Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Page 4

JULY CLEAN UP SAIF] I At DuvalPs Quality Shop I Exclusive Clothier and Furnisher, Rensselaer, Ind. I Sale starts JULY 2Oth. We are going to hold one of the I largest CLEAN-UP SALES in the State. Illi 00 ?T S 1 r Gray \ Browns •’ _ All Boys' Knickerbocker Suits, $8.50 grade for 11650 R e raySl p roWnS ' ?" S at 13 00 A " Boys ' Knickerbocker Suits, 7,50 grade for 5.50 A * G B u \ S<:r f S i Gra ’' s Browr ’ s ' I ansat 12.00 All Boys' Knickerbocker Suits, 6,00 grade for 4.50 All Youth'^Oon% S '^ ay r S W " S Sa ‘ 1000 A " B ° ys ' Knickerbocker Suits, 5.00 grade for 3.50 auk 'v ■u k U ,- S . a ------ 7.50 All Boys’Knickerbocker Suits, 4.00 grade for 3.00 All boys Knickerbocker Suits, SIO,OO grades for $7.50 All Boys' Knickerbocker Suits, 3.50 grade for 2.50 All Extra Trousers, $5.00 grade < = - - $1 co “ —rAll Extra Trousers, 4.50 grade -= = - 3’oo AII E xtra Trousers, $3.50 grade ==- .= $2.50 All Extra Trousers, 4,00 grade = - - = 3.75 All Extra Trousers, 3.00 grade - - - - 2.00 All Shirts, Hats, Caps, Underwear, Suit Cases, Bags, Trunks, at a BIG REDUCTION C. EARL DUVALL

RETURNS FROM WESTERN TRIP

V\. 11. Ritchey Writes Interestingly ot North Dakota, Montana and , Wyoming. W. H. Ritchey returned Monday morning from a month’s visit with relatives and old friends in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, and the following interesting letter from him, written while in Wyoming but received too late by The Democrat for publication in its Wednesday issue, gives Mr. Ritchey’s impressions of the country visited. A’l the people mentioned by Mr. Ritceby were former residents of Jasper county:

Mr. Editor:—Left Rensselaer on June 18th and took train from Chicago over the’ C. B. & Q. to St. Paul. Saw nothing unusual on this route but a man plowing with dust following him, and too much Mississippi. Corn was very small,' a little being plowed the first time’ l Took the G. N. at St. Paul at 9.30. Daylight found me looking upon one of the prettiest agricultural states in the Union. As far as the eye could see on either side was one grand view of surrounding green wheat, oats, flax and' barley. A stop-over at Larimore took me to Bert Welsh’s for dinner. He took me around to see the country, and with the exception 'of rivers and creeks, it was just the same as above described. The largest ispring wheat was about a foot high. Saw some fall sown that looked light. Oats, barley and flax looked well, except where a dust storm, a few days before, had badly damaged it. These storms visit only in spots where it is sandy. Bert’s crop was not hurt. Hfe had out 270 acres of wheat, 50 in oats, 50 in flax and 150 in barley. This was put in with two teams, five horses being a team. Three-fourths of this had to be broken up. Bert and Arb Bullis put in this crop. On Thursday Bert had Wagner’s, Antcilff’s Beaver’s, Dunn’s and Jim Bullis there all day to visit with me. With two violins, croquet, horse-shoes and euchre, we spent a most pleasant, day. It does one good to meet such a ..clever bunch, and they were all neighbors in Indiana. All seemed" to be doing well and have prospects of good crops this year. Hail and rust is all that will hurt them. Hail comes in streaks of about a mile wide. It will strike one year and then skip for several years.

Jake Wagner gave S4O for his land and has a standing offer of S6O, with no improvements added since he got it: A gra-fjtfjfcW groceries and dry goods is iTreValent here. For candy - beans and tablets, 20c; ginghams, 15c and prints Bc. Can get mopey at 8 per cent., would make the interest up on sugar alone with a large family. .the train for Nihill, Mont.

The Crops looked less good as the border was reached. At the Montana line, at Gary, 1 think it was. there was about a dozen buildings, and two of them, on one side of the street, were saloons. Arrived at Nihill, with mercury at 90 degrees in shade and 120 degrees in the sun. The oldest inhabitant- said it was new weather to them. it has been dry for some time. . ■ ■■ My son-in-law took me out in the country to view the crops and see the land. The one-room house is to be seen often. The soil is a rocky limestone, 4 to 6 inches deep, with a clay subsoil of seven feet. The limestone composes about one-half of the upper soil. It is quite productive. Some fall wheat was seen, which the man on the place said if the draught did not hurt it, would make 40 bushels to the acre. Other wheat not so good. Oats and flax look well but are small. Now this is dry farming. In the foot-hills of the mountains, where they have private irrigation, the best oats and wheat yield was 103 bushels of oats and 60 bushels of wheat per acre, and to show you the difference in farmers, two had their flax in bloom, while another was putting his in. Soil is productive, except gumbo and alkali. The alkali is low land and is covered with a coat, which Idoks much like a light' snow in Indiana. It is great for beets.* The. gumbo soil is good for nothing. We saw where a buggy had been pulled out of it. and also where a horste had mired down and they were unable to get it out and it had died. There is comparatively littlfe of either in Montana. Those that have taken claims have a government permit to go to the mountains to get posts to fence their claims and get 800 feet of lumber a month for building purposes as long as needed. This land is easily worth 525 per acre. The railroad land is selling for $lB to $25.

Mr. Gray, my son-in-law. has taken steps to file on 320 acres. It would be difficult to find a prettier, or more productive half-section in the state. One quarter of this is desert land. Under ttye Gary act, if there is no water on it, or no steps taken to glet it there, by some time this month, it will revert to the government. This was once a, cattle and horse country. The old settlers in the mountain foothills. or their agents, run all of it then. But now the fences have taken them off the range and they are no more. Herds and herds .of sheep are here, belonging to some company, Which has a permit for water along the many little streams; 2,000 to 3,000 are the size of these herds. We saw a shearing outfit. Would like to mention it, but I’m afraid the editor might kick. (They sheared about 150 head per day to the man. There is a set of shearers who will not let a man join them unless he can clip 200 head: With

the machine about 275 to 300 head is a days work. I doubt whethei they could shear jhat many of Jim ! Amsler’s sheep. The fleece runs I about seven pounds to the sheep. P I left Nihill for Burlington. Wyo., on the ;>th of July. Around Bill--1 ings alfalfa is supreme. Owing to , a late spring they, were just “making hay. Sugar beets were much in evidence, wheat is good, oats also, but little of it. 3 his is irrigated country and some of it is just as pretty as one would want to see. A narrow, valley thirty to forty miles long from Billings is vert iproductiye. My opinion of the rest of the country to Basin, I think would be just as well to say nothing. Arriving at Burlington, saw John Michaels, Geo. and Frank Nicholson and others. John has some very good land in alfalfa and oats. And running through his land, 240 acres, the Grey Bull rises, one of the most treacherous and incomparable streams I ever saw. It has 85 feet fall to the mile and in one day its channel will sometimes change twice. Sunday John took me to Geo. Nicholson’s. His quarter, take it all through, was the best in appearance seen around Burlington. Alfalfa. wheat and oats are the principal crops; Looked well, excepting where hail struck it and they said some of the hail stones were as large as hen eggs. Nicholson claimed to have raised 50 bushels of corn per acre. Saw Frank Nicholson and family, and Mrs. Spangler, who is a sister of Sterns Iliff. She is eightv-three ;years of age. At Burlington saw samples of everything raised in Wyoming—oats 48, wheat 64, a pea vine, laden with peas, 8 feet long; an alfalfa stalk that measured seven feet in height. I wonder what Pullins thinks of that. Two cabbages weighed 63 pounds. There are 'very few stables and when the horses are through the harness is piled on the ground, all the year. There’s but little dew or snow. Wagon tires are never set here. A railroad and beet factory are expected here, so they say. Everyone is extremely clever and try to make my trip an enjoyable one, and will say they all have done it, too. Besides the link thht binds my daughter, her husband and that dot of childhood, my granddaughter, to me. Will leave Nihill next Friday for home. ’ . Very respectfully, ’ ’ W. H. RITCHEY.

IROQUOIS VALLEY.

Wm. Green called on K. Zillhart Tuesday.. Fred Schreiner was a - Rensselaer goer Thursday. Ethel Marlatt spent Sunday with Margaret Daugherty.

Dan Hopkins spent Sunday with ,B. Xolhoff and family. John 'Williams and wife and daughter spent Sunday with B. Price. Bowers and Rose Hammond spent Sunday with Sam Lowery and family. L. Jenkins of McCoysburg spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. S Price. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant spent Sunday afternoon with his brother Garland and family. Leo Kolhoff is suffering from a boil inside his nose. He went to town Wednesday and had it lanced. Lgu McKay and family and Mrs. J. W. Marlatt and family and Anna Richmond spent Sunday with Wm Green. Mrs. Bertha Snedeker and children of Rensselaer are spending this week with her sister, Mrs. J. W Marlatt. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Schreiner of Chicago came Sunday to spend the week with friends and relatives, returning home Saturday. Lester Schreiner and family spent ednesday with his sister, Mrs. Geo. McElfresh, and family. Lucy Morgenegg returned home with them for a short visit.

PINE GROVE.

Elmer Shroyer spent Sunday with John Torbet. Curtis Gifford spent Sunday with Charlies Torbet. Roy Torbet and mother were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Harry Beck. Roy Torbet and Bert Hale helped Clint Beck put up hay Wednesday. Mrs. Harry Beck and children called on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hale and son Paul ate ice-cream at Harry Gifford’s Sunday evening. ' Mrs. Vernie Torbet and little daughter Pauline spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Chas. Shroyer. Those that spent Sunday and ate ice-cream at James Torbet’s were Roy Torbet and family, Harry Beck and family and Clint Beck and family. Mr. and-Mrs. James Torbet and son Charles returned home Saturday after a two weeks visit with their daughter, Mrs. Ed Hornickel, at Roberts, 111. Those that spent Sunday with Arthur Zimmerman and family were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shroyer. Mr. and Ms. Frank Vest and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Meyers. They ate ice-cream in the afternoon. - Mrs. Sarah McCleary and son Everett and Mrs. Lizzie Cooper, daughter,. Bertha and grandson George spent Sundaj r with the former’s cousin, Mrs. Ella Geary and family of Fair Oaks.

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FOR SALE For Sale— A good team of young work horses.—GEO. LAMPHIER. Kniman, Ind. a g JFor Sale— New Cable Pianos at bargain prices and on easy terms. Come and examine the pionas at my home.—HARVEY DAVISSON. For Sale— One 15 H. P. double cylinder Master-Workman gasoline engine on skids; in perfect condition. Price $225. Call or address JASPERSON BROS., Tefft, Ind. al For Sale— ls acres, 1 mile from town, on stone road, good orchard, lots of small fruit, 3 good wells, house and good outbuildings.—A. E. WALLACE, Phone 40-A. jIS For Sale—B-room house 1 % blocks from court house, 2 lots 50x150 feet., lots of fruit, excellent well of water. Price $1,600, small payment down, balance like paying rent. Address Box 493, ,or phone

For Sale— l 6 town lots in Kersey, one with house, barn, small fruit, etc. Also have 15 acres of land adjoining town of Kersey for SSOO. Will sell all together or separately.—W. ,A. STEVENSON, Kersey, Ind.

Farms For Sale-- ■ I have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this, county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sheriff Jasper county, Kniman Ind. FOR RENT. For Rent— The third floor hall in The Democrat building, 25x75 including two ante-rooms at rear. Fine light room suitable for lodge purposes or for light manufacturing, such as shirt, overall or sunbonnet factory. Will lease for term of years.—F. E. BABCOCK. WANTED Wanted—To correspond or meet a widow lady about 40 years of age who wants a good home. Ob-

ject matrimony.—R. F. WILLIAMS Virgie, Ind. al ’ Timber Wanted— Standing timber suitable for mine props, timbers, and hardwood lumber. Must be near railroad station. Address COVEY-DURHAM COAL CO., 203 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. MISCELLANEOUS. Storage— l have rooms for light storage on second floor of The Democrat building.—HAßVEY DAVISSON. Ladies, Attention— “ Salome,” the wonder of the 19th century for washing, can be had at Long’s drug store, or of the agent, Mrs. W. N. Henkle, R-2; price 10c a bar or 3 bars for 25c. For washing bedclothes it has no equal.. agio FINANCIAL Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property in any sums un to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN.

I flnl Ihnf Without Delay I 111 I Illi W^thout Commission I Uvl 111 U < Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. . I W. H. PARKINSON. A Rare Bargain In Envelopes. The Democrat has just got in a bargain lot of about 100,000 envelopes in all the latest private correspondence sizes and colors, made from the finest bond papers, in linen finish, wallet and Gladstone flaps, which we will close out while they last at only 5 cents per package of twenty-five. These envelopes always sell at from 10c to 15c per package, but we bought the lot at a bargain price and can offer them to our customers at a like bargain. It will pay you to lay in a good supply of these fine envelopes before they are all gone. t See display in The Democrat’s front window. Engraved calling cards to order at The Democrat office. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby, given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State Of Indiana, administrator of the estate of William E. Moore, late of Jasper County deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. AUSTIN O. MOORE, July 18, 1912. Administrator. . j27a3-10 All the news in The Democrat,