Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1912 — Page 2

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.TIE JJSPF.R COUNTY DEMOGRII f.EBxSCa"KJDITORAHDP(IB!.IBHtR OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311. .1,- S<y-..nd-Class Mail .Matter Junfe ,S. at the postoffice at Rensseiaer. -Ir.dx.na; under the Act of March 3. 1879. I Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1912?

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FARMS FOR SA4LE. 12,500 livery stock for farm. 160 acres, finely improved, near' courthouse, at a bargain. Terms! 15,000 down. 225 acres, in Washington county,! Ind., n’ne miles north of Salem. This farm has 150 acres of bottom land, 1 has house, good barn, 4 acres of; peach orchard, is on R. F. D., and; township high school 80 rods from farm. Will trade for property or farm near here. Large brick mill and elevator in! Converse, Miami county, Ind., in first-class condition, doing a good' business. Will trade this plant clear for farm land or good property. 21 acres, five blocks frpm court house cement walk and all nice smooth black land. 35 acres on main road, all good soil, has good small house, new barn and in good neighborhood. Price SSQ; ■ ternls SSOO, down.

80 acres, good house and outbuildings. all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through the farm, I’es near station and school, gravel road, and in good neighborhood. •Price $65, terms SSOO down. 97 acres, near station, school, on main road and lies between two dredge ditches giving fine outlet for drainage. All black land in cultivation. Good six-room house, large barn. Price $55. Terms. 99 acres, all good corn land and all in cultivation. Has large (Iredg ditch along one end giving fine outlet for drainage. This farm has fiveroom bouse, barn, good well, and orchard. Price S6O. Sell on easy terms or take good property or live stock as first payment.

_BO acres at a bargain. This tract of land lies in good neighborhood near school and station and on main road. It is level, a good part prairie aad remainder timber, containing considerable saw timber. Wil sell, at the Low price of >27.50 per acre Tern* 1500 down. IM acres, all black land, tiled, on •rave! raod, telephone, al

as good as new, seven-room house, large barn, cribs and granery, wind mill and tanks, fine shade and lawn, woven wire fences and a model farm. Lies close in. Price only SIOO. A dredge boat for doing all kinds of dredge ditch work, in' as good condition as new, % size. Owner will trade for land or property and assume or pay difference. 160 acres—We have three 160-acre farms all well located on main roads near stations and school, nearly all black land and on dredge ditches giving good drainage. Each farm has good house, good barn and good well. , Can sei either farm for $47,50 and take SI,OOO as first payment. Might take some live stock. ' Onion land as fine as the best, on 'dredge diteh adjoining station and on main road. Wil sell in tracts of 20 acres or more at $45. GEORGE F. MEYERS, Rensselaer, Ind.

i Big Public Sale. The undersigned is preparing to■ move to another county on a' farm I i that is already stocked and furnish-I ed, and will offer at Public Sale at! his residence, 5 miles southwest of! Rensselaer, on the Bunkum road, 7 miles southeast of Mt. Ayr and' !10 miles northeast of Brook, on! the former Sam Yeoman farm, now owned by Carr Bros., commencing at 10 a. m., on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1912, 9 Head of Horses and Mules —Conssisting of 1 Gray Mare seven years old, in fo/il, wt. 1400; 1 Bay Mare nil nine years old, wt. 1300. in foal; 1 ' Bay Miare twelve old, wt. 11400; 1 Roan Mare seven years old, ! wt. 1000, lady broke; 1 two-year-old driving colt; 1 team coming 3i year-old Mules, well broke, wt. ; , 2150; 2 spring Mule?, good ones. [' 2 Milch Cows—Good ones, no J better in the county, coming three-year-old and giving a nice flow of j milk, fresh about March 1.

19 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 18 Fall Pigs and 1 Brood Sovr. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 2 Farm Wagons with triple box; 1 Single Buggy; 1 Oliver Sulky Plow;. 1 John Deere Disc Gang; 1 Walking Plow; 1 Cuttaway Disc; 3 Riding .Cultivators with Gopher Attachments: 1 Harrow, 20 ft.; 1 Sattly “New Way” Corn Planter with fertilizer attachment, new; 1 Deering Binder, 8 ft. good as new; 2 Scoop-Boards; 1 Endgate Seeder; 1 Mower; 1 Single Shovel Plow; 1 Jenny triple gear Feed Grinder, new last spring; 3 sets Heavy Work Harness; 1 Milk Tank; 1 Old Trusty 120 egg Incubator; some extra Horse Collars; some Hay in Stack, to be measured 421 ft. to the-ton; some Chickens; Household Goods, 3 Heaters, two Wood, one coal; 1 Kitchen Range, and other articles to numerous to mention. i

A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with the usual conditions; 5 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. ERNEST MAYHEW. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on ground.

Own a Farm of Your Own—Fine Oklahoma farms at >15.00 to $50.00 per acre. Part cash, balance five years, at 6 per cent. Wonderful opportunities for poor men as well as investors. For full particulars write the CENTRAL INVESTMENT COMPANY, Hobart, Okla. ts

HUE BUSINESS SYSTEM.OF GOVERNMENT 11! i FOR, INDItfiA CITIES PUBLISHED BY THE BUSINESS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT STATE COMMITTEE OF THE INDIANA FEDERATED COMMERCIAL CLUBS.

v SERIAL NO. 3. The Board of Administration. In the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities the Board of Administration is the operating branch. Its functions are and executive. It consists of five departments, and at the head pf each is a Commissioner, one of whom is the Mayor. These departments are: Public Affairs. Public Revenue and Finance. Streets, Public Property and Improvements. Public Safety. Health and Sanitation.

The Mayor is ex-offibio head of the department of Public Affairs, and each of the other Commissioners is in charge of the department to which he is designated. The Board of Administration is not an elective body. It is appointed by the Board of Councilors, which board also fixes the salaries of the members of the Board of Administration. The Commissioners of Administration are appointed for terms of four years, but may hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Councilors, and in this way Ipng tenure is assured if the Commissioners give satisfaction.

All of the affairs of the municipality are in the hands of the Board of Administration. It passes the ordinances, subject to approval by the Board of Councilors, carries on all public work and executes the laws. It Is required to appoint a City Clerk, Police Judge and a City Attorney. It is empowered to create all other of-' flees and places of employment in the 1 executive branch, to fill the same by appointment and to fix the salaries of appointees, as well as to discontinue such offices and places (tnd dis- i miss such officials and employes. The Commissioners in their executive ca- ! pacity have all responsibility, but with abundant authority and ample powers to sustain and discharge that' responsibility, Yet, the entire Board of Administration and each member of it is immediately responsible to the Board of Councilors and may be summarily removed for stated cause: \ The Mayor and each Commissioner' is selected because of his special fitness and capacity for his place. The Commissioners enter office with no obligation but their duty to the city. Political influence did not place them ■ and it cannot remove them. Neither partisan bossism npr special interests can get anything of them. They must appoint, retain and advance subordinate officials and city employes' under a merit system enforced by a non-partisan board of Civil Service Commissioners, and franchises and other public grants and privileges must be approved by the Board of douncilors and finally confirmed by the people. Thus the Board of Administration is held strictly to its functions of managing pie affairs of the city. To continue in office the Mayor and the Commissioners must give efficiency of management. The tenure of their offices will depend not on what happens in an election, but upon their services to the community and the degree of satisfaction they create in the minds of the people. It is through the Board of Administration that results will be shown. It will operate in the field where the science of government and the sci- | ence of business can work .together,' each the complement of the other, and so render the service and achieve the ’ progress the people tax themselves to ! procure.

Long Tenure of Office.

In the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities the long tenure of office is a principle. It is only through continuing service that efficiency can be obtained and increased. Because of the uncertainties of tenure high grade men decline to enter public office. Indiana, among other states, has attempted to end the abuses of politics in the- government of cities by forbidding mayors, councilmen and other elective officials to be their own successors. This recognizes and admits that the curse of city government is partisan politics. The mistake was in trying to correct an evil by outlawing consequences instead of killing the root from which the evil grows. It has done no good to forbid officials the opportunity to make themselves more useful by larger experience. On the theory that all officials are bad and can do less harm in one term than in two, the tenure has been limited. The only result has been to keep cities under the management of inexperienced men. The Business System of Government lays the foundation for continuing service and the development of expertness in local affairs by a form of rule which at the outset prohibits any recognition of political parties and forbids their activity as such in city election. The elective officials are chosen by non-partisan ballot. They may be re-elected as the people want them. The entire operating branch of the government is appointed and it may hold office so long as its works command public approval. The spoilsman’s cry, “If office is a good thing, pass it around ” is silenced. Office is treated as a public trust, a public employment, not as loot. Results of the one-term tenure in Indiana disprove the claim that it can exterminate the evils of politics and ridicule the contention that the people need periodical opportunity to overhaul their government. The people need unremitting opportunity to

For further information address BUSINESS SYSTEM COMMITTEE, Fort Wayne, Ind.

overhaul their government and constant authority to spur it or check it. The recall and the initiative and referendum establish these recourses. With such restraints a long tenure regulated in its operations by civil service laws not only is without power to harra but has the power to work vast good to the people. Under the long tenure the city will develop its own experts in all branches of administrative service. From year to year excellence will increase, economies will grow and the satisfaction of the people will mount higher. From first to last the entire machinery of government will have unity, with all energies driven to do well what is done. There will develop scientific precision of effort, scientific efficiency of means, scientific exactness of results. Without long tenure based upon a non-partisan form, a popular control and a merit system of employment these things cannot be; with long tenure so instituted they are not only possible but assured. The Business System of Government will establish these conditions. Under it will develop as distinctive a type and as high a degree of honorable and useful professionalism as any other pursuit which attracts the ambitions and enlists the energies of men.

Civil Service.

Civil Service regulations control appointments under the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities, A Civil Service Commission of three members, chosen by the Board of Councilors, has charge of appointments. The regulations apply to all in the service of the 'city save the Board of Councilors, the Board of Administration, the Election Board, the Civil Service feoard, the City Judge and the City Attorney and his assistants. None otherwise is exempt. From the technical experts to the ordinary grades of employes the men in every department will have to show their fitness to be appointed, will have to prove their efficiency to be retained, w’ill have to establish their merit to be advanced. This will procure a better grade of service to begin with and will guarantee increase of efficiency. Then will cease the practice of making sweeping Changes in the employment lists following each election. The spoils game will be played out. The city will begin to train its own men for long service and high efficiency. It will be better served at lower cost. So long as the public service in cities is treated as spoils and city employment is bestowed, hot with a view to good service but to pay political debts and keep “the organization” well fed, the city business will be badly taken care of and the city work poorly done. There is nothing but folly of a costly sort in the practice of dealing with public office and public employment as loot for the party workers. It is a prolific source of immorality in politics and incapacity in government. To abolish the spoils system will be to cleanse politics. To establish the merit system will be to institute efficiency. Under civil service regulations job-giving to and job-hunting by organization workers w’ill come to an end. The man who enters the city employ will do so on his merits tested in a competitive examination. He w’ill not need the consent or endorsement of a boss. The city employe will not be put in by threats of his backers nor can the applicant be kept out by the hostility of a gang or its leaders. The slovenliness, waste and corruption in city government for which the American people have had a long-suffering tolerance, will cease. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities requires that all employes of the city be examined; that an eligibility list be kept from which appointments shall be made; that appointment be first for a probationary term; that advancement be on a basis of merit, experience and record. Such an operation of the civil service of the city will develop that efficiency without which there can be neither economy nor progress.

Marking on Wood.

If any one In your home has a pyrograph outfit, use it for marking your boy’s hockey sticks, baseball bats, tennis rackets and all such wooden things. Painted names can wear or be scratched off, but when burned in. deeply the identification is there to stay.

Overiooked.

“Very few mosquitoes taste anything but the juice of tender plants,” remarked the naturalist. “Is that so!” exclaimed Farmer Corntossel. “It kind o’ looks as if human beings hadn’t been properly advertised as mosquito food.”

Useful Instrument in Farm House. Every farm house should have a harness needle In it. One of the many uses to which the needle can be put is to sew rips In shoes that may save an extra trip to the cobbler’s.—Home Department, National Magazine.

Corrected.

Gentleman (engaging groom)—’'Are you married?” Groom—“No, sir. I was thrown agin a barbed wire fwet and got my face scratched.”—London Tatlar.

Edward P. Honan, bCEgg ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, abstracts. Real Estate Loans, Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

S. C. Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loans Office in Odd Fellows’ Block RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Over State Bank Phone 16 •John A. Dunlap, LAWYER (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice in all courts Estates settled Farm Loans Collection department Notary in the office RENSSELAER, INDIANA.’

Arthur H. Hopkins, LAW, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. Loans on farm and City property, pei sonaL security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property- Farm and city »<fire insurance. Attorney for AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. Office over Rowles & Parker Store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

F. H. Hemphill, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of Women and tow grades of fever. Office In Williams block, opposite Court louse. Formerly occupied by Dr. HwrfPhone Office and Residence, 442 RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

S. Herbert Moore, n. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON All calls will receive prompt attention dght or day from my office over the lode! Clothing store. Telephone No. 251. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

3. C. English, . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust & Savings Bank Office Phone 177 - Residence 116 RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

ri. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug etore RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Dr. F. A. Tuifier OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN „-,?iT adua i e American School of Osteo~f OcL Graduate American School T StilT >Pathy under the founder, Dr. A. Office Hours—B-12 a. m., - 1-5 p. m . lnd. UeSdayS and Frida y s at Monticello, 1-2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Millions to Loan!

S We are prepared to take care g of all the farm loan business in 8 this and adjoining counties at S Lowest Rates and Best Terms, M regardless of the “financial strlnS gency.” If you have a loan comS Ing due or desire a new loan It g will not be necessary to pay the S excessive rates demanded by our K competitors. FIVE PER CENT. % small commission - Prompt service

? S. C. Irwin Odd Fellows Bldg. Rensselaer.

WANTED IDEAS Our Four Books sent Free with list of Inventions wanted by manufacturers and promoters, also Prizes offered for Inventions. Patents secured or Fee RETURNED. VICTOR J. EVANS & CO. c .

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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. O’ An armful of old papers for a nickel at the Democrat office. Engraved calling cards to order at The Democrat office. Sale Bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office. Come in.

’I Md'liriJillhA teaß&Mwem&lsEßwjat C*u*g ((9 Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLEEffective Nov. 24, 1912. SOUTH BOUND. No 3 IZf aS 3 (daily).... ■ - 4:40 a. m JzZJ^ sville . Mail (daily). 11:09 a. m. ?Z~si hlcago i° Indianapolis 11:32 a. m. Qo - S®n Sle A r Limited (daily) 2:00 p. m. —Milk Accom. (daily).... 6:06 p. m No. 3—Chicago to Louisville. .11:05 p. mi w < r NORTH bound. S: |-gt »■ No. 32—Fast Mail (dailV)!. i; aoa! a m No 3 f:~w d u lS ' 1° £ h &°- (daily) 3:29 p.’mi No an< ? Exp ' (daily). 3:38 p. m. No. 30—Hoosier Limited (daily) 6:02 p m Passengers for C. H- & D. points' JT all . p< ? lnt ? T be yond Indianapolis should take train No. 37 from here as IndlanandU33lS D ° W the terminal for N <»- I -j? 0 ’ w i?l stop at Reitsselaer to let flom points south -Of Monon, and take passengers for LowelL Hammond and Chicago *** »i^2 S „. 31 « and I ? ake direct connecHons at Monon for Lafayette. W- H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. „ CITY OFFICERS. c^rk r F - M «y er » .Chas. Morlan Moses Leopold Vs h »George Mustard Fire Ch?c g f neer K - Osborne «en ard J George Hopkins 3rd Wa,rd Harry Kresler At Large..C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge........ Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney... .Fred LongweL terms of Court—Second Monday In I ebruary, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Judson H. Perkins sheriff I. Hoover £ ad,tor J- P. Hammond Recorder John w. Tilton Surveyor w. F. Osborn® Coroner W . j. Wrlght County Supt. Ernest Lainson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer e. N. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Jst District Wm. H. Hershman 2nd District Charles F. Stackhouse 3rd District Charles T. Denahm Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley May Carpenter J. W. SelmerGillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. WortleyJordan John Shirer Kankakee 1 unis Snip Keener H. E. ParkisonMarlon George L. Parks tMilroy E. P. Lane... Newton Isaac Kight Union Albert Keene ...Wheatfield Fred Karch Walker E. Lamson, Co. Supt. .Rensselaer E. C. English... Rensselaer James H. Greenßemington Geo. O. StembelWheatfield Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on Monday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton Township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union Township attends to official business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each Week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

IWWtaMS AT REASONABLE RATES Your property in City, Town, Village or Farm, against Are, lightning or wind; your livestock against death or theft, and YOUR AUTOMOBILE against Are from any cause, theft or collision. Written on the cash, single note or installment plan. AH Losses Paid Promptly. Call ’Phone 208 or write for a good policy in a good company. RAY D. THOMPSON Rensselaer, Ind.

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