Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1902 — Page 1

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IT PAYS to TRADE" SCHLEMAN'S It is my object to handle the best lines of Vehicles made—NOT HOW CHEAP BUT HCW GOOD. Prices will always be found the lowest. Come in and see the car load of fine Harper Buggy Co.’s Surreys and Carriages. They are fine lookers and up-to-date in every respect. Prices and terms to suit everybody. I solicit a share of your trade. y * v S’ y-'V'y"T l w w ns f"NTT ▼ <^ ,i T ,l, r* l f' w w y w yy v y yy'MiM IT PAYS TO TRADE AT SCHLEMAN’S. XA/IMI O/*> L_l I rMAM “*“*** WIVI. SCH LEMAN.

ABOUT COUNTY FARMS.

Statistics of Interest From Forthcoming Report. State Statistician Johnson in his forthcoming report gives the following facts about poor farms: Total valhe of lands, buildings, live stock and equipments was $2,227,107. Of this, the value of lands was $1,053,687; of buildings, $1,029,050; of live stock and implements, $134,370. The total cost of maintaining the poor farms of Indiana was $317,303, of which $42,761 was for labor, $41,626.21 for improvements and furniture, $129,278.52 for food, fuel and clothing, $53,368.39 for salaries of superintendents, $12,278.52 for medical attention and $37,916.18 for miscellaneous. The average somber of inmates for the year was 3,214 so the per capita cost of maintenance was about $77, the estimate being made the total revenue of about $70,000 a year deducted from the cost of maintaining. There were more than twice as many males as females in the poor farms and than one-fourth the inmates were foreign born. The dependance of one in every nine was caused by intemperance.

New Railroad.

The Indianapolis News of Tuesday says the Indiana Harbor Company has filed aaticles of incorporation at the State Honse, and its purpose is to bnild a railroad from East Chicago and Lake Michigan in a southerly direction through Benton, Newton, Warren, Vermillion and Vigo conn* ties to a point in Sullivan county to be hereafter selected. The total length of the road is two hundred miles. The capital stock is f 200,000, and in a letter to the Secretary of State the incorporators say they intend soon to increase the capital stock. The directors of the road are, Oakley Thorne, John A. Spoor, Ownen S. Aldis, Frederick S. Winston, Richard Fitzgerald, Charles W. Hotchkiss, Frederick R. Babcock, Albert D. Erskine and Jarvis Hunt. Some of these man are interested in the Michigan Central railroad, and it is believed that the road intended to be a coal road into Indiana, owing to the fact that its terminus is somewhere in Sullivan county.

Another Monon Wreck.

The Monon has -been having its foil share of wrecks lately. The latest was Monday morning at Lafayette. The early north bound Louisville passenger train and an engine that was to pull it from the shops to Chicago met in collision at the ninth street crossing. Both engines were badly damaged and were sent to the shops for repair. The train arrived here six hours late.

Circuit Court.

The case of Judge Thompson against the tax ferrets was continued until the April term. All the evinenoe was introduced and arguments of the counoil will be made at that time. S. M. LaMoine has tendered his resignation as justice of the peace of Union township and the oase to oust him from office has been dismissed. The public sale season has opened. Get your sale bills of the Journal.

IT IS .A. CRIME! To let your horse suffer from the cold when you can buy him a blanket for such a trifle a? yo ** owa 2 ay * ca £- We bavethem at from 85c to $3 and Pur and Plush Lap Robes’, from $5 to. $7. Dont freeze yourself nor let your horse suffer this winter to save such paltry sums. : : : : : : : • • ' LiEE & POOLE, mccoysburg, Wo. ■ !*.«! A . lA.A A. lt»: . .A . ... ...... . . . . . j .IM . , .V .. J, , W

The JOURNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN tor $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1.28

Our Man About Town

• - Discourses on Many Subjects and Relates Sundry and Other Incidents.

TUTR. Hicks, who has quit preaching to make almanacs, is quite a big man. His pictures of cyclones are warranted to empty a room in sixteen seconds, and his prophetic utterances in times of doubt will cure the drouth in winter time. But with all his hay rack load of genius he can’t furnish flap jaok comparisons with the Local Prognosticatar who has just handed in the following foreoast for the month of December. Eddittor:—Deer sur. This here month is liable to be mild and I want yer readders to kno it, if they live in the South states, but up in the northwest it is goin to be as cold as an old mades smile at Xmas and ye don't ftirgitt it. Thee middle Beotions of the Unitted states ul be treated ’bout as uzul. Thee month will enter with pleasant dreams over the Suthern states an’ a storm ul come up lickuty Kalabelazar over the P'clfio Coast States. Ist to 3rd it ul be as pleasant az a shampoo on an August afternoon. 4th to 6th cloudy. 7ch to 10th a great big storm ul form over the lower Mississippi Valley an go a galloperdin northeast oausiu rain and snow and oold weather. 11th to 13th she’ll come up simllur. 14th and 16th a storm ’nil form over the Gulf ov Mexioero and came tumblin’ up the Atlantic coast—prodigons like causin, rain over thee South Lantic an’ rampagenous snow over the New England pumpkin buskers, an’ the Hoosiers of the Middle states. 17th to 18th cold wave. 19th to 21st colder wave. 22th a most thunderin’ cold snap followed by sleighin’ weather up north. 26th to 31st cloudy, followed by snow and more of them cold waves. There won’t be no green graveyards this Xmas, not less your uncle is a bigger liar an all the weather buros put together. V

A telephone in one’s residence is sometimes an annoyance, as a certain well known citizen of Rensselaer can affirm. One night this week he was awakened by his daughter pounding vigorously on the door and informing him that the ~ telephone bell had awakened her and that some one wanted to speak with him over the wire on important business. Shiver: lng with cold, he snatched a pair of dippers and a blanket and grumbled his way downstairs 'to the phone where he helped to carry on this dialogue: “Hello! who is it wants me?—Hello! “Is this Mr. ?” ‘‘Yes, what do you want?” “What time is it?” “What in goodness”—then glancing at the clook, “A quarter after two. And its cold here. What’s your business?” “I’m not keeping you up, am I?” “Well, I might be in bed. But if your business is important—” “Ah-its—well”— “What? Hello! Hel—lo—o—” “Well, it’s not important exaotly,

RENSSELAER. IND., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1902.

but, you see, I’ve never spoken to you before, and I was thinking about it, and as I was feeling kind of lonesome, I thought I might chat with—” And now there is one resident who declares he will have his phone taken out. *** A N exohange remarks that the man who wrestles with the cow and learns the calves to suck, who casts the corn before the swine is now in greatest luck: for butter’s on the upward grade, veal’s higher than a kite, pork is climbing up the scale and beef is out of sight; the eggs he gathers every day from his Poland ohioken coop are almost worth their weight in gold and we are in the sonp. His corn brings him a fancy price, it’s raising every day, and he rakes in a bag of cash for half a load of hay. The farmer’s in the saddle and when he comes to town, the rest of us by rights should go away back and sit down. ■ 4 f* *** A genuine Kentucky Oolonel registered at the Makeever house Monday and in the course of a conversation criticised the town as follows: “I never struck such infamously adulterated likkah in my whole oareah sah, as they serve in Rensselaer,” said the Oolonel. “Ratsbane and things in it, eh?” “No, sah. Watah, sahl” V ITIHERE’S a girl in Rensselaer so religious that she will not allow her “steady” to squeeze her hand unless she places it in a bible and then she calls it a “holy squeeze.” She won’t go out on Sunday for fear she might hear the wind working through the branches of the trees. The sbme girl is so strict that Bhe Is straight laced, and she refhses to wear open work hose. V A Jasper county Nimrod says, “It Is not generally known that an orange hit in the exact center by a rifle ball will vanish from sight. Such however, is the fact. Shooting it through the center scatters it in such infinitesimal pieces that it is at once lost to sight.” Possibly he means that nobody could ever hit the exact center of an orange, or maybe he fancies that this office cannot tell the difference between “agreatbigdarnedJie” and “areasonableyarn.” At any rate he will have to show us. V A fond Rensselaer papa owns a very cute young miss of some five summers. The other morning he stooped to caress a tiny pink-and-white toot that had escaped from the bed covers. “That’s the prettiest foot in the world,” he remarked very confidently. “There isn’t another in all the world as perfect.” “Oh, yeth there ith, papa,” was the quick-retort of her ladyship. “Here it ith.” And she thrust out her other foot with a very triumphant air.

The Country Town Knocker. Nearly every oountry town has a oitizen in its population who is a knocker, or in other words, a person who is always ready and willing to give others advioe in regard as how to manage their business. It matters not the nature of your business, this knooker can be relied upon to inform your friends that if he had been running affairs he would have done so and so, and that he did not think you were just exaotly what you ought to be for he had been hearing a good deal of talk lately. If you have a horse for sale or trade this knocker can tell any prospective buyer or trader that your horse is blemished and he knows it, but he don’t care to say Where the blemishes are because it is none of his business. He will always be able to tell next morning after the dance exaotly who went home with who. He will lose sight of no ohance to gain a private interview with married women to inform them of the imaginary mismovements of their husbands. If there is a newspaper published in the vioinity he will not subscribe but will borrow his neighbor’s paper and after reading it will find fault with the editorials, the people who advetsise and the way the editor holds his head or the clothes he wears. If the property of any person is mentioned in his hearing he will say that it runs in his mind that it was heavily mortgaged sometime ago. When he goes to Church he will say the sermon was very good but. — This merchant and that merchant always treated him alright but he had heard some people say. If you state in his presenoe that Mrs. Jones makes good butter you will hear him say, “You should have heard what a man who used to work there told me.” This knocker will find fault with either the committee or the program of every entertainment held in the town. You will hear this knooker when speaking of Mr. Goodman, say that if ever there was an honest man in the world he is one. Why he doesn’t see what the town would do without him. “He is a leader in church and is good to the poor, but a friend of mine who lives in Chicago told me that he had met Mr. Goodman when he was buying goods in the city, and that he was having.a hot time.” The knocker can tell just who was near a saloon on a legal holiday and is the oause of so many people being summoned before a grand juiy to testify in cases that they know nothing of. Does this hit anybody in your town?

Bad Luck for 1903.

Old Moore's almanac for the first six months of 1903 has just been published in London, and some very gloomy predictions appear in it. In January, it says, there will be troubles in the East and a conspiracy in Ireland; in February there will be troubles and bloody riots in Spain; In March both Great Britain and Spain will meet with serious losses, the former in the Transvaal and at the Cape, and the latter at home; in April there will be political assassinations in England, furious confttct in China and conspiracies in Turkey; in May there will be a famine in India and a civil war in Spain, and in June a prosperous epoch will begin for England and one of misfortune for Germany,

Nothing Like It.

Has Ever Been Heard of In the Way of Peed For Stock. Farmers of Newton and Jasper Counties Testify to the Merits of the Celebrated Acme Food as a Feed Saver and Fat Producer. Kentland, Ind., Maroh 18,1902. Aome Food 00. Gentlemen:—The Aome Food purchased of Everett Halstead has lm i proved the ooodltion of my horses. I think it is a good digester for run down stock. James B. Roberts. Kentland, Ind., March 15,1901. I have been feeding Aome Food for two months. Am well pleased. I think it is a money maker. Charles White. Kentland, Ind., March 14,1901. Aome Food Oo:—I feed Aome Food. My cattle like it and relish it quite well. I believe it is a good appetizer and digester' Qeo. M. Herriman. Brook, Ind., March 18,1901. I have experimented with Acme Food on a oow and fattening oattle. My cattle eat better than before, and have gained muoh better in flesh. I think it pays to feed the Acme Food. John F. Myers. Foresman, Ind., Maroh 25,1901. I have used Acme Food and I consider it can't be beat tor stook of all kinds. F. A. Woodin. Foresman, Ind., Maroh 25, 1901. I have used Acme Food for horses and calves for sixty days, and will say that it is a good appetizer. O. A Mather. Pleasant Grove, Ind., March 28,1901. I have used Acme Food on horses. I think it is very benefloient to horses. It is the best I ever used. Wm. Tanner. Rensselaer, Ind., March 19,1901. I have been feeding Aome food to horses. I think it is a blood purifier, a worm destroyer and a feed saver. I would recommend the Acme Food to ail horsemen. B> L. Campbell. Surrey, Ind., March 25, 1901. I have been feeding Aome Food to cattle, hogs and horses. I would not be without the Aome Food. It pays to feed It to all kinds of stook. Joseph Lane. Rensselaer, Ind., March 26,1901. I have been using Acme Food on cows and calves. I am well pleased with it. It is a fine stock food. I would recommend the Acme Food to all men. J. W. Manck.

Marriage Licenses.

John Luther Watson and Oma Grace Davis.

The Circuit Court.

The November term of the cirouit oourt oame to a dose Saturday. Judge Nye, of Winamac, on Friday overruled the motion for a new trial of the plaintiff in the oaae of Makeever vs. Blankenbaker. The plaintiff has given notioe of appeal to the supreme oourt. Mrs. Punter was granted a divorse from Witsje Punter and the custody of their two minor children, on the grounds of abandonment, failure to provide and drunkenness. John A. Lamborn was given a Judgment of $206 against tbe Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association, insurance on a home burned last February.

The Last Was the First.

The Newton County Citizen, the Democratic paper started at Gooda few weeks ago by Davis & Soiiday has suspended publication. The Citizen was the second of the two papers started in Goodland since the oounty seat eleotion, and had the oounty seat boom materialized it would have stood a good ohanoe of becoming a profitable property. There is room for but one paper in Goodland at preseht and we prophesy the Star will be the next to go.

Judge Hanley Officiated.

Judge 0. W. Hanley officiated at his first wedding Saturday afternoon. The contracting parties were John Luther Watson and Miss Oma Graoe Dads, both of Gillam township.

Fashion Hints for Winter.

Velvet, velveteen, and oorduroy costumes are among the season’s ‘ smartest modes. An excellent oholoe for street attire is a fabrlo showing a shaggy, hairy texture, suob as zibeline or camel’shair. The sloping or drop-shoulder effeot is seen in many of the newest bodices; and the Duchess closing is a distinctive feature of the newest shirt-waists. At last a change has ootne in skirts, which for the street are notioeably shorter; there is a marked tendenoy to give up the fbrbelows and ruffies and adopt the severer tailor-made models. The hip yoke is a feature of the majority of the new skirts. The boa is a picturesque style, and cape collars of every shape and depth are prominent among the season's fashions. Among the innovations in materials are the metallic tints and effects in heavy, rough clothe, zibelines,vigognes, homespuns, etc., “Coronation doth,’’ a heavy winter goods, suitable for skating, golf, eto. Long nap plush is being revived this winter, and Pompadour silks as a foundation lor net, chiffon and other sheer texiles are established in high favor. Among the smartest accessories of the toilette are a tall stock-collar, cuffs, and belt-girdle, preferably of a contrasting material. Embroidery is very prominent in all the fashions. One ot the latest novelties employed in trimming for tailor-made gowns is sued suede undressed kid skin. A unique trimming is the new cloth ribbon embroidered in Oriental colors. —From tha Delineator for January.

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