Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Mrs. Jacob Rauh, a prominent resident of Chalmers, died suddenly Monday afternoon of apoplexy. She is survived by a 'husband and five sons. Clarence Messenger of Monon received a broken nose Saturday night in a fight with Fay Lutes in “Monon” Jacks’ alleged soft drink emporium. Walter K. Landis, formerly postmaster at Porto Rico, and .brother to Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and ex-Congressmen Frederick Landis and Charles Landis, died at bis home in Logansport Monday night. Fred Y. Wheeler, editor of the Lake County Star, was accidentally shot near Crown Point Sunday. Mr. Wheeler w'as returning Ifrom a hunting trip with friends. A jolt of the wagon In which he was riding caused the discharge of ihis gun, the contents lodging in his chest and shoulder. His condition is serious.

The Clabby football team of Hammond defeated the Pine Village team at Lafayette Sunday 13 to 0. Paddy Driscoll, former Northwestern university star, was responsible for the Clabby’s victory, as he made one touchdown, kicked goal afterward and also made bwo drop kicks from the field that went square between the goal posts. The Newton County Land eempany has been incorporated with the secretary of state with a capital stock of $200,000, and will operate thousands of acres of land and conduct a large breeding farm. The directors are Charles M. Murdock, Charles McDill, Samuel T. Murdock and Charles E. Corey. The offices of the company will be in Lafayette. The Indiana Highway commission will be asked to aid in defraying the cost of resurfacing a threemile stretch of stone road south from Goshen. This highway, laid in 1912, cost the taxpayers of Elkhart township more than $30,000. The road has been in a deplorable condition for more than two years. Elkhart county has spent more than $150,000 in constructing atone highways, and all need resurfacing.

Asa Donaldson, a section hand living at Monon, shot himself Sunday morning following a quarrel with his wife. The bullet lodged in the tympanum of his skull, and the outcome Is yet uncertain. During the quarrel Donaldson said, “Do you want me to shoot myself?" She is said to have replied, “Go ahead if you want to.” He then drew a 22-caliber revolver and fired into his jaw. There are several children.