Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1914 — News and Comment By The Lake County Star. [ARTICLE]

News and Comment By The Lake County Star.

One day last week the county jail register said 116 boarders, which is about the average. The poor asylum average is close to 150. It is said by people traveling over the country in automobiles daily that the acreage of wheat sown will double that of any season heretofore, and while much of the seeding is up and growing, some are still sowing. Adam Gerlach is . preparing to start for Florida again to spend the winter, and that is as near Mexico as he cares to get, although he says it is the grandest country in the world to live in if one was sure of keeping their scalp on. The Cedar Lake outing season is steadily growing less as cool weather approaches, and it is believed this has been the greatest year of profit the business places there have ever had. Prices have been kept up and there has been no end to the patronage. The Kankakee river is the lowest now in the time the people can remember back, and there is no moisture in the earth found by digging graves. We haven’t had an old fashioned soaking rain late enough so it can be remembered and it looks we are fast coming to irrigation, and the only obstacle in the way is where we’ll get the water. A married man from the south part of the county was brought here on the charge of bastardy this week, and settled the matter by paying SSOO. He pleaded guilty to living with the girl for a time in another state as -raan and wife, and he was quite lucky in getting off so cheaply. A similar case -from East Chicago was tried in the circuit court this week.