Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXXV

Had Quite a Fire.

The Rensselaer Steam Laundry Burned. 1 ~r. _—: ' *' The Rensselagr steam laundry, situated ou Milroy street, at the end of the creamery bridge, and belonging to F. C. Lageu, was destroyed by fire between 11 and 12 o’clock on Monday forenoon. Phil Lagen, brother of the proprietor, was trying to thaw out some frozen pipes by burning under them a doth dipped in coal oil. The ooal oil gave out and he poured some gasoline cn the cloth, Evidently there still remained some fire in the cloth, for the gasoline blazed up into Lagen’s face and ignited that in the cap also. The large quantity of gasoline in the can, said to have been over two'gallons, spread the fire so quiokly that the whole interior of the building was blazing before the fire alarm oould be sounded. The desk in the office and 8 basket, fnl or two of clothes was abmt aU that was saved The firemen were on hand as quickly as possible, but owing to the loDg distance to the nearest hydrant no water could be thrown until cart No. 2 arrived from near the depot; when a stream was turned on and the fire was soon pnt out. Only the shell of the bnilding was left standing and the laundry machinery is probably totally ruined. The boiler and ” engine are probably not muoh damaged. Mr. Lagen estimates his loes at $2,000. There was an insurance II'OOO on the property, in S. C. Irwin’s agency. Mr. Lagen hopes to rebuild as soon as his insnranoe is adjusted. In the meantime he will oontinue to gather and receive laundry, and will send it out of town to be laundried.

An Elaborate Reception.

Mrs. Elizebeth Brown and daughter 0. W. Qoen threw open the doors of the latter’s elegant residence on MoCoy Avenue, to a host.of their lady friends yesterday, at 2:80 p. m., in a reception of the most elaborate character. These two, with Mrs. M. E. Spitler, Mrs. Berkley, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Porter and Mrs. A. McCoy stood in receiving line in the beautiful - parlors all the afternoon, and soores of visitors oame and dined and went gaily. Costumes of elaborate eleganoe prevailed, rooms deoorated in different colors of * carnations, with roses on the dining table pleased the eye, while Prof. Perkins on bis violin, and Mesdames English and Hollingsworth greeted the ear with musio. Miss Maude Spitler presided at the punch bowl, and the dining room hostesses were Mesdames Brady and Chapman, Long and R. B. Porter, and Geo. Murray and Mrs. T. J. MoCoy, at three different hours. The souvenirs were oards painted in water colors, on which a pine cone done in brown, suggested the nameß of the ladies bountiful, who furnished the entertainment to so many.

Bargains In millinery for a short time. Mrs. lines will offer a redaction on all trimmed goods. If in need of anything in her millinery line yon oonld not afford to miss seeing her goods and the prices she is offering them at before buying. A rummage sale nnder the anepioes of the ladies of the Christian ohrrob, will be given in tbe rear rooms of the post-office, on Friday and Oaturday Dec. 12 and 13 Many good goods at very low prices. a dwtf Have you seenthu beautiful pattern hats at Mrs. Puroupiles, also cheaper trimmed and ontrinamed fyate, nobby and stylish. Come in ' tad see them If .you do not want to Buy yon will be oordially weloomed / * Mb®. PUROUPILE. 1

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In the state prison 574 prisoners were members of a Sunday school and ten of the Y. M. C. A... There are 444 who” are members of a Protestant churoh and 140 who are members of the Catholic churoh 7, Petit larceny has sent more prisoners ovbr the road than any other crime. In the state prison there are 226 who were convicted of petty thievery. Grand larceny oomes next, with 101 offenders in the Michigan City bastile and 161 in tfip reformatory. In the state prison there are 103 murderers and in the reformatory 31 are serving time for manslaughter. In the reformatory there are 37 confined for forgery and in the prison 39 for the same orime. Assault and battery with intent to kill has sent 66 to the reformatory and 37 to the state prison. There are two bunko steerers and one counterfeiter in the Michigan City prison and one man in for the unlawful exploding of dynamite. In the prison 177 were from other states, or their residence unknown. Of the others, in the institutions 1,212 were from the cities and towns, and 455 from the country districts. Less than one-half of the State’s population is in the oities and towns, yet they furnish nearly two-thirds of the convicts.

Of ihe 1,670 convicts in prison and reformatory. 638 were idle at the time of their arrest, 439 or more than one-fourth of the whole number, knew no trade. It would look as if a compulsory labor law was needed. 201, or nearly oneeighth of the whole number, are wholly illiterate; 1,282 of the others only had a very limited education and 1,129 ended their sohool days before the sixth year of the common schools. Ten had passed four years in college, and twelve had passed through the four years’ oourse at high sohool. Of the oonvicts in the prison at Miohigan City, 342, or nearly onehalf, were between the ages of 30 and 40 years at the time of their oonviction, and in the reformatory 612, or more than two-thirds of the whole nomber, were between the ages of 18 and 26 years. In the prison there are twenty-one who were over 60 years of age at the time of conviofion, four of them having been more than 70.

One of Representative John N. Bookman’s tasks this .winter, says the Hammond News, will be to get the office of truant offioer abolished, whioh he believes is an unnecessary expense, and that the little work allotted to them can be well done by the different township trustees in each county, whioh will be a saving of many thousand dollars to the state.

Oar young townsman, Harry Eurrie, is the ooming man in the legal department of the Monon Railroad oompany. All reports agree that he is meeting with unqualified sncoess in bis work as assistant general solicitor for the oompany. The long siokness and incapacity for business of Judge Fields, the general solicitor has thrown the work of the department on the younger men, and of these none have been given so muoh of the important work as Mr. Eurrie; and it is reljably stated that Judge Fields has already made it clear to the authorities of the oompany that Eurrie is the man for them to depend on when bis own advancing age and poor health oomi pels him to quit the company’s service. 1 ii _ %

*?- 75 p 9 * aet . • 13. u. Hurley’s furniture store, —i ——■ ii ii m ■■ i'■ » . _ fi| , ; Don’t fail to go in and see those beautiful new stylish hats at Mrs. Imes. Everything up to date,

Some Prison Facts.

Wants Truant Officer Abolished.

A Rising Railroad Attorney.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1902,

The November term of the oirouit court was finished up today. The new judge has kept things moving and the docket has been cleared up in good shape. The case of John A. Lamborn, of Car* penter tp.. against the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association was tried by a jury, Friday. A tenant house belonging to the plaintiff and insnrred by the defendant, was burned last February. The defend ant refused to pay the insnranoe on the grounds that the insured had not paid certain assessments made against him by the Association. The law was plainly shown to be on the side of the plaintiff and he was given a verdict of $206 the fall amount of his olaim, and oosts. Judge Nye was over from Winamao, Friday and overruled a motion for a new trial by the plaintiff in the road* case of Makeever vs Blankenbaker. The plaintiff then gave notice of intention to appeal the Supreme oourt and has 90 days in which to perfect the appeal. The divorce oase of Mrs. Alszje Punter, of Keener tp. vs Witsje Punter, was tried, and a divorce granted the plaintiff, and the custody of-her two minor ohildren The money part of the proceeding was settled by the parties, outside of court. The grounds of the divorce were abandonment, failure to provide and habitual drunkenness.

Goodland Star: Last Wednesday the Newton County Citizen suspended publication after a short, sad career of four months. Messrs. Davis & Soliday will dispose of the outfit and fall back to a quiet life again. A Democrat paper can never be a howling success in Newton county and three newspapers oan not exist long in a town the size of Goodland. Sometime- ago it was rumored a job printing concern was to locate here, but that too, like the festive Citizen, dropped out of eight. _

From Postmaster General’s Report:—lt was claimed that rural delivery would increase the value of farm lands. Official reports indicate that in communities served by rural free delivery, isolated farms have been enhanoed in value beoause of that service at an average rate of at least 5 per cent in the older settled states, and in more remote states and territories, where postal facilities have heretofore been few end far between, the inorease of value has been much greater.

The bulletin of the Btate Board of Health just issued shows that there were 2,559 deaths in Indiana during the month of Ootober. In Jasper oounty there were 7 deaths, an annual death rate per 1,000 inhabitants of 5. J per cent. Rensselaer is credited with only one death, an annual death rate per 1,000 inhabitants of 5. 2 per cent

Marriage Licenses. rv ■a j John Lather WateoD, Deo b loma Grace Davis. For sale, a colt ooming three years old. Enquire of Dr. W. W. Hartsell. Mrs. S. H. Howe. w2t Fine picture mounting board, in all colors, for sale at oost at The Republican office, to dose it out Go to J. O. Carmichael for robes and blankets. Every Saturday a sale day oh single harness. Shop on Cullen street, opposite the Makeover House dwtf

The Circuit Court.

Has Turned Up Its Toes.

Increased Farm Values.

Jasper's Mortality Record.

Judge Hanley’s First Wedding

Judge C. W. Hanley scored his first wedding at 2:45 p. m. last Saturday afternoon, Dec. 6th. The parties were Mr. John Lather Watson, son of John C. Watson, of Gillam tp., and Miss Oma Grace Davis, daughter of Chas. R. Davis, of the same township, The wedding was a very private affair. The groom is 29 and the bride 27. The Judge performed the ceremony in fine style, bat declined to accept any fee for his services. Whether he availed himself of the ancient prerogative of kissing the bride we are not at liberty to state.

Fish and Game Laws.

From the forthcoming report of Z. T. Sweeney, commissioner of fisheries and game of Indiana, the following suggestions for fntnre legislation are called: The law requiring dam owners to ladder their mill dams should provide for a penalty of $5 per day for their refusal to do so. The appointment of a speoial committee by the Legislature to take under considers 4 lion the question of stream pollution and draft a bill, To forbid residents as .well as non-residents taking more than 24 game birds out of the state upon any speoial day. A provision that 36 rail, plover and snipe can be killed in one day in the open season- * Require a lioense fee of $1 from each person who owns or nses a shotgun. An accurate description of the owner or user thereof should be contained in the licenee. The open season on duoks, brandts and water fowls to be made one month shorter. The open season for killing squirrels between Oct. 1 and Nov 10 of each year be abolished. The legislature should provide for nature study in the publio sohools.

Death of Alice Daywitt.

Alice Daywitt died on Monday morning, Deo. Bth, 1902, at the home of her father, Barney Daywitt, at Fair Oaks. She had been working at Charles Robinson’s house, on Milroy street, in Rensselaer for a few weeks and previously had worked at the Nowels House. On last Tuesday she went home siok, and with what appeared to )be symptom of inflamation of the bowels. Sunday Dr, English went up to see her, in consultation and states that so far as oould be determined without a post-mortem, her death was caused by an obstruction of the bowels. She was about 18 years old. The funeral will be held Tuesday.

Zero Weather Is Here.

The many people who have been prophesying a warm winter may now have to revise their predictions, Anyhow the weather we are having how is conclusive evidence that the winter has not lost its grip yet. by any means. Sunday was a oold one, with a temperature down to 12 degrees early in the morning, and not getting above 16 degrees all day, but that was only a precursor of wfiat was to follow, for it grew steadily colder all night, and at |seven o’olock on Monday morning, the U. S. minimum thermometer stood just at zero. But it was still growing oolder and a half hour later it was two degrees below zero. ' This was its lowest mark for the night and after that it olimbed slowly up for a few degrees, until at two p. m. it reached 10 above zero, which was its highest mark for the day. None Such Mince Mpat like mother used to make for 8o at John Egers, ?■ ----- -- *

Items Here and There.

Over at Rochester, this State, the doors of four saloons are closed for one month. It is all due to the fact that the notices were not published twenty days prior to the meeting of the board of county commissioners at their Deoember term. Occasionally an eagle is still killed in Jasper county, the latest instance occuring in Gillam tp., when Mr. Raybnrn shot a golden eagle, often called a black eagle, that measured 7 feet from tip to tip of its outspread wings; which is unusually large, even for an eagle. The bird was sent to Lebanon to be mounted. The current number of The Interior, the great Presbyterian chnroh paper, contains a fine portrait of Rev. M. R. Paradis, formerly located here, and an extended review of his present very successful work as a Presbyterian pastor at Waverly, Minn. Rev. I. I. Gozby, former pastor of the Rensselaer Presbyterian church here, has just been selected as assistant pastor of Jefferson Park Presbyterian church, in Chicago, of which the celebrated Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage is pastor. Rev. Talmage is planning to get busy in an unusual degree, and Mr. Gorby is especially to assist in the work of organizing the young men and women into visiting bands to carry the campaign into the homes of the people. Goodland Citizen: Papers were filed today with the auditor of Newton oounty by E. B. Sellers, the attorney for Goodland in the courthouse dispute, appealing from the decision of the county oouncil and commissioners in their failure to make appropriations and aooept bids on proposed new conrt house to be built at Goodland. The case will come up for trial on the second Monday in January.

The continuous rain and consequent spongy soil of old England naturally developes large feet, on horses as weU as humans. Thus the Barons Horse Stooks company here has been obliged to make a specially large size ot their foot damps for the apparatus, especially for their English trade though some of the big horses in the lumber regions of this oountry oall for the larger size of damp also, Only two of these large clamps have yet been received and one of them was sent to England with a maohine Friday. The Crown Point Star says that the cost of bridging in Lake county the past ten years would if all footed up, soare the tax payers. Also that there is no prospeot of a let-up in the demand for new bridges, owifig largely to the new ditohing being done. Jasper county is in the same boat with Lake in this matter, and even worse off, for in Lake the many railroads pay the big end of all taxes, while Jasper has comparatively few railroads, and the people have to foot the bridge bills themselves.

Mrs. J. L. Jones desires to say that she has on hand constantly a full assortment of Croft and Reed's fine soaps, cxtraots, perfumes eto. Phone 278. Strated: — Two black pigs, weighing about 125 lbs each Btray-| ed from Eigelsbaoh’s soale yard! one day last week. Leeive word at tbe meat.market. Are you looking for bargains if. you are you will make a mistake by not calling on Mrs. Puroupile. She sells better goods for the money than has ever been sold in town. Mrs. Puroupile. Hay ner is Here. 8. H. Hay ner, old reliable piano tuner is here. Leave orders for his servioe at Clarke’s jewelry store. .. , , w #

A Lullaby.

1.1T.f.E B. MAHHHAI.T----1 Republished From the Christian (standard; Cincinnati.) . ;; Falling, softly falling, the dew upon the rose; Waving, wildly waving, the leaves in fltfni throes; And the strong sweet winds of early night Sing baby to repose. Oh, windaof night, sing low, sing low, As babe to Bye-low goes. Calling, softly calling, the night bird to its ~ mate; Drowsily, so drowsily, for late, it is ho late; And swaying branches cradle them Where Dreamland's pictures wait. (A, birds of song, how sweet,how sweet A dreamer’s happy state. Stealing, lightly stealing, as lily petals glide; Closing, slowly closing, their golden hearts inside; Soft shadows fringed o’er starry ayes Their merry mischief hide. Oh, sweet, sweet eyes, 'neath fairy lids In sleep abide, abide. Rensskiuabu, Ind.

An Eighty-Fourth Birthday.

In honor of the 81th birthday of William W. Wiehard the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church held their regular Deoember meeting at bis home on North Webster street Thursday afternoon. Notwithstanding the oold wave that arrived on that day the attendance was unusually large both of members and visitors The program for the day consisted of the reading of leaflets by Mrs. B. O. Gardner and Mrs. H: W. Jackson, a paper prepared by Mrs. C. H. Porter of Delphi, and read by Mrs. A. M. Stockton and an original poem by Mrs. E P. Honan. After the program a fine lunch was served, and a general social time was enjoyed. Mr. Wishard is one of our young old men and entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. Altogether the afternoon was very pleasantly spent by those present. Many expressions of congratulation and good-will were heard and they had the ring of genuineness. Forty-four persons were present.

In Case of Epidemic.

Tbe 155th volume of the Indiana reports, but reoently issued, gives a decision of the supreme court in which it is held that the keeping of children out of school in oase of an epidemic is a police power vested in the authorities, and that it is the duty of the local board of health of whioh the oity oounoil is an ex-office board, to enforce auoh orders as will protect the health Qf the community.

Ladies sewing chairs $L at E. J. Hurley’s furniture store. Buggies and Carriages, at Wm Sohleman’s. Don’t forget that Joe Jaokson s still in the bus business. Phone 210, ' Now is the time to clean chimneys, and Harry Wiltshire is the man to dean them. The ladies of the M. E. ohurch will hold their bazaar, Thursday Dec. 18tb, 1602. in the room back of the post-offioe. They will also serve roast chicken and chicken pie dinner. Cone everybody a’bd get a good meal for 25 cents, dwtf

HOMINY MEAL The Famous Feed for Fattening Hogs Or Stock of hay kind. It is not a patent medioated j food; just simply the hearts of the corn: Extracted at Hominy Mills; from tbe best of white corn. By analysis it has been shown that the heart of the grain oontains twice the amount of oil or fat, found in tbe other portions of the grain. Intelligent progressive feeders in Jasper oounty as well as other parts of the state are feeding it with profitable results. Why not you? Remember it costs but little moke per ton than good ooru. For Sale at tbe Rensselaer Feed Store by A. L, Branch. •