Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Victoria Regia, a lily native Ito Brazil, has leaves measuring firpm ten to twenty feet in diameter. ” ' R_ A- Butler of Benton county sold a 9*d-pound "stag*' hog to locdffc, dealers this week that brought him flPfl.Cd after the eighty-pound dock far stags. It is said to have been the largest hog ever sold in Beaton coanty. Tlmaas Starkey, for many years a resident of Morocco, died Wednesday. at the age of S 3 years at the heaae ht Tils daughter, Mrs. Fred Allen, at Bismark, Illinois. The body was brought to Morocco for bwriaL Mrs. Alton B. Parker, wife of the Democratic candidate for President in 19P4, died at her home in New York Monday. Mrs. Parker, whose maiden name was Mary L. Schoonmaker, was born at Accord, New York. The board of commissioners refused to allow bills filed by G. M. Morris for services in connection with the recent smallpox epidemic ia White county. Dr. Morris is secretary of the coanty board of health and had charge of quarantine and in some cases, treating' s-ra-aDpox patients. He ’filed a bill

for services for $750, which was continued at the March session of the board. Later he amended the bill, making It In the sum of sl,610. The board refused tlo allow the same and Dr. Morris filed an appeal bond perfecting an appeal to the circuit court. .Dr. Goodwin also has a smallpox bill of $103.40, but it will not be acted on until the May session of the board.Monticello Herald.