Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — Page 1

We do JOB PRINTING of all Kind*. Our superior equipment enables us to give the lowest prices. No Job too small or none too large.

VOL. XI.

DR. MOORE, The Careful Specialist of 45 Years Constant Practice, Treats with remarkable success the following specialties : Lungs, Heart, Stomach, Hemorrhoids, Epilepsy, Nose and Throat, Nerves, Cancer, Old Sores and UlKidneys and Bladder, Pricers, Ear and all diseases of vate Diseases, Women. It gives 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 new methods, can now be cured. A large per cent, of Epilepsy and ■ Cancer can be permanently relieved. The best of references given. U Office and Residence over Fendig’s City Drug Store. S Office Hours— 9 to 12 am. 2tosp. m. 7toßp. m. SUNDAYS—2 to 3p. m. 7to Bp. m. All calls promptly answered. ? ’Phone 251. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. j DR. CHAS. VICK, OPT. D. $ f , THE OPTICIAN. J * The optician who asks the public T r to patronize him should first acquire 4 A a knowledge of the anatomy of the A \ eye and the physiology of vision, * then of the principles of optics, the jBsMHj laws and properties of light, its re j ’’ fraction by transparent media of dis- v V ferent density, and an aquaintance 4 A with the various kinds of lenses, and A |||| their action upon rays of light that V 4 pass through them. 4 4 He has a first class trial case with A all the other paraphernalia usually V r . found in a firstclass office, for test- 4 A >ng the eye. He is a close student or specialist, devoting his entire time to his A v chosen profession. He commenced fitting people with glasses in 1872. v 4 A discount will be given from his regular prices, from now until January Ist, 4 A 1902. Come and have your eyes tested; you will find his diagnosis correct, no A v matter what the trouble may be. v 4 Office with R. P. Benjamin, the Music Dealer. Second door west of the Rens- 4 A selaer Bank, Rensselaer, Indiana. A You Don’t Need to be ) Ay Is Kicking yourself if you figure with us before buying elsewhere, as our stocks are complete and we can furnish anything in the Lumber line. Donnelly Lumber Co. Phone 4.

ellis opera house. 3 NIGHTS :> ONLY O BEGINNING Hill* fts, * il. The King Of Comedians. FRANK DAVIDSON AND HIS FAMOUS Actors, Singers, Dancers Three Latest Comedy Successes! MSQUARB YARDS OF Ifififi MAQN'F.OKNT SOKNKRYI OtluU Farms for Sale or Trade. Z We have farms for sale or trade in Jasner county, Ind., and in Oklahoma. For particulars write to or call on A. G. or H. P. Farmer, Sharon, Ind. 33-13 t.

The JOURNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.35 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDOWLADE, $1.25.

The Rensselaer Journal.

Sam Jones.

Sam Jones lectured to a crowded house last Friday evening. There was much truth tn all that Sam said, but the slang and vulgarity that he uses in his talks is certainly not in good taste and is objectionable to a large part of his audience. We strongly suspect, however, that bis slang and vulgarity is what makes Sam such a drawing card, and without this feature but little would be beard of him.

Don’t Live Together.

Constipation and health never go together. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers promote easy action of the bowels without distress. “I have been troubled with costiveness nine years,” says J. O. Greene, Depanw, Ind. “I have tried many remedies but Little Early Risers give best results.” A. F. Long. Only thirty-five barrels of apples left of the car of 182 barrels. All sound, fancy stock at 25c, 35c and 40c per peck, or $4.00 per barrel at the Chicago Store. Advertised le'tMrs: Clara Reish, Mies Hattie Ward, Mrs. Harry Ricberson, Miss Bertha Caldwell, Miss Emma Ermerson.

BAD FIRE AT WOLCOTT.

Nearly Two Blocks ot Business Buildings Destroyed. Wolcott had the most disastrous fire in its history Tuesday night. Fire broke opt either |n the Ma sonic Hail or Hart’s drug store and nearly two blocks of business buildings were destroyed. The majority of the buildings were of brick. The contents of a number of the stores were saved but of course in a much damaged condition. Among the sufferers were A Leopold & Sons, although they did not own the building which they occupied. Their stock of goods was saved, but was considerably damaged. Their loss is covered by insurance. The bank building and hotel, and in fact every building in the line of the fire was destroyed. Wolcott has no fire protection and on such a night as Tuesday night but little could be done towards fighting the flames.

MARDI GRAS.

New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola. The Mardi Gras Carnivals will be held this year in above cities, from February 4' to 11. For this occasion the Louisville & Nashville R. R will sell round trip tickets to New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola at one fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale February 4 to 10, and are limited to Febuary 28. For a very interesting illustrated booklet giving the history of the Mardi Gras, address, O. L. Stone, Gen. Pass. Agt. Louisville and Nashville R. R., Louisville, Ry.

The City Council.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening. But little business was transacted! S. P. Thompson and the Oomiqerpiaj; State Bank presented a petition for a sewer from lots 7,8, fl,, bl 4, of the originalpfat of Rensselaer, through blosk 9 to Van Rensselaer street. The. matter was referred to the sewer committee. The following claims were allowed: T. J. Sayler & Co,, street improvement assessments 2 993 47 Dolese & Shephard Co., balv ance ....i.g 20 Wm. Moore, work on street I 95 Joseph Rowen, work on .street... 3 90 White & Marion, repairingpnmp.. 3 50 J. H. Chapman, principal and . interest 1 583 95 Conrad Hilderbrand, salary to Jan. C. S. Chamberlain, salary to Jan. 15 30 00 Peter Giver, salary to Jan. 15,.... 22 50 C. L. Thornton “ “ “ “ .... 22 50 Ira D. Smith, work on lire, 6 60 White & Marion, sundries 2 35 J. H. Chapman, freight and express 18487 Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., supplies..:, 12 25 Coal Blufi Mining Co., coal, 13284

The Guessing Contest.

We have received a list of the prize winners in the election contest of the Press Publishing Association, of Detroit, Mich., in which Journal subscribers participated. Very few in this vicinity succeeded in winning prizes and those who did got but low onos. The capital prize of |5,000 was won by M. G. Terry, ah old man, of Monroe, Mich., who guessed the exact v0te—1,542,581. Prize winners in this vicinity were: Henry Welch, Remingtor, |3; Mrs. Clara Fuller, Fair Oaks, $3; A. Sines, Delphi, |2; Philip Stnppy, Wheatfield, Ilin the Canadian census guessing contest Frank L. Hoover, of Rensselaer, won |3.

Child Worth Millions.

“My child is worth millions to me,” says Mrs. Mary Bird, of Harrisburg, Pa., “yet I would have lost her by croup had I not purchased a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure.” One Minute Cough Cure is a sure cure for coughs, croup and throat and lung troubles. An absolutely safe cough cure which acts immediately. The youngest child can take it with entire safety. The little ones like the taste and remember how often it helped them. Every family should have a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure handy. At this season it may be needed suddenly. A. F. Long.

FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS.

One Per Cent Commission. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, has a special fund to loan at 5 per cent in terest and one per cent commission. No delay.

RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1902.

Our Man About Town.

The lasiest man in this town walks ao fast that nobody can keep up with him. * * » The city librarian tells us that the most called for book by the girls is Mamie Oorrelli’s new one. It’s title is “Boy,” ’** A woman in this 'town says she Always wore number four shoes before she was married, and the women who know her feet say it must have been about sixteen years before she was married. She got married at eighteen. A certain Rensaelaer man who is given to staying out late came in one night last week quite early in the morning. He was unable to walk noiselessly and his wife hearing him called on' anxiously: , dear, is that you ?” "Course *tis. Was yer ‘xpecting somebody else?” One of our neighbors who always keeps a little wine in the cellar, but does not drink any as he does not like it, says that their wine always gets away and they Imagine somebody stole it. It is probably the same with everybody who keeps liquor, yet there are only a few who are as honest about It as this man. They will say somebody stole it, and stick to it. *•* A family in this towh moved out of a rented house. They had no use for the kitchen linoleum, so they left it on the floor. The tenants who followed them lived in the house a few months and then they left. Before leaving, however, they juried to sell tite linoleum which had been left there and did not belong -to them, which shows that there'are some folks yho are fanny. V One of our business men says he is fooled nearly every time he goes to the post-office. He says there will be a lot of mail in his box and he will get all expectancy, expecting an order for goods or some remittance, or a lot of things he really wants. Imagine bow he feels when he finds that it is mail sent to his wife, who is an officer in the Sunday school, and gets circulars and letters and papers and sample copies by the cart load. He kicks and . says he will get her a box for her Sunday school so he will not have to swear so much at being disappointed. As long as he is compelled to swear he does not feel that his wife has a fair chance.

At last we have located “Nubbin Ridge.” Ever since childhood we have beard of that section of country but until the past week have never been able to find it. All the residents of that vicinity either live on this side or the other side of it, or in driving through the country a persqp is informed that Nubbin Ridge is Just ahead a few miles or that we have Just passed it a few miles back. It is like hunting-for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow; we are never able to find it. Last week, Irowevevy we run across a man right here in Rensselaer who claims to have been born or Nubbin Ridge and to have lived there until recent years. The gentleman referred to is 8. B. Jenkins, the fireman at the county heating plant. He says be would rather live there than any place on earth, for he says it is the Garden of Eden of Jasper county. He says the name of Nubbin Ridge was given to it by old Jake Burgett, some fifty years ago. He was on his way to church which was being held in the old Sandridge school house. Just north of where Blackford is now located be got off his horse to get some corn to feed. The corn was only about two feet high on the ridge and all he could find was nubbins, .and right then and there be christened the spot Nubbin Ridge and it has gone by that name ever since. Mr. Jenkins further says: “If you want a good square' meal, go to the heart of Nubbin Ridge; if you want a good wife go there also, for there is the home of some of the prettiest. girls the world ever saw. They are not afraid of work or men, and the boys are not afraid either of the girls or work, for I have seen them bunt muskrats all day and then go to church at night with their girls. They did not have to spend their money for mask to put on their handker-

chiefte, far the church was filled with the odor of the rats. How glad lam to recollect those days of childhood, which crowd upon my visions and disturb my dreams by night and dim my eyes by day with joy to think I was born on Nubbin Ridge, and was rocked in a cradle that was made of a boot box that was Imported from the city. In defense of our home and old friends on Nubbin Ridge we quote these few lines: "It is not a smiling delusion that shames, Not a folly that reason should scorn, ’Tis the voice of a heart which too loudly proclaims, That we for the belter were born, And that which the inner voice bid us believe, Can never the hope of a spirit dissolve,”

V Ditcusses I Sundry i and J Other Matter*.

John H. Gillett, of Hammond, New Supreme Judge. Governor Durbin last Friday announced the appointment of Judge H. Gillett, of Hammond, to succeed Judge Francis E. Baker on the state supreme bench. Judge Baker recently was chosen to be United States circuit judge, vice William A. Woods, deceased. His appointment creates a vacancy in the Lake circuit court to be filled by the governor. For this place there are already several applications. The matter probably will not be taken up for several days, the Governor being at his home in Anderson on account of illness. Judge Gillett lives in a handsome home in a suburb of Hammond. He has a wife and son. Although but 40 years old, he has won wide respect, and some of his decisions have be come celebrated. He refused to issue an injunction two years ago restraining George V. Hankins and other gamblers from operating a race track in northern Indiana. His reason, as given in his decision, was that, while he believed that gamblers deserve the pillory, be could not legally issue the injunction, Another of bls decisions was the unconstitutionality of the garnishment law.

The First One Day, the Last Next Pay. Senator Mason has had a conference with the Postmaster-General for the purpose of securing the Issuance of an order which will remove what might be termed a discrimination against certain farmers in regard to the delivery of their mail. At present the rural free delivery carriers leave the postoffice by one route and return by another. As a consequence those who live near the end of the route receive their mail late every day. It is proposed to have carriers start One day at the beginning of a route and reverse the order of things the next. This will equalize matters so far as the time of the delivery of the mail is concerned, as those residing at the beginning of the route will get their mail early one day and late the next, and the same consideration will exist with regard to those at the end of the route. Postmaster-General Payne now has the matter under consideration and will, within the next few days, issue an order on the subject.

The residence on the old Long farm 1J mile north of Mt. Ayr burned last Thursday morning. It was occupied by Ed. Long and his mother. The fire started from a defective flue and had got a good start before being dis* covered. All the household goods in the upper story were destroyed. The loss was about >IBOO, with an insurance of |I,OOO, which would have expired at noon on the day of the fire. The building was the property of A. F. Long, of Rensselaer, and his brother Ed. It will be rebuilt as soon as the weather permits. The insurance was settled Saturday for >932.

“I was troubled for about seven years with my stomach and m bed half my time.” says E. Demiok, Somerville, Infl. ‘‘l spent about >I,OOO and never could get anything to help me until I tried Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I have taken a few bottles and am entirely well.” You don't live by what vou eat, but what you digest and assimilate. If your stomach doesn’t digest your food yon are really starving. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does the stomach’s work by digesting the food. You don’t have to diet. Eat all you want. Koflpl Dyspepsia -Cure cures all stomach troubles. A. F. Long.

SUCCEEDS BAKER.

NEW RURAL DELIVERY ROLE.

Farm House Burned.

A Profitable Investment.

MISFIT SUITS. THE HAMILTON WOOLEN MILLS, 225, 227 Market St., Chicago, have sent MR. E. VAN GEUNS to present their line of MISFIT SUITS, which they will sell for 50 cents on the Dollar. Our fine Tailor Made Suits at $6, $7 and SB. Boys’ Suits, age 13 to 15 years, at $3.50 to $5. Men’s Overcoats at $4.50 to $7. Men’s Pants at $1.75 to $2. We will remain at the NOWELS HOUSE until Saturday afternoon. TH Hamilton Woolen Mills.

political Pointers.

Two candidates for city marshal on the Republican ticket have already made their appearacce. They are. Christie Vick and A. D. Burds. Either, one would make a good officer. —o— M. B. Price, the present county surveyor, will again be a candidate for renomination. Other names that have been mentioned for this office are Hugh Gamble, of Rensselaer, and W, L. Lewis, of Union township, although the latter has not yet expressed bis intention of making the race, we understand. For county treasurer we have heard the name of ex-township trustee, John A. Lamborn, of Carpenter township, mentioned, although we understand he will not make the race if any one else the office. Mr Lamborn is well qualified to All the office and would make a strong candidate. So far no one in Jasper county has appeared to make the race against Charles Hanley for circuit fudge. Mr. Hanley has received much encouragement in all parts of the county and is pretty sure of receiving the entire vote of the county if no other candidate appears. As Jasper county has the majority of delegates this would insure his nomination. —o—

Owing to the contemplated remove! of Commissioner Dowell to the west, there will be three commissioners to elect this year. As Mr.Waymire has moved from the district in which he was elected to that represented by Mr. Dowell, it would probably be wise to give him the nomination from Mr. Dowell’s district. For joint representative for Newton and Lake counties the name of Jesse E. Wilson, of Rensselaer, has been mentioned. No better selection could be made and we believe Lake county this year will acknowledge the justice of Jasper's claim and allow us to name the candidate. For township council men for Marlon tpwnshlp we suggest the names of the present council —George W. Goff, Harvey W. Wood and J. C Porter. They have given the best of satisfaction during their term of office. Marshal Simpson will again be a candidate on the Democratic ticket. He says be thinks he is entitled to the office again, as the legislature shortened hip term two years at the last session. Dr. Kay’s Renovator for dyspepsia.

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

W. C. M’MAHAN MADE JUDCE.

Successor of John H. Gillett In Lake and Portdr Circuit Court. The Governor has appointed Willis O. McMahan, of Crown Point, judge of the Lake-Porter circuit court, to succeed John H. Gillett, who was appointed judge of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the selection of Francis E. Baker for United States circuit judge. Mr. McMahan is flfty-two years old. The Porter County Bar Association indorsed Hiram A. Gillett, father of the new Supreme Court Judge, for circuit Judge. Among the candidates for circuit judge were A. F. Knotts, V. 8. Reiter and F. H. Gavitt, of Hammond.

Greeted Admiral Schley.

Admiral Schley, the hero of Santiago, passed through Rensselaer on the 10:65 south bound train on hie way to Louisville Tuesday, and was greeted 'by many ot our citizens. The public schools were dismissed in time to give the pupils a chance to see the Admiral and they were present in a body. The train pulled in a few minutes late but stopped here long enough to give all a chance to see the Admiral and for many to shake hands with him. As the train pulled in he appeared with his wife on the rear platform of President McDoel’s private car bowlnK right and left to his admirers. He wore his overcoat and a small cap and there was, nothing about him to suggest the sea. The Admiral is a much better looking man than his picture indicates, while Mrs. Schley is a strikingly good looking woman, bright faced and cherry.

Marriage at Wheatfield.

Mr. Joseph H. Hammond, cashier of the Wheatfield bank, and Miss Marie Jensen were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Engebret Jensen, at Wheatfield, Tuesday, at noon. B. F. Ferguson, of Rensselaer, officiated. The ceremony took place in the presence of a few immediate friends snd relatives only. After the wedding Mr. and Mbs. Hammond left for a short visit frk Chicago and’ Hammond. They be at home to their friends on and after February 10th. Tbe Journal extends 'congratulations.

Marriage Licenses.

Jeremiah Miller and Martha M. Swartzell. » George Howe and Grace Antrim. Joseph P. Hammond and Marie Jensen. John E. Marion and Viola Archer.

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