Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1913 — Items Of interest From the Seat Of White County. [ARTICLE]

Items Of interest From the Seat Of White County.

The following paragraphs are copied from the Monticello Evening Journal of Monday, July 28th: Monticello is to have another garage. The Witz room across from Johnsonbaugh’a grocery is being remodeled for that purpose. It will make the seventh and a few more to hear from yet. Virgil Hamilton waved his hand at a' bunch of friends who hapto be on the Monon platIfrrm yesterday afternoon as the Hoosier limited passed. He was on his way home after a vacation visit in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody, Miss Jane Moody and Master Granule Mood/, Jr., with Mr. and Mrs. A. F Long, Mr. and Mrs. George Long and Miss Martha Long were guests of Rev. Kindig and family yesterday evening. The Hoosier Carnival Company has gone but they did not take all away with them that they took on the ground. The residents around

the ground are bowing over a mass of trash and filth that is left behind to breed smells and flies. Trash, trash, nothing but trash from start to finish, is the way one lady expressed her opinion. It is likely the owners of the lots will be called upon by the health board to clean up the filth and dispose of it properly. The recorder’s office has received the new Farm Register and now have on hand all the blanks necessary to register the names of farms as provided for in an act of the last Legislature. Sheriff Thomas Downey lias the honor of being the first man to register his farm under the new law. County Treasurer William P. Cooper was the second. Mr. Downey registers his farm as the “Spring Creek Stock Farm” and Mr. Cooper as the “Honey Creek Stock Farm.” Attorney B. F. Carr left yesterday on a ten days business trip that takes him as far as Regina, tn Saskatchewan, Canada. On his way home he will stop at his farm in Minnesota and see how the prospects are there. It is his first trip outside of the bounds of the good old U. S. A. W. J. Huff and son Walter, of Monon, were in town this morning a few hours looking after business interests. Mr. Huff has recently published a booklet entitled “Hand Press Hummers,” made up of sketches,from real life gathered in his nearly half century of newspaper experience. The price of the book is 25 cents. » Now it is good time to name your farm home. It is understood that Suggestion has been made that B. B. Baker’s snug little suburban farm at the west edge of Monticello be known as “Bull Moose Park” and Capt. B. F. Price’s sub stantlal farm home and natural forest reserve to the west of the house be termed “Stand Pat Farm.”