Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — SOUTH BEND GETS TEACHERS’ MEET [ARTICLE]

SOUTH BEND GETS TEACHERS’ MEET

Northern Indiana Body to Gather April 1, 2 and 3. WILL BE LAST CONFERENCE Resolutions Adopted at the Convention Held Last Fall Favored the . , •• . . , . , : O' Division of State Into Six or Seven Districts.

South Bend. —As a result of the expansion of educational work in Indiana it is probable that the annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ association, to be held in South Bend April 1, 2 and 3, will be the last conference of that body. Resolutions adopted at last fall’s convention of the state association at Indianapolis favored the division of the state into six or seven districts This means that the territory embracing the Northern Indiana association will probably be divided into two or three bodies. W. A. Denny, chairman of the executive committee, has announced definite plans for the program of speaking. Rabbi Wise of New York is, certain to appear. The committee was unable to engage Col. George W. Goetlials, governor general of the Panama Canal Zone, as a speaker.

First Educational School. Winamac. - Arrangements have been made by- which Van Buren township, Pulaski county, will have a vocational agricultural school, plans for which were completed at a meeting at Star City of school officials and patrons with Z. XI. Smith, state agricultural supervisor. F. A. Ogle, who has been superintendent of the Star City schools, will: have charge of the agricultural school. His contract calls for two evening classes each week for tfin weeks for men and boys more than seventeen years old, and from May 1 to September 1 he will devote-his < ntife time to the agricultural work in Van Buren township: His work through the summer will consist of practical farm demonstrations in soils, horticulture, live stock and poultry. Two-thirds of his salary Will be paid by the state. The offer is the result of the six years of work Mr. Ogle has done in tlie community and the spirit shown by the citizens. This is to be the first, strictly . vocational agriculturaFschobl in the state. Federal government has offered Van Buren township ■ $ 100, with which it may hire a woman to assist the girls and women of the community in their homemaking work. This offer has been accepted. and in all probability Miss Anna Noel will have charge of the work

Shelbyville Banker Dies. Shelbyville.—.John Messick, seventyfour years old. president of the First National bank for 28 years and president of the Union Banking association since its organization in 1893. died at his home here. Mr. Messick was born near this city February 24, 1839. He became ill a week ago, suflering from lagrippe. He suffered a fracture of a hip a year ago, and thus became an easy victim to complications that developed from the attack of lagrippe. Mr. Messick as a young man worked as a stone cutter. During the Civil war he spent nearly three years in the commissary department at Gallipolis, 0., and Charleston, S. 0. After the war he engaged in the flour milling business here with William and .Tames M. Elliott. For 20 years Mr. Messick had been treasurer of the local Masonic bodies He married Miss Emma Winterrowd January 10, 1866, who survives. Their only son, Edwin, died in 1910. Twelve More at Penal Farm. Greencastle. Twelve additional prisoners were received at the state penal farm here. These men came from the reformatory at Jeffersonville, There are now 36 prisoners on the .farm. The trustees at their February meeting fixed April 1 as the date on which they hope to be able to receive jail prisoners from over the state. One of the buildings that will have <to be erected before any jail men can be received is a hospital, and the plans are now being worked out for such a building.

$35,000 Fire at Frankfort. Frankfort. —The plants of the Indiana Brass works and the Smith Machine works in this city were destroyed by fire originating from a brass furnace, with a loss of $35,000. The National Handle factory, which was threatened in the fire, was saved. As a result of a confusion in the fire alarms, the fire department was delayed in reaching the plants. When the firemen arrived the flames were beyond control ■i 1 Woman Accused of Robbery. Goshen—Mrs. Bertha Long, who was recently adjudged insane, but was not admitted to Longcliffe asylum, is in the county, jail here, charged with robbing the houses of Mrs. E. E. Drake, William L. Shoots and Charles R. Hulwlck in Goshen. She is said to have stolen several diamond rings, all of which have been recovered. Mrs. Long made a detailed confession, the police say. The woman was decided mentally irresponsible when it was found she was using drugs to excess.