Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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WILL CELEBRATE FLAY DAY.

Program Will Be Given at Gavety Airdome Tomorrow Afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon, Sunday, June 13, at 2:00 p. m. at the Gayety Airdome, will be held the first public observance of Flag Day in this city. The Redmen order, whose early history was bound most closely with the forming of this republic and whose precepts are a reverence and fidelity to the American flag, decided that this year, when our country is passing through one of the greatest crises in its history, when every heart should beat in unison and a feeling of reverence aroused in every breast for Old Glory, to hold a public service in observance of the day. They have prepared' a program for the occasion and have invited the G. A. R., Ladies of the Relief Corps, SoSns of Veterans and the various fraternal orders of this and adjoining towns, together with the public in general, to gather with them and pay tribute to the Stars and Stripes. Following is the program arranged: Music (2:00 p. m.) —Band. Invocation (2:30 p. m.) —Rev. Parrett. Music—H. S. Mixed Quartette. Remarks—Chairman C. M. Sands. Music—H. S. Mixed Quartette. Song—“ Star Spangled Baner’’ by the audience. Address—Hon. George I. Kisner of Terre Haute. Song—“ America” by audience. Benediction—Rev. Titus. Music—Band. All old soldiers and the ladies of the Relief Corps are invited to be seated on the stage.

Morning Party in Honor of Miss Roberts and Miss Long.

One of the prettiest parties of the season was given yesterday morning for the June brides, the Misses Roberts and Long, by the Misses Laßue and Murray, at the home of the former. Places at the card tables were found by place cards which were tiny hand-painted brides with tulle veils. After a few games of hearts were played, a bride and groom, represented by little Florence and Bobby Wright, marched through the rooms to the music of Mendelsshon’s Wedding March. The little bride wore a white hand embroidered dress trimmed with lace and a blue sash. Her veil was held in place by a wreath of orange blossoms. She also carried a tiijy shower bouquet of orange* blossoms. The groom wore a suit of blue linen. The refreshments, carrying out the pink and white color scheme, were served in flower-trimmed baskets and consisted of salad, olives, dainty sandwiches, ice cream, fancy cakes, chocolate and candies, xx

Were Royally Entertained

The members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association had a splendid time at their summer outing in the north end of the state last week. Hammond in particular did herself proud in entertaining the quill pushers, and the auto trip through the Calumet region was a revelation to many of the down-state editors who had hitherto had no personal acquaintance with the vast industrial interests of Lake county. Bro. Swaim of the Hammond News, to whose efforts was due the visit of the editors to Hammond and Lake county, is entitled to the thanks of both the members of the. editorial association and that of the people of his home town and county for bringing them there.

To Give Banquet for President Kurrie of the Monon.

The Rensselaer business and professional men will give a dollar dinner next Thursday evening at the Presbyterian church parlors to President H. R, Kurrie of the Monon railroad, -who is a citizen of Rensselaer and to whom they feel they owe much for what he has done for this city. The dinner will be served by the ladies of the Presbyterian church and will be followed by a smoker.

To Whom It May Concern.

All parties knowing themselves to be indebted to the Eichelberger Concrete Products Co., are hereby notified to settle their accounts with -W. L. Wood, Parr, Ind., who has been appointed attorney by the company to close up its business.—W. L. WOOD.

SUBSIDY ELECTION GALLED

To Vote Donation to So-Called Lafayette & Northwestern Ry. $61,000 ASKED FOB HERE And Marion Township, and Commissioners Set Election for Wednesday, July 14—Other Proceedings of County Commissioners. Rensselaer and Marion township for about the “steenth” time in the past 20 years, is to have another railroad subsidy election, and there is not any biughter prospects of the proposed road being built —-in fact, you couldn’t now build a railroad to a gold mine with the unsettled conditions of the country due to the European war and the rumors of war—and the proposed road is of less importance and less convenience to Rensselaer and Jasper county than any of the many paper railroads that have preceded it. However, a petition was filed and the commissioners, as they were probably required tdydo under the law, ordered the election, and Wednesday, July 14, is to determine whether Rensselaer will again be foolish enough to vote $61,000 to a bunch of promotors who promise so little for the money they ask. The proceedings of the commissioners on this and other matters for the second and last day of their June session follow: The petition filed at the April session of the board for an election in Marion tp., and Rensselaer, to vote 2 per cent aid for the proposed Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad Co., w r as dismissed, and a petition filed containing 86 names, asking that an election be held to vote a subsidy for the same company of $60,764.26, which is 2 per cent based on the 1014 assessment. The petition was accompanied by a bond for $-300, signed by C. G. Spitler as principal and Lowder & Lancaster Guarantee Accounting Co., as surety. The law now requires that petitioners for such a subsidy election be resident freeholders and voters, and that a bond be filed with the petition covering the expense of the election should the subsidy fail'to carry. In the event it carries, the expense of the election is to be deducted from the amount raised by the levy asked for. In this case, like all other subsidy elections held here, the expenses will likely be put on the taxpayers of the county and paid out of the county fund, although the supreme court has recently ruled that such expense should be paid by the township holding the election and not by the county, as there is no real probability of the road ever being built. As there were several on the petition who are not freeholders, M. Leopold, acting as attorney for F. E. Babcock and other taxpayers on the former petition, filed an answer of general denial to the petition in order to be “in court.” The commissioners fixed on Wednesday, July 14, as the date for holding such election.

Contract was let to the Vincennes! Bridge Co. at $459 for a new bridgej in Walker tp.; to F. M. Williams at’ $2,169 for a new bridge in Carpenter tp.; also to the same party at ■ $5,353 for a new joint bridge over the Iroquois diver ditch in Jordan; tp. Newton county is to pay one-j half of this amount, and her county j commissioners and county attorney attended the letting; to W. V. Porter' at $735 for a new bridge in Walker I tp. Plans and specifications were ordered prepared for the following new! bridges and notice ordered for let- ■ ting at the Jtily session: one in Car-' penter tp.; one in Barkley tp.; one' in Wheatfield; one in Union tp.; one; in Milroy tp., and one .in Hanging I Grove tp. Contractor Frank Teach was allowed $5,445.79 on the Frank Hill stone road in Jordan tp. Contractor allowed $723.20 on the John Eck stone road in Carpenter tp. Chris Roush w r as appointed superintendent of construction of the Chris Roust stone road in Carpenter tp., and Jasper Guy and p. r. Blue

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915

: were allowed an attorney fee of slot : on said road. Lewis S. Alter stone road in Car- ; pen ter tp.; notice heretofore ordered not having been given, the auditor is directed to give notice of letting, on;July .-'6.. ■" ’ ! The M. J. Delehanty and Julius; Hine stone road matters were continued for supplementary reports. James P. Deselms stone road petition; hi. B. Price appointed engineer and Frank Alter and Joe Thomas viewers, to meet June 15. Ed Oliver ditch; auditor directed to notify said Oliver to appear before board on July 6 and show cause why petition should not be dismissed at cost of petitioners. Final report was filed by W. F. Osborne in the William B. McNeil ditch. Same was approved and cause dropped. Final report also filed by W. F. Osborne in the William McAleer ditch. Report was approved and the $53.50 on hand was ordered prorated back, and cause continued for receipts. John Bowie, appointed justice of peace for Wheatfield tp., at the March session, failing to quality, the board appoints Albert VanDoozer as J. P, for said township. Contracts were awarded for poor farm supplies to Roth Bros, for meats, at S4O, for the ensuing three months, and to John Eger for groceries for the same period, at $165. Both were on specifications filed. Notice ordered for letting contract for coal for use of poor farm and county heating plant on July 6.

Former Remington Man Dies Suddenly in Texas.

County Treasurer A. A. Fell received a message Wednesday evening from Bay City, Texas, stating that his son, Horace Fell, had died there and the body was being shipped to Remington for burial, leaving Bay City Thursday morning. No particulars were given, but his death must have been very sudden. Mr. Fell was aged 38 years and leaves a wife but no children. He had been living in Texas for the past five sears, near Chalmers, and was engaged in rice farming. He had occasionally served as deputy sheriff there, and it is possible that he may have incurred the enmity of some one or have been killed while making an arrest, as he was in goow health so far as his father knew*. A Bay City paper of date of June "4, mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Fell and others taking an outing trip last week. The deceased after leaving Remington "went to Auburn, Ind., where he was employed for two years by the Auburn automobile works. He then removed to Texas. The body was expected to reach Remington some time Friday or Saturday morning. LATER —Mr. Fell, Sr., telegraphed the operator at Bay City for particulars, but did not get much information. The operator said the death was sudden; that Mrs. Fell was almost prostrated, but with her mother had taken tickets to Remington, with the body, and would probably reach Remington Saturday night. Mr. Fell was expecting to hear from his son’s wife when they reached St. Louis. The funeral will probably be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30, at the M. E. church in Remington.

Joy Riders Borrowed Edward Cook’s Automobile.

; Edward Cook, who resides at Mc- | Coysburg, thought for a time last i night that he had been the victim of an automobile thief, • and caused j every policeman in the city to be on j the lookout for a Ford car, bearing ; his license number. Mr. Cook with a party of friends had gone to the Jefferson high school to attend the 1 commencement exercises, and while jhe was in the building some one notified him that three young men were seen to drive away with his t car. He .went to police headquarters j and notified night desk sergeant K&rkhoff of the theft, and then rej turned to the high school building. ! Just as he was nearing the building, he saw three young men drive up in his machine, stop and jump out and run. He was not able to learn who they were.—Friday’s Lafayette Journal.

Birth Announcements. June 8, to Mr. and Mrs. David Peer,, a son. Subscribe for The Democrat.

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. Ex-sheriff W. I. Hoover was in Indianapolis on business Wednesday. See our Napier bond typewriter paper. It has stood the test in Rensselaer for the past ten years and is used by many of the leading attorneys and abstracters. If you are not using it, try a box and see how much superior it is to the kind you have been using. This brand is kept in stock by us at all times and in different weights. Following are the dates of township commencements not yet held: June 15, 8 p. m., Kankakee tp., at Tefft. June 19, 2 p. n,., jveener tp., at Demotte school house. June 19, 8 p. m., Barkley tp., at Barkley M. E. church. June 23, Union tp., time and place not yet designated. June 25, 2 p. m.. Walker tp., at Kniman. June 25, 8 p. m., Marion tp., M. E. church, Rensselaer. June 26, 8 p. m., Hanging Grove and Milroy tps., McCoysburg. Marriage licenses issued: June 9, George C. Tipsword of Panama, 111., aged 28 Jan. 14 last, occupation merchant, to Dolly Hershman, daughter of Frank M. Hershman of Tefft, aged 24 June 19 last, occupation music teacher. First marriage for each. ... k June 9, James H. Little or Muncie, aged 32 Nov; 21 last, occupation railroad clerk, to Orpha C. Hall, daughter of Joseph Hall of Goodland, aged 24 June 28 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for mate; second for female, first having been dissolved by divorce Feb. 17, 1911. '

As the result of negotiations by the attorneys, the case of Reginia Burris Kupke vs. the estate of the late B. J. Gifford, was compromised Tuesday and she is given $3,500 in addition to the $5,000 left her in Mr. Gifford’s will. Mrs. Kupke begun action in court here several months ago, through John A. Dunlap, her attorney, to set aside the W will, and alleged that she was the illegitimate daughter of the decedent. The case was taken to Newton county on change of venue, and was recently taken from Newton to Benton county. The setting aside of this will, in which the plaintiff was bequeathed $5,000, would have left a former will, in which she was left nothing, in force, and it also would have had to be contested. The settlement of this case clears the way for the executor, George H. Gifford, of Tipton, to sell the remainder of the Gifford estate lands and close up the estate.

MOOSE LODGE ORGANIZED.

New Fraternal Order Installed Thursday Night With 7(5 Meml>ers. As the result of the efforts of Organizer J. W. Manges here for the past few weeks, a lodge of the order of Moose was instituted Thursday night, in the armory, composed of 76 members. The lodge was organized by National Director M. M. Mahoney of Indianapolis. Following are the officers elected: Past Dictator, Dr. C. E. Johnson. Dictator, H.. Parkinson. Vice-Dictator, Art Kanne. Prelate, Leo Worland. Secretary, Mort Murray. Treasurer, C. G. Spitler. Trustees, Harry Swartzell, David Bair, James Hemphill. Inner Guard, Paul Norgor. Outer Guard, Earl Hemphill. Sergeant at Arms, Charles Osborn. The degree team from Hammond will be here on Sunday, June 20, to exemplify the ritualistic work, at which time another large class will

be initiated at the special initiation f*e of >■">. A picnic will also be held on the same day in the Kanne grove. The new order, The Democrat is informed, has two places in view for their lodge rooms, and expect to soon be installed in one of these and have their own club rooms.

A Few Important Things for Rensselaer People to Consider.

Now that another railroad subsidy election has been called for Rensselaer and Marion township, The Democrat, which is opposed and always has been opposed to the voting of subsidies to private corporations, and on behalf of many people here who are also opposed to the voting of such subsidies as a matter of principle and who have just as much right to oppose the compulsory taking of their own money by taxation and giving it to a private corporation—in fact, The Democrat, believes more so—than those favoring such proposition have a right to vote in favor thereof, desires to point out a few matters in connection with the present proposed subsidy for the consideration of the voters and tarpayers of thjs city and township. A profile and blueprint of the proposed Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad was filed with the county clerk Saturday. The name, “O. L. Brown, general manager,’’ appears on the profile. The Democrat does not know nor does anyone else, so far as it has been able to learn, who is now the president of this company. Dr. Pettigrew of Logansport, who was president of the company at the time it was first organized, has resigned and pulled out of the company, it is told, as also have directors A. P. Rainier, W. T. Elmore and Bert Sheets of Remington. O. L. Brown, like Eugene Purtelle of the now defunct Indiana & Northwestern Tractioh Co., seems to be the whole thing in the company now asking for this $61,000. The following certificate was filed with the profile and blueprint with County Clerk J. 11. Perkins: We, the undersigned, being a majority of the directors of rhe Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad Company, hereby certify that the attached maps and profiles are the original maps and profiles of the route adopted by the above named railroad corhpany as Its permanent and final route. That the line designated by white line in said maps is the median line of a strip of right-of-way 50 feet in width. That the maximum grade is 1.02 per cent and the maximum curve is 6 per cent. That the termi of said road are Lafayette, Indiana, and Kankakee, Illinois. EZRA G. COLLINS, E. G. PERRIGO, R. H. BRAINARD, O. A. ROGERS. This line MUST be followed as shown thereon should the road be built. Now, as stated in Wednesday’s Democrat, the proposed line of road runs from Wolcott, a town in White county, with which we have nothing in common. If it run through Remington it would be of much convenience to many people of both Remington and Rensselaer and would be patronized by 100 per cent more local people if connecting Rensselaer and Remington than as proposed. The road runs diagonally across from Wolcott ahd along west the Indian school buildings, as shown in the blueprint, perhaps a quarter of a mile east of the St. Joseph college. It would be of no benefit whatever to the college, as patrons there would have to walk one-fourth mile at least to take a car on the road, assuming that the railroad would be built. Neither, would it benefit the college one iota as a freight carrying line, it crosses the Range Line road near the bend in the said Range Line road at the southern city limits of Rensselaer, then runs north and slightly westerly and west a considerable distance of the Monnett school, crossing McCoy avenue just cast of the old A. McCoy residence, which is at leatet four blocks and perhaps one-fourth of. a mile west of the Rensselaer postoffice and of the court house square. This is its nearest point to the business district of Rensselaer, so that St. Joseph college patrons of the line would necessarily have to walk a quarter of a mile to the road, to take a car, and a quarter of a mile more after reaching McCoy avenue to reach the business district of Rensselaer. The proposed road then crosses the river and runs north along just, east of Weston cemetery, and its nearest point to the Monon depot is

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Vol. XVIII, No. 20

DELAY SENTENCE, BRYAN’S APPEAL

Defends Resignation on Ground Wilson Enthrones Force. WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE Wants People to Hear Him Before Passing Judgment—Asks Vindication as the President’s Note Is Published. Washington, June 11.—W. J. Bryan gave out the following statement for publication simultaneously with the president’s note to Germany: The Real Issue. '• • C “To the American People: “You now have before you tho text of the note to Germany—the note which it would have been my official duty to sign had I remained secretary of 6tate. I ask you to sit in judgment ttpon my decision to resign rather than to share responsibility for it. I am sure you will credit me with honorable motives, but that is not enough. Good intentions could not atone for a mistake at such a time, on such a subject and under such circumstances. If your verdict is against me, I ask no mercy; I desire none if I have acted unwisely. But hear me before you pass sentence. Agree Only in Purpose. "The president and I agree in purpose; we desire a peaceful solution of the dispute which has arisen between the United States and Germany. We do not only desire it, but with equal fervor we pray for it, but We differ irreconcilably as to the means of securing it. * If R were merely a personal difference. It would be a matter of little moment, for all the presumptions are on his side —the presumptions that go with power and authority. He is your president; I am a private citizen without office or title—but one of the hundred million of inhabitants. Force Is Antiquated. “Force represents the old system—the system that must pass away ; persuasion represents the new system — the system that has been growing, all too slowly, it is true, but growing for nineteen hundred years. In the old system war Is the chief cornerstone —war which at Its best is little better than war at its worst; the new system contemplates a universal brotherhood established through the uplifting power of example. “If I could correctly interpret the note to Germany, it conforms to the standards of the old system rather than the rules of the new, and I cheerfully admit that it is absolutely supported by precedents precedents written in characters of blood upon almost every page of human history. Austria furnishes the most recent precedent. It was Austria’s firmness that dictated the ultimatum against Serbia, which set the world at war. Every ruler believed that firmness would give the best assurance of the maintenance of peace, and faithfully following precedent, they went so near the fire that they were, one after another, sucked into the contest. System Called Fatal. “Never before have the frightful follies of this fatal Bystem been so clearly revealed as how. The most civilized and enlightened—aye, the most Christian of the nations of Europe are grappling, with each other as If in a death stnlggle. And they are so absorbed in alternate retaliation and in cruelties that they seem, for the time being, blind to the rights of neutrals and deaf to the appeals of humanity. A tree is known by its fruit. The war in Europe is the ripened fruit of the old system.

"This is what firmness, supported by force, has done in the old w'orld; shall we invite it to cross the Atlantic? Already the jingoes of our country have caught the rabies from the dogs of war; shall the opponents of organized slaughter be silent while the disease spreads? More Negotiation Asked. “As an humble follower of the Prince of Peace; as a devoted believer in the prophecy that "they that take the sword shall perish by the sword" I beg to be counted among those who earnestly urge the adoption of a course in this matter which will leave no doubt of our government's willing-i |iess to continue negotiations with Germany until an amicable understanding is reached, or at least until, the stress of war over, we can appeal from Philip drunk with carnage to Philip sobered by the memories of a historic friendship and by recollection of the innumerable ties of friendship that biisd the fatherland to the United States. “Some nation must lead the world out of the black night of war into the light of that day when “swords will be beaten into plowshares.” Why not make that honor ours? Some day—-

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