Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — Indiana News Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Indiana News Tersely Told

Lew Shank will run. for mayor'* of Indianapolis on independent- ticket with the lowly potato as an emblem. Greensburg high school building robbed for- the third time. - , Mayor Batcheldor of Marlon is looking for blind-tigers at the State, Soldiers’ home. Superintendent of schools at Brazil offers credits for garden work this summer. . ■". ■ ■ ■ ~ .y ■ The American Steel Foundry company at Hammond lms shut down, having run out of munition war orders. Michael \V. Kelly, retired capitalist and art collector, is dead yt Indianapolis. Mrs. D. G. Barrett of Pendleton elected chairman of the Eighth District Woman’s Franchise league. County Agent Marshall says'- Gibson county will plant 9,4)00 acres of oats. 1 . An 800-pound hog was sold at Petersburg for sll2. Wayne county prosecutor has put the fourteenth lazy husband to work on the county turnpike. Homar Sering, veteran, is dead at Madison, aged seventy-four. Not one' of the woman graduates of Purdue university at Lafayette has been divorced. ■ v Whiting will erect a filtration plant costing $250,000. Mrs. Helen Kreager has won $5,000 verdict at Elkhart from Dr. Anna Kauffman-Kreager for alienation of affections -of her former husband. Volume of two gas wells near Petersburg is 3,000,000 feet. An interdenominational Sunday school institute was held at Lawrenceburg. Evansville has appropriated'sl,soo to promote back yard gardens. Ilolmes Thomas <>f Akron broke his leg while pounding an iron rail. Stewart Price of Monticello while hr* a ding a exp broke three ol his ribs. Jiis, ph Marks, superintendent of county poorliouse at ’ Jasper, discharged for derilectiou to duty. Erie, Butler and Richland townships of Miami county will huvo new consolidated school building by fall. Stephen Schubnel, aged fifty-six, drowned in a 20-foot well at Bennettsville. Epidemic of measles- is raging at Evansville. The Second Indiana infantry was ordered into federal service lor the protection of government property in Indiana. Adjutant General Smith notified the to mobilize at their home Stations at once. There are 850 men -in the regiment. The thirteenth semi-annual convention of the Indiana State Nurses’ association will be heldsJt Crawfordsville

on April 11. < . In ease of wap the Snider Preserves company at Marion offers its plant fret?' to tin- government. Plymouth churches have united for a live-week revival campaign. Pocahontas members from Knox. I»ike, Daviess, Greene, Sullivan and Gibson counties held a big council at Bicknell. * By official order, Postmaster Beck at Richmond is barred• from flowers in and around the post office building. Seven Anderson high school students have been expelled because they were members' of fraternities. Warsaw Methodists are out after the nortli Indiana conference in 1918. The Marion City Sunday School association convention will be held in May. The new 825.000 M. E. church at Tipton was dedicated. William J. Freeman of Terre Haute was elected president of tire Indiana Bituminous Operators’ association. Judge John W. Eggeman of Fort Wayne has ordered the ilug displayed in his courtroom.

A branch of the Red Cross has been organized at Anderson. Jackson mine at Ft. Branch can reopen April 1, the lire being out. The Charde Lathe company of Newcastle has an order for MG lathes from France. The Jolmson County Business Men’s association has been formed at Franklin, with Fred Staff ns president. Clay county has appropriated 51,500 for a county agent. The state camp. Royal Neighbors of America, elected Miss Clara Valentine stale oracle at Terre Haute. Thomas W. Armstrong, former mayo;, of New Albany, is dead, aged seventy* five. _ y . , ‘ The* relief fund totals $70,000 for the Newcastle tornado sufferers. Dirrelle Chaney, publisher of Sullivan, has been appointed state printer. Moore’s Hill college, u Methodist institution at Indianapolis, will be moved to Evansville. Between 25 and 50 persons were killed and probably 100 or more were Injured by a storm, which swept over New Albany, demolishing scores of residences and several industrial plants. A school building Was wrecked. A new brick and tile plant will be established at Dale. Capital, $6,000. Rev. Garnett Jewell of East Columbus has been held in quarantine cause he refuses to be vaccinatedLevi Ulrich, former member of the legislature from Henry county, was stricken with paralysis at his home at Greensboro. Market street M. E. church at Logansport burned its $12,000 mortgage with great rejoicing. John Kellar, precinct Inspector lb the primary election at East Chicago; confesses that he can neither read nor write. ' , .