Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Mt. Ayr is preparing for a large crowd at their home-coming and stock show on September 22 and 23. An advertising parade will visit nearby towns next Wednesday. Fire destroyed the parsonage belonging to the Church of God at Idaville Wednesday, with a loss of about $2,500. The pastor and family were away from home at the time. The Monon Railroad company has let the contract for a new SIB,OOO freight depot at Lafayette. The structure is to be 261 feet long facing Second street, 30 feet wide on Ferry and 87 feet in the rear. Dr. J. N. Hurty of Indianapolis, secretary of the state board of health, will deliver a lecture at Morocco October 18. His visit is the result of a clean-up campaign inaugurated by the Woman’s club and W. C. T. U. of that city. Dudgeon lake, near Rochester, is being pumped dry by the owner in order to kill the carp therein that the lake may be restocked with bass. Six men and a steam engine operating a centrifugal Dump are doing the work, which it is estimated will cost about SI,OOO, The county council of Fountain county last week refused to make any appropriation for a county hospital, as recommended by the board of commissioners. The council yielded to objections of taxpayers residing in the southern part of the county. The hospital w'as to be located at Attica.

Greece is now lined up with, the allies, and this leaves Sweden, Norway and Denmark to choose their course. If one or all of these countries go into the fight it will probably be with the Germans. This is a commercial war, and you have only to figure out f the interests of the various countries to determine in which direction they will go. Wilbur Nolin, deputy prosecuting attorney, and Raymond Hamilton, deputy sheriff of Benton county, returned Tuesday evening with Boyd Slater, who is charging with burglarizing the Messner & Son’s store at Oxford, taking $2,500 worth of merchandise, consisting chiefly of silks. At his preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace L. B. Stevenson Wednesday morning he was bound over to the circuit court in the sum of $5,000.

Medaryville’s second annual Chautauqua has recently closed. The satisfaction resulting from its brilliant success is being expressed upon every hand. It is a matter of great local pride that the community has been able to conduct, with splendid financial success, two successive Chautauqua’s, while many of the neighboring towns have met with adversity in the conduct of their chautauquas. - Medaryville Journal.

Growing out of the contention among the stockholders for control of the Gadwallader Telephone company, which owns all of the telephone systems in Warren county except that at Pine Village, a suit was filed in the circuit court at Williamsport Saturday charging the president and general manager, Ira Gadwallader, with misappropriation of funds of the corporation and asking that a receiver be appointed to take charge of the business until an accounting can be had. The Monon railroad recently placed an order for six new engines with the Dunkirk at Dunkirk, New York. Tnree engines are to be of the Santa Fe type in the 000 class, and three of the Pacific type* in the 400 class. The former are to be used in handling freight, and the Pacific type for hauling passenger runs. Delivery is to be made not later than November 1. William Hayes left for the East yesterday hnd will see the big engines assembled and inspect them before delivery.—-Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal. 1

i A report that the safe of Fred j Wittenberg, the well known Boone J Grove merchant, had been broken open recently and a quantity of po- ■ tatoes stolen found ready acceptj ance, but we understand Mr. Wittenberg declines either to confirm ;or deny the story. What particulars have come to light indicate that the unfortunate man drew his balance from a Valparaiso bank and bought the potatoes, which he placed in the safe. It is thought he incautiously referred tp his hoard in the hearing of some desperate characters. While the loss will not cripple him financially, it is a serious blow.—Hebron News.