Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1915 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The republican editors of the Tenth district held a love feast at Alary Saturday night. The Premier Motor Manufacturing Gpmpany’s plant in Indianapolis was practically destroyed by fire Saturday night, ; The "wets" were victorious in an election held at Elkhart Monday by the" small majority of ios votes. A total of .7,088 votes Were cast. Elkha: t has 22 saloons. | Cyrus Rice of Remington, wnose dirst. Wife obtained a divorce from' f fin at the present term of the Jasper circuit court, was married last week . in Illinois, to Miss Maggie Mehin, : also pi’ fir m:; •-■ton. ~ - The sale of auto licenses-in the' office of the secretary of state has' already exceeded in number the total ! sales for last year. The mark of GO, 300 licenses issued last year was J exceeded last week and the secretary! believes that this year will see many: thousands of licenses issued abovelast yearle total. - John Burn;", the famous ‘‘movie” comedian, died at his home in Brooklyn, .Monday. He had been ill for about three weeks of a complication of diseases. He was 52 years old. Mr. Bunny will be missed by the “movie" patrons as his antics always created a laugh when he appeared oh the screen. Governor Ralston has appointed R. V. Newton to succeed Judge Thomas Smith as city judge of Terre Haute, and the attorney general has tiled impeachment proceedings in the supreme court to oust circuit judge Eli Redman. Roth Smith and icedman are sojourning at Ft. Leavenworth with Donn M. Roberts. By a vote of 7 to 3 the Terre Haute city council voted to oust Bonn M. Roberts as mayor Saturday iL the impeachment trial that lasted two days. Roberts, who is now in federal prison at Ft. Leaven-1 worth serving a six years sentence for election conspiracies, was found guilty by the Council on thirteen charges. The su jsidy election held in Jackson and Beaver ‘ o’whs-hip?, - Newton county, Saturday, to vote a bonus to the I. a layette & Nor: h western ra:!road, was carried in both townships. Jackson tp., in whicb is located Gte town of .Ml. Ayr, returned i a majority of 30 for, out 220 votes mis; ; Beaver tp., including the town Oi Morocco, gave a majority of 257 j for the project out of a total of j 127 votes cast. | Bert Everrnan, formerly manager I of the county farm, deserted his wife and three young children on March H last, and his whereabouts were unknown until last week when Mrs. Hverman received a letter from him saving that he had left for good. A warrant was issued for his arrest last Thursday and deputy sheriff 1 lodine brought him back to Fowler Friday. He was working on a farm in Posey county. Saturday he was released under SSOO bond, furnished by Bert Sheetz and Walter Iloffine, for his appearance in the circuit court on a charge of wife desertion The ; ease will come up the next term of court. He returned to Posey county Saturday afternoon.— Benton Review. ■ ■

J. Cecil Alter Writes of Air Craft Stunts. •I. Cecil Alter, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Alter of Union tp., Jasper county, who has been in the IT. S. weather bureau service at Salt Lake City for many years and is now in charge of the bureau’s exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition, writes his parents regarding Lincoln Peachy, the noted aviator who was recently killed while giving an exhibition at the fair, and of his successor, Art Smith, which letter The Democrat is permitted to publish, and same follows below: San Francisco, Cal., April 5, ’ls. Dear Ones at Home: Yes, we were well acquainted with Lincoln Beachy and his work; we had seen him fly at a hundred horizontal miles an hour, just like a bullet; we had seen him go so high his motor no longer roared—which usually made more noise at forty rods than a threshing separator to a man lying underneath—and we had seen him in all his wonderful loops; terrible thrills they were at first, but later we came to be unmoved by them and many a time I have stopped talking weather bureau and told my hearers that the noise they heard was Beachy, flying above the exhibit palaces; one' or two loops was all our fluttering hearts could stand at first, but later we became