Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Momence, 111., 0 voted last week by a majority of 39 to remain in the "dry” column. The Monticello high school graduating class this year numbers 39. The commencement exercises will be held on May 25.

Lowell Tribune: A company has been organized and are getting leases for the land in the vicinity of Thayer and later will sink several oil wells. One of the representatives of the company was in Lowell Friday.

William Henry JicDoel, who was president of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville railway (the Monon) from 1899 to 1909, died at his home in Chicago Tuesday after a brief illness. Mr. McDoel was born May 28, 1 841, at Goffstown, X. 11. Anthony Deahl, the Goshen attorney appointed on the public service commission by Governor Ralston io succeed the late "Boss” Murphy, has declined the appointment and Edwin Corr of Bloomington has been given the place. Corr has accepted.

Monticello hopes to get free mail delivery in a few months. The Herald states that the receipts of the office last year were $11,271. A postoffice inspector was in Monticello Wednesday looking over the conditions and feasibility of establishing a free delivery. "In this connection.” says the Herald, "the conditions are good for free delivery, the houses are all numbered, street signs are up and sidewalks are continuous,”

Henry B. Brock, who is alleged to have shot Edward Manson, colored, age it;, at Lafayette Saturday night, pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree murder Monday and is hold without bail. Michael Mulcahy, who was with Brock Saturday is held under SI,OOO bond as a witness. Joseph Belden also pleaded not guilty to first degree murder Monday. It is alleged he struck .Joseph Paskewich of Reynolds Saturday night. Paskewich died Sunday of a fractured skull. Three young men who were with Belden are held under SI,OOO bond as witnesses.

Representative Henry A. Barnhart of Indiana is prepared, when his printing reform bill comes up again, to explode a sensation by showing alleged excessive prices charged the government for engravings used in government publications. Barnhart will read into the Congressional Record a long letter from W. S. Blatchley, former state geologist of Indiana, who purchased 23 etchings at government rates without inquiring the cost and was astonished when he was charged the Washington firm to which he gave the order two and a half times the ordinary price. The firm, writing to Blatchley, said it supplies the government its engravings and that Blatchley’s complaint was the first it ever received.

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