Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The seventh annual Newton county spelling contest will be held in the Morocco school building next Saturday, beginning at 11 a. m. There will be forty-two contestants at the start. “ \ John Mbhler Studebaker, honorary president and founder of the Studebaker corporation, largest vehicle manufacturers in the world, died at his home in South Bend Friday night. He was 8 4 years of age and had been ill for the past two months. » Mrs. Maggie Johnson of Chalmers attempted to end her life at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning by shooting herself with a .38 caliber revolver. The bullet entered the body just below the heart and lodged below the right shoulder. Despondency is assigned as the cause of her rash act. Her husband died three years ago. She has three small children and two sisters, Mrs. Philip Ward and Mrs. Edward Shank, both of Chalmers.,

Charles V. Van Voorst, son of Charles Van Voorst, the Chalmers banker and land owner, and Miss Beatrice Compton of Brookston eloped to DaAville, - Illinois, last week and were married. Mrs. VanVoorst was formerly a nurse at the Indiana State Soldiers’ home and figured in the sensational midnight cuttinff affray there, on the night of November 13, 1916, when Hobart Davis ran amuck with a knife and cut her seventeen times. Several others at the home were also slashed by Davis. Following the affray the bride went to the 'home of her parents where she resided until last Tuesday when she became Mrs. VanVoorst. They will reside! on a farm near Chalmers.

Suit has been«filed in the .Benton circuit court by Alice Anderson Hagenbuch, asking for a divorcte from Albert H. IHagenbuc'h, and /naming Amos Hagenbuch, guardian, in her plea for judgment of $2,00.0 against said Hagenbuch and estate. The affidavit, shorn of its legal verbiage, charges that the said Alice Anderson was married to Ah bert Hagenbuch at Los Angeles August 14, 1916, and that he represented himself as a person competent to contract a marriage and that she believed his statements, and married him in good faith. On the 9th day of March, 1917, she claims that she learned that said Albert Hagenbuch was of unbound mind and under the guardianship of Amos Hagenbudh. The plaintiff therefore asks a divorce and SSOO advanced to maintain the home and $1,500 additional for the injury to her good name and reputation.