Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Snow In Michigan.

No wonder it was cold Saturday. One-half inch of snow fell in parts of Michigan, and the north wind brought the almost freezing air down into northern Indiana. A slight frost was reported in some sections of Jasper county Friday night, but not enough to do any damage. The government thermom 7 eter at St. Joseph's College register-, ed 42 degrees as the lowest point reached Friday night \

Body of Infant Brought Here for Burial.

The. remains of Clara Louise, the six-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fleet Lakin of Hegewisch, 111., were brought here Sunday on the 11:20 a. m. train and the funeral held Monday at 10 a. m., from the residence of Harry Collins, a broth-er-in-law of Mr. Lakin’s, Rev. Harper of the M. E. church conducting the services. Burial was made in Weston cemetery. The little one died of dysentery.

Fine Crops About Hamilton, N. D.

C. D. Norman of Hamilton, No. Dak., who was called here last week by the death of his aged father, Joshua C. Norman, says that they have excellent crops this year in his locality. Harvest has not yet begun and therefore it is difficult to say W’hat the yield per acre will be, but wheat and barley, their two leading crops, were looking fine when he left and give promise of a good yield. Mr. Norman expects to start for home the latter part of this week.

More Candidates for Bull Moose Honors.

Saturday’s Monticello Journal: Announcement has been made that the Progressives of the Tenth congressional district will hold a convention on August 14 at Rensselaer to nominate a candidate for congressman froqrtflis district. There are already four candidates in the field, including Jesse Wilson of Hammond, Dr. Cray of this city, A. F. Knotts of Hammond and Judge Bowman of Valparaiso. District Chairman G. R. Coffin of this city will preside at the convention and every county will send its quota of delegates.

Former Resident In Critical Condition.

The wife of Howard Myers of Brook, formerly of Jordan tp., this county, is in a critical condition in a Chicago hospital where she recently underwent an operation for the removal of a breast tumor. It was found after the first operation that cancer germs were present and a more extensive operation was performed a few days later. The Brook Reporter says that the two operations, together was a severe strain upon her and she was very low for a few days but at present is getting along as well as could be expected under the circumstances.

No Operation Now Necessary.

Henry returned Saturday from Chicago, where he went Thursday to be examined for an ailment in his head, near the ear, that has been bothering him for several weeks and had begun to affect his hearing. It is the resutl of a cold, and the doctors told him that it would prove very serious if allowed to go without treatment, but can now be removed by medicines without the necessity of undergoing an operation. Mr. Elglesbach took two treatments while there and will return to the city August 21 and enter the Alexan Bros, hospital, for a few days for final treatment.

Some Potato This.

Mrs. Candace Patzschke, formerly Miss Candace Brown of Rensselaer, sends Democrat a post-card from her present home near Barnesville, Minn., with a picture of the kind of potatoes they raise out there. She has the modesty, however, to say that this potato was raisod by a neighbor, and that they do not expect to grow any as large. This is -surely some “spud”. It has been jacked up and loaded on regular moving rollers, and a traction engine is being used to pull it away. A man on a telephone pole is evidently directing the moving operations, but even he, on top of the tall telephone pole, is unable to see over the top of the huge potato. Barnesville and vicinity must be a great potato country.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from thi Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL 1 The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Sheriff Hoover took Joseph Fross to Longcliff Friday. —Or—. The county board of education met Monday, but nothing of special importance was done. —o— S. D. Clark and S. A. Austin and son were among the Wheatfield visitors in the city Monday. C. P. Wright & Co. report the sale of the VanGundy farm of 400 acres in Milroy tp., to a Mr. Spencer, an architect of Champaign, 111., for $37,000. Mr. Spencer will spend considerable money on the place in tiling, etc., it is reported. —o— As surmised by The Democrat, the “investigation” ordered by Governor Marshall in the Bader matter was a mere subterfuge. Bader was paroled and had left prison before the members of the parole board visited Rensselaer at all. What a farce. And state funds were used in paying the expense of thp “investigation.” According to Winamac and dispatches sent out, Bader was paroled the same day that Darling and Daily, members of the parole board, were in Rensselaer in the late afternoon “investigating” the case, and left prison the same afternoon.

—o — A couple of state accountants are here checking up the county offices. This accounting law was originally a good measure, but the last legislature took all the fangs out of the law. Now there may be shortages of thousands of dollars in the accounts of public officers and their constituents never hear a word of it, as the state board and the examiners are prohibited from giving out any information whatever regarding what is found, and the examiners have the power to settle any shortages they may find. Unless suit is brought and the matter there made public, of course, the people who are the most directly interested and certainly ought to know what is found, know nothing whatever about the findings, although they are compelled to pay for making the investigation of which they are prohibited from knowing the result of. To h— with such a law;

—O—. Report of proceedings of county commissioners doing’s Monday. They were still in session yesterday, and their doings will be reported in full in Saturday’s Democrat: Interest reported on county funds for the month of July as follows: Bank of Wheatfield....... $ 9.00 State Bank, Rensselaer... 47.53 T. & S. Bank, Rensselaer.. 42.68 First Nat Bank, Rensselaer. 146.68 State Bank, Remington.... 31.90 On report of engineer, C. J. Hobbs, Chas. Kain wds allowed 80 per cent of contract price of 2% miles of the H. W. Marble road in Wheatfield tp., $5,200. Contracts awarded to Joliet Bridge Co. for five new bridges at $3,395, and to F. M. Williams of Winamac for one new bridge at S9OO. Contract awarded Monon Coal Co. for coal for county use at the following prices per ton f. o. b. Rensselaer: Mine run, $2.02; Nut. $2.37; Egg, $2.47; Lump, $2.27 to $2.47, depending on size. All to be Green county No. 4 vein or Shllivan county No. 6 vein. *

— — The following delegates were selected at the stand-pat convention held here Saturday: To the state C. W. Hanley, Frank Foltz and O. C. Halstead. John O’Contfor for Walker and Kankakee, and J. C. McColly for Wheatfield and Keener. To the senatorial S. R. Nichols, C. G. Spitler, A. F. Long, Chas. Morlan, Geo. W. Foulks, John Rush, Alva McCashen and Wash Cook. This convention will meet Friday, August 9, in Rensselaer. To the representative, which meets in Monticello on August 14,

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, 1912,

Jesse Nichols, Ray Wood, W. F. Smith, J. H. S. Ellis, G. L. Parks, Ed Grant, W. F. Michaels and John R. Phillips. To the judicial, which meets at Mt. Ayr on August 21, B. L. Sayler, J. A. Dunlap. R. D. Thompson, Frank Ham. W. P. Gaffield, Erhardt Wuerthner. Lyman Raymond and George Parker.

Hon. John B, Peterson of Crown Point has written friends w*ho have urged him to become a candidate again for the nomination for congress, that if the democrats of this district consider him the most available man for the place he will accept* the nomination.

The Big Bull Moose Coming to Hazelden.

According to the Brook Reporter, George Ade is to have Roosevelt at Hazel den Farm some time in September and the occasion will be celebrated by a big meeting of the Bull Moosers. Both George Ade and his brother Will are ardent Roosevelt admirers, while their aged father, John Ade of Kentland, is a rampant standpatter of the Taft per- 1 suasion. During the campaign four years ago George had a big Taft meeting' at Hazelden at which the heavy-' girted possum eater of Ohio was the' attraction, and it is now expected to aut-do the Taft meeting with Roose- 1 velt, the fire-eater, as an attraction.

Taking No Chances Now.

Evidently Rensselaer contractors don't care to take any more chances on the “IT. S. Match C 0.,” and in the asking for bids for putting in the cement floors in the factory building they specify that the cash, good old coin of the realm, must be in bank to their order,j when job is completed, before the work begins. Candidly, The Democrat doesn’t expect, nor never has, that this “factory” will ever be operated to any extent, and in saying this do not think we are “knocking” the factory, but we must look at things as they are ragtoe r than as we would have them. If the factory ever operates someone else will get stung—perhaps those who are induced to put their hard money into stock in the concern.

Nathaniel Roland was born June 30, 1826, at Eugene, 1 Ind., and died Aug. 2, 1912, at the home of his step-daughters, Mrs. Charles Wells, in Barkley tp., at the ripe age of 86 years. 1 month and 3 days. He was twice married, both unions being dissolved by death. He was baptized into the fellowship of the Christian church in Rensselaer by J. L. Brady in 1895, and died in full faith of that church. His quiet and loving disposition made him generally loved by all who knew him. He will be missed in the community and especially in the immediate family where he has made his home. The funeral was held Sunday at 3 p. m., from the Barkley M. E. church, Rev. W. G. Winn of the Rensselaer Christian church conducting the esrvices, and interment made in the cemetery near the church.

A Near Auto Accident.

While driving along the south grovel road Saturday evening, J. L. Brady's auto took a sudden notion to run into the ditch, and leaving the road took to the right side, thus missing the steep embankment of the big dredge ditch along which he was driving at a moderate rate of speed. Mr. Brady had been tightening up the steering gear before he left home and had twisted off one of the bolts. He had neglected to get the bolt replaced, thinking it would not lose out, but it seems that as he approached the big ditch, a few miles north of Remington, the bolt dropped from the machine, thus rendering the car unmanageable, and its erratic course was suddenly stopped by the friendly intervention of a barbwire fence. Mr. Brady escaped without any scratches to show for the accident.

For strictly fresh, clean eggs, 18c. Hens . He Springs ......15c Fancy dressed veals.. 11c We pay the above prices to all parties who furnish the above qual-ity.-—FANCY PRODUCE MARKET, C. E. Prior. Phone 39.

Peterson" Will Accept.

Death of Aged Man.

Eggs Eighteen Cents.

HOTEL BURNS AT WHEATFIELD

Inmates Have Narrow Escape In Fire That Destroys Building Sunday Morning. The old McGlypn hotel building at Wheatfield, occupied by Ed Hight, was destroyed by Are at about 2 o’clock Sunday morning. Practically all the contents were destroyed and the inmates barely escaped with their lives through the windows of the burning building. Mrs. Hight and a hired girl were down stairs and three men were in the upstairs rooms when the fife started. The former were awakened by the fire and found the flames under great headway on the stairs leading to the rooms above. They aroused the meh overhead by their shouts and the latter hurriedly made their escape through the windows and thence to the ground below. *

By hard work on the part of citizens of the town who were attracted tp the scene the fire w r as confined to the hotel proper, and adjacent buildings were saved. Mrs. Lorinda McGlynn of Rensselaer owned the building and we understand it was insured for sl,200, which nearly covers her loss. Mr. Hight, who conducted the hotel, also carri&d insurance on the contents, but we are unable to learn the amount. It is not known how the fire started, but it is reported that a stove in the hallway at the foot of the stairs and filled with waste paper, had been set afire and it is thought the fire started from this, as it was first discovered in the stairway.

A. J. Law a Candidate for State Senator.

The Democrat is in receipt of a letter frbrn A. J. Law of Morocco, in ■which he instructs us to announce his name as a candidate for the democratic nomination for State Senator front this dtsirtct before the convention to be held in Monon on Thursday, August 15. Mr. Law was elected to this office over Abe Halleck at the special election four years ago and served at the special session of the legislature. At the regular election a short time thereafter he was defeated by Halleck by about one hundred votes in a district that is nominally 2,000 or more republi-

He is a good straight man and a hustler. He thinks conditions are much better for the election of a democrat in this district than they were in the presidential election four years ago. If nominated he will make a vigorous campaign. He is known all over the district by the campaign made four years ago, and stands highly not only in his own county but in Jasper, Starke and White as well. An able, honest and conscientious farmer and business man, the democrats can do no better than to nominate, and the people of the district to elect, Mr. Law for senator. S. M. Jacks of Lee was a business visitor in the city Monday.

A Pleasant Surprise.

Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Parks of near Surrey were pleasantly surprised Sunday evening when a number of friends and four of their children and families gathered at their home at six o’clock with well-filled baskets, to remind them of their 41st wedding anniversary and the 57th anniversary of Mrs. Parks and the 58th anniversary of Mr. Parks’ birth. The table was loaded with everything good to eat. All enjoyed the supper and spent a very pleasant evening. Those present from other places were: Mrs. M. T. Parks and two children of near Greencastle; Mrs. J. W. Noland of Fair Oaks, and Mrs. C. E. Sage and son of near Goodland. Mrs. M. T. Parks will remain for an extended visit with relatives near Surrey. xx

An Enjoyable Picnic.

A group of young people were royally entertained at a picnic by Mrs. Joe and Arnold Luers, five miles south of Rensselaer, Friday, August 2. The "eats” consisted of everything good. The guests from away were Miss Gertrude Thompson of Chicago; Miss Nell Pierson of Winona, and Mrs. Clara Jones of Connersville, Ind.— By One Present. Estrays Taken Up—2 pigs, 1 % miles north of Parr. Owner may have same by coming after and paying chargee.—DENNlS HEALEY

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—Matter* of Minor Mention from Many Places.

Newton County Sheriff Dead. Moses C. Sawyer, sheriff qf Newton county, died at his home in Kentland Thursday afternoon after three years suffering with consumption. Concerning his death Friday's Kentland Democrat said: "Since his return home several weeks ago from the southwest where he had been during the greater part of the last two years, Mr. Sawyer has been gradually but surely failing, and at no time since had, either he, his family, and many friends, any hope for his recovery, but, on the contrary, all realized that it was only a matter of a short time until the touch of death. ■

“His funeral services to be conducted by the pastor, Rev. F. L. Hovis, will be held In Trinity church at two o'clock Sunday afternoon, after which, in charge of the Knights of Pythias lodge, of which order deceased was a mpmber, the funeral cortege will convey his remains to the cemetery at Goodland for interment.”

Why Not a County Ticket?

In speaking of the question of putting out of a county ticket by the Progressive party In White county, the Democrat, of Monticello, makes a few remarks that are appllcabel to Jasper and all 1 other counties. It says: “The question that seems to have the most weight among some of the local politicians is that of a county ticket, and all the old line republican bosses are opposing the proposition with all the eloquence and persuasiveness at their command; but it now seems probable that a county ticket will be named. The Progressives assert, and with reason, that they cannot with good grace asks former democrats to join in with them in perpetuating the local republican machine by electing the republican county ticket; and if they did so and suceeded in electing it the local party bosses would continue in control, and in two years from now the work of dislodging them would have to be done all over again.”

Fowler Had a Carnival.

The carnival and all of its merry troup have gone. During the week there were six “boxing bouts” (which is the legal term for prize fights) within the county, three in Fowler at the opera house and a triplet in York township on the farm of Tom Fitzgerald. The Leader has nothing more to say concerning the quality of carnivals. It has said it. But concerning the commercial value, just a line. If any competitor in any line of business would start up next door, we are sure that the person at the old stand would understand that it would not be to his Interest. If a town like Fowler would spring up over night, the business men of Fowler would not be tickled to death over the thing. Doubtless some of the Fowler trade would go to the new place. Yet in spite of all this, country towns will contribute to carnival companies, which comes to town, competing with the local dealers, taking away the ready money in circulation and leave nothing permanent. For a dozen years Fowler has been entertaining street fairs. But there has not been any great advance in the real estate or any serious scarcity of houses.—-Fowler Leader.

Believe In Your Business

An exchange well says: If there were only one way on earth to a living, there might be some excusefor engaging in a business out thoroughly believing in it. But there are thousands of occu-' pations offering a variety suited to

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every person in the world, including Indians not taxed, as Bill Nye was fond of remarking. No man is so useless and incompetent as the grouch who doesn’t believe in> his work. Disloyalty, insubordination, grumbling, and unreliability are the earmarks of the job hater and the faithful performahce of his work is impossible. The word “duty”is despised by the growler and glorified by the man who loves what he does and believes in it. If you do not believe In your business, try first to see if you can. Don't make a change unless it is absolutely necessary, for three removes are as bad as a fire. But if you really and honestly can’t put your heart and soul into what you are doing, do something else. The world is full of opportunity, and no man is so usless who loves his work; for the man who loves his work will love his family,, his neighbors, his enemies, and his dog. Besides he will respect himself which is something that a man can never do who loathes his business, bates to see the sun rise and damns his employer.

Resigns Position to Wed.

Hankinson, N. D., July 29. Miss Virginia Holmes, daughter; of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Holmes of Jamestown, N. D., but formerly of Rensselaer, Ind., has resigned her position as chief operator of tho Northwestern telephone exchange at Hankinson, N D., where she has been employed the past 18 months. Her resignation takes place Aug. 15, when Miss Holmes will leave for a visit with her parents at Jamestown. •' - • Miss Holmes is considered the best operator of the N. W. Tel. Company's many exchanges. She has proven herself one of the most dutiful and always willing to help those in need. Her many Hankinson friends as well as the telephone company regret to lose one so faithful to her duty as Miss 'Holmes. It is understood that she is to be married the early part of September to Motorman Elmo F. Thomas of Minneapolis, Minn., where they will make their future home. We extend congratulations. xx

Down Where the "Niggers Do the Work.”

Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Galbraith returned last week from Arkansas, where Mr. Galbraith has been employed on a dredge boat near Elaine. It was pretty hot down there and the fear of malatla finally decided them to return* to God’s country. Where this dredge was working was for general drainage purposes near where the government levee broke last spring. A strip of level country about 60 miles wide and 80 miles long, between the Mississippi and Yellow rivers, protected from overflow by a dyke or levee on the Mississippi side, w’as where the dredge is working. The levee for about a half mile was washed out by the recent floods and this whole territory nearly was covered with water from 6 to 14 feet in depth.

It is quite a heavy timbered country, in part, and many trees from 4 to 6 feet In diameter were chopped down in front of the dredge, which was cutting a 50 foot channel. Fine timber, too—oak, cottonwood, elm, hickory, etc. The bottom lands comprising this territory, Mr. Galbraith says, is the finest soil one ever saw, and will grow anything. The population down in , that country is practically all negro, at least 90 per cent of it, and t*e few white men tliere do little or no manual labor.

At Private Sale. I Oak' Hall Tree, good as new. 8 Dining Chairs. 1 Extension Kitchen Table. 1 Morris Chair. 1 Refrigerator. 1 Lawn Mower. 1 Wheelbarrow. 1 8 ft. Ladder. 1 Carpet. 1 Oak Dresser. 1 Gasoline Stove. 2 Bed Springs. 3 Bedsteads. 1 Rug 10-6x13-6. Stove Wood and Kindling. / 3 Rockers . Linoleum about 10x12 ft. Favorite Base Burner, 16 inch pot. 1 OH Heater. 1 Oak Stand. 8 doxen qt. Fruit Jan. Call at house.—J. D. ALLMAN,