Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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President Wilson has signed the bill giving increased pensions- to veterans of the civil and Mexican wars or their descendants. Henry Ford, of automobile fame, has accepted the Democratic en-’ dorsement for U. 35. senator from Michigan. Mr. Ford is a Republican. Gilbert H. Hamilton, fifty-eight, editor of the Thorntown Times, and one of the founders of the Frankfort Morning Times, was instantly killed Monday afternoon on his farm, three miles west of Thorntown, when he was struck by a bolt of lightning. C. A. McCormick, editor of the North Judson News, and Bernard Clayton, city editor of the Rochester Sentinel, have volunteered as Y. ''Si. C. A. war workers. Both expect to sail for France within a few weeks. Mr. McCormick will leave his paper in charge of John E. Woods, a former foreman. — Pulaski County Democrat. The home of Clint Casto at Reynolds, together with the contents, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin shortly after midnight Mol, day night. All of the family were in Lafayette at the time of the fire visiting friends, no one being in the house since noon, so far as is known. This is at least the third or fourth of a series of fires occurring in the last decade to the Castos, and all had mysterious beginnings.