Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
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Monticello Herald: Miss Nellie Sawyer has sufficiently recovered from injuries received at Lafayette when she was knocked down and run over by a runaway team, as to be able to resume her work as music teacher at Brook. The Knox Stamping company; Kpox, Indiana, capital $3,000, to manufacture toy pistols and novelties, directors Harvey L. Geddes, Verne S. Gorrell, Ralph W. Kline, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The residents of Gary have the largest postal savings account of any city in Indiana, the total being $378,593. On March 1 there was on deposit in the ..postal savings department the sum of $121,000,000, and upwards of 80 per cent of this amount belonged to foreign-born depositors. The matter of paving Newton street in the town of Goodland — the main business street —from the north corporation line to the south corporation line, the full length of the street, about one mile, and Union street from the Baptist church corner west to the C. & E. I. depot, is being agitated In that burg. . _ $ J. Frank Hanly, formerly governor of Indiana and recently Prohibition • candidate for Piesident, telegraphed Governor Goodrich from Atlanta, Georgia, declaring that he' believed war with Germany seems inevitable and that he desired to tender his services to the governor in whatever way they might be available. Indiana leads the nation in com-
parative enlistments in the United States army, according to the most recent recruiting list published by the war department. That patriotism runs higher in Indiana than in most states is shown by the fact that the four recruiting stations in Indiana stand among the first twenty ip percentage of recruits obtained in February. V After April 2, 1918, Evansville will spend $3,576,000 every year for something that it never used the money for before. This is the amount that* is-gpent"-amraatty' Tffr liquors in the city. Charles Hartmetz, president of the Evansville Brewing company, estimates the number of saloons in Indiana at 3,500. The average receipts of a saloon for a month are SI,OOO. The total amount that will be spent in some other the state, according to Hartmetz, is $42,000,000.
