Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1920 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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COURT CONVENES ON MONDAY

Grand Jury Not Called—Petit Called for Second Monday. The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene next Monday, following the close of the January term in Newton county, which ends Saturday. The jurors for the term were drawn by the jury commissioners Monday. Judge Hanley ihas not called the grand jury, but the petit jury is called for the second Manday. Following are the names arid places of residence of both the grand and petit jurors: GRAND JURORS John L. Jones Wheatfield James L. Bicknell . . . .Jordan Harry Remley Wheatfield Charles Moody . ..' .Barkley Tunis Snip ... ’• Keener Charles Bonner Carpenter PETIT JURORS George Lucterhand Carpenter Leslie Alter * Unlon John Rush Newton Ira F. Meader Union Hallie Altpr ....;. Unions William I. Hoover Marion Nels DuCharme Carpenter Frank Biggs . Marion Lon Colton Barkley Herbert Eib Marion Harvey Messman Barkley Henry Guehwa Jordan

F. P. MORTON DIES SUDDENLY

Summons Came Without Warning Monday Morning. Frank P. Morton, a well known farmer of Hanging Grove township, died very suddenly about .9 o’clock Monday morning at his home soon after partaking of a hearty break*, fast.* Mr. Moi ton had been in falling health for some. time but was as well as usual and ate a very hearty breakfast Monday morning. He had then gone over to a couch and sat or laid down and Mrs. Morton was talking over the phone to some people in Rensselaer. The youngest son, Frank, Jr., who is at home, suddenly heard his father gasp and went over to the couch and asked him what was the matHe get no reply, and found the death ..gel had already finished its visit. Mr. Morton would have been 56 years of July. He came to Jasper county from Illinois some 20 years ago and after living here for ’ a few years, near Pleasant Ridge, sold out there and went to ■ Goodland, where he resided for several years, finally disposing of his property there and returning to near Lee, and later buying a farm in Hanging Grove township. He leaves a wife and five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons are Russel and Lowell of Rensselaer and Frank at home. The daughters are 'Mrs. Geraldine Large of New Concord, 0., and Jennie Morton, who is still at home. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. today from the home in Hanging Grove and burial made in Weston cemetery. JACOB R. WILCOX Jacob R. Wilcox, an old and well-known citizen of Rensselaer, passed away at his home in the north part of town at 8 o’clock yesterday morning, aged 79 years and 2 months. Mr. toilcox was an old soldier, having served in the 48th Indiana regiment during the civil war. He had been in poor health for the past couple of years, but only took to his bed Monday. Heart disease was the immediate cause of his death. He leaves a wife and one son, Elmer Wilcox,, of Cincinnati, O. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Methodist church and burial made in Weston cemetery. The G. A. R- will have charge of the services at the grave.

MRS. JAMES ELLIOTT Mts. James Elliott of Newland, who was brought to the county hospital Sunday evening in a critical condition from pneumonia, died Monday morning at about 1 o clock Deceased was born May 19, 1878, and was 41 years, 8 months and 13 days of age at the time of her death. She is survived by her husband, three children, her father. Jeorge Ott, of .Barkley township, and other relatives and friends. The (funeral was held at the Methodist church yesterday morning at 11 o’clock and burial made in Weston cemetery. > ' SYLVANUS MARQUIE Sylvanus Marqule, a young man

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL » Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various Comity Offices. There were sixteen marriage licenses Issued last month, against twenty-one for the preceding month and eight for the corresponding month of 1919. On account of the illness last week of plaintiff’s attorney, M. Leopold, when the case was set for trial, the Hansson vs. IHiansson divorce case was continued for the term in the Newton circuit court. The War Mothers of Jasper county are sponsoring a home talent play tg be given at the opera house February 6th and 7th, the proceeds to go to a fund which tjiey are raising to assist in building a community house. New suits filed: No. 9166. Citizens’ National Bank of Mulberry vs. Henry V. Templeton; suit of, note. Demand, $ 1,500 in first paragraph; $65 i» second; $65 in third, \ind $65 in fourth. Venued from Newton county. County Auditor S. C. Robinson has had considerable difficulty in finding a house to occupy, but Monday he rented the little cottage of E. J. Duvall’s on IHiome ayenue, which was recently, vacated, and will move in from Gillam township and occupy same.

Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 31, Thomas Franklin Cheever of 'llemotte, aged 49, laborer, and Emma Fiedia Howe, also of Demotte, aged 27 June 3 last, housekeeper. Second marriage for imale, first marriage having been dissolved by divorce in 1915; first marriage for female. Feb. 2, James Paris Reed of Georgetown, 111., aged 22 Dec. 22 last, coal miner, and Lillian Esther Smith, also of Georgetown, aged 18 June 12 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Eldon Hopkins entered the hospital Monday*, suffering with influenza. Mrs. John M. Johnson and nine-months-old son of just .{south of town, entered the hospital Monday with influenza. Mrs. Thomas Callahan, Mrs. H. P. Childers and Paul Gunder returned to their homes Sunday. Mrs. Nelle Tritt-Schafer, home service secretary for the Red Cross, was able to leave the hospital yesterday. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, nurse, was called to Chicago Monday by the illness of her sister. . She expected to return last evening. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Wangelin died at 1 a. m. yesterday imbrning.

“FAIR AND WARMER”

Spaeth* and company will p/esent “Fair and Warmer,” the farce by Avery Hopwood, which was famous all over the country before one half of its year run at the Harris theatre. New York, was completed, at the New Ellis Opera House, on Wednesday, Feb. 4t!h. “See ‘Fair and Warmer’ When it gets here,” was the admonition of every visitor from New York as soon as he reached his home town. Its success measured in terms of dollars and cents, was unprecedented in New York. Its theatre was so filled to overflowing at every performance that before it was four months old, it had bettered the brilliant record of “Within the Law,” and in Chicago, at the Cort theatre, it duplicated this success. r Avery Hopwood has never written anything so incessantly amusing, so adroit, so witty or so sympathetic as this tale of two innocents who tried to revenge themselves on two giddy marriage partners. Spaeth and company have selected am admirable cast of farceurs for its local presentation 1 . —Advt.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920.

NO, WE DON’T BELIEVE IT

Nothin’ in That Dog-Gone Ground Hog Sign This Year. It there was an hour during the day Monday, from »sun-up to sundown, that the ground hog could not see his shadow, we do not know when it was. However, the ground hog sign, like all others, is not infallible. Let’s take heart and defy Mr. G. H. We’ll bet a case of 4 3-4 per cent Blue Ribbon —winner to find and produce the goods—that the ground hog sign in this year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty proves a fake—that we don’t have six weeks more of real winter. Are there any takers?

BUYS MRS. COMER PROPERTY

Ed Gilmore, the barber, has purchased of Mrs. Addie Comer her residence property on south Weston street and Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore will start housekeeping there within a few weeks. Since their marriage last fall they have had rooms in the B. F. Barnes flats over the express office. Mrs. Comer and daugh. ter Marie moved the first of the week back onto their farm in Union townshilp.

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HIGHWAY DIRECTOR WAS HERE

- / Last Sunday and Drove Over TWo Roads to Crown Point. L. H. Wright, director of the state highway commission, together with a number of Lake county people, drove down from Crown Point Sunday forenoon over the route via Mt. Ayr, and after a splendid lunch at the Makeever hotel, where several (people from Brook, Kentland, Morocco and Mt. Ayr—boosters for the Mt. Ayr route —had already gathered, all went to the handsome quarters of the Van Rensselaer club where Mr. Wright was Introduced by Representative W. L. Wood and spoke for perhaps 30 minutes or more on. the plans and work of the commission. Following this the party returneu to Crown Point, accompanied as far as Hebron by several from here, and going back over the route as first adopted by the highway commission and which is the shortest, most direct and only logical route from this city to Crown Point, as it passes through a much better and more thickly settled country, is more centrally located between the Dixie highway just over the line in Illinois and the next state highway on the east —Winamac, 40 miles frojm Rensselaer —and which route 95% of all the people of Jasper, Lake, Porter, Starke and Pulaski counties stand solidly for. This route runs directly north without a tdrn for 17 miles from Rensselaer, to within % mile of Kersey, then turns west 2% miles to % mile south of Demotte, thence directly north through Demotte to the Kankakee river—s miles —crossing the river on the new and wide Hebron grade and brand-new river bridge, thence on directly north to within 1 mile of Hebron, thence west to Orchard Grove and north to Crown Point.

This route will best serve all Jasper county, as well as Francesville, Medaryville, San Pierre and all of southern Porter county and no other route should be even considered, so convincing and logical is its location. The advantages of this route so appealed to the members of the commission when the matter was first put up to them that every member personally declared that It was plain to he seen that this was the proper route to be adopted from Remington on north. And It was so adopted in the first selection made of the highway system for 1116 state. But politics seem to have entered into the matter of the selection of ‘the route from Rensselaer to Crown Point and an effort is being made to pull it over west of Mt. Ayr to within a few miles of the Illinois state line and but a short distance from the Dixie highway in’ that state, regardless of the fact that there are no feeders for the road if taken so far west, and that there is not a fair-minded man in Newton county Who will not admit that the proper route for this road is straight north from Rensselaer. Jasper county, as well as her neighboring counties Who are behefited by this north and

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IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN HERE?

List of Those Who Have Paid Subscription Accounts During Week. Following are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat during the past week and, especially to those received by mall, this publication shall act as a receipt until the date on the label of their paper Is changed. Those indicated by an • are new subscribers: •Morris Carlile, Remington, R-4. •Bruce F. Conbin, Brook, R-3. Bark Crawford, Fair baks, R-l. J. L. Hagins, Rensselaer. Kriz, Fair Oaks, R-l. James Grennard, Remington. Mrs. Wm. Daniels, Rensselaer. •Alva Grenard, Rensselaer. Wester Bowdy, Goodland, R-l. L. E. Dowell, Remington. W. H. Wortley, Rensselaer. R-4. W. H. Hognn, Rensselaer. Charles Saltwell, Francesville, R-5. Leonard Keister, Renssdlaer. Roscoe Garriott, Rensselaer, R-4. •Mrs. Kate Woolls, San Antonio, Tex. \ Henry Schmidt, Kniman. H. J. Kannal, Rensselaer. •David Shumaker, Rensselaer. O. M. Turner, San Pierre J. F. Pettet, Fair Oaks, R-2. •W. F. Hamlett, Tefft, R-l. W. F. Osborne, Rensselaer. Moose Home, Rdnsselaer. Ohas. V. May, Rensselaer. •Paul Norman,"'-Rensselaer •Ella Welsh, Holtville, Calif.

THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Business of February Term Is Finished in One Day. The county commissioners finished up the work of the February term Monday afternoon arid adjourned. Following are the proceedings of the session: The county surveyor was directed to prepare plans and specifications for a new bridge in Barkley township. Contractor was allowed $1,300 in full for bridge at the John Schroer corner in Barkley tewnshlp, bridge having been completed, and cause was dropped. X Contractor allowed $821.50 for bridge in Keener township, in full, and cause ordered dropped from docket. Engineer and viewers granted extension of time to first day of March term to report on following ditch petitions: W. E. Cain, S. D. Clark, C. M. Dewey, William Grube, W. P. Gaffield, William Hersbman, Lenley Jones, John A. Jordan, Bert H. Mayhew, D. W. Myers and W. W. Sage. - Report filed in the Charles L. Hensler .road petition and cause pontinued for objections and supplemental report. Expense account allowed as set out in report. Same action in the James E. Lamson, Ernest Lamson and P. F. Rob. rts road petitions. Charles Kain, contractor in the Henry M. Rayburn stone road, was allowed $4,000. County treasurer reported sale of bonds to J. F. Wild & Co. at par and accrued interest. Bond of William Folger as superintendent of’the John H. Rusk road was approved. In the George Naninga highway petition, no remonstrances were filed. Board- appointed E. D. .Nesbitt engineer and I. F. Meader and Milo Michaels as viewers, to meet Feb. 9 at office of John Greve In Demotte and qualify and proceed to view said proposed Improvement. Amos Davisson petition for highway improvement. E. D. Nesbitt appointed engineer and Grant Davisson and John F. Payne viewers. Frank Corbin petition for highway Improvement. E. D. Nesbitt appointed engineer, Simon Cook and S. A. Brusnahan viewers. Supt. E. D. Nesbitt filed report of distribution to taxpayers of surplus funds in the George M. Myers ditch, which was approved; claim of $6.81 of superintendent allowed, and superintendent discharged. Evidence was heard in the A. I. Sargent "ditch, assessments modified and confirmed and ditch established. R. A. Mannan appointed superintendent. The A. K. Yeoman ditch cause in Newton township was set. for hearing on the second day of the March term. Trustee Walter Harrington of Union township was granted permission to extend additional poor relief not exceeding S4O per quarter to EH Chupp. Bonds of Asst. Highway Supts. Clyde Williams and Jacob Gilmore for SI,OOO each, were approved. The salary of Charles Morlan,

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Paris ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. MURDER DECISION IS REVERSED Ijake County Court Did Not Permit Bandits to Change Plea. The Indiana supreme court Friday reversed the. Lake county criminal court’s action In refusing to permit the four bandits, charged with the murder of the earthier of the First State Bank at Tolleston, to withdraw their pleas of guilty and enter pleas of not guilty after they had been sentenced to death. The four bandits, Thomas M. Batchelor, Albert C. Batchelor, J. H. Parker and Dan Irkulpa, were convicted of killing the earthier when trying to rob the bank, and were sentenced to death by the judge ot the Lake county criminal court. Later they asked to withdraw their pleas of guilty and enter pleas of not guilty on the ground that they were ftot represented by counsel when they appeared before the judge and entered their pleas of guilty. This was refused. The Indiana supreme court, in its decision in the case, holds that the right of representation by counsel is a constitutional right, and where the defendant is not represented by counsel a conviction is not proper unless the accused has waived his right to be so represented. The supreme court holds that the lecal courts "should make sure that the defendant has full knowledge of his rights and fully comprehends and appreciates fully the serious consequences of the. plea which he la proposing to entei.’*

another BIG wolf drive

Next Saturday, Feb. 7, in East Jasper and Pulaski Counties. Plans for a big wolf drive were made last Friday night by an enthusiastic and interested crowd of citizens when they met at the Gillam school house. % The date for the big event Is next Satuiday, February 7, and the area to be covered Is approximately 100 square miles. The route covered will be west of Medaryville, the east line being the Monon railroad from a point one-half mile north of Medaryville, at the east and west gravel road; then south, following the Monon railroad to a point three and onehalf miles south of Francesville; west to the Gifford railroad, then north to Gifford The lines will form at 8 a. un, ready to start promptly at 8:30. Captains in charge of the north line will be Ivan Coppess and Ronald Pullins; east line, Claude Record and Jasper Houston; south line, Frank Bailey and Carl Onken; west line, Leslie Tillett and another to’ be chosen later. The roundup will be at 1 o’clock at Jasper Houston’s 460 farm, which is centrally located and in the clearing. Rifles will be barred from use. There 4;an be no doubt that there are many wolves in Jhls section, as four together were seen at Jasper Houston’s farm last week, as well as at other places recently. Two were captured early in the winter and unless the animals are eradicated much damage in the loss of livestock will result. Enthusiasm Is at high pitch in anticipation of the big drive and many people are expected to be on hand early for the start. —Medaryville Journal.

ANNOUNCEMENT

E. P. Lane and D. M. Worland have formed a partnership and will open a real estate, loan and insurance agency in Rensselaer, under the firm name of Lane & Worland. Their quarters will be in the new Farmers & Merchants National bank building. List your property with them. —Advt. J. G. Culp will have a general sale at his farm in Barkley township on Feb. 16.—Advt.

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COMING PUBLIC SALK DATES

The Democrat aas pr nted bills far the following public sales: Wednesday, Feb. 4, John M. Dale, 11 miles northeast of Rensselaer. General sale, including 7 head of horses, 14 head of cattle, 45 head of ihogs, farm tools, etc. Friday, Feb. 6, Mrs. Mary Friend, 7 miles south and 4% miles west of Rensselaer. General sale, including horses, cattle, hogs, farming tools, etc. Friday, Feb. 6, Cass Cox, 6U miles west and 3 miles north of Rensselaer, General sale, including horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, implennents, etc. Monday, Feb. 9, Louis Zick, on former old Louis Fritz farm in Walker township, 3 miles south and 1 mile west of Tefft. General sale, including (horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Tuesday, February 17, William Gladden, 4 miles east and 4 miles north of Rensselaer. General sale including horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Wednesday, February 18, David Shumaker, 3 miles south and miles west of Rensselaers General sale. Including horses, cattle, hogs, farm implements, etc.

STILL AFTER W. B. AUSTIN

Residence Lately Occupied by Him Bombed Second Time. Sunday's Chicago Tribune had the following front page article concerning the bombing of a residence on the fashionable Lake Shore drive recently occupied by Our former townsman, W. B. Austin: Invading the heart of the Lake Shore drive district, bombers last night ‘for the second time attacked the residence at 103 Bellevue place, formerly occupied by Attorney William B. Austin, banker, broker and fonmbr president of the Hamilton club. No wne was injured, but a number of windows were broken, including those of the residence at 105 Bellevue place, occupied by Mrs. H. 8. Whitmarsh, Miss Marie Stearns, and Miss Jeannette Stearns; and at 101 Bellevue place, occupied by James C. Jeffery. The explosion occurred soon after the dinner hour and within a few minutes the street was filled with men and women, dressed for thw theatre, whose names are familiar in society columns and the city's blue book. It resembled a fashionable levee a la arc light. That the bomb was tossed from an automobile was the opinion of Capt. Dennis Malloy of the East Chicago avenue station, who arrived with a patrol of policemen and detectives fifteen minutes after the explosion. The bomb struck near the second floor, between 103 and 101. There was no clew to the bombers. HL M. Pulsifer of 111 Bellevue place and H. R. Ross of 116 Bellevue place, who were in the street soon after the explosion, saw no one, they said. Mr. Austin, who lived at 103 at the time of the first attack, but has since moved to the Virginia hotel, said th® bombers were evidently under the impression that he still resided there. He has subleased the place to A. L. Drum. He has never owned it, he said. It is owned by the Potter Palmier eState. The first attack on the Austin home was on the night of June 16, 1919, during the race riots. All the front windows were broken, but no one was Injured. The explosive was a stick of dynamite, fitted with a time fuse, placed under the cementfoundation of the front steps. At that time Mr. Austin stated he believed that the attack was an attempt to intimidate him-because be had rented property at 4807 Grand boulevard to colored persons. That property had then been bombed twice. He offered a reward of sl,000 for information as to the bombers of the Grand boulevard property and SI,OOO for Information as to the persons who had— planted the dynamite under the Austin home. He obtained no results. An aftermath of the bombings came early last December, when George J. Williams, member of the South Shore Country club and of the Kenwood and Hyde Park Property Owners’ association, declared that charges of "conduct unbecoming to a gentleman" had been filed against Mr. Austin with W. F. McWhinney, secretary of the country club. Mr. Austin, on being Informed that the charges set forth that he "sold and rented his property in Grand boulevard to colored persons," admitted be had done so, but added that if "they expel me for that they will have to expel some of their best members, because I know Of plenty Who have done the saline, thing.’’ The-' charges were never prosecuted. .

NOTICE TO FARMERS

We handle the Rumley line tractors, threshing machines and farming implements; also Western Utilitor, one-horse tractor, at White* Front Garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER.

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