Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1903 — Page 3

VOL. X.

The City Council.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening with all members present. The city engineer filed his report on the Clark street improvement, which was accepted, and the matter was referred to the city commissioners for assessment. ' The insurance on the pumps at the city plant was ordered renewed, SSOO to be placed with O. G. Spitler and SSOO with B. F. Ferguson. The city treasurer’s report shows amount on hand in corporation fund to be $615.92; road fund $665.48; water fund, $541.51; electric light, overdrawn, $185:87. The clerk was instructed to have easement deed from J. C. Passons recorded. 'The superintendent of the city plant was instructed to communicate with the Standard Oil Co. in regard to using crude oil for the plant. The following bills were allowed: ROAD FUND. ♦ Win. Rennie, work on street 45 C. L. McGee “ “ “ - 120 J. P. Simons “ “ “ 60 Evert Huffman, work on street. 60 Elmer Gasaway “ “ “ 60 A. E. Bird “ M “ 1 20 Geo. Platt “ “ “ i2o John Brown “ “ *< 60 Chas. Bowers “ “ “ 180 Frank Swartzell “ “ “ 225 Wm. Simons “ “ “ 1 35 Lon Watson,, cleaning walks. 2 00 Al Fletcher “ “ 2 00 W. T. Smith, crushed rock 59 85 CORPORATION FUND. F. M. Abbott, salary marshal. 45 00 J. A. Larsh, light globe 25 E. D. Rhoades, sundries. 3 69 Clyde Sayler, work on Makemself.... 60 B. H. Dillon, salary night watch 40 00 Wm. D. I ewis, hauling hose cart.... I 00 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. A. L. Branch, hauling coal 60 76 C. S. Chamberlain, salary 37 30 C. L Thornton, salary 25 00 Central Coal Co., coall3o 89 Coal Bluff Mining Co 152 00 Davis Co. Coal Co., coal 64 94 Illinois Electric Co., supplies 28 14 J. H. Chapman, freight and express.. 98 94 Ira Smith, work on line 11 25 WATER FUND. Conrad Hildebrand, salary 25 00

bu.'biiiu w linn iiiiiiiiiiinniHUHnifY iff flff iff iff! ffififfifff iifff ■rfZ OUR GREAT MILL-END SALE!; Monday, February 16, until Saturday Evening, February 21,1903 ! ■■Chicago Bargain Store.. ; A sale that is the first ever introduced in Rensselaer or so small a place outside the cities. A sale • ! °f„ a large P ur chase of the mill’s ends, from 2- yards to 20-yard pieces of all kinds of wash goods, ■ , silk tissues, silk waistings, muslin, etc., at about ONE-HALF the regular price, and all new fresh ■ » spring goods, from 2c a yard to 38c a yard. Everything in the house included in this sale at greatly ■ ! re ?. uc fd prices except the regular Spring lines, which are arriving daily. Every lady should avail her- • ! se ’ f of the opportunity to buy new Spring goods at about half price while they last. Space for only S 1 a few of the thousands of prices and kinds. All mill ends to 20 yards. F / ■ ■

■ 1 ! Mill Ends. A good black dress cambric, per yard 2c 2,000 yards best Standard prints, per yard.... 3c I 1,000 yards L. L. muslin and tennis flannels. .3c I 1,000 yards dress ginghams and Amoskeag • apron ginghams 4 and 5c 900 yards Lonsdale remnants, bleached musI lin and good heavy ticking, per yard. . . 6%c I 800 yards 12chambrys and heavy twilled bleached muslin, per yard. 800 yards 18c India linens, mulls, etc., yd. . . . 10c I s°° yards 50c silk tissues, mercerized oxford suitings, etc., per yard 25c I x 3°° yards or scores of patterns, silk waictI value 60 to 75c yard, only per yd. .42c l-A 1

! ...The Old Reliable... • : THE CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE j ; Opposite Court House Telephone 36 All Goods Delivered Free !

Uie JOUILNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1.25 Ucnssclncv Journal.

SMALLPOX IN UNION.

A Number of Cases In the Vicinity of Fair Oaks. Smallpox has broken out in Union township and precautions are being taken to prevent a spread of the disease to other f>arts of the county. The disease seems to have been brought to the county from Wisconsin by S B. Moffitt and Albert Garriott, who had been working in a section of that state where the disease was ptevalent. - In the Garriott family there are three cases. In the Hopkins family, neighbors of the Garriotts, there are two cases. Moffitt has the only case in his family but it is very likely that other members of the family will soon take the disease. All the families have been quarantined by County Health Officer Washbum, and other precautions are being taken to prevent a spread of the disease. The protracted meeting which was being held in that vicinity, has been closed, as has one of the public schools

Sues Warren Springer.

Frank Bricker, by bis attorney, 0. E. Mills, bas brought suit in the circuit court against Warren Springer, the Chicago millionaire, for $5,000 damages. Bricker is a Walker township citizen and was working on Springer’s big ranch in that township, helping operate a corn shredder. Acting under order of Springer’s foreman Bricker attempted to clean out the machine, which had become clogged, when a cylinder in the machine burst and mangled one of Bricker’s hands so badly that he lost some of the fingers and a portion of the hand, so that he is maimed for life. Bricker claims that the machine was in a dangerous condition, and that bpth Springer and hie foreman knew that it was unsafe before they started tq use it.

RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1903.

SCHOOL NOTES

Items of Intereat Refardinf the Renaselaer Public Schoola

Marion Pierson, of freshman class, has quit school, and after two or three weeks intends to go to Missouri, where he has a brother. Cena Carr, Grace Cougblan and Lizzie Brown are on the sick list this week. The basket-ball game with the Monon girls did not come.off last Saturday night as had been arranged. An effort was made to secure another date Tor the game, but the Monon girls have concluded that they do not wish to play us. But they have so decreed, and it takes two to make a bargain. 1 Mr. Headlee goes to Monticello Saturday to meet with the representatives from the other high schools in the North Western Athletic Association, The purpose of the meeting is to arrange the place and date of the field meet. We want the meet at Rensselaer this year and Mr. Headlee will be instructed to try to secure it for Rensselaer.* Arrangements have been made for the Hammond high school girls’ basket ball team to play the Rensselaer high school in the near future. The following literary program will be given by the high school literary society Friday, Feb. 13: Instrumental DuetJ Beatrice Yates ( Loma Wood Recitation Josie Porter What I would do if I had time. .Bessie Hardy Duet ’ J Cecil Morgan I Jessie Makeever In the spring time John Ellis A Laboratory Fairy Storyßernice Sayler Vocal Duet / Gladys Beam I Lucy Healy Critics Report Music....,Eddie Ropp

New Spring Goods just arrived. Ladies shoes, mens clothing, a full line of embroideries, laces, lace curtains, mercerized silk petticoats, dress skirts, men’s and boys’ hats, carpets, rugs, etc. Groceries Just received one carload, 175 bbls. Washburn & Crosby Gold Medal flour. One carload, 560 bushels extra fancy Wisconsin potatoes. When you want the freshest and the best of everything you will find it here at lowest prices for cash. Wash Waist Patterns Great variety ; only one of a kind, just received.

Commissioners' Court Notes.

Petition of John Bill and A. J. Bellows, trustees, for bridges, dismissed. Petition of C. M. Blue, trustee, for bridge approaches and abutments. Dropped from docket. The applications of Chas. Ross Dean, Chas. L. Mann and Blaine Gwin for scholarships in the law department oflndiana University continued. G. P. N. Saddler was appointed engineer to prepare plans and specifications for a bridge in Carpenter township. The auditor was directed to give notice of letting contract for steam plumbing at the jail and sheriff’s residence.

Frank Wempe, the bold swindler who secured SSO on the bank here on the endorsement of G. A. Strickfaden was before the court yesterday and was bound over for trial next week in the sum of SI,OOO. Strick refiised to go on bis bond, and the old man was taken back to jail. The Louisville firm on whom the draft was drawn has promised to send a man here to testify against Wempe, so his conviction is almost certain.

The house Tuesday passed a bill prohibiting the killing of quail in Indiana for three years, after nearly half a day spent in debate. An effort will be made to have the vote reconsidered. The senate has advanced a similar bill to the third reading and will probably pass it.

The Jasper circuit court has been in session this week. The session so far has been mainly taken up with probate business. Henry Grow was appointed guardian of Mrs. Mary E. Ramey, who has become insane.

C.A.ST'OEI.X.A.. Bmh the The Kind You Haw Always Bought

Bound Over to Court.

To Protect Quail.

Court Notes.

A Boat Trip.

Dear Journal:—The Tarpon struck a wind-squall of the Gulf on our first night out from Pensacola and as a sequence a complete divorce from our supper was given due effect. Sea sickness is not dangerous for Dr. Calm soon relieves the distress. Toward morning the contagion spread until of officers, crew and passengers but four were able to go to the morning meal. As we passed over the bar to St. Andrews Bay the wavesi ceased and for dinner all came up with la keen appetite. Around the bay are some five or six landings all without Ja railroad and having fish, oysters and lumber to trade for other things deemed necessary for the subsistence of the natives and to feed the tourists. Nearly every northern man (hath a rod and a gun but we found none who had found or caught any denizens of either forest or bay. In the evening we passed into the Gulf in time to stop the pangs of hanger without responding to the call forjsupper. The clouds passed away before midnight and we were ready for our fourth meal at Apalachicola. We made half hands at the festal board of the “Tarpon.” Our first and last cruise on the Gulf is one long to be vividly recollected. Apalachicola Is the county seat of Franklingcounty and has never heard the scream of the iron horse. In fixing a site for the court house and jail the commissioners determind in favor of the geometrical center of the town as hoped for and (some said) the fact that two of these owned a tract of land on which they were built had somewhat of an influence. The town did not spread and neither sidewalks nor shell paved streets add to its accessibility. The square is grown up with brush and weeds enlivened by a first class frog concert from the enclosed ponds. The cypress logs rafted down the river feed a first class lumber and wood work establishment. The oyster boats Supply two cove canneries. Strike out cypress and oyster and the city is the unrealized substance of things hoped for and the

Hardware ■ Retailed at less price than we paid for it last n year. Just received one carload, 30,000 lbs., woven fence wire; one carload, 30,000 lbs. f g| Washburn & Moen barbed wire, the world’s best —all bought before the advance. Wall Paper ■ 5,000 rolls new wall paper, only 3c roll. Fancy 18-in. wide border to match 3c roll. CO PIE EARLY to this great economy sale M and you will save dollars at the only bargain house that buys in carload and case lots for spot cash, and we pay no rents.

Flfl]| Yem the Standard BAKING POWDER Awirdtd Hour* WsrM’s Fair Highlit tut. U.S. Sar’t Okwalift """ -SS&g.-*—*

weak evidence of things not seen. "Before the war” it was a cotton port. The waves have shallowed the entrance so that only boats of light draft can come in. This city is so clear a sample of a “has been” and of a finished boom that a rhyme might not be out of place. “Behold! right here is the city of Yawn On the banks of a river that’s slow. The “some time or other” shines like the dawn While the wait awhile and go easysgrow.” “It is placed on the flat of what's the use, In the province of let her slide. It is the hove of the listless “I don’t care” Where the put it offs all abide.” 8. P. Thompson. Apalachicola, Fla. February 5, 1903."

Sent to White County.

The Newton county seat case has been sent to White county for trial, on motion of the defendants. Judge Palmer will try the case. The loveliest drop head sewing ma* chine, just on at Lee & Poole’s, Me* Coysburg.

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