Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. TRIP TO NORTHERN INDIANA. Democratic Editors Plan Summer Outing Program Jaunt - Lasting Four Days. Indianapolis, April 17.—The special committee of the executive committee of the Democratic Editorial Association, which has charge of the plans for the summer outing or the organization, Friday arranged the final program for the outing at a meeting in the office of Dale J. (’rittenberger, auditor of state. Meeting with the members of the committee were Sam Murdock, the traction magnate; S. E. SwaU», a Hammond,. Ind., editor, and Senator John B. Faulknor of Michigan City. Members of the committee included Lew M. O’Bannon of Corydon, president of the organization; Mr. Crittenberger and A. B. Crampton of Delphi.

The time for the outing Jias been fixed for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 2,3, 4 and D. The program is believed to be the most elaborate yet proposed by the editors. At 11 o’clock in the morning, June 2, the editors and friends and families from southern and central Indiana will leave Indianapolis for South Bend on board special interurban cars, making the trip by way of Wabash, Winona, Elkhart, Goshen, and other cities. The cars are scheduled to arrive in South Bend at 0 o’clock in the evening. A banquet and theater party at South Bend will be held that evening. The next morning at 10 o’clock an automobile ride over Soutu Bend, Mishawaka, Notre Dame university and surrounding places Is promised. At 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon the party will leave South Bend for Hammond over the South Shore Railroad. The principal banqbet of the trip will be staged at Hammond, whicn is to be the objective point of the entire trip. There a program will include addresses by Mayor J. D. Smalley, Mr. O’Bannon, Governor Ralston and Joseph H. Conroy, who will speak on “The Calumet Region.’’ A musical program also has been arranged for that meeting. Friday morning at 10 o’clock an automobile trip about Lake county cities will be taken. During the afternoon of Friday the party will leave for Chicago, taking any route each may choose. Entertainment at Chicago for that night is yet to be arranged, but several plans 'are being discussed. Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clocK the entire party will leave the Gra-ham-Morton docks at Chicago, aboard a steamship, to go to St. Joseph, Mich., where they are to be the guests or Sam and Charles Murdock, the traction magnates. On the trip across the lake lunch will be obtained at a counter on the boat. The party is to spend approximately two hours in St. Joseph. At 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon the same special cars, which take the editors from Indianapolis, will leave St. Joseph, Mich., for the return trip, a box luncheon! will be provided by the Murdock brothers. Editors and invited guests may join the party on the way from Indianapolis at any point, President O’Bannon said. t...