Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — FROM AROUND ABOUS US [ARTICLE]

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Miss Helen Hammond, holding a responsible ;>osition with a bank at Ventura, Cal., has resigned in order to engage in farming. She bias leased a twenty-five-acre tract of land in the Coachella valley, which she purposes to plant in cotton. New York state registered 571,662 motor vehicles in 1919, and leads all states in the country in the number of its cars, Secretary of State Francis M. Hugo bias reported in announcing that t)he state automobile receipts for the year approximated $6,000,000. Six (people were. killed Sunday ulght near Bremen, Ind., when a jitney bus driver with five passengers tried to beat a New York Central passenger train to the crossing. The dead are; Helena Rostiser, Mrs. H. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Borts of South Bend; Harry Wycrutch and Mrs. M. Weisberger of Bremen. The commissioners of Pulaski county have let contracts for the building of three roads in that county as follows; Lackey road, consisting of four miles between Medaryville and Francesville and running two miles into Cass township, to Theodore ReinensChnider, $41,868; Kain road, one and threequarters miles long, in Jefferson township, to Charles Hoesel for $14,996; and Leslin road, one male long, in -fech Grove township to Fred Popp for $7,300.