Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1911 — Special Judge at Winamac Orders Big Monon Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Special Judge at Winamac Orders Big Monon Ditch.

Henry A. Steis, special judge, at Winamac Tuesday decided for (he petitioners in the old Monon ditch case and orderedi the ditch established. The case has been in court for seventeen years. . Tbe construction of the drain was stubbornly contested by the remonstrators in the western part of Pulaski county, where it will drain two hundred acres of land. -xThe ditch Will cost 1200,000. The case has been before ten judges, all of whom passed' up on the job after having heard part of the case. The present judge was named by Governor Marshall, after all other means of finding men to try the case had failed. There were four hundred remonstrances filed against tbe ditch, all of which had to be heard separately. • B. D. Comer was down from Union township. He haß sown bis wheat late this fall and it is not yet through the ground. He hopes by this means to avoid the fall attack of the Hessian fly, the little enemy that raises such havoc with our Wheat in this latitude. Many reports are coming from about the county as to the damage so far done by the fly. Some say that they have practically ruined all wheat that came up prior to the last heavy rain. One fanner reported that he looked carefully at the beads of wheat but slightly damaged and found them literally filled with tbe eggs, tbe little germs that withstand the rigors of the severest winter and hatch out in tbe spring and blast the hopes of the fanner who so often thinks that tbe wheat has wintered fine. It is a little early perhaps to say conclusively that the wheat crop in the county Is almost ruined already, but that seems to be the opinion of some Investigative farmers. The delay of frosts has given the fly plenty of time to work and be Is never a drone at the labor of wheat devastation. - J' V /