People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

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[PHERHODES f I T** - = I' OR ASSISTANT WILL BE AT BUFF’S JEWELRY STORE. Rensselaer, Saturday and Monday, March 18 and 20. And will adjust the Crystal Lenses to correct above defects. Everyone should avail themselves of this rare opportunity, and call and see the Professor. No charge for examination of eyes.

The foundry is expected to be in running order in April. 'Carpets by the bolt. Chicago Bargain Store. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. C. D. Nowels has bought two , lots in Leopold’s addition. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Abe Simpson has taken Peter Giver’s place at the water tank. A. Reed and wife returned from Payne, Ohio, this week. Dave Michaels has moved back to his old home in Jordan township. Carpets cut and sewed 5c per yard extra. Chicago Bargain Store. John Casey has sold his farm in Barkley township to John Renicher for $825. A full line of sample carptes at J. W. Williams’ furniture store very cheap. A bill has become a law which enables towns to own their own electric light plants. A complete line of muslin underwear at the Chicago Bargain Store. We w r ant everyone to consider himself or herself a special reporter and hand us items. If you want a late style hat, shirt or tie go to the Chicago Bargain Store. A slauthering sale of boots and shoes. Chicago Bargain Store. The Ladoga Leader thinks if the hoopskirt comes the hammock is sure to go. Marriage licenses: Benjamin Keller, Maggie Pay; John A. Teter, Bertha Shelby. Geo. Hollister and wife are rejoicing over the advent of a daughter last week. They all say it beats all the low prices of carpets at the Chicago Bargain Store. Advertised letters: Mr. Henry Anderson, Miss Jennie Morris, Mr. Clayton Mann. B. P. Ferguson has moved his office into the room formerly occupied by Harry Brown. Preaching both morning and evening at the Tabernacle next Sunday. All are invited. Joe Meyers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is visiting his parents and numerous friends in Rensselaer. All the latest novelties in mens’ spring clothing and ladies’ wraps. Chicago Bargain Store. Alfred Thompson has received $321.75 insurance on the house on his farm which burned down February 24th. We bought spring goods early to get the best as choice goods are always sold first. Chicago Bargain Store. Marshall has the picture of Geo. Goff’s peanut roaster at the head of the first column this week and labels it an engine.

ONLY SI.OO PER TEAR.

F. M. Parker is now a resident of Rensselaer. An old maid of Warsaw presents the following argument in favor of hoopskirts: “It keeps the men at a distance.” Take ypu faded clothes to E. M. Parcells and have them dyed. All work first class. Prices reasonable. For Sale. —Young horses, mares, wagons, harness, harrows and plows. Call on A. Leopold, at the Columbus. Some one pried open the front door of Gauthiers furniture store Monday night. As far as known nothing was taken. Anyone thinking of buying a new sewing machine can save several dollars by calling at this office. Geo. Pumphrey has purchased two or three acres of land in the northwest part of town and will build a residence thereon. N. S. Bates dressed a fine lot of capons this week. Some of them exceed in weight any of his last year’s shipment. The Crown Point Star says that Auditor Marble ypll spend most of his time in Wheatfield hereafter, most his interest being there.

Warner & Shead have added a delivery wagon to their grocery and will deliver goods to any place in town free. Give them a call. Emerson Reeve, of Tecumseh, Neb., son of N. W. Reeve, is rejoicing over a 9-pound daughter, which made its appearance March Ist. 140 yard bolts of carpet, choice patterns, body brussels, tapestry brussels, ingrain, unions, cotton, etc. Chicago Bargain Store. The legislature adjourned Monday and passed no bill aimed at the race track at Roby. However, Roby is still closed and seems to be bankrupt. Farms to rent on equitable terms. Drainage good. Apply at my office.

B. J. Gifford, Kankakee, 111. Corbett will train for his coming fight with Mitchell at Willowdale farm at Crown Point. The farm is owned by W. J. Davis, of the Haymarket theatre, Chicago. CARPETS. Brussels, ingrains, hemps, everything in the carpet line. A beautiful line of ingrain rugs. If you need anything in this line we can please you. R. Fendig. Frank Osborne went to Ft. Wayne last week and purchased a complete line of machinery for his planing mill. He will be able to turn out any kind of work used in building. New stock spring dress goods, Epinglines, Bengalines, Poppelines, Crystalines, Mousselines, Glaces, Crepons, Cheviottes, Serges, Satin Glories, etc. Chicago Bargain Store.

RENSSELAER. IND.. FRIDAY. MARCH 10, 1893.

The ice went down the river Tuesday and the channel is now clear in this vicinity. But little damage was done. One large cake was measured, the thickness of which was 17£ inches. Do your clothes need dying and cleaning? If so, take them to Ed Parcells, agent of Miller’s Steam Dye House, at Lafayette, and they will be returned to you as good as new. Have you seen that beautiful line of children’s suits, handsome jerseys, pretty three piece suits, nobby double breasted. Call in and inspect them. R. Fendig. The town board of Kentland has passed an ordinance forbidding the use of gravel sidewalks and ordering those who have such walks to replace them with either brick, concrete or plank. We will furnish the Nonconformist and the Pilot one whole year for $1.85. Subscribe now and get the Nonconformist’s criticisms of the present legislature. For want of bail Franjk Stone, a former bartender of Grover Smith, of Wheatfield, is languishing in jail on the charge of inducing minors to gamble. His case will come up at the next term of court.

Call in at Warner & Shead’s and buy your groceries. All their goods are new and clean and show off to advantage in their well lighted room. Goods delivered free to any residence in town. A bill has been passed by the Indiana legislature, changing the quail law. Under the existing law, the season opens October 15, and closes Dec. 20. The new bill- changes these dates to Nov. 10 and Jan. 1. A very pleasant Alliance supper was given by Prairie Alliance No. 72 at their hall on Tuesday evening of last week. The house was full of people, who enjoyed the literary exercises and the excellent supper.

Wm. N. Jones has in his possession a photograph of a two headed calf which was born on Tom Graves’ place near Francesville. It was alive when born but has since died and has been mounted for exhibition. The Republican contains not a word of the outrage committed by the commissioners Tuesday. Can it be possible that he, too, condemns their action, and hopes that by keeping quiet the matter will blow over. • We have a large surplus of evergreens, maple, ash, catalpas, apple, pear, peach and a full line of small fruits. We will close out cheap. Parties wanting to set out anything in the above line will do well to give my agent a call. F. A. Woodin, Nurseryman, Goodland, Ind. John Schanlaub , Agent, Rensselaer, Ind.

AN OUTRAGE

Tabor, Faris and Martindalethe Guilty Ones. A Dastardly Outrage Universally Condemned. Overriding the Law to Persecute the Pilot aud a Private Citizen. By the course pursued by the board of commissioners Tuesday, they have proven themselves to be as dastardly a set as ever disgraced the fair name of Jasper county, and have brought a blush of shame to the face of every member of the Republican party, who has any self respect, and indignation is expressed on every hand that public officers should override the law and attempt to financially injure private citizens and a company organized to do business in Jasper county under the laws of the state of Indiana. As the commissioners and every other public official knows the Pilot is largely circulated <jnd has a larger bonifule circulation than any other paper in the county. By threats, the commissioners, lead by the bald headed statesman Tabor, have induced county officials to withhold their patronage from this paper. Their meanness culminated Tuesday when the case of Chas. A. Gundy, of Fair Oaks, for liquor license, came before them. As his petition was being read to them, Tabor’s hair was seen to bristle and upon the conclusion of the reading, white with rage, he got up and said that inasmuch as the liquor license had been published in the Pilot they refused to hear the case. “/ and Mr. said the bald headed boss, “have concluded that the Pilot is not a paper of general circulation, as prescribed by* law, and refuse to hear the case. We are satisfied of this and the board is unanimous on the question.” R. W. Marshall, the attorney for Mr. Gundy remonstrated with the board and asked to be allowed to introduce evidence that the Pilot was a paper of general circulation. “A r o, sir I" thundered Tabor, the board refuses, absolutely refuses, to hear the case. Nbtico of appeal to the circuit court was given, and for the time, these three men, who have overridden the law, were victorious. Mr. Gundy will be compelled to carry his case to the circuit court, be out of business for a number of weeks and will also be caused considerable expense by this tyrannical course of the commissioners. The case will be decided in short order against the board when it is called up in court, the county will have to pity, the court expenses, but Mr. Gundy will be at a loss of S2OO or S3OO through the board’s personal spite at the Pilot. The Pilot will be damaged several hundreds of dollars by the commissioners’ action, and it is doubtful if any damages can be collected from the bondsmen of the board. Another license was also published in the Pilot, but the case was not called. From the very beginning of this paper applications for licenses have been published, and never a question was raised by the commissioners, but as they began to see the influence which the Pilot is wedding among the citizens of the county and see week after week, how the Pilot exposes their dirty deeds they grow desperate and attempt deeds that would bring the blush of shame to satan himself. On every hand, irrespective of party, indignation is expressed and their act condemned. Only two persons have we yet found who upheld them in their course. One of these is an ex-boss, who has always had complete control of the board, and the other is rather small fish to notice. He has been receiving the Pilot, at his request, for alleged services rendered this office, but as a person who upholds such law-

less proceedings can render this office no service, the Pilot will visit him no longer unless he planks down his dollar. As to circulation: In the number of copies printed the Pilot stands second of any paper county, and in the number of bonifide subscribers it leads and is the most widely read paper and has the best paying subscription list in the county. It carries no deadheads, if it knows it, and charges everybody the same price. All its subscriptions are voluntary, being secured without solicitation. In pounds, the organ to which the commissioners hope to drive all patronage, prints from five to ten pounds more blank paper per week than the Pilot, and a pound in weight equals about ten papers. At this rate anyone can see where we stand in regard to circulation with the Republican. Taking from the Republican list the deadheads the Pilot list will be found much the largest. Our books are open for inspection any time and a comparison of the two lists are courted. If this action of the commissioners is legal, which it is not, all legal printing will necessar•ily have to be inserted in the Republican, as the Pilot has a larger circulation than any of the other papers in the county. How do you like this, brethren of the press. But for the benefit of these brilliant (?) members of the board who held that the Pilot was not a paper of goneral circulation, we will just call their attention to the law on the subject, copied from the Revised Statutes of Indiana of 1881, Sec. 5314, aud which shows clearly that a paper does not have to be of general circulation. Here it is: “Any male inhabitant over the age of 21 years, desiring to obtain license to sell intoxicating liquors shall give notice to the citizens of the township, town, city, or ward in which he desires to sell, by publishing, in a weekly newspaper in the county, a notice, stating the precise iocation of the premises in which he desires to sell, and the kinds of liquor, whether vinous and malt liquors, or malt liquor only, or vinous liquor only, at leafct 20 days before the meeting of the board at which the applicant intends to apply for a license; or, if there is no such paper published in the coupty, then by pasting up printed or written notices in three of the most pub- 1 lie places in the township in which he desires to sell at least 20 days before the meeting of such board.” , Bo you see you hfiVe your foet in it, Mr. Tabor, et al, and before the week is over yon will give the case a rohearing and be glad of the ohance to crawl out of your scrape. But for the Pilot, please don't do it, as your humiliation will be greater in a few weeks when the circuit court meets. It will bo seep by the law that any weekly paper published in the county is sufficient to fulfill the law. and had the Pilot not a dozen subscribers you would be forced to grant the license, it will also be noticed that in case no paper is published in the county that pasting three notices of the same in three prominent places will fill the bill.

Justice loving people, do you uphold the commissioners in their shameful persecutions? Will you permit them to dictate to whom you shall bestow your patronage. Don’t you love freedom and justice? If you do give us your support and thereby help us rout this rotten gang. Public printing is carried to the “official organ” without knowing or caring what shall be paid for it. The eommissiobers allow the bills. Taxpayers are systematically robbed for the benefit of the “official organ.” The most common business principles are entirely ignored in this matter. Competition is entirely smothered. How long will you consent to pay this “official organ” a third to a half more for public printing than it can be had for elsewhere? Subscribers of this paper are entitled to some consideration in this matter. You have a right to demand a a part of this work as it is vour taxes that pays for it. Under present cu-cumstances things will not change. This thing has been going on for years and there will be no change until

this rotten gang is routed and retired to obscurity. Taxpayers, demand your rights, and when you have a chance elect a set of men to office who will reform the many evils existing in our county government. An Alliance meeting for the purpose of reorganizing will be held at the Wild Lily school house, in Union township, on Thursday evening, March 10th. J. W. Noland, county organizer, will be present, and also a German speaker. Marshall devotes nearly two columns of his paper to the Pilot this week. Please accept our thanks for the free advertising and keep quiet hereafter until you can give some more “valid reasons” why it is thusly. Do you own a horse? If so, is he healtyh, does his feed do him the proper amount of g,A/d? Does his teeth need attention? Is he lame, sick or sore? If -so it will pay you to call on a practical man. Examination free, charges reasonable, work guaranteed.

T. 11. GeUgr, D. V. S. Gallagher Barker, the wolf hunter, and Jim Harrison loft, for Wyoming Tuesday. With them they took five of the woif hounds. They have secured a position on a cattle ranch as cow boys and wolf exterminators. They also expect to preempt a claim. The Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association will hold its meeting this year at Lafayette, in the Secoud Presbyterian church on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 80, 81 and April Ist. A number of teachers from this county are expected to be present. The Mon on will give a one and one-third rate for the round trip.

Horsnten, the season is ap pro aching when you will wish to adveftiio your horses. We wish, to call your attention to the Pilot as an excellent mod in ni to make known the excellent qualities oi your horses. This paper reaches nearly every farmer in the county, the class of people whom you wish to reach. Wu are also prepared to print your horse bills on short notice and at reasonable prices. A full line of horse cuts. The Pilot wishes it understood that it is not lighting the battles of the liquor dealers, as far as their business is concerned. As citizens they have the same rights as other people and the law does not recognize any distinction. But when a dastardly gang like the board of commissioners of Jasper county takes the law in their own hands, which they are under oath to obey, and begin *u system of persecution against a rn.iu for no other reason than that he patronizes the Pilot, then it is high time that overy paper and pot son fight the battles *of wronged person, whether he be a minister or a saloon keeper. We understand that MV. Gundy, of Fair Oaks, has been in the saloon business for a number of years and has always conducted a very orderly place, is very much respected in that village and as far as we have learned no. one has a hard word to say against him. But he patronized the Pilot, and is now forced to an expense pf several hundred dollars for so doing, simply because the commissioners are down on the Pilot for showing the way the affairs of Jasper cou oty are cond ucied. People, do you approve of such c.yzarismt'' We think not. Mr. Gundy should be awarded heavy damages against the commissioners and doubtless will be should he take the matter to the courts.

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