Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1916 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LIGHTNING KILLS 12 STEERS

For August R. Schultz of Union Tp. Monday Afternoon. During the storm that hit Rensselaer about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, lightning struck a wire fence along °the pasture of August R. Schultz of Union tp. and killed 12 head of steers, eight of which were coming three-year-olds and four coming two-year-old. The steers bunched in the corner of the field and three of the animals killed were thrown over or through the fence while one was thrown into a dredge ditch. The loss is estimated by Mr. Schultz at S9OO, partly covered by S4OO insurance. This storm was accompanied by considerable severe lightning and a heavy wind, which blew down the oats and corn badly and also blew over several trees in different sections. Most of the corn will straighten up, but some of the oats are blown too flat to rise up again. The storm came from the northeast, and there was much more rain south and east of town than there was north of town, where it was mostly wind.

CLARK BUYS OUT PARTNER

Healey No Longer Connected With Rensselaer Republican. The Democrat is informed that George Healey is no longer connected with the publication of the Rensselaer Republican. Matters never did run very smoothly between the publishers, and since Healey has actively embarked upon his military career the troubles reached a climax. Clark is said to have bought Healey’s interest and is now the sole owner of the paper and Healey's name no longer appears as one of the publishers.

W. W. Miller’s Big Barn Burned at" Mt. Ayr.

The barn on the W. W. Miller farm just north of Mt. Ayr was completely destroyed by fire Saturday noon, together with considerable of the contents, including some 22 tons of hay and other property. The horses, wagons and harness were gotten out. The barn was one of the best in that locality. A good corn crib containing 2,300 bushels of corn was also burned. The loss is in the neighborhood of $3,500, with $1,300 insurance. It is not known how the fire started. One of the men had just put the teams up for dinner and at the time had gone up in the hay mow and got down some hay. A short time later, when the family were a dinner, it was noticed that the barn was on fire and apparently the fire had started in the mow. The roof of the house caught fire from burning brands ’rveral times, but by having a good supply of water in a tank in the house and passing it out to men on the roof the house was saved.

Faye Clarke Home From “York” State.

Faye Clarke returned home Sunday evening from New York state where he and Ross Porter have been for several months near Jamestown. For the past six weeks both have been employed on a big Holstein stock farm. Faye is not so favorably Impressed with that section o* the Empire state, but thinks it might be better farther east. Ross Porter is still there and is undecided when he will return. John M. Knapp is farming his father’s place near Panama not far from Jamestown and Faye and Ross helped him put in some of his crops.

Another Rensselaer Artist. We wish to call your attention to the artistic handmade posters in the windows of Burchard’s 5 and 10 cent store. These cards were made by D. Crooks, the young art stu dent. We also call your attention to the wonderful values these cards indicate.—Advt. Subscribe for The Democrat.

WEATHER FOR WEDNESDAY. PARTLY

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. Marriage licenses issued: July 14, Garfield Swartz of Dubuque, lowa, aged 34 January 1 last, occupation farmer, to Fairy M. Harris, also of Dubuque, lowa, aged 27 May 31 last, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first marriage of male having been dissolved by divorce in March, 1915; first marriage of female also dissolved by divorce in July, 1912. Clerk J. H. Perkins, who has been afflicted for the past few weeks from a skin infection, went to Chicago Monday morning accompanied by his daughter, Miss Ethel Perkins, and will remain there in a hospital for a few days and have a diagnosis made of his trouble. His local physician, Dr. English, was unable to diagnosis the ailment and the specialist to whom he was sent by Dr. English was also unable to give a diagnosis without studying the case for a few days.

New suits filed: No. 8645. Cora Coon vs. Percy Coon; action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married June 27, 1911, and separated May 29, 1916, and have not since lived or cohabited together. The complaint further alleges that the defendant failed to provide necessary clothing and food and refused to provide a suitable habitation but compelled plaintiff to live in old sheds in an jinsanitary condition and has failed and refused to furnish necessary articles of household furniture; for the past two years defendant has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, that he cursed her and struck her and on several occasions has administered to her a- severe beating. The plaintiff asks that her maiden name, Cora Wailing, be restored and also asks for SSOO alimony.

AGED RESIDENT DEAD

Jesse Osborne, Pioneer of jasper County, Succumbs After Long Illness. Jesse Osborne, father of City Engineer W. F. Osborne, mention of whose critical condition had been made in The Democrat from time s o time, passed to the great beyond Sunday morning at 7 o’clock at the home of his son in the north part of town, aged almost 82 years. The funeral services were held at the house Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducted by Revs. P. C. Curnick and W. H. Postill, and interment made that evening in Independence cemetery in Gillam tp. The obituary follows: Jesse Osborne, son of William and Delilah (Price) Osborne, was born in Ashe county, North Carolina, September 21, 1834, and departed this life in Rensselaer, Indiana, July 16, 1916, aged 81 years, 10 months and 25 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Elmina Knight of Gullford county, North Carolina, on August 19, 185; To this union were born 10 chil dren, four of whom with his companion have preceded him to tho home beyond. The following children survive. Alvira J. Wilcox, Mount Vernon, Washington; Rebecca M. Querry, Sidell, Illinois; W. F. Osborne, Rens selaer, Indiana; Letitia F. Faris, Wenatchee, Washington; Rilla V. Kennedy, Columbia River, Washington; Laura C. Osborne, Mount Ve” non, Washington. He united with the Methodist church when a young man and has remained a faithful Christian until the end. During his sickness I.e often asked to have passages from the bible read to him. In 1865 he migrated from North Carolina to Jasper county, India r purchasing a farm in the then thinly populated part of Jasper county. He held the office of township trustee for two years in Walker township.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916

In 1881 he disposed of his possessions in Walker township and moved on a farm in Gillam township where he resided until 1896, when he removed to Rensselaer, making this his home with the exception of a few years spent in the South.

BIG BENTON COUNTY DITCH

Gilboa Land Owners Will File Remonstrances Against Ditch. Some of the land holders in Gilboa tp. and White county, whose farms will be affected by the proposed Hollingsworth ditch, the report of which was filed last w r eek. are objecting to the assessments and will fight the ditch in the circuit court. This week a number of the wealthy land holders of Gilboa have employed attorneys and remonstrances against the proposed ditch will be filed in the circuit court here, which means that the matter will have to be threshed out in the court during the October term. The proposed drain, which is to cost about $70,000 and affects an area of some 12,000 acres, is one of the most extensive drains in the county. The original petition for the ditch was signed by a majority of the land owners but it seems that they were not contemplating as costly a drain and are now attempting to block the improvement. Some believe assessments are too high considering the benefits to be derived. Attorneys Snyder and Hawkins of this place are representing the remonstrators from Gilboa and a ber from White county. As the time has elapsed for the filing of a joint remonstrance, each objector will have to file a separate remonstrance, setting out reasons why the drain ashould not be con structed. County Engineer Don Heaton, assisted by Chester B. Whicker of Lafayette, the commissioners and viewers, have devoted several weeks in going over the route of the proposed ditch and lands that will be affected in making their report which was filed last week. —Benton Review

Saturday, August 5, Will Be a Big Day in Rensselaer.

Advertising car No. 1 of the Hagen beck-Wallace circus was in Rensselaer Monday billing the town and county for miles about for the show to be given here on Saturday, August 5. This is now one of the largest shows on the road, and it requires 61 large specially built railroad cars to transport it. The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus has exhibited several times in Rensselaer and it has a good reputation here. When last here, in 1912, it required 48 cars to bring the show here, and the addition of 13 more cars since that time indicates that the show is more than one-fourth larger than when last here. The show comes from Monticello here and will go from Rensselaer to Joliet, 111. Advertising car No. 2 will be here next Monday and No. 3 the following Monday. Saturday, August 5, will indeed be a big day in Rensselaer and one of the largest crowds ever in the city will be here to take in the show.

Farm House Burned in Walker Tp.

A good new house built a few months ago on J. W, Hammerton’s farm in Walker tp., near the Kankakee tp. line, was struck by lightning during the storm Monday afternoon and totally destroyed together with all its contents. No one was home at the time, Mr. Hammerton being at Frank W. Fisher’s, about a mile away, helping Mr. Fisher with his work. The loss was partly covered by insurance, but at this writing w« are unable to learn either the estimate of the loss or the amount of insurance carried.

Earl Ticen Take.* New Position at Frankfort Monday.

Earl Ticen will enter upon a new line of work at Frankfort Monday where he takes a position as advertising manager on the Crescent-News ar. evening paper of tuat city. Mr. Tycen is a good ad writer and with his pleasing personality should make good in this line of work for which he is well adapted. The Democrat loins his many friends in Rensselaer in wishing him the best of success.

Notice Commencing Monday, July 17, 1916, ice cream will cost 35c per quart, 20c pint. Ice cream sodas and sundaes, 10c. A C. P. FATE, jV VERNON NOWELS,' THOMPSON & WAYMIRE, HARRY GALLAGHER.

A BIG CIRCUS IS COMING

Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows Are to Appear Here Soon. Peanuts and pink lemonade will soon be ripe and the odor of sawdust tanbark will permeate the air. The Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, gayest, grandest, gladdest galaxy in all the wide world, is coming Rensselaer on Saturday, August for two performances. This year the big show—in reality there are two shows—will come aboard three special trains, the longest ever used to transport a circus aggregation. The country for miles around is all aglow with the noisy circus bills of purple and gold, and the downtown billboards are the mecca upon which thousands of eyes feast their gaze. Father Time is always on the job; scenes come and go, but somehow or other the circus is just the circus, and its popularity never wanes. The joys and memories of circus day keeps a steady hold upon the heart-strings of the American people. All through the long months of winter agents of the Carl Hagen-beck-Wallace circus have been scouring the continents of the earth, securing novelties and features. The performance this year will be entirely new. More than 400 acrobats, gymnasts, riders, contortionists and athletics, together with 50 clowns, ‘compose the circus end. In addition the big show is augmented with Carl Hagenbeck’s trained wild animal exhibition. Hundreds of wild animals, lions, leopards, tigers, pumas, jaguars, elephants, seals, monkeys, etc., will constitute that department. Performances will be given at two and eight p. m. Doors to the zoo logical paradise will be opened an hour earlier. A three-mile-long street parade will leave the show grounds at 10 o’clock the day of the exhibition and will pass through th-* principal downtown streets.

Rev. Titus Here Over Sunday.

Rev. G. W. Titus, former pastir of the Christian church of this city and now state secretary of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league, spent Sunday in Rensselaer and occupied the pulpit of the Christian church Sunday morning and Sunday evening preached at the vesper services. Both addresses were on the antisaloon work, Sunday being anti-sa-loon Sunday in the various Rensselaer protestant churches. Rev. Titcs and family made many friends in Rensselaer during the year and a half of the former’s pastorate here and all were glad to see him again Sunday. He stated that his family was well and that he liked his new w’ork very much and had his whole soul and energy wrapped up in the work.

Throwing Bouquets at Jasper County’s Roads.

The Rensselaer papers are criticizing an automobile for flying a Dixie highway pennant while running on the Jackson highway. We agree ,with them. That pennant should be used as a pant’s pad when riding on the Jackson highway in Jasper, and we believe the Dixie highway man would be grateful to anyone suggesting this if he is still alive. In fact, we think the Jasper countyites should station a man at each end of that road in the county with ait cushions for tourists, willing to mak? a trip through the county.—Brook Reporter.

Desires Correction Made.

Dr. Hansson desires The Democrat to say, as perhaps some people might infer that the amount involved in the lawsuit of Babcock & Hopflins against him represented onehalf the profits from the sale of cars during their short partnership, that $1,350 of this amount was one-half of the capital they had actually put in the business in buying cars, and that this amount had been lying in a bank here to their credit for a time. The balance, representing in part profits from both new and sec-ond-hand cars, would have been settled long ago, he states, had he not been misled by confidence placed in one whom he had considered a friend. Also that he was far frorfi satisfied over the amount of the judgment.

Birth Announcements. July 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek of Newton tp., a son. Rensselaer Chautauqua, August 10 to 15. An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Subscribe for The Democrat

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of th* Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FORMER JUDGE JAMES SAUDERSON IS DEAD Well Known Fowler Citizen Dies Alter Lingering Illness. James T. Sanderson, well known to many readers of The Democrat and at one time candidate for judge of the appellate court on the Democratic ticket, died at his home in Fowler Saturday morning after an illness Of several weeks, aged almost 75 years. Mr. Sanderson was Dorn at Delphi, Ind., September 11, 1841. He enlisted in Company A, Second Indiana cavalry in September, 1861, and served throughout the war or until discharged for disability in 1864. He later studied law in Monticello and was admitted to the White county bar in 1867. In 1868 he located In Kentland and practiced law there for nearly 25 years. On account of impaired health he then went to Oklahoma and from there to Los Angeles and Denver, practicing law in each place for a year or more. In 1897 he returned to Indiana and formed a partnership in the practice of law with E. G. Hall at Fowler, the firm being known under the name of Saunderson & Hall. He was elected judge of the Benton-Warren circuit court in November, 1906, by 700 majority in a district that was normally 1,800 Republican. He served one term of six years as judge of that circuit. Burial was made at Monticello. He leaves a wife, but no children, three born to them having died in infancy.

BIG DEMAND FOR LABORERS

Labor Bureau Can Nut Fill Half the Places Open. Indianapolis. Ind.. July 17.--The demand for laborers at the labor burea u 'n the federal building, is the greatest in the history of the office. Especially is this true in the demand for farm laborers, about 40 calls having been received during one day recently by J. S. Sherman, director in charge of the Indianapolis district. “I can not recall when laborers have been so hard to find as now,’’ said Mr. Sherman. “Farmers are actually begging for help and a e offering attractive wages in the hone of obtaining sufficient help to gather their crops. Day labor jobs at a minimum wage of 20 cents an hour are little or no Inducement and it is simply impossible to meet the requests of contractors and railrord companies. "We obtained 150 negroes to go to Akron. O. The manager of the plant asked for 300 men but it was impossible to obtain that many." Two women who have farms neai Indianapolis spent the morning in the office in the federal building in the hope of obtaining men and women to work on their farms, but were unsuccessful. Contractors and railroad men sent in several emergency calls for immediate help, but Mr. Sherman was unable to meet the requests.

Orpet Freed of Murder of Marian Lambert.

It seems practically out of the question to convict a person for murder in and about Chicago, providing the alleged murderer has a few influential friends and is able to hire fairly good attorneys. William Orpet, who was tried at Waukegan, IIL, for the murder of Marian Lambert, the Lake Forest, 111., school girl, a few months ago, was acquitted by a jury Saturday. The trial revealed a rather rotton condition of the schools —or the particular school which Miss Lambert attended. She and young Orpet had been criminally intimate for several months, and this fact seemed to have been known to several of her

schoolmates. Young Orpet, who was attending college at Madison, \Vls at the time of the girl’s death, had deliberately set out to ruin the girl, and then, when he had tired of her, "threw her over." The girl had made a secret appoint mentto meet Orpet onte morning while on her way to school, and her dead body was found in the snow several hours later, she having died from poison. The state’s contention was that Orpet had given her the poison when they met that morning, but he claimed that she had the poison with her an’d took it after he had told her all was over between them. The jury evidently accepted hi 3 version of the girl's death and returned r verdict of aequital. But the public stilly believes that Orpet was the actual murderer of Marian Lambert. If not directly so, then by his conduct after having gained her confidence by making love to her, and he should have been punished for the death of the girl.

DOWN ON THE MEX. BORDER

Indiana Soldier Boys Doing Nicely and There’s Very Little Sickness* W. H. Blodgett of the Indianapolis News, under date of July 17, writes from Mercedes, Texas, of the soldier boys in camp there: ‘‘The boys from Indiana are in pretty good shape, all things considered. Some of them are sick, but not seriously. Those In the hospital are being well taken care of and two men of Mercedes send out flowers, books and such delicacies as the doctors will permit them to eat. They are having about all the comforts of home, except home, itself. The soldiers, as a whole, are putting on a warlike appearance and their cheeks are painted the color of health. There are many sunburned noses and prickly heat is the prevailing disorder, but they appreciate the fact that a laugh is worth a hundred frowns in any market and they are making the best of conditions. ‘‘The Third Indiana infantry under Colonel Kuhlman and the Indiana artillery, under Major Tyndall, are doing a great deal of hard drilling, but the other troops will not do any of that work until their camps are in order, which probably will be about Monday evening. Eight companies of the Third Indiana are without shelter tents and have to use “pup” tents, but the mud is drying up and it will not be long until they have their proper shelter. “During the first few days the camp practically was shut oft from the world, the roads were impassable and thick and along the car tracks it was dangerous and full of fatigue, but the sun and wind are putting the roads in a fairly good condition, and they soon -Will be service. “The persons living in the Rio Grande valley, especially those in the vicinity of Mercedes, were delighted with the coming of the soldiers, first, because of the protection assured, for it is admitted here that the presence of the soldiers has shut off the bandit raids, for the present, anyhow, and second, because the soldiers bring a lot of money into the valley. When the ban-lit raids began many people fled and no one would come here. The result was that the valley was up against it, as far as coin of the realm was concerned. Just as soon as the Indiana troops got here they began to put money into circulation. Before the end of next week it is estimated there will be between 15,000 and 20,000 soldiers from Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wyoming and the DaKota& in this vicinity and the amount of money they will spend cannot be estimated. “You talk about dry towns, but Mercedes certainly Is about the dryest that ever happened. The person who is telling this story had what Jack Shea would call a pair of flat wheels and was told to bathe his feet in alcohol. It was impossible even to buy raw alcohol. In seven days I have seen only one man who was across the line of sobriety and he had bought his load somewhere up the railroad. "One of the drawbacks to the camp practically is ended, the lack of water supply. When the Indiana troops arrived a week ago, all water for domestic purposes had to be hauled in tank wagons. Two hundred Mexicans were put to work on the water system and this will be finished, it is believed, by Monday evening. The water is from the Rio

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