Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Anthony Mikesell, superintendent of the White county poor farm, was fined $5 and costs Thursday when he plead guilty to assault and battery on one of the inmates, William Shaw, who Is past 'J3 years of age. Edward Williams of Monticeilo came near losing the sight of both eyes July 4 by an exploding firecracker. He thought it was no good and was holding it close to his face for inspection when it exploded. John Turner of aged 65; was arrested and taken to Monticello Tuesday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a 12-year-old girl named Mary Monk. He gave bond in the sum of SSCO to appear in court today. In the Biggart gravel road election Tuesday in Pleasant township. Porter county, the project was defeated by 118 votes. About sixty women voted, casting their ballots two to one against the road. The masculine vote showed three to one against it. Not for many years had a gravel road been defeated there until Tuesday. The engineer’s estimate of the cost for the threemile stretch was $20,000. Some of the farm hands from the southern part of the state, who spent the Fourth at home, report

that t-.e high cost of living has not hn tueni Uo hard down there as in no northern counties. One young‘man who lives in Greenville, Eioyd county, says new potatoes are soling lor 4u, cents a peck, gieen oeabs 25 cents a bushel, and other garden produce in like proportion, the Hoods during the month of May delayed corn planting and much ot it was planted the first week oi July and now the crops are suffering iroin rain.— Benton Review'. Flour manufacturers and grain men of southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western Kentucky held a meeting at Evansville 'iuesday afternoon, at which crop conditions, food regulation, and other questions were discussed. ike millers announced that Ikej have staited to pay $2.03 a bushel for new wheat, which is $ 1.05 more a bushel than they paid last year this time, lhe millers reported the w'heat yield in their section larger than last year. Tltae quality of the grain was reported lino and the yield' will average from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre. , Another Logansport paper has given up the ghost. The weekly Times, after au existence of thirty years, announced last week that that issue was the last one. For many years the paper was pub* lished by C. O. Fenton, and for a time after his death by his daughter, Miss Sadie, who was drowned a little over a year. ago. Since then it has been in the hands of

the Time Printing company. The large advance in price of labor, paper and other materials entering into the publication of a new-i----p&per are given as among the principal reasons for the discontinuance. This leaves Logansport with but two papers, both dailies, whereas a few years ago there were four dailies and two weeklies. Cows won’t make milk out of water and air. [National Crop Improvement Servica.] Starchy feeds like corn and oats often sell as high as protein feeds because of the demand for thenfc for horses and other work animals. Starchy feeds are also good to fatten steers. That is why they are often as high in price as dairy feeds, which are strong in protein. ■ [Nation*! Crop Improvement Service.) Home-grown grains can often be profitably traded for protein feeds. While oats are generally demanded for horse feed, they are nearly always too expensive for dairy feed. Oats by-prod-ucts, however, %re very useful tor bulk. If It’s anything in cardboards, cards, envelopes or papers of any kind The Democrat undoubtedly has It.