Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1902 — Page 1

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. 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. 71°8p. m. All calls promptly answered. Phone 251. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

Largest in the County 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 Danu.forth Bros., opposite the Hemphill Livery Barn and the King Barn. The best of work in our line. Guaranteed. HORSE SHOEING AND PLOW WORK A SPECIALTY.

Fred Landis to Speak.

The graduation exercises ot Marion, Newton, Jordan and Carpenter towDships will be held at Fountain Park, June 11th. The program will consist of themes by the graduates, and music. In the afternoon Hon. Fred Landis, of Logansport, brother of Congressman Landis, and himself a candidate for congress from the ninth district, will speak to the graduates in the afternoon. A large attendance is expected. * For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office. Miss Dora Moore is visiting in Monticello. Mrs. J. O. Gwin is visiting her son Lacy at Marshfield, Wis. Mrs. G. M. Kessinger has be'bn vis lting her daughter near Lafayette. Miss Floy Nowels has returned from music school at Indianapolis. Mrs. H. O. McOay, ot Plymouth, is the guest of her father, Hiram Day. Work on the foundation of the Odd -Fellows’ new building began Monday. Mrs. W. A. Hetlick, of New York ~ City, is visiting her mother, Mrs. E. J. Morris. Mrs. J. B. Clemens and Miss May . Bennett, of Shelby, are visiting rela tives in this vicinity. The last of the old Liberal Corner buildings has been torn down and the material carted away. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Milliron, of Monticello, were the guests of Mr. Und Mrs. N. H. Warner Sunday. 0. E. Mills, who has been confined /to his home for several months, was ‘ able to get down town again Saturday. Mrs. M. Brown, of Danville, Ill:, is r the guest of her daughter, Mrs. E. C. English, and son, Dr. Harry Brown. Hiram N. Jacks and John'Kressler, of Rensselaer, have been granted an increase of pension from $8 to sl2 per month. .Work on Judge Thompson’s new building began Monday. This is not his opera house building*' however, but a frame structure which will adjoin Worland’s buggy store on the north. It will be occupied by the Mackey marble works.

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

The Rensselaer Journal.

Suit Against the Monon.

Mrs Ella Bragunier has filed suit iD the Carroll county court for SIO,OOO damages against the Monon railroad, through M. A. Ryan and Hanna & Hall, of Delphi. On January 10th Mrs. Bragunier and little son were struck by a fast Monon passenger train. When the train was brought to a standstill the mother was found sitting on the pilot with her little one clasped in her arms. Their escape from death was miraculous. Mrs. Bragunier alleges that the engineer neglected the warning of the crossing. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $1.40 for one year. “Special deal.” The Federal Oil Co. which has been operating in the Jasper county oil field for some time, has decided to make a thorough test of the field and will drill to trenton rock, which they expect to strike at from 1500 to 2000 feet.

The state convention of the Ladies of the G. A. R. honored Rensselaer by giving two of the state offices to members of the Rensselaer order. Mrs. Carrie Porter, wife of J. C. Porter, was selected state president and Mrs. Hettie Reynolds state secretary. The eleventh annual convention of the Christian Endeavor Societies of Rensselaer district, composed of Jasper, Newton and Warren counties, will be held in the Christian church at Oxford, on Monday and Tuesday, May 26th and 27th. Miss Anna Heilman, of Kentland, is district secretary for the order and as such official will have charge of the convention. Seining was resumed at Cedar Lake with good success and over 1000 pounds of carp, dog fish and buffalo fish were captured there Monday. Deputy Game Warden Newman brought home a 17 pound buffalo fish Monday evening as a sample of the work that is being done. Game Warden Earle has been present himself this week and superintended operations. Those who have charge of the work feel much encouraged over their success this week and claim that the lake will be pretty well cleared of the undesirable fish before they let up.— Crown Point Register.

RENSSELAER, IND.,uTHURSDA Y, MAY 22, 1902.

A FIGHT FOR FORTY-TWO YEARS.

Equals the Record of the Children of Israel. OTHER ATTEMPTS AT REMOVAL. Never Did It Fall tor Want of a Good Majority. Goodland Herald. No longer shall the drums beat To please the favored few: The county seat is on its feet— Sound Kentlaud’s last tatoo. Forty-two years ago the 4th of September, 1902, the first attempt was made to move the county seat of Newton county to a more accessible point. Think of it! Two years longer than God ordained that the children of Israel should wander in the wilderness, since the people of this county begun the struggle for justice ! Nine years longer than the average life of man ! A new generation has taken up the fight where their fathers dropped it when the grim reaper called, and to-day, with a united front, are pushing the work to a conclusion. Since that time six unsuccessful efforts have been made to effect a removal, and in the first four Kentland retained the court house only by technicalities, and in the last two cases only by reason of an unjust law, violating the fundamental principles of our government, which deprives the people of the right to administer their affairs by a pronounced majority. It is nothing unusual for nations to consume years in accomplishing reforms, such as suppressing the trusts and combinations, which live upon the earnings of labor like the vultures and buzzards upon a corpse,.because a system of education is necessary, and that is a slow process. But where the question at issue is one the justness of which is grasped by the feeblest mind, the historical fact that the inhabitants of one small county in Indiana should struggle nearly a half century to secure that justice due all men, would be passing strange if our state wasn’t afflicted with a weakling legislature every two years. Even the “Old Boy” himself, .if he lived anywhere outside of Jefferson township, would grow weary and disgusted with the long drawn-out injustice, and in Satanic forgetfulness remark: — “The proposition is one in equity, boyt; its a good thing; push it along —to Goodland.” And still, there has never been a time in the history of the county when a good two-thirds of the people didn’t want the county seat removed to a more accessible point. The first attempt at removal in 1860 was backed by the required number of petitioners, but the prayer went before a prejudiced board of commissioners, and was refused. The second effort in 1861 was made with ten petitions containing 390 signatures, but failed because of a flaw in the money bond —a mere technicality that cut no figure in the merits of the case. In 1870 a petition for remoyel with 609 signatures was filed, but failed because some important papers were stolen. 1872 the fourth petition was filed. It contained the signatures of 952 voters, about one-half. A counter remonstrance was filed, afterwards withdrawn on account of insufficiency, but later accepted by the board. In 1876 the last attempt at removal by petition was made. The required number of signatures were attached, but again the will of the people was defeated. A failure on the part of the petitioners to deposit with the auditor the money required by law to hire an architect and pay expenses of damages furnished a looked-for technicality upon which to again defeat the expressed wishes of the people. This money was tendered the board, but they refused to accept it. All are familiar with the last two attempts of Morocco and Brook to accomplish removal under a law that is as illiberal and nnjust as the blue laws of New England. Although both towns fell short of the required per cent, both received a pronounced majority, and no one doubts but that either of the towns would have secured the required 65 per cent if it was not for the natural rivalry that always exists be tween neighboring towns. It is little wonder that, after all these years of struggle, many times defeated by flimsy technicalities, but never by voice, voces or petitions of the people, that the sentiment is so strong to day to give up all personal consideration and relocate the county seat at a more accessible point: nor strange that the choice should fall upon Goodland, which, although away from the center, offers convenience of access that cannot b<\duplicated by any othef town in the copnty.

The Marsh.

Thayer-Shelby News. It has been customary with the former and present residents to refer to the land within a radius of twenty miles east and west of this point on the north and south of the Kankakee river as the “Marsh.” We wish the readers of the News to consider the present outlook and conditions of the south townships of Lake county and the north townships of Newton and Jasper counties. We ask the question. Do you know of any traot of land that holds out better inducements than this same Marsh does at present time ? The many needed improvements, such as drainage which have detained the progress of the farmers in the past are rapidly being perfected. The further construction of the Singleton dredge ditch and at the present time the Brown ditch to be opened to a width of forty feet which will carry the overflow water away in the spring of the year, also the many ditches and waterways on the south side of. the river have brought wonderful changes in the appearance of this tract of land called “The Marsh.” There is at the present time being planted a solid corn field on both sides of the Indiana, Illinois and lowa Ry. Co., from the state line of Illinois to a distance of eight miles east. The Brown ranoh, the Adams the Nelson Morris ranch and many owners of small tracts of lands, which were used almost entirely until within a few years as grazing land for stock, are now under cultivation of nearly every cereal grown elsewhere. The soil is pronounced excellent for the cultivation of all kinds of fruit and vegetables and today many hundreds of acres of this same land are rented for a much larger sum per acre than it would have brought if offered for sale a few years ago. Owners of this tract of land have declined the offer of fifty dollars per acre, in many instances, by would-be-buyers who have investigated the future for the people on the Marsh, “the garden spot of the west.”

Sunday School Convention.

A Sunday school convention of Union township will be held at Parr, on Sunday, June 8. PROGRAM. 10:00 A. M Song service by convention. Invocation Rev. Laßounty. Song by Rose Bud school. “The Everlasting Arms.” “What do we most need in the S. S. Work” D. B. Comer. Duty of the Superintendent Vic Yeoman Song by Fair Oaks... “Let the Sunshine In.” “Name some evils to be avoided” Peter Zea. “How does a Bible Class aid the S. S.” Mrs. Fannie Cottingham. Song by the Virgie S. S. “All the World for Jesus.” “What is the relation of a parent to the S. S ” Frank Meak. Song by Convention “We’re Nearing the City.” Basket dinner from 12 to 1:30. Song service by convention. “What can a woman best do in the S. S. work” Marion Gant. “What can a man best do in the S. S. work” Wm. Blankenbaker. Discussion led by B. D. Comer. Song by Good Hope, “All Hail” “What age receives most benefit in S. S.” Walter Harrington. Song by Brushwood S. S. “What age is hardest to teach” Mac Comer. Discussion, led by Peter Plummer. Declamations selected from all schools. Those having declamations report to Pres. early in the morning. L. W. Benbow, Pres.

B. D. COMER, Sec.

Pickle Factory Sure.

Mr. Blom, of the Keokuk Pickle Co , arrived at Thayer on Wednesday and proceeded at once to employ carpenters to erect the factory at Thayer. Mr. Blom expects to have the building erected within the next three weeks so as to enable the firm to construct the large pickle tanks therein. These tanks each hold one thousand bushels of pickles and the acreage expected from Shelby and Thayer and surrounding country will necessitate the construction of about thirty tanks. —Thayer-Shelby News.

Mass Convention.

The Republican voters of Marion township will meet in the east court room, Wednesday, May 28, at 2 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of nominating persons to be voted for the following offices at the November election, 1902: 3 Members Advisory Board. 1 Road Supervisor for Dist. No. 1. 1 Road Supervisor for Dist. No. 2. 1 Road Supervisor for Dist. No. 3. 3 Justices of the Peace. 3 Township Constables. By order of the Republican committeee. Moses Leopold, ' Township Chairman. A novel feeling of leaping, bounding impulse goes through your body. You feel young, act young and are young after taking Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig.

JUDY & WOOD’S UnutYlAWrt 5 We are better equipped for Ha P|T| PPQ taking care of our large trade X IXI XllvJl U than ever before. We have more room, more help, larger ClinnlTT Stock and better patronage. It n11IVI) I V w °uld take too much time and W Fr A J space to name all the different kind of goods Establishment. i£rE GROCERIES, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Notions,Hats and Caps and Farm Implements. HAND MADE HARNESS. We carry the largest and best stock of handmade harness in Jasper County. BUGGIES. We carry the largest and best line of Buggies, Surreys, Road Wagons, Spring Wagons, Carriages, Bike Wagons, Carts and Farm Wagons. HORSES. We carry a good grade of Farm Horses, Driving and Riding Horses. We are able to furnish the people with what they want at Rock Bottom Prices. We Will Save You Money on any article you buy of us. We own our own buildings and pay no rent. You can’t afford to buy goods elsewhere. We also have a well stocked Livery, Blacksmith A Repair Shop We buy in large quantities direct from the factory. We take great pains in supplying the wants of our customers and if you have the cash to pay you will make a mistake if you don t come and buy of us. If you want to buy on time we will fit you out. If you want to farm and are not able to buy your tools and team don’t get discouraged, if you are honest. Simply get your head to work, then encourage your hands to join in on the chorus; then come and see us; if anyone fails it will be you and your fault. Don’t spend your money in gambling or for whiskey but pay your bills. Don’t whittle store boxes and say you can’t g*et a job. Prosperity is here; fall in line. Accept the opportunity while it’s passing and you’re sure to win. Remember the Farmers’ Supply House, Parr, Ind., is the place to buy. W. L. WOOD, Mgr.

Ij CLOSING OUT i 1 SALE. I f§ v |gj |j Queensware, jf j Chinaware, 1 | Glassware and Lamps. 1 All ware of the best English make. The best i § staple stock in the city at I LESS THAIS COST. I 1 BiM I gl || §§! This is no fake. lam going to quit this line j|| §j of business. If you want bargains come and see ( g me. I C. C. STARR. I NEW LUMBER YARD IN RENSSELAER. Where you can get all kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Cement and Plaster; also the celebrated Alabaster Cement Wall Plaster. I solicit a share of your trade at my old stand. HIRAM DAY.

The Journal carries a large line of stock cuts suitable for sale or stock bills.

John Jones’ Bus Line.

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

NUMBER 50.