Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns-—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. ■Kentland Democrat: Martin Jackson sold his farm olf 120 acres north of Kentland to Warren Unger for S2OO per acre one day last week. This is the top price of any farm land yet sold in this community. Lake County Star: Chas. Sigler of Cedar Lake wae mingling among the crowd at the commisslq|ners’ meeting on Monday, and reports the ice on the lake as two feet thick, and thinks it will be May Ist before it cleans away. Monticello Journal: Roy B. Stiers and Ethel May Lewis, both of Lee, were granted a marriage license Saturday. Thomas B. Grimes, a merchant policeman of Lafayette, and Margaret M. Owens of Wolcott, were also granted a license on Saturday.

Hurrah for Indiana. According to information made public by the director of the ■ office of public roads, Indiana leads all other states in the union in the mileage of improved roads. The mileage of the eight leading good road states Is as follows: Indiana, 24,955 miles; Ohio, 24,106; New York, 12,787; Wisconsin, 10,167; Kentucky, $lO,114; Illinois, 8,114; California, 8,587; Massachusetts, 8,463.