Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 32, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 May 1910 — Page 2
WEEKLYCOÜRIER BEN ED, DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA
Ueno, Nov., should organize an allmar stock company.
Politicians who run in a circlo And it hnrd to be on tho squnro. And romombor that custom does not sanction straw hats until Juno 1.
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STATE BREVITIES Indiana News Items of Interest Gathered by Our Special Correspondents.
Evidently the man who took 43 years to milk a cow was a hired man.
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STATE BREVITIES GATHERED BY CORRESPONDENTS.
MORE TO THE POINT.
Help tho consus takers to do their work right and get tholr flguros cor-rect.
Why will people contluuo to build their homos on tho sldos of vol canoes?
If tho sidewalks belong to the city that Is nnothor reason for not splttrng on them.
Missouri has a school for poets. The street car nd. Is as yet In its Infancy in Missouri.
As things are going a cold pig's foot and a stein will soon replace tho small bird and the cold bottle.
GRAND JURY MAY PROBE SHORTAG
E
Trustees'-Reports to Be Sent to
Inquisitorial Body.
S35.00O WAS CHARGED BACK
There never yet was a spring In which tho calendar and the climate woiked in porfect harmony.
If you fail to run your business and allow it to get the upper hand It is likely to run you into the ditch.
A man In California has two extra ribs and is said to suffer constantly. He is twice as badly off as Adam was.
Has not Chicago the price required to flag the best Elgin butter as It whizzes through on Its way to New York?
State Examiners Find Shortage In Accounts In Raccoon Township, Parke County Data Is Held Back.
instead of injuring the man with a hat pin Eve should have hurled her other bead at him and retired half dressed.
One of Chicago's new hotels has tanks for living brook trout. That is an improvement on the ordinary kind of tank.
Many heads of households are thinking of subsidizing a hen and thus putting something over on tho cold storage plants.
A Connecticut woman died of joy, caused by receiving a large sum in cash. It Is not, however, a complaint which is catching.
Davarla Is to try a balloon service, but for a time yet Americans will be willing to stick to motor cars and railroads for rapid transit Uncle Sam has a torpedo boat that can travel 35 miles an hour. That would Le a grand little vessel If one had to run away from something. Iii"
niornia iears an Invasion of t
trained fleas. Tho general Impression hai. been that the amateur Hens were just as annoying as tho professional. Now that mere man has secured a footing in Chicago through tho hatpin ordinance, why not limit tho height of the heels, the depth of color on the cheeks and a few other idiosyncrasies. It Is said that the wife of on eminent British statesman may not got a divorce If she can become a peeress by staying married. How strong are the bonds or conjugal af-lectlon!
One publishing house In New York alone has published 80,000.000 copies or the Bible and Is still at it Leaving out tho sacred character of the book, these sales prove that old Samuel and tho others are still regarded as tho bent story tellers.
The conclusion of American and European medical experts In the orient concerning bcri-borl is reassuring. It is that bvri-beri is a non-Infectious and non-communicable disease, and that It is caused by the practice of polishing rice, which removes the skin containing phosphorus.
Turkey has just ordered some now warships from English firms, passing over the advantages hold out by American concerns. Hut that country in not wholly neglectful of the chances offered on this side of the ocean. Consular reports Indicate that such cities ns Bagdad and Bassorad are good markets for American motor boats, which are admitted to have no superiors. So it is eyldent that the Young Turks know some good things when they see them.
Indianapolis. William A. Dehority. chief of the state board of accounts, has certified to the authorities of Raccoon township. Parke county, a charge of $12.S53.öl against Harold Vegoe. now r.f Terre Haute, trustee of the township from January 1, 1905. to December 31. 1908. and a charge of $1,991.25 against his predecessor. H. P. Brown. The examination was made
by field examiners Lloyd Christman and L'ly6ses Jordon. The total charged against Vegoe and Brown. In addition to the approximate $20.000 charged against former Trustee Fred Calvert of Rockvllle. makes the total charged back In that
county thus far amount approximately
to $35.000. So startling were some
of the details in the Vegoe oxamina tlons that the department Is with
holding some of the data collected for
decisions concerning contemplated
grand Jury action.
egoe s alleged shortage is dis
tributed by the examiners as follows
Balance charged account failure of
county auditor to accept the annual
report for 190S. $10,799.75; amount to
be accounted fur in the dog fund
JS2S; transfer unaccounted for. $41.25;
Illegal credits taken In the tuition fund, $614.15; Illegal draws from the
poor fund, $257.50; credits taken for
supplies (furnished by himself) $312.86. Total. $12.553.51.
Tho 190S balance charged against
egoe is made by the examiners be
cause of the absence of vouchers of
any kind In the office of the county
auditor to show for what the moneys
during that time were expended. On the back of the report submitted to
the auditor for that year, the ex
aminers found the rollowlng: "This
report is not approveo oecause no vouchers have been filed with tho same, although I have made rrequent demand of Harold Vegoe ror same."
Tho entry is signed by H. A. Hender son, auditor.
The examiners had reliable Informa
tion, they reportod, that persons rrom
Raccoon township called at the office of the auditor to see the trustee's
vouchors, after the annual report had
beon published by Vegoe. declaring that tho amounts they had actually
received and tho amounts as shown In the published report did not correspond. Continuing, the examiners
said:
"This Information and other circum
stances coupled with our findings here
inafter enumerated, lead us to believe
that Harold Vegoe had reason for not
filing tho 1908 vouchers, and making thorn a matter of public record as is
required by law."
Accompanying tho report filed were
a number of vouchers discovered among tho effects of the trustee show
ing certain amounts paid to certain persons. Those supposed recipients
have made numerous affidavits to tho
effect that such amounts as get forth
In the vouchers were not received by thorn. These affidavits the depart
ment of examination has declined to
make public, since they will probably
go to the grand Jury for considera
tion.
The biggest aeroplane yet constructed Is the invention of a Herman army officer. It is run by a 120 horsepower motor and is said to bp capable of long-sustained flights. Preliminary tests have beon made with apparent success, and tho next thing will- be something more thorough In the way of experiments. Germany has the biggest dirigibles In tho shapo of tho Zeppelin ballooti3. and soonis determined to load the procession In heavJer-thnn-alr machines.
From the corn husk, goose bone, groundhog day and other prophets rlso a chorus of "We told you so." Nature appears to be Indulging In nn exceptional display of Its powers Following the Etna volcanic eruption comes a great hurricane In the South sens and tho upheaval in tho sun Steamers from Bermuda report a remnrkable display of northern lights, unusual In the latitude where seen Am ," ?0Ubt a Kront mnn' Persons will Iny It all to the visit of Halley's comet.
Block Signal Systems.
I he railroad commission is wrestling with the problem of whether or
not a railroad whose gross earnings
aro approximately equal to the minimum imposed by the commission In Its recent order concerning equipping roads of the state with block signal systems should be compelled to establish such systems. The question enme up when the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern asked to be relieved from tho order, the latter for 14 miles of track running out of Elkhart, and the former for that part of Its road between Richmond and the Michigan state line. On these two stretches of road, tho gross earnings aro but a few dollars a year a mile more than the minimum fixed by the commission In its order, and the companies have represented that they wish to use their money for placing safety equipment which they believe will bo of more servico than tho signal systems. Neither rond. It Is represented, Is able to placo the signal systems nnd make the other Improvements planned. Set Date for Convention. Tho Democratic congressional convention for the Tenth district will bo held Juno 25. There Is now one avowed candidate in the field,
Not Required to Turn Over Fees.
The supremo court affirmed the
case of the state of Indiana again
Alexander Hess, tho suit brought b
the attorney general to compel Hess to pay over to his successor the money collected In fees for various persons while Hess was clerk of the
bupreme court.
The defense contonded first that the money was collected without authori
ty as clerk, but as nn individual; and
secondly. Hint there was no Inw com
pelling him as clerk to turn tho money
over to his successor In office. The
supremo court holds against tho defense on the first proposition, and that ho had authority to collect as
clerk and wns responsible to those for
whom he collected, but there was no law while he was clerk compelling
hint to turn the money over to his suc
cessor.
The court holds that though there
were laws naming numerous officers.
that the legislature up to the time that Hess was In office had failed to
provide that the clerk or the supreme
court should be compelled to account
ror such runds to his successor.
Judge Montgomery, speaking for
the court, said: "The propriety and
good policy of the provisions of the present statute quiring clerks to
account to their successors ror all moneys tecelved under color or their office are beyond question, and their
alidity is beyond doubt so rar as they
are prospective In operation.
nie cierK oi mis court Is a con
stltutional officer and his term or or-
flce is limited to rour years. H of Hclal duties or the character pre
scribed may be imposed on appellee
after he has been out or office nine years, such legislation would seem to
be without limitation cither in sub
stance or time of enactment, and an ex-officer could never know when his official accountability to the state
would end."
t'FJRTWAYNE GETS
I
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Sunday School Association Concludes Its Work.
1,500 DELEGATES PRESENT
Resolutions . Commend Temperance Movement In Indiana and Indorse Laymen's Missionary Movement Halpenny Is Given an Ovation.
Why Tenders Leave Ralls.
The railroad commission of Indiana
which is trying to solve the problem or why locomotive tenders leave the rails so easily, has exhausted the data
supplied by the railroads several
weeks ago, without arriving at a satls-
ractory explanation or why the ten
ders seem to dery all laws relative to
the control or railway rolling stock
and a second circular Is being pre
pared, calling ror additional informa
uon. uie commission believes that
the tenders, when properly under
stood, will provide means or exnlaln
ing causes or many railway accidents
heretofore unexplalnable.
bome of tho railroads are building
tneir tenders on longer and lower
lines, with heavier trucks, and report
mat meir behavior on tho rails Is
much more satisfactory than that of
the lighter and higher tenders of the
old type.
The commission has Instituted an
investigation into the condition of the Wabash railroad bridge over the Wabash river, at Andrews. The bridce
was built berore the day of heavy
locomotives and long trains nnd is
hold to be unsatisfactory. It is prob
able that a new bridge will be con
structed. The commission also Is-
sued an order exempting the St. Jo
soph Valley Railroad company, a short
lino operating only day trains, from
the general order requiring power
headlights on all locomotives in gen eral road service.
Flour Weight Shortage Shown.
H. K. Barnard, state rood and drug
commissioner, Issued a circular lettor
to tho millers, flour merchants and
dealers or the state, calling attention to locent investigations or tho weight or sacks or flour which disclosed in many instances a shortage in lpgal
avoirdupois. In part the circular.
which is a warning to flour men, says:
There has apparently been a uni
form custom among the millers of
calling sacks labeled 24 pounds oneeighth barrels and of selling the
packages as gross weight Instead of net weight This trade practice Is Il
legal, for the weight or a barrel of flour Is fixed by law to be 196 pounds
net. One-eighth barrel Is therefore
24 pounds net; one-fourth barrel, 49 pounds net. etc."
Quoting a section or the statute the
circular then says: "This paragraph
makes the buyer and seller equally
responsible and requires both parties
o buy and sell only on the basis or a
barrel of flour being 19G pounds net."
Take Up Sane Fourth.
Tho Seventh district meeting of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs which closed a two-elon meeting at
Indianapolis, voted to bring borore
he annunl convention or the state
rederatlon meeting at Richmond In October a plea ror a sane Fourth or
July and the Introduction or domestic
science nnd manual training In the schools and also to Invite the rederatlon to hold its 1911 session In Indian
apolis. Previous to the Fourth of
July of this year, the district federation will ask Mayor Shank to promote
sane Fourth In this city. A nominating committee decided on
the names of Mrs. I). C. Brown, Mrs.
T. McWhlrter and Mrs. S. D. Fnrra-
bce, to be voted on at the October meeting, ror a chairman or the Seventh district.
Indianapolis. The convention or tho Indiana Sunday School assoclalion concluded its annual session here
by selecting Fort Wayne as the place
for tho next meeting.
In the report of the resolution com
mittee, the fight that the state of Indiana Is making for temperance wns
complimented. The laymen's mis
sionary movement was indorsed as be
ing the greatest religious advancement of the times, and It was said
that the present convention Is the greatest that Indiana has ever had.
Although only about seven hundred
delegates enrolled, it was estimated that fully 1.500 delegates had attended the convention at least a part of the time. G. X. Hurnte. general secretary, In his report compliments the various officers of the different departments on tl.e showing they had made during the
year. The Rev. E. W. Halpenny. formerly general secretary of the Indiana association, who resigned three months ago to become general secretary or the Ontario Sunday School association, received an ovation as he arose on the platrorm to give his address on "The Country Sunday School." A vote of the entire audience showed that one-third were workers from country' Sunday schools and another third, now In the city, began work iu the country Sunday schools. He gave the following reasons for nonattendance at Sunday school, shoNving that conditions are not very much different In the city and country; scattered community. Sunday visiting, indifference, toll weariness, bad weather, building accommodations and baseball. Tho three elements of success for a successful Sunday school are preparation, promptness nnd persuasion, according to Mr. Halpenny. "Then," he said, "you must push nnd keep at it always. There is no Sunday school in the city or country that is successful
on any other plan. The teachers must
be excellent, fnlthful and devoted; the teachers and classes must see arter absentees, and should keep tho church neat and clean. Tho classes should hold picnics and entertain each
other.
"Tho Sunday school life In the
country can be made the greatest
factor In Its social life. All that Is
needed In any community In the Sunday school Is the persistent effort of n
consecrated Individual." In closinche
road tho poem "Try Again." asklnc
euch teacher to make a practical ap
plication of It In his work.
The closing address at tho morning
session was given by tho Rev. Wil
liam Henry Golstwelt. He Knill In
FEAR PLAGUE OF FAVUS
Rare But Deadly Contagious Disease Breaks Out Among Gibson County Children Baffling Physicians. Princeton. May 2. A sensation has been croated In medical circles here by tho discovery that there aro nine well developed cases of favus. a raro
disease. In this city nnd county, nnd
mat wireo otner cases have gone out
iroin tue county. The disease attacks children, beginning at the roots or the hair and eating out the entire scalp until no hair remnlns, making the scalp and parts or the body continually a mass or sores. It is regarded ns incurable, and In tho end, after running its courso for several years, usually merges Into some fntnl m.il.
Mrs. Wise I don's see why t! w millionaire is so popular. H, t even express himself. Mr. Wise No, but ho can r,. -freight. AWFUL BURNING ITCH CURED IN A DAY
"In the middle of tho nicht r,f '
ady. generally consumrlon. It Is 30th I woko up with a burning contagious, and there are said to be ' m' two hands nnd I felt as i
but few cases of it in the United States. The cases here are believed to have started from some child placed In the GlbEon County Orphans' home. It has been known there for several years among rour or five of the children, but doctors had treated It as a blood disease, and its real nature was not diagnosed until now. August De Long of this city has six cases among tho childreu in his family. 'It was brought there from the Orphans' home by a little stepson.
Woman Dies of Burns. Newcastle. May 2. Mrs. John Dakins, twenty-seven years old, died at the Butler hospital from frightful burns caused by an explosion at her home In East Plum. Death occurred within ten hours after the accident, and during that time the unrortunate woman sufTered great agony, her entire body being burne-1 to a crisp. Her death Is among the most terrible occurring in this city In years. .Mrs. Dakins poured kerosene into the cook stove at her home to start a fire, not knowing that there were live coals in the stove. The flames flashed up and caused the oil can to explode, throwing the burning fluid all over her.
pull them apart. In the mon.1:
Itching had gone to my chtt ar..i Ing that day It spread all ow body. I was red and raw from t of my head to tho soles of my f 1 was In continual agony fn ;.. Itching. I could neither lie diir sit up. I happened to see ab r cura Remedies and I thought I give them a trial. I took a gn..u ' with the Cuticura Soap and u ! Cuticura Ointment I put It op my head down to my feet an I vent to bed. Oa the first of ; felt like a new man. The Itchinn almost gone. I continued wrh Cuticura Soap and Cultcura Oin'. and during that day tho Itching pletely left me. Frank Grldlev
East 43rd Street, New York Ci'v 27. 1909." Cuticura Remedies ar.
throughout the world; Potter Prv Chem. Corp., Sole Props, Boston. M .
Obviously. A Denver man who visited thf : scum at City park recently ti lls . farmer ho saw there. Therura,; stepped in front of a portrait .- showed a man sitting in a highl..i k chair. There was a small white . on the picture rending: "A portrait of E. H. Smith, by b self." The farmer read the card and chuckled to himself.
"Regular fools these city f.
Anybody who Iook-
Jury Members Ask ror Slayer's Parole. Wubash. May 2. Judge Plummer and the Jurors In this county have
signed a petition for the parole and are." he said
ultimate pardon of Charles Sprong. j that picture d know Smith's by I the Marlon man who killed Wilson 1 self. They alu't no one In the pain
mjuingion. a liveryman, five years ago. Sprong was convicted in the Wabash court and given a life sentence. His sister. Mrs. Mahlon Pearson, has remained exer loyal to him. and it was through her efforts that
the officials
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with him." Cincinnati PosL
At or About This Time. "Why do they call them . liners?" she asked. "They're getting now terms r
Sicnori tho nnMMr,n ' fcUlU, Y HUOIIL lOOKing Up
,r- irn.,hi n.i 1 "porting page.
live lone hm ifi,iiB,M ,..i.n I before, but an ocean liner is proi
intoxicated because Addington ordered , a 0? t -sn t inflelded V-1: him from his livery stable. Sprang is r" ,nt " pudd!c or onf hir about thirty.fi ve years old. L S,h mad.C ? ansWor: but h" ' had gone to business she phoi J
PhucM i uoctor auout him.
J J I I MUCO i j vwls Huntington. May 2.Dr. Eugone Redllnger was sentenced to the state's prison for a term of three to fourteen
years on a plea of guilty to porform-
His Last. Poofs Wire My husband r a l poem at a public celebration t thnnsnnds nf nnnnln Ainu' it u.
ing an inegal operation upon his step-; last poem he ever wrote, daughter, aged seventeen. He was also ' PublisherI see. Did thev !ir,
or shoot him? Leslie's V . k
under a more serious charge. In
wnicn tne same daughter was the complaining witness, but this charge To ,ove abundantly, is to liv was dismissed upon his plea or guilty ' dantly, and to love forever Ij 'j tve
to me nrst.
forever. Henry Drummond
Repair Men Go on Strike. Terre Haute. May 2. Twenty-seven repair men In the Southern Indiana
car shops hero struck when they were refused a raise of three cents an hour. The force was roeenMv put 1ru-n .1 n 1
part: "There are two common luterpre- j the strikers represont all of the rotations of lifo that we are likely to malnlng repair workers. TheTeTS no put to ourselves and berore children, disposition among other employes of The one is that or a career and the the shons to tnln ihn otriw. .i
other Is the thougnt or a mission. So ! olllclals oxnoct nn tmt.hio
long as you talk to a boy or clrl 1 -
about a career just so lonjr will you Dies to Save Children
direct them In selfishness and self- South Bend. May 2. I). J. Smith, seeking. There is another Interprcln- who has a wife and several children 1 tlon. not so common and usually In Chicago, was killed at Laporte 1 comes to us after we have lived for j while trying lo save school children I
years, to Interpret lire as a mission, rrom death. He was electrocuted The great problem or lire Is to get It when ho seized a live wire near which
nto tho boy or girl that lire should be
Interpreted rrom the standpoint oi a
career. Seek to discover the underlying motive In that Individual lire."
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Columbus. The city board or health
has begun a crusade ror a saro and sane Fourth or July by presenting to
the council a written request for the rigid enforcement of an ordlnnnco passed 41 years ago. which prohibits the use of fireworks in any public place. Mitchell. The residence of A. W. Wood, near this city, was destroyed by fire. The fire was caused by a defective flue in an upstairs room. The loss Is estimated at $1,000. VIncoiines.-The Terre Haute Sand &. Grnvel compnny's boat at Bmlson sank In 25 feet or water. Loss, $S.000; Insurance, $3,000. Anderson. Arter a separation or four years, which begnn thrco weeks nfter tholr marriage, Mleceslaw Mrozlewskl, an expert file worker of this city, was reunited to his wife and their three-year-old child. .Mr. and Mrs. Mrozlewskl were married In Russia, and shortly after tho wedding he was offered through friends a place In the NMcholson File works here.
the youngsters were playing.
Fines Bedford Strikers for. Contempt. nioomlngton, May 2 When Judge James B Wilson, three weeks ago. found eight Bedfcrd stone quarry strikers guilty or conlompt or court
W. L. DOUGLAS
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he announced that he would suspend
sentence until a later day In the term I
He passed Judgmont on all the men. !
j giving Boone Byers a line or $10. with I a jail sentence or 30 days.
briuorc men (linn
any other make,
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. VInconnes.-The Torre Haute Sand A Giavel company's boat at Emlson sank In 25 feet of water. Loss, $8,000; Insurance, 53,000. Lapol. A class of 10 giaduated from the Lapel high school. Commencement Gxcrclscs wore held at the M. E. church. Dr. E. H. LIndley of Indiana university wns the chief speaker. Columbus. The city board of health has begun a crusade ror a saTo and sane Fourth or July by presenting to tho council a written request for the rigid enforcement of nn ordinance passed 41 years ago, which prohibits the use of fireworks In any public place.
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