Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Monticello and Union township, in which Monticello Is located, will hold a special election on Jan. 27 to vote on the proposition of consolidating the city and township schools. Charles and Clarence Hughes of Monon have been arrested on the charge of stealing $2,000 worth of raw furs from) Sam Margoweky, a Monticello junk dealer, recently. The evidence against the Hughes brothers is said to be almost wholly circumstantial. St. Elizabeth (hospital at Lafayette is to be enlarged in the near future. A new wing 170 feet long will be built ae an addition to the present large structure. St. Elizabeth hospital is the mother institution of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis In America. A rapid increase in the number of cases of influenza in Chicago was reported Wednesday by health officials. The Great Lakes naval training station was ordered quarantined. All leaves were canceled and no visitors were admitted. During the last seven days 158 cases were reported In Chicago, with 14 deaths, National presidential headquarters for General John J. Pershing will be established in Chicago about May 25, it is announced by Mark Woods of Lincoln, Neb., national campaign manager. The presidential headquarters in Chicago of (Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio have been given up. They will be reoccupied "later on,” a statement states.

Dr. Elbridge G. Ricker, a Monticello physician, has been made defendant in a damage suit filed in the White circuit court by Williann Moneyhun, Jr., of Monticello. Damages of $ 15,000 are asked. The complaint alleges that Moneyhun called on the doctor for services and that the latter administered morphine and, it is said, later gave the drug in excessive and increasing quantities so that the plaintiff s mind and constitution have been impaired. , Fred Wilson and Thomas J. Humphries of Wolcott have sued Chris Stoller of near that place for $25,000 in the White circuit court for alleged refusal to abide by a contract option made in June, for the sale of the latter’s farm of 320 acres at $96,000. The plaintiffs allege that the farm is now worth $120,000 and that they had been offered SIIB,OOO for same. The option did not expire until Jan. 1, 1920, but on Dec. 29, when they wanted to close up the deal defendant repudiated the contract, it is alleged.