Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — HOOSIER NOTES [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NOTES

Happenings Over Indiana That Are of General Interest.

The factory of the Crothersville canning company was destroyed by fire. At least four or five big sporting events will be staged at Warsaw this season. .. Fort Wayne now has a population of 88,000, says Township Assessor E. W. Miller. The Indiana Piano Merchants’ Association held its sixth annual convention in Indianapolis. Figures issued by the assessor show that Gary’s assessed valuation this year is $27,734,470. The last of the $124,000 bonded debt on the Hartford City courthouse was paid by Auditor McGeath. Major Taylor, of Petersburg, a brother of former Representative A. H. Taylor, is dead of appoplexy. Mrs. Edward Lower, wife of a former civil engineer, has been elected truant officer for Wabash county. Twenty-nine indictments were returned in a report by the Marion county grand jury to the criminal court. Max R. Hyman of Indianapolis has just issued a condensed history of Indiana, entitled “Under Three Flags.” Miss Irene Wells, age nineteen, and Garland Eaton, both of Terre Haute, were drowned in the Eel river, near Jasonville. Ice cream factory at Columbus was damaged by fire, and water thrown by the fire department destroyed 5,000 ice cream cones. Overcome by grief at the grave of J. M. Kingery during the funeral service at Marion, Orville Griffith collapsed and almost fell into the grave. The fourteenth annual convention of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, formerly a high school organization, will be held at Lafayette June 21-23. The Board of managers of the Indiana Grain Dealers’ association have fixed June 20 and 21 as the time for the association’s midsummer meeting at Indianapolis. James D. Fort, 101, is dead at his home in Jonesboro. Fort’s father lived to be 101) and a brother is said to have died at 108. Fort is survived by 148 descendants. The Delaware county commissioners granted Honor licenses to thirty of the seventy-three applicants, and legal bars opened in Muncie for the first time in two years. : . < The supreme and appellate courts convened at Indianapolis for the May term,: and handed down eleven opinions, five being from the Supreme and six from the appellate court. By a vote of three to two the Terre Haute board of education has decided to require teachers to take advantage of the teachers’ pension regulations before they will be employed.' Noblesville was chosen for the 1917 meeting place of the Ninth District medical association at the annual meeting at Crawfordsville, which was attended by about 100 physicians. John Platz, 89, South Bend pioneer, is dead. He was the city’s first truant officer and was formerly city commissioner. As a contractor and builder he contributed largely toward the material advancement of the city. Richard M. Freeman, 74 years old, is dead at his home in Bicknell. He was born in England and was a civil war veteran. He was a coal operator and was known as the father of the coal industry of southern Indiana. A dam built by George Tucker on his farm three miles west of Petersburg was dynamited by unknown persons. The dam was built for the purpose of holding back the government ditch which runs across the farm.

The members of the grand lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana, held their ninety-first annual meeting in Indianapolis at the Masonic temple with about 600 members of the order from all parts of the state in attendance. At a meeting at North Vernon of 100 real estate agents of the Fourth congressional district the Southern Indiana Real Estate Dealers’ Association was organized with E. E. Olcott of North Vernon, president, and Archie B. Gross of Columbus, secretary-treasurer. Information comes to the alumni of Moores Hill college from the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in session at Saratoga, that Rev. U. G. Leazenby, superintendent of the Crawfordsville district, has reconsidered his recent decision and decided to accept the presidency of Moores Hill college. Upward of 1,000 delegates are expected for the biennial prohibition state Convention, tp convene at Indianapolis June 6 for a two days’ session in Tomlinson hall. F. W. Lough, as temporary chairman, will deliver the keynote address. The new miners’ agreement for the two years ending March 31, 1918, is in effect following the formal sighing of the scale, to which both miners and operators had agreed. The new scale calls for payment on the mine run basis, for which the miners have been fighting for several years.

There are 13,084 horses in Randolph county worth $1,209,107, and 1,176 automobiles worth $375,709, according to the county assessor. Captain James S. Williams, age 84, a veteran soldier and stone operator, and head of a prominent family, is dead at his home in Stinesville. The board of county commissioners has selected Frank E. Morris, of Salem, as auditor of Washington county to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ira L. Rutherford. The Indiana Academy of Science, with a state membership of 500, will hold its annual spring outing at Valparaiso June 1, 2 and 3, as guests of Valparaiso university. ; Word has been received at Brazil that Theodore W. Englehart, a druggist, has "been recommended by Congressman Ralph W. Moss for appointment as postmaster at Brazil, to succeed Edward Schuetz, who died recently, Tamms, 111., was chosen for next year’s convention at the closing meeting of the sixty-third annual session of the Indiana-Illinois Classis of the Reformed church of the United States, which concluded its three days’ work at Gary. , • • Five Hundred school children will participate in the folk dances and singing which will form part of the May festival of music to be given by public school pupils in the high auditorium at Muncie Friday evening. Members of a committee distributed sunflower seeds to every farmer living along the Dixie highway in Wabash county, with instructions on planting and caring for the flowers. The route will be marked in this manner along its entire length. The thirty-seventh annual commencement of the Danville high school was held in the chapel of the Central Normal college. The girls all appeared in dresses they had made Tor themselves in the domestic science department, at a cost of $1.75 each. The corner stone of the new SIO,OOO Masonic temple at Terre Haute will be laid next Thursday. Hary B. Tuthill, of Laporte, will preside. The principal address on that occasion will be made by Charles P. Benedict, of Indianapolis, present grand master. Alfred W. North, proprietor of a bakery at Terre Haute, and Miss Ethel Collinson, of London, England, were married at the parsonage of the First Methodist church by the Rev. I. B, Harper. They were sweethearts in England. North came to Terre Haute two years ago. Miss Collinson was accompanied by her sister, who acted as bridesmaid. • At a caged meeting of the New Albany Presbytery the Rev. F. W. Thompson and Walter B. Creed, of New Albany; Frank R. Alles, of Bedford; J. E. Graham, of Seymour, and E. J. Colgate, of Madison, were elected trustees. The Rev. James L. Lindsay, of Vevay, and the Rev. Ralph Carson, of Elizabeth, young ministers, were examined, passed and ordered ordained. Fifty men are at work laying concrete footings between Capitol avenue and Meridian street, south of the Union station, Indianapolis, for the elevated track concourse. The entire protect will cost $4,000,000 and the program for this year will cost sl,500,000. Five tracks at the station will be elevated within the next month. The Illinois street tunnel will be elosed'in six weeks. Carl Prell, of South Bend, won first place in the boys’ division of the northern Indiana high school oratorical contest held at South Bend in connection with the annual track and field meet, speaking on “The March of the Flag.” Ralph Thorson, of Hammond, was second, speaking on “Peace With Honor.” In the girls’ contest, Helen Bonduranh, of Plymouth, took first place with her delivery of “The Lost Word.” Ruth Rockwell, of Gary, was second, choosing for her subject “The Music Master.” Gold medals were awarded to the winners of the first places and silver medals to the winners of the second places. Ten northern Indiana high schools, Crown Point, Goshen, Hammond, Plymouth, Mishawaka, South Bend, Elkhart, Michigan City, Gary and Laporte, were represented. Eighteen speakers competed. A. A. Spears, of Brazil, was nominated for the office of grand master of the I. O. O. F. of Indiana at the Grand Lodge meeting at Indianapolis. Other nominations made were: Deputy grand master, W. E. Deuprece, Franklin; grand warden, L. W. Durbin, of Indianapolis, William Ehrhardt of Greensburg, W. W. Swank of Wingate, H. A. Winterrowd of Indianapolis and H. E. Jones of East Chicago; grand secretary, W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, W. A. Morris, Frankfort; representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, Jesse Macbeth, Fort Wayne (two years), and J. T. Arbuckle, Rushville (one year); grand trustee, Benjamin Franklin, Indianapolis. The election for these offices will be held-at the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge in November. Tribute was paid to W. H. Leedy, grand secretary, for his long and faithful service in the lodge. Judge Frank Ellis, of the Delaware circuit court, broke all speed records in disposing of ‘divorce cases, in less than one hour issuing three divorces and completing the hearing of a fourth case. A full-length portrait of Booth Tarkington has just been completed and is now on exhibit at an Indianapolis art store. This portrait in every way, in its easy., natural position, the subject gloved and with a walking stick and overcoat as if about to take the air, is thoroughly Tarkingtonian.