Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1907 — Page 2

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We Are Here to Stay. i. t . , W. L. WOOD, . Parr, Indiana *• —■ ; \ jl-M-’-l-M tItI 4*84*84*84*84*84*84*84*84*84*84*84*84*8 1 THE STATE BANK s *** •J* 5 v Of Rensselaer. ■ 4* 4* ■ Located on the Corner of Washington and Van m Rensselaer Streets. ■ 4* ■ S DIRECTORS jj JOHN EGER, President. DELOS THOMPSON, Cashier f J LUCIUS STRONG GRANVILLE MOODY ■ ■- WARREN ROBINSON ■ ■ ~~ 4* , This bank does a general banking business. Loans money on all kinds of approved security. Buys notes, pays interest on 4* deposits, pays taxes for customers and others. ■ > THIS BANK WILL BE GLAD TO EXTEND EVER ■ S FAVOR TO ITS CUSTOMERSCONSISTENT WITH ♦ • ' SAFE RANKING PRINCIPLES. J £ ■ (4i4*B4*B4**B4* 84*84*84*8 4*84*84*84*84*84* 84*84*84*8 4*b4* 5 " .DIRECTORS * A. ParHsqj),. President E. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier •i John M. Wasson. Vice-President .. • * Jamea T. Randis George E. Murray <• S * —■ - - '• | First National Bankr * 3 North Side Public Square. Rensselaer, Indiana J Loans Money : S On all kinds of good security on city property and on Z Farm at lowest rates, flays interest on savings, pays 2 taxes and makes investments for customers and others • 5 and solicits personal interviews with a view to business, !• 5 promising every favor consistent with safe banking. J 3 JF"ax*xxx Loans A SPECIALTY g

I'T'HE reason we always have business is we are always busy. We buy the best goods on the market at I lowest cash price; we sell at a small profit. Wc always have fresh i goods to show our custojmers. We can furnish you with anything that is useful in the house or on the farm. Remember, we carry Groceries, Dry Goods, Harness, Wagons, Buggies, Horses. We have had 17 years' experience in business, expect to continue. We appreciate the patronage we have received in the past, and wel- , come a continuance of the same.

Notice of Ditch Petition . ' , v ,_, b t> And Preliminary Report in the Da vis-Jungles Ditch./• CAUSE NO. 4869. - To Ross Boyle. William Cooper, John W. Davisson, Emma Davisson, Mary K. M. Kroeger,’ \\ i.he.ni Heikher, FredS. Miser, Joseph Smith. Fred Hasselbring, Thomas Davis, MadrSrm C. Vonts/Martha J. Bowman, Scott Cooper, John Russ, Michael Jungles. Lewis -V. Sayler, Mary Geriock, James Dobson, William B. Austin, J. P. Hartsdok, Daniel Wolfe, John Makeever, Benjamin 1. Gifttad, S. H Moore, Marguerie Springe', James Wiseman, Jjt.. Francis C Mahin, Ike. Kerstein, Eliza Kennedy. C. F. Crape Emily yjTTibngJ--Essie D. Pinger. Hannah A Davisson. John K. Smith, I innie A Gant. James' Barber, Ida Trotman. Greenip I. Thomas Harvey Davisson, Grace Trotman. Flora J. J’oole. JotnrFrazee, Susannah Frazee, James F Swaitn, Jennie Wegging, Paul A\ egging, George Axe heirs, Frederick Yeiter, Jacobine Yeiter, Grant Davisson. Edwaid Ritter, Wil. liam Yeiter, John W. Clouse, Elda M. Clouse Arthur Kiesler, Grace Kresler, Theodore Snow, San.; el A. Willi, ms, Fiancis M. Lakin. Geo. B. Switzer, Nancy I. Burges, William Hoile, John ‘ Meneley, Eunice M. Helsel, .Arthur 11. Hopkins, Jame» H. Knight, William B. Hurley, jr., Malachi P. Comer, Mary J. Comer. Abraham Miller, Clarence Hurley. Sarah. H. Hurley, Franklin_ Vest, Jacob Rich, James N. Leatherman, John Renicker. Stephen T. Comer, Henry IL Hayes, Emeline Switzer, John Schroer, Marcel A. Viti. St Louis Viti, Melville H. Gairiott, Margerie H. Geoge, Everett A. Trook, W: Iker Civil Township by Fr< d Karch, truste.e, Barkley Civil Township by Grant Davisson trustee-;-Union Civil Township by Harvey Davisson trustee, and Marion Civil Township by Charles F. Stackhouse, trustee: . ’. . You are hereby nobbed that the originaT petition has been amended in the foregoing entitled cause pending n the Commissioners Court of Jasper County, Indiana and,the drainage commissioners in obedience to the order of the Board have filed their amended preliminary report with the Auditor June 29. 1907 Ind was noted bkd.hy, the .JJo’ r 1 of Commissioners as of July 2. 1907 and the cause Continued for service on persons not Otig’na’ly named in the petition but who are named in s.-.id pr.limina y report and you a.e '" sons nT"’d7

The amended preliminary report as filed by said drainage commissioners have located the line of said improvement on the following described route, to-wit:' Commcndi g at a point 70 rods north and 30 feet east of the north west corner of the-seutheast quarter of section 10. township 31, noith, tange 6 west in Jasper County, Indiana, thence east following in the line of the Jungles di'ch to stake 40, thence south to stake 86. thence south easterly along the line of the Jungles ditch to stake 132 and From said stake 132 the ditch leaves the Jungles Di ch in a due southwest direction to a point too feet south of the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 5, township 30 north, range 6 west, thence in a general southerly direction to the public ditch known as the Comer Ditch and following the line of the Comer Di' ch to a large dredge ditch known as the Gifford Ditch, being state 434 plus 50 of this improvement and from thence south westerly following the line of the Gifford dredge ditch to the Gifford Lateral to the Iroquois River Ditch where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet. Therefore, you and each of you are notified of the filing of said petition and the amended preliminary reportas of July 2, 1907 and that said cause was continued for objections under the statute and continued generally to the August Term, 1907 of this Board when the same will come up again for hearing. Witness the hand and seal of the SKAL Auditor of Jasper County,; Indiana, -- ' this 2d day of July, 1907. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana. MICHAEL JUNGLES, ET ALJ Petitioners. Foltz & Spitler, Attorneys. July 5-12-16

Notice of Ditch Assessment. Ditch No. 3692. In the matter of collecting assessments on the Garrison and Horton Ditch, Cause No. 3692, in Commissioners* Court*6T’Jasper County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given to Joseph Sigman, Firza Garrison, Joseph Shertz, Sterns FIliff, William F. Horton, A. A. McQxnn, Jordon Township Public Roads, ChaL E. Sage, Trustee. You are hereby notified that under the statute you will be required to pay ten per centum of your assessments on the Garrison and Horton Ditch improvement each month from July Ist, 1907, and that such payments shall be made to the undersigned, a» Superintendent of said improvement, at the County Surveyer’s Office, Jasper County, Indiana, and that such assessments shall be paid every three months, commencing the first payment September Ist, 1907, and thereafter every three months thirty per cent until enough has been paid to pay for the construction of said improvement and ill expenses connected therewith. Dated this 9th day of July, 1907. DANIEL W. WAYMIRE. jul 12-19 Superintendent

Non-Residents Notice. The State of Indiana, | In the Jasper Circuit Jasper County. j Court. To September Term, 1907. Leona V. Taber I vs > Complaint No. 7>77 Albert P. Taber ) . Now.comes the Plaintii, by E P. Honan her attorney, and tiles her complaint herein together with an affidavit that the' defendant Albert P. Taber is not a resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given -said Defendant, that unless he be and appear on the first day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the 2nd Monday of September, A. D., i 907, at the Court House in Rensselaer in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in his absence. . - -*■- In witness whereof, I hereunto Al.\et my hand and affix the Seal of '^ 7 Court, at Rensselaer this 24th day of June A. D. 1907C. C. WARNER, Clerk. Julyg-16-23 w

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BANE OF THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN INDIANA HAS BEEN LIFTED AT LAST

ISpcclnl Correspondence.] first tfme in recent years—the only Instance in the history of many companies—special contracts are not being written by life insurance companies doing business in Indiana. It Is likely that this bane of the life insurance business will be no longer experienced in this state. All of the companies ceased writing special contracts the first of June, not by their own volition, but as the result of a decree Issued by Auditor of State Billheimer. That this great reform in the insurance business has been accomplished is due entirely to the fearless position taken by the auditor of state and his determination to compel the companies to cease writing a policy that Is generally believed to be a burden to the vast majority of policy holders who do not have special contracts. Many of the companies protested against the decree of the auditor, but the latter stood his ground and informed the companies that unless they ceased the special contract writing he would bring suits to mandate them to obey the law. There was some question as to whether the auditor could compel the companies to give up writing special contracts, but he took a chance and they acquiesced in his demands. Big pain for Public. The result of the auditor's crusade will be a big gain to the public that buys Insurance. Experts figured recently that the burden of special contracts on the other policy holders cost them 15 or 20 per cent annually on their policies that they should have received in dividends. In view of the fact that there is probably more than $100,000,000 worth of Insurance in force in this state, the annual saving to the policy holders can be appreciated. Many of the companies objected to the auditor’s demand on the ground that it would put them out of business. This appeal came from some of the younger organizations that were at-tempting-to build up on an exclusive special contract basis. It was the opinion of the experts connected with the auditor's department that it would be unsafe to permit any of these companies to continue writing special contracts. Three or four have quit business since the auditor made his ruling, but they were not strong enough to stand up and make a fight within the laws as the auditor interpreted them. It is believed that as the result of the action of the companies the Insurance business in this state will soon be on a much stronger foundation and that it will be only a matter of a very short time before Indiana takes first rank as the home of insurance companies that can be relied on. Republican Reform Accomplished. One of the principal features of the Insurance bills defeated during the last session -of the legislature because of the almost united stand of the Democrats against them was the clause forbidding the writing of special contracts. When these bills were defeated it was .not thought that there would be any Insurance reform for at least two years. The Insurance men who had fought the wills were In high glee, believing that their victory woultf be permanent. It develops, however, that they reckoned entirely without their host and that this desirable reform has finally been accomplished by the servants of the people who were nominated and elected by the Repute Ucan party. Apropos of the reeult of Auditor Blllhelmer's demand, it may be stated

here that the Democrats were consistently opposed to insurance reform during the recent session of the legislature. The only time they were ever for the Babcock-Farber bills was when they thought they might put the Republicans in a hole. Then their leaders sent out the word that they must support the measures. They thought they were playing a political masterstroke, but a little later, when they thought they could play more politics, they reversed their actions and caused the death of the bills. Those who were in close touch with the Democratic leaders throughout the session knew that they never thought seriously of the proposed reforms in the insurance business and that they never cared to take any position except in hopes of embarrassing the Republicans. Under these circumstances the reform that has been accomplished by the auditor’s department is all the more significant. Not asly has the writing of special contracts been stopped, but unddr the new laws enacted by the recent legislature the auditor is enabled to keep such close tab on the life insurance companies that the opportunities for fraud have been minimised. The auditor has a new deputy in the insurance department who Is giving such close attention to the securities deposited by the Insurance companies that they will not have any chance of putting up worthless paper as a guarantee of their good faith and as security for the money they have obtained from their policy holders.

Independent Telephone Notice. All patrons who do not pay their telephone bills by the last day of each month will be charged a penalty of ten per cent Payable at the Rensselaer State Bank or at my office at the Makeever House. J. F. Brune®, wAugls Manager. Special Notice I, Benjamin S. Miller, will stand my two Black Percheron Stallions on Mondays and Tuesdays during the month, of July, 1907, and as much longer as I may deem it best, at the Hemphill Stallion Barn on river bank in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. Care will be taken to avoid accidents, but I will npt be responsible for same. BENJAMIN B. MILLER, Mt. Ayr, Indiana. Rensselaer Garage general Repairs and Supplies for Bulomobiks and Bicycles. W. H. TIMMONS, Proprietor _

Professional CARDS M D. GWIN, M. D. physician ano surgeon. Office over Murray’s De artrnent Store. Phone 205, Day or Night. DR A J MILLER Physician ana Surgeon ' Office up * tail'sin Forsythe block Genera. ' P 'actice of medicine, snr-gerv and X-ray work Cails answered promptly dav or night. Office aud residence phones 204. DR IM WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Makes a Specialty of Diseases of ■ ' the eyes. 1 -wE' Fits Eyes for Classes Rensselaer, Ind. ER EC ENGLISH PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Night and day calls given prompt attention Residence Phone 116. Office r hone, 177. Rensselaer, Ind. DR HARTSELL HOMEPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SUKGEON. Chronic diseases a specialtv In StocktonWilliams block opposite courthouse. Pnbne 30. Rensselaer, Ina. • ___ DR A. N. LAKIN PHYSICIAN & SURGEON DbMotte, Ind. All calls promptly answered day or night 'Phone house or office. DeMOTTE, IND. Wm B Austin Arthur H.Hopkias AUSTIN & HOPKINS Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage, Buy sell add rent farms and city property. Farm and city Are insurance, Office over Chicago Bargain RENSSELAER, IND. E P HONAN Attorney at Law Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Reel Estate. Will practice in all the Courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch. Rensselaer, Ind. J J HUNT Attorney at Law Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loaus. Office in Jasper ba vid gs and Trust Co. MOSES LEOPOLD Attorney at Law. Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance Up stairs Northwest corner Washington and Van Rensselaer streets. Rensselaer, End U.M Baughman Geo. A. Williams Baughman and Williams ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Farm Loans and Abstracts of Title. Loans on improved Farm Lands and City Property n specialty. Collections and Notary work promptly attenaed to. Office over First National Bank, .Phone No. 389. Rensselaer, Indiana. Frank Foltz Charles G. Bpftler FOLTZ& SPITLER (Successors to Thompson & Bros.) Attorneys at Law Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Only sec of Abstract Books in County Rensselaer Ind. ZIW H PARKISON ATTORNEY AT LAW Insurance. Law, Real Estate, Abstracts and Loans. Attorney for the Chicag.o Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the Courts. Office in Forsythe bldg., on Washington st. Rensselaer, ind. H. L. Brown DENTIST Crown and bridgework and te e t h 9 without ’ ’ plates a spi eialty. f 11 the latest methods in Dentistry. Office over Larsh'a Drug Store. Gas administered, for painless extraction. MONEY TO LOAN We have money to loan at any time, and in any amounts to suit borrowers. Our specialty is loaps on farms and city real estate for one, two, three four or five years, with interest payable semi-annually, to suit borrower, and with the most liberal terms as to payments on part of principal. We also loan on personal security and chattel mortgage. Don’t fail to see us before borrowing elsewhere. Austin & Hopkins NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I have filed in the office of the Clerk of the Jasper preuit Court my petition for the change of my name to Jessie G. Makeever. Dated this Jth day of July,' 1907. JESSIE MAKEEVER GRANT, Charles C. Warner, Clerk. Petitioner. July 9-16-23