Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1909 — Page 4

Julia D. Demarcos.

Julia Dell Demarcus, -wife of Sam- I uel Demarcus, and daughter of George M. and Katherine Kissinger was born In Jasper county, Ind., June 18, 1874, and died at her home near Ordway, Colorado, March 16, 1909, at the age of 34 years, 8 months and 28 days, fihe was united in marriage to Samuel Demarcus December 24, 1895. To this union two children were born, .both of whom preceded the mother to the better land, having died in Infancy. The life of Mrs. Demarcus was spent in this county with the exception of the last eight years, the last two of which were spent in Colorado. Prior thereto she resided a short time near Lafayette, also at Wolcott and a couple of years in lllinois. i . b.-s-v ~ ~ ~ ~ —r ’ During her girlhood days she united with the Methodist Episcopal church and during all her life she lived a faithful and consistent Christian life. Her father, Mr. Geo. M. Kissinger, died Nov. 10, 1907. She leaves to mourn their loss beside her husband, four brothers and sisters as follows: Mr. Charles Klsslnge r, of Rensselaer, Mr. Willis Kissinger and Roy Kipsinger of Wabash, Ind, Mr. Harry Kissinger of Tacoma, Wash., and Mrs. Sarah Reed and Miss Mary Kissinger of Rensselaer, and Mrs. Susan Smith of Greencastle, and her twin sister Mrs. Jennie Hudlow of Lafayette, besides a large circle of relatives and friends. All ,of her brothers and sisters were present at the funeral but two of the brothers, Harry of Tacoma and Willis of Wabash. One sister, Mrs. Collie Wenwrick, died a few years ago. The funeral service was held at the Methodist church of Rensselaer and the burial took place at the Egypt cemetery eight miles south of town, In the old Lowe neighborhood.

BURNS TOWN.

A Eib purchased a new manure spreader Saturday. Roy Scott called on Samuel Holmes Sunday afternoon. Lyman Zea. is pressing hay for "John Schroer this week. Amos Leer visited with Spencer and Esta Holmes Sunday. Miss Agnes Hurley returned home Sunday from John Marlatt’s. Miss Agnes and Maggie Hurley visited with Gertrude Kolhoff Sunday. Russell Harmpn passed through Burns Town Monday buying horses. Mr. and Mrs. L. A Greenlee’s little girl is improving from its recent sick spell. Spencer and Esta Holmes spent Saturday night with Elmer and David Greenlee. Better late than never but the boys got lost and couldn’t get there any quicker. '

Miss Mary Jacks spent Saturday and Sunday with hbme folks southeast of Rensselaer.

Jim Stanley of Pleasant Hill, Tenn., arrived here Saturday where he will spend the coming season. Mr. C. Morgenegg and L. A .Greenlee and Frank Brown helped Samuel Hohner buzz wood Saturday.

Philip Durant is about ready to commence running his saw mill which he is setting up on the Dick Grow farm in Barkley township. Grover Hollis and George Brown visited with their uncle C. M. Greenlee Sunday, northwest of town. James Louis is very sick at this (Writing at his home near Center school house in East Barkley. Bertha and Ethel Holmes spent Saturday night aud Sunday with their grandmother, Mrs. John Scott. Jim and Isaac Haines, Will Potts and Grace Hurley visited with Mr. and Mrs. L. A Greenlee Sunday.

Vilas Price returned home Tuesday from Piper City, 111., where he has been visiting with Frank Lemna. Charley Reed, our new assessor, is very busy now. Charley don’t stand back for blizzards or cyclones. He goes just the same.

George Shriner was over from Illinois the latter part of last week looking after the interests of his farm and visiting with his old friends and relatives.

Herbert Eib, son of Mr. and Mrs. A- Bib, of Barkley township, left Monday morning for Chicago where he will enter a business college. We wish Herbert great success, as he is a hustling young man. Don’t forget, we press and clean your milt or overcoat free of charge fojr a year when you buy it here. Just think what you eave in a year. EAIIL DUVALL. Inaabbt the fresh vegetables at the People’s'Grocery and Meat Market, located in the old postoffice building.

One Good Poem Deserves Another.

Paraphrasing the old adage, “one gbod turn deserves another," we have a very appropriate heading for this article. Some weeks ago Joe Harmman received a kodak photograph of John W. Powell, formerly sheriff of this county, and for many years a resident of Washington. The photo was sent as a valentine, and contained a few lines of John’s Riley-style poetry. Under date of March 11th he writes the Republican as follows: Dear Healy: I was much surprised this morning when handed a clipping from the Republican containing a description of my valentine to friend Hardman and the lines written on the back thereof, and Joe will have-to square himself with me when I meet him, as they were not written for publication. In fact they are only a garbled part of the original, written by me merely for pastime, I am neither a poet, a linguist nor a rhetoratician, but inasmuch as you have published a garbled portion of the lines, I will send you herewith a copy of the entire original and should you deem them worthy thereof yo.u may Insert them in the columns of your paper. Yours truly, J. W. Powell, ' 319 E st. NE. Here is the poem complete and a very clever work it is, too. xoMGnras. I’m longin—idly longin, I’m longin don’t yoii know, For the comin of the spring time— The 'pasSin of the show. For the dreamy, dreary Of the froggies from the; pond, An* their mates a callin back From the lilly pads, beyOnd. For the carol of the robin. An’ the lowfti of the kinfe; • For the leafin of the woodlands— The trailin of the vine. For the bloomin of the violets, An’ the hummin of the bees, A flittin through the branches, Of the buddin linden trees. For the sultry harvest season, The sunshine and the rain, For the swlshen of the cradles A gatherin the grain. - - I’m dreamin! gosh! I’m dreamin Of the care free days of yore, When a bare foot boy I wander’d By the river’s rugged shore. Jus’ a drinkin in the music. Of the forest and the rills, An’ gazln like, in wonder, At the grandeur of the hills. Ere sorrow crost my pathway, When ail was bright and fair, An' joyous were the greetins. That met me everywhere. Ere life had lost its’ glamour Ere guile supplanted truth, In the nappy days of boyhoodThe hafycon days of youth.

Big Sternberg Dredge Ready to Cross Track.

Monon News —The big Sternberg dredge between here and Guernsey is now ready to cross the air line division of the Monon. It will require three days to clear the tracks if everything works without hindrance. The Monon company thought of detouring their trains over the main line and Panhandle via Reynolds, but this was abandoned Monday when it was found that the curve at Monticello was too short for the long coaches, which was demonstrated by a special train run from this place. The detour will therefore be made by building a new track where the dredge is operating. The dredge will be mowing its way east of the Monon tracks inside of ten days and trains will be crossing the ditch on a new bridge. It is expected that the canal will find an outlet in old Tip by the time snow falls next winter. There will be a fall of 76 feet in the last mile before reaching the river, whereas the present decline is at the ratio of a foot to the mile. It requires a sev-en-foot stage of water to float the big digger which throws out the dirt five yards per minute, or two and a half yards per dip.

Reserved Seat Sale for The Wabash Glee Club.

Seats are now on sale at A. F. Long’s drug store and G. J. Jessen’s jewelry store for the Wabash Glee Club which will appear at the Presbyterian church Tuesday evening, March 30th. The advance sale of seats is at the price of 35 cents but the sale at the doors of the church on the evening of the entertainment will be 50 cents. Buy your seats early.

Christian Ladies’ Easter Market

The ladies of the Christian church will hold their Easter market on Saturday, April 10th. In addition to a large supply of good things to eat they will also hold an apron and rug sale. Place announced later.

Lenten Services.

Rev. T. F. Drake of Lowell will preach at the Lenten service at Trinity M. E. church on Wednesday evening of this week. Rev. Drake was pastor of this church about twenty years ago and will be heard with interest by many of his former parishioners. The public most ordially invited.

bounty Boy in a South Dakota Romance.

The Minnesota, Minn., Advocate, publishes a very entertaining little story under the caption, “Story of a Little South Dakota Claim Romance.” The story has local interest because tbe hero of the tale is a Jasper county boy, being Machall Cover. The story recounts how Cover took a South Dakota claim and while proving it up boarded at a restaurant and becanie acquainted with Miss Hannah Nelson, the daughter of Olaf Nelson, of Yellow Medicine county, Minn. Miss Nelson was a young woman of great nerve and had herself taken a the South Dakota frontier and after taking a claim Miss Nelson began to work as a waitress in a restaurant, the same one at which Cover boarded. Eagle glances from the young man brought shy responses

from the girl and their acquaintance ripened to fast friendship and then to love. Taking up thd narrative at this point the Advocate describes it as follows: “We know nothing of the questioning glances, the sweet smiles, the fluttering of hearts, the moonlight walks, and the tete-a-tete, that M»chall and Hannah experienced. Cupid has not told and of course Machall and Hannah would never think of telling, but we do know that when Hannah had stayed on her, claim the required time, she hurried to her home in good old Swede Prairie, spoke highly of the climate and the real estate in South . Dakota, but. would giye her friehds nd deffnite idea of her future plans

Some close observers among her friends noticed, however, that there was a mischievous . look in Hannah’s eyes and there was an air of mystery about her.

Some few weeks sped by and then there appeared at the home of Mr. Olaf Nelson, a sturdy, handsome looking,quiet and unpretentious young man. He was introduced to visitors as Mr. Machall Cover. Why was he here? The visitors asked themselves. Hannah’s fair friends looked askingly at Hannah, but ventured no questions and Hannah offered no explanation. Some few days passed by, then the pastor was let into the secret, and on Monday evening, the eighth of April, Machall and Hannah in the presence of the latter’s family circle made the vows that united them as man and wife for life.

On Tuesday, April 16th, Mr. and Mrs. Machall Cover started for South Dakota, where they will settle down in'Lyman county, and by diligent use of Uncle Sam’s gift, work out their fortune.

Young man, go west, and girls go too, if you choose.” Young Cover has many relatives in this county.

County Treasurer J. D. Allman went to Wheatfield this morning to take the tax duplicate to the bank of that place so that property ownere oF titer north end may pay their taxes there and thus save themselves the trouble of coming to the county seat.

Miss Harriett Shedd went to Lafayette today, where she will witness the Ben Greet production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” tonight. She will then go to Otterbein to visit her sister, Miss Alice, who is teaching at that place, and will go from there to Greencastle to take up her college course at DePauw.

Mrs. William Fuller writes from Balaton, Minn., in renewing her subscription to the Semi-Weekly Republican, as follows: “We appreciate the paper altogether too much to part with it. We are also glad to see that the old state of Indiana is wheeling into line on the temperance question. Three cheers for Indiana.

Harvey Spitler, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Spitler, formerly of this place but for the past two or three years residing at Aberdeen, Wash., sent a draft for $1.50 last week for a renewal of his subscription and in a postscript to his letter said, “We receive the paper regularly and wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”

The temperance meeting held Saturday for the purpose of effecting an energetic working organization looking toward the holding election, was attended by several from Remington, John Ott, Samuel Bowman, John Tharp and Editor Fred Griffin came over in the automobile of the first named. Rev. R. H. Crowder was also here.

Harsh physics react, weaken the the bowels, cause chronic constipation. Doan’s Regulets operate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation. 26a Ask your druggist for them.

The United States Brewers’ Association.

This association has its headquarters in New York, .and its purpose is to create favor for the saloons and it has placed about all the newspapers in the United States oh its free mailing list. Three booklets Just received make a statement of conditions in Norway and Sweden, claiming that drunkenness is prevented there by regulation of the liquor traffic. The booklets state that these articles which are clearly written in the brewers’ interests have been published in several religious papers in the south and west, but does not give * ' the names of the papers nor send copies of them. If any religious paper published the articles the papers must have degenerated from the purpose of their founding. Another of the booklets is part of the message of Governor Patterson,

of Tennessee, to the state legislature on Jan. 11, this year. The booklet takes sections of this message and garbles it to best subserve the interests of the brewers. Governor Patterson expresses his views in favor of the retention of the saloons and breweries in His state as a business matter, but he did not advance a single sound argument in favor of the policy he advised. The brewers occasionally find some consolation in; the remarks of some well known men, but there ,are some very prominent personages that are entirely wrong on the liquor question. There is but one remedy and that is to vote to rid ourselves of the evil at every opportunity. To dispose of the saloon is a matter of degree. In Indiana it 'was first the filing of a remonstrance against each applicant, then the blanket remonstrance, then the strengthening of the law by the power of attorney, and now the county local option- All these things are leading to the certain result of prohibition and the person that can not see it is blind to tjie object he claims he most wants to attain. A few Pattersons may exist but they will do but little injury td the temperance movement, for behind their argument in favor of the saloon is observed a personal interest. The man that will argue for the debauchery and crime that accompanies the licensed saloon on the grounds of business results is hardened to a degree that makes him a party to all the crime that grows out of the business.

Teachers! Have You Drawn Your Pay Yet?

Indianapolis News, March 19th— Attorney-General Bingham has delivered to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Robert J. Aley a blank form to be used as a kind of promissory note to be delivered to public school teachers who can not receive pay for all or part of the school terms just closing because of the deficiency fund to provide for payment of public school expenses, where the local» levy is not sufficient to provide a 120-day or 140-day term, has been'exhausted. Mr. Aley has received requisitions from township trustees to the amount of $36,449.67 which can not be honored.

There is no menas of determining how many teachers will not be able to collect their money, nor of telling what sums they will lose temporarily. The purpose of the blank forms to be Issued is to enable the trustees to issue certificates of security to the teachers which shall draw 6 per cent, interest until paid by the state. Mr. Aley said he believed the certificates could be used as collateral by the teachers.

The certificates were made necessary because in the case of townships where the trustees sent in their requisitions too late to get a part of the deficiency fund there is no money anywhere to pay the teachers. Mr. Aley has held a conference with Governor Marshall on the subject and has obtkined the Governor’s assurance that he will seek to have passed by the General Assembly of 1911 a special appropriation ordinance to redeem the certificates. .All the remaining State officers whom Mr. Aley has consulted have promised their support in the movement. It is estimated that a special appropriation of $40,000 will redeem all of the certificates it will be necessary to issue. What to do concerning the question for the school year beginning next September is a problem the State Board of Education will be compelled to solve in the meanwhile. The tax levies for the 1909-1810 school year have been made, and next year will likely afford a situation like the present unless provision is made In time. It is probable that school terms .next year will be cut to l? 0 days. By limiting the terms to that length, Mr. Aley believes the present law will be sufficient.

Having Squabble About State House Chambermaid.

{The democratic governor and the republican secretary of state and auditor are at war regarding the appointment of the custodian, or janitor of the state house. The law provides that the three shall comprise a board to make the appointment, As a result of a partisan riot during the closing hours of the legislature several years ago the original copy of the law in question was not filed in the secretary of state’s office, although an exact copy of the law was. published in the acts with the other laws. The attorney general of Indiana says the law is valid, and the board makes the appointment. The governor declares he will make the appointment himself and wiU install his man with the use 1 , of the state militia, if necessary. This hot-headed' expression leads the Marion Chronicle to say editorially;:

' “Governor Marshall seems‘to have momentarily lost that fine judicial poise, for which he has been much admired, in his attitude toward the problem of who is to appoint the captain general of the papitol force of floor scrubbers. We judge from his ultimatum that he proposes to wade through gore ankle deep, if necessary, in order to enforce the validity of his claims relative to the appointing power. This question certainly can be settled without the aid of the militia. If the governor makes a valid appointment to the custodianship, and the appointee sues for possession of the office, the courts will doubtless give him the job in due coiirse, with salary dated back to the time of his appointment. We should dislike to see the blood of our soldiery reddening the green grass of our capitol grounds in the settlement of this question of who is to direct the spittoon cleaning of a soverign state. 2.

BLUE SEA.

Blue Sea has been under the weather for a while. Mrs. Bryan is spending a few days with Mrs. Geo. Wood. John Southard and wife spent Sunday with Al May and wife. Mary Johnson called on Mrs. L. J. Foulks Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Chatman called on Thomas Johnson Monday afternoon. Trustee Parks attended the institute at McCoysburg Saturday. The .doctor was called to see Mrs. B. Clafk’s little baby Tuesday. They are putting in poles on the west end of the telephone line. Frank May and wife spent Sunday evening with Mr. May and wife. Parks & Beaver will soon have their saw mill in working'order. R. Foulks and R. Williams are doing some repairing on the telephone line. Mrs. Chatman and family spent Sunday with Wiliam Chatman and wife. \ .

Robert Meadpws spent a few days with L. J. Foulks and C. Underwdod and wife. G. L. Parks and wife and James Bone entertained Al May and wife Sunday with phonograph music.

Vaults Cleaned: 50 Cents a Barrel.

Let Platt & Day clean your vaults. They will do the work right and charge you only 50. cents a barrel and will disinfect the vault See Hiram Day or telephone orders to

him.

Goose Eggs.

Wanted—Duck and goose eggs for Easter, must all be here by April sth. Our cream station is in good running order. Give us a call. Fancy Produce Market, phone J 9.

Miller’s and Kemp’s Manure Spreaders Twentieth Century Osborne Binders, Mowers, Discs and Hay Rakes. DON’T BUI WITHOUT CONSULTING VANCE COLLINS IN THE OLD BRICK LIVERI BARN.

PLATT & DAY.

Three Mile Law Not Repealed but Dehorned.

The three-mile gravel road I>w was not repealed outright, but it was '.‘dehorned.” Petitions may be filed, as before, and the commissioners may either establish" the road or refer the matter to the voters of the township - for an election, provided, that if a remonstrance is filed containing more . names than the petition, then the petition shall .be dismissed at the petitiOner’s cost. If two or more petitions be pending in the same township at the same time they shall be voted upon at the same election.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Jasper County. In the _ Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1999., The Connecticut. Mutual Life Insurance Company vs " . / James H. Ballagh et al Complaint No. 7312 Nc/w comes the plaintiff, by Remy & BerryhiUits attorneys, and files its complaint hereto, together with an affidavit that the defendants James H. Ballagh; Lillian S. Ballagh/ 1 Robert R. Thompson, Mary W. Thomyson and Paul Viezens are not residents of the State of Indiana, . Notice is therefore hereby given f said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the 19th day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court lo .be holden on the 3d day,,; of May A.D., 1909, at the Court House j to Rensselaer in said County and. State and answer or demur to said COtafi plaint, the same will be heard and determined to their absence. In witndss whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix seal of said (SEAL) Court, at Rensselaer, In(L, this sth day of March A. D. 1909. C. C. WARNER, Clerk. Mcb.9-16-23.

NOTICE OF SALE. Notice is hereby given that I will at my residence on Section ten (10), in Township! thirty (30) north, Range six (6) west, in Barkley township, Jasper county, Indiana, on March 81, 1909, at ten o’clock in the sell at public auction, to th® highest bidder for cash, one iron grey mare, coming four years old, weight about 1100, the property of John Callahan, for the purpose of paying me the sum of eighty-fivei ($85.00) dollars due me for feeding and caring for said mare, and costs of sale. I, hold a lien on. said mare for said. feed and care under the statute in such case made and provided. Dated this the Bth day of March, 1009. HARRY GIFFORD. mch.9-lM»

The Black Percheron Horse - ■- - f ■- KKo.' 1 ' jyjf I? ■ DORNBLASER Dornblas'er is five years old, is heavy boned and a fine breeder. Will make the season through March at the old Hemphill Barn in Rensselaer. After April Ist both my horses will be in Rensselaer part of the time. — Tbrms—sls to insure colt to stand and suck,” B. B. MILLER, Owner John Duvall, Keeper.