Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Newcastle.—The Henry County Medical society held its/annual picnic at Shively’s park here, Lafayette.—More than 350 members of the Indiana Bar association attended the twentieth annual convention of the body here. Crawfordsville. E. A. Norman, state senator, organized a Montgomery county branch of the Indiana fish and game commission here. Lanark.—The Old Settlers’ association of Carroll county will hold its annual outing here August 15. An attendance of more than 10,000 is looked for. Culver.—Marion has been selected by the state executive committee of the Y. M. C. A. at its summer meeting here for the next week before Thanksgiving. Springfield.—This city no longer is worrying about its dark corners. The installation of 600 new nitrogen arc lamps completely eradicates the “♦ihady” corners. South Bend. —This section of Hooslerdom is planning for a notable centennial celebration. October 3, 4 and 5. The principal feature will be a historical pageant. Metamora. —An antifly society has been organized here. Fifteen cents a gallon, or $1.25 a bushel will be paid for dead flies, the bounty to come out of a subscription fund. Pekin. —Twelve townships of Tazewell county will spend the greater part of their road money this year for oiling the highways. It is planned to purchase about 300,000 gallons. Alexandria. —The redheaded people of Indiana are banding themselves into a protective organization called the Indiana Redheaded society, and there already is prospect of the organization becoming a national one. Wabash.—The Wabash Times-Star has been sold to the Wabash Printing and Publishing company, which was recently incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000. James E. Almond owns the controlling interest. Boonville. —Two suits to determine the validity of the wet and dry election here June 30 have been tiled, one in the circuit court and one in the county commissioners’ court. Meanwhile saloons are wide open without licenses. Laporte.—Private dispatches rereived here indicate the appointment of Leonard B. Clore of this city as a member of the federal farm loan board, a position paying SIO,OOO per year. Clore was called to Washington by President Wilson for a conference. Laporte. Rev. August Johnson, aged sixty-two, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church in this city and prominent in the synodical labors of the church in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, is dead, following an operation for appendicitis. Seymour.—Counterfeit silver dollars and paper money of $5 denomination have been circulated among business men here. The dollars are crude counterfeits and are much lighter in weight The $5 notes are difficult to detect from real notes. Peru. —C. A. Young of Springfield, O. set a new world’s record at trap shooting here when he broke 100 consecutive targets at 23 yards, according to officials of the local gun club. The previous record is said to have been 98 targets at 22 yards. South Bend. —Judge Timothy Howard, oldest professor at Notre Dame university, former member of the Indiana supreme court and veteran of the Civil war, w r ho died recently, was buried here wdth marked ecclesiastical and military honors. Sterling.—An immense gravel bed has been discovered in Jordan township by State Highway Engineer W. W. Marr, Springfield, and V. N. Taggett, county highway superintendent. It will supply the needs of Whiteside county for many years. Galesburg.—The city council has voted to abandon the city electric light plant and buy power from the McKinley syndicate at, a cent and a quarter per kilowatt. The company agrees to reduce the cost of electricity to private consumers 10 per cent. Michigan City.—The annual session of the Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois synod closed with the election of the following officers: President, Rev. M. P. F. Doermann of Blue Island, HL; vice president, Rev. W. D. Ahl of Oshkosh, Wis.; secretary. Rev. H. Thedings of Rome, Wis.; treasurer, Prof. G. A. Timmermann of Oshkosh, Wis.; statistician, Rev. H. Lindeman of Golden, 111. Gary.—The first steps toward preserving a part of the 30-mile stretch of virgin wilderness in the northern Indiana sand dunes at the foot of Lake Michigan for a national park were taken when an Interstate conference was held at Tremont In the heart of the dunes 50 miles southeast of Chicago. A temporary organization was perfected and the permanent National Dunes Park association will be formed at Gary on Sunday, August 6. Terre, Haute. —The navy recruiting office reports that Robert E. Curran of this city, who enlisted here with the consent of his parents, for he is only seventeen years old, passed the physical examination with a marking of 100 per cent, the first to do so In years. Springfield. Springfield business men have turned over to the state centennial building commission SIOO,OOO collected as Springfield’s share In the $250,000 fund for the purchase of the site south of the state house for the erection of a new building. The building is to be completed by 1918, the year of the centennial celebration.