Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

den,ts told him it was the severest winter they had had since ’64. Joseph B. Fagan, formerly of Mt. Ayr and Goodland, now superintendent of the Bedford schools, was elected president of the Southern Indiana Teachers' Association at their meeting in Indianapolis Friday. X. Osborn was down from Gillam to the convention Monday. He reports that his daughter, Mies Nellie Osborn, slipped on the ice a few days ago and has a badly sprained or broken ankle, it being so badly swollen that the doctor could not determine as yet whether it was broken or not. Miss Nellie's! many friends among The Democrat; readers will be very sorry to learn of her misfortune. By a vote of 46 to 21 the Slier-; wood pension bill that had success-' fully passed the house, was rejected by the senate Friday night and the Smoot general age and service! pension bill was adopted by a vote cl c>6 to 6. It is estimated' that the latter bill would add about. !■ 20,000,000 annually during the next live years to the pension expense of the country. The bill must now be concurred in by the house before it can become a law. ' -L- ' ' . Word was received here by u. K. Fen,dig a few days ago stating that his brother, Albert's house ; i Brun.-wick, Ga,, had been com-: plWely destroyed by fire, supposedly started from an electric iron, which bad been left sitting on a table, and when the laundress retired after the rest of the family, she forgot to turn ofT the “juice.’’ The iron set fire to the table and the house was soon enveloped in flames. Mr. Fendig and family narrowly escaped from the burning structure. They are now living at a Brunswick hotel. Ice was. reported three feet thick last week at Cedar Lake, and there is a record of early times of people hauling large load§ of wood across the lake as late as April 10th, which shows this is not the