Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

John Switzer, an old resident of Barkley tp., died last Friday at his home northeast of Aix, where he had resided for nearly forty years, aged 83 years, 4 months and 14 days. He is survived by his wife and four children. The funeral was held Sunday at the Brushwood church and interment made in Weston cemetery. The M. P. church organization owes much for its present flourishing condition to its pastor, Rev, Flagg, who by his untiring efforts since he came here last September has placed the church on quite a prosperous footing. The interior of the church edifice here, which had lain in an unfinished state for some two or three years, has been fixed up and supplied with new pews, and the membership has increased considerably during his pastorate.

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Friday, March 9, Max Weller, 3 miles north and 3| miles west of Remington, and the same distance northeast of Goodland; general sale, horses, cattle, hogs and farm tools. NEW RULING ON THE LAW Justice Refuses to Penalize a Parent Whose Boy “Played Hookey”— Up to the Boy Now. Muncie, Ind., March 2. Justice Behymer has held in a decision handed down in the case of Albert Lamb, who was charged wth falling to keep his 11-year-old son in school, that where it is shown a parent has used due diligence to keep a child In school and is under the impression that such child is attending school, the parent cannot be held guilty of disobeying the law. He therefore acquitted Lamb, but placed the boy in the hands of the probation officer with instructions to have the lad sent to the reformatory should he absent himself from school again without cause. It has been customary in various parts of the state, to construe the truancy law literally and to assess fines against parents whose children did not attend school as the law provides. She Tells a Weird Tale. Indianapolis, March 2. Kidnaped and held a prisoner for four months, during which time she was wedded to a man who she supposes was one of the cor spi a tors in th.- plot wh’ch resulted in Ler romantic marriage—this is thestory of what befell Bessie Wherry, a bright mulatto, 16 years old, according to a statement made by her