Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1909 — Page 3

.. •-■ 1 T. >'•’ / Or Make Any Repairs about the place ? If you are, then remember this: we can rare yon some money on any amount of any kind of Lumber or Building Material. We bare a most complete assortment of tbe best Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Moldings, Interior and Exterior Finish, Porch Columns, In short, everything that your likely to need to build with. Our stoek Is dry and well kept, and onr prices are—well, an estimate will convince you that we can save yon money. J. C. GWIN & CO. 1

THE STIITE BANK OF RENSSEUER. Corner Washington and Vnif Rensselaer Street. OPBXTBB TOR BX7J9X2TESS JURE Ist, 1004. ; •'* DIRECTORS. JOXJT BGBR, President, DELOS THOMPSON, Cashier, LUCrCS STRONG, GRANVILLE MOODT. JAMES H. CHAPMAN. DOES GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Loans money on all kinds of approved security. Buys notes, pays interest on savings, pays taxes for customers and, others. This hank will he glad to extend every favor to its customers consistent with safe banking principles. Telephone 43.

Farm Insurance. - . —♦— : C m T-' ’V >* " . ; _ Thertome I nsurance Go. New York Insures Against Loss by Fire, Lightning, Wind-Storms and Tornadoes V On the Installment, Cash or Single Note Plan. INSURE IN THE “HOME” GET THE BEST. IT’S THE CHEAPEST. •. v - : . T"' ' '/v R. D. THOMPSON, Agent, Rensselaer, Indiana. Farm Loans 5 Cent WO EXTRA EXPENSE FOB EXAMINING LAND, ABSTRACT, OB PREPARING PAPERS. Special arrangement. mad. wlMr.br yon can obtain mon.y .am. day yon apply, option given of partial payment.. Private fund, .to loan •n City Property, Chattel Mortgage, Second Mortgage, Beal Batata, and Personal Security on favorable terms. Sale Botes purchased for private Investors. Write or oall and see me before selling your note., making a new loan, or renewing present loan. ABSTRACTS CAREFULLY PREPARED James H. Chapman, “Qk'w put one ooer,” As the slang expression goes, this fall, with onr unexcelled Photos. The phenomenal success we’er having shows that the people know a good thing and are willing and glad to come quite a distance and get the photographic work. If you haven’t seen our latest wort, we’d like the opportunity of showing yon the svrellest and best in photography. > H. F. PARKER, Photographer. I »frip »»»tee ♦ MtH »»|f I i I •r-»i*srriVfH‘attxr: .I'.jaia:V -j *>Vm <t> »* ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»»»»0»»00»4»000»0»0»»»04»»000»0000»0»0»»»» < Automobile Livery , We have Just purchased another Touring Car, and will place both Cars at the public’s service. We drive onr own Cars and guarantee satisfaction. When tn need of a Gar, we wlli be glad to serve yen. Onr prices are right and onr urn are reliable. Pheae *#2-111. Or eall at our shop. White & Hickman.

HOW DID YOU GET THE NAME YOU BEAB?

Discussion of the Derivation of Names Which Is Instructive As Well As Interesting. The origin of many, if not most of our family names is lost forever, and that of others is only a matter of specI laton concerning which an hypothesis, more or lfess probable can be formed. But the origin of many surnames is certainly known. Much is also known of the first use of surnames and how they became hereditary. Every nationality has its own personal names and the union of two or more nationalities greatly increases the number of such names In a country. The population of the United States is made up of people from all countries of Europe, and it is probable that our country has a much larger number of different surnames than any other in the world. By a surname we mean an additional name, or one added to the first name. Aitho first names .are now called given names, the surname of family name was in the first instance as much a given name as was the first. For a long period the Christian name only was used and was -the only one recognized by the law, and the additional name was merely a word of description to identify one person from another of the same given name. As Christianity triumphed over paganis min Europe, old pagan names were laid aside.and new ones often derived from the Bible, were given to the converts, and it is said that a whole company would sometimes be baptized by the same name. Thus such names as John, Peter, Paul, Mary, Margaret, and other familiar I scripture names became so common as to create confusion and four hunI dred years ago a statute of England provided that not only the name of a person should be inserted in a writ or - indictment, but his estate or degree, his calling or business and the town or district in which he resided. From these descriptive terms added j to a Christian name many surnames . took their origin. John, the smith, became John Smith, and John, of Wessington, became Joljn Wessington, and in time Wessington became Washington.,,: The first surnames were not always family natnes. Words additional to the Christian name in the sense of mere personal descriptions were common in England before they were handed down from father to son and became fixed family names. Surnames as family names were almost entirely unknown in England before the middle of the eleventh century. Their use made slow progress and it seems they did not become general until the thirteenth century. By the middle of the twelfth century, it was thought essential that persons of rank should bear some designation in addition to their baptismal or given name. Surnames were not well fixed as hereditary names in England among the lower and middle classes until after the Reformation. The introduction of parish registers of births, deaths and marriages did much to make them permanent. But so late as the beginning of the eighteenth century—two hundred years ago—many families in Yorkshire, England, had no fixed surnames. And even later many miners were without and family name, but were distinguished from others of the same given name by some nickname. The custom *of giving nicknames doubtless gave rise to many ludicrous family names, such as are still sometimes met with, but, there is reason to believe, are not so numerous as in the returns of our first census. In that census were found such surnames as Cusser, Spitter, Booby, Dunce, Gump, Boor, Crysick, Scolds, Looney, Greedy, haughty, Toogood, Toobald, Allright, etc. Many names which were calculated to bring humiliation to the bearers have been abandoned, and others so changed as no longer to cause unpleasant associations. The compilers of the census report on surnames in 1790 say that while acentric and peculiar names continue to be borne, they are by no means so conspicuous now as at the earlier period. Personal characteristics gave rise to many honored English names, such as Long, Longman, Longfellow, Short, Small, Strong, Gray, Tallman, Lightfoot. Complexions probably have given such names as Black, White, Brown but Green most probably arose from living at or near the village green, or common. A large proportion of surnames were originally names of localities, and expressed the country, estate or residence of those who first bore them. After the Norman conquest there was hardly a village in Normandy that did not give a surname to some family In England. Many of these French names have the prefixes de, du, des, de la, or Saint. In a list of the French soldiers who fought in the American revolution are found the names at about 40,000 persons; some 2,000 of these begin with de, 1,000 with du, and less than 200 with Satnt. The commonest French names in this list are: Martin, 227; Thomas, 122; Bernard, 119; Robert, 114; Blade, 109; Lefevre and Le Fevre, 108; Roy and LeßtSy, 113. The Warren county surnames of Death and Dearth are both said to be contractions of tbe Huguenot De Athe. Many British geographical names are now family names. Robs Is a county in Scotland; Carlisle, Lincoln and Wells are towns In England'! Moray or Murray is the old name of a county «a& a frith in Scotland. From Wales

|we have the surnames Wales, Weigh, ‘Walsh ajnd Wallis, j: Many English common nouns have become proper nouns by being used to describe the situation or locality of a person’s residence. Thus, John at the mill, may! have become John Mill, and in tbe same way may have originated such surnames at Hill, Dale, Forest, Wood, Greathouse, Parks, Marsh, Pond, Ford, etc. One writer suggests that Peter at the Seven Oaks came to be known as Peter Snooks. Some old English words designating common objects are obsolete, but proper "names derived from them survive. In Old English, shaw meant a small wood or copse. Thorpe was a village; holmes, a meadow surrounded by water; baine, a bath or bathing place. Many nouns applied to birds and beasts which are now surnames were first applied to persons to describe the place of residence, the family names being taken not directly from the lower animals but from effigies painte# on signs of taverns, places of business and public resort. Camden, the British antiquarian, writing at the close of the sixteenth century, says: “Many names that seem unfitting for men, as of brutish beasts, etc., have come from the very signs of the ohuses where they inhabited; for I have of them which said they spake of knowledge, that some in late time dwelling at the sign of the Dolphin, Bull, Whitehorse, Rocket, Peacock, etc., where commonly called Thomas at the Dolphin, Will at the Bull, George at the Whitehorse, Robin at the Rocket; which names, as many others of like sort, with omiting ‘at’, became afterward hereditary with their children.” This we may suppose is the origin of the such surnames as Lyon, Lambe, Hawke, Raven,-Crowe, Heron, etc. After the surnames originally descriptive of places which we may call local names, perhaps the most numerous are those from occupations and professions. The best explanation ever given for ‘the great nutnber of Smiths is that the word smith, coming from an Anglo-Saxon root meaning to smite, was once applied, not only to blackmiths and goldsmiths, but to smiters generally, such as carpenters, masons, and workers with many kinds of tools. The Saxon Chronicle speaks of “mighty war smiths who overcame Wales.” For a similar reason Wright is a common name. Originally the word was applied to any worker in wood, and there were Cartwrights, wheelwrights, millwrights, shipwrights, etc, A carpenter in Scotland and in some parts of England is stilled called a wright. The termination “ward” meant a keeper or warden, and Woodward was a forest keeper. Many honorable trades and occupations have ceased to exist and the names applied to them now only exist as surnames. Bowyer was a bowmak-' er, and Fletcher an arrowmaker. Cowper was an old form of cooper; Jenner an old form of Joiner; Chapman, a trader; Barker, a tanner; Draper, one who sells cloths; Monger, a dealer In wares.

Gen. 0. 0. Howard Died Tuesday at Burlington, Vt,

Gen. Oliver O. Howard, ffne of the last of the commanders of the Union army durjng the civil war, died at his home in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday uight. Gen Howard was 79 years of age. He has been a lecturer for many years, his leading lecture being about Abraham Lincoln. Gen. Howard had a brilliant war record and was one of the founders of Howard University at Washington for the education of colored men.

FARMS FOB SALE. 56 Acres, eight miles out, 4 acres timber, remainder cultivated; large tile through farm for outlet; near gravel road? all clay subsoil, five room house, fair out buildings, good orchard and well.- Price SSO. 100 Acres, fair buildings,’considerable tile with good outlet on farm, good neighborhood, clay loam soil. Price SSO. 110 Acres, good clay loam soil, 8 miles out, gravel road, fair buildings, two good orchards, 60 acres in clover, some wheat sown, fairly well tiled with large tile outlet through farm. Price $55. 160 Acres, nice level land, mostly black loam soil, near gravel road and school, good pasture or corn land. This place has no buildings on it. Ten miles from court bouse. Price $25. 240 Acres, well located, mostly black loam soil, about one-third timber, which iB light and affords good pasture, 30 acres cultivated, orchard, well, but no buildings. Price $25. S7O Acres, 9 miles from court house on dredge ditch, good house and barn, cribs, orchard, well, some tile, 40 acres Umber, remainder cultivated and In pasture. Owner will sell on easy terms or take half in trade. Price S6O. . 90 Acres, 4 miles from couyt bouse, large house and barn add other out buildings, well, wind mill, tanks, good orchard, well 1 and a first-class com, wheat and clover land. Price on appli ation. G. F. MEYERS. You can’t climb very high so long as you think about falling.

Following are the allowances made by thd Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, at their regular October term, 1909: Healey & Clark, notice Lawler gr. 421.00 Wm Burfprd, sup co surveyor 15.00 Same, Lawler sr e.OO Same, Beeks-Geib-Lawler sr.. ... . 18.00 Same, public printing 18.10 Jesse D Allman, salary co tree*.. .502.50 1 Same, postage treasurer office...'. 6.00 Ernest Lamson, per diem supt... .108.00 W Frank Osborne, same co sur 36.00 Fern Osborne, deputy surveyor... 34.00 Bert-Haywood Co., sup. surveyor. 10.00 Same, sup coroner’s office 3.00 M D Gwln, sal sec bd health 52.08 DrE C English, exp bd of char.... 2.00 Judson H Perkins, exp co farm... 12.00 Mrs J W Williams, sup same 39.00 J E Cooper, labor same 25.00 Edna Turner, same... 12.00 White & Hickman, exp com ct.... 6.00 F E Babcock, public printing 12.10 J W McEwen, same 6.00 City Rensselaer, lights Jail 5.22 Same, same 6.22 Same, same, court house 10.56 "Same, water court house 87.50 J D Allman, frt fuel ch 50.22 Jesse Gates (asslgned)exp ch..... 5.75 Same, same 9.00 N-W Mfg Co., same 10.00 J A Grant, same 1.19 Chas Morlan, janitor ch 46.00 Same, exp same 1.25 J L Griggs, same 10.00 Maines & Hamilton, coal for jail.. 6.00 Chas E Moots, refund err taxes... 17.96 Ira G Norris, same 12,76 Winamac Bdg Co, gr rep Ist d.... 78.00 Richard Grevestuck, same 5.00 A Woodworth, same, 2d district... 28.50 Timothy Karsner, same.. 1.50 Lemuel C Huston, same 72.00 John Akers, same, Gillam tp 46.50 Leslie Tlllett, same 35.66 True Robinson, same 33.00 J J Molitor, same 3.00 George Logan, same 3.00 John Smallfelt, same 1.50 George Bond, same 2 00' Frank Lowry, same 28.50 i B F Goldsberry, same 43.76 1 Richard Hack, same 31.00 Harley E Bruce, same, S Barkley. 24.00 Leslie Miller, same 46.50 Milt Michael, same 46.50 Lynn Daugherty, same 46.00 Judson L Adams, same 33.00 Omer Waymire, same 43.50 Edward Tanner, same 28.50 Ft Marclay. sams. t ..., ~13.60 Clint Brown, same . 46.50 Ralph Lewis, same Emu. Johnson, same 28 60 Casparis Stone Co., gr rep 3d dis.. 50.13 P T Cresse, same... 84.00 E R Hopkins, Janitor teachers’ ex. 9.00 Myrf B Price, supt Iroquois ditch. 21.76 C Fairchild, bal asses Keener tp.. 5.00 S D Clark, help on ditch 10.50 John Shirer, same g.oo Jacob A Hensler, supt Ott sr 66.00 W Frank OSborne, engineer Ott sr. 9.00 F Rutherford, mov bdg Howe d.. 140.00 R E Flanders, moving bridge 100.00 Winamac Bdg Co., pt new bdg.. .1700.00 Same, bridge plans 198.50 JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has become famous for its chres of colds, coughs, croup and influenza. Try it .. fi when In need. It contains no harmful" substance and always gives prompt relief. Sold by all dealers, c One good thing about a college education is a boy gets it before he Is too old to mend. Hoarseness in a child subject to croup is a sure indication of tbe approach of the disease. If Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is given at dnee or even after the croupy cough has appeared, it will prevent the attack. Contains no poison. Sold by all dealers. c A woman gets her theories out of reading novels; her facts out of raising babies. A NOTRE DAME LADY’S APPEAL To all knowing sufferers of rheumatism, whether muscular or of the Joints, sciatica, lumbagos, backache, pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pains, to write to her for a home treatment which baa repeatedly cured all of these tortures. She feels it her duty to send it to aU sufferers - FREE. You cure yourself at home as thousands will '-*etlfy—no change of climate being necessary. This simple discovery banishes uric acid from the blood, loosens the stiffened Joints, purifies the blood, and brightens the eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the whole system. If the above interests yon, for proof address lira. M. Sommers, Box B, Notre Dame, Ind.

f I Drug Store is the Place to :; :: / C buyyour ° school supplies. a < > ; l We have everything you need for the County and City Schools. J | 11 Teachers are respectfully requested to visit our store and look over | < > our Hue of TABLETS, PENCILS, KINDERGARTEN SUPPLIES •'> SUPPLEMENTARY BOOKS, ETC. ' < > 4 p o Teachers’ R. C. Books now here. Any book we don’t have lu «> ;! stock we are always glad to order for you. ‘' ‘ J Come and see us. J ’ g A. F. LONG, Druggist \ ’ ■' FATE’S The Big Oyster House. Rates $1 Per Day. , Sole Agent for Booth’s Guaranteed This la the fat dinner man. Oyster*. j * i l YOU ABE VERY WELCOME TO LOOK OYEB { \ \ | our collection of photographs that we have made of many peo- <« pie you know. Note how each picture seems almost Imbuded with ‘' life. Note bow exquisite is the tone and finish. , , WE CAN MAKE AS GOOD A PHOTOGRAPH J J 4 * of you as we have of those you see represented in our collection. , , ! | Come ahd be taken with a surety of a fine.photograph no matter ‘ > how disappointing have been your previous ones. I I SHARP STUDIO, NEAR THE BRIDGE, RENSSELAER, IND.

An Indigestion 1 Remedy Free Many people who are otherwise j healthy suffer from indigestion, op dyspepsia. When you consider thafi the stomach and allied digestive or* gans are the most important organs of the body, it would seem that a dlsorder there is to be taken very seriously. Dyspeptics cannot eat the things they like; food sours In the stomach; then chronic constipation begins, or, as Is often the case, you have been constipated all along, and the stools are forced and Irregular. But there Is no use letting Indigestion go until It becomes chronic and undermines your health. It Js good ad-lca to suggest to you that you go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dr. r M- ‘[Pa Syrup Pepsin, the wonderful fog stomach, liver and bowel trot at Is what C. Fowler, of Carson h., did and he is well today. Oth " .id the same and are cured are t , ortune, of Grand Junction, Tenn., B. P. Thompson, of Shenandoah, la., who actually considers that it saved his life. Tou can obtain a 50-cent or |1 bottle of the druggist, and, taken according to directions, it will probably be all you need. It Is a liquid, acts gently, never gripes, and besides the laxative effect, contains exceptional tonic properties which. the stomach, and that Is what is especially needed in indigestion. All sufferers from indigestion who have never used Dr. CaldwelT’s Syrup Pepsin can obtain a free test bottle by writing the doctor. It #lll be sent direct to your home without any charge. In this way thousands have proven to their own satisfaction Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin tm the very remedy they needed to cure indigestion. When once you use this grand remedy you will throw violent cathartics, tablets, salts, etc., away. SV there Is anything aboufl your ailment that you don’t understand, or If you want any medical advice, writs to the doctor, and he will answer you fully. There tl no charge for this, service. The address is Dr. W. B, Caldwell, 560 Caldwell bldg* Montlcello, 111.

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