Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Monon is to build a new depot at Crawfordsville. the coming spring. Shortly after midnight on the morning .of January 3, Mrs. William Goddard of Veedersburg was found dead in bed with her skull ■crushed, her husband, Oscar Goddard, formerly of Lafayette and a cripple who was 1 compelled to walk with two canes, gave the alarm and claimed that robbers had entered the house and committed the crime. Suspicion was directed against the husband, however, ,and Thursday he confessed the murder. He. was sentenced and taken to the Michigan City prison yesterday, the sentence being for life. ... Col. William F. Cody, '.'Buffalo Bill,” hunter, "soldier, scout and showman, for* many years known to nearly every man, woman and child in America through his Wild Wf?st show with which he toured this country and Europe, died in Denver, Colorado, Wednesday after a few weeks’ illness, aged JOryears. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in the Elk’s home in Denver and will be in charge of the Denver lodge of Elks.

The winners at the Perdue corn show this week for this, the first section, were • largely Newton county farmers. In yellow corn W. D. Littlejohn, Meddie Sego, Jr., C. L. Simons, James Corbin and Chester COrbin of Kentland won first, second, fourth, eighth and ninth, respectively, on best tJn • ears. Harry Warr, Brook, sixth; C. L. Constable and son, Goodland, eighth. In white corn W. B. Henry of Winamac won first and Verne Smiley of Rochester second. In mixed corn Verne Smiley of Rochester won first and Levi Williams of Tippecanoe second. Best single ear, Glen Smiley, Rochester, first; J. A. Plotner, Star City, second; W. D. Littlejohn and James Corbin, Kentland, fourth and fifth, respectively. H. E.Tritch, Corunna, and George J. Saureman, Crown Point, won first and second, respectively, on wheat and Oats. C. L. Simons, Kentland, won fifth on oats.