Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

' Herbert L. Hart, right half back 1,11 1 iic i'll nine varsity eleven, suffered, a broken left ankle Wednesday afternoon in a practice game at Purdue. Daniel W. Simms’ farm of acres, “Bonnie Mere,’’ on the Wea plains, near Shadeland, was sold yesterday to Henry W. Phillips, a Wayne township farmer, the price paid being S2OO an acre. —-Wednesday's Lafayette Journal. The survivors of the Forty-sixth Volunteer “Indiana regiment met Wednesday at Monticello in annual reunion. This was the'regiment of which Col. R. P. DeHart of Lafayette was adjutant. In the regim'ent, which was once 1,000 strong, there are.only 128 living and fifteen havebeen called by death during the past Vear. The "regiment was. recruited in 1801, and fought in the hardest "battles of the civil ,war for four years.

An automobile accident occurred Wednesday evening at. the West Main street crossing in Delphi, when Samuel Traux of Farmer City, Illinois, driving west was struck by a Wabash passenger train, going east, due in Delphi at 1:06, which was running late. Mr. Traux and wife and children were, in the machine when it was struck, but all escaped injuries. The hood was torn off the machine and the fenders bent and twisted. The family boarded a train and continued their homeward journey. After testing out Eastern time as a “daylight saving" measure since last spring, the city council of Fort Wayne has voted to repeal the ordinance that made the system, effective. The city will return to central time at midnight Sunday. Much confusion resulted from the fact that, because the railroads did not. change, Fort Wayne had two different kinds of time.- A vote was- to have been taken at the city election as to whether Eastern time would be permanent, but the council, flooded with petitions, decided that public sentiment was against the* plan. 'ey

There were 26'0,0 00,00 0 niore eggs in cold- storage in the/big warehouses of. the country October. 1 than at the corresponding date last year. At the same time there has been practically no demand for eggs for export, compared with the hundreds of thousands of cases that were shipped abroad in 1916. But, in the face of these two. important factors that should make for lower egg prices, eggs were 36 3-4 to 37*4 cents a dozen wholesale in Chicago Wednesday, against 30,'< to 31 cents last year. Dealers have but one . explanation—the farmer, with his higher valuations on hens and feed, “Yon can’t expect to get eggs as cheap, from a SI hen fed oh $2 a bushel feed as from a 50Cent hen fed on $1 a bushel feed,” said one dealer. .