Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — GLEANED EXEHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED EXEHANGES

Several long time residents of Newton county have passed to the great beyond during the last week. Among the number were David Colston, W. A. Harrington and Otis Shepard of Goodland; Levi W. Ross and Benjamin F. Drake of Kentland. Samuel Barce, for nearly 50 years a resident of -Union township, Benton county, died at his home near Wadena last Friday, aged 79 years, 9 months and 8 days. He was a brother of Lyman Barce, deceaseu, who was a resident of near Rensselaer for a few years previous to his death.

The general store of J. B. McCarthy of Kempton, Tipton county, was robbed shortly before daylight Wednesday morning and about <14,100 of unregistered Liberty bonds and currency obtained. The yeggmen. forced an entrance into the front of the store and opened the safe with a charge of nitrogivgerin. This makes some four or five similar robberies that have occurred in Indiana within the past two weeks.

The school corporation of Wolcott will probably soon be dissolved and the schools placed under the jurisdiction of the trustee, to be supported by the entire township. The building now needs $25,000 worth of repairs and the town school corporation is already taxed to the limit. The state board of education has given notice that 'unless decisive steps are taken to improve matters before another term that the high school commission will be withdrawn. —White County Democrat.

Gas from a hard coal stove, the dampers of which had been tightly shut, nearly asphyxiated Alfred Greiger and family at Medaryville Monday. Greiger’s father, William Greiger, was >partly overcome by the fumes, but succeeded in staggering to the door of the house and hurried to a physician’s home nearby. The husband and wife and their 3-year-old daughter were all unconscious. Heroic efforts were made to revive them and, in a few hours they were partly restored to consciousness.