Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEELY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXII

Late Legislative News.

The senate killed the bill calling upon the county councils to fix the number of days assessors and surveyors are to work. A bill to abolish the poll tax and another to enable cities and towns to establish free circulating libraries was introduced in the house. The house killed the bid providing for the listing of promissory notes and other money obligations with assessors, and making them uncollectable if not so listed. The bill providing pay sou county councils on a per diem basis also was killed. Representative Small, of Porter, yesterday afternoon introduced the most drastic anti-cigarette bill that has been proposed, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, bartering, giving away and importation into the state of cigarettes, cigarette tobacco and cigarette paper under penalty of SSO to SSOO fine and imprisonment. Representative Jakwaye, of South Bend, and Representative Small, of' Valparaiso, who each had a game law that he believed would give universal satisfaction to sportsmen, succeeded in “getting together” yesterday and consolidating their measures into a new bill embodying the best points of each. The new measure contains Mr. Small’s, ideas about having .an open spring season and an annual license fee of SSO for non-resident hunters, but otherwise fallows Mr. Jakway’s bill.

Gone to India as a Missionary.

Miss Rose Cox, a former teacher in the Pulaski county schools, started last weak for Yeotmal, in the province of Berar, India, where she) goes as. a missionary of the Free Methodist church. She, is employed for a term of seven years though failing health or anything of that sort, would enable her to terminate the contract sooner. The sfclary is not large, S2O per month and her transportation paid, and also her board while enroute addition to $75 given her to prepare for the trip. Once at her destination she must board herself. She goes with Rev. J. T. Taylor and wife of Chicago and at New York they will be joined, by a Miss Southworth of that state, making a party of four, all going as missionaries. They left New York Saturday going to London where they will take a vet sei for Bombey, from which place they will travel by rail 500 miles and by ox cart fifty miles into the, interior. The trip from New York will require about five weeks’ time.

Smallpox in Fowler.

Kentland Enterprise,„ Dr. J.A. Hatch was called to , ‘ j ».-~S > Fowler Monday to determine the nature of a case of sickness in that town, that the physicians there could not agree on* He. pronounced it smallpox, and says, the entire town has been exposed as the afflicted man had been oh the streets two or three days after he was broken out, and that he had slept at different houses during the time. Dr. Hatch was called over by the town board.

Library Entertainment Friday Evening.

The Library Entertainment will be given by the Ladies Literary Club' on Friday evening, Feb. Ist. in the East Court room. A good programme has been arranged and the exercises will begin promptly at 8 o’clock.

Advertised Letters. Mr. A. L. Mulhaupt. R,/L Slocum, Hugh Iliff. Mrs. Maudy Williams, Miss Bertha Caldwell, Cora Davis.

NO. 38

Rensselaer Out Bowls Hammond.

The bowling match Friday night between Hammond and Rensselaer, at the City Bowling Alleys, drew a very large attenaance, ineluding a large number of ladies. Three games were played, and the result was a victory for Rensselaer. The total scores, for the three games were Rensselaer 2581. Hammond, 2317. Rensselaer’s net lead was 264 pins." Rensselaer won the two first games and Hammond the last game, by 20 pins. The visiting team was comp of ed of Messrs Bliss, Gavitt, Newell, Stress and Albe. Rensselaer's team was Zea, Hopkins, J mes, Lewis and Mills. The average score of the victors was 172, which is good for a match game. Lewis of Rensy selaer carried off the highest honors of the contest, having the highest average. His big single score was 237, and his average 198.

Headed for Lowell and Cedar Lake.

While Contractor Hack, of Lowell, was in town Monday he informed the news that Lowell •is now working for the Gifford railroad. In conversation with Mr. Gifford last week Mr. Hack was told that Lowell could get the road provided the township voted a tax, a proposition which public sentiment seems to favor. The northern terminus of Mr. Gifford’s Garden Line at present is DeMptte, where it croeses p the Three I. road. It is Mr. Gifford’s intention to get to Cedar Lake touching the east shore, and from there eventually to Chicago. The road can be pulled to Lowell without much digression from a direct line. From that place a, straight line north would be pursued to strike the lake on the east side. — Monon News.

Monon News. The last scoopful of dirt was hoisted Thursday, of last week by the machinery used in excavating the McKillip drain and the boat which carried the outfit having been run back a mile to be torn down and loaded on wagons at a road crossing, the dam was blown out with dynamite Tuesday and a flood of back water from the sluggish Blue Sea was sent surging down the Little Monon, into which the drain empties. The point at which the drain enters the creek is about four miles southwest of town. The drain is eight miles long, starting on the Dobbins farm in the extreme southwest corner of the township and running almost straight east. The specifications call for the drain to be from 17 to 36 feet wide and 7 feet deep on an average, but at several points where Contractor Hack encountered deep ,;cuts through sand ridges the excavation is about 50 feet in width. There is ample fall to insure good drainage and much hitherto worthless land is expected to be reclaimed. The cost in $8,742., Mr. Hack is loading the,machinery here this week preparatory to shipping it home to Lowell.

Subscriptions to the SeMJWeekly Republican and the Weekly Inter Ocean are the old price, $1.85 for both papers, will be received at this office until May Ist. Persons residing out of the county or state can have, the same privelege. The Semi-Wbekly Republican and twice a week St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, at $2.10 for both papers. The Globe-Democrat is the leading (Republican paper of west of the Mississippi, and comes twice a week. wtf

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY,. INDIANA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1901,

The McKillip Dredge Completed.

Our Clubbing Offers.

The Small Pox in Fowler.

That smallpox case in Fowler oocured under circumstances which have justly caused great fear of a Wide spread of the contagion. The subject was a wandering “hobo” who came to Fowler some time before he developed the disease and was given shelter by one of the town bakers, Frank Confer, and by him employed to deliver bread to his customers. He was around town several days after be got sick before the nature of his disease swas known. After the nature of his sickness was known a ptst house was hurriedly erected and the sick man placed in it and Confer, the baker, was shut up in it "With- him. His family was quarantined in their house, and the bakery where the hobo lodged was burned down The schools have been closed and all public meetings forbidden. No other cases have developed and the people are beginning to breathe easier.

Fee and Salary Bill Killed-

In the state legislature Friday the House killed the, general fee and salary bill on. which the fee apd salary commission has been working op for the past two yearsThe committee reported , against the bill and, their report was concurred in, only one member voting against the motion. W. A. Wilkins, secretary of the fee and salary that has spent two years preparing the bill, says the work will amount to nothing in vipw of the action of the House. The legislators, be explained, had the means , of remedying the situation, but had thrown it away. He attributed the defeat of the bills to political and selfish considerations. Every member, he declared, was anxious to reduce the salaries iu every county, except his own, audit the commission had been able to frame bills that would have met. with the approval of each individual in the Legislature then they might Pave become laws. Mr. Wilkins said that as a rule the county Recorders, auditors and clerks favored the bills, but that the sheriffs and treasurers who did not care to relinquish the graft they now enjoy were opposed to them. In support of his assertions that the situation regarding the salaries of county officers should be changed, he gave figures showing that the clerks, recorders, auditors, treasurers and sheriffs in the State receive a salary aggegating $1,060,900, and they have received in addition $1,307,047, thus making extra allowances greater than the salaries the law allowed. Fortynine. per cent, of the excess, he paid, had come from the, county fund, when it should have been derived from the fees of the office. The commission, he said, had met the conditions by establishing a fixed salary for the offices, based on the population of the counties, irrespective of the fees, v.. Mr. Manifold, chairman of the House committee Bn] fees and salaries, says the principal objection in the committee to the part of the bill regarding the salaries of county officers was that it discriminated against the sheriff in faVor of the auditor and the clerk; that it did not give enough salary tp officers in counties of under 10,000 population, and that it gave too much to officers in counties of over 50,000. There was decided opposition to’the part of the bill raising the salaries of State officers, except that the opinion was expressed that the Governor’s secretary and the secretary of the State Board of Health ought to have more money. Mr. Manifold says a bill to bring this about may be introduced.

One Farmer’s Experience.

The story is told on a good and industrious farmer residing in the northern part of this county, near Fair Oaks, that h& troubled himself much during all of last summer to fatten 118 turkeys so as to have them in the best paying marketing condition at about Christmas time; that when he got-, from some concern in Chicago, ,au offer of 13 cents per pound for his turkeys, which of course was a little better than he could get at the home market—and that he, trusting to the honesty of the flattering promises of the liberal paying concern in Chicagb, to send him the pay for his birds by first mail after they had been received and weighed, sent them and is now free from any further care as well as for the pay for them —which he has not yet received. The same gentleman also shipped a lot of potatoes to InIndianapolis from where he had received a bigger offer than the home market made, and after they had been graded down, netted about 10 cents per bushel on them.—Kentland Democrat.

Thirty Six and Sixteen.

j Mr. George C. Lambert and Miss Stella M. Fenters,, both of Pair Oaks, were married at that place Thursday, Jan. 23 rd, by Rev. /kbraham C. Abbett, a M. P, minister. The groom is no ‘‘spring phicken” for he is 36 years old and has been married once and divorced once, but his bride is young enough to make their ages average all right, she being only 16 years old.

Marriage Licenses.

t j Albert H. Lee, I Alice Ethel Hellengreen.

The Acme Stock Food.

It pays to feed. Sold on a guarantee. It aids digestion and saves food. “Advance” the champion prize winning steer of the world, that sold at the fat stock show in Chicago for $l5O per lb., owned and fed by Stanley R. Pierce of Creston, Illinois, was fed Acme Food. Below we give a partial list of some of Jasper and Newton Counties’ Farmers that are feeding Acme Food. Costs 1c a day to feed. James Pierce Squire Moore James Yeoman R J. Yeoman Frank Yeoman M. B. Halstead O. C. Halstead John Mauck Omer Kenton Chas Pullin Scott Robinsun John Lamborn Burns Bros. Wm. Tanner Chas, Butbage W. R, Prince F. B. Stetton Hugh Brosnahan Frank May Frank King Potter Bros. Rich V. Lyons Warren Wilson Ed. Harris Roy Flanders Alfred Coovert Ben BJ Miller Eleck Miller Levi Miller Joseph Lane Frank Krasney F. Johnson C. Durst. Omer A. Brown Jasper Wrisht Edgar Steward Frank Zacher Sylvester Galbreath Heating stove for sale cheap, only burnt 2 winters burns wood for soft coal. J. W. King.

“I Say Stranger.

Where di 1 you get that swell shine?” ‘ Why, at Harry Wiltshire’s shoe shining parlor, of course. And he’ gave me an alcohol “rub-down.’ I tell you he beats them all. You will find him at Ray Woods’ tonsorial parlors.”

New Harness Shop.

We have opened a new harness shop. When you are inpeed of anything in our line, give us a call. You will find we will treat you right. We have a full line of all kinds of harness on hand. We will exchange for second hand harness. Special attention given to order and repair work. Located first door south of White’s Livery Barn, North Van Rensselaer St., Rensselaer, Ind. t Scott Bros. wsw Proprietors.

Way Down In Mexico.

Anson Perkins, who left here some time ago, to work for a Chicago well machinerv firm, and not knowing whether they would send him to Australia or Novo Zembla, finally pu'led up in Mexico. He is in the state of Sonora, drilling irrigating wells and putting up pumping outfits on what he calls, a “little ranch” of 168,280 acres, and has been there since last June. It rains there only once or twice a year, and never snows or freezes, and all farming and gardening is done by irrigation. The days now are about 70 degrees and the nights 55. They first sink a well about 20 by 40 feet and 40 deep for a reservoir, and from that drill about an 8 inch well, down about 300 feet. He says they are having new lettuce, potatoes, onions and watermelons, right along now. Also that the wheat crop is just being sawed. The ranch will putin 1000 acres of wheat, and harvest ft in May. Also 500 acres of co r n. These facts are from a letter to his cousin Judson H. Perkins of our town, written Jan. 20th.

Three-I Railroad Extensions.

The Three-I people are up and j doing these days. They have ex-' tended their line to the Mississippi river and are running two trains daily except Sunday, beginning January 13. This will make first class service between South Bend and the Mississippi rivet*. This addition to f the road ,h«“| bpen jn contemplation for, some, time and will be of great benefit to' the traveling public who wish a short line and rapid transit to the Mississippi and points west? There is no doubt but what it will.be a very popular route from the east to the west as it will save the couple of hundred miles unnecessary travel by way of Chicago. The western terminus is Fulton on the Mississippi river.

New Fish and Game Law.

All fish and game bills introduced in both houses of the legislature have been thoroughly canvassed at a joint meeting of the Senate and House committees on rights and privileges, and the matter of drafting a new bill containing the best points of those that have been introduced was referred tp a subcommittee. The meeting was, attended by a number of prominent citizens from different parts of the State. A new. bill is to be drafted.

Change In Photographers.

Having succeeded Mr. O. W. Stoneback at the Pavilion Gallery I respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage and will endeavor to do a grade of work that will merit the same. j i. Call ,and see samples and get prices. Photographically Yours, B. M. Donnelly. Rensselaer, Ind., Jan. 4th, 1901. Wanted, reliable men and women in every locality to introduce our popular goods. Steady employment $3 to $5 per day easily made. For particulars call or address. Robert Randle. Rensselaer, Ind

Rathbone Sisters.

Miss Lacie Street of Brookston will be here Tuesday to inspect the order of Rathbone Sister, that afternoon- It is desired that every member be present for the work at 1 p. m. Write to the' Moler Barber College, Chicago, 111., for their catalogue explaining bow they teach the trade iu two months, donate tools and pay graduates sl2 weekly. They want 500 men, new field, splendid chance. dwlt

i €llis’ Opera Dome. < THURSDAY, - .! January, ! ! The Greatest Musical > Farce of the Age.... ; 1 Brown i from : Boston, » —■»! ’ Presented by the Inimitable 1 J Commedienne 1 ; DOT HALCOTT, • I Supported by a carefully se- ] ! lected Company of Farceuers. j E I Re-Written— up-to-date. I New Songs, New Dances, ] ! New Specialties. ] ; Prices* 25c, 35c 50c. !

A Trifle Previous.

Noting the announcement that the success of Mr. Bryan’s new paper, the has been so great that he proposes to shortly starton an European, tour* on the strength of it, the Pittsburg News makes timely comment, viz: It eertainly does seem a trifle previous that the editor of the Commoner should, already be ..banking upon its great success- Only one number of the paper has been issued, and even that has as yet not reached all parts of the country. Therefore, how any one can say that it has been a success is a mystery. It is true that it doubtless has a large subscription list for the first year. Bqt that was obtained not because of .the merits of the paper, but because it was gatherecrtogether just after the defeat of the editor for the office of president of the United States, and includes practically only the names of those of his followers who were at the time of their subscription still smarting from that, defeat. A. year hence the enthusiasm of many of them cooled and when the time comes fpr them to renew their subscriptions will come also, the real test of ttfie success of the Commoner. The latter will undoubtedly stand or fall largely upon its own merits and not upon the fact that its editor was a presidential candidate, and he will do well to defer his European trip until he has shown by his editorial work that his paper is really the success which would warrant its celebration by a foreign tour.

Public Sale. The undersigned will offer at public sale on the Judge Thompson farm, 1 mile east of Fair Oaks, in. Jasper County Ind. beginning afr 10 o’clock a. m. on | Tuesday Feb. sth, 1900, The following personal property.’ Five head of horses, all work horses 1 bay mare 10 years old, 1 brown mare 0 jears old, 1 sorrel horse 5 years old, 1 sorrel mare 10 years old. 1 gray mare 10 years old. 7 milk cows, 4 cows with calves by side, 3 cows will be fresh soon. Five head of Brood sows. Farm implements, wagons, etc. 1 binder, 1 corn planter, 3 breaking plows, 1 wagon, 1 harrow, 2 sets work harness, 1 set single harness, 1 top buggy, wood heating stove, and numerous other articles. Ten months credit on sums over $5 without interest if paid at maturity if not paid at maturity 8 per cent, interest from date. 7 per cent, disoounf for cash. Kobt. R. Hannah. Phillips & Son, Auctioneers.