Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Prank Brusnahan Dead in New Mex ico.

S. A. Brusnahan of Parr received a telegram Monday from Tom Brusnahan at Hamilton, No. Dak., stating that his oldest son, Frank Brusnahan, had died Wednesday at Licardo, New Mexico. Frank taught school in this county for some time and then studied law at Valparaiso, from which place he graduated in same. He had many friends here who will be pained to learn of his death. The cause of death is not known at this wriing. His age was 28 years.

Announcement By The Democrat.

The Progressive Party of Jasper County has purchased two colums of advertising space in The Democrat for each issue beginning with today’s paper, and continuing up to the election, and all matter appearing under the head of “Progressive Party News” is paid for at regular advertising rates, and the editor of The Democrat disclaims all responsibility for any of the views that may be expressed therein. Like space has also been contracted in the Rensselaer Republican on the same terms, the Progressives having no organ of their own to get their views before the public.—Editor of The Democrat.

Republican Speaking Slimly Attended.

There was not much of a crowd out Friday night to the republican speaking by Dr. Dent Atkinson of Oberlin, 0., who spoke at the Princess airdome. Those whom we have heard express themselves on the speech, said it was very thin. One Bull Mooser said the speaker stated that he had worked as a section hand on the railroad for sl.lO per day, and that he (the B. M’r.) thought that perhaps a good section ban a had been spoiled to make a mighty poor politician. He said little or nothing about the issues, but most of his time was spent in abusing Roosevelt and Wilson and lauding Taft.

B. M's. Will Nominate County Tick et Tomorrow.

The Progressive Party of Jasper county, who have had under consideration for some time the matter of putting a county ticket into the field, reached a decision a few days ago and will hold a convention here tomorrow for that purpose. Lead-’ ers of the party have urged that a county ticket be put out all over the state, arguing that only by so doing could the party preserve its organization and prestige. It was also rightly urged that they could not consistently ask the democrats to vote with them the district, state, and national tickets and leave the old reactionaries of the republican party to run local political affairs to suit themselves.

In deciding to put out a ticket in Jasper county the Progressives are but following the example of their party in neighboring counties and they will greatly strengthen their district and state and national tickets.

Mrs. Walter Lee Dead.

Mrs. W, R. Lee, who has been a great sufferer from rheumatism for the past few years and which finally brought on Bright’s disease, died at 1:30 a. m., Monday at her home in Rensselaer. She had failed grad- * ualliy from the evening before, and her friends realized that the end was near. She was conscious to the last and bore her long and painful illness with great patience and fortitude. All that could be done to relieve her was done during the four years of sickness, but without avail. In her death the community loses) a good woman, and her many friends join with the bereaved relatives in mourning her death. She leaves a husband, three sons, aged 16, 14, and 3 years, respectively; a mother, Mrs. Laura Lutz, three sisters, Mrs. John Maxwell and ■Mrs. Irene Arnott of Rensselaer, and Mrs, Clara Bickford of Colorado; and two brothers, Willis Lntz and Walter Lutz of Rensselaer. She was married to Mr. Lee 17 years ago. Her age was 37 years, 7 months and 8 days. She was a member of the D. of R. order, and highly esteemed by the members thereof. The funeral will be held at 2:30 p, m., today from the Presbyterian church, and burial made in Weston cemetery. „ ’Phone 315 if In need of anything in the job printing line and a repcall upon you promptly.

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 meets Monday. The county teachers institute will be held here next week. Professor Christie of Purdue will be the instructor. Governor Marshall has appointed H. L. Sammons of Kentland as marshal to collect the votes of the Tenth district. New suits filed: No. 7925. Erma Parker and Juno Eger vs. George K. Hollingsworth, Louis Hopkins, et al; suit on notes. Demand $3,500. There were nine marriage licenses issued last month against seven for the month previous and ten for the corresponding month of last year. Randolph Wright has sold his 120 acre farm in' Newton tp , to Charles Battleday of Newton county. Te consideration stated in the deed being SIO,BOO. Posession is given the first of March. Mr. Wright will buy again, we understand. Martin Kennedy, the Templeton, Ind., lad arrested last week for fast driving on the streets of Rensselaer the Sunday previous in his automobile, came over Monday forenoon with his father, Patrick Kennedy, and attorney Dan Frazier, and entered a plea t>f guilty before Judge Hanley, who fined him $1 and costs, amounting to about $25 besides the costs of his attorney. It is likely this will be a lesson to the young man that he will not soon forget. Remember that the next and LAST DAY for the registration of voters is MONDAY, OCTOBER 7. Unless you have registered at either the May, September or October sessions you cannot vote at the regular election in November. If you registered at either of the previous sessions and have not since changed your residence, you do not have to register again. To be a legal voter you must be a resident of the state six months, the township sixty days and o-f the precinct thirty days, and must hare registered. This is the last week of Septemberterm of the Jasper circuit court. Following are the proceedings since our last issue, as taken from the Judge’s docket: No. 7890. Harry R. Kurrie vs. Frank Foltz and Delos Thompson; appraisment filed, value $25,000. This is the State Bank corner property, where Mr, Kurrie is asking for a sale and division of the property, or proceeds, rather. No. 7900. Emma Herr vs. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Ry., Co ; dismissed by agreement at costs of defendant. No. 7918. Rubber Mfg., and Distributing Co. vs. John Vanßeek; judgment on default for $l3O. No. 7925. Erma Parker and Juno Eger vs. Geo. K. Hollingsworth, Louis F. Hopkinfct, et al.; judgment vs. HoUingsworth for $2,207.28 and against Hopkins for $1,165.71; total judgment $3,372.99. The case of Dr. Moore vs. the Overland Automobile Co., was taken up Monday and wasstill on yesterday.

Young Wiseman Found Guilty and Must Pay $SOO to Peek Girl.

The paternity case of the -State, ex rel, Lida, Mildred Peek, which was on trial as The Democrat went to press Friday afternoon, went to the jury at 2:30 p. m., Friday and after about two hours deliberation and taking six ballots, found the defendant to be guilty. Three of the jurors are understood to have 'favored acquittal, but finally came over to the other nine. Judge Hanley fixed the amount at SSOO that the young man should pay for the support of the child, fifty dollars every three months until paid. The case was stubbornly fought

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 1912

Frank Davis, J. A. Dunlap conducting the prosecution and W. H. Parkison the defense. The young man is 24 years of age and the girl hut 16. The Peek family formerly resided near Virgie, where th 3 Wiseman’s also reside. The accident is said to have occurred last October when young Wiseman accompanied the girl home from a pie social given at the school house there. The girl was then but 15 years old. The defense was a complete denial of the entire charges, but whether innocent or guilty it is a pretty bad proposition to get clear of. and though claiming that some one else must have been responsible for the girl’s predicament, the jury thought otherwise and he must make financial amends for her wrongs.

Goveronr Woodrow Wilson to Speak At Gary.

Governor Woodrow Wjilson, of New Jersey, democratic nominee for president, will speak in Gary Friday evening. This will probably be Governor Wilson’s, only speech in northwestern Indiana, and the Lake county democrats are preparing to make it a notable event of the campaign. County Chairman Gavit of Lake county has named the editor of The Jasper County Democrat os a member of the reception committee which is to meet Governor Wilson at Plymouth Friday afternoon and, escort him to Gary.

Fights Enliven Remington Street Carnival.

The Rensselaer band played at the Remington horse show and carnival Friday and Saturday. Friday night a young man by the name of Joe Alexander of Goodland and Ed Kanne of Rensselaer became involved in a fight in which the former is said to have gotten much th-j worst of it. That night when Stewart Moore, who was driving the Kanne bus with a load of band boys, started to come home, someone threw a brick at the bus and Don Wright caught it on one of his arms. Saturday night there is said to have been three fights there, in one of which Ves Criswell of southeast of Rensselaer, was involved. a,nd he was arrested and fined. He is said no have been drunk, although Remington is presumably -a dry town.

Smoke and Fire Damage G. E. Murray’s New Residence.

The fine newly remodeled residence of G. E. Murray on River street was considerably damaged by fire and smoke, mostly by the smoke, 1 Friday night. The painters and dec-! orators had been working at the house and it is supposed that on leaving they did not leave the fire that they had in the grate in as safe a condition as they should, and that the floor in front of the grate caught fire therefrom. The house was tightly closed and the fire smouldered, making a great deal of smoke, which damaged the upstairs and a part of the lower floor where the painters had gotten the wood work ready for the enamling, making it as black as smoke could make it. The fact that no draft could get to the fire probably saved the house from being much wdrse damaged. As it was the hardwood floor in the dining room, where the fire started, was burned through and the joists underneath burned. A young man braving the cool autumn air in sparking a girl om the front porch of a nearby house smelled the smoke and the alarm sent in about 11 o’clock. Th. fire company found considerable difficulty in gaining an entrance to the house and putting out the fire, a screen from an upper rear door being finally torn off to gain access. Mr. Murray and family have been living in the Dr. Brown property immediately across the street while their own home was being remodeled, and they had hoped to get into their new home early this month, but the fire will delay them about a month in getting moved back. The damage is several hundred dollars, but is covered by insurance. The insurance has not been adjusted at this writing.

We want to sell you that bill of lumber you are figuring on getting. No matter hbw much or how little it may be that you want;- of course you want the best and most that your money can buy. Our stock Is complete and our prices as low as you can get. Estimates cheerfully figured.—Rensselaer Lumber Co.

Lumber.

Sand Knobs Yielding $8O Per Acre Crop About Fair Oaks.

Claude Keller of Fair Oaks and Mliss Fay MichaeUs of Kankakee, 111., were married at St. Joe, Mich., on Monday of last week. The groom is an employe of the Michigan Central road, and the bride is the laughter of a restaurant keeper ini Kankakee. On account of the youth’fulnese of the bride they were refused a license in Hammond, so they went on to St. Joe. F. E. Husted and Daniel Wood of Fair Oaks were in the city Saturday. Mr. Mood used to be quite a melon grower, but did not market any this year, although he raised several wagon loads. Mr. Bozell, who had out fifteen acres on some land of A. D. Washburn’s near Fair Oaks, has sold about $1,200 worth of melons this year. As Mr. Washburn gave him the use of the land free if he would clear the brush off it, he was at very little expense and the SBO per acre, which this crop brought him, was practically all net. He has shipped twelve carloads, eight of which he sold to Indianapolis buyers on track at Fair Oaks at SIOO per car. One car load was also sold at Goodland which netted him S9O. The size and quality of the melons grown by Mr. Bozell were extra good, and the Indianapolis parties who bought eight carloads of them, it is said, have offered him special inducements to put out forty acres next year. Mr. Bozell is and old melon grower and thoroughly understands the business. The land on . which these melons were grown is sand knobs and is good for nothing else. It would not sell for $5 per acre.

Mrs. Duvall's Sister Died Soon After Her Arrival in Kansas City.

Mrs. C. W. Duvall who went to Kansas City last week to visit her brothers and sisters, writes home that (her sister, Mrs. Belle Thomp-son-Tyler, who had been sick for several months, died soon after her arrival. 1 Mrs. Duvall was taken to the hospital direct from the train, but Mrs. Tyler was then unconsci jus, and died at 6:30 Thursday evening. The funeral was held Sunday and burial made in Mt. Washington cemetery, Mrs. Tyler took sick la»t December, with pneumonia, and had been in the hospital practictally all the time since then. _ She leaves one daughter eighteen years of age. Her •busbalnd died several years ago. Besides Mrs. Duvall she leaves two sisters Mrs. Ella Torrence and Mrs. Ella Carson, of Kansas City, and three brothers, Dr. George Thompson of Kansas City, W. H. Thompson, of Denver, Colo., and Hiram Thompson, of Tulsa, Okla.

Even “Dad” Robertson is Skeptical

Speaking of the present "activity” of Eugene Purtelle and his electric railroad project, Bro. Robertson of the Morocco Booster, whose faith in Purtelle for the past two yeans has been almost pathetic, says: “Drowning men grasp at a straw, yet we hope the last move will not be a bluff, as the preceeding movements of Messrs. Purtelle and Wilson. The latter has been allied with the former, from the incipiency of the road, and believe he is as deep in the mire, as Purtelle in the mud, yet, be this as it may, the construction of the road on the former route would be a gTeat benefit to the oountry and towns. Our advice to the populace, keep your hands on your pocketbooks. The new life given the improvement may yet be a play for money, also extension of time to draw the subsidy.”

City School Report for September.

§p. T U' ' Boons Girls T’ls. Total Enrollment 250 277 527 Av. daily enrTmt 244 266 510 Av. daily attd’ce 235 260 495 Per cent, of Att. 96 98 97 Gases tardiness 45 22 6<7 Dropped from roll 5 12 17 The, attention qf patrons is called to the above report. The per cent of attendance is based on the average daily enrollment. It will be noted that the attendance is good. It is hoped that it will be better next month. There have been too many cases of tardiness. Parents are often responsible for the tardiness. Pupils are marked tardy i who reach school after 8:40 a. m., or 1:15 p. m. THE SUPERINTENDENT Buy your box stationery and envelopes at The Democrat office.

Progressive Party News.

County Ticket. The precinct chairmen of the Progressive party are hereby notified to meet at the Princess theater. October 3, 1912, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of selecting candidates. to be petitioned for the following county office?, to-wit: Treasurer, Recprder, Sheriff, Surveyor, Coroner and Commissioners from the second and third districts. RIAL B. HARRIS. County Chairman.

To those who are familiar with conditions over the county, the progressive party will be one of the two dominant political parties as a result of the coming election, and there are strong indications of complete success.

The progressive party it must be understood is not a bolting faction of the republican party. The Progressive partly must fight its own battles and the best interests of the party can be conserved only, by placing a complete ticket in the field from tbe highest to the lowest office.

The . |>£ople of this nation are progressive, they always have been and always will be. It is parties, controlled by special interests, and dominated by political bosses, who are not progressive. Both old parties are controlled, and the people hre now attempting to get the government into their own hands. ' The direct primary for the nomination of officers, will have much to do in leaving the politician 'without a job. The politician can work through caucusses, where there are small numbers, but he will be completely at sea, when we nominate hy primary, safeguarded as are our elections. The Direct Primary is advocated in the Progressive plat,form. The Initiative, referendum and recall, simply means that when a legislature refuses to enact a law the people want, they may compel its enactment; when the legislature enacts a law the people do not want, the people may reject it; and when a public official does not perform hiß official duties faithfullky, he may be recalled, just as the farmer discharge? a worthless farm hand, who fails to do his duty. The initiative, referendum and recall, are advocated by the Progressive platform. These are the means by which we will get the government into our own hands and compel the enactment of beneficial legislation and the rejection of hurtful laws.

For years Theodore Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge and other pro-! greceives have advocated the control of “big business.” Bryan and the' Democratic party stand for the “busting of big business.” Taft and! the Republican party, says that the' Sherman law is adequate to deal with j “big business” and in pursuit with that policy Taft has dissolved the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts. What is the result? For answer ask the price of gasoline, the price of tobacco and you will at once determine that you have been injured, rather than benefltted. Standard Oil stock is higher today than ever in its 'history. That kind of control is “adequate” for the fcrutts, the people who buy the product, but inadequate for the people. That is what is called “Trust Busting,” but the trouble is that such “busting” works to the disadvantage of the pople who buy the product. Combinations of great wealth are world’s work. Without great comabsolutely necessary to carry on the binations of wealth, we would be living in the “dark ages.” Wjould we have railroads? Would we have the deserts turned into fertile fields? Individuals can not do these things single handed. Big business is not bad simply because it is big. It is bad because we have followed an unbusinesslike course in dealing with it. The Progressive party advocates a policy of “control” of big business, not the “busting” of it. We control the railroads, we control National banks, the State conU trols the State Banks, why can we not Control all “big business” rather than attempt to destroy it? You can’t destroy it. It might be crippled to the point of developing business uncertainly and probable panics. But to control it t& businesslike. At Whe&tfield a short time ago,

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PROGRESSIVE SPEAKING.

Parr. Wednesday evening, 7 o'clock p. m.JOet. 2. Demotte. Friday evening, 7 o'clock p. m„ Oct. 4. Wheatfteld, Saturday afternoon, 2 o’clock p. m,, Oct. 5. These meetings will be addressed by capable speakers. Mr. Martin, candidate for Representative and Mr. Brown, candidate for senator, will attend. some of these meetings. The Wheat field meeting will be addressed by Russel K. Bedgood of Lafayette, Ind. Mr. Bedgood is a splendid speaker. Let everybody hear this address. Women are especially invited.

the Indiana Railroad Commission, had a hearing, upon the petition of the people (initiative) and as a result the "Coal Road” has been ordered to establish suitable passenger service for the accomodation of the patrons of that road. In Rensselaer a few years ago, the Jasper County Telephone Company asked an advance in rates. The people objected. The Company contended that It was entitled to the advance. The city council said "show us your books" and if your business is in such condition as to justify it, we will grant a franchise, and the rates as you request. But the company refused to show its books and the rates have not been raised. A commission with full power over Corporations to inquire into their business, to know the amount of actual capital a » well as the “watered stock" can so regulate corporations as to be absolutely fair, both •to the corporations and the people who are dependent on-then, for we *re dependent, and hence the necessity of control. It is upon this principle that many stares are controlling the business of corporations. We have the twocent fare law In many states, due to legislation and upon the principle above stated. Why should the National Government not control “big business?” It would give the corporations doing interstate business what they are entitfled Jto, from the standpoint of the interest .°f the people who must deal with j flhem, and upon whom they in •turn must depend.

The Progressive policy is states-man-like. It seeks to build up, not to tear down. It seeks to build up. not in the interest of the corporation alone, or in the interests of the people alone, but for both the corjx>ration and the people, fairlv. INDIANA I’IUKiRKSSIVK PI,AT- | FORM. I The Progressive party of Indiana Relieves that the people should rule and that their demands should be respected and compiled with; that denial of just demands H a denial of tree government; that the Republican and Democratic party organizations have become fossilized into rigid machines controlled by the political adventurers acting tor spec-ia* interests and controling all of the machinery of government to the extent that the people no longer have any voice therein and their just demands are disregarded. To the end, therefore, that tne people may have freer and better government, that they may possess the power to . control party organization. that they may enforce their I will through their representatives, secure justice and the enjoyment of political and industrial equality, we ! present the following demands to the accomplishment of which we promise unflinching and tireless effort: 1 1. The initiative, whereby a certain reasonable percentage of the voters of the state may petitioif for the submission of a proposed law directly to the people for their approval or rejection. The same principle Should be made applicable to smaller districte. 2. The referendum, whereby a stated percentage of the voters may secure the submission of laws passed by the law-making bodies to the whole body of voters for acceptance or rejection. | 3. The recall, applied to all elective, executive, administrative, and legislative ofUcers. 4. Direct primaries for the nomination of all elective oflieers and ol all officials of party organization, be ibe held by all parties on the same day, which day shall be a registration day, these primaries to be governed by the corrupt practices act I ~ ; Continued on Fourth Page.

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