Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Indianapolis.—-Death took James Whitcomb liiley, the Hoosier poet, Saturday night, July 22. He had suffered a violent stroke of paralysis early in 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 children. 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. Indianapolis. The public service commission has granted the petition of the Logansport Heating company to issue $250,000 worth of preferred stock.

Fort Wayne.— Twenty-tw r o of Fort Wayne’s leading stores will close Saturday evenings at six o’clock during the remainder of July and all of August. 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. Shelbyville.—J. Oscar Hall, who was nominated, by the Progressive state convention for judge of the supreme court, has announced he would decline the nomination. Kendallville. —Rev. F. H. Bayles has tendered his resignation as pastor of the First Baptist church to engage in Evangelistic work. His resignation became effective October 1. Peru. —Dr. Claire Taylor has given to the Miami County Hospital association and the money is to be used to buy real estate adjoining the hospital. 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. 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. Indianapolis.—Two fires, both of unknown 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. Evansville. —The Anti-Cult Lecture and Publication bureau has been organized here as a .successor to the AntiInfidel league. Rev. B. W. Lile, pastor of the Park Memorial Presbyterian church, is the secretary-treasurer of the bureau.

Indianapolis. The Pottawattomie Golf dub 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. Lafayette.—O. J. Chapman of Eaton will continue to head the Indiana State League of Postmasters for another year. Other officers selected are: C. B. Neale, Montgomery, vice president; W. C. Wesner, Campbellsburg, secretary-treasurer. 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. Hammond. —James Alfonzo, aged seventy-flve, 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. Hammond. Sixteen-year-old Leila Tanner of Jackson, Mich., was found hidden by the police in the room of John R. Pollard, son of Rev. I. Pollard. She was doped and declares that Pollard, on a trip to Whiting, induced her to dring some “funny fizzy 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. Crawfordsville. E. A. Norman, state senator, organized a Montgomery county branch of the Indiana fish and game commission here. 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 8.