Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — MEETING HELD IN BOONVILLE [ARTICLE]

MEETING HELD IN BOONVILLE

Session of Pocket Publishers Attended by Seventeen. CONNELTON GETS GATHERING C. T. Miller, President of Body, Calls Meeting to Order—Address of Welcome Is Delivered by Judge Roscoe Kiper. Boonville.—The meeting of the Pocket Publishers' league was held at the Knights of Pythias hall and was attended by seventeen members. The meeting was called to order by the president, C. T. Miller, editor of the Cannelton Enquirer, after which an address of welcome was delivered by Judge Roscoe Kiper, followed by remarks by Senator J. A. Hemenway and S. B. Hatfield. The session was adjourned for dinner, which was given in honor of the guests at the St. Charles hotel, and was followed by an auto tour. The following program: “How a County Editor Can Own an Automobile,” A. J. Hearing, Winslow Dispatch; discussion, C. T. Baker, Grandview Monitor; “Country correspondents—How to Secure and Retain Them,” L. J. Early, Cannelton Telegram; “What the Last Legislature Did for the Country Newspaper,” G. H. Hazen, Boonville Enquirer; discussion, Lew M. O’Bannon, Corydon Democrat; “Should a Country Newspaper Use Clubbing Offers?” Elmo Wilson, Marengo Observer; discussion, Henry Haake, Ferdinand News. A resolution was offered by W. W. Kellams resolving that every member of the league should abstain from further clubbing rates. The motion was adopted unanimously. The next meeting will be held at Cannelton, August 16.

Auto Victim's Widow at Laporte. Laporte.— Deeply eviled in mourning for her husband who was killed in an automobile tragedy near this city, Monday, May 3, though admitting that she had not seen him for twelve years, Mrs. Carrie Whitbeck of 1-143 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, came here and by examination of the coroner’s evidence proved that the victim was John Whitbeck, to whom she was married thirty years ago, and that he had again married without securing a divorce from her. The woman who came to this city and accompanied the remains to Chicago, while both women, each unconscious of the presence of the other, were mourners at. the grave, was his second wife. Mrs. Whitbeck declared that she would legally contest for possession of her husband's property, even though it is claimed by the second wife.

Slayer Sent to Prison. Indianapolis—Frank Pierson, fortynine years old, charged with the murder of James Deep, March 30, 1912, pleaded guilty to manslaughter ill criminal court and was sentenced by Judge Collins to the state prison for two to twenty-one years. According to his story he went home the night of the trouble and found Deep and Mrs. Pierson together. In the fight which, followed Leep was knocked down and his skull was fractured. Pierson immediately left the city and was gone until a few weeks ago when the police returned him from St. Louis. He was told in court that had he appeared before the grand jury indicted him he might nOt have been indicted. An application for a change of venue from Marion county was made by Roscoe G. Detamore, charged with the murder of his wife. He alleges that because of excitement and prejudice against him he cannot have a fair trial in Indianapolis/ • • Sister Bonaventura Is Dead. Oldenburg.—Sister Bonaventura, for many years teacher of mathematics at the Academy of Franciscan Nuns in Oldenburg, died in Cincinnati, and the funeral* was held at Oldenburg. Sister Bonaventura was a native of New York, and was known in the world as Miss Pauline Smith. She joined the Franciscan community at Oldenburg in 1861, and was one of the best known teachers in the order. The funeral was attended by the following Indianapolis people: Mrs. J. J. Cole, Mrs. Rose Conett, Mrs. R. Harry Miller, Mrs. Cora Langsdale and Mrs. Louise McCarthy O’Brien. Indiana Scientist Dies. Terre Haute.—Dr. J. T. .Scoville, scientist, author, and whose measurements of Mount Orizaba, Mexico, was accepted by the government, is dead here, aged seventy-two years.