Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — DR. LONG’S FUNERAL LARGELY ATTENDED [ARTICLE]

DR. LONG’S FUNERAL LARGELY ATTENDED

Services Held at Home in City of Indianapolis. DR. TAYLQR GIVES SERMON Declares Physician’s Death Leaves a Vacancy in Medical Circles of the That Can Never Be Filled. Indianapolis.—The funeral of Dr. Robert William Long, who died at bis home, 11.09 '(Central avenue, was held at the home. The service was attended by a large number of friends of Doctor Long, including the president and most of the members of the board of trustees of Indiana university, the members of the faculty of the Indianapolis University School of Medicine and many of the most prominent physicians of the city and state. Dr. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist church, conducted the service. He was assisted by Rev. J. C. Mayhall, pastor of the Baptist church at New Maysville, where the body will be taken for burial. y Doctor Taylor told of the good work done by Doctor Long, and he asserted that the physician’s death left a vacancy in medical circles and in the citizenship of the state that never can be filled. Road Dedication at Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne.—The first completed stretch of concrete roadway on the Lincoln highway from coast to coast was dedicated here with elaborate ceremonies, which were made notable by the presence of VicePresident Thomas .R. Marshall, Charles A. Bookvalter and Carl G. Fisher of Indianapolis, the latter “the father of the Lincoln highway;” National Counsel H. C. Osterman of New York and A. R. Pardington of Detroit, Mich., national secretary of the organization. This stretch of concrete is six milfes long and links Fort Wayne with New Haven. Over this portion of the highway went a parade of 1,500 motor cars in a dedicatory procession Eight hundred of the cars were decorated in elaborate manner, and prizes were awarded to the most beautiful and most laughable cars. The parade took two hours to pass a given point. Dig for Pot of Gold. Evansville. —Inspired by a story that appeared in a paper here, gold hunters for the last several days have been digging at nights beneath large poplar and oak trees on Coal Mine hill, two miles west of the city, in the hope of finding a pot containing $5,000 in gold coin. No lost treasure has been recovered, but about twenty-five trees, each one hundred years old, have been ruined by the fortune seekers. The gold seekers read of a man who died in Kentucky, across the river from Evansville, many years ago, and of ho_w, before he died, he pulled across the Ohio river in a skiff and buried in gold in a pot under the roots'uf a large tree. Owners of Coal Mine hill have found holes in the grouffd "as large as graves or cisternsr aptl it will require considerable work to fill them. Bullet Goes Wild. Sheridan. Jealousy is said to have prompted a shooting affair here, in which Miss Marie Kirby, her mother, Mrs. Madison Kirby, and Lester Brandenburg were the targets. One shot was fired but the bullet went wild. The weapon seemingly was aimed at all three. Mace Remson was later arrested by Marshal McCarty. The latter’s theory is that Remson fired the shot when he discovered Brandenburg talking to the mother and daughter. Remson has been attentive to Miss Kirby. McCarty declares that Remson had been drinking and that the pistol, which was later found in a pile of weeds, showed that a second cartridge had been snapped hut had failed to explode. Former South Bend Mayor Dies. Indianapolis.:—Charles Goetz, former mayor of South Bend, died of Bright’s, disease at Hot Springs, Ark., according to a* dispatch received by friends here. Goetz was prominent in state and national politics, having been a delegate to the Baltimore convention as a supporter of President Wilson. Farmers to Have “Silo Tour.” Fort Wayne.—Under the direction of County Agent C. Henry nearly two hundred farmers participated in a “silo tgpr” in automobiles to various farms in the county so view model silos. Prof. J. W. Schwab of Purdue university delivered talks at the stopping points. To Meet at Evansville. Evansville—lt Is expected that between four arid five hundred delegates and visitors will attend the convention to be held here Thursday to boost the proposed Dixie Bee Line highway which will run from Danville, 111., to Nashville, Tenn. Word was received by John C. Keller, secretary of the Evansville Business association, saying that Hopkinsville, Ky., and Clarksville, Tenn., and the citieß In the neighborhood will send a special train here over the Louisville and Nashville railroad.