Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

, September 26, has just been issued 'by Dr. Demetrium Tillotson, pastor of the Greencastle Methodist church. The conference this year will be under the direction of Bishop Nicholson of Chicago. A man by the name of William Foster, while acting as a relief agent at the Big Four depot at Raub last week, stole about $25 in money from the company, several express orders, ' one for $45, which he cashed at the Raub bank. He left Saturday, walking to Sheldon, and from there he 1 took the train for Milwaukee, where he was arrested. • ' ■ | Defense of the modern sex play as a means of combating social evils was made by Mrs. Demarcus C. Brown, wife of the state librarian, in addressing the Marion County Teachers’ institute. Sex plays, she declared, serve the purpose of plac- ' ing such problems before the public, especially the younger generation, in their proper light. The chairmen of the Starke county Democratic central committee and the Pulaski county Democratic central committee have appointed At- , torney George L. Burson of Wina- . mac as the Democratic candidate for | prosecuting attorney for the 44th judicial circuit of the state, vice E. I H. Taylor, the nominee, who was appointed postmaster at Knox. The big firm of Dixon & Co. of Earl Park, who for the past several years have distributed Ford automobiles to agents in three counties, has decided to step down and out. The Ford company has made a new ruling that distributing firms shall not have more than one county as their territory and the Earl Park people would not stand for the cutting dWn of their territory to one-third of what it had been heretofore. The funeral of Addison C. Harris, one of the most prominent lawyers in Indiana and personal known to many of the Jasper county bar, he I having appeared here at different , times in years gone by in cases in the ' Jasper circuit court, was held in Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. Mr. Harris was president of the board of trustees of Purdue university. He died Saturday night following a stroke of paralysis. 'His age was 76 years. ?

Nearly every neighboring town lost money on their chautauquas this year, some of them as high as S3OO. The Fowler Chautauqua had 14 guarantors willing to pay and they were out $lO each. Half of this sum was afterward made up by citizens and paid back to them. It was the first entertainment of the kind that Fowler ever had and our people liked it. As a result 53 good men signed a guarantee for a Chautauqua next year, and there isn’t the least chance but what it will be a paying proposition.—Fowler Tribune.

Otis, Crandall of Wadena, who is playing ball with the Oakland, Calif., team of the Pacific Coast league, has made a hit with the Oakland fans and the papers from that city speak very highly of his playing. Otis pitched a three-hit game one day last week and when not in the box, he _ has been playing first base or an outfield position. The St. Louis Americans, of which club Crandall was a member this spring, have recalled him but he will probably refuse to leave the Oakland team. The Pacific Coast league ranks among the leagues of the country. In the 300-mile automobile race at Cincinnati Monday Johnny Aitken in a Peugeot won first at an average speed of 97.06 miles an hour. Wilbur D’Alene won second, while Frank Galvin, far behind drew third. Dario Resta was third up to the 294th mile when he encountered engine trouble and had to quit the race. But one accident occurred, that in the 168th mile when Gilbert Anderson's machine skidded and shot through the fence. The driver was dangerously injured and his mechanician, Bert Shields, received injuries from which it is doubtful if be recovers. But seven cars, less than half the number starting, finished the race.