Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

U. S. Senator LaFollette, who underwent a major operation at Rochester, Minn., has been declared out danger by his attending surgeon, Dr. W. J. Mayo. Llfb imprisonment at hard labor was the sentence imposed upon Lloyd Prevost, convicted of killing J. Stanley Brown last December. The penalty imposed was the maximum under the Michigan law.

The city of Chicago will work under the daylight saving system again this summer. The council passed an ordinance Monday which will move the official clocks ahead one hour at 2 a. m. next Sunday. The state senate of Louisiana on Monday passed the suffrage amendment to its third reading. Final action will be taken Thursday. It looks very muph as if the state legislature might ratify this federal amendment. Clay Lutes, arrested at Monon for complicity in the recent box car robberies at that place, has been released on >2,000 bona, signed by Dr. • Clayton, Bert Lowe and Arthur Lutes. It Is believed the case wilt have a change of- venue to Judge Anderson’s court. < Both the federal prohlbiton amendment and the enforcement act passed by congress were held constitutional by thd U. S. supreme court Monday. This ruling was handed down by the court in decision brought by Rhode Island and New Jersey. Injunctions brought by several distilleries and sales companies were thrown out. This is the last hope of the “wets.” so far as the courts are concerned, and now the only relief is for repeal of the law. Bids for the new school building at Foresman, which were opened recently, exceeded the appropriation by SIO,OOO, and the township advisory board has asked for SIO,OOO more from the state tax board (In addition to the $40,000 heretofore granted) In order to make sure of having enough money to complete and furnish the building. Hodshira & Young of Monticello, who built the Colfax township consolidated school and the Mt. Ayr school building, were the lowest bidders on the building proper, $34,725, and Wallace Bros, of Lafayette, $8,351, on thd heating and plumbing. The Democrat handles butterwrappers, printed or plain, at all times.