. Rogers from the extension department of the State Agricultural college of Kansas, to organize a similar work. The offer was declined and he will continue his work in the schools of Pulaski county.

ACQUITS BOYS OF PARRICIDE.

Jury is Cheered for Verdict and Aged H idow Takes Home* Lads Freed. Bloomfield. Ind., April B.—Edward and Ray Stibblns, tried for the murder of their father. George W. Stibbins, were acquitted by a jury which re|K»rted at a special session of court today. Despite the order of Judge Henderson that there be no demonstration, the crowd in the courtroom cheered when tho verdict was read. The jury took six ballots to readh a verdict. The aged mother of the two boys, who wa.i in court, said: "1 knew that if we could get the truth before this jury I would take my boys home with me.”

Kanne Bros. Engage In Livery Business.

At dhe sale of the Rice Porter livery stock and. equipment Saturday, a portion was purchased by Kanne Bros., owners of the automobile' bus line, who have rented the Hemphill barn occupied by Mr. Porter, and will increase tihe number of horse's and carriages and engage in the general livery business. In order to facilitate the handling of their rapidly increasing traffic, permanent _ headquarters, conveniently located, with the added opportunity of also engaging in the livery business along with t'be bus business, this barn presents a very desirable place. For prompt and courteous ,-ervice, both bus and livery phone No. 80.—Kanne Bros.

The undersigned’s subscription to the storm victims Union tp., and elsewhere in Jasper county, Ind., sill be to furnish all and any roofing they may require in the replacing of their buildings by me at the actual cost of production at factory; 24 diffeernt styles to select from, all o»f which I am the inventor and in control of the manufacture of same. Yours for old time sake, A. E. KlftK. S. —This only applies to owners of land living on same at the time of disaster. m 4 Monday I>ast I>ny for Paying Taxes. Monday, May 6, is the last day for paying the fir.-t installment of the 1011 taxes to avoid both installments going delinquent find having the 10 per cent, penalty added. We have no control over this, and if the first installment is not paid on or before the above date the penalty mast be added. A. A. FELL, Co. Treas. All the news in The Democrat,

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