Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I"' 1 if? rnrrnrr L. A. McKnight, former superintendent of schools of Benton county, died Tuesday at Garden City, Kansas. Mrs. Matilda Burge, aged 99 years, the oldest resident of Porter county, died Thursday at her home in Wheeler. The Sioux City Journal (evening) and Sioux City Tribune (evening) have advanced their prices from 1 cent to 2 cents. Tpe raise, it IS announced, is due to the increased cost of paper. Leonard Sparing of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Miss Mabel Miller of Remington, both deaf mutes, were married at Fowler Wednesday and left, at once for Covington, Kentucky, where they will make their home. Miss S. Rossie Kerlin, who was graduated at Purdue in the class of 1913, now supervisor of home economics in the Remington schools, will arrive Saturday to spend the with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Kerlin.—Lafayette Journal. President Wilson will speak In Chicago October 19, it was announced this week when United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh, who has charge of the Chicago headquarters, received an affirmative message from Shadow Lawn. The speech will be made under the auspices of a non-polltical organization.

In Peoria, Illinois, during a speech by Mr. Hughes, some one in the audience asked the candidate what he would have done had he been in President Wilson’s place. Two policemen threw the impertinent questioner out; which was about the only logical and succinct answer that has yet been made to the question by the opposition party or its candidate. Jesse Grump, who is charged with first degree murder for the alleged slaying of Donald McGregor on June 21 last, was released from the Benton county jail at Fowlerl Tuesday. Crump was tried on the charge in August, but the jury disagreed. His bond was fixed at $3,000. It was signed by P. J. Kennedy of * Templeton and Glen and Frank W. Moore of Ot J terbein. The man who made Cedar Lake ■famous for its “chjcken dinners” is dead. C. W. Binyon, proprietor of the farmhouse where thousands bf motorists have found a hearty welcome and a well-stocked larder, died Tuesday at the age of 69. Binyon lived at Cedar Lake for fifty years. When the automobile arrived he conceived the idea of furnishing tourists with carefully prepared home cooking. The cornerstone of thfe new $20,000 Methodist church at Remington will be laid Sunday, October 8, at 3 o’clock ill the afternoon. There will be a splendid program given and the address of the day will be made by Dr. H. A. Gobin of Greencastle. Other prominent Methodists will be in attendance and the Methodist people of Remington are planning on making the day one of attraction to all who care to attend.

In Tippecanoe county it will be necessary to hold a complete new registration on October 9, the county clerk of that, county having destroyed the poll register books of 1914. In doing this the clerk contends he was complying with the law, but a large majority of the counties filed the books away and those whose names appear therein and who have not moved since registering two years ago will not have to register this year. About I:%Q o’clock Wednesday morning robbers were discovered in the Mitten general merchandise store at Wadena. There were three men, and when Mr. Mitten and several neighbors opened the front door the thieves ran out the back way. In their Sight they did not take anything with them. * Suitcases and boxes were carefully packed with meat, lard, clothing and many other things, but the money was not bothered. Mr. Mitten Immediately notified Marshal Bowman at Fowler and also sent to the Ford county bloodhound kennels at Paxton, Illinois, and early Wednesday morning two bloodhounds were started on their trail, but, on account of the heavy rains, they were unable to locate them. The new Clothcraft suits and overcoats are now on display at $13.50 to S2O.—HILLIARD & HAMILL.