Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Mrs. Thomas Condon, 5 7 years of age, formerly of Fowler, was instantly killed Igst week at Parker, Indiana, when she was struck by a Big Four train. The city of Monticello has purchased a neAv auto fire truck, to replace the horse' truck now in use. The body on the horse truck now in use will be used on the new truck, which will cost about $2,000. Kentland Enterprise: Marriage licenses were issued during the week to Halsey E. Davis and Miss Belvia R, Cobb of Lake township: Leelan M. ’ Clark and Miss Leona M. Foresman of Iroquois township, and William Bringle and Miss Bernice G. Clark of Brook. A shipment of scythe snaths from Seymour, Indiana, the second shipment destroyed that had been sent to a Liverpool firm, went down with the Cunard .liner Laconia, sunk by a German submarine off shipment was valued at $2,000. If all the vacant lots in the city could be planted to onions, cabbage and potatoes, for instances, few citizens would need to worry about the high cost of food or the possibility of great scarcities next fall. Supplies from the vacant lot gardens would have a o tendency to relieve the demands upon other sources of garden truck and prices might fall accordingly. South. Bend Tribune.

One result that Congressman Wood by his “leak probe’’—the investigation gave a clean bill to afr members of the administration —was to set the national treasury back $50,000 for the expense of the investigation. about seven years’ salary of a congressman. But Mr. Wood gained a little notoriety, although there is some question as to its desirability. Quite an expensive congressman indeed. Upon a ‘ warrant sworn out by Isaac Best of Roselawn, Bert Baker and Ed Harsha, also of that place, were arrested Tuesday charged with stealing chickens from the former. Mr. Best is said to have identified the chickens abound in Baker and Harsha’s possession. A preliminary hearing was held at Roselawn Wednesday morning and defendants bound over to the circuit court. The state was represented by Attorney C. M. Sands, while A. Halleck appeared for the defendants. Once again has the dread pneumonia invaded a home and claimed four victims within the week. This time it was the. household of Edmond Poor in Starke county that felt the unrelenting hand of death. Mrs. Albert Borkman,' daughter of •Mr. Poor, died Tuesday of last week; Mr. Poor died the following forenoon; Mr. Poor’s sister and housekeeper, Mrs. Margaret Matthews, died Monday, and a son, Elzie Poor, aged 32, died Tuesday. Albert Borkman, 5-year-old son of the first, woman to pass away, is lying at "the point of death with the same disease, .