Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — ANNUAL MEETING FOR INDIANAPOLIS [ARTICLE]

ANNUAL MEETING FOR INDIANAPOLIS

State Poster Advertising Association to Meet. SESSIONS IN HOTEL SEVERIN E. L. Kenneman, Secretary, Says the Indiana Body Will Make Its Usual Fight for Clean Bill Posting. Indianapolis.—The annual convention of the Indiana Poster Advertising association is arranging for its annual convention at the Hotel Severin, May 10. E L. Kenneman of Marion, secretary of the association, who was here arranging details, says the association will make its usual strong fight for clean bill posting. Two Men Are Shot to Death; Hammond.—An arrest is expected soon in the murder case in which Fred Koch and Frand D. Koryway, his employee, living a mile north of Hammond, both were shot through the heart and instantly killed on Koch’s farm at Calumet Park. An unidentified man, carrying a rifle, whom it is thought Koch and his hired man were trying to drive off the land, did the shooting. The murderer was seen boarding an Indiana Harbor freight train, and at Whiting, before word of the murder had been received, a foreigner carrying a rifle was seen leaving the train. The murder was witnessed by Jacob Hilderbrant, towerer man at the Calumet Park junction of the Michigan Central railroad. Hilderbrant saw Koch and Koryway driving down the road in a wagon on their way to Hammond. When the wagon arrived opposite where the man with the gun was standing the horses stopped and Koch and Koryway climbed out and walked over toward the stranger. They talked for only a few moments and there was no strugglle of any kind. The stranger threw his rifle to his shoulder and fired twice and both men fell.

Good Roads School April 28-29. Evansville. —Southern Indiana farmers are displaying much interest in the -Purdue road school to be given here April 2S and 29. Besides short practical talks by the instructors, R. C. Terrell, Frankfort, Ky., state commissioner for public roads in Kentucky, will speak. The instruction will be in charge of Prof. W. K. Hatt, Prof. R. L. Sackett and Prof. G. E Martin of Purdue and J. 11. Dodge of the office of public roads, Washington. The program will begin Thursday with an auto inspection trip Over Vanderburg county roads. In the afternoon R. L. Sackett of Purdue will speak on. ‘-‘Modern Road Surfaces." Prof. George E. Martin will speak on “The Maintenance of Earth and Gravel Roads.” A roundtable discussion on “Road Materials” will close the first day. Professor Martin will open the second day with a discussion of “Dust Prevention.” Mr. Dodge will give an illustrated talk on “Sand Clay Roads.” The afternoon session will be opened by Mr. Terrell with a talk on ‘The Final Cost of a Road.” The program will be concluded with Professor Martin’s discussion of “Maintenance of Macadam Roads.” Five Hurt in Auto Accident. Indianapolis. Private dispatches from Cincinnati tell of the injury of J. W. Haley, stock broker of Indianapolis, his wife and daughter Margaret, age thirteeh, in an automobile accident at Millville, near Hamilton, O. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Haley, their daughter and Dr. and Mrs. Conrad Munche of Erlanger, Ky. The injuries of Haley, his wife and daughter are not fatal. Doctor Munche suffered three broken ribs and a collar bone, and Mrs. Munche was injured about the back and chest. Haley was formerly president of the Commerce and Deposit bank at Cincinnati and a number of Indiana rural banks and manufacturing concerns. All of the party were taken to-Mercy hospital, Hamilton, O. School Teacher Is Killed. Muncie.—At the fatal Big Four crossing in Daleville, where three others have been killed recently. Mrs. Perry Essex, fifty-five, Sunday school teacher, was instantly killed by a train. Crossing is at a sharp curve, and Mrs. Essex stepped directly in front of an approaching freight ICO-Year-Old Fort Burns.

Washington.—The Coleman fort on the farm of Emery Lett, a blockhouse. used by the whites in their battles with the Indians more than one hundred years ago, was de stroyed by fire when lightning struck a barn near it, the flames spreading to the log structure. Child Finds and Drinks Polson. Bedford. —A son of Mr. and Mrs. James Culhan, Jr., drank a quantity of poison from a bottle it found at the home of its grandfather, James Culhan, and died later. Mother Leaps to Death From Buggy, Peru.—-Mrs. Herman Murphy was killed and her son Robert suffered fractures of both legs when, with her baby in her arms, the woman leaped from a buggy drawn by a horse. The accident occurred south of Peru,