Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — Town of Westville Badly in Need of a Cemetery. [ARTICLE]

Town of Westville Badly in Need of a Cemetery.

Westville is up against it for a cemetery. The present cemetery is filled and the town Is without money to buy additional ground. A mass meeting has been called for July 7th and the town board will formally lay the matter before the townspeople at that time. If no interest is shown in the matter the present cemetery will be abandoned.

How much fun would there be in the game of poker If you caught an ace-full every time? Play the cards you catch! When you watch the clock, watch also the rapidity with which you rise In the manager’s opinion. The mental blacklist of the boss includes many clock watchers. George R. Putnam, of Davenport, lowrfrhas been appointed commissioner of lighthouses at 85,000 per annum, and Arthur C. Conover, of Passiac, N. J., deputy commissioner at $4,000. Both are civilians. With the provision that the Nt. Wayne and Winona traction line, projected by J. A. Barry, be completed by 1912, the Allen county commisioners have granted'the company a francise through that county. A bond for $2,000 will be given for the completion of the work within the specified time.

Vadoc Lavengood, a we; 1 -to-do farmer who lived fifteen miles northwest of Wabash, was killed in’a runaway accident last night. His body Was torn to pieces. Lavengood was driving a span of mules and had stepped on the double-tree of the wagon when his team started to run. He was thrown and dragged a half mile.

The annual state convention of the Indiana division of the Fanner's Educational and co-Operative Union will be- held at Loogootee, August 4 and 5. The executive committee met at Washington, Ind., yesterday and reached a decision for the date and place of holding the mooting. The program committee will engage several prominent speakers.