Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Senators Kern and Taggart have Herman Doyle for postmaster at Hebron. A stock company is being formed at Kentland to build a 115,000 colli seum in that city. The shares are $lO each and they are being subscribed for quite rapidly, it is said. Goroner Lung of Kokomo has rendered a verdict of suicide In the case of Martin Quinn, the Lafayette lawyer, who was killed two weeks ago at that place by an L. E. & W. freight train. The Wallace-Smith blanket mills at Laporte have been awarded a government contract to furnish all the arrily blankets they can turn out id tile ndxt few weeks, and will operate tlielr mills night and day, holidays and Sundays to~ turn out blankets for the soldiers. All blankets on hand were taken.

Daniel Fraser was in Toledo the first df the week and there met Mr. and Mth. Frank VanNatta and daughter who were enroute to the Argentine city, and had stopped In Toledo to visit Mr. and Mrs. Cherrington, who reside there. The VanNattas will embark on the vessel at New York next Saturday and expect to be on the water twenty-three days.—Fowler Tribune. The state militia passed out of existence at midnight Friday night. At that hour the new army bill, signed by the president June 3, went Into effect, making the national guard a branch of the federal service. Under the law, whatever the state of America’s relations with other countries, no man enlisting In the national guard is Immune from service if his country calls him. A double oath is demanded from each recruit. During the severe electrical storm Friday morning four people were killed in Indiana by lightning— Raymond Bray, 13 years old, Indianapolis; Frederick Kelly, 14 yenrs old, and an unidentified man, both of Marion county, and Dennis Brummit, 22 years old, a farm hand on the Grover Stillabower farm near Atkinson, Benton county. Brummit was hauling rock on a new stone road and the lightning killed the team he was driving and tore his wagon to pieces. He leaves a young widow 19 years of age and one small child. Mrs. Virginia Brooks Washburne, dubbed the “Joan of Arc of West Hammond,’’ and more recently known as a playwright and lecturer, has been made co-reßpondefft in a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Matilda Eichler against her husband, Alexander C. Eichler, a plumber and of late a partner of Mrs. Washburne in several business deals. Mrs. Washburno has had matrimonial troubles of her own. Her divorce suit was settled out of court recently and dropped, leaving her acquaintances in some doubt as to the exact present statu3 of her domestic affairs. Peter DeYoung, who Is a neighbor of Krump, now in jail charged with killing McGregor, was in town last Saturday and called at the jail to see Krump. The latter’s attorney, Elmore Barce, had advised his client not to talk about his case and the conversation was along other lines. Die Young said that Krump appeared to be a nervous wreck and said that he expressed deep regret for the past and said that he would give everything he possessed If the tragedy had never occurred. To another, who informed him of McGregor’s death, he said: “He is better off than I am.”—Fowler Tribune.

Creamery Patrons. I have started a cream station at Lee and „ solicit your patronage. Price and test guarantee^—MOßßl3 JACKS. j-4 / J