Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1916 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Milroy Baptist Chorch [?]ed by Lightning.

The Baptist church in Milroy tp. was struck hy lightning about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon and burned to the ground. The fire started there in the belfry,' and while the people of the neighborhood were able to remove the eontents of the building they had no way of putting out the fire of that height, and were compelled to stand by and see it burned to the ground. It is understood that the building was insured for from between SBOO and $1,200. It was erected in 1892 and was a good substantial edifice and the only church building in that township.

A Fine Rain Fell Thursday Night

While Rensselaer and immediate vicinity got more rain in June than other sections of the county, of late —with the few showers that have fallen —it has been “passed up” almost wholly. Rain fell all around us Thursday afternoon, but only a few drops fell in Rensselaer, and it was not until after 10 o’clock Thursday night that we came in for a supply. There was considciable lightning and wind wi h the rain that came then, but it sas a fine rain for all that, and the official weather guage at St. Joseph’s college showed a fall of 1 1-5 inches. While Thursday’s rains did an immense amount of good, it is generally conceded that the corn has been hurt badly in places by the six weeks’ drought.

Junior Work at the Chautauqua

One of the big features of the Chautauqua is the junior department. W r e are trying to emphasize the necessity for us as a community to inspire : n the boys and girls a healthy love of snort, so that their leisure hours will be taken up with more profitable and vigorous games.

We desire the co-operation of all the high school boys and girls and older young people of the community in this feature, as we are planning some special things for them; All of the sociability and companionship of life comes in our hours of recreation and no one can play together without being better friends because of the play. If we enter into the spirt of the play. Most any sort of a game will secure this fellowship, but the more interesting the game the more effective will lie its value in this regard. In gen eral, team games are of more value along this line than individualistic games.

We must have organization in order to make play interesting. A community could not last a week without direction. Take away the police courts, juries, civic administration and let everyone do just as chooses and we would have exactly the same conditions under which the children are playing. Put the play director in the play ground and you put the umpire over the game. Directed play substitutes competitive sides from wrangling, horse play and aimless running. It demands obedience to law in teaching the child to obey the rules of the game. He is learning quiet co-op-eration, power of attention, fairalertness, rapid decision, sympathy, courage and loyalty. Are not these things a self-discipline which makes for better citizenship later on, because are we not establishing standards of conduct by actual doing?—Miss Branson, supervisor of junior chautauqua.

Insure Your Antomobile

If you have never had an accident it simply means that your time is drawing that much closer. Get our rates with the Auto Owner Fire Protective Exchange of Kankakee, 111. It’s the cheapest. /.

LEE ADAMS,

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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. Court Reporter Wagner returned Wednesday from a few days’ visit in Chicago.

Marriage licenses issued: August S, John Dewitt of hair Oaks, aged 26 January 5 last, occupation laborer, to Fern Lillian McColly of Wheatfield, aged 20 June 22 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Squire Spitler.

At the meeting of township trus tees of the 10th district, held here Tuesday, the following counties were well represented: Jasper, Lake, Porter, White, Newton and Benton. We had expected to have a report from the secretary for publication in this issue, but were disappointed.

Recorder and Mrs. tteorge Scott went to Chicago yesterday, where she is taking treatment for a tuber cular trouble. Miss lane I aikiso~> went to the city also to see her father, R. A. Parkison, who recenLv underwent an operation there anl will not be brought home yet so. a week or more.

The state board of tax commissioners Ais announced the appraisement on corporate property in Indiana, and it is interesting to note that Lake county leads on steam railroad valuation over Marion county, the total valuation in Lake being $19,375,602, to $13,404,585. In interurban valuation, however, Lake has but $967,437 to $9,200,787 in Marion. Jasper county’s steam railroad valuations equal sl,366,686; Benton county, $1,957,800; Newton county, $1,795,135; Pulaski county, $2,023,810; Starke county, $3,942,040; White county, $1,460,823. The grand total of steam railroad valuations in the state is $213,539,431; interurbans, $26,341,701. Two counties in the state—Ohio and Switzerland—have no railroads.

Elmore Barce, who has been sitting as special judge on Newton county bench in Williams ditch case, rendered his decision Monday. The $96,000 ditch is an important system of drainage and drains practically all the country in and around Snyder and west toward Momence. The land owners remonstrated, alleging that their assessments were too high, etc. After hearing the evidence and going over all the lands via boat and foot, Judge Barce found that the assessment area was too narrow; that the Williams ditch was practically an outlet for the Marble ditch, which is now under construction; that to avoid too great a burden on the land owners at the lower end of the river, next the Illinois state line, the viewers should take in land along the Marble ditch. Also lands should be taken in along lateral ditches flowing into the Kankakee for some distance up the river. The old report was set aside and the petition was referred back to a new set of drainage commissioners for a new report.—-Benton Review.

Agent.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 1916.

At Tuesday’s session of the county commissioners notice was ordered for several bridge lettings and also for a couple of grades, the advertisements for which appear in another part of The Democrat. Plans and specifications for a new bridge in Barkley tp. were rejected, and the engineer directed to prepare plans and specifications for the removal of a bridge over the Howe ditch to the Jungles ditch, east of S. T. Comer’s.

The George Naninga stone road was consolidated with No. 2874, and the advanced costs of $173.35 and $lO to the auditor was ordered paid out of No. 2874. Contract was awarded to Oris Salrin at $2,721 for the construction of the J. E. Lamson stone road in Jordan tp. Frank Nesius ap pointed superintedent. Bonds bid ered issued. Contract for Milt Roth stone road awarded to Jacob Johnson at $7,99J. William Murray appointed superintendent. Bonds ordered Issued. Silas Potts petition fbr highway same was ordered established 4*. feet in width. William Folger ditch—no remonstrance or objection on file and cause is referred to B. J. Moore, drainage commissioner, and M. B Price, engineer. Eli Arnold ap pointed third commissioner, to meet on or before first day of September term. A duplicate warrant for S2O was ordered issued to Hazel C. Meyers to replace a warrant issued in June and which had been lost or destroyed. Payment ordered stopped on original warrant.

Registration inspectors were appointed as follows: Barkley, East. ..... John Parkinson Barkley, West Ralph Johnson Carpenter, East. . .Samuel Bowman Carpenter, West Wester Bowdy Carpenter, South .Ed BellowGillam James Stevens Hanging Grove Warren Poole Jordan William Morris Kankakee . Elwood Davis Keener .Clifford Fairchild Marion, No. 1 Wood Spitl^r Marion, No. 2 True Woodworth Marion, No. 3 C. P. Fat“ Marion, No. 4 . . . . Harvey Wood, sr. New-ton Earl Leek Union, South. . . .George Hammerton Union, North N. A. McKay Walker . ;.. . Harry Brown Wheatfield A. S. Keen

ARCHIE LEE WRITES LETTER

Member of Company M Tells of Present Conditions in Camp at Llano Grande. Archie Lee, son of W. R. Lee of Mt. Ayr, formerly of Rensselaer, who is a member of the Rensselaer company of the Third regiment down at the Mexican border, writes his father an interesting letter which Mr. Lee published in the last issue of the Mt. Ayr Tribune, and we copy the letter below: Llano Grande, Texas. July 28, 191 6. Dear Dad:—Got your letter the other day and also the package at the same time and w r as surely glad to get both. Well, Pop, conditions are somewhat improved to what they were when you last heard from me. We got our big square tents Tuesday. They are 21 leet square and

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PERTINENT PROBLEMS FOR TAXPAYERS OF JASPER COUNTY, NO 1.

KELLY-KOETT X-RAY MACHINE

Installed By l)r. 1. M. Washburn of This City.—ls Same As Used In Best Hospitals.

Dr. I. M. Washburn has just installed in his office what is probably one of the finest X-ray machines in Indiana. It is the same machine identically that is used by the famous Mayo Bros, in their hospital at Rochester, Minn., and is indeed a wonderful piece of mechanism. Great improvement has been made during the past few years in X-Ray machines and this is the latest and best to be had. By its use a very large per cent of ailments of the human body may be determined accurately before resorting, to the sur geon’s knife and many operations are thereby avoided when the trye nature of the trouble is shown by the photographs taken. Experts from the company putting in the machine have been here for the past few days instructing Dr, Washburn in its use and he will also have the aid of an instructor frequently for sometime, although iic has already become quite proficient in handling the instrument during the short time it has been in operation.

The complete outfit is a wonderful piece of work and its cost is almost as much as a moderate sized farm. Yet by its use Dr. Washburn expects to save his patients a great deal of money by being able to determine the precise nature of their ailment without the necessity of making a trip to the city and undergoing an examination by expensive experts there.

An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.

Bland’s Band and Orchestra BILAND S Band and Orchestra is making its fifth tour over the Lincoln Chautauqua circuits this season. The Bland organizations have made such a decided hit with Chautauqua audiences in the ten or more states | in which the Lincoln System operates it has been difficult to think of a Chautanqua season wlthoat at least one of the Bland Companies. We are favored in having the largest and strongest of the Harrie Bland companies in our program for the fourth day. They will appear as a Band in the afternoon and at night as an Orchestra. There will be many musical noveltlfes, besides some classical selections and the always popular national airs. „ Hear them on the fourth day. Sunday Afternoon and Evening Attraction.

Miss Lottie Griggs Married

Word was received here Thursday that Miss Lottie Griggs, who had been employed in the , telephone office here for mo’-e than a year pasi, was married to Robert Miller ■: Monon, a telegraph lineman. Miss Griggs, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Len Griggs of the north part of town, left on Monday, July 31, for a two weeks’ vacation, to visit her sister, Mrs. Minnie Davis, in Indianapolis, and it i* supposed that the weridng took piece there. It is reported that they will reside in Indianapolis.

The Loyal Sons and Daughters Sunday school class of the Parr Sunday school will give an ice cream social Saturday night, August 12, in the park at Parr. Everybody invited;— Adv. ■

CHRIS KALBERER KILLED

Former Owner of Rensselaer Cement Tile Factory Dies When Auto Mows l T p. Chris Kalberer, who started the cement tile factory in Rensselaer a few years ago and was quite well known to many people here, died in St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Lafayette Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock from injuries received when the gasoline tank of an auto truck he was driving blew up two hours previous as he was returning to West Lafayette from the country. He was ">9 years old and leaves a wife and one child. Miss Maude Kalberer. Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal gave the following account of the accident: Chris G. Kalberer, one of the best known residents of West. Lafayette and Tippecanoe county, met a ter-

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Vol XIX, No. 39

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. riCOUItKSSIVK IS Fi >it wu,sa\ ( hairmun of New Jersey Committee Offers His Services. Newark, N. J., Aug. 11.—J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman of the New Jersey Progressive state committee, has placed his services at the disposal of President Wilson in his campaign for re-election. At the same time Mr. Hopkins said he wa3 opposed to an official indorsement of the President by the Progressive organization. as reconstruction of the party in New Jersey would be his aim.

MUST GO TO PENAL FARM

Baum's Bridge Saloon Krcjier’s Petition for Writ of 'Habeas Corpus Denied. Valparaiso, Ind., Aug. 9 —An attempt was made here today to save J. Wesley Johnson, a Baum’s Bridge saloonkeeper, from the penal farm. A writ of habeas corpus was filed yesterday, but Judge Lorlng was out of the city. When he returned today he denied the petition. D. K. Kelley, Johnson’s attorney, alleged that Johnson had been “jobbed” by James Doneley, owner of the license, under which Johnson operated. Johnson was fined $250 and sentenced to the pessai farm for six months by Mayor Sisson for the first offense of dynamiting fish, the writ sets forth, when the penal farm conviction can be given only on a second offense, therefore, the judgment is void, the attorney said. The county commissioners denied, the transfer of the license from Doneley to Johnson on the latter’s petition yesterday after Doneley had remonstrated.

Delphi Girl Found Near Fort Wayne; Can’t Explain Art

Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 10.—Efforts of the police today to solve the mystery surrounding I 1-year-old Fronie Larimore of Delphi, who was found shoeless and unconscious last night along a lonely road west of the city, have failed. The girl claims she knows nothing of her whereabouts from 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, when she took a seat in the rest room of the court house. While they believe she may be an aphasia victim, the police are inclined to think that the girl is holding back the truth.