Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1915 — Page 3

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Floj’d Smith came down from Chicago to spend Memorial day. Parker Overton of Hammond, spent Decoration Day with relatives here. Have you heard the Schiller Ideal Player? If not, come in and hear it. H. R. LANGE & SOX. j-3 Mrs. J. M. Wasson went to Berwyn, 111., Monday to visit the family of her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Coen. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Beam came down from Chicago and spent Sunday and Monday here with relatives. Mrs. William Porter of Hammond, came down Saturday evening to visit her son, Harve J. Robinson, and family. Former city marshal W. R. Shesler, now of Chicago Heights, came down Friday night and spent Saturday and Sunday with friends here. Piano Tuning and Repairing—All work guaranteed, at the music store, north of Rowles & Parker’s store, or phone 566.—H. R. LANGE & SON. ts W. P. Cooper of Reynolds drove up in his auto Sunday and Mrs. Cooper, who had been visiting relatives here for several days, returned home with him. John Bissenden, who is employed on ihe Illinois Central Railroad, came down from Chicago and visited over Sunday with his brothers., A 1 and Tom Bissenden. George Dolson of Chicago, came down Saturday evening and spent Sunday and Monday here with his wife and her relatives. Both returned home Monday evening.

Joe O'Connor was down from Hammond Sunday visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John O’Connor. His wife, who had been visiting here for several days, accompanied him home. Roy Scott of Barkley tp., who has been suffering with, a cancer on his lip for the past year, left yesterday for Rochester, Minn., to again take treatment and undergo operations at tile Mayo Bros., sanitarium. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Yeoman came down from Chicago Sunday to visit John Guss and family, near Virgie, and other relatives and friends for a week. Mr. Yeoman is engaged in the sale of nursery stock in Chicago and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Tuteur and son of Chicago, came down Saturday for an over Sunday visit with relatives here. Ike is not looking very well yet, having never fully recovered his former health since his severe spell of sickness. Ralph O’Riley and Walter Hopkins have rented of Mrs. Eleanor Adams, the former Dr. Horton property on Division street, now occupied by E. L. Hammerton. Mr. O'Riley "ill occupy the second flour and Mr. Hopkins the first flour.

-lisses Ethe] and Mae Clark returned Saturday night from Jacksonville, 111., where-they attended college the past year. Miss Jane Parkison, who attended the same school, went to Murphysboro, 111., to visit friends for several days before returning home. There was an extra la,rge crowd out Sunday evening to the baccalaureate services at the M. B. church. The church was crowded to the limit and many people were turned away. Rev. Titus of the Christian church, preached the baccalaureate sermon, and it was a splendid sermon inded. We are this week unloading a car of nice Michigan, round, white, rural potatoes, for late seed or table stock at 60c a bushel. John Eger.

Dr. John Ellis and wife of Chicago, visited over Decoration Day with his father, J. H. S. Ellis. Forest Morlan of Chicago, visited here Decoration Day w ith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morlan. The Jordan tp., Sui May school convention will be, held at Egypt school house Sunday, June 6, at 2 p. m. ■ We have a few slightly used high grade pianos, and some second-hand ones which -will go at a bargain.— H. R. LANGE & SON. j-3 Homer Hopkins came up from Lafayette Sunday morning and spent Sunday and Monday here with his aged mother, “Aunt” Mary Jane Hopkins. On account of the Junior Reception at the armory tonight, the regular band concert will begin a halfhour early, at 7:30 instead of 8:00 as usual. We have in stock and will sell on time, gasoline and kerosene engines, cream separators, corn shelters and grinders.—WATSON PLUMBING CO. Phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind.

A. Beasley, formerly of Remington, but now located in the photographing business at Tolleston, Lake county, was in Rensselaer Friday afternoon enroute to Remington for a visit. ■ Mrs. John Martindale was taken to Chicago Friday and operated on for the removal of a tumor. When her daughter left her bedside, Sunday, she was getting along as well as could be expected. A card received Monday from George M. Babcock, states he has left Tacoma and is now at Everett, Wash., which he says is a beautiful little city of 30,of?0, located at the northern end of Puget Sound. Frank J. Babcock returned Sunday from a nine weeks' sojourn at the North Shore Health Resort at Winnetka, 111. He gained ten pounds in weight while there and is feeling quite a little improved in health. Don Hoover returned Saturday from a Chicago hospital -where he underwent an operation and treatment for swollen glands. He is looking and feeling much better and will no doubt soon be all right again.

Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp and children of Chicago Heights, came down Saturday for a couple of days’ visit with his aunt, Mrs. Mattie Sharp, and sisters, Mrs. W. P. Cooper of Reynolds, and Mrs. George Dolson of Chicago, who were also here. Monday was observed as a legal holiday throughout the country, as Decoration Day this year came on Sunday. In Rensselaer the-banks were closed and the rural mail carriers took a day off, which was the only indication here of its being a holiday. Mrs. F.j M. Pollard returned a few day's ■ ago from the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis, where she had been for a week with her daughter, Olive, who underwent a severe surgical operation for the removal of a tumor. She is getting along as well as could be expected. —; e> The rainfall for the month of May w'as one of the heaviest for a long time, and totaled, according to the government gauge at St. Joseph college, 8.33 inches. The fall from May 23 to 30, was 4.38 inches, and for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 3.48 inches. Friday’s rain was the heaviest for any one day,, being 1.18 inches. “Uncle ’ Jacob Lesh of Menomonie, \\ is., stopped off here Saturday while on his way home from a visit in Dayton, Ohio, for p, week's visit with his daughter and son, Mrs. Eli Arnold of Barkley t p„ and John Lesh of tJnioh tp. D. E. Lesh, also of Menomonie, accompanied by Soloman Stoner, who had been attending ! the Dunker meeting at Dayton, 0., stopped off here a few days last week to visit Dan’s brother and sister, John Lesh and Mrs. Arnold.

Tom Huston was a Good land visitor over Sunday, Mrs. James Cowden of Logansport spent Decoration day here. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth visited relatives and friends in Kalamazoo, Mich., over Sunday. Yesterday's markets: Corn, 70c; oats, 4 Sc. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 65c; oats, 36c. We drill water wells anywhere and any size.—WATSON PLUMBING CO., phone 204, Ind. ts Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Buffert oi Lafayette, came Friday morning for a several days’ visit with Joseph Nagel and family.

Levi Hawkins and daughter. Miss Florence, of Lafayette, visited here from Saturday until yesterday with the J. D. Allnaan family. Full line of MpCormiek machinery for sale. Will also buy produce at the highest market price. New phone No. 461. EDWARD HERATH. j-22 N. S, Bates attended the funeral of his sister, Mrs. J. H. Brown, at Jessup, Ind., last week, whose death was caused from typhoid fever. She was 68 years of age. John M. Ott of Remington, took the train here Saturday for Chicago to bring home his daughter, Miss Grace Ott, who underwent an operation in a hospital there.

The local “board of trade" is said to have quit business here. Will Hill has been in charge of late, and yesterday it did not open and it is reported that it has quit business here. ; _ Miss Mary Yates expects to leave for California on June 4. She will attend the “Rose Show” at Portland, Ore., from there she will go to Seattle, Vancouver and thence to San Francisco. The Benton Review says that exPostmaster Kitt of Goodland, has purchased the Fowler Tribune and will take charge of Same very soon, Mr. Kitt is an old newspaper man and, seemingly', just can’t keep out of the business. The Democrat wishes him the best of success with the Tribune. W. A. Lake of near Kniinan, returned Saturday afternoon from a few days’ business trip to Chicago, his former home. Mr. Lake is almost a newcomer to Jasper county, although having owned a farm near Knirnan for some time. He is a hustler and a very bright gentleman,! and we are always glad to welcome ! such people to our county. !

College avenue, along the west side of Milroy park, presents a busy scene these days. The frame is up for Bert Hopkins’ new house, the basement foundations completed and lumber being hauled for Miss Maude Spitler’s and F. M. Parker's new dwellings, and the foundation for Cleve Eger’s house is being put in. The frame is also up for Mrs. Stella Ketchum’s new residence about one block west of College avenue, on McCoy avenue., C. Reising, cfhtef clerk of railway mail service of Chicago, held the annual examination Friday of the clerks in the Rensselaer postoffice on the distribution of mail. Examination consisted of 778 'cards, representing half the postoffices in Indiana. Miss Fame Haas threw the 778 in 33 minutes, missing only 10, making 98.74 per cent. W. A. Davenport missed 19 in 38 minutes, making 97.54. Civil service rules require all clerks to make 95 per cent on all examinations of this kind, and cards must be thrown at the rate of 15 per. minute.

The Ladies’ Aid of the M. E, church of Kniman, gave a little surprise one day . last week, in honor of their president, Mrs. H. Hinricks. Twenty-three were there to show' their appreciation of her faithful service as president for the last two years and presented her with a bible. The afternoon was enjoyed by singing songs. Mr. Hinricks and the Lake sisters singing German. Refreshments were served. Mrs. Shell treating us all to an abundance of popcorn balls, and Mrs. E. Osborn taking our pictures for remembrance of the day. All had a fine time.—FßOM A MEMBER. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears - Signature of

Allen Catt visited Orville Burris at Stoutsburg Sundav. rt. - Quite a large number of auto touri?ts passed through Rensselaer yesterday on tlieir way home from the -Indiafat prtljg; r aec;. _ While Monday was quite a pleasant day* it grew considerably cooler at night, and yesterday morning the mercury registered at 65, and the indications were for more rain. -drs, B. F. Edwards, accompanied by her three little daughters, and her mother, Mrs. Catherine Rowen, of Pontiac, 111., came over last week to visit her sister, Mrs. J. H. Long. A. S. La Rue, as agent, made a sale Monday of C. B. Wells’ SO acre farm just north of the Barkley M. E. church, to Nick Syhmitter, of near Rensselaer, for $l2O per acre. Mr. Sehmitter will move onto the farm next spring, it is understood. We are not informed as to Mr. Wells’ plans.

The Ladies’ Aid of the Kniman E. church will hold a strawberry festival Saturday afternoon and evening, June 5, at the home of W. A. Lake, 3-4 mile north of the Kniman school house. There will be games and pastimes in the afternoon and a stereoptican entertainment and sacred concert in the evening. Ernest Morlan of just west of town, in Newton tp., killed a rattlesnake on Tuesday of last week, while plowing, that had seven rattles. This was not of the same species, however, as the 76 rattlesnakes and scorpions, referred to by a Rensselaer paper as opposing the giving of $16,000 to a bunch of paper railroad promotors. Mrs. Simon Leopold, who has been staying with relatives at Peoria, 111., for some time, came to Rensselaer Saturday and, after a visit of a week or ten days here, will go to Crystal Falls, Mich., to visit her daughter, Miss Selma Leopold, who is teaching there, until the latter part of the month, when her school is out. Both will then go to W’oodman, Colo., where Mr. Leopold is taking treat-: ment for tuberculosis and is said to ! be receiving much benefit therefrom. !

Mrs. Bernice Clark of Wheatfleld, '•'ill entertain the Housekeepers’ Club at her home there in a short time, and the members are arranging to make the trip in automobiles. —Crown Point Star. Democratic County Chairman Frank Billings of Morocco, has resigned, because of having been appointed postmaster at Morocco, and Judge Darroch of Kentland, has been elected county chairman in his place. A petition for the erection of a new school building at Gilboa Center in Gilboa tp., signed by fifty-one school patrons, has been presented to the trustee and advisory board.

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The petition asks that the building be constructed at a cost of $15,000 to SIB,OOO. We -understand that the building will be erected. —-Benton Review.

- A fellow over near Oxford liad a sick colt last week. He also had a Ford. As lie lived nine miles from town he disliked making two 18 mile trips to get the veterinarian and colt together, so lie loaded up the colt and took it to the veterinarian's office and after it received medical attention lie took it home again. You can do anything with a Ford.—Remington Press.

PRACTICAL JOKES ON PUBLIC.

Some of the Clever ami the Ridiculous Hoaxes Americans Have Fallen For. About a year ago there died in Kelvin, Ark., a traveling salesman, Joseph Mulhattan, who conceived a hoax and fooled many editors, aroused the negroes of the north and south and amused the nation. Mulliattan originated the story that monkeys were to supplant the negro cotton pickers.

Mulhattan told the story so often that his earnestness made some newspaper men who printed the story think that it was possible, 110 figured it out on paper as a paying investiment. The monkeys, of course, would receive no wages, so that on the face of it much would be saved in the cost of picking the crop. Then, tco, the monkeys would increase rapidly. For a time the story that monkeys would supplant negroes in picking cotton was believed, particularly as tho experiment “was being tried on a Lousiana plantation.” The address of the plantation, however, was so vague no one was able to locate it.

Barnum loved to fool the people. A rival showman obtained a white elephant. Barnum by telegraph tried to obtain it and offered a huge sum. The owner of the real white elephant used Barnum’s telegram as a newspaper advertisement and poster, which made Barnum the more eager to 'get the animal. Falling in getting tlie white elephant, he cabled all over the world to get one. Then he resorted to subterfuge. He bleached an ordinary elephant, and did it so well that ho not only fooled the people who came to s-o it, but also a learned body of scientists, who gave him a testimonial to the effect that it was a genuine albino elephant.

Another Barn uni hoax was the giant of Cardiff, which was really a hoax of a hoax. Barnum failed in getting the real giant of Cardiff, but that did not deter him from showing the “original’’ Cardiff. George Hull, of Binghamton, X. Y., and Rev. Mr. Turk, of Ackley, Ohio, got into a dispute about giants - Probably it came about through discussion of a giant that Hull had in front of his tobacco shop. It may have come through an interpretation of the text; “And there were giants in those days ’’ So one is alive'who recollects the original dispute, so that one story is as good as another as to how the hoax began. Hull spent two years in the study of fossil remains and archaeology. Finally he got a slab of stone 12 feet long, 4 feet broad, 22 Inches thick, and had it carved according to specifications.

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Mr. Hull very cleverly had the giant carved so that there might be a question, or a difference of opinion, as to whether it was a fossil or a prehistoric sculpture. The “giant” was rubbed, scrubbed, bathed, washed and pricked with: pores, an acid was used that would take off the look of Chicago and modernity. Finally it was shipped, buried on a farm of a relative of Hull and “discovered’’ by men digging a well. The digging or a well was plausible enough. Delegations came from all over the country, including both learned men and curiosity seekers. So great was the procession that it became quite profitable, and finally it attracted Barnum’s attention. He had failed to get the Cardiff giant, but it (lid not take him two years to have a replica of it in his museum. Newspapers have not been above hoaxing the public. One. newspaper in New York believed the old menagerie cages In Central Park were not sufficiently strong. It conceived a tale of the lions, tigers, leopards and other animals breaking out and killing and injuring people, and printed pages about it.

No story of hoaxes is complete unless New York’s well-known joker is mentioned. He is Brian G. Hughes, and he has perpetrated more than a dozen jokes that have made the metropolis chuckle. To perpetrate these hoaxes has, cost him much money; but in all of his tricks no one ever lias suffered particularly.

Probably his best known exploit, because it was so successful, was tho career of his tom cat Xicodemus, a tenement house cat he purchased, lor ton cents, and which he advertised as the $2,000 cat, “not for sale.” In its class, Nicodt mus carried off first prize at the show in Madison Square Garden.

When Hughes decided to enter his cat, which he termed his “Dublin brindle cat, Nicodemns,” which he “valued at $2,000,” he inquired “If there would tie any objection, because of its value, to having it cared for during the show, b/ its regular attendant.” There wan no objection, and when the show opened a negro, I robably Sam Smith, who had taken i art in a number of his hoaxes, appeared in a gorgeous livery. During tbe time tlira lute was a c rowd in. front of Xic odoiiiv'v Smith looke l »-ot carefully for the smallest coml rt pf the animal. Yew York Press' Subscribe tor The Democrat.

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