Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1913 — Pocket Gas Struck at Depth of Eighty Feet. [ARTICLE]

Pocket Gas Struck at Depth of Eighty Feet.

Goodland Herald. While boring a well on the Wm, Alexander property in the west part of town H. H. Downing struck gas Tuesday at a depth of eighty feet. a match was applied and a steady blaze of about six feet high burned the remainder of the day. This, of course, caused a good deal of excitement and called to mind many similar instances in this neighborhood. Notwithstanding the fact that everyone here hoped that a regular gas well 'had been struck, it died down Wednesday morning and Mr. Downing resumed work on the well. * Following a custom that has not had a break for nineteen years, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Newell and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spitler took Thanksgiving dinner together.—Brook Reporter. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, of New York, was re-elected president and Miss Jane Adams, of Chicago, was re-elected first vice president of the National Woman Suffrage association at its meeting in Washington, D. C., Thursday. Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, of Chicago, was elected second auditor. In one day 97 hunting licenses were issued in Carroll county. Clinton county issued 101 in a single day. The activity in those places seems to indicate that Game Warden Kent was right when he said that there were probably a good many hunting in this county without the formality of getting a license. The United States won over Oar nada in a contest for the championship in the Clydesdale horse judging at the International stock show in Chicago Wednesday. In the afternoon and early evening it appeared that Canada would win, but when returns were all in Canada held but six points while the United States held seven. Josephine Moore was awarded SB,OOO by a jury Wednesday in (her suit against the city of Bloomington for an Injury to her face. She was hurt by a skyrocket used in a Fourth of July celebration which was conducted by the city. The jury decided the rocket had been fired by careless and inexperienced men who were employed by the city. Former Mayor Lew Shank, of Indianapolis, is going on the stage to fulfill the engagements made some months ago. An Indianapolis paper says that people generally think it is all right for Lew to get the money out of the sort of “jokes” he has been pulling tor nothing while serving as mayor. He will “open" at Kansas City and Is to get SSOO per week, real money.