Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — PEETZ IS ILL RIGHT [ARTICLE]

PEETZ IS ILL RIGHT

Hi* Wife Says So in Advocating His Candidacy for a State Office. HAS HO DESCRIPTION OF VICE Certificate of Good Character to Make Any Man Proud—Honor for Overstreet— State Items. Delphi,, Ind., March 11.—Mrs. J. L. Peetz, wife of the editor of the Monon News, Is making a strenuous effort to gain for her husband the nomination of state statistician on the Republican ticket In a two-column marked article In the last issue of the paper, sent broadcast over the state, she says that her husband “is entirely free from the little vices, the use of tobacco in any form, profanity or intoxicating liquors in any form. He is clear and clean mentally, morally, physically and politically.* Must Support Our Husband. After setting out his other good qualifications Mrs. Peetz says: “Perhaps It may appear that we should feel something of a delicacy In using the columns of The News for the purpose for which we are using them, but we feel nothing of the kind. Mr. Peets is our friend, as noted in the beginning. We have ever tried to remember and to be faithful to our vow made atthemnrrlage altar, and we feel that we would be failing did we not in this paper, which in part reflects ourself, make known our standing on this question. “ Other Things Worth While, “In the beginning we were somewhat opposed to Mr. Peetz ejgerlng the campaign. But he is in now, and we are with him, heart and soul. The nights will never be too dark nor the mud too deep for us to go on foot and out of our way, if by so doing we can gain him a vote. To be sure, if defeat comes to us. and there is always such a possibility, why, the state statistician’s office Is not the only thing in life worth living for.” Overstreet for Temporary Chairman. Indianapolis, March 11.—At a meeting of the Reqsibllcan state committee Representative .Jesse Overstreet, of Indianapolis, was selected for temporary chairman of the state convention to be held here April 1 and 2. r WON'T ENFORCE •‘BLUE LAWS" So Terre Haute's Mayor Tells the Min.l?—l isteriai Association of That Community, i Terre Haute, Ind., March 11.—Mayor Lyons sent a long letter to the Ministerial association in reply to a request that be enforce the law against Sunday theaters. He declined and explained that lie classed the law against theaters, baseball and summer parks as “blue laws.” The association bad said nothing about baseball. The association will send a committee to him to try to persuade him to comply with their request. The ministers do not say how far they will go, but declare that they will persist in methods to make him enforce these laws. Under the new law proceedings for his removal can be brought in the circuit court or by Impeachment in the city council. Stricken While Gayly Chatting. Columbus, Ind., March 11. Mrs. Frank Hancock, sixty years old, while attending a meeting of the Pythian sisterhood, and merrily chatting with friends, suddenly suffered a hemorrhage of the lungs. She was carried to the office of Dr. 8. S. Kincaid, on the floor below, but she died before relief could be afforded, and before her husband and son, who were at the M E, church, could reach her side. Died by an Open Grave. Muncie, Ind., March 11.—While gazing into the open grave of bis friend Warren Keene, and directing the work of the gravediggers, John W. Shaffer, a well-known farmer and a veteran of the war of the rebellion, sank to ths ground and he was dead when the frightened laborers scrambled from the grave to assist him. Death was due to heart disease. He had not been ill before. Kokomo la on the Boom. Kokomo, Ind., March 11.—With all except one of Its fifty-five manufacturing plants operating and with prac tlcally no desirable dwellinghouses in the town unoccupied, Kokomo is beginning to feel that the recent business disturbance is a thing of the past The only factory not in operatiou is —strawboard works. —— - k. Muncie Factories Resuming. Muncie, Ind., March 11.—The local factories, which closed at the beginning of the recent stringency, are gradually resuming. The Ball Bros., whose fruitjar factory gives employment to 2,000 persons at full capacity, took on a force of 160 men, making a total of 900 now employed.