Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED from the EXCHANCES

The ‘‘honorable discharge’’ emblem to be issued by the war department to soldiers leaving the army will be a bronze button similar to that of the G. A. R. It is announced that a designed had been selected from flrteen models submitted by American artists and sculptors.

A rider has been attached to the agricultural appropriation bill in the U. S. congress, in response to petitions from farmers, urging repeal of the daylight saving law, providing for annulment of the statute, which was about the most nonsensical piece of legislation ever enacted by any supposed-to-be sane body of men.

A. H. Scofield, chief special agent of the Monon railroad, speaking relative to the clean-up of pilfering and robbing at the Ifreigtht platform at Monon, stated last night that the affair had been under investigation by the special agency department of the C. I. & L. railroad and Sheriff Benjamin Price of White county. And that the information gathered resulted in the searching of eleven houses, the arrest of five persons, three of whom 'plead guilty, and were convicted, and two who will stand trial. Further developments are expected in the clean-up, Mr. Scofield said. “The railroad did not employ hny private detective agency to assist in this work.”- —Lafayette Journal.