Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1898 — Page 2

The Republican. Vi - f H' OFFICIAL TAPER OF JASPER COUNTY V » ; ISSUED EVERY TUESDAY & FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—r» Republican building on corner of Washington and Weston Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Three Months 50 Tuesday, March 15, 1898.

To Jasper County Republicans.

Call For a Republican NominatingConvention. The Republican voters of Jasper County, will meet at their respective voting places or at places designated by the township chairmen, on Saturday the 19th day of March 1898. „ at two o’clock p m. And select delegates and alternates to the Republican County nominating convention to be held Monday, March 21, 1898. The basis of apportionment is one delegate for every fifteen votes cast for John Thayer Republican Elector at the general election held in 1896. And one for every fraction of fifteen of ten or over. The several precincts will be entitled to delegates as follows: — Hanging Grove Township 5 Gillam 7 Walker 7 Barkley twp. east, precinct 7 “ “ west “ 6 Marion twp. Ist precinct 11 “ 2nd “ 11 “ 3rd- “ 7 “ “ 4th “ 9 Jordan 4 Newton 5 Keener 10 Kankakee 4 Wheatfield 7 Carpenter, east 7 “ south 9 “ west 7 Milroy 2 Union north .... .5 Union south 5 Total number of delegates 135. The delegates so selected will meet at the court house in Rensselaer, Monday, March 21st 1898, at 1 o’clock p. m., and proceed to nominate candidates for the following county officers: County Clerk, “ Auditor, “ Treasurer, “ Sheriff, “ Coroner, “ Surveyor, “ Com missions for the First District, County Commissioner for the Second District. The Convention will also select delegates to the Republican State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis Indiana 1898. By order of the Republican Central Committee. C. W. Hanley, Cbm. J. F. Warren, Seo’y.

Judical Convention.

The Republican voters of the several precincts of Jasper County, will nt their precinct meetings on Saturday March 19, in addition to the other business of the meeting, select one delegate from each precinct to the Judloial Convention to be held in Goodland, Indiana, on April sth, 1898. The basis of representation is one delegate for each 100 votes cast for .John (1. Thayer, Republican Elector, at the general election in 189 b The delegates from the several precincts will be entitled to the following vote: Hanging Grove, .8; Gillam, 1.1; Walker, 1.1; Barkley East, l.;Bnrkley West, .9; Marion No. 1, 1.6; Marion No. 2, 1.6; Marion No. 3, I. Marion No. 4, 1.3; Jordan, .5; Newton, .7; Keener, 1.5; Kankakee, .7; Wheatficld, 1.1; Carpenter South 1.4: Carpenter East, 1.1; Carpenter West, 1.0; Milroy, .3; Union South, '7; Union North, .7; Total 20. Charles W. Hanley, Chairman, Rep. C. C. J. F. Warren, Secretary.

Precinct Meetings.

The Republicans of the First precinct of Marion Tp., will hold their primary meeting of Saturday, March 19th, in the oourt room in Odd Fellows’ building. E. A. Aldrich, Chairman, a * * The place of meeting for the 2nd precinct, for the above' primary, will be in the Sheriff's offioe, in the new court house J. W. Cowden, chairman.

“The aggregate bank clearings of 77 cities of the United States during the month just closed amounted to $5,534,432,676, an increase in February, 1897, of nearly T>l per cent, and, compared with 1892, the heaviest February on record, a gain of more than 6 per cent. The percentage of gain in February is the largest on record.” —Bradstreets’ March 5,1898-

It is a curipus fact that while farm products have been advancing, prices of articles which farmers must buy have in most cases decreased. Latest reports from New York markets show a marked reduction in prices of cotton goods, shoes, articles of iron and steel, coffee and many other articles of daily consumption, while in practically everything which the farmer produces there has been a marked increase.

The price of shoe leather does not seem to have advanced by reason of the duty which the Dingley law placed upon hides. It will be remembered that the opponents of that measure dolefully predicted a great advance in the price of shoes as a result of the tariff on hides, but they seem to have been wrong, as they usually are, when they attempt to discuss the tariff. A table published in Dun’s Review, of February 26, giving prices of boots and shoes at various dates from 1895 down to present time shows prices in 1898 on many lines of shoes and boots to be from five to ten per cent, below those of one year earlier under the Wilson law, which, admitted hides free of duty, and also shows that the February sales and shipments were the heaviest ever known in that month.

War is a deplorable thing, at all times, but a wßr now with Spain will have many recompensing features. It will avenge the great wrong done this country in the wrecking of the Maine, and with it, many minor insults and injuries. It will put an end to the barbarous war in Cuba and bring independence to those struggling people, thus putting an end to such wars there in future, for all time. The war will not be by any means the wholly one sided nffnir that it ought to be, considering the preponderance of the United States in wealth and population, nnd the hard fight that small and poverty stricken country will give us will teach this country the necessity of being better prepared for war hereafter. To “lick” a small and weak country now may save us from immeasurable loss and ineducable humiliation at the hands of some great and strong nation, hereafter. Lastly it will revive once more the spirit of patriotism in our people, and make a final end to the bitternoss and jealousy between the north and the south.

It seems that the “crime of ’93” instead of the “crime of ’73” that is responsible for the reduction in the prices of farm lands. That eminent statisician and student of finance, the Commissionerof Labor of New York State, has just, presented a report in which he says that the farmers of that State, while complaining bitterly nt the reduction in the prices of their lauds, stato that the reduction has occurred within the last five or six years, and amounts to from 50 to 75 per cent. The five or six years’ period reached back, it will be observed, to precisely the date at which the free-trade President and Congress were elected and began their work of the destruction of the protective tariff system of the Uuitea States, while if the reduction in the prices of lands were to be charged to the demonetization of silver, it would be necessary to, go much farther back than the date nt which these reductions of values are shown to have occurred.

Secretary Wilson abates none of his work in rendering practical assistance t 6 the farmers. The original appropriation, immediately following the war, made by Congress for the free distribution of seeds

provided for the purchase of new, rare and valuable seeds and plants, and this appropriation has been replenished year by year by each succeeding Congress. But the free distribution of seeds has come to be a distribution of seeds of every sort and value, and mostly through the hands of the Congressmen themselves. Required by Congress to distribute the seeds, Secretary Wilson has attempted to carry out as far as possible the letter and spirit of the original law in procuring rare and valuable seeds for distribution, and these with reference to the localities adapted to their growth. As is well known, his first attempt* proouripg the best European beet seed and distributing if throughout the country for experiment, was productive of excellent results, numerous beetsugar factories now being under construction in consequence. Last summer Hr. Wilson conceived the idea that valuable seeds and plants, unknown to American agriculturists, must exist in the far east, where men have cultivatad the soil for thousands of years and he at once arranged to send a scientist to investigate and purchase such species as would be likely to prove of value to America. The results of this is that three car loads of rare seeds and plants are now at the Department of Agriculture await* ing shipment to the various Government experiment stations and to practical American farmers. The Secretary believes that the Department has secured some yery promising grasses and plants which may prove of great benefit in our semiarid regions and in our system of crop rotation as practiced by our farmers.

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No. 74 carries passenger* tietwccn Monon nrt Lowell. No. 80 m 'kes no stop between Rensselaer amt •nd Englewood. .No 82 makes no stop between Rensselaer and Hammond. Train No. 5 lias a through coach for Indianapolis slid Cincinnati via Itoachdale arrives at Indianapolis 2:40 I*. M. Cincinnati 6 o'clock P M. >’<>. 6‘has through coach; returning, leaves Cincinnati 8:90A. M leaves Indianapolis 11:80 a . M. arrives at Rensselaer 3:30 P. M . daily. Enquire of agent about half rate excursions lo all points south, and for the new 1000 mile l.iler cliangcable mileage hooks, good on a dozen iat I roads. W. lI.BEAM, Agent

C.D. NOWEL’S i .; ' i j n l, Ac ®=Sale SI Continues! j -' ’ t »HE PUBLIC... j Know when they get a.good thing 3j evidenced by the crowds that flock | to this sale, a 9 -w ' ■ "3 - * ‘ Never Were Such Bargains Offered Before 1 - - - 1 In this city, . Thousands of dollars worth of goods have been sold and many thousands yet remain to | be sold at the same bargain pricey. Come before it is too late if you need anything in our line. The $ greatest bargains ever offered in SHOES - AND = BOOTS! * £ Every thing goes until the last article is sold. Come early. It is a pleasure to us to wait upon you if we don’t make anything on your purchase. You get full benefit of Wholesale Prices. 3 C. D. NOWELSI

v Public Sale! The undersigned will sell at his farm miles south from Wheatfield, in Walker Tp., Jasper County, Indiana on Thursday, March 17, ’9B. Beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: 7 head of pedigreed horses, Ethel Bud —Bay mare, foaled 1895, by Red Bud by Red Wilkes. First dam by Jay Wood (rec. 2.27); second dam Doc. McClaughlin; third dam Albert, sire of Honest George (rec. 2:14.) Dan —Dark bay, foaled 1896. Sired by Athemus. First dam by Dean Swift; second dam by Bay Chief. Willow WooD--Light bay, fouled 1896. Sired by Jay Wood (rec. 2:27.) First dam by St. Lawrence; second dam by Ann, dam of Nellie C (2:28|) Ed Mark —Black horse, foaled .1896, by Way Mark First dam by Altemus; second dam by Albert 3,266, sire of Honest George (2:U). Major —Bay gelding, foaled 18(>5, by Jay Hawk (2:29); he by Jay Wood (2:27). First dam by St. Lawrence; socond Bay Ann, dam of Nellie C 2:28^. Cap —Bay gelding, foaled 1895, by Jay Hawk 2:29; he by Jay Wood 2:27. First dam by Dean Swift; se gnd dam by Bay Qhief. This pair, Cap and Major, are good travelers and well broke. Queen Wattles —foaled 1892, by Albert 2366, dam Molly by St. Lawrence, gd. Bay Ann (dam -Nellie C 2:29|) pedigree not traced (see Bay Ann.) Bred by Jerome Wattles, Fowler, Ind. This stock was all bred and raised on the Willow Spring farm, 4 miles south of Fowler. J. B. Wattles, Prop. Four work horses, 4 brood sows, 3 shouts, 1 spring wagon, 1 top buggy-, 1 lumber wagon, 1 walking plow, 1 Bradly garden plow, 1 set new single harness, household goods, furniture, etc. Terms of sale. 10 months credit will be given on sums over $5, on approved security, without interest if paid when due, if uot paid when due, 8 per cent, from date. 8 per cent, discount for cash on sums oyer $5. Sums of $5 and un&frfcasii. Property not to be feinoved until terms of the sale are complied with. , J. G. Dodd. John Greve, Auctioneer,. Lunch served by Geo. Anderson.

Wanted: 100,000 HU. COHN, 50,000 BU. OATS. * <*" Will pay more than others can afford to get your grain. We have the best elevsto; in Indiana to handle Grain cheaply. t * * New Fairbanks Scales, A Level Driveway, Platform Lock Dumps. Horses Can’t Fall Through, Storage FreeHave marked prices up and propose to keep them there. Don’t Sell Until You See Us. -r- f npn & Brady

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