Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The tax rate for the town of Kentland has been reduced from $1.15 to sl. After deliberating for 18 hours the jury in the Crump murder case at Fowler failed to reach an agreement Sunday and were discharged. Jasper Carlisle, son of Nelson Carlisle of Remington, and Merle J. Smith, daughter of George Smith of Boswell, were granted a marriage license at Fowler August 30. Upon complaint of numerous citizens, the town board of Kentland ha 9 unearthed an ancient curfew ordinance and instructed the marshal and night watch to enforce the same. D. F. Woodlock of Fowler, a prominent stockman, sold a car load of hogs in Chicago last week for $11.25 per cwt. The hogs averaged 226 pounds each, and the price paid for them was the extreme top.

The committee in charge of furnishing equipment for the public playground at Monon being unable to raise the funds otherwise, conducted a tag day campaign last Saturday. Financially**it was a success. Fiar Rock, the three-year-old colt which has won the Brooklyn handicap, the Suburban and other turf classics, was purchased from August Belmont recently by John E. Madden of Lexington, Ky. The price is said to have been $50,000. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Crampton, formerly of Delphi where Mr. Crampton was editor of the Citizen-Times for many years, but 'who is now governor of the soldiers’ home at Marion, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary yesterday. The funeral of Charles C. Spencer, the Monticello attorney who died suddenly in Chicago Thursday night while attending a theater, was held in Monticello Sunday add was attended by many prominent people from Indianapolis and other sections of the state.

Declaring that he stole a schoolhouse from section 29 and removed the building to his own premises, the Golden township board of education has filed suit in common pleas court asking damages from Chester Gilroy of St. Mary’s, Ohio; and asking that the structure be restored to its original site. The program for the 1916 meeting of the Northwest Indiana M. E, conference, which opens at Greencastle