Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1916 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

J. W. Spate spent the week end at Newiand. Mrs. S. L, Jordan was called to Angola, Ind., Monday by the illness of her son, Homer. * A. Brautigan, of Gary, has returned, preparatory to taking up the summer’s work here. Mrs. Nancy Hoover, of Lebanon-, who came to attend the funeral of' her sister-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Rees, is-, staying for a time with the family.. Maine coast lobster fishermen have discovered that the lobster enters a lobster trap through the sense of sight and not through smelling the bait, and are now baiting the traps with fresh fish sealed in glass jars. During the ten yea,rs preceding theoutbreak of the war, while Great. Britain was paying off its debt, GerjMUny and Austria-Hungary between them increased their national debt by the enormous sum of about $1,500,000,000. t i- - A centrifigul pump that has beeir invented in England is said to handle unscreened sewage of a consistency that would choke any other type of pump. Newly formed ponds of water/ cut off from all communication with rivers, brooks and lakes, are often found of a. sudden,Jto contam fish, the favorite explanatory theory being that fish eggs are carried thither by birds, either in their food, or clinging to the legs of waders, the crane, heron, bittern and the like.