Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XX.

ir!ii:itl!l;Hll7i CMeap, Indianapolis & Ldnisrille Rwy I RENSSELAER TIME-TABLE Corrected to May 15 1898. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Fast Mall (don’t stop) 4:4« A. M. No. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mail, Daily 10:56 A.M. No. 33 Indianapolis Mall (daily)... 1:45 P. M. No. 39—Milk accomra,. Daily 6:15 P. M. No. B—Louisville8 —Louisville Express, Daily ..11:12 P. M. •No. 45 I/Ocal Freight 1: 2:40 P.M. NORTH BOUND No. 4—Mail (daily) 4:30 A.M. No, 40— Milk accomm.. Daily 7:31A.M. No. 32—Fast Mali (dp.ily) 9:55 A. M. • No. 30—C!n. to Chicago Ves. mall.. 6:32 P.M. +No. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 P. M. No, 6—Mali and Express, Dally. . 3:27 P. M. •No. 4h—laical fereiKht . 9:30 A. Al. No. 74 —FreipUt (daily) 7:52 P.M. •Dally except Sunday, t Sunday only. . W. H.BISAM, A-rent

DißEcr COUNTY OFFICERS. (ilerk. Wm. H. Coovkr Sheriff....’ Nate J. Heed Auditor Henry B. Murray Treasurer JuasK C. Gwin Recorder Robert B. Pouter Surveyor John E. Ai.ter Coroner Tkuiit P.Wuioiit Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips ( Ist Dlst ABRAHAM IIALLKUK Comm’rs! 2nd Dlst John Martindalk I 3rd Dist Frederic Wa ymire Conarnisclone*’®' < y»iirt First Mondays in March, June. September and December. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal /. Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Starr Atteri ey 0. E. Mills Civil Engineer H. a . Gamble. Fire C-*ef Euoaa .’. r.w • ..a r.o» i M. B. ALTER Ist Ward., j f. B. Meyer Couucilmen < 2nd Ward. | , "\o. g^Suitlkk [3rd Ward . J j. R. Right JUDICIAL. circuit judife Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting Attorney albert E. Chizum Terms of Court— First Monday In January; Third Vnndev In March; First Mondav In June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUBTEKB. TOWNSHIPS. Roberts. Drake Hanging Grove A. Prevo -GlUam John F. Petm Walker Samuel It. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed . Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton 0. C. Blerma ...Keener J.O. Kauuke ■ .’J» Albert S. Keene Wheattleld John A. Lamborn Carpenter George W. Castor Milroy B. D. Comer : Union TOWN or CITY. A. Beasley Remington Delos Thompson 5^? ss S! a ?I Edward T. Biggs Wheattleld Louis H. Hamilton. Co. SuDt Rensselaer CHURCHES. FIRST BAPTIST— Preaching every two weeks at 10:45a. m. and 7p. in.; Sunday school at 9-30 r B. Y. P. 11, Op. in. Sunday; prayer meeting 7p. m. Rev. V.. 0. Fritts, pastor. FREE BAPTIST—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6:30 P.M. Rev. D. A. Tucker, piaster. CHRISTIAN—Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. C. K.,2:30; S. Y, P. S. O. E., 6:36; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. H. N, Shepherd, pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. PRESBYTERIAN—Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school "0-30; Y. P.C. C. E.. 6:80; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladles’ Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. 0. D. Jeffries, Pastor. METHODIST E.—Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2;3u alternate Sunday; Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Rev. H M. Middleton, Pastor. Ladies 1 Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment *** CHURCH OF GOD—Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30; Ladies’Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by ai>poiutmeut. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. *** CATHOLIC CHURCH—St. Augustine’s. Cor ner Division and Susan Services 7:30 and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:30 p. m. Kev. Edward Jacobs, pastor.

LODGES. MASONIC— l’ratrie LoUne, No. 12<>. A. F.aml A. M. .meets llrst and third Mondays of each month. H. L. Brown, W. M.; W. .1. linos, Sec’y. Evening Star < halter. No HI. O. K. S . moots moots lirst and third Wednesday «>t oarh month. Mrs. C. W Hanley, W. M.; Iliittle Dowler, Sec'v. *** ’JATUOI.IO OHDKK FORESTERS—WiIIard Court, No. 41*, moots every first and third Sunday of the month at Ip. in. J. M. llvaly Sec’y; E. P. Honan, Chief Hanger. #** ODD FELLOWS—lroquois Lodge. No. 144. I. O O. F., meets every Thursday. Bruce White, N. 0.; S. C. Irwin. Sec’v. Rensselaer Encampment, No. SOI. I. 0.0. K., meets second and fourth Fridays of each mouth. 8. 0. Irwin, C. P., John Vanuatta, scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree Ixxlge, No. 34f1, meets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Maude Hemphill, N. O.; Miss Laura Shields, Sec’y^ *** I. O. OK FORESTERS—court Jasper. No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. lleo.Ootr, C. D. H C K.; R. P. Johnson. K.; *** MACCABEES-'Rensselaer Tent, no. IIM. K. O. T. M. Meets Wetlnesday evening. C. E. Tyner. Commander; F. W. Clasel. Record Keeper. PYTHIAN-RKNSSKLaKR Lodge No. 8 2. Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday. 0. W. Hanley, C. C.; N. W. Reeve, K. of It. s. RENSSELAER TEMPLE. KathUme Slstcrs.No. 47. meets 2nd and 4ih Wetlnestlayy. every month. Mrs. G. E. Murray, m. K. C.. Mrs. <». A. Yeoman, M. of R. C. «** PATRIOTIC ORDERS. GRAND AHMY—Rensselaer Post No. 84 0. A R. meets every Krtdav night. D H. Yeoman Post Commander, j. M. Wasson,Adjutant. Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corps meets every Monday evening. Mrs Myrtle Clark President: Mrs. Ella Hopkins. Secy. *** HOLLY COUNCIL—No. 7, Daughters of Lite ■ erty. meets 2nd and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Xloss. Recording Secretary.

NO. 26.

“Professor” Boone the Hypnotist.

“Prof.” Boone the hypnotist, gave his performance at the opera house last night, to a large audience. In the afternoon he made his blind-fold drive through the streets and successfully found a key cunningly secreted in the waterworks building, and in connection with the same feat, and still blind-folded found an unknown lock box in the post office, took from it a letter addressed to a business man, John Eger, and went and delivered ttie letter, and wrote Mr. Eger’s name, all, of course while heavily hood winked. These feats were in all respects like he did here a year before, and r•* * • » bct'iu itui cubugu Cu»\jb ui iXiiiithreading or “telepathy.” Previous to taking the carriage ride the “Prof.” gave a loug harangue in the streets in regard to his coming evening performance, and in which, by the way, he promised considerable that lie afterwards forgot to perform. Such, for instance, as imitating the Brahmin feat of making a mango tree grow from a seed, on the stage, and t>p <r .tod ripen fruit, and the other Hindoo hocus-pocus of sending a man up a rope and out of sight iu the air. The performance iu rue evening at the opera house included the usual absurd acts of a number of hypnotized kids, and, of their kind, gave several more very good specimens of mind-reading feats, such as finding a pin stuck in one wing of the stage and taking it and placing it in a previously made pin-hole in the opposite side. Also a very life-like representation of that cheerful spectacle, the beheading of Pearl Bryan; which would be a great deal better left out.

The poor devil Douglass was there again with a huge rock on the middle of his outstretched corpus and which rock Boone pounded hard with a sledge-ham-mer but could not break. In short it was a good enough hypnotic and telepathic performance, but at the best they are an uncanny, unwholesome and more or less disgusting style of entertainment, and no one should be sorry that they do not come oftener.

A County Re-union Association.

The preliminary steps were taken for a county soldiers’and sailors’ reunion association, at a meeting recently held in Remington, at which representatives were from the G. A. R. of Rensselaer and Remington. Officers were elected as follow’s:

E. M. Green, Pres ; D. H. Yeoman, V. P.; S. Stiller, Sec.; J. M. Wasson, ast. The presidents of the Kensseluer W. R. C. and the Remington W. R. C. were elected vice presidents of the organization. A vico president was also elected from each township in this county. A call is made for meeting of all the officers of the association December Uth at 2 p. m. Township vice presidents as follows: Jordan, Walter Morris; Milroy, C. McDonald; Hanging Grove, Elias Hamnierton; Gillam, Benj. R. Farris; Kankakee, Com Mannon; Walker, John O’Conor; Wheatfield, John Humes; Keener, J. M. Troxell; Newton, Win. D. Sayler; Barkley, John L. Nichols. Newton county has had such an organization in existence for several years, and with very satisfactory results, including a county soldiers’ reunion every year.

Cable Edge trimmed sailors 56, 62, and 87 cts at Mrs. Lecklider’s. House to rent. W. R. Cotton. Short back Cable Edge sailors 46 cts at Mrs. Lecklider's.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 , 'IB9B,

The council held its regular monthly meeting Monday night. The Minsterial Association asked that the cost of lights used during the late temperance revival be remitted, but the request, was rejected. A contract was made with the New York Belting & Packing Company for 600 feet of tiro hose, ut 80 cents per foot. The city treasurer reported balance on hand in the corporation fund ot in ihe road fund of $298.56. Five members of the fire company who did not hem the tiro alurm a few nights ago, hud their tines tor iatiure to attend the tire remitted.

Jake McDonald and x\. J. Knight, applied for membership in the fire company. Not having served the lull probationary period nor passed the physical, monte!, moral and spintuuL examination required by the new fire.ordinance, they were requested to tarry yet a while longer. The city engineer reported that ihe liuw rutmuiijg wall al cue east end of Wa; hington street bridge was completed, and at a cost of SB3 08. Of this amount the ad joining prupoxty owner, Mis. Matie Hopkins, pays $46. Claims amounting to $178.43 were allowed. On recommendation of the fire warden, the owner of the building just vacated by Fendig’s drug store, was ordered to repair the rear portion of the same. CouncilmanJVleyer made a talk in favor of garbage boxes at the business houses, with an ordinance compelling their use. No action was taken on the matter, at this time. , The street committee was directed to make thorough investigation of the cost and best methods of making brick streets. There is strong talk of paving the streets around at least three sides of the public square.

The ease of Frank Bulger, the shover of the queer, was to have come up Monday, in Judge Baker’s court, at Indianapolis. But Judge Reynolds, of Monticello, who was expected to defend him, did not appear, the case waited until Tuesday morning. No attorney then appearing. Bulger withdrew his plea of not guilty, and entered one of guilty instead. The prosecuting attorney represented to the judge that Bulger was, in all probability, only a tool of a much abler confederate, and the judge let him off with the very light punishment of six months in the work house.

It now developes that The Republican’s statement of last week, that Bulger had plead guilty, when his case first came up, wrs correct. But later some of his friends around Monticello claimed to have secured Judge Reynolds to defend him, and Bulger accordingly withdrew his first plea of guilty, and made that of not guilty; but the parties who claimed to have hired Reynolds, evidently did not put up the cash, and Bulger was left to make another change of plea. Tho witnesses from here were kept until the case was disposed of, Tuesday morning, and were then dismissed without having been called upon to testify. The case of Amick, of Idaville, Bulger's supposed confederate, was continued until next term.

No. 2 lamp Hues 5 cts at lider's. (Jo to Leckliderr* for cheap tini ware.

The City Council.

Bulger Got Off Easy.

Resolutions of The Teachers’ Association.

Your Committee on Resolutions beg to submit the following: 1. That the Trustee of each school corporation be required to purchnse from year to year a sufficient number of sets of the Y. P. R. C. books that all pupils in the school corporation can be accommodated. 2. That the Tp. Trustee be empowered to employ a special teacher in music, said teacher to have general supervision and direction of the work in music his in his Township. Provided that in the case of small Townships, two may be allowed to combine for the purpose of securing a music teacher. 3. That a law be enacted providing for the employment, of a Tp. Principal for each Tp, tho duty of said Principal to be the supervison of the work in liis Township. 4. That we favor the enactment iuio law of the provisions of the bill before the last legislature, known as Senate bill No. 59. otherwise'known as the Geeting Bill. 5. That such a law be enacted •'.e v,'ll s cure a freo library in every Township in Indiana; and that such modifications of our present State Library laws be made as will secure greater freedom in the use of the materials in our State Library. 6. That such amendments to our Compulsory Educational Law be made as will require: (a) The child to enter school at the beginning of the school year and continue in school the entire school year. (b) Attendance between the age of eight years and sixteen years old. Respectfully submitted by the committee on Resolutions. W. H. Sanders, Chairman of Cora. Nov. 26, 1898. Rensselaer, Ind

Assessor Can Inspect B. & L. Books.

According to a ruling of the Supreme court a few days ago a county assessor has the right to inspect the books of building and lean associations to learn whether all the stock therein has been properly listed for taxation, and to obtain a writ of mandamus to compel their production for that purpose. The Supreme court reversed the case of the state on relation of the county assessor of Monroe county against the Real Estate Building and Loan association, in which the lower court held that he had not. The Supremo court says that it is the policy of this state to subject all private property to taxution except such held for municipal, educational, literary, religious or charitable purposes as may be specially exempted by lnvv, and that the county assessors have authority and it is mude their duty, to search for; discover, list and assess all omitted property subject to taxation, and to compel the production of books and papers needed in conducting the search.

Farm Loans.

We are making a specialty of farm loans in Jasper and adjoining counties. Interest andcommission charges very reasonable. All loans made with privelgeof partial payments, by which borrower may save largely on interest. We guarantee prompt attention to every application placed with us. Hollingsworth & Hopkins.

Good eight room house, with stable, wood-shed, coal house, cistern Are., to rent. Suitable for large family. Choice location. Enquire atthis office. ' Good full and completeSiu£*_of trimmed hats at Mrs. Lecklider's. Prices cut in two. Please call and see her stock before buying elsewhere.

BLACKFORD.

Mr. Brook of DeMotte, is setting up and going to work at the blacksmith trade-at Blackford. The people of this neighborhood have been needing a good blacksmith for quite, a while. Elmer Sullenberger and wife have returned from Ohio where been visiting relatives. Ed Lakin is much improved and returned to school Monday morning at Parr. John Malatte and family returned from Illinois Tuesday where they have been visiting relatives for a week. Miss Grace Lakin attended the dance at Moonshine Thanksgiving night. Charley Fish husked corn for Jim ■Hurley last week. By the bad and inclement weather a great many arp not through husking corn yet.

FAIR OAKS.

Prepare for the holidays. Geo. Hurley did business in Rensselaer Monday. Born. Friday, Nov, 24, to Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Mallatt, an eight pound boy. Mrs. J. C. Gwin and son of Rensselaer visited her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mundon, over Sunday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Quorry, south of town, Saturday Nov 19, an eight pound son. Several of our * citizens spent Thanksgiving with friends and relatives out of town. John Kight visited his parents in Chicago several days last week. Miss Jennie Cottingham returned to Monon Tuesday after a two weeks’ visit with her parents. Rev, Pierson was unable to be present to preach the Thanksgiving sermon at the Christian church. Quite a number of sports from Chicago are hunting through the surrounding country and are meeting with good success, John Hicks, foreman of extra gang on the Monon, spent several days with his family at Spencer, Ind last week.

The weekly Christian Endeavor meetings at the Christian church are meeting with success. The oyster supper and danee given by John Carter, Thanksgiving night was well attended and everybody enjoyed ‘‘tripping the light fantastic’’ till about 3 a. m. The entertainment and oyster supper given by the Ladies of the M. E church Saturday evening, li’ov. 19, was well attended and a success financially the net proceeds being about sls,

NORTH BARKLEY.

Eva Meitzler and Orla llewitt did shopping in Rensselaer Monday. Will Collins made a flying trip to Watseka, 111., Sunday. Lewis Brown did business in Wheatfield Monday. Mrs. Charlie Caster who has been visiting in Lafayette for the past three weeks returned home Tuesday. Dan Reed of l’arr, visited his brother, Win. Reed u few days last week. Hurry Gifford did busiuess in Wheatfield Tuesday. Misses Helle Seitz and Zembla Funk attended the teachers institute in Rensselaer Friday and Saturday, Messrs Lease and Long moved from Ada, Ohio, to the Gifford Garden Tuesday and will raise onions and potatoes next year. George Lambert contemplates taking a trip to Arkansas in'the near future, we wish him luck. We for some cause forgot to announce the arrival of a new recruit at the home of Dave Black, mother and child are doing well.

REGULAR WEEKLY EDITION.

John Fanson and T. M. Callahan visited in Rensselaer Sunday. * The cold weather has stopped the shipment of onions, some are frozen so badly that they are a complete loss. There will be a box supper at Canada school house Saturday night. A prize will be given for the most popular young lady. All are cordially invited to attend. Boys bring a good fat pocket book for the baskets will go high.

The Boys Felt Good .

» Camp Onward, Savannah Ga. Nov. 28, 1898. To the ladies of the Women’s Relief Corp~ The Rensselaer boys who are members of Co. I, 101st Ind. Vob, heartily thunk the ladies of the Women’s Relief Corps for the well filled box of provisions which came to them on Thanksgiving Day. Everything was in good condition and if you had seen us vour the contents of that box j'ou would have thought we were in good eating,condition. , May we all be thankful that once more on the appointed Day we have been allowed to give thanks and partake of the good things of earth so bountifully set before us. And let us trust that before another year, we may all be permitted to meet aronnd our home festal board and give our thanks to our God. WALTeR C. Tharp. Frank Hawkins. Perrv H. Sorrell. Wilber Tharp.

A Word of Warning.

We most earnestly counsel our readers to look into all new schemes of cheap life insurance very carefully before they put any good money into them. “There is a moral to all human tales” as the poet says, and one of those morals is that all very cheap life insurance schemes no matter how promising or how flourishing they may seem at first, have to fail, sooner or later. Acompany which, for instance, offers to insure a man 30 years old at $lO per year, and to pay him $2400 when he is <ls, or nearly that amount if he dies in the meantime, is offering more than any company can do and live. $lO per year for 35 years is only SSOO, and no insurance company ever has been or ever will be organized that can begin to make money enough out of SSOO, in the average period of 17£ years, to be able to pay $2,400 for it. It can’t be done, and the great majority of those who think it can, and invest their money on that belief, will lose it in the end.

Marriage Licenses.

. j Joseph Penrod, j Elizubeth A. Bunnell. j Albert E. Josserand, 1 Laura Belle Rundle. j Levi Werner, | Dora J. May.

As part of the Programme the Sherwosd Quartet will give the Second act of the famous opera '•Martha.” It will be splendid. Do not miss it. I am now able to offer you my goods at reduced prices. Sailors, walking hats and tarns at cost, and trimmed hats at big reductions, as l wish to close out my entire stock of millinery, wtp Mrs. C. E. Hershman. If you love music do not miss the entertainment next Wednesday night. You will nlways regret it if you are so unfortunate as not to hear the Sherwood Quartet.