Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — Page 1

ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Nearly Double the Size of any other Paper in County.

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nnPTHD MnnDC It gives great satisfaction to know k/ I V-/ It IVIUU n C. that Consumption, Bright’s Disease Thec.„< ul Specialist or over jf.Sf Mi".?*."*! lch'.lSS mearm Conmtmnt JPtacticv, formerly considered incurable, with Treats with remarkable success the new methods, can now be cured. A following sueclaltleH- large percent of Epilepsy and Caning specialties. cer can be pernian ently relieved Lungs, (Heart, stomach, Nose The best of reference given, and Throat, Nerves, Kidneys over F r d,B ' c : ty Old Sores and Ulcers, Ear and Drug Store. Plrßt Stairs all diseases of women. West of P. O. OFFICE HOURS. HOME AT NOWELS HOUSE. 9to 12 A.M. 2to 5 P.M. 7to 8 P. M SUNDAYS. ALL CALLS ~ 2 t0 3 P.M. 7 toBP.M. Promptly Answered. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. # ’Phone 251. Kresslers’ Feed & Hitch Bari JOHN C. KRESSLER & SON, Proprietors. jWhen you come to town stop at our feed and I hitch barn. The oldest and most reliable barn L in the city. Horses and vehicles properly cared W tor. One door south of Baptist Church. | JOHN C. KRESSLER & SON. IMHIHUHIINIIUIHIMINimiHNIIIUMIMaHIHIHIUIHIMIIHIIiai MlMMMMlHMaaMMlllllMaailimMllllMailMaaiaMMlliaiiaaaimilllMMiaiM Are you Going * ls s 0 bear in mind that d we do a general contracting to Build? f business, and keep constantly on hand a full line of Lime, Hair, Brick, and Cement, anu make a specialty of Cement Walks, Cisterns, etc. Estimates furnished for any kind of buildings. If you want a home of your own and pay for it in monthly installments instead of paying rent, come in and see us. J WARREN. Unice with Irwin & Irwin, i Rensselaer, Ind. d pm Odd Fellows’ Building.

Paint and Wall Paper have opened a general supply store in the Liberal Corner and have on sale the Largest and Most Complete stock of — PAINTS ::„ h X i I "™.(WILL PAPER from which to select. Prices LOWER THAN LOWEST. A complete line of Painters’ and Paper Hangers’ Supplies carried in stock. . Fifrtinynd A?jsurifl’anging §|f bv experienced workmen.

Bath Cabinets Now is the time to use Bath Cabinets. If buy you a Bath Cabinet at once. You can get immediate relief and perhaps save yourself an expensive trip to the Springs. People go to the Springs every year and spend from ISO to #IOO, when they can get practically the same treatment at home with one of our cabinets. Price of complete outfits, $5 to 112.50. Step in and see our cabinets or call for circular, at LONG’S DRUG STORE. Mr. W. J. Baxter of North Brook, N. O. says he suffered with piles tor fifteen years. He tried many remedies with no results until he used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and that quickly cured him. A. F. Long.

ANTHONY J. SCHATH, j Late of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, —INSTRUCTOR IN NIUSID— Studio: HARRIS BLDG,, Rensselaer, Ind, REFERENCES: T. J. McCoy. B. F. Fendig. F, A. Boss. Notice of Meeting of County Board of Review. Notice is given that the County Board of Review of Jasper County, Indiana, will meet for assessment, review and equalization of taxes at the room of the County Commissioners of said county, in the court house in the City of Rensselaer, Monday, the 17th day of June, 1901, to continue in session so long as may be required, not to exceed twenty days. William C. Babcock, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. J 6-13. MONEY ON FARMS AT 5 PER CEN T . A special fund to loan on farms for five years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Also loans on CITY PROPERTY at low rates. Call or write to tho COMMERCIAL STATE BANK, North Side Public square, Rensselaer, Ind.

The JOtlkNAt and CHICAGO WMeKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.35 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1.25.

The Rensselaer Journal.

T. F. CLARK REAPPOINTED

Superintendent of the Jasper County Poor Farm. Yesterday afternoon the commissioners reappointed T. F. Clark superintendent of the Jasper county poor farm. The appointment will give almost universal satisfaction. Mr. Clark during his year’s superintendency has ably managed the farm, as his quarterly reports will show, and has saved the county many dollars by his able management of it.

The County Commissioners.

The county commissioners were in regular monthly session this week. Monday saloon licenses were granted to Daniel T. O’Connor and John M. Johnson, of Remington. The report of the poor farm superintendent for the quarter was received and approved. The inventory shows the value of the personal property on the farm to be $2,989.50. The expenses for the quarter were S4OO, and the proceeds $601.78. The number of inmates on the farm is 10. The contract for five iron bridges were let as follows: 160 foot bridge in Marion township across Carpenter’s Creek to the American Bridge Company at $1,081; one bridge in Gillam township to the Canton Bridge Company at $869; one bridge across Curtis Creek for SBB9, and two in Union township for $425 each to the Attica Bridge Co, Stephen T. Comer, James McClanahan and Sylvester Gray were ap pointed viewers on a highway petitioned for by John Kimble. In the matter of the Gifford railway appropriation, a record of the election was spread on the docket, with the understanding that the tax is to be placed on the duplicate when he begins the construction of the same. The petition for a railroad election in Marion township to vote a one per cent tax in aid of the Toledo and Chicago Transfer Railroad was granted and an election ordered to be held on Monday, July Bth.

On the farm on B. O. Gardner, three miles east of town, until recently, there has been an immense rock of the nigger head variety. Mr. Gardner ip rebuilding the farm residence and decided to use the rock for the foundation. By the use of dynamite the part of the stone above the ground was broken to pieces. Already 39 perch has been hauled away and there is fully as much more remaining in the rock. This is certainly an immense stone for this part of the country.

The Citizen’s Band, under the «r.,rip o'. iProf. ocEath, will give their concert tmis evening. The following program «vlll be rendered: March. . . C Ma Tiger Lillie. Overture.. The Silver Bell. Ballad I Mauzamillo, Waltzes. . . . M Janice Meridith. Selection. . . A Popular Harvest Days. Song A Believe. Caprice V. Little Sweet Heart. March /V. Mosquito Parade. f G. E Murray, I Manager.

The commissioners Tuesday ordered an election for ,the purpose of voting a one per cent I tax in Marion township in aid of tlie Teledo and Chicago Transfer Railroad Co. It is thought the appropriation will carry by a large majority. j The notice the election appears elsewhere. i

Jennings Wright Appointed.

The county commissioners yesterday afternoon oppointed Jennings Wright to succeed his father, T. P. Wright, deceased, as coroner of Jasper county.

Answers calls, day or night, any part of the city. Telephone 278, at residence, or 186 at Scholfield’s barn.

For the Pan American Exposition tickets will be on sale daily during the exposition, with limit ot 16 days, at $18.96 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Tuesdays only, during the month of May, with limit of 5 days. $15.60 , round trip. Through tickets will be' sold only via Delphi or Lafayette. 7 1 Pome people fry cantaloupe. Others fry bananas and in fact there are few things to eat that do not find their way into the frying pan.

A Big Rock.

Band Concert.

Election Ordered.

John Jones’ Bus Line.

Excursion Rates.

RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1901,

Our Man About Town.

m Discusses 1 Sundry v and J Other ■ Matters.

Did you ever happen to think that rustling for the wherewith to fill the yawning columns of a country weekly wasn’t always “beer and pretzels?” As you glanced over the paper and laid it aside with the comment, “nothing in it,’’ did you ever stop to realize that there was considerable labor involved in even what there was in it? And again, don’t you suppose that the editor knows just as well as you—probably a little better —when there is and is not anything in the paper? The poor pencil-driver would be only too glad to dish up columns of news, if the incidents of interest would happen. Unfortunately, it would be a little unpleasant to axe a man for news (no, that’s not a pun). And if the marriage and elopement, birth and death fail to do their work it means more editorial gray hairs. The last straw is when local bodies, organizations, councils and the like "fail to hold their meetings which, when they do occur, are always filled with matters of great moment to the world—that is, the local part of it.- Never thought of it before, eh, when you grumbled over your local paper? W6II, we’ll let it go this time, but, after this, please think of it. * * <* A young fellow from the south end of the county, who is said to be con templating matrimony, was in town last week for the purpose of buying a new buggy and harness that he might do his courting more satisfactory IJe already had a fairly goou old buggy, but thought the new one would aid him better when it came to popping the question. He got the outfit, giving a mortgage on it and a good horse to secure its payment. Since the purchase it has been suggested that the proper thing for one with his in tentions would have been to have purchased a baby buggy instead of the buggy hj did.

It is reported that one of our city councilmen will endeavor to have an ordinance passed forbidding roosters to crow, on the ground of their using fowl language.

Many Kansas saloon keepers assert that they are not violating the prohibition law of that state, because they are selling only imitation liquor. If a prohibition law existed here, some of our saloon keepers would find no difficulty in evading it on that ground, it is said. -z- * * editors of the Winamac papers have nothing else on their minds, they dash off something like this: “The distinguished gentleman who yanks the Washington hand press iu the place across the alley during one day a week and fights booze the rest of the time, is a liar, a scoundrel, a black legged thief and a debaucher of public morals. He is the scum that the negro minor blows from his beer. His office is a cesspool and his ravings the babbling of a fanatical lunatic with anarchistic ideas. He should be driven from the town to the rattling of drums and spattering of “over ripe eggs.” And the people of the town .read it and say: “That’s hot stuff! He’s a good writer.”

If the proposed new brick streets will be too noisy for the sensitive ears of the property owners along the route it might be a good idea for the council to substitute asphalt instead of brick in the specifications. Asphalt is noiseless and makes a fine street. * * * *■ It always sounds pretty to say, “The sun has sunk beneath the western horizon,” but a moment’s reflection will show that it is the only horizon he could sink under, under the circumstances. When he feels like sinking, he always selects the western horizon. * * 3 Bryon, in one of his fits of generosity, exclaimed: “Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean, roll!” And the ocean, taking advantage of the privilege, has been rolling ever since. If you notice a young lady on the street twisted up to resemble the letter “S,” stepping like she was walking on the sharp end of tacks ana apparently in the last stage of cholera morbus—she is not in such misery as the uninitiated would imagine. She is simply giying yon the kangaroo walk, which ig the latest.

THE DEATH LIST.

Bob Goodrich. Robert B. Goodrich, better known as “Big Bob” died at his residence on Division street Monday morning. His sickness was only of about a week’s duration. He has lived in Rensselaer since March of last year and had been living by himself for some time in the house where his death took place. His wife died abont eighteen months ago in Warren county. He had no children, but has a married sister in Warren county, and a mother, brother and two sisters living City: Until a few weeks ago he had been en fjaged in the saloon business in Rensselaer. He was over six ieefc tall and when in good healtfi weighed 292 pounds. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to have been acute meningitis and softening of the brain, commonly known as brain fever. - The funeral was held at the residence of Mrs. Guss, in the east part of town, Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Clarence D. Royse conducting the services. Interment took place at Weston cemetery. Jeptha Parker. Jeptlia Parker, father of John C. Parker, of Barkley township, died at the home of the latter last Saturday morning, of liver and kidney troubles, at the age of 84 years and 11 months. The remains were taken to Boone county Sunday for burial. Mrs. Sarah Lloyd. Mrs. S rah Lloyd died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Grant, east of town, Saturday night at the age of eighty one years, six months. Four children survive her. The funeral was conducted at the family residence Monday by Rev. C. D. Royse at 10 a. m. Interment took place in Weston cemetery in Rensselaer.

Entertaining Newspaper Features.

Probably no other newspaper in the United States can show so brilliant an array of special features as is found in the columns of The Chicago RecordHerald, which combines in one great newspaper, all the entertaining departments of both The Chicago Record and The Chicago TimesHerald. The daily and Sunday news and special features of The Chicago Record Herald include the Washington letter of William E. Curtis, The Record-Herald’s special New York dispatches, its unequaled foreign news service, embracing its own special cables with those of The New. York Tribune and The Associated Press; its papers devoted to the markets and financial and commercial intelligence —exhaustive to the most satisfactory degree, its popular srer’ipg page, its editorial department, “Qm fjprigs of Gentility,” Kiser’s “Alternating Currents,” “Stories of the Day,” “The Current Topics CJuo,” the departments of railroad and insurance news, music and drama, society and clubs; the column of bo k reviews, the continued story, the “Woman Beautiful” department, the daily fashion article, “Meals for a Day,” news of the great lakes, etc. — all uniting to furnish to the people of Chicago and the northwest, a newspaper which commends itself to discriminating readers as only a newspaper can which combines the worldwide facilities of two of the greatest metropolian newspapers of modern times.

Notice to Contractors. Notice is hereby given that the School Trustees of the City of Rensselaer will receive bids up to 12 o’clock noon, Tuesday, Jurie 18th, 1901, for the construction of a steam heating plant in the two school buildings in the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, according to the plans and specifications now on file with the Secretary of the School Board. The said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Delos Thompson, Secretary of School Board.

Money to Loan.

Private funds to loan on farms, also city property for 6 years or longer at a low rate of interest with privilege of making partial payments. Also money to loan on personal, second mortgage and chattel security. No delay. Call or write. A complete set of abstract books.

JAMES H. CHAPMAN.

Ice! Ice!! Ice!!!

C. C. Starr has his houses filled with fine, clear ice and is prepared to furnish ice to all. Prompt delivery any place in town. Telephone 62.

TWENTY FIVE GRADUATES.

Receive Their Diplomas and (the - Plaudits of thf Public. ■

) [ ANY were turned away from tb’el&th annual commencement of the public schools last Thursday evening, being unable to secure eeats. In less than two hours after the tickets were placed on sale, every in the house was disposed of. The cli s this year was the largest

in the history of the Rensselaer puolic schools, the class consisting of 25 members. The program as published last week, was carried out, with the exception of the recitation of Miss Flossie Wright, which was omitted owing to the death of her father. The program consisted of orations, recitations and vocal and instrumental music, the size of the class preventing each graduate from delivering the usual oration, but all taking part performed their parts with credit to themselves and to their instructors. The opera house was decorated with national and class colors, with a profusion of house plants and flowers arranged to give a most charming appearance to the scene. The following is the list of this year’s graduates: Hattie B. Eiglesbach, Clara Fendig, Charles A. Fidler, Vesey Grow, Blaine Gwin, Minnie Hemphill, Lena Jackson, Juno Kannal, Lillie Lang, Anna Luers, Frank McCarthy, Tillie Charles Mann, Jessie Belle Merry, Emory S. Mills, Ada Nowels, Mary Portor, lima Robinson, Hattie Sayler, Alice Shedd, Arthur Shedd, Edna Thompson, Esley Wasson, Flosse E. Wright, and Ella Watson.

K. of P. Decoration Day.

Decoration Day service of the order of Knights of Pythias will be observed at Weston’s cemetery in Rensselarer on Tuesday, June 11th, 1901. Tuesday following the second Sunday in June of each year, 'having been sec apart as Memorial Day of the order of Knights of Pythias, Rensselaer Lodge. No. 82, announces to the public generally that on Tuesday, the 11th day of June, 1901, the Knights of Pythias will convene at Weston’s Cemetery in the city of Rensselaer at 1:30 o’clock p. m. to pay a tribute of respect to departed worth, and to devote a portion of the afternoon to the memory of their departed brothers. They have buried in Weston’s eemetary eleven brothers of the order namely: Benjamin Tuteur7 Leslie Grant, George M. RobLison, Ludd Hopkins, James C. Morgan, Victor E. Loughridge, James P. Watson, Robert Phillips, Elzie Phillips, Jack Leatherman, and Bruce Pumphrey, and at the Crocket grave yard one, Carl Malchow. Ifany„of the families or friends of the departed brothers desire to cooperate with us in the decoration of the graves of their loved ones they may send to the Knights of Pythias Hall any flowers or floral pieces with directions, and the proper distribution of such flowers or floral pieces will be made, at th< grave yard. The Knights will gather about the graves of their departed brothers to bring back to memory the love they bore them in life and to cherish their memories. The ceremonies will be conducted in accordance with our established customs, assisted by the Rathbone Sisters. The Citizens Cornet Band will be in attendance. A short speach will be made at the stand. Let every one, old and young, of every creed, religion or benevolent organization, attend and bear witness, and thus learn to dnow how bright the memory of our departed brothers bloom in the garden of our affections. All members of the order will meet at Castle Hall at one o’clock P. M. without fail.

FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS.

One Per Cent Commission. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, has a special fund to loan at 6 percent interest and one per cent commission. No delay. A refreshing and much needed rain fell yesterday.

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! s News Items Caught on th?e Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Job work at Journal office. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office. Charles Parker spent Sunday at Frankfort. Trustee Comer, of Union township, is on the sick list. Joseph Nagle visited at Plymouth the first of the week. Mrs. M. E. Monnet, of Evanston, is visiting relatives here. For first class blacksmithing call on C. Hansen, on Front street. J. P. Overton and son Randle spent Sunday at Chicago Heights. Small pox in a mild form has made its appearance in Lafayette. Ray Thompson made a business trip to Indianapolis Monday, Mrs. T B. Skinner has returned to her home at Battle Creek, Mich. John and James Ellis are visiting their grandparents in White county. The 12 year old daughter of C. Hansen has been sick with the tonsillitis.** Miller Kent, of Brookston, was the guest of Rev. A. G. Work over Sunday. L. A. Bostwick, of South Bend, spent Sunday with Mrs. Bostwick here. M. A. Churchill and family left on Tuesday for their future home in Minnesota

Miss Nell Smith, former stenographer for Ferguson & Wilson, is now in Europe. Dick Hartman and Emery Mills have gone to Terre Haute to work on a telephone line. Congressman Crumpacker has been invited to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Morocco. 1 Miss Needham, teacher in the public schools, will spend the vacation at her home in Dublin. Miss Rose Platt has returned to Danville, 111., where she is employed in a dressmaking establishment. Rush & Warren have secured the contract to build Dr. Berkley’s new house on McCoy AvenueMrs. ( >oige N. Dunn, of Wichita, Kans., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody. D. L. Halstead is at Lafayette watch ing experiments at the Purdue agricultural experiment station. Dr. Horton is attending a .dental meeting at Indianapolis, composed of members from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. The Indianapolis Sentinel will begin publishing an evening paper as soon as the necessary equipment can be installed. Moses Leopold and Miss Spaulding, the Western Union opefator, have each purchased new Smith Premier type writers. John Ramey, who has been laid up with inflammatory rheumatism for the past five months, is able to be out on crutches. The Monon strawberry special made its first trip to Chicago Tuesday morning. They start from New Albany and average 5§ miles an hour. It is reported here that H. C. Goldsberry who recently moved his family to Augusta, Ok I a , has since moved them to lowa —Wolcott Enterprise.

ELLIS &. MURRAY HAVE DECIDED TO DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP. A Dissolution Sale Monday, May 20 and coptine until the stock is reduced to an agrled amount. Everything in the stock be sold at Reduced Prices.

COMMITTEE.

CLUBBING OFFER. Journal and Toledo Blade, per year-.. ..$1.25 Journal and N. Y. Tribune, per year,..51.25

Owing to the sickness of A. K. Yeoman, one of the jurors, the HalliganTanner cattle case has been postponed until the September term of court. Mrs. P. W. Clarke has taken her sister’s, the late Mrs. Veach, baby to Keithsburg, lowa, where It will be given a home with Mr. Veacb’s sister. Mrs. Mary E. Spitler and daughter Maude have returned from a visit at Goshen. They brought home Miss Mildred Spitler, who has been attending school there. The Wheatfleld Telephone last week was surely a daisy. Not a single line of news appeared in the whole paper .which was filled almost entirely with advertising. J. Edgar Windsor, of South Bend, the husting state agent of the Smith Premer typwriter company, was in the city Friday and eloped up the sale of two machines. A late discovery is that ice cream is good for a delicate stomach. This is the first time in the history of remedies that anything pleasant was ever found to be good for anything.

Don’t get side-tracked in business. Dullness sometimes passes for death. Men with brains reach the goal. Rocky Mountain tea puts gray matter in to one’s head. B. F. Fendig.^ The hearing of the case of Milton Bushong has been postponed until his wife is able to appear in court. An effort -will probably be made to send him to an insane asylum. Jennie—To have a round beautiful neck wiggle your head from side to side every night and take Rocky Mountain Tea. It’s a short cut to a graceful form. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Chester Zea, who has been working in a machine shop at Hammond, had .his left foot mashed by a heavy bar of iron falling on it. He will be unable to go to work again for some weeks. On account of small rent we will sell all goods at a reduction. It will be an advantage to call and see my goods and learn prices before purchasing. Mrs. Purcupile. The old corps of teachers, with the exception of Miss Lessie Bates, have been re-elected for the ensuing year. Miss Bates has decided to resume her studies at the State Normal at Terre Haute.

Imitators have been many. Thoughtful people have learned that true merit comes only with the genuine Rocky Mountain Tea tpade by Madison Medicine Co. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Misses Edna Thompson and Ole** Robinson are at Lake Man'-knckee attending the Culver Military Academy eommenpoiflent, the guest of the latter’ o cousin, Auburn Nowels, who is a student there. Mrs. J. F. Irwin was called to Remington Saturday by the sickness of her mother. Mrs. S. Ravenscrofl. The old lady is in her 87th year, and h« r sickness is caused by a cut in the wrist with a case knife. Danger disease and death follow neglect of the bowels. Use DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to regulate them and you will add years to your life and life to your years. Easy to take, never gripe. A. F. Long. The city council held a special ses sion Monday to grant a city saloon license to Conrad Kellner, made neces sary by the death of Robert Goodrich. City license was also granted to August Rosenbaum at the same session. - Bill N. Jones is happy, made so by the receipt of the news of the birth of * a son to his daughter, Mrs. Sallie Barklow, in Nebraska. He now offers to out run, out bowl or out wrestle any man in Jasper county, even if he is a granddad. The clapper of the school house bell, which disappeared some weeks ago, unexpectedly made its appearance at the end of a rope from the opera hoose flies during commencement exercises. It hung in its place over the heads of the graduates during the exercises.

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