Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — Indiana News Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Indiana News Tersely Told

Muncie holds the record for enlistments, with 104 in one day, of which 57 were accepted. - War conference has been called at Indianapolis for April 20 by Indiana Mayors’ association. Columbus high school mathematicians have figured that .the national waste of bretftl per day amounts to sso,ooo. Sfife in Galbreath & Co.'s grocery at Cayuga blown by robbers. Every man in Nashville has agreed to plant an acre of potatoes. ■ Boonville lodge of Elks has offered services of members to government. / George X. 11ged a11 pointctl agricultural agefit of Warwick county. Law rence.White's auto turmd turtle at Tipton, breaking both arms. Rev. John D. Bretz is the new pastor of Boonville- St. John's Evangelical chufch, Marion National Bank building, Marion’s only seven-Story sky scraper, is completed. Prof. A. R. Charman, aged fiftyseven, thirty-five years instructor in State Normal school, ftt Terre Haute. ' Sanitary corps organized at Kokomo by Dr. B. A. Thompson. _ . , Forty-second annual meeting of the Home and Foreign Missionary society of the Indianapolis presbytery held at Columbus. Home of J. F. B. Lanier at Madison will be purchased and presented to the Jefferson County Historical association. Indiana Music Teachers’ association held three days’ session at Indianapolis. . A. L. Stewart, wife and son of Rushville have offered their services to their country. Culver Military’ academy has been offered to the government for training of troops. Indiana Evangelical association held its sessions at Markle. , R. E. Todd, president of the East Chicago company, has offered his yacht to the government. ••» ■£- ■Two hundred and fifty miners of the West Clinton Coal company were expelled at Terre Haute by the Indiana United Mine Workers for striking without the sanction of the union. Will Heady and son, Lee-, were burned to death and his wife was probably fatally injured when their their home at Berlin, Okla., was They moved from Terre Haute to Oklahoma recently.

High price of foodstuffs has closed twp restaurants at Elwood. Train dispatching between Logansport and Richmond is being done by telephone. - \ Contract for• Wild i son highway on Ripley-Posey township line, let at Rushville to D, 11. Fatout of Indianapolis for $(>,11)5. Henri Clayss cutlery factory at Tipton Will be rebuilt and enlarged. Carpenters are on strike at Crawfordsville for 45 cents per hour. Oldest legislator is Assemblyman William Everson, Jefferson county, aged seventy seven. Post .office will be established at Aliceville mining camp. At Vincennes Charles Lankforn of Edwardsport found guilty of assault with intent to kill Robert T. Reeves. Brazil city council votes $7,000 to improve park system. Christian Lucky, German, arrested at Indianapolis for' threat on the president's life. Seventeen dogs killed at Rockport following hydrophobia scare. Notra Dame university has bought the Brownson library of 3,500 volumes. Sheriff ordered to destroy six and one-half barrels of beer found in restaurant of Oliver Garland at Birdseye. Samuel' Hobbs, negro, given life sentence for killing John Clay at Evansville.

West Central Dental association in annual session at Lafayette asks registry of dentists available for war services be made. Knights of Pythias of Indiana will raise regiment for the war. Suit of Alva Williams of Bedford for SIO,OOO settled by the B. & O. Southwestern for $4,000. Mrs. Emma Winifred Short, wife of Luther Short, newspaper man and former consul to Turkey, died of heart disease at Franklin. Enraged parents of Irving school district, Hammond, demand ousting of Miss Carna P. Herndon, principal, for giving boy pupils a needed bath. Military training started among the school boys at Greencastle. At Newcastle contract for the Morris and Lewis road let to George Hoppes of Anderson for $9,998. Rev. W. E. Kunz has resigned as pastor of First Presbyterian church at Bourbon. *. Wayne Carson, a little four-year-old, fatally injured when caught in milk wagon wheel at Logansport. Warsaw will get the next North Indiana Methodist conference. J. C. Kline of Lagrange county elected county agent. Rev. J. W. Armstrong is the new pastor of the Charlestown Presbyterian church. Baptists of the southeastern Indiana district held convention at North Vernon. The 600-acre farm at the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville will jaise produce this year. A bug flew into his eye and caused Reuben N. Crafty, a tobacco buyer of Lawrenceburg to release his hand on the steering gear and his auto ran into a tree, severely injuring him.