Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Army recruiting stations have been opened at Lafayette and Logansport and enlistments are nowbeing made for all arms of the service. . ' Richard J. Beer, publisher of the Osgood .Journal, the Democratic organ of Ripley county, is a candidate for the nomination for chief of the bureau of statistics, subject to the Democratic state convention. The large dairy barn of John Smith near Delphi caught fire from some unknown cause Monday and horned to the ground. The barn was just outside of the city and. could not he reached by tire hose. Although heroic efforts were made by several men to release the stock, seven cows were incinerated. Of the 2:’. released several were badly burned. The cattle were chained to the stalls and blirned to death in view of hundreds of persons. The loss is estimated at $2,500, partly covered by insurance, Sylvester Taylor, a young man of near Franeesville who was left by his grandfather, Joseph Van Kirk, a few months ago an 80-aere farm worth SIOO per acre with only a small incumbrance thereon anti later traded his equity for a hardware stock at Monon. in order to avoid the closing in of creditors whom he owed, held a sale of this stock Monday in which he sold out nearly everything in very short time at whatever price he could get, it is said, and the goods went at from 1 0 to 15 per cent of their real value, the crowds of customers almost fighting to get inside the store to secure some of the bargains. The sale was finally stopped by a deputy sheriff who held an execution for $:;00 on which Taylor a few days before had paid SIOO, but the remaining goods were not Valued at enough to more than half cover the remainder of the amount of the execution.