Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

There were twenty-two murders in Lake county last year. Old John Barleycorn got another body blow < in the slats Thursday, when congress passed an act making it criminal to ship intoxicating liquors into prohibiton states and bars liquor advertisements in “dry” states from the mails. Mrs.. Mindweir Crampton Wilson, whose husband, H. B. Wilson, conducts the Citizen-Times at Delphi, was elected president of the M Oman’s Press club of Indiana at its meeting in Indianapolis . Tuesday. Her husband is president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association. R. S. Nash of the Purdue Ag. class, 1916, was a Purdue visitor Thursday., Mr. Nash is operating a 350-acre farm at Peru * He reports a recent sale of three carloads of - seventy-eight-pound lambs at $14.50 per 100 that had been finished after a feed period of six-ty-two days. Attorney General Stansbury has given an opinion regarding the recently enacted state-wide prohibition law in which he holds that no part of the law becomes effective until April 2, 1918. There was considerable doubt in the minds of many as to when the provision prohibiting druggists from selling liquor •went into effect. * The elevator at Judyville, owned by the Davis Grain Co., was destroyed by fire before daylight last Saturday morning. The entire upper part of the building was on fire when it was discovered and with the limited means at hand nothing could be done toward stopping the flames or rescuing any of the cqntents of the .building. The origin of the fire is a complete mystery.