Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — DE MOCRATIC EDITORS [ARTICLE]

DE MOCRATIC EDITORS

Indiana Molders of Anti«Flepubj lican Opinion to Meet at French Lick. TO BE GUESTS OF TOM TAGGART Part of tbe Programme at the Meet —Negroes at Munole Aslc for Segregation of the Races. Indianapolis, July 3.—The executive committee of the State Democratic Editorial association met at the Grand hotel and arranged a programme for the annual meeting to be held at French Lick Springs, July 18 and 19. The editors and their families will be guests of Thomas Taggart, who has invited them to come to French Lick Springs on Thursday and stay until the following Monday. One of the chief features of the meeting will be the address by Ben Loutbian, of the Logansport Pharos, on “The Democratic Platform of 1908.” “Get Together” Day. Louttaian’s address will be delivered et the banquet Friday eveniDg. Thursday will be “get together day,” no programme having been arranged for that day. Friday, W. B. Westlake, of the Marion Leader, will speak on “Making a Newspaper,"and his speech will be discussed by W. S. Chambers, of the Newcastle Democrat, and Royal E. Purcell, of the Vincennes Sun. “Newspaper Competition” will be tho subject of an address by O. W. Whitelock, of the Huntington News-Demo-eret. V': Edgar Goodnow Resigns. Indianapolis, July B.—The resignation of Edgar Goodnow, one of the deputies In the office of Miss Mary A. Stubbs, chief of the state bureau of statistics, is announced, to become effective immediately. Miss Stubbs has made no announcement of Goodnow's successor. The office pays $1,5C0 a year. Neither Miss Stubbs nor Goodnow will discuss the matter of the resignation. It i» understood, • how ever, that it was offered at Miss* Stubbs’s request, because of friction in the office. Crusade Against Oleomargarine. Indianapolis, July 3. A crusade against downtown restaurant keepers accused of selling their patrons oleomargarine for butter, was waged by the police, after Deputy Prosecutor Oren Hack had issued twenty-seven warrants against the violators.

NEGROES WANT SEPARATION Those at Muncte Ask That a School Building Be Set Aside (or Their Children Only. Muncle, Ind., July 3.—A mass meeting of Munele colored peopfe was held at which a further conference with the city school board, with the object of bringing about the establishment of a school for colored children only, was arranged. The negroes are in earnest about desiring separation from the whites in the schools, and the school board Is willing to gratify them. It is believed to be one of the few cases where negroes have drawn the color line In the schools, but the colored people have been unanimous in recommendingthe change. It is thought the proposed school will be established at Beacon and Seymour streets, which is near the center of the negro population. ' Novel Fourth Celebration. Kokomo, Ind., July 3. —Sheriff Lindley will make a novel contribution to Kokomo's Fourth of July fireworks. He has In his possession a wagonload of slot machines, poker tables and other gambling devices captured in a recent raid on the gambling houses of Russiaville. He will pile all these on a vacant lot adjoining the jail yard and on the evening of the Fourth will sprinkle them with kerosene and apply a torch. Jump Cost Him Bis Life. Terre Haute, Ind., July 3.—William Rengin. aged 20, while on the bridge over the Wabash at Main street, dared Rollo Apple to Jump with him to the water, fifty feet below. Apple refusing Reagin handed his coat to the latter and told him to meet him on the hank. Then he Jumped, and. rising to the surface, stajted swimming. After a few strokes he sank and did not rise again. Reagin's home was in Yandaila. 111. They Swapped War Stories. Rushvine, Ind., July 3. Ex-Gov-eraor W. T, Durbin, who was colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Infantry during the SpanlshAmerican war, received a number of his old comrades at the home of exConsul John F. Gowdy, where the exgovemor is a guest There was an exchange of war stories, and the colonel apoke entertainingly of the trip he took to Cnba since the war. Valley of the Blessed. Windfall. Ind., July 3.—This town, the second best in the county, with Its 1,200 Inhabitants, is without a saloon ot town marshal.