Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1917 — Indiana News Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Indiana News Tersely Told

Governor Goodrich, by proclamahas set aside Monday, May 7, as Lafayette day in Indiana. This is in tribute to a man who, during an eventful life, championed the cause of liberty in two hemispheres. The proclamation answers the call of a group of Indiana patriots, who believe that now is the time for Indiana to show its deepest gratitude to France, to France war stricken and, in many parts, impoverished. The call is to the people of the Hoosier state to rise and,. with fine generosity, repay in money and service the great debt the republic owes France for having given this country Lafayette. France needs help now. T-f:.. ■

George R. Knott has been elected president of the Hammond board of : education. | Sheriff Wallace of Brazil has appointed six deputies to protect the ■ Tidewater Pipe line which passes : through the southern part of Clay county. Wilbur M. Serviss, sixty-five, manufacturer, is dead at Mariofi. Jack B. Kelly, thirty-four, under arrest at Laporte charged with robbing Michigan Central fast freight, trains of butter. At South Bend Julius Depotter’s nightshirt caught on the bed when he was trying to escape from a lire a nd he was suffocated. At Rochester the Farmers’ and Merchants’ association of Fulton county formed as successor to the Commercial club. County forum for study of constitutional problems formed at Danville. Employed have raised a flag on the Monon station at Orleafis. Michigan City roundhouse and shop employees of Michigan Central road given 2 cents an hour raise. Ray Sellers has been elected president of the Franklin chamber of commerce.

The Shelby county courthouse at Shelbyville will be remodeled and en- ’ larged under the direction of Marion j Boes. High prices have forced George ' Sweikhard of Evansville out of the l bakery business.. Secret service men asked to investigate the. egging of the American flag at Burket. Black soil is at a premium at Gary, selling at $2 per cubic yard. Presbyterian churches have cleared the indebtedness on Westminster ■ house, the student pastors’ home at Bloomington. The Indiana Refining company has struck a 60-barrel well in Washington j township, Gibson county. Samuel Stewart, Civil war veteran, ' cut his throat at Marion when despond--1 ent.

Eleven hundred feet of copper wire ■ discovered laid in the swamp to the : plant of the American Bridge company , ’ at Gary probably by plotters. ’ | Tri-state convention of rural mail ’ : carriers of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky will be held at Evansville May ;. 29-30. ; Presbytery of southeastern Indiana has voted to drape the pulpits with the American flag. I Hammond business was suspended and school children paraded when 15 members of the high school football team enlisted in the regular army and i left for their posts. I The Essex Glass factory at Marion I has resumed operations after a shutdown caused by strike of 50 boys, an increase in wages being granted. George Farlow, thirty-five, found guilty at Shelbyville of murder of William Walter Johnson and given life sentence. Miss Grace Orman, eighteen, of Clay City, given gold medal by Carnegie hero commission for saving from , freezing to death. At Franklin Marianna Dickinson of Earlham college has won first place in the state oratorical peace contest. Fourth annupl conference of high school superintendents -of-state held at Bloomington with 100 present.. Oliver I’. Ensley, former Treasurer of Marion county, has lost his suit at ! Crawfordsville against county commissioners for $28,000. C. C. Winkler of Vincennes elected president of Melon Growers’ and Distributors’ association at Evansville. Warrants issued for Moses and Louis Serinsky for storing films in basement of Colfax building at Indianapolis that blew up killing six people. I A $5,000 Carnegie library will be ' erected at Monterey. Woman’s Relief corps at Windfall has disbanded following dissolution of the G. A. R. post. W. E. Montgomery, high school prinj cipal at Brazil, becomes superintend- . ent of schools at Bedford. Theft of 150 pounds of dynamite • from magazine of Cable Hardware ' company at Hartford City reported to I the- government. I Maddened cow * ran amuck in streets of Richmond. •• i County commissioners have appointed J. Wesley Thompson clerk of the circuit court of Jackson county. Richmond banks will each subscribe for $150,000 of federal war loan. Robert P. Youngman of Crawfordsville commissioned major of First battalian of Second Indiana infantry. Donald Stoops of Napanee has been awarded a Carnegie medal and $2,000 for saving two girls from drowning- ; Bedford city council has bought 31 <cres for a park. . *