Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — Page 7

NOTICE OF DITCH LETTING Notice is hereby given that the trustee of Jordan township, Jasper county, Indiana- will, at the law office of William. & Dean, in the I. O. Q. F. building in Rensselaer, Indiana, up to 2 o’clock P- m. of Tuesday, August 28, 1917, receive bids for the improvement by cleaning, cutting willows and repairing the following ditches in said Jordan township: The Cain ditch. ’ The Sage ditch. r* The Eck ditch.. ' Plans and specifications on file In my office, in Jordan township, showing the number of cubic yards of excavation, where excavation is necessary; and the work to be performed by sections of 100 feet. Bidders will be required to file a certified check with their bid in the sum of SIOO. conditioned that if awarded contract they will within five 5) days enter into a contract and give bond with two freehold sureties in" a sum not less than double the amount of the contract so awarded. The trustee reserves the right to reject any and all bids. JOHN KOLHOFF, 330.17 Trustee Jordan Township. NOTICE OF DITCH LETTING Notice is hereby given that the trustee of Barkley township. Jasper county, Indiana, will on the 27th day of July, 1917, at 10 o’clock a. m., receive bids for the improvement by cleaning and repairing the following ditches: The Moody tile ditch upon line of ditch at 10 a. m., and The Knight ditch at 2 p. m. at my office. * Plans and specifications are on file in my office showing the number of - 'cubic yards of excavation, where excavation is necessary, and the work to be performed in making such repairs, by sections of 100 feet. The successful bidder shall, within five days, be required to enter into a contract-and give bond with two freehold sureties in a sum not less than double the amount of the contract so awarded. GRANT DAVISSONj3Oj7 Trustee Barkley Townsh’p Subscribe for The Democrat.

Farms for Sale! 10-ROOM HOUSE —Modern, on three lots, three blocks from court house. 7-ROOM HOUSE —Well, cistern, city water, electric lights, bath; tw r o blocks from court house. Will trade either or both for farm. SIO,OOO in mortgage notes of different denominations to trade for land. ONION LAND —As good as the best, at low price. - 30 ACRES —All in cultivation, on pike, near station and school and lies along dredge ditch. All clay subsoil. No buildings. Price $65. Terms to suit. 35 ACRES—-All black prairie land, in cultivation, at head of dredge ditch which gives good outlet. It lies on pike, R. F. D. and telephone. There is station, tworoom school and new church at corner of farm. There is a twostory six-room house, outbuildings, good well and fruit. Price $75. Terms SSOO down, remainder easy. 40 ACRES —On public road, 30 acres prairie and 10 acres woodland, no buildings. Owner of this 40 acres has a mortgage note of $1,065. He will trade either or both for. improved farm and assume. Price of 40 acres $45. Has school fund loan on 40 acres of SBOO. 100 ACRES —8 0 acres cultivated, 20 timber. Seven-room house, outbuildings, well and fruit; three miles from two towns and mile from pike. Price $47.50. Terms SBOO down. Owner would take a clear property as first payment. 120 ACRES —This tract of land lies on main road and half mile from pike. 100 acres is level and good soil. 20 acres is rolling and sandy. It is mostly timber land and is fenced and used for pasture. Price $35. Terms SSOO down. There is a long term loan on this land for $2,000 at 6 per cent. Owner will trade his equity for property or western land. SO ACRES —Cultivated, at head of dredge ditch, on pike, % mile from station. Five-room house, good barn, chicken house, cellar and two wells. Price SBS. Loan $2,000. Will trade equity for good property. 160 ACRES —This is a good farm in good neighborhood. There is a good eight-room house with cellar, large barn, both new and painted; also a number of outbuildings; lots of all kinds of fruit. This farm has good outlet for drainage and lies mile from station, school, church and pike. 140 acres in cultivation and 20 acres pasture and timber. It is nearly all black land. Price SBS. Terms $2,000 down and long time on remainder. Owner will take clear property as first pavment not to exceed $5,000. 75 ACRES- —A beautiful home and fine location. This farm lies on Jackson highway five miles from this city. It is all cultivated, tiled and has nice set of buildings, well and fruit. Price $135. Terms $2,000 down. 100 ACRES—This farm is on Jackson highway, , is well tiled and all good corn land, except a few -acres in timber and pasture. Has splendid barn and three-room house and good well. This farm Is six miles from this city. Price SBS; Terms $1,500 down, Might take clear property. GEORGE F. MEYERS, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Kill All Flies! TH qTsEASE AD 4kii ed »** an d cheap. Lasts all season. iJffßMtk Made of metal. can t «pi 11 or isl tip over: will not Boil or in A & -I jure anythin er. Guaranteed r effective. Ask for Daisy Fly Killer Sold by dealer*. or 6 sent by express prepaid. SLOG. HAROLD SOMERS, 150 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn ■.*

WORK OF BOARD OF REVIEW

Many Changes Made in Returns of Township Assessors. The Jasper county board of review convened on June 4th and fin? ished its work June 23rd, 1917. x During its session the board carefully examined and corrected the assessors’ books of the sixteen Separate corporations of the county, June 11th the board completed the work of computing averages on the following classes of personal property: Horses and mules .'..... .$64.47 Cattle .... >31.23 Hogs .1-. J. 7.27 Sheep -•--•••- --• • • S 5.83 Autos ..- -. . -...-. .. . • $175.00 Farm machinery $43.«5 Household goods .... . ... .. . .$32.69 The board spent June 18th and 19 th inspecting personal property. June 14 Dr. Arthur R. Kresler was granted a reduction of $l6O on additional improvements on his farm, east of Rensselaer.

June 20th the board agreed to the following changes in the assessmentof automobiles: > Marion Township. Jerry Garland .raised from S3OO to S4OO. , ; Noah Zeigler reduced from $350 to S2OO. Percy Hauter reduced ftom $250 to S2OO. ' - ■ Rensselaer. -j Hi. L. Brown raised from S3OO to S4OO. C. H. Mills raised from $l5O to $250. . C. W. Hanley raised from $250 to $350. J. J. Montgomery raised from S2OO tos3oo. Earle Reynolds raised from S2OO to $250. John H. Ramp raised from $ 100 to $l5O. - W. O. Rowles raised from SIOO to $l7O. W H. Snedekcr raised from $490 to 5590Fted Waymire raised from $250 to S3OO. * j Leslie Clark reduced from SSOO to S4OO.

Newton Township. Carr Bros, raised from $250 to S3OO. Kankakee Township. R. E. Davis raised from SIOO/ to $l5O, ,/ J -■: . Aif red Duggleby raised from SSOO to S6OO. C. R. Peregrine raised from SIOO to $250. Samuel Seegrist raised from S2OO to S3OO. Enos Hibbs reduced from $250 to S2OO. Charles Stalbaum reduced from S4OO to S3OO. M. A. Jones ieduced fr?m S4OO to S3OO. Wheatfield Town. H. R- Langdon raised from SSO to $l5O. < , Gep. Stembel estate raised from SSQ to $l5O. Wheatfield Township. Eugene Lang raised from S2OO to $450. Andrew Grube reduced from $250 to S2OO. Herman Stewart reduced from $175 to SIOO. Walker Township. W. C. Dooley raised from $215 to S3OO. F. W. Hershman raised from $l5O to S3OO. A . , , Wm. H. Hershman raised from S2OO to S3OO. J. E. Meyers raised from s22a to S3OO. Union Township. Wesley Hinkle raised from SIOO to $l5O. Joseph Kosta raised from S.O to S2OO. Chas. A. Rowen raised from SSO to sl*oo. J , , Lakin & Murphy reduced from S2OO to $l5O. Tnvm n-f PpminP’ton.

T. Pont© raised from $l9O to S3OO. George Stoudt reduced from S3OO to S2OO. ' , C. W. Merritt, of Remington, stock of groceries, raised from $• 50 to SI,OOO. June 21, by order of the board, the several banks of the county were assessed on the basis of 75 per cent of their capital stock, surplus and undivided profits, less assessed value of real estate and improvements used for bank purposes as shown by their respective statements to the assessors, which are as follows: First National Bank of Rensselaer $77,540. State Bank, Rensselaer, $47,320. Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $46,700. State Bank, Remington $35,400. Bank of Wheatfield, $12,830. June 22. A. Flesher, of Barkley township, asked to have the $25 valuation of dog that had died sifice being assessed taken from his assessment. Request was granted. H. E- Randle, of Barkley, had his assessment reduced SBO, his horses having been listed too high. ,' i Five hundred and nine cattle belonging to J. J. Lawler were raised from $25 to $27.50 per head. Jesse Nichols disallowed credit of $1,350 against purchase of property. Purchase was not complteed until after March 1, 1917. Board finds number of automobiles and assessments in each townships as follows: Average Township No. Value Barkley 70 $155 Carpenter 116 $169 Gillam 43 $164 Hanging Grove 32 $176 Jordan 65 SIBO Kankakee 40 S2OO Keener 42 $l2B Marion 81 $l9B Milroy 8 $l4O Newton ..., . i........ 51 $143 Rensselaer 220 $209 Remington . .... 78 $lB2 Union 66 $143 Walker 24 $l3O Wheatfield 37 $ 167 Wheatfield town . ... . 37 $147 Total .'... 1,010 $175

Total valuation of automobiles in the county is $177,140. n June 23. Board approved all mortgage exemptions, except the following: Carpenter township: Estate of John E. Hardenbeck and Andrew Hall. Administrator cannot file a mortgage exemption. „ T J Jordan township: Estate of Jacob Kirkpatrick and Frank L. Wifigard) Fred Lyons reduced one-fourth on account of filing as j dint owners on separate real estate, owned jointly with three others. Kankakee township: Emil Weinkauf reduced to $l2O on account of exemption filed in Starke county. Wheatfield township: Estate of George Stembel not allowed mortgage exemption. . Gillam township: Estate of y\ . H. McKjbben not allowed exemption. Board adjourned. Signed: G. L. THORNTON. CHAS. V. MAY. JOHN T. BIGGS. G, H. McLAIN. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND.

GOSSIP by OUU CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU

PINE GROVE Barbara and Rachel Hoyes spent Sunday with Alice Galbraith. Chloae Torbet spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. John Dale and family spent Sunday with James Torbet and family. Creola and Charles Torbet and Lowell Hayes attended baud concert Wednesday night. Elmer Shroyer and iharvey Snow were fishing at the Kankakee Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ropp and Vern Odle and family were up to the Kankakee river fishing Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Cratie Cragun of Indianapolis drove through Wednesday via auto to visit her parents, James Torbet and family. Roy Torbet and family and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cooper attended the birthdav anniversary surprise on Mrs. Fred McColly of Rensselaer.

ROSELAWN J. T. Bess and family autoed to Lowell Sunday. C. T. Otis shipped cattle and hogs to .Chicago Tuesday evening., Dorothy Rogers visited at the' home of Ethel Studer a few days this week, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Korth of Hammond visited home folks here over Sunday. Albert Mulder and family of Chicago visited at the Tiome of J. R. Mulder Sunday. Dorsey Kight-has returned home from Hegewisch. where he had been visiting his sister, Mrs. Ray Stevenson, the past week. Dr. Ernest’ Leeson was a visitor at the home ,of his sister, Mrs. W. O. Wilder, this week. He wiil leave about September 1 for France as asurgeon in the ranks of the army. The Red Cross fund for our township, Lincoln, was easily collected considering the short time, alloted to raise the money. The allotment of S4OO was over-sub-scribed several dollars, but the exact amount we did not learn.

THE EVILS OF CONSTIPATION Constipation is one of the JW n reasons why the average human life is below 40 years. Leaving waste material in the body, poisons the system and blood and makes us liable to sick headaches, biliousness, nervousness and muddy skin When you note these symptoms, try Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They give prompt relief, are mild, non-griping in action, add tone to your system and clear the complexion. At your drugist, 25c. —Advt.

GIFFORD Vern Keen of Kersey spent Sunday with home folks. Ed Walker and Deacon Smith called onueorge Lambert Friday evening. Twenty boys from Chicago- have come to Newland to work in the onion fields. Quite a number from here attended the" commencement at Barklev Saturday evening. Miss Lillian McClannahan of Hammond spent Saturday night with Miss Beulah Walker. Mrs. Charles Taylor of Monon and sister-in-law spent Tuesday with Charles Faylor of Gifford. Mrs. Gorbet and.daughter Flossie of Illinois are here visiting a few weeks with the former’s daughter, Lizzie Swisher. Earl Obenchain and Gaylord Hilton of Kersey are spending a few davs here with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Will Obenchain. During the storm Tuesday Miss Svlvia Lambert and little cousin. Virgil Zook, were, knocked unconscious by the lightning striking the tree- under which they were sitting. It also killed one of John Walker’s horses. ■ \ : ,Y : LEE S. W. Noland and O. E. Noland are each selling lots of fine strawberries. .; Helen and Chase Rishling have been picking strawberries for S, W. Noland. ■ Miss Agnes Stiers is staying at nher uncle Roy’s helping care- for new son born June 14. ... , Len Lefler and wife of the Tecumseh Trail called here Tuesday evening to see her parents. Some from here attended .band concert in Rensselaer Wednesday evening and some at Monon. Mrs. Frank Overton and children

and Mrs. C. A. Holeman called on Mrs. Elzie Webb and family Sunday afternoon; Mrs. Ethel Otterburg and little son Alford of Rensselaer were hero visiting her parents, G. A. Jacks anil wife, this week. There was no church here Sunday evening and most everyone attended the Red Cross meeting at., the M. E. church in Monon. Tattle Jack Jacks of Rensselaer and his cousin, Wellington Carpenter, of Lafayette spent a few days here this week with G. A, Jacks and wife. . Last Sunday Elmer Gilmore's parents, his sisters, Mrs. Walter Jordan and Mrs. Mary Holeman, and- their families and hie brother. Walter Gilmore,: and. family, J. 11. Chip- and family aitf&Mr. Southard and farhily eomplMely surprised him, his birthday anniversary being the day before.. .All took dinner and ap enjoyable day. was spent. It was also ElVin Jordan’s birthday anniversary. ■ ’

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Mrs. E. E. Rice of Wadena visited with relatives here Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Leavitt of Chicago came Saturday for a visit with her .friend. Miss Nell Makeover. Ben B. Miller returned Saturday from Windfall where he spent the past week with his son Rudy. .Tames Blankenbnker, who had been visiting with his son Walter at Wabash for some time, returned home. Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lowman of near ; McCoyslmrg spent Saturday night and Sunday at the home of the latter’s parents, J. W. Phares. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Harris motored to Sidney,. Illinois, ““Friday where they visited until Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Blankenbaker.

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Yeoman returned home Monday from a trip to Indianapolis. Charles Down’s and wife and children returned with them. Botn, Saturday, June 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Alex Elijah, an elevenpound .boy; Wednesday, June 20, to Mr. and Mrs. George Lynch, a twelve-pound \girl, Riley Ashby came down from Gary Wednesday for a week’s visit with his grandfather, J, B. Ashby. Riley had been working in the tinplate mills but has been laid up with rheumatism for eleven weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Miller accompanied by Lucy and Marie Harris visited with Mrs. Miller’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac, Parker, of Wolcott Sunday; Katherine Parker returned with them for a week’s stay.

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TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Charles 11. Mullaney to Emmet L. Hollingsworth, June 10, so nw, 25-31-7, 10 acres, Union, $1,160. "Martin L. Ford et ux to James W. Burling. May 21, OUse, so ne, 14-29-7, 100 acres, Marion, $20.000. Charles IT. Tryon et ux to Eva E. Maines, June 8, lot 2, block 17, Rensselaer, $2,750. Peter Nomensen et ux to M. Bishop. June 22- part nW ne. 19 - 28-5. ’ 39 acres: fraction sw, 18-28-5, 137.32 acres; ne ne, 24-28-6; so se, 13-28-6, Milroy, sl.

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Jackson township in Newton county contributed $5lO to the Red Cross fund raised in that county. Griffith Johns, aged 76, a civil war veteran, was killed on the railroad crossing at Yeoman, Car- 1 roll county, Saturday night by a Monon train.

Richard N. Elliott of Connersville, Republican, was elected congressman for the Sixth Indiana district Tuesday over Finley H. Gray, Democrat, to succeed the late D. W. Comstock. Five thousand dollars has been received at Hebron and Kouts from thb American Red Cross for the relief of sufferers from the recent tornado that visited those places. Hebron gets $3,000 of the amount Jesse Mask ell of Camden was drowned in Deer creek Saturday* afternoon. He with some companions was’ seining, and it is said that ho stepped ip;o a fifteen-foot hole. He leaves a widow and three small children. The Red Cross fund raised in Renton county’s eleven townships as reported last Monday night was as follows: Richland, $551.50; Union, $278.25; Center, $1,654; Gilboa, $£55.50; Hickory. $308.81; Parish Grove, $475; Pine, $625.75; York, $500; Bolivar, $1,300; Oak Grove, $1,310.25, and Grant sl,400 "making the total, with the donations received Monday night, $9,014.82. While cultivating corn in a field in Round Grove township. White county, Tuesday afternoon, William Bell, a farm hand. 59 years of age, and formerly of Monticello, Kentucky; was struck by lightning and when found was leaning over from the seat of the cultivator'' to uncover a stalk of corn, he having been killed when in that position. One of the horses was knocked down by the shock. He is survived by six children, including Silas Bell of Wadena, Hope Bell of Fowler and Maggie Nichols of Otterbein.

PROTECT YOUR RUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING by having them properly rodded. Sixteen years’ experience In the business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that I roddjid. Best and heaviest rods used. Call and see me or ’phone 135 or 568. —F. A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts Fine correspondence paper on sale In The pemocrat’s fancy stationery department in dozens of different styles and at prices ranging from 10c to 75c per box.