Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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HOOVER RE-ELECTED SHERIFF

By Large Plurality, And Yeoman Will Probably Go In, But indicatons are that Rest of Ticket Is Republcan, Although dose. As the Democrat goes to press the indications are that the sheriff and ' surveyor are all the democrats will get on the county ticket. All the precincts were not in, and official returns came in so slowly that it is difficult to state with any degree of certainty regarding the rest of the county ticket, some of which is very close. , , 1 Lane'is runing Fell a close race for treasurer and the official vote may yet let him in. The Democrats will likely carry the county on the state and national ticket by a small plurality. The democratic district ticket will probably be elected, except Tuteur for prosecutor, and even he is running Longwell a close race. Wlhile the weather bureau promised excellent w eather the, country over for election day, it rained here all afternoon, and was about as disagreeable an election day as was ever known. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather a large vote was cast all dver the county. The Purtelle railroad subsidy was defeated in Carpenter and Jordan townships. Carpenter South precinct voted 3 in favor; East, 1 ini favor, and West 60 against. Returns from Newton county give Wilson a plurality of 71, the vote being Wilson, 793; Taft, 722; Roosevelt, 547. Teuter for prosecutor loses Newton by about 100.

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New Trains Are Steam, Not Motor.

The new passenger trains on the LaCross division of the C. & E. 1., started Friday, but are not motor trains, as reported they would be. The Goodland Herald says that motor trains may be put on later. The south bound train leaves LaCross at 7 a. m., and arrives in Goodland about 10 a. m. Returning train leaves Goodland shortly after 2 p. m., and reaches Fair Oaks in time to make connections with the Monon’s afternoon train that passes Fair Oaks at 3:54 p. m. The trains will make it very convenient for Rensselaer people to vis'it Goodland and return home the same day, as they can go to Fair Oaks on the milk train at 7:35 a. m„ and there connect with the new train, have over four hours in Goodland and get home on the milk train again at 6:02 p. m. However, for convenience of the north-end people who want to come to Rensselaer, we fail to see how they are benefitted very much. Of course they can come down to Fair Oaks and there connect with the Monon train reaching here at 11:20 a. m., but they cannot make connections at Fair Oaks in the afternoon to get, back home. People along the Three-1 have tfhe same facilities for reaching the county seat and can also get home in the afternoon.

The east bound morning train on the Three-I does not carry mail, and therefore the new trains afford no bet ter mail facilities for Wheatfield or other towns along the LaCross line than they now enjoy. Mail for towns east on the Three-I sent out of Rensselaer in the morning does not reach its destination until evening. It seem s to us that an effort should be madq to have mail carried on the east bound morning train on the Three-I which would certainly be very much appreciated by Rensselaer people and the people along that line.

Sudden Death In Barkley Tp.

Mrs. Sarah Bridgeman, who lived 'with her daughter, Mrs. Alvin Dunn, on the W. R. Brown farm in Barklev tp., died at ten o’clock Saturday from the effects of a stroke of aploplexy suffered the evening before. The family had but recently moved to .Barkley tp., from Remington, where she has a daughter, Mrs. Cora Dunn, residing. Frank Bridgeman of Monon is a son. Her age was 58 years, 7 months and 7 days. Mrs. Bridgeman was about and in her usual health Saturday, and the came upon her suddenly. She was quite well known both here and 'at Remington. The daughter, Mrs. j Alvin Dunn will be remembered here as Miss Nora Bridgeman and was employed for a long time at the telephone office here. The funeral was held Monday at Remington and burial made there.

Today's markets: Corn, 38c; oats, 26c; Rye, 60c; Wheat, 75c. * Birth Announcements. Nov. 4, to Mr. and Mrs. David Yeoman of Union tp., a son.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 1912.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments BF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. The November term of the Jasper circuit court will convene next Monday. The county commissioners met in regular session Monday and passed on the claims filed, adjourning until today to complete the work of the term. Monday was pension day, and the clerk and his deputy were kept pretty busy filling out vouchers for pensioners. ♦The recorder also filled out several. Leo Colvert, who is now employed in a large department store in Chicago, and Miss Bernice Hammond, daughter of County Auditor Hammond, are to be married here next Sunday.

John Cochrane, Sr., and John W. Sage, who have been prominent in the liquor remonstrance movement at Goodland, filed a new remonstrance at Kentland last week which insures that town remaining dry until Oct. 29, 1914, at least. Goodland has been “dry” since last spring when the two saloons that had been running there for a year were knocked out by remonstrance.

J. H. Perkins has rented his property at the east side of town to Mark Schroer of Barkley tp., who saw Mr. Perkins’ ad in last Wednesday’s Democrat. Two others who saw the ad applied for the place, but Mark was ahead of them. Mr. Schroer recently purchased Dan Waymire’s interest in the Rensselaer Garage, and will move to town about the first of December.

New suits filed: No, 7939. Clara I Tolbert and Elmer Tolbert vs. Noah J. Yoder; transcript from Newton county. No. 7940. Frank Stevens vs. Continental Insurance Co.; .appeal from Squire Dickinson’s court, Carpenter tp. No. 7941. Samuel Schaska vs. John Van Beek; action on account. Demand $108.04. No. 7492. John C. Lowe vs. G. A. Williams; action to recover on check given plaintiff by "Williams on April 15, 1904, on the McCoy bank which failed before said check was

paid. The case was first brought' against Baughman & Williams, who were partners at the time, but plaintiff lost out in the supreme court.

JURORS FOR NOVEMBER TERM.

Grand Jury Not Called, But Petit Jury Is Called for Third Monday. The November term of the Jasper circuit court will convene next Monday. A grand jury was drawn as usual but has not been called and it is probable will not be. The petit jury is called for the third Monday. Following are the names and place of residence of the jurors drawn: GRAND JURORS. John R. Phillips. . . .Hanging Grove. John M. Mitche11......... .Gillam. Alf Peters. Marion. Frank Hill ' Jordan. John Frye Carpenter. O. P. Braddock Walker. PETIT JURORS. E. H. Grant.. Newton. Martin L. Ford ...... Hanging Grove. William Eldridge. . . Marion. Fred Waymire ...Barkley. M. A. Gray Carpenter. H. J. Dexter Union. Samuel Payne Wheatfield. John Rush. . Newton Garret Grevenstuck Keener. Charles Stalbaum. . Kankakee. G. L. Parks Milroy. C. A. Hensler. ........ .Carpenter. George Daniels .Barkley. Malacha Coppess. ......... .Gillam. A. J. Biggs .Marion. John Moritz . . Hanging Grove.

A Lucky Automobile Smash up.

Friday evening while returning from the box cocial southeast of town, Victor Hoover, driving his father’s Ford car, in which were Lawrence Halleck and Miss Winona McFarland of Fair Oakg, and Miss Grace Peyton and Leslie Pollard of Rensselaer, the failure of the lights to work and the decision of the driver to try to get to town without them, after several unsuccessful attempts were made to remedy the defects, resulted in a rear end collission near the ball park, when the machine, going at perhaps fifteen miles an hour struck a single buggy occupied by Leslie and Charlie Lowman and Misses Belle Phares and Grace Avis, who were also returning from the box social. The rig was almost a complete wreck, and the occupants were luckily thrown free from the buggy and landed in the ditch unhurt except for a bad shaking up and a few minor bruises. The horses took fright and, the buggy tongue having parted at the first onslaught, thus freeing the team, ran into town where they were caught and put *n the Kanne barn. The machine was damaged to the extent of a broken front axle, badly smashed lamps and a punctured raidator.

Considering the force of the impact it is indeed a miraculous escape on the. part of the occupants of the buggy from serious injury.

Auction Sale The undersigned will sell at public sale on Saturday, November 9th, at 2 p. m., in Parr, Ind., one ice house, 20x20x14 feet, shingle roof and about 30 tons of ice; one 20horse steam boiler; one creamery lot. Terms—Cash or bankable note payable six months from date with 6 per cent, interest.—PAßß CREAMERY CO.

DEMOCRATS SWEEP COUNTRY; WILSON AND MARSHALL WIN

Veritable Landslide for Both State and National Tickets in Nearly Every Commonwealth. TAFT IS POOR THIRD President Is Successful in But Three or Four States— Loses Ohio. ROOSEVELT CARRIES FIVE Electoral Votes of Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington Will Be Cast for Progressive Nominee—Result Is Known Early and Successful Candidate Soon Retires. The following table gives the electoral vote of the states from which sufficient returns have been received to make the result practically definite: State. Dem. Rep. Pro. Alabama 12 Arizona 5 Arkansas 9 ~ ~ California 13 Colorado 6 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida 6 Georgia 14 Idaho 4 Illinois .. 29 Indiana 15 lowa ........... .. 13 Kansas ... 10 Kentucky 15 Louisiana 10 Maine . 6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 18 Michigan .. 15 Minnesota 12 .. Mississippi 10 ftfissouri 18 Montana .. .« Nebraska 8 Nevada 3

New Hampshire .. 4 .. New Jersey ......... 14 .. New Mexico 3 New York ........... 45 .. .. North Carolina 12 .. North Dakota 5 Ohio 24 Oklahoma 10 Oregon 5 Pennsylvania .......... ». 38 Rhode Island 5 South Carolina 10 South Dakota .. > .. 5 Tennessee 12 Texas 20 Utah .. 4 Vermont ..

Virginia .. . t .. Washington .. 7 West Virginia 8 . - .« Wisconsin 13 .. . «■ Electoral votes necessary to a choice, 266. N. J., Nov. 6.—At 6:30 o’clock last evening Chairman WU< Ham F. McCombs of the Democratic national committee was so confident of Gov. Woodrow Wilson’s election that he wired the governor that he had not only been elected president of the United States but that the Democrats had a working majority in both the United States senate and the house of representatives. The message stated that the returns from the eastern states made it certain that the Democratic leader was victorious even should the western states that had not been heard from at that hour should give their electoral votes to the governor’s opponents. The governor retired shortly before midnight feeling assured that he would occupy the White House for the next four years. At 9:40 Governor Wilson received a message from New York announcing he had carried a sufficient number of states from which returns had. been received to assure his election beyond any possibility of guesswork, the states with their electoral votes being: Alabama 12, Arkansas 9, Connecticut 7, Florida 6, Georgia 14, Indiana 15, Kentucky 13, Louisiana 10, New York 45, North Carolina 12, South Carolina 9, Tennessee 12, Texas 20, Virginia 12, Missouri 18, New Jersey 14. A total of 270 electoral votes out of 531, or four more than a majority. Surprised* at Socialist's Vote. As the returns were received during the evening Governor Wilson evinced more Interest in the race between President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt than in the figures indicating his own election. He watched particularly the returns from the manufacturing state of Massachusetts and from New York. Several tlnfes during the evening he asked for returns on the Socialistic ticket, and expressed surprise at the showing made by Mr. Debs in Chicago and »ther large cities, and received the Igures Indicating Colonel Roosevelt’s plurality in Illinois with a smile, but without any particular commentShortly after ten o’clock, when both parties were claiming the state of Pennsylvania, the governor expressed; the wish that that state might be* tdded to the Democratic column, and. the belief that it would be. Receives Congratulations. Congratulatory telegrams began, arriving almost as soon as the polls closed. They came from Democratic leaders from all over the country,* and were still being received long after the successful candidate had retired. He has spent a considerable portion of today reading these and replying to a portion of them. Statement by Wilson.

New York, Nov. 6.—“ A great cause' has triumphed,” was President-elect Wilson’s message to Chairman McCombs, In reply to a telegram sent by the man who has so skillfully managed the campaign of the New Jersey gov-i ernor. Governor Wilson’s message . said: “A great cause has triumphed., Every Democrat and every true Progressive of whatever alliance must now lend his full force and enthusiasm to the fulfillment of the people’s hope—the establishment of the people’s rights." In his telearam to Governor Wilson,

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