Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

. The Monon News, a weekly newspaper published at Monon, has aannounced that after September 1 the subscription price will be $2 per year. The News is the first weekly, paper in this part of .Indiana to raise to $2 a year, Arden Rogers, .1 f-year-old son o: Mrs. B. J. Russell of Knox, was instantly killed last week while climbing a . tree through the branches of which ran a high voltage electric wire. Th§ boy s clothing was set afire and his body hung in the branches of the tree for sev-

era.! minutes until the power plant at Plymouth was notified to shut off the current. q, Hugh H. Conner, 45 years old, vice president and general manager of the Western Construction company of Lafayette, was killed instantly late Saturday afternoon and Charles Mutciiler of Mishawaka was seriously injured when an autoikdbile in which they were speeding ward two miles west of Archerrille. overturned in a cornfield. Conner's neck was broken and his skull crushed. Mutchler’s skull was fractured and his left leg broken between the hip and the knee.