Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Mrs. Mary Lyons of Brook, better known as “Aunt Polly,” widow of Morris Lyons and one of the pioneers of this part of the state, died Sunday at the age of 89 years. - The Hammond police have de- ' dared war on all vagrants, claiming that there is work for every man and that every man should work. On Wednesday eleven loafers were arrested there and each fined $1 and costs and sentenced to sixty days at the penal farm. The fastest boat in the United States navy is the Paulding, torpedo boat destroyer, which is capable of attaining a speed of 32.80 miles an hour. The Paulding is one of the most powerful of the small

boats in the navy, weighing but 742 tons, but her engines are capable of developing 17,393 horsepower. The Paulding was built in 1909 at a cost of $644,000.

The Monon officials will apply for exemption from military service for all its men drafted under the conscription act on account of the great need of the men employed at the shops to keep up engine and other repairs that are essential to the operating department of the railroad. The draft list in the various departments will amount to fully 100 men and this will greatly cripple the work at the shops if the men go away, owing to the scarcity of expert workmen in railroad work.