Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — HAS TOO MANY HOGS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAS TOO MANY HOGS.

Sheriff Wildaiin In ■ Dllema.—Has a Corner on Newton County Pork. Sheriff Wildasin of Newton county, was in the city Wednesday bunting hog feed. It seems that John has 250 head of Newton connty hogs on his hands and had nothing to feed them. The immediate cause of John’s surplnssage of hogs growns oat of or is concerned with the failure the Rose Lawn bank some time ago. W. B. Austin, A. McCoy, and a Mr. Fairbanks, a brother of the tall United States Senator, who owns a ranch near Rose Lawn, signed a note with Jesse J. Fry, the late banker of Rose Lawn, we understand, for some $3,500. When Jesse’s bank went busted they had the note to pay. Austin and McCoy paid their share, but Fairbanks refused to pay, desiring to await developments regarding Fry’s ability to liquidate. Austin and McCoy then paid the balance of the note and began proceedings in Newton county to collect Fairbanks’ share of the loss. Accordingly Sheriff Wildasin to Fairbanks’ ranch and levied on 250 head of hogs. Then the hogs got hungry and John found that he couldn’t buy corn enough in that whole section of the country to feed them. With the squeals of the hungry swine ringing in his ears • and disturbing his rest at night, he hied himself to Rensselaer and struck Tom McCoy for some hog feed. Matters were arranged somehow so that the hogs will be issued rations pending the hearing of thq suit, and John will not have to lie awake nights thinking of th.e hungry porkers having nothing to eat but sandburs and jack-oak shrubery. ,

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE.—Collegeville, Jasper County, Indiana.