Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — Page 4

, f) • “““ wAi 1 ! . V- 1111 '— —— OFFICIAL PAPER OP JASPER COUNTY BOOED EVERY TUESDAY * FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. — OFFICE—In Republican building on corner M Washington and Weston Streets. P# TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 3&ee Months .50 Friday, August 4, 1899.

NEW UNDERTAKING. In Horten’s building. 1 dooi west of the Makeever House, with a complete and first-class took of funeral - Furnishings. I respectfully solicit a share of the public's patronage and guarantee *attsfactK>n in every reepect. A. B- COWGILL “ Telepnone 197 Wheeler &. Wilson Sewing Machine. WIF lv >» w limJmil /v aX» > a ' 'Ay _ ■ .dgglgMP JjrTj ■ ppr, • Rotary Motlonand Ban Bearings.

The Standard of. Excellence—* The average woman cannot discriminate Justly between machines, so far as their mechanical construction is concerned, but she can always wisely Judge their work. It | | THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A FAMILY SEWIN ' ALL MACHINE ARE MOST PERFECTLY COMBINED IN . . ffIPHCITT /. STiBHITI — . so It on be easily ( A tfc l tossf sir*. SPEED— /ff/hfi ftfSSV * \ STILE— Mthai It will doth. *° ***** k tl SINGER WORK IS ALWAYS GOOD WORK. This Is why Singer Machines maintain their supremacy all over the world, making the Singer trade-mark a reliable guarantee of perfection. ' The Singer Manufacturing Co. fev OFFICES IN EVENT CITY IN THE WORLD. DR. JACQUES DESSLER The Optical Specialist. jjtir thorough experience in die profession and with the help of the Hie latest improved INSTRUMENTS gives me the hope that £ shall be mpe to give my patients full satisfaction and oan promise with responsibility that every case will be treated with special care. |P EXAMINATIONS FREE. .' NOTICE —I call your attention to the fact that eyes can be examined 7 DR. JACQUES DESSLER, Optical Specialist

I have private funds to loan on peal estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east —absolutely no red tape Why do you wait on insurance oompaniee for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin. For Sale or Exchange. 80 aores 1 mile from station, fenoed, ten acres cultivated, ten acres meadow, balance timber, has three room frame house fair stable and well. In good neighborhood. Price S2OOO encumberauce to assume S7OO due 3 years. What have you to trade? Make offer. Business property in South Bend, value SBOOO renting for. $62 per month, want farm. 20 acres clear to trade for vacant lots or any good trade. Stocks of goods ranging from S4OOO to S6OOO to trade for farms. 160 acres fine land in eastern Kansas 90 miles from Kansas City, dear to trade for clear town property or land. I have town properties to trade for farms in Kankakee, Harvey, Bradley, Bloomington, River View Desplaines, 111., Rensselaer, Hammond, Goodland and Remington, Ind. Fine, improved, well locatedfarm of 80 acres all black soil, good drainage, clear, to exchange for livery or feed bam. For particulars write or oall on G. F. Meyers, Kniman, Ind.

OUUIJBR. He Oqly Direct Line to IQanitou and Colorado Springs. ALSO BEST LINE TO DENVER. ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL TO HAVE THE BEST DINING CAR SERVICE. I NEWEST XRAINS BETWEEN CHICAGO. OMAHA, KANSAS CITY AND COLORADO Buffet Library Smoking Cars If you want a delightful trip on a strictly ‘‘up-to-date” train, travel by the Great Rock Island Route. For handsome booklet, “Manitou and the Mountains,” address JOHN.SXBASTIAN, G. P. A., CHICAGO, ILL.

The undersigned will make jou a farm loan at as low a rate of interest, and as good terms as anyone in the county. I also have some good farms and town property to sell or trade. Call on or write to J. P. Hammond, Rensselaer, lnd Bus Line. F. L. Short’s bus line makes all rains day and night." Calls for or delivers passengers to any part of the city. Headquarters at the Makeever House, or Leopold’s livery stable building, south of town hall. Bus telephone 107 or 135. 1 F. L. Short.

Application for Liquor License.

Notice is hereby . given to the citizens of the town of DeMotte, and of Keener township’ in Jasper county, Indiana that the undersigned Reason M. Dunn, a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana, over the age twenty-one years, of good moral character, and a man who is not in the habit of becoming intoxicated, and who has been a continuous resident of said town and township for over ninety days last past, and who is in respect to all legal qualification and requirement, a fit and proper person to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors, and who will be the actual owner and proprietor of sain retail liquor buisnes.s If license be granted horn: Will apply to the Board of Commissioners of said Jasper county Indiana at their September term, 1899 said term commencing on September 4th 1899 at the Commissioner’s Court room in the Court House in the City in Rensselaer, in said county, for a license to sell and barter, spirituous, vinous malt and all other intoxicating liquors, in a less quantity than a quart at a time with the privilege of allowing the same to be drauk on the premises where sold and bartered The location of the premises where on said applicant desires conduct said retail liquor business, is a one story building, fronting on Railroad Street, in the said town of DeMotte, Jasper connty Indiana. The precise location of said premises are more paticularlv described as follows, viz The said building is located on lot fourteen (14) in block three (3) of the original plat of the town of DeMotte, in said Jasper County. The northeast (ne) corner of said building being seven (7) feet and seven (7) inches west, and twenty (20) feet south from the northeast (ne) corner of said lot. Thence by outside measurement west nineteen (19) feet and seAen , (7) inches thence south four (4y feet, thence west nineteen (19) feet and ten (10) inches, thence south sixteen (16) feet and four (4) inches, thence east thirtp-nine (39) feet and five (5) inches, thence north twenty (20) feet and four (4) inches to the place of of beginning. The said described room and quilding is separate from any other business of any kind and has no devices for amusement or music of any kind or character. The said building fronts to the north on said Railroad street, having two, 2 windows and one 1, door on the north sfde thereof. Oon, 1 window on the west, and one, 1 window and one, 1 door on the south, and no door or window on the east side. The said room and building can be securnly closed and locked, and admission thereto prevented and is so arranged with glass windows that the whole interior can be viewed from the outside, on the north, the west, and south sides thereof. Said license wsll be asked for a period of one yerr, commencing at .expiration of the lioense now held by said applicant for said premises.

Reason M, Dunn.

Bank Statement. REPORT or THK COMDITIOK OF TH U Commercial State Bank -o*RENSSELAER, IND., the close of Its business on the srth day of July 18W. RESOURCES Lotund Discounts $07,675 m Overdrafts » U.S. Bonds do hand . 1,900 00 Due from Banks and Bankers 17,08 as B&nklngHouse 5,686 W Current Expenses 4ia » Currency SWOB Bpec’e. aJ4» usn items aaa o* •118,160 00 LIABILITIES. Capital Slock Paid in ** 000 00 Rurr*lusFU"d LOOP 00 Undlridtd Profits . ... ... *7 is lMsowunt, exchangeand Interest.... 1900 14 Individual Deposits on Demand ... 78*34 61 IndlrldoalDeposits on Time 86*88 IT liaa.l6o » STATE OF INDIANA. Log JABPBK COtTXTT. L Emmet L. Hollingsworth, cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Renaselaar, Ind , solemnly swear Oat the above statement Is

Plain and Fancy Hewing.

Miss Myrtle Pulver, in rooms over R. H. Purcupile’s residence, corner Washington and Front streets, is prepared to do plain and faney sewing, by the day or at the residences.

What is the Matter With This?

We will sell you buggies and carriages 25 cents on the dolla? cheaper than you have been paying heretofore. Besides we will take your old buggy or anything else you have to trade on a new rig, at all it is worth. We have some second hand rigs and light harness that we will sell at any old price. When in town drop in and see us and we will prove to you that we do what we advertise. WORLAND & LaNDWERLEN. The new buggy and carriage firm next to Short’s livery barn.

Notice of Survey. Notice la hereby given to Winfield S. McNeal and Clara McNeal, John TUlec, Thomas J. Smith, Martha B. Rusk. Thomas Smith. Mina Goepp. John Rusk, Fritz Saltwell. Isabel Fox, George Porter, Nancy Brown and all others Interested, that I own the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section number 82. Township number 80 In Range number 6 west In Jasper County, Indiana, and that I will proceed with the Surveyor of Jasper Connty to make a legal survey of said section thirty-two (89) or so much thereof as may he i e jessary to establish the comers and lines of my land in said section, said survey to begin on the 2lst day of August ▲. D. 1899. B. J. GIFFOKD. M. B. Price. Surveyor. Aug. 4-11-18 S Notice of Appointment. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed, by the clerk of the Jasper circuit court, administrator of the estate of Caleb E. Pierson, deceased, late of Jasper connty. Indiana. Said estate Is supposed to be solvent. Dated this the 3rd day August 1809. ANDREW K. YEOMAN, Administrator. Fotltz, Spicier A Kurrle, Attys. Aug. 4-7-11.

F^ThENRYLUNI?^™ Manufacturer of B Galvanized Iron or Copper Cornice Hetal Sky Lights, 5m oke Stacks, Guttering and all kinds of Sheet Hetal Work, Richardson & Boynton’s Warm Air 1 Furnaces. Tin. Slate and Gravel Roof | ing. All kinds of Roofing Material. Us REFERENCES. | I Waterworks Building, cornice and slate roof, Renaselaer, Ind. a Sigler Hotel, cornice and iin roof, Cedar Lake, Ind. Hack Block, cornice and gravel roof, Lowell. Ind. Homan Block, galavanized cornice, slate roof,s Hammond, Ind, Office and Shop, 430 N. Homan Street, | Hammond, Indiana. | I Bargain Store. 1 pH Near Depot. ||| Screen doors and fixtures eacb 75c ggjlßl gjjjjjjj No. 8 Boiler, galvanized 750 Sgjjj 2 qt. Arctic Ice Cream Freezer “ 125 4qt. Arctio Ice Cream Freezer “ 1.75 Good reflector Kitchen Lamp ** 250 j&ufi rows Best Ironing Board on earth “ 750 aro ufttg 1 gal. tin jacket glass Oil Can “ 200 tatta figfiS 1 qt, maohine made Ball Fruit Jars per doz 50c ncW | gal machine made Ball Fruit Jars “ “ 60c nSjro nsg Rubpere for Mason jars “ “ 3|c pgUp ; flfPf Roasted Coffee, balk per pound B£o wglj j&jfjg 1 lb. package Katosa coffee Wo IkSS SSfli Ufug And everything I have will sell accordingly, These prices are cash or produce strictly, ■■■III I jnJ^V ® BBs *

Expenditures and Tax Levies for the Year 1899. KANKAKEE. The Trustee of Kaukake? Township. Jssper County, Indians, proposes for the Yearly Expenditures and Tax Levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting, to be held at the school house of School District No. 2, the fol--1 wing estimates and amounts for said year: 1 Township expenditures, S2BB and township tax 8 cents on the hundred dollars. 2 Local tuition expenditures, SIOBO, and tax 30 cents on the hundred dollars. 8 special school tak expenditures, $640 and tax 15 cents on the hundred dollars, 4 Road tax expenditures. $540 and tax 15 cents on the hundred dollars. 5 Additional road tax expenditures $360 and tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars. 6 Poor expenditures for preceding year $ and tax 2 cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures. S2BBO and total tax 60 cents on the hundred dollars. < - (DATED) July 31,1899. (SIGNED) J. C. KAUPKE, Trustee. CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. The Trustee of Carpenter Township, Jasper County, Indiana, proposes for the Yearly Expenditures and Tax Levies toy the Advisory Board at its Annual Meeting, to he held at my office the following estimates and amounts foe said year: 1. Township expenditures, SBOOO, and township tax, 26 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures. $2400, and tax,» cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special school tax expenditure*. SIBOO, and tax, 15 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Road tax expenditures, $9400, and tax, 20 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional road tax expenditures, SI9OO, and tax, 10 cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Poor expenditures for preceding year, $240 and tax, 2 cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures, $11,040, and total tax, $2 cents on the hundred dollars. (DATED) July 31,1800. (SIGNED) J. Q. A. LAMBORN, Trustee.

folice To Contractors. ■ ■ \ NOTICE is hereby given, that bids will be received by the Common Council of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana,up to 8 o’clock p. m. on the 14th day of August 1899. at the Council Chamber of said City, for furnishing the necessary labor and materials for the improvement of the following streets in said city .by grading and macadamizing the same in accordance with the provisions of Ordinances numbered from 21 to 84, inclusive, adopted by the mid council June 6th 1899 and the plans and specifications approved bv said Council on June 12. 1809. towit: Van Rensselaer Street, from Washington Street to Cornelia Street. Cullen Street from Washington Street to Cornelia Street. Cullen Street from Cornelia Street to Clark Street. Forest Street from Clark Street to Oak Street; Vine Street from Forest Street to Main Street; and Cedar Street from Division Street to Milton Street. Each bidder will be required to file the receipt of the City Treasurer for the sum oi $500., deposited as a guarauty that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered Into and the performance prpperly secured. Bidders will also be required to file a bond with a penalty of twice the amount of their bids and sureties to the approval of the Council. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any or nil bids. • SCHUYLER C. IRWIN. July 21-28 Aug 4. City Clerk. PH IK NOTICE is hereby given, That sealed bids will be received at my office 111 the bonr of 6 o’clock p. m. August 15,1890. for the Construction of a School House In District no. 6, Barkley Township. Contractor to do all work, building house, painting, placing b ackboard, hanging bell ana setting seats all material to be furnished by the Trustee, Bids may be malle t to my address. Velma. Jasper Co. Indiana Plans and Specifications on file In office of County Supt. Rensselaer, Indiana. Tne right la reserved to reject any and all bids. S. B. Nichols. Township Trustee Barkley, Township, Jasper County, Ind. Dated July 27.1890. Msilut lotus.; State of Indiana iaa. County of Jasper j OO • ■j _ Cause No. 5794. ora Hubble, and the Fuller A Johnson Mfg Company, are hereby notified that William B. Austin has filed a complaint In the Jasper Circuit Court to foreclose a mortgage oncertain real estate In said Connty. to wit; The east half (X) of the north-west quarter 04) of the north-west quarter 04) of section twentysix (26), the south-east quarter 04) of the south west quarter (X) and the south-west quarter (X) of the south-east quarter (X) of section twenty-three (28) all in township thirtytwo (82) north, range seven (7) west. In which real estate said defendants claim to have some Interest, and that said cause will come up for hearing on Monday September 18th, 1899, the same being the Seventh Judicial day of the September term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to he held at tbe court house at the City of Rensselaer, commencing, Monday, September. 11, 1890. Witness the seal of said Court and \ the hand of the Clerk thereof, this 1J 24th day of July, 181-9. Wx.H. Cooveb, Clerk of Jasper Oireuit Court Notice To Heirs. Creators And Etc.On Final Report. In the matter of the es- f tateof James T. Culp j in the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1998, Notice 18 hereby given that Elizabeth Culp Executrix, of the last Will and Testament of James Chip deceased has presented and filled her final account and Vouchers In final tettlement of the esfate of said decedent, and that the same will oome for the examination and action of said Circuit Court on the first day of the September Term of said oourt, 1890, the same being the U day of September 1899, at which time ail of the heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate and all other persons Interested therein are required to appear In said Court In said Cause, If any there he, why said account and Vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship. W. H. Cooveb, Clerk of the Jas per Circuit Oourt. Chllcoteaad Parklson, Attorneys lor Executrix. July 21.28 Aug 4-11. REASONS FOR INSURING IN THE CONTINENTAL Ist. Because It Is one of the Oldest, Strongest and Best Managed Companies In the United; States, 2nd. Because it adjusts Its losses fairly and pays them promptly, without any wrangling about it. ..,! 3rd. Because it has adjusted and paid losses to over seventy-five thousand farmers. * > 4th. Because It insures yon for FlveYeSrs upon the Installment plan, permitting you to nay one fifth of the premium annually, without interest. Instead of paying the whole In advance; thus giving you the proceeds of ea6h year’s crop with which to pay your premiums as they fall due. ning, Tornadoes, Cyclones and Wind Storm*, as well as lobs by lire. BRUNER & HAMMOND, 6 July p. Agents > • •T 1 ' h-Mki lota. The State of Indiana,i Jasper County. f In the Jasper OlrcultOonrt, September Term, John Makeever et al | complaint WtlMbm al C mmnntn ■ A .Barnett * Minn ie A.7c*ren (nee) Barnett; A Hildreth; Emma MorelfUKt; ftDd p. Wfh afe n *** .