Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

.The state board of education will meet April 16 in the office of the statesuperintendent to open bids for textbooks in history and geography in the common schools for five years. . i W. H. Whittakes, former superintendent of the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville, has been acquitted of charges affecting his administration of the District of Columbia workhouse. The possessor of good health and retaining almost unimpaired faculties, Mrs. Marie Esther Sturgeon has just celiebrated her 104th birthday at Sturgeon, Mich. It is said she has attended church regularly for 100 years. , J ‘ ’ Foriper Senator Beveridge will soon leave for a tour of Canada with a view of getting material for a series of articles bearing on Canadian reciprocity. He will be accompanied by his secretary, Bert Metcalf, of Indianapolis. William Nelson, a deserter from the United States navy, aged twenty-two years, was arrested at the home of his grandfather, east of Goshen, Tuesday. He was taken to Fort Sheridan at Chicago and from there will be taken to Philadelphia, from which place he deserted. At the quarterly conference of the Wabash Methodist church a resolution was passed asking for the return of the Rev. D. H. Guild, the Rev. H. S. Nickerson and the Rev. Mr. Overdere, pastors of that city, and the Rev. B. S. Hollopejer, presiding elder* of the Wabash district, living at Wabash. Resolutions will be presented to the coming Northern Indiana conference at Kokomo. James P. Parsons, who has served as deputy sheriff of Marion county since the first election of Sheriff Woessner, has been appointed deputy fish and game commissioner by Commissioner Geo. W. Miles. More than 200 applications were received by the commissioner for the vacancy. Mr. Parsons will assume his duties April 15. His new position carries with it a salary of $75 a month and traveling expenses.