Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Page 1

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Morocco Has $7,500 Fire.

Fire at Morocco Friday caused a loss of about $7,500, The store and stock of William Ahern, valued at $2,500, were destroyed. His insurance was only $750. Miller’s restaurant was also burned. The two buildings and the restaurant equipment were valued at $5,000.

Decoration Day Services

will be held in the M. E. church at Wheatfield Thursday, commencing at 2 o’clock p. m. A short program will be given. Rev. Mcßrayer will give the memorial address. All are invited to come out and g've their presence in paying aonor to the surviving soldiers as well as to the dead.—By Order of Committee.

How About a 4th of July Celebration Here?

How about a 4th of July celebration in Rensselaer this year? If anything is to be done it is time the matter was started and active work begun toward raising funds and arranging a program. We should have a good celebration here every year, and it is a mistake all around not to do so. It provides entertainment for people of this vicinity who will go some place to spend the 4th, and thereby keeps a large amount of mbney in this community that would otherwise go elsewhere.

Miss Elizabeth Witham Wins Murray Co. Piano.

Miss Elizabeth Witham, daughter of Mrs. May Witham, won the S4OO piano given away by the G. E. Murray Co., Saturday. Her number in the contest was 128, and she received 1,230,115 votes. Her two closest competitors were Nos. 22 and 133, Louella Harmon and Ada Huff, who received 1,091,805 and 1,025,235, respectfully. The four others receiving the highest number of votes were No. 45, 1,009,820; No. 127, 935,245; No. 9, 691,625, and No. 134, 655,905.

“Maud” Lays Out a Norwegian Lad.

George Flint, an 18-year-old Norwegian lad. was badly injured when kicked in the face by a mule at the Floyd Amsler place northeast of the city Friday evening, and several stitches had to be taken to close the wounds made by the animal’s hoofs. He is now at the home of Henry Amsler, where he will remain until his injuries are greatly improved. He is unable to talk much at present, several stitches in the lips making talking very difficult and painful. The lad came here about four years ago with his parents, who later went to the northwest and w'hom he has not heard from for several months now. Mr. Amsler offered the boy a home and is now greatly attached to him.

Rensselaer Attorneys In Brook Divorce Suits.

Two divorce suits from Brook were filed in the Newton circuit court last week, both by Rensselaer attorneys. John A. Dunlap has that of Clyde Ullrey vs. Lennie M. Ulirey, and Mose Leopold that of Agnes Wildrick vis. George W. Wildrick. The plaintiff in the latter case is a daughter of the late George W. Knapp of Brook, and the parties were married March 21, 1906, and separated June 1, 1909. Cruel and inhuman treatment is /charged.

The defendant in the former case is a daughter of W'hitsel Lewis of Rensselaer and the complaint alleges that the parties were married Dec. 25, 1900, and separated Feb. 5, 1912, when defendant left plaintiff, packing up all her personal belongings and informing him that she w’as going to visit a cousin in Des Moines, lowa, but that on March 9 plaintiff received a letter from defendant saying that she cared, nothing for him and was staying with her sdster (Mrs. Geo. L. Maines) at Rich Hill, Mo., whither she had gone instead of going to lowa, and that she did not intend to return to him; that for more than two years prior to their separation defendant did not manifest any love or affection for plaintiff and repeatedly told him that she had lost all affection for him, was disagreeable and often quarreled with plaintiff and said she did not want to live with him. They have one child, Glenn Lewis UUrey, aged six years, whom defendant left with plaintiff on going away.

ONE JOY RIDER INSTANTLY KILLED

And Five Others Bruised Up When Machine Turns Over SUNDAY NEAR RENSSELAER Accident Put Dampner on Spirits of Party of Medaryville and Lafayette Speeders.—■ One Attempts Suicide. ' i.■ 5 By the overturning of an auto- ' mobile Sunday afternoon, near the Alter farm 1 % miles east of town, 1 Miss Enolia Retherford, daughter of William Retherford, a West La- ! fayette truck farmer, was almost ' instantly killed and others of the party of six’ people, three men and three girls, more or less bruised. Ihe auto was a new Lambert, owned by Charles Franks, a Medaryville widower, aged 42 years, and the other men in the machine with him were O. L. Ballard and Scott Lanan, also of Medaryville. The j young women were Ruth Davis, ' May Steele Jolly and Enolia Rether- ! ford, all of Lafayette. The Jolly woman has been married but is now divorced, her maiden name beI ing Steele. Both the other women | were single. I The facts concerning the accident ■as we are able to gather from the inquest held Sunday evening by i Coroner Wright, are about as follows: j Franks, who is a Medaryville , hardware merchant, met the Jolly I woman at Monon the Sunday previi ous, when one of t!he young men hired him to take him there to meet her. and they had an auto i ride to Medaryville. It seems to have been arranged then that she would come to Monon last Sunday i.again with two other young women and Franks and the young man

i were to meet them with a partner i for tihe third girl. This was carried out and they all got in the auto and started for Rensselaer where they expected to , eat dinner and then go up on the ! Kankakee for a little outing. A supply of wet goods, it appeared I from the broken bottles about the i scene of the accident, was provided ito do the party until out of the | dry regions. i Franks and the Jolly woman ocjcupied the front seat and Ballard, ■ Scott and the other two young wo- { men the rear seat of the five' passenger car.

Shortly after pulling out of Monon the Jolly woman wanted to drive the car saying that her brother owned an auto and she had driven it a great deal. Franks let her take the wheel and she seemed to understand handling a machine all right, and was still driving when tihe accident occurred. Stories of the speed they were going differ. The parties themselves say it was not more than 15 or 20 miles an hour while others who saw them say it was at least 30 miles an hour. When near the Dr. Alter farm they passed a machine that was stalled by the road side, and after passing tit the young woman seemed to lose control of the car, and 1 it took an angling route to the ditch, where one of the rear wheels broke down and the car run up on the opposite bank and toppled over, pinning all the parties tinder it. Franks was the first to release himself and he got one of the young men out. Young Joe Nissius, who occupies the Alter farm and some men who were there to dinner ran to the scene and all' were soon iescued, but the Retherford girl, whom the young men say was sitting in the middle on someone’s lap. was pinned down by the irons of the top where it fastens to the tbnheau and by the edge of the latter, and her forehead crushed in, and she only gasped a few times after being rescued. “Scotty” Lanan was pinned down with the tonneau across his chest, and was pretty well in when rescued. Franks was held fast by one leg and one arm being pinioned under the machine, but he is a strong man and by a superhuman effort leased himself. The others with minor bruises.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 29. 1912

Undertaker Wright went out with his ambulance and brought the dead girl in. Her folks were notified at Lafayette and the girl’s father came up on the Hoosier Limited, returning to Lafayette on the night train. The body, accompanied by Ballard and Scott and the other two women, was taken to Lafayette Monday on the 11:20 a. m., train for burial there yesterday. Franks’ business partner, Mt. Lowe, came over from Medaryville in an auto Sunday night and he returned home.

Ballard is a railroad fireman and Lanan is a Medaryville barber. The former attempted to shoot himself right after the accident, and a revolver was twice taken away from him. Hie took on greatly and tore handsful of hair from his head. Mrs. Jolly formerly resided in Jasper county and after the death of her father and re-marriage of her mother, she was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Saidla of Barkley tp. She later worked as a domestic in Rensselaer, finally going to Lafayette where she was married. She is said to be employed now as an office girl. Rose DaVis (also called Rose Cooper) is or was a domestic in Lafayette. The Retherford girl was also a domestic, but for the last eight or ten months, her father testified, had not done much of anything, staying at home most of the time. The young men paid all the undertaker’s and burial expenses of the dead girl. Coroner’s Wright’s verdict was death by accident.

Disobeyed Her Mother.

Lafayette. Ind., May 27. —Enola Rethdrfbrd of West Lafayette, who was killed yesterday in an automobile accident near Rensselaer, owes her death to the fact that she disobeyed her stepmother. The young woman spent Saturday with a married sTster at Lafayette. Sunday morning she told her stepmother that she was going to Monon with two other girls to spend the day with relatives of one of the two. Her stepmother urged her not to go.

The graduates of 1912 are busy preparing for the final test which takes place the first week in June. Every cool place in the groves and shady nooks along the walks find a student in company with his books. Eight classical, for normal and thirteen commercial students represent this year’s class. The annual Alumni Etsay contest was closed last Saturday, May 25. The compositions have been handed in and sent to the judges elected each year by the Alumni Association. The judges this year are, The Rev. L. Monahan, Mishawaka, Ind.; E. Wills, South Bend, and the Rev. A. Schuette of the Faculty. The number of contestants exceeds that of previous years and the announcement of the winners or the first and second prize medals will be awaited with great interest. The services on Pentecost Sunday were held with impressive ceremonies at St. Joseph’s. Flowers decorated both the altars and the sanctuary which was crowded with acolytes, members of the St. Stanislas Altar Society. Solemn High Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Maurice Ehleringer; the Revs. G. Hartjens and H. Lear acting as deacon and sub-deacon. After the Gospel the Rev. G. Hartjens preached a lucid and appropriate sermon on the gifts of the Holy Ghost. In the evening the College band entertained the students with their usual skill and pleasing selections. We were glad to entertain the following guests during the week: Mrs. P.i Kennedy and Miss Frances Kennedy, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. John G. Reidelbach, and the Misses Irene, Evaleen and Kathleen Reideibach, and Richard Falvey, Winamac; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Annen, Chicago.

Notice. > The undersigned will be open from 12 to 5 on Decoration day. May 3D, to received poultry and eggs. Rensselaer Producing Co. Fancy Produce Market. Birth Announcements. May 25, to Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Smith, of north of town, !a daughter. ■ May 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Smith of the west part of town, a son. Subscribe for The Democrat

Collegeville Items.

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. » Fred Sawyer of Monticello, who has been in Arizona for some time with his brother. Sheriff Sawyer of I Newton county, who Is sufferlilg i f rom tuberculosis, returned to KentI land with the latter Monday! —o—j Sheriff Hoover went to Chicago ■on the early train Sunday, returning at 11:50 a. m.. with Mrs. • Hoover, who recently underwent an operation at the West Side hosi pital for gallstones? Mrs. Hoover stood the journey home very nicely and is convalescing rapidly. She I says she feels better than she has L for many years. - —o— Sheriff Hoover took Wm. Nordyke, the White county product who has lain in jail here for several months for boot-legging whiskey in Rensselaer, over to Kenuand Monday i lor trial, ne also brought Nordyke back for another hundred days in jail. The jury was out but a halt hour when they returned a verdict of guilty and he was assessed SSO fine and thirty days in jail. Of course he will lay it out, which will mean an expense all told to Jasper county—including the time he has been kept in jail awaiting trial—of about SIOO. A stone pile ought to be provided for such worthies. In publishing the provisions of the Mrs. Lougfhridge will in Saturday’s Democrat, an error was made regarding the bequest of land in I nion tp., to decedent's granddaughter, Miss Majorie Loughridge. She gets an undivided one-half interest in said 453 acres of land instead of the entire tract. The error in reporting this came about through the item referring to said bequest not stating in itself who the other one-half was to go to and the overlooking of the words “undivided One-half” just before the description of the lands. Another paragraph in the closing part of the will bequeaths all the remainder of decedent’s property, both real and personal, to decedent’s daughter, Blanche Chapman, which, of course, includes the other one-half of the above 453 acres of land, although it is not so specifically stated.

THE GRIM REAPER.

Two More Old Soldiers “Mustered Out.” Holdridge Clark, aged 79 years, died suddenly at 'his home in the northeast part of town Friday morning from heart failure, which came on him while he was mowing his yard. He fell over unconscious and died in a few brief moments. Mr. Clark was a native of Gblumbiana county, Ohio, and served during the civil war from this county in the 151st Indiana, he having located in Jasper county previous to the war. For many years he resided in Barkley tp. He leaves a wife and six children, Mrs. Theodore Warne of Parrj Mrs. Thomas Grant and Mrs. George Daugherty of Rensselaer; Mrs. Charles Nowels and Mrs. George Smith of Longmont, Colo., and Alvin Clark of Lee. He also leaves three sisters and one brother, Emiline Switzer of Barkley tp.; E. L. Clark of Rensselaer; Mrs. Amzi Meadows of Watseka, 111., and Mrs. Mary Porter of Coats, Kan. The funeral was held Sunday at 2 p. m., from the house, and burial made in Weston cemetery.

JOHN P. WARNER. • Saturday evening our people were given another shock by the sudden death of John P. Warner, the well known carriage maker and painter. Mr. Warner had been troubled for some time with his heart, and that be would drop off suddenly some

day was freely predicted. He had worked but little at his trade this spring, only at odd spells when he was feeling better able to do so, and Saturday afternoon was one of these times. His wife ca'.led him to supper about six o’clock, but getting no response, went to the shop near by, where he was found lying on the floor with his head resting on the edge of an achpan. and unconscious. Aid was hurriedly summoned and he was carried to the house, where he seemed to revive a little and, asked by the doctor if he was suffering much pain, replied that he was. This was the only word spoken, and he died within a half hour from the time he was found. The funeral was held at 2 p. m., Monday from the house and burial made in Weston cemetery; John Philip Warner was born in New Britton, Conn,, Jan, 31,' 1837; died May 25, 1912, at Rensselaer; Ind. He moved to Cincinnati, O, in 1844 with Ms parents. The family inoved to Jasper county in 1850, where he had since resided. He learned the carriage-makers’ trade in Lafayette .when a boy of 18 and worked as an apprentice there for three years. He was considered one of the best carriage builders in the state.. He located in business in Rensselaer in 1858. He enlisted in Co. 1, Sixth Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Nov. 5, 1862, and was discharged - from the service August 14, 1 8 65, at. Pulaski, Tenn., by reason of a rupture received while on duty by a horse falling on him June 15, 1864. Oct. 27, 1 867, he was married to Julia E. Bedford of Lafayette, to which union two children were born, Mrs. Charles Pefley of Remington and D. G. Warner of Rensselaer. Besides the widow and children he leaves two brothers, Norman and Marsh Warner of Rensselaer, and one grandchild, Hlldred Pefley of Remington.

MRS. CATHERINE SCHMITT Mrs. Catherine Schmitt, who for some time has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Mat Nifesius, during her sufferings with cancer of the breast, died at the home of her daughter Thursday afternoon about 4 o’clock, aged 64 years. The body yas taken to Saturday and burial made there Monday, Mrs. Schmitt having made that city her home since she came from Germany, prior to her illness. For the past two or three years she has been in rather poor health, and last year an operation involving the removal of one breast was performed in a Chicago hospital, and for a time she seemed to be improving until about four months ago when t:he begun to fail rapidly and continued to grow steadily worse until her death.

MRS. D. V. COMER Mrs. D. V. Comer of Barkley tp., died at about 10 o’clock Monday after an illness of two Xveeks, which at first was not considered serious. She was up and about until Friday when a doctor was summoned and found she was suffering from brain fever, and bad a temperature of 104. The attending physician, Dr. English, called Dr. Kresler in consultation Saturday, but she continued to grow worse and passed away Monday. A husband and three small children, the youngest a babe of six months, survive her. The funeral will be held today at the Barkley M. E. church at 10 aJ m., and burial be made in the Prater cemetery.

Record of Two Prisoners.

E. J. Fogarty, warden, of the state prison, recently told of coincidences in the lives of two prisoners at the institution. ' “On the 11th day of March, 1911, both were paroled by the board of trustees,” said the warden. "They together boarded a train and went as far as Plymouth, where they separated, one going to Ft. Wayne and the other to Indianapolis. “On the 11th day of March, 1912, both > received final discharge papers from the board of trustees, and a few days ago they met again at Plymouth, each accompanied .by a deputy sheriff. Both had been arrested for new crimes and both sentenced again to the state prison. They were received together at the warden’s office and assigned to their old ceils.”

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Vol. XV. No. 16.

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 Recovers Money at laiundry. Lebanon, Ind.. May 27. —Fred Buck of this city will keep his money in his trousers pocket hereafter. He sent a shirt to tile Homo laundry and it passed safely through the wash and was sent to the ironing table. While ironing the shirt $35 in paper money was found in a breast pocket. The money was returned to Mr. Buck, who gave a reward.

HAVE ASKED FOR PAROLE.

Cases of Indiana Convic ts to Be Considered at Leavenworth. Leavenworth, Kan., May 27. Chairman Ladow of the board of parole of federal prisoners, have announced that he will Convene the board 'here this week. Application of two hundred prisoners, among them ten members of the “bankers’ colony,” will bo taken up. Among those whose applications will be considered, are Paul C. Gall, M. P. Emmerich, O. F. Cochran and N. R. Marker of Indiana.

ROBINSON ACCIDENT FATAL

Man Brushed From Roosevelt Auto Dies of Injuries. Atlantic City, May 27.—Injuries received by Major William Robinson of Hammonton, N. J., when he was brushed from the running board of the automobile as it was taking Roosevelt from the railroad station to an ocean pier here Friday, resttlted in his death Saturday night. Major Robinson wan a member of the Robsevelt committee that was escorting tl)e former President through the Second congressional district. He was brushed from the automobile by a crowd and thrown under the car that was fallowing and run over.

U. S. TO MAKE OWN POWDER

House Strikes Wireless System Clause From the Bill. Washington, May 27.—8 y a vote of 91 to 54 the house Saturday afternoon determined hereafter that the government, shall manufacture powder for the navy. An appropriation of $1,500,000 for “purchase and manufacture” of powder was amended to apply only to manufacture. The vote came after a bitter debate, wherein it was charged that the Dupont Powder Company, principal bidder on navy contracts, was making exorbitant profits, and was "a trust.” The long debate delayed a vote on the two battleship building program. Gn a point of order by Representative Fitzgerald of New York, the $1,000,000 appropriation for a world wide wireless system was stricken from the bin. The plan contemplated stations which would connect the Pacific coast, canal zone, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam and the 1 Phiillpines.

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