Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. George Chappell returned to her home in Grant Park, 111., after a visit here with her br o ther-i»-law, Albert Witham, who has been quiite sick but is now improved. Additional state troops have been ordered to Indiana Harbor for duty in the strike zone from Madison, Newcastle, Richmond and Evansville by Adjutant General Harry B. Smith. •• . 1 Julius H. Barnes, United States wheat director, gave public notice Thursday that he would oppose any attempt to extend to another crop the present government policy of a guaranteed price on wheat. George G. Kessler, former soldier, was convicted at Shelbyville Thursday morning of first degree murder for the death of Miss Minnie Mae Wilkins in Indianapolis last May. Kessler is making plans to appeal the case and has stated that if he is a new trial he will take the stand in his own behalf. Kessler was sentenced to life imprisonment. Following his sentence he again asserted his innocence and declared: “If I am guilty of that crime I want death—that’s how confident I am of my innbcence.”

WOTICE. In the Matter of the Petition of - Kenry Abulm 1 , et. »L, for a (Free Macadam Kighway in Marlon Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed with the State Board of Tax Commissioners of the State of Indiana by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, asking permission to issue the bonds of Jasper County, Indiana, in the sum of >7,000.00 to raise funds to pay for the construction of the above named improvement. Said petition is set for hearing on the 4th day of November, 1919 before the State Board of Tax Commissioners' In the State House in the city of In-* dianapolis, Indiana, at which time all persons interested may appear and show'cause, if any, why said /permission should not fae granted. HENRY AMSLER, ET. AL., Petitioners. CHARLES A. WELCH, D. S. MAKEEVER, H. W. MARBLE, Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana.