Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN ■ . Thursday, Sept. 26th, 1895. lamjnnnvnnv thcrsda v bv PUBLISHXK AND PBOPBIBTOB. OFFICE In Republican building, ail •wrner of Washington and Weston streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 3tte Tear fl-50 Ax Months - 75 Tbree M0nth5.......r.... ••• St Official Paper of Jasper County.

Chairman Gowdy, of the republican central committee, announces that headquarters at Indianapolis will be opened October 1 and each member of the committee will be invited to attend a meeting for general consultation looking to the beat intereets ot the party about October 147

Sentenced for Life.

At Laporte last week Harry Gibson, placed on trial for the murder of Edward Keeling, his fellow-convict in the northern prison, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. At Gibson’s first trial he was sentenced to hang. He is 22 years of age. ~~7~ : State Conference of Charities. The annual meeting of the State conference of charities has been postponed one week. It will be held m Fort Wayne, October 22, 23 and. 24. The Eoatpr.nompnt was agreed upon «n account of the centennial celebralion which will take place in Fort Wayne October 15. Whole Family Die in a Year. The entire family of Chas. Krueger, of Michigan City, father, mother, anc - six children, are now buried side by side in Greenwood cemetery. The family was poisoned by eating diseased pork about a year ago. Deaths followed in succession. Helen, agec 6 years, who died last week, was the test member of the family to fall a victim.

A FREE RECIPE

For Hog 1 Cholera. The American Swineherd, one of |be leading and most reliable-papers devoted to the swine-raising interest, republishes, and ,in.peasam endorses the remedy for hog cholera given below, and which The Republican is requested to copy, by one of the leading swine-breeders of this county. And in view of the prevalence of hog cholera in this Vicinity it may be found of much benefit. We quote from the Swineherd.

I deem it my duty to give to the Sublic, free, my recipe for the cuie f what is termed hog cholera, says Dr. T. .7. Dodge of Hamilton, 11 !., in the Imca Homestead. I have used this remedy for 35 years, and raised bogs on my ranch in Nebraska and never lost a hog. I have experimented by placing one well hog with a lot of sick ones, and keeping it well by the use of this remedy. * * *.The prescription and directions are as follows: Arsenic, pound; cape aloes, pound; blue vitrol, £ of a pound; black antimony, 1 ounce. Grind and mix well the remedy before using. The following are the directions for using: l. Sick hogs in all cases to be from the well ones, and Maced in dry pens with only five mrge hogs or eight small ones in each pen. 2. Feed nothing but dry food, bat no water, only the slop containmg the remedy, until cured. $. When the hogs refuse to eat, tffirn them on their backs, and then, with a long-handled spoon put the wy medicine down their throats. 4. Dose for large hog. One teaaboonful three times a day for three {ays; then miss one day, and repeat ffiffitfunt until cured Shoats or pigs b the amount. #. As a preventive, one teaspoononce a week will keep your hogs iffi t * healthy condition to take on fat.

3 per cent Commission.

Austin Hollingsworth A Co. have k special fund to loan on real estate 7 per cent per annum with 8 per. sent Commission, in any sum. Why pay 5 per cent Commission to red •fepe insurance companies, when we •In close up a loan in 48 hours. There is no wagon on earth today built with better quality of material •Id proportion than the Studebaksr, you can see them for sale at C* A. Itoberts’ place of business on Cullen street.

A Suggested Re-formation of Our Township Boundaries.

Map No. 1, Townships as They Now Are. Map No. 2, Townships as They Ought To Be.

OUR IRREGULAR CIVIL TOWNSHIPS,

And A Suggestion For Rearrangement. Iu respect to its division into civil townships, Jasper county is about the most irregular in the atate. There are a few others nearly or quite as irregular, but not many, and the most of these are so cut up by large streams, that irregularity in the shapes and sizes of the civil townships is almost & necessity .And such irregularity was a necessity in the early days of Jasper countyv.- The oeunty was so cut up and divided by impassible swamps and morasses that any regularity in townships was impossible. But that is a condition of things that has now nearly passed away. The swamps are nearly all drained,

and those not already so, will be in a very few years, while roads have been opened and bridges conj stracted, to keep pace with the draining of the swamps. But the irregularity of the townships remains, though the causes which produced the irregularity have passed away. Such irregularity is objectionable and inconvenient in many ways. It makes people go long distances to vote and attend convention, and attend to other township and public matters. It divides farms into different townships unnecessarily, greatly adds to the labors of several of our coHnty officers, and greatly increase* the chances for making mistakes in transferring land, the payment of taxes <fcc. Beside* all this, such irregular townships, have an unsightly appearance on the map* large enough to *how them, and tend to accentuate in people’s minds the idea that Jasper is still a land of swamp* and morasses.

And the worst of the matter is that unless these irregular township lines are reformed and corrected while the oounty is still comparatively new, and tome region* still thinly settled, the chances are that they will never be corrected, at all, and their inconvenience will be transmitted to all future generations of Jasperites.

On this page we give two mape. One shows the county as it is now divided into townships, and the other shows it, as it ought to be divided. The correct principle iu forming civil townships is to make them conform to the .Congressional townships, as near as may

be. This is the plan followed in the majority of counties in this state, and still more so in most other states which like our own, have the government survey. It is the plan followed in the map here givem aa„a.-DXQLDoaed new division of the couuty. A few facts to call attention to the present irregularity of the townships: Union township is 56 and square miles in area, and includes parts of four congressional townships, and the whole of none. Its boundary has 6 sides and 6 angles. Jordan Sownship consists of 35 .sections. Its boundary has 13 sides and 13 angles. It includes parts of two congressional townships. Walker is sections in extent, and large as it is, does not contain all of any congressional township, but parts of two. It is only al2 sided figure. Gillam is the “Shoestring” township of the county. It is miles long but only 4 wide. Extends into three congressional townships, and has 35 whole sections and 6 fragments of sections. Its boundary consists of 12 lines, varying in length from 160 rods to 10J miles.

Barkley contains 56 whole sections, and 8 pieces of sections; and parts of 4 congressional township?. In number of boundary lines it is equalled only by Marion. The lines are 28 in number, and from 40 rods to 7 miles in length. Marion alone disputes with Barkley the honor of being the champion ragged-edge, saw-tooth, stair-step bounded township. It has 28 sides, and extends into 6 d ifferent congressional townships, in this last respect being without a rival. Its lineal extent north and south varies from 10 miles to a J mile; and east and west from, 9 miles to 2 miles.

These monstrous and illogical irregularites ought not to be peN puetated. And the only way to reform them, is to reform them radically. In this new division proposed, as shown in map No. 2, on this page, the townships would conform, as near as practicable, with the congressional townships. The principal exception being the 3 mile long and half mile wide strip out of township 29-7, saved from Newton and left in Marion, in order that Rensselaer might have elbow room, all in one township. In this proposed map,“while all the townships except Carpenter, Wheatfield and Kankakee are

more or less changed, still, in every case, the bulk of the present population of each of the existing townships, would still reside in the same towd ship. The division would ferm two new townships, making I# in all, which would not be too many for the territorial extent of our county. One of the proposed new •townships would consist of township 31-7, the other of 31-5. To locate these new townships, on th e map, one of them ig named “Bald Knob,” the other fHfford. The first -name is suggewkad by a natural phenomenon; a lasge and wery regular sand hill in-thsi region, which goes by the name of Bald Knob. This name is used merely to fill a gap, and no doubt, if ever the new township is made, some more satisfactory name can be found for it. As for the other new township, if it is ever formed, the name of “Gifford” should stand. In the borders of that township, the first actual start was made in Benjamin J. Gißerd’s great drainage enterprise, which is adding so enormously to the wealth and population of eur county. A neighboring newspaper suggested not long since, that Jasper county should erect a mon-

ument to Mr. Gifford’s memory when he dies. But here i» a chance to honor him men appropriately and more enduringly than by any monument; and we need not wait until he ie dead, before doffig either. Iu this present articles He not expect to exhaust the aWbfrwi. Mainly to show how awiwawltjr the county is now divide and how easily the awkwardness might be remedied. These maps show this better than any words. We shall recar to this sabqeoi eg&iM, from time to time, but is the mean time, it is to be hopdti Um people will take the master up

and make it a matter of disoosaien. The change seems to as vary Aa sir able, and though it will, til fltoi occasion some inconvenience, as what change, however advantageous does not? But m t&e e*4 we doubt not the advantagM would so far outweigh tkb veniences, that the latter not be worth considering, f A' 11

For whooping cough Chutifarlain’* cough Remedy is excellent By wtiffif it freely the disease is deprived ffif all dangerous consequences. TtotiS ffi ffie danger in giving the remedy ta babies, as it contain* nothing iriMneeffi. 25 and 50 cent bottle* for liffi tjr F. B. Meyers, Druggist

If you want a wagon box to sleigh ride in this winter, buy a btudebaker, they will keep the cold out. C. A. Roberts has them for sale.

Delicate of Fla or.

Refined and perfect in its effects is is Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, the sure oure for constipation, indigestion and sick headache. Try a sample bottle at F. B. Meyer’s. The biggest and best stock of fine buggies and carriages in the county, for sale by N. Warner & Sons. B. F. Ferguson will loan you all the money you want at 7 per cent and 3 per cent. Come call and see us before going elsewhere -----—I .. - -i.- =*■ ,For early Fall buyers: We are offering as an eye-opener for Fall trade, blankets, yarns, flannels, clothes, etcat especially low prices. Tt pays to buy early and thus secure advantage of good selection and this special cut.

Change in Livery Stable.

- The undersigned have bought and are now in control of the Cambe livery stable, west of the publio square. They solicit a share of the people’s patronage. Fine rigs furnished on short notice. Feeding and boardisg at reasonable rates. 3 mo. Pheqlet Bros. The loss of a few hogs amounts to more than the cost of protecting an entire herd by feeding Dr. Haas’ Hog Remedy. Don’t wait till losses have or are about to occur, but go now and get it from A. F. Long the Druggist .

“Care makes luck.” Farmers will always have good luck with their hogs if they feed Dr. Haas’ Hog Remedy, the only reliable medicine for swine. Thousands of testimonials from leading feeders and breeders. For sale by A. F. Long the Druggist.

Wells Hoosier Poultry Powder

A positive asd speedy cure for' Cholera, Gapes, Roop and all diseases of chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Is composed of the purest and best drugs obtainable and is the best egg producer known. The price of one fowl invested in this remedy will ward of disease from the whole flock. Price 25 cents. Sold by F. B. Meyer. If you have any furniture, that needs repairing, don’t forget that H. Y. Weaver will make it as good m new, 'at the old reliable stand in the Nowel’s Block. Come early and avoid the rusjh.

It is a feet that nearly all ratable popriet ry medicines were fir-tmed and thoroughly tested in practice by physicians ol more than usua ability and yet si mo physicians sneer at such, medicines. The re-isoa is pla niy s■< n by taking Brar t’s Ba sam for i lustra turn, known every wnete as reliable > nd sure to cure ever sort o jung trnubl-*, pxoept lest stages of eojisnmptiun Why is it not just as good for your < asa as a physician's per>cripti< n which u ight cos. thiee or four ticnoH ns much though no surtr to cure? Latge 25 and 50 cent bottles at Long & Co’s.

Important to Horseme

Moiris English Stable Liniment removes all hard or soft lumps, puffs, saddle or collar galls, scratches, rheumatism , barbed wire cuts, braises, sprains and deformities of every description 1 The most remarkable discovery of the nineteenth century, originated by a celebrated English veterinary surgeon; penetrates to the bone itself. Price 50 cents and SI.OO Sold by F. B. Meyer. Wf

It costs nothing to feed hogs whA Dr. Haas' Hog Remedy as it will return three times its cost in extra flesh produced and feed saved. Use it in time and avoid risk. Supplied by A. F. Long the Druggist Dr. I, B. Washburn treats rupture by the injection method. The originator of the method say* any rupture that a truss will hold up ean be cured by the above method. Special drives In boys’ school suits; we can and will save you money. Give ns a call. Fendio’s Fair. Buy your Fall Suit right at Fjcndw’s Fair.

If there is a man in Jasper County needing a wagon, call on C. A. Roberts, he has the World’s best, the Studebake*. Estey organs and pianos, and Estey A Camp organs asd pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. English Spavin Liniment remove* any Hard, Soft or Calloused Lump* and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring-bone, Stifles, Sprains, all Swollen Throats Cougs, eto. Save tM by use of one bottle. Warranted the moat wonderful Alemish Cure ever known. Sold by B. F. Long 4 Co.,Druggist, Rensselaer, nd. Deo. 1, H

FENDIG'S FAIR.

The Rensselaer Republican PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS. W.HARTSELL, M. D., HOMEOPATHIC lEToorsiclarL and. Svirgrooxv, UnBBXIAXB. jnmi "T! AWChronic Dl: eases a Specialty rri In Stockton-Williams Mock, opposite Com* House. s-Jan-84, Residence, Makeover Haul. rjR. I, B. WASHBURN, PHYSICIAN ahb SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Special attention given to the treatment es Diseases of tho Eye, Ear, Noee and Tbroat a*4 Oueassts of Women. Testseyee for glasses.

A. McCoy. T, J. McCoy. A.R. Hopkins, Cashier. Asst. CashUr, A.BlcCoy&Co’s.Bank BBKBBBLABB, IKDIAHA. THE OLDEST BANK IN JASPER COUNTT Established 1854. Transacts a general hanking business,Trayi notea and loans money on long or short time on personal or real estate security. Fair and liberal treatment is promised to all. Interest paid on time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and soldv —- YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED. Patrons baying valuable papers may depoMt them for safe keeping. Addison Parkison, Geo. K. Hollingsworth President. Vice. President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Coanl Stale Bank RENSSELAER, IND. Directors: Addison Parkison, James t. Randle, John M. Wasson, Geo. K. Hollingsworth f ad Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This Bank is prepared to transact a gener al Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A sham of your patronage is solicited. —~ SS“At the old stand of the CITIZENS’STATE BANK. Simon P. Thompson David a. Thompso* a ttornoy at law. notary JPabUa. rHOMPSON & BRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW Rensselaer, Ind. Practice in all tne courts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and — ———leasing lands. M. L. SFITLBU Collector and Abstractor Rensselaer Bank, (Located in Nowelt Building.) H. O. HARRIS. E. T. HARRIS President. Vice President, J. C. HARRIS, Cashier. Money loaned in sums to suit borrower. Exchange bought and sold on all banking potato Collection made and promptly remitted. Deposits received. Interests bearing eertlleaf of deposits issued.

Williamß. Austin. ambush. Horiw* OEO.. K. IIOLLIKOBVOKIH. instil, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rensselaer - - - - In©. WCffico leociid So«v of Leopold’* BhMffi corner an*. Van Hfnnretsen street Practice In all the courts, sud pnrcbaae, sea ard lease Ira' erirte. Atty’sforL. I*. A. A C. Kw. Co. B. I. * 8. Association and Keasae--1 aer Water, Liglit & Power Co. v - MARSHALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW , Practices In Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to nettU ment of Decedent’s Estates, Collections, Conveyances, Jnatioer Oases, Etc. Eto. Eto. Office Over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, - Indian* y-ORDEOAI F. CHILCOTH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to all business In the profession wlffi promptness and diipatob. Olloe In second story of the Maksever building. , 1b ‘ o - • OBIILEB E. MILL?. * ATTCBNET AT X.Jk.'Wr \ a Rensselaer, Indiana. Pensions, Collections and Real Estate. Abstracts carefully prepared. Titles Examined *•" Pans Loans negotiated at lowest rase* •ffise sg stairs ever Citbsas Bask. JAMBS W.DOUTHIT ATIORNBY AH LAW, Imnun, Indiana. Office over Laßne Bios., grocery. IT-il MISCELLANEOUS. JDU* A. BURNHAM, U. S- PENSIOiTaTTORNEY AND HIS TICE OFJfIE PEACE. Trurartr, Court How. *• ■** » J. Li Helmick, Notary Publio art Real Estate Ana Land* of all description* lor sale ffif j* MW. WJIIATFHLD,