Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — ART HAS ITS CHARMS [ARTICLE]

ART HAS ITS CHARMS

Like Music It Sometimes Can “Do Things” in the Matter of Reformation. NANCY HANKS LINCOLN PARK Landscape Gardening There Has In* flue need a Saloonkeeper to Close His Shop. Indianapolis. Aug. 7.—Will Freeman, secretary of the state hoard of forestry, has returned from a stay of two weeks at the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Park, near Lincoln City, in Spencer county, and he declares that the Improvement of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln place has completely turned one saloon keeper from the error of his ways. This saloon man proposed to run a saloon right at the entrance to the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Park. He believed that after the place was improved many people would come to visit it, and that he could do a profitable liquor business. Converted by Landscape Gardeners The state board of forestry remonstrated, and the citizens objected, and all kinds of threats were made, but the saloon trran remained firm. This was the condition of affairs when landscapers began work od the farm a short time ago. After the work was well under way on the farm, it was noticed one day that the Saloonkeeper had closed his place. Further inquiry developed the fact that the saloon man was trying to sell the building In which the saloon had been operated. w> It* Beauty Impressed Him.

“His change of mind was caused by the increasing beauty of , the park,” said Freeman. “lie told me so. Yon see he was touched by the tribute which was being paid indirectly to the martyred Abraham Lincoln. At present there is no citizen of Lincoln City who goes out to admire the beauties of that park more than this former saloonkeeper does. He talked with me a number of times and referred frequently to the beauty of the landscape and the ornamental iron fence which has been placed around the farm. He seemed to take a personal interest in the place.” Progress of the Work. Freeman says that the landscape work at the Nancy Hanks Lincoln farm has practically been completed and that the workmen are now build Ine the walks and driveways at the en trance. The fence around the farm has been completed, with the exception of some ornamental work at the entrance. It Is likely, however, that the dcdica tion exercises will not be held until next spring—perhaps on Memorial day. The farm contains sixteen and one-half acres, and Freeman pays it will be one of the most beautiful parks in Indiana. Scores of people who have moved to places far distant from Lin coin City are now returning to their old homes, chiefly to see the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Park.

SAFEKEEPING FOR A HOG Proves Very Unsafe for the House in Which the Brute Was (sicked Up. Owensville. Ind., Aug. 7.—A hog overturned a cook stove at the home of John Allan, a colored farmer living north of Owensville. during the ah sence of the family, and the house and Its contents were destroyed by (tie When Allan and his family left for a visit in another part of the county, they drove the hog inside the house for safekeeping and locked the doors. In rooting about the bouse the hog overturned the cook stove in which were' live coals. The house almost burned to tin- ground before the neighbors discovered the tire. Rack to Egyptian Methods. Huntington, Ind.. Aug. 7—Hunting ton is to follow the custom of the Egyptians in laying away its dead. A stock company has been organized to build a s.‘>o,ooo mausoleum in Mount Hope cemetery and provide crypts for hundreds of bodies. The structure will bq half buried in the side of a hill iu the best cemetery in the country, and will be constructed In marble, tile and reinforced concrete.

Death of W. J. Craig. Decatur, Ind., Aug. 7. —W. .7- Craig, once owner of the Indianapolis Sentinel, Is dead, aged Sixty-four. In the spring of 1801. after haring sold the Sentinel, he went to Chicago, becoming a stone and eement contractor. In 1804 he went to Bedford, Ind.. as manager of the Bedford Quarries company. Becoming afflicted with rheuma tism. he resigned and in 1897 became helpless.

Grain men of the city say that the rain was of much benefit to the eorn. Of eleven stations reporting to this city, nine reported good rains. Filtered Water for Evansville. Evansville. Ind.. Aug. 7.—The city council has authorized an appropriatlo?i of $225,000 for the purposo of building a filtration plant here, the work to begin without delay.