Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Subscribe for The Democrat. A Houlton, Maine, man, who soon iis to enter the realms of matrimony, is said to have filed his intentions of marriage in Houlton, Augusta and Boston as he has not yet decided where he would like to have the “knot’’ tied. Efforts will be made to have the state of Indiana dispose of all the meandered land lying along the Kankakee river. This should be done by all means. It is unfair to adjoining land owners to permit this state land to lie undeveloped. —Starke County Republican. Western railroad companies have started white-washing the tops of loaded coal cars in an effort to stop stealing. The cars will be inspected along the line and where the white-wash shows signs of disturbance an investigation will be instituted to find the thieves. Much coal is said to be taken from cars in transit each day. The United States cruiser Caesar left New York Sunday with §250,000 worth of food, clothing and medical supplies for the destitute people of Syria and Armenia. The medical supplies were contributed by the Redd Cross and food and clothing were purchased with funds collected by the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. One day last week Glenn Coake of near Morocco drove into that town with about §2O worth of fur, which he intended to sell to a dealer. Before he done so, however, Fred Atkinson and Omar Chizum stole the fur and sold it for §l3. Atkinson was arrested and confessed, and later bound over to the January term of court. He also returned §l3 to Coake. Chizum made his getaway and has not been heard from since.

William G. Brown and Otto G. Fifield have nearly completed a large grain elevator on the edge of rhe Kankakee marsh district on the Range line road at the crossing of the Gifford railroad to care for the great amount of corn raised in that vicinity, which numbers thousands of bushels. Heretofore it was necessary to make a long haul either to the Dinwiddie elevator or to Hebron, but the new improvement places a warehouse at the very doors of several big corn raisers of that vicinity.—Lake County Star. The United States Steel corporation has granted another wage increase pf 10 per cent to its 250,000 employes and 20,000 workers at Gary are affected, raising the monthly pay roll of the Gary plants from §2,000,000 to §2,200,000. This is the third increase in wages made by the steel company in the last year, bringing the total increase to 25 per cent. The H. C. Frick Coke company of Pennsylvania has also granted another 10 per cent increase to its employes, making the third increase granted during the year and affecting 40,000 men in the Connellvil’e coke region. The First State bank of Tolleston, a suburb of Gary, was robbed of about SI,OOO in cash Friday during the lunch hour when Herman Ueaker, the cashier, was alone. The robbery was committed by four men, apparently foreigners, one of whom asked Necker to cash a check. As he went to the window he was covered with a revolver and the other men then went back of the counter where one of them threw a sack over the cashier’s head and bound and gagged him. They gathered up what money was in sight and then demanded that Uecker open the safe but became frightened before they had forced him to do so and departed.

Twelve-year-old Margaret Lowery of Mt. Sterling, Ohio, raises pigs while other girls of her age “play house.’’ From 628 contestants Margaret was announced as the prize pig raiser of the state- by the agricultural extension department of Ohio state university. The contest was limited to members of the pig raising clubs formed under the direction of the extension department to promote interest in scientific farming among boys and girls of the state. Only seven other girls competed. Margaret had a good margin over her boy competitors. She raised two thoroughbreds at a cost of 3.76 cents a pound. “Pigs is pigs,” doesn’t go with this future stockwoman. She believes that pigs may be pigs, and they may be better pigs. And she raises thg better pigs.