Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1903 — Page 1

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DR. MOORE, The Careful Special Ist 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 Ul- . Kidneys and Bladder, Pricers, Ear and all diseases of vate Diseases, Women. R gives great satisfaction to know that Consumption, Bright's Disease of the 1 - SablT maDy ° f ,l he l Heart troub^ es > all of which were formerly considered inCW method , s ’ ca !* n ° w b e cured. A large per cent, of Epilepsy and Cancer can be permanently relieved. The best of references given. v Office and ResidenceoverFendig’s City Drug Store. Office Hours— 9 to 12 a. m. 2tosp. m. 7to 8 p.m. SUNDAYS—2 to 3p, m, 7toßp. m. All calls promptly answered. Phone 261. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. | Farmers’ Supply f jj Establishment. j ¥ T W. L. WOOD, MGR. \ d ¥ —v—l ¥ Largest Retail Dealers In Farm Supplies i $ in Northern Indiana. £ ¥ -—The Farmers’ Supply Establishment can 2 fit you out with any article you may need at a 2 , price that will satisfy the customer. They carry g a large stock of Groceries and Dry Goods, and * Farm Implements, which supply the farmers for miles around. In addition they have a neat, well £ 2 equipped Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, Black- a smith and Repair Shop. £ —The most interesting lines operated by the 31 $ Farmers’ Supply Establishment is the Buggy, | Carriage and Harness department. They can fit $ gj you out with a cheap Buggy or Harness or a high 5 5 grade. They would rather sell you a first class £ high grade Buggy than any other kind, but will it £ sell you just what you want. Remember you get whatyoubuy. Their guarantee is as good as gold, v and they will gladly fulfill any promise they make. 5 S You can see Buggies, Harness and Wagons sold £ 5 by Judy & Wood in any part of the state, also in J| I Illinois and other adjoining states. They sell the £ O’Brien farm wagon with a two years’ guarantee. Their horse business is immense. They can fit 2 • you out with a good farm team and will give you 3t ¥ privilege of trying the horse until you are j| I satisfied. If he don’t suit, don’t buy him. You £ jj will make no mistake if you go to the Farmers’ 5 Supply Establishment to buy anything you need. * 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; 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. JANUARY 8, 1903,

Some Proposed Laws.

The executive committee of the Sheriff’s Association was in secret session in Indianapolis last Friday. Meetings of the sheriffs have been held in different parte of the state, and the committee has the ideas and suggestions of the different meetings, which it will formulate into one or two propositions which will be included in a bill to be submitted to the legislature. The sheriffs insist that the present fee and salary law discriminates against them, and say that they will ask the legislature to give them a ohance to get their salary as they earn it. The law now provides that the sheriff must pay all the fees into the treasury, and from these fees he gets his salary. If the fees are not sufficient he does not get the salary. The amendment offered by the sheriffs will be to pay the office the same as the treasurer, auditor and and clerk are paid, making provisions in the bill that the sheriff shall be diligent in collecting the fees of his office. It is also probable that an amendment to the fee and salary law will be made by the sheriff, providing that a fund or pool be formed from which all of the county officers will be paid. One of the bills that will cause a merry fight in the legislature is the one that provides for the free textbooks for the schools. The details of the bill are being worked out, and the intention is* to introduce the bill early in the session. There' is one thing that the legislature ought to do,” said Senator Lawler, “and that is to pay some attention to the law concerning the carrying of concealed weapons. There is no need in this civilized day of a man carrying a big revolver or a long knife about to use on his fellowmen. The law now is not severe enough in its penalties. Now a pistol carrier is fined a small sum and goes on with the implements of murder in his pos session. I think that for the first offense a man ought to be fined not less than $5, and for the second offense not less than $ 100, with a heavy jail sentence thrown in for good measure.”

A Play Within a Play.

A play within a play. This sounds rather odd, rather jobsenidh in fact, though it is not; on the contrary, it is a good, wholesome, humorous story of American life, and without a single weird situation or enigmatic line. To satisfactorily explain one must tell the story of the play. An actor who had taken to drink, on account of the opposition made to him by the par ents of his fiance, goes to the bad, is no longer able to hold an engagement, and eventually becomes a tramp. One day he drifts into a little Indiana town, on the front end of a passenger train. Further back, but on the inside of the coaches there is a small theatrical company. Tramp and company get off at the same town, the latter from cboioe, the former by the aid of the brakeraan’s boot. The company is billed to play in the town a week. The second night of the engagement the leading man is called home by the death of his wife; there is no one to fill his place and consternation reigns in the little band of actors and actresses; finally it is learned that the tramp has been an actor, and furthermore has played the leading part of the “Two Orphans” with Kate Olaxton. This is the play they are to put on this night. The tramp plays the part, meets the leading woman of the coppany, his former sweetheart. The complications that arise form the ground work to the plot of the greatest scenic comedy drama of recent years, Elmer Walters' “A Millionaire Tramp.” The third act shows not alone the exterior of a country theatre, but the interior as well with the audience seated, curtain up and performance in progress, and the effect has never been accomplished heretofore.—At the opera house tonight.

Winter Millinery.

Having received our winter styles we are now prepared to show a beautiful line of winter millinery, also a good grade of medium priced hats to suit all purchasers.

MRS. H. PURCUPILE.

Another car load -of Occident flour just received, bought before the advance, and we are selling it for a few days yet at 93c. Just as good as others sell for sl.lO to f 1.20. „

A fbll line of heavy fleeced underwear, worth from 60c to SI.OO a suit for 48c a suit at Laßue Bros.

Narrow Escape From a Rear End Collision at Fair Oaks. The Monon had a narrow escape from a bad rear end oollision at Fair Oaks Tuesday morning. The morning north bound train was running in two sections, when at Fair Oaks the rear end of the first section loomed into view of the engineer of the second seotion. “It probably wjll be death either way, so we’ll take a ohanee and jump,” said Engineer Russ to Fireman Charles Dusch. It was dark and there was a snow storm. Russ threw on the air brakes, reversed his engine, and leaped oft. The fireman jumped from the other side and escaped injury. The engineer struck on his neok and was badly injured. He was taken to the Hammond hospital and it is hoped his life may be saved. A collision was happily averted. But two feet separated the two sections of the train when the last seoton stopped with a jolt that threw the passengers from their seats. The section was pulled by engine 111, newly repaired from the wreck at Hammond last summer. Engineer Frank Kline, who operated the locomotive then, was a passenger on the second section. He took the place of Engineer Russ and took the train on in to Chicago.

The county commissioners have been in regular session this week, bat so far there has been but little business before them except the consideration of claims. The ditch petitioned for by Robert Parker et al was ordered established. The Marbel lateral to the Wheatfield ditch was ordered cleaned. Yesterday afternoon was the time set for opening bids for the Hanging Grove gravel road. The only bid filed was by Smith & Padgitt, of Rensselaer. Their bid was $10,242, or only $2 less than the appropriation. The bid was filed with the proviso that gravel to be found in the vicinity of the road is to be used. The length of the proposed road is 6f miles. The matter of letting the contract was taken under advisement until the February term of court to give the commissioners time to investigate the quality of gravel specified in the bid.

The marriage oi Mr. Joseph Halligan and Miss Maggie Healy took place at St. Augustine’s Catholic church yesterday morning at 9 o’clock in the presence of a large number of guests. Rev. Father Meyer, pastor of the church, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Halligan left last evening for Ocalla, Florida, where they will spend their honeymoon with relatives.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Many people unacquainted with the geography of the West imagine that because the names “Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul” are used in the corporate title of the railway owning the Short Line between Chioago and Omaha, they must go via the cities of Milwaukee, St. Paul to reach their destination—and if it be Omaha or west thereof This is a mistaken idea. On a map the line running directly east and west would look like this: Omaha Chicago There is nothing more simple than that, and it is less than 600 miles between Chicago and Omaha. Two through trains daily in each direction with the best Sleeping Oar and Dining Oar Service, and all regular travelers know and appreciate the merits of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway’s Short Line between the East and the West. Time tables, maps and information furnished on application to 0. 0 Mordough, Traveling Passenger Agent, 12 Carew Bldg., Cincinnati. 3t. Find* Wav To Live. Long. The startling annoncement of a Discovery that will surely lengthen life is made by editor O. H. Downey, of Churubusco, Ind. “I wish to state,” he writes, “that Dr. king’s New Dis covery for Consumption is the most infallible remedy that I have ever known for Conghs, Colds and Grip. It’s invaluable to people with weak lungs. Having this wonderful medicine no one need dread Pneumonia or Consumption. Its relief is Instant and cure certain.” A. F. Long guarantees every 60c and fl bottle, and gives trial bottles free. A full line of the finest candies at J. H. Cox’s news stand.

Laßue Bros.

SAVES TRAIN BUT IS INJURED.

The County Commissioners.

Halligan-Healy.

Down in Texas.

Dear Journal—lt is not the most cordial weloome at a publio inn, even if the best. We bided a night at Texarkana on the border line. The prospect from the oar window in Arkansas showed a level forest for the most part. We also took a daylight run to Palestine and again stayed until morning. A oar ride showed the city of a sacred name to be a place of some ten thousand souls. The old town containing the court house aud jail is one mile from the new about the depot. The land from Texarkana to Palestine looks less forbidding. A dual system oi sohools, churches and social life destroys the push and progress of the south. The day train was late and we oame here in the night. This is easily the largest and riohest city in the state of Texas. The water supply is from deep artesian wells. Three of them yield hot sulphur water of a temperature of 106 degrees. There, is here the largest Military Post (Sam Houston.) There are many pretty parks and eleotrio oars to all. We are 660 feet above sea level, while the government post is one hundred feet higher. We are a little over one hundred miles from the Rio Grande. The San Antonia river is here obout one-half as large as our Iroquois and meanders the city with thirteen miles, within the corporation, spanned by twenty bridges. The percentage of the African is about ten. The city is orderly and well governed. We arrived on Sunday morning during holiday week, which in the south is celebrated much as we do the 4bh of July. The new year was hailed with a fusilade of fire and cannon oraokers, as well as many real guns. The gift feature is not so prominent as with us. We have bad two cloudy, rainy days, while all others were bright. This morning there was a frost, following a rain on yesterday. The roses looked a little sickly but the leaves remain green. Sulphur Wells hotel is connected by a oovered bridge with the bath building. It is managed by graduates of the Battle Greek Sanitarium and is said to cure rheumatism and its associate troubles. The hotel campus is filled with pecan and haokberry trees. In these trees are singing our home birds, among which we note the meadow lark, the robin, the wood thrush, the groesbeak and wood pecker. We are not yet convinced but Jasper is the best county and Rensselaer the best little city of which we can speak from actual knowledge. 8. P. Thompson. San Antonia, Tex., Jan. 2,1903.

Post Check Currency.

There appears to be substantia) hope that one of the groat reforms in practical affairs, namely, a post check currency, is on the way towards realization. The details of this simple and convenient method have often been given. Briefly, it provides notes with a space reserved for assignment. The purchaser gets one of these notes or bills and on it places a two cent stamp and the address of the payee. He, on receipt, simply signs his name as now with a money order and the deed is done. This currency will be as low as 15 cents in denomination. It can by indorsement pass from hand to hand. On payment by the Postoffice Department it is sent to the Treasury ior cancellation, and as reissue will be only on redemption there will be no inflation of the currency. The plan has been thoroughly discussed by the press and no flaw has been found in it. That it will supply a want most widely felt is conceded. The wonder is only that a people so practical as we so long submitted to the wasteful and hampering method of transmitting small amounts.

Big Strawberry Patch.

Horace Marble, of Wheatfleld, has organized a stock company of Indiana men that has purchased 20,000 acres of land in Alabama, and will start one of the biggest strawberry plantations in the United States. About one-half of the acreage is now in plants, and arrangements are now being made to erect a box factory on the plantation. Mr. Marble is known as our ex-audi-tor and sheriff, and he is to be congratulated on his prosperous enterprise.—Lowell Souvenir. One lot of children’s underwear, worth from 15c to 80c each, for 5c and 10c for choice at Laßue Bros. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $1.40 for one year. ‘ 'Special deal.”

The Markets.

POULTRY, ETC. Chickens, spring 9 j c Rooste™;;;:;:/.-.-.-.:-;;;.; Ducks ' - Geese, full feathered 8c Turkeys, young fat 1 4C h““ :. . : S u. iS Wheat g*. Oats, mixed tec Oats, white 28c Mr. and Mrs. E, D. Rhoades are visiting in Ohicago. A fresh oar of salt at 750 per barrel at Laßue Bros. John Sayler, of Montioello, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Good quality tennis flannel for 5o a yard at Laßue Bros. Miss Grace Jsoks returned on Monday from a visit at Morris, 111. A fine line of fancy oakes, best quality at Laßue Bros. Leave your orders for daily papers and magazines with J. H. Cox. A good line of overcoats from |1,48 each and up at Laßue Bros. Miss Fannie Porter returned to sohool at Staunton, Va., Friday. All oaliooes, 4o a yd, worth 5c and 60 at Laßue Bros. Miss Tillie Fendig, of Delphi, visited her parents here the past week.

We are selling Shetland floss atJ7c or 4 skeins for 250. Laßue Bros. Mr. and Mrs. S. 0. Robinson returned to Kirksville, Mo., Monday. Mrs. Harry Wemple, of Rockford, 111., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Agnes Kelley. Delos Ooen returned to Yale college the first of the week to resume his studies. Men’s finest quality buckle overshoes at $1.20 per pair. Regular price $1.50 at Laßue Bros. 0. A. Dean and Fred Phillips have rented the room formerly oocupled by W. 0. Shead for an office. If you want a bargain in an overcoat, Jacket or oape we have it. Laßue Bros. More money than some people have hay. “A Millionaire Tramp,” at the opera house tonight. We will sell you any jacket or cape at less than half prioe to close. Laßue Bros. Miss Mildred Spitler has returned to Goshen, after spending the vacation with her parents here. We have a lot of felt boots and overs from SI.OO a pair to $2.00 for snag proof. Laßue Bros. Jerry Healy has resigned his position as clerk in Eger’s grocery. Ick Yates has taken his place. We are closing out all our blankets and comforts at less than cost. Laßue Bros. Clarence Smith entertained forty of his young friends last Friday afternoon in honor of his tenth birthday. M. P, Ohalfont, a late graduate of the law department of the Valparaiso college, is figuring on locating in Rensselaer. Nioholas Archer, of Wheatfleld, has been adjudged Insane, and Monday was taken to Longcliff asylum at Logan sport. Dr. Arthur Kressler went to Indianapolis Monday to assist in an operation upon Mrs. Firman Ruterford, of Jordan township. Mrs. Ida Tobias returned to her home in Lake Forest, 111., last Friday after a visit with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Dlzey. F. J. Lagen has given up bis intention of rebuilding his steam laundry and has moved to Chicago, where he will make bis home. Squire Troxell paid into the county treasury this week fines for school purposes in the following amounts: For the county sohool ftind, $49.50; township, sl3, city, $4.00. While ooming up from Rensselaer, Tuesday, Miss Adelaide Phillips and B ;S. Fendig sat in the depot at Shelby and let their train go by and then they had time to burn. Shelby is such a pleasant place to wait for a train anyhow.-Wheatfleld Telephone. The crowned heads of every nation, The rich men, poor men and misers All join in paying tribute to DeWitt’s.Little Early Risers. H. Williams, San Antonio, Tex., writes: Little Early Riser Pills are the best I ever used in my family. I unhesitatingly reoommend them to everybody. They cure Constipation, Billiousness, Siok Headache, Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Malaria and all other liver troubles. Long’s Drug Store.

NUMBER 31.