Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — Page 5

The ■Rensselaer Republican ' - PROFESSIONAL CARPSPHYSICI4HS. HOMEOPATHIC IPliysiciam. and 3-u.rgreoaa., RBNSSKLAira. ..INDIANA ygg-: iironic, pjgßag”g a SDeeialt^^gdr Office East Washing-ton Street. B-Jan-34. Residence, Makeever House. pR. I. B. WASHEUFN : PHYSICIAN ahd SURGEON, t, Rensselaer, Indian*. Sped 1 ■■ ‘-ton+tow eiws to the treatment of S.senses ot-.tac.Eye, Ear>Nose aitd Throat and Disease of Women. Tests eves for glases,

Physician artd burgeon. MEDABYVJLLE - IJS DIANA. Calls prt writ] y attended. Office one door east of freight’s store. Residence Thorson property. BANKS. F. J.EFAi s, vu, fc'r.ie J F. Hardman, Resident. Csr.hter. As’fc Cashier CITIZENS’ STATEBAWK RENS3KI.AER IHD. (‘AFIXAL $3(^000. Surplus and oihlivihed profits SB6OOO. Jloes - sx£ji(£'<}- 1 j« king bnßinws.. Interest, allowed Tii .-;-T6c.?'i oepsWii-.- This Is the only Stale Bei-.k in Jasper Comity that is examined qrr iteriy by 'Auditor of State. Your businees ediicitcd. Collections will receive prompt attention. A. mcCov. T J.MeCov E. L. Hollingsworth, i res. Vice i res. Cashier. A.ffilcCoy&Co’s.Bank KENBBELAKK, INDIANA. Does a gfiieral hanking i loaned for short time at current rates. We makearsnecluity of XjO-AJ&TS, at the lowest rales unci on most favorable terms. EenßEofcerßank, (located in Noweis Building. H. O. HARRIS. E.T. HARRIS President Vice President, ,T.C. D ARIUS, Cashier. Money loaned in pm.iu to suit borrower, Exchange bought and sold on all banking points Collection made and promptly remitted. Deposits received. Interests bearing certificates of deposits issued. -

T.A WYF,RS. J^ALPE W. M.VItWIAU, ATIOBNEY AT LAW, Practices ir. Jaeper, Fre ton and adjoining countw. T/syeeiP.i attet-tion. pivcn to settle ment oJ ifecedent’s Ksiates, Collections, Conveyarceß, Justices’ Cases, Etc.. Etc Etc. 1 XfFce Over_Cli;ci go Bargain Store. Bensseii ev, - Indiana. SIMON P. THOMtaiSK, DAVID J. Thokpboh Attorney at Zat". .Notary PubUo, Thompson <?.•■ bro., ATTORNEYS AT LAW ' P.wi' '-9? Ilid. Practice 4n s.ll tnf com ,f s. We pay particular attc:” ’ i B.ites, "Selling and leasing lands. M. t. PEITUiSRGoUoctor and Abstractor JJORDEGAI F. CHILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Romselser, Ind. Attends to all b-.r/nenp. in t.be profession with promptoossand dispatch. Office in second . fi> "vol thoJi.-i cover building,. WILLIAW B. Ar9TIN. ABTHTB H. HOPKINS CEO.. K. iIOILINGSWOKTH. AUSTIN & CO. attorneys at law. Rensselaer - - - - - - • Indf tA'.w second flooi of Leopold’s Block" corner Vturißjijrten an Van Beneselaer stree Practice in aii die courts, and purchase, sell and ifhpe'»ai estate. Atty’sforL. N. A. & C. Pv.Co.lt. 1 * S. Afrociaticn and Rensse laer Water, Light & Power Co. QBARLEB E. MILLA AITCrUZY AT LAW Rensselaer, Indiana. Pensions. Collections and Real Estate. A bat i a eta carefully prepared, Titles Examined AS* Farm t noriß negotiated at lowest rates Office up stairs over Citizen* Bank.

J AMES. W. BOUTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rxnhbbla«a, - Indiana. NS'Otftco In Rensselaer Bank. X*r-48. ‘ MIBORT .I.ANWOTTB. JAMES A. BURNHAM, u: S PFf^SION - ATTORNEY AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. , Thoroughly equipped and abreact of the time. Expert in Pension matters. Olßoe with County Treasurer, Court House. Bept. let, lew. J. li. Ilclmick, Notary Pubic ants neal Estate Agent Lands of all descriptions for sale or ease. WHEATFIELD, IND. JOHN GRAVES, WHEATFIELD, INDIANA AUCTIONEER, Salce attended in any part of Jasper and adjoining counties, also Real Estate Agent and Justice of the Peace. Collections promptly attended to, Large amounts of farms and town property lor sale. Address WUArnxLB,IND

*ll the neighbors about our Great Inter-Ocean and New York Tribune Clubbing Offer.

Gravel Road Discussion.

THREE OF A KIND. Editor Republican : The ene mies of good roads, or at least some of them are resorting to personalities innuendoes and misrepresentations that should not characterize a fair discussion of the subject of good roads. They assume that whoever obtains the contract would have to use the stone t iken out of the river. Such is not the fact. The contractors may use gravel, crushed boulders, “nigger heads” or river rock. The roads near Wolcott, in White county, were made of crushed boulders. There is plenty of gravel that may.be procured cheaper than stone have yet been taken out of the river and placed upon our streets.

The insinuations against S. P. Thompson, Dr. Loughridge and J. W. Cowden are for a purpose—flaying upon the prejudices of those poeple who can be induced to believe Such stuff. The probabilities are that if the tax is voted, the gravel roads will be built long before a single load of stone w.ll be removed from the bed of the river, under any drainage contract. No doubt the drainage will be opposed by some one who will go into court and seek to prevent the work of draining the Iroquois marshes. The Waukarusa was the bug-a-bco last September. It is now too dead to skin easy. It is hoped that poor men, widows “worthy objects of charity” and even the inmates of the county asylum will have the good of the whole community at heart enough to turn out' March 2nd and work or vote for all of the proposed gravel roads. The poor men and laboring men of Rensselaer and Marion tp., are not fools. They know what is best for them and they ksow who their friends are now and have been in the past, and they will not turn their backs upon them. The only difference between this and any other appropriation of public funds is that in this a vote is taken.

There are bridges in this county that not half the people in Rensselaer, perhaps, not one in a hundred have ever seen or crossed, but they did not oppose the construction of the same. The L. N, A. & Cr Railway Co., is not opposing the building of the gravel roads and yet that company will pay a little more than one eighth of the taxes levied to build them. No one will have to pay a cent of the taxes before 1895. —„ Promoter.

Editor Republican. In your last issue appears an article purporting to be on ttie “Oravel Road Question,” but is wholly made up of low-flung personalities. I take it for granted that no one person could have put together such a mass of silly twaddle, and that it must have been the joint product of two heads, fairly bursting with pent up ideas, in a state of fermentation, the one head furnishing the mathematical details and the other those choice literary tid-bits. This double has discovered an immense mare ’s nest, with many large eggs. The first discovery is, that roads, ditches etc., are wholly philanthropic in their design, whereas, most of ua has been under the impression that such works were purely business enterprises. Of course those of us whose names are so conspicuously displayed in that article, will consider ourselves utterly annihilated by the array of arabic figures and sc —d of personal spite. The whole argument —if such childish gabble can be called argument—is based on the groundless assumption, that the contractors and builders of the proposed roads will be compelled to buy their material from the Iroquois Drainage Co., regardless of cost or convenience. Now every man of common sense knows that these contractors will get their material where it can be obtained at the least cost. These people should agree upon some plan of campaign, and not circulate so many contradictory stories in their crusade against the tide of ruin and distress which their imaginations -have conjured up, hs a result of a plain, simple and cheap method of obtaining long desired and much needed improvement. If the contractors find that crushed rock from the river bed will fully answer their purpose, it is hard for any reasonable person to understand why they should not have that privlege, or how to prevent them from exercising that right, or how any person can be injured thereby. Again the mathematician has figured in his imagination how certain . shrewd individuals, can and will j make a clean profit of 133,000 on material furnished to build tb&e roads, when the whole cost of the roads cannot exceed 139,630.74. This beats the world. Mr. Thompson and 1 will be greatly pleased if our lands are increased in value to the extent set forth in that article. I find that all the physicians in Rensselaer plead equally guilty with

me, in desiring*' and ' advocating better roads. In this, they are sup-ported-gint~eiidorsed by all the euterprising and public spirited business men of the town, and all the enlightened and progressive farmers in the country. J. H. Loughridge. Mr. Editor:— “Another Reader” spelled my name right four times in your paper last week in what he ealls a “Solid Gravel Road Discussion.” This reading and writing sprite who is ashamed of the name his mother gave him'can make figures which I was taught “wont lie” to lie so big that I have been surprised that any of my friends should believe their maker. For short I will Call him “John. ” I own 160 acres of land and

haul manure from town to help me raise crops. I want better roads so I can haul it any time of year. A portion of my land would be helped if there was a channel cut straightening and deepening the Iroquois river. I believe belter drainage and better roads would both be good for all who are situated as I am. There is George M. Robinson, Frances M. Parker, George W. Burk, William P. Baker, William R. Noweis, Luther Ponsler and other better and smarter men than I am with, lands situated much as mine are, that are not actively working for either the Gravel road or drainage. I have tried to study out why this “snake in the grass John” should mention me rather than these older settlers and wiser men. I read that the funds needed for a public ditch can not be used for any other purpose. The funds needed for a gravel road can not be diverted' either. Neither project can be made to cost more by reason of the other. It may be a little harder on us who expect to have to pay for both. I suppose this John”'wants wet lands and wet roads and. by hiding bis identity lie also shows he is a “wet dog.” The move for better lands can not hurt the move for better roads. The move for better roads is a wholly independent matter. Cheaper material may reduce the $39,000 estimate of gravel cost and if it does each of the 726 voters of whom I am one will share that financial bins-

sing. The soul of this cheap John is so shriveled . up however that he would reject an offered biessing if he believed any of his fellow men would he helped by the same providence. A lawyer and doctor are mentioned with me in John’s little sally of fine writing. I find the lawyer’s land over fourteen miles from the rock over which John would have you stumble. His land is also six miles from any part of the proposed gravel roads. Even the doctor’s land is less favorably situated than mine. In his diordered bump of mathematics this “John” makes for me a bonanza—a regular Ophir out of the gravel road.

What bothers me is if it is such a big thing for me and all of us stand alike those not in the swamp receiving a double portion of the golden shower. Why should not the whole 726 lay awake of nights and tear their shirts and tumble over each other m getting to the polls to vote for > the same. I look around and see men who love to get and save money, wiser men than me, acting as if what a late student in a law office calls a money making scheme was a mere myth. I wish the’ students in the high school would take this John did and see whether John got the right answer in any case.

As I understand him if I am assessed to remove the rock fifty dollars and procure myself also to be assessed one hundred dollars for a gravel road that this movement for a gravel road will in some “fiat” way not only pay both assessments but leave me 12320 in cash clear gain. I am simply a farmer and can’t see it. I suppose that you do not wish to be one “that maketh or believeth” as the bible tells us all the power of the gospel can not save such, for ‘He that maketh or believeth a lie shall be damned.’ ” Jas. W. Cowden. Feb. 26, 1894.

THIS IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. Editor Republican: Please allow me a short space on the gravel road question. This is a question which we should consider well before acting upon. I think one important point to be considered is the material out of which the road is to v be built So far as I .know the rock in the river bed is all the material in sight, which I presume is very good, but I think expensive. There are those that say there is plenty of gravel in the vicinity of the proposed roads. I have made inquiry of persons that I think ought to know about gravel in the neighborhood, and I don’t think there is a man in the town of Rensselaer that can bring a good load of gravel from aiiy known, gravel bed in four hours time. If the road is built in part or entire of gravel and it is not here, of courseit will have to be shipped. As a rule we have eight months in the year that our roads are preferable to Macadamized roads. There is ample time to do nearly all of tin

■ r* : *!"■ ■ ■ I heavy hauling in the" eight months* The farming community daring the ■bsdroad season etc engaged in pairing tlieir farms for spring work and do not need to use the roads much at this season,of the year. If the farmers will lay in a stock of groceries (Vc. before the roads get bad in the spring, it will not be necessary for them to go to town many times during bad roads, and the merchant will get about the same amount of money that he would get if the farmers came oftener. The proffesed roads will not bring more trade to town as they do not extend out far enough to bring trade from other points. As to the benefits to teams, I think you will - find more horses injured on hard roads than on dirt ones. Under the present circumstances I think if the township adopt and carry out a thorough system of tileing the roads and, where practical and necessary, sand them, the money so expended would be of more benefit than if used in a gravel road. As, to building the roads under the present circumstances, I would saylet every man consult his own pocket book. X.

Got the Same Things Here.

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i ~ - U 4:.“^ Imrs.cripps ' I 35: wrLL open A DRESS MAKING Establishment E March Ist, 1894, in Porter «fe Wishard’s DRESS MAKING t store, 2 doors west of McCoy’s Bank. AT : Sg-1 will dojdLkinds of Fashionable Dress-naak- -«* PORTEK * wishabd* ing for Ladies, Misses and Children. —■ i -~ , ggAlso ca ry a fine line of Children’s readyy- madeartsses. Call and sec the latest styles gr: of little girl’s dresses. FiiUJMdiiU MUMtoUMUIiiUMIIUS? 1 Nofice df Gi'avel Road Report and Election. T, Henry B. Murray Auditor of Jasper County, do hereby certify that aßeprrrt of Viewers was Jiled before the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, January 16th, 1864, reading as follows, to-wit: STATE OF INDIANA, ) o«. Oarnty of Jasper, j ' To the Board of Commissioners of said County: The undersigned viewers appointed by the Board to locate and view certain roads in Jasper County, Indiana, from the Marion township .line to and through the town of Rensselaer, report as follows:

IST LOCATION. COLLEGE ROAD. The Collie Road commences six hundred pud sixty (fifiO) feot north of the southwest corner gf.section eighteen (18) township twenty-eight (28) north of ranee six (C) west, and extends then—north along the Range Line to township twenty-nine (20) and thence in the center of Range Ltoe road to thocCDtortoe-of Washington .Street awl thence along said line to the bridge across its Iroquois River, in ail twenty-four thousand five hundred and ten (iM.riO) feet. £bS long ridge road. Commencing at tlio center of w.- ion thirty-one (si) in township thirty (30) north of range star (0) west in said ooiii;;j- of Jasper ;:jul -finds tiionce somh to the eenter line of Merritt street, thence east to tlre eerucr line of Ma'si ;rc<-r and thence south to the track of the IxMiisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway, in all twenty-two thousand six iiundreil and thirty-six (22,ftifi) feet. TIIR POOR FARM AND PLEASANT RIDGE ROAD. Commencing at the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section twenty-six (26) tow ship twenty-nine (29) north, range seven (7) west, and extends thence east to the center line of Van Rensselaer streetrin hens seiner, tadfema. thence along said line to the half section line fawning east and west in section thirty (30) in township twenty-nine (29) north of range six (6) weak, and thcDce east along said half section line to the east side of section twenty-five (25) townshto twenty-nine (29) north of range six (G) west. In all forty-one thousand and eighty-five (41,085) feta. WIDTH. We recommend that each of these roads be located to a width of sixty (60) feet. The road bed to he graded thirty (30) feet wide—fifteen (15) feet on each side of the center line, according to spec!tlcations and profile, attached to and made a part of this report. CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD BED. The road led shall be cleared and constructed of earth. No rise of grade to exceed four (4 feet per station. "• : —.— ; The Lateral ditches shall in all cuts lie at least one foot in depth, in fills two feet deep, and at least one loot wide on the bottom ”clth slope of oneb bank of one to one. Sewers and bridges with side drains to be located as in specifications so as to drain surfaaa water at all points front side ditches, according to specifications. MATERIAL. For sewers through the road bed best class sewer piiie to_ he used. The bridges to be made et capacity indicated in the specifications and gravel road to pay for same when costing less than seventy-five ($75) dollars, find seventy-five (i+6).dollars 'tF those costing more than that sum. ■*•■**“ ’ * For surfacing we have estimated all gravel, all broken stone, or part broken stone surfaced with gravel. COBT. . We have estimated that ail gravel fourteen inches in the center and ten inches at the side la equivalent to Macadam ten inches in the eenter and eight inches at the side, or six inches of broken stone at tlie bottom and gravel on top six inches in the center and two inches at the side; Gravel to be placed on the right side of the road bed.,four-feat from the outer edge of the grade, comiac toward tlie town of Rensselaer; to the,corporation line of said town, inside the certiorate limits of said town of Rcnsseiacr.the gravel to lie placed as directed by the Board of Trustees of salt town. We recommend that said stone or gravel shall he placed six inches below the upper surface of the grade or road bed. so that lower surface of gravel or stone will be six inehe3 below the upper surface of the dirt road bed.

COST OF COLLEGE BO AD. Graveling or Macadamizing. . ,$8169 90 -Township's share of culverts arid bridges 47C 00 Cuts and (ills to grade, with side ditches 2989 44 Draining of r0ad....-...;.-.:.-.. ■■.... 75 CO Clearing road way ITO TO Y- T0ta1........ . tnw 7 Being In all $2543.33 per mile. CO3T OF LONG RIDGE ROAD. Y ' f Graveling or Macadamizing §9054 00 Township’s share of culTerts and bridges las TO Cuts and (Ills to grade with side ditches 1434 04 Draining of road 60 00 Clearing road way Total. .. 777. siotissi Being in all $2503.88 per mile. I *2—: ; _ COST OF POOR FARM AND PLEASANT RIDGE ROAD. Graveling or Macadamizing §13095 00 Township's share of culverts and bridges 696 TO Cuts and fills to grade, with side ditches 2487 76 Draining of road ... 100 TO Clearing road way 125 TO Total »m» * Being in all $2138.42 per mile. The difference we make in graveling or macadamizing is based on our knowledge of when material can be had and what it will cost to place the same upon the road. Our estimate is based on good material either gravel or broken stone. If grave! Is used the larger particles should lie evenly laid in the bottom and the gravel should all be free from dirt, soB or quicksand. If macadam is used It should be so arranged that the larger broken stone shall he in the bottom and the smaller ones on the surface. If macadam be covered with gravel the macadam should be first placed and the gravel put *• top, to the depth indicated in the specifications. REMARKS. We file with tills our report a profile and s|«ciflcatlons for the use of bidders and auperintaaA ents to which reference- is had, for further information. Respectfully Submitted, DEXTER R. JONES. J. A. LAMBORN, JNO. E. ALTER, C.. E. NOTICE OF ELECTION. THEREFORE. Notice is now given, that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, at a. special session held on the 26i)i day of January. 1894, ordered that a special election be held oh FRIDAY, THE 2ND DAY OF MARCH, 1894, In <'acli voting precinct In the township of Marion. In said county, for the purpose of voting up—tlie iiueetion of the budding of said gravel roads, and that the polls thereat be kei* often acconfl—to law. ' >«- 'Witness my hand and the seal of said Board of Commissioners, January 29th. 18*4. HENRY B. Mb KRAY. Audlto ljftsper Coiint^,^

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