Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Fred Blumer, a former marshal of Wolcott, was found dead of pneumonia in his room in a boarding house at Lafayette Monday. He had been dead for several hours when found. Abe Martin says: “One good thingabout havin' tb’ dyspepsia is that you kin rest assured things hain’t near as bad as they seem. Th’ auto ’ll never supplant th’ political wheel hoss.” Roosevelt has throwm his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination for the presidency and our local Republican friends who have so bitterly denounced the hero of San Juan hill might as well prepare to eat crow. The Corn Belt Mortgage Loan company, capital SIOO,OOO, to buy and sell state, county and municipal and other bonds: directors: Thomas W. O’Connor, Henry Million, Henry J. Reid and Henry O. Goslee, has been organized at Monticello. •Charles Meddows, age 45, a farm laborer, employed by Frank Funk near Lochiel, died very suddenly of heart disease Monday afternoon while working in the field. Meddows stepped down off a disc harrow and walked a few feet, when he fell dead. Alfred R. Robinson, one of the Republican candidates for the nomination for United States senator before the recent primary, has filed his statement of Campaign expenses, showing that total expenses amounted to $2,496.05, of which his newspaper advertising was $1,937.61, postage and contribution to the state committee $175.