Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

There will be no consideration of pension legislation at this session of congress. This notice was served on the house Saturday by Democratic Leader Underwood. Noah Messick killed seventeen large rattlesnakes, which he' dug from one nest on his farm northeast of Middlebury. The largest was more than four and one-half feet long. Saturday the United States senate passed the bill introduced by Senator Shively, authorizing the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway company to construct a bridge across the Calumet river in Lake county. The Central Labor union of Terre Haute has unanimously adopted resolutions in favor of a municipal waterworks plant The franchise of the present -company, which is owned by N. W. Harris, of Ci.;, ago, will expite in 1921.

Rev. Guy W. Sarvis, assistant pastor of the Hyde Park Church of Christ, was exonerated of charges of heresy by a committee of the board of foreign missions for the Disciples of Chrut in America, in session at DesMoine-, lowa, Saturday. Gary’s new Chamber of Commerce at its regular meeting Friday night, established another record toy taking steps to create a twenty-thousand-acre park along the Little Calumet river, extending from the Porter county line on the east to the state line on the west.

The scalp was torn from Miss Nora E. Harley’s head Friday in the Hogan Shoe company’s plant at Lawrenceburg. Her hair caught in a belt. Before the machinery could be stopped her hair was torn off from the back of her neck to her eyes. She is in a critical condition.

Rev. Dr. Winfield C. Helt, formerly of Evansville, who about a year ago resigned as district superintendent of th'e Anti-Saloon league and started tne Rational Reform League of America, has been dismissed from the Indiana presbytery and is no longer a Presbyterian minister. At a conference Friday between Gov. Marshall, B. Douglass, state entomologist, and C.H. Baldwin, who has been appointed to succeed him, it was decided that Mr. Douglass shall remain in office until Nov. 1 in order to complete his report on “Peach Growing in Indiana.” Mr. Baldwin will act as field deputy until that time.

The directorate of the Northeru State bank of Gary was increased by the stockholders at a meeting Friday from five to nine members. The following were then elected: John A. Brennan, W. D. Hunter and George H. Manlove, of Gary, and C. L. Jeffrey, president of the State Bank of Chesterton’ and a member of the firm of Jeffrey & Morgan, of Chesterton. Sal lie Thompson died at the Tippecanoe county Infirmary Saturday after spending forty years in that institution. She was the oldest inmate ever confined in that institqtion. Her parents moved to Lafayette fifty-nine years ago when she was a baby. They died a few years later and she had no place to go, so was taken to the poor house. She grew to like the place and refused several opportunities to leave the home.

of the wires. “Hello! Hello!” she cried again, but still only the deafening buzz. “Go ahead! There’s your party," repeated central. “But I can’t get them," Helen called desperately. Then came a faint “Hello.” Strange and far away as It sounded It was WARREN’S VOICE! “Oh Warren—Warren- Are you ill? It is I —Helen! Why haven’t you writ, ten? Why didn’t you answer my telegram? Oh, what has been the matter?” Then again the faint sound of his voice, .but throng}) the buzzing wires ste could not distinguish a word. How Warren Answered. “Oh, I can’t hear you! I can’t hear you!" frantically. “Are you ill —just tell me that?" Again his voice—still Indistinct. .’’Oh, I can’t hear you! I can’t hear you!’’ she sobbed. And then came plainly: “No, I’m not 111. You’ll get a letter tomorrow. Do you realize what this la costing? There** no excuse for It Don’t ever do such a fool tfhlng again! Good-by.** "Wait! Walt! Oh Wanw—Warren” —she cried. But h* had cut off. Only the buzzing of th* wire* answered her.