Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1917 — Fourth of July Might Just As Well Not Come. [ARTICLE]

Fourth of July Might Just As Well Not Come.

The state fire marshal proposes to restrict the celebration of the Fourth of July in Indiana to the reading of the Declaration of Independence and prayer. ..... -/■■■/a... He has prepared a bill that will soon be introduced in the legislature which will prohibit the sale of fire crackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, toy pistols, toy balloons, in fact, all sorts of noisemaking and firemaking contraptions that 'have been through all the years the small boy’s longest suit in giving due recognition to the nation’s birthday anniversary. Another bill that will be proposed by the state fire marshal would require monthly fire drills in every public school in the state. And another would give witness fees in criminal cases, the state to pay the fee in case of conviction and the county in case of acquittal.

Admiral Wm. S. Benson, U. S. N., has been appointed ranking officer of the United States Navy and succeeds the late Admiral George H. Dewey as president of the general board of the navy. Paris, Jan. 25.—Josephine Barthelemy, 20 years old, killed her baby. Today she stood acquitted of the crinre by a jury of Frenchmen. The reason was her baby had a German father. He and three other German soldiers attacked her. Employes of the Roland Coal company in a big pit near Clay City, found several petrified stumps and other interesting specimens of petrified vegetation. Many have been preserved. . ; ' Bankers at South Bend have informed realty dealers they are ready to make $1,000,000 in loans to erect homes to care for the 10,000 persons to be brought to the city by new industries this year. As a result of charges that favoritism was shown in a contract for construction machinery for use on the Panama canal, the war department has suspended a recent contract award pending a complete investigation. An ocean freight rate of $4 a hundred pounds will ibe paid on 1,000 bales of cotton which were booked for export from Galveston to Havre. This is believed to be the highest rate ever paid for transportation of cotton from Galveston. A bill aimed at the high cost of living was introduced in the Minnesota senate recently by Senators Blomgren and Rystrom, whose measures would make it a crime for any person or organization dealing in potatoes to attempt to create a monopoly or to attempt to destroy he business of a compeitor.

St. Johns, Indiana, has the distinction of having tax money that it doesn’t know what to do with. The cbildren*of i ‘St;- T Johns allgotothe parochial school, and when the check for $877 came from the state distribution the treasurer of the school board, Bernard , Klein, carried it around in his pocket for some time until the county treasurer told him to deposit it and get the interest or the state accountants would go after him for the interest. He then ■ sent it to the county treasurer who in turn sent it to the state authorities, who returned it as not belonging ito them and now it must contihue to draw interest until relief eomes and if no change occurs the fund may in time make St. Johns the richest school corporation in the state. Republican classified ads are proving their worth every day. Sales are made, houses and farms rented, wants attended to, lost articles restored arid found articles returned to their owners. Try one of these mediums and be convinced; •