Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — HOOSIER NOTES [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NOTES

Happenings Over Indiana That Are of General Interest.

Owensville’s new Masonic temple, i which cost $12,500, was dedicated Wednesday. j The thirty-sixth annual convention of the Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association is in session at Indianapolis. ' . ■)., ';j Six hundred high school boys of the ! middle west are taking two weeks’ intensive military training at Culver military academy. Mrs. Ellen Fitzsimmons, age eighty-four, is dead. She died in the house which she had occupied for • fifty-eight years. i The city of Indianapolis wasfMre- ' queathed $40,000 to spend as it wishes in the will of Mrs. Anna M. Segef, just filed in probate court. James H. Tomlin, superintendent of the Evansville schools, announced to the school board his intention of! severing his connection with the local schools. Following rain and electrical storms that continued all day and night, the 1 worst floods experienced at Goshen in j many years are causing heavy damage. A fly-swatting contest among the grade pupils of the Columbus schools ! was won by Daniel Heck with 29,820 flies killed. More than 300,000 flies were killed. I

Stricken with an acute form of appendicitis, Archie Mercer, age sixtyfive, west of Greensburg, died seven hours later on his thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. Edward C. Schuetz, age fifty-four, postmaster of Brazil, died suddenly of heart disease. Mr. Schuetz was one of the leaders in the fight against Donn Roberts of recent fame. Ivory G. Kimball, age seventythree, for many years judge of the police court in Washington, and for many years a well-known resident of Indiana, died at Washington, D. C. Fred Mohr, local manager of the Interstate Public Service Company’s electric light plant at Fowler, was killed by electricity when directing repair work one mile east of Fowler. Five hundred employes, practically the entire force of the Roby plant of the American Maize Products Company, at Hammond, are out on strike for higher wages and shorter hours. Rev. J. B. Ferguson, Rev. ScroggS, Rev. \\. 1.. Clarke and Rev. Alexander Sharpe took part in the installation of Rev. Rhys Price Jones as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Franklin.

With a street parade in which 750 uniformed lodge members marched, Red Men of Vigo county observed their Indiana centennial celebration, 'i his was tiie first of Terre Haute’s centennial events. The miners’ scale committee of district No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, at its meeting in Terre Haute voted to sign the old Terre Haute agreement after five weeks’ effort to obtain a settlement. A swarm of bumblebees got into the carnation house of the Princeton Gardens, one of the largest flower and vegetable concerns in the state, and destroyed 5,000 fine carnations. The bees bored into the center of the flower. Lewis Moore, age seventy-one, farmer, lecturer on agriculture and Democratic politician, died of pneumonia at his country home, four miles northwest of Muncie. Mr. Moord was a frequent speaker in county institutes.

Frank I.online/., thirty-three years old, an inmate in the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, hung himself in a room adjoining the infirmary of the institution. Leminez had been committed to the hospital from Clinton, May 5. The Women’s Relief Corps, of Tipton, which offers silk flags each year for the best decorations of homes, will give prizes this year for the best decorated business house and a second flag to the employe who designed the decoration. John D. Smith, a well known horticulturist, of Tipton, is raising strawberries in barrels this year. He has four barrels bored with holes and filled with rich earth, and the plants are growing in the holes. The barrels revolve upon a spindle. The electrocution of two horses and a dog in a pool of water that had become charged by the breaking of a wire carrying 3,000 volts of electricity, the end of which fell into the water, probably saved at least one person from death at South Bend. The charged pool was near a prominent business corner where hundreds of persons cross the street. ’The-Rev'TW. H. Shepherd, 67 years old, pastor of the Christy Street U. B. church, in Marion, who had been in the ministry twenty-five years, is dead., He had been stationed in Marion since last September. Mrs. Mary K. Woods celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday at the home in Paoli, by keeping open house to her friends and neighbors. She entertained her more elderly friends and neighbors, no one less than 80 years old being supposed to attend. At this meeting" the combined ages of four women aggregated 390 years.

William Hatfield, age 77, of Bluffton, recently consulted a doctor for the first time in his life. The old Presbyterian church at Marion, built in 1874, is being torn down to make room for a business block. .--a* Pioneer Mothers’ day will be celebrated at Elwood June 6 under the auspices of the Elwood Council of Women. C. W. Wade, 39 years old, dropped dead at Washington while writing a lodge notice on a blackboard in the Eagles’ clubroom. John Frank, l( one of the oldest citizen? of Dubois county, died at his home in Haysville. He was one of the wealthiest farmers in the county. A new firm in Indianapolis is manufacturing a smoke consumer and fuel-saving device which has proven highly successful wherever installed. Alvin Parham, of Bedford, age sixteen, walked in his sleep and fell through a second-story window. He was severely cut about the face, legs and arms.

John Craeger, of Colorado, formerly of Sullivan, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. George Exline, neaT Sullivan. This is his first visit here in forty-two years. Representatives of all of the Congregational churches of the state convened at Indianapolis for the five-day session of the annual Indiana state Congregational conference.

Penmanship is being taught to music in the Fort Wayne public schools. Hundreds of pupils each day take their writing exercises to the rrm'ody of a phonograph. GJes W. Trask, a wealthy farmer and elevator owner, of Scircleville, who killed Alice Evans, better known as Madame Rand, a clairvoyant, with a hammer on May’3, was indicted by the grand jury for second degree murder.

The state of Indiana holds the banner record of the Ohio valley states for enlistments in the regular army, for the first fifty-eight days the recruiting campaign has been in progress. The total number recruited in Indiana during that time was 429.

Dr. S. L. Strickler, of Boggstown, announces a donation of forty acres of land to the Beechwood academy, a school maintained near Boggstown by the Seventh Day Adventist denomination. The tract has a value of SB,OOO. Forty thousand dollars will be expended on new buildings. Within a short time the board of commissioners of Elkhart county will award the contract for the construction of about six miles of brick pavement over the Lincoln highway route. By next fall the entire length of the Lincoln highway through Elkhart county will be permanently improved. .Miss Ella Blackstock, age sevgntyfour, founder and for years manager of the Missionary industrial school for girls at Tokio, Japan, which is under the patronage of the Minneapolis branch of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at her home in Lafayette. Ihelma, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schuler, of Connersville, who sustained fatal burns to her face and body Monday when a kerosene can exploded in her father’s hands, is dead. Both the child’s eyes were destroyed. The father, unmindful of his flaming garments, rushed to the baby’s assistance, but was unable to extinguish the fire until the child’s body was blackened. Fair and race dates for the northern Indiana circuit have been announced as follows: Laporte, August 29 to September 1; Goshen, September 5-8; South Bend, September 12lb; Logansport, September 26-30; Crown Point, August 15-18; Valparaiso, August 22-25; Kendallville, September 19-22; Bremen, September 26-29; Bourban, October 3-6; North Manchester, October 3-6. In the oratorical and reading contest of the South Central Athletic and Oratorical association in Bedford, Bloomington, Washington, Linton, Sullivan and Bedford took part, with the following results: Oratory—- • Wayne Harryman, Bedford, first; John Hastings, Washington, second; Earl Sourwine, Linton, third. Reading—Miss Ruth Norman, Bedford, ; first; Wood Sanford, Washington, 1 second; Josephine Beasley, Sullivan, third. Hurried and tearful farewells were in order at 2 o’clock Sunday morning at Fort Wayne when the fifty-eight members of Company E, Indiana National Guard, were commanded to “report for service” at their armory. Not until 6 o’clock, when three officers and forty-two privates had reported for duty, were the soldiers informed that the stunt was a “preparedness” test ordered by Major J. E. Miller, in command of the company, to determine how quickly his force could be mobilized in time of trouble. Company cooks prepared an army breakfast in the armory to ease the feelings of the soldiers routed out of their warm beds into a heavy downpour of rain. The spring payment of taxes was the largest in the history of the office of the Marion county treasurer. According to figures compiled and tabulayted, the collections aggregated $5,491,710.44. Committees are at work making final preparations to care for the annual convention of the St. Joseph’s Staats-Verband, composed of Ger-man-American Catholic societies of the state, which will be held at Indianapolis, May 21-23. About 3,000 delegates and members of the various societies are expected.