Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. Thursday, June 25; 1891. *—*—*>——— ~

J—jXIES. w*X t Qlbs"S2*' CORPORATION OFFICERS : off| hal 'A M U.’WvRRXK. g** ... ..Charles g. Suitler Treasurer ...... C. C St abb (lit Wird J. R. Van ATT A, .. M Hard S H. Warner. 3d Warn J. H S Ei.ms. I 4th Ward Paris Harrison. 15th Ward.. Ancil Woodworth . JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION £;,C. GwinTrustee, . Hanaring Grove tp. Michael Robin sou, Trustee Gillamtp. , Trustee .... Walker tp. T l ll . ,tee . Barkley tp. OPhenSeld, Trustee Marlon tp. fames trustee lonian tp. Nehemiah Hopkins Trustee.. . Newton tp. Bnmer,Trustee Keener to. 5? ul Kankakee tp. m JPjPE?\.Tj ÜBf ££ Wheatfie.d tp. , fer ’ ■JVi» tec Carpenter tp. H«ekiak Kesler, Trustee Milroy tp. w JLi 1 V °!^ vc f Rem in gton. f"2 Clark Rensselaer. J. P. Warren... County Bupt ; JUDICIAL %S^r t .„?.”- g A;; E»win p. Hammond, Prosecuting Attorney . John T Brown. Monday in January; n£MZZ.% M a£&T r,i /«"*»• COUHTT OFFICERS 5"S?£ • Phillip blue. Gboboe m. Robinson I B. Washburn ..James f. Antrim. Jam*» C. Thrawlb. r p Benjamin Superintendent Public Schools.. J. F Warren fu__. . i Ist District. . P. M.Querkv. OmmiMaiMm Jsd District ... .J .F. Watson. - ~ . CM District . . ...O .P.Tabor. d " ,, ‘'

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There is located at LaFayette, Ind. an institution founded especially for the benefit of the farmers of Indiana. This is at Purdue University, the farmer's college. Here are extensive barns, experimental fields and laboratories, where experiments are conducted designed to assist the farmer. Animals are fed different foods and under unlike conditions; field crops, fruits and vegetables, are cultivated in various ways, fertilized with manures of different character; animal and plant diseases studied and means sought by which they mfiy be prevented or cured. At least four times a year the station publishes pamphlets containing information of value on these agricultural topics,-that are free for all who wish to apply for them. If you are a farmer, or are interested in farming, and will write to the station to have your name placed on its mailing list, in future you will receive its publications. liomember they are free, and are printed for the special benefit of the ! farming class. Send your name and address, with county plainly I written, to the Agricultural Ex per- ; iment Station, LaFayette, Iml. Gen. Packard: Democracy declared the war was “a failure,” and then tried to make it a failure. It declared the greenbacks would be worthless, and then tried to make them worthless. It declared the public debt would never be paid, and then tried to prevent its payment It declared the tariff is a

tax and then tried tomake it a tax by destroying otir manufactories. Itdeclared the McKinley law would advance prices “all along the line,” and then tried to advance them by " declaring they were away up, when they were not. It declared tin plate would never be manufactured in this'country, and then discouraged its manufacture by every means in their power. It declared the 51st congress should pass no laws in accordance with Republican promises, and then resorted to revolutionory practices to prevent needed legislation. It declared there would be no practical benefit in ‘ ‘reciprocity,” and then stubbornly opposed every measure that wouldmake it practically beneficial. What party is this to control this country! A party that is forever throwing itself across the track of progress. A party whose sole . mission Is to hang weights on the shoulders of the country and the people, and block every forward movement

I Would Remark

That Rensselaer is, comparatively speaking, a pretty town, and if the people would plant more trees, use more paint, and dear their property of piles of ashes, brush, wood, old cans, papers Ac. dec. and keep the weeds cut it would be a much prettier town. Let each of us do our part in this. A gentleman was here from Crawfordsville not long ago and he said he did not know of a town in Indiana that he would rather have property in than Rensselaer. The programme of the High School graduating exercises is a thing of beauty and far surpasses those of a few years ago. Why not procure and send a copy to our school friends to let them know how we do things in Rensselaer. * * * Should a man be permitted to pollute the atmosphere with the fumes o!‘ tobacco ? It is a very disagreeable stink to a great many, people and a nuisance in many cases. Some very bright and intelligent men will blow smoke in your face who would not think of spitting in your face ? The recent im provemept near the mill by putting in a large sewer across Front street is something permanent and useful.» It ougnt to have been done long ago. It will certainly present the Hood after each very heavy rain. The so called '‘catch-basins” ought to be replaced by “man-holes” with grates over them. The sewer pipe would last longer than the wooden boxes the Town Board are having p»* pO W ,

The pooling of the interests of the towns and several townships by the Trustees in the purchase of School furniture is a good thing and a- very great saving of time to theVTrustees and of money to the people. It is true the School furniture agents do not distribute easy chairs, fountain pens »sec. as of yore, but the money is saved by buying all furniture through 4he-special-Secmtary of the County Board of Ed ucation. Ezra L. Clark is the Special Secretary ; ask him about it and ask your Trustee if he buys direct or through Mr. Clark. * * * *

■ —The next Grand Jury will nougfi to do to keep it at work a long time. . . . According tp Bradstreet’s Commercial Directory four fifths or eighty per cent of all who fail in business, of the various industrial lines, do so because of lack of knowledge, natural, or acquired. 'Most men in business Avho succeed w.ell commence at the bottom and work up by learning every detail. One method of success is by judieios advertising. Bf judicious,* I mean putting your money where it will do the most good, i. e. putting your advertisements where they will be read by the great_est number of people. Some try by putting signs on fences, others try cheap dodgers, still others cheap papers, such as show bills, cheap city business directories socalled. The most intelligent people are those who take the newspapers and read them. They are the people who have money and will spend it where it will do them the most good. A man should patronize his best friends, always, remembering that “one good turn deserves another.” The newspaper is the community's best friend, provided it is clean and truthful. A newspaper that tries to destroy any good portion of any community, should not be pcttrouiznl by the people. Merchants usually look at this matter from a "tuimss standpoint, but sometimes they "WiT" w nwav** their money by advertising in transient At tonic) s, pby sicians, and special trades are sometimes caught in the same way. Gentlemen, these same “oily 1 * special advertising agents laugh in their sleeves at yon as one did at some people in Rensselaer recently. A newspaper that has one thousand subscribers is better than one that has five hundred. If you have money . to give away then patronize the cheap sheets.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Mr. and Mrs. John. W. Paris and family, of Attica, are visiitng their Rensselaer home folks. Young man don’t fail to bring your Girl the 4th. and stay for the show at the Opera House at night. The services of the Missionary Baptist church will be held in the Court House next,Sunday. Sunday School at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 10:45. ....... The Harris Comedy Company lias more fine comedy, good singing, exeellant music than any company travli.g.

Rev. T. F. Drake held quarterly meeting at Monticello Sunday, and from there went to LaFayette Monday, to attend the encampment of the Sons of Veterans, and from there to Valparaiso to the district meeting of the Ministerial Association. Elder L. E. Murry, pastor of the Christian Church of Delphi, will preac'i in the Christian Church in Rensselaer next Monday, June 29th, at 7:30 o’clock. All are cordially invited to be present and bear him. Brown’s Boston Creole Company occupied the Opera House Monday and Tuesday nights, to a large house the first night and to a fair one the second. It is a colored combination, even to the manager. Their performance is of the variety order and vastly diverting, and much of it excellent in its way. The manager of the Opera House has secured the famous Harris Company of comedians in their screaming 4 act Farce Comedy, “A Tatoo mark” for the night of July the 4th. This is a company of reputation and ability, and have been playing in all the large cities. Don’t fail to see them.

There will be a special meeting of the W. R. C. Saturday P, M. to make arrangements for the lunch stand, July 4. Proceeds will go to the Relief Fund. A full attendance is desired. Martha Wasson. Harriet Flynn. Pres. Sec’y. After Ju|y; Ist the flag of the Union will have forty-four stars, the fortyfourth representing Wyoming, admitted during the year. In the new arrangement there will be six horizontal rows of stars, the row at the top and at the bottom each containing eight stars, and the four rows between, each containing seven.H Superintendent Warren left for Indianapolis Monday, where he will attend the County Superintendents’ convention in session Tuesday and Wednesday, and read a paper upon the subject; “Literature in the Cornua on Schools.” From Indianapolis h e intended going to Bloomington to attend the summer scientific school, at the State University, for a few weeks.

The old Baptist Church is being razed to the ground this week, preparatory to replacing it with a handsome modern structure. The old building was erected about 54 years ago, and if it has not wholly survived its usefulness it certainly has long outlived its beauty, and after all the usefulness of a church depends considerably upon its beauty iu these days. The big balloon will go up in Rensselaer on the Fourtli, sure, and when, it has reached am altitude of several, thousand feet, the daring aeronaut will inirin out of the balloon and descend to the eai-tk with an immense parachute. It will be truly a thrilling spectacle and free to all who choose to look upon it.

Willing Workers w3l give an entertainment at the Opera House tomorrow evening, for the benefit of Mrs. Clifton. This certainly is a very commendible object, and one that deserves the most liberal encouragement. The contents of the evening's programme indicate a very interesting entertainment. especially for the little folks.

The balLoon and parachute felfews go high, but they also come high. In fact there is an intimate but, perhaps, natural relationship between the altitude of their elevations and their compensations. To the able professor of aerial gymnastics who will ascend some thousands of feet into the circumambient ether on the coming Fourth of July, and decend therefrom by the aid only of a parachute, the sum of $l5O is to be paid. It seems like a good deal of money, but probably none of our readers would care to undertake the same job for much leas.

BEN HUR.

Mr. George Butler, late of New Castle, this state, is preparing to issue a paper in Rensselaer, devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Peoples Party. He is located m rooms over Berry-Bros, grocery store. He expects to issue the initial number of the new organ, this week. Its name will be tie “Peoples Pilot.” A small change in the Monon time table/went into effect last Sunday. .The principal feature of the change is the abandonment of the attempt to run the afternoon Louisville-Chicago train through Rensselaer without stopping. It now stops regularly and probably the management will be wiser than to attempt the experiment again.

County Superintendent Warren issued 104 teachers’, licenses during the year ending May 31st. Of these 34 were for 6 months: 49 for 12 months; 17. for 2 years and 4 for three years. The number of failures during the~ year were 83. Of those granted licenses 56 were females and 38 were males. The average length of licenses issued was to males 12 and 18 nineteenths months; to females 12 and 10 elevenths months. The difference in scholarship thus shown is in favor of the males, but too an exceedingly small extent. The recipients of the 4 three years licenses were Miss Johnson, of Remington, I. C. Rebuelt, of Rensselaer, Miss Nellie Coen, and Mr. J. J. Hunt. Logansport.Tozrm//: Deputy Sheriff Gallagher is scarcely recognized by his friends now, he having left his luxuriant whiskers at Michigan City the other day when he took Rans Sheirman to the pen. The prison artist who wielded the razor that laid low the growth of many years was no less a distinguished personage than W. Ferd Pettit, the ministerial wife murderer, who is serving a life sentence in the prison North. Such is the irony of fate. From the pulpit to a prison barber is quite a step, but W.Ferd appears to accept his lot with the spirit of a philosopher.

One Armstrong, a windy young man who correspor & for the Chicago Herald, was in town some weeks ago, and while here intimated that he would return in a short time and “write up” the town and county for his paper, if he found it would be “worthwhile.” That is to say if a good round sum would be raised by merclianlhs and others to buy his good opinions. It evidently was not made ‘“worth while” and he did not come back; although one day last week he occupied about a column and,a half of the not at all valuable space of the Herald , by an article purporting to be a description of Rensselaer and Jasper, county. The article was rather amusing in some respects, and no doubt the production of a bright and able writer, but it is malicious and ridiculously untruthful and incorrect in all alleged facts. Indiana’s World’s Fair Commission oflers prizes of S3OO, £2OO and SIOO respectively for the first, second and third best plans for the Indiana building at Jackson Park. The building is to cost about $25,000 and to contain about 6iooo square feet of floor space. It will be constucted entirely of Indiana material. The outside walls will be of stone, pressed brick and terracotta; the roof of roofing tile or of iron made in this State. The inside finish is to be highly -ornamental and made of plate, beveled and looking glass, hard wood and encaustic tile. The building is to serve the double purpose of displaying, in its construction, the building material of Indiana, and as headquarters for and entertainment of visitors and their guests at the Exposition. There is to he one large room on the ground flobr for assembly and reception purposes, and separate ladies’ and gentlemen’s rooms with lavatories and all modern conveniences, a check or baggage room, and a room for dining and lunching.

Daring Balloon Aseension.

M. M. Forsmaii, the daring local aw-oimv.. madp :i magnificent balloon usccuaiou :<ud I'cuaCiiiiU: infip, atShelbv l**rk. Sondny evening. It was, without a doubt, one of tbe best and most thrilling aeronautic exhibitions ever made in this city, the altitude attained being fully 3,000 feet. The gentle breezy carried him down the river and he landed in the Horse Shoe bottom. The parachute used on this occasion represents the latest improvements in aeronautics, and the balloon is one of the largest on the continent. —Peoria Herald. July 22 , 1800.

AUDITOR’S ANNUAL REPORT Of Receipts and Expenditures of Jasper County , for the Year Ending ", May 31st, 1891. ■ , ~ BALANCE IN TREASURY JUNE Ist, 1890, CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING « > - FUNDS: "77 7 Congressional Interest $ 485 Congressional Principal 100 00 Common School Principal • 314 62 Common School Interest... 50 93 University Interest: ...*.; 2k 10 Special School Fnnd.... 3559 36 Township Fund. ’..... .... 1585 35 BoadFund v 3928 74 Tuition Fund Dog Fund 194 04 Township Additional!.. ..Trr.vJrfJT.Trr.T. •• • - 33 90 Road Additional. ... ......... . 1373 86 Special Additional 4 937 47 County Revenue 7388 20 Land Redemption - • • 9 99 Show License 2000 Leaves Total Balance in treasury June 1,1890....... $26969 34 RECEIPTS FOB THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31,1891. Balance in Treasury June I, 1890 $ 26969 94 Dog =£ 840 91 Boad ............ <669 81 Township... • • tttt .................... ................. M2O 29 Road Addition al - 2797 45 Township Additional 1 90 County Dog Fund 788 83 Tuition .. .. 26620 52 Special Additional. 1327 85 County Revenue .' 28371 49 State Revenue - - 5127 78 State School 8941 ” Endowment....... ... .: 19218 Docket Fees. .... 18 00 Land Redemption - <73 20 Liquor License. 1000 00 Estray Fund .—. ............... 1 38 Special School .•■••••• 12885 89 University Interest 14 70 Common School Principal -jjp 2580 52 Common School Interest 2064 70 Congressional Principal 18844 89 Congressional Interest 3788 Ditch No. 806*—.—77777—-- 54 Ditch No. 285 52 Total ;..T. Total Receipts for 1891 j and balance in Treasury June 1, 1890 $147008 17 EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1891. Receipts for the year 147008 17 ® og •• 9205 02 Additional Road , . lilKw u 4 Township ; v m Special School Special Additional f Tuition Township Additional •••• • County Dog Fund.. 2314141 County Revenue BIW 78 State Revenue 47 State School 19213 Endowment j 6 Docket Fees.... ;;;;;; J, )B Land Redemption .• •• -• . 1000 00 Commons chcol Principal |;0 Common School Interest * ' 0 _ Congressional Principal ' ' Congressional Interest Taxes Refunded Ditch No. 8064:..;•••.. —• • •• .• • y-V’.r,- tUI £ . Ditch No. 8136 • • • "5 84 Ditch N 0.8156 •:>•• • •• Ditch No. 69, J. C. ~' Show License c w Amount Overdrawn June 1, 1891 .... Total Expenditures are _ $121149 11 Which deducted from total receipts leaves Balance in Treas- , .. ury June 1,1891 $ 25859 ITEMIZED LIST OF EXPENDITURES MADE OUT OF COUNTY REVENHB FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31,1891. ■ 1 $ 3510 74 ; —County Officers ‘‘’ Jgg <i2 County Offices 1818 \ 2 Poor Farm.... Public Improvemelit * ; ~4 1 Insanity „ 159 80 County. Attorney • 16jg 39 Relief Poor 1742 Roads and Bridges- 49 . 2 Commissioners’ Court 49 Circuit Court nsn 62 Book sand stationery. ■ XJJ,— ( . r) Board of Health lcls oo ’ Township Tuition 13JB M Assessing Revenue - n ]g County Printing 35 —.—i— EducaticmaiFuel and Lights •••_•*• °4B 50 Wolf Scalps * L. Benevolent Institutions Common School Interest .... .s f ‘ Congressional School Interest ‘ County Jail Board of Equalization . i SS 7)11011 213 75 Insurance Coroners’lnquest 4g Gravel Road ~, ' Special Judge Elections To t a i *2M 4I « B ALANCE IN TREASURY JUNE 1, 1891, CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING FUNDS. ■ . ■ ■ ■ " ■ . Congressional Interest .. : ® Congressional Principal ' Common School Principal...... 458 Special School Fund.. : r ' ‘ Road Fund ® ;; ogruna j:::;.:::::::.::::::::;::::: tuition -v , 421 ■ Lapd Redemption * ‘ County Revenue 12818 28 Estray Fund Special Additional.... Rond Additional M ” Total Balance in Treasury June 1,1891 $ 2( > 050 61 Less Amount of Ditch Fnnd Overdrawn 36 00 Less Amount of Tax Levy Overdrawn... 11 58 Less Amount of Common School Interest Overdrawn....... 143 97 Leaves true amount In Treasury, June 1, 1891 $ 25866 06 _ ITEMIZED LIST OF COUNTY ORDERS IN THE AUDITOR’S OFFICE UN- - . FOR AND PAYABLE OUT OF COUNTY REVENUE. Elections 1650 Clreuit Court.. 800 Roads and Bridges -• 1828 / Ditch :■•••• : 600 Insanity!!.: 38 68 Books and Stationery i 00 Relief Poor - • • • Poor Farm ' ; 3 00 Total.. .... 117 80 • Respectfully Submitted • " GEORGE M. ROBINSON, Auditor Jasper County, IndianaExamined and approved m Open Court, this 10th day of June, 1861- « ... OLIVER P TABER, 1 Board of CommlsJAMES F. WATSON, -atoners for Jaaper PRESTON M. QUERBT. } County, Indiana.