Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — Page 1

VOL. XI.

Blue Re-elected Truant; Officer.

The county board of education, at its meeting Monday, re-elected Philip Blue truant officer of Jasper county. Three names were proposed for the office—Philip Blue and John P. Bruner, republican*, and Willis J. Imes, democrat. The vote stood: Blue, 9; Imes, 4; Bruner, 1.

Keep the Balance Up.

It has been truthfully said that any disturbance of the even balance of health causes serious trouble. Nobody can be too careful to keep this balance up. When people begin to lose ap petite, or to get tired easily, the least imprudence brings on sickness, weakness, or debility. The system needs a tonic, craves it, and should not be denied it; and the best t nic of which we have any knowledge is Hood’s Sarsaparilla. What this medicine has done in keeping healthy people healthy, in keeping up the even balance of health, gives it the same distinction as a preventive that it enjoys as a cure. Its early use has illustrated the wisdom of the old saying that a stitch in time saves nine. Take Hood’s for appetite, strength, and endurance. S. Phillips is confined to his home with sickness.

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 UT Kidneys and Bladder, Pricers, Ear and all diseases of Vcitc Diseases, 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. v vy Office and Residence over Fendig’s City Drug Store. Office Hours —9 to 12 a. m. 2tosp. m. 7toßp. m. SUNDAYS—2 to 3p. m. 7to 8 p m. All calls promptly answered. Phone 251. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

l Hominy Meal j Is not a patented medicated food, it is pure corn ■ f and principally the heart of the grain with noth- f J ing- extracted. f I Come and see it; compare it; examine it. I j The more thorough your investigation the surer I we are you will feed it. We want your trade and | J are making every effort to give you the greatest # value possible for your money. 0 I Phone 273. I I COX & BRANCH. I

Digest in the Cbounty is our stock of Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors and Moulding. Least in the County are the Prices at which we sell this stuff. Let us show you. : DONNELLY LUMBER CO. BLACKSMITHING! For Blacksmithing and Repair Work go to FRED HEMPHILL and ABE WARTENA, successors to Danforth Bros., opposite the Hemphill Livery Barn and the King Hitch Barn. The best of work in our line. Guaranteed. HORSE SHOEING AND PLOW WORK A SPECIALTY.

The JOURNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1.25

The Rensselaer Journal.

School Enumeration of County.

CORPORATIONS 1801 1902 1902 tj , , M. F. T’tl loss g’n Barkley WL_259 240 499 31 Carpenter 317 I?T'- 5 173 320 3 GHlani 233 130 |25 255 22 Hanging: Jordan 262 120 /ill 231 31 Kankakee 165 80 /63 143 20 Keener 256 168/ 134 302 46 Marion 379 236/ 164 400 21 Milroy J 33 63 49 117 16 Newton 76 175 3 Union 487 266 224 490 3 Walker 313 171 149 320 7 Wheatfleld 160 88 82 170 10 Totals 3584 1927 1669 3596 103 115 Remington 319 162 158 320 1 Wheatfleld, 128 -66 56 122 6 Rensselaer 695 339 330 669 26 Totals 4726 2494 2213 4607 135 116 Total loss in county, 19. .

Milk at Reduced Prices. O. E. Eller, proprietor pf the Iroquois dairy, has reduced the price of milk to 4 cents per quart and will deliver to any place in town at that price. All milk will be kept on ice and delivered fresh.in bottles, a big improvement over the old way of delivering. Watch for his new wagon. M-8 15-22 The Chicago Glee Club will appear at the opera house Saturday evening, May 17. Further announcements next week.

RENSSELAER. IND.. THURSDAY. MAY 8 I *O2 i

ALMOST A WRECK.

The Monon Has a Narrow Escape From a Disastrous Wreck. The Monon fast mail south bound train last Sunday afternoon had a narrow escape from a disastrous wreck two miles north of Fair Oaka. The train was running at its usual high rate of speed, when the engineer noticed a man with a traction engine crossing the track. The engineer reversed his engine, but this ha : little effect in checking its speed. The man with the traction engine, seeing that he could not clear the track in time, ; jerked the coupling pin from the water tank and succeeded in getting the enginp clear of the track as the locomotive whizzed by. The train struck the tank wagon, however, and reduced it to kindling wood. The fireman of the locomotive, see- , ing the danger, jumped from the cab into the ditch. He was bruised some but not seriously hurt.

Commissioners’ Court.

The county commissioners met in regular monthly session Monday. Conrad Hildebrand was granted a saloon license for Rensselaer. Chas Finklemier was released from poll tax. Wm. Blankenbaker et al, petition for highway. Ordered established. Robert Parker et al, petition for vacation and location of highway. Highway ordered vacated Henry J. Gowland. Petition for ditch Lyman Barce, James F. Irwin and Benj. Harris, Sr., appointed viewers. Robert Zick et al, petition for ditch. L. Strong, Stephen T. Comer and Wm. Daniels appointed viewers. Wm. Bowser was allowed sl2 for four young wolf scalps. The Francesvillo Telephone Company was granted permission to set poles and string wires along the public highways between Renssplaer and Francesville. Sarah J. McEwen was granted a quit claim deed to perfect title to certain property in Rensselaer. The contract for pool 1 farm supplies for the quarter was granted to B. Forsythe at $73. A petition for a gravel road in South Barkley township was con tinued. G. P.-F. Saddler was appointed engineer to prepare plans and specifications for two bridges in Gillam township. The auditor was directed to advertise for bids for a new bridge in Jordan township. Nancy E. Brown et al. Petition for ditch. “Auditor presents transcript from the circuit court, together with final*report of viewers heretofore on file, which final report is approved by the board. The auditor is directed to modify the report so as far as possible, to carry out the judgment of the circuit court.”

After Irwin Bivins.

Danville Press. W. L. Wood, of Parr, Ind., was in the city yesterday looking for Irwin Bivins. He offered $25 for the arrest of the man. According to Mr. Wood’s story,ißivins had been guilty of mortgaging property that did not belong to him. He sold Bivins a team and wagon and took a mortgage on some corn and other chattels as security, but subsequently learned that the property did not belong to B*vine. He left the wagon at the home of his brother-in-law, G. W. Bullington, near Wolcott, Ind. He then bought a buggy and harness of a man by the name of Bloom, in Wolcott, giving a mortgage as security. He thfen drove the rig to this city and sold the entire outfit to Bob Hayes for $25. Sometime after this Mr. Bloom located his property here., James Pemberton the town marshal of Wolcott, came over here a few days ago and replevened the horse and baggy. Yesterday the men, Wood and Bloom, had come over to get their property. Both were anxious to get Bivins. Bivins is a married man and his wife resides near Parr, Ind. His father lives in this city. If what all the men who were here yesterday say is true, he is in atoiir way to get into serious trouble. ™ •

Ohas. Beets came dver from Kokomo Sunday to get a gun he had loaned to Perry Sorrel some weeks ago, but Sorrel had been too swift for him and had sold the gun to Abe Stone for $4, who was intending to raffle it off, having already sold sl2 worth of tickets. Beets recovered the gun and iB now trying to find Sorrel with the aid of the law. Sorrel left here a few days ago, as he claimed to go to Sheridan, and has not yet returned.

OUR NEXT MAYOR—J. H. S. ELLIS.

REPUBLICANS WIN.

Entire City Ticket Elected by Safe Majorities. The Ticket. Mayor. J. H S. Ellis Clerk * Charles Morlan Treasurer J. H. Chapman Marshal Mel Abbott Councilmen—ist Ward J i. Fred Phillips Second Ward / S. Parks l d. F. Ferguson. Third Ward / McColly. (1 . C. Wasson. Rensselaer is again in the Republican column, the sera cliers not being numerous enough at the i-.lty election Tuesday to defeat any o the Republican candidates, although one or two candidates got in by very smajl majorities The ticket elected is a good one and we have no doubt, will prove satisfactory to the people 'The newly elected councilmen will take their seats next, Monday evening The balance of the ticker will not take their seats until next September. The following is the vote by wards:

j. 3 | 1 ~ *Za o . I 57 <—»• *«J i i * p <; ~ a. _:. 1 i* >5 ft. 2 | ft James U. 8. EUla-K lui>;i2.|uf3¥> 198 Mcl'arland-D 6:i 29 85 t«7 Cbas. Mortan-B IW 113 113823 IK) Joseph .leffi iea-D 751 55; 8» 213 J, H. Chapman-B 80 107 102 28$) 47 Benhart Fendlg-U <u) S 8 04’242 Mel A.bbott>K <17:114 :»«,;«)>■ 7:4 A. binipson-L) ;« 7,4 04 «a* k COU.NCII.Mr.N-FIKST W.illU. Henry Wood-B 94 Frank O’Rlera-D (Hi Fred Phillips-B 114 J. A. Sharp-D 86 . SECOND WARD. W. S. Parks-K ... 126 .. D. M. Worland-D j<j I B. F. Ferauson-R 10:4 ...L * C. A. Boberts-D 07 | THIRD WARD J. F. McColly-B I|o: I P. C. Wasson-K lijti "i J. C. Cbllcote-I) 1)8 1 Frank Rlaloy-D (a ”’|

She Was Here, Too.

Brook Reporter. On Wednesday morning while we were ‘planting’ type, the door opened and an old, dirty, greasy, lousy looking, snag toothed speciman of the “shemale geuius hobo” walked in and reached out a paw that had been foreign to soap and water for six months, requested us to read the paper it contained. The first was & typewritten article specifying that she—Mrs. Moore—was destitute and badly in need of money to take her to ner relatives, and the appended annex was in the well known hand writing of our popular town clerk, George Washington Augustas Knapp, which conferred upon her the freedom of the town, and stated in big, round, bold letters that “this person being worthy has the privilege of soliciting alms in Brook.” What graft she worked on our town clerk to make him think she had a lien on the “privileges” of Brook we do not know, but be that as it may she worked a lot our people on the strength of that paper. A runner in town that day dec’ared that she made begging a business and owned a fine farm near Danville.

Fined for Dynamiting Fish.

In the Lake circuit court last week J. Carlson and W. Johnson were convicted of dynamiting fish in the Kankakee river and were each fined $260 and sentenced to the county jail for thirty days. This conviction will probably go far towards patting a stop to such work in the future.

MONON'S NEW DEAL.

Great Interest Controls and Will Operate With L. & N. The Chicago News says: A new railway f-vstem, embracing the Monon and Louisville & Nashville, will soon operate between Chicago and New Orleans. It is learned that John W. Gates and those working with him have secured control of the Monon. This was done by buying $3,000,000 worth of stock in the open market and by the purchase from General Sam Thomas of $6,000,000 additional at 72, giving the Gates syndicate $9,000,000 of $15,000 000 of the capital stock of the road. The purchase was mude wit h the idea of getting entrance to Chicago for the Louisville & Nashville. The new company which will probably he called the Chicago &New Orleans railway company, will oper nto toe two roads J. P. Morgan & Oo will finance the deal.

Nothing In It.

New York, May b —John W. Gates, who hafi arrived heVe from Ohica/o, is quoted by the Times as denying the reporfs that he and his associates have acquired control of the Chicago, IndianapoliH & Louisville (Motion) railroad by purchasing $3,000,000 worth of stock in the open market and by the pur hase of $6,000,000 worth of stock additional from Samuel Thomas. “Nothing in it, as far as I’m concerned,” said Mr. Gates.

SCHOOL NOTES.

Miss Harris spent Saturday and Sunday in Hammond. Ray Collins has q .it school to help his father on the farm. Lois Kendall, who has until recently been attending school in Warren county, entered the eighth grade Monday. E. L. Hollingsworth spoke to the high school Friday morning. Instead of talking about the business life, he took an infinitely higher ground and portrayed very vividly the value of ideals in life, showing that business only permits us to live, while the pursuit of ideals is life, itself. The class athletic meet arranged for last Friday afternoon was postponed on account of the rain. It has been arranged for Thursday of this week. .This gives the boys another week of training, hence a better meet. Come out everybody and give the Athletes your hearty support. You must know that they have a hard proposition on their hands at Monticello the 23 Inst, and they need all the encouragement they can get.

Another Gravel Road Pelition.

Elias Arnold, trustee of Barkley township, has filed a numerously signed petition for a gravel road in Barkley township. The proposed road is to start about three quarters of a mile east of the Stackhouse bridge and run north two miles and east two and a half miles. The road is a continuation of the Marion township north gravel road; It is proposed to construct the road under the two mile assessment law.

THIS WICKED WORLD.

Important Happenings From sll Parts of Our Great States. Crimes. Acpldents,Murders and Other Important News as Oathered For Our Readers. Dead What You Like and Then Quit. It is said that Columbia City girls l chew a ton of gum every week in the year. The rag carpi# season is at hand. This is why some people are short onclothes. Now would be a splendid time for the liars to organize, says a Fort Wayne assessor. U. L. Weeks, of Auburn, slaughtered a S'eer last week that weighed 3,030 pounds. It was four years old. F. E. Smith, of Westville, has just sold 2,500 bushels of apples that hehas had iu storage all winter. He has one of t|j|p best orchards in Northern Indiana.* A Rushville hardware man is advertising “Jiard bargains” for a week in his goods, while an ice cream man across the street says his stock is melting fast. The Hoosier who was laid up all winter with “don’t cares” is now sunning his hide in front of the country store and telling farmers how to plant their crops. North Manchester men are spending their money voting for the “prettiest you.ig lady” in town. The contest is conducted by a medicine show, which is fattening its coffers. A little boy at Syracuse who has b?en earning $1.35 a day selling angle worms, wants his father to buy an acre of ground so that he may establish an an angle worm farm. In Howard county a woman who has been married less than a year is asking ior a divorce and in her complaint charges her husband with having committed assault and battery upon her 208 times by choking, horsewhipping and spanking her bare feet with a board. One would think that in the 208 times the woman would have become “bomb proof” and not mind being knocked down occasionally. W e have no sympathy for people who cannot be schooled. Ed Hall, with a band of thirty or forty gypsies, lias been camped near Columbus for some days past. With Hall was a woman whom he claimed was his wife. Another gypsy woman arrived and claimed to be Hall’s wife, and exhibited a marriage certificate to prove it. The woman Hall was passing as his wife was named Wilson and was a sister of his true wife. When the two women met a lively hair pulling followed. Hall had deserted hie wile at Rochester five weeks ago* taking the sister with him Ada Buzzard attempted to take the life of her fickle lover, Charles Godfroy, while he was being married to another at Denver, this state. While the ceremony was in progress Miss Buzzard armed herself with a shotgun and, repairing to the scene of the festivities, concealed herself behind a tree and was awaiting an opportunity for a shot when she was discovered and placed under arrest. Some time ago she had Godfroy arrested on a charge of betrayal and the case was compromised by him for S3OO.

CEPHAS ATKINSON.

The Noted Stockman's Advice to the Publ'.c. „r It has been told that I have said there were other foods better than the American. I wish to say that I never said such a thing, and I wish to further state that I have used to my satisfaction the Pratt, International, Acme and the American aud I have found none better than the American. I have been using it the past eight months on 230 head of cattle, and am highly pleased with its results, so much so that I think for every dollar I put into the American Food I get three out. Wishing you every success, Lremain with you and shall continue to use the American Food. Yours very truly, Cephas Atkinsow, Oxford, Indiana.

Advertised Letters.

001. O. 0. Powell, Mrs. Jane Morris, Mrs. Frank Herley, Roy O. Stevens (2)„ Rovert Smith, Miss Dessie Turner, Mrs. Mary Ann Smith, Lenz Warne‘ Mr. Mart Williams, Irene Watson, Nola Willars. y ,

Marriage License.

Lawrence Saylor and Bello Wateoo.

NUMBER 48.