Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

A. Beasley of Monon, a former well-known photographer of Remington, has moved to Mishawaka and opened a real estate office. John O. Behymer, head of the state oil inspection department, has resigned, but his successor has not been appointed by Governor Goodrich at this writing. Benton county expects to another county jagent soon in the person of Prof. A. T. Morrison, who at the present time has charge of the experiment farm at the University of Illinois. On the facie of the returns Charles W. Jewett defeated Lew i STiank for mayor of Indianapolis by 777 votes, but Shank and his supporters are threatening to call for a recount. Later advices state that a full independent ticket will be put out with Shank at the head.

The Monon school closed Monday on account of an epidemic of measles. Fully two-thirds of the pupils were out of school on account of the disease and it was almost useless to keep the schools open under the circumstances. It is believed that there are 200 cases of measles in Monon. Patrick H. O’Donnell, formerly or Delphi and one of the most noted attorneys of Chicago, together with Attorney Charles E._ Erbstein, were acquitted by a jury Saturday after a trial covering several weeks. The jury never left the court room. They were charged with attempting to obstruct justice. Edwin Roswell, a Lafayette druggist, defeated Robert B. Shaw for the Republican nomination for mayor of that city in Tuesday’s primary by a vote of 572 to 344. As indicated by the above figures, a very light vote was cast. George R. Durgan, who served twelve years as mayor of Lafayette, received the Democratic nomination without opposition.

Anna Brewer, an imbecile, aged, about 40 years, and an inmate of the Benton county infirmary, has fallen heir to a fortune of many thousand dollars. The inmate haS 1 been cared for by the county for about twenty-five years and in case the money is placed in the hands of a guardian the county can collect for her maintenance. She is four feet tall and weighs 180 pounds. V

The brewery interests of Indiana are already getting in their publicity work and sending out items which thoughtless publishers are using quite freely. One of these laments the- fact that the public schools of Lake county will be deprived of $125,000 annually, heretofore drawn from the license money paid in that county. But they say nothing about the annual saving to the patrons of the same public schools.

Paul L. Scharfenberg, a member of the Minnesota national guard, was recently sentenced to five years’' imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Scharfenberg is of German descent and in a recent letter to relatives in Germany he stated that 10,000,000 Germans in this country were ready to rise up .against the United States in the event of war with Germany. The letter was intercepted by the British and forwarded to the authorities at Washington.

A petition was presented to the board of commissioners at the regular session this week, asking for the removal of County Road Superintendent Joseph V. Youhger. The petition was signed by Homer Dresbach and twenty other taxpayers of White county. It asked for the removal on the grounds that Mr. Younger O; K’d. bills for the payment of Assistant Superintendent Kent- for work on the Charles E. Gay road in Prairie township when the Charles E. Gay road was net a county road. The road in question is still in the process of construction and L. T. Kent is the contractor. The petition was set for hearing the second day of the April term and notice was ordered to Mr., Younger by the board. —Monticello Herald. ■>