Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — Page 1

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O.DGTOR MOORE I The careful Specialist of over Hi C't infant Praettee, Pi-e.its with remarkable success the following specialties: Lungs, Heart, Stomach, Nose and Throat, Nerves, Kidneys and Bladder, Private Diseases, Hvnorrhoids, Epilepsy, Cancer, Old Sores and Ulcers, Ear and all diseases of women.

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LIST OF TEACHERS.

Instructors for 1901-1902 of the Jasper County Public Schools. Rensselaer City. W. 11. Sanders . .Superintendent W. O. Hiatt Principal High School E. M. Neher B. F. Coen I Assts Hi h Scl)ool Helen Harris Mildred N. Keith Mabel Cooper;.; Music and Drawing GRADES. Lizzie Kaub. Clara Berry. Jennette Needham. LizSie Roberts. Stella Shields. Lillian Howarth. Adeline M. Chilcote. Adda May. Elsie Watson. Remington Town. M. R. Marshall...,. Superintendent G. E. Mitchell Principal High School Catherine Chilton... .Assistant High School GRADES. Minnie A. Bartoo. Frances Hawkins. Viola Puckett. Dell Yeoman. Florence Hawkins. Wheatfield Town. Roy Blue. . ' Principal P. O. Kennedy. Minnie M. Tinkham Barkley Township. Dis. Name. Address. 1 Alice Wartena Pleasant Grove 2 Mary Richardson Valma I O. E. Frazee... . Rensselaer R No. i 4 Lora B. Frazee. .Rensselaer R No. I 5 I. M. Lewis Rensselaer R No. I 6 J. G. Hayes Blackford 7 Carrie Marshall Rensselaer 8 Maude Walker Valma 9 Charles Fidler Rensselaer 10 Nellie Barkley... Rensselaer R No. I 11 E. E. Pierson Giflord 12 Blaine Gwin Rensselaer 13 Nellie Jordan... ~ Newland 14 Esley Wasson .Valma 15 F. S. Tyler Newland 16 Ada Nowels Rensselaer Carpenter Township. 1 William Arnott .McCoysburg 2 J. W. Thomas Remington 3 4 Murtie Ford “ 5 Carrie frwin “ 6 Linnie Sheets “ 7 Gertrude Besse “ 8 Gertrude Bartoo “ 9 Adda Hawn “ 10 Ethel Greene..... “ 11 Mary Paxton “ 12 Clara Zinser. •* Gillam Township. 1 Clara Parker Gillam 2 Martha E. Faris Medaryville 3 Odessa Posey “ 4 H. M. Prevo .' “ 5 W. fi. Sayler Francesville 6 Alice Shedd Medaryville 7 Hattie Eiglesbach Francesville Hanging Grove Township. 1 Lily Lang McCoysburg 2 Bessie Stewart.“ 3 Olimn Stewart., i*Sv 4 Ura MSGwin Pleaasnt Ridge 5 Pearl Parker McCoysburg 6 Omar Osborne., .Lee Jordan Township. 1 W. J. Reed Rensselaer 2 Anna Lane ; “ 3 4 Lillian. A. Brown Forestnan 5 Emma, Tullis. Rensselaer 6 C. E. Sage Foresman 7 Clara Haste Rensselaer 8 Marie Eck.. Goodfarid 9 ■ Anna Luers Rensselaer Kankakee Township. 1 Lee Fisher. .Tefft 2 Fannie McCarthy “ 2 Della Heney »« 3 C. M. Sands *< 4 Frank McCarthy •* 5 Joseph Hilliard , “ Keener Township. 1 L. A. Sayers DeMotte 2 Mary Rowen u 3 R. A. Mannan «« 3 Elli H. Sayers <« 4 Blanche Antrim «« 5 Abe DeKoker .'44 . ' 6 D. J. Fairchild <> Marion Township. 1 lima Robinson Rensselaer 2 Maude Daugherty »* 3 W. G. Scott

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The Rensselaer Journal.

ft wives great satisfaction to know that Consumption, Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys and many of the Heart troubles, all of which were formerly considered incurable, with now methods, can now be cured. A large percent of Epilepsy and Cancer can be permanently relieved The best of reference given, l B&'Offlce over Fendig's City Drug Store. First Stairs West of P. O.

4 Edith Shedd “ 5 Flossie Wright. '< 6 Ida O’Meara “ 7 Grace Nowels “ 8 Leah Knox “ 9 11. P. Overton.. “ 10 B. N. Fendig “ 11 Ethel Daugherty “ 12 I. O. Nichols. “ Milroy Township. 1 Katie Shields Rensselaer 2 Ethel Sharp “ 3 G. E. May Sharon 4 Bertha James .Wolcott Newton Township. 1 Hattie Sayler Rensselaer 2 3 Zoe Sayler •• 4 Rosaline Lane Surrey 5 C. - G. Hammond Rensselaer 6 Mary Goetz « 7 Evelyn Miller « Union Township. - 1 W. F. Osborne 2 J. P. Garriott Virgie 3 Pearl McClanahan Parr 4 Minnie Hemphill Rensselaer 5 O. O. Ilammerton “ 6 Jesse Fox Fair Oaks 6 Lora Bruce, “ 7 E. F.. Stephenson Parr 7 L. W. Benbow “ 8 Tillie Malchow Rensselaer 9 Edith Moffit Fair Oaks io Fred Stephenson Parr Walker Township. 1 W. L. Hanna Kniman 2 Sadie Gulbransen Wheatfield 3 A. F. White Knimad 4 Effie Smith *« 5 J. B. Martimjgle •» 5 Nellie Meiser •> 6 G. N. Sayler Tefft 7 Anna Jasperson •• 8 Nellie Gray Kniman 9 Cora Simons Gifford Wheatfield Township, 1 Zelma Funk Wheatfield 2 Bertha Knaur «< 3 Cora-Finney »• 4 Bessie Tilton. •« 5 Alexander Jensen “ 6 Mary Viruly ...Kersey 7 Clara Fendig...,,. Wheatfield The above are the addresses furnished by the trustees. Should there be any errors, teachers are requested to correct same by postal at once.

Millinery Opening.

Mrs. Purcnpfie announces her regular millinery opening for Friday and Saturday, October 4th and 6th. All ladies cordially invited to call and see the latest styles and most popular creations. For some months past several Monticello citizens have been agitating the subject of a hot water heating plant for the town. In response to their correspondence Mr. McCreary of Chicago came here this week in fcge interest of the Yaryan hot water System of heating. Two meetings were held with the result that a canvass of the town is being made to obtain subscribers for stock, looking towards the formation of a company. The system contemplates the installing of a central plant with pipes to carry the hot water to residences and business houses. In places where the system has been installed it has been operated in connection with either ele&trio light plants, pnmping stations or mills, utilizing the exhaust steam for heating the water. It is estimated that the cost of heating a room twelve by fourteen! feet would be about five dollars a year. The advantages claimed for the system are the absenoe of dust and ashes and a constant and equitable temperature at all times. Where the system has been inangerated it has given good satisfaction. Monticello. Herald.

FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS.

One Per Cent Commls*lon. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, has a special fund to loan at 6 per cent In terest and one per cent commission. No delay. Subscribe for the JOURNAL,

Our Man About Town.

We heard of a man the other day of whom it is said that he is so worthless that he couldn’t buy a load of ammunition for an gun. V We heard a man say the other day, about a s'ok man, that he was down with “nervous prosperity.” We hoped it would not prove fatal * * • Ones of onr friends is so conscientious that he says he will not go with a girl but a little while for fear that she will get to thinking he is Berions, and he does not want to disappoint her. The rest of the boys say he goes with a girl till he gets fired. *** A woman living not a thousand miles away offered a little girl fifteen cents a week to wash dishes for her. She did the work, and when she got done, the woman told her fifteen cents was too much, and she gave her only eight cents. Can you figure out how much that would be for eaoh time ? V An old man in this town, who grows weary of his own company, tries to get some of the elderly dames to go walking with him, bnt he is so old and tottering that they are afraid if they should go, he might give out when they are farthest away from town and they would have to send for a rig to get him home. A man never gels too old to be silly about the women. V A clerk in a store told us the other day that business had been very dull for a long time. He evidently d 1.1 not advertise, which explains why business was dead. It had been dull so long that when a man came in and made a fifty cent purchase ho got so excited that he broke the fifty cent lever in the cash register, and had to send away for an expert to come and repair it. *#* , When a man is in love he is liable to make all kinds of mistakes, and should not be held responsible for things for which he is not to blame. Our friend, B. 8. F., who is now in the south waiting for his wedding day, has noc been able to set his mind strictly on business affairs for some time. The other day he wrote a letter to the North American Creamery 00., Chicago, but his mind not being on his work, in addressing the envelope he got it The North American Creamery Co., 1118 Oarondalet Bt., New Orleans. The latter is the address of his soon-to-be wife, and she received the business letter intended for the Chicago firm. It was returned in due time to Bennie, who turned it over to his private secretary to address properly. V

A woman who was contemplating leaving the neighborhood decided in her own mind that she should like to have the neighbors get up a surprise party on her. One of the kind where the victim is just taken off her feet, that she has no words to express her astonishment. And where she is so filled with emotion that she can’t tell folks how she feels, and where she admits that she did not know she had so many friends. Why, she never thought of such a thing. You have heard of such affairs. Weil, she got np a surprise on a neighbor in order to sort of set the pace; to set the ball to rolling, as it were. They all gathered at the friend’s houfee and had their baskets filled with good things to eat. They had a jolly good time, but that was not all. When they had disposed of th#regular program, a new surprise was sprung. It was a fine rocking chair. An appropriate speech was made by the local pastor upon whom all such intellectual duties devolve. The host got qp to respond and they all got ready for something touching and original. He told them he was glad they all came, and he hoped they had had a good time. He invited them to come again, but when they did come, he hoped they would bear in mind that he was able to bny his own furniture, and he was more able to pay for it than some of those who hud contributed for the chair. Theßilenoe was so thick that it could have been cut with a corn cutter. That was the last surprise party in that neighborhood, and the woman moved away unmolested and was not surprised a single time.' .

RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1901,

9 Discusses 1 Sundry , and j Other ■ Matters.

Wilson. Humphreys A Company’s Printing Plant Wrecked by Fire Sunday Afternoon—Loss $40,000. The large printing plant of Wilson, Humphreys & Co., at Logansport, was damaged by fire Sunday afternoon of last week. The loss is estimated to be between $35,000 and $40,000, being the greatest in the linotype and composing rooms, which were completely gutted. The two rooms were located on the second floor, and the fire seemingly started in or near the linotype room and quickly spread through the composing room and to the binding room in the third floor. Before the fire department oonid get to work both floors were In flames. The fire in the bindery was soon controlled bnt not before the entire stock was ruined by fire and water. The press room on the first floor was drenohed with waterj>ut the damage there will not be very heavy. In the composing room the three linotypes were rained, while all the type on the stones, racks and galleys and in the cases was melted. The oompany had just completed the type setting for a large history and 127 galleys of It were on the racks ready to go to the press room. This is a total loss. In the bindery the American Bankero’ Directory had just been completed and would have been shipped Monday. Besides the directory a number of other books were In the building, all of which were ruined with a large stock of paper. The oompany had lately moved their office and retail store from Fourth street to the factory, as they called It, but these were located iu another room and were not damaged. The building was formerly a warehouse built in the palmy days of the Wabash and Erie canal. The walls were of stone with massive inside timbers. Nearly one hundred employes will be thrown out of work until repairs are made.

We wonder what number is used to number cars. Did you ever see a car begin with number one t—Arrow Shots. Parr, lnd., Oct. 3,1901. Editor Journal You wonder how cars are numbered, do you ? Not long since, the traffic on an old eastern road had grown so much that it was considered expedient to renumber the rolling-stock. Numbers less than 1500 were used for engines; numbers from 100,000 to 200,000 for all freight-cars, limiting the numbers for box-oars, coal-oars, cattle cars; sand cars, coke cars, refrigerators, etc., while numbers from 200,000 up, were reserved for passenger cars. Of coarse a large range of numbers is reserved in this manner in case the rolling stock should increase to enormous numbers. However, this is scarcely probable, for, as cars wear out, the number, as well as the car is replaced to facilitate the record keeping.

Long’s first annual corn contest is a thing of the past. There were ninetyfive exhibitors, and the display of corn could probably be equalled this year in no other county in the state. The first prize was awarded to Fred Fatka, of Marion township, while the second priSb was carried off by Wm. Scott, of Jordan township. The judges were B. F. Ferguson, Wm. Day and 0. W. Coen.

Judge Reiter, of Hammond, acting as special judge in the Jasper circuit court last Thursday, refused the injunction asked for by the county commissioners in the brick street im provement matter. He held that the city council has fall power to accept or reject the work, and that the circuit court has no right to interfere, unless bribery against the council is alleged. He therefore dismissed the case at the plaintiff’s cost.

MONEY ON FARMS AT 5 PER CEN’*. A special fond to loan on taims for five years at 6 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. Herbert Toops, of Sharon, returned from Nebraska, Monday, where he has been spending several months. He will later take a business oourse in the Valparaiso normal-

A BLAZE AT LOGANSPORT.

How Cars are Numbered.

The Corn Contest,

Injunction Refused.

REPUBLICANS WIN.

Entire City Ticket at Indianapolis Probably Elected. After Democratic administrations extending through a period of six years the Republicans at Indianapolis Tuesday elected their entire ticket, and it is altogether probable that the city council is also Republican. The offices inolude mayor, clerk and polioe judge, and the majorities will range from 1,000 to 1,500, and the latter figure may be even exoeeded when all the returns are in. From the beginning of the campaign the Democrats have been handicapped by the fact that they were compelled to defend the administrations of Mayor Taggart and at the same time did not have a candidate who appealed to the people as the mayor has done. The result was the loss of a large percentage of the colored vote, whloh has been oast for the Democrats for six years, and also the loss of Democratic votes on the South Side, where the party has a decided majority. Another thing which militated in favor of the Republicans and against the Democrats was the fact that the lai ter had been in office for six years in a city which is normally Republican. When the campaign opened Republicans were brought into line for the nominees by reason of the importance of the city in the next state oampaign, and the result of Tuesday’s election 1b not a surprise. Even among Democrats there is a feeling that mayor-elect Bookwalter will give the city a businesslike administration, and that he will keep his ante election pledges.

The County Commissioners.

The oonnty commissioners met in regular monthly session Monday, Alfred Ponton was granted a saloon license for Kniman. Alfred Zook, who applied for a license for Gifford, was defeated by a remonstrance signed by 196 voters of the township. Three other applicants have met the same fate. In the matter of Angeline Walters et al, on petition for highway, an amended petition was filed, and the old viewers were reappointed. F. E. Babcock filed a bill for $76.31 for balance alleged to be due for printing election tickets. The claim was dismissed. This bill, which was originally for $151.31 was allowed at $75, and a warrant drawn for the amount, which Babcock accepted and cashed. 'Charles Fidler was released from the payment of taxes erroneously assessed against him. The Rensselaer Fuel and Feed 00, was awarded the contract for six oars of Snbyvilie lump coal at $2 per ton delivered at the heating plant, and ten tonß of anthracite delivered at tha county farm at $6.75 per ton. Nancy E. Brown et al., petition for ditch Felix French, Frank Parker and D. H. Yeoman appointed reviewers. John Armstrong et al. Petition for ditch. Reviewers ordered to file amended complaint. Barbara Kelley et al. Petition for ditch. John Hudson, Rial B. Harris, and John Y. May appointed viewers.

Young Coen Hurt.

Delos Ooen, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Ooen, who is attending the Northwestern Military Academy at Highland Park, 111., and is also a member of the football team, was hurt in a game last week, but has fully recovered. The Inter Ocean, In giving the following account of the accident, publishes his likeness: “Delos Coen, the eighteen-year-old end of the Northwestern Military Academy, who was thought to be seriously injured in the game with Lake View high school on Wednesday afternoon, is expected to be back in his position this afternoon. After a hard mix-up in the first half, Coen was seen to be badly dazed, and at the end of the half, despite his protests, was taken out of the game. Although Coen did not entirely recover his senses until yesterday morning he suffered no external injury, and attended classes as usual yesterday morning. Coen’s home is in Rensselaer, lnd., and this is his fourth year in the academy. He is one of the brightest students in the military school, and plays a strong game at end. He played quarter-back on the Rensselaer high school team hefore coming to the academy.”

Farm for Sale oi\ Rent. Farm of 180 acres in Union township is for sale, it is located within 3 miles of Kniman and ten miles north of Rensselaer, fair improvements, good orchard, 100 acres in cultivation, balance in pasture and timber. If not sold by October 26th the farm will be for rent. Address John Swartz, Kniman, Ind. ‘ S. 26 4t

BERKLEY-M'COY WEDDING.

Solemnized et the Home of the Bride s Parents Last Wednesday Evening. The wedding or Miss Luella McCoy and Dr. Aubert 0. Berkley was solemnized last Wednesday evening, and was the most pretentious matrimonial event in the history of Jasper oounty. The bride is the only daughter of 8xMayor Thomas J. MoOoy, a member of the Republican State central committee from the Tenth distriot. The bridegroom is a well known and popular young physloian ofßensselaer. The marriage took plaoe at the handsome home of Mr. and Mrs. MoOoy .onJMoOoy avenue, in the presence of 150 guests, seventy five of whoni' were from other oitles. The maid-of-honorwas Miss Margaret Mioks, of Seneca Falls, N. Y. The bridesmaids were Miss Leathe Wright, of Rensselaer; Miss Rae Slocum, of Ooldwater, Mich.; Miss Belle Wallace and Mrs. Ruth Miller Bixler, of Lafayette, The best man was Jesse E. Wilson. The bridesmaids wore gowns of white organdy, with net yokes and sleeves; the maid of-honor white swiss, with lace and chiffon, and the bride white liberty Batin, trimmed in tulle and point lace. She was attended by two tiny maids, Emily Thompson and Gertrude Kannal, who aoted as ribbon bearers.

The rooms were profusely decorated with potted palms, flowers and smilax. The wedding maroh was played by Salisbury’s Chicago orchestra. The oeremony was performed by the Rev, Golden Work, pastor of the Presbyterian churoh. The bridal couple left the same night to make a wedding trip through the South and will return home November 1 to oocupy a home just built by Dr. Berkley on MoOoy avenue.

In Favor of Gifford.

The appellate oourt last week decided one of the grain oases of Mr. B. J, Gifford vs. H. A. Meyers, sent up from Pulaski oounty. The case is similar to oases filed here, and has a local Interest. The appellate oourt held :

(1). Where the owner of a farm executed a written lease for the buildings thereon and lots surrounding them, and the grass and pasture lands thereon, at a stipulated rent,including the work of raising crops on the cultivated land of suoh farm, reserving to himself all grain crops that should be raised thereon, but undertaking to pay his tenaut two-thirds of all suoh grain In payment for his work of raising it, subject to a deduction for all debts owing from the tenant to his landlord for rent or other demands, all grain raised on such cultivated land by suoh tenant was the property of the landowner until It was divided and the tenant’s share delivered to him, and the purchaser of suoh grain from the tenant before snoh division was liable to the landlord for its value in a suit for conversion, without regard to the state of the account between such landlord and suoh tenant. (2). Such contract was not unlawful, and did not create the relation of landlord and tenant as to the cultivated ground. (8). It wss not neoessary that Buch contract should be recorded to give the landowner a right to recover such grain.

Beet Fodder For Sale. It it said that a ton of beet tops and stabs will feed oattle as far as a ton of hay. I have the clippings from five and one-half aores of beets, which I will sell for |4 per ton on the ground. B. F. Ferguson.

Money to Loan.

Private funds to loan on farms, also city property for 8 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. Gall or write. A complete set ot abstract books. Jambs H. Chapman.

MISS THERESA WICFORSS. OPH. D., GRADUATE OPTICIAN Of Chicago, will be at the Nowels » House, MONDAY, OCT. 14. TO SATURDAY, OCLJI Eyes carefully and scientifically examined. Examination free. Hours—B to 9a. m. 12 to, 2 p. m. 6toßp. m.

When you have read this copy of the JOURNAL, mall It to a friend. As good as a letter.

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow into the air. It tell to the earth; 1 know not where. —Longfellow. Horsemen all hate automo6iles. Nothing looks as disoonsolate as a half smoked olgar^ Of all the cheap things, the cheapest is a cheap flowered vest. All the best and biggest peaohes grow in the top of the tree. We observe that the reddest peaches are not always the ripest. People seem to enjoy talking abont a girl who is growing fat. Most of the smart things children say, they are put np to say. You can never make a girl mad by eating all the oake she bakes. A baby can ory louder than a brass band can play. We have tried it. Any man can quit using tobaooo Just as well as not, but none ever does quit. Little scrub towns use the word "metropolitan" more than Obioago does.

Nothing is more uncontrollable than a hot stove lid on the floor, upside down. Everything comes to him who waits, but it will make better time, if you hustle. Nothing is as disagreeable as to have some one rake up something you said long ago. Oet a crowd of men to talking over a good meal, and they are very apt to talk foolish. Low summer shoes are not necessarily * Mgn of any superhuman amount of intelligence. A man who marries a girl and goes to her home town visiting, has a bard row to hoe. If a lecturer did not get off a lot of ohestnuts, lots of folks wouldn't understand any of it. Boys who like to brag that they do their own thinking do not necessarily hurt themselves thinking. It is surprising how many peaches a basket holds after you have been peeling peaohes till 0.30 p. m. Seeing how tough it makes every* body feel, we see no reason why anybody voluntarily loses sleep. A man holds a coffee mill With one hand and grinds with the other. A woman doesn't hold it that way. People who like to say "I hain’t got no education," like to have you infer that they are not so slow, after all. When a man tries to help in the kitchen, the women folks say it takes more time to get him .ready than it would to do the work. When you see a man chasing around over the neighborhood, carrying a cream pitoher, you may know there is a party going on at bis house. Subscribe for the JOURNAL. O. M. Phelps, Forestdale, Vt. says his child was completely cored of a bad case of eczema by the use of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Beware of all counterfeits. It instantly relieves piles. A. F. Long.

A First Class Nursery.

S. E. Yeoman, of Rensselaer, is agent for Hooker, Wyman & 00., nurserymen, of Rochester, N. Y., and is booking many orders for nursery stock for fall delivery. This nursery is one of the most reliable concerns in the country and their stock is guaranteed true to name or money refunded.' All stock dying or proving unsatisfactory will be replaoed free. Mr. Yeoman is in the business to stay and will give his personal attention to all stock purchased through him. Give him a trial order and you will be well pleased with your purchase. « *

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