Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. ■ I——— SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Thayer People Want a Railroad Agent. The Indiana public service commission will hold a meeting at Thayer on next Thursday, the people up there having petitioned for a station agent at that point, the agent having been taken off about a year ago. By the way, it was given out when the recent telephone hearing was held here that C. J. Murphy, one of the members of the commission who was to conduct the hearing, was siek in Indianapolis and unable to come and a substitute was sent in his stead. The writer is reliably informed that Mr. Murphy was up in Lake county on a political mission on the very day the hearing was held here, and was practicing his old tactics of boss of the Tenth district Democratic politics.