Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1912 — State G. A. R. Encampment Will Re Held at South Bend. [ARTICLE]

State G. A. R. Encampment Will Re Held at South Bend.

Department Commander Daniel Waugh, of Tipton, juid Assistant Adjutant General John R. Fesler, have issued the general order for the G. A. R. Encampment, which will be held at South Bend May 21-23. * Headquarters will be at the Oliver hotel. The parade has been set for Wednesday, May 22, at 2 o’clock, to"be in charge of David Strouse, of Rockville, chief of the staff, with J. W. Clemson, of Crawfordsville, as chief bugler. Camp fires will be held each evening. The annual election will be held at 8:30 o’clock Thursday evening, may 23. H. M. Trimble, national commander, will attend the encampment one day, but the exact date has not been determined. Music wijl be supplied by the band from the State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home* at Knights town. Commander Waugh has announced the appointment of Louis LaDauer of Valparaiso, and Jacob Sheffer, of Williamsport, as aides on the commander’s staff. / Robert Tota, of Chicago, and Richard Gilmore, who enlisted at Davenport, la., surrendered themselves to the police at Streator, 111., Wednesday, as deserters from the United' States Navy. They left their ship, the Franklin, in Portsmouth harbor seven days ago. - V-.-Assistant Station Agent Don Beam,, while working at the depot yesterday afternoon, let a trunk fall on the index finger of his right hand, inflicting a very painful wound. The first Joint of the finger was greatly'awelled and it was thought the bone had been crushed, but an examination by a local physician showed the bone to be intact. Aside from tearing ihe finger nail loose and causing Don,.to lose a whole sleep, nothing serious resulted. He will be forced to leave his work for a few days. It was John N. Burns, of Kentland, who was found dead in the lumber yard at Morocco last Sunday. The coroner rendered a verdict of death from heart failure but were strong indications of suicide. Burns was born near Medaryville 32 years ago and had lived with his brothers on the Isaac Speck farm since he was 5 years old. He seems to have been wandering around some and bumming his way oh the railroad and probably was disconsolate. A Barkley township lady, who modestly requested that her name -be not mentioned, recalls that the winter ago was almost identical through and that it followed a Very dry summer and was followed by a cold and wet spring. There was serious seed corn difficulty and -many farmers procured seed from Kansas and Nebraska and the Kansas seed produced a healthy stock but the corn did not mature. The Nebraska seed produced a smaller corn but it ripened much better.. The seed corn difficulty extended over a period of several years, owing to the fact that the corn did not ripen. Accotdjng to this lady’s recollection the ground dijj not warm up until late that year. She mentioned particularly that on the 12th of May a drizzling cold rain fell, again chilling the soil and retarding the planting of lady believes that it would be wise-to order seed corn from the north and prepare for a similar condition to that of thirty years ago. , k;. £ ■ Butter wrappers, any quantity, plain or printed, may be bad at the Republican office.