Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Booth hardware store, the lumber yard and the Wabash depot at* fiuc'k Creek were destroyed by fire at 3 o’clock. Saturday morning. The estate of the late Williafti F. Cody; “Buffalo BiH,’’ is valued at $65,000. It consists in the main of three ranches near Cody, Wyoming, and an equity in a hotel in Denver, Colorado. Rev. C. A. Sickafoose, pastor of the United Brethren church at Brook, has just received his certificate of election by the St. Joseph conference as delegate .to the general conference which meets Tn Wichita, Kansas, in May. In the case of the State of Indiana vs.' Jesse Crump, charged with the murder of Donald McGreggor, last Jun©. Judge Wasson of the Carroll-White circuit court, has been appointed special judgq, to try the cause. The case is set for hearing February 5.

Weldon H. Wells, who was arrested at his former home in Hiintington, Indiana, last Friday as a suspect of the murder of Mona Simon, a member of the demi monde of Columbus, Ohio, in a room in a Columbus hotel last week where he had registered under an assumed name, has conr fessed to the murder but says that hq killed the girl in self defense.

Mrs. Sherman Davis, aged 47, wife of the professor of chemistry of Indiana university, died Friday of pneumonia. About a week previous she had attended the funeral of her brother, Waldo VanZant, clerk in a hotel at Goodland, who had died from pneumonia, and she contracted a cold which later also developed into pneumonia. She is survived by her husband and two children.'

The final government crop-figures /show that our yield of wheat this year actually is 32,000,000 bushels larger than earlier estimates. One explanation is said to he that the farmers of the West in giving statements of yield to government officials made them as low as possible to help feeling that the shortage would be acute. Either that or the experts are poor guessers.

Benton circuit court item: In the matter of the receivership of the Bank of Fowler, Goodland and Ambia, the security company that furnished the bond for the receiver, George Elliott, paid into court the sum of $6,000. This will pay the depositors of the three banks in full; and will be the final settlement of the litilgation that has been pending for something like twelve