Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — PICK LAFAYETTE FOR GATHERING [ARTICLE]

PICK LAFAYETTE FOR GATHERING

City Selected by State Bar Association of Indiana. NEXT CONVENTION IN JUNE Executive Committee of Body Prepares for Session at Meeting in the City of Indianapolis. Indianapolis.—At a meeting of the executive committee of the State Bar association of Indiana, held in the office of George A. Batchelor in the. State Life building, it was decided to hold the next meeting of the association in Lafayette. The meetings have been held in Indianapolis for several years. Hammond was a strong bidder for the meeting, but Lafayette won. Will R. Wood, representative in congress from the Tenth Indiana district, appeared before the committee on behalf of Lafayette. The meeting will be held in June, and will be a two-day affair. Mr. Batchelor, who is secretary of the association, said that the taking of the 1916 meeting away from Indianapolis was not done because there is any objection to holding the meeting here, but that the committee believed it should accept the invitation of Lafayette.

Pulmotor Revives Girl. Kokomo. —Miss Opal Grous, eighteen years old, who says that she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson of Chicago, was nearly drowned here at Mel-Falfa park, when Sherman Taylor pulled her into the swimming pool playfully, he asserts, and before he could rescue her she had gone down twice. The girl was taker, to the Good Samaritan hospital,, where doctors worked for an hour with a pulmotor before she was revived. She was unconscious two hours, but is now in a way to recovery and has been removed to her room in a hotel. Miss Grous is little known here and was reluctant to tell anything. '-about' herself, but finally said that she left home in Chicago ostensibly to visit her brother, Bari Grous, 2122; Oliver avenue, Indianapolis, but ir. real ity to meet a friend id this city. She I i been in the water with her escort and a number of other fellows for several hours, and the young men were “ducking" her Miss Grous. who is pretty and vivacious, took the play in cood fun. but not being able to swim sh<» sank when she Was pulled into water seven feet deep Sheriff Brown is investigating the affair/

Couple Married Fifty Years. Kokomo.—Almost the entire population of Windfall, south of here, turned / out in Celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Cue, pioneer residents of the town and parents of J. L. Cue of Kokomo. More than two hundred relatives and near friends were present, at the old homestead to enjoy an old-fashioned dinner, which Mrs. Cue helped to prepare. The Methodist church was packed to the doors when the old couple were entertained with music and speeches Mr. Cue is seventy three years old and his wife is one year his junior. The three children of the couple were present. They are J. L. Cue, Kokomo; Mrs. Pearl Hinshaw, Windfall, and Mrs. E. E. Clawson, Cicero.

Boy Stands Up in Canoe; Drowns. Rochester.—Arthur Guthier, sixteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Guthier of Huntington, drowned at Lake ManitOu here when he fell out of a canoe in sixty feet of water: Guthier, after being warned by his companion, Curtis Casper of Peru, to sit down, stood up in the frail craft, saying: “I don’t have to sit down.” With this remark he fell backward, never coming to the Surface. All efforts to find the body have failed. The accident is surrounded with mystery, in that Jack Metz of Rochester and Markin Klinger of Huntington, who were following the canoe in a rowboat, did not see Guthier fall out, and Caspar did not tell anyone about the disappearance until morning. The Guthier family has been staying at a lake cottage. His parents are prostrated. The drowned boy was one of nine children.

Boy Drowns in Ohio River. Evansville. —Cornelius Lennox, age thirteen, was drowned in, the Ohio river, two miles below here while bathing with a number of other boys. He could not swim, and waded into a ‘“suckhole.” The body has not been recovered. ■ \ Baby Escapes Injury in Runaway. Kokomo. When their driving horse took fright at a motor truck on a streeet in the northern edge of this city and ran away, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hutchison were thrown from their buggy into a wire fence. Their baby was hurled over the fence into a patch of weeds and landed on a thick clump of dock and did not suffer a scratch. Mr. Hutchison suffered a severe cut on his right arm. Mrs. Hutchison escaped with slight bruises. The horse was badly cut and the jbuggy demolished.