Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1919 — CLIPPED from OUR CONIEMPORARIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Frank Jacks, a Cass county farmer, is exhibiting in Logansport a sweet potato of his growing that is 25 Inches in circumference, 10 inches long and weighs 10 pounds. The beginning of corn husking in the state shows a yield of above average, according to the report of George C. Bryant of the corn reporting service, statehouse, for the week ending Saturday. 1 Bartholomew Morrisey and three of his sons, Wayne, Ora and Lawrence, were killed and four other occupants of the automobile serious;, ly injured when the car was struck by an Illinois Central train at Gibson City, 111., Sunday. Fred Herron, a Boone Grove, Porter ccunty, farmer, was struck by Thursday by a fast passenger train on the Chicago & Erie railtoad and was thrown many feet, but will recover, tl is believed, although several bones were broken. Both horses he was driving were killed. A. Leppert of near Reynolds wa» seriously injured in an automobile accident near Chalmers Thursday evening. Mr. Leppert and Charles Bossung of Reynolds -were going home from Chalmers, and in attempting to get across a small bridge before they passed an approaching car, their automobile struck the abutment, was hurled into the air, where it turned completely over, and fell into the ditch. Mr. Leppert suffered a broken elg and was injured internally. He was taken to a Lafayette hospital. Mr. Bossung was uninjured.