Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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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. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. —o— H. B. Darling and Mr. Daily, of the state hoard of parole, were in Rensselaer yesterday investigating the Bader matter. —* A. H. Dickinson, democratic candidate for county commissioner for the third district, was over from Carpenter tp., on business Saturday. Nightwatch Critser filed an affidavit Saturday night against James Willis for running his auto without lights, and on a plea of guilty Squire Irwin fined him one doliar and costs. —q— Newton County Enterprise: A marriage license was granted Tuesday to Bert Iliff of Roselawn and Miss Esther Johnston of Conrad, breaking a long draught in the marriage license business. —o—• C. R. McFarland, court reporter of this circuit, went to Springfield, 111., Saturday to spend a few days. From there he will go to Cortland, 0., to visit his relatives until the beginning of the September term of court here. The annual estimates of expenditures and tax levies for the various townships should be published by the township trustees this week. The law requires that these estimates shall be published in the two leading newspapers of the county representing the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last general election. —o— Of the four little Sigman girls whom C. > B. Steward is seeking homes for,-Mr. and Mrs. Jud Adams of Union tp., take rhe eldest, aged nearly 12 years, and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Tanner of Hanging Grove the second one, aged almost 10 years. The two younger girls, aged seven and six years, respectively, will be taken to the Julia E. Work Training School at Plymouth. «

Joseph Fross of Union tp., was declared insane Saturday and application made for taking him to the asyulm. Pending the taking him away he was placed in jail. His wife is suffering with tuberculosis, and a babe died about a week ago from unknown causes. Fross is a graduate physician and holds a license to practice. He is generally considered to be a “little off,” and insists on attending to the medical needs of his family himself, hence the desire to have him placed in confinement so something can be done for them. The family has been a public charge for a long time. .1 Nothing further has been done in the matter of taking James W. McEwen to the asylum. The family say they can take care of him now and that he is improving. In regard to the statement in the last issue of The Democrat that I. N. Hemphill had made the affidavit for the in Inquest, Mr. Hemphill was merely a witness examined by the board, he having been passing the ' house only a day or so before the inquest was held and assisted in preventing Mr. McEwen from making his escape through a window. Mr. Hemphill had no interest in the matter of sending him to Longcliffe at all.

Card of Thanks.

We desire to extend our heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors for their assistance and sympathy during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. — Mrs. Mark Reed and Children.

New Oats Coming In.

The first new oats of the season came in Friday; They were ra ; sed by Ike Parker, who resides on one of Everett Halstead’s farms in Newton tp., and, of course, were the early variety of oats. They tested out 3,0 pounds to the bushel and one field, we understand, yielded 44 bushels to the acre and another field 61 bushels. These “Fourth of July oats,” as they are commonly called, seldom yield over 40 bushels to the acre. These were of good quality and color. The later oats will not begin to come in until next week.

Sells Property at Big Advance.

John W. King has sold his residence property on the corner of Forest and Vine streets, to Wilson Shaffer, of west of town, who recently sold his little farm to the cemetery board and will move to town March 1. Mr. King bought this proprty only last March for sl,000, and has made some little improvements, such as a cellar, shingling and papering, and gets $2,000 besides the use of the property until March 1, 1913, thus easily clearing S9OO on the deal. The lot is Blx 225 feet, Mr. King has bought the Simon Hochstetler place, formerly the W. H. Barcus property, about two block south of where they now live, paying $1,500 for sa'me. Mr. Hockstetler will remain in the property until January 1.

Dan Likely to Get His Money.

In a letter to D. W. Waymire of of the Rensselaer Garage, Dr. J. Sidney Walker, the Chicago man who recently purchased a couple of our casings of the garage and tendered as payment for same his personal check on the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, payment on which was stopped, enclosed another check and a ked for a receipt to the bank for payment of his tire bill here. Mr. Waymire, however, sent the check to the bank for payment, and when payment was stopped on this also, he did not send the receipt as requested by Dr. Sidney-. It seems that Mir. Walker is now quite perturbed over the way affairs have changed and is anxious for an early and amicable settlement of his account, but, it is averted, he- is the administrator of an estate in trust of the Chicago bank, and the instiution will not pay any bill or check until same is receipted and sent to the bank in proper form. Mr. and Mrs. Waymire were in Chicago one day last week and left their Apperson auto there to have ti repainted.

Joshua Norman Dies Suddenly.

Joshua C. Norman, an old and respected resident of Jasper county for more than thirty years, died suddenly from heart disease at his home north of town Monday evening about *>£3o o’clock. Mr. Norman had been in rather feeble health for the past few days and did not come to town very often. Monday he was feeling considerable better than usual, and had been out working in the garden. Only a few minutes before death he had carried a bucket of water from the home of his son Frank. Mr. Normlan was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1830, and came to Jasper county with his family in 1880. He was twice married, and to the first marriage nine children, all now living, were born—John W., Mrs. George Gorman, Rensselaer; Sol Norman of Parr; Samuel of Spokane, Wash.; Frank, of Rensselaer; Mrs. James Adair of Valley, Idaho; Miss Della Norman of Rensselaer; C. D. Norman of Hamilton, No. Dak.; and Joseph of Rensselaer. The wife by his second marriage, to whom he was married in 1891, also survives him. At this writing the funeral arrangements have not been compelted.

Birth Announcements.

July 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brooks, a son. July 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Michaels of Jordan tp., a 12-pound son.

High Prices for Good Stuff.

I will pay 17% cents for strictly clean eggs; 11 cents for hens; itt cents for 2-pound and over spring chickens. — Fancy Produce Market, C. E. Prior.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912.

A very enjoyable time was 'had Sunday at the home of Wm. Webb of near Pleasant Grove, it being Mrs. Webb’s birthday anniversary. Mr. Webb had taken her out to the field to look at the oats, and while they were gone about fifty relatives and friends came in and made themselves at home. All brought well filled baskets and had dinner ready when they returned to the house. It was a successful surprise. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and went away wishing Mrs. Webb many more happy anniversaries. From a Friend Who Was Present.

Purely a Matter of Taste.

Fowler is having a carnival this week. The Review says that the shows of the Hoosier Amusement Co. are far above the average and that there is not a show to which any person can take exception. The Republican publishes this for the benefit of The Jasper County Democrat, whose self-professed puritanical morals are easily shocked at the suggestion of the w r ord “carnival. —Republican. Yes. When the first carnival was held in Rensselaer, the Republican stated that it compared* very favorably with the district Methodist conference held here only a few weeks before. ,„And yet at that carnival, as everyone knows, everything was wide open. Gambling of all kinds was going on publicly at a dozen or more places; the hootchechoochie and the “in the altogether” shows were run unmolested, while the demi-monde flocked here from other towns by the score and did a land-office business. A reputable physician informed the writer that nearly half the boys in the senior class in the high school were suffering thereafter from a loathsome disease, an-d that he was treating several of them himself. Carnivals are good only as one views them. To the dwarfed intellect of the gamblers, the sports and the denizens of the underworld in general, however, they are pure and holy and a joy forever.

Mrs. Joe Jackson Died Saturday.

Nora Marlatt was born Jan. 23, 1874; departed this life July 27, 1912, at 2 p. m. She was born on her father’s. farm in Barkley tp., where her brother John now resides. She united with the Barkley M. E. church when about 18 years of age and remained a true Christian up till her Her bible was her best friend, and when she was able to do so she was always reading His blessed promises. She was united in marriage to Joseph Jackson April 17, 1898. To this union w>s born one daughter, Glidys, age 13. In the fall of 1908 her health began to fail and she was taken to Las Vegas, New Mex., nd later to Longmont, Cblo., where she derived some benefit, but in June, 1911, she began to fail again and! was brought back to her old home in Rensselaer, where she has been confined to her home all the time and most of the time to her bed. > Ske has suffered night and day for over a year without complaining, and always met her friends with a smile. Even up to within thirty minutes ~of her death she smiled at those around her bed,

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and talked /up to within five minutes of the end. In her death we lose a true Christian, a faithful wife and a loving ,mother. She leaves a husband, one daughter, father, step-mother, two brothers, J. W. and Isaac 8., . and three sisters, Mrs. Milton Roth, Mrs. W. H. Mackey of Rensselaer, and Mrs. C. O. Swift of Evanston, 111., also two half-sisters, Mrs. Mary Barber of Bondbill, 111., and Mrs. Isaac Hooker of Las Vegas, N. M., and a host of friends to mourn her departure.

Killed While Beating His Way on Freight Train.

Coroner W. J. Wright was called to Fair Oaks Sunday morning to hold an inquest over the remains of Edwin B. Bowser, a man of about 37 years of age, was found dead in a coal car on freight train No. 74, which was going north Sunday morning. A letter was found on. the man’s person, directed to himself, from his father and mother, who are inmates of the soldiers’ home at Lafayette. The train crew saw the man at Monon and warned him not to get on the train, but he heeded not the warning and got on again.—he no doubt having been on the train when it pulled in the yards at Monon. Apparently he had lain down in an end of a coal car loaded with iron pipe, and in a sudden stop of the train the heavy door at the end of the car had fallen over on him, crushing his head and causing almost instant death. Some pf the iron pipe had also slid over onto him, but this did not cause his death. , The body was found by a brakeman when the train was near Surrey, and when it reached Fair Oaks about 5:30 a. was removed and the coroner notified. Mr. Wright went up on the milk train and held the inquest and prepared the body for burial. An undertaker came up from Lafayette Sunday afternoon and took the body back to Lafayette on the milk train.

“Bull Moosers" Select Delegates to State Convention.

The Progressives of Jasper county held their mass convention at the Princess Theatre Monday afternoon, pursuant to call, to select delegates to the state convention, which meets in Indianapolis tomorrow. The convention was attended by perhaps seventy-five people, several of whom were from the out-town-ships. Chairman R. B, Harris called the meeting to order and Secretary J. H. Chapman read both the state and county call, after which S. E. Sparling was made chairman of the meeting and Dr. H. J. Kannal sectary. Dr. H. J. Kannal, who was secretary of the meeting, is also secretary of the regular republican county central committee, *or has been, but it is understood that he has tendered his resignation therefrom. He is also a member of the Rensselaer school board. It was the sense of the convention that the delegates elected select their own alternates, and that two delegates be chosen by the convention) from each of the three commissioners’ districts. The following delegates were choeen:

First district—W. B. McNeil, Wheatfield; J. B. DeArmond, Tefft. Second district Levi Arnold, Barkley tp.; Chas. E. Simpson, Rehsselaer. Third district—Dr. E. Besser, Remington; Fred Berger, Carpenter tp. At large—Fred Phillips, Rensselaer. At the state convention delegates and alternates will be selected for the national convention of the party, which meets in Chicago August 5, and district and state chairmen chosen, as well as a state ticket be nominated. . -

Among the more prominent Bull Moosers in attendance at the convention other than those named above, we noticed L. H. Hamilton, former county superintendent; Squire S. C. Irwin; Squire v John F. Bruner; William Folger, trustee Barkley tp.; County Recorder J. W. Tilton; druggist George Hopkins; attorney Roy Blue; former township trustee C. M. Blue; Dr. E. C. English; W. R. Brown; Warren Robinson; James Parkison; Garnville Moody; Kenton and John Parkison—the two latter sons of former county treasurer R. A. Parkison; John 1. Gwin, son of former county treasurer J. C. Gwin; also several old soldiers and others. Hon. Jesse E. ■ Wilson of Hammond, former assistband Secretary of the Interior, whom it was the sense of the delegates selected should be nominated for congress from this district, was also J present. Other prominent Bull Moosers in Rensselaer who were not in attendance at the convention are former county auditor W. C. Babcock, A. R. Hopkins and City Councilman Elzie Grow of the Babcock & Hopkins grain elevator; E. D. Rhoades, of the hardware firm of E. D. Rhoades & Son; former sheriff S. E. Yeoman; County Councilman Walter V. Porter; and J. J. Montgomery, Superintenednt of the Jasper County Telephone Co.

Funeral of Mark Reed.

The funeral of Mark Reed was held Sunday afternoon from the house, and was one o,f the fargest attended funerals ever held In Jasper county. The services at, the house were conducted by Rev. Harper of Trinity M. E. church, and the burial services at Weston cemetery were in charge of the Knights of Pythias, of which deceased was a member. Among those from out of town here to the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. James Lister and daughter Ruby (Mrs. L. being a sister of Mr. Reed) and and another daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McDaniel, and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Wilson, of Chicago; Mrs. Walter Brown (a niece) and two children of So. Bend; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borntrager and children of Ft. Wayne; Miss Anna Reed, Roy Kessinger and Mrs. Katie Kessinger of Wabash; Mr. arid Mrs. Lemuel Hudlow of Lafayette.

Marcus W. Reed, the youngest child of a family of three, born to John W. and Eliza Reed, was born ip Jasper county, Ind., May 21, 1861; died at his home Imiles west of Rensselaer at 1:18 a. m., July 26, 1812, aged 51 years, 2 months and 5 days. He was united in marriage to Sarah Ann Kessinger, Nov. 10, 1881. To this union six children were born—Nellie Borntrager of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; James E.» Goldie DuCharme, Grace, Ross and Opbal of Rensselaer. Mr. Reed was highly esteemed by all who knew him and was an up-; right, industrious citizen. He had; been in failing health for over a ( year, but did not give up until the. very last, and was only confined to his bed a part of the time for four, weeks. He was resigned to go,' when he came to realize his condi-j tion. He found peace in his Saviour, I talked freely to his family, exhorted them all to prepare to meet him in the heavenly world. 'I He had been a member of the order of Knight's of Pythias of Rens- ( selaer for over 18 years and was devoted to his lodge. He leaves a wife and mother and six children,; one sister, Mrs. Susan Lister of, Chicago—his brother Charles having proceeded him some 18 years—and seven grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn his departure. Try a box of our Wild Rose or Homespun linen finish .note paper for your correspondence. Only 35c and 40c per box, 102 sheets. Envelopes to match at 10c per package.

Vol. XV.

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 Places. SECOND TRIAL FOR MURDER. Day and Hubbard Are Again on Trial at Watseka. .¶ The second trial in the Bradrlck murder case was opened at Watseka Monday with Judge Campbell on the bench. Considerable trouble is being experienced in getting a jury as nearly every resident of Iroquois county formed or expressed an opinion during the former trial. Public opinion differs as to the guilt or innocence of Day and Hubbard and it is stated that but little new evidence has been secured in support of the alibi defense.—Newton County Enterprise.

Progressive “Thicker’n Hops” In Newton.

Brook Reporter: Messrs. Graves, Rogers and Recher of Morocco were in town a short time Tuesday. They were out feeling the pulse of the voters on organizing the new progressive party. Here, like every other point In the county, they received hearty encouragement. They say that up in the north end of the county the people are almost a unit .progressives, and in one township, Lake, they discovered only one standpatter, and he was on the fence. Only temporary organization will be made until after tine Chicago convention and then there will be a permanent organization formed and as regards placing local tickets in the fields will be left to the voters themselves.

Another Gasoline Stove Blaze.

A small blaze at the home of S. W. Williams, west of town, was started Sunday by a cooking jet on a gasoline atove. Mrs. Williams lit the stove, not noticing that the gasoline had leaked out a half a gallon that had run over the tabio into a basket of clothes and onto the floor. She took a towel and started to wipe the fluid off the stove, when it caught fire, burning her face, hands and right side and limbs. Mr. Williams was at the barn and saw the blaze coming out the window. Mrs. Williams took the stove out in the dooryard. One of the boys took the clothing, the other threw two gallons of milk, a bucket of water, a tank of water, a pot of coffee and tea and a bucket of slop on the house. By the time the rest got in he had the blaze put out. ’

Why Not Call It Spaghetti?

i. A new town has been platted northeast of Morocco in sections 10, 11 and 12, where 1,400 acres of the Ogden ranoh has been laid off into 10 acre tracts, except the townsite, which is in % acre lots. The town has been given the name of Tripoli, and it is the Intention to colonize it with Italians and Greeks. The Piilarella Italian colonization Co. of Chicago has charge of the new enterprise, says the Morocco Courier, and there are now four families there, viz: those of <N, Boozenberg, J. Faraco, S. Narks and V. Piilarella. The whole tract will be plowed up this fall and made ready for the gardening to be dbne next year when it is expected that 50 to 100 families will be located there. Cottages will be erected either on the ten acre tracts or on the town lots to house these people.

Card of Thanks.

The widow and relatives of the late Arthur Rockhold desire to extend their sincere thanks to the many kind friends for the assistance and ‘sympathy shown in their bereavement. — Mrs. Mary Rockhold.

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