Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1916 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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SNEAK THIEVES BRANCHING OUT

Hamilton & Kellner Store Robbed Saturday Night. Hamilton & Kellner's feed store was robbed Saturday night of about S2OO in checks, and between $lO and sls in cash. Some bank books and other papers were also taken, but were found later in the coal yard where the thief had discovered their uselessness and thrown them away. Entrance to the feed store was made through a rear window which had been left open the evening before. This window was covered with a wire screen which was torn off. So many robberies have occurred in Rensselaer of late that the proprietors of the store had decided to leave the combination to the safe hanging on the outside. Mr. Hamilton was at the store in the evening but does not recall locking the safe. Mr. Kellner was also there about 10 o’clock and is positive the safe was locked at that time, and if it was the combination was evidently worked by the thief. The robber broke off the small steel door to the money drawer inside, and this with the points of two knife blades and a screw driver and other papers of no use to him were scattered about the floor. The thief returned again Sunday night and left a First National bank book which he had taken. This was thrown or pushed through a window. Among the checks taken was one from Ernest Comer for $85.30, one from R. A. Parkinson for $40.70, one from James T. Walter for sl9 and another from George Spangle for sls, besides a few smaller ones, altogether making \ total of about S2OO. These checks are of no value to the thief for no one would cash them for a stranger, and should he attempt to get any of them cashed his capture would ultimately follow. The produce market of Herath & Wallace was also entered Friday night and $68.98 in cash and a check for $25, given by Sam Karnowsky was taken from the safe. Other robberies of sums ranging between $lO and S2O have been reported, and if all are the work of the same person, he is doing a lucrative business for the time being.

Mayor and Councilmen Visit Monticello.

Mayor Spitler and Councilmen Warner and Wood went to Monticello Thursday to investigate the street numbering in that city, which has been made necessary by the free delivery of mail, which starts there October 1. Little has been done at Monticello, board signs having been placed at the street corners, as required by the postal regulations, and the houses numbered witn opaque glass plates of various sizes. The cost for numbering Rensselaer will be considerable, but the expense except that of house numbers will be borne by the city. The town will also have to be replatted, as the postal regulations call for a number for each 25 feet.

Please Accept Our Regrets.

We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a handsome engraved invitation to attend the formal notification to President Wilson of his renomination at Shadow Lawn, West End, Long Branch, New Jersey, on Saturday afternoon, September 2, at 4 o’clock. Owing to the fact- that we have no flying macnine find the expense by rail would equal about a half ton of print paper, even at the present sky-high prices, we have decided to stay at home and save the money to put into papernstockr Perhaps next time anything like this comes up we’ll be better prepared financially, but they will haveto get along without our presence next Saturday.

Fall caps possessing r,eal class at HILLIARD & HAMILL’S.

WEATHER FOR WEDNESDAY. CLOUDY AND FROBABLY

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. The September term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one week from next Monday. At this writing the docket contains quite a number fewer cases than usual for the September term. Marriage licenses issued: August 28, Richard Pickney Howell of Butte, Mont., aged 22 August 1 last, acupation salesman, to Mary Emily Brown of Rensselaer, aged 22 August 18 last. First marriage for each. Attorney Frank Davis was over from Brook Tuesday on business. Frank said, “I see by the papers that Mr. Hughes has been climbing the hills out in Colorado. I suppose he did this so he could look down into the valleys.” New suits filed: No. 8656. State Bank of Rensselaer vs. Christ Stoller and John Zehr; suit on note. Demand $250. No. 8657. State Bank of Rensselaer vs. Reuben F. Zehr, Christ Stoller and John Zehr; suit on note. Demand $250. The county board of education will meet in regular monthly session Monday. The annual meeting of the county council, to pass on estimates of expenditures for the next calendar year and fix the tax levy for 1916, will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday.

Judson J. Hunt has been appointed by the court as administrator of the estate of the late George E. Hosmer. Owing to the fact that he resided so far away and had business to look after at his home, George E. Seaberry of Clinton, Mass., who was named in the will as executor, did not wish to serve and Mr. Hunt was appointed in his stead. Trustee Wood of Marion tp. let the contracts Monday for cleaning the Parker, Smith and Hoover ditches, but no bids were received on the O’Meara ditch. Tony Keiper got the Parker ditch at 30c per cubic yard; Harry Gallagher the Smith ditch at 25c, and Frank Hoover the Hoover ditch at 25c. Extra is paid for the removal of willows and cutting of weeds on the ditch banks. , Trustee Kolhoff of Jordan tp. let the contract Saturday to Jesse Dunn at SI.BO per day for hauling the pupils from the Bullis school district to Union school. Other bidders were: Omar Spall, $1.85; Elliott Friend, $2; Frank Fenwick, $2.20; Lillian Medworth, $2.25. The contract had been previously let to David Shoemaker for hauling the pupils from the Reed, McCoy and Raymond districts at $4 per day for all three districts. These pupils will also be hauled to Union. Trustee Kolhoff also let some ditch cleaning contracts Saturday as follows: The Galey ditch, 326 yards, to Jesse Dunn at 29 cents per yard. Harry Cook bid 37% cents. The Bullis ditch, 846 yards, to Jesse Dunn at 23 cents. Henry Deno bid 25 cents. Goodrich ditch, 1,293 yards, to I. D. White at 14 cents. White was the only bidder on this ditch.

Lesley Miller Moves Here From Kentland.

Lesley Miller, who some years ago published the Mt. Ayr Pilot but for the past six yeafs has been employed on the Newton County Enterprise, has been secured on The Democrat force, and moved his family here from Kentland last Saturday. Mr. Miller is an all round newspaper man—a good writer, linotype operator and printer—and'ls well known to many of the patrons of this paper. We believe he will prove a valuable acquisition to our force and that his services will enable us to turn t out a still more newsy paper and

THE TWICE-A-WEEK.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1916.

handle a greater volume of other work. Mr. Miller has moved into the E. L. Hollingsworth tenant house on Vine street. His family consists of a wife and two children.

Sow More Wheat and Re More Prosperous.

Jasper county farmers occasionally have almost a failure in their wheat crop, but as a rule we raise as good wheat and as much to the acre as almost any place in the state. And it is a good, paying crop, too. Wheat is bound to be up around the dollar mark at least next year, and every farmer in Jasper county who has ground suitable should put out good acreages of wheat this fall and not depend almost entirely on corn and oats. Oats are very seldom a moneymaking .crop in this section of the country and were it not for its benefit to the ground in rotating with com it would be better for the farmers not to attempt to raise any oats for the market at all. But wheat is a crop that pays well, can ordinarily be put in when other work is not rushing on the farm and gives the farmer more time in the spring for preparing his corn ground. If winter kills wheat the ground is not lost as it can be planted to corn. It is hoped that from five to 10 times the acreage of wheat will be put out this fall that was sown last year.

Miss Maurine Tuteur Entertains Bridal Party.

Miss Maurine Tuteur entertained Friday evening at a four-course dinner in honor of Miss Mary Brown, who was married yesterday to Richard P. Howell of Butte, Mont. The decorations were in yellow and a miniature bride adorned the center of the table. Those present were the five bridesmaids. Misses Margaret Brown of Rensselaer; Ann Rector of Great Falls, Mont.; Louise Trull of Chicago; Edith Thompson of Lafayette, and Miss Tuteur making the fifth. Miss Cora Bruner, Mrs. Bert Hopkins and Mrs. M. V. Brown were also present. Mrs. Bert Hopkins entertained for the bridal party Saturday night and Mrs. M. V. Brown entertained Monday night. The wedding took place at the M. E. church at 5:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon and was largely attended, some 175 Invitations having been sent out.

Pickle Crop Bringing As High As $300 Per Acre.

Some 300 acres of pickles were put out on the Springer lands in Walker tp. and it was the intention to put oat several hundred acres of other crops, but scarcity of help prevented of doing this. The pickles are doing mighty fine and representatives from the Squire Dingee Pickle Co., who saw the fields, state that they are the finest they ever saw. It is said that some of this land will bring in returns this year of $l5O per acre. Mr. Keeney, superintendent for the present owners of the .and, says that they are having difficulty in securing sufficient help to pick the crop, because everybody has a job this year who wants one, and he is advertising elsewhere in The Democrat for pickers.

Wheat that made 35 and 40 bushels to the acre it paid to use 300 pounds of 3 per cent potash to the acre, at $29 per ton. Write me what you need. I have the goods. —J. W. FAYLOR, Rensselaer, Ind., R-2. s-9

Only a Two More Days of the $1.50 Rate

On next Friday, Sept. 1, the $2 per year subscription rate will go into effect on The Democrat, but until that date renewals of subscriptions having expired or about to expire will be taken at the old price of $1.50 per year. We take it that our readers are familiar with the causes that have made necessary this raise in price, and know that the conditions have not been overdrawn. Print paper has more than doubled in price in the past year, and where the price will end is a problem. Everything else entering into the producing of a paper has also advanced greatly in price and it is imperative that publishers must advance rates or quit, business. Plenty of notice has been given of the time when our $2 rate would go into effect and a chance was given those in arrears or whose subscription was about to expire to pay up and and renew at the old rate. Those who have not taken advantage of this have no one to blame but themselves. With the beginning of September our subscription list will be thoroughly gone over and those in arrears who have shown no disposition to pay up will be dropped from the list and their accounts placed in hands for collection. We cannot afford to send a paper to subscribers who do not pay, hence this action.

Just Think About It!

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL a Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. 11 Cars In Race Pile ITp at Kalamazoo; 2 Demi. Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 27.—Two men were killed and eight others injured, one of them fatally, when 11 of 14 automobiles piled up at the first turn during the 100-mile race at Recreation park here this afternoon. The dead are: Marlon Arnold, mechanician, of Chicago, decapitated; Jack Peacock, driver, Brooklyn, both hips brokep and head crushed, died in hospital. The accident occurred when Peacock’s car, leading In the race, skidded and struck the fence at the first turn. It was overturned and thrown squarely across the track. Before the track attendants coul(f signal the other drivers, 10 of the machines, going at a terrific clip, plowed into the overturned car. Five of them were demolished.

Paper Shortage Getting to Be a Serious Proposition.

Many newspapers over the state have been compelled to make an increase in subscription rates on account of the great advance in the price of print paper. The Logansport Journal-Tribune has announced that their paper will be reduced to an eight page-paper whenever possible. Their contract for print paper at a price of $1.93 per hundred has expired, and in response to inquiries at several mills, all but one replied that they could not furnish stock at any price. One concern said they would ship one car load of 20 tons at a price of $5.25 per hundred f. o. b. mills. This means an increase of nearly $12,000 per year in cost of paper to the JournalTribune. The price is getting beyond the reach of many publishers. —Brook Reporter.

Brick Roads at $7,500 Per Mile.

The highway commissioners of Stockland township, Iroquois county, Illinois, have let the contract for seven miles of brick paving to be done on the highways of that township, the lowest bidder being Frank Adams of Danville, who bid $53,000 for the job. Bonds to build the hard roads were voted some time ago, and were sold recently at a premium of one and one-half per cent. —Lafayette Journal.

Professional Notice Our friends and clients will please take notice that Mr. George A. Williams has moved his law offices from the rooms of the First National bank to rooms just across the stairway in the Odd Fellows building, occupied by Mr. D. Delos Dean, and that Mr. Williams and Mr. Dean will practice law under the firm name of Williams & Dean, with offices in the Odd Fellows building. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, D. DELOS DEAN. Rensselaer, Indiana, August 26, 1916. s-25

Recalls Heavy Freeze of August 28, 1802.

Uncle James T. Randle came in .Monday morning to renew his suoscription and said that 5 4 years ago, on August 2S, 1862, this section of the country was visited by the heaviest freeze ever known here so early in the season. All the corn, grass and other vegetation was killed completely. Mr. Randle, John Makeever and Addison Parkinson had 300 head of rattle in pasture out at Daniel Lamson’s, on the prairie, in Jordan tp. The prairie grass was killed by the freeze and they did not know what to do with these cattle. But next day each mounted horses and scoured the country to see if they could find some place ( where the freeze had not been so severe. Mr. Makeever went north, Mr. Parkinson north and east and Mr. Randle east and south, over in the Monon vicinity. The two latter found everything killed in the territory they traversed, but Mr. Makeever found quite a large tract on his route, lying in between sand hills, that had been burned over earlier in the season and was covered with nice tender grass nearly knee high. They drove their cattle to this place and kept them there until away along In November. The animals got nice and fat and they were sold about January 1, 1863, for some 2 % cents per pound to a Chicago firm and they were shipped South. A year or two later the price of cattle reached 6 cents a pound, which was a tremendous big price for that time. Mr. Randle, who will soon be 85 years of age, Is the only one of the trio left, but an occasional remaining old resident, will recall this August freeze.

Rev. Fleming and Family Back From Extended Auto Trip.

Rev. and Mrs. J. Budman Fleming and daughters, Misses Lula and Ida Fleming, returned Saturday noon ,from their trip to Franklin and Warren, Penn., to visit old home scenes of the two former. Most of their time was spent with Mrs. Fleming’s mother, who is 84 years of age and quite feeble. had a most delightful trip and experienced no serious automobile trouble. Their speedometer registered 582 miles in going and 579 miles in returning. They returned by a somewhat different route but there was Only 3 miles difference in the entire distance. They drove about 500 miles in visiting different points of interest while there. Rev. Fleming says that they had quite a good deal of detouring to do on account of many of the roads being improved, and that the improvements are being made with all sorts of material—brick, concrete and stone. Out of many of the larger cities they found the brick and concrete roads extending several miles into the country. These roadways were plenty win<- enough to permit two automobiles to pass each other and then there was a dirt road at the side. They found beautiful roads in through the mountains of Pennsylvania and in winding around the hills every turn to right or left was marked, “slow down,” “sound horns,'’ etc., making it safe and enjoyable driving. They found many very steep hills, but none their car could not surmount, and the trip was the most delightful one they ever took. Rev. Fleming and family left Rensselaer on August 1, and therefore they were gone precisely 26 days.

Rumors Entirely Unfounded.

There has been rumors on the streets that we have had a few cases of infantile paralysis in Rensselaer, and the latest rumor is that a child of B. J. Oglesby had the disease. As near as The Democrat can learn these rumors are without any foundation, and City Health Officer <swin informed us that no cases had been reported to him and that he beUeved the rumors wholly unfounded, as it is the dfity of the doctors to report at once all such diseases to the health office. County Health Officer Hetnphill likewise has had no reports of any cases of the disease in Jasper county.

Insure Your Automobile

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, Agent.

The niftiest $2 hat in town.—HILLIARD & HAMILL.

VoL XIX, No. 44

STRIKE ORDER IS ISSUED

Railroads to Bo Tied Up By Unions Next Monday. CONGRESS WILL TAKE ACTION And It Is Probable That Quick Results Will Be Had—Milk Trains and Passenger Service Not Included in Tie-Up. Washington, D. C., Aug. 28.—. Looming over the people is the menace of the nation-wide railroad strike, which President Wilson has been strenuously endeavoring to avert. The most alarming moment in the negotiations between the President and the railroad executiven and the President and the brotherhoods was reached tonight. During the conference between the President and the railroad executives this afternoon, Mr. Wilson was informed that the brotherhoods had issued a strike order. The President’s face reflected hie astonishment. He not only expressed surprise but absolute unbelief in the information. The railroad managers insisted they were telling the truth. Tonight they sent to the White House one of the strike orders. The President could no longer doubt the authenticity of the information given him by the railroad executives. That he was justified, however, in regarded them as misinformed is explained by the fact that on August 12 he telegraphed to the board of mediation in New York to notify both parties to the controversy that no final Btep must be taken

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Proceedings of Common Council

All members, except Councilman Kresler, were present at the regular session of the common council Monday evening. The petition of F. H. Hemphill et ai for sidewalk on west Harrison street was granted. Tlie petition of Monroe Carr et a I for street light at corner of Vine and West Washington streets was referred to light committee. Fred Tyler, Nellie M. Sawin. Daisy Brown et al and L. P. Shirer filed remonstrances against their assessments in the Dayton street sewer, and the preliminary report and remonstrances were referred to the sewer committee, city engineer and attorney for adjustment. In the matter of the petition of W. H. Sayler et al to vacate alley in block 38, Weston’s addition, street committee reported unfavorable and same wub dismissed. Council found that street improvement and sewer on South street and street Improvement on Grove street would be of more benefit to property abutting thereon than the cost of construction, and ordered same constructed; clerk to advertise for bids to be opened on Sept. 11 at 8 p. m. Resolution declaring for improvement of Austin avenue was adopted by council; clerk to give notice to property owners. An ordinance providing for a uniform system of numbering of houses was introduced and passed to second reading. Petitions of Mrs. Hester A. Hoyes and Presbyterian church to tap Angelica street sewer were referred to sewer committee. Petition of Joseph Nesius et al for i electric lights in their homes at or near west end of McCoy avenue was referred to light committee. City marshal was instructed to , have sidewalks repaired at W. V. I Porter, D. S. Makeever and H. O, Johnson properties on Main street. 1 Petition of Ernest Lamson et al |to improve Washington avenue 25 j feet wide with cement curb from Col- ■ lege avenue to Frances street, coun- | cil instructed engineer and attorney, respectively, to prepare plans and specifications and resolution for same. j . The usual number of. claims were ’ allowed.

An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.