Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1908 — Page 3

The Elite in Groceries It might surprise you to learn how oftei/ we have to say, “Not quite good enough” to goods that are offered us. But when the sifting process Is over we think we have a right to call what is here, “The Elite of Groceries.” Would you like to associate with eatables that are exclusive? You would find the experience pleasant, to say nothing of the other advantages. Choose your own article to test us on. Coffee or tea or any staple or anything that you wish. Come here always expecting to get the top notch of goodness. * ' THE RELIABLE 6ROCERS MoFARLAND * SON

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of late rest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets— Wheat, 87c; corn, 70c; oats, 45c; rye, 70c. Mrs. Louie Ramp is visiting in Chicago. W. R. Nowels was in Delphi on business Monday. Miss Mary Meyer visited over Sunday in Lafayette. W. E Harry and John tllrey were over from Brook Monday on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Passons are visiting in* Marion for a couple of weeks. George Hemphill came down from Chicago and spent Sunday with his parents. Lee Durst and Chas. Baker of Mt. Ayr, were in town Monday on business. Mrs. Mel Abbott is visiting her mother, Mrs. Landis, at Monticello for a few days. Mrs. P. J. Greiser .and children and Miss Ethel Witham are visiting relatives in El Paso, 111. Geo. O. Parks of Carroll county returned home Friday after a few days visit with his brother, C. L. Parka of near Surrey. Mrs. Mary Lennox and children of Fowler returned home Friday after a week’s visit with the family of N. Zeigler, north of town. >v£aul Glazebrook visited his par-ents,-Lee E. and Mrs. Glazebrook Saturday and Sunday. He returned to Purdue Sunday evening.

Roe Yeoman came down Saturday evening on business for the Lawler Bros, and' returned on the early train to Chicago Sunday morning. tjtorn, to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey eesman of near Brook, Oct. 1, an 8 % pound boy. The mother was formerly Miss Emma Lane of Newton tp. Jesse Synder, who went to Indianapolis last week to be operated on for appendicitis, underwent the operation Friday and is getting along nicely. Lyman Barce of north of town who was stricken with paralysis last week, has improved considerably and it is thought will almost fplly recover. Saturday's Montlcello Journal: |Mrs. W. D. Sayler of Rensselaer, who has been- here at the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Brewer, went home yesterday. Mrs. Ed Hollin, who broke her wrist some six months ago, has been able to use her arm somewhat in the last few days, but it will be some time before.lt will be entirely well. A sample of corn off of the farm of Louis H. Myers in Jordan tp., was left at this office Friday. This eorn will make 53 bushels per acre, and there Is some better than this in the field, he says. Frank Davis was over from Brook Monday morning, coming with W. A. Gridley. Frank isn't losing any flesh in anticipation of the awful things in store for us during the next Administration. Senator A. J. Law went to Morocco Saturday after a two weeks absence at Indianapolis attending the special session. He will now make a thorough canvass of the four counties composing this senatorial district. Advertised letters: Ed Tamis, Asa Thompson, Cornelius Sweeney,, C. J. Simmons, Harry Randle (3), John Proeschel, Thomas Halligan, Jesse B. Gum, Miss Naora George, Mrs. Jesse Dunn. Mrs. Myrtle Courtright. 1

A. E. Coen was down from Chicago Monday. / A. J. Harmon was in Chicago on business Tuesday. E. P. Honan was in Lafayette Monday and Tuesday on business. Born, Oct. 4, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, of near Gifford, a daughter. Miss Ella Rusk went to Indian- 1 apOlis Monday to resume her studies in a business college there. John E. Bislosky has rented the farm of A. F. Shesler for next year and will move onto it in the spring. ''l City Marshal Parks was wearing aline new star Monday, a present Co him from Dr. Frank Hemphill of Seeleyville, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. W. H.' Beam and Mr. and Mrs. W r F. Smith were Chicago visitors Sunday and took in the big baseball game. > i3imon Fendig of Wheatfleld came lown Monday to attend the funeral of Louis Wildberg, returning home yesterday afternoon. Geo. Cooper of Barkley tp., is in very poor health, and is in Rensselaer where his family physician can better give him treatment. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Puffer and Miss Stella Haskell of Chatsworth, 111., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo Ketchum, east of town, making the trip via automobile. '4.Mrs. A. B. Hurley and three

daughters, Agnes, Lucy and Latona, left Monday for Ralston, Okla., to visit her father, W. J. Durant, a former resident of this county. 'lCarey Carr went .to Spokane, wksh., Tuesday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Arnott. This is Mr. Carr’s first trip west, and he will be gone about three weeks. Gov. Hanly has appointed Lawrence Lyons of Brook as Electorial vote Marshal to receive the vote of the Tenth District on presidential electors from the various county clerks. Mr. and Mrs. L. Q. Jeffries of Chicago came down Saturday to visit Joe Jeffries and wife. Mr. Jeffries returned to Chicago Monday and Mrs. Jeffries will remain a few days longer. They are uncle and aunt of Joe’s. Charles Robinson of Battle Ground was in town Monday forenoon. He stopped off on his way to Dallas, So. Dak..where he went to prospect a little for a farm. He reports T. F. Clark and family as well and prosperous as could be. JNThe little six-year-old son of Riley Tullis of Jordan tp., fell from a haymow Sunday and received a severe concussion of the brain. He is quite sick at the present time, but hopes are entertained that he will be all right in a few days.

Miss Dena Miller returned home Saturday from a two months visit with her grand-parents and other relatives, at Burlington, Wis. She was accompanied home by her uncle, Louis Kornhoff, who will visit a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Werner Miller. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears have gone to Watseka, 111., for a few weeks visit with the' former’s daughter, Mrs. Sidney Arnold after which they will return here and move into the upstairs rooms in the S. P. Thompson cement block building on East Washington street, where they will conduct a boarding house. James Carr returned from a three weeks visit with his sister, Mrs. J. A. Knowlton, of Mitchell, So. Dak., Saturday. Mrs. Knowlton returned with him and will visit here for a time. The Knowltons are well satisfied with their Dakota home, and from his reports Mr. Carr is well pleased with the country and the products of the farms as well.

pMrs. Elizabeth Gangloff Is the prize butter maker in the contest that has been going on at the Home Grocery for some time. She delivered 376 pounds of butter, and every pound a good one. Several other contestants competed for the various prizes offered and their Bhowing of good butter waa very creditable to them, but some one must always get first prise, and this was awarded as above stated | A- F. Shesler, Emmet Fidler, N. A. Hendrix and Oscar Howe started for Mitchell, So. Dak., yesterday morning, and in a few days will go to Chamberlain to he present to register in the opening of another section of the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Mr. Shesler has gone there to find a future home, and if he does not get anything in the drawing will prospect further in that vicinity. They will he absent about two weeks. Miss Fairy Gish died at the home of her mother, Mrs. C. M. Gish of Milroy tp., Friday morning of consumption after an Illness of two or three years duration, having been lp California for her health but received no substantial bene-' fits therefrom. She was past 32 years of age at the time of her death. The funeral was held Sunday at the family residence and interment In Crockett cemetery. It is understood that Mrs. Gish will now move to town where one of her 'sons is attending school.

What Is announced as a “big political meeting” will be held here on Friday evening. Senator Hemenway 'will not be here, as first announced, probably for the reason that, he is a “wet” statesman and has bit off all he can "chaw” in the south part of the state. George E. Ried of Pennsylvania has been substituted as the orator. VMrs. I. B. Marion and daughter 'Little returned Saturday Wrom a several months stay at Wall, So. Dak., where Mr. Marlon has a land claim which *he will prove up on in December. They will remain here for the present at least, and Miss Lottie entered school Monday. They do not like it very well out in that part of Dakota to reside, and it is likely that Britt will sell his claim before long and then he, too, will retfirn to Rensselaer. • The Cincinnati-Chicago evening passenger train is almost invariably from an hour to an hour and a half late nowadays, and has been for some weks. Whether it is the prospect of Bryan’s election that causes this or that it encounblne” every afternoon when passbine “every afternoon while passing through Indianapolis, we are unable to say. Perhaps some of our republicans friends who are so well posted on these subjects may be able to explain the trouble.

John C. Carmichael was over at Moroco Saturday and Sunday visiting his old friend Joseph Kennedy. On Sunday he went out to the Gaff ranch to the scene of his early beginning as a farmer in was then a barren waste. Some of the trees that he set out more than 30 years ago were still there, and the old well was still in existence —or the hole where he had had a well—and from which he had drank water that had brought on many an ague chill. Old times were very vividly recalled by this visit. R. D. Thompson and A. E. Bolser fixed up the insurance on the soda fountain, gas engine and glass fixtures in the front part of the Little Gem bakery at $35, and the other insurance has not been adjusted but will be soon at about S3OO. The insurance on the building has not yet been settled and probably will not be until it is repaired so that the loss can be definitely ascertained. It will be some time before Mr. Bolser can get the building in shape to resume business.

Goodland Herald: Dr. C. M. Huston of Hamilton, 0., W. C. Huston, of Beechville, Ind., and Thomas Huston of Roselawn, Ind., were called to Goodland on account of the illness of their father, D. J. Huston John Toyne, who owned and operated a general store at Foresman, sold out to J. A. Sprague, of Buffalo, Ind., who took possession. Mr. Toyne moved to Goodland Wednesday and will occupy the home place with his father in the north part of town. Little Miss Ruth McKinzie gave a party to 46 of her little boy and girl friends Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p. m. at her home on Milroy avenue. It was Miss Ruth’s sixth birthday anniversary, and •• her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown, thought to make it memorable. Refreshments were served and a real good time was had. The little host acquitted herself very creditably and was voted by every one present as one of the best entertainers with whom they had ever had experience. All- will look forward to more birthday anniversaries with many pleasant anticipations.

Jerome Andrus, whose trip to Michigan was told in these columns ten days ago, bought a 98 acre farm near Shelby, Oceana county. This farm is well improved, with good house and barn, which is cemented and will hold twenty horses or cattle, 100 apple trees, all bearing, and good fences.. Potatoes on this farm will yield 125 bushels per acre, for which 66 cents Is offered. The price paid was |5,400. This land is all beech and maple, and there is some of these trees still growing there. He will move there in February. John Andrus is still there and will remain for two weeks longer, Guss Phillips, the actor, who is staring with a big company playing “The Wolf,’’ visited his father, unde Simon Phillips, here Sunday, leaving Monday morning for Aurora, 111., to join his company. The company will be at Lafayette Nov. 10,, and a large number of Guss’ Rensselaer friends are planning to go down and see him in thia play. The intention is to go down on the milk train in the evening and come back on a special train after the play, the Monon having agreed to run one back if seventy-five round trip tickets are sold, and it is now believed that double that number will be sold. The Gem of the acknowledged by all the beat flour we they ever used, |1.40 a sack. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Try that new Monarch catsup at the Home Grocery: its just like mother used to make. Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for Bale at The Democrat office in anj quantity desired.

EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY 1908-9

JASPER COUNTY, IND. Calendar 1908*9. Township Institute — First Saturday, Carpenter and Gillam. Second Saturday, Hanging Grove, Keener, Jordan, Kankakee, Milroy, Wheatfleld. Third Saturday, Barkley, Union, Walker. Fourth Saturday, Marion, Newton. Bi-Monthly Examinations. First examination, November 12, 13, 1908. Report to parents, November 28. Second examination, January 14, 15, 1909. * Reports to parents, February 4. Third examination last week of school. Reports to parents last day of school

Board of Education.

Barkley Tow'nship, Grant Davisson, Rensselaer. Carpenter Township, A. A. Fell, Remington. Gillam Township, M. W. Coppess, Medaryville. Hanging Grove Township, Washington Cook, McCoysburg. Jordan Tp., C. E. Sage, Goodland. Kankakee Township, Charles Stalbaum, Tefft. Keener Township, Henry Feldman, DeMotte. Marion Township, Chas. Stackhouse, Rensselaer. Milroy Tp., G. L. Parks, Remington. Newton Township, W. B. Yeoman, Rensselaer. Union' Township, Harvey Davisson, Rensselaer. Walker Tp., Fred Karch, Wheatfleld. Wheatfleld Township, R. A. Mannan, Wheatfleld. Remington, James Green, Pres.; Dr. Landon Treas.; George Besse, Sec. Wheatfleld, A. S. Barlow, Pres.; Geo. Stembel, Treas.; S. Fendig, Sec. Rensselaer, Dr. E. C. English, Pres.; R. A. Parkison, Treas.; Charles Coen, Sec. Chas. M. Sands, Truant Officer, Rensselaer. Ernest Lamson, County Superintendent, Rensselaer.

Teachersf of Jasper County.

BARKLEY. 2. Homer Arnold, Rensselaer. 3. Oka Pancoast, Rensselaer. 4. Grace Daugherty, Rensselaer. 5. Mary Jacks, Rensselaer. 6. Carrie Pierce, Rensselaer. 9. Walter Lutz, Rensselaer. 10. Floyd Williams, Rensselaer. 11. Leonard Hayes, Gifford. 12. Agnes Kahler, Rensselaer. 13. Disa Long well, Rensselaer. 14. John Hayes, Rensselaer. 15. Day Jordan, Gifford. CARPENTER. 1. J. W. Thomas, Remington. 2. Francis Yeoman, Remington. 3. Lena Williamson, Remington. 5. Nellie Eck, Goodland. 6. Laura Warnock, Remington. 7. Fay Irwin, Remington. 8. Catherine Hartman, Remington. 11. Florence Warnock, Remington. 12. Vietta Rowland, Goodland. GILLAM. 1. Anna Hermansen, Frances villa. 2. O. A. Faris, Medaryville. 3. Mattie Faris, Medaryville. 4. Marshall A. Goff, Medaryville. 5. Dree Miller, Francesville. 6. Hazel Parker, Francesville. 7. Lela Cosgray, McCoysburg. HANGING GROVE. 1. Hayes Gwin, McCoysburg. 2. Lural Anderson, McCoysburg. 3. Feme Parker, McCoysburg. 4. Mabel Ward, McCoysburg. 5. Robert McDonald, McCoysburg. 6. Lizzie Hemphill, McCoysburg. JORDAN. 1. Roy Maple, Rensselaer. 2. Estella Sage, Rensselaer. 4. Flora Kahler, Rensselaer. 5. Mary Putt,' Goodland. 6. George Putt, Goodland. 7. Lillian Hynds, Goodland. 8. Edd May, Remington. KANKAKEE. 2. Oille White, Tefft. 2. Nellie Stalbaum, Tefft. 4. Edna Witt, Tefft. 6. Emma Will, Tefft. KEENER. 1. Orla D. Gleason, DeMotte. 2. Flossie Feldman, DeMotte. 3. May Fairchild, DeMotte. 3. Abraham DeKoker, DeMotte. 4. Bert Llewellyn, DeMotte. 7. Otto Schwanke, DeMotte. MARION. ' 1. Zelma Rayher, Rensselaer. 2. Pearl Wasson, Rensselaer. 3. Fred Tyler, Rensselaer.4. Blanche McCarthy, Rensselaer. 8. Clare Jessen, Rensselaer. 2. Lizzie Luers, Rensselaer. 8. Josie Porter, Rensselaer. MILROY. 1. Madge, Wolfe, Wtolcott. 2. Jessie Williamson, Remington. 3. Leva Grimes, Rensselaer. NEWTON. 3. Jennie Parkison, Rensselaer. 4. Josie Miller, Rensselaer. 5. Grace Worland, Rensselaer. 7. Jessie Knox, Rensselaer. 8. Glen Maple, Rensselaer. * UNION. 1. Alice Etb, Aix. 1. D. V. Comer, Parr. 2. Beatrice Marsden, Virgte. 3. Frank Garriott, Rensselaer. 4. Luvie Qunyon, Parr. *>• Clara Brusnahan, Parr. *• C. M. Blue, Rensselaer. «• Jennie Bib. Fair Oaks. «. Ura Gwin, Fair Oaks.

7. L. W. Benbow, Parr. 7. Nellie Gray, Rensselaer. I. Floy Williams, Rensselaer, t. Mildred Biggs, Fair Oaks, li. Pearle Babcock, Parr. WALKER. 1. Fred Callahan, Kniman. 2. Elizabeth Shull, Tefft. 2. Mabel Young, Wheatfleld. 4. Stella Nelson, Kniman. 5. Lena Jackson, Kniman. 5. Will Asher, Kniman. 7. Dollie Hershman, Tefft. 8. Minnie Karch, Wheatfleld. 9. Oscar Byerly, Gifford. WHEATFIELD. 2. Joe Hilliard, Wheatfleld. 3. Grace Funk, Wheatfleld. 4. Cora Finney, Wheatfleld. 6. Ada Key, Wheatfleld. WHEATFIELD TOWN. R. P. Blue, Prin. Wheatfleld. Mildred Vanderburgh, Assistant, Wheatfleld. Anna Jasperson, Intermediate, Wheatfleld. Violette Myer, Primary, Wheatfleld. REMINGTON TOWN. F. J. Breeze, Sup’t., Remington. H. O. Burgess, Prin., Remington. Edith Heuring, Assistant Prin., Remington. India Roberts, Remington. Gertrude Besse, Remington. Ethel Greene, Remington. Dell Yeoman, Remington. Minnie Bartoo, Remington. RENSSELAER CITY. I. N. Warren, Sup’t., Rensselaer. C. F. Bradshaw, Prin., Rensselaer. J. E. Sullivan, Mathematics, Rensselaer. Ross Dean, History Rensselaer. E. S. Tillman, Zoology, Rensselaer. Edith Shedd, English, Rensselaer. Milocent Work, Latin, Rensselaer. Bertha Newton, German, Rensselaer. Elizabeth Hume, Science, Rensselaer. Queene Perry, Music, Rensselaer. 1. Lora Bruce, Rensselaer. 1. Aetna Lebo, Rensselaer. 2. Martha Parkison, Rensselaer. 3. Minnie Hemphill, Rensselaer. 4. Tillie Malchow, Rensselaer 5. Ethel Sharp, Rensselaer. 6. Clara Parker, Rensselaer. 7. Alice Smith, Rensselaer.

SPEAKING DATES OF HON. T. R. MARSHALL.

Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, democratic candidate for governor will speak on the following dates and at the following places: Valparaiso, Oct. 19, afternoon. Hammond, Oct. 19, night. Indiana Harbor, Oct. 19, night. Crown Point, Oct. 20, afternoon. Gary, Oct. 20, night. Morocco, Oct. 21, afternoon. ‘Rensselaer, Oct. 21, night. Williamsport, Oct. 22, afternoon. Attica, Oct. 22, night. Laporte, Oct. 24, afternoon. Michigan City, Oct. 24, night. HON. THOMAS R. MARSHALL Will Speak at Medaryville On Saturday October 10. The Hon. Thos. R. Marshall, democratic candidate for Governor, will speak at Medaryville Saturday, Oct. 10. This will be the principal speech of Mr* Marshall in Pulaski county, and the “boys” in Medaryville are planning to give him a royal welcome. Jasper and Starke counties are cordially invited and are expected to help make this meeting a general rally for the west side of Pulaski and adjoining counties. Everybody come to Medaryville Oct. 10 and hear the most upright and cleanest man that has been a candidate for governor in Indiana for years. Good music and everything for the enjoyment of the public will be provided. COMMITTEE.

Farm leasee (cash or grain rent), mortgage and deed blanks, etc., for sale at all times and in any quantity desired at The Democrat effiee. NEWSPAPER FOR SALE. One of the best newspaper propositions in northern Indiana for sale, on account of ill health of editor’s family who must move west. Only paper in good town oh two railroads. Will be sold for less than one year's earning. Good equipment. Adress, COURIER, Morocco, Ind.

LINOTYPE COMPOSITION.

The Democrat has a fine nes Model 5 Standard Linotype and in addition to doing all its own work la prepared to handle considerable outside composition. At present we have six and eight point mats only, light and bold face, and can set matter most any measure desired up to 30 ems long and on 6, 8, 8 or 10 point slug. AH work handled carefully and promptly and at reasonable prices. We also cast 6-point border slugs 30 ems long, for sale at 6c per slag. 12 slugs for 50 cents. They' are the cheapest and best border printers can buy for ada and job work.

Notice—Anyone holding accounts against the late J, L. Smith or knowing themselves Indebted to same, will please notify R. B. Smith, Rensselaer, Ind. - 4K She Likes Good Things. Mrs. Chas. E. Smith, of West Franklin, Maine, says: “I like good things and have adopted Dr. King’s New Life Pills as our family laxative medicine, because they are good and do the work without making a fuss about It.” These painless purlfiere sold at A. F. Long’s drug store. 25c. An arm load es old papers for a nickel at the Democrat office. The Democrat for job work.

RICHES IN THE HERDS

Number and Valua of High data Cattle Owned in the Hoo* aier State. BHOBTHORVS MOST POPULAR Whitecap Outlaws Threaten a Woman After Dismantling Her HomeKids Smoking Pipes. Indianapolis. Oct. 6.—Figures on ths number and value of pure bred cattls In Indiana, just compiled by Mary Btubbs Moore, chief of the Indiana bureau of statistics, show that more money is Invested In Shorthorns than In any other class. The total number •f Shorthorns on hand June L 1907, was 7,664 and their total value $516,064. Herefords came second in the Ust the total number being 3,586 and ths total value 6290,992. Both Shorthorns and Herefords come in the class of beef cattle. The other brands of beet cattle and the number and value are: Aberdeen-Angua 3.085. value 6197,579; Galloway 172, value 611.101; Polled Durbams 1,699, value $130,380. Jerseys Lead for the Dairy. In the class of dairy cattle, the Jerseys have the greatest total valuation and are the largest In number TLe number on June 1, 1907, was 3.192 anil tbe value $192,929. The uumber anil value of other breeds of dairy cattle were as follows: Ayrshire 33. value $2,400; Brown Swiss 15, $1,390; Dutch Belted 7, $320; Guernsey 113. $9,100; Hoisteiu-Freisian 643, $55,730. Only one other breed is listed among the pure breeds and that is the Red Polls. These cattle are used for both beef and dairy purposes. The number is 495 and the value $32,245. The total number of all pure bred cattle In the state on June 1, 1907. was 20,604 and the total value $1,439,290. Average Value of Cattle. The table arranged on pure bred cattle also gives some interesting figures as to the highest average values of cattle of different ages. In the class of beef cattle the average values of males over three years old are as follows: Herefords, $167.99: Polled Durhams, $151.90; Shorthorn, $120.53; AberdeenAngus, $110.72, and Galloway, slOl.ll. In the class of females the average values are practically in the same proportion in the different breeds, though they are much less than the values of the males. In the class of dairy cattle the average values of males over three years old are as follows: Guernseys, $136,54; Holstein-Freisians, $120.80; Ayrshires, $100; Brown Swiss, SIOO, and Jerseys, $91.41. The average value of males over three years old In the class of Red Polls is $103.45, and that of females of this age, $82.35.

LATEST WHITECAP DEVILTRY

Gang of Them Threatens a Widow After Emptying Her House of Furniture. Nashville, Ind., Oct 6.—Mrs. Sarah Kelley, who lives two miles northwest of Needmore, found a notice tacked oa her door which resembles some of the whitecap decrees that have been served from time to time on people In this part of the state. The notice reads: "We have been In your house. If you don’t leave Immediately, we’ll come back and whip the hide off you." Mrs. Kelley Is s divorced woman. Hie notice was put on her door during the night es her absence. Unknown persona the tame night vlalted the bouae and almost emptied It of household furniture. Her bedstead and chairs were carried out and stacked on the roof of the bouse. The feather beds were thrown helter-skelter into the yard and the lighted lamp was placed on a stump In the yard.

How Did the Owl Stand It» Shelbyvtlle, lod.. Oct 6.—Hie Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction line was out of business one night for more than an hour, but the cause was not made public until Alfred Lee, chief lineman, stated that a screech owl had fallen on a wire which ran into the substation at Prescott. It caught by •He of Its wings and its feet, touching another metal piece connected with the building, causing the wire to ground. It was more than an hour before the discovery was made. Kids Smoke Pipes Now. Bhelbyville, ind., Oct 6.—An investigation of the illegal sale of smoking tobacco among the school children of this city under the sge of sixteen years shows that there are 200 or 800 boys using tobacco, and In moat cases pipes are used Instead of cigarette paper*. It haa also been shown that the tobacco was purchased at grocery stores, which are near the school buildings. He Was Needed at Home. Muncie, Ind., Oct. &—Arlie Wright twenty years old. was needed at home to support his aged mother, who was te want and that is the reason he returned from the Jeffersonville reformatory, from which Governor Hanty had pardoned him. Dry Weather Makes Batter Scare*. Columbus, Ind.. Oct B.—The dry waathar which continued during ibe greater portion of August and Septem her. is the cause of a butter tamlae her*. Pastures dried up and there is a shortage of milk.