Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1904 — CHRISTIAN ENDEAVER SOCIETY [ARTICLE]

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVER SOCIETY

Meets st Fort Wayne with 1,000 Delegates and Visitors Attending—Some of tha Features. Fort Wayne, Ind., June 24.—The state convention of the Young People’s Society ot' Christian Endeavor has opened. One thousand delegates and visitors are in attendance. The sessions are held in the First Presbyterian church, and the first meeting was an executive session of the state officers and advisory bourd, the president, ltev. J. Webster Bailey, of this city, presiding. Devotional services were eonduetey by J. Elmer Rhea, of Muneie. The business section of the district and the county officers, were also hold, with Frank Boyd, of Rockville, as leader. The first popular meeting was held last evening. The music at all the meetings, under the leadership of Professor P. I*. Bilhorn, is expected to be a feature. Speakers of national repute who will be heard at the convention are: Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, of Philadelphia; General Secretary Von Ogden Vogt, of Boston, and Robert E. Speer, of New York city. || Dog Nearly Kills Its Master. Terre Haute, Ind., June 24.—With his bride of less than a week standing not twenty feet away Ora Musser was terribly wounded. Mr. and Mrs. Musser were on a hunting expedition and Musser’s dog knocked over a shotgun which was leaning against a tree. As the gun fell it was discharged and Musser received the charges, from both barrels in his body.

Will Not Treat with the Union. Vincennes, Ind., June 23.—Because Henry Wessell, owner of the Sugar Loaf Coal mine, refused to treat with District President Boyle, of the United Mine Workers, concerning grievances of the miners, the men were ordered on a strike. President Boyle said that the men would remain out until an agreement was reached. Four-Year-Old Boy Badly Hurt. Colfax, Ind., June 24. —While the mother was preparing supper the 4-year-old sou of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Thompson climbed a ladder to pick cherries, as he had observed his mother doing earlier in the day, and accidentally fell, fracturing his skull. A protruding nail also made an ugly wound. Been Twenty-Seven Year* Gattlng There. Terre Haute, Ind., June 24.—One of the graduates of the Indiana State Normal, who received his diploma yesterday, is John Stahl, 53 years old, who has been taking the prescribed course irregularly for twenty-seven years. Stahl entered the normal in April. 1877. Affections Held to Hava No Value. Delphi, Ind., June 24.—The *5,000 damage suit of Fred Burk against Dr. Parker Justice, for the alleged alienation of his wife’s effections, went to the jury and a verdict was rendered in favor of the defendant The case was bitterly contested.