Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1908 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN ANO JOURNAL DAILY AMD SEMI-WEEKLY Tfc« Friday Issue is the Regular Weekly Edition. HI’BHORII-'IIOS RATBM DAILY, UV CAHKIKH, IO OF.NTS A WHEK B? MAIL, *8.70 A YEAR •BMI-WBKKLY, IM ADYAieCB, YEAR SI.SO Enlered at the Postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana as Second-Class Matter.

Rensselaer Markets.

Wheat 87c Corn, new, 55c. Oats, 43c. Buckwheat 60c. Eggs 17c-19c. Chickens, spring, 9c. Hens 9c. Turkeys, young, 12c. Turkeys, old hens, 12c. Old gobblers, 10c. Ducks 6c. Geese 4c.

Republican Speaking.

A. Halleck and S. E. Sparling at Fair Oaks, Saturday evening, October 31st. Georgei A. Williams at Buckhorn school house, Walker townsWp, Wednesday evening. October 28t®

NOTICE. Notice is, hereby given that 1 will sell at public auction, to the highe t bidder, on NOVEMBER 23, 1908, at 10 o’clock a. m., at my residence in Milroy township, one black, two year old bull for charges for feed and pasture. Said bull having been left in my care by Charles E. Patrick. WILLIAM P. GAFFIEtD. PUBLIC SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. I will sell at public sale at my residence on Front street on Saturday, October 24, all of my household goods, including table linen, bedding, rugs, rocking chairs, dishes, gasoline stove, etc. Terms: Cash. Sale to begin at 1:30 o’clock. A. E. BOLSER. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. ORDER - YOUR COAL. We have the largest and best stock of coal ever in the city. Jackson Hill and Majestic for the cook stove. All sizes of hard coal for base burn- ■ ers and furnaces. Call us up. COEN & BRADY. i CAUTION ABOUT BONFIRES. Persons building bonfires are responsible for damage resulting therefrom, and as it is very dangerous during this dry weather, the practice should not be indulged in except by mature persons who give the fires constant supervision. Prosecution will follow a violation of the law. J. J. MONTGOMERY, Fire Warden. Never can tell when you’ll mash a finger or suffer a cut, bruise, burn or scald. Be prepared. Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil instantly relieves the pain—quickly cures the wound. Arrangements have now been made to run a return special train from Lafayette Friday night, to leave there at 10:30 o’clock. I The tickets that ate sold for the special here at 8 o'clock in the morning, will be good returning on any regular train that day or Saturday or on the special train returning. The one fa e rate, however, is good going only on the special train, which leaves here at 8 o’clock. Constipation causes headache, nausea, dizziness, languor, heart palpitation. Drastic physics gripe, sickens, weaken the bowels and don’t cure. Doan’s Regulets act gently and cure constipation. 25 cents. Ask your druggist. ■—J■. ■ ■ . .- . William Childers and son, Parker Childers, returned yesterday from Rolla, N. Dak., and will remain in Rensselaer for the winter at least. Will left here about 18 months ago, going first to Montana, and &e has been working in the west ever since. Parker left home before his father and has also seen a great deal of the west Both are in good health and liked the west very well. You will save money and get the Michigan stock, by buying your potatoes of the G. E. Murray Co. The man that feels best in the morning Is the one that sleeps on a Hershrnan mattress and a Rest Easy spring. Worland will make you feel good if you buy your mattress and springs of him. Worland handles Hershrnan matires and Rest Easy springs. When you are getting get the best He will sell you that kind and life will be one grand sweet dream.

BRYAN WAS HERE; SPOKE AT DEPOT

Democratic Candidate for President Devotes Most of Speech to Bank Deposit Guarantee.

William Jennings Bryan, the democratic candidate for president, was in Rensselaer this morning, and spoke from the rear of a special train at the depot for about twenty minutes, from 8:40 to 9:00 o’clock. County Chairman N. Littlefield and Attorney Edward P. Honan, who has been a friend and champion of the Nebraskui during all of hjs campaigns, went to Chicago Monday evening and .came to Rensselaer on the Bryan special. The first stop made out ofXhicago was at Hammond, where Mr. Bryan addressed a large crowd. The train did not make another stop until it, reached Rensselaer, although a large crowd h d congregated at Lowell, with the understanding that it was to stop at that place. Probably 2,000 people bad assembled at. the depot here, and Joseph Littell, of Indianapolis, who spent the night here conferring with the local dequ>crats, spoke from the t'unk trucks for about fifteen or twen'y minutes. His speech did not elicit much app’au e. Shortly after he had closed bis remarks the special train glide! in, and Mr. Honau introduced Mr. Bryan and he entered into his discussion by saying that the voters were entitled to know what the officials would do if entrusted with authority. He then discussed briefly the trust question as related to the tariff, and then entered upon a discussion of the plank in the democratic platform that propos e an adjustment of the banking busiress to require a plan of guarantee to the depositor. Mr. Bryan did not offer any new argument to the crowd that listened to him. He said what has often been said before to the effect that the person that has money wan’s to have a place to deposit it that is beyond doubt, and the relief that he and the democratic platfoim proposes is to have all the banks formed into an association that will supply a fund to guarantee all the depositors in all of the banks. He then favors a law that will make the punishment severer on the banker that fails and a law that will not only punish the bank official who loses the depositor’s money at speculation, but the banker who invests their money in speculation. Mr. Bryan assumed that because the republican convention had failed to adopt a guarantee plank they were opposed to any plans that would make the depositors secure, and ignored the laws that have been passed in Indiana and other states within recent years to bring about the result so ardently demanded by democratic speakera. And we are wondering if most people don’t know that the last se. si n of the Indiana legislature passed a law that provided for the examination of state and private banks and that would have prevented the continuance in business years ago of the McCoy, Parker, Gilman and o’her banks. Had this law been in effect fifteen years ago, it would have found the McCoy bank insolvent at that time, and it would have been closed .up. It would have closed the Parker bank when the first crooked transaction was discovered, and the Goodland bank would never have been able to have stood after it made its first unsafe loan. This law did not go into effect until the Ist of last January and it was the knowledge that his bank could not withstand the examination that caused Robert Parker to close his bank on Dec. ‘l9th. These bank examiners now make regular visits to the banks all over the state and every transaction of the bank is investigated by the examiner. He counts the cash on hand, he opens the books, he examines every loan, he verifies every security and he proves the bank solvent absolutely or be closes its doors, and as these inspections are frequent it is not possible to get a bank in very bad shape between the visits. And a banker can no longer draw the kind of a sen-' tence that Tom McCoy and Fred Gilman <fld, for the law has prescribed a different and severer penalty, and the banker who is now guilty of einbezzelment will be sentenced for from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Of course, with all of these safeguards that the state legislature has adopted, there may be failures in extreme cases of dishonesty, but we do not expect them to be either frequent or severe. —— The republican party is not opposed to a proposition to secure the depositor, and it has adopted as a plank in its platform for a measure that will create postal savings banka, that will provide for the government iccepting money on deposit at any

; of the postoffices, and which would i place behind the depositor the government itself. The republican party is determined to give to the people every security that they demand, and , while we are thoroughly convinced that the details of the plan that would make the strong banker guarantee for | the weaker one is wrong, the fact . that'the republicans in their nationI ai convention refused to adopt it does not indicate their refusal to enact legit la tion that will result in the j welfare of the people. The plan that is proposed will, it is believed, destroy the rivalry that is the basic hope of reward and anything that tends to that end is socialistic and undesirable, no matter how attractive they may appear on the surface. The republican convention refused to adop the measure because it was a radical step toward socialism, and because | they were not prepared to say that the people of the country would approve any plan that would destroy the hope of accomplishment upon which this government is fotmded. The republican party has never deceived the people and what it pledges it does if it has the power, and it is probable that the bank guarantee proposition could never have been enacted along the lines it is proposed. But the people should know that the Fowler bill, which is now pending proposes a form of guarantee, and it is a republican measure. But to revert to Mr. Bryan’s story about a farmer that wanted to borrow |3OO at the bank and had to have some of his farmer frends sign the note. Then when the’ farmer had S3OO to put in the bank be wanted the banker to have some of his banker friends to go his security for the return of the money. It was a real good and laughable story, but the best laugh did not come until the rediculousness appeared. The fact that a farmer some times gives security when he buys a farm implement of a dealer, does not imply that the dealer will get a competitive dealer to go in with him to make good a guarantee on an implement for which cash is paid. Mr. Bryan took I this German farmer through his different stages of business growth, from [the time that he began'to work out and then bought a team of horses and rented a piece of ground and finally bought the ground and later had a [farm or two paid for and had money to put id the bank. It was not until [this year that he discovered that he needed a bank guarantee and he had | prospered all these years and developed under the conditions that have maintained during the past 12 years. And according to Mr. Bryan he was now going to desert the republican party that had enacted legislation that had made it possible for him to prosper and save his money and simply vote for a plan that would keep it for him without producing the opportunity to make it. As a democratic farmer at Parr said last Friday, “I would a great deal sooner have the getting guaranteed.” And here we are, concluding the twelfth year of 1 republican national • control, the [ ' twelth year of the operation of the [ Dingley tariff measure, and the eleventh year of good prices for the j farmer, during which time the bank ( deposits, national, state and savings banks, have increased almost three fold, and the wealth of the property of all the country has developed and advanced until there is no comparison with the dark days when the WilsonGorman tariff measure doted the factories and forced the laboring man to idleness, and yet Mr. Bryan, the man of the free silver, imperialism and government ownership of railroad vageries would ask you to forego everything that made it possible to gather money together and simply look for a place to keep it after you did get It Let us first guarantee the “getting” by returning to power the party that stands for the progress of the country along all right lines and for a candidate that will never array himself against the interests of any of the people. Taft and a republican revised tariff will assure continued pros perity and the republican pary, in control of the affairs of government will meat these quest ions fairly as they come up, discuss them in the open with the people and the people will rule, gs they always have. Mr. Bryan was talking as the train pulled out' and as he stopped, the crowd let up a great cheer for him, almost as lusty as when, twelve years ago, he told them that the crown of I

thorns and the cross of gold was weighting them down, and could only be destroyed by the adoption of a free silver-pokey: -t Was he wrong then? Corn is 75 cents a bushel, and every farmer in Jaspe county has proven that Bryan was mistaken. Let us guarante the “getting” and what we shall do with it will coms along with other level headed legislation for which the republican party can be trusted.

Independence.

Simon Cooper was the guest of Ernest Rees Sunday. George Cooper is preity poorly at present. Miss Leatha Rees was the guest of Miss Stella Nuss Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. Clark preached at Independence last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels spent Sunday of last week with Mr. and Mrs. George Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ress were Rensselaer goers from these parts Friday. Walter Daniels returned from Michigan Friday and says he likes that country pretty well. Will Nuss, who has been working at Conrad, spent Sunday with his parents, Wm. Rees and Geo. Gorbet were the guests of John Watson and family of Medaryville Sunday. Ben Asher started for Fowler Satur*day afternoon with a load of onions which he purchased frpm Wm. Rees. Mrs. Jess Nuss and children, of Newland, spent a few days of last week with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nuss and family. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Barker and little son spent Saturday night and Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nuss. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Baker and baby, of Fair Oaks, spant Sunday of last week with the latter’s sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Art Enow.

NOTICE OF HEARING OF DITCH REPORT. Cause No. 94. State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: In the Jasper Circuit Court, to November Term, 1908. In the matter of the Petition of William Heilscher el al for ditch. To Charles F. Hendricks, John W. Burget, V. E. Foxworthy, James R. Alexander, Myron L. Bickford, Peter Leizenfeldt, William Fleming, Mary Ann Stallwood, Lois Wilson Jellies, Ira Shoemaker, Julius A. Spencer, John McLaughlin, Don H. Cady,. Joseph Haigh, Jasper County, Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad company, you add each of you are hereby notified that the Commissioners in the above entitled cause have filed their report therein, in the office of the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, and the hearing upon said report has been by the Judge of the Jasper Circuit Court ordered to be held at the Court Room in the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, on Thursday, the 12th day of November, 1908, the same being the 4th Judicial day of the November term of said Court. You are further notified that your name appears in said report, and your lands are described therein as being affected by the location and construction of the proposed drain upon and along the following desscribed route towit: —Commencing at [ a point on the east line of the west half of the northeast quarter of sec|tion 18, township 31, range 6 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, and immediately north of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad, thence north to stake 41, a distance of 4,100 feet, thence north 40 degrees east to stake 52, a distance of 1,100 feet, thence east to stake 96 plus 50, a distance of 4,450 feet, thence north 63 degrees east to stake 104 plus 80, a distance of 830 feet,thence north 50 degrees east to stake 140 plus 30, a distance of 3,540 feet, thence north 57 degrees east to stake 154, a distance of 1,380 feet, thence north 65 degrees east to stake 157 plus 30, a distance of 330 feet, thence south 80 degrees east to stake 165 plus 50, a distance of 820 feet, thence north 80 degrees east to stake 199 plus 35, a . distance of 3,385 feet, thence north 16 degrees east to s'ake 208, a distance of 865 feet, thence north 30 degrees east to stake 267, a distance of 5,900 feet, thence north to stake 27b plus 50, a distance of 1,250 feet, thence north 25 degrees east to stake 287 plus 50, a distance of 800 feet, thence north 68 degrees east to stake 310, a distance of 2,250 feet, thence north 54 degrees east to stake 316 plus 50, a distance of 650 feet, thence north along the line of the Wheatfield ditch to stake 423 plus 28, d distance of 7,128 feet, and enters lateral No. 5 to the Grover Smith ditch, at a point 1.000 feet south of the southeast corner of section 14, township sl, range 6, with a fall on the grade line of 29.40 feet In tbe entire distance. J. W. HEILSCHER ET AL, _ - Petitioners. Attest: C. C. Warner, "* Clerk,,. Jasper Circuit Court 0.23-30

REMINGTON NOTES

I Miss Clara Meehan visited in Chicago several days last week. | Mr, and Mrs. James Peck visited in j Chicago several days last week. John Keith, of Paris Crossing, Ind., came Wednesday to visit friends. - E.H. Bl a ke, of Wabash, visit ed relatives here Thursday of last week. Miss Bertha Primmer has been visit ' ing relatives in Delphi the past two W CCIIO. Leonard and Frank Foster went to Cincinnati Sunday, where they have positions. i Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Howard, of CbiI cago, visited their sons, George and Frank, the past week. .Jasjr i Mrs. Curtis Wright, of Watseka, ' visited Mrs. Everet Parks Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Mrs. Matt Worden and son Lewis, of Rensselaer, visited her mother, Mrs Meehan, the first of last week. | Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Bartoo visited their daughter, Mrs. J. E. Freed and family, at Wabash, last week. ; r Misses Grace Ott, Maggie Huggins, Murtie Ford and Mrs. George Hascal, were Logansport goers Thursday. Mrs. Lucinda Roe left last week for Indianapolis, where she will make her home for awhile with her daughter. Thomas Parks, of Etna Green, has been visiting his daughters, Mesdames Howard Brooks and Horas Hoover, I the past two weeks. „ I Lawrence Kellner was called to North Vernon, Friday by the death of Mrs. Anthony Gallagher, Mrs.- Kelner having been there the past month. Mrs. Albert Gier, of Reynolds, and Mrs. Hampton Long of Chicago, visited their brother, Wm. Gier, and family Wednesday and Thursday* of last week. James Blake and family who have been spending the summer at Spokane and Pullman, Wash., returned home last week and will again make their home here. •C. T. Dye sold the Jasper County i Lumber Co’s, plant, including his new residence, last week to C. B. i Johnston & Co., of Arrowsmith, 111., who will take possession of the plant about November 10th. Mr. Dye retained possession of the house until March Ist

Burns Town

Pretty big crop of Taft democrats this fall. | Katie and Eva Morgenegg called on the Hurley children Sunday. j The spakingaetCen'er school house was well attended. Mr. Foltz argued the question from start to finish. Thomas Brown and wife visited with Charles Greenlee and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gurtner, of Wabash, visited with Chris Morgenegg and family Friday and Saturday. Jake Eigelsbach and Joe Bennett passed through here Sunday in ..the latter’s auto. A A_.j J. C .Frazee was up Friday and Saturday, looking after his farms in Barkley township and to attend tbe love feast on Sunday. The teachers of Barkley township met with the county superintendent and trustee at Cosey Palace Saturday to hold institute. Jim and Jay Stanley, Herman’ An-’ deraon, Elmer Walter, Frank Grover, ! Stella and Lillie Brown called on > Samuel Holmes and family Sunday. Miss Mary Jacks, teacher at the Burns school, visited with Oka Pancost, who is teaching at Smith school house, Monday. 1 Samuel Holmes, Elmer Walter and Frank Brown went over to Rensselaer Tuesday to hear Bryan speak. I E. and W. say they are going to vote ’er straight from Bryan down, the former straight from Taft down. 1 Boys, let well enough alone.

HOW’S THIS ?

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CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to express our thanks to the many friends for their assistance and sympathy expressed because of the death of our mother, Mrs. Clark. MRS. H. AMSLER AND FAMILY.

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP

• • • •- . • '■ . • • 4 4 The McCoysburg barber shop has sgain changed hands and is now ownqd by Orlando Mannen. Oscar Howe has returned from Mitchell, S. Dak., and he thinks the wind blows too strong in the west —Miss Lora Phillips has been siek for several days and has been obliged to miss some of her school. '.'-A'A’A Mrs. Hetherington, of Boone county, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. V. Lewis. Miss Maggie Robertson, of Indianapolis, came up Saturday morning for a.short visit with relatives here. Newton Bowman, daughter Goldie and son, of Battle Ground' are here visiting relatives. Miss Theresa Knopin ski, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is here for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Knopinski. Mr. and. Mrs. G. W. Bond and son, George, and Mrs. Matilda Smith went to Fowler Friday for a visit with relatives. - - -. Lawrence and Effie Blunk, who. have been making their home with Jos. Ross this summer, went to Monon Saturday to see their father. Remember the excursion to Lafayette Friday Oct. 23, only 80 cents for the round trip. This is an excelent opportunity. 7 Miss Lillian Frazer, of Lafayette, returned home Friday after a few days’ visit with Miss Gertrude Downs. • A very dense smoke swept down over Hanging Grove last Sunday evening and continued all day Moni day, evidently some marsh was on fire some where. Another big fire was set out by the eleven o’clock train last Wednesday, sweeping everything clear for nearly a mile, burning several tele-’ phone poles off at the ground. Aunt Mary Ann Robinson and granddaughter took dinner at J. R. Phillips’ Sunday, also Mr. and Mrs.. Van Wood, of Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. Willard English and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong. Reed McCoy went to Chicago Monday morning to buy a car load of potatoes for his customers. Rensselaer isn’t the only place that potatoes are shipped in car lots. The useful shower given for Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Porter Wednesday night of last week, was attended by a number of their friends. .The happy young couple were the recipients of many useful articles. Rollin Stewart went down to Pence, Ind., last week to visit bls brother Alvin and family, and also to' look for a job husking corn. But people were not ready to husk there yet so he came back home. The republican meeting at McCoysburg Wednesday night. was attended by a large number of . voters as well as women and children. Dr. Sparling’s address was well received by the audience. He was followed by a few remarks by County Chairman Leopold. Another large fire was started Wednesday by. No. 5 on the north side of the track south of Ed Peregrines. It came north to the public road, burning a vacant house, several shocks of fodder and some standing corn. It took a number of men to extinguish the flames. Omar Osborne, of Schenectady, N. Y., is home from a visit with relatives and friends. His parents live north of Rensselaer, but he has a sister and brother living in Hanging Grove. Omar is a graduate of Purdue University, and Is now employed as draftsman, in one of the large steel plants at Schenectady. There has bean considerable clover seed hulled in Hanging Grove this fall. Jas. Lefler and Bob Drake had the largest acreage with 147 ft bushels and 109 bushels respectively, and the seed Is of excellent quality too. Mr. Drake did not have all of his clover cut when the machine came so will have another small job of milling. R. V. Johns, our village blacksmith and mechanic In general, was seized with a pain In his right ear and also his throat Friday afternoon and by Saturday morning It was exceedingly painful. He consulted a doctor at Monon and it was pronounced an abcess. For more than 48 hours he could not even swallow water, however by Monday morning he was able to take

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