Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — CLIPPED from OUR CONTEMPORARIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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The Farmers' Co-Operative company of Ade, Newton county, Ind., capital 150,000, to handle grains directors, Frank Bremer, Clyde R. Herriman and Harry L. Bell, have filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state. The steamship Rotterdam, with Robert. Lansing, secretary of state, on board, left Brest, France, for New York Monday afternoon. Shd was delayed a day in coaling. Secretary Lansing went on board Sunday morning after his arrival from Paris. A 3-year-old son of Charles R. Fickle, residing 1H miles' south of Mulberry, got both his lege nearly cut off Saturday when he wandered Into the oats field and got in front of the binder. He was rushed to a hospital in Lafayette and an attempt wIH be made tq save the limbs.

Great Britain’s mammoth transAtlantic air pioneer, the dirigible R-34, arrived at the air station at Pulham, Norfolk, England, at 6:5® o’clock, Greenwich mean time Sunday, completing her round trip from the British Isles to the United States 'and return. The return trip wag made In a trifle less than 75 hours, and was without special Incident* ' Resolutions asking the * United States senators of Indiana to vote for the ratification of the treaty of peace, including the league of nations covenant without were adopted at service held at Fletcher Place M. E. church, In<n| anapolls, Sunday evening. A copy! of the resolutions was sent to Senators New and Watson and also tq Vice-President Marshall. An entire business block In Pin® Village was destroyed by Are as an early hour Sunday morning. Included In the buildings destroyed, most of which were old and of comparatively little value, was the old hotei buildlrfg which went under the name of "Our. House fog many years, and was erected in 1853. For several years the hotel building had been used as a private residence; * The United States department of agriculture has turned over free tq the Indiana state highway commission 231 more automobile trucks. The federal department has given 597 trucks and automobiles to the highway commission. The gifts are machines bought for the war department and now no longef needed. The total value of the automobiles Is estimated to exceed >1,200,000, They will be used in the maintenance department of the commission next year. ,

Southern Indiana's apple crop is almost a complete failure, except in a few favored orchards, according to Professor James Troop, entomologist at Purdue university, who has returned from an investigation of fruit prospects through the state. Professor Troop said the more favored spots would not have more than half a crop. (He visited one orchard of 250 acres, which early the season promised a yield of between 40,000 and 50,000 bushels of apples, but which now indicated not more than 100 bushels of good fruit. Late freesing weather is responsible for the failure of the crops. w The Los Angeles county grand Jury Saturday indicted Harry 3. New, Jr., for the murder of Miss Frieda Lesser. The Indictment, it was said by the district attorney, would eliminate a preliminary hearing and would prevent the disclosure of facts possessed by the prosecutlqn prior to the jury trial. New, who says he is the son of United States Senator New of Indiana, drove up to the police station with the body of Miss Lesser and within a few hours signed a written confession that he had shot her because she refused to marry him. New’s mother and other relatives have arranged for a defense based on insanity and announced they would cause him to be examine* by alienists. Two depositions, one from Senator New, and the other from an unnamed admirer of Frieda at Birmingham, Ala., may figure in the defense of New, attorneys for the defense admitted today.