Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 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—Matter* of Minor Mention from Many Places.

Newton County Sheriff Dead. Moses C. Sawyer, sheriff qf Newton county, died at his home in Kentland Thursday afternoon after three years suffering with consumption. Concerning his death Friday's Kentland Democrat said: "Since his return home several weeks ago from the southwest where he had been during the greater part of the last two years, Mr. Sawyer has been gradually but surely failing, and at no time since had, either he, his family, and many friends, any hope for his recovery, but, on the contrary, all realized that it was only a matter of a short time until the touch of death. ■

“His funeral services to be conducted by the pastor, Rev. F. L. Hovis, will be held In Trinity church at two o'clock Sunday afternoon, after which, in charge of the Knights of Pythias lodge, of which order deceased was a mpmber, the funeral cortege will convey his remains to the cemetery at Goodland for interment.”