Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXXVI

THE COUNTY COUNCIL

$62,500 Appropriated. The County Tax Levy Greatly Reduced. The Jasper County Council were in regular annual sessions Tuesday and Wednesday. The full council wm present, namely Frank L. Babcock, chairman, J. 0. Martindale, Walter V. Porter, Roberts Drake J. W. Williams F. Pettit. The general appropriation bill for the year 1905 was passed, and also a special additional bill for the present year. In all both ordinances appropriate $62,562.20, The general ordinance as always, provides for all the ordinary county expenses, such as salaries and supplies for county officers, pays for township assessors, poor farm maintenance etc. Some of the generally interest, ing appropriations are here given. For gravel road repairs, Ist district $1,250; 2nd district $3,000; 3rd district $750 total $5,000. For new bridges. In Union Tp, over Gifford ditoh S3OO. In Keener Tp, at Kankakee river SBOO. In Ktener Tp. on county line $2,500. Three bridges ever Garrison ditches $1,600. For bridge repairs $1,500. For redeeming court house bonds, $5,000. Fur interest on court house bonds, $6,500. Toe ordinance for additional expenses this year, includes $750 for for extending Burk’s bridge, north of Rensselaer; repairing Baum’s bridge $3,000, repairing Hebron bridge S6OO. Also $1,500 for gravel road repairs, and S3OO for advance cost on ditches. The county tax levey for the year was placed at 28J cents on the SIOO assessed valuation, and 11 cents for principal and interest on court house bonds. The total is 39J cents on the SIOO, which is a reduction of 10 cents over the rate for last year, a very notable and satisfactory reduction.

Landis A Noted Leader.

From the Delphi Herld we learn that Congressman C. B. Landis would speak today at a big fair at Fredonia N. Y., he being the speaker for<“Republioan Day” at the fair, while David B. Hill, of New York will be speaker for Democrat Day” Thursday. To be chosen as a suitable man to measure up against that greatest of present Democratic leaders, D, B. Hill, is certainly a mark of greit distinction for Mr. Landis, as so also are the many requests for his services, in the campaign, from other states. From Fredonia he will go to Maine, where he will make three speeches next week. After our two great senators, there is no other Congressman in Indiana who begins to approach Mr, Landis in reoognation outside of cur own state, as an orator.

METHODIST CONFERENCE IN SESSION.

Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 7.-The fifty-sixth annual meeting of the northwestern Indiana Methodist conference began last evening with more than 200 ministers present and Bishop Earl Cranston presiding* Former Congressman Faris delivered the address of welcome and 8. P. Colvin, of Monticello, preached the conference sermon. The delegates' are guests in Terre Haute residences, but the conference is likely to decide that hereafter the churches shall provide the expense of entertaining delegates and avoid requesting residents to take strangers into their honiOs. ■ Let the MoCoyaburg lumbermen ure ou your bill, t hey will save on money.

NO. 108

AN ELEGANT CHURCH WEDDING.

At noon last Tuesday Sept. 6tb, 1904, an elegantly devised and executed wedding took place in the main auditorium of Trinity M, |E. church. The contracting parties were Rev. Fred K. Rich, of Naperville, 111., and Miss Katie M. Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Collins, of Barkley Tp. The church was beautifully decorated in pink and white, and a profusion of fixers. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. L Kindig, in the presence of a large audience. After the ceremony the relatives and guests from abroad, repaired to the home of the bride's parents when a big wedding dinner was served, and where an afternoon reception was held for the bridal couple. Next morning'they took the train for Naperville, their future home.

Gravel Roads for Gillam.

A petition for a system of gravel roads in Gillam township was presented to the Commissioners this week, and the preliminary action taken. It is proposed to build 13| miles of gravel ojr stone roads in the township in three branches. ■Otfe called the Independence branch is to be 8} miles long, and mostly in a north and south direction, This main line is to be interesected with two east and west branch lines. One known as the Vernon branch is 3| miles long. The other known as the Central Gillam branch is to be If miles long. The system if built, will connect with the south Gillam gravel road, already constructed, and will give good inlets to Medaryville and Francesville from nearly all parts of the township. It is proposed to build the system under the town* ship gravel road law, and will require an election to decide if it will bs ouilt or not. Under the provisions of the law the entire amount that can be expended in the township system of improved roads would be only about $20,000 or about $1,500 per mile, which ordinarily would not construct good roads. But owing to the abundance and accessibility of gravel along the proposed lines and other special advantages, it is believed this system can be built with the amount available. H. L. Gamble was appointed engineer and E. L, Clark and D* H. Yeoman viewers, all of Rensselaer. September 13th is set as the date for the viewers to begin tbeir work.

The City School Attendance.

The Rensselaer public schools have re-opened with an attendance of 332 in the grades and 171 in the high school or 503 in all. The high school attendance breaks all opening records, especially in the Freshman aid Senior, years. The present number of the seniors promises to produce the bnmper graduating class of all our school history. The following is the attendance by rooms. . Ist year 36 Ist and 2nd years 38 2nd and 3rd years 27 3rd year 37 4th year 43 sth year 45 6th year 39 7th year 46 Bth year 26 Freshman year 64 Sophomore year 42 Junior year 31 Senior year 34

The only 4 stroke washing machine on the market at the MoCoysburg hardware. Price $5.50.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER g, 1904.

CARNIVAL COMPANY SOON CLINCHED.

Robinson Carnival Company Here Week After Next Another change in carnival plans have been made, and caused by the arrival here of G. P. Boblitz, agent of the Robinson Carnival Company. He offered the service of his aggregation for the week beginning Monday Sept. 19th, and bis proposition was at once accepted. The company is vouched for as one of unusual excellence, Fuller particulars will be given later.

Mits Selina Switzer, of 7 or 8. miles north, met with a very painful, and possibly dingerous acoi dent, while going home from Rensselaer, Monday evening, with the family of her brother, Ezra Switz sr. She and Mrs. Switz r were in the rear seit of a two seated buggy, and just as they were going upon the south end of Burk’s bridge, the seat fastenings gave way, and the two women fell out backwards, upon their heads and shoulders, and while the horses were on a brisk trot. Mrs. Switzer wrs not hurt to mention, but Miss Switzer, who is very large; and heavy, was severely hurt. The sternum or breast-bone is fractured, and other portions of her body severely bruised, there are also some indications of possible internal injuries but the physician does not think them likely. She is now doing as well as could be expected.

Jury Commissioners, R. B. Harris and Mose Tuteur have drawn the grand and petit jurors for the September term of the circuit court which begins next week. The grand jury is called or the first Monday and the petit ury for the second Monday of the erm. The following are the urors, as drawn. GRAND JURY John W. Hacksbaw Wheatfield Jas. R. Parkison Newton Taylor Collins John Bowman Elmer E. Pullins Gillam Gustav Herisoher Walker PETIT JURY Henry Bouk Walker Thomas Butler Walker Wm Fitzgerald Kankakee Cornelius Evers Keener John Carder Union James H. Carr Newton Albert E. Abbott Rensselaer John T. Biggs Kankakee John D. Cooper Kankakee Lewis Fritz Walker David M. Waymire Marion Fritz Zard Marion Geo. A. Capes Jordan Fred Boier James L. Babcock Union Harley Lamson Newton. Marriage Licenses. a . K t John K. Franheser, Bept 5 J Maud Babb. a . . ( William E. Scott, B’P l ' 5 1 Pearl Babb. q , • ( Fred K. Rich, Sept. 5 ] Katie M. Collins.

BUGGY SEAT FELL OUT.

Jurors For September Term.

Farm For Rent. A farm of 280 acres. 8j miles southeast of Rensselaer. Well fence, well tiled, good buildings near good school. Will rent for term of years, at low cash rent. w 2tp W. J. Gaffield. For sale, good second hand lady’s bicycle at a bargain. Enquire at Rensselaer Feed Store.

Obituary.

Charles H. Price. Charles Henry Price, eldest eon of Wm. B and Susan M- Price was born in w ranklin Mills, County of Kent Ohio, Jan 26tb. 1849 Died, Aug. 31st ’O4, at Remington, Ind.

Charles H. Price moved to Indi ana in 1867 and lived with bis par ents on the farm. H-* finished bis education at Stockwell College in 1870. In 1873 be was married to Lizzie A. Jones; to this union three children werfi boro; Grace Bradford, who died at the age of 4 years and 4 months, Max Taylor and Don Krasher, who both survive him. In 1874, he was elected to the office of County Clerk of Jasper Co. and re-aleotid in 1878, resigning the office a few months .prior te the expiration of his term 1 1 take up the practice of law in Highmore, So Dak. He was elected Probate Judge while there and served four years in that office- In 1887, he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, which convened in Sioux Falls, and was selected by that body a member of a special committee sent to Bismarck to equalize the division of the property of the Territory when it was divided into th» two Dakotas. In 1888 be was appointed by Gov. Church one of the compilers of the laws of South Dakota. In 1890, he removed from Highmore, 8. D. to Middlesboro, Kentucky, where he continued in the,praotice of his profession In 1898, when war was declared against Spain, he organized a company of volunteer infantry, and was elected captain of same, and served in that capacity until mustered out in October of the same year. In the fall of 1899, he removed to Webb City, Mo. Continuing in the practice of law until stricken with the fever June 2nd, 1903, from which he never recovered. His wife and sons, believing there was no possible chance of his recovery brought him back to spend his last days at the old homestead, knowing it had always been his desire to be buried near there. They arrived at Remington, Dec. 31st, 1903, and at his request, moved him out to the old home, where he remained for eight or ten weeks then came to Remington where he has borne his suffering so bravely and so patiently.

On the day of his death he remarked: **This has been a long hard death, but it will be so sweet when it is all over. God bless all my people.” He had no fear of death but wee ready and anxious to be released from suffering. Almost his last conscious words were: "Don’t try to do anything more. Everything has been done that oan be, Let me go.”

Ho leaves a wife, two sons, one sister and four brothers and a hoe of relatives and friends to mourn for him. Since his early days, he has been an active member of ths Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias Lodges and Eastern Star Chapter. He was also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter of Middlesborc, Kentucky and Kosair Temple of Louisville, Kentucky.

After short religious services on Sunday morning at the family home conducted by the Rev. Chas. W. Fostill, the remains were taken to the Presbyterian church, at Rensselaer, Ind., where religious services were conducted by Rev. A, G. Work. At the conclusion of the services, the funeral rites were in charge of Masonic Lodges assisted by the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias Lodges and Eastern Star Chapter.

Advance fall sale of blankets and tennis flannels at Rowles & Parker’s.

GOOD CIRCUS AND NICE PEOPLE

The Goll mar Brothers’ Railroad Circus bad a very large attendance at their afternoon performance here Monday, and a good attendance in the evening. Their show has not so many different performers and performances as some others that have visited Rensselaer, but for uniform excellence of what they do have, it has probably never been excelled by any ever here.

The Petet family as acrobats are wounderfully fine, and so also the Dihns, ou the tight wire; and especially the man of the combination, whose dancing and high jumping on the wire are marvellous. The Ashtons on tbs trapeze are "way up there” both in what they do as well as where they do it, and no doubt also in the price they get for it. Nothing ailed the horizontal bar fellows either, and one who was in the make-up of an elderly farmer was a cracker jack from a good ways back. The swinging ladder work was also first class, and an injun rubber gent who did his tricks on swings and elevated hand rings was one of the beet ever seen. The trick riding was good, though not extensive, and also the trick animals and downs. As to the behavior of the circus people there can not a single objection be made and as to the shell game and short change and similar gangs that always seems to show up with the Wallace circus there was not a vestige of them in evidence. The menagerie was not ex tensive but was excellent what there was of it. The hippopotamus was there for sure, and the biggest one ever seen here. In fact, Gollmars’ is a genuinely meritorious and honest show, and if, along with their other excellences, they would quit using the monstrously lying bills that all show printing houses deal in, and only advertise what they actually have, it would be not the greatest show on earth, but the best, from a moral point of view, anyhow.

BENEFIT OF BAND.

Au all days market will be held next Saturday , inMoody & Roth’s meat-market, at which all kinds of good things will be on sale. It will be conducted by the Rebekahs and th proceeds will go towards buying much needed new instruments for the Military Band. An earnest request is extended for a patronage for this deserving purpose.

$3.55 for the round trip to Indianapolis Sept 12th, to loth, Limit Sept. 19th. W. H. Beam. Agent All the new weaves in wool dress fabrics just received direct from the manufacturer at Rowles & Parker’s. < A oar load of Michigan peaches and pears on sale days, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 13th and 14th. Chicago Bargain Store. Wanted 20 sales ladies at Idea, olpthing store apply between 6 and 9 p. m. Mrs. Leota Jones has her house for rent on Front street. - i-•. Wanted, ten cash boys at Ideal clothing store between 6 and 9 p. m. ________ Fur sale at public auction on Sat. afternoon at 4:30 p- m. in front of court house. The gray team formerly driven by W. 8 Parks to his express wagon. Mrs Alice Parks. Massage. Facial and body massage, baths and gymnastics given at home Call up phone 136 and ask for Mias W. J.Lundh. w2d2p

SURE CINCH FOR NOVEMBER.

Big Republican Plurality In Vermont, Is Sure Indications of Roosevelt * Election.

The btate election in Vermont was held Tuesday. For 30 yearn past the Vermont state election om presidential years, has been a sure barometer as to what the presidential election would be in the following November, A Republican plurality above the normal, han always been followed by Republican national euooess in November.. At Tuesday’* election the Republican plurality was about 32,000 whicn is the hugest ever given except in the great democratic slump year of 1896, when the plurality was 40,000. Hsd the plurality£Tuesday been only 25,000, or below, it would have left grounds for the Democrats to hope to ruin, but when it reaches the bumper figure of 32,000 they might about as well throw up the sponge.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

The county commissioners oom* pleted the work of their September session. Wednesday evening* Saloon licenses for one year were granted to Henry Hilderband,* Conrad Kellner and Herman Schultz, all of Rensselaer; and to* John MbGlinn and MiohaeK Bernioken of Wheatfield. D. M. Ferguson resigned hisprevions appointment to a scholarship at Purdue University, and the appointment was given io John R. Parkison. Don't fail te see those new fa> ■ suitings in both wool and- '■ cotton - fabrics at Rowles k Parker’s*

Steck Wanted Te Pasture. Have good fall pasture for 8 or 10 head of steers. Inquire at this office or call F. L. Borntiager, phone 509 A. dw3t Plain sewing wanted by the day at patrons’ residences. Leave word at Mrs. Purcupile’s millinery store, or with Mrs. Lonella. Phillips. w2d6p Miss G.acs Hoover.

OLD SETTLERS AT MEDARYVILLE* September 16th and 17th the Old Settlers of Pulaski and Jasper county will hold a meeting at Medaryville, Ind., in Horner’s Park No expense or work is being spared to make this meeting a grand success, you are invited to attend the town is yours, come and take it, good music, sports, and amusements of all kinds, balloon asoention, base ball, good bands, free dinner to all. free shows all the time and a big shoot given by Medaryville Gun Club. wSeplff

Parker does framing. Dish-washer or second cook wanted at Makeever House. r 1 Persons contemplating going to the northwest should see me before going. Our next excursion leaves Chicago, Tuesday Sept 6th, W. M. Donahue. $1,40 for the round trip to Lafayette Sept 15tb. Limit Sept. 16 th W. H. Beam. Agent. Wanted, ten salesmen at Ideal clothing store apply between 6 and 9 p. m. Good canning peaches for about SI.OO per bushel, on sale days, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 13th, and 14th. Chicago Bargain Store Wanted girl for general housework. J. Vanatta