Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Lake county, the wettest county in Indiana, will be hardest hit by yie state-wide prohibition law. There are. 725 saloons in Lake ctrunty. Todav manv of our .roads carry ■ * . a motor traffic far in excess of. the total traffic of all classes carried twelve years ago. At the present time there are about 2,500,000 motor vehicles in use on our pub- , lie roads, or about one motor vehicle for every mile of road. The body of Frank Fox, who was burned to death at Joliet, Illinois, was brought back to Monticello, his former home, last week for burial: Death resulted from burns caused by the explosion of a can of coal oil. Deceased leaves a wife and one son, who reside at Monticello. Two carloads of hogs were sold in Indianapolis a few days ago at $1'2.30 per cwt , a new high record price. One was sent in by Mansfield 1 & Puckett of Muncie, seventy- < no hogs of average weight of 227 pounds: the other by 11. F. Pinnell of Kansas, Illinois, sixty hogs of average weight of 201 pounds. Robert B- Shaw, for many years active in politics and rfh officer in the Typographical union, has announced himself as a candidate for mayor of Lafayette on the Republican ticket. He will be opposed at the primary by Edwin Boswell. George R. Durg'an. who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor, will have no opposition at the primary. Henry Poole, 36 years old, is in jail at Lafayette with assault and battery with intent to tnurder Earl Staley, a policeman; When Staley attempted to arrest him on a charge of intoxication Poole fired four shots at the officer. Staley returned the fire and three shots struck Poole, one in the right hand, another in his right arm and a third in the chest. The arrest followed.

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