Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

* The Monon had a freight wreck Sunday morning near Clear Creek, south of Bloomington, in which eighteen cars were derailed. No one was hurt. Raymond Siegfried,. Harry Noland, Lavon Barnhart and Howard T. Robinson of Monon were among those enlisting in the U. S. army at Lafayette last Friday. Dr. Erastus Test, known as the “Grand Old Man of Purd,ue,” died Saturday evening at his home in Lafayette. He had been with Purdue since 1888, first in charge, of the preparatory department and since 1894 at the head of the mathematics department. In 1910 he was granted a Carnegie pension. The graduating class of the Goodland high school this year is composed entirely of boys, eight in. number, being the first time in history that the graduating class was not composed of a majority of girls. The graduating exercises will be held May 21, and fiyron W. King of the School of Oratory at Pitts’burg will deliver the address, B. F. Lassiter of Westfield, employed with the Monon interlocking crew, drank an ounce of carbolic acid at Monticello Sunday because his wife, a daughter of Enos Mock of Reynolds, had left him and filed suit for divorce. The deed was committed in plain sight of the home of Charles Foster of the White County Democrat, where Mrs. Lassiter is employed. Prompt attention was given Lassiter, but his condition is serious? ; Orie S. Winger, the young man whose bride of an hour' left him in a restaurant at Covington last July, and whom he has not seen since, on Saturday filed a suit for divorce in the superior court at Lafayette. Following their marriage the bride entered a buggy and drove away. A few days later the sheriff of Fountain county received a letter from Kokomo from Mrs. Winger stating she would not live with her husbands The complaint states that Winger believes his wife married him Jo escape parental control. John Caruther of Memphis, Ten-

neseee, came to Delphi last Friday morning to claim the body of his brother James, who was found dead at the Wilson street crossing Easter Sunday morning. The brother states that the deceased was a member of the Tennessee Company 9 and was at the border at the time of the trouble between Mexico and the tlnited States, and that he was on his way home from Gary to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was expecting to be called out. He was employed in the Gary gas works. He has five sisters and three brothers surviving him. A special Monon train struck an automobile containing Addison Boutelle, prosecuting attorney of Galesburg, Illinois, and another man named Shirck of that place late Saturday at Patton; south of Monticello, seriously injuring both men. They were driving a new car home from Kokomo and were testing it at low speed when they crossed the track. Shirck was seriously injured about the head qnd back. Boutelle was hurt about the head and” he suffered a gevere nervous shock. The men were taken to the Forbis hotel at Monticello.

Amid the cheers of thousands and the music of bands playing patriotic American airs, a fighting force for service with the allies against the armies of the central empires left Gary on a special train Sunday. The force consisted of 250 Serbian steel workers from Gary, Hammond, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, and will go to the Balkans to fight in the allied armies commanded by General Serrail. The Serbians are seasoned veterans Who went from Gary five years ago to serve in the Balkan wars. Most of the men are Serbians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Once subjects of the Austrian government, they will now fight against it. F. B. Janssen, one of Jasper pioneers, died at his home, four miles southwest of Remington, Thursday night, April 19, at 11:15 o’clock. Mr. Janssen was born in Ofresland, Germany, August 27, 1829. He was united in marriage with Theda Wiards May 25, 1858. To this union were born five children of whom three are living; B. W. of Wolcott, W. B. of Rockford, lowa, and Emory W., who lives at home. In 1881 Mr. Janssen with his family came to Illinois where they lived until 1900, when he moved to Remington. Mr. Janssen was the father" of B. W. Janssen, who formerly lived in Lafayette. He also leaves twenty grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from the home this morning at Mt. Gilboa at 11 o’clock. —Monday's Lafayette Journal,