Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Announcement is made by the Baltimore Sun that owing to the increased cost of paper and other materials that the Sun will be 13 cents per week after February 1, an increase of 3 cents over the present price. Captain Jack Crawford, noted scout and writer, is dying of pneumonia at Woodhaven, New York. Captain Crawford was known as the “poet scout,” and his stories have been read with avidity by the youth of America for the past forty years.

W. -A. Northcott of Springfield, Illinois, former liteutenant-governor of Illinois and at one time head of the Modern Woodmen of America, died at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, of heart disease. Mr. Northcott was president of the Inter-Ocean Casualty company.

President Wilson Monday vetoed the immigration bill passed recently by congress, because of its literacy test provision. It was the second time that President Wilson had vetoed an immigration bill for the same reason and similar bills were vetoed by President Tafft and Cleveland. Mrs. Rebecca Train, aged 96 years, 3 months and 14 days, died at Winamac last Wednesday. She is survived by six children and a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, She was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1820, and had lived in Pulaski county for over seventy years. The delinquent tax list in .Lake county occupies over nine pages of the Lake County Times, or sixtyfour columns of twenty-two inches in length, a total of 1,400 inches of advertising space. And this does not include those delinquent for city taxes, of which iHammond occupies eighteen columns and East Chicago four columns. •

The expeditionary force of General Pershing, sent into Mexico several months ago in pursuit of Villa and his bandits, has been ordered withdrawn and it is expected will cross the border into Texas the latter part of the present week. Headquarters will be established at El Paso with a force of 12,000 men from where any threatened section of the country can be reached quickly. - . • * / ____________ ' A notice of condenmation, sent out by the state board of health, has been posted on the Medaryville school building. The order forbids the use of the building for school purposes after this year. Residents of that community have been considering .a new building for some time, and this order seems to make it a necessity. A site in the northwest part of town has been agreed upon, we are informed, and the school township and the civil t#wn are expected to join forces in j/aising sufficient funds to put up a modern structure. —Pulaski County Democrat. . ■