Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

The name of Camp Taylor at Louisville, Kentucky, was changed Wednesday by the war department to Camp Zachary Taylor. B -The little town of Wadena, south of Goodland, was visited by a fire Friday night that destroyed a barber shop and two residences. William Wood of Indianapolis, one of the best known men in the state and a member of the Indiana public service commission, died Wednesday at the age of 67 years. A third officers’ training camp will be opened at the various forts on January 5, and graduates of selected colleges and members of the national army only will be eligible to admission. The secretary of state has contracted for 200,000 auto license plates for 1918. The plates will be of green background with black figures, and no letters will be used above 100,000 as heretofore, only numerals being used. e iDr. M. T. Didlake, Who sustained a broken knee cap in a fall on the Fourth of July, was in Chicago Sunday to consult Dr. Fowler, a specialist. Since the accident the knee has been in a plaster cast and this was removed and a muslin bandage used in its stead. He was accompanied by Dr. H. B. Gable.— Monticello Herald.

Petitions are being circulated in Monticello asking the city council to erect a municipal lighting plant, also incorporating the same with the pumping station and heating plant for the school building. The people of Monticello are not-at all satisfied with the electric service now being rendered by the Interstate Public Service company.

The proposal to examine for military service all men registered for the army draft and not yet called was killed, for the present at least, Wednesday when the house and senate conferees eliminated an appropriation for that purpose from the war deficiency bill, the conference report on which was promptly accepted by the .senate.

Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Mcßeynolds, the former president of the Defiance, Ohio, college, were killed Wednesday and an unidentified man fatally injured when the auto in which" they were- traveling was struck by a Clover Leaf freight train at Corryvijle, seven miles east of Bluffton, Indiana. They were on their way to visit relatives at Bluffton when the accident occurred. Their auto stalled on the railroad crossing, «

It was through Germany's insistence, as Col. .Roosevelt points out, that The Hague tribunal Sanctioned the sale of munitions by neutrals to belligerent powers, and yet there are a lot of misguided Americans who are still condemning their own country on this score. At the time The Hague agreement was written Germany was shipping arms and ammunition to tire. Boers- and later shipped them to Turkey and some of the Balkan states. It’s a queer sort of Americanism that refuses to acknowledge that our own country has always been a strict observer of international law and that the "kaiser, according to his own statements, has openly and repeatedly violated international law.—Starke County Democrat.

The following is a list of the twenty-one men that will be sent to Garhp Taylor Saturday morning; Lester R. Luck, Fowler; Edward G. Farrell, Otterbein; Harold W. Ross, Ambia; Herbert J. Dice, Oxford; Samuel J. Bressner, Remington; Carl Johnson, Fowler; Albert J. Ruisseil, Remington; - Edward Dubia, Earl Park; Hannagan, Fowler; Ethmer Royal, Fowler; Emil L. Welsch, Fowler; Clarence Hendershott, Fowler; Sigel H. Freeman, Boswell; August Muncie, Fowler; Walter J. Smith, Boswell; William A.- Gretencord, Fowler; Earl Hunt, Boswell; August Arnett. Boswell; Charles L. Gopdpaster, Oxford; George T. Smith, Ambia; B. Walters, Oxford. In case any of the above cannot go on that date, Charles A. Brandes, Joseph M. Brenner and Claude Wright are called as substitutes. —Fowler Review.

1 So scarce is labor in, the coal region that when Jacob Schoen of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, superintendent of highways, advertised for men to work on the streets, the only reply he got was from a man eightytwo years of age.