Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — Page 1

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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. hgiyes great satisfaction to know that Consumption, Bright's Disease of the Ktdneys 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. 7toß p. m.' SUNDAYS—2 to 3p. m. 7toßp. m. All calls promptly answered. Phone 251 RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

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. I Farmers’ Supply g 1 Establishment, § I I | f i * £ I w. L. WOOD, MGR. V A | Largest Retail Dealers in Farm Supplies | in Northern Indiana. I? —The Farmers’ Supply Establishment can If |£ fit you out with any article you may need at a £ v price that will satisfy the customer. They carry * a large stock of Groceries and Dry Goods, and 31 ft Farm Implements, which supply the farmers for miles around. In addition they have a neat, well £ equipped Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, Black5 smith and Repair Shop. £ * —The most interesting lines operated by the 31 ft Farmers’ Supply Establishment is the Buggy, £ Carriage and Harness department. They can fit £ g you out with a cheap Buggy or Harness or a high S S grade. They would rather sell you a first class £ C high grade Buggy than any other kind, but will J | sell you just what you want. Remember you get j whatyoubuy. Their guarantee is as good as gold, v and they will gladly fulfill any promise they make, g S You can see Buggies, Harness and Wagons sold * ft by Judy & Wood in any part of the state, also in Illinois and other adjoining states. They sell the £ g O’Brien farm wagon with a two years’ guarantee. Their horse business is immense. They can fit £ you out with a good farm team and will give you £ ft s he privilege of trying the horse until you are j| g satisfied. If he don’t suit, don’t buy him. You $ |J will make no mistake if you go to the Farmers’ * Supply Establishment to buy anything you need. £ g Judy & Wood. 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 and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1.25.

The Rensselacr Journal.

RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY. JULY 12. 1902.

THE CARNIVAL A GO.

Contract Closed for the Biggest Time In the History of Rensselaer. The carnival is a go and Rensselaer will see the greatest celebration in its history the week beginning August 18th and ending at midnight of the 22nd The committee sent to Laßalle, 111., last week to attend the carnival being given there by the Wright Carni val Company, brought back a most favorable report, and the company’s proposition to put on the carnival here was accepted Thursday morning by wire, the K. of P. lodge taking favorable action at a called meeting. Messrs. Ellis and Parker, the committee attending the carnival at LaSalle, report it to be a mammoth affair and worth going hundreds of miles to see. It consists of both free and pay attractions. There are about twenty different shows, all strictly moral and up-to-dace, it is said. The streets of India, with its donkeys and donkey boys, elephants and camels, bazaars, theatres, etc., will while away many hours of sigbt-Beeing; the Ferris wheel and merry-go-round will delight the children as well as many of the older folks. Among the many attractions are the Turkish theatre, the maze, illusions, moving picture shows, trapese performers, glass blowers, high divers, revolving globe, animal shows, including the snake charmers, otc., etc. There will be music all day and of every kind. All oblectionahle characters will be kept out of town by the management, and all attractions will be clean and objectionable, as well as first class. Every one should arrange their affairs so as to attend the full five days, as such an opportunity does not come every day to see a world’s fair right at home. The business streets will be roped off and the Bbows and booths of the business houses will be erected thereon.

Do Not Believe Pat Guilty.

Pat O’Donnell has been removed from the office of public administrator by Gov. Yates, of Illinois, since his conviction of the charge of jury bribing. There are many who will not believe that Pat is guilty, and say that if he had had a separate trial he would never have been convicted. The law firm of O’Donnell & Brady did an average business of $60,000 per year, half of which went to O’Donnell. Instead of saving his earnings, he gave most of them away. He purchased a farm in Carroll county, which he gave to his sister in order to give her and her husband a home out of the city where they had a hard time in making a living. At one time he gave a struggling priest SI,OOO with which to publish a book which the latter had written, but was not able to have published. He was constantly doing some good act of this nature, and what money he had left when arrested soon went to pay lawyers. He claims to be innocent of the charges brought against him, and says it was a trap of his political enemies, successfully laid, that got him into his present trouble.

Kelley-Reld Wedding.

The marriage of Miss Helen Kelley and Mr. O. Leon Reid, of Louisville, Ky., took place at high noon Tuesday at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Agnes Kelley, on Rutsen Btreet. Rev. A. G. Work, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiated. Guests to the number of forty were present. After the ceremony a wedding dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Reid left on the afternoon train north for a wedding trip to some point not divulged, after which they will make their home in Louisville, where Mr. Reid is teach ing in a commercial high school. Out of town guests at the wedding were- Mrs. Compton, mother of the groom, of Dayton, O ; Mrs. Harry Wemple, of Rockford, 111., sister of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McCoy, of Chicago; Dr. and Mrs. J. Bechtel, ox Chicago, and Mrs. Isablel Parker, of Frankfort.

A Sustaining Diet.

These are the enervating days, when as somebody has said, men drop by the sunstroke as if the Day of Fire had dawned. They are fraught with dnnger?to people whose systems are sustained; and this leads us to say, in the interest of the less robust of our readers, that the full effect of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is such as to suggest the propriety of calling this medicine something besides a blood purifier and tonic,—say a sustaining diet. It makes it much easier to bear the heat, assures refreshing sleep, and will without any doubt avert much sickness at'this time of year.

Our Man About Town.

Encourage everybody to call you by your first name, because after you are fifty it will be forgotten. * * *

A certain man says of his father-in-law, who has been sick a long time, that he is about due to take a ride in the glass wagon. ***

The other day we saw an old-fash-ioned man who had injured his hand and he tied on a piece of tat meat. His hand was well in a week, but the doctors refuse to recognize him because he is not a “regular.” * #

An old man in this town told us the other day that he admires handsome girls a great deal more than he used to when he was young, because he has nothing else to do now and he can devote his time to admiring them. * *

A mechanic in this town says he does no talking about any of his competitors, but some of them talk about him and run down his work. He says it does not worry him in the least, as it advertises his business. When a man talks about his competitor people want to see what kind of a man he is and they patronize him just to find out. * • *

We heard a man make a concession last week that may seem to be rather liberal, and yet yon hear people make the same every day. He said, we all have our faults, but why does nobody ever say: “I know I have my faults”? But we always include everybody else and say: “We all have our faults.” We are so queer. * * *

A member of a very stingy man’s family was ill. She craved an egg, and some of the neighbors said Bhe must have an egg. It was mentioned to her father, who was a rich man, but he objected. He said: “What’s the use. We have warmed an egg over three times already and she won’t eat it.” # * *

We saw a man the other day who was very thin in flesh. We asked him what was the matter. We supposed he must have had a very sick spell. He said, he had not been sick, but be had been doing so much hard thinking that it made him poor in flesh. Thinking is very hard work for some people. * * *

Book ggents have a new wrinkle. They have a pocket made to fit under their coats and they come into your office without exciting your suspicions because you do not see a book. This is the theory, but it will not work in practice, because we can tell a book agent as far as we can see him. They all look alike to us. * * *

The old saying: “A dog that will carry a loose bone to your house will also carry one away,” shows pretty conclusively that the author of the above adage was a profound student of human nature. When a person comes to your house and spins you a yarn about the shortcomings of others, you just sit still and play deaf and dumb—that is, unless you prefer to boot the critter off the premises—for rest assured you will come in for your share of abuse the next time your neighbor calls on his or her next door neighbor. * % *

Twenty seven years ago Mrs. Semantha Ambergris, a quiet, modest seamstress residing in Walnut Grove, 111., was sewing a button on her husband’s trousers. Having occasion to thread a needle, she held it between her lips while she looked for a spool of thread. Just then she sneezed violently and the needle disappeared; nor could she find it after the most prolonged search. The incident passed entirely out of her mind. One day last week, however, Mrs. Ambergis, who is now an elderly woman, felt a tingling sensation in the middle finger of her left hand. She looked at the finger and saw something small and sharp protruding from the skin. Applying a pair of tweezers, she pulled It out. It proved to be a splinted she had accidentally run into her finger the day before while cleaning house. Rub-ber.

Discusses Sundry and Other Matters.

A Burglar Pays Mr. and Mrs. E. L Hollingsworth a Visit—Other Alarms. Last Friday morning about 2:30 o’clock a burglar was discovered in the residence of E. L. Hollingsworth. Mrs. Hollingsworth had arose at that hour to go to her children’s room and almost ran into the arms of a strange man, who, when he saw her, jumped into a closet. She returned to awake Mr. Hollingsworth, and as the latter appeared the rohber stepped under a lamp banging in the hall and a clear view was obtained of him. The robber ran down stairs, where he turned and demanded money. He was given a purse belonging to Mrs. Hollingsworth containing a ten dollar bill, and left on a dead run. He obtained entrance to the house through a screen door. There has been no arrests. Since this occuranoe there has been an epidemic of attempted entrances into houses, each morning new cases of this nature being reported, though nothing has been stolen since the first instance. This leads many to believe that in the later cases it may be the work of parties attempting to have a little fun with our citizens, but if this is the case they are running a great risk for a little questionable fun. David Gasaway reports that a man attempted to enter his house Friday night but was frightened away. He describes the man as tall, with a big mustache and stubby beard. The next night a man was chased by Gasaway and Mr. Hays, a neighbor, from the latter’s house, around which he bad been prowling. He ran to the ball park, where they lost trace of him.

Saturday night some one attempted to gain entrance to Grant Warner’s honse through a dining room window, having torn tne screen loose. He was discovered by Mrs. Warner and disappeared, only to turn up a little later at Isaac Hemphill’s residence and also at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Grant. They were frightened away in both places, and at the latter place a shot was taken at them by one of the Grant boys. The same night H. F. Parker, the photographer, thinks some one attempted to chloroform him through an open window at the residence of J. W. Medicus, where he boards. A small round hole was found in the window screen, near which his head rested and a strong odor of some drug was apparent. He thinks some one attempted to chloroform him by squirting the liquid through the window upon his pillow. Sunday night Tom Hoyes also had a similar experience and discovered a man crossing the street after he had aroused Ray Thompson, his neighbor. A number of false alarms were also reported at different residences in town about the same time. Monday night Jake Eiglesbach die covered prowlers around his residence and ordered them away. Similar occurrences were also reported at other places. Many of our citizens are in a state of panic and Hleep these hot nights with doors and windows barred and guns at their bedsides.

Tramps Arrested. Tuesday night a number of complaints were made. At the residence of J. Q. Alter a prowler was found in a back shed and driven away twice, when the officers were sent for and he failed to appear again. Late in the night Mrs. Mattie Grant reported that there were prowlers around her residence again. Ofiicers Vick and Dillon spent the best part of the night on the watch for suspicious characters and finally rounded up a gang of tramps who have been hanging around town for some days, They were brought before Squire Burnham yesterday morning, but as there was no proof against them he released them on condition that they leave town at once. The prisoners were searched at the jail bnt nothing was found that would convict them. One of them had a little jewelry, and anoth< r a pair of plyers. They were all dressed in fine underclothes, which they had doubtless stolen.

John Edwards, of Aydelotte, Benton county, is circulating a petition for the pardon of James Edwards, his son, who was sent to the reformatory from the Jasper circuit court for the larceny of a load of oats. The petition is being freely signed. Edwards is only 22 years of age.

A BOLD ROBBERY.

Edwards Wants a Pardon.

TRANSFER OF MONON.

Becomes Properly of Morgan by Vote of Stockholders. Morgan & Co., as depositaries for the Louisville & Nashville railroad company and the Southern railway company have announced, according to the New York Tribune, that the holders of more than 51 per cent of the capital stock of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway company, have accepted the offer made them on May 20 by the two companies first named. The deposit constitutes a final acceptance of theoffer of purchase. The time for deoositing stock is extended to and including July 31, after whioh date stock will be accepted, if at all only upon such terms as the purchasing companies may prescribe.

County Commissioners.

The county commissioners met in regular monthly aeaaion Monday. Saloon licenaeH were granted to John McGlinn and Michael Bernicken, of Wheatfleld. The following actiona were taken in ditch caßea: Henry J. Howland, petition tor ditch, ordered constructed. Robert Ziok, et al, petition for ditch, ordered established and viewers ordered to make final report. Sophia Chilcote et al, petition for ditch, Jas. F. Irwin, Wm. Washburn and Lucius Strong appointed viewers. Sidney B. Holmes et a), petition for ditch, Reuben Dickinson, Robert Michaels and Wm. Hoover appointed viewers,

Fred J. Saltwell et al, petition for ditch, Peter Wasson, Warren Robinson and R B. Harris appointed viewers. W. W. Burns et al, petition for ditch, Felix Frenoh, Peter Wasson and Sylvester Gray appointed viewers. Balthaaer Brown et al, petition for ditch, Wm, Daniels, Felix French and Henry Grow appointed viewers. Carry Lowman et al, petition for ditch, Wm. Daniels, Frank Parker and Ben Harris, Sr., appointed viewers. The plana were ordered for a bridge in Carpenter township petitioned for by A. J. Bellows, trustee. The petition of C. H. Peck et al for a bridge in Carpenter township was continued pending an appropriationby the county council.

The Fourth at Various Points.

Although there was no celebration in Rensselaer this year, her citizens celebrated at various places In goodly numbers. The first point on the Monon north celebrating the day was Parr. E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer, delivered the address of the day, and we have heard many compliments on his speech. The day’s program consisted of a literary program and races and games of various kinds. The attendance was about 400. Thayer and Shelby each had a very creditable celebration. A. Halleck, of DeMotte, delivered the address at the former place and Prof. Rodgers at the latter point. A good time is reported at both places. Th© Brook hand furnished music for Shelby and the Crown Point band for Thayer.

Lowell, a few miles north, caught the largest part of Rensselaer. About 400 tickets were sold here for that point. The Rensselaer band, military company and base ball club were th© big attractions at this celebration. The military company had a sham battle with a band of make-believe Apache Indians. Both sides came out with whole scalps. Rensselaer won the game of ball by a score of eight to six. Kniman also celebrated*the day, with Frank Foltz, of Rensselaer, a© orator. In the game of ball Kniman won by a score of seventeen to nine. There were horse races and other kinds of amusements, and a good display of fire works at night. There was also a celebration near Tefft, on the Kankakee. Hon. 0. W. Hanley, of Rensselaer, was the orator. The customary amusements and games took up the day. Mt. Ayr was also a point that attracted quite a crowd* from here. Hon. J. Frank Hanley, of Lafayette, was the drawing card, the address being pronounced the best Fourth of July oration ever heard in this vicinity. The customary Fourth of July celebration was carried out.

Best in the world for a dear complexion is Radam’s Microbe Killer. Sold only by A. F. Long and B. F. Fendig.

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