Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — BAKERS OF THREE STATES GATHER [ARTICLE]

BAKERS OF THREE STATES GATHER

5,000 Delegates Are Expected to Attend Meeting. i - ' SESSIONS FOR THREE DAYS J Entertainment Features Include Automobile Race at Speedway— Headquarters Will Be at Hotel Severin. Indianapolis.—One of the biggest conventions that Indianapolis will have this spring will be the tristate convention of the Master Bakers’ association, on May 24, 25 and 26, An attendance of 5,000 is expected. Headquarters of the delegates will be at the Hotel Severin. Arrangements have been tentatively outlined by Robert Bryce, general chairman, and the chairmen of other committees. It has been decided that one day shall be given over to special automobile races at the Speedway, with prizes aggregating nearly SI,OOO, and that there will be theater parties and a banquet at the Hotel Severin. There will also be an elaborate exhibit of tools and machinery at the hotel. The association will pay all bills contracted by the delegates while in Indianapolis. In addition to Mr. Bryce, the local men in charge of the convention are C. R. Russ, general secretary; August Thau,' chairman finance committee; J. CConsodine, secretary finance commitee; A. L. Taggart, chairman entertainment committee; W. J. Slate, chairman ladies’ entertainment committee; C. R. Russ, chairman badge committee; P. A. Bessire, chairman publicity and program* committee. Officers of the association are: Chairman, Frank Middleton, Marion; secretary, W. G. Herbold, . Cincinnati, O.; treasurer, George C. Schneider, Cincinnati, O. On the evening of February 9 the executive committee, of the association will hold a special meeting at the Hotel Severin to complete arrangements.

Woman Member of G. A. R. Dies. New Albany.—Lucy Nichols, sev-enty-two years old, the only negro member in the United States who is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and pensioner as an army nurse, died here. She came to the camp of the Twenty-third Indiana regiment, known as the New Albany regiment, in Tennessee in 1861 and remained with the regiment throughout the war, coming with the soldiers to this city, where she had since resided. She had been a conspicuous figure at the annual reunions of the Twenty-third regiment and at the Memorial day exercises at the National Soldiers’ cemetery here. Several years ago she was made an honorary member of Sanderson Post, G. A. R._ and members of the post obtained for her a, pension by a special act of congress. Shot Ten Times, Unhurt. Hammond.—Friends of Frank Wiroski, head of Erie- detective force for the Huntington-Chicago division, say he bears a charmed life. After a thrilling revolver battle with car thieves, he found ten bullet holes in his clothing, but he escaped unhurt. Wiroski surprised ten men, who were stripping an Erie freight car in the Griffith yards. He. opened fire on them and in a running battle 30 shots were fired. The thieves escaped.

Traction Car Kills Aged Man. Scottsburg.—John West, seventy years old, was struck and instantly killed by a northbound local car on the I. & L. traction line at a road crossing near Scottsburg. C. E. West, a son, has been in the employ of the traction company as conductor for seven years. West leaves a widow, one daughter, Mrs.*Louis Donohue of Oolitic, and the son, C. E. West of this city.

Diseased Hogs Are Killed. Terre Haute.—Dr. L. E. Northrup, state quarantine representative, killed 28 hogs on the farm of Joseph Mullikin, south of Terre Haute.. The hogs were suffering from the foot-and-mouth disease. An area of three miles’ radius wa's placed' under quarantine until the ,source of the disease can be determined and the plague eradicated. Woman, Believed 107, Dies. Boonville. —Mary Wagner, believed to have been one hundred and seven years 'old, died here. She was a colored woman, who has lived in Boonville nearly all her life and had seen the building of three court houses here, the first a log house built in 1818. A husband and two sons survive her. ■ Fracture of Skull Kills Skater. Goshen. —Robert Knisely, fourteen years old, son of E. A. Knisely of Wakarusa, died from a fracture of the skull, sustained Sunday, when he fell and struck his head on the ice while skating on a pond. Chauffeur Saves Auto. Fort Wayne.—Breaking through a mass of flames, Russell Moody, chauffeur for E. C. Rurode, suved the Rurode touring car from destruction when the garage in which it; was located burned.