Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1916 — Marble Ditch Is Changing Course of the Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

Marble Ditch Is Changing Course of the Kankakee.

Valparaiso Videttte. The Kankakee river is passing. Already the bed of the famous old stream is nearly dry at Burrows Camp. Now one can walk over from bank to bank, wearing only slippers, for the water is making its way down the Mafible ditch. Leanord Burrows told the story here last night when he drove in for an evening’s shopping trip with his wife, Miss Mary Burnett and Roy Shelton. As the big Williams dredge proceeds westward the water in the old river will recede until there will be but little left except the channel. One of these days the county commissioners will probably take action to eliminate the old bridge near Burrows Camp and provide for arches of masonry that will s iffice in high water times. This is the idea of Mr. Burrows, which he hopes will receive support from the public. The first fine fish, ever caught in the new’ channel was landed yesterday morning by a man named Henry Clink, of Cincinnati, who is occupying the cottage of his son-in-law, George W. Lawton, of Chicago. Mr. Cink’s prize was a pickerel and tipped the scales at 7 pounds, and the fisher was delighted. Mr. Lawton is the man who owned the Chicago auditorium once for ten hours. He bought it in on taxes after the owners had failed to pay the taxes.

Robert Foster and his son were drowned in the river at the mouth of the Monon creek Friday afternoon, according to the Monticello Journal. The father was trying to save the life of the eight-year-old boy when the tragedy occurred.