Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — SUFFRAGISTS TO MEET NOVEMBER 11 [ARTICLE]

SUFFRAGISTS TO MEET NOVEMBER 11

Seven Cities Will Send Delegations to District Meet. . GATHERING FOR HUNTINGTON Mrs. Grace Julian Clark, Dr. Amelia R. Keller of Indianapolis, and Others to Deliver Addresses. Hundngton.— Eleventh district equal suffrage leagues will meet in Huntington November 11, according to announcement, Marion, Wabash, Peru, Hartford City, Logansport and Winamac sending delegations. Addresses will be made by Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke and Dr. Amelia R. Keller of Indianapolis, Mrs. Horace N. Stilwell of Anderson, Mrs. Lincoln Lesh of Muncie and others. Mrs. W. B. Platt of Huntington, district president, will preside.

Little Politics in Town Votes. Indianapolis.—Politics played little part in the town elections held throughout Indiana. The issues were purely local and in some places no tickets were nominated, the present officers being allowed to hold over. In many towns nonpartisan tickets were elected without opposition. There are about four hundred Incorporated towns in the state and elections were held in most of them. The offices voted for were those of marshal, clerk, treasurer and tees. In Nashville the election followed the most heated campaign A years, the issue being the construction of a municipal plant to give the town its first electric lights, with a bond issue of $7,000. The vote was 41 for to 29 against. The plant means an increase in taxes of five cents on each SIOO. It will provide lighting for streets, dwellings and business houses. Work On the plant is to start in two weeks.

Mill Fire Costs $125,000. Evansville.—Damage estimated at almost $125,000 was done By fire that attacked the mill of the Helfrich Lumber and Manufacturing company on the bank of the Ohio river, just below this city. The origin of the blaze is undetermined. The firemen devoted ■ their efforts to saying the stacked lumber, worth thousands of dollars, and the nearby plants of the Ingleside coal mine and the Shinier Steel Wire Fence company. A change in the wind, which drove the flames toward the riv#, saved SIOO,OOO worth of lumber in an adjoining yard and enabled the firemen to save at least a fourth of the lumber in the yard adjoining the mill. Volunteer fire companies from Howell, Babytown and West Heights brought hand pumps to help fight the flames.

P.etired Naval Officer Succumbs. Lafayette.—Word was received by relatives of the death of Commodore Guy W. Brown, U. S. N., retired, which occurred at his home at San Diego, Cal. He died suddenly of heart disease. He was the son of the late L. R. Brown, a pioneer business man of this city. He was born in this city fifty-eight jears ago and entered the naval academy when he was eighteen years old. During the Spanish-American war he was captain of the New York, flagship at the battle of Santiago Harbor. He was also for some time on the Charleston. He made the trip around the world several years ago under Rear Admiral Bob Evans. Brown was retired with the title of commodore two years ago and for a time resided in San Francisco. He is survived by a widow and two children.

Wish Quail Law Changed. Washington.—Daviess county farmers desire the open season for quail changed from November 10 to ary 1. Farmers fond of hunting feel the lawmakers of the state did an injustice to the farmer when they passed the present hunting law fixing the quail season. The farmers’ objection to the law is that the open season comes when the farmer is busy gathering corn. Daviess county farmers are suggesting that the quail season open on December 10 and close January 1.

School Head to Resign. Noblesville.—John F. Haines, for years a teacher in the schools of Hamilton county and well known in educational circles throughout Indiana and adjoining states, notified the county board of education of his intention to resigri next June as county superintendent. He has accepted the position of manager of the Young People’s Reading Circle of Indiana. Harry A. Christy Dead. Laporte. Harry Ashton Christy of Chicago, president of a company owning a large fruit plantation on the Isle of Pines, died at the Holy Family hospital here, following an operation for appendicitis. He came to Laporte two weeks ago on a pleasure motor trip. He cabled his sons, who were in Havana, Cuba, to come, as he wanted to see them before he died, and they reached here last week. Christy was fifty-five years old. The body will be sent to Pittsburgh, Pa., for burial.