Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 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. 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, 7toß p. calls promptly answered. Phone 251. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. | Farmers’ Supply | » Establishment. I i ? I • i 1 OB T £ 9 * If. I 1 1| I I £ J w. L. WOOD, MGR. C > ¥ —v—v-o I Largest Retail Dealers in Farm Supplies in Northern Indiana. <£ 3? —The Farmers’ Supply Establishment can f 'I2K fit you out with any article you may need at a > 3? price that will satisfy the customer. They carry S a large stock of Groceries and Dry Goods, and * <| Farm Implements, which supply the farmers for J £ miles around. In addition they have a neat, well W 2 equipped Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, Black- > S smith and Repair Shop. g ® —The most interesting lines operated by the S Farmers’ Supply Establishment is the Buggy, J Carriage and Harness department. They can fit > a? you out with a cheap Buggy or Harness or a high S S grade. They would rather sell you a first class € high grade Buggy than any other kind, but will J? < se fi you just what you want. Remember you get > fwhatyoubuy. Their guarantee is as good as gold, > and they will gladly fulfill any promise they make. You can see Buggies, Harness and Wagons sold $ by Judy & Wood in any part of the state, also in < Illinois and other adjoining states. They sell the > j? O’Brien farm wagon with a two years’ guarantee. > 5 Their horse business is immense. They can fit 5 " 8 you out with a good farm team and will give you 4 Privilege of trying the horse until you are £ satisfied. If he don’t suit, don’t buy him. You > jf will make no mistake if you go to the Farmers’ S X Supply Establishment to buy anything you need, g .g Judy & Wood. 5 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. JT" ' 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.

RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER ,13. 1902.

THE CITY COUNCIL.

Contract for the Clark Street Improvement Let. The city council met in regular session Monday evening with all members present. A request was presented from the property owners affected that the improvement of Clark street be deferred until next spring. The request was denied and the contract was let to W. F. Smith at $5.18 per lineal foot. D. H. Yeoman and Hiram Day’s bid was $5.55 per lineal foot. Delos Thompson, Mary E. Thompson and Ora Ross filed a remonstrance against the proposed sidewalk on Milroy street. The contract was let, however, to Hiram Day at 10 cents per square foot. Rush & Warren bid 12J cents. The marshal was ordered to move a catch basin on Division street near O. P. Wright’s and put in tile leading to the water in the street. The city treasurer’s report tor the month of October shows balances on hand as follows: Corporation fund, $387.98; road fund, $35.94; water fhnd, $1,157.86; electric light, $343.79; Cullen and Forest street improvement fhnd, overdrawn, $115.04. Other funds same as last report. Ellis Walton agreed in writing to submit the matter of the city occupying a small portion of his ground with the water tower to arbitration. The city ' appointed Ad Parkison as its member and Mr. Walton will appoint one member of the arbitration board and these two members will appoint a third member. On the decision of the board both parties agree to abide. The Ladies’ Literary Society reported that SI,OOO had been subscribed toward the purchase of Milroy Park and the attorney was instructed to draw up a contract with R. D. Thompson for the purchase of same. The following bills were allowed: ROAD FUND. Sylvester Gray, hauling cinders i 50 Vem Hopkins, work on street ye Ed Randle “ “ “ 255 Chas. Cordoray “ “ “ [65 John Rush “ “ “ yj John Brown “ “ “ 180 Wm. Guss, work on bridge 75 Frank Swartzell, work on bridge.... 1 50 Ray Hopkins, work on bridge 60 Wm. Simons, hauling cinders. 2 50 •John Wood, burying dog 50 Smith, Yeiter & Platt, sidewalk and crossings 231 38 C. M. Blue, tile drain 11 97

CORPORATION FUND. B. H. Dillon, salary night watch.... 40 00 F. M. Abbott, salary marshal 45 00 Donnelly Bros., stakes for engineer.. 17 56 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Bruner & Merry, light poles 18 83 Central Electric Co., electric supplies ic 81; Standard Oil Co., oil 15 30 Globe Oil Co., packing 22 22 Illinois Electric Co., supplies 52 28 A. L. Branch, hauling coal 11 00 C. S, Chamberlain, salary 37 50 C. L. Thornton, salary 25 00 Peter Giver, salary2s 00 Ira Smith, work on line n 25 Conrad Hilderbrand, salary2s 00 John Hordeman, work on main;.... 2 60 Milt Chipman, work on main 60

When They Take Office.

The judge and prosecuting attorney will take their office November 15th, if their commissions arrive by that time. The auditor and treasurer will begin their duties January 1, 1904. C. O. Warner will begin his duties as clerk May 4, 1904, if the supreme court declares the law extending the clerk’s terms seven months, unconstitutional. Otherwise he will have to take his chance at another election. The sheriff, surveyor and coroner will begin their second term January 1, 1903. Commissioner Halleck will begin his new term on January Ist. Mr. Waymire will only fill out Mr. Dowell’s unexpired term and will serve until January 1, 1903. Mr. Denham is elected until January 1, 1904, but as there is no election until the fall of 1904 he will hold over.

A Thanksgiving Dinner. Heavy eating is usually the first cause of indigestion. Repeated attacks inflame the mucous membranes lining the stomach, exposes the nerves of the stomach, producing a swelling after eating, heartburn, headache, sour risings and finally catarrh of the stomach. Kodol relieves the inflammation, protects the nerves and cures the catarrh. Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia, all stomach troubles by cleansing and sweetening the glands of the stomach. A. F. Long. It is said that every bride has many friends, but in a few years they dwindle down to one. That’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Makes and keeps her well. 35c. B.F. Fendig.

Our Man About Town

Discourses on Many Subjects and Relates Sundry and Other Incidents.

corset that will let a woman sob without breaking the strings of the same in a recent invention. All the wearer has to do is to loosen the squeezer and go on with the grief. V TT is reported that in a neighboring town a man named Spunk has married a western girl named Spink. Their friends can have a great deal of sport untwisting the conjugation in this wise. Present tense, spunk; past tense, spink, future tense, spank. V ■CT VERY young person in Rensselaer should memorize the following quotation from Shakespeare: “See thou to character. Give, thy thoughts no tongue. Nor any imporportioned thought its act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. ITIHE women wear suspenders, and are fond of men’s cravats, and also wear their blazers and their nobby little hats; their gloves are very mannish, and they wear their hair out short, they are up in all the racing slang, and Base ball is their forte; and things are so reversed that men in the country will not speak until they ascertain how much a wife can earn a week. ** 'Y’OU may have read a good deal x about “kissing bugs” in the past but there is a new insect clamoring for attention, and Rensselaer housewives will do well to bar their gates. This new bug is a corker and is spreading over the country from the southwest and human beings are its prey. Already it has invaded the Mississippi valley in great numbers and many persons have died from its bite. Not a whit more cheerful does this news become when it is explained that the insects in question is a giant species of bed bug. It comes from Mexico and Texas, and it measures a full inch in length. This alarming creature is sometimes called the “sharp nose.” It has a flat body, a pointed head, and a strong beak. In color it is a dark brown. Its “buggy” odor is even more offensive than of the ordinary bed bug. Worst of all, perhaps, it has wings and is a flyer. What is the housewife going to do to protect herself against a bed bug that flies? And such a bed bug too. It flies at night, being attracted into open windows by lights. In the day time it is not apt to resort to its wings, but runs so swiftly as to be very hard to catch and to kill. » * * A"\NE of the pleasing and necessary accomplishments possible to young ladies in towns like Rensselaer and to those who live in the farming community roundabout is music. It is comparatively easy to obtain splendid tuition at rates which make the polite art within the reach of every aspirant. It has been frequently pointed out that the noted writers and statesmen come from the farm and from the country towns. This fact is no less true of the musician. A number of our leading composers, musical teachers, and professional interpreters of harmony were born and spent large portions of their lives on their father’s farms. Indeed, the exacting requirements of the art so drain the vitality that no one but a country bred, vigorous person can undergo the torture of the preparatory years of practice. Music, better than any other profession, pays the learner, both in pleasure to be obtained in listening to the exquisite renditions of finished performers, but in direct financial returns. It is not infrequent that young ladies who have fitted themselves to teach music make one thousand dollars a year. Of course they go into the profession systematically, and use their entire energy in preparing for ths work and obtaining patronage. Outside of the ranks of ordinary teachers there are the courses in the city after the student has prepared herself to fill the requirements. The boy on the farm oah “pick up” a musical education with profit. The large military bands and orchestras are recruited every year from farm and country town players. A boy with spirit and ability can become a proficient upon almost any horn without positively studying it at some distant university. Close attention to the fingering and to the quality of tone makes an expert. The great cornet

soloists often have no other musical education at the start of their career than such tuition as they can obtain in the country band room. Seneca Mygrants, of New York, is an illustration of this fact. He was born and raised in an obscure Indiana crossroads town, and by his own study elevated himself into the ranks of the foremost cornetists. This is not true of the piano, volin, flute, or clarinet as these instruments are complex enough to require experienced teachers; but of the ordinary band instrument the spirited eager boy can learn enough to place him well upon the road toward making money.

December Designer.

The Christmas number of The Designer is unusually attractive. Its fashion department illustrated and describes the latest In winter wearing apparel and millinery, and under “Points on Dressmaking” is furnished most useful instruction for the making of juvenile garments. A Christmas Cantata by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, entitled “Santa Claus’ Busy Day,” is given prominent place among the literary features, and Christmas poems are supplied by Cora A. Matson Dolson. Francis H. Tabor, Frank Farrington and Florence Gertrude Ruthven. John DeMorgan fhrnished an interesting illustrated paper on Christmas customs and superstitions. Olive C. Tobey is the author of a story for adults, “From the Peyton Letters,” while Alice Josephine Johnson writes the Christmas story for juveniles, entitled “What a Christmas Glove Brought.” “When Christmas Comes” is the name of a contribution in which numerous dainty and pretty suggestions for gifts are pictured. “Selections* for the Recitationist” are appropriate to the season, and “Hints for the Holidays” gives some unique ideas for the distribution of presents. An attractive feature which the children will appreciate is a full page illustrated poem, “An International Christmas Party” by Bertha Stine. Several strong chapters of “The Apology of Ayliffe,” by Ellen Olney Kirk, are given this month, and the pages of “What Women are Doing” grow noticeably In importance. A new department makes its appearance in the December Designer, entitled “Helps Along the Way.” Like “What Women are Doing,” it is edited by the readers of The Designer, and bids fair to be all that its name implies. “Toilet Table Chat,” Book Notes,” Etiquette Hints,”* “In Motherland,” “Floriculture” and “The Kitchen Kingdom” are included in the list of good things which appear in The Designer for December.

An English Author Wrote:

“No shade, no shine, no fruit, no flowers, no leaves, —November!” Many Americans would add no freedom from catarrh, which is so aggravated during this month that it becomes constantly troublesome. There is abundant proof that catarrh is a constitutional disease. It is related to scrofula and consumption, being one of the wasting diseases. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has shown that what is capable of eradicating scrofula, completely cures catarrh and taken in time prevents consumption. We cannot see how any sufferer can put off taking this medicine, in view of the widely published record of its radical and permanent cures. It is undoubtedly America’s Greatest Medicine for America’s Greatest Disease—Catarrh.

Chicago Live Stock Show.

Make arrangements to visit the great International Live Stock Show at Chicago in December with wife and family. They all want to see it. It will be the crowning event of the year and the greatest'live stock show that Chicago ever had. Don’t miss it. Monon trains stop at Englewood and 47th street.

McEwen’s Soliloquy.

Democratic gains! Huh! James! Sickles! Babcock! And now here comes Thompson this way! Oh Lord! These famous pills do not gripe, but move the bowels gently and easily, cleansing the liver. Their tonic effect gives strength to the glands, preventing a return of the disorder. A. F. Long.

All bids were rejected for a bridge in Keener township and new bids ordered were advertised for. In the petition of Granville Moody for a ditch, the matter was referred back to the viewers. The ditch petitioned for by John W. Hutchinson et al was ordered established. Charles M. Blue, petition for acceptance of gravel road in Marlon township. Road accepted and made a part of the Marion township gravel road system. W. W. Burnset al, petition forditch. Robert Drake, L. Strong and Frank Lakin appointed reviewers. In matter of application of Jesse Nichols for condemnation of gravel bed. Ordered dropped from docket. Charles M. Shaull was appointed a viewer In the Iroquois ditch in place of James Jones. In the matter of deepening the Union and Scott Cooper ditch, the report of viewers was approved and the auditor directed to sell same as provided by law. The Hanging Grove gravel road election having carried, sealed bids will be received for the construction of same on December 3rd. The auditor and treasurer were directed to transfer |6OO from the county revenue to the school fiind interest account. 8. D. Clark, trustee of Wheatfield township, was directed to extend so much aid as is necessary to maintain John Connor and family until said Conner is able to perform labor and provide for his family’ George O. Stemble et al, petition for cleaning Wheatfield ditch. Referred to county surveyor for further proceedings as provided by law.

Fifty Years the Standard Awarded Highest Honors World’s Fair. Highest tests U.S. Gov’t Chemists

Commissioners’ Court.

A Magazine Thirty Years Old.

To do justice to this number, which for beauty and utility touches the highest mark, it would be necessary to print the entire list of contents. It is sufficient to state in it the best mod* ern writers and artists are generously represented. The book contains over 230 pages, with 34 full-page illustrations, of which 20 are in two or more colors. The magnitude of this December number, for which 727 tons of paper and six tons of ink have been used, may be understood from the fact that 91 presses running 14 hours a day, have been required to print it; the binding alone of the edition of 915,000 copies representing over 20,000,000 sections which had to be gathered individually by human bands.

Blds Rejected.

The commissioners of Newton county last week received bids for the erection of the new court bouse at Goodland, but rejected all of them, giving as the reason that the county council had made no appropriation for the new building. Goodland is justly indignant and will carry the matter to the courts at once, it Is said. The three bids filed were as follows: Elmer S. Danner, (41,975; Rush & Warren, of Rensselaer, $39,585; Bartlett & Kling, $39,583.

Salesmen Wanted.

We want salesmen in Jasper and ad - joining counties to represent one oi the largest and most complete nurseries in the west. We guarantee our stock first-class and true to name, and deliver what we sell. Cars run into our buildings. High commissions and weekly pay. Address for terms,

ALBERTSON & HOBBS,

A big haul by highwaymen, sub. stitutes and others who steal the good name and fame of Rocky Mountain Tea made famous by Madison Medicine Co. 35c. B. F. Fendig.

NUMBER 23.

Bridgeport, Ind,