Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — BUNCH FIRES HIS ENGINEER [ARTICLE]

BUNCH FIRES HIS ENGINEER

Muncie Mayor’s Action l Knocks His Friend “Clear Off His Feet." Muncie, Ind., Aug. 24. —Another bomb was exploded in administration circles when City Attorney John McPhee, acting at the direction of Mayor Rollin H. Bunch, went to the office of City Engineer B. F. Deardorf and left a resignation with the engineer to he signed “at once.” Deardorf, as well as those closely connected with the ad ministration, was nearly “knocked oft his feet” by the action of the mayor. Bunch asserts Deardorf has been negligent in the improvement of the city’s streets and he says Deardorf has delayed a number of improvements now under way. It also was hinted that Deardorf had, favored a certain contractor, who had picked off most of the city work in the last three years.