Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tel egraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mentioz from Many Places. MIKE WILL FINALLY IM) IT Mike Duiffy was down from the marshes again Saturday. 'He had a hundred more cattle at work trying to eat up the frosted corn, besides filling the silos and doing what he could to conserve the crop, but it has been a grevious loss. It Mike was not so darned obstinate he would move back to Benton county and get rich, but he seems determined to conquer that treacherous marsh country or perish in the fight against it. —'Benton Review.