Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Harp, of Sacramento, Cal., who have been visiting Mr. Harp’s brother, Elijah Harp and family here, left today to visit his sister, Mrs. Geo. Zirbe and family at Tioca, Ind., before returning home. Denied admission to the baseball park by officials of the Petersburg, Va., league club, Umpire Buckley, assigned to officiate at Tuesday’s game with Newport News, crawled through a hole in the fence, the game forfeited to Newport News, and then was taken to jail on a trespass warrant sworn out by the city collector. He was later released on bail. The incident caused a near rot among the fans. Petersburg club officials said" Buckley’s decisions had made him obnoxious and they would use vigorous measures to force another assignment. A petition signed by John Hurley and twenty-seven others was filed with the clerk of the circuit court asking Judge Hanley to call the grand jury at the September term to examine witnesses to inquire into the alleged hauling of corn froin the county fam by D. S. Makeever past the farm of J. W. Stockton, in Newton township, in July and August, 1915, which the petition alleges the ‘report of the county superintendent and the records of Jasper county do not make any mention of the transaction. The petition alleges that James Shelley and a hired man of Mr. Makeever are the ones who hauled the corn, the outgrowth of the indictment by the last grand jury of Jay W. Stocktoiy and others for perjury, they having testified that Mr. Makeever hauled, corn from the farm on a certain date, without making proper accounting for same.