Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Pulaski county commissioners, at their session last week, contracted for a 2-ton Federal auto truck foi use in gravel road repair work, at a cost of $2,995. Arthur Sego, son of Mr. and Mrs. Meddie Sego of Kentland, is in the F. S. flying corps and has been stationed at Ithfca, New York, for several weeks, but expects to be sent to Ohio, he writes home, to another school. Reuben Hess, R. A. Shobe, T. O. Weaver, Mrs. LeNore Allen and Miss Romona Cunningham were in Goodland Wednesday, took the civil service examination and filed applications for appointment to the postmastership here. Kentland Democrat.

Edward Fenters, whose home is at Boswell, but who has been in the United States army eight years, died Sunday at Camp Zachary Tailor from pneumonia." He had already served two years of his third enlistment. For six years Fenters served in the Philippines. In the casualty list publish'd Saturday in the American forces in France, the names of four Indiana men appeared—Joseph Welsh, f Greensburg, died of wounds; Sergeant John Bosh, Monticello and Private Edward H. Draves, Reynolds, wounded severely; Sergeant. Kevin A. Walsh, Indianapolis, slightly wounded. Fourteen deaths, seven in lowa and seven in Illinois, and a property loss estimated at more than $1,000,000, was the toll taken by Thursday night’s tornado which swept through lowa and Illinois. Approximately' 150 persons were more or less seriously injured. It was reported that 'half of the town of Calmar, lowa, was practically leveled, killing four persons.

Several young men from Fowler came through Morocco Tuesday evening on their way home from a visit to the saloon at Beaverville, Illinois. They stopped here to get something to eat and while away from their machine some- bold, bad robber extracted 72 bottles of beer from their auto, leaving only six bottles for their use. Seventy-eight bottles of beer is entirely too much for three Or four young men to consume, therefore we say, served ’em right. —Morocco Courier. A pathetic scene was enacted here yesterday afternoon when Ethel Blackwood, 16, of Wolcott, was taken into custody by City Marshal James Pemberton of Wolcott, anti returned to her parents, who had come here for her. The girl left her home Saturday morning and came to the home of V. G. Grimes, three miles west of Purdue, where she stayed until yesterday. Sunday morning her parents notified the authorities at Wolcott of her disappearance, and instituted a search for the missing girl. When she came to town she was recognized by some one who knew her, ani Officer Pemberton was notified. He sent word to her parents, and the girl was taken back to her home. It is said that the girl is in love with a soldier, now in training in Oklahoma, and that it is because of him that she left her home. — Yesterday’s Lafayette Journal.