Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — ITEMS FOR THE BUSY READER [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FOR THE BUSY READER

Refused to Grant Editor a Divorce. —Judge Gallagher of LaPorte refused to grant Editor Fred Y. Wheeler of the Lake County Star at Crown Point a divorce from mis wife. Wheeler objected to his wife on account of her Christian Science practices. The .case was venued from Lake county to the LaPorte circuit court. Mrs. Wheeler was represented by Attorney Grant Crumpacker. Mr. Wheeler was represented by Attorney George Hershman of Crown . Point and Attorney Lee Osborn of LaPorte. Indiana Melon Crop To Be A Bumper.—Knox county will produce this season more watermelons than in any year in the last eleven. Eleven years ago more than 900 car-loads of melons were sent to the market from Oakland, Knox county. It is expected that more than 550 carloads will be marketed from that community this year. Near Carlisle in Sullivan county, more than 500 acres have been planted in watermelons. Prof. O. G. Loyd Goo* to Purdue. —Prof. O. G. Loyd, of Ames, lowa, has assumed his duties as head of the newly-created farm management department at Purdue. He will have charge of the teaching, investigational and extension work in this department. Indiana Reformatory Becomes SelfSustaining.—Under the able management of G.- A. H. Shadeler, general superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville that institution has been brought to a self-sustaining basis, the first time in its history. v Barber Shops Ordered Inspected. —The state board of health has ordered its inspectors to investigate conditions in the barber shop* thruout the state. Inspectors are to see that all shops meet the state’s requirements in reference to cleanliness. An effort will be made to eliminate all barbers afflicted with disessc. Lafayette Editor Is Sued-—Henry W. Marshall, publisher of the Lafayette Journal-Courier, is named defendant in a $7,000 suit brought in the federal court by John A. McCarthy, a New York broker, who avers that Marshall employed him to assist in buying the Lafayette Courier, promising him 5 per cent of the purchase price, between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO, and 2% per cent additional of any purchase price in excess of SIOO,OOO. McCarthy claims the commission on $105,000, the price Marshall paid for tim Courier.