Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — State Happenings [ARTICLE]

State Happenings

Little Children. Famous Hoosier Poet Dies. Indianapolis. Death took James Whitcomb liiley, the Hoosier poet, Saturday night, July 22. He had 'suffered a violent stroke of paralysis early in 1 the day. Physicians did not expect the end immediately, however, and only the nurse was with the patient when he died. He was sixty-two years old and a bachelor. One of the most unusual celebrations In the country was held in his honor October 7, 1915, when “Riley Day” was observed by a banquet in Indianapolis and in schools of the country, attended by more than 1,000,000 childrep. The poet was the son of Reuben A. Riley, a lawyer and political speaker of Greenfield. The boy could not be brought to the dull routine of school days, but he was wise in the lore of streams and fields. In the early ’Bos he began writing verses in “Hoosier” dialect for the old Indianapolis Journal. A volume was published and “the Hoosier poet” began to win a public. Publication of books of poems year after year brought Riley a fortune and wide recognition of his literary genius. Find Runaway Girl. Hammond. Sixteen-year-old Lelia Tanner of Jackson, Mich., was found hidden by the police in the room of John It. Pollard, son of Rev. I. Pollard. She was doped and declares that Pollard, on a trip to Whiting, induced | her to dring some “funny fiSzy stuff.” ' Lelia is a beauty and engaged to Gayle Mathews of Jackson. She quarreled with her mother and ran away to Hammond. Pollard met and befriended her. He will be tried before Judge Barnett with a statutory charge. Deadly Duel Over Old Love. Hammond. —James Alfonzo, aged seventy-five, and Gastova Gentele, sev-enty-two, both Sicilians, fought a duel with stilettos in a box car here over an Italian lass whom they both loved 50 years .ago and who had been »dead half a century in Sardinia. Both men were cut into ribbons and the box car looked like a slaughter pen. Neither •is expected to live. Old Post Offices Go. Gary.—The post offices at New Chicago and Clarke station have been abolished and the territory will be ! served by two 50-mile auto rural mail ' routes out of Gary. Clarke station, which has had a post office for a half century, is the last of the three independent post offices that existed in Gary besides the main one.

Golf Tournament Additions. Indianapolis. The Pottawattomle Golf club of Michigan City and the Hill Crest Golf club of Batesville have been admitted to the Indiana Gold club and will have representatives in the state tournament at Laporte the week of August 14. Wets Win Finally. Boonville.—The county commissioners have decided that the wet and dry election here June 30, and carried dry, was illegal and will issue licenses to applicants who have been running open without licenses. $45,000 Fire Loss. Indianapolis.—Two fires, both of nnknown origin, caused $45,000 loss here. The Gibson Wholesale Automobile company’s warerooms were gutted by fire which caused $40,000 loss and the Citizens’ ice plant was damaged $5,000. : i Thomas Murdock Dies. Lafayette.—Thomas Murdock, seven-ty-three, was found dead in his apartment. The cause of his death is unknown. He was a large owner of farm lands, a brother of the late James Murdock, Lafayette millionaire. May Issue New Stock. Indianapolis. The public service commission has granted the petition of the Logansport Heating company to issue $250,000 worth of preferred stock. Library for Soldiers. Bloomington. has established a branch library In Texas. It is located at Mercedes, has 100 volumes, and Is for the particular use of the university students in Company I, Indiana National Guard. Guard Needs Tents. Indianapolis.—So far as Adjutant Bridges knows, the Third regiment of the Indiana National Guard still lacks shelter tents for a large number of Its men at Mercedes, Tex. Antifly Folk? Organize. Metamora. —An antifly society has been organized here. .Fifteen cents a gallon, or $1.25 a bushel will be paid for dead files, the bounty to come out of a subscription fund. Looks Good for Clore. Laporte.—Private dispatches rerelved 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. Old Settlers to Meet 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.