Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Chicago city election was held yesterday.

The 1915 city directory of Indianapolis shows; a population of 282,877, a gain of more thim S.hhhrover 1914.

The Goodland Herald Says that George Hargreaves of Remington, who has represented the McNeil &. Higgins Company of Chicago, lias been missing since March 22d. He has traveled for the firm in this territory for sixteen years. His family know nothing of his whereabouts.

Delphi Journal: ( has. Wellington of Lafayette has re-purchased the beautiful 124 acre farm he formerly owned near Clymers, of. K. O. Rittenberg of Logansport. . Alexander Spring, who recently purchased the C. B. Landis farm west of Delphi, at one time owned (he farm and these two farms are not inferior to any in this section of the state.

A dividend of 1 5 per cent was declared at the first annual meeting of stockholders of the Citizens’ Telephone Co., of Buffalo. This is a good showing on a phono rental of 50c a month. Of course the system is new and the cost of construction is of the best and the service greatly superior to that patrons obtained from the old exchange, owned by the Monticello company.—-Monon News.

Joe Trapp of Winamac, was arrested over about Morocco last week and taken to Pulaski county to answer the charge of slashing with a knife Chauncey Felker, of Winamac, last November. Trapp made his escape after cutting Felker and has been working on a farm over north of Morocco. He lias been placed under bonds of SI,OOO to appear for trial at the April term of court In Pulaski.

Two special officers from Lafayette, who went to Augusta, Mont., in search of James W. Schooler, former controller of this city, who disappeared following an investigation ol his accounts, have returned without a prisoner. A letter sent to a young woman in this city was believed to have come from Schooler, but the officers found that, the writer was Henry Brucker, a ranchman .formerly of this city.

A telephone message from Chicago to W. S. Harhison at 2:30 o'clock this morning announced the death of Dr. J. C. M. Chaffee at hi home in that city. Ho had been il! with pneumonia, hut was thought to he recovering. I)r. Chaffee was form erly a prominent physician in Kentland, moving from here to Brook and thence to Chicago some five or six years ago. He leaves a widow arm

two daughters ,one in Chicago and Mrs. Newton Martin, of, Earl Park. —Kentland Democrat. L. Paris Builta has sold the Morocco Courier to W. H. Myers of Macy, Ind., wii.o takes possession at once/ Mr. Builta, who has owned the Fourier for the past six years, announces that ;he will move upon a 24 4 acre farm in Orange county, given his wife by her parents. The fate of Clio 27 Terre llauteains on trial in the federal court at Indianapolis, for alleged conspiracy to debauch the last general election in that city, at this writing rests in the hands of the jury, the case having been given over to the jury at 5:30 o’clock Monday evening Judge Anderson’s instructions were considered not. favorable to the defendants, and the opinion seemed almost general that the jury would find against them. There were 28 defendants on trial, but one changed his plea Saturday morning to guilty, making 89 who had so plead.