Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

The Goodland K. of P. lodge will observe memorial day of the order tomorrow afternoon. H. A. Henderson will deliver the address and music will be furnished by the Brook band. ♦ ' Monticello has announced a real old-fashioned celebration of the Fourth of July. In compliance with the request of the federal authorities there will be no wanton burning of powder and explosives. The celebration will be given by the Red Men lodge.

J. W. Oswald, president of the First National bank at Goodland, and one of the old residents of that place, having practiced law' there since 1882, has been critically ill with dialation of the heart and last Sunday very little hope was entertained for his recovery. He is nOw improving with a chance for recovery. His son Leslie, who is a lieutenant in the regular naval service, arrived home Tuesday. As a result of : an examihation made by the state board of accounts the following officials of Tippecanoe county have returned to the county treasury the following amounts which they were shown to be short: Clyde Richards and Fred Kessenger, ex-county surveyors, $443 and $444, respectively; Thomas Gwin, excounty com'missioner, $115.50; J. C. Redinbo and James Withrow,

county commissioners, $105.50 and $ 108.50, respectively. The 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elizur Grassmyer of Monticello got the first two fingers of her right hand chopped off Tuesday evening while out in the yard at play with her 9-year-old brother. She was lying on the ground, writing on a piece of p'aper, and the boy was striking with a sharp ax at the paper to efface the writing. The girl placed her hand over the writing just as the boy struck with the ax, and as a result she will go through life with a crippled right hand.