Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

X Louis Poulsen has been appointed postmaster at Wheatfield to succeed John, resigned to take the office of county recorder, to which he was elected last month.

The Indiana Corn Growers’ meeting will be held at the State House in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 4. A good prograin has been arranged for the occasion and no doubt much benefit may be obtained by farmers attending the meeting,

George Andrus, northwest of town, met with a bad accident Wednesday evening while assisting in hauling some straw. In passing through a gate the load slipped off and Mr. Andrus’ left thigh bone was broken in the fall. Owing to his advanced age the injury is likely to be slow in healing. The bones of the same limb were also fractured near the knee.

Hammond Tribune: Judge Tuthill has issued an order to the various attorneys requesting them to be ready with their court cases at the opening of the December term next Monday. Owing to the vast amount of business the court cases will be given their hearing before the jury cases. The MoCoy cases are expected to ocoupy the attention of the court for a considerable period.

Mitchell, the Reynolds saloonkeeper and inventqr of the Mitchell smokeless powder, who was so terribly injured last week by an explosion of his powder, is said to be getting along nicely and will soon be able to be out, although minus one arm and one eye. He says a nail had got in the mill in which he was grinding the powder, and just as he stooped to pick it out the explosion occurred.

The Newton County Enterprise says that treasurer-elect Spinney had contemplated giving a security company bond, but the bond —for $200,000 —would cost him $866 per year and the company required all funds to be deposited in the . First National Bank at Indianapolis, and checked up each month. Therefore he gave a personal bond with J. J. Schuh, Paul Weishaar, J. D. Law, Peter Brook, John Egan, George D. Rider, Cleremont Rider, A. J. Jjaw, Geo. M. Spitler, and Michael Padgett as sureties.

It is said that Kankakee land owners are agitating a movement to secure an appropriation for further blasting of the ledge in the Kankakee river at Momence, 111. The construction of the drainage ditches, or canals, which now traverse the Kankakee country in Porter, Lake, Laporte and St. Joseph counties, it is argued, will so increase the volume of water as to cause an overflow and submerge the reclaimed lands if the outlet at Momence is not enlarged. The matter in its preliminary stage will probably come before the legislature in January.

Arthur Greenlee and Guy Besse of near Pleasant Ridge, according to an affidavit filed in Squiru court made by Mrs. Sarah Brown, a resident of the east part of the city, raised a disturbance at her home on the night of Dec. 3, and threw a rock through one of the windows of her house. A warrant was issued for their arrestand Greenlee was arrested, but Basse is said to have skipped out. Mrs. Brown is said to have bad a little misunderstanding with one of her male “boarders” recently and she got the worst of the fracas, so much sq, in fact, that one of her limbs was badly trampled upon by the boarder and she has had to have it in a plaster cast for some time. For this reason she was unable to appear against Greenlee, and the case was continued until Jan. 10.

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