Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — 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. Calumet Ditch Contract Let. Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 15.—S. P. Corboy, superintendent of construction, has let the contracts for the Calumet ditch in Lake and Porter counties, 9.8 miles long, to the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Chicago, for $114,900, for the sand work, and to the Northern Construction Company of Elkhart, Ind., for $1 1 2,500 for the marsh. The work is to begin by December 1 and be completed by July 1, 1916.