Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

O. E. Porter, an employee of the Lafayette city water works, was injured last Friday when a Wabash train struck the light motor truck he was driving, and died Saturday morning from his injuries. Governor Ralston has appointed Capt. Charles D. Herron, U. S. A., to be brigadier general of the Indiana National Guard. Capt. Herron is a native of Crawfordsville and is in service with the Tenth Infantry in the canal zone. Dr. Charles Arpenter of Walton plead guilty Saturday in the Carroll circuit court to the charge of illegal sale of liquor and was fined SSO and sentenced to 90 days at the penal farm. Sentence was suspended during good behavior. Rev. Father Rumeley, grandson of the late Meinrad Rumeley, millionaire manufacturer of Laporte, who was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic church June 16, has been assigned by Bishop Alerding of the Fort Wayne diocese to St. Mary’s church at Lafayette. Thirty-twbvmembers of Battery C of Sergeants Smith, Worth and Sample and Corporals McKee, Southern, Young and Werkhoff, refused to sign up for service outside the United States after their company had reached Fort Benjamin Harrison. The non-com-missioned officers were reduced to the ranks and Will be dealt with later! The total receipts from taxation in Benton county for the year 1916

is $289,562.94 It is reported that the contract for the new school building in Gilboa tp. will be let to D. V. McGlynn of Remington for $18,007. The original appropriation for the building was $15,000 and the advisory board will make an additional appropriation to cover the additional cost. —Fowler Tribune. By vote of 32 to 6, with nine members refusing to vote, the Progressive national committee endorsed Charles E, Hughes for President at their meeting in Chicago Monday. Roosevelt, whose betrayal of his party to the enemy is bitterly denounced by thousands of Progressives, wrote a long-winded effussion from Oyster Bay, urging the committee to follow his example and support Hughes.