Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Bert Lundin and Ben Shilling of Knox, started Monday in the former’s Ford car for the exposition at San Francisco, their round trip pinery covering between 6,000, and 7,000 miles.

The’ first new wheat taken in at the Monon elevator came from Bruce Brown and Guy-Hornbeck and was received Monday. It was grown on the Shields land and seven acres averaged 4 5 bushels to the acre ol best quality.—-Monon News;

The Dustless Air Line rotld is being oiled through this county. The Indiana Road Preserving company has the contract for the work. The roads are being improved ahead ol the oil wagons, and 2,600 gallons of oil are being placed on each mile of road. The route through Tippecanoe county is 24 miles long.- Tippecanoe County Democrat.

Peter Johnson, a Wolcott jeweler, was declared insane this week and was taken to the asylum at Longcliff. He labors under the hallucination that he is Jesus Christ, and says that if he could walk upon the water lie would know that he was Christ. He appeared on the clad only in his underclothing^ and used vulger and profane language, such as a real Christ would not use.

The village of Schneider in the extreme south end of the county, and arrival of Shelby, only a few miles east, has recently discarded knee pants and incorporated for a town and elected officers comprising a marshal, town clerk and treasurer and three, trustees. About 120 votes were polled. They expect to get greater with time and hope to have electric lights, sewers and water works in the course of a few years, and already is quite a railroad point.— Crown Point Star.

The Morocco Courier states that some one entered the premises of F. O. Bicknell of two miles east of Morocco, one night recently while the family were away and gave two of his best horses acid, burning their mouths very badly. A four ounce bottle of acid was in the barn and it is supposed this was poured upon some oats and given to the animals. Veterinaries were called and the lives of the horses were saved. Mr. Bicknell is at* a loss to know who did the work or why it was done, as he did not know he had an enemy, says the Courier.

Norman Good of Knox, aged 24 yearns, was fatally burned last Sunfrom gasoline. He was norking at the John Kaley store at 'Bass Lake, and his employer told him to empty a pail of dirty gasoline in the lake. The young man took the bucket out on one of the piers and set fire to the fluid, then kicked it into the lake, but in doing so some of the gasoline splashed upon him and in a flash he was a mass of flames. Instead of jumping into the water he ran back to the land, and