Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN ■j r , ■ - {Thursday, August 29,1895. ' ISSUED BVKBY THURSDAY BY GKESO. E. a Publishes and Pbopbietob. ■■■■; ■ -r " OFFICE-—-la Repnblteas building, on Cjruer or Washington aid Weston streets. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION, One Year $1.50 Six Months 78 Three Months; 7. ... 80 Official Paper oj Jasper County.

George William Curtis, foimerly editor of Harper’s Weekly, once said. “I shall not repeat to you the splendid story of the Republican party—a story that we never tired of telling, that our children will never tire of hearing; a story which is written upon the hearts of all American citizens because it recounts greater service for liberty, for the country, for mankind, than any other party in any other nation and at any other period of time. What is the secret of this unparalleled history? It is simply that the Republican party has been always the party of the best instincts, of the highest desire of the American people. This is its special glory. It has represented the American instinct of nationality, American patriotism and Christian devotion to liberty.”

Next Monday the township trustees will elect a County Superintendent, to succeed J. F. Warren. The election of a County Superintendent is a great and heavy responsibility laid upon the trustees. This office is peculiar and distinct from all other county offices in the fact that its value to the people depends entirely upon the personal attributes and qualifications of the man who fills it. The good a good superintendent can do can hardly be overestimated. The' damage a poor one can do, is equally as hard to calculate. It is an office in the filling of which personal preferences and prejudices should be forgotten, and in which the desire to oblige a friend or acquaintance cut no flgure.

Rochester Water Works.

Mr. E. L. Clark spest a few days is Rochester last week, and has prepared the following brief description of the water works system in operation there. In the Spring cf 1894 the town of %>chesttr contacted for Water Works which have been in operation now about one year. The town requires probably about Vie same as would Rensselaer, being Acre populua but less in extent of territory. A general description of the Rochester plant is as follows: Two engines which can be operated Singly or together, as required, with •K* c, -7 for pumping million Jtllons evejy 24 hours.

A ?>ipt 125 feot high, 19 feel Eicter; 1050 feet 12 mch mains, feet 10 inch uuins, 3275 teet 8 mains, 27,300 feet 6 inch mains 4850 feet 4 inch mains, the last firing used only to make a circuit for M® circulation of the water. 80 —4 street hydrants on 6 inch mains. The entire cost was $32,731.35. As there has been an advance in price of all iron it estimated by competent parties there that 20 per cent should ■* added to the then cost for such a jßknt now erected, which would Make the cost now $39,277.62The charges tb private parties are MRp cost of taps and other expenses placing where wanted amounting te an average of about sls each, inolnding necessary hose, and a rental of from $4 to $5 for the season for lawns, and $2 per year for bath room. Parties renting are entitled to use the Mftter six hours out of every twentyfour. These rentals amount now to about SBOO per year, which covers all mianihg vxp^uscs. In case of fire the plant is so arnttged that, direct pressure from the tefcine is turned od thus giving •Aster pressure.

3 per cent Commission.

Austin Hollingsworth A Co. have a epecial fund to loan on real estate e| T per cent per annum with 8 per oKit Commission, in any sum. Why way 5 per oent Commission to red j tape insurance companies, when we oan cloee up a loan in 48 hoars.

EARLY HISTORY OF JASPER COUNTY.

Address of S. P, Thompson, At Fountain Park - Assembly, Aug. 22, 1895. My Friends; —In the names of our County and its Townships, the brave soldiers who made and saved our country are remembered. The no less heroic pioneer settlers prior to 1840 are also thus honored. While but three of our precincts are named from natural phenomena. On June 28, 1776, in a little Palmetto fort stood the fearless and faultless Major Fran r cis Marion and four hundred champions of freedom, including Sergeant William Jasper and his comrade and friend Corporal Newton. The British army and navy, numbering ten times that little band of defenders, commenced an attack on the little fort. By and by a cannon ball cut the staff of the Fort's Crescent Blue Flag with the word “Liberty” ’emblazoned upon it, and the banner fell without the walls. Jasper said “Colonel Moultrie we cannot fight without a flag,” and at once sprang through the embrasure, seized and nailed the white and blue liberty flag to the battlements. The enemy was defeated.

In order of rank stood Marion, Jasper and Newton; and our State legislature called three important Hoosier Counties by these sacred names, taking rank in the same Order as these true brave men. Q In naming our Townships we still preserve the names of Marion and Newton side by side, according to the rank and standing of those heroes of 1776. of 1832r*fr Logansport opened the north west portion of the State for civilized settlement The brave pioneers at once commenced blazing their way, traveUing with oxen, enduring hunger, wet and cold; and six of our Townships are named in memory of these early, hardy, sturdy, honest first settlers, among the Indians still on the Pottawatamie reservation and duriug the Black Hawk trouble when most o; the tribes had on their war paint. John Gillam was a pioneer Methodist, and in Gillam Township most of the citizens are stil “Methodist bred and Methodist born.” Henry Barkley came into the forks settlement and erected his cabin on what is now “Wal S treet,’ ~ and- -Rarkley Township long stood second in J asper’s family of local Governments. Landie B Walker chose the country of the “Rand Lappers” as an advance post, and that Township is at least the not the best in the county. Jacob Keener on the road to lowa was side-tracked by Lemuel W. Hiukle and he perched on a sand hill in the county where he still lives, but in slater changes of times he no longer resides in his own, Keener, Township. John Jordan was the pioneer who shared with his forerunner Carpenter, the honor of naming two Townships. Carpenter’s grave is near this beautiful Fountain 'Park, the first white man’s grave in the county. In the late war for the preservation of the country, the subject and the actor are remember in Union and Milroy. Morris, the Surveyor, noticed Indian coffins hanging in the trees and that the trees, themselves, where John Phillips afterward settled, leaned or hung down toward the wa*er on the north and east, and the name of Hanging Grove thus originated.

The river forming thte northern boundary, with the wild rice on the level swamps south of the same, appearing at a distance like a grain field gave rise to the other two names Wheatfield and Kankakee.

Owning to the burning of our Court House Jan’y 18,' 1865, the early recorded facts connected with the history of this county are not to be found: of record. Talking with some of my old friends remaining as land marks of early days, and reading the Fourth of July oration of Benjamin Hinkle, delivered in 1851, who was a member of the legislature of 1834 and 1835 when the county was christened, and was on the committee to divide the cession of the Pottawotamies at the Logansport Conference of 1832, and assisted to set off all of what is now Benton, and the south part of what is now Newtoajand Jasper as. the original legislative State of Jasper.

I am able to recollect pretty clearly the events prior to 1840 for a Buckeye transplanted ia 1862. The Territory extending north of Township Twenty Bight and west of Range Four, thirty miles, was then enacted as Newton but was attached in a sense to Jasper, as the subaltern Newton was to

his Superior Jasper in the war for independence. In 1886 Porter County captured all north of the River in Ranges Five and Six; and in 1837, to Lake was attached ail the residue north of the Kankakee . In 1838 Jasper, shorn of so much territory attempted to organize, and the Legislature in 1839 consolidated the two counties blotting Newton from the list of counties, but directed the County Seat to be called by the name Newton.—-—-———-- .

The first Court of the County as thus constituted was held in ! Parish Grove at the house of ilobert Alexander, afterward the property Parnham Boswell, in the 'ad of 1838. In January, 1839, ;he County Commissioners, Amos White, Joseph Smith and Fred Kenover adopted the house of George W- Spitler, the Clerk, as Court House conditioned that the citizens of Pine Township would agree to the order, which they did iy a vote of 16 to 8. And thus George Spitler’s house became the regular capital of a territory as arge as Rhode Island, for about a year. It stood near what is now mown as Brook. In March 1840, Wesley Hewett, the son of an old settler, was admitted as the first student to attend Bloomington College. Our County Seat was removed to the town of Newton, now Rensselaer, provided for in the consolidation. Thus the County of Newton was for twenty years blotted from the map, and was asleep in Jasper until resurrected in 1854. Soon after the south portion of Jasper seceded, and took the Democratic name of “Benton,” and in the Whig convention of 1840, to nominate Henry S. Lane for Congress, for the first and Jast of all political ■conventions, Benton had no delegate present to respond. For nearly fifty-five years if Benton has been at all backward in coming to the front in politics, history has failed to note the fact. The total number of persons assessed in the territory of what is now Jasper, Newton and Benton in 1840 was 138, and the total of taxable property $20,340. More than twice that number of persons are each one assessed more than the three counties were then. The first Judge of the Circuit Court Isaac N. Taylor, the prosecuting attorney was Joseph A. Wright, afterwards Congressman, Governor and German Minister. The chief member of the bar was the eloquent Rufus A. Lockwood. The court room was sixteen feet square, where at night slept Court, Lawyers and Jurors. The first case on the docket was Hepsy Montgomery vs Ed Born. When Benton left us, South America was added from White as Jasper’s only annexation. After this the Jasper Circuit Court first tried to assemble in an old deserted cabin in Rensselaer, but the bed bugs having full possession compelled the court to beat a hasty retreat to a blacksmith shop. The court found no writ of ejection could be served so the big bugs had to give way to the little bugs. The first dower set off was to the widow of Benjamin Lewis. The first letters of administration were issued on the estate of John Wolf. The first marriage license was to James Lacy and Matilda Blue. The first death after 1840 was Mrs. Sly, of Iroquois Township. Our first Physician at Rensselaer was Joshua Clark in 1837. The first sermon was by Rev. Enoch Wood at Dr. Clark’s house just north of Weston’s Cemetery, in Rensselaer. The first divorce was Louisa Barr vs Andrew Barr. The first school in what is now Jasper was taught by Mr. Webster in a cabin near the

now residence of Granville Moody, in Barkley Township. The first in the Blue Grass by Elizabeth Price and at Rensselaer by George W. Spitler. The town of Newton was changed to Rensselaer in 1841 on a petition circulated by James Vanßenaselaer and Henry Weston, who had a preferred entry and floated Joseph Yeoman off his farm at the falls of the Iroquois to a neighboring site some five miles away.

These preferred entries enabled the holders to jump improved claims and take the crops of the earlier possessors, but the equities were strongly in favor ©f the bone fide pioneer settler. That reliable and truthful gentleman, Simon Phillips, says that even the c.Stile for miles aronnd would take the equity side and eat up all the corn for those whe tried to harvest without planting. I reluctantly pass! by Jasper’s children, the early pioneers of Benton and Newton before and after the formers secession in 1840 and the latters, in 1850, and keep within the confines of the modern state of Jasper

The first regular Fourth of July celebration at Rensselaer was in 1843, and was managed fry mother of M. L, Spitler. It consisted of a two story “Quilting,” the old women down stairs, the young women up stairs while the men were engaged in out door activities. The reading of the Declaration of Independence and a sermon from that staunch and eloquent disciple preacher, Milton B. Hopkins, afterwards State Superintendent of Public Instruction, were the literary exercises. This sermon was preached under an oak tree near what tvas afterwards called the Bank Corner, in Rensselaer, Indiana. - ~ rconeinded next wettk-l -——j

MIST MICE. STATE OF INDIANA,I CJ Q J asper County. (DO In the Jasper Circuit Court, October term, 1888. Leonidas Ritchey, etal. ) ts. V James Fierce, etal j Be It remembered, that on this 27tb day of August. 1895, the above named Plaintiffs by Thompson & Bro., their attorneys, filed with the clerk of said court their complaint against *ald defendants, and also an affidavit of a competent person that the following named defendants, to-wit: Richard C. Pierce and Mrs. Fierce wile of said Richard C. Fierce; Jacob T. Pierce and* Mrs. Pierce wife of said JacobT. Pierce; Dorcua A. Pierce widow of George W. Pierce,deceased: George Pierce and Mrs. Pierce wife of said George Pierce; George M. Pierce aad Mrs. i Pierce wife of said George M. Pleroe and Lydia Pierce are non-residents of State of the Indiana. Said non-resident defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said su(t, and that said cause win stand for trial at the October term of said Court, 1896, to-wit, on the 91st day of October. 1896. Witness my hand and the seal of /owsrVhls Court, on this the 27th day of 1J August, 1896. WM. H. OOOVEB, Clerk. Thompson & Bro„ Attys. Aug-29-Sep-6-H.

County Enumeration. Notice is hereby given that the Town©*lp Trustees of the several townships of Jasper county, State of Ibdlana, have made their re- ’ turns of. the enumeration of white and colored male Inhabitants, over twenty-one ye*rs of age, as follows: Towwsinr mo. whits No. oqlonrp. | Hanging Orovo 138 Ull lam IBS Walker MS Hark ley 389 Marlon 857 a -J Jordan an Sewton m eener 188 Kankakee 118 Wheatfield 178 Carpenter CO6 4 MU™* 8< . 4 Ualoa ITS Total 8444" r Grand Total B*6B The above lists are now on file at tbs sl« of the Auditor of Jasper county, at the court •house In Rensselaer, Indiana, and subject to the Inspection and correction of the pubUe. Hihbt Jf. Murray, Auditor Jasper Oounty.

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HINT BETHE STATE OF INDIANA I oa Jasper County. j *SS. In the Jasper Circuit Court, October Term, 1895. Benjamin J. Gifford, ) vs. \ Complaint No 49M ***** V- Caldwell, et atr~r~ X«Mr comes the plaintiff, by Thompson & Bro., his attorney, and tile his complaint herein, together with an affidav* that the defendants, Chester M. Weber, Mrs. Weber wife of said Chester M. Weber and Mrs. Weber widow of said Chester M. Weber, and all of the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees and all of the unknwn heirs, devisees and legatees, of the un,l nm heirs, devisees and legatees of the said fXiosier M. Weber and Mrs, Weber his wife, and Mrs. Weber widow of said Chester M. Weber. Also William R. Caldwell and Mrs. Caldwell his wife are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court To he liolden on the Third Monday of October, A. D. 1895, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and State and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. In witness whereof,, I hereunto set f su- »rT\my hand and affix the seal of said ! “rTV JCourt, at Rensselaer, this 27th day of August, A. D. 1895. | , WM. H. COOVER, Clerk Thompson & Bro., Atty. , Aug-29-Sep-5-l?-

Q, A. K. Encampment Rates. r Fax the Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Louisville, Sep. 11th to 14th, 1895. Tickets will be sold Sep. Bth to 11th incluairs, good to return up to and including Oct. sth, at $4.40 for the round trip. W. H. Beam, Agt. WaterWorksElection Notice. a Notlae Is hereby given to the qualified voters Of ttugTown of Rensselaer, Indiana, that purauxulM an order of She Board of Trustees of said towßof the 22nd day of July 1896, an election will he held at the usual voting places thereof between 6 a. m. and 6 r. m. on the 3rd day of September, 1895, for the purpose of determining whether said town shall construct water works in accordance v© the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, entitled "An act to authorize cities and Incorporated tows to construct, maintain and operate water worlds, Issue a*d sell bonds to pay for said construction repealing all laws In conflict therewith” and declaring an emergency, approved March 96th, f Oharlms M. Bi.uh Clerk of the Town Of Rensselaer. ' Tm different m&keeof Sewing ma chines, At Steward's. Threshing coal for sale by C. W. Coen. Ferguson A Wilson will attend to your legal business with accuracy and dispatch. Attention giren te any and all kinds of legal business, Ferguson A Ferguson A Wilson will praotioa in all the oourts of the state.

Find Ferguson & Wilson when you have business in the couits. If you have any furniture tint needs repairing, don’t forget that H. V. Weaver will make it as good as new, at the old reliable stand in the Nowel’s Block. Come early and avoid the rush. The biggest and best stock of fine buggies and carriages in the county, for sale by N. Warner & Sons. Best materials, fine dental woilc painless methods, at Dr. Horton’s over the Post Office. Call and seek ——2tp,

HR MICE. STATIC OF INDIANA, f Qtl . Jasper County. j In the Jasper Circuit Court, October Term 1895. The Fidelity Building and ' Savings Union complaint No. James C. McOolly et al. How comes the plaintiff, by Mordeoal F. cote its attorney, and flies Its complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants Frank Swanson, trustee for Charles WidonhoML Charles Wldenhold, G. H. Gray, J. B. TuthUL and M. L. Woods, doing business under the Arm name and style of Gray, Tuthlll & Co., are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice Is therefore hereby given said defan. dants, that unless they be and appear on the An* day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to beholden, on the Third Monday ofOctobes-, A. D. 1896, at the Court House In Rensselaer, if said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heardnndd*. termtned In their absonce. In Witness Whereof, I hereunto aal fmm twiNmv hand and affix the Seal of Bald Court, at Rensselaer, this Slit dar August, A. D, 1895. WM.H.OOOVBB, . Clerk. M. F. Chllcote, Pit’s Atty. Aug-Sep-6-12,

Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. In the matter of the estate of) Zacharlas Miller > Deceased, r In the Jasper Circuit Oomrt, Octshsr lent, Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned, as Administrator Of the estate of Kachartas Miller deceased, has presented; and filed hia account and vouchers In final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 2tst day of October, 1888, at which time all persons interested la said estate are required to appear In saidDoart and show cause, if any there be why said account and vouchers should not be approved And the heirs of said estate, and aU ottwas Interested therein, are also hereby reqnlreA at the time and place aforesaid, to appear ana make proof of their heirship es otalm to ©ny part of salt estate. , . William M. MKABB. B. W. Marshall, Atty for Admr.