Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Page 3

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A» Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

MILROY.

Mr. Wall was in Monon Tuesday. Glen McKinley was in Lee Tuesday. Mrs. W. I. Bivans called on Geo. Foulks Tuesday. John Brown of Monon was in this vicinity Tuesday. Miss Etta MeCashen went to Michigan City Wednesday. Mrs. Meyers spent Monday and Tuesday with Thomas Johnson’s. George Wood and Gottlieb Aschurman went to Monon Tuesday. W. I. Bivans and family spent Sunday with George Bullington’s. G. L. Parks was a business visitor in Monon and Rensselaer Tuesday. Mrss. Mary MeCashen spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. James Clark. David Waymire and daughter, Miss Opal attended Sunday school and church here Sunday. Miss Pearl Abersol and Charles Clark went to Michigan City Wednesday on the Sunday school excursion. - ■ Mrs. Nellie Williams and children of Rensselaer came for a visit this week with her sister, Mrs. Lon Wood, and family. Rev. and Mrs. Tetlow, John Southard and family and EatrT and George Foulks took dinner Sunday with Ed. McKinleys’. Mrs. Frank; May and children and Mrs. George Foulks returned Monday from a visit with J. A. Tune and family at Forest, 111. Wilbur Preston has been visiting here this week with his aunt, Mrs. Anna Chapman, and family, and with Elmer and Thomas Johnson. Mrs. E. Underwood and Mrs. R. Foulks Bnd grand daughter Iris Williams, of Monon ate dinner on Monday with Mrs. Thomas Johnson. Mrs. Anna Chapman and family, Elmer Johnson’s and Wilber Preston and family of Terre Haute took dinner with Thos. Johnson Wednesday. Miss Belle Southard accompanied Rev. and Mrs. Tetlow to the train at Wolcott Monday evening. They went to Remington for a visit with Mrs. Tetlow’s sister, Mrs. Walton, and family. Hay fever and asthma make August a month of intense suffering to many people. Foley’s Honey ana Tar Compound gives prompt ease and relief, and is soothing and healing to the inflamed membranes. Wm. M. Merethew, N. Searsport, Me., says: “A few doses of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound relieved me of a severe attack of asthma and less than a bottle caused a complete cure.” Refuse substitutes. —A. F. Long.

| BAUM’S BRIDGE. —i i Mrs. Walter Wiseman is on the sick list. George Beemer is assisting Walter Wiseman with his hay pressing. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blanchard of Hebron were in these parts Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs of Kersey passed through here last Saturday via auto. Mr. and Mrs. Press Sims spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wiseman. A. J. Bush and son Bill were over to Sandy Hook last Wednesday on a pig buying trip. ' Mr. Gilbreath gave us a short call Sunday morning. He says that his oats are the best ever. The river is still steadily receeding and now the fishermen are looking gloriously happy. Our baseball boys are waiting for some unscared nine to speak up. First come, first defeated. We were visited by a hail storm the other day which did considerable damage in some places to growing crops. Mesdames James Clark, George Beemer, C. E. Bush, and Bert Van‘*dercar called on Mrs. Walter Wiseman Sunday. x /Morehouse and Ctuftardl began their haying last Tuesday by putting 6 mowers in one field. To say that the hay fell some is not putting it quite strong enough to convey the idea. r Walter Wiseman, Jr., was in these parts last Sunday arranging for a couple of meetings to be held in the near future at the Morrison school house by a ndted lecturer on the BibleThreshing will begin this week if the weather does not Bull 1 Moose things. We will report the yield per acre and want to know the yield, and will consider it a favor if those who thresh would let us know their acreage and yield.

f We are paying for Butter fat this week 25c WILLIAM H. DEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana

Judging by the reports of the press the Bull Moosers are quite numerous. We have a few in these parts and more are in of developement. We will see presently if they have the fighting ability and the staying qualities of the Bull Moose. The Riverside Regulars defeated a combination nine composed of Hank’s Wonders and Wheatfield Regulars and Juniors to the tune of 8 to 5 in the presence of the hostile crowd of rooters. Our boys showed them on their own diamonds that they didn’t know the first principles of baseball. They showed to the crowd that they are the coming nine of the county; the only nine that doesn’t get the yellow streak and fill up their ranks with imported players. Let our boys have half the practice that some of the nines have had and they would sweep old Jasper with the broom of defeat. They would stand alone on the summit of baseballdom.

Almost Lost His life.

S. A. Stid of Mason, Mich., will never forget his terrible exposure to a merciless storm. “It gave me a dreadful cold,” he writes, “that caused severe pains in my chest, so it w r as hard for me to breathe. A neighbor gave me several doses of Dr. King’s New Discovery which brought great relief. The doctor said I was on the verge of pneumonia, hut to continue with the Discovery. I did so and two bottles completely cured me.” Use only this quick, safe, reliable medicine for eoughs, colds, or any throat or lung trouble. Price 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by A. F. Long.

TEFFT. -| j_ A large crowd attended the show here last week. Will Davis started threshing Monday afternoon. The lecture given at Tefft last Wednesday was quite well attended. Miss Maude Kidder of Pontiac, 111., is the guest of Margie aldMr. and Mrs. David Collins and son Clayton went to Knox last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lemar and children have returned to their home in Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Long and children spent Sunday with Henry Luken and family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall and her brother, Henry Gengrich, went huckleberry picking last Tuesday. Mrs. George Albin, daughter, and nephew visited friends and relatives in this neighborhood last week.

Shocking Sounds in the earth are sometimes heard before a terrible earthquake, that warn of the coming peril. Nature s warnings are kind. That dull pain or ache in the back warns you the Kidneys need attention if you would escape those dangerous maladies. Dropsy, Diabetes or Bright’s Disease. Take Electric Bitters at once and see backache fly and all your best feelings return. “My son received great benefit from their use for kidney and. bladder trouble,” writes Peter Bondy, South Rockwood, Mich. “It is certainly a great kidney medicine.” Try it. 50 cents at A. F. Long’s.

-I | FAIR OAKS. C. B. Stewart of Rensselaer was in our town Wednesday. Chas. Gundy was at home from Indiana Harbor over Sunday with his family. Mr. Allen, after several days illness from biliousness, is up and about again. Miss Eleanor Williams, who is employed in Chicago, visited home folks Sunday. There was quite a number from "here attended the dance at Roselawn Saturday night. The remains of Mrs. Joe Fross were, taken to Lowell Wednesday for burial by her daughter. The weather has changed since our last report in that it is considerably iwarmer. Sultry and rainy this (Wednesday) mornihg. Mrs. Jcfhn Kight, who has been staying here the past three or four months with relatives, left for her home in Indianapolis Sunday.

Mrs. Shehan and son Robert came up from Lafayette Tuesday. She will probably keep house for her father while her mother is away. Mr?. Ben Zellers stepped on a piece of glass a few days ago and lacerated her' heel very severely, from which she , has been suffering a great deal. Emmet Dunn, who has been working on the section here, got a telegram Saturday morning to come to Roselawn at once and take charge of his father’s soft drink shop, as the latter was down sick. Miss Jennie Kimble, who has been visiting at A. M. Bringle’s the past tw r o weeks, wqnt down to Rosebud Monday eve to visit at Sol Norman’s a few days, and then on down to Surrey to visit the Thornton’s. Mts. James Clifton, after several days visit with her mother, Mrs. Powell, in Rensselaer, returned home Tuesday. Jim has been bothered for several days with sore eyes, but is some better at this writing.

#JT Iteu« of Interes Jj fre m Surrounding Town* Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

Mrs. Joe Fross, whose illness we have mentioned from time to time, passed to her reward Tuesday at about 10:30 a. m. This was a very sad affair. She leaves four small children, besides a grown daughter, who Uved with them, and her husband, who is at Longcliff. The family surely has the heartfelt sympathy of the people in this community.

Mr. Tolen got through Saturday making cement blocks for his new house, to be built on the southeast corner of his ranch. Chas. Platt and gang of men from Rensselaer ma.de he greater number ofc the blocks. The house will be 30x40 with a basement under the entire house which will be two stories. They will begin the w T ork of laying the. blocks about Sept. 1. It will have all the modern improvements and will be the finest and most expensive farmhouse in this section of the counry. Last week, while Walter McConnell’s men w T ere caring hay, a boy by the name of Jones came lounging around in the car and in their absence crawled up in the car and w'ent to sleep. They finished loading the car and billed it out and the agent sealed it, not knowing the boy was in the car. When he awoke he found himself fastened in, so he proceeded to set up a how’l and pounded on the door, and finally succeeded in making the agent hear him as he was passing by, just before the train came which was to take the car out.

Dr. C. H. Ellsworth, Dentist, 16 Baldwin St., Rochester, N. Y., says Foley Kidney Pills gave him immediate relief and strengthened him wonderfully. “I have been bothered with weak kidneys and bladder trouble and suffered much pain. Foley Kidney Pills gave me immediate relief and strengthened me wonderfully. I am pleased to recommend their use.”—A. F. Long.

1 UNION. iDuke Miller is helping Jack Reeder put up hay. Josie Dexter spent Sunday night with the Waymire gSrls. A. R. Schultz and family called on Daniel Wolfe’s Sunday* Julius Schultz and family called on Michael Schultz Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. jßudd were in Rensselaer on business Friday. Wallace Miller came home Sunday to visit the folks a few days. Misses Lorene and Olga Schultz and Florence Rosenbaum called on the Faylor girls Sunday. Miss Mary Reeder and Lewis Miller of Virgie took in the excursion to Chicago Sunday. Rumor has it that another one of those gasoline “critters” will soon abide in our neighborhood.At their last dance, the people of Virgie were treated to some rare music, Otto Schreeg of Parr being the star player. Mrs. Wolf and granddaughter of Chicago are visiting the former’s neice, Mrs. A. R. Schultz, and family a few days. / Mr. and Mrs. Meader and daughters, Helen and Marion motored to Oxford Sunday afternoon, a distance of 45 miles, and back. The Jungles young people and many others near Kniman attended the show given at that place and enjoyed the performance of the jumping banjo player. How about it, Irene?

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HER PRESENCE OF MIND

By ESTELLA BENSON

(Oopriight, lflu, by Associated Literary Press.)

“Grand Central station!*’ shouted the brakeman. “All out.” Miss Bartlett gripped her handbag witk sudden thought of the lightfingered gentry of New York. “Aunt Lucy! Aunt Lucy! v»You darling Aunt Lucy!” Warm, soft young arms drew her out of the stream of men and women laden with impedimenta of travel. “I knew you’d come when I wrote how much I wanted you to see my picture while It’s on exhibition. There’s always some one standing around It. I’m so silly over It I must have the dearest aunt In the world see Just how It looks In such grand company.” For a hurried Instant the bewildered little lady felt the pulsebeat of the mighty city. There was a scramble In and out between street cars, hairbreadth escapes from gigantic horses in front of towering loads, dashes from beneath hissing, darting automobiles, and, presto, the swarming multitude dropped away and the deafening clamor was hushed. She was In a sleepy street on Brooklyn Heights, where the old-time houses stood In quiet, self-contained dignity. It was the first uninterrupted confidential moment after lunch. “How is Ben, Lucile?” Miss Bartlett bent over her suitcase. The status of declared lovers was a

She Leaned Breathlessly Against the Door.

beatific mystery to be approached only by half-averted face or lowered lids. No reply coming, she timidly glanced over her shoulder. "You haven’t told me anything about Ben.” * “I have nothing to tell,” she replied, indifferently. Miss face came back to her from the mirror. "Don’t look like that, Aunt Lucy. Don’t, don’t! He’s all right, I fancy, only I don’t see him any more.” “Don’t see Ben any more.” “No; we have learned how utterly unlike we are. All he cares for is a law book, and I must have my art. It’s my life, Aunt Lucy, my very life. I must have liberty."

“Llberty?” “Yes, liberty to live my own life." She bent and kissed the quivering lips. “You’ll make me cry if you look like that. It wasn’t Just the picture, Aunt Lucy. I wanted you; I wanted you as I did when I was little and things went wrong. It’s time I was off to my classes. Here, let me tuck you up on this couch. I’ve tired you all out. Don’t stir, darling, till I get back.” The door closed on her niece and •he was gone. Trivialities occupied her at first; that money she brought for the trousseau. There was the danger of burglars—and the old home. She meant Luclle and Ben to have it when she had used it her allotted time. Where were the babies she was to tend, the boys and girls that were to romp under the big elms? Were they always to be dream children? Dully her eyes followed the wall paper up and down. Its monotonous repetition was intolerable. She sprang to her feet and fastened on her wraps with nervous fingers.

A damp, chill air met her at the outer door. The unaccustomed streets oppressed her with their narrowness. She hurried so escape the persistent nearness of the crowding houses. From the gray gloom of the sky a loitering snowflake floated down. Thicker and faster, borne by a rising wind, came a blinding flurry. A sudden gust nearly—took her from her feet. She staggered and caught at an iron railing. A passerby heard a groan, hesitated, but after a glance at the high-bred face of the well-dresßed little lady, went on. A puzzling similarity of the corners confronted her; rows on rows of houses presented an unbroken front. Distracted, she crossed and recrossed streets till lights began to prick out through the whirl of flakes. Weary ud faint almost to the point of drop-

Ping, she peered helplessly from door to door. Suddenly she stopped, then followed a man up the steps of a brown stone building. His latchkey admitted him and she slipped in directly Yes, there was the warm red carpet in the hall and the serpentine stairs winding up around the wall. Her room was dark and Lucile had mot returned. The bed invited her, and she groped across to it. It was a grief-stricken face that rested against the pillow, aged by many years since its round benefieence of the morning. The physical comfort Boothed her as a mother’s arms a tired child, and the shadbwy room filled with vague, indistinct forms that came and went and floated off into the darkness. Suddenly she was awake, wideeyed, conscious that she was no longer alone. Eagerly she raised herself on her elbow. The light from the street sent a long, bright ray across the room and her near-sighted eyes made out a form In front of the dressing table. *‘Lu ” the word was checked., The form had moved. It was a man! Limp, nerveless, she dropped back on her pillow. The fear that haunted her by day, the trembling terror of her waking hours at night, had taken shape. ■

She was alone In the presence of a burglar. In her fright and horror she lay, following in a maze the man’s smooth dexterity as he handled the objects on the dresing table.. The man moved from the dressing table; a door creaked. She looked up to see his square shoulders disappearing into the closet. Her blood leaped and coursed through her veins. Her fears dropped from her. She was no longer a frightened, helpless little woman. She slipped from the bed; her noiseless feet skimmed the floor. Just before she reached the closet they Caught in a rug. She stumbled; her outstretched hand hit the door. It swung to with a bang. Instantly she was up, her fingers grasping the key. She turned it and leaned breathless but triumphant against the panel. There was a moment of quiet. Neither she nor the burglar moved. Then the knob of the door was turned gently. The man breathed heavily as he braced himself to break the lock. Again her fears were upon her. Her shaking knees failed her; she was sinking to the carpet when a louder rattle of the knob behind stiffened her to life.

She started to run. The floor rose to meet her, but she kept on till she reached the hall. “Murder! Murder!” Only a whisper came to her lips. "Murder! Murder!" A thin, quavering falsetto. “What is It, madam? What is it?” exclaimed a big man, struggling with a collar button at the back of his neck. “A man,” gasped Miss Bartlett, “a man—” “A man, madam, a man?" “Yes, yes; a burglar. He went into the closet. I locked him in." "Why? 1 What the devil?” exclaimed the big man, when he opened the closet. “No, Johnson, I deny the tender appellation. “What In thunder, Atterbury, are you doing locked up in your own closet?” “Well, Sammy, that’s something I wish you would explain.” "Ben! O Ben!” Miss Bartlett pushed to the center of the group and seized Mr. Atterbury by the arm. “Why, Aunt Lucy, Aunt Lucy, what are jjpu doing here?” “Where’s the burglar?” “But Aunt Lucy, how did you como here?” “I came to see Lucile. Where’s the burglar?” she demanded peering around into the closet. “There isn’t any burglar that I know of. Who locked me in there?” “Why, I did. I thought—l thought you were a burglar.” "But I don’t understand. How did you come here Ip my room?” "Your room? Lucile said it was my room.” “Seems to me things are a little mixed. Lucile lives two blocks from here.” Miss Bartlett’s bewildered eyes wandered from one to the other of the three gentlemen. “I see how it Is.’ she said at last. “I’ve got into the wrong house. I’m Just a stupid old woman.” Supported on Ben’s strong arm, the street lamps blinked merrily at her through the whirling flakes, and the wind that caught her skirts and whipped in her face, was but a gleeful winter gale. “Do come Jn. IJga.; do come in," she urged at tn© door. "Don’t leave me till I find out whether Lucile is hunting for me among the lost articles at the police station or is dragging the river.” “Aunt Lucy!” a voice cried from the hall above. Flying feet, floating draperies, a vision of disheveled golden hair, and she was seized in a warm embrace. "I have hunted— Good evening, Mr. Atterbury,” from a remote distance. "Lucile,” said Miss Bartlett, solemnly, "I came near getting Ben murdered. Yes, murdered,” she repeated in response to Lucile’s incredulous expression. “He’ll tell you all about it. I want to get off these things. They are inch-deep in snow. Take him into the parlor. 'l’ll be back in a minute. I have some business I want to consult him about," she called back half way up the stairs.

HONEST HORSE RACES

INDIANA STATE FAIR PURSES REACH NEARLY $20,000. Band Concert, a Chicago Soprano Singer, Outdoor Vaudeville Additional Features at Grandstand.

The Indiana State Fair races, the' greatest harness race meeting of the year in Indiana, will during the week of Sept. 2, when the fair is held at Indianapolis, bring out a better class of horses and closer contests than ever, owing to some new rules adopted by the exposition management. Under the rules it will not be possible for one stable of horses to monopolize the races, there will be a larger number of entries in each class, and the fair management will know well in advance the number of startlers in each raoe. » It has from its beginning been the boast of the State Board of Agriculture that the fair races were without superior in quality and honesty. The fair board has never countenanced pool selling, and this has meant that the public has seen the races on the merits of the* horses. The purses for the September meeting amount to nearly $20,000. Four races will be given each afternoon, and the purse in each contest, with the exception of two, will amount te SI,OOO. The racing program for the week follows; Monday, Sept. 2. 2:24 Glass Trotting.... ..SI,OOO 2:06 Class Pacing......... 1,000 2:12 Class Trotting, 1,000 Three-year-old and under Pacing, to 2:25 Class 600 Tuesday, Sept. 3. 2:19 Class Trotting 1 SI,OOO 2:23 Class Pacing. 1,000 2:08 Class Trotting 1,000 2:10 Class Pacing. 1,000 Wednesday, Sept. 4. 2:14 Class Trotting,;..;. SI,OOO 2:17 Class Pacing 1,000 Three-year-old and under Trotting eligible to 2:25 Class... 600 2:12 Class Pacing 1,000 Thursday, Sept. 5. 2:21 Class Trotting SI,OOO 2:15 Class Pacing... 1,000 2:05 Class Tro’tting... 1,000 2:08 Class Pacing....... 1,000 Friday, Sept 6 2:16 Class Trotting SI,OOO 2:20 Class Pacing 1,000 2:10 Class Trotting 1,000 Free-for-all Pacfng 1,000

PURDUE AT STATE FAIR.

Twenty Experts Will Lecture to lndl« ana Farmers. A corps of twenty experts from Purdue University will spend the week at the Indiana State Fair, opening on Sept. 2, and will attempt to make the fair of greatest possible educational value. The Instruction will he chiefly along agricultural and household economic lines. The Purdue building, not far from the Coliseum, will be utilized by the instructors from the university, as well as for the fair’s general show of dairy products, and the instruction will be divided into the following departments: Animal husbandry, poultry, soils and crops, dairy, botany, chemistry, veterinary, agricultural extension, household economics. The prime purpose of sending such a fore® of instructors to the fair is to give farmers who cannot attend the university at Lafayette the practical Information that is available to the students. The farmers will have opportunity to talk with the instructors, see the Purdue displays, witness the demonstrations —all to the end of making the farms of the state more productive. The Purdue men will each day give lectures and demonstrations, and will condiict live stock and corn judging contests for Indiana boys between sixteen and twenty years, who have not taken the eight weeks’ course or any of the longer courses at Purdue. Boys who enter the judging contest must send their names to Charles Downing, secretary of the fair, before Sept. 3. The prizes will be free scholarships at Purdue.

State Fair Outdoor Attraction*. The committee - of amusements of the Indiana state fair, which will ba held at Indianapolis, Ind. September 2nd to 6th inclusive, 1912, have arranged for one of the best programs of free outdoor attractions ever seen at any state fair in America. Among the many features booked are Provost & Brown, the comedy novelty entertainers, featuring, the only cork screw kid in the world. Bartelli & Murphy, premier comedy acrobats in their side-splitting specialty, entitled “Bumps & Falls.” The Kroneman Bros. An attraction without a parallel. America’s foremost head balancers and oomedy acrobats, performing hazardous and amusing tricks never seen before, and introducing their world famed novelty acrobatic dance, entitled “That Tall Dancing Lady.” Casey & Milligan in their own pantomimic creation entitled, “Play Ball.” The Famous Abdallah Troupe, Whirlwind Acrobats. A pulse quickening performance in which sensational feats of lofty ground tumbling and pyramiding are executed The Five Merkel Sisters. Tha most marvelous woman act ever brought to America. They perform lightning acrobatic feat®, hand stand balancing and wonderful oontortiCK evolution*. _ ,