Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Miss Edith Hardy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hardy of Monon, and Ward Maple of./Monticello were married at the latter place Thursday. It is' estimated that after the women get the ballot the total vote of Lake county will be 37,927. This is figured on a basis of there being one-half as many women's voters as there are men. - • Th© death list at Newcastle as a result of the tornado which struck that place Sunday afternoon has now reached a total of twenty-one. Upwards of $25,000 thus far has been raised throughout the state to aid the sufferers. ■ > \ Another bill which was allowed to become a law without the signature, of the governor was that providing that prospective members of petit juries may be excused from service when more than 60 years >of age, when so desired. A herd .of thirty-eight cattle and a dr&ve of twenty-eight hogs from the Firth farm near Madison were sold Tuesday to ’ a Madison buyer for $4,100 and were shipped to Indianapolis. It is said to have been the largest single stock sale ever made in that county. A dispatch from Monticello spates that a serious epidemic of diphtheria and scarlet fever has caused the health authorities at Wolcott to order the schools and churches' closed and to forbid children under 18 years of age from appearing in the streets. Application has been made for the recommitment of Mrs. Elnora Floyd of near Monon to the Central hospital at Indianapolis. She w r as discharged from the institution last May-as cured, but has recently become violently insane and has to be kept in a cell and closely guarded.

Hundreds of thousands; of dollars damage was done to telegraph, telephone and electric light' lines by the sleet last Tuesday morning. At Kokomo alone the damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO to the telephone system. The entire northwestern part of the state was put out of wire connection by the sleet. The rain Sunday morning and Monday put many of the streams in the state on a rampage. The government gauge at the Purdue experiment station Tuesday night registered a rainfall of 1.65 inches, in comparison with I.oß'inches for the entire month of March, 1916. The Wabash rtirer was out of its banks at several points and covered the low lands south of that city Wednesday. The death of peone Nordyke, aged 14, .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nordyke of Wolcott, occurred at her home Monday mornihg. Death was due to a» combined attack of scarlet fever and diphtheria. The girl had only been sick about three days. , Mr. Nordyke was former postmaster at Wolcott and there is one other child in his family.' l The deceased was a niece of Mrs. George Coen of this city. The body was buried Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock. — Monticello Herald.

When the degree of Doctor -of Laws was recently conferred Thomas A. Edison by Dr. John H. Finley, president of the University of the State of New York, the telephone played a most important was in his laboratory at Orange, New Jersey, and Dr. Finley was in the New York educational building at Albany. The large auditorium had been fitted with 800 telephones, and 800 persons listened as Dr. Finley conferred the degree and Mr. Edison accepted. It was the first time a degree had been conferred over the telephone..