Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED from the EXCHANCES

Ben F. McCutcheon, federal re-

serve director of publicity for district No. 7, invited the editors of the various newspapers of his district to attend a Victory Liberty loan conference held in Chicago yesterday. The Indiana editors’ headquarters was at the Congress hotel, and in the afternoon a district conference was held in the Auditorium theater, which latter meeting was addressed by General Leonard Wood, Frank R. Wilson, director of publicity for the National War Loan organization and various Liberty loan officials. The editor of The Democrat went to Chicago yesterday morning to attend this conference. The Rainbow division, bound for Brest on its way home, is expected to clear the occupied territory by Saturday. The last contingent of the 14 9th field artillery left for the coast today. The troop" trains are averaging about 70 hours for the trip to Brest. T*hey are more crowded than was originally planned. In soime instances there are 54 men to a car, instead of the standard 45, -but the boys are not grumbling. “We would be willing to ride on the bumpprs if we had to,’’ was the generaj verdict ,of the doughboys. Charles Sigle, age 68, one of the best known hotel men in Indiana, died Tuesday at Heber Springs, Ark. He formerly was manager of' the large hotel built by the Monon railroad 15 years ago at Cedar Lake and was known personally to large numbers of Indiana persons. The body will be brought to - Chicago for burial. p. S. Hollowell, who began planting corn on his farm near Rushville Wednesday, is believed to be the first farmer in Indiana to put the seed in the ground this year. Ordinarily corn planting does not begin until after May 1.