Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — Page 1

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HONAN AND DAVIS DRAW MANY DDT

Local Speakers are Making Good Impressions BAND PROVES A GOOD GARD People Turning Out in Good Numbers as the End of the Campaign Draws Nearer. Hon. Frank Davis of Brook, and Hon. E. P. Honan of this city, who have been making speeches in some of the smaller towns of the county this week, are being greeted by audiences that are most encouraging from any angle you may look at the matter. Three and a half years of unprecedented prosperity and happiness and contentment on every hand, the, people do not want a change. But, with characteristic ardor, the Republican financiers are making every effort within their power to convice the people that a change is necessary. But the audiences greeting these Democratic speakers each evening, and the placid countenances and prosperous appearance of the men and their women folks, belie the claims of the opposition. Wednesday night Mr. Davis spoke at Gifford and Mr. Honan at Wheatfield, and both were greeted by audiences that were all that could have been wished for. Thursday night Mr. Davis addressed a congregation at Aix, and received a hearty welcome and was greeted by a most enthusiastic audience.

The Democratic band is accompanying the speakers to most of the places and is proving a delightful addition to the program at each stop.

SUDDEN DEATH BRINGS SORROW

Benjamin King Stricken While Returning Home from Rensselaer. Benjamin King, a farmer residing in Union township about two miles north of Parr, an<f a brother of Frank King of this city, died very suddenly Wednesday evening after having been stricken with heart failure while returning to his home from Rensselaer.

Mr. King had brought a load of hogs here Wednesday and sold them. He then went to the court house and paid his taxes and a number of accounts about town. After having his horses shod at the blacksmith shop he departed for his home about 4:30 o’clock. Two or three miles this side of his home he met his sister-in-law, Mrs. Arthur Hall, and stopped and conversed with her for several minutes. He was then in apparently as good health as ever.

About 8 o’clock the team drew up at the home and Mr. King was lying in the bottom of the wagon, where Mrs. King found him. He w,as unconscious and breathing faintly. As the quickest way to receive aid the wagon was driven with the unconscious man to the home of William Price. Every effort was made to revive him, but !he passed away before a physician could arrive.

A few weeks ago Mr. King suffered a pain in his 'heart and a dizzy feeling while at work in the field. He then went to the house and goon felt better, so did not consult a physician.

Mr. King was 47 years old, and is survived by a wife and four children; his mother, Mrs. William King; two brothers, Frank King, of this city, and Will King, of Medaryville, and three sisters, Mrs. Emma Wolfe, of Chalmers, Mrs. John Worden, of. Wabash, and Mrs. Thomas Mills of Zionsville. Funeral services were held at Parr yesterday afternoon, and the body then brought to Rensselaer and burial made in Weston cemetery.

The exercises at the cemetery were conducted by the Modern Woodmen, of which Mr. King was a member of Rensselaer camp and carried SI,OOO insurance in this order.

Keep your self warm with a Bradley sweater coat. We have them in all colors and sizes.—C. EARL DUVALL.

BRIDGE IS NOT YET SHIPPED

Much Delay Attends the Repair of Hoover Slough Trestle. Notwithstanding the report that the material for the new bridge over the Howe ditch on the Rens-selaer-Remington road had been shipped last week, The Democrat learned Wednesday from a reliable source that it had not been shipped. The Rochester Bridge company was telephoned to Wednesday regarding the matter, we were told, andx said the material had not been shipped yet but they “would load it right out." This may mean that it will be loaded any time within the next two or three weeks and that the car may lay in the yards in Hammond a week or two before it is sent on here, and the bridge may be put in add this most important and much traveled road opened for travel along about the first of December if all goes well.

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. Only one more week remains for paying the fall installment of taxes to avoid the delinquency penalty. Miss Ethel Perkins was in Chicago this week visiting friends and attending a lecture at Orchestra hall by Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Noble prize in 1913. New suits filed: No. 8685. Hulda Rosenbaum et al vs. August R. Schultz et al; foreclosure of lien. Demand $3,000 and interest thereon from March, 1916.

Marriage licenses issued: October 25, Edwin Larson of Rensselaer, aged 22 August 16 last, occupation farmer, to Faj' Marlatt, daughter of Frank Marlatt, also of Rensselaer, aged 18 September 27 last, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

Marion township’s fine new consolidated school building southwest of town is nearing completion, but it will probably be near January 1 before it is ready for occupancy. It is a nice looking building and is a credit to the township. The hedge along the road just west of the building and also a number of brushy trees on the east have been pulled up and when these are cleared away and the ground graded the building will show up fine. It is built of dark colored brick with slate roof and is a solid, substantial structure apparently.

PEARL FISHING PROFITABLE

Many Valuably Gems Are Being Taken from Wabash River. Pearl fishing in the “Old Wabash” river seems a myth, yet many people are making a living off the profits of its depths and in a few cases some are mating what may be called a fabulous profit. A. R. McConnaughay, a dealer in pearls and slugs, has found this field very prolific of remunerative results. Mr. McConnaughay, who is located in Fowler, recently bought of Long and the Conner brothers of Lafayette pearls valued at $1,600. The first pearl was valued at SSOO and was found between Attica and Riverside. The second pearl, which was much more brilliant and uniformly formed, brought the sum of $l,lOO. It may be mentioned incidentally that the first pearl valued at SSOO weighed just nineteen and one-half grains and that the latter, the prize of the collection, weighed just sixtytwo grains.

RECENT BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Monday, October 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lang of Surrey, a daughter. October 24, to Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Randolph of the east part of town, a daughter. October 27, to Mr.* and Mrs. Alvia Potts of near Fair Oaks, a son.

THE TWICE«A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916.

WILL RETURN TO TEXAS SOON

Captain Tuteur Will Rejoin His • Company on the Border. Captain Herman B. Tuteur, who is home for a twenty-day furlough, will return to the Mexican border within the next ten days, probably leaving here some time Monday, November 6, and going via New Orleans to Llano Grande. ■Captain Tuteur has some very interesting accounts to tell concerning the soldiers life on the border and conditions as they actually are. Several men have been discharged from Company M, and at the present time but fifty-four remain. The men are all in good health and sickness is a stranger in the camp. Cleanliness is a watchword with Uncle Sam’s boys, and sanitary conditions are the very best to be found anywhere. Captain Tuteur is very enthusiastic in his declaration in favor of some form of citizen training for military service, and believes this method one of the best assurances of peace, and at the same time the most economical. The men as a unit are quite contented and realize the necessity of their presence on the border, and it is the general opinion that more drastic measures have been averted by prompt and decisive action. It is the captain’s belief that the soldiers will remain on the border until next spring, when it is quite likely they will be mustered out.

RAYBURN ROAD BONDS SOLD

J. F. Wild & Co. of Indianapolis Pay a Premium of $327.15. On Wednesday County Treasurer May sold the H. M. Rayburn Gillam township stone road bonds, the issue being SII,OOO at 414 per cent, for a premium of $327.15, to J. F. Wild & Co. of Indianapolis. Other bidders for the same issue, all of whom were from Indianapolis, were; Breed, Elliott & Harrison.. s3l 3.00 Fletcher-American Nat. Bk. 315.00 Union Trust Co. 310.00 Miller & Co. 297.00 Meyer-Kiger Co. . 276.00 R. L. Dollings & CO 237.50

HOW ABOUT A NEW HOTEL?

People Somelfcnes Find It Inconvenient to Spend a Night Here. The need of additional hotel accommodation in Rensselaer was further demonstrated Tuesday night when four gentlemen from Marion, who were driving through to the Kankakee river for a few days’ outing, reached here near midnight and sought shelter for the remainder of the night. The one hotel was already filled to itg capacity and being unable to get sleeping accommodations, the gentlemen awoke one of our grocerymen from his slumbers and after purchasing nearly S2O worth of supplies, proceeded on to their destination. There was some talk recently of a stock company building a hotel, but the matter has apparently been dropped.

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LOCAL FACTORY IS GOING GOOD

Plan! Transferred Into a Hive es Industry VALUABLE ADDITION TO CITY Reduction Plant Is Also Operating Full Time—Both Are Employing Considerable Help. The city has completed the stringing of the electrical wires to the Columbia furniture plant in the northeastern part of the city, and every day the furnace fires of industry are seeding forth their volume of black smoke. All of the broken windows in the building have been replaced and the institution has every appearance of a live, permanent industry. It is a significant fact, of which Rensselaer citizens should be cognizant, that during the preceding Republican administrations this factory never turned a wheel. But' with the prosperity of the country that has been ours for more than three years, orders are pouring in so rapidly that the factory now has orders booked sufficient to keep them busy for several months. Rensselaer, for the first time, has a real factory that is all that could be wished for. The reduction plant, which is being operated in the small building adjoining the furniture factory, is also doing a good business and bids fair to be a permanent and profitable establishment. The first dead animal was put through the process yesterday and everything worked to perfection. Contrary to the general opinion, a modern reduction plant is absolutely odorless and does not in any way impair sanitary conditions.

These two institutions are going to provide a great deal of work for the laboring people of the city, and when operations on a full schedule are under way will doubtless have some difficulty in securing all the help necessary.

D. T. CRESSE DEAD OF CANCER

Old Citizen of Remington Passed Away Last Saturday. The final summons came to another of our old citizens Saturday, October 21, and ended a long spell of suffering. <■ Daniel T. Cresse hail been a resident of this vicinity for upwards of forty-two years and of Remington for a period of nearly thirty years, and was among the best known of our residents. He was a very highly respected man from his universal good will toward mankind, and his strict Integrity arid upright character. » For a matter of two years he had been a constant sufferer from cancer, for the relief of which everything possible was done, but which

DEMOCRATIC SPEAKING DATES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27-r-Hon. Frank Davis, McCoysburg, night. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28— Hon. Frank Davis, Demotte, night. MONDAY, OCTOBER 30—Hon. Frank Davis at Egypt school house, Jordan township, night. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 —Hon. Claud Bowers, Remington, night. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1— Hon. L. Ert Slack, Rensselaer, Ellis opera house, afternoon. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3—Hon. Frank Davis at Newland school house, night. - r x FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3—Hon. E. P. Honan at Independence school house, Gillam township, night. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Hon. William D. Headrick, Progressive, at Remington, TO a m. North part of county rest of day until night. At Rensselaer, Ellis theater/ at night. Mr. Headrick is one of the best speakers in the country and every one should come out and hear him.

finally compassed his death.

Daniel Townsend Cresse was born near Lafayette, Tippecanoe county, Indiana, February 2, 1844, and departed this life October 21, 1916, aged 72 years, 8 months and 26 days. He was married to Miss Martha Bender of Lafayette December 28, 1865. She departed this life. May 20, 1904. To this union were born eight children, three of them dying in infancy. The livjng arg Mrs. Ellsworth Heath, Mrs. Margaret Beasey, Eulora and David Cresse of Remington and Mrs. Lucy Snell of Twelve Mile, Indiana. These, with ohe sister, Mrs. Jesse Bennett, of Sharpsville, Indiana, twenty grandchildren and a host of friends, are left to mourn his loss. His cildhood was spent hear his birth place. He moved to Champaign county, Illinois, iti 1871, and three years later to Benton cqunty, Indiana, coming to Remington in 1 887, where he has since made his home. About two years ago he became afflicted with a cancer which finally resulted in his death.",.Everything possible was done, but to no avail. He was a patient sufferer, always thinking of others before- himself. Mr. Cresse was a kind and affectionate father and Ibved by all who knew him. He had been a member of the Christian church of Remington for four years. The funeral was held in the Christian church Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducted by Rev. J. Francis Ashley. Interment in Remington cemetery.—Remington Press.

JOHN R. LEWIS HOG SALE GOOD

John R. Lewis’ sale held at Montgomery, Alabama, October 24 was a fine success. He shipped thirtytwo head of Hampshire hogs from Rensselaer October 17, and they sold at an average of $l5O. He is still winning with his show drove. Boulder’s Beftuty won first, Cambridge second, Harvester third. He is going to Shreeveport, Alabama, next week to show his drove.

Soft, warm, comf’y underwear, perfect fitting, old-fashioned qualities. Men’s, $1 to $4. Boys’, 50c to |1. —HILLIARD & HAMILL.

Vol. XIX, No. 61

GENERAL ANO STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. A MIIJAON ELECTION BALLOTS Will Be Required in Indiana for the Forthcoming Flection, The clerks of the ninety-two counties of Indiana have reported to the secretary of state the possible number of voters to be cast at the general election Tuesday, November 7. These reports show that the vote will total 794,000, but the state will have printed 1,230,000 ballots. Each county will receive 2,000 extra ballots to replace those which may accidentally be mutilated, and the state adds 25 per cent, making a total of 1,117,984 to be sent out to the ninetytwo counties. In the state there are 3,142 precincts. Seventeen counties vote by machine and seven-ty-five by ballot.

CITS DOWN ATTORNEY’S FEES

Charles R. Pollard of Delphi, special judge in the Ambia and Fowler bank cases, Thursday at Fowler rendered his decision relative to the fees for the attorneys. Also as to the fee of Willard Elliott, receiver. The law firm of McConnell, Jenkins, Jenkins & Stuart of Logansport, attorneys for the receiver, are to receive SIO,OOO. They asked $12,000. Receiver Elliott’s claim was for $6,000 and he had received the money. He was allowed $4,200 and was ordered to return s sl,Boo, in addition to sll,493.17 shortage through error. A new receiver is to bq„ named.

DECLARES FOR MR. WILSON

Progressive Leader of Indiana Comes Out for President. Because he says all the progressive legislation recently enacted has resulted from the efforts of President Wilson, W. D. Headrick, considered to be the leader of sincere Progressives in Marion county and Indiana in 1912 and 1914, has de dared his intention to support President Wilson.

Headrick told a gathering recently in Moore’s hall in Irvington that he is still a Progressive and, in fact, is onei of the national electors on the Progressive ticket, but says because of his progressive convictions and to convince the public he was honest and sincere in those convictions, he must support the President.

SKELETON FOUND AT DELPHI

Moore of Sheridan. While hunting along the western bank of the Wabash river near Delphi Tuesday morning, John Hayden found the skeleton of an unidentified man lying about half way up the hill and about two hundred feet the hill and about 200 feet from the Monon railroad bridge. This discovery was made at about 10 o’clock and the remains were immediately taken to the Blythe undertaking parlors, where they were examined by Coroner C. E. Quinn. The coroner’s examination failed to establish the man’s identity and, as the body had lain along the river bank for a couple of months, it was impossible to tell the cause of the unfortunate man’s death. Two pocketbooks, one containing a dollar bill and the other two nickels, were found in the clothes of the dead man as well as a Masonic watch charm. The man must have been about 65 ’years of age, was over '< six feet tall and had worn what appeared to be a good suit of blue serge and a good pair of shoes. ’..'’■3 Later advices from Delphi state that the body has been identified as that of Samuel Moore of Sheridan, who left his home there last August in a fit of despondency. Ever ! since the death of his wife a few years ago Mr. Moore had been exItremely melancholy.