Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Helen Hughes, aged 28, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, died at Glen Falls, N. Y., Sunday from influenza-pneu-monia.

Thirty-five thousand bushels of new potatoes still in the ground were sold at Brownsville, Tex,, Monday at 8 3-4 cents per pound, f. o. b. Brownsville, a record price, it is said. Three women were instally killed and a girl fatally injured Sunday when a Big Four passenger train hit an automobile at Burnett, Ind., near Terre Haute. The dead: Mrs. Keith Hayne, Burnett; Mrs. Evan Davis, Terre Haute;' Miss Nettie Crampee, New Goshen, Litha Hayne, 9-year-“ old daughter of Mrs. Hayne, suffered internal injuries. View of the crossing was obstructed by a cut of cars. The women were driving to Sunday school. Evelyn May Messenger, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Messenger of Wolcott, died at the Home hospital Sunday night at 9:30. The little one had been brought to the hospital Sunday morning and was immediately operated on for rupture of the appendix. The body was prepared for burial at the Bradshaw parlors and will be taken to Pittsburg, Pa., the former home of the parents, for burial. —Lafayette Journal. C. Scott of Warsaw, who was recently appointed commandant of the Indiana State Soldiers’ home, to succeed Co4on«l D. B. Kehler; who tendered his resignation to the board

of trustees, has decided not to accept the appointment. Mr. Scott wac to have taken charge May 1. No reason is given for his refusal of the post after having once accepted It. Colonel Kehler will remain in charge until a successor is choseii by the board of trustees at the May meeting. Mr. Scott, who declined the post, ie himself a member of the board of trustees.