Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1909 — Page 4

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Good Roads of Hill Holland.

I am a reader of. the R. F. D. News, and being a R. L. C., traveling the roads every day, I have noted with pleasure the efforts made by -different writers, both in the News, and In different farm journals, in behalf of better roads. lam a Hollander by birth, and lived in that little country across the pond until I was 15 years of age, and remember well how roads are built and maintained over there. It would not do to say that this country is not up to date in road building That would be erroneous, but I will say that in the maintenance of them, after they are built this country is way behind Holland or any other European country. I was born and raised in a little town of about 1,800 inhabitants in the province the home of the Freisian-Holstein cattle. Our little city was on the main road, running north and south from one end of the country to another, called the “government road” because it was built and maintained by the government it was built in 1827, and is in splendid repair today. The road bed proper is about 30 feet wide, built of hardburned blue clinker brick, with good foundation, and sloping to either side, beinj about 12 inches higher in the center than on either side; then comes a strip of grass on either side of about 10 feet wide and on a level with the center of the road, but sloping a little to the outside; then a row of trees, sometimes oak or elm, sometimes fruit trees, at equal distances apart. A few feet back of that is a deep ditch, out of which the material was taken to make the road bed sufficiently high. About every 100 feet, a little ditch, sometimes a drain, is laid across through the strip of grass to the ditch. A uniformed workman, with shovel and broom on his shoulder, travois his beat of several miles along this road every day, just as a section hand on a railroad, keeping the drains open and removing whatever dirt the rain don’t wash off. This workman has police powers, as far as anything connected with the road is concerned. He may stop any teamster, and Inspect the load. If he thinks It too heavy for the width of the tires on his wagon, he will order the man to the nearest scales, which are built at the center of every section along the road, to be weighed, and if ho finds his suspicions correct, ths man is taken, before the nearest justice and fined. A general repairgang goes over the road once so often, and does what the dally roundsman cannot very weU do; that is, repairing pavement wherever necessary; these roads are always clean and nice and

one horse can do more work on them than two or even three horses could on the average road in this country. So much for “government roads.” They have no county roads there. The rest of the roadways are under the supervision of and maintained by the different townships. These township roads are generally made with screened or washed gravel, coarse below and fine on top, the sand all screened out of it The roads are laid out a good deal like klinker roads, with the exception of trees, on either side; they are considered no good roads along gravel roads, keeping the sun off, so that the road would not dry off readily after a rain. As the section man on our railroad has his pile of ties and rail handy in case of an emergency, so has our uniformed workman, who travels these roads every day, his pile of gravel handy at different places along the road, and whenever he notices a little depression in the road after a rain, he takes his shovel, drains off the water, and fills the hole with gravel from the nearest pile. These roads are as nice as the boulevards around our big cities. As it costs lots of money to build good roads. It will not pay to let them take charge of themselves when once built A man may buy ever so nice and good a suit of clothes, but if he don’t take care of it, it will soon be worn and shabby, and that calls for another one. The question of what to do with our prison labor has been discussed time and again; for no matter what they were employed at, It always interferred with the honest man outside of prison in the same line of business. Why not put the convicts of the country to building good roads for the benefit of everybody? This seems to me a practical solution of that very aggravating problem. It would kill two birds with one stone. Then after the roads are built, turn them over to the State or county they pass through, and compel eaid State or county to keep them In good repair. It would not take the average citizen, or farmer long to see the advantage of good roads, and crossroads would son be built, * Another thing that strikes me as a drawbacks to road building in this country Is the very lax law In regard to assessments for that purpose and the way people's money Is generally spent A law doing away with this jobbery would save the people from one-third to one-half of their assessments, and would do away with a good dela of kicking whenever there Is talk of building a now road. MATT BOSWINKLE. Thayer, Ind.

TELEPHONE COMPANY SEEKS NEW FRANCHISE

The Matter of Chief Importance Before the Council Monday Night ! Was Telephone Rates. The city council held its regular meetings Monday night and the matter of a new and revised franchise for the Jasper County Telephone Co. was discussed and an effort was made to grant the new franchise under a suspension of the rules. Thia failed, but there was an apparent friendliness on the part of most members of the board toward the ordinance, but they did not want., to rush It through, and, In fact, indicated that their action would hinge largely on the attitude of the patrons of the telephone system inside the corporation. The telephone company had an expert here who discussed the project in a business- like manner. Deles Thompson and Superintendent Jack Montgomery, of the Telephone Co., and B. F. Fendig, druggist, spoke in favor of granting the franchse, which) would give the company the right to increase the rental of aU phones 50 cents a mnpth, and which would provide that the company could not begin the charging of the increased rate until it had installed a new metallic circuit system. A petition was presented to the council signed by 141 telephone patrons protesting against the granting of the franchise. This petition, it is understood, was circulated and largely signed because the signers thought the franchise did not require anything of the telephone company, but| simply permitted them to charge an increased rate without any improvement of the service. It is said that manjs, would Hot have signed the remonstrance had they clearly understood the provisions of the proposed franchise. Mr. Thompson brought some of the telephone books with him to the council room and says that any of the books are open to the inspection of citizens. His contention is that no company can exist and keep up its equipment and not lose money, at the rate charged here.

No action was taken on the franchise, but it will come up for final reading and passage at the next regular meeting of the council, which will be Monday night, March 22d. In another place in this issue appears an article prepared by the Telephone Company, and which presents their side of the question. The Republican does not fee! in a position) to take sides on this question, notwithstanding the fact that) its publishers hold some views that it will probably express later on. If it is Impossible for a company to keep up its equipment and to have at all times a system worth as much as it costs and pay a reasonable interest on the actual cash invested at the present rates, and if the present rates do not provide for a sinking fund equal to the depreciation of the equipment, this paper favors a franchise that will permit of these things. But, on the other hand, the burden of the proof that this condition exists, should be with the company which is now operating under a franchise that was agreeab'e to them at the time it was granted and they should be required to show conclusively that they are running at an actual loss, or would be when the new system they propose is installed, or the franchise should be refused. Every business must regulate Itself to provide for its own maintenance and must be figured to run at a profit) over that or failure is the certain result. The patron of the business must pay the frefght. The individual as well as the corporation that runs a business contrary to this plan faces ultimate bankruptcy. And the individual should not expect the corporation to run a business on any other basis. The people are entitle to be heard and to present their side of the telephone question and we believe that the present telephone users should get together and consider the franchise preposition and present their view to the bouncil when it meets in special session Thursday night of this week. The city treasurer made his report, as follows: Water fund, overdrawn, $149.14. Corporation, $151.38*. Light fund, $4,728.58. •Warants are outstanding in this fund in excess of the above amount. Suits made to order by the Carl Joseph Co„ of Chicago, orders taken by Herman Tuteur, over Warner Bros. Hverybodys’ friend—Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil. Cures toothache, earache, sore throat Heals cute, bruises, scalds. Stops any pain.

Mt. Pleasant

Franciej Davisson called on Minnie Ritter Sunday. Albert Garriott is cutting wood fcr summer this week. John Garriott attended literary at Parr Friday! night. Arthur Ropp moved on the H. H. Hays farm Wednesday. » Albert and John Garrett were Rensselaer callers Saturday. Will Smith moved on William Zimmerman’s farm Monday. Charley Miller moved on one of B. J. Gifford’s farms Tuesday. Ell Merrill is doing some tile ditching for Grant Davisson! this week. Frank West took a load of hogs to Surrey for Shelby Comer Wednesday. Grant Davisson and John Remely did some work on the Mt. Tabor cemetery Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morgenegg and family visited Mr. and Mrs. George Davisson Sunday. William Clouse and John Remley, cf Rensselaer, were business callers In this vicinity Thursday. M r. and Mrs. John Clouse and Harvey Davisson called on Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson' Sunday evening.

Will Yeiter is pulling down and drilling a well this week. Ward Brothers, of Rensselaer are doing the work. Jess Walker went to Boone county Thursday to look after his farm and visit his parents and other relatives. The telephone line in this vicinity is still out of business. Only the hanging wires tares off a buggy top once in a while. | Mell Garrett, John Comer, Albert Garrett, Frank Garrett, Grant Davisson and John Garrett spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mis. John Clouse.

Pleasant Ridge.

Our school will be out the 2d of April. ■ Wm. Lowman was a Rensselaer geer Tuesday. j j t Mrs. John Reed was a Parr geer Wednesday. “Buck” Kenton was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. John Sr. and Ed. Martin were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mel arrived here Tuesday evening on the milk train to serve a lunch for the shooting match.

Mr. M. W. Phillips- who lactures here next Tuesday afternoon and night on Indian life and the old Northwest Territory is ag: eat favorite witty the American kid. He is their champion and understands the American youngster better than the best of them. He has coached the high school, boys in their sports such as baseball and track events. He has played their, games and even today gets on the field with them and,' hails with delight their light gay life. He holds the American boy up to the lime light as a factor in American history as one who has achieved much and gained little credit That his name and fame are lost in oblivion while others who have done no more go down in the pages of history as the illustrious dead of our land. With this idea in view he has dedicated the lecture he will give here next Tuesday to that personage which is the only one in history who has been forgotten, “The American Kid.” He will show a number of slides in his lecture of the daring deeds of the American boy in history. When he lectured in Tipton several months ago a youngtser was so tickled at his allusions to the American kid that he jumped up in his seat and clapped his hands in glee and yelled out “You’r Right Sir.” Mr. Phillips prizes that as the greatest tribute to his lecture career. The lecture will not only be a valuable contribution to the graded school history but to the boys at St Joseph college as well. He was the baseball coach of the famous Oakwood high school baseball team and U»e college boys and that team are very friendly. In Tipton the pariah and public schools attended his lecture in a body. At opera house, Tuesday, March 16th.

Prof. Tripodi, music teacher, piano and violin. For partlculras inquire of the Librarian. marl* Proceedings have been started in the Elkhart probate court to have Daniel JJarf declared legally dead. He left home twenty-two years ago, and the last heard of him was a letter written from Salt Lake City eightteen years ago. He came from a prominent family, and has fallen heir to a considerable estate. An average sale of about 2 to 8 nice cream cheese per week at the Home Grocery. Quality and price are surely 'rights Secretary of War Whight, at Washington, has approved the findings of the retiring board in the case of Col. William Tucker of the pay department of the army and son-in-law of Mrs. John A Logan. This places Col. Tucker on the retired list for life on three-quarters pay.

Burns Town

Michael Burns was in Rensselaer Monday. Lesley Price called on L. A. Greenlee Sunday afternoon. Walter Brown returned home from Plymouth, Ind., Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. -L. A. Greenlee’s little baby is on the sick list Vilas Pried visited the -school at Burns Town Friday afternoon. z Miss Stella Brown visited with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson Sunday. John L. Nichols was out on Nubbin Ridge Tuesday, looking after his cattle. Vilas Price went over in Illinois Monday to be gone two or three weeks. Miss Mary Jacks and Ethel Holmes spent Friday night in< Rensselaer with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. Morgenegg and family visited with George Davisscn and family Sunday. C. Mdrgenegg hauled* a load of coal from Rensselaer Saturday to Burns school house. Edd Hejengreen returned home fiom Michigan, where he has been working for two or three months.

Alpha and Bessie McElfresh visited with> their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Shroer, Sunday. Mr. Davis and family, who have been living on the McElfresh farm, moved Tuesday on a farm near Surrey. Thomas Brown and wife and Chas. Greenlee and son, Berty, and bis cook visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Scott Sunday. Quite a crowd of friends and relatives gathered at Samuel Price's Sunday and helped him celebrate his 51st birthday anniversary. Charley Pullins has hire! Mantley Stowers to help him with his farm work and his wife to help Mrs. Pullins with the house work the coming season. Quite a crowd of young people attended the pie social at Center school house Friday, night Walter said pies were pretty high, but he went to eat pie because he liked them so well. 55 cents for one-half of a p ! e. Walter came home sick, but not on pie. He said if he had his money back he would go buy a half sack of flour and let mother bake him all he could eat.

Hanging Grove

Fair View school has been clcsed a few days until the mumps cease. Saturday will be the last institute this school year. I R. B. Porter, J. P. and Roy Gwin went to Newton, 111., Monday, on a business trip. Wm. Bachtold of near Medaryville has moved on the farm recently vacated by Carl Remm. Mr. Gilmores’ repairs have come for his dredge and it is probable work wil) be resumed soon. Grandpa Howe is improving very slowly, so slow in fact, that some times it is hard to tell wheher ha id better or not. Reed McCoy was called to the bedside of his father Sunday morning. He had taken, quite sick Saturday night but seemed some better the latter, part of the week. A number of farmers about here intended to commence sowing oats and on the Francesville prairie had Monday, but will be detained for a while until better weather. A bunch of duck hunters came up from Monticello Tuesday morning and had a whole box car of sporting goods consigned to them which was transferred to the C. & W. V. Ry., for transit to the Kankakee, evidently they were going after the ducks proper.

Independence.

Mrs James Torbet went to Rensselaer Thursday. Harold Gifford was the guest of Homer Jordan Sunday. Mrs. Art Snow spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rees. Mrs. Wm. Rees and four children spent Thursday with Mrs. Wm. Rees. Grover Gorbet of east of' Rensselaer was the guest of Ernest flees Monday night Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daniels and baby spent Saturday night wlthi Mrs. Sarah McCleary. Miss Bertha Cooper spent Sunday afternoon with) her brother Wm. Cooper, at Gifford. Mary Rees went Friday evening to stay with Lota Oliver while her parents are gone to Danville, HI. Mrs. Lizzie Cooper and daughter, Bertha, were the guests of Mrs. Wm. Rees and daughter, Leatha, Tuesday. The party was well attended Friday night and all had an enjoyable time. It was a surprise on their eldest son Bluford. Itching, torturing skin eruptions, dlsflgure,ann >y, drive one wild. Doan’s Ointment brings quick relief and lasting cures. Fifty cents at any drug store.

CATARRH MUST GO.

And Hawking, Spitting, Snuffles Must Go Too. Hyomei (pronounced High-o-me) will give the sufferer from catarrh joyful relief in five minutes. It is such a remarkable cure, and so positive in its action, that B. F. Fendig goes so far as to guarantee it td’ cure catarr’ or money back. A complete outfit, which consists of a hard rubber pocket inhaler, a bottle of Hyomei, and a unique dropper for filling the Inhaler, only costs one dollar, and if an extra bottle is afterwards needed the price is only 50c. Hyomei is a healing antiseptic balsam, taken from the mighty eucalyptus tree in the health giving forests of Australia, where diseases of the respiratory tract are unknown. .All the sufferer has to do is to inhale the antiseptic air of Hyomei over the inflamed parts where the germs are entrenched, three or four times a day. It cures coughs, coulds, asthma, hay fever and croup without stomach dosing.

MIONA Cures Dyspepsia. Your money back if it don’t Gives immediate relief from heartbum, sour stomach, stomach distress and sick headache, 50 cents a larae box at Fendig's Drug Store. O. B. 37. Page 192. No. 7240. Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk’s office of the Jasper Circuit Court in a cause wherein George K. Hollingsworth is plaintiff and Thomas Florence and Mrs. Almira Florence, his wife; Ray D. Thompson,) heir and devisee of David Thompson, deceased; Edward D. Florence and Emma Florence, his wife, are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of one hundred thirty-seven ($137.00) dollars, with interest on said decree and cost, I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 3d DAY OF, APRIL, 1909, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p f m. of said day, at the door of the Court House of said Jasper County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described' real estate, to-wit: The southwest quarter (%) of the northwest quarter (%) of Section twenty-five (25), Township thirtyone (31) north, Range seven (7) west, containing forty (40) acres more or less, in Jasper county, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place expose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, Interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. L. P. SHIRER, Sheriff of Jasper County. A. H. Hopkins, Atty. mr.l2-19-26

Milroy Items.

J. Boon was In Monon Saturday. 1 Albert Wood was a Lee goer Tuesday evening. Ed Herman and wife were in Monon Tuesday. Jno Southard was in Monon on. business Tuesday. t Mr. and Mrs. Williard Johnson were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. R. Foulks is preparing t? live la his tent soon as convenient , Mrs. L. J. Foulks and C. Underwood were fht Monon Tuesday. Mr. Halstead visited G. L. Parks .and family the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. C. Williams and family visited his brother, Roy. and family over Sunday. Mrs. Wolf brought her daughter. Miss Madge, from Woloott to her school at Banner Sunday. R. Foulks and wife returned Friday evening from Chicago, where they had gone to consult a specialist Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phillips, of Rensselaer, who have been visiting Geo. Wood and family, returned to their home the flfst of the week. Mr. and Mrs. D. Z. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Anderson, of Chicago, and Creighton Clark and family and Frank May and family spent Sunday with Geo. Foulks. Mrs. May and little daughter, Ruth, remaining for a visit of a few days. Herman Tuteur, the. Carl Joseph Tailoring Co.'s agent in Rensselaer, will give the same prompt attention to trousers and other single orders that he will to suit orders. Bso| bls fine line of samples. Over Warner Bros.' store. .It "V i,■ * -•