Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Joseph Tuffro, of Marshalltown, la., who soon will be 100 years of age, will join the Elks’ lodge. He probably will be the oldest Elk in the world.

James M. Voss, 74 years old, the last survivor of the extinct town of Salisbury, the original county seat of Wayne, is dead at his home west of Richmond.

Three gangs of about one hundred men each, are engaged in ballasting the track of the Winona interurban line, and it is expected that through service will be inaugurated within ten days.

C. W. Fairbanks, former vice-presi-dent of the United States, arrived at Naples Wednesday from Constantinople. Mr. Fairbanks has been asked to speak at Rome on February 12th, on the occasion of the anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday.

After a street car in Ft. Wayne struck an ambulance and hurt the horses, hospital physicians themselves pulled the vehicle containing B. F. Flynn, a traveling salesman, previously seriously injured by an interurban car, to the medical institution.

The First National bank of Tipton has filed a suit against W. A. Bowlin for $40,000 and foreclosure of mortgages against the Windfall Canning Factory plant for that amount. A receiver to take charge of the plant, owned by Bowlin, is asked. Miss Birdie Knowles, of Moores Hill, captain of the girls’ basketball team and a member of the freshmen class, swallowed two pins Wednesday morning and may die as a result.- One pin entered the stomach, but the other caught in the throat and was dislodged by coughing.

C. E. Pattee, prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph county, will probably take action before the next grand jury against Earl Holmes, the former South Bend city water works employe, who is accused of having appropriated over $3,000 of the city’s funds through the fraudulent issuing of pay checks.

While on their way to church the buggy containing Jesse Timmons, age 26, and Miss Cox, daughter of Joseph Cox, was struck by a Monon accommodation train, just north of Sheridan. The young man’s neck was broken and he died instantly. Miss Cox was seriously hurt and her recovery is doubtful.

lew weeks ago the northwest corner of Wall and Nassau streets in New York, sold for $822 a square foot, the highest price ever paid for the precious soil of America. The lot is very small, being twenty-five feet on Wall street and seventy-three feet on Nassau, an area x>f 1,825 square feet altogether. It is occupied by a tower-like building, nineteen Stories high, built twelve years ago. The ... site is unusually valuable because of its location. State mine inspectors have announced that the St. Paul mine, at Cherry, will probably be opened Monday to allow the recovery of the 210 bodies remaining in the underground levels as a result of the disastrous fire. The inspectors and mine managers tested the temperature, the air pressure and the gas mixtures of tlie mine, and while they found the temperature a trifle high it *was said that the interior would be workable by next week.

Owing to the continued advance of Hour and the fact that us Quakers are on the “square,” we will continue to give 16 oz. to the pound and maintain the high standard and quality in our loaves of Quaker bread. We will be compelled on and after February Ist, 1910, to sell our bread at 5c straight and advance the wholesale price onehalf cent per loaf. This is not done to get rich quick, but to meet our wholesale bills promptly. I would rather be & .good fellow in rags than to be rich anyway. To be rich I would not know how to act, but to be poor, that's my long suit. Yours truly, THE MODEL BAKER, by GEO. FATE, i The Fat Dinner