Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The records in the office of the secretary of state show that last month 1,712 motor vehicles were registered in the office. Jacob Smith and Ora Deardorf killed a rattlesnake five feet six inches long on the banks of Wild Cat creek, five miles east of Lafayette. Mrs. E. T. Edwards, of Terre Haute says she has a poultry record “for all the world to shoot at” A White Rock pullet which was hatched April 8 laid her first egg July 19. Anna Ruttengar, age nineteen, of Hammond, was drowned in Calumet river Friday evening, and the authorities are investigating. Young men with her say the party went in swimming and the girl got beyond her depth. The inroads of wasps into the mortar between the bjicks of the schoolhouse at Inglefield, Vanderburg county, may cause the building to collapse according to Township Trustee Atkins. The wasps have bored out the mortar for the building of their nests and the bricks have become loosened and are falling out Mr. and Mrs. Guy Kelley, of Columbus, Ind., are convinced that it is wrong to go fishing on Sunday. They were accompanied by their two small children, a son and daughter. The daughter fell in the river while they were fishing and nearly drowned and while crossing a railroad bridge the son narrowly escaped being killed by a switch engine. Orville Spiker recognized the familiar sound of his horse’s hoofs as the animal was being driven over a Street in Swayzee Thursday night and jumping into the rig at the side of the driver, recognized Charles Jessup, a former inmate of the boys’ reform school at Plainfield, as the young man who had taken the horse and buggy from a hitchrack. William Mick, Jr., age eighteen, of Indianapolis, saved Mrs. Janet Willis, of Detroit, from drowning at Winona Lake. The young man, who is an excellent swimmer, saw the woman sinking and reached her just in time to save her. After a hard struggle he succeeded in bringing her in reach of friends, and with their aid, in getting the exhausted woman to lajid. The refusal of the city council to permit dancing on the floors of the new city building at Qakland City promises to become a disturbing factor in the coming election this fall. The new city building has a nice floor for dancing and the-younger set has been looking with longing eyes on its, polished surface. Their request to be permitted to dance on it was firmly refused by the council when Marshal Wester presented the question, and now the dancers are forming an organization to enter the coming campaign.