Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Daylight saving time was abandoned In the Chicago stockyards Thursday. It was explained that the necessity for conformation with railroad schedules prompted the change, and that since the double time standard went into effect deliveries have been running an hour behind tip market schedules, “causing incon venlence and needlees expense in overtime pay.”

“Real ripe buttermilk” contains 3 per cent alcohol, Dr. Herbert Watson, Delaware state chemist, infoi-med Judge Hastings in Wilmington city court recently. Every vender of buttermilk is liable to prosecution, Watson said. Long before the dry wave engulfed the whole United States buttermilk had become very popular among the “brass rail brigade,” much to the astonishment of the barkeepers. It was sold at almost all bars. It was reserved for a scientist to discover the reason.

Fred Y. Wheeler of Crown Point, editor of the Lake County Star, the oldest paper in Lake county, lost his suit for divorce Tuesday in the Laporte circuit court. Judge Frank Gallaher ruled that Mr. Wheeler had not conducted himself in a manner tending to ease the alleged strained relations with his wife. The court awarded S4OO to Mrs. Wheeler for court expenses. The case was take i to Laporte county on a change of venue.