Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Good as Far As It Goes, but Don't Go Far Enough.

The Jasper County Telephone Company has made a reduction of five cents in the toll rates to Mt. Ayr and Morocco reducing from 20 cents to 15 cents to the former place and from 25 cents to 20 cents to the latter. This is very good so far as it goes, but what most people would like to see is a reduction in the rates to Remington and points north, in Jasper county. It would seem that we should have a 10 cent rate to Remington, at least. The distance is but 12 miles and the rate is now 20 cents. AlO cent rate would probably bring in much more revenue than the 20 cent rate now does. We hope the new proprietors of the telephone plant will seriously consider this matter reducing the rates to Remington to 10 cents and Wheatfield, Demotte and Tefft to 15 cents.

J. P. Simons Lays Down the Tripod.

James P. Simons, for the past twenty years editor of the White County Democrat, laid down his pen and severed his connections with that paper with yesterday’s issue. Bro. Simons, like many other newspaper men, has given the best years of his life to promulgating the principles of the political party in which he sincerely believed—which is not only a thankless job, as a rule, btit is devoid of very much financial returns. He does not state what he expects to engage in in the future, but we hope his lines may fall in pleasant and remonerative places. In retiring from the newspaper business Mr. Simons has the satisfaction of looking back over his years of work for his party, his community and the public in general, leaving a clear record and the honor and respect of his fellow publishers. The Democrat regrets to see such men as J. P. Simons leave the newspaper business.

Still Running With Dirty Spark Plugs.

According to the democratic slogan farming must be illegitimate, for the democratic promise was, “The tariff will not adversely affect any legitimate industry.”—-Monti-cello Herald. Well, what’s the answer, Bro. Van /Buskirk? All classes of farm products will certainly average as high or higher than they did before the present tariff law was passed or took effect. Corn at Rensselaer is 12 cents per bushel higher than it was one year ago: oats, 4 cents per bushel higher: chickens, eggs and butterfat the same price as one year ago; veals, 1 1/ 2 cents higher; fat cattle and hogs are higher than a year ago. the butcher tells us; while all dairy and feeding stock is also much higher. If there is any branch of the farming industry that has been seriously “hit” by the new tariff law it would be interesting to have the Herald and other faultfinding republican papers point out what it is.

Several Employers on Street Im provement Go on Strike.

Work of putting in the curbing for the Washington street improvement, which had been progressing rapidly' came to a stop Thursday morning, when several of the men, from Frankfort, struck for more pay. The city has also let the contract to the paving contractors for lowering ' the sewer on the south side of Wash-! ington street, and the latter put their force to work on same, but they soon learned that the local men, whom the city had at work on. the job previously, had received about I 10 cents per hour more than they were being paid, hence the strike. They were receiving, it is understood, 25 cents per hour and did not want to work on the sewer for less than 35 cents, at least. Part of the men, brought here from Frankfort, are still at work and a few local men have been secured, so that the work of lowering the sewer is going ahead, but with a much smaller force than should be employed. Tn fact, at the rate it is proceeding it will probably take «> week or ten days at least to do this job. Tt will be lowered about two feetali the way from Cullen street west to the river bridge, to a sufficient depth to permit the drainage of basements should they be put in at any time in the future.

Church of God Services. Elder S. J. Lindsay will preach at the Church of God Saturday, May 16, at 7:30 p. m., and Sunday, May 17, at 10:45 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. You are invited.

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. New suits filed: No. 8235. William A. Sleeper et al vs. Ed Oliver; suit on note. Demand S2OO. The republicans of Barkley tp., have nominated the following ticket: Trustee, John H. Rusk; assessor, Ancel Potts; advisory board, J. W. Spate, Edward Tanner and James Terbet.' Through omission in drafting the call for the Jordan tp., convention today, the committee did not state the hour, which will be 2 p. m., as noted in the corrected call elsewhere in Tlie Democrat. The Dinwiddle, & Gary Railway Company has filed notice with the secretary of state of its consolidation with the Chicago' & Wabash Valley Railway Company (the Gifford road) iiqw owned by the Moon. Perhaps this means the extending of the road on to Gary, from its present terminus near Crown Point.

Attorney W. H. Parkison was in Indianapolis Thursday with one of the N. W. J. Traction Company magnates, presumably on business connected with the slander suit recently brought in the federal court by Treasurer Love of that organization, against prominent Carpenter and Jordan township people, who opposed voting a big subsidy to their company. County Commissioner Charles Welsh, of Carpenter tp., one of the defendants, accompanied by an attorney, Mr. Brown, of the proposed new traction line, was also'- in Indianapolis Thursday to look after the interests.of the defendants. — “Billy” Lyons is back home again. That is, he is once wore in jail. He was brought over from Remington this week to spend 25 days for again looking upon the booze when it intoxicates—Billy doesn't dirnk wine, hence we change quotation. Perhaps no other man in Jasper, county has served so many jail sentences for drunkenness as he, at least not in the Jasper county jail, and it seems he is‘too weak willed to let whiskey alone when he gets an opportunity to secure it. Henry D. Vance, who was recently arrested at Crawfordsville on a charge filed by John Herr, of MeCoysburg, of having gotten money under false pretenses in a land deal, and whose bond was reduced by Judge Hanley from SI,OOO to SSOO, has been unable to secure bond as yet, and will probably have to remain in jail all summer.

Another beautiful niece of legis-j latioii by our “.late lamented" tegis-j lature, that of the appointment of highway superintendents, has just' been ruled upon by the supreme J court. The action was on quo war-' ranto proceedings brought by the county surveyor of Martin county against the appellee to try the right to the office of highway superin-J tendent, as created by the Acts 1913 ! page 877. The law provides that! the board of commissioners must' appoint such superintendent in couh-j ties having more than 200 miles of free gravel roads, but may appoint the county surveyor when the mileage is less than 200. Martin county has 125 miles of such roads and the appellant requested the appointment and tendered bond, but the board appointed the appellee, and this action was brought to try title to the office. The court held that the only restraint upon the board in the appointment of the highway superintendent is that he must be some person other than the county surveyor in counties with more than 200 miles of free gravel road, but in counties with less than 200 miles of such roads, this restraint was removed that the surveyor may be appointed; that the act lodges a discretion in county boards where there

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is less than 200 miles of improved highway and that they “may” appoint the surveyor or someone else, as they choose. By substituting the word “shall” for “may” the wise men of the legislature could easily have set this question at rest, if they had so meant, or that the board could either appoint the county surveyor or some other person, of the latter meaning was intended, and it would not have been necessary to have gone to the supreme court for an interpertation of the law. But evidently the legislature did not wish to deprive the lawyers df an opportunity to get in on this.

New Traction Line Prospects.

W. T. Elmore and son, L. B. Elmore, were over from Remington on business yesterday. Mr. Elmore, Sr., who has been driving about the country the promoters of the newtraction line to run from Kankakee, 111., to Lafayette, via Morocco, Mt. Ayr, Rensselaer and Remington, is very enthusiastic over the prospects for the building of this line, and thinks Rensselaer will be making a great mistake if it ties up its streets, College avenue especially, to the N. W. I. Traction Co., in giving it a franchise. The bonds for the new’ road are now in the market, Mr. Elmore states, and the people along the proposed line are enthusiastic for it. He states that it is further along at the present time than any of the numerous electric lines that have been talked of in This section in the past fifteen years, lie feels that it is sure to be built, and that very speedily, and Rensselaer should not make the mistake of tieing itself up so that should another company wish to come in it could not secure a logical street for entering the city.

Jasper County School Enumeration.

The Jasper county school enumera- j tion shows a net gain in pupils of. school age. over last year of 23.1 Barkley tp. shows the greatest gain, 54, caused by the influx of people to the Gifford district this“year, while the greatest loss, 20, is in Walker,: which last year showed the greatest gain, 31. There is but one colored pupil enumerated, and this one is in Rensselaer, but there are several other colored children in Rensselaer' who will soon be of school age. There are 120 more males than! females in the county of school age.; Marion leading with 75 more boys' than girls. The males exceed the females in Barkley, Gillam, Hanging Grove, Jordan, Keener, Marion. Milroy townships and Wheatfield; town. Carpenter, Kankakee, Newton, Walker and .Wheatfield townships and Remington and Rensselaer have more girls than boys, Remington leading witlu.4l, to Rensselaer's 22. Last year Wheatfield had 101 more girls than boys, but this year it-has three less. All the towns Low a gain over fast year—Remington, 3; Rensselaer, j 7; Wheatfield, 5. The following tabulated report will be oi interest to readers in general:

Corporation

Barkley ..213 220 463 51 Carpenter J. ..130 143 273 12 Gillam 133 101 234 12 Hanging Grove 81 47 128 17 Jordan 97 83 180 10 Kankakeq .... 65 68 133 Keener 139 104 243 9 Marion ........207 128 335 3 Milroy 70 52 122 19 Newton 77 93 170 5 Union ........ 216 208 424 28 Walker . . . .144 165 309 20 Wheatfield .... 83 939 176 9 Remington, t’n 136 177 313 " 3 Wheat! Id, town 58 55 113 5 Rensselaer, city 292 314 607 - 7 Totals ......2171 2051 4223 118 95

“Shower” Given Miss Georgie Harris.

A miscellaneous shower was given by the Methodist ladies Tuesday afternoon at the Home of Mrs. .j. M. Wasson and Mrs. J. J. Hunt, for Miss Georgia Harris, who hair long been the pianist at Trinity fM. E. church and who is soon to be married—early next month, it is reported—to Rex D. Warner. A large number of ladies were in attendance at the shower and many handsome and useful articles were brought for the bride-to-be. Mrs. J. D. Allman also gave a shower for Miss Harris Wednesday evening, at the Allman home on River street.

Baptist Church. ; f Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; morning service, 10:45 a. m.; Wednesday prayer meeting, 7:30 p. m. All are invited —R. B. WRIGHT, Pastor.

I Loss Cain —J Total Female Male

PATRICK HAYES DESERVING

Of IteiKmiination for Representative! From Jasper and White Counties. The official call for the democratic representative convention for the counties of Jasper and White, appears in another column of today's Democrat. It will be held in Monticello on Saturday, June 6. The Hon. Patrick Hayes, of Idavile, the present reperesentative, we are told by a prominent young democrat, of Jasper county who presumably interviewed him, would like the nomination providing his record in the last legislature meets with his constituents’ approval. The Democrat watched up the proceedings of the last legislature pretty closely, and Mr. Hayes was invariably on the right side of all questions of interest to his constituency. Me believe all who followed the proceedings of the House in the last session will agree with us in this statement, and if there had been more Pat Hayes’ there the democrats would not now have to do so much apologizing for the laws passed and attempted to be passed by that session. Mr. Hayes is entitled to a renomination, apd we hope every democrat who can do so will urge the delegates from Jasper county—a list of which is published in the call—to support him for such renomination against all comers.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPART.

<>i Rensselaer Schools Give Practical Illustration of Their Work in Serving a Dinner. The Domestic Science Department of the public schools under the very able assistance of Miss Ethel Dyer, gave a four-course dinner Wednesday evening in their laboratory, to th® members of the school board and their wives, Mr. and Mrs. Elden Hopkins, Principal C. M. Sharp and Mr. and Mrs. Dean. The serving of this dinner marked the end of a study of the planning and serving of meals. The dinner consisted of four courses and was served to eleven people for the approximate cost of three dollars. The preparations was the regular class work of the Bth and 9th grades and the serving was done by the Bth grade. At the close of the dinner short talks were given by the guests, expressing their appreciation of the girls’ .work. All spoke of the affair as an innovation and as a demonstration of the results of the education of the hand as well as the mind. By people a few years ago, the thought of teaching domestic science in the public schools would have been laughed at. But as every one knows the public schools have bedn criticised by many people and even said by some to have been a failure in that they have not accomplished their purpose. As a result of such criticism, the schools are trying to teach practical things and to make themselves valuable. The courses of study are being changed very rapidly and other subjects are being introduced, in fact, the neW| vocational law of Indiana

makes the teaching pf manual train ing, agriculture arid domestic science mandatory this fall in all the public schools of the state. The Rensselaer schools are thus One year ahead of many schools in this respect. The work in this department has been very satisfactory. About lio girls have shared in this work at different times during the year. The idea all along has been to do the practical part pf the work, and it is the general opinion of those connected with the work that it has been accomplished to a certain ex- '

Fruit Prospect Good in Michigan.

Jerome G. Andrus writes from 1 Shelby, Mich., under dqte of May 12, in renewing his subscription, and says: “We are having cold, wet weather now. There is going to be a bumper fruit crop if nothing happens; the trees are budded full and the apple trees are just getting pink. Potatoes \ have dropped to 50c per bushel. The canning factory has bought 10,000 bushels out of cold storage and will start up this week. The factory has advertised for one hundred women to help with the canning, so you see that women are quite useful up here in picking fruit and in the canning industry.”

Calling cards, the correct sizes, both plain and linen finish, constantly in stock in Tbo Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

GENERAL ANU STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—-Matters of -Minor Mention From Many Places. BisiXEss district burns. Lightning Causes $30,000 Fire at Freeland Park, Benton Co. Lafayette, Ind., May 12.—Lightning early yesterday morning struck the Watson restaurant at Freeland Park, a town of 400 population, west of Fowler, in Benton county, and the entire business part of the place wag destroyed by fire. The property loss is estimated at $30,000. The village had no means of fighting the fire except a volunteer bucket brigade, and before the blaze w’as extinguished the Watson restaurant, John Grogan’s store, Beatty's drug store and the Modern Woodmen lodgeroom over Grogan’s store were burned. The postofllce was in Grogan’s store. Henry Thiese, who owned one of the burned buildings, lost $12,000. Grogan lost $7,000. Little insurance was carried by the owners of the property.

New Republican Paper at Fowler.

John p. Carr, who recently bought back the plant of the defunct Fowler Republican at sheriff’s sale, will start,a new republican paper which he will christen The. Tribune. Mr. Carr for a number of years published the Oxford Tribune, selling it some twenty odd years ago and started the Fowler Leader,' later christened the RepublicanLeader. His paper championed the progressive party in the last presidential campaign, and later Mr. Carr sold the paper and it once more took up the republican cause. Failing to make good in a financial way, the new owners sold the business and, good will to George Robey, of the Benton Review, the democratic organ of Benton county, and the plant was recently sold at sheriff’s sale, Mr. Carr buying it in to save his interests in the plant. Bro. Carr has always published a bright paper, but it is reported, has never made a success of the financial end of the business. He has several hundred acres of fine land near'Chaimera, left him by his father, and if he don’t hang on too long in the newspaper business he will probably be able to make both ends meet. However, The Democrat welcomes John P. back to the fraternity and wishes him lots of success in his new venture. < rashes Throng,li Depot; Hammond, Ind., .May 12. The Monon railway had another remarkable experience at Dewitt early Tuesday morning. Just when the young cyclone raging east was at its worst, it took the little jlepot at Dewitt and deposited it on the track. The Louisville-Chicago flyer, with the '.same engineer driving it that was wrecked last week, was tearing : through the storm. Engineer Sunii merville saw the obstruction too late and opened the throttle wide. The train ripped through the depot and flying timbers flew past the windows. Passengers thought a terrible ' wreck impended and were panic I stricken but no damage was done to 'the train.

Motorcycle Race Track ProPosed at Porter Track.

Laporte, Ind., May 13. A move-ment-has taken form to convert the famous racing course at Mineral Springs into a motorcycfe track and to schedule state, interstate and national meets. The track will be sold under the hammer June 6 by the sheriff of Porter county, and in the meantime negotiations will be conducted for the establishing of a motorcycle course which will bring riders from all parts of the United States.

Cupid Off on a Vacation in Newton County. Kentland Enterprise: A marriage license was issued yesterday after-

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noon—-the first in six weeks—to Mrs. Lulu Campbell, of this place, and Jesse L. Randall, of Bader, 111. They were married by Rev. Daniels at the Christian parsonage.

Triplets Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kosta.

May 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kosta, of west of Parr, three daughters, one dying at birth. May 11, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mullady, of Newland, a son.

SECURED SUMMER QUARTERS.

Hoboes in Jail Suspected of Setting Fire to a Building Near Deniotte. A couple of hoboes Were brought here Wednesday and lodged iiCJail on suspicion of having set fire to the old feed mill on Ihe former Nelson Morirs ranch near Deniotte, s.c.n Mirris reanch near Demotte, which was destroyed about 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. Two tramps were seen to leave the. building shortly before tho tire was discovered, and start west on the railroad tracks. Several Demotte citizens took after them in an automobile, overhauling them near Shelby, where George Marr, foreman for the Indiana Land Co., who now own the Morris ranch, halted them with a rifle and they were taken back to Demotte and arraigned before Squire John Greve, where they waived examination and were sent to jail. They gave their names as John Hollman, of the “army of unemployed,’’ of Chicago, and Robert Wolton, of Detroit, Mich. The latter says he Is a machinist. They deny all knowledge of the fire and say they spent the night at tho home of a Keener tp. farmer |nstead of in tho old mill. They had expected an immediate trial instead of the prospect of pending tho summer in jail when they waived examination. They are in the neighborhood of 25 or 30 years of ago, and were not armed when taken into custody, but had three carp which had been given them and which they were figuring on cooking when ordered to hold up their hands. They thought the Demotte party were game wardens, they state. Parties at Demotte, however, postlvely identify the men as the ones seen leaving the old mill, It is said.

COURT NEWS

Supreme court action: No. 22625. State of Indiana ex rel, Stockton vs. Lane, trustee. White Appeal dismissed. Morris, C. I. II) Action by appellant against appellee, trustee and his bondsmen on ofllcial bond, demanding damage'--. Appellee’s demurrer was sustained to appellant’s complaint and appellant appealed assigning error against Lane, individually. Within six months after the judgment was rendered appellee filed briefs calling attention to defect in assignment of errors and demanding dismissal of appeal, but appellant made no effort tq have the. same corrected. “Thb appeal must be dismissed for fail>re to assign error against the party that recovered judgment.”

A grand jury has been called for

the present term of court in Newton county, and will meet May 25. Disposition lias been made of the following cases, which will be of interest to .Jasper county readers of Tim Democrat, a number of these < ases having been taken to Newton county on change of venue from •Jasper: 1 t'ases dismissed—-State vs. Henry Granger, illegal sale of liquors; Randolph Wright vfe. .Jasper Makeever, suit on contract. Cases set for ,trial-estate vs. •James L. Willis, on charge of perjury, May 25; Rensselaer Commercial Club vs. U. S. Match Co., action to quiet .May 2fj; State vs. Fred Noel, of Goodland, unlawful posession of liquor, May 28; State vs. George Eggleston, State vs. August Buck, and State vs. J. M. Miller, unlawful possession of liquor, May 29; Frank Hill vs. C. I. & L. Ry. Co., action for damages sustained a year ago last fall while loading cattle at the Rensselaer cattle yards, at the time William Washburn and Noble Peacock were killed by the Hoosier Limited, June 3.

Concrete Cement Work a Specialty. Sidewalks, cisterns, water tanka and all kinds of cement work done. All work guaranteed.—J. J. MILLER, phone 458.