Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1899 — Page 1

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The Township Advisory Boards.

Judge Thompson Appoints the Various Township Advisory Boards. V - *:£'j y.*.-:, fT■' >■' f.j P.>",. •> X ' £'O The new laws having been put in force last Friday, by the governor’s proclamation, it became the lawful duty of Judge Thompson to appoint the advisory boards for the various townships of the county, as provided in the township reform bill. The selecting these boards was quite a responsible duty on the Judge’s part and|one that involved considerable difficulty to avoid making mistakes. That the judge has discharged the duty very successfully we think will be generally conceded. He has selected men of good standing and ability. And men who, as we believe, will do their best to make the operations of the law serve the best interests of the people. In making his appointments the judge selected one Democrat and two Republicans from eaoh township. The law requires that'•at least two political parties be represented on the boards, which the judgo appoints. Of course when the boards come to be eleoted by the people, they are likely to be all Republicans or all Democrats, accordingly as the townships go politically. •> I The following are the advisory boards"as appointed: , Y Hanging Grove Austin O. Moore, Dem James McDonald, . Rep —l, Washington Cook Rep Milroy Wm. H. Beaver Dem Ziba J. MoCushen, .... Rep Richard Foulks, Rep Union John F. Harriott Dem David S. A1ter......... .Rep James L. MoClanahan.. .Rep | Newton Isaao N. Makeever Dem Erhardt Wuerthner Rep Wm. D. Sayler .........Rep Jordan Lewis Welsh..; '.. .Dem Eb W. Morris Rep Walter V. Porter... Rep • Keener William H. Tyler Dem John A. Sigler Rep * Henry Feldman Rep Kankakee Thomas F. Maloney ... .Dem . Isaao D. Dunn Rep James N. White Rep Wheatfield Martin Knapp Dem Michael Delehanty .Rep Ward Hamilton. Rep Carpenter J. G. Morris Dem . Christian Hensler Rep Wm. 8. Ru55e11.........Rep Gillam John P. Ryan Dem James Stevens .Rep Miohael Robinson Rep v Walker George W. Stalbaum .. .Dem f, Lewis P. Shirer Eep Asa A. Brown Rep Ed°°rd P^ld 16

Sunday Bates Via, Monon Route.

The Monon Bonte will sell every Sunday until further notice tickets, Rensselaer to points on its own line where the one way rate is $3.60 or less at rate of one fare for the round trip, tickets limited good going and returning on date of sale. As per above return tripe can be made to Chicago for $2.20, to Cedar hake SI.OO, to Montieello 75 cents etc., good going and returning on Sunday only.

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The Council manic Districts.

■* " ■ The most important work performed by the commissioners at their session Monday, was the division of the county into four oouncilmanic districts in accordance with the provisions of the. new county reform law. The law directs that the four districts shall be of contiguous territory, and as nearly as practicable of the same population, but no township can be divided. In making the districts the commissioners paid due heed to all these requirements, especially the one regarding contiguity of townships, whioh the law itself makes specially prominent. In figuring on population, there being no exact modern data to go by, the number of polls listed for taxation in eaoh township and town was taken as the basis. The districts with the number of polls in each township, were made up as follows: District No. 1. # Polls Union • 231 Keener 134 Wheatfield..... 159 Kankakee. 85 o * Total polls in district .. i.. . 609 District No. 2. > Hanging Grove 105 Gillam 135 Walker '..166 Barkley.. .245 Total polls in district 651 District No. 3. Marion & Rensselaer 629 Newton Tp 96 Total polls'in district 725 District No. 4. Carpenter & Remington... .409 Jordan 146 Mi1r0y........ 71 Total polls in district. 626 The Jasper County Council will consist of seven members, one from each oounoilmanio district and three from the county at large. The first council will be appointed by the judge, and of the appointive council not more than four of the seven members can belong to the same political party.

Milton Makeever.

The death of Milton Makeover, of Newton township, heretofore related, took from us not only one of our rapidly diminishing old settlers, but probably the one who, in many respects was the most remarkable character among them. He was born in Greene Co., Pennsylvania, Maroh 18, 1821, died April 27, 1899, aged 78 years, 1 month, and 14 days. His parents moved to Ohio in 1829. He married Nanoy Lions Sept. 1, 1844, and that same fall moved to Jasper oounty, and on the same 40 acres on whioh he built his first, log house, he tesided until his death, the fine residence in which his later years were passed being no great dietance for his earlier and humbler one. He was a man of many rugged excellencies of character, and also of many harmless peculiarities of disposition. He owned 800 aores of land in Newton county and 700 in Jasper cpunty, and for 40 years has never been outside of the two counties. He never took a ride on a railroad, nor indeed ever saw inside of a railroad oar. Another of his peculiarities was an aversion to modern luxurious methods of road traveling, and it was always his practice when he came to town, either to come on horseback or N in an immense, but very fine, farm wago.fi dravm by too of

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change in his habits in this respect. ’ Until the erection of our new court house, which he greatly admired and rejoiced in, the finest building he had ever seen was the new Odd Fellows’ building,* here. He never bought any land or other property until he had the money to pay for it, and he never signed a note or gave a mortgage. At the time of bis death he was the oldest landholder iu the county, in the sense of having been in continuous ownership of the sv.me property for the greatest length of time. He also was the oldest member in point of age, though not quite in length of lodge membership, in the Odd Fellows lodge at Rensselaer. The lodge attended his funeral in a body, last Saturday, and took charge of the burial rites. The funeral was one of the largest, if not the largest, ever held in Newton township. He was buried in Weston cemetery, in Rensselaer, and the funeral procession was half a mile in length. His wife and four children survive him. Two sons, Jasper and Frank living in Newton county, and a spn Isaao N. and a daughter, Indiana, living at the home pkce. He, himself was one of a family of 10 children only one of whom, and the oldest of the family, John Makeever of Rensselaer, is now living. »•» mm ■ ■ ■ —»

More Appointments By The Judge.

In pursuance with one of the new laws, just gone into effect. Judge Thompson has appointed the following Board of County Charities and Corrections. Robert Parker, of Remington and Mrs. Abbie Roberts, of Rens selaer, to serve for one year. George O. Stembel, of Wheatfield, and Mrs Louisa Imes, of Rensselaer, to serve for twc/ years. John Eger and Charles E. Milk, both of Rensselaer, to serve for one year. Still another body to be appointed was a township Library Board, made necessary under the law by the establishment of a free public library in Rensselaer. The appointees are David B. Nowels and Mrs. Ora F. Ross.

Our Soldiers Return.

Rensselaer’s contingent in the 16l8t regiment are now all at home. Frank Hawkins and David Jakes arrived Wednesday evening, and Wilbur and Walter Tharp and Corporal Earl Hausman came at 9:55 Thursday. “Fighting Bob” Evans, of Wheatfield came with the latter but has gone on to hk home. He expects to be at the reception, Friday night. Tbe Remington boys are also expected to come to the receptiou. It will be held Friday evening, per previous notice, in the lower corridors of the lUj

Musical and Literary Entertainment.

A musical and literary entertainment will be given at the. Barkley M. E. church, Friday evening, May 5. Prof. Drysdale will be present and exhibit his latest invention. Come one, come all end have a good laugh. Admission, adults 15 cents; children 10 cents.

Farm to Rent.

Forty-six acres farm to rent, near DeMotte. Good land, well improved, good nouse, oara, irun &c. Apply to Abigail IksesusE?

The County Council Appointed.

Judge Thompson Promntly Names These Important Officials. ■ V" Tk ' ji:' . i* f s ," | Early Tuesday morning Judge Thompson announced his appointments of tbe, Jasper County Council, according to the provisions of the new county reform law. These appointed members will serve until their successors are eleoted at the general election in 1900. The following are tbe appointments, as made: For District No. 1, composed of Union, Keener, Wheatfield and Kankakee townships, William Cooper, a Democrat. For District No. 2, composed of Hanging Grove, Gillam, Walker and Barkley townships, Nathan Eldridge, of Barkley township, a Republican. For District No. 3, composed of Marion and Newton townships, Israel B. Washburn a Republican. For District No. 4, composed of Carpenter, Jordan and Milroy townships, Francis M. Wekh of Jordan Tp., a Democrat. For the county at large, Albert J. Bellows, of Carpenter township, a Republican; David H. Yeoman, of Rensselaer, a Democrat, and Marion L. Spitler, of Rensselaer, a Republican. These men are in excellent standing in the county and all have had much experience in public business. With a county council so composed, the new method of county government starts out under excellent auspices.

Voting By Machinery.

A town election at Irvington, an Indianapolis suburb, Monday was the first in the State in which a voting machine was used, and the result was highly satisfactory. The election board gave the Turner Voting Machine Company a signed statement that it took only nine minutes to determine the result of tbe election after the polk closed, that the machine was entirely practical and that the election board recommended it for general use. Those who were not familar with the working were able to vote after reading the instructions once, and but one man voted diffently than he had intended. The first eight votes were cast in two minutes. To vote a straight ticket a large button at the top of the ticket was pressed down. To vote a mixed ticket the button in front of the name of each candidate it was desired to vote for was pressed down. A vote cast for one candidate for an office automatically locked the keys for all other candidates for that office. When the voting was completed the inspector pulled a crank, which rang a bell and automatically registered the yote. A counting device added the votes as they were cast, so that when the election was Closed the totak were found regktered.

The County Commissioners.

The commissioners finished np all their work in Monday’s session and will not be again in session until the first Monday in Jane. The most important work done was the division of the county into connoilmanic "• districts, elsewhere reported. Edward Mills, son of Attorney 0. E. Mills, of Rensselaer, an 4 one of this year’s graduates of the Rensselaer high school, was appointed to one of the county’s vacant scholarships at Purdue Uuiversity. A final report was made in. the Scbatzlery ditch. No use for wall paper at Mrs. loses’. She hangs the four walls I t t mnnifi with flowers Hun- ‘ dreds of hats cover her counters. .

Another Old Resident Dead.

John W. Warren, whose sickness naa received frequent mention in these col urns, died Tuesday afternoon, May 2nd, 1899, at his borne in Newton township. His fatal sickness is believed to have been due to a tumor on the stomach. John Wesley Warren was born near Circleville, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1830, and his age, at his death, was 69 years, 3 months, 13 days. He came of an old Methodist family, as hk middle name indicates, and was a faithful member of the M. E. church from early childhood until his death. The family moved to near Bucyrus, 0., while he was a child, and in 1854 came to Jasper oounty, where he has since resided, His father Samuel Warren, died in Rensselaer in 1884. He married Mrs. Rhoda Coen Sayers, a widow, Mar. 26, 1856. Six children were bora to them of whom five, John F. Warren, excounty superintendent, of Rensselaer, Edwin G. Warren, of DeMotte, Prof. I. N. Warren, of LaPorte, and Mrs Flora Grant and Mrs. Aurilla Yeoman, of thk vicinity, survive him. Hk first wife died in June 1878 and in Mar. 1886 he married Miss Alice Hendricks, who, with their two young children, Vernon and Jessie survive him. He was one of a family of 12 children ten of whom are still living, James and William Warre* of Rensselaer, Harrison ol I Newton tp. 8. T. and D. C. Warren, of Nebraska, Mis. Phillip McElfresh and Mrs. Wm. Norris, of Rensselaer and Mrs. Oram, of Goodland. He came of a patriotic family for during tbe great civil war four of hk brothera and three of hk skters’ husbands were in the army seeing long service, and everyone* suffering from wounds. He tried to get in the army himself, but was too infirm in health to be accepted, but not only himself but hk aged father served in the home guards, and he also, though poor in means gave S2OO towards a bounty fund. The funeral was held Thursday, at 10:30 a. m. by Rev. H. M. Middleton. Interment was in Weston cemetery.

New Route For Gifford’s Road.

B. J. Gifford is now figuring on a change of route for the southern extension of the Chicago and Wabash Valley B. E. Instead of keeping the southeast direction towards Monon, in which the line runs so far as constructed, be now proposes to run directly sooth from it’s present southern end, which will strike the Monon at McCoysbnrg. He has signified his intention to build on this line if the property owners will furnish the right <£ way on sufficiently favorable terms and it seems likely he will have no trouble on that score. Addison Parkison, J. T. Handle, A. McCoy and the J. E. Handle estate own nearly all the land along this proposed line and all are willing to give the right of way; and it is not likely that serious difficulties will be met in getting it from the other land owners. If the road is built on this line it will likely be continued on south until it strikes the Pan Handle at Wolooty.

Ole art tht Ctaders. The GREATEST NUMBER of TRlMhats ever seen in Rensselaer are now displayed upon Mrs. lines’ counters. Pattern hats in endless numbers. Exquisite materials, faultless brimming, and pi ices to suit anyone. Just see them once, before purchasing elsewhere.

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Township trustees.

Duties es Hflfteers Umiei* tiie when the ack of 1899 went into annual meeting, on the fiist Tuesfirst Tuesday in September the boards respectively all contracts

Got Dangerous Again.

James Bislosky, a young man living with his uncle, John Bislosky, in Newton Tp., was placed in the county jail for safe keeping, yesterday. He was sent to Longcliff insane asylum about three years ago, being than insane, and showing many symptoms of being dangerous. He was finally released, and returned to his uncle’s place. Lately he has been showing indications of the return of his malady, and also making threats against the lives of bis relatives. Proper steps have been taken for his recommitment to the asylum, and application made for bis reception there.

5 Per Cent. Loans. Wm. B. Austin dosed up a 14000 loan last week on 48 hours notice. He continues to make loans in any amounts, at very low rates of interest, supplying the. money immediately on receiving application. i C| His business not only extends throughout Jasper County but he makes many loans in Newton, Starke, Pulaski and White Coun- ,,, > . Seed Corn For Sale. 100 bushels choice Med corn for sale. Mastodon Mammoth and Klondike varieties. Both early very productive. dwltp F. W. Bedford. f Paints, Oil, Brushes and Paint* era’ Materials sold at lowes) prices to reduce stock. Mxykr the Druggist. We will sell wall paper, wall moulding cheaper than any other . boose in the county. People from neigboring towns invited to call. F. B. Meter. . ■ XiSMftftsSgaiCrww- "r : ' —— At the Green House. &£■ Bedding plants, geraniuc coleus, cannas, pansies, boxes, cut flowers. 35 cts- per do®. d4wlp A* CL&VBX.AWD-S.