Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago died Monday at her winter home in Florida of pneumonia. H. H.. many years editor of the Lowell Tribune, died 'at his home in Lowell last Friday morning, aged almost eighty-one years. Mr. Ragon was a veteran lof the civil war and had resided in Lowell for about fifty years. Arrangemenftn have been completed for the manufacture at tho state prison at Michigan t City of 'steel road signs, danger signs, street .signs and auto and motorcycle license tags. This project of prison work is the outgrowth of the Lance road posting bill, passed in 1917. Plans and specifications for signs been drawn by W. S. Moore, state highway engineer. Private Clifford H. Ogle, age twenty-two, who was reported in Sunday’s casualty lists as wounded severely in action, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ogle, living four miles north of Idaville. He enlisted at Ft. Thomas, Kentucky, and was a member of the 16th infantry. Ogle was the first White county soldier to land in France. The Ogle family formerly resided in this coujity apd moved to White county about a year ago.

W. Q. Little, principal, and I. N. Follen, janitor, of the Wadena school, Indulged in a little altercation one day last week that resulted in Follen handing the former one straight from the shoiHder. Little swore out a warrant charging Follen with assault and battery and the case was disposed of in Squire Stevenson’s court Saturday. Follen was assessed a fine and costseto the amount of sl6 and Little handed in his resignation. It is said that Little, educator of unquestioned ability, is of a very peculiar disposition and therefore has made things very unpleasant for both teachers and pupils.—Benton County Republican.