Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

The old Horner bank at Monon has been reorganized and Incorporated with a capital of $50,000 under the title of Farmers and Traders State bank. Joseph Minch of Chalmers is president of the new bank. The old Field museum in Jackson park, Chicago, originally the art gallery of the world’s Columbian Exposition and one of the last remaining relics of the 1893 fair, will be wrecked, it is announced. Tennis court will be laid out on the ground it occupies. Abe Martin says: “Hon. Ex-Editor Gale Fluhart has sent th’ follerln’ telegram t’ Gov'nor Coolidge, candidate fer vice-president: 'Cheer up! maybe you won’t be elected.’ We’ve never met a clerk yit that called us ‘brother’ that dldn’ sell us somethin' we didnj’ want.” James K. Risk, late candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Indiana, has been made defendant in an SBO,OOO suit for slander brought by Jacob P. Dunn, formerly city comptroller of Indianapolis. The complaint alleges that Risk made false and defamatory statements of and concerning the plaintiff in his campaign for the primary nomination for governor. Another obstacle was encountered in the Renck road last Thursday evening when an injunction suit, seeking to enjoin Treasurer Steely, Auditor Vinson, the commissioners of White county and Nejdl & Courtwright, the contractors, from selling the bonds or proceeding with the carrying out of the contract, which was let Feb. 3. The plaintiffs in the suit are William M. Reynold®, Miran- B. Spencer, George T. Inskeep and Frank J. White, wealthy farmers, who have opposed the Improvement at every turn since its establishment in January.—Monticello Herald.