Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — Page 7

NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2681. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 191&w>ithe Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for bridge repair in Marion Township across the Howe ditch on the highway between Sections 9 and 10 in Township 28 North, Range 6 West. Said bridge to be repaired according to plans and specifications 'on file in the Auditor’s office, same to consist of concrete repair abutments. Ail bids to be on file jby 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required (by law. The Board reserves the right’ to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2679. . Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1910, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for bridge repair in Marion Township across the Howe Ditch oil the highway between Sections 8 and 9, Township 28 North, Range 6 West. .Said bridge to be repaired according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s Office, same to consist of concrete abutments and releveling of bridge All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. _By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2721. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday; March 2, 1915, the Board of Commisslqners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for bridge repair in Hanging Grove Township, across Clayton Ditch on the highway east and west, ! Section 36, Township 29 North, Range 5 West’. Said bridge to be repaired according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, one new abutment, 1 I.ticnm and floor. AH bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied-by bond and affidavit as required bv law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. .By Older of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, - Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2722. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Countv, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a new bridge in Giliam Township over the Smallfelt Ditch on the highway north and south. Sections 2 and 3, Township 29 North, Range 5 West. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bend and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners •Of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2723. Notice is hereby given'- that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Com mi.ssioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a new bridge in Keener Township over the ——-———- Ditch on the north and south highway between Sections 16 and 17, Township 31 North, Range 7 West. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. Alt bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right’ to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2726. <4 Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the’Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a new bridge in Keener Township on the east and west highway between Sections 15 and 22, Township 32 North. Range 7 West. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications, on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required bv law. The Board reserves the right' to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY FARM SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will, on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, receive sealed bids for furnishing groceries, dry goods and meats for the use of County Poor Asylum. Ail bids to be on file by 1 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required bv law The Boards reserves the right’ to reject any and all aids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. will, on Tuesday. March 2, 1915, receive sealed bids on “County Road” repair material, consisting of crushed limestone of various sizes F. O. B. to the following places: Goodinnd. Percy Junction, Remington, MeCoysburg, Pleasant Ridge, Rensselaer, Fair Oaks, Demotte, Stoutsberg, Wheat field, Tefft and Medaryville. AH bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and t'o be accompanied by affidavit as required by law, F,y order, of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper-County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Inuiana, will, on Saturday,. February 20 1915, receive sealed bids for the removai and replacing of bridges located as follows: One across Dexter Ditch, Nw corner of Section 12, Township 30. Range 7; and one across the Dexter Ditch on the north line of the NE of NE of Section 14 Township 30, Range .7. Said bridges to be removed when the dredge reaches their location and promptly replaced after the dredge shall have passed through. All bids to , be on file bv 1 o’clock of said date at the auditor’s office, and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By. order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the’ Circuit Court of Jasper County, state of Indiana, administrator of the estate of David Hilton, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent, 1 THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK. Rensselaer, Indiana, ' Administrator. January 26, 1915.

VOICE OF THE LORD TO LITTLE SAMUEL

I Samuel 3:1-13, 19, to—Feb. l}. Samuel Devoted* to God Before His Birth —An Opening For Service. Faithfulness In Service Called to Higher Service—Samuel ths First of israel’s Prophets. • “Speak, Lord; lor Thy servant heareth.”—i Samuel 3s. CODAY’S Study gives a little insight into the .family conditions of the Israelites shortly after the days of Samson and of Ruth. It shows the deep religious sentiment prevailing amongst many of the people. The Tabernacle of the Lord, in this Study styled the Temple, was located at Shiloh, a few miles north df Jerusalem. The priest in charge was Eli. The people by Divine direction went annually to worship the Lord, to offer sacrifice, etc., at the Passover. The father and the mother of Samuel were of these annual worshipers

before Samuel was born. On one of these visits Hannah made earnest prayer to the Lord for a son, vowing that if her petition were granted, her son should be devoted to the Lord's service for life. Her prayer was answered. The child was born and named SamueL

When he was weaned he was presented to the Lord through Eli. to be his servant in the Tabernacle service and In his home. The word weaned we may understand to signify the time when the child was able to do without bis mother’s care—probably ten years old. God’s Reproof of Eli. Our lesson opens with the declaration that the child Samuel “ministered unto the Lord before Eli’’; that is, he was a servant of the Lord by virtue of his being a servant to Eli, the Lord’s representative and priest. “The word of Jehovah was precious in those days”—it was seldom that God sent special messages at that time. “There was no open vision”—visions and revelations were not then being given. The Divine Plan was hidden. The Urim and Thuminim answers of the Lord to the people’s inquiries had ceased. It is supposed that Eli at this time was about seventy years old—some think nearer eighty. His vision was dim. He was sleeping in one apartment, and little Samuel 1n another: The latter heard a voice calling him. and three times went to Eli to ask what service he could render,~bnly to be told that he had not been called. But by the third time Eli realized that it was God who had called Samuel; and he instructed the lad that if the voice should again be beard, he should say, “Speak. Lord; for Thy servant heareth.” The voiee came again, and apparently the angel of the Lord appeared to Samuel at thp same time. Then the Lord gave a message to Samuel, foretelling the sad death of Eli’s two sons and Eli’s own death, and that Eli's family should nevermore serve the Lord as priests. The inference ?s given that Eli’s sons misused their position as under priests, taking more of the sacrifices than they were allowed in the Divine arrangement, and practising immorality, thus misleading the people into unrighteousness. Divine Disapproval of Weak Character. In the morning Eli inquired of Samuel whether the Lord had spoken any further, and what He said. It was a trial to Samuel to tell his friend and benefactor the Lord’s judgment against himself and his family; but Eli demanded to know the full particulars, and “Samuel told him every whit.” Thus it Is often with the Lord’s faithful servants; their tenderness of heart might prompt them to hide matters which their sense of duty may require them to speak boldly. In every ease the individual’s conscience must be followed, but conscience must be educated through the Word of God. When Eli heard what the Lord had declared respecting bis family, he answered most loyally, “It is the Lord:

Eli the Priest.

character—a clearer appreciation of his duty toward the Lord as His servant, and toward his own children as their father. We may be sure that strong characters are most pleasing to everybody. They may in some respects be the more difficult to deal with, but. nevertheless, firmness of character is a jewel, highly esteemed by all wise people, as well as by the Lord. Samuel grew in favor with God and with Eli, and with all Israel, as they rame to know him. They perceived that the Lord’s Spirit was with him and that he would be a representative of God amongst them Samuel is styled the first of the Prophets of Israel; and our Lord informs that John the Baptist was the last. (Matthew 11:11.) Failure to discern the change from the Jewish to the Christian Dis pensation. which began at Pentecost, leaves many Christians in confusion.

Samuel consecrated.

let Him do what seemeth Him good.” But however faithful and submissive be may thus appear to have been, we know that his character was not satis factory to God. He would have been more pleasing to the Lord had he had more firmness of

November Joe The Detective of the Woods

By HESKETH PRICHARD

SYNOPSIS James Quaritch engages November Joe as his guide. Joe and he go to Big Tree portage to investigate the murder of a trapper named Lyon. Joe decides that the murderer followed Lyon to his camp and shot him from a canoe. v By studying woodland evidence and making clever deductions Joe discovers the murderer, Highamson, Lumberman Close reports that Blackmask, a high\faytnan, is robbing his men. Six lumberjacks are robbed by the same man. Joe makes a careful examination of the scene of the robbery. Close is accused by his men, but Joe arrests Chris, one of the lumberjacks, the real robber. Sally Rone, a widow, has been, roDDeo of-valuable pelts. Joe and Evans, a game warden, search for the thief. Sally’s lover, Val Black, is suspected, but Joe catches the actual culprit, In jin Sylvester. Millionaire Planx’s daughter Virginia has been abducted. The abductors demand $150,000 ransom for Virginia. Joe’s investigations indicate that one Hank Harper has abducted the girl. Joe ascertains that Virginia had herself abducted to get the ransom for her lover. Joe goes after Cecil Atterson, #ho has stolen SIOO,OOO. ■ ■ CHAPTER X. The Hundred Thousand Dolla?* Robbery. “ W WANT the whole affair kept uivofficial and secret." said Harris, £ the bank manager. - November Joe nodded. He was seated on the extreme edge of a chair in the manager’s private office, looking curiously out of place in that prim, richly furnished room. “The truth is.” continued Harris, “we bankers cannot afford to have our eus-) torners’ minds unsettled. There are. know. Joe, numbers of small depositors, especially in the rural districts. who would be scared out of their seven senses if they knew that this infernal Cecil .Tames Atterson had made off with a hundred thousand dollars. They’d never trust us again.” “A hundred thousand dollars is a wonderful lot of money,” agreed Joe. - “Our reserve is over twenty millions, two hundred times a hundred thousand,” replied Harris grandiloquently. “Have you ever seen Atterson?” “No.” “I thought .vou might have He always spends his vacations in the woods, fishing usually. The last two years he has fished Red river. This is what happened. On Saturday 1 told him to go down to the strong room to fetch up a fresh batch of dollar and five dollar bills, as we were short It happened that in the same safe there was a number of bearer securities. Atterson soon brought me the notes I had sent him for with the keys. That was about noon on Saturday. We closed at 1 o’clock. Yesterday, Monday, Atterson did not turn up. At first I thought nothing of it. but when it came to afternoon and be had neither appeared nor sent any reason for his absence I began to smell a rat. I went down to the strong room and found that over SIOO,OOO In notes and bearer securities were missing. “I communicated at once with the police, and they started to make Inquiries. The constable at Roberville replied that a man answering to the description of Atterson was seen by a farmer walking along the Stoneham road and beading north on Sunday morning early.” .' At this point a clerk knocked at the door and. entering, brought in some letters. Harris stiffened as he noticed the writing on one of them. He cut it open, and when the clerk was gone out he read aloud: Dear Harris—l hereby resign my splendid and lucrative position in the Grand Banks of Canada. It is' a dog's dirty life. Anyway it Is so for a man of spirit. You can give the week’s screw that’s owing to me to buy milk and bath buns for the next meeting of directors. Yours truly, C. J. ATTERSON. “What’s the postmark?” asked Joe. “Rimouski. Sunday, 9:30 a. m.” “It looks like Atterson's the thief," remarked Joe. “I’m inclined that way because Atterson had that letter posted by a con-rcon—what’s the word?” “Confederate?” ■ “You’ve got it. lie was seen here In town on Sunday at 10:30, and he couldn’t have posted no letter in Rimouski in time for the 9:30 a. m- on Sunday unless he’d gone there on thb 7 o’clock express on Saturday evening Yes. Atterson’s the thief, all right. And if that really was he they saw Stoneham ways he’s had time to get thirty miles of bush between us and him, and be can go right on till he’s on the Labrador. ■ I doubt you’ll see your SIOO,OOO again, Mr. Harris.” “H’m!” coughed Mr. Harris. “My directors won’t want t# pay you $2 a day for nothing.” “Two dollars a day?" said Joe in his gentle voice. “I shouldn’t ’a' thought

£bs TEoasand dollars could stand a strain like that!” I laughed. “Look here, November. I think I’d like to make this bargain for you. I’ll sell your services to Mr. Harris here for $5 a day if you fall and 10 per cent of the sum you recover if you succeed. Well. Harris, is It on or off?’ I asked. “Oh. on. I suppose, confound you!" said Harris. Twenty hours later Joe, a police trooper named Hobson and I were deep in the woods. We had hardly paused to interview the farmer at Roberville and then had passed on down the old deserted roads until at last we entered the forest, or, as it is locally called, the “bush.” “Where are you heading for?” Hobson had asked Joe. “Red river, because if it really was Atterson the farmer saw I guess he’ll have gone up there. None of them trappers there now in July month, bo he can Steal a canoe easy. Besides, a man who fears pursuit always likes to get into a country he knows, and you heard Mr. Harris say how Atterson had fished Red river two vacations. Besides”—here Joe stopped and pointed to the ground—“them’s Atterson’s tracks,” he said. “Leastways, it’s a black fox to a lynx pelt they are his.” “But you’ve never seen him. What reason have you?” demanded Hobson. “When first we happened on them about four hours back, while you was llglitiu’ your pipe,” replied Joe, “they come out of the bush, and when we reached hear Cartier’s plfice they went back into the bush again. Then a mile beyond Cartier's out of the bush they come on to the road'again. What can that circumventin’ mean? Feller who made the tracks don’t want to be seen. No, 8 boots, city made, nails in ’em, rubber heels. Come on.” I will not attempt to describe our Journey hour by hour nor tell how November held to the trail, following it over areas of hard ground and rock, noticing a scratch here and a broken twig there. The next morning November wakened us at daylight, and once more we hastened forward. For some time we followed Atterson’s footsteps and then found that they left the road. We moved on quietly and saw that not fifty" yards ahead of ns a man was walking excitedly up and down. His head was sunk, upon his chest in an attitude of the utmost despair. He waved his hands, and on the still air there came to us the sound of his monotonous muttering. We crept upon him. As we did go Hobson leaped forward and, snapping his handcuffs on the man’s wrists, cried: “Cecil Atterson, I’ve got you!” “By the way. I'd like to hear exactly what I’m charged with,” said Atterson. “Theft of SIOO,OOO from the Grand banks. May as well hand them over and put me to no more trouble." Hobson ulungod his hand into Atterbckj£ pockets and searched him thoroughly, but found nothing. “They are not on him!” he cried. “Try his pack.” From the pack November produced a square bottle of whisky, some bread, salt, a slab of mutton—that was all. “Where have you hidden the stuff?" demanded Hobson. Suddenly Atterson laughed. “So you think I robbed the bank?” he said. “I’ve my own down on them, and I’m glad they’ve been hit by some one, though I’m not the man. Anyway, I’ll have you and them for wrongful arrest, with violence.” November was fingering over the pack, which lay open on the ground, examining it and its contents with concentrated attention. Atterson had sunk down under a tree like a man wearied out Hobson and Joe made a rapid examination of the vicinity. A few yards brought them to the end of Atterson’sl tracks. “Here’s where he slept” said Hobson. “It’s all pretty clear. He was dog tired and just collapsed. I guess that was last night. It’s an old camping place, this. But where has/he cached the bank’s property?” For upward of an hour Hobson searched every conceivable spot. But not so November Joe, who, after a couple of quick casts down to the river, made a fire, put on the kettle and lit his pipe. , • At length Hobson ceased his exertions and accepted a cup of tea Joe had brewed. “There’s nothing cached round here, and his trail stops right where he slept. He never moved a foot beyond that nor went down to the river, 100 yards away. The chap’s either cached them or handed them to an accomplice on the back trail. I’m thinking he’ll confess, all right, when I get him alone.” He stobd up as November moved to take a cup of tea over to Atterson. “No, you don’t!” he cried. “Prisoner Atterson neither eats nor drinks between here and Quebec unless he confesses where he has the stuff hid.” “He won’t ever put you wise,” said Joe definitely. “Why do you say that?’ “ 'Cause he can’t. He don’t know himself.” “Bah!” was all Hobson’s answer as he turned on his heel. November Joe did not move as Hobson, his wrist strapped to Atterson’s. disappeared down the trail by which we had come. “Well,” I said, “what next?” “I’ll take another look around.” Joe led the way down to the river, which, though not more than fifty yards away, was hidden from us by the thick trees. It was a slow flowing river, and In the soft mud of the margin I saw, to my surprise, the quite recent traces of a canoe having been beached. Beside the canoe there was also on the mud the faint mark of a paddle having lain at full length.

Toe pointed to it The paddle had evidently, I thought, fallen from the canoe, for the impression it had left on the soft surface was very slight “How long ago was the canoe here?” “At first light—maybe between 3 and 4 o'clock,” replied Joe. “Then I don’t see how it helps you at all. Its coming can’t have anything to do with the Atterson robbery, for the distance from here to the camp is too far to throw a packet and the ab-

“Cecil Atterson, I’ve got you!”

sence of tracks makes it clear that Atterson cannot have handed the loot over to a confederate in the canoe. Isn’t that right?” "Looks that way,” admitted Joe. “Then the canoe can be only a coin cidence.” November shook Ids head. “I wouldn’t go quite so far as to sn> that, Mr. Quaritch.” Once again he rapidly went over the ground near the river, then returned to the spot where Atterson had slept following a slightly different track to that by which we had come. Then taking the hatchet from his belt, he split a dead log or two for a fire and hung up the kettle once mo[re. I guessed from this that he had seen at least some daylight in a matter that was still obscure and inexplicable to me. “I wonder If Attersonhns confessed to ITbbson yet,” T buKT, meaning 10 draw Joe. “He may confess about the robbery, but he can’t tell any one where the bank property is, because he’s been robbed in his turn.” "Robbed!” I exclaimed. Joe nodded. “And the robber?” > “ ’Bout five foot six, light weight, very handsome, has black hair, is, I think, under twenty-five years old and lives in Lendeville or near it” “Joe, you’ve nothing to go on,” I cried. “Are you sure of this? How can you know?” “I’ll tell you when I’ve got those bank bills back.” (TO BE CONTINUED)

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