Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1916 — HOOSIER NOTES [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NOTES

Happenings Over Indiana That Are of General Interest.

Warrick county will celebrate the : state centennial August 28 to September 2. , John Stuzhes, age eighty-three, was killed instantly when he fell down a flight of steps at Gary. ' The city park at Tipton is to have several native animals in a small zoo this summer, including a brown owl. Pioneer Mothers’ day will be-ce’e-brated at El wood June 6 under the auspices of the Ehvood Council of Women. Charles Beckman, age thirty-five, coal miner, of Fontanet, was killed instantly when he fell from a Big Four train in the Duane yards. Henry Goodans was leading a fine stallion at Osgood when the horse fell dead of a ruptured blood vessel. ©Mr. Goodans recently paid SI,OOO for the horse. Fire, which is believed to have of incendiary origin, destroyed a bam on the farm of Owen Smith, near Evansville. The bam contained 9,000 bushels of corn. Carl Querizer was carried forty feet down the Lake Erie tracks in Connersville when a train truck his au.o truck, but escaped uninjured from the wreckage of the machine. Curtis W. Jones, age eighty-two, the oldest member of the Whitley county bar, is dead at his home at Columbia City. He had lived in Columbia City seventy years. For the first time in years, Sullivan county will have practically no corn planted by the middle of May. . The continued vain- have retarded work and breaking of corn ground has just started.

The village of Silverwood was almost destroyed by fire when a hotel, general Store, drug store, livery stable, the post office arid two homes burned. The fire started in the basement of the hotel. Martin H. Luecke, of Ft. Wayne, was unanimously elected district chairman for the Twelfth district by Democrats at Fort Wayne, succeeding Edward G. Hoffman, v. ho has been made national committeeman for Indiana. Willard Simmons and Vera Hanson were severely scalded at Kokbmo when the boiler of a well-drilling outfit they Were operating blew up. The boiler was thrown fifty into ‘r e air ami a -hundred feet from its original position. A .twp-gallon can of coal oil, with which she was 1 ighting a fire, exploded in the hands Of Mrs. Willard ' Thompson at . Xev. burg, setting fire to her clothing and to the house. The woman ran into the yard, where she fell unconscious front the burns, and it is believed she will die. The house was destroyed. A special train carrying eighty senior agricultural students and several members of the faculty of Purdue university was derailed near Lexington, Ky., when crossing a high trestle. The locomotive struck an obstruction in the track and several cars were derailed, but all passengers escaped injury. The students are on their annual inspection trip of the big stock farms in the Blue Grass state. Mrs. J. H. Taggart, of Orleans, was re-elected district chairman of the Third District Fe leration of Clubs at the annual convention at Orleans, and Miss Anna Wright, of Orleans, was re-elected secretary-treasure ■•. The convention met in the new Carnegie library, which was built through the efforts of the Independent Village Club. Mrs. Craigie Gunn Mitchell; of 1 Bedford, former general federation secretary of Indiana, presided. The second, annual state rural church conference was held at Purdue university with several hundred ministers and laymen in attendance. The object of the conference was to disj cuss ways and means of co-oporatiori j between the rural church and the 1 other agencies that are to work to | make country life all that it should be. Purdue university’s agricultural | extension department is in co-opera--1 tion with the Indiana Church Federation in the movement. I William H. I eedy, grand secretary of the Independent Ordef of Odd FelI lows in Indiana, has announced that Oliver Joseph Oliver, former mayor of Toronto, will be the guest of honor at the eightieth semi-annual communication of the Indiana grand lodge, I. O. O. F., May 17 and 18, in Indianapolis. Oliver was mayor of Toronto for many years. He is a past grand representative and a member of the sovereign grand lodge of the order. Four of the highest officers of the lodge in Illinois will also be present. The two-year-old daughter of Solomon Miller, of Syracuse, is in a hospital for an operation to remove a hairpin she swallowed. Russell Hodson, age nineteen, was killed instantly Sunday when his motorcycle skidded at a sharp turn in a road seven miles south of Huntington, and he was thrown against a telephone pole. His neck was broken. Dodson bought a new machine Saturday and went for his. first ride Sunlay morning. He approached the •urve in the road at too high speed * to turn.

Mrs. Matilda Rader, age eightyone, a pioneer of Delaware county, is dead at Muncie. Mrs. Anna North, age eighty-six, a Randolph county pioneer, is dead at her home near Ridgeville. Charles Tressell, eighty-eight years old, retired abstracter and pioneer citizen of Ft. Wayne, is dead. Don Hunter, age sixty, one of the best-known racehorse men in Indiana, committed suicide at Muncie by shooting himself in the head. Mrs. Elizabeth Worly, age ninetytwo. is dead at Elkhart, leaving six children, thirty grandchildren, fortysix great grandchildren and nine great great grandchildren. Rev. Perry Case, pastor of th? Christian church, has tendered his resignation to take effect September 1. He will go to Wilson, S. C., to fill a chair at Atlantic Christian college. William Bray, of Converse, found a small gold piece while removing a window from the home of Asa Bray. On one side was the date 1854 and on the other the words “California gold.”

Muncie is in the midst of an epidemic of measles, and the city board of health believes several hundred cases, will develop before the end of the. month. There were 109 cases in April. Farmers around Boonville are four weeks late with their work. Conservative estimates on the wheat crop are that there will be about one-third of a crop. Thousands of acres have beer, plowed up and planted in something else. Seventy of the Fort Wayne men, lea »rs in a campaign to raise $300,f ' for a local Y. M. C. A., went to. Muncie in two special cars to inspect the Y. M. C. A. in that city for the purpose of obtaining pointers for the local building. Ralph B. Dormer, a deputy state chemist at the Purdue university, experiment station, received word from the war department at Washington the. his father. Jesse Deemer, who was taken prisoner by Mexican bandits oh a raid into Teras, had not been killed. Directors of the Hodapp Hominy Company of .-Seymour,-:' operating one of the largest grain mills in southern Indiana, voted to throw' the business of the corporation into voluntary receivership. Fred Steinker, the heavies: stockholder, was named as trustee. Two sons of George Williams, age twelve and fourteen, were shot at tneir home at Evansville when handling an old army pistol, which is said to have been loaded since the civil war. One of the hevs was shot Through tire hand and the other in the shoulder. ‘ tleb A. Kimball, eighty-seven yea s old, is dead at South Bend. Mr. Kimball was president of the First National Bank, of South Bend, and the six remaining directors of the concern acted as pallbearers. Mr. Kimball hac; been in the banking business here since 1864.

Joseph Decker of Valparaiso, active in chamber of commerce work, superintended the digging of his own grave which will be entirely lined witia concrete. He has given his order for a $-190 monument and declares he will leave only SSOO at his death, and that will go to his undertaker. Andrew Harness, when cleani up the ruins of the home of "Mrs. Elisabeth Smith, at Laporte, found a skull which physicians say is that of a human being. The name, Phil Bongerz, now deputy state factory inspector, but for many _years marshal of Laporte, was scrawled on the bones. The marriage of Et’neP Snell, age twenty-two, to her brother, Charles Snell, age twenty-six, in Anderson four years ago, was annulled in the Madison circuit court. The plaintiff testified she was separated from her brother in infancy and that she was not aware of their relations when she married Snell, who at that time assumed the name of Zinn. Henry ..Stroud, superintendent of the Kankakee Construction Company, and Frank Sims of Kouts were injured when an automobile driven by Stroud skidded in the road at Ti inkle’s Crossing, near Kouts, and turned over twice. Miles Pierce, who was following, was unable to stop his car in time and it ran over both men as they lay in the road. Several hundred Knights of Columbus, representing six councils in the various districts of the state and a membership of 9,300, met at Lafayette for the fifteenth Indiana convention of the order. An important question before the convention was the establishment of a Knights of Coluihbus home for delinquent Catholic boys. It is proposed to establish such a home by levying an assessment on the individual members of the order and to make arrangements later for its maintenance. Both laymen and clergymen in and out of the order urged the movement.

Prof, Arthur Green, who for 27 years prior to 1912, had been dean of the school of pharmacy at Purdue university, died at the Robert Long Hospital, Indianapolis, after a lingering illness due to anemia. Robert W. Furnas, age sixty-eight, president the Furnas Ice Cream Company anfl a pioneer the ice cream manufacturing business in Indianapolis, is dead, due to a complication of ailments with which he was stricken more than a week ago, following his return from Florida, where be passed the winter.

Neighbors Discover Kin of Former Envoy Asleep in Woodshed in Cleveland. Cleveland, May 12. —Clay Herrick, Jr., four-year-old son of Clay Herrick, cousin of former Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, who was lost and thought kidnaped, was found asleep in a woodshed on the grounds of a neighbor in Cleveland Heights village, a fashionable suburb. The child had wandered away from home.