Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Senator Kern has Introduced a bill in the senate to pay Stephen Jarvis, of Greentown, Ind., a pension of S3O a month. ■■■r 4'' "4 A division consisting exclusively of Odd Fellows named Smith and Jones will be a feature of the big parade that will be given in Indianapolis Wednesday night, Sept. 20, during the week of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. meeting. Henry Lane Wilson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, was the official guest of the Culver summer schools Friday. He reviewed the battalion, inspected the signal and cavalry drills, watched the boat maneuvers on -the lake and presented merit medals to a class of cadets. Reports to the office of George W. Miles, commissioner of fisheries and game, Friday, told of the capture in Clay county of fifteen nets and seines, said to belong to one man. The capture was made by Deputy James P. Parsons, who, it is said, had found the nets hanging in a barn to dry. Blds for the construction of the postoffice building at Princeton, Ind., were opened Friday in the office of the supervising architect of the treasury. There were four bids. The Indiana bidders were August Ohm, Christ Kanzler & Son, and Barnes Bros. Ohm was the lowest bidder and got the job. An application was made Friday to the War Department for clemency in the case of Private Homer A Watson of the Tenth Infantry, who deserted from Fort Benjamin Harrison and wa? arrested at his home in Indianapolis. He now faces a court-martial. It is said he was mentally irresponsible when he deserted. NexC week will be the thirty-sixth annual commencement week of the Central Normal college at Danville, Ind., and it promises to be a busy as well as brilliant one. There is an unusually large number of graduates, and the non-resident alumni pre manifesting much zeal, thus insuring a large attendance. President Taft is to be an exhibitor at the International Dairymen’s Exposition in Milwaukee in October. He has promised Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin to send Pauline Wayne, famous White House cow, to the show. The President hopes to see Pauline on exhibition about Oct. 12 and will try to be in Milwaukee on that date. Representative Barnhart is confident there will be a “pork barrel” opened in Washington next winter. In anticipation of that happy event he has introduced in the house a bill appropriating $70,000 for a site and public building in Rochester, his home town. Mr. Barnhart is a member of the committee of public builcftngs and grounds and flatters himself that he will be in the immediate vicinity when the “pork” is passed around.