Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1906 — HUNTING FOR HIS MOTHER [ARTICLE]

HUNTING FOR HIS MOTHER

Now will that bee quit buzzing in the bonnet of the republican editor of the Remington Press’? The republican state convention will be held in Indianapolis next week. The resolutions committee has a hard job before it. With Carpenter, Marion, Barkley and Union townships having voted “dry” by remonstrating against saloons in their respective townships, it is now up to Keener, Wheatfield, Kankakee and Walker to climb on the water wagon. If any of the ex-State officers of democratic persuasion violated the law and collected fees to which they were not entitled, they should be made to disgorge. A democrat who doesn’t behave himself is no better than a republican who doesn’t behave. The type founders trust have again tightened the screws on the printers, advancing the price of type 10 per cent more. The price of all kinds of printing material has been increased about 50 per cent in the past dozen years, and we can’t believe that the workmen, the fellows who make it, are receiving all this vast increase either. The press reports shite that exAuditor of State David E. Sherrick was placed in the cell with James P. McWilliams, of Warwick county, on his arrival at the State prison at Michigan City Tuesday. Dave and McWilliams were old friends, and the latter is also serving a term for embezzlement. When the former saw “Jim” he was overcome, and wept bitter tears. McWilliams reached the prison one day ahead of Sherrick. The way of the transgressor is hard.

Joseph Green Thought Her Dead, but Now Believes Her Alive—Sequel of a Divorce. Crawfordsville, Inti., April 5. Joseph Green, a Monon bridge carpenter of this city, is trying to find his mother, long mourned as dead, but now believed to be living. In 1866 Thomas Green, who had served in the Union winy, parted from his wife, taking with him their youngest son, Joe, less than 2 years old. Two older children, Mary and Benjamin, were left In the mother’s care. As the boy grew up he was led to lielieve that his mother was deed, and it was only recently that he learned the contrary. Since getting this chance information Green has carried on an untiringsearch for his relatives, but thus far without developing a clew. The father martied again and Is living in Missouri. In response to numerous letters of inquiry he states that his first wife's name was Raphael -uarp and that she at one time lived in Indianapolis. Beyond this he refugee to diacloae anything.