Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Page 3

Helpful Hints. TN our advertising from week to week it is our aim to * offer helpful hints in buying for you; for if our suggestions hit the mark, it creates demand, which in time means a broadening of business for us. We have an exceptionally good line of Brooms at 38c 45c, 50c, and 65c each. Mop Sticks, spring-head style, the right kind, at only 10c each. j Tip Top brand, 14-oz. best Cotton Mops, at only 25c each. Big 4-lb. (quart size) Washing or Cleansing Powder, now only 10c pkg. 10c cake Fairbanks Scouring Soap (like Sapolio), special at 7c bar. Just now it seems timely to mention our houseclean' ing helps. Everything in brushes, soaps, lye, bonami, sapolio, cleanser, and nickel and silver polish. Please favor us with your wants in this line. THE HOME GROCERY

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Try The Democrat want ads for results. Today’s markets: Corn, 73c; Oats, 53c. All kinds of feed for the poultry.—Hamilton & Kellner. The Watson Plumbing Co. hang eave troughs.—Phone 204. ts Advertised letters: Mae Amery, Mary Herr, Miss M. A. Parks. ‘ ; ~ ; ■- ■ ' . Paul Glazebrook was up from Purdue a short time Saturday. Remember the J. I. Case Corn Planter is sold by Hamilton & Kellner. Mr. and Mrs. George Wade were guests of relatives at Francesville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. Alson of near Remington were Rensselaer visitors Saturday. ______ > / o We have accepted the agency for the Abbott-Detroit automobile.—B. FORSYTHE. B. S. Fendig down from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday with his family. No ear on the market can equal the Abbott-Detroit No. 30, at $1,350. B. FORSYTHE. Agent. ■ ,-i . Prof. Lee Fisher, superintendent of the Otterbein schools, was a visitor in the city a few hours Saturday. Fay Clark came up from Purdue Friday to visit until Monday with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. P. W. Clarke. J. H. S. Ellis, Jr., was in Chicago Sunday visiting his brother, Dr. John Ellis, who is an interne in a hospital there. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith went I to Lafayette Sunday to spend the day with their son Clarence, who is a student at Purdue. C. W. Eger was in Water Valley Sunday looking over, and repairing his motor boat, preparatory for the opening of the siammer season. Charles Payne has sold his interest in the Perkins & Co. plumbing business to Marion Cooper, and ithe business wili be continued under the old firm name. Brook Reporter: There has been very little change in the condition of George Sawyer in the last couple of weeks, although he seems to be growing weaker. Carl Kukpe was down from Gillam tp., on business Monday. He •has 25 acres yet to sow ,to oats and says there is lots of oats 'to sowj yet in that locality. Mrs. Roy Baldwin and little babe of St. Cloud. Minn., who have been visiting relatives here the past two weeks, went to Fair Oaks Saturday to visit a few days with relatives. Mrs. Baldwin will be remembered here as Miss Georgia Joyner. All members of the Rensselaer Camp M. W. A., are requested to be present next Wednesday evening, when business of great importance comes up before the Camp for discussion. Luncheon after business meeting—GEO. MUSTARD, Clerk.

I. A. Leavel spent Sunday at Delphi. See our line of cultivators.— Hamilton & Kellner. E. P. Honan went to Danville, 111., Monday on business. Ellis Thomas went to Lafayette Sunday to spend the day with relatives and friends. . Ora Yeoman, who has been visiting here since Friday, returned to Hammond Sunday.

Elmer and Jesse Wilcox went to ' ■ ’ j Chicago Saturday to witness the ball game that afternoon. Buy an Abbott-Detroit auto, guaranteed as quiet as a Silent-Knight engine.—B. FORSYTHE. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Austin of Wheatfield came down Saturday to visit friends over Sunday. Mrs. A. R. Kresler and Mrs. P. W. ClarkC returned home Friday from a few days visit in Chicago. Miss Maude Spitler returned home Saturday evening from a short visit with Mrs. Delos Coen in Chicago. We were eight years studying autos and bought the Abbott-De-troit, the best of all. See our auto for demonstrating.—B. FORSYTHE. Monticello Journal: Another sl,000 note against Dr. Sangster, bearing the name of Robert Spencer, has come to light in the hands of Henry Million of Carroll county. Melbourne and Vernon Haas and Junior Benjamin spent Sunday in Chicago with Forest Morlan, who is employed as a filing clerk in the Mon on offices there. Harrison Timmons went to" Francesville Saturday to join his wife and babe, who have been visiting her grandmother there since last Thursday. They returned home Sunday. Miss Maude Spitler and Mrs. A. F. Long went to Oxford, 0., Saturday where they witnessed the debut of Misses Martha Long and Elizabeth Spitler in the Western college Glee club Tuesday evening.

—Grand— Song Recital ' . —by—•MISS ILDA SCHNEE, Contralto Prof. W. J. NOWAK, Bass—Baritone t: assisted by Master JOHN McGAHEY Violinist Prof. W. L. HOVORKA Accompanist. An evening of beautiful music and song which will be enjoyed by every one. AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THURSDAY NIGHT, MAY 2. Tickets 50ct$.; High School 35cts At Fendig's Drug Store

Mrs. E. Purcupile is spending a few days with her son John at Lafayette. Alva Simpson sustained a fractured wrist while cranking an automobile Friday. f W. J. Wright went to Chicago on business Monday. Literature about the Abbott-De-troit auto at B. Forsythe's residence or at the garage. James Flynn spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. H. V. Weaver, and family at Lowell. Leonard Elder was up from Franklin college to spend Sunday with his father, David Elder and family, - ■ '■ Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins went to Monticello yesterday to visit her soai Homer and family a few days. Mrs. A. H. Hop kies and children returned Monday from a visit with her father, John Ellis, at MOnticello. M ss Flora Harris is spending, the week at Brook, Chicago and Carpentersville with relatives and friends. Miss Bessie Seegar returned to her home in Marion Sunday after a short visit here with L. H. Hamilton and family. A few good second-hand sewing machines at the Singer office. Will sell cheap, cash or time. —R. P. BENJAMIN, Agent. ts

Ed Randle and son Walter and John and George Parkison and Granville Moody attended the cattle feeders convention at Purdue Saturday. Miss Nell Biggs came down from Chicago and spent Sunday here with her parents, A. J. Biggs and wife. She is taking a trained nurse course in Chicago, Elmer Gwi,n is drilling what is perhaps the largest farm well in Jasper county, out at A. O. Moore’s in Barkley tp., for a stock well. It is 6 % inches in diameter. W. Hurley Beam came down from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday with his wife, and to visit his parents. Hurley stated that they expected to begin housekeeping in the city this fall. M. L. Sterrett and wife of Wheatfield were in the city Saturday visiting old friends. Mr. Sterrett was a teacher in the grades here a few years ago and is now principal of the Wheatfield schools. George Hemphill, who is employed in the tariff department of the Illinois Central railroad offices at Chicago, was here Sunday to spend the day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Hemphill. Mrs. Ernest Clark arrived at Delphi last week from Colorado to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Rafferty, who died at her home there Saturday. The funeral was held Monday, Mrs. E. L. Clark and Mrs. Leslie Clark going from here to attend the funeral. George Thornton of Canton, 111., was over Saturday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton of Surrey. He is preparing to move l r Streator, 111., where he will have charge of a grocery- store, having already given up his position as motorman on the Canton city railway. Sunday was a cold, rainy day, and at night, continuing most of Monday, a cold, heavy rain fell, •making the ground too wet to work for several days. Yesterday at 11 a. m., the mercury took at 50 in the shade, too cold for anything to grow except grass, which is~ doing very well.

In the race for the presidential line-up to date Taft has 383 delegates; Roosevelt 207; Cummins, 10'; LaFollette 36; uninstructed 38. On the democratic side Clark leads with 145; Wilson 106; Marshall 30; Harmon 8; uhinstructed 105. Yesterday delegates were selected in Massachusetts, both democratic and republican. There was a large number of people visited the cyclone district in Union Sunday and had the! weather been good it is likely several hundred morei within a radius of twenty-five or thirty miles would have come to view the ruins. We understand that a general subscription has been raised to meet the pressing needs of those who were the most seriously damaged by the storm.

Amu/ THAT SATISFIED SMILE. It’s always on the faces of those people whose teeth troubles hare teen banished at this Dental office. We polish up Nature's pearls, re-set duplicates to excel in beauty their originals, chase away all chances of break-downs on your ruby bridges, and help you to perfect health by enabling you to masticate food as God' intended you to do it. For that satisfied smile, apply at this office. ■ J. W. HORTON Opposite Court House You cannot hear the new engine in the Abbott-Detroit 41. at SI,SOD. B. FORSYTHE. Agent. Feed your cows Badger Dairy Feed, a great milk producer. Get it at the River Queeh MilL Remember The Democrat office is now located on West Washington street, nearly opposite the postoffice/’ ■ —* Wright's furniture store opening Friday and Saturday was attended by hundreds of people and tt was a great success. The Colorado democratic state convention has instructed its delegates to the national convention to vote for Champ Clark. r rt. ■ ; The AbboU-Detroit Auto Co. t is only ;; years old and their machines ha\e all the very latest improvements.—B. FORSYTHE, Agent.

SERVANT SHARES IX ESTATE.

Rich Farmer Also Remembers Lain >rers and Neighbors. Lafayette, Indiana. April 27. Churches, hospitals, orphan asylums and other public institutions will share generously in the estate of Jasper Stidham, a wealthy farmer, who died Tuesday of this week, and whose will was probated today. Ifr. Stridham left an estate worth about $250,000. To his housekeeper be left $20,000 in cash, the will stating that she had been a faithful servant, who made many sacrifices for his comfort and welfare. To more than one hundred relatives and friends he leaves sums ranging from SSOO to $5,000. Many to whom he left money are farm laborers in his employ, neighbors, or people who at some time in his life rendered service to him. The sum of $5,000 is given the Home hospital of Lafayette, and $3.000 is given St. Elizabeth’s hospital, the Catholic institution, and $2,000 is given the St. Joseph Orphan asylum, another Catholic institution. The Lafayette Y. M. C. A., which is badly in need of money to maintain it, gets $2,000; tbe Jackson Club, the Democratic organization of the county, SI,OOO. Mr. Stidham was a prominent Democrat, and at one time was a candidate for county treasurer. For building a Methodist Episcopal church at Taylors Station, near which Mr. Stidham's 1,500-acre farm is located, he leaves SII.OOO. He also leaves SIO,OOO to build a Presbyterian church at Elston, a hamlet two miles south of Lafayette. After the payment of the specific bequests, tbe residue is given to the two last named churches, share and share alike, to be used as a maintenance fund. The wijl provides that the extensive interests shall be sold and converted into cash. John Emsiqg was appointed executor and gave a bond of $250,000! In a codicil Mr. Stidham leaves an additional $4,000 to the Methodist church at Taylors, Station, and an additional $5,000 to the Presbyterian church at Elston. Mr. Stidham ~ was seventy-five years old and had never been married. He was a native of Sweden, but had lived in this country childhood. He began life as a poor boy.

Bicycle and Motorcycle Repairing. 1 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. ! Will keep tires and other supplies on hand. Also handle the Indian ' Motorcycle, and have machine on ! hand for demonstrating.—JAMES C. I CLARK. ts i ' _!_ , Order your calling cards of The Democrat. We can suit you in style of type or engraving and the price I is always right.

THOMAS TAGGART

His Relations to the Democratic Party in Indiana. From the Times, Noblesvills, Ind.

On# of the rules of war that Is com®*mly observed by successful generals 1* to direct the fire at the most effective commanding officer on the opposite side in hopes of disabling him or, better still, to kill him and thereby weaken the enemy by the loss of an aggressive leader. This is the best explanation for the continued and apparently unwarranted attacks made by the Republican party and its handmaiden. the Indianapolig News, upon Thomas Taggart. For many years the News" and the small fry Republican papers, taking their cue from it, have filled lots of valuable space in their papers advising Democrats that Thomas Taggart was attempting to ruin their party and that his activity in its behalf was for bis. personal aggrandizement and to ft her his own political ambitions at he expense of the voters of the Democratic ticket. So diligently have these guardians of the interest of Democracy worked and so persistemb have they dmen home their arguments and so successfully has Mr.

THOMAS TAGGART.

Taggart withstood these attacks that we believe it is due Mr. Taggart and the members of the Democratic party that a clear exposition of his relations to the party in the past years be given. It is not necessary to recall the attacks have been made upon Thomas Taggart, for every reader of Indiana newspapers is familiar with all that has been printed and the charges that have been made by Republican newspaper and by some that pose as independent papers, all looking to the eternal good of the Democratic party. It might be said, too. that no selfish or sinister motive ever inspired these publications, but they were always actuated by their profound love and their interest in the welfare of the Democratic party. Mr. Taggart’s Start ia Life. About the first known of Mr. Taggart he was engaged in his chosen calling of catering to the public in an humble way at the lunch counter at the Union Station in Indianapolis. His pleasant way, his genial smile and bis business integrity won him a place in the affections of every one who chanced to meet him, and by hard work, frugal living and honest dealing he soon began to climb the ladder of success In his line of work until today he owns solely the finest and most valuable hotel property in Indiana and equal to afiy in the United States. French Lick estate with its magnificent hotel stands as an enduring monument to the hard work and sturdy Irish grit of Thomas Taggart. Few men would have the nerve to go into the hills and forests of that out of the way place and invest the savings of a life time in a hotel at the dead end of & stub railroad with nothing more than the flowing waters of a medicinal spring as an incentive.

Pluto String and Thomas Taggart have converted the lonesome valley of French Lick into a picturesque place where body and soul can both find relief. The body from the healthgiving waters of Pluto and the soul from the genial life inspiring attention of Mr. Taggart. The combination lg a happy one and thousands can testify to the wonderful curative effects of both. Thus it is seen that Mr. Taggart Is m no sense a hanger-on. He is not interested In politics to obtain a place or a subsistence. He is not a burden on the party, nor is he a failure in bis life’s work. He is a Democrat and in his work for the party he has pnt behind it ; the same matchless energy and aggressiveness that have characterized his other endeavors, and, like any man who does something, he has drawn the fire of the enemy and the broadsides that have- been turned loose upon him only testify tc his effectiveness and the success the * M» offnttE.

Beginning his political career ala* in Indianapolis he maintained that steady growth that finally moved hint up from -jprecinet committeeman to Auditor of Marion county and finally Mayor for two terms of Indianapoli* Gave First Signs of Great City. In the administration of these offices he observed the law strictly and to his credit it can be said that Marlon county, in so far as the Auditor's office is concerned, never had a better administration and no charge or suspicion was ever directed toward any of his official acts, Under his administration as mayor of Indianapolis tha city took omits first signs of a great city and the impetus given it by the two terms of Mr. Taggart remain with it to this day, and Indianapolis date* the time it began to be a city from the time Thomas Taggart took the rein* of government of city affairs. A successful man begets jealousy, even in the ranks of those who ought to be his friends, and Mr. Taggart was no exception to the rule. Democrats in Indianapolis sought to rob him of his well earned leadership and they found ready sponsors in the Republican press and the so-called independent papers. When the Indianapolis News undertook to use Mr. Taggart, as it has other public officials of the city and county, it wag repulsed and even with its promise of support and painting of fields of glory for the future, was told to get behind me, Satan, and since then it- has bee* the unrelenting enemy of his and In him it has found an adversary worthy of its steel. Politics in cities is much different than in the country districts. Means are employed there that would not he tolerated in the rural districts, and In bis contests Mr. Taggart applied the rule of fighting the devil with Urn The demands of the hour have caused him to do things that do not meet the approval of even his friends, just sg your wife, your p&stor or your child. He has used whatever force was necessary to combat the force used against him, but never when it wee not in t,he interest of the Democrat!* party. Whatever may be charged against Mr. Taggart, no one has ever questioned his loyalty to his party. He has given freely of his time, his energy and his money to further its Interests and never with the hope of office or political preferment. Other men have contributed heavily ta speech and in writing and made sacrifices for its success, but no Democrat in Indiana has been looked to eg earnestly as has Mr. Taggart in the past twenty yearß when hard worlt was to be done and campaign expenses were to be met. Believes in Principles of Democracy.

The Democracy of the state has no* ticed and appreciated his valiant work and for many years he has been the Indiana member of the National Den* ocratlc committee. The Democracy of the nation has also honored him by making him chairman of the tlon&l Democratic committee and la that work he put the same energy a*& skill as he did in bringing up bis pro* cinct in good shape in Indianapolis. He has his opinions and ideas ot party policy and party declaration, lust as any of us have. He contend* for them and if he is successful bo glories in bis triumphs, as any other man. and if he is beaten he is alway* ready to take up the work that hi* party lays out * and never in all hi* career was he known to sulk in hi* tent or fail to contribute to his party'* success. In the dark days oft the party la Indiana Thomas Taggart was always the inspiration—the man who saw the bright side of everything—and kept the party intact. He never lost faith in the eternal principles of his party, because he believed in them. ll* fought as well in the face of almost certain defeat as he has when victory was as well assured. He has asked any reward for his efforts and. does not now seek any, but his ambition and his hope is to see his party win and the sacred principles it stand* for put int£> law for the betterment ot the masses,. 1 -f :

Despite the false charges that hav* been made by his political adversaries and believed to some extent by man who were prejudiced against him by -reason of them, Thomas Taggart ha* been the lifeblood of the Indiana Democracy for years that are past and in the future, so long as bis health, his energy and his. money is his, h* will be found the mainstay, the hope, the rallying, force of the followers ot Jefferson and Jackson and no matter, whether his party is successful or t* defeated, he will be found the same active, energetic winning Democrat that he has been in the past Thomas Taggart might get without the Democratic party, bat ft will be many years before anothe* man will be found to take his pla*% in the management of party attain* - ' ' , « •' . . . * V '' -