Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1915 — Short Paragraphs From Neighboring Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Short Paragraphs From Neighboring Newspapers.

Oarroll County Citizen Times. The faculty for the Delphi schools been selected for the ensuing year. C. F. Bradshaw, formerly principal of the Renssealer high school, will continue as superintendent. Delphi as to hold their 4th of July celebration on the third, i This celebration, which iB the fiftt given in Delphi in a number of years, is beng pushed by the merchants. The contract for the new Delphi high school building has been let and work will begin next Monday. The contract price for the building alone was $19,331.66. * , Carroll county’s children of school age (six to twenty-one years) showed a decrease in number this year, the total for 1916 being. 4,611 and the total for last year being 4,607.

KentLatfd Democrat. The commissioners of Benton and Newton counties met in a special joint session Saturday and awarded contracts for the Mulligan -and Sfl-vers-Donohue macadam roads on the intersection line of the two counties. The former contract was let to A. J. Freeland for $5,575, and the other to A. E. Gray for $7,297. AH of the women s urgamaaitaons of Kentland have adopted resolutions indorsing a woman fOT the June appointment on the school board. The Kentland women say £ at Jgjff®" about children should be dedided by women. Goodland Herald. Goodland will celebrate July 3rd. A good band will furnish music, and novelty stunts will be staged throughout the day and the fast Goodland ibali tea mwill play the Lafayette Bed Union Giants, the coolred team from Chicago, defeated the Goodland team last Sunday by a score of 7 to 6 The colored team came from behind in the eighth with -two out and cinched the game. , , The streets in Goodland will not be oiled this year is the ruling made by the oiling committee, because the assessments made last year have not yet been paid off.

Pulaski County Democrat. An old record book dated 1839-wee found by Clerk Ale in the vaults of his office the other day. The book sets forth the proceedings ofthe county commissioners and is mostly In the handwriting of John Pearson, the find dark and recorder. At a special meeting of the council Tuesday evening the electric rates ■were established. B»t«* ness district were reduced to 8 <*n*s per kilowatt, and in the reaidencee to 13 cents per kilowatt. Wiaamac defeated Monterey Sunday 17 to 7 in a game e*fieh is rightly called a “Comedy of Emms.