Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1913 — State Superintendent Had Big Flood Losses on Farm. [ARTICLE]

State Superintendent Had Big Flood Losses on Farm.

In a letter to County Superintendent Lamson the state superintendent of public instruction, Charles A. Greathouse, states that he had just returned to Indianapolis from his farm in the southern part of Indiana. He says that he had 23,000 bushels of corn swept away by the flood, also 2 corn barns and every house on the island and about 1,000 acres of growihg wheat ruined. Mr. Greathouse was a very wealthy man prior to accepting the office he now holds, which was first given hhn by appointment and to which he was again elected last fall.