Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS

Earl Richardson, age twenty-one, arrested at Bedford, is said to have confessed to murder of Bonnell Edwards, age fourteen. . Mitchell orchardists are making war on cedar and juniper trees because; they produce rust spores' that damage fruit trees. Third Class Postmasters’ association of state will hold annual convention at Muncie June 6 and 7. Brazil must pay S6OO to Mrs. Serinda Sabella Scobell for injuries received ■by a defective seiver. Muncie will observe May 15 as ‘*Clean-up” week. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ memorial coliseum, costing $250,000, at Evansville, to be dedicated Easter Sunday. I D. W. Kerber, age twenty-seven, took i grand prize at' second annual corn 'show of Wayne County Corn, Growers’ association at Richmond. | 11. C. L. is proving fatal to dogs at Richmond, 28 being brought to crematory by owners to be killed. Sealer .1. C. Wallenmeyer of Evansville reports wheat crop in first district is 90 per cent failure. Thirteenth annual banquet of the Indiana Alumni association of the" Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity held at Indianapolis’ and 11. Foster Clippinger elected president. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cale of Hartford City, pioneer residents, of Blackford county, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Mayor H. K. Vol land of Columbus has instituted a city beautiful and backyard vegetable garden movement. New Christian church at Bluff Creek has been dedicated. The Mill; Producers’ association of the Wabash valley have advanced the wholesale price of milk from 14 to 18 cents. Henry County Farm Loan association organized at Newcastle to obtain loan from federal loan bank at Louisville, K.v. First farm loan association in Whitely county' has been organized at Columbia City. Two 20-barrel oil wells have been struck al Petersburg. Domestic science department students of De Pau university at Greencastle will prepare meals in the homes of the faculty as part of their daily class work. fitakiss Frances Stockwell of EvansfWe has offered the government a pfdee; of land for use as a military training camp ami it will be accepted. , A. seven by fourteen foot flag has bepn. presented to the Bartholomew circuit courtroom at Columbus. Owing to smallpox at Gary school children ordered vaccinated. Gas pocket struck at depth of 250 feet leads to hope for oil near Fort Ritner. Society women of Elwood are studying election laws, anticipating suffrage. At Richmond Paul Nation, railroad engineer, sentenced to six months’ road work for being lazy husband. William Watkins, aged fifty, will be buried at Kentland in the coffin he built himself. Old cab used by Gen. Lew Wallace sold to F. B. Oliver, a farmer, at Crawfordsville. Dr. Elijah A. Hanley, president of Franklin college, is considering favorably a call from the First ’Baptist church of Rochester. s < It took 1,053,834 gallons of water to extinguish a fire that burned three business blocks at Columbus. Family of Moritz Reutlinger of Indianapolis routed out of bed by fire caused by overheated electric iron. Two pieces, of wood taken from head of horse of Julius Leeb at Covington. They had been in there ten years following an accident. A Berkshire hog sold for SI,OOO at Lafayette. Mrs. Condon, aged fiftyeight, was cut to pieces by a Big Four train at Muncie. . . ‘ Yeggs,blew the safe in the Richmond First National bank and escaped with SB,OOO. A Terre Hautj l , Indianapolis & East" ern line interurban jumped the track at Centerville and the motorman and conductor were injured. ■ '''■ ■ Nelson W. Hanna, state chief of Haymakers in 1916, died at Frankfort. At Logansport Elizabeth Sheldon paid a fine of SSO for operating a “blind tiger.” John T. Brown of Martinsville was elected to the board of county commissioners. to take the place of Frank A. Dobbs, deceased. David Struck, alleged lottery ticket agent, was placed under SI,OOO bond at Indianapolis to appear before the grand jury in a fight on the lottery ticket evil. Mayor Yelland of Columbus, bas opened a municipal coal yard with four carloads of coal. >•' ’ Seven young men of Mecca went to Terre Haute and enlisted in the United States army. ■ • At Princeton injunction proceedings began to prevent the removal of David Byers, Fbrt, Branch leper, from his home to the county poor farm. Mayor BatcUktor of Marion declares that the municipal water works plant is inadequate,* ■ : ; ‘ n’ The ninth biennial conference of college anti university presidents with the student department committee of the Indiana Young Men’s Christian association was held at Indianapolis. Miss Italia Evans, prominent society woman of Fort Wayne, has started l a ■jove to organtee a woman’s corps of automobile ambulance drivers.